Speaker 1: I don't know what was wrong with me. I was
Speaker 1: just so excited and I was like, wow, there's so
Speaker 1: many people watching this game. Literally two seconds before they
Speaker 1: threw to me, I go, what the fuck am I
Speaker 1: supposed to be talking about? This is crazy? And then
Speaker 1: I was like, Aaron breathed, what is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: Then you start being in your head? And Kevin's like ah,
Speaker 1: I was like, Calm Down with Aaron and Chrissa is
Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. Hi Hi Hi? I like how
Speaker 1: you say hi to Mac do it? No?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: You go? You go Hi? Yeah. It's like a really
Speaker 1: sweet like I do. That's it? Yep, I don't want
Speaker 1: right now? Yes, Hi, everyone, welcome to Calm Down Podcast.
Speaker 1: We are week four. I don't know what that move was.
Speaker 1: It feels like November? Does it feel like November? There's
Speaker 1: so much shit going on and I wouldn't want it
Speaker 1: any other way, but like, but like I need to
Speaker 1: stop saying life is bonkers right now. It's great a
Speaker 1: great way. It's great. It is Aaron is going to
Speaker 1: brag about my friend. Right from the jump here, she
Speaker 1: is going to go on HSN to promote her incredible line,
Speaker 1: where by Aaron Andrews. She's going on this will our
Speaker 1: podcast obviously drops on Thursday, but it's on Tuesday, so
Speaker 1: that you're going on. So we're going to make sure
Speaker 1: to pump that up on the old socials because I'm
Speaker 1: so proud of you. Do you You've done this before
Speaker 1: and this is never live at HSN. This is my
Speaker 1: first time in the studios. Oh, first time in the
Speaker 1: studios because you've done it before from virtually get from
Speaker 1: the opicite. Okay, because I grew up as a kid,
Speaker 1: I got in trouble one time. I stole my mom's
Speaker 1: credit card and I ordered things off of the Home
Speaker 1: Shopping Network. Okay, yep, sure did. When the Ronco food
Speaker 1: dehydrator showed up because I wanted to make beef jerky,
Speaker 1: my mother said, who ordered this? And the bron hand
Speaker 1: lender that wanted to make milkshakes also showed up and
Speaker 1: I was grounded for a long time. So for me,
Speaker 1: this is like very exciting that my best friend is
Speaker 1: going to be on the Home Shopping Network for her
Speaker 1: own line. This is great. I know it will have
Speaker 1: already happened by the time we air, but like, give
Speaker 1: me a little bit of like have you thought about
Speaker 1: how you're going to present things. Are your nails done
Speaker 1: you they're not done. They need to be redone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is what it is. You know what, people, this
Speaker 1: is real life. This is real life coming at you.
Speaker 1: Two and a half hours delayed out of Dallas today.
Speaker 1: I would like to give a shout out to my
Speaker 1: coworker who lives in Miami. He offered to fly me
Speaker 1: home and then make a stop. He was like, it's fine,
Speaker 1: your coworkers, Tom Brady. She's not going to say it.
Speaker 1: We will. That's very sweet. Sure, he was like, come on,
Speaker 1: you can just say no, No, it's fine, everything's good.
Speaker 1: Why did you taken up on that? I take al
Speaker 1: Michael's up on that all day every day because he
Speaker 1: wasn't landing in Tampa and then he'd have to make
Speaker 1: an extra stop and then go back up in the
Speaker 1: air and watch. It's like something would happen upon descent
Speaker 1: and like that would be fault and he'd be stuck
Speaker 1: in Tampa and you know whatever. So anyways, throw another parade.
Speaker 1: But it's fine. So any who, yeah, here and excited
Speaker 1: and go home for a minute. It's supposed to be
Speaker 1: a hurricane in Tampa on Thursday, which is frightening yep,
Speaker 1: and then our crew is coming back to do this
Speaker 1: Sunday game with the Eagles in town. But AnyWho, Yeah,
Speaker 1: looking forward to you're flying you're gonna stay there all week,
Speaker 1: or you're flying back home and then I've got to
Speaker 1: go see Mac. I've been gone since Friday. See, so
Speaker 1: you do not get to say that you're a bad
Speaker 1: mother because you are going to fly back to go
Speaker 1: hug that smush and then get back on a plane
Speaker 1: and fly right back to your same location. You are
Speaker 1: a great mother, miss Andy, and change out an Sure,
Speaker 1: that's important. Bring this episodes to understand why I'm saying that,
Speaker 1: because there's been times where you can't. Wow. Okay, So
Speaker 1: we are coming off of our week three assignments. Was
Speaker 1: I started a week in New York, New Jersey, to
Speaker 1: be specific met Life Stadium for the great rivalry of
Speaker 1: the Jets and the Patriots. The Patriots have owned that
Speaker 1: rivalry for the last two decades, but thanks to Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers and company, they got the win. It was really nice.
Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about it on the pregame. Yes,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, I forgive you for not really for not
Speaker 1: coming out to death after the game, because I never
Speaker 1: get to interview you because you have been well. First
Speaker 1: of all, you've been in the NFC for a long time,
Speaker 1: and I haven't been a sideline reporter for a long time,
Speaker 1: so we haven't gotten any of your games. Then when
Speaker 1: I finally got a Packers game, you were not with
Speaker 1: the Packers anymore. Then, of course, your unfortunate situation and
Speaker 1: rehabbing for a year. So really I'd like to make
Speaker 1: this all about me the next time I see you, Please,
Speaker 1: can I do an interview with you? Because I have
Speaker 1: never got to sit down in a sit down interview
Speaker 1: with Aaron or a postgame interview ever in the fifteen
Speaker 1: years I've done this job. How many owes you? He
Speaker 1: called you a professional troll, so he he owes you
Speaker 1: nasional trolls. Aaron blowing us up, calling us that is
Speaker 1: probably one of the funnier things ever. But Aaron is wonderful.
Speaker 1: We love him, and if you're a Jets fan, it's
Speaker 1: a good time to be optimistic because he looked like
Speaker 1: the Aaron Rodgers of old, and I'm very excited for him.
