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Speaker 1: Everyone has Calmed Down Episode seventy and your playbook number
Speaker 1: one in your hearts. Hieron Andrews Hi, I think we
Speaker 1: should do what Brian bump Garner. Is that how you
Speaker 1: say it? Madison bomb Garner said you should just start,
Speaker 1: but I do love him. Um he said we should
Speaker 1: record it right when we come on. But those are
Speaker 1: all the things I don't want anybody to talk about.
Speaker 1: Get down there. It's good, good stuff. Speaking of good stuff,
Speaker 1: I know you don't like attention, but I'm here to
Speaker 1: give it to you. Congratulations. Where has moved into the
Speaker 1: NHL space? I mean, what league? Don't you have? Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball? Kyle? Can you get that done from Hyle? One?
Speaker 1: Wait contri the NHL congratulation. Thank you. We're very very excited.
Speaker 1: It's getting announced Tuesday, which is after this is released.
Speaker 1: But it's cool for us it's kind of like where
Speaker 1: it all started. I mean, and my career started with
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Lightning, which we're going to get into
Speaker 1: a bit later. And then obviously I married somebody that
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with hockey and hockey influenced
Speaker 1: his life. And Alyssa Green, who is our creative director
Speaker 1: and also our designer, her husband played with my husband
Speaker 1: and they worked together now, so it's really cool. She
Speaker 1: it was cute. We're talking about it today and she goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: when I really sat and thought about it, I cried.
Speaker 1: It was like that, or you're exhausted from your kids.
Speaker 1: But it's fine, No, it's it's really really cool and
Speaker 1: that's going to come out next season the start of
Speaker 1: next season, and can't wait for it, and that's huge.
Speaker 1: I mean, you you you touch on it, but that's
Speaker 1: how you started. You know, your first job on air
Speaker 1: was covering hockey, and now you have a clothing line
Speaker 1: which will you know, be spread throughout the league as
Speaker 1: well as all the other league. So that's really really cool.
Speaker 1: I know a little bit of your story, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure you get asked a lot like what your first
Speaker 1: gig was, and it was with your hometown team, which
Speaker 1: I think is so cool because I know the few
Speaker 1: times I even actually I filled in for you when
Speaker 1: you were covering baseball and did your NFL assignment on
Speaker 1: the sidelines, and I remember my first Seahawks game covering
Speaker 1: that was so cool for me because it was my hometown.
Speaker 1: But like you followed the lightning and then they want
Speaker 1: to Stanley Cup, So walk us through that, or for
Speaker 1: the listeners that don't know that that's how you started,
Speaker 1: I will tell you that. I'm also going to do
Speaker 1: a teaser for the end of our podcast because I
Speaker 1: want to ask you a question about the derby, and
Speaker 1: I know you have a great Larry David's story to tell,
Speaker 1: unless you want to get into it now when we
Speaker 1: can do it. By the way, this is our podcast.
Speaker 1: We can do whatever you want, Okay. So I wanted
Speaker 1: to do kind of a weekend catch up, and I
Speaker 1: know that one of the hot topics and it's very unfortunate.
Speaker 1: I have friends that horse was in the derby that said,
Speaker 1: this is so bad for our sport. You know, there's
Speaker 1: there's talks that what was the horse's name that was
Speaker 1: potent Bob Baffort. Well, I don't all I remember truthfula
Speaker 1: is because as that has the gambler in me. I
Speaker 1: don't even remember the horse's name. I just know that
Speaker 1: Bob Baffort is the Tom Brady of horse racing craft
Speaker 1: because you never bet against him and I should have
Speaker 1: known better. And no matter what horse Bob has in
Speaker 1: the race, whether he's a long shot or not, put
Speaker 1: your money on him. So anyways, okay, so, yes, the
Speaker 1: horse who won the Derby. Yeah, so they're now saying
Speaker 1: he tested positive. Oh thank you Ryan. Is it Medina
Speaker 1: Medina spirit? Yeah, Ryan's the best. I love the chat
Speaker 1: um potentially tested positive. For those of you listening, it's
Speaker 1: our producer telling us information that I should have known.
Speaker 1: Um called Medina. You know why I because I don't
Speaker 1: remember things that I lose. So there you go. Okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead. Sorry, you so potentially tested positive for steroids.
Speaker 1: I know there's another test coming out. Got to be honest,
Speaker 1: don't know the specifics, but I was dying to ask you, Carissa,
Speaker 1: for everybody that place bets, how is that affected? But
Speaker 1: you said you didn't know, right, But I know this
Speaker 1: leads into a story that you love about betting at
Speaker 1: the Derby. Yeah, so I do know that it just
Speaker 1: in general and gambling, like for example, like if you
Speaker 1: bet on the Astros to win the World Series, no
Speaker 1: one's coming back and getting money from that, right, Or
Speaker 1: if you bet on a certain player to you know,
Speaker 1: hit so many home runs and they're tested positive for
Speaker 1: p D, you don't go and get your money back.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. So the same holds true
Speaker 1: then for horse racing. But you and I were talking
Speaker 1: before we started about when I went to the Derby
Speaker 1: a few years ago and Larry David and I we
Speaker 1: went with like a group because I got Larry into
Speaker 1: horse racing because Larry needed it a hobby and like
Speaker 1: something to like, you know, he's competitive, but like also
Speaker 1: is very reclusive and like doesn't like like leave his
Speaker 1: house ever. He was like COVID before COVID, right, Like
Speaker 1: he didn't like that, and so I was the way
Speaker 1: I get it. I don't want to leave my house either.
Speaker 1: I mean, now I'm that person and I don't want
Speaker 1: to leave. So I went the opposite direction. But so
Speaker 1: in order to like get him to, like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: get out and do things, we went to Santa Anita.
Speaker 1: So he went to the race track and that got
Speaker 1: him into horse racing. Then we went to Vegas he
Speaker 1: got even more into horse racing, and so we went
Speaker 1: to the culminated in a trip to the Derby. So
Speaker 1: we go and so he's like, how does this all work?
Speaker 1: I was like, we're gonna go up to the window.
Speaker 1: You play your bets. You say, like, I want twenty
Speaker 1: dollars to win place or show is first, second, third,
Speaker 1: So I want twenty dollars to win on horse number five.
Speaker 1: So we go up, we place our bets and the
Speaker 1: guy that's at the window recognizes that it's Larry and
Speaker 1: he goes, oh my god, like he does his like
Speaker 1: you know whatever, the whole like reaction, everybody like gives
Speaker 1: a Larry, and Larry can't be bothered. He's like, yeah, focus,
Speaker 1: are you're not focusing? We want this? We want this.
Speaker 1: And so finally the guy like prints off the tickets
Speaker 1: and he's like, you got him right? Are you sure
Speaker 1: you got him right? And the guys like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got him right. So we go. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of races leading up to the actual Derby forever, so
Speaker 1: we have our tickets in hand. We're so excited for
Speaker 1: like the actual like race to happen. Horses are going
Speaker 1: around final stretch, you know, chariots of fire, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Our horse wins, always dreaming, two thousand seventeen Kentucky Derby winner.
Speaker 1: I'm like screaming Larry, screaming, we're so excited we won.
