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Speaker 1: It is the beginning of September and the beginning of
Speaker 1: football season of NFL College is well underway. I need
Speaker 1: a typical week right now for Aaron, it is Thursday
Speaker 1: for us. What are we doing to prep for your game?
Speaker 1: Full disclosure, we are recording this before this even goes
Speaker 1: on air, whether we're gonna edit that that I just
Speaker 1: said it or not. So we game week. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: be honest. We are not going to record on Labor
Speaker 1: Day because we're not. And if this is Thursday, then
Speaker 1: you know what this ship means. This is a fucking
Speaker 1: home opener for the Bucks. This is Cowboys at Bucks tonight,
Speaker 1: the banners raising, Let's go. I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: this defense pick back up. I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: TV back out there with those offensive weapons. Um, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see you know how Dax starts out.
Speaker 1: I'm excited right again. We are recording all of this before,
Speaker 1: so we don't know how the week is going to go.
Speaker 1: But if this is Thursday, that's what what you know?
Speaker 1: Where we are today, right Uh, yeah, it's where we
Speaker 1: are today. And Dak, I hope that you know he
Speaker 1: was limited in preseason with his shoulder situation, the knee
Speaker 1: situation or the ankle, more the shoulder than anything. But oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, welcome back and you get a Bucks defense
Speaker 1: all the things. The season is starting. I'm excited, but
Speaker 1: your game. Tell everybody what your game is this weekend.
Speaker 1: So our game is Green Bay at New Orleans. In
Speaker 1: terms of preparation, it's really Christmas week for us this week.
Speaker 1: The game week all happening Thursday night. What will I
Speaker 1: be doing? Probably so excited that I'll want everything done
Speaker 1: today early, early so I can sit in. And I
Speaker 1: love coverage, my favorite thing. You're always like, oh, come on,
Speaker 1: what do you you know? Pre game? I watch every
Speaker 1: pregame show possible. Like I'll start off with the NFL
Speaker 1: Network because they're gonna have coverage all day, probably starting
Speaker 1: at noon with our good friend Andrew Siciliano. I'm all
Speaker 1: dialed in. I know Rich Eisen and them are going
Speaker 1: to be kicking off their day as well. And then
Speaker 1: I'll go over to NBC and just you know, get
Speaker 1: all the sights and sounds. I love the I love
Speaker 1: when the guys get to the stadium. I do. I
Speaker 1: love to see what I'm here for you, Yes, and
Speaker 1: Tom with your glasses. You stop it, Devin White, you
Speaker 1: better be dressed and ready to go because I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see what you're wearing and then listening to music
Speaker 1: the whole, the whole vibe. I'm stoked that it is
Speaker 1: another year. I don't know what year this is for.
Speaker 1: Are you good about keeping track of years? That? As
Speaker 1: for us is for the pregame show year five um
Speaker 1: new crew this year Charles Woodson is with as. I
Speaker 1: get Shregor back in studio no more. I'm so happy
Speaker 1: about that, which means I also get Shreger on a
Speaker 1: Saturday night, hand us a cocktail and rolling at four
Speaker 1: am on Sunday, so that'll be fun. Coach Wants Dad
Speaker 1: and Michael Vick and then all the guys next door,
Speaker 1: Terry Howie. It's like getting back together. It's like back
Speaker 1: to school. I'm gonna have my outfit laid out, the
Speaker 1: whole thing. I get so excited that it's just another
Speaker 1: year of football and different than last year where we
Speaker 1: didn't know what we were going to be doing with
Speaker 1: all this stuff. So Yeah, I'm stoked. I'm excited. Did
Speaker 1: I say too in a minute? Yes I did. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Thursday, I'm lucky enough to be home, and then
Speaker 1: I will leave for Sight either on Friday or Saturday night,
Speaker 1: depending on where we are in terms of interviews and
Speaker 1: sit downs and so forth. And then yeah, America's Game
Speaker 1: of the week on Sunday. Super excited, you know, been
Speaker 1: studying for a couple of weeks now for it. And
Speaker 1: then away we go. Once I get back home on
Speaker 1: Monday morning or Sunday night, if I can swing it.
Speaker 1: It's like we've got calls lined up, and we've got
Speaker 1: calls lined up for our Thursday games. So calls will
Speaker 1: start up on Tuesday and Wednesday. Get to site Wednesday night,
Speaker 1: and that's going to be in Washington, I believe. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Am I in Washington for Giants Washington football team? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know. And so we kick off Thursday night football
Speaker 1: and away we go with two games in a week,
Speaker 1: which is a lot. It's a lot in terms of
Speaker 1: um kind of studying and keeping up with everybody. You know,
Speaker 1: it's hard and people don't realize this too. So we're
Speaker 1: at our game on Sunday and you're lucky you get
Speaker 1: to be there, and I am envs at this part
Speaker 1: where you guys all get to sit there and watch
Speaker 1: the games together. And I think how you handle it
Speaker 1: all on sunday's really interesting too, and I want you
Speaker 1: to talk about that. But we are so focused on
Speaker 1: what's happening with our game. You know, I'll hear you
Speaker 1: when you cut in and you're like, hey, here's a touchdown,
Speaker 1: here's an interception, this is the score. But you're so focused,
Speaker 1: obviously on what's happening. We all rushed to the airport
Speaker 1: so we can get out and get home, and it's like,
Speaker 1: once you're finally sitting in your seat on the plane,
Speaker 1: you can kind of decompress. Look at all the tweets
Speaker 1: where people say you suck and you're old and your
Speaker 1: nose is big and you shouldn't have your job, And
Speaker 1: then on the other side, you look at what the
Speaker 1: hell happened. I mean, the biggest thing is who got hurt?
Speaker 1: Who didn't get hurt. I mean there's a lot of
Speaker 1: times in games where I hear you say, oh, and
Speaker 1: you know so and so got out, and I'll say
Speaker 1: did he come back? Is he out? Oh? My god?
