Speaker 1: I talked about this chicken one of my workout classes.
Speaker 1: She is three rows down and it's still like, oh,
Speaker 1: this class is so hard. Calm down with Erin and
Speaker 1: Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio sitting here with a
Speaker 1: bloated stomach and no eyelashes in a heavy eye. But
Speaker 1: this is my subtle Top Golf. Look, how are you fantastic?
Speaker 1: I came from a lady's luncheon, so that's put that
Speaker 1: back on your sponsored for those of you joining us
Speaker 1: via video, not via Veda, although he's great too. He
Speaker 1: is always the center of attention. Injured though we need
Speaker 1: an update on I don't want to talk about that
Speaker 1: right now. Congratulations fucks on your win. That was a
Speaker 1: good one, but big loss. We are entering week three
Speaker 1: and we are already fired up, exhausted. Now I am
Speaker 1: super excited to be joining you all from Top Golf. Aaron.
Speaker 1: This is, by the way, we might not have messed
Speaker 1: up our first live appearance. Even though we don't have
Speaker 1: a live studio audience here we are doing another pseudo live.
Speaker 1: How close are we to being like as popular as
Speaker 1: New Heights? We're close, so about ninety nine million dollars
Speaker 1: away from being as popular, but either way, welcome to
Speaker 1: the pregame everybody. As always, we appreciate you guys writing,
Speaker 1: and I'm always surprised that, like every single week, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm shocked that I didn't think of that.
Speaker 1: I'm shocked that I didn't think of that, And you
Speaker 1: guys come up with the best question, the best. Thanks you.
Speaker 1: We will start with c Clark seventy seven. Do you
Speaker 1: set goals for the season? Something from last season you
Speaker 1: want to change. I'll start because I loved Aaron your
Speaker 1: vulnerability vote phone o hush hith vulnerability, vulnerability last week.
Speaker 1: I love that you were so open. You were like, hey,
Speaker 1: I wasn't like my best self, I wasn't whatever. And
Speaker 1: I think that at this point in our careers, it's
Speaker 1: so liberating to be like, hey, yeah, no, I didn't
Speaker 1: have it. But like even the athletes that we cover
Speaker 1: that are like, hey, I'm gonna better next week. We
Speaker 1: are coming off the heels of the Sunday night football
Speaker 1: game and listening to Kayleb Williams, who's a rookie. We
Speaker 1: are definitely not rookies in this job, but I loved
Speaker 1: his willingness to be like, hey, I'm going to go back,
Speaker 1: look at the tape and be better and keep getting better.
Speaker 1: You were the same way last year about your Week
Speaker 1: one performance. So as far as setting goals for the season, yeah,
Speaker 1: I said at the beginning of this year that I
Speaker 1: want to be better about my preparation. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm always trying to do the best that i can
Speaker 1: to make sure that we read every article, we know everything,
Speaker 1: paying attention on the field in real time as things happen.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I just think that I don't ever want
Speaker 1: to become complacent. Right. You look at an Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: that's in what you're seventeen. You look at a Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: like these guys that have been in the league for
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen plus years, even they will tell you
Speaker 1: that you've still got to prepare and you know, be
Speaker 1: on top of it. So yeah, my goals for the
Speaker 1: season are just continue to prep but also from a
Speaker 1: female's standpoint, be a better packer. You have taught me
Speaker 1: that I need to be more prepared of going. Well,
Speaker 1: you had your first game, your first Thursday night. I
Speaker 1: did have my first Thursday night game, and as you know,
Speaker 1: I was I packed a leather outfit for it looks
Speaker 1: set humidity and eighty percent temperatures in Miami. But what
Speaker 1: was was I supposed to do at that point? You're
Speaker 1: not going to win. Whatever you do, You're not going
Speaker 1: to do exactly. It looks great. Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: But so having two outfit options were this is the
Speaker 1: trivial part of the preparation for your twenty that we're
Speaker 1: in or whenever we're so. Yeah, just being better about
Speaker 1: being prepared with my luggage and with I don't know
Speaker 1: articles and stuff. You were you prepared? Did you feel
Speaker 1: like you had it all? Because I always feel like
Speaker 1: the first week is really hard. You're like, damn it,
Speaker 1: I forgot the eye drops, I forgot the team. No,
Speaker 1: I felt like I was good. I felt like I
Speaker 1: was good. Mine is the choice of leather, but I
Speaker 1: had now another option and that wouldn't have worked either.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. I also have a rose for those
Speaker 1: of you that are watching So good. I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1: It's great. My goals. I think my goal is always
Speaker 1: kind of the same as last year. Enjoy it because
Speaker 1: it's not going to last forever. Yeah, especially when your
Speaker 1: contract's up. In mine is, so I'll just say contract
Speaker 1: here huge. It's also an election year, it is all
Speaker 1: these things are bad, So contract your election year and yep,
Speaker 1: and what else is happening? No, I just I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm always so panicked leading up, like an hour
Speaker 1: before that I'm trying to like read it all, not
Speaker 1: read it all, but recite some of it, just have
Speaker 1: it in my mind that it's easy, you know, to
Speaker 1: like say, which I'm not doing a good job of
Speaker 1: right now. So I always feel like prep is a
Speaker 1: thing that I'm always trying to be really really good about.
