Speaker 1: You know what else she's doing. I sat and talked
Speaker 1: to the commissioner about it. Roger Goodell, we were talking
Speaker 1: about it the night before the game. Oh name drop,
Speaker 1: he's great. I talked to him about this. I have
Speaker 1: so many dads saying to me, you know how great
Speaker 1: this is. Kyle Brandt talked about it on Good Morning Football.
Speaker 1: Hey Dad, come get me when the chief score. I
Speaker 1: want to watch the celebration. How bad is it now
Speaker 1: that we have young girls that want to watch the NFL.
Speaker 1: I think it's freaking awesome. So calm down, go away.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to watch it, don't watch it.
Speaker 1: How's it affecting your life? And you know what, Taylor,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you were on that field to celebrate
Speaker 1: with your boyfriend.
Speaker 2: I freaking loved you.
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Speaker 2: Right now, Aaron's finally on vacation because the NFL season
Speaker 2: for us is over. We don't have the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: this year. We have it next year. In New Orleans,
Speaker 2: sister NFC Championship game, you looked incredible everything. What a game.
Speaker 2: Holy shit. A seventeen point deficit for the San Francisco
Speaker 2: forty nine ers at halftime the largest you think say,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking to myself, it's not a problem because this defense. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I'm not rooting for the Niners relaxed Lions fans.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking to myself, I want a good game, but
Speaker 2: this is the number one seed in the NFC, and
Speaker 2: it's not going to just be like they're going to
Speaker 2: roll over and they forgot how to play football. You
Speaker 2: get a few stops, get a few three and outs,
Speaker 2: the defense forces a turnover, and brock Perty makes his
Speaker 2: way down the field. I love. I mean, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: not say something we don't already know. I love a
Speaker 2: great game and it ended up being a phenomenal game.
Speaker 2: You working the game sidelines, so proud go. There's so
Speaker 2: many things to discuss. For the record, Aaron I haven't
Speaker 2: spoken in two days, which is very rare after all
Speaker 2: this because we were both traveling, So keep going.
Speaker 1: Okay, First of all, can we give a shout out
Speaker 1: to Levi Stadium and please give a shout out to
Speaker 1: I'm going to pull it up right now on my
Speaker 1: Instagram so I can see who I'm giving a shout
Speaker 1: out to, AMYP squad. The less I'm going to say
Speaker 1: it wrong DJ Amy Robbins. Anyways, their whole DJ situation
Speaker 1: at Levi Stadium. I talked about last week how the
Speaker 1: Jams were they played the tunes. It's so great. I
Speaker 1: got dms from everybody that worked at Levi, like, you
Speaker 1: have no idea how great Levi's, how great this is.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the shout out, Carissa. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I'm on the sideline and I hear
Speaker 1: us literally going the jams at Levi's Stadium are awesome.
Speaker 1: And I was like, what was what Clinton? My security goes,
Speaker 1: did you just hear yourself?
Speaker 2: Then they start.
Speaker 1: Playing bump up the jams, the jams at Levi. We
Speaker 1: posted it on ig. It was so freakin' awesome. It
Speaker 1: was during a time. It was during like a break,
Speaker 1: a TV break. Everybody heard it. They put me up
Speaker 1: on the jumpbo thank you buy so much. I couldn't
Speaker 1: calm down over it. It was so cool. Levi Stadium was
Speaker 1: a time. It was a place. It reminded me back
Speaker 1: in the day with usc, Pete Carroll, you know, Matt Liner, Regis.
Speaker 2: The whole thing.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, freaking celebrity was there and sidelines were packed.
Speaker 1: It was just it was crazy, so like the vibe,
Speaker 1: the atmosphere was awesome. Then right away is out of it.
Speaker 1: The Lions are up seventeen to nothing. I want to
Speaker 1: take you through my halftime. We've talked about how difficult
Speaker 1: these these interviews are. With Kyle, he's the best. He'll
Speaker 1: tell you exactly what's going on, but you have two
Speaker 1: questions and that's it. Then as I'm sitting there and
Speaker 1: thinking about it, I'm literally going I'm screaming. I'm going
Speaker 1: shit fuck because I want it to be quick, I
Speaker 1: want it to be the same. I want to get
Speaker 1: as much information because the offense and the defense are struggling.
Speaker 1: I run to him. He's just like, we're creating, you know,
Speaker 1: just he said exactly what I said.
Speaker 2: It was just awesome. It was a rush.
Speaker 1: They come back, they make a stop, they kick a
Speaker 1: field goal, blah blah blah, Brandon Iyuk with that fricking
Speaker 1: catch off.
Speaker 2: The guy's face. Yeah, lady, lay Yeah, your post name
Speaker 2: was great. Well, I know that whole thing was just
Speaker 2: I mean again watching it, which your report was perfect.
