Speaker 1: There's zero part of you and I that sit here
Speaker 1: and be like we are the best. I mean, I
Speaker 1: function up all the time. There's always times that I
Speaker 1: play Monday morning quarterback about myself, like I could have
Speaker 1: done this better, I could have done this better. I
Speaker 1: don't pretend to know everything. I just know that being
Speaker 1: an asshole doesn't get you very far in life. So
Speaker 1: knock it off. Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is
Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radio. Happy New Year, Happy
Speaker 1: Happy be Happy New Year, happyy New Year, Happy New Year,
Speaker 1: Happy New Years. My mom used to sing we're happy,
Speaker 1: we're peppy, we're bursting with love. No, she did not
Speaker 1: sing that when you wear how No, she's any of
Speaker 1: the things, and it's really good to do. Like if
Speaker 1: you know somebody's in a massive fight in your house,
Speaker 1: or ship's going wrong, or you're having the money Pit
Speaker 1: movie like scenes unfold in your house, you just look
Speaker 1: at each other, your significant other, your sister, your brother, anyway,
Speaker 1: and let's do it together. Three to one. We're happy,
Speaker 1: happy love. Okay, we'll practice. We're happy, We're peppie, We're
Speaker 1: bursting with love. Yeah, okay, we'll finish. At the end
Speaker 1: of the episode with it, I got retention, got it.
Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to the Calm Down Podcast, the first one.
Speaker 1: You know it's going to be a good year. What
Speaker 1: it ends with our Well, my favorite player is Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: I know Larry Byrne and Michael Jordan probably shared the
Speaker 1: stage for you in terms of favorite athlete. But it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a great year. Guys. I wish all of
Speaker 1: you happiness and health. And thank you again for listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast, because we still don't even know that
Speaker 1: anyone listens, but we appreciate you. I'll tell you a
Speaker 1: story about who listens. This guy beauty is bringing my
Speaker 1: down right now, CUTI cutie, Happy New Year. You can't
Speaker 1: hear her. But Jarrett was with me as we were
Speaker 1: walking the dog last week and the sixty five year
Speaker 1: old neighbor of mine walked out and he goes calmed
Speaker 1: down and I said, oh my god, down and he goes,
Speaker 1: I'm sure this sixty five year old isn't your demo.
Speaker 1: But I listen into you and I love it. And
Speaker 1: I said, sir, we'll take anyone we can get. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that is so sweet. I loved my day.
Speaker 1: I can't thank you guys enough for listening, though, And
Speaker 1: I want to apologize in advance. I know I said
Speaker 1: it on the pregame. I just got a spray tan
Speaker 1: and I'm not allowed to wash this thing off for
Speaker 1: eight hours, so I am looking like roth from friends,
Speaker 1: and my teeth are very white. And this is a
Speaker 1: whole look we've got going on here. But I do
Speaker 1: think gonna smell like after about five hours. I don't
Speaker 1: do you know? I sleep in the other I sleep
Speaker 1: in the guest room. When a spray tan, I want
Speaker 1: none of the remnants. And why, I'm sure I've said
Speaker 1: it before. Why can no one make a spray tan
Speaker 1: formula that's a hard smell. We can send people to
Speaker 1: the moon, we can go up into space in nine minutes,
Speaker 1: in less time than it takes to repaint our nails,
Speaker 1: and we cannot get a spray tan formula that doesn't
Speaker 1: smell like ash. It doesn't make sense. There's an eye cloud,
Speaker 1: there's a bitcoin crypto, whatever those people were involved with.
Speaker 1: But guess what, we aunt have nice things. No, we
Speaker 1: can't have nice things. And you know what, I want
Speaker 1: someone to invent this and it doesn't fail like that
Speaker 1: other thing. You know, the thing. Um, All right, here
Speaker 1: we go, sister. So we just finished, well we will
Speaker 1: be finishing as we tape our episodes of Calm Down
Speaker 1: on Monday night. Week seventeen. Holy hell, a lot happened.
Speaker 1: You were in Tampa for a game that was going
Speaker 1: to decide the winner of the NFC South inevitably, like
Speaker 1: even if Carolina had wanted to set them up most
Speaker 1: likely to win Week eighteen. How was it Brady's off
Speaker 1: to his play another year in the playoffs? You know,
Speaker 1: just four and thirty two yards for that guy. And
Speaker 1: I think the best part of well, not the best
Speaker 1: part about it, but the most interesting thing about it,
Speaker 1: if especially if you want to look at the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers as well as what just happened in Tampa
Speaker 1: with that offense. I saw your good friend Sarah Walsh
Speaker 1: down there and her illow jumpsuit romper RONI that was
Speaker 1: she would rent the runway. She is renting the runway,
Speaker 1: the sidewalk everything. I had Haynes T shirt on and
Speaker 1: this one in like full blow, like canary yellow, like
Speaker 1: just you know, renting the field. She was walking down
Speaker 1: it and I was like, I'm in sneakers and a
Speaker 1: Haynes T shirt, which, by the way, I turned yellow
Speaker 1: because I had tried to have some sort of spray
Speaker 1: tan on for my arms because they look so white.
Speaker 1: But the Bucks offense, they've been saying it all years.
