Speaker 1: I'm stuck in Times Square. I can't get anywhere. I
Speaker 1: finally look at Steve. He's not keeping up. I am
Speaker 1: a fast walker. I am like I'm in and out.
Speaker 1: I finally look at him and I said, I love you.
Speaker 1: I'm going to leave you. I'm booking it. I don't
Speaker 1: care how I have to get there. I'm getting back
Speaker 1: to the hotel to sit in my ass in that
Speaker 1: hotel roop so I can watch games.
Speaker 2: And he goes fine.
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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to the Calm Down Podcast. Aaron and I
Speaker 1: are both with ar check. I don't want to speak
Speaker 1: for her, but I will with all of oar This
Speaker 1: one's drinking soup. I am coating my throat with a
Speaker 1: little sore throat chloro septic hanging on here.
Speaker 2: What is happening?
Speaker 3: I blame rich Ruth So rich Rus are our director.
Speaker 3: He's been nasally for two weeks. I got in on
Speaker 3: the way home on our flight on Thursday. I was
Speaker 3: so excited, had the weekend off, my parents are in town,
Speaker 3: my kid first Thanksgiving, and I'm freaking dog sick. Richard,
Speaker 3: So no, this is on you truth. Yeah, and now
Speaker 3: I've started this throat thing, which is great because that
Speaker 3: needs to be gone by the time I sit down
Speaker 3: and brock perty tomorrow. So come on.
Speaker 1: Ooh, okay, well we've got a lot to get to today,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna talk Turkey Leggate, Amazon Black Friday. First
Speaker 1: Black Friday game for me coming from New York. My
Speaker 1: parents were also out there. We'll talk about all that
Speaker 1: and some Ryan's reaction. What fun segment that we have,
Speaker 1: our wonderful producer Ryan. It is predicated off of a
Speaker 1: topic that we had in the pregame about living with
Speaker 1: your in laws, and Ryan has done that, so we
Speaker 1: will get his thoughts on that.
Speaker 2: All right, Girlfriends, start us off.
Speaker 1: You were, of course working the famous holiday tradition of
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day game against the Packers. Of
Speaker 1: course we know the Packers showed up and that one
Speaker 1: tell us everything and go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was really a cool vibe because
Speaker 3: I think it was well, I don't think it was
Speaker 3: the first Thanksgiving where I just felt like there was
Speaker 3: just so much buzz in Detroit and I've done that
Speaker 3: was my six Thanksgiving in Detroit, and I've never experienced
Speaker 3: the fans just being this excited. Kevin Burkhardt had a
Speaker 3: fan sitting next to him on the plane that talked
Speaker 3: about how he goes to that game, you know, every
Speaker 3: single year, but this year the tickets were really expensive,
Speaker 3: so they were just so excited to be at home
Speaker 3: watching it together. So it was great. The scene was awesome.
Speaker 3: It was a really fun, fun vibe. Jordan Love played unreal.
Speaker 3: The Packers' defense and all the pressures that they put on.
Speaker 3: Jared Goff was amazing, had a great time. Didn't sit
Speaker 3: down with Jordan his first sit down right the day before,
Speaker 3: so that was great. And then I get home and
Speaker 3: the next morning, you know, I haven't looked at my phone.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to be with my family and trying to
Speaker 3: feel good and all that stuff, and I see there's
Speaker 3: like a chatter about Turkey leg gate on Fox, and
Speaker 3: I was like, what the hell is this? What's going on?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: What's happening? Who did we piss off?
Speaker 3: We? I will say that on behalf of Greg Olsen,
Speaker 3: who I guess is feeling some heat on the internet.
Speaker 3: Greg Olsen had a turducan up in the booth. He
Speaker 3: plowed through it. He ate it, but that Turducan was
Speaker 3: not supposed to be for Jordan Love. Since I've been
Speaker 3: doing sidelines for Fox on Thanksgiving, I've never given out
Speaker 3: a turkey leg. I've just we've never had that, so
Speaker 3: there is no turkey leg gate. There were many tweets
Speaker 3: once the boys alerted me to the people hating Greg Olson,
Speaker 3: which they don't I say that in all you know,
Speaker 3: fun and games. People were saying, we need to know
Speaker 3: the answers to turkey leg gate. There are no answers
Speaker 3: to turkey leg gate. For as long as I've done
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving on Fox, which I think this is my eleventh
Speaker 3: or twelfth year, I've never given out a turkey leg.
Speaker 3: That's not because I ate the turkey. Let's be careful
Speaker 3: with what we all say. And that's not because Greg
Speaker 3: ate the turkey. Greg ate the turkey, but we weren't
Speaker 3: going to give out those. We just have never given
Speaker 3: out turkey legs so America.
Speaker 2: So that's how do I understand?
Speaker 3: I know? And then I had heard like, oh, the
Speaker 3: Packers are ripping Greg and we apparently we ruined Jordan
Speaker 3: Love's Thanksgiving. I think everyone knows I was raised a
Speaker 3: Packers fan until I had to be neutral. Jordan Love
Speaker 3: was fine. He seemed great. He got the win, he
Speaker 3: bawled out, so he seemed good. But yeah, there was
Speaker 3: no conspiracy, guys, so sorry, I mean, I know we
Speaker 3: all love to think that there was. I've never given
Speaker 3: out a leg.