Speaker 1: I can only imagine how that must feel to come
Speaker 1: off a terrible injury, rehabit for a year, and get
Speaker 1: back out there. He probably has a sigh of relief,
Speaker 1: hence why he wanted to get that cocktail in him
Speaker 1: afterwards to celebrate. So anyways, so big win for the Jets,
Speaker 1: and then in studio yesterday you were in Dallas for
Speaker 1: a Monster matchup. I mean, very rarely in a week
Speaker 1: three games do you already feel like it's a playoff.
Speaker 1: So walk me through all of the things Ravens Cowboys
Speaker 1: go wow. I mean, just not the start, not the
Speaker 1: way they wanted it to go. Wish the game had
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying that because I'm anti Ravens,
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm very much sore for big ratings, exciting
Speaker 1: game that would have been so cool if they had
Speaker 1: tied it up we had gone into overtime, especially because
Speaker 1: it was such a one sided affair for most of
Speaker 1: the entire day. Yeah. Wow, gosh, lots of headlines coming
Speaker 1: out of the Star right now, and you see them
Speaker 1: on Thursday. I know, we were on our production call
Speaker 1: this morning for Amazon, and you know, look, this is
Speaker 1: a difficult situation. Obviously, that's not where the Cowboys want
Speaker 1: to be. Defensively, they are lost, right, I mean, Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons has said a lot about, you know, a lack
Speaker 1: of effort. I mean, there's a whole new system with
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer, There's there's so many different things going on.
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of key pieces missing, and then offensively,
Speaker 1: it's hard to get anything going. I mean they finally
Speaker 1: did at the end of the game yesterday. In fact,
Speaker 1: as they were kept scoring, I was like, where was
Speaker 1: this all game? But yeah, there's a lot of question
Speaker 1: marks on both sides of the ball for them. But
Speaker 1: for the Ravens, they avoid going zero to three. Fun fact,
Speaker 1: over the last twenty five five years, if you start
Speaker 1: out oh and three, there's only been one team in
Speaker 1: the last twenty five years that's made the playoffs. If
Speaker 1: you start oh and three, so it's not good. And
Speaker 1: then when you just look around the league. So go ahead,
Speaker 1: and I think if you started oh and two, we
Speaker 1: had a graphic on this to win this Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: And I think Tom was on a Patriots team that
Speaker 1: started oh and two and won the Super Bowl. So
Speaker 1: did mine? Oh good, yep, yep. There's been of our team,
Speaker 1: four teams that have started oh and two and three
Speaker 1: of those teams have went on to win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Michael uh went against the aforementioned Patriots, and
Speaker 1: then the Patriots did it. I don't know what year
Speaker 1: they did it, maybe oh nine, I don't know. Don't
Speaker 1: quote beyond that, but yeah, it's very difficult when you
Speaker 1: dig yourself that kind of hole. Then you look around
Speaker 1: the landscape of the league and you've got teams like
Speaker 1: the Vikings who are three and oh, the Seahawks who
Speaker 1: are three and oh, the Pittsburgh Steelers who are three
Speaker 1: and oh and shout out for Sam Darnold even though
Speaker 1: he gave out some miss information one time about me
Speaker 1: that got back to me, and I'm gonna take this
Speaker 1: up with Sam Donald and I'll be like, as I say,
Speaker 1: told him, did you okay? God, I love you, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad. Sam Donald thought some information about what
Speaker 1: was spreading some rumors about me that I had dated
Speaker 1: some random not dated, but that had like hooked up
Speaker 1: with this guy, and I was like, I never hooked
Speaker 1: up with that guy, Sam Donald, don't you dare say that?
Speaker 1: And it got back to me. So we're setting told
Speaker 1: him during pregame one time, I love you so much
Speaker 1: I said, oh, Chris has got a bone to pick
Speaker 1: with you, bone to pick with you. So good for
Speaker 1: Sam Donald and also being with a guy like Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 1: He's been very much credited with being a quarterback whisperer.
Speaker 1: So you know, JJ McCarthy going down for them before
Speaker 1: the season even started, their first round draft pick out
Speaker 1: of Michigan and just you know being like, ah, that sucks,
Speaker 1: and so good for Sam Donald. You know when we
Speaker 1: talked about these different quarterbacks, the Baker Mayfields that have
Speaker 1: been journeymen and looked for a home, the Jared Goffs
Speaker 1: who didn't feel like they had a home in la
Speaker 1: and then have success in Detroit. I just love the
Speaker 1: personal side of those stories because it's easy to sit
Speaker 1: here and be like, oh, they're not performing well, or
Speaker 1: like for Bryce Young, like this whor guy hasn't even
Speaker 1: really had a chance to have, you know, already being benched,
Speaker 1: and you know the mental side of that and the
Speaker 1: emotional side of that. You and I are so competitive.
Speaker 1: Imagine in our jobs where if we just got benched
Speaker 1: because of a certain performance that sometimes isn't completely up
Speaker 1: to us, and just trying to prove to people that
Speaker 1: you are worthy of belonging in that respective position. So
Speaker 1: happy for Sam Darnold. And yeah, it's just fun to
Speaker 1: see a little bit of parody in the league with
Speaker 1: teams that you didn't think we're going to have that
Speaker 1: kind of start. But again, as they always say, just
Speaker 1: gave us the whole Thursday night football rundown right there.
Speaker 1: Whoa guys, look, you know, don't give me a microphone.
Speaker 1: I won't shut up, But no, I'm excited. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Those Super Bowls are not one in September, so is they?
Speaker 1: Guys give us that generic answer every time it's a
Speaker 1: long season. I mean, look what just happened. I sat
Speaker 1: down with Derek Carr. They were freaking offensive, you know, Juggernauts,
Speaker 1: and then had a difficult time even putting points on
Speaker 1: the board with Eagles team that's been struggling. So I
Speaker 1: love it. I love the league, I love my I do.