Speaker 1: Sarah has been saying it all year. I went over
Speaker 1: my pregame hit with her to see if it sounded stupid,
Speaker 1: and she's like, you're great. But I've been saying that
Speaker 1: all year. I don't think it's going to come to life.
Speaker 1: And it came to life. And what have they cracked open?
Speaker 1: Maybe in this game with the fact that Mike Evans
Speaker 1: had three touchdowns, Chris Godwin went for over a hundred
Speaker 1: yards as well, So that's super exciting, not for people
Speaker 1: that are Brady and Bucks haters and the Green Bay Packers. Shit,
Speaker 1: what is happening? So so Mike Evans hadn't scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown since week four, has scored a touchdown since week four,
Speaker 1: speaking of the number four, not Brett Farve. He's not
Speaker 1: available for comment. Where is Brett Farve? Uh? Four weeks
Speaker 1: ago we were looking at these Packers that were four
Speaker 1: and eight and we were like, hey, start Jordan's love.
Speaker 1: I know, like, what is happening here? So here we are.
Speaker 1: You know what, this reminds me everyone, And we can
Speaker 1: say this because we're the o G bitches in this industry.
Speaker 1: Don't count the old ones out? Do you count fucking
Speaker 1: count those boys and Brady Aaron Rodgers. So while Mike
Speaker 1: White tries to find some kind of rhythm in his
Speaker 1: you know, and I like Mike White, and that's fine.
Speaker 1: The Jets are gonna be fine. That defense is great,
Speaker 1: But like, there are a lot of young boys that
Speaker 1: could take a lot of notes from those older wildly
Speaker 1: veterans where it's like it ain't over until the fat
Speaker 1: lady sings, and guess what, it ain't over. So I
Speaker 1: was really excited by the way the Vikings frauds board
Speaker 1: board board. I'm so bored. I'm so bored. You're twelve
Speaker 1: and four. You have eleven games that you've only won
Speaker 1: by one score. Want, Want, Want, I'm done with them. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they showed me absolutely nothing. The box c a
Speaker 1: for you guys. The Raiders blow another double digit lead.
Speaker 1: Vante Adams though that a guy loves freaking catches from
Speaker 1: this dude, I'm freaking believable. So yeah, I mean some
Speaker 1: of these storylines just really fire me up. I got
Speaker 1: it to people that listen. I love the young quarterback
Speaker 1: and I love oh thank you. I love the young quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I love the new generation that's coming in. Josh Allen
Speaker 1: couldn't be cut. Patrick is the best row to see
Speaker 1: the Joe Burrow, to see these two old dogs. And
Speaker 1: I'll say it because Tom and I are the same age.
Speaker 1: It's awesome and I love and I knew it. I
Speaker 1: said to Kevin and Greg a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: We were texting and watching a Green Bay game and
Speaker 1: Aaron and I say this because he's a good friend,
Speaker 1: had this shit. Ask Grant about him, and I just
Speaker 1: texted them and I said, there's something about that smile.
Speaker 1: He freaking knows and and Kevin was like, yeah, he
Speaker 1: looks happy. I don't. I was like, no, there is
Speaker 1: just something about this ship. Ask Grin right now. And defense,
Speaker 1: he's gotta like that defense all of a sudden, Okay,
Speaker 1: howbou Patrick Mahomes yesterday, Patrick Mahomes and Patrick Mahomes only
Speaker 1: he could throw. So he's throws a pass, it gets deflected,
Speaker 1: gets sent, he caches, he catches his own deflected pass
Speaker 1: and then runs for a first down this guy. It's
Speaker 1: so good anyway, so so exciting as we turned the
Speaker 1: corner for week eight teen in the final game of
Speaker 1: the regular season, do you know where you're gonna be? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do, and I'm not disappointed. We I think we
Speaker 1: all sound excited. Yeah, let me have more coffee. I
Speaker 1: think we just all were kind of hoping we'd get
Speaker 1: that Green Bay Detroit Aaron Rodgers winner in it goes
Speaker 1: to Sunday Night. It is what it is. Hello, I know,
Speaker 1: I know. I just think it shows like for playoffs,
Speaker 1: just anything could happen Q the Lle Golden whatever song,
Speaker 1: anything can happen to do do like. It's exciting. It's great.
Speaker 1: Grand about your boy, your guy, love him. Sent that
Speaker 1: guy a text on the flight and I just said congrats.
Speaker 1: Coach wrote back in two seconds. Thanks in the bill,
Speaker 1: I know gonna meet this guy. You got to meet
Speaker 1: this guy. We For those of you guys that didn't
Speaker 1: see the episode where Aaron handed out the Calm Down
Speaker 1: Podcast Award to Brian Dable, the head coach of the
Speaker 1: during new head coach of the uh the Giants, the
Speaker 1: reason I fell in love with him as the story
Speaker 1: that you told me that he will sit with the
Speaker 1: grounds crew because his grandfather was a groundskeeper, which brings
Speaker 1: me to so we had now that it's going to
Speaker 1: be week eighteen, that means that T and F is done.