Speaker 2: That told the story. And again anyone that doesn't know,
Speaker 2: like that's a that's like everything happens like this, So
Speaker 2: for you to then get the information and report it
Speaker 2: and the whole thing. But it's like the emotion that
Speaker 2: they had to be feeling because let's just set the
Speaker 2: table here. They can't lose another NFC championship game, like
Speaker 2: enough is enough, Like if you ain't doing it this year,
Speaker 2: because you've got a quarterback that has league minimum and
Speaker 2: you can still It reminds me of when Russell made
Speaker 2: league minimum, and that's why they could afford to pay
Speaker 2: the defense what they paid and the offensive weapons, because
Speaker 2: there are very few times where your quarterback is making
Speaker 2: eight hundred and seventy five thousand dollars as opposed to
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson's or you know the forty million a year
Speaker 2: or eighty million whatever, and it's like, if you ain't
Speaker 2: doing it now, when are you going to do it?
Speaker 2: And also just exactly like George Kittle was talking about,
Speaker 2: even like momentum, like they get so close and then
Speaker 2: to close it out. So anyways, I was very as
Speaker 2: just a fan of football, a fan of the NFL. Awesome.
Speaker 2: It was awesome, and it was like this is the stuff.
Speaker 2: I've talked about this before, but I'm old the no
Speaker 2: fear t shirts where it's like ninth inning, full count,
Speaker 2: like your back's against the wall. You got one half
Speaker 2: of football. And to your point, when you ask Brandon
Speaker 2: like what was said at halftime. It was like that's
Speaker 2: the first question, which I was so happy, Essex. I
Speaker 2: was like everyone wanted to know that you came back
Speaker 2: out and overcame, I say, the largest deficit in conference
Speaker 2: championship history. Like something has to be said to motivate you.
Speaker 2: And luckily there's the leaders in that locker room that
Speaker 2: were like, yo, let's go. Anyways, it was a great game.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to Detroit. I know it's obviously here's the thing too,
Speaker 2: and watching all these like, you know, forty eight hours
Speaker 2: late later, these poor guy guys. I hate it so
Speaker 2: much and I'm so frickin' happy that we do not
Speaker 2: work on a show that had sit there and dissect
Speaker 2: every little thing. Do you think that Dan Campbell, I
Speaker 2: know that he said he would still make the same call,
Speaker 2: and maybe he would, But imagine having like the biggest
Speaker 2: loss of your professional career and you feel like you've
Speaker 2: let a city down, or you've let your team down,
Speaker 2: and now for the next seventy two hours or everyone's
Speaker 2: going to dissect it like it just which leads me
Speaker 2: to my rant of the day, And I get it.
Speaker 2: The media is a twenty four hour news cycle. And
Speaker 2: we've worked. I've worked at places, you've worked at places
Speaker 2: that you have to fill the time. Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 2: But I think about even earlier this year on like
Speaker 2: you know, our Amazon conversations and postgame of like, oh
Speaker 2: are the Chiefs done? Because the receivers are dropping balls?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, they're not done as long as you
Speaker 2: have Patrick Mahomes, Like you cannot write these people off
Speaker 2: because guess what they're going to write back the Gino
Speaker 2: Smith quote, like if I'm Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs
Speaker 2: or Travis Kelsey, I'm like, y'all, you hear it, even
Speaker 2: if you don't hear it. Even if you don't hear it,
Speaker 2: the TV is on, the headlines are written, and everyone
Speaker 2: wants to write you off. It's got to feel so
Speaker 2: good if you're those kinds of individuals that are like yo,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter until you get into the playoffs. And
Speaker 2: so I just feel like, and I'm going to think
Speaker 2: about this next year as we're trying to you know,
Speaker 2: feel time at some point where it's like, let's not
Speaker 2: start saying that like these teams are done or you
Speaker 2: know they have no chance if you get yourself into
Speaker 2: the postseason, it is a whole new season. So if
Speaker 2: you get into the dance, then I just I can't imagine,
Speaker 2: and I'm not doing a great job of articulating what
Speaker 2: I mean, but like, I just the feeling that those
Speaker 2: guys must have when all this chirping is being done
Speaker 2: for the media and then you're like, hey, by the way,
Speaker 2: we're still here. I'm going to my fourth Super Bowl
Speaker 2: in five years. I'm Patrick Mahomes and I'm fourteen and
Speaker 2: three in the postseason, like James Kelsey looks who he
Speaker 2: looks like he's doing. I mean, sorry, let me just
Speaker 2: break Jerry Rice's receiving record in the postseason. I think
Speaker 2: I look good here. Yeah, so good for them, and
Speaker 2: you know, obviously, because we don't like to see anyone lose.
Speaker 2: I'm sad for the Ravens, sad for the Lions, but
Speaker 2: ultimately there has to be a team and then you
Speaker 2: regroup and get better. But this is what I always
Speaker 2: loved when people are like, oh, I'm sick of the
Speaker 2: Patriots winning, then be better. Then beat him. Somebody needs
Speaker 2: to beat him. If you're sick of seeing the Chiefs
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl, then someone needs to beat them.
