1
00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,360
Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of

2
00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:07,160
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Here we go three two and one.

3
00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,280
Speaker 1: You know we should just start the podcast even without

4
00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,440
Speaker 1: a three to one. I think we do a three

5
00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:15,840
Speaker 1: two one so we don't say anything wildly inappropriate. But

6
00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,520
Speaker 1: that's half the point of this podcast is wildly inappropriate.

7
00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,360
Speaker 1: Everyone has Calmed Down Episode seventy and your playbook number

8
00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:25,800
Speaker 1: one in your hearts. Hieron Andrews Hi, I think we

9
00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,120
Speaker 1: should do what Brian bump Garner. Is that how you

10
00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,800
Speaker 1: say it? Madison bomb Garner said you should just start,

11
00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,000
Speaker 1: but I do love him. Um he said we should

12
00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,040
Speaker 1: record it right when we come on. But those are

13
00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,120
Speaker 1: all the things I don't want anybody to talk about.

14
00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,800
Speaker 1: Get down there. It's good, good stuff. Speaking of good stuff,

15
00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,120
Speaker 1: I know you don't like attention, but I'm here to

16
00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,920
Speaker 1: give it to you. Congratulations. Where has moved into the

17
00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,280
Speaker 1: NHL space? I mean, what league? Don't you have? Major

18
00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,600
Speaker 1: League Baseball? Kyle? Can you get that done from Hyle? One?

19
00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:02,320
Speaker 1: Wait contri the NHL congratulation. Thank you. We're very very excited.

20
00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,720
Speaker 1: It's getting announced Tuesday, which is after this is released.

21
00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,759
Speaker 1: But it's cool for us it's kind of like where

22
00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:09,800
Speaker 1: it all started. I mean, and my career started with

23
00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:11,680
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Lightning, which we're going to get into

24
00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,800
Speaker 1: a bit later. And then obviously I married somebody that

25
00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,360
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with hockey and hockey influenced

26
00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,960
Speaker 1: his life. And Alyssa Green, who is our creative director

27
00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,679
Speaker 1: and also our designer, her husband played with my husband

28
00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,200
Speaker 1: and they worked together now, so it's really cool. She

29
00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,680
Speaker 1: it was cute. We're talking about it today and she goes, yeah,

30
00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:31,360
Speaker 1: when I really sat and thought about it, I cried.

31
00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,399
Speaker 1: It was like that, or you're exhausted from your kids.

32
00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,240
Speaker 1: But it's fine, No, it's it's really really cool and

33
00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,080
Speaker 1: that's going to come out next season the start of

34
00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,440
Speaker 1: next season, and can't wait for it, and that's huge.

35
00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you you you touch on it, but that's

36
00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,920
Speaker 1: how you started. You know, your first job on air

37
00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,480
Speaker 1: was covering hockey, and now you have a clothing line

38
00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,840
Speaker 1: which will you know, be spread throughout the league as

39
00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,080
Speaker 1: well as all the other league. So that's really really cool.

40
00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:57,040
Speaker 1: I know a little bit of your story, but I'm

41
00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,440
Speaker 1: sure you get asked a lot like what your first

42
00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,840
Speaker 1: gig was, and it was with your hometown team, which

43
00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:04,840
Speaker 1: I think is so cool because I know the few

44
00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,000
Speaker 1: times I even actually I filled in for you when

45
00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,800
Speaker 1: you were covering baseball and did your NFL assignment on

46
00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,440
Speaker 1: the sidelines, and I remember my first Seahawks game covering

47
00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,480
Speaker 1: that was so cool for me because it was my hometown.

48
00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,519
Speaker 1: But like you followed the lightning and then they want

49
00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,520
Speaker 1: to Stanley Cup, So walk us through that, or for

50
00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,000
Speaker 1: the listeners that don't know that that's how you started,

51
00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,480
Speaker 1: I will tell you that. I'm also going to do

52
00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,720
Speaker 1: a teaser for the end of our podcast because I

53
00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:29,440
Speaker 1: want to ask you a question about the derby, and

54
00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,839
Speaker 1: I know you have a great Larry David's story to tell,

55
00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:33,720
Speaker 1: unless you want to get into it now when we

56
00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:35,120
Speaker 1: can do it. By the way, this is our podcast.

57
00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,960
Speaker 1: We can do whatever you want, Okay. So I wanted

58
00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,960
Speaker 1: to do kind of a weekend catch up, and I

59
00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,120
Speaker 1: know that one of the hot topics and it's very unfortunate.

60
00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,880
Speaker 1: I have friends that horse was in the derby that said,

61
00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,919
Speaker 1: this is so bad for our sport. You know, there's

62
00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:51,200
Speaker 1: there's talks that what was the horse's name that was

63
00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:56,480
Speaker 1: potent Bob Baffort. Well, I don't all I remember truthfula

64
00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,080
Speaker 1: is because as that has the gambler in me. I

65
00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,200
Speaker 1: don't even remember the horse's name. I just know that

66
00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,080
Speaker 1: Bob Baffort is the Tom Brady of horse racing craft

67
00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,320
Speaker 1: because you never bet against him and I should have

68
00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,160
Speaker 1: known better. And no matter what horse Bob has in

69
00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:12,880
Speaker 1: the race, whether he's a long shot or not, put

70
00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,120
Speaker 1: your money on him. So anyways, okay, so, yes, the

71
00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,640
Speaker 1: horse who won the Derby. Yeah, so they're now saying

72
00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,160
Speaker 1: he tested positive. Oh thank you Ryan. Is it Medina

73
00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,080
Speaker 1: Medina spirit? Yeah, Ryan's the best. I love the chat

74
00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,520
Speaker 1: um potentially tested positive. For those of you listening, it's

75
00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,040
Speaker 1: our producer telling us information that I should have known.

76
00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,880
Speaker 1: Um called Medina. You know why I because I don't

77
00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,280
Speaker 1: remember things that I lose. So there you go. Okay,

78
00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,440
Speaker 1: go ahead. Sorry, you so potentially tested positive for steroids.

79
00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,520
Speaker 1: I know there's another test coming out. Got to be honest,

80
00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,240
Speaker 1: don't know the specifics, but I was dying to ask you, Carissa,

81
00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,200
Speaker 1: for everybody that place bets, how is that affected? But

82
00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,520
Speaker 1: you said you didn't know, right, But I know this

83
00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,600
Speaker 1: leads into a story that you love about betting at

84
00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,400
Speaker 1: the Derby. Yeah, so I do know that it just

85
00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,880
Speaker 1: in general and gambling, like for example, like if you

86
00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,200
Speaker 1: bet on the Astros to win the World Series, no

87
00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,720
Speaker 1: one's coming back and getting money from that, right, Or

88
00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:02,840
Speaker 1: if you bet on a certain player to you know,

89
00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,560
Speaker 1: hit so many home runs and they're tested positive for

90
00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,640
Speaker 1: p D, you don't go and get your money back.

91
00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,400
Speaker 1: It is what it is. So the same holds true

92
00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:13,080
Speaker 1: then for horse racing. But you and I were talking

93
00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,840
Speaker 1: before we started about when I went to the Derby

94
00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,600
Speaker 1: a few years ago and Larry David and I we

95
00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:21,719
Speaker 1: went with like a group because I got Larry into

96
00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:23,880
Speaker 1: horse racing because Larry needed it a hobby and like

97
00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,000
Speaker 1: something to like, you know, he's competitive, but like also

98
00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,479
Speaker 1: is very reclusive and like doesn't like like leave his

99
00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,680
Speaker 1: house ever. He was like COVID before COVID, right, Like

100
00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,200
Speaker 1: he didn't like that, and so I was the way

101
00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,520
Speaker 1: I get it. I don't want to leave my house either.

102
00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,320
Speaker 1: I mean, now I'm that person and I don't want

103
00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,360
Speaker 1: to leave. So I went the opposite direction. But so

104
00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,920
Speaker 1: in order to like get him to, like, I don't know,

105
00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,840
Speaker 1: get out and do things, we went to Santa Anita.

106
00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,080
Speaker 1: So he went to the race track and that got

107
00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,000
Speaker 1: him into horse racing. Then we went to Vegas he

108
00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:51,760
Speaker 1: got even more into horse racing, and so we went

109
00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,240
Speaker 1: to the culminated in a trip to the Derby. So

110
00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:58,200
Speaker 1: we go and so he's like, how does this all work?