Speaker 1: So thank you you can. I hope you're happy. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I started the season crying and I ended the season
Speaker 1: doing karaoke and laughing my ass off till four in
Speaker 1: the morning with this group. The reason is because in
Speaker 1: the arc that the tears at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: season and you know it and went back to what
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier, it was no the details matter
Speaker 1: to me, and it was a brand new production with
Speaker 1: so many different moving parts, and I just wanted everything
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on yourself. Yeah, as I always
Speaker 1: doing a lot of things because I just don't I
Speaker 1: don't want to let anyone down. And so there was
Speaker 1: a lot of things in the early goings, like any
Speaker 1: you know, even though Amazon is the conglomerate that it is,
Speaker 1: it was new in this live sports space in the
Speaker 1: NFL as a property. So there was a lot of
Speaker 1: things and kings to work through, which I cannot say
Speaker 1: thank you enough to that crew and every guy work with.
Speaker 1: But what I wanted to say about this. So these
Speaker 1: guys that I work with, and you know, like they
Speaker 1: become our family, like especially being on the road, you
Speaker 1: spend so much time with them, holidays, everything. Richard Sherman,
Speaker 1: Andrew Whitworth, Tony Gonzalez, and Ryan Fitzpatrick. Let me just
Speaker 1: tell you something, these cuties. And it was led by
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman, who every week would go into the trucks.
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman has never done television before. He didn't even
Speaker 1: know what a TV truck was. But he made it
Speaker 1: a point that every single week he would go into
Speaker 1: the television trucks and he would say thank you to
Speaker 1: the producers, to the tape oops, to the director. That
Speaker 1: means so much. It meant so much to them. And
Speaker 1: so the last week of the season they got everyone
Speaker 1: together and said thank you to the cameraman, to the
Speaker 1: audio guys, to everything. And I wanted to credit like
Speaker 1: makes even because guys don't do that. They just show
Speaker 1: up on set and they think all the ship just happens.
Speaker 1: And so the fact that they would do that, I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, these guys are the greatest teammates because
Speaker 1: those are the kind of people that you want in
Speaker 1: your your proverbial foxhole where it's like they will show
Speaker 1: up for you, but they'll also show up for everybody
Speaker 1: else to make the thing work. So I just wanted
Speaker 1: to give a shout out to those guys for thinking
Speaker 1: about the behind the scenes crew because they didn't know
Speaker 1: Adam for me, you know, this thing started, and then
Speaker 1: for them to just have the foresight to do it.
Speaker 1: So yes, So bringing it back full circle today, Ball,
Speaker 1: I just love that he is that kind of person.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you're gonna get to meet him and I
Speaker 1: can't wait. And you're gonna be best friends with him too.
Speaker 1: And I want to say this about your crew because
Speaker 1: I know obviously the backstory with a lot of it,
Speaker 1: and you guys went in not trying to each other, No,
Speaker 1: but I cried to you every week. It's just because
Speaker 1: we care so much and we want to do a
Speaker 1: good job and all of that. But you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people, including you, didn't know how this group
Speaker 1: would mash or do a lot of these guys that
Speaker 1: I think Tony was the only one that really had
Speaker 1: done any television. Um, you guys really just I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of the word. I told you this. There
Speaker 1: were a couple of host games that I was like,
Speaker 1: this is really big, This is really big, and I
Speaker 1: felt that way, especially with the Jets one where he
Speaker 1: took Zach Wilson out. You knew it was going to
Speaker 1: be a big story and I was like, I gotta
Speaker 1: turn this on. I gotta listen to what they're saying.
Speaker 1: I want to hear what the boys are saying. And
Speaker 1: it was awesome. There's a couple of others that I
Speaker 1: told you about, but that one just sticks out in
Speaker 1: my head. But you guys really came into form. Is
Speaker 1: that whatever, that's not what I'm looking for, rounded into form.
Speaker 1: You just became into our painting, came into your own
Speaker 1: there is You're helping me out like a good host
Speaker 1: that you are, and it's so exciting because think about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys could have struck out and not
Speaker 1: done well, and there could have been one piece that
Speaker 1: didn't work out and we gotta fill this. But really
Speaker 1: everybody just like came together and you know, it was
Speaker 1: just I'm just so excited for you guys, excited for
Speaker 1: next year to see what you do. Is that you
Speaker 1: really grew a lot. I told you during the hard time,
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I'm jealous because you're now going to
Speaker 1: turn into this host that you've dealt with so much
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be untouchable. So um yeah, I'm so
Speaker 1: proud of you. Thank you for listening and walking me
Speaker 1: through that, and I feel, you know, having done this
Speaker 1: like you have for a long time. There's it's awesome.
Speaker 1: It's great opportunities are you always hope that new opportunities
Speaker 1: come about, but very rarely do those ones happen And
Speaker 1: I just don't feel very grateful for that. But even
Speaker 1: bigger than the actual stage and the opportunity was just
Speaker 1: those those relationships and getting to uh what I already
Speaker 1: knew about them as as football players, um was just
Speaker 1: further paid forward with them as humans. So it was
Speaker 1: awesome And thank you for being supportive along the way.
