Speaker 1: Her hormones are good. I am back, I'm working out.
Speaker 1: I'm really My hormones are good. Her hormones are good.
Speaker 1: And she's going for a lunch meeting. And she's on
Speaker 1: the Kareem Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a
Speaker 1: production of iHeartRadio. Welcome to the Calm Down Podcast. Pregame
Speaker 1: Erin and I just said, because our sweet producer Kurt
Speaker 1: is at the combine, I'm like, how are we already?
Speaker 1: What I thought this season just ended?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: I got a first of all, full disclosure, Hi, how
Speaker 1: are you? I've missed you? And when I see that,
Speaker 1: it's because I haven't talked to her in a week
Speaker 1: and I'm not doing well with it. There's been random
Speaker 1: text messages. She's having an affair with a ranch and
Speaker 1: really pissing me. And he's a great lover. This ranch
Speaker 1: is a great lover. Let me tell you it works
Speaker 1: for you exactly. That seems weird because there's our animals involved,
Speaker 1: but that's not the kind we're talking about. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I disappear up here in the middle of nowhere, and
Speaker 1: it's so great because there really isn't service in a
Speaker 1: lot of places. So it's my built an excuse to
Speaker 1: not get back to people, except there's the list of
Speaker 1: people I want to talk to. It was already the
Speaker 1: small and you're always at the top of it. You
Speaker 1: were gone. I'm coming back into reality in a couple
Speaker 1: of days. But it's it's nice to just disappear for
Speaker 1: a while. You know. We'll talk about all of this
Speaker 1: on the Big Show. I want to talk to you
Speaker 1: about a book I started, and when I say it started,
Speaker 1: it I got through the introduction last night. It's time
Speaker 1: for some help ladies and gentlemen, and I'm all in
Speaker 1: what book? It's a Mel Robbins. We talked about it,
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you and I yes, that's it. Did
Speaker 1: you read it? Yeah, I'm reading it. Oh, this is
Speaker 1: we're the introduction. Yeah, isn't it great? Can we talk
Speaker 1: about it on the Big Show a little bit? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sure anyone that you know in the world of
Speaker 1: Instagram or anything social media, she's everywhere. Mel Robin's self
Speaker 1: help guruage. Her story is incredible. But yeah, I'm glad
Speaker 1: my niece got the tattoo. I was like, whoa, she's committed.
Speaker 1: I'm not going that far. Wow, I know I'm not
Speaker 1: going that far. I already have enough tattoos and another
Speaker 1: in my ear, and maybe I will get that when
Speaker 1: we get back from your lover the ranch. Well, I
Speaker 1: need a hole in my head if I don't get
Speaker 1: back to see you soon enough. Okay, pregame situation. What
Speaker 1: was happening in our lives? We'll discuss, as Aaron said,
Speaker 1: all of that on the Big Show. But we've got
Speaker 1: some questions. I'm pull up him because I am delayed
Speaker 1: in that. Go ahead, Okay, here we go. Mikayla Emerson.
Speaker 1: You two remind me of my best friend and I. Ah.
Speaker 1: We meet on early morning news at our first job. Okay, sorry,
Speaker 1: my reading is shit. We met on early morning news
Speaker 1: at our first job. Nothing bonds you more than putting
Speaker 1: makeup on at four am and craving Chaseburgers by nine am.
Speaker 1: Now we're planning a girl's trip. What's your favorite trip together?
Speaker 1: And any advice that is so cute? I love that.
Speaker 1: I love that too. Favorite trip, I would say it
Speaker 1: would have to be well. I can do anything with Chris.
Speaker 1: I can go to London with a broken heart. I
Speaker 1: can go to the mountains in Montana, or I can
Speaker 1: go to a cabana in Mexico, but it has Here's
Speaker 1: where I am in my life. I just don't want
Speaker 1: to travel because I've traveled so much. I don't want
Speaker 1: to go anywhere. So if I'm going to do a
Speaker 1: trip with her, I want to make sure. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: have some plans, but I need some downtime in comfy
Speaker 1: cozy's a lot of a lot of coffee. Not at
Speaker 1: the same time, and actually yeah, at the same time.
Speaker 1: The Bailey's in the coffee some mornings. That's good, But
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I'm looking at. I like that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be rushed anywhere, agreed, because again,
Speaker 1: to Aaron's point, we could sit anywhere and do anything.
