Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey, now you know what we said.
Speaker 1: This podcast was about I don't know nine things that
Speaker 1: weren't sports ten percent sports. Well, this is a time
Speaker 1: where it's ten percent sports because it's March. Baby. You
Speaker 1: and I the other night, we're together so much fun.
Speaker 1: We had some marks, We had a lot of mark's.
Speaker 1: We were doing cameos. This one's a beast. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you ever want to call Aaron on cameo, she
Speaker 1: leaves that thing on. She left her cameo call on
Speaker 1: because I'm running to the bathroom. I'll be right back.
Speaker 1: I go, oh my god, what do I do if
Speaker 1: they call? She's like, just wait, I'll be right back.
Speaker 1: I'm like I felt like it was Audrey and Christmas
Speaker 1: vacation where they're like, oh and Dad said, I was
Speaker 1: going to the bathroom. But we were together because we're
Speaker 1: watching the tournament. Aaron, you and I both had teams
Speaker 1: in the tournament. Your team is always in the tournament.
Speaker 1: I went to UCSB go gaut shows, so I'm not
Speaker 1: really there a lot. So I get really excited. I
Speaker 1: ate ship on that bet because they lost to Creton
Speaker 1: in the last minute. You also didn't fare very well.
Speaker 1: What happened to your squad? Well, before we get to
Speaker 1: that upset, let's talk about was that Friday night? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was Friday night. Great night. We we start well, afternoon,
Speaker 1: we started putting on the games. We popped a couple
Speaker 1: of beers and we were like, we're we're gonna make
Speaker 1: this was It was a fun day. It kind of
Speaker 1: felt like the old times, you know. But then it
Speaker 1: all came to a crashing halt when we got home
Speaker 1: and you saw that Syracuse upset. Who did they upset?
Speaker 1: It was? It was like long San Diego State. San
Speaker 1: Diego State. I had in my final four? Why because
Speaker 1: I was willing to take chances, unlike you, who just
Speaker 1: wants the safe bet. I take chances, Aaron. My final
Speaker 1: four is embarrassing if I look at it now. Two
Speaker 1: of my teams are out now, Kansas out because they
Speaker 1: ate ship to USC. But yeah, it wasn't good. I
Speaker 1: was in a real state. So then I just kept
Speaker 1: chugging the cocktails. I'm sitting here looking at the brackets
Speaker 1: as we speak. That's right. And what did you say
Speaker 1: when you got so mad that you had your six
Speaker 1: seed going to the final four. I said, dude, it's
Speaker 1: Jim Beheid. You're not betting against Jim Beheim, and hold
Speaker 1: on because I can't get enough of this story. Buddy Beheim,
Speaker 1: He's done. I mean, I was adorable because when I come,
Speaker 1: when I covered college hoops, he was a nugget. And
Speaker 1: you know, somebody said it Jim Beheim, Yeah, is in
Speaker 1: his seventies, and they said, you know, would Jim Beheim think?
Speaker 1: And twenty years ago he'd still be in his seventies,
Speaker 1: still coaching at Syracuse. And his son Buddy is like,
Speaker 1: you know, like totally leading him down the path here
Speaker 1: in the Tournament's freaking awesome. I love the Loyola story.
Speaker 1: I felt bad for Illinois. Hello big ten? What happened there?
Speaker 1: And then yes, what happened to the Florida Gators. I
Speaker 1: got cocky. I'll be honest, I got cocky. I have
Speaker 1: my superstitions, and I'm sitting here looking at this bracket.
Speaker 1: I was really nervous about the whole thing. Florida has
Speaker 1: been through so much, they have been through so much
Speaker 1: this year. But I started feeling good about it second half,
Speaker 1: felt good, had some of my m my girlfriends over
Speaker 1: who were all in the same bubble. We're being safe.
Speaker 1: And then we went to dinner and next thing I know,
Speaker 1: I looked over and I said, oh my god, they lost.
Speaker 1: And my other girlfriend, Jackie, who loves a good bet situation,
Speaker 1: she looked and said, no, they didn't. They ruined my night,
Speaker 1: ruined my night. I was sad. I feel bad for
Speaker 1: the Gators. But great story for Oral Robert's number fifteen
Speaker 1: up setting a seven seed. This thing has been insane.
Speaker 1: How about this Erond the Sweet sixteen has four teams
Speaker 1: that are double digit seeds. That's awesome. That's what this
Speaker 1: thing is all about. I was sad UCSB. Like I
Speaker 1: had mentioned that, I was excited they were in the
Speaker 1: tournament because while they're not there a lot, and we
Speaker 1: don't have a football team, and we don't really have
Speaker 1: a lot of our soccer team used to be pretty decent.
Speaker 1: But when you get to the tournament and they were
Speaker 1: like panning to like the coach's wife in the stands
Speaker 1: and she's celebrating, and then two seconds left on the
Speaker 1: clock and they end up losing to Crayton. But anyways,
Speaker 1: Cinderella stories, you've got Liola Chicago in there. Um you've
Speaker 1: got Oregon State in there. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: those stories. But this is where I. This is where
Speaker 1: I again. When you as a gambler, if you lose money,
Speaker 1: because I told you, scared money, don't make money. If
Speaker 1: you get down, you've got to start chasing. Now again,
Speaker 1: if you have what does what does that mean? Call
Speaker 1: a one eight number. I am not here to give disclaimers.
Speaker 1: Don't spend money you don't have. That's another one of
Speaker 1: my rules. You start chasing, meaning like you know that
Speaker 1: you're in the red, so you like double down on things.
Speaker 1: So for me, I'm now going is what I'm looking at.
Speaker 1: You're looking at brackets. I'm looking at spread sister. This
Speaker 1: is the difference between you and I. So Gonzaga easy
Speaker 1: money against Crateon because there are a double digit favorite,
Speaker 1: meaning that they're gonna win by ten plus points or
Speaker 1: more according to Vegas odds makers. Also Arkansas and Oral Roberts.
Speaker 1: That's the only two games that have a double digit spread.
Speaker 1: All the other games are six and a half points
Speaker 1: or less. What does that mean? It means that your
Speaker 1: team has to win by at least seven point I
Speaker 1: lost you I lost you. I lost her. It's too
Speaker 1: many numbers. It blows my find how Joe blow off
Speaker 1: this street can handle all that information. I'm pretty good
Speaker 1: with numbers, but like I think I'm I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm that dumb. But there's a lot of people it's
Speaker 1: not it's no, it's not even hard. All you're saying
Speaker 1: is whatever team has the negative six and a half
Speaker 1: is the better team, so they have to give up
Speaker 1: six and a half points to make it even. Everyone
Speaker 1: has to start six and a half. Well, it just
Speaker 1: depends on how good the team is. That's why I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like if you okay, for example, like if you and
Speaker 1: I were going to gamble, I would say, put your
Speaker 1: money on Gonzaga. You're not gonna make as much money
Speaker 1: because they're a greater favorite against Creighton. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: For those of you that do like gambling, go ahead
Speaker 1: and just request me on cameo and we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1: He girl, I got you. I just can tell you
Speaker 1: who I think is gonna win or lose. Why don't
Speaker 1: they have something like that. It's like that game in
Speaker 1: Vegas where I can go red or black. You can
Speaker 1: do that. You can gamble like that. You don't have
Speaker 1: to bet on the spread. I'll teach you how to
Speaker 1: do that. Next time we're together. We'll get our cameos
Speaker 1: live from the bathroom, from the kitchen, wherever we are.