Speaker 1: Do you have a dream award? Would it did from
Speaker 1: your interview this week? Or am I speaking like out
Speaker 1: of turn here because you have never met Fred Warner
Speaker 1: or Fred Warner before, So if you needed to hand
Speaker 1: out a calm down dream Award to him because he's
Speaker 1: one of my dreams, I had, yes, and I had
Speaker 1: never interviewed him before, and you I told you I
Speaker 1: was interviewing him, and you were telling me what a
Speaker 1: great guy he was, how much respect he has by
Speaker 1: everyone in this league, and anyone that really watches that all.
Speaker 1: So ALL twenty two is what the players watch. It's
Speaker 1: that it's the aerial view. It's like it's it's like
Speaker 1: the real nerd football of what they get. And anybody
Speaker 1: that has access to that knows that, and our voices
Speaker 1: aren't on it. Right, what's ALL twenty two is just
Speaker 1: the internal feed that they have of the game. So
Speaker 1: it's like what their film studies based off of, like
Speaker 1: all of this stuff, like yep, coaches, um film, players film.
Speaker 1: So anyone that watches that's like, this dude's sucking beast
Speaker 1: because think about it, he's just flying around. You're like,
Speaker 1: where who's this guy around here? So anyways, and um
Speaker 1: so I sat down with him again New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1: These guys have to play the next day, and I
Speaker 1: just I always want to say thank you to the coach,
Speaker 1: to the player, to anyone that takes time. Look, I
Speaker 1: get it's it could be quote unquote part of your job,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't have to. They can say no. And
Speaker 1: the fact that they take time out and sit down
Speaker 1: and are so you know, great about it. I just
Speaker 1: have to say thank you to them for that, because
Speaker 1: it doesn't go unnoticed that they take time out of
Speaker 1: what is already a jam pack schedule. Those guys, their
Speaker 1: bus pulls up, they get there, he barely gets to
Speaker 1: drop his stuff off, sit down, sit with me for
Speaker 1: twenty five minutes, and then go into your meetings and
Speaker 1: everything else. So, without going on a further tangent, thank
Speaker 1: you to players and coaches for taking the time to
Speaker 1: speak to networks for an interview that you don't always
Speaker 1: have to do. So he was lovely and so fun
Speaker 1: and I can see why everyone respects him on both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball. I need to get this off
Speaker 1: my chest and say it with your chest. There have
Speaker 1: been a few instances or circumstances lately and also during
Speaker 1: the year that I find myself getting on the phone
Speaker 1: with athletes after they happen, and I just say to them,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that this happened. And I also want to
Speaker 1: do exactly what Chris just did, say thank you so
Speaker 1: much for your time. I always say thank you. I
Speaker 1: always tell them I appreciate them. I'm also very like
Speaker 1: I use love very easily. I'm like, love you so much.
Speaker 1: You know, you know not me, I'm in love with you,
Speaker 1: but you know like I appreciate you. I love you
Speaker 1: for giving your time. I had a long chat with
Speaker 1: my dad when he was in town. My dad has
Speaker 1: been in the industry forever. I'm embarrassed to not even
Speaker 1: know the numbers I should. Ryan, Can you look at
Speaker 1: my dad's Steve Andrews right now? Multiple one. We were
Speaker 1: going over some things that have happened within the media,
Speaker 1: and my dad was saying, this would be great to do.
Speaker 1: My dad like, I would love to hold a class
Speaker 1: for colleges to say this is not what you do.
Speaker 1: I know. Chris said that a lot of women who
Speaker 1: are in college or starting out in the industry listen
Speaker 1: to our podcast. I'm very grateful of that. They have
Speaker 1: told me that wherever I go, I know you get
Speaker 1: that a lot as well. Guys, listen to your AUNTI
Speaker 1: Arran here. I'm gonna give you a little bit of
Speaker 1: a vice, a couple of things. You don't have to
Speaker 1: be an asshole. How about this. Stop worrying about trying
Speaker 1: to make a name for yourself or be clickbait with
Speaker 1: these like questions that tie these guys down or put
Speaker 1: them in a binder. You just you want to be
Speaker 1: the person in the press conference. Don't do that. They're
Speaker 1: not animals, They're not pieces of meat. Yes, I realized
Speaker 1: they are the story. And like Chris I said, they
Speaker 1: are supposed to give us times of day, they are
Speaker 1: supposed to help us out. Listen. I have guys that
Speaker 1: run right past me on the field, even if they're
Speaker 1: my good friend, and I'm like, hello, yeah, just through
Speaker 1: for four and thirty two yards? Why are you running
Speaker 1: past me? Ship is going on in their lives. They've
Speaker 1: got stuff going on that they'll text you about later
Speaker 1: and apologize. Here's the thing, Okay, they are human, and
Speaker 1: I am just I'm so frustrated with some of the
Speaker 1: ship I'm seeing. I know people out there, they want
Speaker 1: to make a name for themselves, reporters, and I know
Speaker 1: they want to kind of stick out. But you do
Speaker 1: stick out in a really bad way when you treat
Speaker 1: these guys like shit. You can't do it. I there
Speaker 1: are a lot of things I need to work on.
Speaker 1: I will say, even yesterday with my Mike Evans interview,
Speaker 1: I sounded way too excited. I was going way too fast.
Speaker 1: I was yelling. I think because I was so excited
Speaker 1: for Mike Evans. You have three touchdowns, a huge game.