Speaker 2: Well, here's let's just go off press her.
Speaker 3: Those legs don't taste good when they are given out,
Speaker 3: Like one player told me one time, it was really
Speaker 3: waxy or something because they have to make it look
Speaker 3: really good good something like that. Anyways, I don't want
Speaker 3: to start more controversy because we could go off the rails.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I just there was no Turkey leg gate.
Speaker 3: Greg Olsen, he's not a criminal. He's not leave him alone.
Speaker 1: For those of you that missed what Aaron's talking about
Speaker 1: with Greg so up in the booth. Of course, they
Speaker 1: do the shot of the of the guys, as they
Speaker 1: always do. It's Kevin, it's Greg and Greg, and Aaron's
Speaker 1: told this plenty of stories about Greg too, Greg while
Speaker 1: having him as a guest on our podcast, of the
Speaker 1: savage nature of this neanderthal and breaching his hand into
Speaker 1: you know, bags of chips or bowls of chips whatever.
Speaker 1: So he's up in the booth and he just goes
Speaker 1: rah into the tru duckan and he looked, he looked
Speaker 1: like he's just a caveman.
Speaker 2: It was awesome.
Speaker 1: I loved it, but I didn't realize that that had
Speaker 1: turned into such a disaster when it didn't make no
Speaker 1: idea shot me. If you've heard that before, so yeah,
Speaker 1: and again if you've never done it in the past, like,
Speaker 1: if there's no precedence to support tradition, then now why
Speaker 1: all of a sudden is it because people like to
Speaker 1: get mad about nothing?
Speaker 2: Got it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 3: But that was the whole thing that people were like,
Speaker 3: are you going to make a statement about what I mean?
Speaker 3: I have never given out a turkey leg of all
Speaker 3: the things I have been you know, called out for,
Speaker 3: it's not today.
Speaker 2: It's not good.
Speaker 1: We just didn't have any Here's no here's something that's
Speaker 1: random and detroit lyons fans. I'm really sorry, but Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman had sent on our tech chain, which again the Internet.
Speaker 1: I have so many thoughts about the Internet, good, badtern different,
Speaker 1: But in this particular case, how in the world do.
Speaker 2: You guys know this?
Speaker 1: And who's keeping track of this? So this goes back.
Speaker 1: It's a it's like a little graph thing here on
Speaker 1: the moon phase. Okay, right, so there's like a crescent moon,
Speaker 1: there's a half moon, there's a full moon.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 3: This moon face just got a new moon. Last night
Speaker 3: we did, Oh.
Speaker 1: God, I need to go save you do something. I
Speaker 1: got to read up on what I got to do.
Speaker 1: I'll take it off, light a candle.
Speaker 3: I got all this mucus for the new Wait. I
Speaker 3: actually that's a bad sign, is it?
Speaker 2: How do you know? Well, this can't be.
Speaker 3: A good sign if the new moon is supposed to
Speaker 3: be a new beginning. Maybe how I feel like I
Speaker 3: need a new beginning. Maybe it's a plus rod in
Speaker 3: my nose. Let me clear myth roat.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Waxing gibbus is a moon phase. This dates back to
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 2: You guys.
Speaker 1: Every time there's a waxing gibbus moon phase, the Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions have lost one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen losses when this moon phase falls on their
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving game. I don't know, bring it up with the
Speaker 1: powers upstairs. I just thought that was interesting. So while
Speaker 1: everyone's worried about turkey leggate. You should be taking it
Speaker 1: up with the moon. That's the real culprit here, not
Speaker 1: greg Olsen. That's all I gotta say about that. Free
Speaker 1: greg Olsen, unreal. He is not a turn duck can stealer.
Speaker 3: He's not.
Speaker 1: Wait, so you get to go home and you land
Speaker 1: and you get to obviously you're not spending Thanksgiving with Mac,
Speaker 1: but you got to have it the next day. He's
Speaker 1: not eating solid yet, right, He's still.
Speaker 3: We're not there yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, Yeah, but what did you guys do
Speaker 1: for your because your parents are in town, you just
Speaker 1: do like recreate the whole day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we just pretended Thanksgiving. We actually had it later
Speaker 3: at night because Jarrett had to work during the day.
Speaker 3: So we got everything prepared and then Mac fell asleep
Speaker 3: before we even sat down at the table. Mac wasn't
Speaker 3: involved in Thanksgiving, so that was fine. I was sick anyways,
Speaker 3: so whatever, but it was fine. We had a little
Speaker 3: place setting for him, which was really ter mad, and yeah,
Speaker 3: it was it was nice. Like I said, my mom
Speaker 3: and dad were there, my sister and her boyfriend, one
Speaker 3: of my girlfriends came because she didn't go home, and
Speaker 3: our nanny and it was great. But yeah, the kid
Speaker 3: was fast asleep. So I'm back so sweet.