Speaker 2: Like you're the best until you aren't. And I think
Speaker 2: there's very few opportunities in your life where you're able
Speaker 2: to watch greatness at that level. We were lucky enough
Speaker 2: with Tom Brady enjoy it. Let's enjoy it. We're watching
Speaker 2: it with Patrick Mahomes and who knows how many years
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey wants to keep playing, but like, these guys
Speaker 2: find ways to win. And I love watching the because
Speaker 2: they're not the underdogs, but those people that they count
Speaker 2: out midway through the season, and it's like, there's a
Speaker 2: reason you play all four quarters. There's a reason you
Speaker 2: play the full season, and once you get into the
Speaker 2: dance that experience. I don't think it could be overstated
Speaker 2: how important that is. Are we all the time? I
Speaker 2: just ranted for a long time story, No.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I think we're at a really Listen,
Speaker 1: everyone in the media has their role and has to
Speaker 1: do that. But I'm very grateful and you and I
Speaker 1: have talked about this a lot that I'm not in
Speaker 1: the role of breaking news. Listen, if I have to
Speaker 1: and there's something going on, I will, But that's very
Speaker 1: much a Jay Glazer and Adam Schechter kind of situ
Speaker 1: we are given a lot of information in our meetings
Speaker 1: that you know, we are told it's off the record,
Speaker 1: don't touch it, so we don't. And then you know,
Speaker 1: it is hard because you develop a lot of relationships
Speaker 1: with these guys and also bottom line, you know how
Speaker 1: hard they work if you don't watch the Netflix series
Speaker 1: Quarterback and watch how much time they're away from their
Speaker 1: families and say, with these coaches, you know the we're
Speaker 1: on these zooms. With Kyle Shanahan that looked he just said,
Speaker 1: sorry the way I look, I'm exhausted, Like the week
Speaker 1: of the Packers, He's like, I haven't slept, like you know,
Speaker 1: it's after the game. You want to know, And I
Speaker 1: get it. Everybody wants to pile on and Dan Campbell
Speaker 1: with this and oh you know they suck in this,
Speaker 1: this and this. You want reality of how hard these
Speaker 1: guys work. Watch or and I know you can't go
Speaker 1: to I'm just saying, go to the postgame celebration when
Speaker 1: you've got Trent Williams's daughters holding on to that huge
Speaker 1: man crying because he's thirty five years old.
Speaker 2: He's been in the league.
Speaker 1: For what twelve thirteen years, and it's never been to
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. You've got Kyle Shanahan's wife just bawling
Speaker 1: in his arms because it's like, my I don't see
Speaker 1: my husband. This is his life, this is our life.
Speaker 1: It's just rock Perty's dad grabbing me and asking me
Speaker 1: for a selfie, like cute. It's just it's and then
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell walking off the field like my heart hurt.
Speaker 1: Jared Goff like this is their lives. It's just it's
Speaker 1: hard when you see people pile on. I sat at
Speaker 1: the airport to leave San Francisco and these Lion fans
Speaker 1: were there and they were just going on and on
Speaker 1: about Dan Campbell, and I wanted to be like, you
Speaker 1: know what, if you could do it better?
Speaker 2: You and I get it. It's part of the business.
Speaker 2: It's part of sports. But that's the tough thing.
Speaker 1: My next rant is going to be on this and
Speaker 1: we're not going to win this situation. But I actually
Speaker 1: just listen to Calling cow Her go on and on
Speaker 1: about the people saying Taylor Swift is ruining the NFL.
Speaker 2: No, she's not. I got thirty five million reasons she
Speaker 2: ain't ruined the NFL. So let's just go ahead and
Speaker 2: check the books on that. But not get a reason.
Speaker 1: We just set a record with our ratings for the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship. It was the highest most watched NFC championship
Speaker 1: in twelve years. Don't think she's don't think.
Speaker 2: She's ruining it. Also, like.
Speaker 1: I sat and listened to somebody yesterday say I'm just
Speaker 1: so I'm just so tired of the NFL with this,
Speaker 1: And I said, why, how's it affecting your life?
Speaker 2: Why? What's it? What's it doing?
Speaker 1: You know that Colin on his podcast or on television
Speaker 1: or whatever talked about it. Out of a three and
Speaker 1: a half hour game, She's shown for twenty five seconds.
Speaker 2: You know what it is?
Speaker 1: Point Drake is shown eminition as eminem shing the NFL.
Speaker 2: Calm down, No, calm down.
Speaker 1: This is so stupid. And this is my final thing
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. And I don't get all like female
Speaker 1: female all the time as much as I should. You
Speaker 1: know what else she's doing. I sat and talked to
Speaker 1: the commissioner about it, Roger Goodell, we were talking about
Speaker 1: it the night before the game. All name drop, he's great.
Speaker 1: I talked to him about this.
Speaker 2: I have so.
Speaker 1: Many dads saying to me, you know how great this is.
Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt talked about it on Good Morning Football. Hey Dad,
Speaker 1: come get me when the chief score. I want to
Speaker 1: watch the celebration. How bad is it now that we
Speaker 1: have young girls that want to watch the NFL. I
Speaker 1: think it's freaking awesome. So calm down, go away. If
Speaker 1: you don't want to watch it, don't watch it. How
Speaker 1: is it affecting your life? And you know what, Taylor,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you were on that field to celebrate
Speaker 1: with your boyfriend.