Speaker 1: I think that's also the testament of like a great friendship,
Speaker 1: is that you don't need to do anything to have
Speaker 1: a good time. We can just sit there. And although
Speaker 1: I do really love our Montana trips because that's like
Speaker 1: the perfect combination where we go out, have a little
Speaker 1: night auxiliary cord who's cord fun? But then yeah, I
Speaker 1: really I'm going to put the pressure on us though
Speaker 1: this summer. We have to do something, yeah wherever, I
Speaker 1: don't care if it's actually have news of what we
Speaker 1: may be doing, which is great, fantastic. I love finding
Speaker 1: things out when we finally have a catchup. When people
Speaker 1: ask us, why why do you guys decide to do
Speaker 1: a podcast, I'm like for this because when we haven't
Speaker 1: caught up during the week, then we at least get
Speaker 1: an hour to find out things. Okay, great, that's a take.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you the plus ones will be very
Speaker 1: happy and very busy. Wow. Okay, you got to call
Speaker 1: this morning the call from the bullpen. Put that relief
Speaker 1: picture in. Let's get it out and keep it moving, Mikayla.
Speaker 1: That's also adorable that you guys got to work on
Speaker 1: your first job in morning news. Hi Erin also Aaron
Speaker 1: and I also have an affinity for local news. There's
Speaker 1: going to be a time in our lives. I hope
Speaker 1: it's a retirement community in Florida or somewhere where they
Speaker 1: can roll us out and we can work like a
Speaker 1: couple days a week and the morning news can or
Speaker 1: any time like the evening news. Can you imagine? I
Speaker 1: can't imagine. I think we should have a ten o'clock
Speaker 1: morning show I do on a national network. I do.
Speaker 1: There you go, ladies and gentlemen listening. I do. I
Speaker 1: just I think we should. It'd be great the Plus
Speaker 1: ones could come in for a segment. It'd be a time.
Speaker 1: If I hear any more about the fucking plus one podcast.
Speaker 1: He keeps talking about it, and I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, you're not allowed to talk about it exactly.
Speaker 1: I was like, you don't get to keep talking about
Speaker 1: things you're not actually going to do. Okay, I'm going
Speaker 1: to go to space. I mean, I just bring that
Speaker 1: up every day. I mean, at some point we have
Speaker 1: to have our tickets booked to these events. How your podcast,
Speaker 1: the Michael strayhand story about outer space? Mm hmm. We
Speaker 1: went on a really fun little trip last year and
Speaker 1: got to go see Stray's gorgeous house, yeah, in an
Speaker 1: undisclosed location, and he was giving us the grand tour
Speaker 1: and we were looking at all the art and you
Speaker 1: were so wonderful to be like, hey, Stray, where did
Speaker 1: you find this piece of art? And I thought, wow,
Speaker 1: that's very smart to ask this, And he said, you know,
Speaker 1: when I was in outer space, I talked to this
Speaker 1: guy and we're like, only only effing Strake could go.
Speaker 1: You know when I was in you can't be mad
Speaker 1: at when I was on Mars, I was able to
Speaker 1: find this art curator. You're like I'm saying when I'm
Speaker 1: in Culver City, not outer space. God, what a fucking
Speaker 1: guy that he is? Such a dream. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: We're also doing that trip again. I didn't say anything. Oh,
Speaker 1: and we're writing things down for later. Okay, anonymous friend
Speaker 1: is now dating my ex husband?
Speaker 2: Whoa?
Speaker 1: What kind of frime? Oh my god, Jesus, you still
Speaker 1: are friends on a scale of one to ten, ten
Speaker 1: being the worst. How messed up is this? Well my
Speaker 1: reaction should elicit that it's straight to a tend. What
Speaker 1: happened to girl code? Okay, girlfriend, this is not your
Speaker 1: friend anymore. If she's dating your ex husband. I would
Speaker 1: wish that on my worst enemy, let alone a friend
Speaker 1: to date my ex husband. God, oh my god. It's
Speaker 1: not great. It's not great. It's not great. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite it's not great. Oh that we talk about
Speaker 1: it like a game, so and so with sacks seven times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not great. It's not it's not good, Anonymous, This
Speaker 1: is terrible. And none of my friends would date my
Speaker 1: ex husband, So I know this. Anonymous ain't someone I
Speaker 1: know Hey, Anonymous, if you could get back to us,
Speaker 1: I'm interested to know how good of a friend this was?
Speaker 1: Oh oh my god, I need more information? Yeah sure, yeah. Next,
Speaker 1: Also we got a new category. Oh, multiple people asking
Speaker 1: what happened with Gillian and the guy from Seattle in
Speaker 1: the elevator. It went nowhere because I'll say it, I
Speaker 1: don't think Jillian really wanted was excited about us playing detective.
Speaker 1: So if anybody else wants, I'm excited about that. It died.