Speaker 1: But you kind of just have to refresh what happened
Speaker 1: with all the other games, and then you know, I'm
Speaker 1: lucky enough obviously with WiFi and everything, we can actually
Speaker 1: catch the Sunday night football game. So I'm watching that,
Speaker 1: having a few drinks, watch the halftime show, which is
Speaker 1: really helpful. I used to love, love, love Carissa getting
Speaker 1: home late late on a Sunday night, if Jared's in bed,
Speaker 1: I'd go down to the living room and watch you
Speaker 1: and Dion wrap it up. That you see one of
Speaker 1: my favorite highlight shows because he would just have like
Speaker 1: such an honest twist, and obviously I would get to
Speaker 1: see you. But yeah, as soon as we get on
Speaker 1: the plane on Sunday night to get home, or even
Speaker 1: if we can't get out and we're back in the
Speaker 1: hotel room, it's kind of like a huge catch up,
Speaker 1: like you're fried from work in the game. You're also like,
Speaker 1: what the hell happened during the NIFEL today? Well too,
Speaker 1: a lot of things about what you just said. He
Speaker 1: I miss oh. I was at the other night. I
Speaker 1: ran into Ladanian Tomlinson, who I was so happy to see,
Speaker 1: and we were talking about that it was a show
Speaker 1: that I did with Shannon Sharp, Ladanian Thominson and Dion Sanders,
Speaker 1: which the comedy that ensued half the time wasn't even
Speaker 1: like talking about football. It was just nonsense, but they
Speaker 1: were so much fun. Um. But yeah, I missed that.
Speaker 1: If anybody else wants to give us that show, that
Speaker 1: would be great. Thanks. Um. But in the mid time,
Speaker 1: it is that feeling, and I imagine for you where
Speaker 1: it's like it's like anything like something the adrenaline rush
Speaker 1: that you have from working that game and being so
Speaker 1: hyper focused on everything that's happening and then scrambling for
Speaker 1: the post game and all that stuff, and then when
Speaker 1: you do sit down and you're like, what just happened? Right?
Speaker 1: I mean that, so then turning your attention pretty quickly
Speaker 1: to that next game the next week. UM, I give
Speaker 1: I mean you, I always say this to you, hats
Speaker 1: off to you for and look, we are so lucky
Speaker 1: to have our jobs, of course, but that's a mind
Speaker 1: out there, which is like two games and the traveling.
Speaker 1: I mean, everyone knows how much traveling is like stressful anyways,
Speaker 1: But anyways, I know you're appreciative of your position, but um, anyhow,
Speaker 1: what what was I going to ask you? Though? I
Speaker 1: was going to ask you something else. I want you
Speaker 1: to tell people because I don't really know if I
Speaker 1: know how it goes down. How you sit there in
Speaker 1: a in a cold studio and I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: make people feel sorry for you, but it's for reason
Speaker 1: in there. And then you how do you keep track
Speaker 1: the highlight? Because you guys are really good about game breaks.
Speaker 1: We call him game breaks and getting it to cris
Speaker 1: out like I always love this and I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know this where you know, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: sell a story and I'm like, z I got z
Speaker 1: s are producer Richie Zions, He's a dream and I'm like, z,
Speaker 1: I got this, I got this, I got this, And
Speaker 1: he's like, I can't right now. I got a game break,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, damn it, Carissa, scre your game break.
Speaker 1: So all things about that. So when I throw to
Speaker 1: the cruise, I'll start from the beginning. So we have
Speaker 1: a huge monitor of all the different games that are
Speaker 1: going on, specifically NFC. We head into a lot of
Speaker 1: NFC games because it impacts our audience where we mostly cover. Okay,
Speaker 1: so my producer we call Spoon, he'll get in my
Speaker 1: ear and be like we're gonna go to Green Bay
Speaker 1: with this highlight. So then I sit with my researcher, Jarrett,
Speaker 1: who I adore, and basically like he'll give me. He'll
Speaker 1: break down like the yardage and stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: sometimes I won't have time to get the yardage from him,
Speaker 1: like I'm getting it from my producer in my ear
Speaker 1: just being like Aaron Rodgers forty six yard completion to
Speaker 1: Davante Adams up by seven. So you're just like rattling
Speaker 1: it off in real time. In a perfect world, you
Speaker 1: get sort of what we call a shot sheet for
Speaker 1: anyone that doesn't know that it is, and it's, um,
Speaker 1: you know, just the pertinent information that you need, but
Speaker 1: you only get do you see the highlight before you
Speaker 1: go live to us? Do you get to practice it
Speaker 1: once or do you just go Sometimes it depends on
Speaker 1: if it depends like if something's happening in your guys
Speaker 1: game that's like in the moment, like Z will get
Speaker 1: off of us and like just stick with your game,
Speaker 1: which is natural. I mean basically, the head like the
Speaker 1: headline of this is what ever is the most important thing?