Speaker 2: I freaking loved it.
Speaker 1: He looked so happy, so adorable. She works her ass off,
Speaker 1: she has to go to work. Now, go celebrate with
Speaker 1: your man. I loved it.
Speaker 2: That's exactly my point. And by the way, anyone anybody
Speaker 2: that wants to be a nasaer about that, that means
Speaker 2: that you don't like watching puppies, and you don't like rainbows,
Speaker 2: and you don't like a sunny day like knock it off.
Speaker 2: You're gonna find something to happy with everything. And this
Speaker 2: is what we've said from the beginning. And I don't
Speaker 2: care if were you know, we lose listeners because it's
Speaker 2: all I like to talk about Taylor stuff. It's not
Speaker 2: necessarily even about Taylor's staff. It's about a few things.
Speaker 2: It's about being happy, being joyful. It's about having a
Speaker 2: you know, a global superstar. And I've said it before
Speaker 2: or Travis, like I know that, like we're not in
Speaker 2: their relationship, but you can see that people are happy
Speaker 2: just in't happy for them, they're exactly And I know
Speaker 2: what I loved is that here she is, like she's
Speaker 2: always got to be surrounded by security and all this stuff,
Speaker 2: and it's like, hey, I want to go on the
Speaker 2: field and I want to celebrate this moment so with
Speaker 2: my boyfriend. And like I loved seeing that, like she
Speaker 2: could be just in a moment and celebrate with him
Speaker 2: and he obviously like great, or that she has the
Speaker 2: awareness to be like, hey, there's brother, I'm going to
Speaker 2: step out of this thing and let them have their
Speaker 2: moments about like she's so aware and like that's the
Speaker 2: part where it's like I don't understand. You think she's
Speaker 2: me me me, No. She By the way, if she
Speaker 2: didn't have to have security, she probably wouldn't because she
Speaker 2: wouldn't even want it. It's like you know, I just
Speaker 2: I don't know. I get all worked up as you do,
Speaker 2: and it's not even about Taylor Swift. It's about just
Speaker 2: let something be great. We live in a world with
Speaker 2: so much fucking negativity, and you turn the news on
Speaker 2: it's negative, negative, negative, and it's like, what is she doing?
Speaker 2: What is she doing? She's making this guy happy, she's
Speaker 2: having a great time and she's being human. Wow, she's
Speaker 2: worked your ass on. And by the way, to you
Speaker 2: and I text about this the other day and her
Speaker 2: terrible stalker situation. You and I both had to do
Speaker 2: it up. It's like, guess what she gets to for
Speaker 2: a little bit eye situation exactly, she gets to just
Speaker 2: be and I love that, and I love who he
Speaker 2: is for her, and I love who she is for him.
Speaker 2: And by the way, for the NFL to your point,
Speaker 2: because I started watching the NFL because my dad loved football.
Speaker 2: So if the other little girls start watching the NFL
Speaker 2: because she is at games, then good for them. And
Speaker 2: I just everyone else needs to fucking find a hobby
Speaker 2: or do something different, because that means that you're just
Speaker 2: angry and you're looking for something to be upset about
Speaker 2: board something else. Exactly.
Speaker 1: Those are all great points, and I'm gonna say this too,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get off this rant. This has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with football. She has nothing to do with football.
Speaker 1: But can I say one more thing? As a small
Speaker 1: business owner and you are as well, she freaking supports
Speaker 1: small business, she supports women, and I couldn't love her
Speaker 1: more for that. She was so great and gracious and
Speaker 1: I'm beyond grateful, and I could cry. She wore a
Speaker 1: four or five dollars little necklace, and I'm saying the
Speaker 1: price because listen, we know these people have money. We
Speaker 1: know they could be loan any diamond in the world.
Speaker 1: She wore it outsider of her little adorable red shirt.
Speaker 1: She had it out. And then you know, of course
Speaker 1: I'm getting articles sent to me of like all the
Speaker 1: jewelry she's wearing.
Speaker 2: Does she eighty seven rings? But from him?
Speaker 1: Yes, a fifteen dollars ring from another small business.
Speaker 2: You know what that's called. That's called women supporting women,
Speaker 2: women's supporting. There's amaking kind supporting small businesses. You want
Speaker 2: me to hate her, I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 2: I've always loved her, and I love her frickin' more now,
Speaker 2: and I just am so appreciative of her. I just
Speaker 2: I love her. And I'll tell you another thing everybody's
Speaker 2: just want to be like she wants a spot, Like.
Speaker 1: No, she doesn't. Her boyfriend walked up to her and said, hey,
Speaker 1: Tay so cute. I'm going to go celebrate with the
Speaker 1: boys now, and she's like, go have a time, yes,
Speaker 1: and love her.