Speaker 1: We do not discriminate, and we will teach the viewers
Speaker 1: at home how to gamble with you as our subject. Okay,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, settle in, because this is a day
Speaker 1: that Aaron Andrews has waited thirty what eight years for?
Speaker 1: I'm so bad at math. Carry the one? Well, that
Speaker 1: would mean you were twelve, So I think that right,
Speaker 1: we know you forty two? Ah right? God? Yeah whatever
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's forty three makes it look good. Anyways, you've
Speaker 1: waited a long time for this day. Because, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: Aaron gets to interview her adolescent crush, Jonathan Knight. Do
Speaker 1: do step five? Don't you know that the time has arrived?
Speaker 1: Full disclosure. I was an instinct gal. I'm a few
Speaker 1: years behind you, but it doesn't mean that I don't
Speaker 1: have love and respect for new kids on the block.
Speaker 1: I know that you also had what like the bet,
Speaker 1: you had the comforter and the pillows. It was a
Speaker 1: whole thing. And like those a Jane jacket and buttons. Please,
Speaker 1: for those listening that aren't as familiar with New Kids,
Speaker 1: can you please explain what this whole deal was about
Speaker 1: and why was New Kids such a big deal. I
Speaker 1: don't know. They were just my I mean, I like
Speaker 1: the Monkeys because they were on Nickelodeon The Monkeys. Hey, Hey,
Speaker 1: Davy Jones so cute? On was he on the drums?
Speaker 1: I don't remember. Remind me to tell you after you're
Speaker 1: done with this, a story about the Monkey's. I love that.
Speaker 1: Um so no, they just I mean they exploded on
Speaker 1: the scene. And then eighties and the nineties and that
Speaker 1: was my time, and I love them. My sister was
Speaker 1: a Donnie fan. I always loved John and I had
Speaker 1: every Big Bopper magazine, every Star Beat, Tiger Beat. My
Speaker 1: walls were a mess. There was that moment where they
Speaker 1: said he was dating Tiffany. I was heartbroken. I was like,
Speaker 1: he starts dating Debbie Gibson, I'm gonna lose my mind.
Speaker 1: But I just loved them. And then, um, I got
Speaker 1: to go to my first concert. I think I was
Speaker 1: in sixth grade, seventh grade. Um My mom was a
Speaker 1: dream and allowed us to go my dad didn't go
Speaker 1: that night. He probably enjoyed the off night, but Kendra
Speaker 1: and I went. We made huge glitter signs I love John, Donnie,
Speaker 1: I love you like things like that. What was it
Speaker 1: about John? What was you know? Handsome? Yes? He wasn't
Speaker 1: really like I mean, you know, the two the three
Speaker 1: stars were kind of like Donnie his brother, Jordan's and
Speaker 1: Joey and John. I don't know. I just I loved him.
Speaker 1: I loved him and he was so cute and a
Speaker 1: dog named Nko and uh yeah, and his favorite color
Speaker 1: was blue. I don't remember, well, it seems like that's
Speaker 1: the only thing you don't remember about him. So you
Speaker 1: loved him. I was obsessed. Yeah, it was a good time.
Speaker 1: But I used to look at our vacation videos, like
Speaker 1: the VHS tapes where my dad was taking and like
Speaker 1: I would just ruin the whole vacation because I would
Speaker 1: just be like, are you gonna let me go to
Speaker 1: the new because just or no, like it was just
Speaker 1: an asshole. So, um, yes, today is a big day.
Speaker 1: I have talked about him publicly before and um, you know,
Speaker 1: like there's been a random betweet there by me or
Speaker 1: by him, But this is the first time we have spoken,
Speaker 1: and I am losing my mind. I'm so, how are
Speaker 1: you feeling right now? I know that you were just
Speaker 1: talking to your other girls, Megan and your sister and
Speaker 1: all the girls that like share this same enthusiasm, which
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I mean not, of course, I like new
Speaker 1: kids on the bluff. I don't have the same enthusiasm
Speaker 1: that you do. So I feel bad. But what is
Speaker 1: this emotion that you're feeling right now? It's probably how
Speaker 1: most people feel before an interview with Tom Brady, or
Speaker 1: if they ever got a chance to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I literally it's like a tight chest situation.
Speaker 1: My face feels hot. My husband came over before this
Speaker 1: to just see how I was, you know, doing um,
Speaker 1: and you know he doesn't get it. So my girlfriend said,
Speaker 1: just pretend it's Shani Twain Jarrett like get it, you know,
Speaker 1: go with the flow here. But yeah, I just I
Speaker 1: think it's like, honestly, it's like me sitting down with
Speaker 1: Larry Bird, or me sitting down with anyone that I
Speaker 1: cheered for as a kid. Brett Farve, like this is
Speaker 1: my childhood, this is what I remember. This was like
Speaker 1: my happiness. I used to literally, this is embarrassing. Get
Speaker 1: in fights with my dad that New Kids were way
Speaker 1: better than the Beatles, and he doesn't know what he's
Speaker 1: talking about because my dad was obsessed with the Beatles.
Speaker 1: I was an idiot. But I mean it was a fun,
Speaker 1: fun time for my sister and myself. My very first
Speaker 1: dance recital routine and jazz was to the right stuff
Speaker 1: as a dancer. How many of the Kendra your sister
Speaker 1: is also a dancer? Do you know all the dancer?
Speaker 1: I mean it looks like you from the waist up
Speaker 1: you still got it? Yeah, hanging tough. Well thanks, the
Speaker 1: waist down is always you know my thought stupid stand
Speaker 1: up and give us a little something. Now for those
Speaker 1: of you at YouTube on YouTube bonus coverage, well I'm
Speaker 1: excited for you. What were you so you were in sync?