Speaker 1: He looks down at the ticket and he goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't have the ticket. I'm like, what do you
Speaker 1: mean we don't want the ticket? My god, right out
Speaker 1: of curb, right out of her. So at this point,
Speaker 1: there's like tickets everywhere all over the floor because from
Speaker 1: all the previous races, when people lose, they just rip
Speaker 1: them up and then throw am. He's on the ground,
Speaker 1: dirty dirty ground, on the ground looking for the ticket.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the hell. He's like the guy, the
Speaker 1: guy didn't give us the ticket. So when the race
Speaker 1: is over, you go up to the window to like
Speaker 1: cash your ticket in right and get money. He cuts
Speaker 1: the line, Aaron, It is so like from an episode
Speaker 1: which you know I don't want to show, but you
Speaker 1: tell me that he cuts the line by cutting the line.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady big poppy, like all these people big poppies,
Speaker 1: Like can do you do a big poppy voice? And Larry,
Speaker 1: what's he's happening? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So that's literally
Speaker 1: what he's saying. And there goes the guy didn't give
Speaker 1: me the right ticket. So he goes up to the
Speaker 1: guy and he starts screaming at him. He's like, I
Speaker 1: knew you weren't paying attention. I knew it all along.
Speaker 1: He goes check the tape, and I'm like, oh my
Speaker 1: at this point, like the race is like the video,
Speaker 1: the security footage. Check that tape. He gets the manage
Speaker 1: are out. The managers like it's going to take us
Speaker 1: a long time to check, like what bets were made?
Speaker 1: Mind you, the bet was for like twenty bucks, Like
Speaker 1: it wasn't even a lot of money, but it was
Speaker 1: the principle that Larry was like, I knew he wasn't
Speaker 1: paying attention. We won, we should get our money. And
Speaker 1: he created such a scene to the point where like
Speaker 1: now everyone's filtering out of Churchill Downs and we're like
Speaker 1: standing there and I'm standing there against the wall waiting
Speaker 1: for the manager to check the tape, and so I'm like, Larry,
Speaker 1: let's just go and he goes, no, this is ridiculous. Anyways,
Speaker 1: Needless to say, we never got our money for that.
Speaker 1: But I also didn't I lost this year on the derby.
Speaker 1: I was so mad. But again, when in doubt, don't
Speaker 1: bet against Bob Bafford hold on. So did they look
Speaker 1: at the footage? No, because I wouldn't let him because
Speaker 1: it would have taken forever to comb through, like all
Speaker 1: the nonsense like needle in a haystack whatever, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: let's go. It was all just so very Larry ausque
Speaker 1: and leading up to it, and like only we would
Speaker 1: have like the ticket that didn't get printed when we
Speaker 1: were supposed to, and I was like whatever, So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's our our story for that. But we had a
Speaker 1: good time. All Larry Curb fans right now. I know
Speaker 1: you can hear it in your head. I mean, I swear.
Speaker 1: But my my favorite was Big Poppy's voice where he
Speaker 1: was like he was like ready to be, like what
Speaker 1: can I do to help Larry in like his sweet
Speaker 1: little voice. Yeah, side tangent about Big Poppy one of
Speaker 1: my favorite athletes ever and one of the best guys
Speaker 1: out there. But I love Poppy And he talks about
Speaker 1: how he learned to speak English from the Dominican and
Speaker 1: I think he had said it was from television. Well
Speaker 1: it must have been an R rated channel because I
Speaker 1: love my man, but he says the F word, like
Speaker 1: the word the So everything was like, hey, Poppy, like,
Speaker 1: what do you think the keys to playing against the Inkies? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever the funk you think you gotta do?
Speaker 1: You like, everything is like I started like, oh my god, like, yo, Larry,
Speaker 1: what the funk? You know? I guarantee it was that?
Speaker 1: But also, um, isn't that that reminds me that? Didn't you?
Speaker 1: Zells say that she learned how to speak English by
Speaker 1: listening to boys to men? Okay, yes, because I feel
Speaker 1: like that's how I would if I'm going to learn
Speaker 1: another language, it would for sure be music, right like
Speaker 1: would that be the easiest station? Hip hop Nation? Well, obviously,
Speaker 1: which would then bring merge the two together a lot
Speaker 1: of profanity and uh, a good time. I guess that's
Speaker 1: what we're getting at here. So yeah, so oh this
Speaker 1: brings me back to that discussion of when people say
Speaker 1: our horses athletes? What do you think do you think
Speaker 1: horses are athletes? I'm really okay, I gotta be honest.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to feel about this. I don't
Speaker 1: even know how to feel about watching the derby because
Speaker 1: I love it. I love the build up, I love
Speaker 1: the stories about the jockeys and their families. And I'm
Speaker 1: crying and everybody, you know, we're back here in Lexing
Speaker 1: or are we in Lexington where we Louisville, And I'm
Speaker 1: so excited and then they're like getting whipped and stuff,
Speaker 1: and I get upset. So I don't know how to
Speaker 1: feel and taken care of. Yeah, okay, so like their
Speaker 1: I wish they had their nutritionists. I say they are
Speaker 1: athletes for this exactly. Bringing it back to the pe
Speaker 1: D thing there. If this is this proves true, right
Speaker 1: that he took p e D s, well, then then
Speaker 1: they're they're under the same rules as an athlete, right
Speaker 1: like if we're having I don't know, I just feel
Speaker 1: like because what they're not human, I mean like they're
Speaker 1: participating in a competitive event, and I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing as like NASCAR when people like, oh,
Speaker 1: NASCAR drivers aren't like athletes. The car is doing the work.
Speaker 1: I'm like, have you ever driven in a NASCAR because
Speaker 1: I have, and that ship is hard. We didn't imagine
Speaker 1: bathroom for that long and that left turn that left
Speaker 1: that left turn. Obviously it takes out. We did a
Speaker 1: NASCAR immersion. Did you ever have to do that at ESPN? Now?
Speaker 1: Why did to do it? And it's like it takes
Speaker 1: a lot of stamina in that car for hours and
Speaker 1: hours and hours. Anyways, there's so much we can say
Speaker 1: about this, which is why we have a podcast. I
Speaker 1: guess that's what we're talking about it. But good news everybody.
Speaker 1: Two things to take away from this conversation. One, you
Speaker 1: will always keep your money no matter if the athletes
Speaker 1: cheated or in this case the horse, horse and hat cheated.
Speaker 1: And remember to always check your ticket at the race
Speaker 1: before the race happens. Keep your ticket, have it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: The guy, because he was distracted, I'm dying. You know
Speaker 1: where that damn ticket was. I don't think he ever
Speaker 1: printed it was Larry's point, because he wasn't paying attention Larry.
Speaker 1: Larry maintained like, oh, because we had a stack of
Speaker 1: like all these tickets, and so he was like, oh,
Speaker 1: he never printed that one. Yeah, but do you really
Speaker 1: believe that, Crissa? Yeah, I believe that that. I know
Speaker 1: because I was standing there and the guy was like
Speaker 1: losing his mind and wasn't paying attention, which was Larry's point,
Speaker 1: like are you concentrating on the task at hand. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that you like my show and you want to
Speaker 1: talk about episode twelve, but you're not paying attention to
Speaker 1: your job. And we missed out the twenty dollars that
Speaker 1: Larry didn't need. And I think the best part about
Speaker 1: it is there are so many stars in athletes at
Speaker 1: the Kentucky Derby and the one person that everybody loses
Speaker 1: their ship over is Larry David. It just is tell
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady story in the ole of a or
Speaker 1: please yeah, well you know, okay, So anyone that's been
Speaker 1: to the Derby, there's like one nice hotel you can stay.