Speaker 2: I loved her. And I've talked about this before when
Speaker 2: my niece, you know, she was going through a brain too,
Speaker 2: where she got out of the hospital. All she wanted
Speaker 2: to do was go to the Taylor Swift concert. This
Speaker 2: was fifteen years ago and watching Alyssa like seeing the
Speaker 2: lyrics and be so happy, Like that's the same person
Speaker 2: that makes people fifteen years later happy and whatever and anyways,
Speaker 2: so we just love her, and I'm so proud of
Speaker 2: you too, Like it's hard you don't see the same
Speaker 2: way that we're talking about these guys, you know, putting
Speaker 2: in all the work that you don't see. Nobody sees
Speaker 2: the hours and the investment that you've put into wear
Speaker 2: for the last five years, and so it's it's nice
Speaker 2: to see it come to fush or have somebody support you.
Speaker 2: So I'm very proud of you for that as well,
Speaker 2: because it's not just like, oh it's Taylor Swift doing it.
Speaker 2: It's like no, like someone gives you something and she
Speaker 2: wants to support So anyways, we love her. The rant
Speaker 2: is over. But for those of you that don't get it,
Speaker 2: you're never gonna get it, okay, And thank you to
Speaker 2: her people for putting it in front of her. I
Speaker 2: appreciate you guys more than you even know. That just
Speaker 2: makes my team so grateful. We thank you Taylor for
Speaker 2: supporting women. Enjoy the friggin' super Bowl. Get your ass
Speaker 2: off that stage after you've you've worked it.
Speaker 1: Wherever you're going to be. I think Shoka got in
Speaker 1: Tokyo or something. You go, rest up, girl and have
Speaker 1: the time of your life. Supporting your man in the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. It's the biggest stage of his life. I'm
Speaker 1: so fricking pumped.
Speaker 2: You get to go and n lawyers also revisit and
Speaker 2: I know again this we could go on forever, which
Speaker 2: we do. But it's genuine. He's the same person that
Speaker 2: during his golf during his bye week, got on a plane.
Speaker 2: Oh it's a private plane. It's because he had to
Speaker 2: get there faster and get home that he was supporting.
Speaker 2: He was supporting her. They support each other. That's what
Speaker 2: couples do. And news flash, Okay, one more thing I'd
Speaker 2: like to say. This isn't a round. This is just
Speaker 2: how much I love George Kittle. George Kittle, I know. Okay,
Speaker 2: two things. Him wearing his wife's face all over his
Speaker 2: T shirt. Claire shout out to Claire Kittle, who is
Speaker 2: just the sweetest, kindest person. Great And during the off
Speaker 2: season I had the great privilege of, like, they invited
Speaker 2: me to their home and we did an interview for
Speaker 2: NFL Films. And she's the best girls girl and you
Speaker 2: walk in and you feel like you've known her forever.
Speaker 2: And she's not great and when crappy things have happened
Speaker 2: in my life, she reaches out and she's like, I
Speaker 2: got you. Like, it's just it'll make me cry. So
Speaker 2: sweet supporting women. It's just you you find out. You
Speaker 2: don't find out who's there for you in the best
Speaker 2: of times. You find out who's there for you in
Speaker 2: the worst times. Anyways, she's adorable and his wearing Claire
Speaker 2: on his shirt is just so cute. But then we
Speaker 2: also talk about this guy finds the camera the overhead
Speaker 2: shot waves and he does it the right way. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is a guy that like works his ass up.
Speaker 2: And by the way, if you actually ever watch film,
Speaker 2: you watch how many blocks this guy? This guy? Oh
Speaker 2: my god, and then then them laughing afterwards, and like
Speaker 2: that's the thing. Like here, Aiden Hutchinson is like this
Speaker 2: young cat in the league, and George Kittle's been doing
Speaker 2: it at a high level for a long time. But
Speaker 2: like when your tight end is going to bulwash, Aiden
Speaker 2: Hutchinson like anyways, he's just willing to do whatever. And
Speaker 2: those are the kind of guys that you're like, how
Speaker 2: could you not want somebody like that on your team?
Speaker 2: So we love George Kittle. A rant about Taylor Swift,
Speaker 2: and then I also what else did I want to
Speaker 2: talk about as it pertaining to these games. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's just I'm so glad. I'm just the NFL is
Speaker 2: alive and well, and not that it ever hasn't been
Speaker 2: but it's so yeah, it hasn't been ruined, it hasn't
Speaker 2: been ed exactly it is and I love it so much.
Speaker 2: I'm just so I'm so grateful, grateful. Oh. I mentioned
Speaker 2: in the pregame that my grandmother's ninetieth birthday. She's born
Speaker 2: on February eleventh, I will be going to her birthday
Speaker 2: party because we don't have the Super Bowl this year,
Speaker 2: so I'm going to go and see my little sweet grandmother.
Speaker 2: But this is Kathy Thompson, my mom's mom, Judith, my grandma. Yes.
Speaker 2: My mom goes, here's the deal, Mom, We're having a
Speaker 2: brunch and then we're out because you know, the game's on,
Speaker 2: so we're going to celebrate you. And then we got
Speaker 2: to go, and my sweet Grandma's like, oh, I get it,
Speaker 2: and I'm actually this is classic my grandma. She goes,
Speaker 2: why are we having it on the Super Bowl? My
Speaker 2: mom goes, because that's your birthday. She goes, okay, but
Speaker 2: people want to watch the game. My mom goes, oh, no,
Speaker 2: we're watching the game. We're celebrating you in the morning,
Speaker 2: game in the evening, so it's going to be great. Great.