111
00:04:58,240 --> 00:04:59,440
Speaker 1: I was like, we're gonna go up to the window.

112
00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,360
Speaker 1: You play your bets. You say, like, I want twenty

113
00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,440
Speaker 1: dollars to win place or show is first, second, third,

114
00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,120
Speaker 1: So I want twenty dollars to win on horse number five.

115
00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:10,719
Speaker 1: So we go up, we place our bets and the

116
00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,440
Speaker 1: guy that's at the window recognizes that it's Larry and

117
00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,479
Speaker 1: he goes, oh my god, like he does his like

118
00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:17,560
Speaker 1: you know whatever, the whole like reaction, everybody like gives

119
00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,640
Speaker 1: a Larry, and Larry can't be bothered. He's like, yeah, focus,

120
00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,160
Speaker 1: are you're not focusing? We want this? We want this.

121
00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,400
Speaker 1: And so finally the guy like prints off the tickets

122
00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,280
Speaker 1: and he's like, you got him right? Are you sure

123
00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:28,600
Speaker 1: you got him right? And the guys like, yeah, yeah,

124
00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,720
Speaker 1: I got him right. So we go. There's a lot

125
00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:36,760
Speaker 1: of races leading up to the actual Derby forever, so

126
00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,920
Speaker 1: we have our tickets in hand. We're so excited for

127
00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,200
Speaker 1: like the actual like race to happen. Horses are going

128
00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:49,320
Speaker 1: around final stretch, you know, chariots of fire, the whole thing.

129
00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:53,279
Speaker 1: Our horse wins, always dreaming, two thousand seventeen Kentucky Derby winner.

130
00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,600
Speaker 1: I'm like screaming Larry, screaming, we're so excited we won.

131
00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,840
Speaker 1: He looks down at the ticket and he goes, yeah,

132
00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:01,880
Speaker 1: we don't have the ticket. I'm like, what do you

133
00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,080
Speaker 1: mean we don't want the ticket? My god, right out

134
00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:06,040
Speaker 1: of curb, right out of her. So at this point,

135
00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,720
Speaker 1: there's like tickets everywhere all over the floor because from

136
00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:10,680
Speaker 1: all the previous races, when people lose, they just rip

137
00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,599
Speaker 1: them up and then throw am. He's on the ground,

138
00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,479
Speaker 1: dirty dirty ground, on the ground looking for the ticket.

139
00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the hell. He's like the guy, the

140
00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,280
Speaker 1: guy didn't give us the ticket. So when the race

141
00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,000
Speaker 1: is over, you go up to the window to like

142
00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,239
Speaker 1: cash your ticket in right and get money. He cuts

143
00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:28,520
Speaker 1: the line, Aaron, It is so like from an episode

144
00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:29,800
Speaker 1: which you know I don't want to show, but you

145
00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,000
Speaker 1: tell me that he cuts the line by cutting the line.

146
00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:36,360
Speaker 1: Tom Brady big poppy, like all these people big poppies,

147
00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,560
Speaker 1: Like can do you do a big poppy voice? And Larry,

148
00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,400
Speaker 1: what's he's happening? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So that's literally

149
00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:44,280
Speaker 1: what he's saying. And there goes the guy didn't give

150
00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,200
Speaker 1: me the right ticket. So he goes up to the

151
00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,400
Speaker 1: guy and he starts screaming at him. He's like, I

152
00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,240
Speaker 1: knew you weren't paying attention. I knew it all along.

153
00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:53,560
Speaker 1: He goes check the tape, and I'm like, oh my

154
00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,359
Speaker 1: at this point, like the race is like the video,

155
00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,960
Speaker 1: the security footage. Check that tape. He gets the manage

156
00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,719
Speaker 1: are out. The managers like it's going to take us

157
00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:04,200
Speaker 1: a long time to check, like what bets were made?

158
00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:06,800
Speaker 1: Mind you, the bet was for like twenty bucks, Like

159
00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:08,320
Speaker 1: it wasn't even a lot of money, but it was

160
00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,400
Speaker 1: the principle that Larry was like, I knew he wasn't

161
00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,280
Speaker 1: paying attention. We won, we should get our money. And

162
00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:15,840
Speaker 1: he created such a scene to the point where like

163
00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,400
Speaker 1: now everyone's filtering out of Churchill Downs and we're like

164
00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,480
Speaker 1: standing there and I'm standing there against the wall waiting

165
00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:23,720
Speaker 1: for the manager to check the tape, and so I'm like, Larry,

166
00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,720
Speaker 1: let's just go and he goes, no, this is ridiculous. Anyways,

167
00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,200
Speaker 1: Needless to say, we never got our money for that.

168
00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,480
Speaker 1: But I also didn't I lost this year on the derby.

169
00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:34,760
Speaker 1: I was so mad. But again, when in doubt, don't

170
00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,280
Speaker 1: bet against Bob Bafford hold on. So did they look

171
00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,760
Speaker 1: at the footage? No, because I wouldn't let him because

172
00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,080
Speaker 1: it would have taken forever to comb through, like all

173
00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,560
Speaker 1: the nonsense like needle in a haystack whatever, and I'm like,

174
00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,480
Speaker 1: let's go. It was all just so very Larry ausque

175
00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:51,960
Speaker 1: and leading up to it, and like only we would

176
00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,160
Speaker 1: have like the ticket that didn't get printed when we

177
00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,920
Speaker 1: were supposed to, and I was like whatever, So yeah,

178
00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,680
Speaker 1: that's our our story for that. But we had a

179
00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,600
Speaker 1: good time. All Larry Curb fans right now. I know

180
00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:09,040
Speaker 1: you can hear it in your head. I mean, I swear.

181
00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,560
Speaker 1: But my my favorite was Big Poppy's voice where he

182
00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:14,600
Speaker 1: was like he was like ready to be, like what

183
00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:16,680
Speaker 1: can I do to help Larry in like his sweet

184
00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,800
Speaker 1: little voice. Yeah, side tangent about Big Poppy one of

185
00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:23,240
Speaker 1: my favorite athletes ever and one of the best guys

186
00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,320
Speaker 1: out there. But I love Poppy And he talks about

187
00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,120
Speaker 1: how he learned to speak English from the Dominican and

188
00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,720
Speaker 1: I think he had said it was from television. Well

189
00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,560
Speaker 1: it must have been an R rated channel because I

190
00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:35,800
Speaker 1: love my man, but he says the F word, like

191
00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,880
Speaker 1: the word the So everything was like, hey, Poppy, like,

192
00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,640
Speaker 1: what do you think the keys to playing against the Inkies? Well,

193
00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:43,320
Speaker 1: you know, whatever the funk you think you gotta do?

194
00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:48,800
Speaker 1: You like, everything is like I started like, oh my god, like, yo, Larry,

195
00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,440
Speaker 1: what the funk? You know? I guarantee it was that?

196
00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,920
Speaker 1: But also, um, isn't that that reminds me that? Didn't you?

197
00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,480
Speaker 1: Zells say that she learned how to speak English by

198
00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:02,040
Speaker 1: listening to boys to men? Okay, yes, because I feel

199
00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:03,760
Speaker 1: like that's how I would if I'm going to learn

200
00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,600
Speaker 1: another language, it would for sure be music, right like

201
00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,439
Speaker 1: would that be the easiest station? Hip hop Nation? Well, obviously,

202
00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,160
Speaker 1: which would then bring merge the two together a lot

203
00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:17,240
Speaker 1: of profanity and uh, a good time. I guess that's

204
00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,400
Speaker 1: what we're getting at here. So yeah, so oh this

205
00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,800
Speaker 1: brings me back to that discussion of when people say

206
00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:25,320
Speaker 1: our horses athletes? What do you think do you think

207
00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:32,040
Speaker 1: horses are athletes? I'm really okay, I gotta be honest.

