Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Are you wondering why I'm still wearing
Speaker 1: a hooded sweatshirt inside because it's freezing in the garage?
Speaker 1: I have one on Are you wearing? God? Um? Hello,
Speaker 1: they're hello. Wait you said you're you're cold in your garage?
Speaker 1: Are you in jammies? What are you win? I mean
Speaker 1: a cold sweatshirt and leggings my normal everyday attire because
Speaker 1: after quarantine, I just gave up on putting on jeans
Speaker 1: unless I really had to, you know the deal. Um,
Speaker 1: I was saying I was cold because I converted my garages,
Speaker 1: you know, into the house and home headquarters. But every
Speaker 1: now and then it gets a little chili chili chili,
Speaker 1: I feel and being cold in southern states. Well, we're
Speaker 1: not in the South, but I was in Dallas yesterday
Speaker 1: and it was probably twenty to thirty degrees. I feel
Speaker 1: like they're in California are just houses aren't made for
Speaker 1: this and it just feels colder here, Like I was
Speaker 1: done to Rose Bowl watching college game day and Desmond
Speaker 1: Howard was wearing ear muffs. Interesting, thanking yourself. We're in
Speaker 1: southern California. Welcome everybody to the Calm Down Podcast. Are
Speaker 1: you wearing a sweatshirt? Indoors? I am Aaron is welcome,
Speaker 1: Aaron Andrews. It is week seventeen. Now it's gonna be
Speaker 1: week eighteen. Can you believe it? You are? You've made it.
Speaker 1: You have made it to the final week of the
Speaker 1: regular season. It feels like just yesterday we started this
Speaker 1: bad Boy at the beginning of the season and we
Speaker 1: were jacked up ready to go. H well for you,
Speaker 1: because once you get to the end of the season
Speaker 1: and you've traveled however many miles diamond status on all airlines,
Speaker 1: are you sad that you're almost done with the season?
Speaker 1: Or we ready ready? It's a final countdown? So done.
Speaker 1: I'm just done done because our final weeks are week
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen eighteen, So sixteen's Christmas, seventeen is New Year,
Speaker 1: and this is when And again I know a lot
Speaker 1: of this is based on travel stories. When the amateur
Speaker 1: travelers are out, it's amateur hour in the airport, and
Speaker 1: I try to be really, really compassionate because I always
Speaker 1: think of my mom and dad traveling, which they just
Speaker 1: did from Florida to Montana. They don't know the lay
Speaker 1: of the land. They don't know. You gotta duck and
Speaker 1: swerve and excuse me, excuse me, go here, don't go middle,
Speaker 1: go around. But it's hard, like t s A is hard,
Speaker 1: and it's just there's a lot of things. I watched
Speaker 1: the whole flight last night in Dallas where they closed
Speaker 1: the door and about fifteen people showed up and they
Speaker 1: wouldn't let them on, and there were mamies and little
Speaker 1: kids and they had just closed the door in two
Speaker 1: minutes and the people were arguing. I almost started videotaping
Speaker 1: because I was like, this is gonna be a thing
Speaker 1: that goes down. I didn't though, I was more worried
Speaker 1: about my wine that I got that I posted on Instagram.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's no, I'm so ready. Where were you?
Speaker 1: Where were you watching this all go down? Where you're
Speaker 1: sitting at the bar watching the gate across the way. Okay,
Speaker 1: and we're in Dallas at this point because you worked
Speaker 1: the Dallas Arizona game. Yeah, walk me through your situation
Speaker 1: because mine, while sitting there, I didn't do one game
Speaker 1: break into your game, and that tells me one or
Speaker 1: two things. Because the other games, which were the Seahawks
Speaker 1: and the Lions no one cared about because there was
Speaker 1: no you know, playoff implications for them, And then the
Speaker 1: Saints and the Panthers, and again no one really cared
Speaker 1: about because unless Rich Gross was producing that game. So
Speaker 1: I cared, well, we do, I kid, because I care
Speaker 1: Gross bars, but no one in your audience was. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was such a big game. That was you know,
Speaker 1: you only break in Z's not taking an update from
Speaker 1: the Seahawks DK Metcalfe touchdown. No one cares at that point.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so I was sending in studio watching the
Speaker 1: whole game, watching the vision that was the Ivory sweater,
Speaker 1: back and forth behind Mike McCarthy. There was you, um,
Speaker 1: how was it? Walked me through that game because it
Speaker 1: was different for me in studio, I was like, this
Speaker 1: is I wanted more what happened? What happened? I wanted
Speaker 1: more like that game was slow. That game wasn't so
Speaker 1: if you're an Arizona fan, I just to guess on
Speaker 1: my sideline. It was like, what's happening, What's happening, What's
Speaker 1: going on with this offense? The defense was getting really
Speaker 1: tired because they were just running around Randy Gregory was
Speaker 1: like struggling to walk and he was making a huge place.
Speaker 1: So nothing on my end felt boring. The end was incredible.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you what. So I flew home. I
Speaker 1: landed about eleven. Wow. L a X was a shit show.