Speaker 1: If you guys are just not in a flow of
Speaker 1: your game and it's sort of a downtime. Then it's
Speaker 1: a good time to go to a game break. But yeah,
Speaker 1: sometimes I'll see the highlights. Sometimes I won't. In full disclosure,
Speaker 1: I never did highlights before I did game breaks. I
Speaker 1: know it's so hard. It's it is really hard, but
Speaker 1: there's a pacing to it. The only time it gets
Speaker 1: a little bit more difficult is when Terry Bradshaw, who
Speaker 1: you know I'm obsessed with, wanders over from the other
Speaker 1: studio and then he sits right next to me and
Speaker 1: he's storytelling. But he doesn't know when I'm cutting because
Speaker 1: I have the earpiece that says, like, Carrissa, we're coming
Speaker 1: to you. He's telling stories about Lord only knows what
Speaker 1: he's telling stories Aaron I have during a game break
Speaker 1: when they're like, okay, we're sending it to Charissa, I've
Speaker 1: had to take my hand put it over his mouth,
Speaker 1: literally over his mouth to stop him from talking. Do
Speaker 1: the highlight. Then I go, Okay, what were you saying
Speaker 1: to me? Because he doesn't know when it's happening. And
Speaker 1: there are times where I'm like, please don't him out fight,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And then there was another
Speaker 1: because you have an earpiece in right and in spoon
Speaker 1: is saying Charissa, like, you're gonna send it to Green
Speaker 1: Bay with Joe Troy and Aaron. So this is another
Speaker 1: thing Aaron, you guys, doesn't She makes fun of me
Speaker 1: every time I tossed it back to them and I
Speaker 1: say Joe, Troy and Aaron, and she always says, you
Speaker 1: say Aaron, like so sexual like that, and you say
Speaker 1: the whole thing so sensuous, like so like yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like July La after dark. She's like, um, you know,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers sixty five yard touchdown to Davonte Adams puts
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers up fourteen and nothing, Joe Troy, Aaron,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's like freaking loud where we are at,
Speaker 1: like you know, in New Orleans, and it's like Joe Troy, Aaron,
Speaker 1: Joe Troy and Aaron. My favorite, though, is to actually
Speaker 1: like make jokes with the announcing cruise when like Myers
Speaker 1: is a good one to play with because he'll he'll
Speaker 1: go back and forth. But there was a time where
Speaker 1: our boss Eric Shanks was sitting next to me again
Speaker 1: doesn't know I'm about to do a highlight and then
Speaker 1: God because spoon gets in my ear and he was like,
Speaker 1: it was like whatever it was, it was the Browns
Speaker 1: and let's say, I don't know the Ravens. I said
Speaker 1: the Bengals and the Ravens. And then after I finished
Speaker 1: the highlight, I looked over at our boss and I said, well,
Speaker 1: that's your fault because I just said the wrong team
Speaker 1: because you're distracting me, and he goes, that's fine. I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, good. I can't get in trouble, so
Speaker 1: we're good here. Everyone just come over. Actually, I get
Speaker 1: such a high off of multitasking and like doing something
Speaker 1: while something else is happening. I don't know, I'm into it.
Speaker 1: It's different. It's obviously different than like hosting the show,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's fun. I mean it's football. I just
Speaker 1: like it's football. And I think what people don't understand
Speaker 1: when we say it's hard doing highlights, like, look, you
Speaker 1: can watch highlights anytime on TV, right, but you also
Speaker 1: have to what Chris is saying that shot sheets, So
Speaker 1: it's the information. It's you're going to Lambeau. It's green
Speaker 1: you know, obviously it's Green Bay. It's Packers and Lions, right,
Speaker 1: and then it's it's Aaron Rodgers to Davontae Adams, like,
Speaker 1: she's got to look at that information and then make
Speaker 1: sure it goes with the highlight because you hate when
Speaker 1: the announcers are behind it or whatever. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of it. Plus you're live, and you've got maybe fifteen
Speaker 1: seconds for her to do it so she doesn't interrupt
Speaker 1: the flow of our game. Because Carissa, I have a
Speaker 1: story to tell and you are taking up my time.
Speaker 1: So there's that. It's awesome. I totally agree with you,
Speaker 1: like the multitasking and live. You know, it's not a
Speaker 1: situation you want to have to do on air, but
Speaker 1: one of mine that it kind of reminds me of
Speaker 1: the high and you're like, holy sh it, like I
Speaker 1: better get this right. And you know I I don't
Speaker 1: get many of these, and and thank goodness, I don't
Speaker 1: because this is when I'm talking about an injury. But
Speaker 1: the one I can kind of remember, like I was
Speaker 1: running out of the tunnel and I'm like, holy pluck,
Speaker 1: holy flock. But I knew this is breaking news, this
Speaker 1: is huge. I better get this right. You know, this
Speaker 1: is my job. This is why I'm here. We were
Speaker 1: at the Colosseum, it was Eagles at Rams and Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz ripped his leg up and I followed him up
Speaker 1: the tunnel as he was going up. I had originally thought,
Speaker 1: and this was the year, of course they won the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I had originally thought in that game he
Speaker 1: hurt his stomach because as you guys, you know for
Speaker 1: football fan, you remember, he dove into the end zone
Speaker 1: to score, I believe, and he goes in the tent
Speaker 1: and then he runs up and I love Z. At
Speaker 1: this point I have goose bumps when he's like, and
Speaker 1: now your priority as the quarterback, It's like what And
Speaker 1: there's nothing else I do than just finding out Like
Speaker 1: when Rogers went out with his collar bone like, that
Speaker 1: was the priority. I was there when Romo broke his
Speaker 1: collar bone again, that was the priority. I was there
Speaker 1: when Mahomes you know, pulled his knee out of the socket.
Speaker 1: And bottom line, don't have me do your sidelines because
Speaker 1: it's not good for your cobo the cover of Madden,
Speaker 1: even with the curse, you know what I mean, commercial,
Speaker 1: you're adorable. Everyone still wants to be on the cover
Speaker 1: of Madden or have your game because it means it's
Speaker 1: the best game of the day. So we're good here.
Speaker 1: I love you. So I run up and I'm standing
Speaker 1: there and they weren't going to come out and tell me,
Speaker 1: and they didn't even know. They knew it wasn't good,
Speaker 1: but they weren't gonna, you know, say he tore his
Speaker 1: leg up, like, you know, done for the year at
Speaker 1: that moment. But I sat there and you remember, like
Speaker 1: you you have great relationships with these PR staffs, you know,
Speaker 1: the doctors. I talked to the doctors on the sidelines
Speaker 1: all this time, not about the athletes, about my own ailments.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, you know what I got. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a little mentoral today I had some cramps. Do you
Speaker 1: have any advil? You know, like they know everything about me.
