Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Why do you boys? I'll ask this
Speaker 1: question on a podcast. Well, I'll just welcome everyone to
Speaker 1: the Calm Down Podcast. I'm extremely pale, and someone isn't.
Speaker 1: It's better in the med look at you. Apparently I
Speaker 1: wasn't prepared to start this because I'm still in a
Speaker 1: different time zone. Hello, everybody. This year is the pregame,
Speaker 1: and boy, oh boy, if you don't know what this is,
Speaker 1: if you're new to the old Calm Down podcast, it's
Speaker 1: ten minutes of fun. We give a precursory conversation. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if that's the right use of precursory conversation,
Speaker 1: but it makes me sound intelligent, So I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: go with it. Uh about what we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: in our full length convosation on a Thursday. We haven't
Speaker 1: had a podcast you and I together live to tape
Speaker 1: in four weeks, almost a month for three weeks maybe
Speaker 1: either way. Lots to get to and it starts, and
Speaker 1: I just want to say this, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: get into the full convo in the full length podcast
Speaker 1: I ran into and again I never get recognized it anywhere.
Speaker 1: I had two people in Italy come up to me,
Speaker 1: one on a flight and one in the streets of
Speaker 1: Ravello say are you the streets. Well, I'm I'm definitely
Speaker 1: in the streets. Say to me, are you Charissa Thompson?
Speaker 1: And I was like yeah, They're like, I love your podcast.
Speaker 1: You and Naron shut your mouth listening. I know. So
Speaker 1: for Alice, who I ran into on the plane, and
Speaker 1: the sweet girl in Ravello, I just appreciated that, and
Speaker 1: I like, we'll talk more about it in the full
Speaker 1: length one. Anyways, the point is you guys writing questions
Speaker 1: and we discussed them and we appreciate it so euro
Speaker 1: At first, yep, we are hearing from soul full. Oh,
Speaker 1: I get it. Soul full nine. Who are your spirit animals? Well,
Speaker 1: I always joke about this, Ashley. I always see the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders are my spirit animals? What about you?
Speaker 1: Do you have to actually use an animal though, for
Speaker 1: for spirit animals? Oh? Fact, spirited question. I thought, spirit
Speaker 1: that this is my spirit animal. Okay, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what mine is because I've been asked this question. In fact,
Speaker 1: I asked this question to a girlfriend of mine when
Speaker 1: We're at the table and she was dating this guy
Speaker 1: at the time, and I was like, oh, Chris, I
Speaker 1: will admit his last nit in case he doesn't want
Speaker 1: everyone to know this. My girlfriend Megan's boyfriend at the
Speaker 1: time now fiance and have a baby together. I said, Chris,
Speaker 1: what's your spirit animal? And he said a golden retriever.
Speaker 1: It perfectly summarized who he was and it's so adorable.
Speaker 1: Mine would be a dolphin. And I tell you this
Speaker 1: because I am fun, I am flirty, I like people,
Speaker 1: and I love the water. God. Now I feel like
Speaker 1: mine has to be something that's really airheadish because that's
Speaker 1: the way I jump at That was so air headish, fun, flirty,
Speaker 1: and I love the ladder. That sounds like your real housewife.
Speaker 1: Intro Um, what would mind be? Golden retriever? Is my
Speaker 1: husband always ready to play and have a good time
Speaker 1: and likes to be like petted me? Um? Well whoa
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the com Down podcast Canadian repetted Um.
Speaker 1: I would say a horse because I do have a
Speaker 1: long nose. I try to have a good tail and
Speaker 1: I can be something I could be. I'm irritable. I
Speaker 1: don't know like horses could be irritable at times and
Speaker 1: very powerful and very powerful, and you would be the
Speaker 1: gal that runs. That would be the favorite of the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby because you're a boss. You're a strong sty Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're a strong animal. Um okay, that was a great question,
Speaker 1: Soul for nine. Thank you very much for staying here.
Speaker 1: We're all out of time. On the pregame, Emily m says,
Speaker 1: is it hard to get back into work mindset after
Speaker 1: a summer or relaxing and seeing friends or family. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a perfect question for me, Emily, because it is
Speaker 1: very difficult. I'm someone who when I'm on vacation, I'm
Speaker 1: fully immersed. And so for me, I am playing that
Speaker 1: ultimate game of catchup. You know, the one where you
Speaker 1: don't answer any emails, you don't answer any text, nothing,
Speaker 1: and a week ends up feeling like you have to
Speaker 1: get cut up for three weeks. But it's worth it,
Speaker 1: how about you? I feel the same way. But I
Speaker 1: also feel like with our job, by the time we
Speaker 1: actually go live and are on television. Um, the build
Speaker 1: up is happening, right, guys are getting ready to go
Speaker 1: to camp in the next couple of weeks. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be a ton of storylines coming out. I was just
Speaker 1: texting with Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you guys studying a lot? Like we have a
Speaker 1: preseason game in a couple of weeks, and you know,
Speaker 1: we were all kind of just catching up on some
Speaker 1: headlines and some juicy details and page six. So by
Speaker 1: the time you know the season rules around for us,
Speaker 1: I think we're all like rare to go. Okay, Emily
Speaker 1: Schmidty summer or winter. I like dressing up for winter.