Speaker 1: I just get so excited at her name. I just
Speaker 1: I know, I don't know. Well, who do you have
Speaker 1: this weeking of Tampa Eagles, Bucks Eagles in Tampa. We'll
Speaker 1: see again how the city does with this hurricane. My
Speaker 1: dad said, Tampa, not directly in the Cone. But anything
Speaker 1: could happen. When about don't you're our weather expert. I admittingly,
Speaker 1: I have not been paying attention to the weather. I've
Speaker 1: not heard anything about this. There is a system developing
Speaker 1: in Cuba, I believe right now. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's developed into a hurricane. I think it's Hurricane Helen.
Speaker 1: I Helena. Was it Helena that I actually moved to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and a hurricane was happening? Hurricane Helena? I
Speaker 1: think so? As that hurricane hit as my dad moved
Speaker 1: two kids and a wife, and we lived in a
Speaker 1: hotel right off the bay as he went to work,
Speaker 1: which was crazy pants, So more like what are we
Speaker 1: doing here? Yeah, especially when they were like you're getting
Speaker 1: evacuated and nobody had cell phones, and my dad's like
Speaker 1: chasing the hurricane. And I remember saying to him, Dad,
Speaker 1: but what if it looks back at you and sees
Speaker 1: you chasing it? Like had no clue? Kid from Maine?
Speaker 1: My dad kissed it. Yeah, Tampa to deal with hurricanes
Speaker 1: any who? Yeah, so a storm's supposed to be coming.
Speaker 1: We're trying to figure out what's going to happen with
Speaker 1: all that. Hi, Steve, I'd safe and then yeah, look interesting.
Speaker 1: Like I was watching some of the game back today,
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers game. Obviously I love Baker, I know you
Speaker 1: do as well. He said, we got our ass kicked,
Speaker 1: and they did both on defense and offense. So it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see. I know they're hurt. Yeah, looking
Speaker 1: forward to it. Be crazy. Yesterday was crazy, though. Yesterday
Speaker 1: is this. I feel like I know the Cowboys really
Speaker 1: really well because I'm with him basically every single week,
Speaker 1: and they become more like family members, yeah, and friends,
Speaker 1: and I know it's a job, but you could just
Speaker 1: see the pain in Dak's face and in MICA's face
Speaker 1: during the entire game, and Dak, you know, walking off
Speaker 1: and saying in the in the hallway down in the
Speaker 1: bowels of the stadium, jump off if you want to
Speaker 1: jump off, and it was just like, shit, it's going
Speaker 1: to be a long ball. It's a short week, thankfully.
Speaker 1: But oh man, I was wondering about because I saw
Speaker 1: that clip, so I'm assuming he just means the bandwagon
Speaker 1: or like, who was he saying that to hell? Because
Speaker 1: I think I think there's just media right there. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the heck happened right there? But we
Speaker 1: aren't supposed to root for people. I root for guys
Speaker 1: that are great and really wonderful to be around. And
Speaker 1: I root for a lot of guys on that team
Speaker 1: because they are so accommodating and lovely and they also
Speaker 1: have family. And it's shitty, you know, it's part of
Speaker 1: the gig. I get it. I just felt really bad.
Speaker 1: I actually hate teams losing in the end anyways, I
Speaker 1: really do. I really hate it. Everybody should be a winner.
Speaker 1: I hate when it comes down to the kicker. Me too,
Speaker 1: I hate I'm a kicker. I hate that. I really
Speaker 1: hate that brand.
Speaker 2: And ay though Jesus sees sixty five with this there,
Speaker 2: he could have kicked the seventy one yard field goal
Speaker 2: when you guys like reported on that before, he is
Speaker 2: such a badass.
Speaker 1: And then I was happy for the Rams they got
Speaker 1: a nice win. I mean, you're playing with you know.
Speaker 1: Matthew of course, had a great interview like so classy afterwards.
Speaker 1: He's like a lot of these guys might not be
Speaker 1: household names, but they work their ass off and they
Speaker 1: deserve to be on this team. And it's so great
Speaker 1: to see those kinds of guys show up in moments
Speaker 1: like this, and so I just I don't know, It's
Speaker 1: it's fun to see when you know, in this league
Speaker 1: it's always about who can stay the healthiest. And when
Speaker 1: you see these massive big injury I mean the CMC
Speaker 1: is of the world of George Kittles, like these guys
Speaker 1: Cooper cup or Pooka and Coo. Like in that game,
Speaker 1: it was like not who's not who's not playing, it's
Speaker 1: who is playing because there was so many guys out
Speaker 1: in both of those and you just hate to see
Speaker 1: it so early on in the season. Also, can we
Speaker 1: just talk about TMZ being like Travis Kelcey upset because
Speaker 1: Taylor's God okay, and Taylor Swift missus a game. She's
Speaker 1: got her life too, and she doesn't have to read
Speaker 1: to every single one. This is where and I've been
Speaker 1: dying to have this conversation with you. This is where
Speaker 1: I the entertainment world is great, but they just don't
Speaker 1: understand some of sports. And TMZ is not the only
Speaker 1: one that's doing this. It's other you know, papers and
Speaker 1: whatever side headline I saw, But well I saw she's
Speaker 1: not you know, Taylor Swift missus game. And while he's
Speaker 1: in Atlanta missus. You don't have to go to every
Speaker 1: single one. Not every wife or girlfriend goes to every
Speaker 1: single game. And the shots of him, you know, and oh,
Speaker 1: he's just so sad, well because he's a fucking competitor
Speaker 1: man and he wants to do well, but he's also
Speaker 1: pumped his teams when it's insane. This is why you
Speaker 1: almost don't mix the two. Now, I'm not saying not
Speaker 1: Taylor in sports, not at all, but like, no, you're saying,
Speaker 1: and you're like, well, because you know what happens. It's
Speaker 1: like they they're not stupid. These outlets are like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's clickbait, so like, let me, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: And then you read more and of course we all
Speaker 1: know what it is. Sometimes I'm just like you got
Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I know we talk not just from
Speaker 1: her perspective or his perspective, but just in general, like
Speaker 1: remember Jennifer Aniston of the day, like all the US
Speaker 1: weekly like magazine covers, imagine, like all of those headlines
Speaker 1: and like you having to I guess you you stop
Speaker 1: refuting him after a while because you know that you're
Speaker 1: all a bunch of bullshit. But it's like after a while,
Speaker 1: you're like, none of this is true. You guys are
Speaker 1: all gulible weirdos. Is the National Inquirer still a thing?