Speaker 1: I love a doctor. So anyways, um back to Carson.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting and I'm just standing there and then you
Speaker 1: just start to see the support staff come out of
Speaker 1: the tunnel to go back down in to the field
Speaker 1: and all of their heads are just down and everybody
Speaker 1: looks like they've been hit by a bus. And PR
Speaker 1: staff runs out. They are so sweet over there with
Speaker 1: Philly and they just said me out for the game,
Speaker 1: And I just said, is this bad? And he goes
Speaker 1: me out for the game, so I ran, I know,
Speaker 1: and you just you know, you know you want to
Speaker 1: report more than that too, because given like the whole
Speaker 1: good girl. Yeah, this is the cheez hold on. We'll
Speaker 1: be back with more. Right after this. We're gonna find
Speaker 1: find out what Aaron's report was in the Philly versus
Speaker 1: the Rams game. Standby, we're back. Right before the break,
Speaker 1: Aaron was telling us how she did this incredible report
Speaker 1: on Carson Wentz. Yes, of course it was an injury,
Speaker 1: so it's not great, Aaron, give me the report. Well,
Speaker 1: we're just talking about you know, these live moments and
Speaker 1: why you're here and why you you know, why you're
Speaker 1: needed and what your job is and and I just
Speaker 1: remember running out of the tunnel and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you could do the typical report where you're like, while
Speaker 1: we saw Carson Wentz go up in the locker room,
Speaker 1: he hasn't come back out there, saying it's a knee
Speaker 1: and he will not return. But I was like, f that,
Speaker 1: I know this team, I have covered this team and
Speaker 1: the looks on their faces. I had to tell that story.
Speaker 1: And I just said, Joe and Troy, I am not
Speaker 1: trying to read into this, but I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you as I sat there and watched the medical staff
Speaker 1: leave the Eagles locker room, every single one of those
Speaker 1: physicians had their heads down and they were all shaking
Speaker 1: their heads. Again, we do not know what the outcome
Speaker 1: is going to be, but I am telling you that
Speaker 1: is the reaction I saw, and I will be honest
Speaker 1: with you. My phone blew up, like I remember, Bardia,
Speaker 1: you know, I just from people from Fox were like, fuck, yeah,
Speaker 1: e A, that's what we're talking about. And a part
Speaker 1: of me was thinking, God, I hope I'm wrong for
Speaker 1: Carson's sake and Doug Peterson and this team, but I
Speaker 1: also hope I'm not wrong, that I don't look like
Speaker 1: an asshole. But you could just tell like, and I
Speaker 1: didn't want to miss that moment. Now now I'm second
Speaker 1: guessing myself. That could have been really, really bad. But
Speaker 1: but your job is to report what you see. You
Speaker 1: reported what you said, you didn't you didn't say you
Speaker 1: weren't making a diagnosis and saying to you for the season,
Speaker 1: you were reporting what you saw. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I listened to our podcast. Those of you that do
Speaker 1: thank you so much or watching it. But the three
Speaker 1: of you, all three of you that want to be
Speaker 1: a sports broadcaster, I would think it's like you that
Speaker 1: is rule number one though, right, you're always taught like
Speaker 1: don't you know you're not making up something, but you're
Speaker 1: reporting what you're seeing. You have every right to do that,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're not speculating. But that's the job.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many times have you been asked, oh,
Speaker 1: what do you even need to sideline reporter? I'll tell
Speaker 1: you I need a sideline for times like that, times
Speaker 1: like that, you know, and like even just I remember,
Speaker 1: you know you could go in to the as I
Speaker 1: know you do with all these different stories or things
Speaker 1: that you want to talk about in a game. And
Speaker 1: how many stories or you know, news hits do you
Speaker 1: think it thrown out the window? Typically on average? For you?
Speaker 1: Like how many do you go into a game with five? Six?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I try. I mean, I'm I'm a loser.
Speaker 1: I over prepare. But it's really the moments like that,
Speaker 1: like I'll tell you, like the money Homes thing again
Speaker 1: that happens mahomes. It was before the half because I
Speaker 1: remember running with him to the X ray room and
Speaker 1: again they're on a freaking role and he's having this
Speaker 1: season and they go obviously win the Super Bowl that year.
Speaker 1: But I remember looking at Andy for the halftime interview
Speaker 1: and I felt so bad and I just looked at
Speaker 1: him and my first thing I said was Andy, I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry, Like his quarterback is in the freaking locker room.
Speaker 1: We watched the trainer live on air put his knee
Speaker 1: back into place, and he put a coach read put
Speaker 1: his arm on me, and he goes, it's gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: And that was the first thing I said on air,
Speaker 1: because that's all people wanted was an update on my homes.
Speaker 1: We're all going to get it from the training staff.
Speaker 1: So that was what I reported. I just said. I
Speaker 1: said to Andy Reid, I'm so sorry, and and he
Speaker 1: told me it's gonna be okay. And I don't think
Speaker 1: a coach would say that if they're getting a report now.
Speaker 1: They needed to know about the ligaments and everything the
Speaker 1: next day, but the head coach is getting word on
Speaker 1: the sideline of how bad it is in the X
Speaker 1: ray room. So I just think on times like that,
Speaker 1: like it's worth the gamble, right or going with your gut,
Speaker 1: yeah and throw those stories out they know and react
Speaker 1: in real time to what's happening. I I mean, I
Speaker 1: just try to think of like some of the different
Speaker 1: you've had. I mean, you've done this for so long
Speaker 1: and at the highest level, um, you know, but just
Speaker 1: those moments that you know, you can go in with
Speaker 1: the idea of something and then everything can turn in
Speaker 1: the game. I remember I was working a game in
Speaker 1: Chicago and it was Jake Cutler was sometimes he deserved
Speaker 1: to be sacked because he waited too long to get
Speaker 1: rid of the football, but he was always under dress
Speaker 1: and that offensive line just couldn't want to save their life.