Speaker 1: But I finally got home and I turned on Game
Speaker 1: Day Final, which you used to host with Dion, which
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite shows when you guys did it,
Speaker 1: because I loved the humor. But I also loved when
Speaker 1: we're doing our game, we don't see anything else that's
Speaker 1: going on. I mean, the only thing I saw, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: was Antonio Brown and what happened with him. But I
Speaker 1: didn't see any other highlights. I gotta tell you, I'm
Speaker 1: not really dialed into the a f C because we
Speaker 1: don't get a chance to cover them. Holy shit, Cincinnati Bengals,
Speaker 1: How exciting is that? Joe Burrow Jamar Chase, that is
Speaker 1: fucking fun. Talked about some highlights over and over and
Speaker 1: over it. I broke into every single game with and
Speaker 1: it's another one and another one, and I thought I
Speaker 1: was and I'm into all that whole relationship. And I
Speaker 1: interviewed Joe early on in the season and we were
Speaker 1: talking about Jamaar Chase and him obviously going to college together.
Speaker 1: And I was like, how much input? And I was
Speaker 1: surprised he told me this because he's pretty close to
Speaker 1: the vest, like, you know, play it straight kind of guy.
Speaker 1: I was like, how much input did you have in
Speaker 1: going to get him? And he's like, they asked me,
Speaker 1: like did I want him? And I'm like, of course
Speaker 1: I wanted him, and like that relationship paying dividends now
Speaker 1: when it matters the most. I was so jacked up
Speaker 1: watching that game and its dog in the fight. I'm
Speaker 1: completely neutral when it comes to those teams, but I was.
Speaker 1: And then, by the way, like Joe's swag when he
Speaker 1: talks about in the press, so hot, right, but he
Speaker 1: doesn't have that into it, so reserved. I felt like
Speaker 1: I was like interviewing him for a military assignment. He
Speaker 1: was like, yes, sir, yes, ma'am whatever. Then he gets
Speaker 1: up to that podium after a win and he's ready
Speaker 1: with the cigar and the memes are at plenty. I
Speaker 1: loved it. I was like, let's go. I know I
Speaker 1: is into it. I was telling my husband about it
Speaker 1: today because, like I said, we see them once a year.
Speaker 1: It's early in the season. Sometimes it's week three or four,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I mean it's ignorant of myself, but we
Speaker 1: get so caught up with the group of teams that
Speaker 1: we are covering weekend, week out, we don't get to
Speaker 1: see those guys. I mean, it was just really, really cool.
Speaker 1: And again, this is like some heavy, deep like football
Speaker 1: stuff if you guys aren't interested in it. But I'm
Speaker 1: an sec girl. Those guys are L s U boys.
Speaker 1: It's just that's gonna be really exciting to follow for
Speaker 1: years to come. I'm pumped about it. Speaking of the
Speaker 1: L s U following after, so we keep the feed
Speaker 1: up whenever there's like a post game interview or whatever.
Speaker 1: And Pam was interviewing Odell and then afterwards the camera
Speaker 1: followed him and he ran over. There was this whole
Speaker 1: contingency of L s U fans in Baltimore like for him,
Speaker 1: like they fault, Like LSU fans will go anywhere for
Speaker 1: one of their own. I'll go in time for a coffee.
Speaker 1: Sure I need another one. I'm annoyed and get Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that was cool. How was studio Studio was good?
Speaker 1: The Antonio Brown thing was crazy in the sense that
Speaker 1: we're like, wait, what's happening? And Myers was calling the game.
Speaker 1: I know I need to call him. Myers calling the
Speaker 1: game consisted of this whoa. The stadium security thought it
Speaker 1: was an unruly fan out there. They almost tackled him,
Speaker 1: like just all the Myers things that you could imagine
Speaker 1: like followed suit with that. But yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: was I'm doing a Cameron break cut in and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's like we're gonna do a
Speaker 1: cameraon break cut in and talk about Antonio Brown leaving
Speaker 1: for no apparent reason other than, um, you know, getting
Speaker 1: in a fight. But then Glazer, who we love is
Speaker 1: really close with Bruce Arians, and then he came in,
Speaker 1: just got off the Bruce Arians just got off the
Speaker 1: podium to you know, announced that you know, a b
Speaker 1: is no longer a buccaneer and we're like, wait, what's
Speaker 1: he's saying. He's like I told him to go in
Speaker 1: and he just wouldn't go in, and we're like, what
Speaker 1: do you mean? Like because there was incentifications in his contract,
Speaker 1: We're like we were like thinking, like did they bench him?