208
00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:33,880
Speaker 1: I don't know how to feel about this. I don't

209
00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,400
Speaker 1: even know how to feel about watching the derby because

210
00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:38,439
Speaker 1: I love it. I love the build up, I love

211
00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:40,360
Speaker 1: the stories about the jockeys and their families. And I'm

212
00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,920
Speaker 1: crying and everybody, you know, we're back here in Lexing

213
00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:45,679
Speaker 1: or are we in Lexington where we Louisville, And I'm

214
00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,439
Speaker 1: so excited and then they're like getting whipped and stuff,

215
00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:49,920
Speaker 1: and I get upset. So I don't know how to

216
00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:54,920
Speaker 1: feel and taken care of. Yeah, okay, so like their

217
00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,120
Speaker 1: I wish they had their nutritionists. I say they are

218
00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,160
Speaker 1: athletes for this exactly. Bringing it back to the pe

219
00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,960
Speaker 1: D thing there. If this is this proves true, right

220
00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,480
Speaker 1: that he took p e D s, well, then then

221
00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:11,240
Speaker 1: they're they're under the same rules as an athlete, right

222
00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,040
Speaker 1: like if we're having I don't know, I just feel

223
00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:14,960
Speaker 1: like because what they're not human, I mean like they're

224
00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,559
Speaker 1: participating in a competitive event, and I don't know. It's

225
00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:20,320
Speaker 1: the same thing as like NASCAR when people like, oh,

226
00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,360
Speaker 1: NASCAR drivers aren't like athletes. The car is doing the work.

227
00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, have you ever driven in a NASCAR because

228
00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,160
Speaker 1: I have, and that ship is hard. We didn't imagine

229
00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:32,640
Speaker 1: bathroom for that long and that left turn that left

230
00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:34,719
Speaker 1: that left turn. Obviously it takes out. We did a

231
00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,920
Speaker 1: NASCAR immersion. Did you ever have to do that at ESPN? Now?

232
00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:39,839
Speaker 1: Why did to do it? And it's like it takes

233
00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,600
Speaker 1: a lot of stamina in that car for hours and

234
00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,640
Speaker 1: hours and hours. Anyways, there's so much we can say

235
00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,440
Speaker 1: about this, which is why we have a podcast. I

236
00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,600
Speaker 1: guess that's what we're talking about it. But good news everybody.

237
00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:56,240
Speaker 1: Two things to take away from this conversation. One, you

238
00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:58,400
Speaker 1: will always keep your money no matter if the athletes

239
00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,640
Speaker 1: cheated or in this case the horse, horse and hat cheated.

240
00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:05,600
Speaker 1: And remember to always check your ticket at the race

241
00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:10,200
Speaker 1: before the race happens. Keep your ticket, have it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

242
00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:15,160
Speaker 1: The guy, because he was distracted, I'm dying. You know

243
00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,439
Speaker 1: where that damn ticket was. I don't think he ever

244
00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,320
Speaker 1: printed it was Larry's point, because he wasn't paying attention Larry.

245
00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,760
Speaker 1: Larry maintained like, oh, because we had a stack of

246
00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:24,679
Speaker 1: like all these tickets, and so he was like, oh,

247
00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,400
Speaker 1: he never printed that one. Yeah, but do you really

248
00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,800
Speaker 1: believe that, Crissa? Yeah, I believe that that. I know

249
00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:32,320
Speaker 1: because I was standing there and the guy was like

250
00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:36,360
Speaker 1: losing his mind and wasn't paying attention, which was Larry's point,

251
00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:38,640
Speaker 1: like are you concentrating on the task at hand. I

252
00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:40,440
Speaker 1: appreciate that you like my show and you want to

253
00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,720
Speaker 1: talk about episode twelve, but you're not paying attention to

254
00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:47,000
Speaker 1: your job. And we missed out the twenty dollars that

255
00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:49,360
Speaker 1: Larry didn't need. And I think the best part about

256
00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,960
Speaker 1: it is there are so many stars in athletes at

257
00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:55,320
Speaker 1: the Kentucky Derby and the one person that everybody loses

258
00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:58,120
Speaker 1: their ship over is Larry David. It just is tell

259
00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,160
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady story in the ole of a or

260
00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,600
Speaker 1: please yeah, well you know, okay, So anyone that's been

261
00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,440
Speaker 1: to the Derby, there's like one nice hotel you can stay.

262
00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:10,319
Speaker 1: And I say this lovingly, it ain't like the nicest,

263
00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:14,040
Speaker 1: but it's this hotel where everyone stays. Okay. So we

264
00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,320
Speaker 1: get in the elevator, the elevators packed, and it's that

265
00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:18,680
Speaker 1: moment where you don't know, like should we wait for

266
00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:20,760
Speaker 1: the next one or we getting in? Is everyone gonna

267
00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:22,280
Speaker 1: be okay if we like suck it in and like

268
00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,040
Speaker 1: you know, everyone moves in. So Larry, who hasn't thought

269
00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,440
Speaker 1: about any of this, he just goes into the elevator

270
00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:30,200
Speaker 1: and I'm like okay, and we turn around and all

271
00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:31,800
Speaker 1: of a sudden, and so we're facing the doors and

272
00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,200
Speaker 1: like up against the doors, and I hear this sultry

273
00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:40,920
Speaker 1: like Tabasco Vanilla wisky boys go hello, Larry, And I

274
00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,160
Speaker 1: was like, the turn around and the sexpot that was

275
00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,760
Speaker 1: Tom Brady in sunglasses and a nick fouquette hat, and

276
00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:50,640
Speaker 1: I was like, holy sh it, I've never thought this

277
00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:54,000
Speaker 1: guy is hotter. And Larry goes Tom hey and looks

278
00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,400
Speaker 1: back at the elevator doors. It says nothing else, and

279
00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,600
Speaker 1: like we walk out and like Larry does his like shuffle,

280
00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:01,040
Speaker 1: doesn't even like and then like Tom comes up and

281
00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,240
Speaker 1: like continues whatever, talking to him or whatever. But I

282
00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,920
Speaker 1: think why everyone loves Larry is because Larry can't be bothered,

283
00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,720
Speaker 1: whether it's Tom Brady, um Jeff Bezos. In between, he's

284
00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:13,720
Speaker 1: like did you print the ticket or not? You know?

285
00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,760
Speaker 1: Oh it's so good. I love it. Hey. We came

286
00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:20,480
Speaker 1: into this podcast today wanting to talk about because we

287
00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:22,800
Speaker 1: get a lot of d m s about like where

288
00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:24,840
Speaker 1: we started in our career and all that, and then

289
00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,360
Speaker 1: we went off on a huge welcome to our lives

290
00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,600
Speaker 1: tangent about Larry David, but coming up after the break,

291
00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:32,560
Speaker 1: like we're gonna get into this, like some of the

292
00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:35,080
Speaker 1: funny stories about when we first started in the industry.

293
00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:36,880
Speaker 1: And then you know, guys, if you really make it

294
00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,480
Speaker 1: in the industry, you get to hang out with like

295
00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,840
Speaker 1: Larry David at the derby. So there's that and take

296
00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:43,240
Speaker 1: him to a hockey game. That's another story up. So

297
00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,240
Speaker 1: it was a circuitous route back to hockey. But we'll

298
00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,920
Speaker 1: make the turn, the left turn in this case, we'll

299
00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:50,200
Speaker 1: be back to the point and I'm going to look

300
00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:54,760
Speaker 1: up for that word really quick circutus or comfort. It's

301
00:13:54,800 --> 00:14:05,560
Speaker 1: an indirect route back to the beginning. Hello, Larry, Welcome back, everybody,

302
00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,280
Speaker 1: Calm Down podcast For those of you tuning in late. Um,

303
00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,600
Speaker 1: we are all about in this well we get we

304
00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,439
Speaker 1: get off on tangents, but we started at the intention

305
00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,520
Speaker 1: of talking about how we got into our careers, and

306
00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:19,520
Speaker 1: not because we are self absorbed and want to talk

307
00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,360
Speaker 1: about that, but because people actually care about how we

308
00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,040
Speaker 1: got started. Um, and Aaron and I, in a weird

309
00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,200
Speaker 1: way kind of both started in hockey. But you your

310
00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:31,760
Speaker 1: first job was with the Tampa Bay Lightning. How did

311
00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,000
Speaker 1: that even come about? Well, the one thing you and

312
00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,600
Speaker 1: I do have in common with hockey is that we

313
00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:40,120
Speaker 1: both read Hockey for Dummy, the cliff Notes version. I'll

314
00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:42,400
Speaker 1: have you tell yours in a second mine. You know,

315
00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,360
Speaker 1: I'm from Tampa Bay. I had interned at my dad's

316
00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:49,480
Speaker 1: TV station, like for four years doing um working in

317
00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,120
Speaker 1: the sports department, and this position came open as the

318
00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,760
Speaker 1: rink side ice side reporter, and I was like, Dad,

319
00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,920
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about hockey, full disclosure. When I

320
00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,880
Speaker 1: into the University of Florida, I became obsessed and thought

321
00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:05,480
Speaker 1: the only thing that mattered was Gator football, Gator basketball,

322
00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:07,320
Speaker 1: and that was it. And I remember my dad saying

323
00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,600
Speaker 1: to me one day, pick up a paper and read

324
00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,320
Speaker 1: there's more teams out there than just the Gators. So

325
00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,080
Speaker 1: that was my come to Jesus moment that I better

326
00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,080
Speaker 1: get my life together and start studying red hockey. First

327
00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,720
Speaker 1: dummies still didn't know what I was talking about when

328
00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,160
Speaker 1: in for the job. Thank god, they wanted the hometown

329
00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,840
Speaker 1: girl that would work her ass off, But I did.