Speaker 1: And I say this lovingly, it ain't like the nicest,
Speaker 1: but it's this hotel where everyone stays. Okay. So we
Speaker 1: get in the elevator, the elevators packed, and it's that
Speaker 1: moment where you don't know, like should we wait for
Speaker 1: the next one or we getting in? Is everyone gonna
Speaker 1: be okay if we like suck it in and like
Speaker 1: you know, everyone moves in. So Larry, who hasn't thought
Speaker 1: about any of this, he just goes into the elevator
Speaker 1: and I'm like okay, and we turn around and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, and so we're facing the doors and
Speaker 1: like up against the doors, and I hear this sultry
Speaker 1: like Tabasco Vanilla wisky boys go hello, Larry, And I
Speaker 1: was like, the turn around and the sexpot that was
Speaker 1: Tom Brady in sunglasses and a nick fouquette hat, and
Speaker 1: I was like, holy sh it, I've never thought this
Speaker 1: guy is hotter. And Larry goes Tom hey and looks
Speaker 1: back at the elevator doors. It says nothing else, and
Speaker 1: like we walk out and like Larry does his like shuffle,
Speaker 1: doesn't even like and then like Tom comes up and
Speaker 1: like continues whatever, talking to him or whatever. But I
Speaker 1: think why everyone loves Larry is because Larry can't be bothered,
Speaker 1: whether it's Tom Brady, um Jeff Bezos. In between, he's
Speaker 1: like did you print the ticket or not? You know?
Speaker 1: Oh it's so good. I love it. Hey. We came
Speaker 1: into this podcast today wanting to talk about because we
Speaker 1: get a lot of d m s about like where
Speaker 1: we started in our career and all that, and then
Speaker 1: we went off on a huge welcome to our lives
Speaker 1: tangent about Larry David, but coming up after the break,
Speaker 1: like we're gonna get into this, like some of the
Speaker 1: funny stories about when we first started in the industry.
Speaker 1: And then you know, guys, if you really make it
Speaker 1: in the industry, you get to hang out with like
Speaker 1: Larry David at the derby. So there's that and take
Speaker 1: him to a hockey game. That's another story up. So
Speaker 1: it was a circuitous route back to hockey. But we'll
Speaker 1: make the turn, the left turn in this case, we'll
Speaker 1: be back to the point and I'm going to look
Speaker 1: up for that word really quick circutus or comfort. It's
Speaker 1: an indirect route back to the beginning. Hello, Larry, Welcome back, everybody,
Speaker 1: Calm Down podcast For those of you tuning in late. Um,
Speaker 1: we are all about in this well we get we
Speaker 1: get off on tangents, but we started at the intention
Speaker 1: of talking about how we got into our careers, and
Speaker 1: not because we are self absorbed and want to talk
Speaker 1: about that, but because people actually care about how we
Speaker 1: got started. Um, and Aaron and I, in a weird
Speaker 1: way kind of both started in hockey. But you your
Speaker 1: first job was with the Tampa Bay Lightning. How did
Speaker 1: that even come about? Well, the one thing you and
Speaker 1: I do have in common with hockey is that we
Speaker 1: both read Hockey for Dummy, the cliff Notes version. I'll
Speaker 1: have you tell yours in a second mine. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm from Tampa Bay. I had interned at my dad's
Speaker 1: TV station, like for four years doing um working in
Speaker 1: the sports department, and this position came open as the
Speaker 1: rink side ice side reporter, and I was like, Dad,
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about hockey, full disclosure. When I
Speaker 1: into the University of Florida, I became obsessed and thought
Speaker 1: the only thing that mattered was Gator football, Gator basketball,
Speaker 1: and that was it. And I remember my dad saying
Speaker 1: to me one day, pick up a paper and read
Speaker 1: there's more teams out there than just the Gators. So
Speaker 1: that was my come to Jesus moment that I better
Speaker 1: get my life together and start studying red hockey. First
Speaker 1: dummies still didn't know what I was talking about when
Speaker 1: in for the job. Thank god, they wanted the hometown
Speaker 1: girl that would work her ass off, But I did.
Speaker 1: Do you remember, like I remember reading you know, penalty kill,
Speaker 1: power play, and I was like, wait, what, how many
Speaker 1: guys are on the ice? What's going on no legitimately
Speaker 1: because to what she mentioned that we both read is
Speaker 1: because we left that I got asked it was like
Speaker 1: my third job and my um producer who was my
Speaker 1: college football producer and in charge of assignment, who was
Speaker 1: Leon schwire Um. He was over at the Big Ten
Speaker 1: Network and then he went to go run versus which
Speaker 1: is now NBC, and he goes, I need you to
Speaker 1: cover hockey, and I go, I don't know anything about hockey.
Speaker 1: He goes, you'll figure it out. So I went to
Speaker 1: barn the Noble bought hockey for Dunnis and I was
Speaker 1: like the blue line. I was like, I didn't even
Speaker 1: know there was. So the moral of the story, kids,
Speaker 1: if you don't know the sport, by the dummy version
Speaker 1: and start reading. But you always wanted to be a
Speaker 1: sports broadcaster, right? I did? And I told kids that
Speaker 1: I was in high school with that that's what I
Speaker 1: wanted to do. Like it's funny. I think we talked
Speaker 1: about it in the prep for this. There was really
Speaker 1: no other option. I mean I say it all the
Speaker 1: time and it's not a joke. I probably would have
Speaker 1: been a swashbuckler for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers if it.
Speaker 1: How does that doubt? What a year this would have been? Dancer? Um,
Speaker 1: what are the bucklers? They're the Swashbucklers there like that
Speaker 1: a name. I don't know, it's like Piraty or something,
Speaker 1: but um, you know the Bucks and the Swashbucklers. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't really think that there was gonna be any
Speaker 1: other option. And it's funny and it's not to sound
Speaker 1: like a conceited jerk, but people are like, did you
Speaker 1: think it would get to this? And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: that was kind of the plan. It's what I thought
Speaker 1: would happen. No, I don't think. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: It's the same way that like if you ask athletes
Speaker 1: that are at the peak of their sports saying like
Speaker 1: I always wanted to be that, Like, yeah, sure of
Speaker 1: course it doesn't always work out, but I think that
Speaker 1: you put yourself in various positions and hope that it does.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel the exact same way. I made
Speaker 1: a little video and I made my brother V. J.
Speaker 1: Buner because I was from Seattle, and I was like,
Speaker 1: please let me interview you. And I used a paper
Speaker 1: towel roll and a tennis ball and I taped it
Speaker 1: together and that was my microphone and I was like,
Speaker 1: I need this for my resume reel. He's like you're eleven,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well you're thirteen, so stop acting too cool.
