Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Krissa is a production of
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Speaker 1: ten minutes of Fun has a name? Aaron, would you
Speaker 1: like to reveal what our name is for the segment? Well,
Speaker 1: I kind of want to change it now and call
Speaker 1: it ten minutes of Fun. Well, that's the bonus coverage
Speaker 1: here on this DVD. Everyone. This is a little segment
Speaker 1: we have called pregame. It's the ten minutes before the podcast.
Speaker 1: If you don't have the endurance to listen to us,
Speaker 1: which a lot of people in our lives don't, then
Speaker 1: you can tell voy this segment speaking of which I
Speaker 1: need that prescription. Uh, everyone. Ten minutes of Fun slash
Speaker 1: pregame consists of a lot of different things. Aaron and
Speaker 1: I just go on a rant about whatever we're thinking
Speaker 1: of that day. But also it's a chance for you
Speaker 1: guys are incredibly loyal Calm Down podcast listeners, which I
Speaker 1: for the longer segment, this is a tease. Got it
Speaker 1: d M from someone really concerned about a few things
Speaker 1: in my life that says I do not talk about
Speaker 1: them on the podcast. So I'll address that the longer version.
Speaker 1: What I want at Now is the listener Questions brought
Speaker 1: to you by first and foremost Taste of Ontario Spring Sale. This,
Speaker 1: I mean, how many letters? Are too many letters? I
Speaker 1: like it. Here's a question. Would you ever want to
Speaker 1: switch places? Aaron and studio and Carissa on this sideline?
Speaker 1: I am going to tell you what I tell Aaron
Speaker 1: all the time. I give her so much credit for
Speaker 1: continuing to want to stand on that sideline. Whether it's
Speaker 1: freezing in Lambeau, it's the seven hundred flights, it's the
Speaker 1: fifteen million check into the hotels. I forgot what room
Speaker 1: I'm even in because I've been living on the road
Speaker 1: for twenty years. I would never want to go back
Speaker 1: to doing what she does. She's the best at what
Speaker 1: she does. But um, look, if I had to, because
Speaker 1: it's the only place for me, I would. I just
Speaker 1: I can't brave the ps this one can? Hey, um yeah,
Speaker 1: I would there Listen, there are times I would love
Speaker 1: to be in the studio. I would love to, yeah,
Speaker 1: stay at home some holidays, some weekends when things are
Speaker 1: going on. But for me, there is nothing like being
Speaker 1: on the sideline. What do you love most about it?
Speaker 1: Getting close with the guys, getting close getting the inside
Speaker 1: information feeling. I mean, you were there for the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship and not working it, you don't miss it a
Speaker 1: tad just standing there. I mean we were talking about
Speaker 1: it last night, had dinner last night with a couple
Speaker 1: of friends, and um, fine, Matthew Stafford was talking about
Speaker 1: NFC Championship. It was such a you actually heard this,
Speaker 1: He's mentioned it before. Uh. During the NFC Championship he
Speaker 1: throws a touchdown and he does this move which is hot,
Speaker 1: by the way, where he's like yeah, and then he said,
Speaker 1: I looked right at the sideline. He's like, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up. But because I was standing next to McVeigh,
Speaker 1: you don't miss ship like that anymore. I missed I
Speaker 1: missed the pre I missed the production meetings because that
Speaker 1: is the time where you did the guys. We've talked
Speaker 1: about it, but we don't even do them anymore. Well, right,
Speaker 1: you don't want doing but you know you've intimated that,
Speaker 1: you know these guys are gonna say things there that
Speaker 1: obviously you are not going to repeat because professionals don't
Speaker 1: repeat what happens in a production meeting. Hey, now, so
Speaker 1: that I miss But um no, I don't miss the travel.