Speaker 1: And then he couldn't go in and he was piste
Speaker 1: off about the money, Like what was the deal Glazers. No,
Speaker 1: Bruce is saying that he said to go in. He
Speaker 1: said he didn't want to go in, and then Bruce's like,
Speaker 1: then get out of here. So, you know, obviously it's
Speaker 1: it's well documented that Antonio has had a lot of
Speaker 1: different episodes, whether that was with the Raiders, whether that
Speaker 1: was in Pittsburgh, whether that was you know, his stint
Speaker 1: with the Patriots. And I liked what Tom said that,
Speaker 1: you know, if he really needs help, then hopefully there's
Speaker 1: people out there who can provide him with that comfort
Speaker 1: and the support and the help that he needs. Whatever
Speaker 1: that maybe, but as it pertains to a team sport,
Speaker 1: I don't foresee and I don't know what you think
Speaker 1: a situation where he will ever play again in the
Speaker 1: NFL he can. Yeah, I don't see what happening. All sad.
Speaker 1: It just for so many, so many different reasons. It's
Speaker 1: all very sad. So um, there's a ton of different
Speaker 1: ways to look at it. But I yeah, I I
Speaker 1: didn't get to see Tom's presser until I got home.
Speaker 1: I've read an article about it quickly on the Dallas
Speaker 1: sideline because a lot of the Dallas guys are asked
Speaker 1: game if I knew what the gossip WI was, um,
Speaker 1: and I was like, no, I have all wait til
Speaker 1: Glazier puts it out there because Glazer will know. But yeah, awful, awful. Um.
Speaker 1: So that was a big, obviously big headline yesterday, but
Speaker 1: just exciting a lot of playoff implications for a lot
Speaker 1: of things. I mean headed into the you know, the day,
Speaker 1: so many different scenarios could have happened, especially on the
Speaker 1: A f C side of things. So that was fun.
Speaker 1: The playoffs are going to be unbelievable. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: really going to be insane. And I know, you know
Speaker 1: Fox we carry the NFC. That's gonna be there's no
Speaker 1: clear cut winner. I guess you look at the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers with the number one seed and the role
Speaker 1: that Aaron's been on. DeVante is playing out of his
Speaker 1: damn mind. Davante Adams, we would love to have you
Speaker 1: on this show. I may or may not have planted
Speaker 1: that seed with Packers pr As I was getting on
Speaker 1: the phone, I was like, oh, I get it. Your
Speaker 1: quarterbacks on McAfee all the time. Can we get your
Speaker 1: wide receiver? You know? Um, I thought, Sadies Lewis, he's
Speaker 1: the man too, But um, so yeah, I just to know.
Speaker 1: I would love to know what Mercedes Lewis squats that
Speaker 1: man and his eggs and his overall I want to
Speaker 1: I want to know what's going on in the weight
Speaker 1: room with Mercedes m Bond. I've never had a chance
Speaker 1: to talk to him. I said hi to him on
Speaker 1: the sidelines on Christmas Day, but I've never had the
Speaker 1: chance to really speak with him. And now with us,
Speaker 1: you know, not going into the building, that's really hard.
Speaker 1: But I sat and watched a couple of his press
Speaker 1: conferences the other day. He is just a lovely person
Speaker 1: to listen to. So why have you ever talked to him? No,
Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't talked to him, but like both
Speaker 1: talked to Davante Adams. What a little dream he is.
Speaker 1: And I love what Aaron said that he's the most
Speaker 1: talented player. Look, it's hard to pick, you know, with
Speaker 1: the pedigree that Aaron's played with over the years, whether
Speaker 1: it's bread or on the other side of the ball
Speaker 1: with Charles and all that stuff. But the most talented
Speaker 1: guy that he's ever played with. Greg Jennings told me
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season he thinks he is
Speaker 1: the greatest Packers wide receiver ever to play, and he
Speaker 1: said the biggest reason why is Greg was talking about
Speaker 1: when he was there, like you know, Donald was there,
Speaker 1: He had you know, Georgy. They had a bunch of
Speaker 1: different guys in the room. But with DeVante right now,
Speaker 1: he's kind of the only I So, um, yeah, Alan
Speaker 1: Mozard's coming along, MVS is coming along. St Brown's coming along.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's like the guy so go to. Vante
Speaker 1: doesn't get enough love. I freaking loved one seven. What
Speaker 1: a dream. He's a cutie, he is. What else happened
Speaker 1: in studio? I'm trying to say, I'm just continuing. Well,
Speaker 1: I came from another acupuncture appointment before this. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: gotta get into this. Um well, I mean, no one
Speaker 1: really cares, but I care only because my face is
Speaker 1: deformed from it. So I mentioned it on the podcast
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago because I was feeling like
Speaker 1: this weird sensation, like I didn't have full range of
Speaker 1: motion in my mouth, like when I was saying certain words,
Speaker 1: it felt weird, you know whatever, or like pursh your
Speaker 1: lips or whatever. Um, Yes, I love how Vante atoms
Speaker 1: to this. I mean, it's just it seemed welcome to
Speaker 1: the seamless transition. No. I mean, look, we'll go fourth
Speaker 1: and long, or we'll go forth and short. What do
Speaker 1: you want in this case, it's a long story, I'll
Speaker 1: make shorter. So I was losing range emotion in my
Speaker 1: mouth and it was really uncomfortable, and I had mentioned
Speaker 1: it to you, and I was going, I was there
Speaker 1: was like a lot of stress that was happening currently,
Speaker 1: So I was connecting the dots with that. We'll I've
Speaker 1: had a lot of stressful things in my life, but
Speaker 1: never had it manifest in this way before. And it
Speaker 1: hasn't went away, and it's gotten progressively worse, to the
Speaker 1: point where like my dad, who's not observant about small
Speaker 1: little like twitches in my mouth, said to my mom
Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago when he was watching the show, like, uh,
Speaker 1: did Carrissa get some bad bow talgs or like did
Speaker 1: she get lip injections or what's happening with her mouth?