Speaker 1: And I remember I used to babysit from Mike Tys,
Speaker 1: who was the offensive line coach that time. So it
Speaker 1: was so random and like I made eye contact with
Speaker 1: him and I'm like, what the funk? And he's like
Speaker 1: like losing his mind, and he's like this and he's
Speaker 1: the offensive line coach, and like I just reported. I
Speaker 1: condensed the report, but I was like the offensive line coach,
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson not happy with the line, and just just
Speaker 1: reporting on like what you're seeing, and like don't you
Speaker 1: get so excited when like you're standing behind the benches
Speaker 1: and you see like whether it's like you know, somebody
Speaker 1: chewing out somebody, yeah, else or like whatever, and then
Speaker 1: you like say to your rich, your director or does
Speaker 1: the your producer, and like camera, camera, camera, because you're
Speaker 1: going to see things even though there's all these cameras
Speaker 1: out there, they might not be on that specific moment.
Speaker 1: So to be able to direct your guys in the
Speaker 1: truck and get and package that story, like, that's what
Speaker 1: makes me excited and that's what validates a sideline reporter
Speaker 1: to me, is like telling those stories that you're not
Speaker 1: going to get every single angle on because maybe you're
Speaker 1: not watching that. Yeah, I was trying to remember as
Speaker 1: you're saying this, like what gets you excited? I always
Speaker 1: love it. Z again my producer. You know, he's in
Speaker 1: my ear program I have in my ear Joe and
Speaker 1: Troy can talk to me in the break when they
Speaker 1: want to, or they can talk to me during the game.
Speaker 1: But I love when I do a hit and look,
Speaker 1: Z's worked with Madden, He's worked with everybody, and at
Speaker 1: the end of it, if you know I do do
Speaker 1: a good job, he's like good. I remember the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship this year and it was such a like an
Speaker 1: and it's just the game, like I want everybody wanted
Speaker 1: to be at it, Tom Brady, Yeah, Rogers, it's just hot,
Speaker 1: like it's all of it to go to the super
Speaker 1: Bowl and I want I want that Joe here every year,
Speaker 1: better be this year. So you know, Joe and Troy
Speaker 1: do their whole you know however about analog another, you know,
Speaker 1: and then then we can break yeah, and then the
Speaker 1: anthem happens, and all during the anthem, I'm like I'm
Speaker 1: ready to pew because I'm like here we go, like
Speaker 1: holy shit, I get fifteen seconds. Don't bucket up. And
Speaker 1: then I'm like, okay, boys stop, like brain stop, stop, stop, focus,
Speaker 1: focus focus. Ronaldi goes. Ronaldi goes and he starts talking
Speaker 1: about the packers and blah, and he's so freaking effortless
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, grabo, grablo, grab it's coming, it's
Speaker 1: coming in and and giving yourself and he sends it over
Speaker 1: to me. And my quick thing was about, you know,
Speaker 1: the cold, because it was like can the Bucks play
Speaker 1: at Lambeau? And as I did it, I said, you know,
Speaker 1: the Bucks actually got a break today. I said, you know,
Speaker 1: the temperature is not that bad. And right as I
Speaker 1: did it, the sun came out, and I said, and
Speaker 1: as you can see behind me, the sun just came out.
Speaker 1: And you know, then I do this whole thing about
Speaker 1: like the temperature, and then they had a big was
Speaker 1: it white head? Was he out? Was he in that game?
Speaker 1: There was a big something going on with this secondary
Speaker 1: Oh he had worked in pregame to see if he
Speaker 1: was going to go. I don't know, uh, Antonio Brown whatever.
Speaker 1: I did the temperature, and then I did up to
Speaker 1: date injuries and then threw it up to Joe. Got
Speaker 1: through it. I was rocking back and forth so major
Speaker 1: because I was like, oh my god, oh my god,
Speaker 1: my god, get through this. Send it to Joe. Joe
Speaker 1: sent it to break. We're getting ready to go, and
Speaker 1: I just heard Troy go hazy. Can Tom and Aaron
Speaker 1: hear me? Can Tom and Aaron hear me? And we're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got you. What's up? And He's like that was awesome,
Speaker 1: you guys, And he's like, Aaron, the sun came out.
Speaker 1: It was like, let's go. It was just fine. I
Speaker 1: love I like yell like in excitement just thinking about
Speaker 1: that moment, because you're also you're being able to like
Speaker 1: react to what happens next, right, like let's home come
Speaker 1: out or just having that awareness is part of being
Speaker 1: in this industry. And like you, like, I've done it
Speaker 1: on the biggest stages. I remember standing with you before
Speaker 1: the super Bowl, before your pregame. It'll just never to me,
Speaker 1: but it also speaks to who you are that no
Speaker 1: matter how many times you're on that big of a stage,
Speaker 1: you still get nervous. But then you fucking crush it.
Speaker 1: And like if you don't get nervous, then you're not human.
Speaker 1: And that's look at that CUTI Cuteie Aaron's holding up
Speaker 1: a picture of Aaron and I are standing on the
Speaker 1: sidelines after she did her hit. That makes me want
Speaker 1: to cry. But that's but then you crush it, And
Speaker 1: I don't know why you're ever nervous, but I guess
Speaker 1: it just Oh. I had this interview with Josh Allen
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. Will be yeah, well by
Speaker 1: the time this airs, he told me that he throws
Speaker 1: up before every game. It's like I was asking him
Speaker 1: if he was superstitious, and he's like, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: he's that kind of dishes or whatever he said in
Speaker 1: a cute little way, and he goes, but I do
Speaker 1: throw up before every game. I go, huh, I go,
Speaker 1: you're not nervous, so what are you doing. He's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just do it. And then some
Speaker 1: other guys from the team like they come over and
Speaker 1: they throw up too, and I'm like, good for you guys,
Speaker 1: and he goes, yeah, my teammates like cheer cheer us on,
Speaker 1: like get that crap out and let's go crush it
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I'm like, good, nerves are good. It
Speaker 1: means you're alive. It means the adrenaline. And I just
Speaker 1: like love saying I still like a total loser whenever
Speaker 1: you come on. I like recorded like, I don't know
Speaker 1: that this is what you do for a living. Yes,
Speaker 1: like all excited. I don't know. I just in all
Speaker 1: the years that we continue to do this or give
Speaker 1: you know, we're lucky enough to have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: do it. I hope that we never ever ever take
Speaker 1: it for granted, because it's fucking fun. I get so nervous. Donnie,
Speaker 1: who is our our handheld camera. I love man down there.