Speaker 1: And I ended up using it for my resume reel
Speaker 1: later on, because you know, like news directors they put
Speaker 1: in those well we are old. They put in those
Speaker 1: DVDs for about two seconds and if you don't capture
Speaker 1: their attention, then you know whatever. You and I also
Speaker 1: we have a lot of parallels in our career, different
Speaker 1: but the same, and like, I feel really lucky. I
Speaker 1: never had to go work in a small market and
Speaker 1: like that's I know a lot of people that have
Speaker 1: to do that. I was willing to do that. I
Speaker 1: was willing to go to Champagne, Illinois or wherever I
Speaker 1: needed to go. But I took the job in Fox
Speaker 1: Sports human resources just wanting to get in the door.
Speaker 1: Became a production assistant and then that turned into getting
Speaker 1: an on air job with the Rockies. Was my first
Speaker 1: like you know, on air job. But I also was
Speaker 1: only getting paid a p a salary and was like,
Speaker 1: I'll just do it for free and hope that it
Speaker 1: all works out, Like you know, smart of you to
Speaker 1: do that though. That was a big risk that you took,
Speaker 1: but it was smart of you to do because you
Speaker 1: literally did get your foot in the door. And you
Speaker 1: probably worked it too in terms of like, hey, can
Speaker 1: you guys get me on TV? Like what can I do?
Speaker 1: And it's like I forgot when we did those listeners live,
Speaker 1: you know, talk, when we just said you never know
Speaker 1: when you're going to be called upon and you've got
Speaker 1: to be ready to go. So that was so smart
Speaker 1: you did that. Well, thank you. Well, I mean I
Speaker 1: was just like hoping for the best. But I remember
Speaker 1: I was working in HR during the day and I'd
Speaker 1: sneak up to highlights at night in the Fox Sports
Speaker 1: building and log tapes so I could learn how to
Speaker 1: do highlights. But that was an HR violation, so I
Speaker 1: would pretend I would tell my boss I was leaving,
Speaker 1: then get back in the elevator and go upstairs and
Speaker 1: log tapes because I wasn't technically allowed to still be there.
Speaker 1: And Randy Vnewitz shout out to Randy Venewitz, he was
Speaker 1: running the highlight department, and he's like, it's okay, I'll
Speaker 1: show you how to do this, and like I would
Speaker 1: log tapes whatever. But I said, like a movie, I think, well,
Speaker 1: what is the ending? We don't know. It's a miniseries,
Speaker 1: is what this is? Um? But I think it's that
Speaker 1: idea right where you do whatever you need to do
Speaker 1: so you're working with the lightning that goes well, they
Speaker 1: win the Cup, Like what happened? That wasn't even that
Speaker 1: year they were It wasn't a ball. We had a
Speaker 1: brand new coach, John Tortorella, and they were so bad.
Speaker 1: But it was like baptisihn not very friendly either. I
Speaker 1: remember when he was with the Ranges, he's he was
Speaker 1: not friendly to this girl. And he was with the Rangers.
Speaker 1: He's all business. He really is like a really but
Speaker 1: he's all business. He's friendly. You just yeah, you gotta.
Speaker 1: I mean he didn't want me. He didn't want me around,
Speaker 1: and I get it. I was when he did a
Speaker 1: good job of making him like you. Well yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I went into his office. I was telling somebody
Speaker 1: this the other day. He didn't want me, said it
Speaker 1: wasn't a good idea, and I totally agree with him.
Speaker 1: Twenty one, right out of college, you have the crappiest
Speaker 1: team in the NHL. They've been horrible he comes in,
Speaker 1: you know, coaching change mid season the year before, and
Speaker 1: he's like, no, this isn't gonna work. She's like on
Speaker 1: our plane, in our hotel, on our bus. Smart of him.
Speaker 1: But I went into his office one day and I
Speaker 1: just said, Hi, I'm Aaron Andrews. Probably not the best idea,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I know nothing about hockey, but
Speaker 1: I'm willing to learn and listen to you. And he did.
Speaker 1: He sat there and watched film with me. My very
Speaker 1: very first day with the Tampa Bay Lightning was September eleven. Obviously, um, yeah, crazy,
Speaker 1: I had to go to the ring. That was your
Speaker 1: first day, Eric. It was the day I've been looking
Speaker 1: forward to forever, you know, like going to the Rank.
Speaker 1: The boys started to camp that day and I'm driving
Speaker 1: and like the plane, I just hit the Pentagon and
Speaker 1: so I show up at the Rank and all the
Speaker 1: boys are around the television watching and we had a
Speaker 1: couple of American boys on our team, and so like
Speaker 1: I was hearing from our producer that day was obviously
Speaker 1: you're just getting reaction, getting reaction. But yeah, that was
Speaker 1: my very very first day with the Lightning. But I
Speaker 1: learned so much. I learned with towards like, you know,
Speaker 1: questions to ask. I sat next to him on the
Speaker 1: bus because you know, like I needed not I needed attention.
Speaker 1: But he was like you're sitting here, and I was like, okay.
Speaker 1: But it was a great relationship, Like I was super
Speaker 1: tight with him. I love him so much. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was I learned so much on the road. You learned,
Speaker 1: you know, have your head up. The way we started
Speaker 1: off this season that year was on a road trip.
Speaker 1: It was a five game road trip out west. It
Speaker 1: was in San Jose. I was at my first morning
Speaker 1: skate or our game that night. Goosh, no, that's a
Speaker 1: bad word in this house. Sorry. So I'm at morning skate.
Speaker 1: I'm doing exactly what I'm doing right now. I'm like
Speaker 1: blah blah blah bla blah blah blah blah blah. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited. I'm talking to our play by play guy.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, he goes look out and he
Speaker 1: swiped the puck. It was coming right for us. It
Speaker 1: launched over the board, over the glass into us. He
Speaker 1: heard his hand really bad, and everybody was, oh my god.
Speaker 1: It was so bad that the local reporter wrote about
Speaker 1: it Kevin Costner jumped in front of you and took
Speaker 1: the bullet. Whitney Rick Peckham. I love him for evid
Speaker 1: our local reporter not a face for radio. Okay, are
Speaker 1: you a pucke at the face? You already took a
Speaker 1: baseball to the face? Was that would have bad? Would
Speaker 1: have seen our local writer wrote about it. My dad
Speaker 1: saw it in the paper the next day. I didn't
Speaker 1: tell him what happened, and she was like, hey, like,
Speaker 1: shut your mouth and pay attention one more. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I was talking the whole time. He goes, you have
Speaker 1: to like watch just doing all business. He wasn't like,
Speaker 1: are you okay, He's like, pay attention, Aaron. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean I could have had it like my whole face
Speaker 1: rearranged and then no. But I'm grateful I learned so much.
Speaker 1: I learned how to drink, eat, cuss, all of amen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was the best. I love that. Well. That reminds
Speaker 1: me when you were saying that that maybe I shouldn't
Speaker 1: have done this, when honesty in my case, as it
Speaker 1: was in yours, was the best policy. Because I'll tell
Speaker 1: you I did the same thing with that job in HR.