Speaker 2: I love that. I love Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: And then you were in New York. I was We
Speaker 3: called you on our way to the stadium.
Speaker 1: Yep, I was in New York for Amazon's first Black
Speaker 1: Friday game, So yeah, on third. We got there Wednesday
Speaker 1: or was it Wednesday?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Or Tuesday? Tuesday night.
Speaker 1: Wednesday did like, you know, different whatever because we had
Speaker 1: all these different sets and stuff. So we did rehearsal stuff,
Speaker 1: had a great crew dinner and I know you feel
Speaker 1: the same way here and I am where'd you guys go?
Speaker 2: Grateful for Amazon?
Speaker 1: We we went to it was just at a hotel,
Speaker 1: like a ballroom kind of thing, because Amazon hosted every
Speaker 1: single person that works on her crew, the truck driver,
Speaker 1: the audio guy, the you know, camera meant, anybody that
Speaker 1: was working Black Friday. We had a big, huge dinner
Speaker 1: and it was so nice because so Taylor Swift of them.
Speaker 2: Wasn't it.
Speaker 1: I know, it was very and it was just I
Speaker 1: don't know, it was just a reminder that you know,
Speaker 1: and I know that the shots from your guys's game too,
Speaker 1: and just shouting out these people that you know, take
Speaker 1: time away from their family, and I missed these holidays
Speaker 1: as usually mentioned eleven years. But it was awesome. So
Speaker 1: we got to do that on Wednesday with everybody. Then Thursday,
Speaker 1: everyone kind of broke off and was with their families.
Speaker 1: A couple of the boys came with me and my
Speaker 1: family for Thanksgiving dinner because they didn't have their families
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 2: But it was good. It was nice.
Speaker 1: And you know, by the time that we went around
Speaker 1: the table and we all said what we were thankful for,
Speaker 1: Kathy's in tears.
Speaker 2: Richard's getting up.
Speaker 1: To give her a hug because she's like so thankful
Speaker 1: because she loves Richard. I mean, it was just like
Speaker 1: it was one of those really sweet moments that I'm
Speaker 1: just like grateful for our football family. And then Friday
Speaker 1: the game was off. I mean, you know, look, the
Speaker 1: game itself wasn't necessarily awesome. It was I've never seen
Speaker 1: a hail Mary turn into a ninety nine yard interceptional
Speaker 1: turn for a touchdown, Like it was like, it's such
Speaker 1: a and I feel bad. It was like such a
Speaker 1: moment for the Jets where it's like, here's this last
Speaker 1: second thing that then turned into a touchdown go the
Speaker 1: other way, and you're like, oh my god, it's a
Speaker 1: microcosm of our season. But so the game itself was
Speaker 1: a little bit more, you know, one sided for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins that I'm sure everybody would have liked.
Speaker 3: But how was the crowd? Were they really pissed?
Speaker 2: They weren't. I think it was I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't like booing, but I think it
Speaker 1: was just sort of like this overall frustration of what
Speaker 1: was happening, you know, and you know, kind of I
Speaker 1: don't want to say they're done, but it looks like
Speaker 1: they're done given their record. We're speaking of record, Like
Speaker 1: what a difference a day or a game, max. Like
Speaker 1: yesterday at work and I'm sitting there looking at these
Speaker 1: playoff scenarios. It's like you have the Rams when you
Speaker 1: had the Packers winning on Thursday, and it's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, these guys are now in the conversation of
Speaker 1: potentially making the playoffs. Then you've got the Browns obviously
Speaker 1: with the skid that they've been on and losing to
Speaker 1: Sean Watson and then Miles Garrett gets banged up yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's like all these different teams and the fricking Steelers
Speaker 1: are still in this thing, and I'm like the window
Speaker 1: fell is so maybe I feel like I say this
Speaker 1: every year, but it feel like this year more so
Speaker 1: than other. There's just such parody where you can't even
Speaker 1: disseminate like who's going to be in and who's going
Speaker 1: to be out without the exception of like those top
Speaker 1: tier teams. It's crazy. The Broncos, Yeah, they're five game
Speaker 1: winning streak. They go from you know, one in five
Speaker 1: to now being five of six and five, so crazy, crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy crazy. But that's why the NFL is so great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate the injuries. It really sucks, but I
Speaker 3: agree it's Kevin and Greg said it best after our game.
Speaker 3: Do you think differently of the Packers now after seeing
Speaker 3: the way they went into Detroit and played the way
Speaker 3: they did and they had about thirty injuries going into
Speaker 3: that game? No Aaron Jones, no jy R. Alexander, like
Speaker 3: they were missing huge pieces to the puzzle. And good
Speaker 3: for Jordan love man, that kid. I it feels weird
Speaker 3: to not see Aaron there on Thanksgiving Day in that uniform.
Speaker 3: I don't care how many times he'll suit up for
Speaker 3: the Jets when he's better, but it still feels weird.
Speaker 3: But good for this kid. He is so even key.
Speaker 3: He doesn't go up or down. It's just he's a real,
Speaker 3: wait for it, treat to be around. I'm excited for him.