Speaker 1: Didn't have lip injections. It's been a minute since I
Speaker 1: had bow talks. No longer do fillers like we're bringing
Speaker 1: it down. It was not any of that. It was
Speaker 1: just like loss of muscle control. So I was had
Speaker 1: consulted with a couple of our friends with Vicky and
Speaker 1: constants and they're like, we use these, you know, different
Speaker 1: acupuncture methods whatever. So I'm finding that it's helping, helping
Speaker 1: as I stumble over my words, but it's still really noticeable,
Speaker 1: and it's it really bothers me. And I appreciate everybody
Speaker 1: on the Calm Down podcast. I g that sent in
Speaker 1: like certain suggestions, or there was a sweet girl. It's
Speaker 1: actually part of my question comment and concerned segment. There
Speaker 1: was a sweet girl, Lady Laurence. She said that that
Speaker 1: happens with her toe like it's spasms. Really too. I
Speaker 1: thought that was because I was hydria. Oh well, she
Speaker 1: says to um, take magnesium. It helps her, but it's
Speaker 1: when she gets really stressed out. But the moral of
Speaker 1: the story here is I'm waiting for my new best friend,
Speaker 1: the neurologist to call because I'm gonna go in and
Speaker 1: get an m r. I it's freaking me out that
Speaker 1: it's not just something stress related and I want to
Speaker 1: be cognizant of that. You and I talked about it
Speaker 1: on the phone the day that where your body is
Speaker 1: going to tell you something's going on. Like listen to it.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go and have an appointment with that.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, I think it's just a reminder that
Speaker 1: I need to calm down and you know, sort of
Speaker 1: distress in a lot of different ways. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: really weird when something like that happens. When I guess
Speaker 1: my live my job is to talk, as is yours.
Speaker 1: And so then when you lose the range of motion
Speaker 1: or when I was sitting there doing an interview even
Speaker 1: with Kirk Cousins a couple of weeks ago, or Davante
Speaker 1: Smith or Dallas got like I was so self conscious
Speaker 1: of my mouth, like not making the right the right
Speaker 1: shape for the whatever, and I'm like, so anyways, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm tb D on the diagnosis, but um at this
Speaker 1: point I'm just trying to rule out really bad things
Speaker 1: and hope that it's something as simple as distressing my life.
Speaker 1: So that's the update on that, and back to you,
Speaker 1: Joe Troy. And so when they're going in because I
Speaker 1: do acupuncture for fertility reasons obviously, and I try to
Speaker 1: go once a week, but I also when I was traveling,
Speaker 1: which I still am, and COVID is in full swing,
Speaker 1: which is still happening. I hate that we're saying that, Um,
Speaker 1: I was doing it for my immune system. And the
Speaker 1: whole thing is really interesting because there are some days, man,
Speaker 1: they stick it in and you're like God, and then
Speaker 1: there's some days you don't even know what's in you.
Speaker 1: I highly recommend acupuncture. I believe in it. I believe,
Speaker 1: and you know, the whole thing behind all of it,
Speaker 1: I really do think it helps. Hasn't helped me have
Speaker 1: a baby yet, but I know it's coming. Um, but no,
Speaker 1: there's I'm so tied into where she jabs me and
Speaker 1: I kind of jolt. I'm like what's that and she's like, um,
Speaker 1: that's your liver and I was like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: did drink a lot. And I'm like what's that and
Speaker 1: she's like, um, that's your intestine. And it's crazy, Like
Speaker 1: my lady will come in, she'll read my pulse and
Speaker 1: she's like, you have a lot of post nasal drip
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, it's a Tuesday, of course I do.
Speaker 1: But then she's like, um, did you sleep well last night?
Speaker 1: And I'm like no, And I'm not saying that. I
Speaker 1: just feel like she knows it. Then she has you
Speaker 1: stick out your tongue and she knows exactly what's happened
Speaker 1: with that. She did that with me, and I was
Speaker 1: like wait because then I was I was like, did
Speaker 1: I rushed my tongue? Cauciance, I forget to rush my tongue.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, are we seeing the white
Speaker 1: on the tongue? And now we're like yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: she said the second I walked and she's like, opened
Speaker 1: your mouth and I was like, uh, yeah exactly, and
Speaker 1: she's like, oh, you haven't slept, you haven't this are
Speaker 1: you feeling this? And I was like am I just
Speaker 1: like what? Did I just walk into it? But yeah,
Speaker 1: it is really cool and I'm like cute, I asked, seven,
Speaker 1: do you have it to just by proxy? By talkings?