Speaker 1: I did the interview. I lied, I pretended I wanted
Speaker 1: the job in HR, the whole thing, and I walked
Speaker 1: out there and I was like, that was a really
Speaker 1: shitty interview. I'm never going to get this job. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I have to get this job because
Speaker 1: it was the only job available in Fox Sports. So
Speaker 1: I called the guy back that I interviewed with and
Speaker 1: I said, here's the truth. I don't want to work
Speaker 1: in HR. I want to be on TV, but I'll
Speaker 1: work my ass off for you and then I'll do
Speaker 1: it to be stuff on the side. And so he
Speaker 1: I got the job. This is the moral of the
Speaker 1: story HR. I got the job because he said I
Speaker 1: was honest, and HR was all about honesty. So it
Speaker 1: was like in the end, I mean, it ended up
Speaker 1: being literally the reason that I got a TV job,
Speaker 1: right was being in there. So for you to have,
Speaker 1: you know, the balls to say I don't know anything,
Speaker 1: and by the way, you know, that motivated him so
Speaker 1: much more to be like, let me help you because
Speaker 1: he wanted to be part of your success. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure he looked that you now and it's like a
Speaker 1: proud dad as well, being like hell yeah. So he's
Speaker 1: always been that way with me. Until he cut my
Speaker 1: husband in PTO camp for the Columbus Blue Jackets. That's fine.
Speaker 1: I understand everything happens for a reason. So yes, honestly
Speaker 1: worked well for you there. Honestly worked well for me
Speaker 1: with the Lightning. But then I got hired. It was
Speaker 1: after Christmas, the Lightning weren't done with their season, but
Speaker 1: Turner Sports came calling, and I didn't even have an
Speaker 1: agent yet. They came calling. They saw me doing the
Speaker 1: Lightning game and they were national obviously at the time,
Speaker 1: with the Braves broadcast and Skip Carrie Joe Simpson were
Speaker 1: doing the games and they needed someone in their studio.
Speaker 1: I didn't know shit about baseball. I knew the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: I knew they broke my dad's heart every year. I
Speaker 1: knew Boo, the Yankees, George Sheinbrener, blah blah blah. But
Speaker 1: I remember I was in Ottawa. I was a fabulous hotel.
Speaker 1: It was like very castly, as they all are at Ottawa,
Speaker 1: very cold that day, and my dad just said to me, look,
Speaker 1: he got his agent on the phone and said, I
Speaker 1: think he got to take this job, kiddo. He's like,
Speaker 1: this is an national this is your first year, calling
Speaker 1: right away. I think you can do this. Never hosted
Speaker 1: a studio before, never talked about baseball. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's go. I talked to the PR guy that day
Speaker 1: from the lightning. We got back on the plane and
Speaker 1: he said, well, you gotta go tell tort. I went
Speaker 1: up to the front of the plane and Towrt said
Speaker 1: to me, I heard you got a job offer. And
Speaker 1: I said, I don't want to leave you. I don't
Speaker 1: want to leave you. And it was national television. He said, look,
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work out, you can always come back
Speaker 1: here to the Tampa Bay Lightning making your forty dollars
Speaker 1: a year living with your parents. Hell yeah, it was
Speaker 1: the time of my life. Do what you gotta do,
Speaker 1: is sister. By the way, I thought I was crushing
Speaker 1: it making thirty five tho dollars a year. I bought
Speaker 1: to use range over, put chrome rims on them, and
Speaker 1: had no money left to pay rep. But I was like,
Speaker 1: I am crushing right now. I had my stick shift
Speaker 1: Jetta that I was driving into like the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Lightning Arena next to you know, the guy's hummers and stuff,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm driving a stick shift anyways, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't care. I thought it was fabulous, so I was.
Speaker 1: I ended up going to Turner. I signed it two
Speaker 1: year deal. It was the not because of them, the
Speaker 1: worst experience of my life. I was so horrible on television.
Speaker 1: I blanked out so many times. I mispronounced so many names.
Speaker 1: Anyone out there that ship's going bad for them in
Speaker 1: their job or they're worried about TV, this happened to me.
Speaker 1: I was awful. I used to go visit my parents
Speaker 1: all the time, cry to my dad, just say like,
Speaker 1: I'm out here on an island. I'm doing horrible. I
Speaker 1: feel like I took this job and I'm not ready.
Speaker 1: And they didn't re sign me. They let my contract
Speaker 1: run out, which they should have. Turner didn't. I will say,
Speaker 1: I don't think I was put in the best position
Speaker 1: to shine. I feel like whatever. And I know that
Speaker 1: because um, when my contract ran out, Charles Barkley had
Speaker 1: said to me afterwards, he goes I walked into those
Speaker 1: executive office and I was like, you guys are gonna
Speaker 1: she is gonna make you look so bad. That was
Speaker 1: one of the biggest mistakes. And Sir Charles is saying
Speaker 1: that about me. I love him so much. He's been
Speaker 1: wonderful in my career too, but it was the best
Speaker 1: thing that happened to me. I also kind of wonder, like,
Speaker 1: you know, Aaron Rodgers chip on the shoulder, if it's
Speaker 1: always something maybe, and I never thought about it until now.
Speaker 1: Maybe motivated me because I sucked and it piss me off.
Speaker 1: Knowing you as well as I think I know you,
Speaker 1: I know for a fact that's what motivated you, because
Speaker 1: you don't like you don't want to fail ever, and
Speaker 1: if you fail, then you're gonna come back ten times
Speaker 1: harder because that's who you are, and you're competitive and
Speaker 1: you'll do whatever it takes a win. But a lot
Speaker 1: of this also has to do with humility. Um and
Speaker 1: for you guys just joining us, maybe you came into
Speaker 1: the podcast late. This isn't like a big like you know,
Speaker 1: Aaron and Caissa say how great they are. I think
Speaker 1: it's more of a how we got to where we are,
Speaker 1: how we again with a little I'd like to believe
Speaker 1: a lot of humility and grace, but also like still
Speaker 1: wanting to be great. You know, we talked about I
Speaker 1: had worked that boxing event last week. I don't know
Speaker 1: about boxing, but to have the ability to say, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I will ensure that I do
Speaker 1: the best at a canon as long as employers keep
Speaker 1: giving us the opportunity. But um, I love that story.
Speaker 1: I love I love I love the stories. And by
Speaker 1: the way, so does a man Erica. America loves a
Speaker 1: fall from Gray's redemption story and get back on the
Speaker 1: horse in this case always dreaming. Oh yeah, there's three
Speaker 1: nightmares I always have when I do a game. One
Speaker 1: is that all my hair extensions not in right now
Speaker 1: will fall out. That's all your real hair. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: you wake up and they're all out on the pillow
Speaker 1: and you're in New Orleans and there's nothing you can
Speaker 1: do about it. Or I wake up and my two
Speaker 1: front teeth fell out weird. Or I'm put in a
Speaker 1: situation and I absolutely blank out. Or I'm at the
Speaker 1: game and I didn't know I was supposed to be
Speaker 1: covering the game, and I'm I just don't know what
Speaker 1: to do. So yeah, I feel like that whole That's
Speaker 1: how I kind of fell at Turner. Not with my
Speaker 1: two front teeth, but not knowing what to do because
Speaker 1: I just sucked. I called one time and I don't
Speaker 1: know if I've talked about this. The paint they had
Speaker 1: just painted the studio so bad, and it was like
Speaker 1: I was sucking in fumes. I threw it back to
Speaker 1: turner Field and I said, now let's send it back
Speaker 1: to Skip Simpson and Joe Carry And I was like,
Speaker 1: I fucking quit, Like I'm so mad at this. Sounds
Speaker 1: like there's a lawsuit on your hands. Was that asbestos?