Speaker 3: I'm happy for him. And yeah, football's not I know,
Speaker 3: and you know what, so yeah make it up.
Speaker 2: You know what sucks. And this is just the world
Speaker 2: that we live in.
Speaker 1: The immediacy as we sit and do this podcast because
Speaker 1: Frank Reich was fired on Monday in Carolina. Panthers eat that,
Speaker 1: and you just look at this, you know, the turnover,
Speaker 1: whether it's coaching or whether it's you know, Bryce Young,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't do it this year like that, he's
Speaker 1: not the future of the franchise. These guys have just
Speaker 1: such a short window to make an impact. And it's
Speaker 1: further highlighted by you know, we've talked about it before
Speaker 1: on this podcast, like the you know surgeons of a
Speaker 1: guy like c. J. Strouded for their highlights that you
Speaker 1: do have to you have to have this immediate impact.
Speaker 1: But I will say even looking at like we were
Speaker 1: doing a Broncos game Broncos Chiefs game Week six and
Speaker 1: postgame show, we're talking about you know, Russell's got all
Speaker 1: this money that he's owed on his contract.
Speaker 2: Do they just pay him out and let him walk?
Speaker 2: And like all these things.
Speaker 1: And now we are sitting here as we enter week
Speaker 1: thirteen and being like, hey, this is working.
Speaker 2: And when I sat down with Sean.
Speaker 1: Payton earlier or last week for that sit down interview,
Speaker 1: he was saying that he had reference what Dan Campbell
Speaker 1: had done with the Lions, and he showed the guys
Speaker 1: that that they started last year one and six and
Speaker 1: then you know, finished the season, think winning eight out
Speaker 1: of the last ten games, whatever it was, but sort
Speaker 1: of like give it a second, like there is a recipe,
Speaker 1: this will work.
Speaker 2: Stay with me, and it's.
Speaker 1: Obviously proved to work there in Denver.
Speaker 3: It's a long season.
Speaker 2: Long season, yep.
Speaker 1: So where are you this week? Oh oh, you've got
Speaker 1: a fucking monster.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Before that, though, did you see my Dan Campbell
Speaker 3: live interview on the pregame show on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: No? I didn't see that because I was stuck in
Speaker 1: the middle of Times Square, which I'll tell you about
Speaker 1: when you're done with that, because I can't wait to
Speaker 1: tell you the debauchery that happened.
Speaker 3: Oh well, Anyways, it was really cool and really gracious.
Speaker 3: Dan Campbell went live with us probably like twenty minute
Speaker 3: ten minutes before the game started, and he went live
Speaker 3: on the pregame and just talked about the excitement of
Speaker 3: the game, playing on a short week, YadA, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 3: And then like I made I asked him, like he
Speaker 3: drinks two venti cups of coffee a day, which I
Speaker 3: guess is equal to forty ounces of coffee, but then
Speaker 3: he has two espresso shots in each, so four espresso
Speaker 3: shots forty ounces of coffee and four espresso shots a day.
Speaker 3: And I asked him, because it's a holiday, do you
Speaker 3: still do that? And he's like, hell yeah, still doing it.
Speaker 3: So I had to throw it back to Stray who
Speaker 3: was out, you know, in Times Square where you were,
Speaker 3: and I just said, hey, you know you used to
Speaker 3: play with Michael Strahan any idea like you know what
Speaker 3: was his intake on Thanksgiving Day? And Dan Campbell, in
Speaker 3: all seriousness, goes, I know I'm supposed to have fun
Speaker 3: and make fun in strayhand right now, But he goes,
Speaker 3: I can't make fun of a guy who made me
Speaker 3: a better player and a person for four years with
Speaker 3: the New York Giants. He goes what he taught me
Speaker 3: on and off the field. I just will never forget.
Speaker 3: And I am great, and I'm like, my god, I'm
Speaker 3: not even Michael Strahan and I'm touched they take this
Speaker 3: shot of stray. I want to say this really quick
Speaker 3: about Dan Campbell. I know they lost the game. That
Speaker 3: has nothing to do with what I'm about to say.
Speaker 3: We had this segment on our game where we showed
Speaker 3: his introductory press conference. You talked about it being a
Speaker 3: long year, a long season, a long couple of years
Speaker 3: to get your formula in and for it all the payoffs. Orr,
Speaker 3: I'm closing my curtain. He had had an introductory press
Speaker 3: conference that everybody made fun of. He talked about biting
Speaker 3: knee caps off and wanting Tiger Lions down on the field,
Speaker 3: and people just took swings at this guy and just said,
Speaker 3: what the hell. This doesn't you know, make sense? This
Speaker 3: isn't going to work out now. He's like obviously taken
Speaker 3: Detroit to another level, but he is one of the
Speaker 3: sweetest men I think I deal with in sports. There
Speaker 3: was a gentleman, a local writer for Detroit that had
Speaker 3: lost his wife and he did a whole article about
Speaker 3: how it was the worst day of his life, and
Speaker 3: in a press conference, Dan Campbell took a question from
Speaker 3: him and said, my heart goes out to you. I
Speaker 3: really feel that. I'm so sorry. Then there was a
Speaker 3: woman that asked him a question in a press conference
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks later. He hadn't met her. He
Speaker 3: answered the question. He goes, I'm sorry, what's your name?