Speaker 1: How did they get away with some of their crazy headlines?
Speaker 1: Like it's like blatant, like just made up stuff where
Speaker 1: you're like, what that isn't even true? It's so weird.
Speaker 1: I remember that my gramma used to get the National
Speaker 1: Enquirer all the time and she'd have like stacks of it,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, bigfoot found in Montana.
Speaker 1: You're like, how are they allowed to print that? I digress.
Speaker 1: I do love, though, the random articles that you see
Speaker 1: in some of these more entertainment magazines where it's like
Speaker 1: they try to dip their toe in sports and like
Speaker 1: he left to go to Atlanta because he's playing there.
Speaker 1: This wa right right, right right. And I remember when
Speaker 1: she had a show during the football season, Travis Kelcey
Speaker 1: not in attendance because he's playing the fucking Bengals.
Speaker 2: Like what on.
Speaker 1: Anyho? Speaking of headlines, there was as we do on
Speaker 1: the show, our wonderful producer Ryan throws some of our
Speaker 1: way and sees if we like them, like them season
Speaker 1: we liked them? Wow, I'd like to take an English
Speaker 1: class study says couples who make fun of each other
Speaker 1: have happier relationships. You got him right. They do making
Speaker 1: fun of each other faithful, playful, and bonding experience in
Speaker 1: a couple's relationship, as long as it's done with mutual
Speaker 1: respect and understanding. You get the gist of it about that.
Speaker 1: I am all about being in a relationship where you can, like,
Speaker 1: you know, make fun of one another because it's not
Speaker 1: that serious. I don't know. I just love that. And
Speaker 1: I also like that it says study shows who's conducting
Speaker 1: this study, because I could conduct the study. I'm just
Speaker 1: going to tell you, if you're able to laugh at
Speaker 1: yourself and you're able to make fun of one another,
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. I got a really funny thing
Speaker 1: on Instagram then, I don't think I sent to you.
Speaker 1: I sent to my Jackie and Megan Chain. It said,
Speaker 1: it's got these pictures of these people and they're doing
Speaker 1: a smooch in a pumpkin patch and the title says,
Speaker 1: the title says, you know a marriage is in shambles
Speaker 1: when they drop fall photo shoot. That's really funny. It's
Speaker 1: like good. It's like the people that post the most
Speaker 1: pictures on Instagram with they're like really never happy, I'm
Speaker 1: never happy. Get a relationship one time. Stop me if
Speaker 1: you've heard this a terrible one and the person would
Speaker 1: insist on me posting about them, be like, it's been
Speaker 1: three weeks since you posted a picture of me, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're a loser, Like why am I with you?
Speaker 1: I don't want to post a picture of you. The
Speaker 1: fact that I saw the pictures and I was always like,
Speaker 1: and you're marrying in this, like you're not even happy.
Speaker 1: I was doing it with a broken heart. Oh lights, camera, bitch, smile.
Speaker 1: I will tell you what didn't make me smile today. Yes,
Speaker 1: we just completed week three, were on our way to
Speaker 1: week four. I had a good two and a half
Speaker 1: hour delay in Dallas. It's fine. I got some studying done.
Speaker 1: But this is what I don't enjoy. Here's my dear.
Speaker 1: I am very very wait for I'm mindful of people.
Speaker 1: I am mindful of the veterans. I am mindful of
Speaker 1: people who have children, people who need extra time to
Speaker 1: get on the plane, to let them get on the plane.
Speaker 1: Because I always think of my parents they're older. I
Speaker 1: always think if I had a kid, Well, I do
Speaker 1: have a kid, but like just traveling with a lot
Speaker 1: of shit with my kid. Any who. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be the person that, even though I am a
Speaker 1: thank you American concierge qiy I love it very much,
Speaker 1: or Delta three sixty, I don't want to be that
Speaker 1: person that's like, my dad, can I get a drink
Speaker 1: for you? Yes? Dad, get seven for me. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be the person that it's like I'm in,
Speaker 1: I'm concierge ki, I'm coming right through. I want to
Speaker 1: be mindful of the people. So anyways, two and a
Speaker 1: half hours, let's go, let's get on this plane. I wait.
Speaker 1: I wait behind a woman who looks like she he
Speaker 1: was getting ready to board and now they're boarding group
Speaker 1: one and she's creeping. She's creeping, and I just don't
Speaker 1: want to be the dick that is like, here, let
Speaker 1: me get in front of you. Finally, I hear someone say,
Speaker 1: are you group one? She goes, no, I'm Group three.
Speaker 1: I couldn't help myself. I go, you're group three. She
Speaker 1: goes yeah. I go, I've been standing behind you for
Speaker 1: ten minutes waiting for you to get on. She goes, oh,
Speaker 1: we'll go right ahead, and your group one. I will.
Speaker 1: I will go right ahead because if I just move over,
Speaker 1: stop gate gate crowding. Just have common sense, please, gate
Speaker 1: crowding is Have you coined that phrase? Is that a uphraser?
Speaker 1: Is that a thing? Because I couldn't agree more. It's
Speaker 1: very simple. And I say this not from a place
Speaker 1: of arrogance. I have been boarding zone seven, eight and
Speaker 1: nine a lot of times in my life, and there's
Speaker 1: are my career at ESPN. Thank you. We never got
Speaker 1: first class. We never got any of that shit until
Speaker 1: just recently. Okay, so I don't need to hear that.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, oh your zone one, Yeah, you're god,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm moonwalking now that I'm zone one.
Speaker 1: I'm so fucking happy that I've earned this zone one
Speaker 1: or this three sixty status that yeah, no, you're one
Speaker 1: hundred percent right for the people that need to get
Speaker 1: on first by all means, I will be as patient
Speaker 1: as can possibly be. That's in zone fucking seven, and
Speaker 1: you know you're in zone seven. Don't act surprised when
Speaker 1: I look at you and I go are you in
Speaker 1: Zone one? And they go no, and then then they
Speaker 1: move over this way. You knew all along that you
Speaker 1: were not supposed to be up here encroaching on this entrance.