Speaker 1: You know what? My husband's a lawyer. We'll get him
Speaker 1: downstairs to survey this. Kids. We're taking a quick break.
Speaker 1: It's the Calm Down Podcast. We will not calm down
Speaker 1: about the highs and lows of our career. Plenty more
Speaker 1: where that came from. Right after this, I need to
Speaker 1: ensure that Charles Barkley is on the NHL coverage number.
Speaker 1: I didn't try to get him on this podcast, please.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that he was such a huge hockey fan,
Speaker 1: loves hockey. He just appreciates competition. I know from his
Speaker 1: time in Arizona he was big with the Coyotes. He
Speaker 1: also my husband and I saw he was on Hockey
Speaker 1: Night in Canada one night. He did a whole thing
Speaker 1: from there. He I think he just really appreciates how
Speaker 1: m not violent, but how hard they play. He loves
Speaker 1: the competition. Yeah, he's the best. We're we're talking about
Speaker 1: our career highs and lows. I think it's how we're
Speaker 1: summing all this up. And Um it was the idea
Speaker 1: that Aaron got let go from Turner and Charles said
Speaker 1: they'll regret it. Um. So what happened after Turner? You
Speaker 1: end up at ESPN? How I end up at ESPN?
Speaker 1: I know I was let go. Um. The Thrashers, God
Speaker 1: love him, still in Atlanta at the time, and the
Speaker 1: NHL Playoffs were about to get underway. The Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Lightning blasts from the past. We're supposed to do very
Speaker 1: well in the playoffs. So I thought, okay, I got him.
Speaker 1: You know, let's go back to where it all began.
Speaker 1: I knew ESPN was in town covering a Thrashers game.
Speaker 1: I said, what'll they do after the game? Go back
Speaker 1: to the hotel and get some drinks. Weird story of
Speaker 1: our lives. So I went to the hotel after the
Speaker 1: game and kind of waited for the crew and acted like,
Speaker 1: oh hey, I just what are you doing that? They
Speaker 1: share a tin? It's my favorite so showed up and
Speaker 1: I just kind of said, hey, guys, um secret squirrel.
Speaker 1: I've been let go by Turner and I'm interested in
Speaker 1: getting involved in the NHL postseason coverage. And they said, hey,
Speaker 1: you should talk to this guy and maybe he'll give
Speaker 1: you a chance. I signed a three month try out,
Speaker 1: and two weeks later I started NHL postseason coverage. My
Speaker 1: very first game was the Lightning hosting the New York Islanders.
Speaker 1: Rick day Pietro got the win. I wasn't too happy
Speaker 1: about it, but I didn't look like I cared because
Speaker 1: it's just so excited. And from there, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: went to the Western Conference, covered that and then when
Speaker 1: it was all said and done, those Tampa Bay Lightning
Speaker 1: they were in the Stanley Cup Finals against the Calgary Flames,
Speaker 1: and um, I got to cover it and I got
Speaker 1: to I got to, you know, do the game. My
Speaker 1: mom and dad came to Game seven of that series.
Speaker 1: They were center ice, the Lightning one. I was on
Speaker 1: the ice with all my boys and the Ann Taylor
Speaker 1: sweater that we've talked so much about, you know what,
Speaker 1: shout out to and Taylor. They heard that little bit
Speaker 1: we did with the Calm Down podcast. They sent me
Speaker 1: a box of goods and said, you stop, you like
Speaker 1: to freshen up your closet and Taylor stop it and
Speaker 1: no E Taylor, that's right. Oh that's so sweet. I
Speaker 1: wish be still around so I could get a box
Speaker 1: of refreshed goods from it. It will be the executives
Speaker 1: if you're listening. I love the orange ruffle tops. Not
Speaker 1: to be confused with bebe hey baby. But yeah. So
Speaker 1: from there, I signed an eight year deal. Well it
Speaker 1: didn't sign an eight year deal. I was at ESPN
Speaker 1: for eight years and Aaron, Okay, a few things we
Speaker 1: need to dissect here. One sucking balls. I love the
Speaker 1: move of going to the hotel because I'm sorry, where
Speaker 1: are we gonna do? We're gonna talk shop? By the way,
Speaker 1: men sitting to that ship all the time, why can't
Speaker 1: you smart on you? Also like you getting the HR
Speaker 1: job with Fox. That was ballsy too. Sometimes you just
Speaker 1: gotta put it out there, man, gotta make moves, okay.
Speaker 1: And then the other part of that is how cool
Speaker 1: is it that your again don't burn bridges, people don't
Speaker 1: burn bridges. Your relationship with that organization with the Lightning,
Speaker 1: and how it all came back and look as we know,
Speaker 1: and you specifically because you're still on the sidelines and
Speaker 1: like getting information first and foremost from these guys. It's
Speaker 1: all it's a relationship business. So for you to have
Speaker 1: access to those guys and they're gonna tell you things
Speaker 1: because they trust you. And this is the other thing
Speaker 1: too that's so hard at the beginning of your career
Speaker 1: is that you have to earn that respect and you
Speaker 1: have to earn that seat at the table, right and
Speaker 1: so for you to be able to use that relationship
Speaker 1: and then see it come We started our podcast with
Speaker 1: the word circuitous, but like it all came back to
Speaker 1: where it started for you, which is so cool. I
Speaker 1: love that. It's really really it was awesome because those
Speaker 1: boys that one that cup that year, they they saw
Speaker 1: me come in like the total asshole that I was
Speaker 1: with the Lightning where we're on the commercial jet, you know,
Speaker 1: but it's it's our charter. It's like a Delta commercial
Speaker 1: jet and the team has the whole thing. And here
Speaker 1: I am the ahole and I bring the rolling suitcase
Speaker 1: the l Grande style and try to fit it up
Speaker 1: overhead in front of all these like young good looking
Speaker 1: NHL players and I'm like asshole line one. And then
Speaker 1: to where I come back holding the ESPN microphone and
Speaker 1: doing the Stanley Cup Finals and they're like a you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I know, this is so cool, and they're like,
Speaker 1: we'll give you stuff, We'll give you gossip, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, thank you. Yeah. I was
Speaker 1: really really unleash. You were allowed on the charter. There
Speaker 1: was a certain manager, Clint Hurdle with the Colorado Rockies
Speaker 1: that he was the manager and he wouldn't let me
Speaker 1: on the charter because I was a man, because I
Speaker 1: was a woman, like I'm not bitter, don't be bitter,
Speaker 1: be better, it's right. Um. There was lots of you know,
Speaker 1: roadblocks in that situation. So I I, you know, of
Speaker 1: what's the line from the sweetest thing I called my
Speaker 1: ass up this street with you know, luging her heels
Speaker 1: Garon Diaz and that, guys, that's that moment of I,
Speaker 1: you know, jumped on connecting flights from Frontier Airline, Spirit Airlines,
Speaker 1: all the things on commercial flights when I first started
Speaker 1: working for the Rockies to cover games for them, and
Speaker 1: they didn't let you on the plane. No, I'm cool.