Speaker 3: And she said her name and said nice to meet
Speaker 3: and he goes, it's nice to meet you. He is
Speaker 3: such a freaking gentleman. I love him. And yeah, I
Speaker 3: just was curious if you saw that part with strength, No,
Speaker 3: you were square, what was happening?
Speaker 2: Well, I had left after I had FaceTime.
Speaker 1: I went to a friend of mine not to glaze
Speaker 1: of this, because that Dan Campbell's stuff. That that's what matters, right,
Speaker 1: Like the just taking the time, and whether it's a
Speaker 1: coach or whether it's anybody in an organization when they've
Speaker 1: got a million other things going on to care about
Speaker 1: the people around them, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: I love hearing that.
Speaker 1: I don't have a relationship with tent, but I love
Speaker 1: anyone that's ever spoken about him. And going back to
Speaker 1: the introductory press conference real quick and then I'll get
Speaker 1: back to Times Square.
Speaker 2: Stay with me, draw a map forty seconds straight?
Speaker 1: Is Nick Sirianni got just a viscerated for his introductory
Speaker 1: press conference and then Hewers, Yep, he was like going
Speaker 1: off about these things. By his own admission, he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was kind of all over the place, but I
Speaker 1: was nervous. And it was during COVID that he got
Speaker 1: the job, so he wasn't in front of his players.
Speaker 1: And anyways, when I sat down with him last year,
Speaker 1: he was talking about how he used that as an
Speaker 1: example and got back up in front of his players
Speaker 1: and said, hey, I'm going to show you this again.
Speaker 1: This didn't work, but it's the humility to stand up
Speaker 1: here and say, hey, this didn't work, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to be better because of it, and expected his players
Speaker 1: to do the same that if they made a mistake
Speaker 1: or did something that maybe wasn't the best execution, that
Speaker 1: to be able to stand up and say I'd like
Speaker 1: to fall on the sword on that one, run back
Speaker 1: down the court and say my bad, and do it again.
Speaker 1: So anyways, shout out to those coaches who just are
Speaker 1: good people independent of being great coaches. Okay, I'm stuck
Speaker 1: in Times Square because I go to my friend's house
Speaker 1: or not house. They had rented this hotel room because
Speaker 1: my friend Bo He's always wanted to see the Macy's
Speaker 1: Day Parade from up above in New York. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's great. So he has a bunch
Speaker 1: of friends over whatever, so we're watching that. Then I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, I got to go watch these games.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking, no problem, I'm Columbus Circle.
Speaker 2: I'm not that far from the hotel.
Speaker 1: There's also who needs to hang out in Times Square
Speaker 1: during the Mason's Day Parade. Not anyone, but it was
Speaker 1: close enough where I was like, oh, we could walk
Speaker 1: over to Yard House, no problem.
Speaker 2: Every street's shut down.
Speaker 3: This street can't walk, this street can't walk, this street
Speaker 3: can't walk.
Speaker 1: This street can't at one point, so it's just Steve
Speaker 1: and I and now I'm like, I've got to go
Speaker 1: see the game.
Speaker 3: I gotta see the game. I gotta see your and
Speaker 3: I gotta do this.
Speaker 1: And it's like it's a big deal for me, and
Speaker 1: not that it matters to you, because obviously, like we've
Speaker 1: done a million games over the years, but like I
Speaker 1: always like to see your first hit, or I like
Speaker 1: to see your interviews or stuff like that, just like
Speaker 1: see what you's wearing. Until you're doing a good job. Anyways,
Speaker 1: So I'm stuck. I'm stuck in Times Square. I can't
Speaker 1: get anywhere. I finally look at Steve. He's not keeping up.
Speaker 1: I am a fast walker. I am like I'm in
Speaker 1: and out. I finally look at him and I said,
Speaker 1: I love you. I'm going to leave you. I'm booking it.
Speaker 1: I don't care how I have to get there. I'm
Speaker 1: getting back to the hotel to sit pass in that
Speaker 1: hotel room so I can watch games. And he goes fine,
Speaker 1: I took off. I was like, I can't do this
Speaker 1: because this is what the move.
Speaker 2: I can't do.
Speaker 1: He can't keep I can't keep going like this, And
Speaker 1: looking back, he said, cursa, I'm toys your size. I
Speaker 1: can't just dodge around the strollers and everything that you are.
Speaker 1: And I was like, fine, then we're not going to
Speaker 1: get in a fight over this. We're just gonna divide
Speaker 1: and conquer. I'm going this way, You're going that way.
Speaker 1: We'll both end up at the same place and we
Speaker 1: avoid a fight. But I can't be looking through the
Speaker 1: crowd and hurting my neck every time I go back,
Speaker 1: and it worked out great.
Speaker 3: I get back the hotel, I see my parents and
Speaker 3: they're like, where's Steve?