Speaker 1: So first of all, there's two separate entrances, priority lines
Speaker 1: over here. You're over here, so you get over there.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I am going to be a bit about
Speaker 1: that stuff, and I have no problem saying it, because
Speaker 1: guess what, When I don't buy the fast pass for Disneyland,
Speaker 1: I don't go into the fast pass Liney when I
Speaker 1: don't have because I didn't buy it, because I didn't
Speaker 1: spend the extra money. Because I don't have, you don't
Speaker 1: even go to Disneyland. But you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: If I don't have, if I'm at the grocery store
Speaker 1: and i have more than fifteen items, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to go into the speedy fifteen items or less line. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm following the rules. So if your zone seven, get
Speaker 1: your ass out of the way for people that are
Speaker 1: allowed to get on before you. I don't care. I'm
Speaker 1: over this and I don't want to be made to
Speaker 1: feel like I'm the asshole because I'm asking you what
Speaker 1: zone you're in. You know very well, don't all of
Speaker 1: a sudden act stupid. Okay, move over. I just was
Speaker 1: really offended because I was trying to be so helpful
Speaker 1: and I was like, maybe she's just waiting her time,
Speaker 1: YadA YadA, YadA, Seinfeld. And then finally she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: go ahead, and I was like, yeah right, I'm taking
Speaker 1: an L in the wind loss column right now with
Speaker 1: your attitude. And I got snippy. I did. I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I sat here for ten minutes because
Speaker 1: I was trying to be mindful of you gate crowder
Speaker 1: for Halloween. It's going to be a gate crowder. No
Speaker 1: good deed, No, we're being assessed me straight. No good
Speaker 1: deed goes unpunished. I'm telling you on that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff because there's so many things that I am going
Speaker 1: to go out of my way and be nice for
Speaker 1: and be considerate whatever. I am real arrogant at the airport,
Speaker 1: and I got no problem with my arrogance. That arrogance
Speaker 1: is urged. Okay, I am. I'm so nice, you can
Speaker 1: run a truck right over me. I'll do anything for people.
Speaker 1: I'm like a golden retriever because I just don't want
Speaker 1: to piss people off and then look what ends up happening. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what? Good for you? Okay, you are you
Speaker 1: could be my emotional support dog at the airport and
Speaker 1: then I'll get you into boarding area of one because
Speaker 1: I am not nice when it comes to the airport.
Speaker 1: Outside of those airport walls, I will be Mother Teresa.
Speaker 1: But in that airport, God damn it, I am Queen Elizabeth.
Speaker 1: You guys better bow down to me and my reason
Speaker 1: to be status. And I am walking in and out
Speaker 1: of that lounge with a cocktail. I am having you
Speaker 1: take me right to the plane. I got no problem,
Speaker 1: no problem with that. Nope, not today, folks, not kidding me.
Speaker 1: Oh all right? You know the higgest part about our job,
Speaker 1: besides the prep and lights, camera bitch, smile and smile
Speaker 1: and feeling like you're gonna blank out in your first hit.
Speaker 1: I don't know what was wrong with me. I was
Speaker 1: just so excited and I was like, Wow, there's so
Speaker 1: many people watching this game. Literally two seconds before they
Speaker 1: threw to me, I go, what what the fuck am
Speaker 1: I supposed to be talking about? This is crazy? And
Speaker 1: then I was like, Aaron breathed, what is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: Then you start being in your head and Kevin's like, ah,
Speaker 1: Aaron Andrews, And I was like, besides all that you
Speaker 1: want to know, what's a lot? You are famulous? You
Speaker 1: fucking crush it. And this is the stuff that Aaron
Speaker 1: will never say. But she gets so nervous before, which
Speaker 1: I think is a good thing. So nervous. I think
Speaker 1: that's a great thing because when you have thirty plus
Speaker 1: million people watching and it's for twenty seconds two and
Speaker 1: if you do which we're going to talk about in
Speaker 1: a second, you always crush it. And the thing is
Speaker 1: is like that people like, oh, it can't be that hard.
Speaker 1: You try standing there. I don't have a teleprompter. No,
Speaker 1: I actually would love one for my opening hit. I
Speaker 1: tell't and to be conversational to like you're like, I
Speaker 1: get it. It's the same way that we talked about
Speaker 1: these athletes. Well, that's their job. They're getting paid a
Speaker 1: lot of money. It's your job to have that stand
Speaker 1: up ready. It's your job to do the post the
Speaker 1: postgame interviews, it's your job to do the halftime interviews.
Speaker 1: And blah blah blah. We get at your job, but
Speaker 1: it still doesn't mean that it's like you nail it
Speaker 1: every time. I fucking fumbled nineteen different reads and I
Speaker 1: had a teleprompter for Thursday night football, and at one point,
Speaker 1: because this is what we do. I after the A bloc,
Speaker 1: I sat there and I was like, in my head,
Speaker 1: I go, you better get it together right now. What Yeah,
Speaker 1: go with you, Chris. That was me right before my
Speaker 1: stand up, And this is what I have to say
Speaker 1: to myself. Slow down, yeah, good breath and stop rushing.
Speaker 1: You've done this a million times. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: they're changing the rundown, it doesn't matter if the crowd's
Speaker 1: behind you, it doesn't matter. Just slow down. And that's
Speaker 1: the way that I get myself to get back. I
Speaker 1: even at halftime, right before I went out there, I
Speaker 1: went and used the potty, and I remember I was
Speaker 1: like saying to myself. I was like, I was like,
Speaker 1: I said to myself as I'm sitting there peeing, I
Speaker 1: was like, you are good at your job. Stop trying
Speaker 1: to do too much. Just go out there, listen to
Speaker 1: what the guys say. Yeah, in and out of breaks
Speaker 1: that are clean, and don't make this a mountain out
Speaker 1: of a molehill. Which stupid stumbling because I get so
Speaker 1: hard on myself if I stumble at all, and it's like,
Speaker 1: not everything is perfect, but I do I want to
Speaker 1: be perfect, and that's the part where I think sometimes
Speaker 1: anyone that listens to this podcast should know that we're
Speaker 1: not acting like what we do is the world's most
Speaker 1: difficult job. Okay, so I'll just keep that out of
Speaker 1: the way doing brain surgery, but I will say that
Speaker 1: there still is an element of live TV and There's
Speaker 1: been plenty of times that I've blanked out and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, what am I doing? And thank God for
Speaker 1: some muscle memory because it gets me to where I
Speaker 1: need to go. But I'm like, sometimes it ain't pretty.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you something? This just made me think
Speaker 1: of this. So last week we were talking about or No.