Speaker 1: But I feel the same think that more on the
Speaker 1: Big Show. For those of you that are new to
Speaker 1: the Convent podcast, we always talk about think because you
Speaker 1: guys are wonderful and writing questions that induce bigger conversations
Speaker 1: which we then get into on the Big Show. But
Speaker 1: prep as far as you can have the full report,
Speaker 1: and then things change, unfortunately, very unfortunately for on Thursday
Speaker 1: night to a tongue of Ilo, a very very very
Speaker 1: sad situation and late in the third quarter gets a
Speaker 1: concussion and that's going to obviously change the whole you know,
Speaker 1: dynamic and storylines of the shame and everything else and
Speaker 1: as it should, so just sort of like reacting on
Speaker 1: the fly. So adding this is a cheese. If you
Speaker 1: guys think that the pre game is exciting, wait for
Speaker 1: the big show. We'll get into that later. Next question.
Speaker 1: All right, Old Thornton. Are Mac and Howie best friends?
Speaker 1: Yet we're working on it. I feel like he can't
Speaker 1: force it today, MACKI had a little bit of a
Speaker 1: swim lesson and how he was waiting for him. He
Speaker 1: swims right up and holds onto the edge, and how
Speaker 1: he was there licking him and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: and Macky was But yeah, I mean they're getting there.
Speaker 1: They don't not like each other. It's just I think
Speaker 1: Jarrett and I would like it to be a little
Speaker 1: bit more loving than it is. But at least it's
Speaker 1: not like something where you have to like, yeah, separate
Speaker 1: and then every video or every time I'm on FaceTime
Speaker 1: with you, Howie's favorite position is high chair. Mac drop
Speaker 1: something great. Yeah. Anonymous advice on starting over after divorcing
Speaker 1: my high school sweetheart at forty years old. Anyone that
Speaker 1: is a listener of the Calm Down podcast knows my
Speaker 1: advocation for divorce, not that I want you to fail
Speaker 1: at anything, but I want you to get a step
Speaker 1: closer to happiness. So I understand that obviously, like high
Speaker 1: school sweetheart means that you've clearly been with this person
Speaker 1: for a while, but this is a new chapter. So unfortunately,
Speaker 1: like you'll feel like a failure again, it's redundant, but
Speaker 1: I know this feeling. You'll feel like a failure, but
Speaker 1: in failing, it will get you one step closer to happiness.
Speaker 1: So at forty years old, sister, you've been with this
Speaker 1: person since what you're eighteen years old, so you've had
Speaker 1: thirty two years of the same story and it's obviously
Speaker 1: something that's probably beautiful, right, But now you get to
Speaker 1: live a new life with hopefully somebody else that you
Speaker 1: meet along the way. And even if you don't meet someone,
Speaker 1: even if it's just a new relationship with yourself. I
Speaker 1: was looking at something today and it showed all of
Speaker 1: the success stories after the age of forty. It was
Speaker 1: from I saw that Hoda Yes okay, Quota put it
Speaker 1: on her Instagram again, Love you, Hoda, dear mark this
Speaker 1: for the big show. There is so many accomplishments of
Speaker 1: people like McDonald's KFC Sarah Blakely, like all these people
Speaker 1: that have had so much success, Like we're talking billions
Speaker 1: of dollars of success after the age of forty, So
Speaker 1: that doesn't that's not just attached to monetary success. It
Speaker 1: also can be an emotional success. So I'm very excited
Speaker 1: for you. So look at the positive in a very
Speaker 1: negative situation that you are about to start a new
Speaker 1: chapter in your life. I love that. I love talking
Speaker 1: to Miranda Lambert about all that too. Okay, next one,
Speaker 1: Erica d Primo twenty seven. This is a good question,
Speaker 1: like behind this scene stuff we don't think people are
Speaker 1: interested in, but it's cool. Chris during the Thursday night broadcast,
Speaker 1: where do you and the boys watch the game? Great question, Harika.