Speaker 1: Were you a Justin? A j C? Was all Justin
Speaker 1: all day? So? I mean, given that you guys have
Speaker 1: a very close relationship your how, I'm how you are
Speaker 1: going to be with Jonathan? I thought I would be
Speaker 1: with Justin? Did everyone follow along on a diorama? What
Speaker 1: have you? Mat? J T? I have? But like in
Speaker 1: a very like peripheral way, it was like a group
Speaker 1: of you know, one of those where he would never
Speaker 1: remember me. But yeah, that's how I would feel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: big in Sync fan. I went to an InSync concert
Speaker 1: with my girlfriend Annie Brady and Alison Waite and we
Speaker 1: drove down to Tacoma, which was like two and a
Speaker 1: half hours away from Seattle, and we may or may
Speaker 1: not have been under age drinking, so then we had
Speaker 1: to spend the night responsible because we are in Annie
Speaker 1: Brady's red jeep in the back of the jeep, and
Speaker 1: then our parents were all upset and then knew we
Speaker 1: were drinking, but then said you made a good choice.
Speaker 1: And all of that was because we were really excited
Speaker 1: to see in sync. Favorite in Sync song, I mean,
Speaker 1: bye bye bye. It was just like like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it still works. But my first ever was so New Kids.
Speaker 1: Was your first concert? Right? Yes? Yes? My first consert
Speaker 1: was Brooks and Done. Oh good, wait for it. Guess
Speaker 1: who opened for them? This is how I'm dating myself now.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. Faith Hill Faith Shut Up was
Speaker 1: the opening act for Brooks and Done. I went with
Speaker 1: my friend Katie Cooper, and I was so excited I
Speaker 1: got to go to a concert. But yeah, so I
Speaker 1: must have been just starting on the scene right first. Um,
Speaker 1: hold on, it was not this kiss dan in and
Speaker 1: break it. Bring another little piece of God. She was great. Baith,
Speaker 1: please come on the podcast We Die for You and
Speaker 1: I now I want to sing the whole song. Oh God,
Speaker 1: she's so hot, so hot. So that's a great concert.
Speaker 1: Who'd you go with? My friend Katie Cooper? And um,
Speaker 1: why I'm having like I'm going down memory lane with
Speaker 1: that whole thing is because like that's right when she
Speaker 1: was getting together with Tim and that became a thing
Speaker 1: and do what a couple. So my love for Faith Hill,
Speaker 1: justin Timberlake, Julia Roberts, those are all the same people that,
Speaker 1: like I, I can try to understand your emotion right now,
Speaker 1: So big day for you. Huge going to interview Jonathan Knight.
Speaker 1: We're also going to interview his wonderful co host. Her
Speaker 1: name's Christina Kreston. She is an interior designer and on
Speaker 1: the show with him that he's now on, which is
Speaker 1: called Farmhouse Fixer. If you guys haven't seen it, it's
Speaker 1: adorable and it's on h G TV. Talk about you know,
Speaker 1: the multiple lives of Jonathan Knight. He now is redoing
Speaker 1: old farmhouses. So it's super cool. As someone, of course
Speaker 1: who has an affinity for design, I can't wait to
Speaker 1: talk to them about those things and for you just
Speaker 1: to see you happy. I know, I love the show.
Speaker 1: I was watching it and it was kind of an
Speaker 1: interesting thing, you know, my first crush and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to watch it. And I watched it one night where
Speaker 1: jaredt was gone. It's not like I felt like I
Speaker 1: was cheating on him or anything, but like he was
Speaker 1: working a game and I was like, this is my
Speaker 1: time to go back to my sixth seventh grade self
Speaker 1: and watch this farmhouse Fixer with Jonathan and Christina and
Speaker 1: be by myself with Howie and all that. So he
Speaker 1: came home and the new episode was out the other
Speaker 1: day and I was watching it and he walked in
Speaker 1: the door and he was asking me all these questions.
Speaker 1: He's like, is this your new kids guy? I'm I
Speaker 1: guess this is him. The crush is sorry he does.
Speaker 1: And that's why I feel like he was trying to
Speaker 1: get on my last nerve because he was asking me
Speaker 1: all these questions. He's like, well, wehn's the interview? And
Speaker 1: I said, well, what was this date? But then it
Speaker 1: got you know, moved over this date what And I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm not sorry to be rude, but would
Speaker 1: you like me to go upstairs because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: watch this and I'm trying to finish this and you're
Speaker 1: asking me a lot of questions and he's like sorry,
Speaker 1: And I just felt like I was trying to have
Speaker 1: a minute, you know, with the childhood crush, you get
Speaker 1: my whole life, Take my whole life too. Isn't that
Speaker 1: a faith Hill song? Somebody's song? You get the rest
Speaker 1: of your life with me? Can't you give me two
Speaker 1: hours to watch two episodes of Farmhouse Fixer? Is it
Speaker 1: too much to ask? Jared? It's all like what he
Speaker 1: gave it to me. He was very excited for tonight,
Speaker 1: very excited. He's so cute. I know that he was
Speaker 1: just calling you to make sure you were okay before this. Oh. Look,
Speaker 1: as somebody who makes a living interviewing people, you and
Speaker 1: I I can really appreciate that this is like nerve
Speaker 1: wracking for you. And I bet you that makes a
Speaker 1: lot of people listening feel better too, knowing that you
Speaker 1: still get nervous to interview people. So I'm very excited
Speaker 1: you're the one that actually made this happen by sliding
Speaker 1: into d MS that used to be my move. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just kidding, Like, can we get to it? I'm ready.
Speaker 1: Can we go talk to him now? Without further ado,
Speaker 1: get the opening act us off the stage. The main
Speaker 1: event is here, Jonathan Knight and Christina Creston coming up
Speaker 1: right after this, Aaron, go to the bathroom. Listen to everybody.
Speaker 1: If you want to take a chance, just get on
Speaker 1: the floor and do the New Kids dance. Welcome back, Everybody.
Speaker 1: Is the moment that Aaron has waited for her entire life.
Speaker 1: It is a pleasure to be joined now with Jonathan.
Speaker 1: Call him whatever you want, John Knights, he says, uh
Speaker 1: and Christina Kreston the stars of course of Farmhouse Fixer.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing my overalls. Aaron is. This might be the
Speaker 1: first time I've heard Aaron not say much because she's
Speaker 1: so nervous to be talking to you both. Aaron, So
Speaker 1: in your show Farmhouse Fixer, which I die for. By
Speaker 1: the way, guys, John, you know when you were getting
Speaker 1: ready to paint the fireplace, the brick fireplace, or when
Speaker 1: Christina recommended you paint the stairwell and you thought you
Speaker 1: were gonna cry or crap your pants or freak out
Speaker 1: like this is this is me right now. I was
Speaker 1: watching you do this and I was like, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be me, This is gonna be me on the podcast. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm losing my mind. Thank you so much. I know
Speaker 1: that we've kind of talked over Twitter, Instagram when I've
Speaker 1: dropped hints on Dancing with the Stars that you know,
Speaker 1: New Kids was my life growing up and you were
Speaker 1: my favorite. So yeah, I'm freaking out. Thank you guys
Speaker 1: for making this wish come true. Christina, what was your
Speaker 1: reaction when you found out you were going to do
Speaker 1: a show with the Jonathan I we'll just talk about
Speaker 1: you like you aren't here, John Yeah, Sky Jonathan uh So. One,
Speaker 1: it was my first concert when I was twelve, so
Speaker 1: we'll just like couch this with like a yeah. My
Speaker 1: grandfather pulled some favors to get the tickets too, so
Speaker 1: it was like a really big deal. But we met
Speaker 1: over an architecture project of pits when I was a
Speaker 1: fresh out of college designer, so like we've known each
Speaker 1: other for years at this point, so this this isn't new.