330
00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,360
Speaker 1: Do you remember, like I remember reading you know, penalty kill,

331
00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:32,040
Speaker 1: power play, and I was like, wait, what, how many

332
00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,640
Speaker 1: guys are on the ice? What's going on no legitimately

333
00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,120
Speaker 1: because to what she mentioned that we both read is

334
00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,920
Speaker 1: because we left that I got asked it was like

335
00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:43,640
Speaker 1: my third job and my um producer who was my

336
00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,800
Speaker 1: college football producer and in charge of assignment, who was

337
00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,680
Speaker 1: Leon schwire Um. He was over at the Big Ten

338
00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:52,720
Speaker 1: Network and then he went to go run versus which

339
00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,080
Speaker 1: is now NBC, and he goes, I need you to

340
00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,200
Speaker 1: cover hockey, and I go, I don't know anything about hockey.

341
00:15:58,240 --> 00:15:59,760
Speaker 1: He goes, you'll figure it out. So I went to

342
00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,280
Speaker 1: barn the Noble bought hockey for Dunnis and I was

343
00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,480
Speaker 1: like the blue line. I was like, I didn't even

344
00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:08,040
Speaker 1: know there was. So the moral of the story, kids,

345
00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,440
Speaker 1: if you don't know the sport, by the dummy version

346
00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,480
Speaker 1: and start reading. But you always wanted to be a

347
00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,520
Speaker 1: sports broadcaster, right? I did? And I told kids that

348
00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,040
Speaker 1: I was in high school with that that's what I

349
00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,440
Speaker 1: wanted to do. Like it's funny. I think we talked

350
00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:24,320
Speaker 1: about it in the prep for this. There was really

351
00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:26,200
Speaker 1: no other option. I mean I say it all the

352
00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,160
Speaker 1: time and it's not a joke. I probably would have

353
00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:30,680
Speaker 1: been a swashbuckler for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers if it.

354
00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,400
Speaker 1: How does that doubt? What a year this would have been? Dancer? Um,

355
00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:38,600
Speaker 1: what are the bucklers? They're the Swashbucklers there like that

356
00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,840
Speaker 1: a name. I don't know, it's like Piraty or something,

357
00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,080
Speaker 1: but um, you know the Bucks and the Swashbucklers. Yeah.

358
00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,600
Speaker 1: I didn't really think that there was gonna be any

359
00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,160
Speaker 1: other option. And it's funny and it's not to sound

360
00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,840
Speaker 1: like a conceited jerk, but people are like, did you

361
00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:54,520
Speaker 1: think it would get to this? And I was like, well,

362
00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,240
Speaker 1: that was kind of the plan. It's what I thought

363
00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,640
Speaker 1: would happen. No, I don't think. I don't think that's

364
00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,160
Speaker 1: It's the same way that like if you ask athletes

365
00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:02,840
Speaker 1: that are at the peak of their sports saying like

366
00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:04,919
Speaker 1: I always wanted to be that, Like, yeah, sure of

367
00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,639
Speaker 1: course it doesn't always work out, but I think that

368
00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,120
Speaker 1: you put yourself in various positions and hope that it does.

369
00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:12,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel the exact same way. I made

370
00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,920
Speaker 1: a little video and I made my brother V. J.

371
00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,320
Speaker 1: Buner because I was from Seattle, and I was like,

372
00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,119
Speaker 1: please let me interview you. And I used a paper

373
00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:20,879
Speaker 1: towel roll and a tennis ball and I taped it

374
00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:23,760
Speaker 1: together and that was my microphone and I was like,

375
00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:26,360
Speaker 1: I need this for my resume reel. He's like you're eleven,

376
00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:28,920
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well you're thirteen, so stop acting too cool.

377
00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:32,000
Speaker 1: And I ended up using it for my resume reel

378
00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,160
Speaker 1: later on, because you know, like news directors they put

379
00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:37,960
Speaker 1: in those well we are old. They put in those

380
00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,760
Speaker 1: DVDs for about two seconds and if you don't capture

381
00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,600
Speaker 1: their attention, then you know whatever. You and I also

382
00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,919
Speaker 1: we have a lot of parallels in our career, different

383
00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:47,879
Speaker 1: but the same, and like, I feel really lucky. I

384
00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,719
Speaker 1: never had to go work in a small market and

385
00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,800
Speaker 1: like that's I know a lot of people that have

386
00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:54,240
Speaker 1: to do that. I was willing to do that. I

387
00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:56,439
Speaker 1: was willing to go to Champagne, Illinois or wherever I

388
00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,160
Speaker 1: needed to go. But I took the job in Fox

389
00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,360
Speaker 1: Sports human resources just wanting to get in the door.

390
00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,840
Speaker 1: Became a production assistant and then that turned into getting

391
00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:09,919
Speaker 1: an on air job with the Rockies. Was my first

392
00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,879
Speaker 1: like you know, on air job. But I also was

393
00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,000
Speaker 1: only getting paid a p a salary and was like,

394
00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:16,639
Speaker 1: I'll just do it for free and hope that it

395
00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,280
Speaker 1: all works out, Like you know, smart of you to

396
00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,160
Speaker 1: do that though. That was a big risk that you took,

397
00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,000
Speaker 1: but it was smart of you to do because you

398
00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:25,920
Speaker 1: literally did get your foot in the door. And you

399
00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,040
Speaker 1: probably worked it too in terms of like, hey, can

400
00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,600
Speaker 1: you guys get me on TV? Like what can I do?

401
00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:33,639
Speaker 1: And it's like I forgot when we did those listeners live,

402
00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,040
Speaker 1: you know, talk, when we just said you never know

403
00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:37,920
Speaker 1: when you're going to be called upon and you've got

404
00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:39,600
Speaker 1: to be ready to go. So that was so smart

405
00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,600
Speaker 1: you did that. Well, thank you. Well, I mean I

406
00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:43,680
Speaker 1: was just like hoping for the best. But I remember

407
00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,440
Speaker 1: I was working in HR during the day and I'd

408
00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:47,560
Speaker 1: sneak up to highlights at night in the Fox Sports

409
00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:49,359
Speaker 1: building and log tapes so I could learn how to

410
00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,560
Speaker 1: do highlights. But that was an HR violation, so I

411
00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,760
Speaker 1: would pretend I would tell my boss I was leaving,

412
00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,600
Speaker 1: then get back in the elevator and go upstairs and

413
00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,320
Speaker 1: log tapes because I wasn't technically allowed to still be there.

414
00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,000
Speaker 1: And Randy Vnewitz shout out to Randy Venewitz, he was

415
00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,760
Speaker 1: running the highlight department, and he's like, it's okay, I'll

416
00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:07,160
Speaker 1: show you how to do this, and like I would

417
00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,920
Speaker 1: log tapes whatever. But I said, like a movie, I think, well,

418
00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,760
Speaker 1: what is the ending? We don't know. It's a miniseries,

419
00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,840
Speaker 1: is what this is? Um? But I think it's that

420
00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,280
Speaker 1: idea right where you do whatever you need to do

421
00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,600
Speaker 1: so you're working with the lightning that goes well, they

422
00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,959
Speaker 1: win the Cup, Like what happened? That wasn't even that

423
00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,159
Speaker 1: year they were It wasn't a ball. We had a

424
00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,480
Speaker 1: brand new coach, John Tortorella, and they were so bad.