Speaker 1: I don't miss any of that, and yeah, the relationships
Speaker 1: with the guys, because that's really the number one thing
Speaker 1: for me that I got out of it. No, but
Speaker 1: but I still feel like I get that a little
Speaker 1: bit and sit down interviews, which is why I love
Speaker 1: doing those, because it's my only connection two players outside
Speaker 1: of the studio. Um okay, so the good question Ontario,
Speaker 1: I love your airport. It's very convenient dot com. Here's
Speaker 1: the next one from Megan one Hoffman. She says, can
Speaker 1: Aaron talk about her Dancing with the Stars experience both
Speaker 1: as a contestant and a host. You don't get that's
Speaker 1: I like that because you never talked about this well
Speaker 1: as a contestant. It was one of the hardest things
Speaker 1: I've ever done, because yes, I group dancing that body
Speaker 1: banging I did. I lost fifteen pounds because it's I
Speaker 1: looked like a twelve year old boy. They kept literally
Speaker 1: pulling in my outfit every single week. I've got to
Speaker 1: remember we only have ten minutes, and um yeah, I
Speaker 1: totally lost my boobs. My butt was gone, like it
Speaker 1: was just I looked like a string being. But I
Speaker 1: will tell you this, my abs were on fire so
Speaker 1: much so I took a rhyanstone and I stuck it
Speaker 1: in my belly button. I thought I was so cute. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Being a host was so much fun because it is
Speaker 1: reality TV, you know, I you don't know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen. You don't know when there's going to be
Speaker 1: a wardrobe malfunction because you lost so much weight. Do
Speaker 1: you want to know who's making out? You want to
Speaker 1: know who's fighting. So being a host was really great.
Speaker 1: Being a contestant was super super hard, but I did
Speaker 1: love every minute of it. And along with that, thinking
Speaker 1: of my dance partner Maxim Schmiakovski, who is actually in
Speaker 1: Ukraine right now, Yes, and we are definitely going to
Speaker 1: talk more, and his wife. Thinking about Peter too, And
Speaker 1: you know, similar to football, the relationships that you made
Speaker 1: from your time on that show as a contestant and
Speaker 1: a host extends far beyond the tenure. So thoughts to
Speaker 1: him and again, Megan, thank you for the question. We
Speaker 1: should expand more on that for the later episode that
Speaker 1: Jake are Old said, what got y'all started with the podcast? Well, Jake, um,
Speaker 1: I think I'll speak for myself. Aaron and I used
Speaker 1: you know we've said it before, but leave very we
Speaker 1: have like this. I don't know when it started, probably
Speaker 1: because we kept missing each other in terms of actually
Speaker 1: connecting on the phone. We would leave very lengthy voicemails
Speaker 1: for one another, and I think that that sort of,
Speaker 1: you know, the maturation would just be turned into like,
Speaker 1: well we should just talk about this stuff, and everyone
Speaker 1: else has a podcast, and we finally were like, maybe
Speaker 1: somebody looks for them. Maybe yeah, maybe someone cares. So Jake,
Speaker 1: it was spawned for me out of our long voicemails
Speaker 1: with each other, and I don't know, maybe someone cares.
Speaker 1: I love it. Next up is n J. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: if I screw this up. I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is all one name, but NJ dolly best travel tip
Speaker 1: mine using pants hangers to class hotel curtain shut. I
Speaker 1: thought I knew all the child's gonna say, let's go
Speaker 1: to the gal that spends half of her life in
Speaker 1: one what he got for a trap tip. I was
Speaker 1: just talking to one of my favorite goalies, my only
Speaker 1: favorite goalie in the NHL, Jonathan Quick, about this ear plugs.
Speaker 1: Ear plugs are a necessity, and we were actually rating
Speaker 1: your plugs. Um I like the blue cushiony ones. I
Speaker 1: don't like the really huge orangey ones for some reason,
Speaker 1: they don't jam right down in there. I like to
Speaker 1: legitimately feel my brain with my ear plugs, so I travel. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we've discussed it, a temper pedic pillow and ear plugs.
Speaker 1: Where do you get the where do you get the
Speaker 1: blue ones from? You know? I think there is CBS
Speaker 1: pick up. Hopefully our producer Ryan's listening, and maybe he
Speaker 1: could do a shout out to an ear plug company
Speaker 1: so they could buy time on the Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 1: Ryan is always listening. I'm sure he is after he
Speaker 1: tunes out. That is, of course, Spencer Lorraine oh seven.