Speaker 1: But when he propped up being like, there's the show,
Speaker 1: there's this thing. I'm like, Okay, I love it, Jonathan. Um,
Speaker 1: you know Aaron's reaction, Christina's reaction, mine is one of
Speaker 1: many that you get. Um. So I can't wait to
Speaker 1: get into some of the stories of fandom. I'm a
Speaker 1: huge fan as an aspiring designer of you Christina and
Speaker 1: you Jonathan as well. This show is incredible for so
Speaker 1: many reasons. First of all, doing a little bit more
Speaker 1: research on you, Jonathan, aside from the obvious new kids
Speaker 1: on the Block thing. Uh, that whole thing squashed my
Speaker 1: childhood caress. I went to an INSTNC concert before I
Speaker 1: went to a new stom So you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that we're an equal opportunity band employer over here. Um.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to see get from you sort of
Speaker 1: when you knew that this is something that you wanted
Speaker 1: to do. To take an architecture class right at some point? No,
Speaker 1: I mean I went to art school, the Trotter, actually
Speaker 1: all the new kids it was. It was an art school.
Speaker 1: But I think my love of it really just came
Speaker 1: from growing up in a really historic neighborhood. My dad
Speaker 1: was a contractor. My mother she loves old houses and
Speaker 1: my mom would put me in the car and we
Speaker 1: would just drive around the neighborhood looking at like all
Speaker 1: these cool old houses. And it started at a really
Speaker 1: really young aide. And actually it's funny because last night
Speaker 1: me and my brother, my mother just dropped off all
Speaker 1: our childhood stuff. So we're going through it and a
Speaker 1: lot of the drawings and a lot of like the
Speaker 1: poems and stuff I did as kids. It referenced farms, tractors,
Speaker 1: all this stuff. And you know, we had a we
Speaker 1: had a really big lot in my hometown of Georchester,
Speaker 1: and we had a barn out back. So at twelve
Speaker 1: years old, we had goats, we had chickens, pigeons, uh,
Speaker 1: and even a pony and we kept it just tied
Speaker 1: up to a tree on the front yard. My love
Speaker 1: of old houses and farming started at at a very
Speaker 1: young age. You in my dream life, a pony in
Speaker 1: the front yard attached to a drink. Yeah, he's sitting
Speaker 1: there telling stories about his childhood. And I'm sitting here
Speaker 1: going uh huh huh. I read that in The Big Bopper,
Speaker 1: I read that in Star Beat. I mean, I feel
Speaker 1: like I know your entire family. Um with the fan
Speaker 1: girling that's going on in And I was over your
Speaker 1: show too. It was great. I was even texting some
Speaker 1: of my girlfriends about your show. Who's crazier the Christina
Speaker 1: and the Aaron Andrews of the world at in their
Speaker 1: forties of the fans or were we crazier back in
Speaker 1: the day in the eighties and nineties questions? Thank you? No, Definitely,
Speaker 1: everybody's grown up. And um, I mean actually, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: when we were kids, we couldn't go outside. We couldn't
Speaker 1: you know. When I used to leave my house, my brother,
Speaker 1: my older brother would put me in the trunk of
Speaker 1: the car and dropped me off at my friend's house
Speaker 1: just so people wouldn't follow us. Yeah. So I mean
Speaker 1: I think now that we're all in our forties and
Speaker 1: me almost fixed three. Wow, Uh look great. What is
Speaker 1: your night cream? Because it's working? Um, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just it's so nice now just to be able to,
Speaker 1: you know, associate with fans and and really have accomverished
Speaker 1: station and not just happen. You know. I want to
Speaker 1: ask you, can you imagine the fandom obviously that you
Speaker 1: went through, um, you know, coming up through this business.
Speaker 1: But there wasn't social media. There wasn't any of that. Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I imagine that you have to sympathize to
Speaker 1: a certain degree with celebrities in this day and age.
Speaker 1: Kid stars would never want to grow up as a
Speaker 1: celebrity in this age. I mean, I know the stuff
Speaker 1: that we were doing behind the scenes that new kids
Speaker 1: fans didn't know. Okay, come on, John, we're in our forties. Now,
Speaker 1: let's go do a sliver un Good for you, though,
Speaker 1: you know what, Good for you for doing it all.
Speaker 1: Good for you. Maintain that that that that image, Yeah,
Speaker 1: good for you, keeping a fairy tale in the back.
Speaker 1: Christiana and I are doing the opposite. We're just obliterating
Speaker 1: any sort of image we had in people's minds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just your kids. Young stars today, they can't go
Speaker 1: anywhere without being filmed, are caught being called out on stuff.
Speaker 1: And you know, we were eighteen seventeen whatever. We were
Speaker 1: doing no different things than any seventeen or eighteen year
Speaker 1: old was doing. So you know, it's kind of it's
Speaker 1: kind of sad that kids now have to live under
Speaker 1: an even greater microscope. Yeah, Christina, do you after you're
Speaker 1: done like ripping out beams and flooring with this guy.
Speaker 1: Do you guys toss back a couple of cocktails and
Speaker 1: you're like, come on, just give me some juicy right now.
Speaker 1: I love of you. Are you having a cocktail because
Speaker 1: I'm about to get up and get one. If you are,
Speaker 1: I'll share some show there. Um. I don't know what's coming,
Speaker 1: but I love a drive rose um fighter right now
Speaker 1: feeling him more, Christina, I loved her before she said that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we've we've had some moments like you know, after filming. Um,
Speaker 1: then we had a little downtime. We have a few
Speaker 1: glasses of wine and start filming again, and god, we
Speaker 1: have the best scene and we were so much fun.
Speaker 1: There might have been a bogatonic invault beforehand. People. We
Speaker 1: had a blast and they cut that scene of like
Speaker 1: gipsy like it was one drink. But it was a long,
Speaker 1: humid day. We were exhausted. We had fun. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say we sparkled on camera, but maybe not. I love that.