Speaker 1: So we always watch the game in a designated green room,
Speaker 1: depends on whatever the stadium is. The stadium and the
Speaker 1: teams are always so great to allocate a certain space for us.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's what you'd expect. It's a television. It's
Speaker 1: a random setup of seating areas. Sometimes it's the couch,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's chairs. There's a couple of makeup setup situation
Speaker 1: for touchups before we go out for pregame and postgame
Speaker 1: and then yeah, we just all sit there and watch
Speaker 1: the game. We have our researcher Rosie, who we love
Speaker 1: with us as well, So as we're watching the game
Speaker 1: and different storylines that happen, producers come in. You know,
Speaker 1: usually the game will dictate the storylines. But halfway through
Speaker 1: the first quarter, especially beginning a second quarter, for tape operations,
Speaker 1: it's really important to sort of understand like, Okay, they're
Speaker 1: able to run the ball a lot, let's cut some
Speaker 1: tape for you know, running backs. The defense they're they're
Speaker 1: pitching a shutout, so good defensive stands. So yeah, So
Speaker 1: it's all sort of communication between what the guys and
Speaker 1: myself see and communicating with the truck so they can
Speaker 1: cut tape for halftime. But yes, TUA goes down and
Speaker 1: what's the conversation in your green room. First of all,
Speaker 1: it's immediately it's shit. It's shit, shit, correct, And it
Speaker 1: immediately brings us back to Week two in Cincinnati from
Speaker 1: two years ago when we were a baby broadcast who
Speaker 1: have literally done one show together, and it's dealing with
Speaker 1: something that is far bigger than football. And I will
Speaker 1: say this unfortunately now been there twice during something like
Speaker 1: this for him two of his four major concussions that
Speaker 1: have been documented, and all that matters in that moment
Speaker 1: is it's about the person and fits. You know, working
Speaker 1: with Ryan Fitzpatrick, who's very close with Tua, we all
Speaker 1: just sort of look at him because of his personal
Speaker 1: relationship with Tua having played in Miami, but just that relationship,
Speaker 1: and you just it doesn't matter who wins and loses.
Speaker 1: It's about the individual. And then, of course, you know,
Speaker 1: knowing his family's there, and Ryan Fitzpatrick actually said it
Speaker 1: best on Thursday night. The Tua that we saw two
Speaker 1: years ago didn't have two children. And now those decisions
Speaker 1: that obviously he's going to have to make will have
Speaker 1: a lot more consideration about, you know, not just his
Speaker 1: aspirations of being an incredible football player, which he already was,
Speaker 1: but just being the father. And Mike McDaniel said it perfectly.
Speaker 1: He is the quarterback of his family. So I know
Speaker 1: we have both separately echoed these sentiments, but without being
Speaker 1: too belaboring of the point. We've covered guys for twenty
Speaker 1: years and football is secondary to the health of the individual,
Speaker 1: and wish him nothing but the best in whatever decision
Speaker 1: he makes. I married a guy that had multiple concussions.
Speaker 1: It's very, very difficult to deal with all that stuff
Speaker 1: and it can go away and you're there. And I
Speaker 1: thought that was such a good point that you guys
Speaker 1: made on the desk. Is Like, I think it was sure.
Speaker 1: You're there when the lights go down, you're there when
Speaker 1: nobody's there, You're there when the trainer passes them off
Speaker 1: to you, and you're like, what do I do when
Speaker 1: there's no blueprint of dealing with that injury? So yeah,
Speaker 1: those things are very hard for me to watch, just
Speaker 1: like everybody else. I thought you posted the photo, the
Speaker 1: photo his head coach kissing him on the head, Well
Speaker 1: just got me. All right, let's turn this party up.
Speaker 1: You next, We've got I like this on Shira s
Speaker 1: And I apologize if I always mispronounced it. I just
Speaker 1: got tickets to see Taylor Swift in New Orleans. Any tips, recommendations,
Speaker 1: or advice, all of them. First of all, congratulations, A
Speaker 1: time will be had Aaron and I, you know whatever.