Speaker 2: I'm okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When you first said this in the pregame, that your
Speaker 1: grandma's birthday, and I was like, oh, that's great, that's lovely.
Speaker 1: But then I got selfish, selfish, so justin great song,
Speaker 1: go justin very excited for the rest this thing to
Speaker 1: be pumped out.
Speaker 2: Tune Sjams.
Speaker 1: I need you by your phone so I can text
Speaker 1: in FaceTime during the whole thing, because like, if we're
Speaker 1: not going to be together for the super Bowl to
Speaker 1: talk about it, like, I need to be able to
Speaker 1: text you so you can't be like no, doing a
Speaker 1: Calma line now at the retirement center for the birthday.
Speaker 1: I need you in front of a TV with Steve
Speaker 1: so I can text and talk to you because I'm
Speaker 1: going to be in my backyard watching the television all
Speaker 1: the takeout Jessa, Jarrett and MACARONI.
Speaker 2: I need you, I need you. Oh good, you guys
Speaker 2: are going to be back to that. I wish we
Speaker 2: were together, but yeah, we'll pay someone watch it. Wait. So,
Speaker 2: speaking of retirement centers, so I'm in lovely Orlando. As
Speaker 2: I mentioned for those people that live in Orlando, that's great.
Speaker 2: I have questions about what we do and oh is
Speaker 2: that a thing? Okay? Great, So I think that's it.
Speaker 2: I'm looking okay. I'm here for work and I just
Speaker 2: have questions about what to do in the evening for events.
Speaker 2: Because last night we went out to dinner. Steve's parents
Speaker 2: don't live that far from here, so we went out
Speaker 2: to dinner with them. Can I just tell you how
Speaker 2: fabulous Disney. It is absolutely not. I'm not I'd rather
Speaker 2: I'd rather not. Okay, you think that I don't want
Speaker 2: to go to Disney when I live in California, let alone,
Speaker 2: when I don't want to go without me, No, I
Speaker 2: don't want to go without you. Steve's parents are so
Speaker 2: I told you I would go to Disneyland as long
Speaker 2: as it's with Macaroon. I'm not going to Disneyland for
Speaker 2: any other reason.
Speaker 1: If your child friends and you want to go with
Speaker 1: me and get drunk with not without a kid around,
Speaker 1: not without a kid, I don't. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go unless your child. You would never do that.
Speaker 2: So last night we went to dinner with Steve's parents.
Speaker 2: We got to dinner at eight o'clock. We didn't leave
Speaker 2: until one am. Can I just tell you much fun
Speaker 2: it is to be with I know Steve and I
Speaker 2: aren't married, but I feel like only only one other
Speaker 2: time because they live here, and so it was. They
Speaker 2: are so funny. First of all, Steve is his father.
Speaker 2: They have the same night. Steve's a junior, even though
Speaker 2: not a junior, So it's Stephen Canary and it's Kathy.
Speaker 2: Kathy is my Kathy. My mom the same person, give
Speaker 2: me a glass of wine and storytelling. So they live
Speaker 2: in this amazing community, which, by the way, you and
Speaker 2: I need to end up in a celebration. We'll celebrate
Speaker 2: good times. Come on, because it might as well be.
Speaker 2: But like they are so busy they had to cancel
Speaker 2: plans to come meet us for dinner. There's corn whole night.
Speaker 2: There's concerts, there's golfing, there's all these things. But there's
Speaker 2: also drama in the neighborhood. So right now it's dogs
Speaker 2: are pooping on yards and we don't know whose dog
Speaker 2: it is. They're doing DNA testing. They're requesting that the
Speaker 2: dog's DNA is tested so they figure out whose dog
Speaker 2: is pooping. It's a whole thing. The inner workings of
Speaker 2: these retirement communities go. I said to them at dinner,
Speaker 2: I go, what's the earliest age I can get in
Speaker 2: on this retirement home. Because they are busy constantly, they're
Speaker 2: so they have more friends. First all, we have no friends.
Speaker 2: You're my friend. That's it. It's like every night they
Speaker 2: have something going on, and it's a scare. That's so nineties.
Speaker 1: I loved, I loved you have a wonderful time what
Speaker 1: was like besides you know, dogs pooping on the lawe.
Speaker 1: What was like one of the things that you just
Speaker 1: had a hardcore like belly laugh, slap your hands over.
Speaker 2: Oh that there's this certain club. It's a coffee club.
Speaker 2: And then there's drama like who's in the club, who's
Speaker 2: not in the club, Like all these different things going on,
Speaker 2: just the inner workings of like a neighborhood that think
Speaker 2: like Desperate Housewives, like back in the day, that show,
Speaker 2: and it's like all of the drama like the neighborhood,
Speaker 2: but then all these great things. I looked at Steve
Speaker 2: and I was like, a, we have no friends. We
Speaker 2: need a life, and your parents are the fucking friend.