425
00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,639
Speaker 1: But it was like baptisihn not very friendly either. I

426
00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,240
Speaker 1: remember when he was with the Ranges, he's he was

427
00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,840
Speaker 1: not friendly to this girl. And he was with the Rangers.

428
00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,919
Speaker 1: He's all business. He really is like a really but

429
00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,719
Speaker 1: he's all business. He's friendly. You just yeah, you gotta.

430
00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,040
Speaker 1: I mean he didn't want me. He didn't want me around,

431
00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,840
Speaker 1: and I get it. I was when he did a

432
00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,800
Speaker 1: good job of making him like you. Well yeah, I

433
00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,720
Speaker 1: mean I went into his office. I was telling somebody

434
00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,720
Speaker 1: this the other day. He didn't want me, said it

435
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:01,920
Speaker 1: wasn't a good idea, and I totally agree with him.

436
00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,199
Speaker 1: Twenty one, right out of college, you have the crappiest

437
00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,080
Speaker 1: team in the NHL. They've been horrible he comes in,

438
00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:09,679
Speaker 1: you know, coaching change mid season the year before, and

439
00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:11,800
Speaker 1: he's like, no, this isn't gonna work. She's like on

440
00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,920
Speaker 1: our plane, in our hotel, on our bus. Smart of him.

441
00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:17,919
Speaker 1: But I went into his office one day and I

442
00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,560
Speaker 1: just said, Hi, I'm Aaron Andrews. Probably not the best idea,

443
00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,320
Speaker 1: and I was like, I know nothing about hockey, but

444
00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,920
Speaker 1: I'm willing to learn and listen to you. And he did.

445
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,440
Speaker 1: He sat there and watched film with me. My very

446
00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:35,960
Speaker 1: very first day with the Tampa Bay Lightning was September eleven. Obviously, um, yeah, crazy,

447
00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,760
Speaker 1: I had to go to the ring. That was your

448
00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,000
Speaker 1: first day, Eric. It was the day I've been looking

449
00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,600
Speaker 1: forward to forever, you know, like going to the Rank.

450
00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,920
Speaker 1: The boys started to camp that day and I'm driving

451
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,320
Speaker 1: and like the plane, I just hit the Pentagon and

452
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,800
Speaker 1: so I show up at the Rank and all the

453
00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,879
Speaker 1: boys are around the television watching and we had a

454
00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,439
Speaker 1: couple of American boys on our team, and so like

455
00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,639
Speaker 1: I was hearing from our producer that day was obviously

456
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,600
Speaker 1: you're just getting reaction, getting reaction. But yeah, that was

457
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,399
Speaker 1: my very very first day with the Lightning. But I

458
00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,520
Speaker 1: learned so much. I learned with towards like, you know,

459
00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:10,760
Speaker 1: questions to ask. I sat next to him on the

460
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 1: bus because you know, like I needed not I needed attention.

461
00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 1: But he was like you're sitting here, and I was like, okay.

462
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,600
Speaker 1: But it was a great relationship, Like I was super

463
00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,760
Speaker 1: tight with him. I love him so much. But yeah,

464
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,120
Speaker 1: it was I learned so much on the road. You learned,

465
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 1: you know, have your head up. The way we started

466
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,280
Speaker 1: off this season that year was on a road trip.

467
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,240
Speaker 1: It was a five game road trip out west. It

468
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,040
Speaker 1: was in San Jose. I was at my first morning

469
00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:37,080
Speaker 1: skate or our game that night. Goosh, no, that's a

470
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:41,680
Speaker 1: bad word in this house. Sorry. So I'm at morning skate.

471
00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,680
Speaker 1: I'm doing exactly what I'm doing right now. I'm like

472
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 1: blah blah blah bla blah blah blah blah blah. I'm

473
00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 1: so excited. I'm talking to our play by play guy.

474
00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,199
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, he goes look out and he

475
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,679
Speaker 1: swiped the puck. It was coming right for us. It

476
00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 1: launched over the board, over the glass into us. He

477
00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,840
Speaker 1: heard his hand really bad, and everybody was, oh my god.

478
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,399
Speaker 1: It was so bad that the local reporter wrote about

479
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 1: it Kevin Costner jumped in front of you and took

480
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 1: the bullet. Whitney Rick Peckham. I love him for evid

481
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:17,359
Speaker 1: our local reporter not a face for radio. Okay, are

482
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 1: you a pucke at the face? You already took a

483
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 1: baseball to the face? Was that would have bad? Would

484
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 1: have seen our local writer wrote about it. My dad

485
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,399
Speaker 1: saw it in the paper the next day. I didn't

486
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,639
Speaker 1: tell him what happened, and she was like, hey, like,

487
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:38,119
Speaker 1: shut your mouth and pay attention one more. Yeah, because

488
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 1: I was talking the whole time. He goes, you have

489
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,399
Speaker 1: to like watch just doing all business. He wasn't like,

490
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 1: are you okay, He's like, pay attention, Aaron. Yeah. I

491
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 1: mean I could have had it like my whole face

492
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 1: rearranged and then no. But I'm grateful I learned so much.

493
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:56,400
Speaker 1: I learned how to drink, eat, cuss, all of amen. Yeah,

494
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 1: I was the best. I love that. Well. That reminds

495
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 1: me when you were saying that that maybe I shouldn't

496
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:04,439
Speaker 1: have done this, when honesty in my case, as it

497
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,679
Speaker 1: was in yours, was the best policy. Because I'll tell

498
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 1: you I did the same thing with that job in HR.

499
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: I did the interview. I lied, I pretended I wanted

500
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 1: the job in HR, the whole thing, and I walked

501
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 1: out there and I was like, that was a really

502
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,439
Speaker 1: shitty interview. I'm never going to get this job. And

503
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 1: I was like, I have to get this job because

504
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,639
Speaker 1: it was the only job available in Fox Sports. So

505
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: I called the guy back that I interviewed with and

506
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 1: I said, here's the truth. I don't want to work

507
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 1: in HR. I want to be on TV, but I'll

508
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: work my ass off for you and then I'll do

509
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 1: it to be stuff on the side. And so he

510
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 1: I got the job. This is the moral of the

511
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,639
Speaker 1: story HR. I got the job because he said I

512
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,439
Speaker 1: was honest, and HR was all about honesty. So it

513
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 1: was like in the end, I mean, it ended up

514
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,440
Speaker 1: being literally the reason that I got a TV job,

515
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: right was being in there. So for you to have,

516
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,439
Speaker 1: you know, the balls to say I don't know anything,

517
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 1: and by the way, you know, that motivated him so

518
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,479
Speaker 1: much more to be like, let me help you because

519
00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: he wanted to be part of your success. And I'm

520
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: sure he looked that you now and it's like a

521
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 1: proud dad as well, being like hell yeah. So he's

522
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 1: always been that way with me. Until he cut my

523
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 1: husband in PTO camp for the Columbus Blue Jackets. That's fine.

524
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,480
Speaker 1: I understand everything happens for a reason. So yes, honestly

525
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 1: worked well for you there. Honestly worked well for me

526
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 1: with the Lightning. But then I got hired. It was

527
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 1: after Christmas, the Lightning weren't done with their season, but

528
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 1: Turner Sports came calling, and I didn't even have an

529
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,439
Speaker 1: agent yet. They came calling. They saw me doing the

530
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,440
Speaker 1: Lightning game and they were national obviously at the time,

531
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: with the Braves broadcast and Skip Carrie Joe Simpson were

532
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 1: doing the games and they needed someone in their studio.

533
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 1: I didn't know shit about baseball. I knew the Red Sox,

534
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: I knew they broke my dad's heart every year. I

535
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: knew Boo, the Yankees, George Sheinbrener, blah blah blah. But

536
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 1: I remember I was in Ottawa. I was a fabulous hotel.