Speaker 1: It was I think week one, and I just told
Speaker 1: you I had zero confidence and I had stuff going
Speaker 1: on at home, and I just I just didn't you
Speaker 1: were great. My dad was great about being like, listen,
Speaker 1: you're good at your job. I got the nicest text
Speaker 1: from a former college coach that I used to cover
Speaker 1: all the time, and he goes, heard you were having
Speaker 1: a rough go with your confidence. I must have been
Speaker 1: from the podcast. Just wanted to reach out and tell
Speaker 1: you myself and you mentioned his wife are your biggest fans?
Speaker 1: We have been since day one. Blah blah blah. But
Speaker 1: you being honest about that just makes you who you are.
Speaker 1: I thought that was so love and that is so
Speaker 1: lon and I forgot to run it back. Okay, you
Speaker 1: actually bet about that because you know the people in
Speaker 1: our lives, but I don't write us back and we
Speaker 1: don't like them. Yeah, not that we don't like them,
Speaker 1: we just are like, uh, you're not that busy to
Speaker 1: respond back in two messages. You know what I do
Speaker 1: now on those. First of all, that is so nice
Speaker 1: and did that nice? It is warranted and you know
Speaker 1: what I did two things I don't want to say
Speaker 1: about that. You're deserving of that recognition. And also that's
Speaker 1: a good reminder that the way that that text made
Speaker 1: you feel, pay that forward and do that to somebody
Speaker 1: else that you know you here is like like you
Speaker 1: did that with Mike McCarthy, even like I'm sorry, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just like and paid it off on your half
Speaker 1: to import like pay that forward because you know how
Speaker 1: it makes you feel, and it like takes no time
Speaker 1: at all for that person to send that text. But
Speaker 1: I also do this because I'm trying not to be
Speaker 1: delinquent and responding on a text. If I open up
Speaker 1: a text, if I open up a text, and then
Speaker 1: I will go back out and I will I will
Speaker 1: read read. Yeah, unread, unread, read read, unread, and you
Speaker 1: read read your text. By the way, that a great idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go to unread. And in your case, what if I
Speaker 1: did my first hit next weekend? In English accent, Kevin,
Speaker 1: the buccany is a trying to that would be crazy. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing crazier things on the sideline, like sunglasses. So anyways,
Speaker 1: this is just where I'm getting to in life. We
Speaker 1: need to pay things forward. We need to appreciate that,
Speaker 1: and we need to recognize that, like that text would
Speaker 1: not have been sent if there wasn't real merit and
Speaker 1: thought behind. So I think that you need to store
Speaker 1: that away in your little pocket and remember that next
Speaker 1: time you're feeling any sort of insecurity. But I think
Speaker 1: insecurity is great. It means that you never also feel
Speaker 1: like you've just fucking arrived. These people that think that
Speaker 1: they belong anywhere. Going back to my rant about you
Speaker 1: know why quarterbacks, I just it's the hardest position in sports,
Speaker 1: and I give so much credit to people that play
Speaker 1: that position and sometimes it's like, aren't actually given a
Speaker 1: fair shot? And all it takes is the right system.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know what my tangent is. I just really,
Speaker 1: you know, I want everyone to be nice, except for
Speaker 1: when I think I'm not in the right system. Is
Speaker 1: that why I almost blanked out? No, you know what
Speaker 1: it is too. There's so much excitement, and there's like,
Speaker 1: you know, everything is new for Tom right now, which
Speaker 1: is really fine and cool for us, and he was
Speaker 1: so excited and we practiced a few times and all that.
Speaker 1: I feel like, I take it on and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is my first big game and
Speaker 1: it's not Aaron stuff like relax. But you're right. I
Speaker 1: just was like, what am I doing? Why am I
Speaker 1: blanking out? I can't breathe. Oh my god, he's throwing
Speaker 1: to me. This is nuts. It's good though. I think
Speaker 1: if you ever get Temple in that situation, knock it
Speaker 1: off if you will. If you're like me, you have
Speaker 1: one and you still can't read it. But I actually
Speaker 1: think it's really important and I'm trying to do this
Speaker 1: even on my Sunday show. Is not have First of all,
Speaker 1: a telepromter is a great thing, and sometimes you need
Speaker 1: it to get in and out of breaks because you
Speaker 1: have video, right like you write to the video that
Speaker 1: you're seeing. So there's a time and a place for it.
Speaker 1: But also the most important thing for me is just listening,
Speaker 1: like whatever the guys are saying on the desk, like
Speaker 1: that's something to play off. Anyways, we can do broadcasting
Speaker 1: one on one another day. Sure what I would should
Speaker 1: hold a clinic? Give you know what? Who put on
Speaker 1: a clinic for doing stand up comedy in two seconds
Speaker 1: is Nicki Glazer. And I want to give a shout
Speaker 1: out to her. She was in she has done however
Speaker 1: many shows. She crushed it at the Brady Rose for
Speaker 1: people that didn't know her before they definitely know her now.
Speaker 1: And she was, you know, wonderful. And she's now a
Speaker 1: part of Thursday Night for a couple of our shows,
Speaker 1: and she was on our desk and it was met
Speaker 1: with all these mixed reviews. And this is not a
Speaker 1: Nicky Glazer problem. I'm going to stand up for her
Speaker 1: on she yeah, because people were like, oh, the it
Speaker 1: bombed or this or that. First of all, no it didn't.