Speaker 2: I'm well, yeah, I just haven't had a life for
Speaker 2: six months now. Now it's about to get crazy. Okay, wait,
Speaker 2: speaking of that, let's turn it because we only have
Speaker 2: five minutes slept. I could I mean, I could talk forever.
Speaker 2: Obviously I won't shut up. That was also me last
Speaker 2: night at dinner. I mean, but I've only met them
Speaker 2: twice and I'm just talking and talking and talking and
Speaker 2: at some point and I was like, I need a muzzle,
Speaker 2: I need a lock at e it was, it's so
Speaker 2: nice to like, like your in laws weird. We We're
Speaker 2: going to get an anonymous question and grieving my son
Speaker 2: is dating a girl that won't shut the fuck up?
Speaker 2: How do I tell? And I'll say, Hi, Kathy, it's me.
Speaker 2: I'm the problem. It's me. So you're done, sister, I've
Speaker 2: been done for a couple of weeks. And I was,
Speaker 2: how do you feel? How would you summarize the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three season? Think about it?
Speaker 1: I would, I would summarize it like this. I almost
Speaker 1: posted a picture and calm down, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what do I have to post?
Speaker 2: Everything? I do?
Speaker 1: It was great, it was great. We had a lot
Speaker 1: of blowouts, not like what my son has. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I mean, we haven't really had blowouts with that kid before.
Speaker 1: Now they're happening a lot. We think it's because he's teating.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to get the intel from others out there
Speaker 1: about if that's true.
Speaker 2: You think they're out. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I apparently so like he's a mess. And then but
Speaker 1: we have a great time on our crew. It was
Speaker 1: a hard one though for me because it was balancing,
Speaker 1: you know, the guilt of mac again. I'm lucky to
Speaker 1: have a lot of help, but you felt bad. It
Speaker 1: almost felt like more work because I was trying to
Speaker 1: overcompensate with my sideline job and then knowing I wasn't
Speaker 1: handling it on both ends. So it was a really
Speaker 1: great experience.
Speaker 2: Done a lot of hor No, I haven't. I'm really
Speaker 2: proud of you, and I'm proud of you for being
Speaker 2: honest about it. You've never you have worked for nine
Speaker 2: years to have a child, and it's like, just because
Speaker 2: he shows up doesn't mean that all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: he comes with a handbook and you have put an
Speaker 2: asterisk on everything. Yes you have, you have all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, but you have a full time job.
Speaker 2: And by the way, it's not full time nine to five,
Speaker 2: it's calls here, studying here. And you've done a phenomenal
Speaker 2: job of balancing balancing that, and I think that you
Speaker 2: need to give yourself a little bit more credit into
Speaker 2: anybody out there, whether it's a working mom or working
Speaker 2: dad or anything like, no one tells you how to
Speaker 2: do this. I don't have a child. I don't know
Speaker 2: what that's like, but I just know that when you
Speaker 2: allocate your time, that baby is happy. Minus the teething.
Speaker 2: That's just part of it. You've done a phenomenal job
Speaker 2: and you did your job at the highest level and
Speaker 2: we're able to balance it. So give yourself some grace.
Speaker 2: It was funny, you know, I'd like to do a
Speaker 2: better job. And we talk about this a lot, like
Speaker 2: in our careers, like really sitting back and being like,
Speaker 2: this is awesome, this is awesome. We did that last
Speaker 2: year when we all went to Vegas as a group
Speaker 2: whore like this is so special, this is cool. There's
Speaker 2: been times like after games I said to you, this
Speaker 2: is awesome. Like I walked away from the San Francisco
Speaker 2: Lions game, which you know, we got an insane rating.
Speaker 2: We had a great broadcast, we had a great broadcast
Speaker 2: in the divisional. I thought we fucking killed that broadcast.
Speaker 1: By the way, the one thing I can't get past
Speaker 1: is that I couldn't speak. I couldn't spit it out
Speaker 1: with Brandon Ayuk. I kept going what I mean, and
Speaker 1: I feel like I fucked it up. And I was
Speaker 1: talking to Jared about it and he was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, stop.
Speaker 2: Like what are you doing.
Speaker 1: And then I went to bed with chest pains about it,
Speaker 1: Like it's like I need to give myself a break.
Speaker 1: I sat and watched when we did, you know, the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship. The studio comes out and Michael and it's
Speaker 1: been you know, documented what's going on behind the scenes
Speaker 1: with his daughter God Lover, Godloved Zambella, sending her all
Speaker 1: the best you know in her fight. But he just
Speaker 1: Michael has such a way that he's just having a
Speaker 1: time and is smiling and all that, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's not that I don't enjoy it, but I'm so
Speaker 1: hard on myself about things, but I want to get
Speaker 1: to a point where I'm like stre where I'm like,
Speaker 1: fuck it, let's have a time, you know.