537
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 1: It was like very castly, as they all are at Ottawa,

538
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: very cold that day, and my dad just said to me, look,

539
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: he got his agent on the phone and said, I

540
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 1: think he got to take this job, kiddo. He's like,

541
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,680
Speaker 1: this is an national this is your first year, calling

542
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 1: right away. I think you can do this. Never hosted

543
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,399
Speaker 1: a studio before, never talked about baseball. I was like, okay,

544
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: let's go. I talked to the PR guy that day

545
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 1: from the lightning. We got back on the plane and

546
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 1: he said, well, you gotta go tell tort. I went

547
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 1: up to the front of the plane and Towrt said

548
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: to me, I heard you got a job offer. And

549
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 1: I said, I don't want to leave you. I don't

550
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: want to leave you. And it was national television. He said, look,

551
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work out, you can always come back

552
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 1: here to the Tampa Bay Lightning making your forty dollars

553
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 1: a year living with your parents. Hell yeah, it was

554
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 1: the time of my life. Do what you gotta do,

555
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 1: is sister. By the way, I thought I was crushing

556
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 1: it making thirty five tho dollars a year. I bought

557
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 1: to use range over, put chrome rims on them, and

558
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: had no money left to pay rep. But I was like,

559
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: I am crushing right now. I had my stick shift

560
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: Jetta that I was driving into like the Tampa Bay

561
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: Lightning Arena next to you know, the guy's hummers and stuff,

562
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm driving a stick shift anyways, Yeah,

563
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 1: I don't care. I thought it was fabulous, so I was.

564
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: I ended up going to Turner. I signed it two

565
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,199
Speaker 1: year deal. It was the not because of them, the

566
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: worst experience of my life. I was so horrible on television.

567
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: I blanked out so many times. I mispronounced so many names.

568
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: Anyone out there that ship's going bad for them in

569
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 1: their job or they're worried about TV, this happened to me.

570
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: I was awful. I used to go visit my parents

571
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 1: all the time, cry to my dad, just say like,

572
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: I'm out here on an island. I'm doing horrible. I

573
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: feel like I took this job and I'm not ready.

574
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: And they didn't re sign me. They let my contract

575
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: run out, which they should have. Turner didn't. I will say,

576
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 1: I don't think I was put in the best position

577
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 1: to shine. I feel like whatever. And I know that

578
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 1: because um, when my contract ran out, Charles Barkley had

579
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: said to me afterwards, he goes I walked into those

580
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: executive office and I was like, you guys are gonna

581
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: she is gonna make you look so bad. That was

582
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,880
Speaker 1: one of the biggest mistakes. And Sir Charles is saying

583
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: that about me. I love him so much. He's been

584
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: wonderful in my career too, but it was the best

585
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: thing that happened to me. I also kind of wonder, like,

586
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,160
Speaker 1: you know, Aaron Rodgers chip on the shoulder, if it's

587
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: always something maybe, and I never thought about it until now.

588
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: Maybe motivated me because I sucked and it piss me off.

589
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: Knowing you as well as I think I know you,

590
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: I know for a fact that's what motivated you, because

591
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 1: you don't like you don't want to fail ever, and

592
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: if you fail, then you're gonna come back ten times

593
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: harder because that's who you are, and you're competitive and

594
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 1: you'll do whatever it takes a win. But a lot

595
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,640
Speaker 1: of this also has to do with humility. Um and

596
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: for you guys just joining us, maybe you came into

597
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,439
Speaker 1: the podcast late. This isn't like a big like you know,

598
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: Aaron and Caissa say how great they are. I think

599
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: it's more of a how we got to where we are,

600
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: how we again with a little I'd like to believe

601
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: a lot of humility and grace, but also like still

602
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: wanting to be great. You know, we talked about I

603
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: had worked that boxing event last week. I don't know

604
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: about boxing, but to have the ability to say, like,

605
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I will ensure that I do

606
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: the best at a canon as long as employers keep

607
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: giving us the opportunity. But um, I love that story.

608
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: I love I love I love the stories. And by

609
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: the way, so does a man Erica. America loves a

610
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,959
Speaker 1: fall from Gray's redemption story and get back on the

611
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:10,360
Speaker 1: horse in this case always dreaming. Oh yeah, there's three

612
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 1: nightmares I always have when I do a game. One

613
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 1: is that all my hair extensions not in right now

614
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 1: will fall out. That's all your real hair. Well, you know,

615
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: you wake up and they're all out on the pillow

616
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: and you're in New Orleans and there's nothing you can

617
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 1: do about it. Or I wake up and my two

618
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: front teeth fell out weird. Or I'm put in a

619
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: situation and I absolutely blank out. Or I'm at the

620
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,199
Speaker 1: game and I didn't know I was supposed to be

621
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: covering the game, and I'm I just don't know what

622
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: to do. So yeah, I feel like that whole That's

623
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: how I kind of fell at Turner. Not with my

624
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: two front teeth, but not knowing what to do because

625
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: I just sucked. I called one time and I don't

626
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: know if I've talked about this. The paint they had

627
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: just painted the studio so bad, and it was like

628
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: I was sucking in fumes. I threw it back to

629
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: turner Field and I said, now let's send it back

630
00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: to Skip Simpson and Joe Carry And I was like,

631
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: I fucking quit, Like I'm so mad at this. Sounds

632
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: like there's a lawsuit on your hands. Was that asbestos?

633
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: You know what? My husband's a lawyer. We'll get him

634
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: downstairs to survey this. Kids. We're taking a quick break.

635
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: It's the Calm Down Podcast. We will not calm down

636
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: about the highs and lows of our career. Plenty more

637
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: where that came from. Right after this, I need to

638
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: ensure that Charles Barkley is on the NHL coverage number.

639
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: I didn't try to get him on this podcast, please.

640
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: I didn't know that he was such a huge hockey fan,

641
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: loves hockey. He just appreciates competition. I know from his

642
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: time in Arizona he was big with the Coyotes. He

643
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: also my husband and I saw he was on Hockey

644
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: Night in Canada one night. He did a whole thing

645
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: from there. He I think he just really appreciates how

646
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: m not violent, but how hard they play. He loves

647
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: the competition. Yeah, he's the best. We're we're talking about

648
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: our career highs and lows. I think it's how we're

649
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: summing all this up. And Um it was the idea

650
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: that Aaron got let go from Turner and Charles said

651
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: they'll regret it. Um. So what happened after Turner? You

652
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: end up at ESPN? How I end up at ESPN?

653
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: I know I was let go. Um. The Thrashers, God

654
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: love him, still in Atlanta at the time, and the

655
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: NHL Playoffs were about to get underway. The Tampa Bay

656
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: Lightning blasts from the past. We're supposed to do very

657
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: well in the playoffs. So I thought, okay, I got him.

658
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: You know, let's go back to where it all began.

659
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: I knew ESPN was in town covering a Thrashers game.

660
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: I said, what'll they do after the game? Go back

661
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: to the hotel and get some drinks. Weird story of

662
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: our lives. So I went to the hotel after the

663
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: game and kind of waited for the crew and acted like,

664
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,239
Speaker 1: oh hey, I just what are you doing that? They

665
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: share a tin? It's my favorite so showed up and

666
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: I just kind of said, hey, guys, um secret squirrel.

667
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: I've been let go by Turner and I'm interested in

668
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: getting involved in the NHL postseason coverage. And they said, hey,

669
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: you should talk to this guy and maybe he'll give

670
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: you a chance. I signed a three month try out,

671
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: and two weeks later I started NHL postseason coverage. My

672
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: very first game was the Lightning hosting the New York Islanders.

673
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: Rick day Pietro got the win. I wasn't too happy

674
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: about it, but I didn't look like I cared because

675
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: it's just so excited. And from there, yeah, I was

676
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: went to the Western Conference, covered that and then when

677
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 1: it was all said and done, those Tampa Bay Lightning

678
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: they were in the Stanley Cup Finals against the Calgary Flames,

679
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: and um, I got to cover it and I got

680
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: to I got to, you know, do the game. My

681
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: mom and dad came to Game seven of that series.

682
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: They were center ice, the Lightning one. I was on

683
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: the ice with all my boys and the Ann Taylor

684
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: sweater that we've talked so much about, you know what,

685
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: shout out to and Taylor. They heard that little bit

686
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: we did with the Calm Down podcast. They sent me

687
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: a box of goods and said, you stop, you like

688
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: to freshen up your closet and Taylor stop it and

689
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: no E Taylor, that's right. Oh that's so sweet. I

690
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: wish be still around so I could get a box

691
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: of refreshed goods from it. It will be the executives

692
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: if you're listening. I love the orange ruffle tops. Not

693
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: to be confused with bebe hey baby. But yeah. So

694
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: from there, I signed an eight year deal. Well it

695
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: didn't sign an eight year deal. I was at ESPN

696
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: for eight years and Aaron, Okay, a few things we

697
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: need to dissect here. One sucking balls. I love the

698
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: move of going to the hotel because I'm sorry, where

699
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: are we gonna do? We're gonna talk shop? By the way,

700
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: men sitting to that ship all the time, why can't

701
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: you smart on you? Also like you getting the HR

702
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: job with Fox. That was ballsy too. Sometimes you just

703
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: gotta put it out there, man, gotta make moves, okay.