Speaker 1: I'm all for this. Slight perspiration on the brow never
Speaker 1: hurt anybody, you guys, so Aaron alluded to it. You know,
Speaker 1: you're John, You're all about keeping the integrity of the farmhouse,
Speaker 1: the infamous staircase. Um. I love what you did with
Speaker 1: the cow bells, you know, and god to what that
Speaker 1: farmhouse used to be. So how do you guys work
Speaker 1: you know together in that where it's like you want
Speaker 1: to keep the integrity, but obviously, Christina, you want to
Speaker 1: bring in more of a modern design. You guys seem
Speaker 1: like you have a great relationship on and off camera.
Speaker 1: Um so how does that work? I feel like the
Speaker 1: last stair staircase is gonna go down and in for
Speaker 1: me about like the grand which it really was a
Speaker 1: grand debate, Like I think I told you for the
Speaker 1: first time about I wanted to spand it blue literally
Speaker 1: on camera, So that was a candid moment. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I already picked blue, but for camera had to be
Speaker 1: like I'm thinking blue. Um. I just I love how
Speaker 1: they focused on that and made it dramatic. Yeah. We
Speaker 1: you know when she was fresh out of college, I
Speaker 1: think I was thirty, she was twenty, um, and we
Speaker 1: started working on my house like eight houses ago, and
Speaker 1: she rolled up to my house and this pickup truck.
Speaker 1: You know, Christina's five, I'm sixty inches. Okay. I love that.
Speaker 1: That's adorable. So you're running back. You're almost there. So
Speaker 1: she jumped out of this big pickup truck and just
Speaker 1: was this ball of energy and was was not afraid to, um,
Speaker 1: you know, create these ideas that I wanted in my house.
Speaker 1: Like she didn't look at me. I was crazy. She
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, I'll figure it out. So you want
Speaker 1: ebony floors that are glossy shot, So you guys go
Speaker 1: back a long ways. Then we're trying to figure this out.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Yeah, I think just about as long as
Speaker 1: I go back with my husband. Both relationships seemed to
Speaker 1: be thriving, thriving at his house too, but he was
Speaker 1: not my husband then, right. So I will also commend
Speaker 1: my wonderful co host and great friend Aaron is really
Speaker 1: holding back all the questions she really has for you.
Speaker 1: She's trying to be professional, but come on, here's your chance.
Speaker 1: She's been waiting. By the way, you should see the
Speaker 1: text chain that we have with our wonderful producer and
Speaker 1: all of our guys on this podcast. She was like
Speaker 1: losing her mind when we were about to come on,
Speaker 1: like a Tom Brady moment for me. Sorry, TV, you
Speaker 1: know I love you, but I mean, I just said,
Speaker 1: you guys think I get nervous with Tom, like I'm
Speaker 1: losing it. Look, I was trying to find a way
Speaker 1: to weave in my last question that I had about
Speaker 1: new kids. I mean, I have seven housand, but this
Speaker 1: is the only one I had. Um, I can't I
Speaker 1: can't even decorate a console for the life of me.
Speaker 1: And now I'll transition to this one. Um. Just you
Speaker 1: guys talked about social media and that they're what you know,
Speaker 1: you don't get d m s or the tweets and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, even though I did DM you. My
Speaker 1: husband knows. What was it like back in the day
Speaker 1: getting the girls backstage? Was it really what I dreamt
Speaker 1: about in you know, seventh grade when my mom took
Speaker 1: me and we were in eleventh throw and I had
Speaker 1: a poster for you. Was it like biscuit sees you
Speaker 1: and points at you and brings you backstage? Or like,
Speaker 1: how did it go down? Because Charissa and I know
Speaker 1: how you know people do it now with the old
Speaker 1: d m s and the tweets and all that business,
Speaker 1: But come on, how did chicks get backstage? A lot
Speaker 1: of it was, um, like radio contest winners or I
Speaker 1: tried whoever somebody yeah, just said I tried. Did you
Speaker 1: probably would? But Aaron, the good thing is now you
Speaker 1: have all access backstage anytime you want. Now you have
Speaker 1: my information and you can. I did, but I did
Speaker 1: coming to the concert tonight with eight of my girlfriends.
Speaker 1: So side note, Christina. I slipped into his d M s.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I knew your show was on.
Speaker 1: I follow you on Instagram obviously, you know through Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars. We've talked and so forth, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I want to see if he can come on.
Speaker 1: So I just said to Chris and my husband, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna send a d M. Like I'm gonna do what
Speaker 1: these crazy broads do, Like I'm sending it. You were
Speaker 1: so lovely fan girl. You wrote back. My sister, who
Speaker 1: was a donny girl died and I was like, I
Speaker 1: can't write him back right away, like it's been five days.
Speaker 1: And she's like, this isn't like how to lose a guy,
Speaker 1: like come on, you got him, And I'm like, no, Carissa,
Speaker 1: this is like when you had the opportunity to interview
Speaker 1: Larry Bird and Michael Jordan at the same time and
Speaker 1: you didn't. I couldn't d or text or email John
Speaker 1: right away. I needed a minute. She did, she needed
Speaker 1: a lot of minutes. Um. But that's the reaction that
Speaker 1: you get from a lot of people. Um. When you
Speaker 1: look back again, I think you said maybe I was
Speaker 1: reading the wrong architect will Digest article, But I thought
Speaker 1: it was around you said like age that you were like,
Speaker 1: all right, what am I? What am I gonna do next?
Speaker 1: And you mentioned like you've always had a love uh
Speaker 1: you know, from your childhood and the pony in the
Speaker 1: front yard. But when what was that turning point then
Speaker 1: for you? Because watching this show and as someone who
Speaker 1: aspires to be what Christina is, you can't just go
Speaker 1: in and understand the workings of a house and the
Speaker 1: structural engineering and what when you rip up that floor
Speaker 1: if you find a well what that's going to mean?
Speaker 1: You mentioned your dad was a contractor. But when did
Speaker 1: this really become like a trade for you? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: it started first of all because I lost the job.
Speaker 1: It was no longer with new kids. I was freaking out,
Speaker 1: not knowing like what is my next move? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: just felt really washed up and just you know it,
Speaker 1: you weren't that it was a bad time. So I
Speaker 1: just you know, spent a couple of months in bed,
Speaker 1: cried a lot, and you know, k of ship down
Speaker 1: and was like what am I gonna do with my life? Trying? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was it was a friend of mine asked me
Speaker 1: to flip a house and I was like, flip flip
Speaker 1: a house? Like I thought we were gonna go Robb
Speaker 1: the joint or like. So he asked me to come
Speaker 1: flip a house with him, and I started it and
Speaker 1: loved it, and um, you know, always had that passion
Speaker 1: and you know, it takes a team of people. I
Speaker 1: there's you know, you were talking about engineering and this
Speaker 1: one right here has been like the best work partner
Speaker 1: ever because the design she comes up with and we
Speaker 1: have such similar taste that I love just letting her
Speaker 1: run with it and she not telling me. So when
Speaker 1: I walk into the properties a lot of the times,
Speaker 1: I'm like the homeowner and I'm just like, he walks
Speaker 1: in is really what I'm waiting versus the reveal, Like
Speaker 1: I just wait, I'm like, he's gonna cry. He's gonna
Speaker 1: cry after you've accessarized it and everything, Christina, that's when
Speaker 1: he gets emotional or what? Yeah, because I mean we
Speaker 1: you know, obviously we're seeing it when it's empty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like there's obviously you know, some things are not like TV.