Speaker 1: How do you guys organize your time? I get distracted
Speaker 1: and don't get half of my to do list done. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna throw this over to miss Organization
Speaker 1: because she is the first thing that I know writes
Speaker 1: down a real list about everything I've seen it. She's
Speaker 1: got great penmanship. You write pen to paper a list?
Speaker 1: Is that how you stay organized? No? Because I lose
Speaker 1: the list, so I try to transfer that onto my
Speaker 1: phone and throughout the day I just try to keep
Speaker 1: on knocking stuff off the list, and if I can't
Speaker 1: get it to that day, I try to bring it
Speaker 1: to the next day. My husband is honestly the most
Speaker 1: organized person. I don't know how he does it, but
Speaker 1: he's real big on the list. What about you? I
Speaker 1: just pulled up mine. Mine is always on my phone
Speaker 1: like this and this is my ongoing to do list.
Speaker 1: And I also set reminders in my phone, like for
Speaker 1: an alarm to go off, let's says check it to
Speaker 1: do list. So if I get distracted, then I'm reminded
Speaker 1: that I need to go back to it. I do
Speaker 1: give myself a day like yesterday, I gave myself a
Speaker 1: day where I didn't do anything. So take a day
Speaker 1: off from the to do list or also just feels
Speaker 1: like you're constantly having to do something? Okay, where um
Speaker 1: we are? We forgot the athlete one? I like this
Speaker 1: one which I ran freeze Rand's Freeze or fries or whatever.
Speaker 1: Which NFL athlete makes you laugh the most? I love that?
Speaker 1: What about for you? For me? Um? Wait, if you
Speaker 1: have one, go because I gotta think for a second. Well, definitely,
Speaker 1: last year, we were so obsessed with Devin White. We
Speaker 1: thought he was like the funniest guy and he's rolling
Speaker 1: around in the end zone. Um, I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: Gronk is up there. Yeah, I mean sure. It just
Speaker 1: wanted to Brandy interview that Aaron and I have done
Speaker 1: with him. It goes off the rails before it even starts.
Speaker 1: George Kittle, he's a time, very cute this weekend at
Speaker 1: the Stadium series in Nashville. He's adorable. Um yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say Gronk is my number one. And then I
Speaker 1: think on our pregame, we're looking at nine minutes, so
Speaker 1: we have time for one more. Some of the craziest
Speaker 1: on air moments, I know that we've probably talked about
Speaker 1: a few of them. For me, it was when I
Speaker 1: my mouth was frozen in Minnesota and I was working
Speaker 1: on the sidelines for our college game and it was outdoors,
Speaker 1: Golden Gophers and all, and I said, play cock, not
Speaker 1: play clock. Um so that was a problem. Whoops. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I um, you've had I mean well documented your Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman interview on the sideline. Aside from that, Like, what's
Speaker 1: another crazy one that just jumps out to I mean
Speaker 1: we talked about it, I said, Western Virginia on air
Speaker 1: one time because I was so cold, um so and
Speaker 1: I just like blanked out. But what was the crazy
Speaker 1: craziest on your moments? Like even with dancing other stars,
Speaker 1: like did you have oh on? Yeah, we had like
Speaker 1: a protester come on air, like in the middle of
Speaker 1: our show. Tom was unbelievable with that. Also, somebody hurt
Speaker 1: their back really bad and had to be taken via ambulance.
Speaker 1: And I just remember our producers saying, hey, can you
Speaker 1: handle this? And I was like, do you know what
Speaker 1: I do for a living on Sundays and Thursdays? I
Speaker 1: got it. An I will say this though, having worked
Speaker 1: on a bunch of different shows, having live experience pays
Speaker 1: dividends and moments like that because you never know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen, and the golden rule of live television
Speaker 1: is react to what happens next. If it's controversial, move along,
Speaker 1: and if it's worth it spanning upon the story or
Speaker 1: telling it, then stay on as long as you can
Speaker 1: until the Oscar music comes into play. Our music is
Speaker 1: coming into play right now. This has been another episode
Speaker 1: of the pre Game. If you're interested in more of
Speaker 1: our conversation, jump over to the full episode of Calm
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