Speaker 1: From grinding my teeth at night, I haven't been wearing
Speaker 1: my mouth guard. Well I don't see. I don't well,
Speaker 1: not that I have a dentist appointment on Friday. I'll
Speaker 1: find out next day. Yeah. Well, but I mean we
Speaker 1: are underneath the hood going all in she um. She
Speaker 1: said to me, she was like, it looks like you
Speaker 1: had a minor stroke in your face. And then I
Speaker 1: called you freaking out and You're like, okay, let's let's
Speaker 1: not throw that word around. I was like, I'm not
Speaker 1: throwing that word around. I am just a medical professionals,
Speaker 1: and you know, something noticeably change and I I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to fix it. So thank you guys for your suggestions.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to fix it, and also for Fox's patients
Speaker 1: as I keep like being insecure about it and going
Speaker 1: to Brad or Boston being like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: that I can't talk and he's like, okay, just we're
Speaker 1: good here. But I know, you know, you can't have
Speaker 1: something like it's like the biggest Well that is a
Speaker 1: Wednesday for me. So anyway, So that's what's going on
Speaker 1: with that. So I am gonna follow up on that.
Speaker 1: What else is going on? Um, I have a fun
Speaker 1: New Year's resolution story. This is really great. I love
Speaker 1: a fun New Year's resolution story. So I had a
Speaker 1: fun night in Dallas on Saturday before our game, went
Speaker 1: to dinner with Jillian fan and friend of our show
Speaker 1: and Tom Ronaldi, who has says he will do our podcast.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, you won't. He goes, well, you
Speaker 1: haven't invited me fact, So I need to get that
Speaker 1: down there always it's a standing invitation next week for
Speaker 1: the playoffs, we could ask Ronald's but um and then
Speaker 1: Troy came and he asked just about any New Year's resolutions,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, mine are kind of really
Speaker 1: all the same. Don't cost which I never do. Um,
Speaker 1: I never fixed that one. You know, appreciate my life,
Speaker 1: go easy on myself, like things like that. You know
Speaker 1: what the Ronaldis do in their household, what they come
Speaker 1: up with resolutions for each other really cool. I've never
Speaker 1: heard of that, he said one of his the ones,
Speaker 1: and he said, sometimes it's really hard to hear, but
Speaker 1: it's also very thoughtful. A couple of them were of his.
Speaker 1: He told us that his wife and daughter came up
Speaker 1: with years ago. One was his daughter said to him, Dad,
Speaker 1: I want you to make a new friend, because she
Speaker 1: didn't think he had enough friend. No, Renald's, He's America's friend.
Speaker 1: He is. Another one his wife said sighless, because he
Speaker 1: would come into the house and always sigh and she's
Speaker 1: like silent. Oh, not the cy Young Award winner. But
Speaker 1: I think, okay, I I feel like if I did
Speaker 1: that with my husband, it would be a massive fight.
Speaker 1: Or if you did it with your friends, it would
Speaker 1: be really hard not to take it personal. But they
Speaker 1: probably see things that you don't write, or you just
Speaker 1: are avoiding me. Well, let's get into it. Since we're friends,
Speaker 1: and there's certain things that you'll bring to my attention,
Speaker 1: even if it's hard for you to say, or even
Speaker 1: that d M that you sent me yesterday where it
Speaker 1: was like that was a constant short post, but it
Speaker 1: hit me pretty good, it was, and a lot of
Speaker 1: it in there was about how we need to look
Speaker 1: at ourselves, you know, what we're doing, or live up
Speaker 1: to our potential and not make excuses because of other
Speaker 1: people's behavior. So, I don't know. I think I'm at
Speaker 1: a place in my life that I would rather I
Speaker 1: would rather hear what I don't want to hear than
Speaker 1: have it said, well, actually I know this, I don't
Speaker 1: know why I'm hesitating. I would rather have you say
Speaker 1: to my face what you're thinking instead of behind my
Speaker 1: back and then be like, well, I just don't want
Speaker 1: to say it to her because she's gonna get upset.
Speaker 1: It's like at this point, like real friends are going
Speaker 1: to tell you the things you don't want to hear,
Speaker 1: and then after that you can decide what you do
Speaker 1: with it, right, Like your life is your life. My
Speaker 1: life is my life. So if we're the friends that
Speaker 1: I know that we are, we should be able to
Speaker 1: have that open dialogue with each other and get uncomfortable. Right.
Speaker 1: But then ultimately, if you are as close as you
Speaker 1: say you are with whoever, then you should say okay.
Speaker 1: Like I gave them my suggestions, I gave them my
Speaker 1: input on their life, and it's up to them to
Speaker 1: do what they want, because ultimately it is your own life.