Speaker 1: I mean don't most people want to go to HR
Speaker 1: with that complaint. You know what I did, I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm happy to be here and I'm
Speaker 1: going to be on a jet in first class with
Speaker 1: my contract soon enough. I'm just kidding, I remember, because
Speaker 1: we have to slip it around. I mean. And that's
Speaker 1: the other thing too, where I would caution when people
Speaker 1: like I think like, oh, you guys, actually it's so
Speaker 1: hard with your cur service in your first round, which
Speaker 1: I worked real hard to thirteen years into this thing
Speaker 1: to get a first classy and I am so appreciative
Speaker 1: of my position to the point where it's like if
Speaker 1: I have to take you know, I worked that game
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. By this way, what I say worked that game.
Speaker 1: I did the GMC tailgate with feeding, and they wanted
Speaker 1: nothing to do with me. Well, you're working the game
Speaker 1: and getting the Miles Garrett story. I'm feeding raw Wilders
Speaker 1: in the back of the GMC truck and there were
Speaker 1: no seats available, So I sat in the back of
Speaker 1: the plane with Jillian in thirty one A and I
Speaker 1: was happy as a clam. Never be too big for
Speaker 1: thirty one. Listen, those drinks tasted good. Yeah, Hell yea,
Speaker 1: what I mean before Yeah, yeah, we had a lot
Speaker 1: of cocktails. Yeah, because it just came working from working
Speaker 1: that game. That was like very stressful. I know. No,
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean again, people, this is not to
Speaker 1: tute our own horn, but the stories and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about him on another podcast, the Stories from the Road. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do that. If you guys care, I hope you do,
Speaker 1: but no, it's not. There are times, I mean I
Speaker 1: drove myself on icy roads in Wisconsin coming from Florida
Speaker 1: in a small, you know, four door car, crying on
Speaker 1: the side of the road to my dad like I
Speaker 1: can't drive in this, and he's like, what are you
Speaker 1: doing driving in this trying to get to Battison, Wisconsin. Yeah. Actually,
Speaker 1: so if you guys do care about our our road woes,
Speaker 1: d M or send up a smoke signal and we'll
Speaker 1: get into all of that, because there's some doozies from
Speaker 1: all the years that we've spent on the road, and
Speaker 1: then you continue to be on the road. I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm so impressed that you still are a road warrior.
Speaker 1: I don't have it in me anymore. I'm like studio
Speaker 1: warm with a blanket and you're still in the conditions,
Speaker 1: but you love it. Why do you love the sidelines
Speaker 1: so much? I love the game. I love the bright lights.
Speaker 1: As cheesy as that sounds, I love the noise. I
Speaker 1: mean this year was really hard because we didn't have
Speaker 1: any of that, and we just felt so far away.
Speaker 1: I love standing there when Sean Payton is lighting up
Speaker 1: the official and I'm like listening to what he's saying
Speaker 1: and going, oh my god. I love the days when
Speaker 1: I was covering basketball, you know, college basketball, and Caliperry
Speaker 1: would let me in a huddle for a Kentucky game
Speaker 1: and he looked up at me and say, hey, Aaron,
Speaker 1: come listen to this. This is going to be good.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love that ship. It's awesome. Like I
Speaker 1: love you know, I used to love doing postgame interviews
Speaker 1: with him, and I would take one of those Listerine
Speaker 1: like tablets really quick and he goes, my breath is terrible.
Speaker 1: Give me some of that. I love that connection, no true,
Speaker 1: because it all comes back to relationships. I do miss
Speaker 1: I missed that a little bit, and that's where it's like,
Speaker 1: I like doing interviews when you know during the season,
Speaker 1: especially you know, this year excluded but in previous years
Speaker 1: where you can go out and you know, those relationships
Speaker 1: are so important, and you know, I think that that's
Speaker 1: what it's all about, is this is a job that
Speaker 1: we've always both wanted to do. We're lucky enough to
Speaker 1: still be doing it, and god damn it, if you
Speaker 1: put me back in thirty one A, I will have
Speaker 1: a smile on my face every time because this is
Speaker 1: a great gig. And also I will well aware that
Speaker 1: this thing only will last as long as they'll you know,
Speaker 1: keep us employed. So yeah, it's it's definitely been fun
Speaker 1: to go on this journey. Yeah, you know you I
Speaker 1: was thinking you were talking about those interviews and this
Speaker 1: is very current right now, but you just did a
Speaker 1: sit down with Davante Adams. How much do you wish
Speaker 1: that that was this week so you could ask him
Speaker 1: some questions? I know, And now the producer brain and
Speaker 1: me is thinking, oh my god, can even use of
Speaker 1: this interview because much of it and we'll be able
Speaker 1: to cut it together whatever, um, you know, and do
Speaker 1: voiceover stuff to sort of marry the conversation. But you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of that interview was about how when he
Speaker 1: got drafted and like he was saying that Aaron's really
Speaker 1: bad about responding to texts and calling and that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, and so he finally got him on the phone,
Speaker 1: and don't say, yeah right, Aaron was like really receptive
Speaker 1: and was like great, but he's like, man, that guy's
Speaker 1: hard to get on the phone. And so I finally
Speaker 1: got him on the phone and whatever. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things, a lot of headlines in
Speaker 1: the news. Tim Tabow back with the Jaguars. That's where
Speaker 1: my Calm Down Awards going this week. Okay, let's hear it, sister.
Speaker 1: I love me some Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow has always
Speaker 1: been lovely to me. I got nothing against Tim Tebow
Speaker 1: and what he stands for. But my calm Down Award
Speaker 1: is this, Tim, you come with not just some baggage.
Speaker 1: You come with an Aaron Andrews l Grande suitcase in
Speaker 1: the overhead, and guess what we need to get checked
Speaker 1: that thing. Because you're not just Tim Tebow the football player.
Speaker 1: You're Tim Tabo all the other things. So when you
Speaker 1: come into that locker room with a new organization. And
Speaker 1: by the way, this is Urban Meyer, who we love
Speaker 1: is second dad of mine. I know, I know, that
Speaker 1: Tim has to make the team and there's still a
Speaker 1: lot of, you know, things that have to happen for
Speaker 1: him to be on that roster. I just I just
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are we doing? What are we doing?
Speaker 1: Like I'm all about dreaming your dreams, but like you
Speaker 1: followed your dreams and by the way, they turned out
Speaker 1: really well for you. What are we still doing? So
Speaker 1: please just calm down and like let other people like
Speaker 1: that day that someone taps me on the show there
Speaker 1: and they're like, Chrissa, You're done with this gig? Where
Speaker 1: over you? I'm not gonna keep showing up to the
Speaker 1: studios and being like, hey, it's me. I'm still trying
Speaker 1: to get that Stanza. Yeah. It's like like the envelopes
Speaker 1: and r I P. You know. So anyways, calm down.
Speaker 1: I have a question about the Tim Tebow thing. And
Speaker 1: I know you said Colin had a great take on this,
Speaker 1: and I want to go listen to it after you said,
Speaker 1: you know all the what is it? The storylines are
Speaker 1: the hype surrounding Tebow when he's around, and I get it.