Speaker 1: There's an entire team that has to like pull that together.
Speaker 1: And he pops in that day and it's always like
Speaker 1: it stops and they're like, wait for it, wait for
Speaker 1: he just walks around all quiet. It makes my heart.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm gone, I don't need the homeowners. So
Speaker 1: are the nerves greater the day before the big reveal
Speaker 1: or the nerves like on stage? Like how do you
Speaker 1: compare the nerves because again you're beholden to the homeowners too.
Speaker 1: You want to make sure that they love it. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean I think the homeowners thing is way more
Speaker 1: nerve wracking. We are always at the front door, like
Speaker 1: peeking out. We're like, what are they gonna think? What
Speaker 1: are they gonna think? Yeah, more nerve wracking than being
Speaker 1: on stage. Yes, because we have the show all planned
Speaker 1: out rear. We do um you know, we we do
Speaker 1: dress rehearsals, so yeah, we know if it's good or
Speaker 1: if it's bad, if it needs a tweak. Where the
Speaker 1: homeowners we don't know what They walk on the car
Speaker 1: and you're like oh, they were not expecting a house episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's coming, we promised. I saw the one with the
Speaker 1: they were at the farmer's market. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: Upgraded my Hulu subscription so I could try to watch
Speaker 1: all of them. Only two were available. Um, but that's
Speaker 1: what I was going to ask. Is there anything? And
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to rat anybody's house out, but I
Speaker 1: saw the one where there was a well underneath and
Speaker 1: you know, you were showing like the crack um in
Speaker 1: some sort of foundation. I'm so ignorant right now talking
Speaker 1: about this. What are we missing? What's the worst? And
Speaker 1: it may not even be for Farmhouse Fixer? Is there
Speaker 1: something that you guys have walked into and been like,
Speaker 1: oh boy, the foundation one where we had to take
Speaker 1: the whole connector down, I didn't think so, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's pretty up, Like that's epic. Is that the
Speaker 1: one with the chicken? Um? The chicken out in the wallpaper?
Speaker 1: So some painted the ceiling deal Like did you see
Speaker 1: my face? That one? That was for real? They would
Speaker 1: not let me in there, And then I watched it
Speaker 1: on TV. I'm like, oh, my face was like I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know what. I love it. Well, John,
Speaker 1: it seems like you're living your dream I mean both
Speaker 1: of you. I mean you're reunited after you know, years apart,
Speaker 1: you're able to work on this incredible project together. I
Speaker 1: may or may not be wearing overalls too. I don't know,
Speaker 1: show you that. I'm like a farmhouse kind of goal. Um,
Speaker 1: because everybody would want to be a part of your show.
Speaker 1: Everybody would want to be, you know, a part of
Speaker 1: your inner circle. So it kind of feels like, John,
Speaker 1: you're living your dream life where you still get to tour,
Speaker 1: you still get to be a part of you know
Speaker 1: what is so much the fabric of your life. But
Speaker 1: in addition to that, you get to do what you've
Speaker 1: always dreamed of in the other sector, which is the
Speaker 1: home renovations. Yeah, it's the best. I mean, I have
Speaker 1: been the luckiest person in the world just to be
Speaker 1: able to, you know, do two things that I love
Speaker 1: so much. And and you know it's stressful, come on,
Speaker 1: it's stressful, but it's it's you know, it's more than
Speaker 1: a job to me now. So it's it's fun. We
Speaker 1: have so much fun on set. Uh, we have so
Speaker 1: much fun filming this show. It's just it's been we
Speaker 1: still like every night we call each other up there
Speaker 1: episode We're like, really just happens on TV? I saw
Speaker 1: my face like went upstairs to bed last night. It
Speaker 1: was left on HIV and I'm like, nace to this stuff.
Speaker 1: And I did like one season of This Whole House,
Speaker 1: so I did a little bit of TV. But like
Speaker 1: this is like, yeah, that's a great point, Christina. So
Speaker 1: it's like he's used to seeing his face on TV
Speaker 1: or T shirts or on a poster in Eron's in
Speaker 1: Aaron's childhood bedroom. I had the pillows too, did you
Speaker 1: You had the whole comforters. Yeah, it's a whole story.
Speaker 1: We'll tell it. There's no better time than now. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll just be honest. I ruined a lot of vacations
Speaker 1: with my family. We have like vhs is where all
Speaker 1: my dad's like, hey, smile, We're at this great vacation.
Speaker 1: You know that my parents saved up for it, and and
Speaker 1: I'm like, am I going to get to go to
Speaker 1: the New Kids on the Ball concert or not? Like
Speaker 1: I wanted to smack myself. I was so gross. But
Speaker 1: the whole deal was this is disgusting, and I'll just
Speaker 1: put it out there. I had like these planners words
Speaker 1: on my fingers growing up. It was like a weird,
Speaker 1: gross thing. But my mom was like, if you put
Speaker 1: the stinging stuff on, we'll get you great New Kids tickets.
Speaker 1: Change my world was the best time in my life. Well,
Speaker 1: for those of you guys listening that haven't seen the show,
Speaker 1: it's incredible. It's called Farmhouse Fixer. You guys are great,
Speaker 1: Aaron sister before they have to get back to their
Speaker 1: day jobs. What else you got? This is your chance?
Speaker 1: Do you guys like football? Do you want it? When
Speaker 1: we're allowed to have fans? Do you want to come
Speaker 1: to a game and be on the sidelines with me
Speaker 1: and like we could be friends or something? Do you
Speaker 1: like I mean, I know, like the New Kids love?
Speaker 1: Like obviously you guys love. I was. I was raised
Speaker 1: in New England, but uh the Celtics are you Pats fans?
Speaker 1: What are you guys over there? My mom? If I
Speaker 1: could bring my mom as a guest, because she would
Speaker 1: lose her mom she's the biggest man. Oh wait, Christina,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I wanted to ask you. Is that
Speaker 1: the nifty writing of the h G TV when they're
Speaker 1: like step by step or didn't I blow your mind?