Speaker 1: And I go, I don't know, still probably midtown, and
Speaker 1: my mom started laughing. She goes, you are your father's daughter.
Speaker 1: She goes, your dad does this to me all the time.
Speaker 1: My dad will just leave her and he's like, keep
Speaker 1: up or else, meet me wherever we're going, because let's
Speaker 1: just avoid the fight.
Speaker 2: And it worked. So I missed your hit, but I
Speaker 2: saw the last part of the game.
Speaker 1: Anyways, word to the wise, don't try to navigate the
Speaker 1: streets of New York post Macy's Day parade.
Speaker 2: You ain't gonna get anywhere.
Speaker 3: I think I would shit if my husband laughed me,
Speaker 3: and I know he'd be pissed if I left him.
Speaker 3: But like, I don't understand why I can't keep up.
Speaker 3: It's a fit guy. What's going on?
Speaker 1: I can't understand why I can't keep up because Steve's
Speaker 1: more patient than I am, so he probably is letting
Speaker 1: the ten people go in front of him as.
Speaker 2: Opposed to me.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no, no exactly, I'm like, move it
Speaker 3: out of the way.
Speaker 2: We have football thoughts to go.
Speaker 3: We're doing family pictures on the beach yesterday and I
Speaker 3: really loved doing it, but like I also had Eagles
Speaker 3: bills on, I don't have time like for fifty photos.
Speaker 3: I get a go did you get this shot? To
Speaker 3: see what's happening? We got them. I don't know. The
Speaker 3: one person that wasn't like freaking behaving was my dog.
Speaker 3: The infant was fine. The dog had the issue. It
Speaker 3: was like he was over like it was like so
Speaker 3: much going on, the birds with the waves. It was like, Jesus,
Speaker 3: just sit here and stay thank you.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, set the scene for me, but
Speaker 1: that makes sense if there's like a million things going on,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna just sit there.
Speaker 2: Did you bring treats?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: How did you? Entirely?
Speaker 3: He's my prize child? No, because it was just supposed
Speaker 3: to be fifteen minutes, we're in, we're out. It's like
Speaker 3: halftime so I can go see the game afterwards. And
Speaker 3: it was like, oh my god, just sit sit.
Speaker 1: Was Kendra jumping up and down with the stuffed animal
Speaker 1: for mac? How is this going down? I need a
Speaker 1: visual on what was happening? For the first family Christmas photo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had like a thing. They were like, oh,
Speaker 3: this isn't even our Christmas photo. This was like my
Speaker 3: parents are in town, so we wanted pictures with my
Speaker 3: parents and the kid and all that kind of yeah,
Speaker 3: and like family picks and all that stuff that's adorable.
Speaker 3: So yeah, no, Mac was fine. Mac was like looking up,
Speaker 3: looking down, looking wherever. He didn't care. But you had
Speaker 3: the dog was just like a bird, oh, seagull. I
Speaker 3: was like, sit, why are you itching? You never itch?
Speaker 3: Why are you itching? Stop itching?
Speaker 2: It's going over the itching.
Speaker 1: I always picked my dogs up from boarding and then
Speaker 1: they're itching, and I was like, what's going on over here?
Speaker 1: And then I felt like a bad mother. I was like,
Speaker 1: should I check in? Because I've been boarding them at
Speaker 1: the same place. They're the best. I really do love
Speaker 1: my dog boarding place, and they like get to roam
Speaker 1: outside and they have all these friends or whatever. But
Speaker 1: I mean, Aaron, I probably haven't checked out the surroundings there,
Speaker 1: and I don't know ten years. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: what's really going on over here? So I had them
Speaker 1: send me pictures and I was like, Okay, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I just felt like a negligent mother. You get it,
Speaker 1: you know, like maybe maybe the place of change. But no,
Speaker 1: they're fine. They're thriving, itching but thriving. Okay, wait, I
Speaker 1: want to go back real quick too. In our pregame
Speaker 1: one of our anonymous, which was a smart move to
Speaker 1: do it as an anonymous individual.
Speaker 3: In case your in laws listen to the podcast which
Speaker 3: if they do good.
Speaker 2: For them and thank you.
Speaker 1: Anonymous asked about to move in with my in laws
Speaker 1: any advice? Welcome everybody, Ryan our wonderful the podcast. If
Speaker 1: you're watching on YouTube and those of you that are
Speaker 1: just listening, this segment is brought to you by Ryan
Speaker 1: because we all erin and I like to rant and
Speaker 1: rant and ramt, but sometimes it's very important to get
Speaker 1: the male perspective on things. In this particular case, Aaron
Speaker 1: and I both had the same reaction to living with
Speaker 1: in laws. We said, eh, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: Good luck, have patience. Then Ryan says, I've lived with
Speaker 1: my in laws, so go ahead. Ryan, just like to
Speaker 1: clarify before I'm killed. I think it's living with anyone.
Speaker 3: It's just hard.
Speaker 2: It's hard.
Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be your in laws, it could
Speaker 3: be your aunts and uncles. It could be your grandma
Speaker 3: and grandpa.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, hey, look speaking from experience and my in law.