704
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: And then the other part of that is how cool

705
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: is it that your again don't burn bridges, people don't

706
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: burn bridges. Your relationship with that organization with the Lightning,

707
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: and how it all came back and look as we know,

708
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: and you specifically because you're still on the sidelines and

709
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: like getting information first and foremost from these guys. It's

710
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: all it's a relationship business. So for you to have

711
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: access to those guys and they're gonna tell you things

712
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: because they trust you. And this is the other thing

713
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: too that's so hard at the beginning of your career

714
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: is that you have to earn that respect and you

715
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: have to earn that seat at the table, right and

716
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: so for you to be able to use that relationship

717
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: and then see it come We started our podcast with

718
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: the word circuitous, but like it all came back to

719
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: where it started for you, which is so cool. I

720
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: love that. It's really really it was awesome because those

721
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: boys that one that cup that year, they they saw

722
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: me come in like the total asshole that I was

723
00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:00,239
Speaker 1: with the Lightning where we're on the commercial jet, you know,

724
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: but it's it's our charter. It's like a Delta commercial

725
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: jet and the team has the whole thing. And here

726
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: I am the ahole and I bring the rolling suitcase

727
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,959
Speaker 1: the l Grande style and try to fit it up

728
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: overhead in front of all these like young good looking

729
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 1: NHL players and I'm like asshole line one. And then

730
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: to where I come back holding the ESPN microphone and

731
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 1: doing the Stanley Cup Finals and they're like a you know,

732
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, I know, this is so cool, and they're like,

733
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: we'll give you stuff, We'll give you gossip, and I

734
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, thank you. Yeah. I was

735
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,439
Speaker 1: really really unleash. You were allowed on the charter. There

736
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 1: was a certain manager, Clint Hurdle with the Colorado Rockies

737
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: that he was the manager and he wouldn't let me

738
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: on the charter because I was a man, because I

739
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: was a woman, like I'm not bitter, don't be bitter,

740
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: be better, it's right. Um. There was lots of you know,

741
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: roadblocks in that situation. So I I, you know, of

742
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: what's the line from the sweetest thing I called my

743
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,720
Speaker 1: ass up this street with you know, luging her heels

744
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: Garon Diaz and that, guys, that's that moment of I,

745
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: you know, jumped on connecting flights from Frontier Airline, Spirit Airlines,

746
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: all the things on commercial flights when I first started

747
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,839
Speaker 1: working for the Rockies to cover games for them, and

748
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: they didn't let you on the plane. No, I'm cool.

749
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: I mean don't most people want to go to HR

750
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: with that complaint. You know what I did, I said,

751
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm happy to be here and I'm

752
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: going to be on a jet in first class with

753
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 1: my contract soon enough. I'm just kidding, I remember, because

754
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: we have to slip it around. I mean. And that's

755
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: the other thing too, where I would caution when people

756
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: like I think like, oh, you guys, actually it's so

757
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: hard with your cur service in your first round, which

758
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: I worked real hard to thirteen years into this thing

759
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: to get a first classy and I am so appreciative

760
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: of my position to the point where it's like if

761
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: I have to take you know, I worked that game

762
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. By this way, what I say worked that game.

763
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 1: I did the GMC tailgate with feeding, and they wanted

764
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: nothing to do with me. Well, you're working the game

765
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: and getting the Miles Garrett story. I'm feeding raw Wilders

766
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: in the back of the GMC truck and there were

767
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: no seats available, So I sat in the back of

768
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: the plane with Jillian in thirty one A and I

769
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 1: was happy as a clam. Never be too big for

770
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: thirty one. Listen, those drinks tasted good. Yeah, Hell yea,

771
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: what I mean before Yeah, yeah, we had a lot

772
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: of cocktails. Yeah, because it just came working from working

773
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: that game. That was like very stressful. I know. No,

774
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean again, people, this is not to

775
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: tute our own horn, but the stories and we'll talk

776
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: about him on another podcast, the Stories from the Road. Yeah,

777
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: let's do that. If you guys care, I hope you do,

778
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: but no, it's not. There are times, I mean I

779
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: drove myself on icy roads in Wisconsin coming from Florida

780
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: in a small, you know, four door car, crying on

781
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: the side of the road to my dad like I

782
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 1: can't drive in this, and he's like, what are you

783
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: doing driving in this trying to get to Battison, Wisconsin. Yeah. Actually,

784
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: so if you guys do care about our our road woes,

785
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 1: d M or send up a smoke signal and we'll

786
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: get into all of that, because there's some doozies from

787
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: all the years that we've spent on the road, and

788
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: then you continue to be on the road. I'm just

789
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: I'm so impressed that you still are a road warrior.

790
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: I don't have it in me anymore. I'm like studio

791
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: warm with a blanket and you're still in the conditions,

792
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: but you love it. Why do you love the sidelines

793
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:19,240
Speaker 1: so much? I love the game. I love the bright lights.

794
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: As cheesy as that sounds, I love the noise. I

795
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: mean this year was really hard because we didn't have

796
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: any of that, and we just felt so far away.

797
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: I love standing there when Sean Payton is lighting up

798
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: the official and I'm like listening to what he's saying

799
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: and going, oh my god. I love the days when

800
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: I was covering basketball, you know, college basketball, and Caliperry

801
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 1: would let me in a huddle for a Kentucky game

802
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: and he looked up at me and say, hey, Aaron,

803
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: come listen to this. This is going to be good.

804
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I love that ship. It's awesome. Like I

805
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: love you know, I used to love doing postgame interviews

806
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: with him, and I would take one of those Listerine

807
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: like tablets really quick and he goes, my breath is terrible.

808
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: Give me some of that. I love that connection, no true,

809
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: because it all comes back to relationships. I do miss

810
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: I missed that a little bit, and that's where it's like,

811
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: I like doing interviews when you know during the season,

812
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: especially you know, this year excluded but in previous years

813
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: where you can go out and you know, those relationships

814
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: are so important, and you know, I think that that's

815
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: what it's all about, is this is a job that

816
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: we've always both wanted to do. We're lucky enough to

817
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: still be doing it, and god damn it, if you

818
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: put me back in thirty one A, I will have

819
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: a smile on my face every time because this is

820
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: a great gig. And also I will well aware that

821
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: this thing only will last as long as they'll you know,

822
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: keep us employed. So yeah, it's it's definitely been fun

823
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: to go on this journey. Yeah, you know you I

824
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,879
Speaker 1: was thinking you were talking about those interviews and this

825
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: is very current right now, but you just did a

826
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: sit down with Davante Adams. How much do you wish

827
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: that that was this week so you could ask him

828
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: some questions? I know, And now the producer brain and

829
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: me is thinking, oh my god, can even use of

830
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: this interview because much of it and we'll be able

831
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: to cut it together whatever, um, you know, and do

832
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: voiceover stuff to sort of marry the conversation. But you know,

833
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: a lot of that interview was about how when he

834
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: got drafted and like he was saying that Aaron's really

835
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: bad about responding to texts and calling and that kind

836
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: of stuff, and so he finally got him on the phone,

837
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: and don't say, yeah right, Aaron was like really receptive

838
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: and was like great, but he's like, man, that guy's

839
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: hard to get on the phone. And so I finally

840
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: got him on the phone and whatever. But yeah, I mean,

841
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things, a lot of headlines in

842
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 1: the news. Tim Tabow back with the Jaguars. That's where

843
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 1: my Calm Down Awards going this week. Okay, let's hear it, sister.

844
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: I love me some Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow has always

845
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: been lovely to me. I got nothing against Tim Tebow

846
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 1: and what he stands for. But my calm Down Award

847
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 1: is this, Tim, you come with not just some baggage.