Speaker 1: Like or is that you just being fabulous and so
Speaker 1: fun and giving us a shout out out there. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not that smart. It's like, did you see
Speaker 1: my face though in the first one, because you could
Speaker 1: tell I was like, I gotta get this in. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm not a good actor. It's it did start though organically,
Speaker 1: when we would be working, um, you know, one of
Speaker 1: the painters would be painting, and then they would be like,
Speaker 1: step by step, you know, we get Yeah, we have
Speaker 1: this young uraloust. So the last episode, she's too young
Speaker 1: to know they were literally filming and she's like, I
Speaker 1: just took it step by step and we're all like
Speaker 1: lost our mind, being like this a plan I don't
Speaker 1: know and she had no idea what was going on
Speaker 1: before we let you guys go. I want to know, Jonathan,
Speaker 1: your favorite time from New Kids on the Block and
Speaker 1: your favorite time that's far on Farmhouse Fixer. Um, my
Speaker 1: favorite time with New Kids on the Block has been
Speaker 1: since we reunited in two thousand and eight. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: just been a dream. It's been relaxing. You know, we
Speaker 1: were young kids back then. We we've gotten a lot
Speaker 1: of fights, We had a lot of disagreements, we were
Speaker 1: under a lot of pressure, and now it's just the
Speaker 1: best thing ever to be around those guys. We group
Speaker 1: text each other every day and you know, actually today
Speaker 1: that the group text was all about the show airing tonight,
Speaker 1: and they were like, we love this show. You know,
Speaker 1: just we are so good together, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: this is just this new venture that me and Christina
Speaker 1: are going on. It's it's I never thought I would be,
Speaker 1: you know, fifty two years old and still going strong
Speaker 1: with with the career in you know, new kids, and
Speaker 1: then taking this whole love of old houses and pretty
Speaker 1: much starting a new career and having a six year
Speaker 1: girl telling you, like to paint a staircase blue? Harry's
Speaker 1: paint chips like nobody's business. I know, we'll get into
Speaker 1: a whole story about paint chips. And my husband is
Speaker 1: at Chris and No's. So see when I saw you
Speaker 1: guys paint that, I was like, oh God, the vacuums
Speaker 1: and you're just going to call paint chips. Well, cheers
Speaker 1: to you for reinvention. I mean, look, if you're lucky
Speaker 1: in life to get the you know, the story that
Speaker 1: you've had and now, like the houses that you redo,
Speaker 1: get to fix them up and keep them living on
Speaker 1: for the next generation and the next generations. Kudos to
Speaker 1: both of you and in a renewed relationship for you
Speaker 1: guys too. How much fun. Hopefully another season and if
Speaker 1: we have anything to say about it, there will be.
Speaker 1: And again, if you need an intern, I'll bring the overalls.
Speaker 1: And you're coming to a football game. Should we have
Speaker 1: them do a calm Down Award? We have to, absolutely
Speaker 1: so we do a little thing on this show. It's
Speaker 1: a calm Down Award. Again. The impetus of our our
Speaker 1: name for the podcast was because we need to tell
Speaker 1: ourselves sometimes to bring it down. A notch um sorry
Speaker 1: when you came on, Yeah, exactly, And maybe Aaron should
Speaker 1: give herself the calm down word for you for her
Speaker 1: fandom for you. But it can go, it can go
Speaker 1: to anyone anything, It can be whatever you want it
Speaker 1: to be. And we're putting you on the spot here,
Speaker 1: so if you need a second, take all the time
Speaker 1: you need, but or what needs to calm down? Oh
Speaker 1: oh oh, I have an answer from I need to
Speaker 1: calm down all I'm worried if I was the thousand
Speaker 1: emails deep I am, and all the spreadsheets I need
Speaker 1: to do you probably I like spreadsheets too much. Like
Speaker 1: I'm always like, hey, do you want to come over?
Speaker 1: Because you were at I have to come about and
Speaker 1: I just like so, I feel like he needs to
Speaker 1: tell me to calm down. She does. I like organization.
Speaker 1: That's not a bad thing. No. Um wow, there's like
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart was saying, people are just taking everything too seriously,
Speaker 1: and he was like, people just need to calm down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think the world a little crazy right now.
Speaker 1: I think I think the world used to calm down
Speaker 1: and stop taking everything so crazy. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite wee? Well then this I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take a side detour here to bring us back.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite song of yours? No? I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you mean? Come on, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: They they're all so unique. It's it's just like people
Speaker 1: ask me, do I have a favorite style house? And
Speaker 1: I love that analogy. It's just Christina, what's your favorite
Speaker 1: New Kids song? On the spot? I don't know, Like
Speaker 1: I have to have a small admit that my favorite
Speaker 1: band of all time. It's actually Metallica and it like
Speaker 1: it's quite the departure from New Kids video in my
Speaker 1: bar and the other week and I have a Metallica.
Speaker 1: I was waiting for our producer, who gives me so
Speaker 1: much shit about it, like all time fan, like I'll
Speaker 1: travel to go see but no up on it except
Speaker 1: for my friends. I was like, damn it, I worked
Speaker 1: for Reese. The reason I bring it up is because
Speaker 1: when in doubt the world needs to just throw on
Speaker 1: any new kids on the block song, dance around your
Speaker 1: house like Aaron doesn't. Just calm down, right. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be listening to tonight. Chris and I are meeting for
Speaker 1: some social distance drinks and I'm gonna be listening to
Speaker 1: tonight and I'll probably start crying. I'm excited. Thank you
Speaker 1: for making all my dreams come true, and thank you
Speaker 1: for giving me such a fabulous time in my childhood,
Speaker 1: Like it was so much fun. I loved you guys
Speaker 1: so much. I am when you were back touring. I
Speaker 1: am coming and then you guys come to a path
Speaker 1: game or whatever. We'll figure it out here. She's making
Speaker 1: You're gonna you can get a season's passed with how
Speaker 1: much she loved you you guys, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Reminder again, the show is Farmhouse Fixer. Christina Jonathan, thank
Speaker 1: you so so so much for your time and the
Speaker 1: show is awesome and you both deserve all the success
Speaker 1: that follows. Thank you, Thanks you all. By well, Aaron,
Speaker 1: was it everything you wanted? And more? He was sweet?
Speaker 1: Wasn't he sweet? So sweet? And look set, I'm clearly
Speaker 1: not the same fan that you are, and that's nothing
Speaker 1: against new kids on the block. I was an instinct girl,
Speaker 1: but I am a huge fan of the both of them.