Speaker 5: My in laws know that I love them, just spent
Speaker 5: all weekend with them. But I will tell them straight
Speaker 5: to their face it was hard. It is It is
Speaker 5: not easy, and we did it for I think it
Speaker 5: ended up being almost a year and a half. So yeah,
Speaker 5: oh my god, it was a while. Why well, So
Speaker 5: it initially started with my now wife fiance and I
Speaker 5: at the time got engaged and we were like, hey,
Speaker 5: living in southern California, how are we going to make
Speaker 5: this work now? That house? So we were like, okay,
Speaker 5: this will be a short term thing where let's just
Speaker 5: you get out of your lease. We'll get in with
Speaker 5: your parents for a little bit and do it. Then
Speaker 5: when we were house shopping, we ended up deciding on
Speaker 5: a new development. So then we had to wait for
Speaker 5: it to be finished getting which is what took the
Speaker 5: extended timeline. Throw into the fact that that all happened
Speaker 5: at the end of twenty nineteen and sort of or
Speaker 5: throughout twenty nineteen and then bled into early twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, COVID lockdown right at the finish.
Speaker 3: Line, we were with your in laws.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we were having a time. We were having
Speaker 5: a time.
Speaker 3: How'd you get right there? You go?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I would say, you're definitely right with what
Speaker 5: you initially said, which is like right out the gate.
Speaker 5: Everyone's got to have like their boundaries there. You know,
Speaker 5: my wife and I had already been together for several
Speaker 5: years at that point, so like I was well familiar
Speaker 5: with her family. I definitely was not going into a
Speaker 5: situation as if like I didn't know who my in
Speaker 5: laws were, So that helped. And then yes, you definitely
Speaker 5: need to just lay down some groundwork like, hey, this
Speaker 5: is sort of how I operate. You obviously have to
Speaker 5: totally fit in with what they already got going on,
Speaker 5: So you have to understand that you have to make
Speaker 5: changes yourself, like you're not going in there and running
Speaker 5: the show. You've got to fall in line, but also
Speaker 5: know what's important to you and what you need to
Speaker 5: get done. And then we just always took advantage of
Speaker 5: any opportunity we could to do like a weekend get
Speaker 5: away somewhere, because.
Speaker 2: At some time to leave.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, but seriously, because you need your own time,
Speaker 5: you need your own space. Even as great of a
Speaker 5: relationship as I have with them, you eventually just becomes
Speaker 5: we need our own private time, private space away from everyone.
Speaker 3: Okay, question was there two places to watch television?
Speaker 5: Uh? Two places to watch television now that I think
Speaker 5: about it, Noo, there was only one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god, communal TV watching space, because that
Speaker 1: would be my biggest thing. We're already like even if
Speaker 1: I want to watch something and Steve doesn't, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you can go upstairs, like go do a different area
Speaker 1: of the house and watch TV there.
Speaker 3: That would be my like, how did you navigate that? Sure?
Speaker 5: Well? Again, and this is part of why it was great,
Speaker 5: Like they had known my career and my job and
Speaker 5: what I was doing at the time time, and that
Speaker 5: was one thing that was sort of I was like, Hey,
Speaker 5: this is what it's got to be. You know, if
Speaker 5: there's games on and stuff, like I'm there watching games,
Speaker 5: you know, if I need to, obviously could just pull
Speaker 5: up a laptop or an iPad if there's something that
Speaker 5: was going on. But that was one thing that was
Speaker 5: very clear from the get go, like this is how
Speaker 5: it's going to be. And they're like, yeah, sure, no problem,
Speaker 5: we don't care. And you know, her dad's a casual
Speaker 5: sports fan, so yeah, oh for sure. Yeah, but that
Speaker 5: was one of the early ons you got to just
Speaker 5: be honest about how things are going to go.
Speaker 1: Wait, Ryan, now that we have here, I have a
Speaker 1: few other questions as it pertains to the male perspective.
Speaker 2: Sure, wait, are.
Speaker 3: We done with this topic, because that was going to
Speaker 3: ask your relationship with your fiance at the time, a
Speaker 3: lot of whisper fighting.
Speaker 5: Whisper fighting, mister, Yeah, I mean so there were definitely
Speaker 5: they So they have a little bit of like a
Speaker 5: larger land, especially if for southern California, so like the
Speaker 5: big backyard. So if we were having a moment, it'd
Speaker 5: be like, let's just go out to the backyard, taking the.
Speaker 2: Get away from it all, just hash this out for sure.
Speaker 5: So that definitely helped that. It wasn't like a small
Speaker 5: confined space that if we needed some privacy, you knew
Speaker 5: where you could go to get that.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine you're inlaws in the house being like
Speaker 3: they're in the backyard again, looks come out there.
Speaker 5: At least they don't hear what's happening, you know, at that.
Speaker 3: Point exactly they can know what's going on.
Speaker 5: They're they're aware. You know, they're going to be aware
Speaker 5: of things that go down. They've been married for forty years,
Speaker 5: so they get it.
Speaker 3: Good way to look at it.