Speaker 1: Oh he's the best, and he you know, he's so sweet.
Speaker 1: I had to tell this story because he's going into
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame and he's just amazing. He works
Speaker 1: so hard. He is he's going into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: So happy for him and information Donnie Cornelli. He is fantastic.
Speaker 1: He's a handheld. He is the guy right down on
Speaker 1: the sidelines that does my stand ups or any other
Speaker 1: sideline reporters stand ups. He's also the one that has
Speaker 1: those amazing shots like up in your face or he
Speaker 1: has gotten you know, absolutely you know, blasted by players before.
Speaker 1: There was a rams game that I did where he
Speaker 1: got knocked out and I was screaming to director to
Speaker 1: get him off the field because he was bleeding, and
Speaker 1: it was there just they work so hard and they
Speaker 1: don't have their eyes on the ball. They have their
Speaker 1: eyes on the ball, but they don't have their eyes
Speaker 1: on anything else around them. And they you know, don't
Speaker 1: aren't wearing padding and all the things. So Donnie is
Speaker 1: the you know, really the only person I have down
Speaker 1: on the field with me besides you know, our Jillian
Speaker 1: who does our hair and makeup room and as seen
Speaker 1: a little bit. But anyways, he is so cute because imagine,
Speaker 1: you know, a camera guy one I is covered by
Speaker 1: his viewfinder, but I can see the other and he
Speaker 1: just always gives me a big smile, like right before
Speaker 1: I go on, like smile and uh, he's so sweet.
Speaker 1: And then right at the end he always gives me
Speaker 1: a fist pump like good game. And I always like
Speaker 1: show him how bad I'm shaking, because I do. Until
Speaker 1: my first hit is over with, I am just a rack.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not puking like Josh Allen and my god,
Speaker 1: I would need to brush my teeth after that, I am,
Speaker 1: And the stinging in your throat that's just awful. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a mess, like I've got a pee, I'm shaking,
Speaker 1: I've got a dry mouth. I'm just like like I
Speaker 1: literally I'm like, because it isn't so freaking nervous. Well
Speaker 1: that I mean your audience size, but also you've got
Speaker 1: I think the shorter the window that you have to
Speaker 1: get it, Yes, the worst it probably is because you're
Speaker 1: like I got fifteen seconds and this is all me.
Speaker 1: I mean, this sounds terrible, but like I don't get
Speaker 1: nervous to go on TV because it's not ever just
Speaker 1: me anymore, right, Like I'm not staying true like I'm
Speaker 1: like the pastic characters, and so it's like I can
Speaker 1: deflect any mess ups that I have where it's like
Speaker 1: it's only you so and I know Joe Buck Actually
Speaker 1: there was a really fun moment that I had with
Speaker 1: him early in my career that we were in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: Were always in Green Bay, and Uh, stop me. If
Speaker 1: you've heard this before, Aaron Rodgers calf was a storyline.
Speaker 1: Love you, Aaron, but I mean that calf. We got
Speaker 1: to do something about it. Wrap it up, I mean,
Speaker 1: stretch it out. But I'm always on him about that.
Speaker 1: But the calf was a concern and it was cold,
Speaker 1: and it was like here we go, and I was
Speaker 1: I was getting all into the anatomy of the calf,
Speaker 1: and we do a rehearse all just make sure everybody's
Speaker 1: mics are working and we know what Joan Troy are
Speaker 1: going to say and blah blah blah, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: spit it out. And this was my first year with
Speaker 1: them by myself, and I just was screwing up in
Speaker 1: the rehearsal and I was like, can I just have
Speaker 1: a minute, And then my producer said, Hey, Joe's calling you,
Speaker 1: and I was like, why is he calling me? Why
Speaker 1: can't you just talk to me in my earpiece? So
Speaker 1: I picked up my phone. I was like hello, and
Speaker 1: he's like, will you stop? And I was like what
Speaker 1: he goes, will you fucking stop? And I was like,
Speaker 1: what he goes, It's just a calf. Like it's a calf.
Speaker 1: Get it out. You're fine, it's not brain surgery. Just
Speaker 1: get it out and go like you've talked about it
Speaker 1: all week. And I was like, Okay, love you bye.
Speaker 1: That's so. But I will say this though, and again
Speaker 1: going back to our hopefully now for listeners, maybe we
Speaker 1: gained one with our storytelling, but that it probably makes
Speaker 1: people feel like, I don't know, reassured that no matter
Speaker 1: where you are in your career, whether you're at the
Speaker 1: very beginning or in our case, like you know, ten
Speaker 1: plus years into this thing, is that you still get
Speaker 1: nervous and you because you want to do a good
Speaker 1: job and you have pride in what you do. It's
Speaker 1: also about I don't know, I believe that you feel
Speaker 1: the same way because this is who you are. You
Speaker 1: don't want to let your team down either, Like you
Speaker 1: don't want to mess up because you don't want like
Speaker 1: Joe and Troy to like be like what the hockey
Speaker 1: a or whatever, and so like to have Troy get
Speaker 1: it together. Yeah, but to have Troy say that, like,
Speaker 1: great job you guys like it is. It's like you want.
Speaker 1: You're part of a bigger team and everyone behind the
Speaker 1: scenes worked so hard. You're just like in the Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick school of thought. You just do your job and
Speaker 1: when you're able to execute your fifteen seconds, you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully three or four or five times a game, Um,
Speaker 1: you sit back on that plane afterwards and feel good
Speaker 1: about what you did in your contribution. Um, well, I
Speaker 1: just don't have four glasses of red wine and then
Speaker 1: text each other about the only things that we need
Speaker 1: to talk. I get so, I know, I get really
Speaker 1: mad when you don't have WiFi in the stadium and
Speaker 1: we're winding on this episode. But before we go, we
Speaker 1: do a fun little game. If you guys don't know
Speaker 1: or haven't listened to one of the episodes, we do
Speaker 1: get to know your co host. Obviously we know each
Speaker 1: other very well, but there's still some things that we
Speaker 1: talked about that I don't remember. So as we wrap
Speaker 1: it up, we have five questions here. Play along at home,
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll send you a calm down um co merch.