Speaker 2: I Okay, Well, let's say a couple of things about that,
Speaker 2: because I hear you and the same way different overman,
Speaker 2: I'll say that out loud. It's so different for us.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of things I want to say about that,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to leave that right there. But I
Speaker 2: will say this, I don't think you should ever lose
Speaker 2: that right. It's the same way these athletes on oursel.
Speaker 2: It's the same way that these coaches are like, hey,
Speaker 2: Monday morning quarterback, all these things. I think that if
Speaker 2: you lose that, then you lose a little bit of
Speaker 2: that competitive to want to be better. I go back
Speaker 2: and I watch shows. I've done this for eighteen years.
Speaker 2: I'm not watching the show because I want to watch
Speaker 2: myself on TV. I want to watch myself so I
Speaker 2: can get better. I asked Fred Gadelli, a Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame producer. Hey, Fred, I know you're busy, but would
Speaker 2: you mind going back and watching a few shows and
Speaker 2: give me some notes on how I can get better.
Speaker 2: I think if you stop doing that, then you kind
Speaker 2: of don't care. But there is a balance where bring
Speaker 2: some levity, save yourself some grace. And by the way,
Speaker 2: do you know what like? You know what I garnered
Speaker 2: from watching your postgame interview. You are real, You're not like,
Speaker 2: so tell us about what happened at halftime. Your emotion.
Speaker 2: You're invested. You spend so much time with these people,
Speaker 2: You're proud of them. And it didn't matter if the
Speaker 2: Lions one. You would do the same thing if it
Speaker 2: was Jared gott Totally. Your emotion comes across as genuine
Speaker 2: and kind, and I think that you just need to
Speaker 2: take a beat because I'm the same way. Right afterwards,
Speaker 2: I mean, I text you about it like, oh I ruined,
Speaker 2: so I messed this up or whatever. Yeah, we are
Speaker 2: so close to it. I think that's great to be
Speaker 2: like so close to it. But also in totality, remember
Speaker 2: that there's a reason and I'm not saying this and
Speaker 2: for anyone listening like, oh, these two love themselves. No,
Speaker 2: it is hard every day to stay in this job
Speaker 2: because your contact's up, you know, and you think like
Speaker 2: it's like an athlete. Just because we've been here doesn't
Speaker 2: mean we're going to stay here. So still having that
Speaker 2: competitive edge is important. But just enjoy it.
Speaker 1: The bar is different, The bar is set differently for women.
Speaker 2: It just is.
Speaker 1: And I'm not getting on a whole rant about that,
Speaker 1: but it is. You know, there's a cool moment. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw it. I'm a huge fan
Speaker 1: of hers and I love her a lot. She works
Speaker 1: her ass off. Stacy Dale's Yes, and we worked with her,
Speaker 1: We used to work with her at ESPN, and she
Speaker 1: has great relationships with these guys as well. And she
Speaker 1: feels it too. You can see it in her interviews.
Speaker 1: And she interviewed Trent Williams, who I would have loved
Speaker 1: to have interviewed but we only had one in the
Speaker 1: postgame before they went to the trophy stand and she
Speaker 1: gets him and she goes Trent Williams, it's just because
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, And I was like, God, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: But I was like, I wonder if people are like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, why are you screaming?
Speaker 2: And hey, guess what, it's crazy. I'm going to cut
Speaker 2: you off. People are critiquing Taylor. They're gonna critique you.
Speaker 2: God knows, they critique me, they'll probably critique her. Who
Speaker 2: give a fuck. At the end of the day, The
Speaker 2: only opinion that matters is the opinion of the people
Speaker 2: that you care about. Your employers and these seats and
Speaker 2: these coaches. Yeah, our employers, but these athletes and these
Speaker 2: coaches that you've garnered the respect of for twenty plus years.
Speaker 2: So who cares about the jimmys in their basement at
Speaker 2: their mom's house who want to just say something negative?
Speaker 2: What did Taylor for? Dads, the dads, the brads, and
Speaker 2: the chats exactly? So all you can suck it. And
Speaker 2: by the way, congratulations to all thirty two teams in
Speaker 2: the NFL, because you guys put your lives and your
Speaker 2: time in whatever for us to have a job, and
Speaker 2: that's never lost on me. How grateful we are to
Speaker 2: cover you guys, and I'm excited for the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys for listening to the Calm Down podcast
Speaker 2: and all you beautiful people who I just love and
Speaker 2: like sending in your and all you beautiful people. Is
Speaker 2: this a speech like am I on the Rose Parade float? Crazy? Anyways?
Speaker 2: To quote Brandon Ayuk the ladybug on the shoe, take
Speaker 2: a minute to those small little reminders that we're all
Speaker 2: very lucky and if you don't stop and smell the roses,
Speaker 2: well then fuck.
Speaker 1: You, you know hey, and keep manifesting London and Taylor Baby,
Speaker 1: because it's our off season and we don't want to
Speaker 1: calm down.
Speaker 2: We want to go to that concert so bad. Best
Speaker 2: believe I'm still be jeweled when I walk in the road.
Speaker 2: I could the whole play shimmer like your top. I
Speaker 2: loved it. Love you guys, Bye you.
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