Speaker 1: I went to the University of Florida, Jacksonville is in
Speaker 1: l A. It's like thirty forty minutes a way. It's
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty one. Are we still doing that? I
Speaker 1: feel like, no offense. This is Tom Brady's league, like
Speaker 1: you know, like I don't feel like, like, look what
Speaker 1: happened when that tebow stuff came out, like he may
Speaker 1: or may not have had a private workout with the
Speaker 1: Jags and then it was like boomror Rodgers is unhappy
Speaker 1: and it was like smell you late or fifteen, here
Speaker 1: we go. So is it still all that hype? I
Speaker 1: don't know if it is. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: is either. And this is not an indictment, and I'm
Speaker 1: not just hedging my calm Down award, but I'm just
Speaker 1: saying like, there comes a time and there's various chapters,
Speaker 1: and I feel like, you know, and I'm putting it
Speaker 1: on myself to this career is going to come to
Speaker 1: a close at some point, hopefully not for a while,
Speaker 1: but when it does, I'll go out gracefully and do
Speaker 1: something else. And you can say, by the way, you
Speaker 1: can still stay in the sport, You still a broadcaster.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just feel like, let's give somebody
Speaker 1: else the headlines, you know, And I just don't What
Speaker 1: I don't want is it to even be a conversation
Speaker 1: if that quarterback position is in question. So yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: you know what's gonna be awkward when you have to
Speaker 1: do that sit down interview week two and I'm actually
Speaker 1: gonna pull this up and say I told you to
Speaker 1: calm down. Tell me I'm wrong. I'm gonna be the
Speaker 1: pundit and I'm gonna I'm gonna I doubt that Tim
Speaker 1: Tebow will be motivated by my calm down Award. But
Speaker 1: I also need to be a contrarian. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: just like fall in line everything. Jennifer Lopez. I don't
Speaker 1: love Jennifer Lopez. Calm down, Jennifer. Don't you like about her?
Speaker 1: She was made to me. She was so mean to
Speaker 1: me when I tried to interview her when I was
Speaker 1: at Extra. She was mean to me. It's like the
Speaker 1: line of pretty Woman. They were mean to me? Who
Speaker 1: was mean to you? The woman at the store. Jennifer
Speaker 1: Lopez was the Rodeo Drive sales associate and I was
Speaker 1: Julia Roberts, not the prostitute part, but the the person
Speaker 1: who had the money to spend and Rodeo Drive and
Speaker 1: nobody would help me. I've got all of this and
Speaker 1: no dress for dinner tonight. Hold on one second, how
Speaker 1: he daddy wants you? You gotta go, peepiece? Um or
Speaker 1: we don't, we don't need a stay on the carpet.
Speaker 1: What okay, take us through it? What happened with that? Sure?
Speaker 1: What I mean? What happened? You have all this? I
Speaker 1: was working at Extra and there was rumors that she
Speaker 1: was back together with her boyfriend at the time was
Speaker 1: Casper or whatever and the friendly ghost. He was friendly
Speaker 1: And I saw them backstage at a Nickelodeon Kid's Choice
Speaker 1: Award and I had to ask her about it because
Speaker 1: my job as an entertainment reporter was to report on
Speaker 1: what was happening, which is, you know whatever. In this
Speaker 1: particular case, someone's personal. You had microphone in hand. You
Speaker 1: It's not like you were like you just shot the
Speaker 1: ship like that microphone in hand. And I said, I said,
Speaker 1: try to say it in a nice way and like
Speaker 1: be like kind of cheeky about it. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm congratulations. That looks like everything's going well with you
Speaker 1: and your man. And she stepped out of frame and
Speaker 1: she said, not cool to me, and I was like, okay, well, um,
Speaker 1: I know, yeah, that's what she goes not cool, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, well, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: do my job, which is, in this particular case, entertainment
Speaker 1: is reporting on your personal life. We praise you when
Speaker 1: your personal life's going well. We also have to ask
Speaker 1: about it when it's not going well. It's part of
Speaker 1: the job. I didn't like that part of the job.
Speaker 1: It's probably why I'm not doing it full time anymore.
Speaker 1: But like, I don't care who you're dating, but if
Speaker 1: I see, I get in trouble if I go back
Speaker 1: and don't ask you the question. So j loo calm down.
Speaker 1: I think what's interesting about this whole Alex Rodriguez, Ben
Speaker 1: Affleck thing and listening I can get, but I listen.
Speaker 1: I loved Ben. I want Ben, you know, to be happy.
Speaker 1: But here's my thing. I mean, we go everybody's missing
Speaker 1: this part. Yankees looks like the Red Sox are winning.
Speaker 1: You know, they're head like he's he's That's what I
Speaker 1: think about. My calm down Award is my husband who's
Speaker 1: wearing his dress shoes because he's on his way to
Speaker 1: the last home game of the Kings and it sounds
Speaker 1: like that insurance commercial where the cloggers have moved in upstairs.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, what are you? Why are you stomping around?
Speaker 1: And we've discussed this before. Pick your I mean it's
Speaker 1: like King Kong is up there. He's very muscular. Jaredy,
Speaker 1: oh my god, here comes this. I mean this guy
Speaker 1: singing in the rain, fredis Staretta up dance. Did you
Speaker 1: ever live in an apartment where there was someone above
Speaker 1: you that were high heels? No? I lived in an
Speaker 1: apartment in New York. You know where my apartment was.
Speaker 1: I've lived up there and he was very loud. I'll
Speaker 1: leave it at that, right, I do know about that.
Speaker 1: I just didn't know because I've definitely lived in my
Speaker 1: fair share of apartments and I'm always cognizant. I'm not
Speaker 1: wearing high heels because of that exact thing. So annoying,
Speaker 1: so annoying, get it together and anyways, it's just what
Speaker 1: did you say? Just you know, I'm thinking back to
Speaker 1: what I used to have to listen to through those walls,
Speaker 1: and I was like, calm down, it's not that good.
Speaker 1: It wasn't anybody I dated. But I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: felt like we were putting on a show. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's never that good like relax, condemn,
Speaker 1: you're speechless. Hey, Um, if you want to be specious,
Speaker 1: make sure you make sure you check out our i G.
Speaker 1: It wasn't my husband, by the way, it was in
Speaker 1: New York City. Um, make sure you check out our
Speaker 1: i G the Calm Down podcast or at Calm Down Podcast,
Speaker 1: and uh tell us who you'd like to give Calm
Speaker 1: Down Awards too? And I know I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to get an email from Jennifer Lopez Is and
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow's PR team. BA Hi, babe, I love you.
Speaker 1: How what kind of dresshoes you're wearing? Cause you can
Speaker 1: hear him through the microphone. Came here, I'm kidding. I
Speaker 1: love you so much. I love your dresses. Look at
Speaker 1: this guy coming in hot? Are they alloud? Were you
Speaker 1: breaking them in? Or? Oh there's your golf shoe? Were
Speaker 1: you doing it? Were you tap dancing upstairs? Oh? Okay,
Speaker 1: I love you. I'll call you later. Hi. Calm Down
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