Speaker 1: We should start doing that. I don't do people. Let's
Speaker 1: do some giveaways. I love a giveaway. You make a
Speaker 1: competition for me like, I'm all into it? So yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. Okay, I have a first question. We'll do
Speaker 1: five questions. How much Ryan, how much time do we
Speaker 1: have left as our wonderful producer? As much time as
Speaker 1: we want as a podcast? Got it? Okay? E are
Speaker 1: you ready for a quick recap as we get set
Speaker 1: to start our season. Let's see how well you've known
Speaker 1: me or know me good English? This is I figure
Speaker 1: out what's not a lie? Right? What's this called again?
Speaker 1: We're not doing it that way because I sucked it
Speaker 1: up last time. We're just you're just looking to right answer.
Speaker 1: You're just making yes, yes, yes, okay. So the worst
Speaker 1: date that I ever went on was because a smelling
Speaker 1: myself halfway through dinner and realizing I forgot to put
Speaker 1: on deodorant, be getting a ride to and from a
Speaker 1: kolonoscope appointment, or see my date left at the end
Speaker 1: of dinner and I was stuck on a step with
Speaker 1: the check is it a B or c B? The
Speaker 1: colonoscope ding ding ding. That's right. I had somebody driving
Speaker 1: for kolonoscope. You're welcome. Do I mean to do for
Speaker 1: that story? Okay? In high school, a boy came to
Speaker 1: my parents house to ask me to prom It was
Speaker 1: actually homecoming homecoming, and then A. My parents wouldn't let
Speaker 1: me go at all because I was mean and told
Speaker 1: the boy no. Be my mom freaked out because the
Speaker 1: family dog ate the bones of some chicken wings. I
Speaker 1: left sitting out when I went to go answer the
Speaker 1: door or see, I said yes, but pretended to be
Speaker 1: six so I didn't have to go to the dance
Speaker 1: with him. I feel like it's b n C definitely be.
Speaker 1: Why are you getting me right? Yeah? Yes, yeah, because
Speaker 1: you said no and then you went with someone else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was embarrassing. Bernhisel I said yes to um. On
Speaker 1: a trip to Mexico, Kyle was annoyed because A he
Speaker 1: has t s a pre check and I don't be.
Speaker 1: We both like aisles and I made him sit in
Speaker 1: the window or see. I temporarily lost my phone after
Speaker 1: a day at the pool, but got it back. I mean,
Speaker 1: c could happen all day long, but it was a
Speaker 1: right percent read about losing my phone I need to
Speaker 1: get one of those trackers. Um, okay, you're on the board.
Speaker 1: We each have or your two and I've got one.
Speaker 1: We each took trips to Mexico this summer. You just
Speaker 1: talked about yours with our husbands. On my trip, Jared
Speaker 1: criticized me for doing this in our hotel room. A
Speaker 1: making a mess in the bathroom leaving out makeup, hair dryer, curler, etcetera.
Speaker 1: Be always leaving towels on the ground or see never
Speaker 1: unpacking my suitcase. A yep, and he is dramatic. So
Speaker 1: I ran into Colin the other night at a restaurant,
Speaker 1: which always a fun time having a Colin Coward running
Speaker 1: is fantastic restaurant adorable toisconin Brentwood. Um, he's so, I
Speaker 1: expect my next advertiser when I go there for that.
Speaker 1: Um any who Colin goes. It's just the best, you
Speaker 1: know how He's like frenetick and all over the place.
Speaker 1: We're talking about something because I'm so gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: miss having him on the show this year, but I
Speaker 1: get it he's hired. Um. But he was saying, we're
Speaker 1: talking about the show, and then out of nowhere he goes,
Speaker 1: you know what I really love I really loved it.
Speaker 1: Like Aaron got mad at Jared on your podcast and
Speaker 1: I go, what, I go, don't listen? Yeah, and he goes, well,
Speaker 1: I loved it. Like she was like, Okay, you can
Speaker 1: say anything about me that you want from our trip
Speaker 1: and I won't get mad. And then she got so mad,
Speaker 1: and I was he really didn't get that mad, but no,
Speaker 1: and then he goes and then they zoomed in on
Speaker 1: his face and he was like, whoa calling a story?
Speaker 1: But I'm just like, you know how Colin's I got
Speaker 1: a hundred and things in his brain. The fact that
Speaker 1: like that jumped out made me laugh. Okay, um, we're
Speaker 1: tied up to a piece sister. Here we go. My cheat,
Speaker 1: Dan dealing with a hangover is a waffles, mimosas, burgers
Speaker 1: and fries. Sounds great. Breakfast burrito also sounds great. Or
Speaker 1: a sausage of McMuffin pizza half for lunch, half for dinner.
Speaker 1: See you're great, very correct. Ding ding ding ding ding
Speaker 1: next all right, at the end of the football season,
Speaker 1: it's actually not the end. It was like week fifteen.
Speaker 1: I think, Um, I found something that I had forgotten
Speaker 1: after weeks of traveling. My favorite yeah, oldie moldy so gross? Okay,
Speaker 1: good throw everything a thousand right now. My dad's favorite
Speaker 1: athlete that I was able to connect him with was
Speaker 1: a Larry Bird B dr J or c Russell Wilson. Hey,
Speaker 1: uh see b B B B dr change. He called
Speaker 1: him dangerous dangerous, not dangerous. It was Dr j very
Speaker 1: good Julius serving one frame Dr Jay's hands. Act, I
Speaker 1: am big hands. Dr Jay's hands from his thumb to
Speaker 1: his pinky or twelve inches one his hands a foot long.