Speaker 1: There's certain things that I know of some friends of
Speaker 1: mine that I would never do, but it ain't my
Speaker 1: life and it's not my husband or my kids or whatever,
Speaker 1: and so far be it from me to judge. Further,
Speaker 1: I have like a rule of thumb, like my job
Speaker 1: as your friend is to just support you whatever that
Speaker 1: looks like, even if it's not something I would do.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I um. I love the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year because I love the idea of like
Speaker 1: a fresh start and you know, new sort of habits
Speaker 1: and traditions. I don't make resolutions, but there's things I
Speaker 1: think about that I should do better, like putting my
Speaker 1: sunglasses in the sunglass case because I buy an exorbitant
Speaker 1: amount of sunglasses and then I get mad at myself
Speaker 1: for spending money where I don't need to. So something
Speaker 1: like simple as that. That's what I'm up to over here. Wow,
Speaker 1: do you make resolutions? Deep? I mean I just shared
Speaker 1: the ones that were kind of the ones that the
Speaker 1: same ones I do. I think the other one has
Speaker 1: going to be like enjoy the grind because I do
Speaker 1: work really hard and I don't know how much I
Speaker 1: enjoy the benefits of the grind. I love. You know,
Speaker 1: my manager and and her biggest client she has and
Speaker 1: partner Michael Strahand is like, you know, work hard, play harder,
Speaker 1: like you know what I mean, Like you just they
Speaker 1: really enjoy the fruits at their labor, and I need
Speaker 1: to start enjoying that as well. I need to stop
Speaker 1: taking on I think so much in terms of like
Speaker 1: emotion and bringing it into my life here at my house,
Speaker 1: like just taking on problems that I shouldn't like they they.
Speaker 1: I was listening to myself talk to my husband today
Speaker 1: on a walk with our dog, and it was just
Speaker 1: about another problem and nothing about he and I, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And it was like why the
Speaker 1: why the hell am I wasting his time listening to
Speaker 1: the same freaking story I've been talking about for the
Speaker 1: last couple of months, Like, and he's saying the same
Speaker 1: thing to me. So it's just like it is, it's
Speaker 1: wasted energy. I have to stop that. That's good, that's
Speaker 1: observing of you. I like that. I don't know. We're
Speaker 1: all work in progress, and I love a quote and
Speaker 1: all all deep dive into quotes and you know, try
Speaker 1: to find some newfound meaning. But ultimately, I think it
Speaker 1: just comes down to, like everyone wants to be happy.
Speaker 1: However you do that, um is really up to you.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: The last year, I have felt like being so busy
Speaker 1: is so great. I'm over it. I'm over being so busy,
Speaker 1: and I'm over the narrative of saying I'm so tired
Speaker 1: when I can do something about like I don't need
Speaker 1: to go renovate or buy a house and like do that,
Speaker 1: I don't need to move ten times, I don't need
Speaker 1: to start another company like from me, I think that
Speaker 1: this year is all about enjoying what I did last
Speaker 1: year and just sitting and being still and finding enjoyment
Speaker 1: in doing nothing and not feeling bad about it, like
Speaker 1: it's okay if on a Monday, after all this stuff
Speaker 1: happened with my face. The acupuncture woman was really sweet.
Speaker 1: She was like, go home and watch like senseless TV. Right,
Speaker 1: whereas before I feel bad if I wasn't being productive.
Speaker 1: Guess what. I finally watched Aaron so like, Shaw, amazing?
Speaker 1: Are you all caught up? Though? I well they only
Speaker 1: hound Hulu. They only had season one. Go to Bravo,
Speaker 1: Go to Bravo. Okay, because I was on who I
Speaker 1: was on Hulu and they only had season one and
Speaker 1: that one, well, I was wondering, and now no, it's
Speaker 1: a story so good though it is so good. And
Speaker 1: then I found myself like really getting it two things.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a mindless TV, I'm like, why am I wasting
Speaker 1: my time with other people's lives? But it was a
Speaker 1: nice escape. And then I just had so many questions
Speaker 1: about who wants to spend this time and energy throwing
Speaker 1: these parties. I never understood that I want to go
Speaker 1: to the party and not have it be my own.
Speaker 1: Who wants to spend the money on such a thing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder if the network helps out with that, because
Speaker 1: that's a lot of costs to bring on to your
Speaker 1: like to your own well. Heather Dbrow moving over to
Speaker 1: the Orange County series, she did a cost breakdown with
Speaker 1: her husband on how much the party costs, and she
Speaker 1: was like saying, like, oh, nobu was this and dada
Speaker 1: and she was like into thirty five to forty dollars
Speaker 1: just for a dinner party that got ruined and you
Speaker 1: know going into it, it's going to be a fight.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's exactly what it's what they want. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like a Bachelor. It's like feed these people alcohols
Speaker 1: with start crying and doing crazy ship right before the rows.
Speaker 1: That one time I got invited to a taping of
Speaker 1: The Bachelor where I went to the mansion that's like
Speaker 1: up in the hills in malb I don't know where
Speaker 1: it is now. It's like some like off the path
Speaker 1: beaten road. And I was sitting in the control room
Speaker 1: and I was like watching all the nonsense that was happening.