Speaker 1: It was da dead on arrival. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of talk and then fizzled, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't know Jillian. I was having this conversation with
Speaker 1: my girlfriend Jen the other night. She came and was
Speaker 1: hanging out with me. And Jen is beautiful, she's fun,
Speaker 1: she's funny, she's all of these things right and not Jen, Jen?
Speaker 1: Not Jen shut up a friend of the podcast, and
Speaker 1: she talked about like how shitty these dating apps are.
Speaker 1: This is a common theme, like it's so hard to
Speaker 1: find some one, and Jen is an easy person to
Speaker 1: set up. And so I said, girl, you just got
Speaker 1: to put yourself out there. Okay, you guys try to
Speaker 1: dare to d M game. You got to do whatever.
Speaker 1: She goes, we're watching the show that Jake Jillen Hall
Speaker 1: was in, which, by the way, is fantastic. Presumed when
Speaker 1: writing it down, Write it down on Apple Jake Jillen
Speaker 1: Hall presumed innocent. Great, Okay, I love a series. I
Speaker 1: don't want to wait that. I thought I heard that
Speaker 1: there's a lot of like flashback of sex scenes, but
Speaker 1: not like grotesque nudity, like not like it's like tasteful like.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: Is there a lot of nudity in that? So anyways,
Speaker 1: so she goes, you know, we're watching this show she
Speaker 1: or her mom had watched it, and her mom's like,
Speaker 1: you know who you should date, Jake Chillenhall. And Jen's like, okay, mom,
Speaker 1: I'll get right on top of that. What do you
Speaker 1: want me to do? How am I supposed to meet
Speaker 1: Jake Jyllen onto him? Is what her mom wants him
Speaker 1: to her to do? Presumed guilty, Oh this is what
Speaker 1: I said. I go, DMM. You know I'm not afraid
Speaker 1: of a dare to DM. So we're sitting there on
Speaker 1: the couch and m Jake jill and Hall, and she goes,
Speaker 1: my mom told me to reach out to you because
Speaker 1: she thinks that you would be she thinks that you
Speaker 1: and I would be great together. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was writing it for her. I was like, let's go.
Speaker 1: I was like, what's the worst that can happen? He
Speaker 1: writes back? He did, this is no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: I said, what's the worst that can happen? He writes back.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're already going into it assuming like he's
Speaker 1: never going to see this, He's never going to write back. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I've had some luck with the old random
Speaker 1: dms on the thing. Now they don't go anywhere, but
Speaker 1: like it's fun to get, you know, the response. So
Speaker 1: I showed her. I said, look, we're going to do
Speaker 1: at least once a week, you have to randomly DM
Speaker 1: somebody that just may seem out of this world. We'll
Speaker 1: bring it back to the space conversation. And I was
Speaker 1: like why not, you know, if anything else, it just
Speaker 1: keeps it exciting. So then of course Steve gets involved.
Speaker 1: Steve's like, has he responded yet? Like thirty seconds later,
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, Steve. I was like, I want
Speaker 1: to be the service up here. It's terrible. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you'll melt Robins do the five seconds like thing five
Speaker 1: four three one blast, damn it exactly. So I don't
Speaker 1: know where this took. Oh back to Jillian is that
Speaker 1: I know she hasn't d Aaron's points. I don't know
Speaker 1: if she wanted that. But anybody that wants us to
Speaker 1: get again need I remind you. We love love we do.
Speaker 1: I still want to officiate a wedding. If anyone out
Speaker 1: there is getting married, well, no, because I'm not getting married.
Speaker 1: We've had this conversation. If anyone wants us to officiate
Speaker 1: a wedding, I think it would be fantastic. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna do it, ladies and gentlemen. No, I was thinking
Speaker 1: of our opening line, are we doing it together? I
Speaker 1: just invited myself. So it's a calm down wedding. What
Speaker 1: do you mean? Yeah, we're what what didn't you hear about?
Speaker 1: We are officiating. If anybody wants us to officiate a wedding.
Speaker 1: That's a big fee though for us to do that,
Speaker 1: because it's going to catch on and you know, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: I will do it for free. If you want to
Speaker 1: pay Aaron, she'll do it. We're not charging people. The
Speaker 1: first one is free. Anything after that is a day rate.
Speaker 1: What do we got? Oh J nine caras? Okay, apologies,
Speaker 1: we're terrible with these names. Is it harder on you
Speaker 1: or your families to integrate back into the day to
Speaker 1: day after football? Well, our plus ones are going to
Speaker 1: start a podcast, and I'm sure they'd love to tell
Speaker 1: you how easy or hard it is. No, I think
Speaker 1: it's both, don't you think. Yeah? I think it's growth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about this on the big show. I
Speaker 1: want to know how re entry is going for you.