Speaker 1: Wait, I have Oh, I'm gonna save this one for
Speaker 1: next week's podcast because I have got a story for
Speaker 1: you guys, because my dad and mom. Obviously we're in
Speaker 1: New York all year, all year, all year, and they
Speaker 1: were there all the whole time. I was there for
Speaker 1: the last three days and Steve was hanging out with
Speaker 1: them because if I had production meetings, I had other
Speaker 1: things to do whatever, like, and Steve's with the parents,
Speaker 1: you guys, And.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna save it because it is worth getting into
Speaker 2: a whole conversation for and Brian.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to bring you back next week for
Speaker 1: Ryan's reactions because I can't even do it right now.
Speaker 1: And I go and ask Steve's PERMISSI to say this,
Speaker 1: because now I'm asking permission for everything. But I overheard
Speaker 1: him say something to my father that I said, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, it was crazy.
Speaker 2: And I said to him later, I go, why would
Speaker 2: you do that?
Speaker 1: And he goes, huh, Scott and I are best friends,
Speaker 1: And I said, Jesus, I'm like they are now so
Speaker 1: close we're having those conversations. So that's a tease for
Speaker 1: next week's podcast, because let me tell you, these two
Speaker 1: have gotten way too close for my comfort at this point.
Speaker 1: I'm like, better than the alternative. Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's far better than the alternative. But you guys
Speaker 1: will appreciate the question or the conversation that was overheard.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, let me add this real quick,
Speaker 4: you know, in a in a weird not even a
Speaker 4: weird roundabout way, but going through that with my in loss,
Speaker 4: now it's like we can do anything, like there's anything.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, there's no uncomfortability about anything that ever happens,
Speaker 5: because when you do that for over a years, it's
Speaker 5: just like we're good, you know. So, yeah, definitely does
Speaker 5: have its benefits. It's not all bad by any means.
Speaker 5: It's hard, and you're going to go through some stuff
Speaker 5: to where you're like, you know what, maybe we just
Speaker 5: move out and figure it out from here, and who
Speaker 5: knows what we're gonna do with the house that we
Speaker 5: just spot, but figure it out. But once you get
Speaker 5: through it, you're like, that really wasn't that bad?
Speaker 2: Oh that's a nice silver lightning.
Speaker 3: How long did that seem?
Speaker 5: Uh? Again, like I said, it felt not bad, but
Speaker 5: that those last like four months was like we're never going.
Speaker 3: To get there out of here, or we're getting a
Speaker 3: divorce or.
Speaker 5: No, no, definitely not, but just that, like with everything
Speaker 5: that was happening, You're just like, I don't know if
Speaker 5: I'm gonna make it. This is like we got we
Speaker 5: got to get out of this house for a lot
Speaker 5: of reasons, not even just anything that necessarily had to
Speaker 5: do with them.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Okay, wait real quick, because I mentioned how in Times
Speaker 1: Square I told step I was leaving and I was
Speaker 1: gonna go walk. We've had different conversations on this podcast
Speaker 1: before about like would you board the plane without your
Speaker 1: wife or like would you you know, different things, whatever,
Speaker 1: How do you feel about leaving your wife if it
Speaker 1: was like she's not walking as fast or you're not
Speaker 1: walking as.
Speaker 5: Fast, absolutely zero percent chance that would ever happen. She
Speaker 5: what do you mean you live it? Oh there's really
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I know my wife, we do.
Speaker 5: There is no abandonment happening. Now, what I will say
Speaker 5: is I no abandonment that we're.
Speaker 3: Not on a deserted Island. We are in Times Square, Saron.
Speaker 5: You get it though, that would not be acceptable, not
Speaker 5: under any circumstances.
Speaker 3: But that no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 5: Yeah. The only time I've that's ever happened was we
Speaker 5: were traveling with some friends and we were on a tight,
Speaker 5: tight connection and I was like, all run through the
Speaker 5: airport to make sure that someone Yeah, exactly. That was
Speaker 5: the time I was given verbal confirmation that I was
Speaker 5: allowed to leave during a travel situation. But what I
Speaker 5: will say is I could see myself being Steve, and
Speaker 5: if something was happening, I got no problem telling her, Hey,
Speaker 5: if you think you need to go, like, I'll figure
Speaker 5: it out. Like we're here. I'm not worried about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, he didn't flinch. He's like whatever.
Speaker 1: He's also the guy that sat in first class and
Speaker 1: was okay with me in comfort plays.
Speaker 2: Let's just go ahead.
Speaker 5: And you know, not even in the slightest would that
Speaker 5: ever occur.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Well Ryan's reactions. Stay tuned for next week. He's back
Speaker 1: for more. Also, Brian's in charge of keeping us on
Speaker 1: track for time. I think we're out of time, all right, perfect, Well, Ryan,
Speaker 1: you're the best. Thank you as always, Happy Thanksgiving. I
Speaker 1: know we have to stop saying that because it's now
Speaker 1: moved into the next week, but we didn't get a
Speaker 1: chance to say it.
Speaker 2: Last week to you guys. You guys are the best.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being loyal, loving listeners of the Calm
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