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Speaker 1: What's going on everyone, And welcome to a very special

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Speaker 1: bonus edition of The Playmaker's Podcast. I'm your host, Haley

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Speaker 1: Elbot and on today's show, it's gonna be good because

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Speaker 1: we've got Aaron Andrews joining us. Aaron is someone who

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Speaker 1: pretty much needs no introduction, but we'll give her one anyway.

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Speaker 1: You likely know her from the sidelines for NFL on

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Speaker 1: Fox for both Sunday and Thursday night football games. But additionally,

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Speaker 1: because that's not enough work for a week, she co

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Speaker 1: host Dancing with the Stars on Mondays. But aside from

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Speaker 1: all of that, she just started a sportswear line for

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Speaker 1: women called Where by Aaron Andrews. I'll talk to Aaron

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Speaker 1: about the genesis behind Where and how she goes from

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Speaker 1: the ballroom to the gridiron each week in season. So

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Speaker 1: now let's welcome in Aaron Andrews presented by Mercury Insurance,

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Speaker 1: and let's say hello to Aaron Andrews. Aaron, how are

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Speaker 1: you doing tonight? I'm doing okay? How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: We can? Holy cow? Where does it can go? Right?

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Speaker 1: It's crazy. Every job just flies by, I know, well

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Speaker 1: some more than others. At the end of this week,

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Speaker 1: I have to go to Green Day and I will.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you. As it gets closer and I see

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Speaker 1: those weather reports, I'm like, dear morn, why am I

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Speaker 1: green Bay? And it's the beginning of November. It's only

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Speaker 1: week ten and they're getting dumped on. It is crazy.

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Speaker 1: My producer and I we were just talking before we

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Speaker 1: got you on the phone, and we were on Instagram

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Speaker 1: and we were going, holy moly, lambo like bananas. I mean,

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Speaker 1: come on, Lambo, give me a minute. If they keep

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Speaker 1: playing the way they're playing, we'll probably be there for playoffs,

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Speaker 1: which means we'll have to endure this. Why do we

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Speaker 1: have to endure this week? Can But it's part of

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Speaker 1: the experience of Clark. Griswold would say, there you go,

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Speaker 1: a hundred percent. So, Aaron, there's so many places we

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Speaker 1: can start, but let's start kind of with your new

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Speaker 1: passion project, your clothing line where by Aaron Andrews. So,

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Speaker 1: why did you decide to create a women's sports war

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Speaker 1: a line. I mean, obviously I'm a huge sports fan,

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Speaker 1: looking for things to wear to support my teams or

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Speaker 1: my husband. And I'm a pretty simple tomboy kind of gal.

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Speaker 1: I don't really wear a stuff that's you know, huge

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Speaker 1: with my school name or you know, the La Kings

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Speaker 1: what I already had in my closet. And I just

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Speaker 1: felt like there was such a white space in pro

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Speaker 1: We know what we're talking about. We are just as pashmate,

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Speaker 1: maybe more so than men about you know, teams. And

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Speaker 1: I just felt like there was, you know, something that

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Speaker 1: I've been thinking about and working on for the last

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Speaker 1: five years. And you know, you think of the Julia

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Speaker 1: Robert's line with Pretty Woman, and it's like, I have

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Speaker 1: all of these ideas, and thankfully the NFL and fanatics

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Speaker 1: decided to get this thing rolling, and we launched on

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Speaker 1: really responding well to it. I love our Chargers stuff.

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Speaker 1: By the way, it is obviously one of the nicest

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Speaker 1: colors out there to kind of, you know, throw into

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Speaker 1: so it's like a T shirt or like a bomber

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Speaker 1: And like I said, the response has been awesome, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you asking me about it. So you mentioned

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Speaker 1: it's been a five year ish process, But what was

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Speaker 1: It's been, like I said, awesome, Yeah, and that's so

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Speaker 1: cool because you have nine pieces for each of the

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Speaker 1: season two, so that's so exciting, Like you're already working

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Speaker 1: like tossing out merch But it's really cool because I'm

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Speaker 1: like a sideline version of Oprah Winfrey and you have

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Speaker 1: Mercury Insurance. So moving to your career in season Dancing

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean Honestly, as much as I

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Speaker 1: So he has a lot to do with it, and honestly,

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Speaker 1: what do you love though about being able to kind

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Speaker 1: thanks to Aaron Andrews for joining me. One final reminder

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