Speaker 1: And then I went out into the living room and
Speaker 1: there's it's like you're at a marathon, like running a race.
Speaker 1: There's like water stations everywhere. That's how it was with
Speaker 1: the alcohol. There was like every end table had a
Speaker 1: bottle of vodka. And I was like, it's genius. It's
Speaker 1: genius like that. You imagine me on a show like that.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. Just feed these people alcohol. Put a hot
Speaker 1: guye in the middle of the room and twenty five women.
Speaker 1: It's genius. Call it a day. It's it's absolutely genius.
Speaker 1: So you had fun with the last time I spoke
Speaker 1: to you, because we've been off for a second. The
Speaker 1: family was good. You were all in Montana. Yeah, everybody's good. Okay,
Speaker 1: back to work. It's like we never It's like we
Speaker 1: never had. Did you get for Christmas? That was your
Speaker 1: favorite gift? My dad got me a taser? Whoa and
Speaker 1: not what I'm taser to? And from thongs to tasers,
Speaker 1: we got thongs. We got a lot of them lazy
Speaker 1: ones this year. And my we were cracking up because
Speaker 1: my sister opened it first. I got one and she
Speaker 1: got one and she opened it up and we were
Speaker 1: re enacting Christmas Story where he opens up the red
Speaker 1: wider BB gun and he's like, yeah, like we were
Speaker 1: doing that with the taser. I haven't even unwrapped mind yet.
Speaker 1: What does he want you to have the taser for
Speaker 1: this living in Los Angeles right now, and and the
Speaker 1: crime here and just what a ship show our state is.
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, well that's a gift that keeps on giving.
Speaker 1: Yeah a daser. Um, Okay, Yeah, I wasn't really like,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm delay in Christmas. I didn't go home for
Speaker 1: Christmas this year, so I'm I'm the aunt that's going
Speaker 1: to give all these kids money. And you know what
Speaker 1: when you're like that age, oh you want his money. Anyways,
Speaker 1: we can always say it's like a happy New Year's gift,
Speaker 1: you know, happy. I'm going with the Okay, so that
Speaker 1: was the holiday. Rech What else since I've seen you
Speaker 1: last or talk to you last? Um? What kind of comments,
Speaker 1: questions and concerns were there? Um? Well, I have a
Speaker 1: comment from Rachel again. Wanted to ensure that you guys
Speaker 1: know that we pay close attention to our Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 1: I g comments and you guys are awesome, So thank
Speaker 1: you for everything you send in. Rachel said, I keep
Speaker 1: getting ads for jo because we do from Yeah, from
Speaker 1: our perfume conversation. Although I don't remember this, mon't go
Speaker 1: get a bottle. I have a story whoa go, um,
Speaker 1: it's about one Tana. So I already texted you this
Speaker 1: and told you this. My husband may or may not
Speaker 1: have seen a certain former guests that we had on
Speaker 1: this show, Matt Damon, and that Jared was was, you know,
Speaker 1: putting on his skis, and I guess Matt's wife was
Speaker 1: right there and he was like, oh, hey, this is Jarrett.
Speaker 1: His wife is a famous sports broadcaster and famous podcaster.
Speaker 1: You st Damon and I said, you say Jarrett and
Speaker 1: he said, I rolled my eyes. Rude, very rude. But
Speaker 1: by the way, no offense to your illustrious broadcasting career
Speaker 1: because you've worked twenty something years to get that label
Speaker 1: and we've only done forty six episodes. But we appreciate
Speaker 1: you Matt Damon for voting podcaster next to Aaron Andrews
Speaker 1: the sports broadcast is very nice. That's really cute. And
Speaker 1: then I said, did you talk to him about Jason Bourne?
Speaker 1: He goes froze. I should have did. I didn't know
Speaker 1: if he wanted me to stay or leave or keep
Speaker 1: talking to him. I'm like, okay, I like that. Jared
Speaker 1: gets so well. He's like the mayor around town. I
Speaker 1: can talks to everyone, But um, I like that he
Speaker 1: takes it serious, like what his conversations were or or
Speaker 1: should have been. I was thinking about this because of
Speaker 1: been getting all these Christmas cards, which I'm a total
Speaker 1: loser and have never sent out a Christmas card of like,
Speaker 1: so I respect the people that do them. I think
Speaker 1: to myself as I opened up these cards, and like
Speaker 1: the envelopes are like printed with my address and my name,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, who are these people? One day I'm
Speaker 1: going to be this person. It's not gonna be just
Speaker 1: download a file. Don't get crazy. What do you mean
Speaker 1: download a file? I can't even download a picture. Not
Speaker 1: happening for me. But I was thinking about it when
Speaker 1: I was opening up all these cards that I had
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for my mother. Okay, we really
Speaker 1: had a time with these Christmas cards. Kathy Thompson took
Speaker 1: our Christmas cards very seriously and she one year Aaron,
Speaker 1: there was this beautiful house like half a mile from ours,
Speaker 1: not ours, and it was a mansion like back in
Speaker 1: the day, like why eight you know pillars in the front,
Speaker 1: like just imagine your quintessential mansion. And this was a
Speaker 1: house that was down the street from ours, right now
Speaker 1: I'm imagining home alone. But okay, okay, go even bigger,
Speaker 1: even bigger with so my uh my mom. They had
Speaker 1: they were it was for sale, so they were having
Speaker 1: an open house and my moments like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you guys, this is our chance to go inside. We've
Speaker 1: always wanted to see what this house looks like. Everyone
Speaker 1: get in the car, pile in the old station wagon,
Speaker 1: cruise on down the road, and out we you know,
Speaker 1: out we go into this house. Touring around to the rooms.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I'm in awe this place whatever.