Speaker 1: Bucks offense is back. It was fun and I needed
Speaker 1: to pee. Side note, but there are a lot of
Speaker 1: things I need to work on with my job on that.
Speaker 1: The one thing I am very proud of what I
Speaker 1: do is I always say, how's your family was on?
Speaker 1: With Tristan works the other day, he had a great
Speaker 1: story when he was drafted, taking his mom down the
Speaker 1: red carpet of his house right before the draft. How's
Speaker 1: your mom doing? Treat them like individuals. It will take
Speaker 1: you so far and they will remember that. Then the bullshit,
Speaker 1: rude ask questions because you need to write your little
Speaker 1: bit on a blog or your hit for some network
Speaker 1: that you're on. Don't treat them like ship. It's not
Speaker 1: going to help you because guess what, I know, you're
Speaker 1: not a professional athlete, and but things go on in
Speaker 1: your job where you get treated like crap and you
Speaker 1: don't like the feeling and you remember it too. I
Speaker 1: just have been so frustrated lately with the way some
Speaker 1: of these people have gone about these guys, and I'm
Speaker 1: sensitive about it because I was talking to a few
Speaker 1: guys about it yesterday in Tampa. I don't think it
Speaker 1: sets us back, but it doesn't help us in any
Speaker 1: shape or form when people behave this way towards athletes.
Speaker 1: I just don't get it. I'm like, really annoyed by
Speaker 1: it lately. Thoughts, questions concerned forgetting to keat Rappe. Nope, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I was writing down while you were talking because
Speaker 1: I wanted to remember these points. Number one, I love
Speaker 1: that you care that much for to give you a rash,
Speaker 1: for you to feel like you have to. It's not
Speaker 1: a tangent, it's not a rant. It's your feelings, and
Speaker 1: you have earned the right to say. First of all,
Speaker 1: it's d podcast, so we can say whatever the hell
Speaker 1: you want. But you have earned the right in this
Speaker 1: industry as the as the one of these the women
Speaker 1: who have done at the highest level for a very
Speaker 1: long time, to say how you feel about this. You
Speaker 1: have incredible relationships with a vast percentage of individuals and
Speaker 1: players in this league, and you're very well liked and
Speaker 1: very well respected. So when this is what I wrote down,
Speaker 1: they want to be the star. I saw this ship
Speaker 1: all the time in entertainment of it. I'm sorry, And
Speaker 1: I don't say, like everyone doesn't need to just go
Speaker 1: to their respective place in life. But guess what you're
Speaker 1: on the other side of the rope, sweetheart, you are.
Speaker 1: They are the star. They are This is what I
Speaker 1: saw all the time and entertainment or the interviewer wanted
Speaker 1: to be the subject. That's what You're standing behind this
Speaker 1: rope for a reason. You're interviewing them. So that's fine.
Speaker 1: It's your job to ask hard hitting questions, to get
Speaker 1: to the bottom of the story, to be if you
Speaker 1: want to be an investigative reporter, then be that this
Speaker 1: is not that. This is covering sports and entertainment. And
Speaker 1: I get it, and I and I would I fall victim.
Speaker 1: I don't always ask the hardest questions because I don't
Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to like dig into some
Speaker 1: deep like whatever. Like I'll ask questions that I think
Speaker 1: will elicit the best interview. And if I really wanted to,
Speaker 1: like do a gotcha moment, then I would get into
Speaker 1: the investigative journalist portion of this program. But yes, I'm
Speaker 1: with you on that. But also I feel like there's
Speaker 1: this sense where it's like we gotta do gotcha moments,
Speaker 1: even with even with Ron Rivera on the podium yesterday
Speaker 1: or someone's like like made this big deal of like
Speaker 1: he didn't know if he'd be eliminated. I understand that, Like, yes,
Speaker 1: they should have like a pulse on on the different scenarios,
Speaker 1: and I get it, but like, I've never been a
Speaker 1: head coach. Do you know how much ship they have
Speaker 1: to deal with? Like they can also have someone tell them.
Speaker 1: Do you think that the president of the United States
Speaker 1: knows every detail about every single department? Like no, That's
Speaker 1: why you have guys underneath you, and you can sit
Speaker 1: there and be like, oh, Rivera should have known, but
Speaker 1: why are we now going to make it a thing
Speaker 1: like oh, he's an idiot. The only thing I disagree
Speaker 1: with Ron Rivera on is Carson Wentz. Why the hell
Speaker 1: did we put him back out there? Taylor Heineke earned
Speaker 1: the right to stay out there, and Carson Wentz showed
Speaker 1: us exactly who Carson Wentz was. Is that he needs
Speaker 1: to continue to work on his game. Okay, but at
Speaker 1: that point, it's just this thing of like we're in
Speaker 1: this hancel culture, gotcha media, whatever the hell you want
Speaker 1: to call it. I'm with you when I sit down
Speaker 1: bring it back to the Fred Warner thing. I said,
Speaker 1: what is it that you love most about? Like this regime,
Speaker 1: like the Kyle Shannonhan's that Damiko Ryans, the Robert Sala
Speaker 1: when he was there and then left and went to
Speaker 1: the Jets. They always asked about my family. They care
Speaker 1: about us as human beings. And what happens when you
Speaker 1: care about someone as a human being. You will stand
Speaker 1: on the wall for them, you will go to bout
Speaker 1: for them. Insert analogy here. It's like you become invested
Speaker 1: in them. And that's the same way that I feel
Speaker 1: is at Fox. There my family think about the ship
Speaker 1: that I've went through, and they've been there for us,
Speaker 1: the same thing for you. And we've worked in other
Speaker 1: companies where they have not treated us the same way.