Speaker 1: It was fucking hysterical. And we what I would have
Speaker 1: loved if we could go back, is that I wish
Speaker 1: the audience could hear what she was saying, because it
Speaker 1: was basically like she's just talking to the audience at home,
Speaker 1: and if you're not getting like laugh track, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: laugh exactly, then it feels like it falls flat. So
Speaker 1: we should have done a better job as a group
Speaker 1: of supporting that, because it was just like she's telling
Speaker 1: these really funny jokes and it's like it's just no
Speaker 1: one's I mean, we're laughing, but it's like you can
Speaker 1: only hear a little laugh here or there, as opposed
Speaker 1: to like taking advantage of a full live audience that
Speaker 1: was still there after the Jets game. But she couldn't
Speaker 1: have been lovelier. I know that she was supposed to
Speaker 1: be on our podcast, but of course I had travel issues.
Speaker 1: Stop me if you've heard this before, and so I
Speaker 1: was like apologizing profusely to her. I'm like, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: You're like in the busiest time of your life with
Speaker 1: all your different and I had to cancel on your tweets, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, don't even worry about it. She came
Speaker 1: and met us all for drinks the night before, so fun.
Speaker 1: I was like you have to come over first of all,
Speaker 1: like I don't care, like that's her job is to
Speaker 1: be a stand up comedian, but like you're going to
Speaker 1: roast people, and I mean roast is a loose term.
Speaker 1: She was actually very nice for some of the shit
Speaker 1: that she could have said about us. But I was like,
Speaker 1: come and hang with the guys. This such a generous group,
Speaker 1: you'll like love them. And so we had a great dinner.
Speaker 1: She came and met us a little bit later and
Speaker 1: had some drinks and then she left and we're all
Speaker 1: of our all of our guys, Tony scharmp or whatever,
Speaker 1: the whole group are finishing up dinner and we go
Speaker 1: to pay and the waiter came over and he goes,
Speaker 1: it's already been taken care of, and we're like what,
Speaker 1: and he's like, Nikki bought it. I was like, that
Speaker 1: is such a freaking classy move, by the way, but
Speaker 1: again a lot of things at that point, so I
Speaker 1: just thought that was so nice she came in and
Speaker 1: did that, and so I'm excited to see what are
Speaker 1: some of the other segments that she's going to be
Speaker 1: doing for us. But yeah, I was like, oh man,
Speaker 1: we could have helped her out with that a little
Speaker 1: bit better. So good thing. You know, constantly work on
Speaker 1: a proofing no matter what you're doing. Oh and Ryan,
Speaker 1: I just saw your note that is the two thousand
Speaker 1: and one Patriots that were owed to So yeah, there's
Speaker 1: that that one. Get Tom, get it girlfriend you have.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you go. You have a million things
Speaker 1: to doing wrong. I'm so excited for HSN. Like I said,
Speaker 1: by the time that our podcast aired, you will have
Speaker 1: already done it, so I can't wait for a full
Speaker 1: recap next week. You are an incredible mother. You are
Speaker 1: great at your job. You're a great person, and I
Speaker 1: love you very much and I just a'm proud of
Speaker 1: you for juggling all these different things at once. And
Speaker 1: we're here. Listen, you're juggling a lot too. Right now.
Speaker 1: You're headed to Philly, You're headed to your book New York.
Speaker 1: You've got to stop. You have an interior design company,
Speaker 1: knock it off, your balancing, two football shows and sit
Speaker 1: down features. Wait, no, I want to do this segment
Speaker 1: about what everybody was wearing because I thought you had
Speaker 1: a great eight week last week and what you were
Speaker 1: wearing perfect. Gave it to us one thing shout out.
Speaker 1: And I don't know who the official was because I
Speaker 1: had never met him before, but I have to say
Speaker 1: it was at the Jets game when the officials in
Speaker 1: the game, right after the national anthem was over. He
Speaker 1: came running over and he goes, calm the fuck down,
Speaker 1: ha ha, and like laughed and I was like, you
Speaker 1: better knock it off, and I want it was in Hussy. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't Hussy, but I got to figure out who
Speaker 1: it was because it was great and it made me
Speaker 1: laugh and it made me smile or like anyone that's
Speaker 1: in the crowd and yells out calmed down, I get
Speaker 1: really are so Nope, not Geene. It was not Jeane.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'll figure out who it was. But I
Speaker 1: just thought that was great. Okay, clothing. I am dedicated
Speaker 1: to our clothing segment that I just pulled this out
Speaker 1: of the dry cleaning that I'm supposed to be dropping
Speaker 1: off with the makeup on the caller. I don't know
Speaker 1: who this brand is. I can't even pronounce it. You
Speaker 1: weren't told Jin, You weren't Toldjin. This was a top
Speaker 1: and a skirt that you'll appreciate that I bought day
Speaker 1: before my game, because I was going shopping for an
Speaker 1: interview for Derek car because I found out I was
Speaker 1: doing that interview while I was on the plane to
Speaker 1: New York. So went shopping for an interview outfit there
Speaker 1: and then ended up audibling out of my outfit, I
Speaker 1: was gonna wear it, and I wore this and it
Speaker 1: had a skirt, and I loved my boots. They were Botaga.
Speaker 1: I spent way too much on them. Can I just
Speaker 1: tell you what a packer I am, the amount of
Speaker 1: shit I had? Did you know I hear my joke?
Speaker 1: What did you say? I said, at least the boots fit?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, not size eleven. And did pay thirty five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for him? Yeah, yeah, you know the one movie.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So I loved my boots. They were Botega Vena.
Speaker 1: I won't even pronounced like I can pronounce any of
Speaker 1: these designers, but yeah. That. And then on Sunday, Veronica Beerge,
Speaker 1: what was your Derek out fit too? Your Derek outfit
Speaker 1: was great? Oh? My Derek outfit was I had a
Speaker 1: Simci black dress on that was a shirt and looked
Speaker 1: like a shirt and a skirt. It was all one
Speaker 1: piece and then I splurged on some Christian lubaton which
Speaker 1: are we still wearing yet? We are? We're like cowboy
Speaker 1: boot kind of things. They were so cool and of
Speaker 1: course this is such a girl thing and I don't care.