Speaker 1: They couldn't have been lovelier and I'm so excited for
Speaker 1: them that they are, you know, having success in this
Speaker 1: you know, incredible show and for you just to live
Speaker 1: out your childhood dream. If I told what was your like,
Speaker 1: what was the age that like your fandom was at
Speaker 1: its highest aside from today six seven eight. Um, I
Speaker 1: have a condition where I hold everything in awkward and
Speaker 1: I then turned into a heat rash. Uh it turns
Speaker 1: into a heat rash on my neck, on my chest,
Speaker 1: on my back, and uh is that happening at our
Speaker 1: YouTube channel? We will show pictures on our I g yep,
Speaker 1: nice little red. It looks like a burn so, Um,
Speaker 1: it was yes, fixed fifth sixth grade. I, Uh, you
Speaker 1: were right. I was very quiet. Um, I was very
Speaker 1: very nervous. I was very His hair was phenomenal again
Speaker 1: for everybody, got to check it out on YouTube. His hair,
Speaker 1: his skin, he looks great. I was gonna say, if
Speaker 1: you get to if you could go back and tell
Speaker 1: six seven eighth grade Aaron that you're going to eventually
Speaker 1: interview Jonathan Night, what would your reaction be? Um, it
Speaker 1: would probably be some smartass comment. And then I would
Speaker 1: also tell the sixth seventh eighth grade self, stopped ruining
Speaker 1: your family's vacation. Your mom will make your dreams come
Speaker 1: true and allow you to go to the concert. Stop
Speaker 1: being an asshole, like respect your parents and stop it.
Speaker 1: But um, he was great. I there's always and we
Speaker 1: run into this with sports, right and guys that we
Speaker 1: interview and we want them to be exactly what you know,
Speaker 1: we hope that they are. And he was so lovely.
Speaker 1: I I couldn't be happier. I love that for you.
Speaker 1: I love you guys. So obviously you've interviewed, you know,
Speaker 1: an innumerable amount of people that most people just wish
Speaker 1: they even like. Saw in a grocery store, but you've
Speaker 1: sat down interviewed them multiple times. The Tom Brady's, the
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is all these guys, I mean even on
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars. Yeah, exactly all of those guys.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of interesting to hear you almost become
Speaker 1: that little kid again where you like get nervous to
Speaker 1: interview someone because your profession is to interview people. But um,
Speaker 1: it just goes to show you know, stars are just
Speaker 1: like us. Aaron, there you go and us weekly. He
Speaker 1: looked great. Um. Yeah, I was talking to my girlfriend
Speaker 1: Megan right before we recorded this, and she was living
Speaker 1: her best life through me and said, call me immediately
Speaker 1: when you are finished, Like I just and I felt
Speaker 1: like a cheese dog like telling him at the end
Speaker 1: she's still say that, but I did by just saying
Speaker 1: like thank you for my childhood. But it was likely.
Speaker 1: And then this too, when we were kind of asking
Speaker 1: for the dirt and he was like, that's the one
Speaker 1: thing new kids. We kind of feel like we are
Speaker 1: just trying to stay respectful and not get all the
Speaker 1: you know, the gossip out there. I mean I kind
Speaker 1: of wanted a sliver of it, but um, and that's
Speaker 1: a lie. Don't tell me that all just the backstage
Speaker 1: was just radio winners. No way, no way, Jose. But
Speaker 1: I love how they kept it very tight lit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of clubhouse rules right there. What's
Speaker 1: in the locker room stays in the locker room. That's
Speaker 1: not really what happens anymore. Not all people are like that, though, No,
Speaker 1: not anymore. I mean remember even like I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: go on a tangent about that, when like Jose canse
Speaker 1: go like wrote this whole book about juice and started
Speaker 1: revealing secrets, like there's a code. So good for him
Speaker 1: that he stays true to his code. And what I
Speaker 1: thought was so sweet is that they still have a
Speaker 1: tech chain um all this many years later and like
Speaker 1: talk regularly, and it's just it's nice. It's nice to
Speaker 1: see that to your point, what they were in your
Speaker 1: mind is what they still are. And how bad did
Speaker 1: I want to say, you know, like if you ever
Speaker 1: want to add me? But I didn't text him, I
Speaker 1: only emailed him. I do have the digits, I know,
Speaker 1: I know you gotta you gotta follow through with your
Speaker 1: problem us to take both him and Christina and Christina's
Speaker 1: mom to a game. I'll take Christina's uncle. I don't care,
Speaker 1: like as long as I can get John there. It's
Speaker 1: you know, who else would be on your list, your
Speaker 1: wish list of people to interview? Who else is on
Speaker 1: that list? Because where is he slotted in that? In that?
Speaker 1: So I have my list right, it's the Big Poppies,
Speaker 1: the Larry Birds, that Kevin McHale's who is my first
Speaker 1: sports crush? Um Casey Jones r I p Um Marty St.
Speaker 1: Louis one of my favorite hockey players except for my husband.
Speaker 1: John Knight is pretty much up there. I mean, Chris
Speaker 1: Hemsworth is nothing to sneeze at, so he's great. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we are slowly but surely making dreams come true. Okay,
Speaker 1: go females, Julia, I mean I die, Julia. Mario always
Speaker 1: got to interview Julia Roberts and I was so angry.
Speaker 1: I know I would have loved and she loved Mario,
Speaker 1: so there was no convincing girl, though, you're screwed, I know,
Speaker 1: she I think. Oh well, like Meryl Streep was mine
Speaker 1: and when I sat down and it was in one
Speaker 1: of those junket situations, so those are always way more awkward.
Speaker 1: Than on a red carpet, because you don't have the
Speaker 1: ambient noise of the red carpet on all the people
Speaker 1: you walk into that room. You know you've been on
Speaker 1: the receiving end of that where you walk in and
Speaker 1: there's just the publicist and the camera guy and the
Speaker 1: audio person, and they're quick to be like two minutes,
Speaker 1: and you're like, Okay, I'm just gonna take me two
Speaker 1: minutes to call down because it's Meryl Streep and I'm
Speaker 1: peeing myself and she couldn't have been lovelier. So I
Speaker 1: can only imagine how you felt. I'm glad, I'm gold
Speaker 1: you made it through and I didn't go celebrate with
Speaker 1: some cocktails because this was a big day for you, babe. Hi.
Speaker 1: Now I gotta call my sister. I gotta call my
Speaker 1: girlfriend Megan. Um who's many calls? Who's your list? What's
Speaker 1: your list of people? Oh? You know Michael Jordan's Larry Bird.
Speaker 1: You alluded to it. Yeah, those are up there, but
Speaker 1: I mean, look, the list goes on and on and on, Julia.
Speaker 1: But today's your day, Aaron, So enough about me. It's
Speaker 1: you and Jonathan sitting in the tree. K I s
Speaker 1: S I n G. So we will let you go
Speaker 1: make all your phone calls. I will get in the car. No,
Speaker 1: I will it in Maneuver, yes, Smart or a lift
Speaker 1: or any rideshare program that wants to advertise on Calm
Speaker 1: Down podcasts, And I will get in Maneuver or whatever
Speaker 1: and come down and see you and we will celebrate
Speaker 1: with cocktails. For those of you listening or watching on YouTube,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us in a big day. Uh
Speaker 1: in Aaron Andrew's life once you will never soon forget.
Speaker 1: But I guess it's a brand new day after all.
Speaker 1: But Anon, every time we hear the Kurt from call
Speaker 1: I need the girls with the curls in the hay
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