Speaker 1: I love a coco situation, cozy, you know, restaurant fireside
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But I also do love us summer
Speaker 1: like Casita's, Margarita's chips and guak trying to get this
Speaker 1: sun on my body, which obviously I haven't done out
Speaker 1: here in Montana. What about you because of Margarita, Um,
Speaker 1: I am definitely a summer person. I like winter because
Speaker 1: I love Jackets, so I'm a you know, love a
Speaker 1: good winter schmock. But um definitely more of a summer person.
Speaker 1: And next up we have Holly Loves Michael. You're adorable.
Speaker 1: What are some of the weirdest pregame rituals you see
Speaker 1: players and coaches do. That'd be more of you, sister.
Speaker 1: I don't really ever see anything weird, you know what.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys do. A lot of guys FaceTime
Speaker 1: on the field, which I think is so interesting, which
Speaker 1: I'm always like, don't act like you can't talk to
Speaker 1: me on the field because you're FaceTime and your family
Speaker 1: whoa UM. I like to walk up to guys right
Speaker 1: away during the pre pre game and say what are
Speaker 1: you listening to right now? Like I'm so curious this song?
Speaker 1: And then I write it down so I can jam
Speaker 1: out to it. That is a wonderful segue into my
Speaker 1: I thought about it right when I asked you the question.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen uh sit down interview that I had with
Speaker 1: him for those of you that aren't you, by the way,
Speaker 1: before the match, which pissed me off. Everybody was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, he said he does this, and I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, Chris, I had it inner feature anyway
Speaker 1: you um yeah. Josh Allen quarterback of the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: He listens to Frank Sinatra very like melodic music, something
Speaker 1: that gets him in like a zen place. He also
Speaker 1: throws up before every game. He said, it's not nerves
Speaker 1: it's just a habit that he has adopted and there's
Speaker 1: a little bit of superstition in it. And he also said,
Speaker 1: didn't say who said other guys on his team now
Speaker 1: also do it. So there's that thank you to the
Speaker 1: janitorial services at the Buffalo Bills. Hey, did you ask
Speaker 1: is that actually a finger down the throat? Or does
Speaker 1: he just sniff the toilet bowl? Like? How does that? Actually?
Speaker 1: That is a fantastic question, and that is why you
Speaker 1: are better at asking questions than I am, because I
Speaker 1: didn't go with a follow up. I just thought we're here,
Speaker 1: But that is a great question. Can you when's your
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills game on the schedule? Do you have that?
Speaker 1: Because I would love for that to be a pregame hit.
Speaker 1: I gotta find out, But can I tell you? Can
Speaker 1: you imagine if you had that in a feature and
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, so is it sticking your finger down
Speaker 1: your throat or do you just get a sniff of
Speaker 1: the toilet bowl? Can you imagine Terry Bradshaw call menting
Speaker 1: on that, did she say sniff of the toilet bowl?
Speaker 1: I mean that's like when Glazer reported that the deal
Speaker 1: for Matthew Stafford got done in the hot tub with
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh in Cabo and then Terry goes lots of things,
Speaker 1: lots of deals get done in the hot tub. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: here we go, this guy, Terry Terry blind one. Okay,
Speaker 1: Aaron Dot Danielle, You're adorable. Um, I want to get
Speaker 1: your middle name. This is for you, Aaron Jill. Have
Speaker 1: you ever met Carrie Underwood? I have met Carrie Underwood.
Speaker 1: I got to host the cmt S one year and
Speaker 1: she was obviously performing and she was so great to
Speaker 1: take a photo with me. And the worst part about it,
Speaker 1: I will post the photo on the Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 1: I g segue. It came out horrible. It was absolutely
Speaker 1: we were like black, like like we had a massive
Speaker 1: shadow on us. It was awful. So you can just
Speaker 1: see our silhouette. I will tell you though. My husband
Speaker 1: was very sweet and reached out to her husband when
Speaker 1: I first started Where and asked for her address. They
Speaker 1: sent it and then she tweeted about Where, and I
Speaker 1: remember I was at an Italian restaurant and I started crying.
Speaker 1: And it's not even because I drank too much. I
Speaker 1: was just so excited. I love that have you met her, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were. It was when I was working at Extra.
Speaker 1: Took a picture with her and I vainly didn't post
Speaker 1: the picture because I was nineteen times her size. She
Speaker 1: was sitting in a chair and I was like this,
Speaker 1: let's take a picture, and it was it was I
Speaker 1: might might as well have been in like a mascot uniform.
Speaker 1: I was that much bigger than her, and so I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah to my executive producer was like, oh,
Speaker 1: the picture didn't turn out. No, I just was math
Speaker 1: she's a little Yeah, she is the size of my arm,
Speaker 1: which currently isn't little. Okay, hardest part. Oh, we're wrapping,
Speaker 1: We're wrapping. Here's here's a teasee h for Alison Shine.
Speaker 1: We're going to answer your question on the full length
Speaker 1: podcast and see you Thursday. Fine. Calm Down with Aaron
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