Speaker 1: So treat people like humans. Be kind. And I am
Speaker 1: not standing up here and acting like I'm sucking mother
Speaker 1: to Resa, because I'm sure along the way I've been
Speaker 1: an asshole, And if I have been an asshole to you,
Speaker 1: then I apologize. But I am with you and that
Speaker 1: the the interviewer doesn't need to be the star. And
Speaker 1: guess what, if you're that great, people will find out
Speaker 1: you don't have to tell them. Is my dad's like
Speaker 1: expression in life, if you're a really good interviewer. By
Speaker 1: the way, rest in peace of the great Barbara Walters.
Speaker 1: She asked hard questions, but she still did it in
Speaker 1: a respectful manner and became a legend in this business
Speaker 1: that we can all look up to. So yeah, amen,
Speaker 1: trying to drink my grain juice. I'm trying to take
Speaker 1: my feet rash out. I'm just I have a lot
Speaker 1: to say. I'm I'm passionate about it. I I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I feel like a lot of these people
Speaker 1: that are kind of giving me this heat rash lately,
Speaker 1: they want to be the story instead of the guys.
Speaker 1: And I don't think they even care about the player
Speaker 1: or the coach's answers. They just want to be known
Speaker 1: as the person that as asking it. Prime example, I'll
Speaker 1: say this, I for whatever reason, you know, we're preparing
Speaker 1: last week for this Carolina Bucks game and winning, you're
Speaker 1: in for the bus. Obviously it was a big story
Speaker 1: if Brady's going to make it to the playoffs. He's
Speaker 1: sitting there talking about the offense, talking about the offense,
Speaker 1: talking about what this game means, and somebody asked him
Speaker 1: in the middle of the press conference. When are you
Speaker 1: going to know it's time to retire? Not this week? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're talking about Carolina. Why are you doing that? What
Speaker 1: are we doing? I just like it just annoys me.
Speaker 1: The Todd Bowls question yesterday, it was a very big
Speaker 1: deal going into halftime that he settled for a field
Speaker 1: goal on fourth and one instead of when the offense
Speaker 1: had the momentum. And it was actually texting my dad
Speaker 1: about it. I'm like, I have to ask why he
Speaker 1: did it. My dad said yes, and I said, if
Speaker 1: he says it's for the points, do I then say, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you had all the momentum. And my dad said,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get in a debate with a
Speaker 1: coach at halftime, And I'm like, you're absolutely right. What
Speaker 1: he says is the answer to my question. Move on
Speaker 1: for the rest of the game. I understand why people
Speaker 1: have to fight these guys. I'm not saying don't ask
Speaker 1: the hard questions. But I also think very much in
Speaker 1: real life it's about the way you go about it,
Speaker 1: your tone and all that. So any who, all of
Speaker 1: you out there starting it out, I do think having
Speaker 1: a good relationship with these athletes are a big deal,
Speaker 1: meant a lot to me. A couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers was on the Pat McAfee show and he
Speaker 1: just talked about the crew that we had with Joe
Speaker 1: and Troy and he said, you know, the conversations at
Speaker 1: the three of us would have with him was a
Speaker 1: lot of times just about life and not even the game.
Speaker 1: And he goes, those were some of my best memories
Speaker 1: of working with those three. I think that goes a
Speaker 1: long way with people. And so you guys starting out,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're gonna walk up to Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and be like, hey, how's your family, But just don't
Speaker 1: be an asshole. That's just my own thing, Like treat
Speaker 1: them like you would one of your friends or your
Speaker 1: family members, and be, you know, a human being. Well,
Speaker 1: this was always my thing, and I think i've I've
Speaker 1: told the story before and it's not to break my
Speaker 1: arm patting myself on the back, but it was in entertainment.
Speaker 1: We had these agenda questions all the time. And guess
Speaker 1: what entertainment is based on who's dating who, who's getting
Speaker 1: a divorce? The personal life? And I get that. I
Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of now is a consumer of it.
Speaker 1: I understand that, like you have to ask these I
Speaker 1: just was so uncomfortable with it. But Jennifer Garner and
Speaker 1: Ben Affleck we're getting a divorce. And I had to
Speaker 1: interview her because she was in a movie and she
Speaker 1: was coming down the line, and I was like, funk
Speaker 1: funk funk, funk funk funk fun, because of course the
Speaker 1: first question is about a divorce. So I just put
Speaker 1: the microphone behind in my back and I looked at
Speaker 1: her and I said, they are going to make me
Speaker 1: ask these questions. I do not want to ask these questions.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry for what you're going through. As someone
Speaker 1: who's been divorced, I wouldn't want to be asked these questions.