Speaker 1: I got a lot going on, I really, but I
Speaker 1: think it's just the week I think. Yeah, hormones are good.
Speaker 1: I am back. I'm working out my hormones. Oh you know,
Speaker 1: it's not that time. I feel happy. I don't feel
Speaker 1: like emotional, So my hormones are okay. Right now, back
Speaker 1: on the peptides. I need to do it, nad Iv.
Speaker 1: I'm really trying to on screen. Yeah no, Yeah, started
Speaker 1: my little ocean right here on the old good Free Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to. I'm going for a meeting, a lunch
Speaker 1: meeting today. Her hormones are good, and she's going for
Speaker 1: a lunch meeting and she's on the cream. The cream,
Speaker 1: by the way, is we're a pre cancer thing.
Speaker 2: Not for an STD. Let's relax the upper lip, that'd
Speaker 2: be an issue. Third and four, Oh oh god, we're
Speaker 2: in the red zone. That's a different kind of red zone.
Speaker 1: Next, we love our anonymous Anonymous, how do you break
Speaker 1: up with a friend her lifestyle is toxic to my
Speaker 1: inner peace? Smell you later. I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: I'm in a real, real dude. Let them. I haven't
Speaker 1: even started a book yet, and I'm saying it, you know,
Speaker 1: let them, Let them. Yeah, I think I mentioned this before.
Speaker 1: I've had to do this. I've been doing inventory for
Speaker 1: the last couple of years of my life, and sometimes
Speaker 1: it's very Yeah. Sometimes, well the cupboards are bare because
Speaker 1: I've been throwing a lot of things out. It's very
Speaker 1: cathartic for me to I actually did this. I cleaned
Speaker 1: out the pantry down there the other day. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love throwing things out. And once I'm on a roll,
Speaker 1: like once I start, it's game on, and the same
Speaker 1: for my life. Things happen in our lives that allow
Speaker 1: or force us to take some inventory, and again, those
Speaker 1: people will weed themselves out anyways. But I would say,
Speaker 1: in this particular case, yeah, you need to do what's
Speaker 1: best for you. And I I'm with Aaron, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of well, I shouldn't say I'm with Aaron. I don't
Speaker 1: know if she's in a selfish stage of her life.
Speaker 1: I'm in a very selfish stage of my life. I'm
Speaker 1: anapaul about doing what I want to do, whether that's
Speaker 1: not going to a dinner because other people are going,
Speaker 1: or canceling plans, or just wanting to be alone, or
Speaker 1: just wanting to hang out with Aaron. Like, I'm okay
Speaker 1: with all that. And if this person is toxic to you,
Speaker 1: why are you going to subject yourself to something that's
Speaker 1: not the best thing for you? And I think there's
Speaker 1: sometimes you work through friendships that are really important. Aaron
Speaker 1: stood buy me through a lot of stuff that she's
Speaker 1: like to use this enough of this, but I say
Speaker 1: it a lot. I would probably still be in a
Speaker 1: bad place if it wasn't for the ultimatum that she
Speaker 1: gave me. So with that said, if this person means
Speaker 1: enough to you, then fight for it and really be
Speaker 1: honest with her about where you're at. But if she's
Speaker 1: kind of a peripheral friend, then just stop texting back
Speaker 1: and stop calling she'll get the message, and if she doesn't,
Speaker 1: well that's on her. I'm in a real moment in
Speaker 1: time Whitney Houston great song where lie you have to
Speaker 1: tolerate some things because other people are around, and I'm just
Speaker 1: not doing it. I'm like, yeah, I'm good. I'm going
Speaker 1: to hang back here. I don't need to go there.
Speaker 1: I'm in because I already know my mood, I know
Speaker 1: my facial expressions, I know the vibe I'm gonna give,
Speaker 1: and it ain't going to be comfortable for anyone. So
Speaker 1: what I'm really happy for the first time in my
Speaker 1: life is not having fomo for what other people are doing.
Speaker 1: I already know I'm not going to be able to
Speaker 1: tolerate it and it's not going to be good for anyone.
Speaker 1: So I have removed myself from a couple of situations
Speaker 1: and I'm really enjoying it. I'm god from the real
Speaker 1: health I've felt lake. I'm trying to read Mel Robbins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: doing skincare I shouldn't be doing. It's great. Do you
Speaker 1: know where What the problem is for me is that
Speaker 1: I'm almost too comfortable with how small the circle is.