Speaker 1: I think. I'm like eight at the time. Then she goes, okay,
Speaker 1: everyone gather around on the front steps of the house,
Speaker 1: and my dad's like, what are we doing here? And
Speaker 1: she goes, just sit down, Scott, just sit down. And
Speaker 1: this is in the day obviously before camera phones, and
Speaker 1: so she like has her camera with her. She's thought
Speaker 1: about this. She hands the camera to a stranger and
Speaker 1: she's like, can you take our picture? Unbeknownst to us,
Speaker 1: she then Prince Christmas car with this picture as Happy
Speaker 1: Holidays from the Thompsons, sitting in front of an immaculate
Speaker 1: mansion that is not ours. So everyone thinks that Thompsons
Speaker 1: are crushing it this year, and in retrospect, she was like,
Speaker 1: what was I thinking? And my Dad's like, we don't know.
Speaker 1: It was like it was such a bait and switch,
Speaker 1: pretending like this was our house, like happy holidays and
Speaker 1: in the week, Oh my god, it made me think
Speaker 1: of it because I was talking about it when I
Speaker 1: was opening of all the Christmas cards and she was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I have that. I'm gonna send it
Speaker 1: to you. She sent it to me and it is
Speaker 1: I'll put it on our calm down police. Is really
Speaker 1: a time I want to see whose house was it?
Speaker 1: Paul Allen, We don't know. We still don't know a
Speaker 1: stranger's house. But I was just thinking about as parents,
Speaker 1: like some of the ship that she would do, like
Speaker 1: with Christmas cards and all this other crap. But did
Speaker 1: you guys have Christmas cards? Right up? Yeah, It's just
Speaker 1: like who sits in front of somebody else's house and
Speaker 1: it's like happy holidays. Yeah. It was usually just me
Speaker 1: and my sister during our golden retriever and weird recital
Speaker 1: costumes on our point shoes, or one year she made
Speaker 1: us all get in the hot tub in bathing suits.
Speaker 1: That's cute, is it though? Or is it? Like? So
Speaker 1: this is what their families like A little weird on
Speaker 1: bathing suits of like the dad like Scott's like see
Speaker 1: my mouth doing I can't laugh. Scott's like in a
Speaker 1: bathing suit. Like happy holidays anyways, But all right, um,
Speaker 1: what do we got here? We can question, comment and concern.
Speaker 1: What are they? Hey? Yeah? Yeah? Our coment came from Rachel.
Speaker 1: Our question came from Taylor Cunningham, little Cutie. She was
Speaker 1: saying that she loved the podcast and she felt inspired
Speaker 1: by us to do her own, and she was wondering
Speaker 1: if we had any tips for her. At the beginning,
Speaker 1: I think we cared a lot about, you know, the
Speaker 1: structure of this thing, and then we quickly realized that
Speaker 1: the whole point of a podcast is to just ramble
Speaker 1: and talk and be ourselves. So up, yeah there you.
Speaker 1: I don't know tips. I would just say, um, if
Speaker 1: you're going to do a podcast, ensure you do it
Speaker 1: with someone that you enjoyed talking to, because that way
Speaker 1: it makes it easier to converse. I would never be
Speaker 1: able to do a podcast by myself. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I lose people very quickly. I don't think so Okay,
Speaker 1: the concern oh I read the concern um was about
Speaker 1: the toe spasms from Lady Laurence. So again, thank you
Speaker 1: guys for writing in and I'll let you know as
Speaker 1: soon as the neurology. Can you let me know why
Speaker 1: you have toe spasms because I always thought it was
Speaker 1: because I was dehydrated. If there's another, like underlying medical issue,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear about it. Yeah, Lauren had said
Speaker 1: it was when she got stressed again. Stress has a
Speaker 1: weird way of affecting us all. But you're not stressed
Speaker 1: out right now, are you? You're almost done, sister? Where
Speaker 1: do you go to video stressed? I'm here, I'm at home,
Speaker 1: I'm in l A. I'm stressed out because I haven't
Speaker 1: read my articles yet. Okay, okay, alright, well Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 1: It's been a great year and I don't know if
Speaker 1: anything else other than he finally warmed up in here
Speaker 1: that and I'm now thinking we should have given Matt
Speaker 1: Damon some calm down March so he could have worn it,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe next year. Al Right, I love you,
Speaker 1: love your rig e teen. Let's go calm down with
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