Speaker 1: I said, so I'm going to try to do it
Speaker 1: in the best way that I can. She goes, thank you.
Speaker 1: So then I asked her a couple of questions. She
Speaker 1: answered as classy as she is, like one of the
Speaker 1: classiest women. And then the interview was over and she
Speaker 1: started to walk away, and then she came back and
Speaker 1: she grabbed my arm and she said, thank you for
Speaker 1: doing it like that, And I was like, so, what
Speaker 1: did it take two seconds to just be like, hey,
Speaker 1: and I get like, you know, there's different ways to
Speaker 1: approach it and I and I also love it's a
Speaker 1: great way down that when you were on your rent
Speaker 1: is I love that you care enough to critique yourself,
Speaker 1: Like there's zero part of you and I that sit
Speaker 1: here and be like we are the best. I mean,
Speaker 1: I function up all the time. There's always times that
Speaker 1: I play Monday morning quarterback about myself, like I could
Speaker 1: have done this better, I could have done this better,
Speaker 1: but I would hope and again, bringing it back to
Speaker 1: anyone that listens to this podcast that's a aspiring broadcaster
Speaker 1: or maybe even a broadcaster. If you got tips and tricks,
Speaker 1: I'll take them all. But like, I don't pretend to
Speaker 1: know everything. I just know that being an asshole doesn't
Speaker 1: get you very far in life, so knock it off.
Speaker 1: And my final thing I'll say is the way you
Speaker 1: handle Jennifer Garner is a lot of ways I have
Speaker 1: to handle guys. When I do sit downs with them,
Speaker 1: I will say to them, hey, I gotta ask you
Speaker 1: about this. I'm giving you a heads up instead of
Speaker 1: being like start in their face with the microphone, and
Speaker 1: like you know, it goes a long way if you
Speaker 1: go about it that way. Just a credit to my
Speaker 1: daddy worked in the industry for thirty five years. His
Speaker 1: first job in broadcasting was nineteen seventy three six for
Speaker 1: that homie. What a case of Tom Brady of broadcasting
Speaker 1: right here with all those emmys, that little sweetheart. Yeah alright, well,
Speaker 1: our ted talk on broadcasting is over. Um, sorry, I
Speaker 1: had to get it off my chest. Now. I'm right
Speaker 1: there with your sister, and I love that you care
Speaker 1: enough about people more than anything. That's my theme of
Speaker 1: this podcast for between Sherman and you and whatnot. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a new year. We have our own different things
Speaker 1: that we want to work on. But I'm really excited.
Speaker 1: I love a fresh start. I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of times in my life where I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: like to push that reset button. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: I don't like to do though, and again, I feel
Speaker 1: very lucky and fortunate to be a homeowner. Um, because
Speaker 1: it is, as I mentioned in our pregame, one of
Speaker 1: the great questions was asked, like what did we what
Speaker 1: did I spend my money on? I first got paid
Speaker 1: a house and being a homeowner is a great sense
Speaker 1: of Pride. There's this scene and Far and Away with
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, one of their verge and
Speaker 1: back to Blockbuster for that one. Yeah, I did you
Speaker 1: know what? And this is not even DVD Blockbuster, this
Speaker 1: is VHS Blockbuster. But there is a scene in Tom
Speaker 1: Cruise and he like sticks the like uh stick in
Speaker 1: the ground, and it signifies like that's their land, like
Speaker 1: it matters. And if it's this little plot of land
Speaker 1: and you're in this big world that we can call
Speaker 1: our own, it's wonderful. But I'm gonna tell you what
Speaker 1: little plot of land I'm upset with is the leaking
Speaker 1: of the roof. It ranged three days in l A
Speaker 1: and I got Niagara falls in the living room, and
Speaker 1: I had that moment because again, like I'm not married,
Speaker 1: not that I have to be married, but like anything
Speaker 1: that goes wrong in my house, I'm fixing it. Like
Speaker 1: I don't get to just be like honey, the honey
Speaker 1: do list, the honeydew list is me. The cat can cantaloupe,
Speaker 1: honey dew, pineapple and strawberries is all me. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I have to I tell you when you are married
Speaker 1: in my house that doesn't mean we know how to
Speaker 1: fix it either anyways, but at least you can pass
Speaker 1: off the to do Listless to say, I have spent
Speaker 1: the first few days of the new year doing home
Speaker 1: maintenance stuff, so I'm really not in that. And then
Speaker 1: I went to this deep Evan started watching fix It
Speaker 1: Up or with Chip and Joanna, and I need that
Speaker 1: Chip with the tool belt and they like fix the
Speaker 1: roof situation. But anyways, that's where I'm at. There's gotta
Speaker 1: be a dating app for that. Hey, I'm looking for
Speaker 1: Oh my god, right, they have like Farmers only they
Speaker 1: got j D. Like poor Steve Sawly listening to this
Speaker 1: and he's like, did we just break up the great
Speaker 1: grab to belt and fix the roof? If you time
Speaker 1: you come over a friend brings to you, I'll retool you, okay, Grandpa.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so I've got I've got a list of
Speaker 1: things that I need to fix, which I'm not excited about.