848
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: You come with an Aaron Andrews l Grande suitcase in

849
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: the overhead, and guess what we need to get checked

850
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: that thing. Because you're not just Tim Tebow the football player.

851
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: You're Tim Tabo all the other things. So when you

852
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: come into that locker room with a new organization. And

853
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 1: by the way, this is Urban Meyer, who we love

854
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: is second dad of mine. I know, I know, that

855
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: Tim has to make the team and there's still a

856
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 1: lot of, you know, things that have to happen for

857
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 1: him to be on that roster. I just I just

858
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are we doing? What are we doing?

859
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: Like I'm all about dreaming your dreams, but like you

860
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: followed your dreams and by the way, they turned out

861
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: really well for you. What are we still doing? So

862
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: please just calm down and like let other people like

863
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: that day that someone taps me on the show there

864
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: and they're like, Chrissa, You're done with this gig? Where

865
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 1: over you? I'm not gonna keep showing up to the

866
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 1: studios and being like, hey, it's me. I'm still trying

867
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: to get that Stanza. Yeah. It's like like the envelopes

868
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 1: and r I P. You know. So anyways, calm down.

869
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: I have a question about the Tim Tebow thing. And

870
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: I know you said Colin had a great take on this,

871
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 1: and I want to go listen to it after you said,

872
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: you know all the what is it? The storylines are

873
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: the hype surrounding Tebow when he's around, and I get it.

874
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: I went to the University of Florida, Jacksonville is in

875
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: l A. It's like thirty forty minutes a way. It's

876
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty one. Are we still doing that? I

877
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: feel like, no offense. This is Tom Brady's league, like

878
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: you know, like I don't feel like, like, look what

879
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: happened when that tebow stuff came out, like he may

880
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: or may not have had a private workout with the

881
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: Jags and then it was like boomror Rodgers is unhappy

882
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: and it was like smell you late or fifteen, here

883
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 1: we go. So is it still all that hype? I

884
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,360
Speaker 1: don't know if it is. I don't know if it

885
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: is either. And this is not an indictment, and I'm

886
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: not just hedging my calm Down award, but I'm just

887
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: saying like, there comes a time and there's various chapters,

888
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: and I feel like, you know, and I'm putting it

889
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: on myself to this career is going to come to

890
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,240
Speaker 1: a close at some point, hopefully not for a while,

891
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: but when it does, I'll go out gracefully and do

892
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: something else. And you can say, by the way, you

893
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: can still stay in the sport, You still a broadcaster.

894
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,240
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just feel like, let's give somebody

895
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: else the headlines, you know, And I just don't What

896
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: I don't want is it to even be a conversation

897
00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: if that quarterback position is in question. So yeah, anyway,

898
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: you know what's gonna be awkward when you have to

899
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 1: do that sit down interview week two and I'm actually

900
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: gonna pull this up and say I told you to

901
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: calm down. Tell me I'm wrong. I'm gonna be the

902
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: pundit and I'm gonna I'm gonna I doubt that Tim

903
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: Tebow will be motivated by my calm down Award. But

904
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: I also need to be a contrarian. I'm not gonna

905
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: just like fall in line everything. Jennifer Lopez. I don't

906
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: love Jennifer Lopez. Calm down, Jennifer. Don't you like about her?

907
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: She was made to me. She was so mean to

908
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: me when I tried to interview her when I was

909
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: at Extra. She was mean to me. It's like the

910
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: line of pretty Woman. They were mean to me? Who

911
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 1: was mean to you? The woman at the store. Jennifer

912
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 1: Lopez was the Rodeo Drive sales associate and I was

913
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:43,879
Speaker 1: Julia Roberts, not the prostitute part, but the the person

914
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: who had the money to spend and Rodeo Drive and

915
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: nobody would help me. I've got all of this and

916
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: no dress for dinner tonight. Hold on one second, how

917
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: he daddy wants you? You gotta go, peepiece? Um or

918
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 1: we don't, we don't need a stay on the carpet.

919
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: What okay, take us through it? What happened with that? Sure?

920
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 1: What I mean? What happened? You have all this? I

921
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: was working at Extra and there was rumors that she

922
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: was back together with her boyfriend at the time was

923
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 1: Casper or whatever and the friendly ghost. He was friendly

924
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,879
Speaker 1: And I saw them backstage at a Nickelodeon Kid's Choice

925
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: Award and I had to ask her about it because

926
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: my job as an entertainment reporter was to report on

927
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: what was happening, which is, you know whatever. In this

928
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: particular case, someone's personal. You had microphone in hand. You

929
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: It's not like you were like you just shot the

930
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,919
Speaker 1: ship like that microphone in hand. And I said, I said,

931
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 1: try to say it in a nice way and like

932
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: be like kind of cheeky about it. I'm like, oh,

933
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: I'm congratulations. That looks like everything's going well with you

934
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: and your man. And she stepped out of frame and

935
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 1: she said, not cool to me, and I was like, okay, well, um,

936
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 1: I know, yeah, that's what she goes not cool, And

937
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, well, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to

938
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: do my job, which is, in this particular case, entertainment

939
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: is reporting on your personal life. We praise you when

940
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: your personal life's going well. We also have to ask

941
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: about it when it's not going well. It's part of

942
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 1: the job. I didn't like that part of the job.

943
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: It's probably why I'm not doing it full time anymore.

944
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: But like, I don't care who you're dating, but if

945
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: I see, I get in trouble if I go back

946
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 1: and don't ask you the question. So j loo calm down.

947
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 1: I think what's interesting about this whole Alex Rodriguez, Ben

948
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 1: Affleck thing and listening I can get, but I listen.

949
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: I loved Ben. I want Ben, you know, to be happy.

950
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,760
Speaker 1: But here's my thing. I mean, we go everybody's missing

951
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 1: this part. Yankees looks like the Red Sox are winning.

952
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: You know, they're head like he's he's That's what I

953
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:35,720
Speaker 1: think about. My calm down Award is my husband who's

954
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: wearing his dress shoes because he's on his way to

955
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 1: the last home game of the Kings and it sounds

956
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: like that insurance commercial where the cloggers have moved in upstairs.

957
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, what are you? Why are you stomping around?

958
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: And we've discussed this before. Pick your I mean it's

959
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:55,280
Speaker 1: like King Kong is up there. He's very muscular. Jaredy,

960
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: oh my god, here comes this. I mean this guy

961
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: singing in the rain, fredis Staretta up dance. Did you

962
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: ever live in an apartment where there was someone above

963
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: you that were high heels? No? I lived in an

964
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: apartment in New York. You know where my apartment was.

965
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,919
Speaker 1: I've lived up there and he was very loud. I'll

966
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: leave it at that, right, I do know about that.

967
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: I just didn't know because I've definitely lived in my

968
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 1: fair share of apartments and I'm always cognizant. I'm not

969
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: wearing high heels because of that exact thing. So annoying,

970
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: so annoying, get it together and anyways, it's just what

971
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: did you say? Just you know, I'm thinking back to

972
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 1: what I used to have to listen to through those walls,

973
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: and I was like, calm down, it's not that good.

974
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 1: It wasn't anybody I dated. But I'm just saying I

975
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: felt like we were putting on a show. You know

976
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's never that good like relax, condemn,

977
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: you're speechless. Hey, Um, if you want to be specious,

978
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: make sure you make sure you check out our i G.

979
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: It wasn't my husband, by the way, it was in

980
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: New York City. Um, make sure you check out our

981
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: i G the Calm Down podcast or at Calm Down Podcast,

982
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 1: and uh tell us who you'd like to give Calm

983
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,919
Speaker 1: Down Awards too? And I know I can't. I can't

984
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 1: wait to get an email from Jennifer Lopez Is and

985
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow's PR team. BA Hi, babe, I love you.

986
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: How what kind of dresshoes you're wearing? Cause you can

987
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: hear him through the microphone. Came here, I'm kidding. I

988
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: love you so much. I love your dresses. Look at

989
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: this guy coming in hot? Are they alloud? Were you

990
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: breaking them in? Or? Oh there's your golf shoe? Were

991
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 1: you doing it? Were you tap dancing upstairs? Oh? Okay,

992
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: I love you. I'll call you later. Hi. Calm Down

993
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: with Aaron and Corrissa is a production of I Heart Radio.

994
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: For more podcast from my Heart Radio, visit the I

995
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your

996
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 1: podcast