Speaker 1: Speaking of foot long, so is my turkey sandwich I
Speaker 1: left in my rain bag? Hey, now look at the synergy. Also,
Speaker 1: it reminds me of the line from Pretty Woman that
Speaker 1: your foot is as big from your wrist to your elbow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me show you if you guys haven't tried that,
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. Your foot is as big as your
Speaker 1: from your wrist to your elbow. That is so weird
Speaker 1: how that works? Don't you think it's so weird? I
Speaker 1: have a size seven? Yeah you have? Aaron is how tall?
Speaker 1: Your five ten? Right? Yeah? Aaron is five ten and
Speaker 1: has a size seven foot, which is not normal. I
Speaker 1: don't know how she doesn't tip over with those itty
Speaker 1: bitty babies do That's why I hate heels. And she's
Speaker 1: got these tight little hands. One time I tried to
Speaker 1: put on Aaron's shoes and it was like the ugly
Speaker 1: step sisters in Cinderella, and my foot only went in
Speaker 1: like halfway. And I was like, this is not right
Speaker 1: that you're five ten, size seven and baby hands. But
Speaker 1: enough about how perfect you are. Those shoes were like
Speaker 1: my first gift from Jarrett. They were Leubatan flats. Remember
Speaker 1: they were like bright fluorescent with a silver tip. They
Speaker 1: were so uncomfortable anyway, they had the place, but they
Speaker 1: were really cute. Yeah not I sweat like you would
Speaker 1: fog them up. Hey, those are made a comeback. Not
Speaker 1: for these not for these feet. Okay, go okay. The
Speaker 1: boy band member I was and still obsessed with is
Speaker 1: George Michael Jordan Knight or Jonathan Knight. Jordan's Jonathan. You
Speaker 1: know you didn't You just got it wrong. Yeah, you're right. Um.
Speaker 1: The first time I did a live show on the
Speaker 1: road with Best Day, we were supposed to have giant
Speaker 1: posters with each of our pictures on it, but mine
Speaker 1: was a a picture of an adult film actress also
Speaker 1: named Charissa Thompson beat an old head shop from my
Speaker 1: time working in hr or C, got lost in shipping
Speaker 1: and never showed up. Adult film star Hi. I to
Speaker 1: called John Ends, He's got to have that poster around
Speaker 1: here somewhere anyone. Yeah, you got to get that frame
Speaker 1: for your office anytime. Anyone that hasn't heard that story.
Speaker 1: That's a doozy having I mean, that's that's a rough one.
Speaker 1: Having your head shot and having John Sally go. Uh
Speaker 1: so that's the rodeo you hosted. I said, oh my god, No,
Speaker 1: that is not the rodeo I hosted. Um, do you
Speaker 1: have one more question or did I lose? No? I
Speaker 1: have one more, but I think you're gonna lose anything
Speaker 1: else anyways, Yeah, but try to answer this one. My
Speaker 1: first near death experience came earlier this year when what
Speaker 1: oh when you got the chicken sandwich stuck in your throat? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know what, this is what a gamer she is.
Speaker 1: We went back to the scene of the crime and
Speaker 1: she said, give me that chicken sandwich in Montana, but
Speaker 1: I took smaller bites. I love you, Um, I love
Speaker 1: you too, and I cannot wait to watch you. Football
Speaker 1: is here, and to all of our listeners viewers, we
Speaker 1: love you, we love you, we love you. Anything that
Speaker 1: you guys want us to talk about, especially now that
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Speaker 1: stories all that stuff, please let us know on our
Speaker 1: I G account, d M S. I swear we see
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Speaker 1: you want to support us even more or be a
Speaker 1: part of a free giveaway, Calm down pod dot com
Speaker 1: for that, and then go. I want to prediction before
Speaker 1: we get off, because everybody else asked me for him.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I need I need to tell a fanatics
Speaker 1: get your wear boats right here. It's the cutest stuff ever.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get my flannel. You were posting
Speaker 1: the one on the bill. Get it all so cute?
Speaker 1: What were you asking? Prediction for what this season? Everybody
Speaker 1: is like always all the all the press. I'm doing No.
Speaker 1: Everybody's just like, do you have that early prediction for us?
Speaker 1: I just I give them like a couple of things.
Speaker 1: What are the what are your little early season predictions?
Speaker 1: I'll just give you it all. I mean normally I
Speaker 1: don't like to go straight to the Super Bowl. But
Speaker 1: I don't see anyone beating the Chiefs out of the
Speaker 1: a f C. I mean, just take that final four
Speaker 1: bracket and put them right in Indianapolis or wherever the
Speaker 1: final four is this year. I feel like it's always
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. Why is the four's the final four? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Different mixing brackets follow along here we're talking about football.
Speaker 1: I take the chief out of the a f C,
Speaker 1: and I ride all day with the Bucks. Look, I'm
Speaker 1: from Seattle. I love them, but I don't even think
Speaker 1: that they're the best team in their division. I'm taking Bucks, Brady.
Speaker 1: Let's go double down. All the boys back on defense.
Speaker 1: Bucks Chief. Can you imagine if that guy gets eight,
Speaker 1: like he could have eight super Bowls? How about the didn't?
Speaker 1: What did he say? He was like, I've got he
Speaker 1: has two? Oh because he had his wedding rings, so
Speaker 1: he was like, I have two rings left or two
Speaker 1: fingers left for rings? Fucking this guy? God, this guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll be honest, I think And I was
Speaker 1: talking the other night to some people. They were acting,
Speaker 1: I hope, look you you root man. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say I hope. I think we're back NFC Championship. Packers
Speaker 1: box again. I think it's gonna be in Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: this year, but well, color be happy. There's a so
Speaker 1: fun here for two. That sun will come out tomorrow,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We love you all. Aaron
Speaker 1: kick ass. This weekend We'll be watching and I'll say yes,
Speaker 1: Let's send it back to Joe Troy and Eric football here,
Speaker 1: Let's send it back to Joe Troy and Aaron. Oh,
Speaker 1: and Ronaldi. Let's send about to Joe Troy, Aaron and Tom. Tom.
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