Speaker 1: It's like where if you if I'm going to be bad. No, okay,
Speaker 1: because I'm like, oh should I like not isolate so much,
Speaker 1: because you know, you don't want to get to a
Speaker 1: place where you're just like a hermit and then you
Speaker 1: don't want to do anything like I think it's important,
Speaker 1: Like we talk about this, we're proud of ourselves once
Speaker 1: we get out and we go to a dinner date
Speaker 1: with each other. Yeah, you're like, oh, I'm proud of
Speaker 1: us for getting out of the house and scheduling things.
Speaker 1: So I just need to I remember. This reminds me
Speaker 1: of my dad where I was single because I've always
Speaker 1: been relationship dependent. I like being in a relationship. I
Speaker 1: like having a partner, I like having a teammate. And
Speaker 1: there was a time where I was in a little
Speaker 1: bit of a lull and I was just like okay
Speaker 1: with being single, and I said to my dad. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm okay if I'm single forever. And he goes, WHOA,
Speaker 1: relax on that, I'm okay if you're single forever. He's like,
Speaker 1: because then you're going to get too comfortable being single,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna have a really hard time meeting
Speaker 1: someone because you're so set in your own ways that
Speaker 1: you're not willing to like open up space for someone else. Anyways.
Speaker 1: That's a whole ted talk in and of itself on
Speaker 1: relationships that we don't have time for in this free game.
Speaker 1: But I just think that, yeah, I need to just
Speaker 1: balance the isolation versus obligation. I've just ide here, I
Speaker 1: don't have time for I don't have time for sloppiness.
Speaker 1: I work too hard and you're not gonna You're not
Speaker 1: gonna waste my time with sloppiness, and I'm not going
Speaker 1: to tolerate it. I'm good, I'm done playing. I'm obsessed.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I sack. Oh my god, I already know.
Speaker 1: I already know. I've got reasons behind that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: what are your intentions? My god, cruel intentions, as I
Speaker 1: like to say, you're a loser. Anonymous said, okay to you.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, I skipped one, deb deb loje coo. I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry. Deb. Do you have to do hair and
Speaker 1: makeup multiple times before a game or is it just
Speaker 1: once pregame? Good question? Uh, just once for me for pregame.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dominique is my sweet angel that I have
Speaker 1: actually both Box and Amazon, but touch ups for halftime
Speaker 1: and for post game. But yeah, although I will say
Speaker 1: sometimes I do early, not sometimes every week I do
Speaker 1: an early morning draft Kings hit shout out the Crown
Speaker 1: is yours use promo code, Carissa, I do that at
Speaker 1: seven am. I do that early, and I'll do like
Speaker 1: a light hair and makeup, and then our game is
Speaker 1: not until nights, So sometimes I I'll go like work
Speaker 1: out in the afternoon whatever, and then do it again.
Speaker 1: But very rarely. I guess it's the succinctuated that you girl.
Speaker 1: You only do it once before the game and then
Speaker 1: touch ups yeah, yeah, yeah, unless I decide to poposit
Speaker 1: in the third quarter and then we really got to
Speaker 1: do a touch up in the fourth. It's nuts. You're
Speaker 1: You're up? Is that it okay? Anonymous? I don't know
Speaker 1: what this means. Is it okay to use chat GPT
Speaker 1: to help talk to girls? I have no clue what
Speaker 1: that means. Oh okay, well, so it's your AI. It's
Speaker 1: basically like there you type in something into chat GBT
Speaker 1: and they come up with a response for you that's
Speaker 1: like getting funny and whatever. Yeah, like a fake assistant?
Speaker 1: Exactly is this thing on? I can't seem to find
Speaker 1: those pink leather pants, So anonymous is it? Okay? No,
Speaker 1: don't do that, because what's gonna happen is then you
Speaker 1: meet this person in real life where you go on
Speaker 1: a date and they're gonna be like, Wow, you were
Speaker 1: so much better on text because the text wasn't you.
Speaker 1: So I think there's a time and a place for
Speaker 1: chat GBT, Like if you come up with like a
Speaker 1: show idea and you need a summary, like, they're fantastic
Speaker 1: for that. I love those things. Steve uses that shit
Speaker 1: all the time because he'll like, uh, come up with
Speaker 1: different ideas and then you need it chat GBT to
Speaker 1: like round out the edges. But don't do it when
Speaker 1: it comes to correspondence. It feels fraudulent and that's then
Speaker 1: you're gonna give it out pretty quick too, especially if
Speaker 1: you don't words and all of a sudden you're using
Speaker 1: big words like stop. That'd be like me to summarize
Speaker 1: that's not even a big word. Wonder if you wrote
Speaker 1: on an email or a text to summarize this conversation.
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