Speaker 1: But I'm very very much looking forward to a new
Speaker 1: slate for the new year, and so I would love
Speaker 1: if you guys are listening for a pregame next week.
Speaker 1: Any news resolutions that you have are fun things you
Speaker 1: do for the new year. Because I like a reset,
Speaker 1: or do you make a list of resolutions or no.
Speaker 1: I have a fantastic next door neighbor that's very spiritual
Speaker 1: and I love her so much. Nicole Um. She texted
Speaker 1: me New Year's Eve and just said, hey, if you
Speaker 1: I would write out a bunch of intentions or maybe
Speaker 1: blessings and how you want to get those, and like
Speaker 1: maybe prepare your mind. So as I was in Tampa
Speaker 1: trying to go to bed at eleven I think twenty
Speaker 1: at night. The only reason why I know this, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you in a second, I wrote down a bunch
Speaker 1: of my intentions on the hotel pad and I think
Speaker 1: I left it there. So the cleaning service, I guess
Speaker 1: my retentions. Hopefully it works out for them, but uh,
Speaker 1: mine was had a lot to do with being calm,
Speaker 1: enjoying the moment, calm band, calm down, and uh you know,
Speaker 1: like I had a lot to do with patients. So
Speaker 1: it already didn't work out after day one with my
Speaker 1: chest pains, but that's why. And my heat rash. It's fine,
Speaker 1: but intent of it doesn't mean we're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to fix it overnight. It means that it's something that
Speaker 1: we're intentionally trying to fix. Okay, good, I think for
Speaker 1: you about a lot of things. What did you do news?
Speaker 1: Because I went to bed at about five, I sent
Speaker 1: out like my text to my parents and my husband,
Speaker 1: and I went to bed, took a little sleeping pill,
Speaker 1: went the night, and then Happy New Year. Like the
Speaker 1: fireworks right outside our hotel sounded like they were ricocheting
Speaker 1: off my um windows. So I was up to like
Speaker 1: about twelve thirty. Girl. You know, I was in Las
Speaker 1: Vegas for the aforementioned sweet Fred Horner interview. So I
Speaker 1: got back on Friday morning from Asheville after our our
Speaker 1: wrap up party where we had a time karaoke, the
Speaker 1: whole get Along gang so much fun fits and I'm
Speaker 1: dressed up with cowboy outfits, like the whole thing. He's
Speaker 1: so great. So then I get home Friday Saturday went
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas, which normally you know, it's not your thing,
Speaker 1: it's my thing. I'm a Vegas gal. You and I
Speaker 1: were going next week or this week. She had it
Speaker 1: already this week. Yeah, and it's still for work. So
Speaker 1: I can't get Aaron to really like break Out of
Speaker 1: the Show yet. But we had fun last time we
Speaker 1: were in Vegas even for a minute, so much fun,
Speaker 1: and I feel like we're gonna have I feel like
Speaker 1: we'll have to figure out a show too. After football
Speaker 1: with Kelly. Let's go then let's figure it out. Let's
Speaker 1: take Kelly and let's go. Oh my god, that would
Speaker 1: be amazing. So yeah, so I'm going. So I was
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Um, Vegas is the place to be when
Speaker 1: you want to go through T s A. Because on
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, ain't no one in the T s
Speaker 1: A line. I didn't even need pre check that day.
Speaker 1: That's what my time gonna be. T s A pre
Speaker 1: check get by. Thanks. I'm I'm the one person going
Speaker 1: into Las Vegas on New Year's Eve and leaving on
Speaker 1: the same day. No one's in the T s A.
Speaker 1: And so I got home straight to bed because my
Speaker 1: my call time was four am the next day for Fox.
Speaker 1: So there was no ringing in the New York I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what though, Steve might not be able to
Speaker 1: fix the roof, but he did do a great job
Speaker 1: breastfeating the dogs. Because the fireworks were going off. My
Speaker 1: long linel Ritchie, that residency is over in Vegas, but
Speaker 1: all night the fireworks are going off, and I looked
Speaker 1: at him and I was like, Yo, would you mind
Speaker 1: helping me out with this? Because dogs freak out? And
Speaker 1: I was like, I have got to get a good
Speaker 1: night's sleep. So I didn't do anything exciting on New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve. But there's gouldn't be plenty of time for celebration,
Speaker 1: and that means you and I postseason vecse. I think
Speaker 1: we're all out of time. But if you guys have
Speaker 1: any more questions, comments, or concerns about how to be
Speaker 1: a broadcaster, asked someone else, sorry for the tangent you
Speaker 1: guys to do something I feel passaged about, and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, listen, I I agree with Chris. I'm not
Speaker 1: perfect in any of this, but one thing you have
Speaker 1: to do is just treat these guys with respect. What
Speaker 1: are you saying sorry for trying to say that you're
Speaker 1: you're you're a good person and not to be an asshole.
Speaker 1: I think we're off a good start. Our patience is
Speaker 1: a virtue. I'm gonna be a patient in the hospital
Speaker 1: if I don't get this spray tan washed off back crashed.
Speaker 1: I find the commanders this weekend. I can't have this
Speaker 1: rash rivera you're not in the playoffs. Um, I love
Speaker 1: you guys, Thank you for listening. Happy New Year, Happy Yeah.
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