Speaker 1: But Crystal who was producing, and she did a great job.
Speaker 1: You know how, before we do our features, we like
Speaker 1: to get a shot because I'm like, am I pulling
Speaker 1: my hair back on the right? Am I pulling on
Speaker 1: the left? Like? What's the shot look like? So I
Speaker 1: asked her, I go send me a picture of what
Speaker 1: the setup is. Pleased and she sent it to me
Speaker 1: and I was like, damn it, you're not going to
Speaker 1: see my shoes and they were like, great, but that's okay.
Speaker 1: I I've never been more excited. And this is hands
Speaker 1: and you've had some really really good looks. This is
Speaker 1: hands down my favorite interview look you've ever had for
Speaker 1: a sit down interview or look in general. Your updo
Speaker 1: and that silver skirt, you better knock it off. The
Speaker 1: second I saw it on the teas on Sunday, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, heyll no, how does this chick have
Speaker 1: this outf and I don't know it? So I text
Speaker 1: you you look great. Love you, Love you, Danielle, and
Speaker 1: for putting me in it just a naked wardrobe body suit.
Speaker 1: I think this skirt was called bang although this slit
Speaker 1: or not the slit, this seam right up this center
Speaker 1: of it started breaking before Lamar walked in. So thank
Speaker 1: goodness for our audio guys, and I thought of you
Speaker 1: right away. I'm like Chris, I would do the same thing.
Speaker 1: I put double sided tape underneath, like up in my skirt.
Speaker 1: Jillian had to go up in my skirt and like
Speaker 1: put the double side a tape there so while I
Speaker 1: was sitting with him it wouldn't split open the things
Speaker 1: you gotta do tape. It's silver. Yeah, perfect, It looked great,
Speaker 1: loved and you're not an updue goal. But I need
Speaker 1: the story behind this because there was a unanimous studio
Speaker 1: consensus too after seeing you, including the guys who you
Speaker 1: know when the guys are like, oh my god, Aaron
Speaker 1: looks great, like this was like Jules Michael, Charlie's great
Speaker 1: and your hair up, which you don't do often, but
Speaker 1: you should do more of Thank you. That was a
Speaker 1: Gillian Gregory request from Anna Sullivan in Dallas, who's adorable
Speaker 1: and does great little up dues and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't want wedding meats prom She does a lot
Speaker 1: of wedding and I was like, no offense, Anna, and
Speaker 1: she goes no, no, no. I was like, she goes the
Speaker 1: t like hot mom, and I was like, whoa, relax
Speaker 1: with the mom stuff. And so yeah, she did it great.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'll just do it. It's fine. It
Speaker 1: was super fun and I loved it. Easy. Lamar was great.
Speaker 1: He was fun to sit down with. Joel Santos is
Speaker 1: insane with the way he produces things and makes it
Speaker 1: look good off a mirror. Julian added a ton of
Speaker 1: arm makeup to make my arms look like yours did
Speaker 1: in Miami, and yours look fantastic. And then at the game,
Speaker 1: I wore a cute little two piece I think it's
Speaker 1: Stadd sta u d. I love that with a boot
Speaker 1: and a little hat pony for Dallas, giddy up with
Speaker 1: the tundrils. And yeah, it was a good week. It
Speaker 1: was fun. And now next this week, I think it's
Speaker 1: supposed to pour, so yay. I met Stodd actually the designer.
Speaker 1: She's a friend of one of our Lauren's, and we
Speaker 1: were at a pickleball game. And I looked at hers
Speaker 1: and it was like I was meeting a celebrity because
Speaker 1: I love her clothes. She does great, full beautiful clothes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Her name's actually Stowed. And I was like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: her first name. Yeah, and so yeah, I know all
Speaker 1: of her stuff in fact. And then and then this
Speaker 1: is me being the psycho because I have to take
Speaker 1: it to four. I was like, I even bought your
Speaker 1: collaboration with Business and Pleasure, which is like the adorable
Speaker 1: outside stuff, like they have the umbrellas and like the
Speaker 1: chairs and all that. She did a collaboration with them
Speaker 1: and screen and white and it's great. And she was
Speaker 1: just looking at me. She was like Okay, no, I
Speaker 1: mean she was lovely, but she was probably like this
Speaker 1: girl's crazy and a psycho. But I just am a
Speaker 1: big stad fan. So yeah, you looked amazing. Okay, Gal,
Speaker 1: I love you. Going down to your family and let's
Speaker 1: keep it going. We're entering into week four. Go get it.
Speaker 1: This is crazy. Is this our last game of September? No?
Speaker 1: We have two more. No, we have one more, right,
Speaker 1: one one more after this? Right? Wow? Yeah, it's already
Speaker 1: it's September twenty third as we record this, yeah, the
Speaker 1: next one. We don't know. This is our last one.
Speaker 1: This is our last game in September. This is nuts.
Speaker 1: We do can't even look at a calendar, right, you
Speaker 1: don't want to afraid to look at a calendar very early.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that on the next podcast. You said that,
Speaker 1: and you are a hippo crit becoming. You don't like
Speaker 1: people that have Halloween stuff out yet, and you want
Speaker 1: to put Jolly old Saint Nick's fat ass down that chimney.
Speaker 1: That's a line for vacation. You want to put your
Speaker 1: Christmas tree up? I kind of love it, though you
Speaker 1: might as well get a hip stop. I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you I am a hypocrite on that because for
Speaker 1: so many years I just think it's are And now
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm going to get ahead of it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get ahead of all the shopping, the tree and
Speaker 1: all the thing. And so then come I don't know, Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: people are going to start getting all that stuff out,
Speaker 1: and I'll be like, mine's already been up for two months.
Speaker 1: What does it matter? People keep it doesn't matter? Why
Speaker 1: can't I put it up before Christmas? Like months? People
Speaker 1: do anything you want. I'm so I act like it's
Speaker 1: my birthday every day and if you're not in boarding
Speaker 1: zone one, move the fuck out of the way. Love you,
Speaker 1: Bye bye. Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a
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