Speaker 1: It was. Lauren Fenner, who's with us here today, was
Speaker 1: incredible and doing the unenviable task of making friendship bracelets.
Speaker 1: So if you have a good friend that's willing to
Speaker 1: put in the time and effort to do that. I
Speaker 1: highly suggest that you lean into that. But no, bring
Speaker 1: a bunch of friendship bracelets, plan your outfit ahead of time,
Speaker 1: even if it was a last minute adjustment on it.
Speaker 1: Good at it. But I don't know. I just think like,
Speaker 1: soak it up, understand that, like, this is such an
Speaker 1: awesome thing, and when you get there. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people who have went will understand this. Never
Speaker 1: in a million years do you get to go to
Speaker 1: a stadium full of people and everyone's rooting for the
Speaker 1: same person. It is pure joy. It is happiness. And
Speaker 1: there is so much dissension in the world that we
Speaker 1: live in. Even when you're in a stadium now a
Speaker 1: sports stadium, one half the stadium's rooting for one team,
Speaker 1: one's rooting for another. But this is the only time
Speaker 1: you'll go somewhere where everyone's rooting for the same person
Speaker 1: and it's just about being happy. So soak it all up,
Speaker 1: and I wish that I could go again and again again.
Speaker 1: Comfortable shoes for me, I was really really close to
Speaker 1: wearing heels. I was, and I was very concerned about that,
Speaker 1: even though I know you could pull them off. But
Speaker 1: I just needed my sneakers. Apparently I was a soccer
Speaker 1: mom that night. I don't care. Yes, I do it
Speaker 1: still bothers me. I bounced around. It was so much fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come and come with a friend that wants to dance
Speaker 1: with you and not just listen to the choreography the
Speaker 1: words and no, I'm kidding. Actually go with your kind
Speaker 1: of person, one that wants to dance and gyrate on
Speaker 1: each other, or the one that's like, no, I'm here
Speaker 1: for the experience. No, what I will say, And if
Speaker 1: you guys get that reference, it's because I wanted to
Speaker 1: just dance Whitney Houston on the ceiling and with somebody,
Speaker 1: and Aaron was paying attention to the choreography. I would
Speaker 1: say this, You're gonna find your person in that stadium,
Speaker 1: whether it's the person you showed up with or it's
Speaker 1: somebody else. You guys all have a common bond together
Speaker 1: and that's your love of T Swift. Carly Maroda Marada,
Speaker 1: What do you think about? What do you think about
Speaker 1: when formulating postgame questions? Question? I love this. I think
Speaker 1: about a lot of things I have said. I think
Speaker 1: I said this last week in my little Like notebook
Speaker 1: that I keep. I kind of split it up into
Speaker 1: sections what Kevin and what Tom Brady are saying, and
Speaker 1: I kind of tracked the game. And yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I was taught very early in my career, who what, when, where? Why?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Why is that happening? How did you
Speaker 1: deal with it? What was everybody thinking? But then again,
Speaker 1: I listened a lot to what Tom and Kevin are saying,
Speaker 1: and I kind of do my questions off of that.
Speaker 1: I think that's great advice. I didn't get the opportunity
Speaker 1: to take that. I always say, Sororowsky, it's not it
Speaker 1: was a mind ful it is say the pronunciation John
Speaker 1: Swarskski swatsky, yep, I'm rip. He was amazing. I really
Speaker 1: fucked with how I thought in a great way. I
Speaker 1: never took that course because when I got to ESPN,
Speaker 1: I was at the kids table, I was hosting Sports Nation,
Speaker 1: and it was like, you know, telling pirate jokes like
Speaker 1: what's a pirate's favorite movie? R Ago? Like that's the
Speaker 1: shit that I learned, And that does not help me
Speaker 1: in my postgame interviews. But I will say now, I
Speaker 1: feel very fortunate. Fred Goadelli, who is a bazillion time
Speaker 1: Emmy Award winning producer who has produced more Super Bowls
Speaker 1: than I probably even watch, is now a consultant for
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football and me, you and I are the same.
Speaker 1: Immediately after our broadcast on Thursday, I'm like, what did
Speaker 1: I do wrong? What did I do right? All this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and so he's my great resource now
Speaker 1: and about what I could just continue to do better.
Speaker 1: I will say this, doesn't matter how long you've been
Speaker 1: in your respective position, always want to be coached. And
Speaker 1: if you don't have anyone on staff that coaches, you
Speaker 1: just naturally ask for it. Because I'm telling you, the
Speaker 1: minute you stop wanting to be coached or getting advice
Speaker 1: on being better is when you become complacent. And so
Speaker 1: I feel very lucky that he is on our staff
Speaker 1: at Thursday Night. But also, you won't get better if
Speaker 1: you don't continue to grow. Can you guys hear that
Speaker 1: drilling over there? If you can, then no, it's fine.
Speaker 1: Ryan's going like this camera. So I'm not supposed to
Speaker 1: mention that drilling, but I will say this I learned
Speaker 1: from him even in my thirst day. The cardinal sin
Speaker 1: is asking yes and no questions and two questions at one,
Speaker 1: exactly what did you think of that? How did you
Speaker 1: deal with it? Because the athlete will always forget to
Speaker 1: do I just spit on you. The athlete will always
Speaker 1: forget to do the second one. Those are the they'll
Speaker 1: choose what they want to answer. That's literally what he
Speaker 1: wrote back. He goes, you've committed the Cardinals in you've
Speaker 1: asked yes or no questions, and you've asked two questions
Speaker 1: in one. Yeah, and it's like it's so simple. So anyway,
Speaker 1: so that Aaron has to deal with it more than
Speaker 1: I do in that immediate postgame question situation. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I just need to constantly remind myself of things like that,
Speaker 1: don't ask yes or no questions, and don't ask it
Speaker 1: ask multiple questions in one last, but not least, don's
Speaker 1: a three childhood crush John Knight New Kids on the Box.
Speaker 1: There she is no question. Mine was, uh, what's his name?
Speaker 1: Paul Walker rests in peace? Oh my god? Yeah, what
Speaker 1: was that phase? I'm so sad, oh so sad, so sad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I also loved Zach from Saved by the Bell.
Speaker 1: So what I worked with Mario. Everyone's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Slater and I was like loving Mario, but mind Zach. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What was his last name? Mores? Morris? Yeah, Morris? There
Speaker 1: it was all right. More of this interview is no,
Speaker 1: are we doing the anonymous? Are you join me anonymous?
Speaker 1: Hell to the yah? Yeah? Okay, so here we go.
Speaker 1: We have an anonymous follow up, which we love. Anybody
Speaker 1: who has submitted questions anonymously, please follow up with us
Speaker 1: and let us know if our advice sucked or was
Speaker 1: right on the nose. Okay. Original question from a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago. My sister in law is a heavy breather.
Speaker 1: I hate that shit in yoga. She always mattsfy me, good,
Speaker 1: do I say something? We said you should say something.
Speaker 1: CHRISA actually suggested bringing it up in a conversation. But
Speaker 1: use someone else as the scapegoat or as an example
Speaker 1: and see if they catch the hint. Here's the update.
Speaker 1: I use the bringing up someone else as an example trick,
Speaker 1: and her sister called her out. So this bitch breathe
Speaker 1: I love it. Wow. I'm gotta tell you I got
Speaker 1: an update too, not to take it away, but it
Speaker 1: worked like a charm and we deserve a raise. I
Speaker 1: heart hates us already, so we deserve something. No, I'm kidding. No,
Speaker 1: I think they like us. I don't know. I have
Speaker 1: a follow up. I talked about this chicken one of
Speaker 1: my workout classes, the Heavy Breather, but it also sounded
Speaker 1: like she was going through some things or like gave
Speaker 1: us like an insight of what her life was like.
Speaker 1: She's three rows down and it's still like, oh, this
Speaker 1: class is so hard. I'm like, bitch, I just kept
Speaker 1: looking at the people next to her, going feels so
Speaker 1: bad for you, but we're really excited that your message
Speaker 1: was able to be received without having it come from you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If that girl is listening in my gass, knock it off.
Speaker 1: It's so distracting. No one wants to hear it. Just
Speaker 1: count one, two, three, four, pullback and flung chair and
Speaker 1: it's time like this. I'd like to remind you all,
Speaker 1: from those of you watching on video, calm down, whether
Speaker 1: you're in a yoga studio or in life. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: joining you from top Golf. I own need I say.
Speaker 1: They also have something called a sure Thing club, and
Speaker 1: we're a sure thing join us on the big show
Speaker 1: on Thursday. I could tell this girl in my class
Speaker 1: is a sure thing because of what she was doing.
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