Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Chrissa is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. All right, there we go, But I know,
Speaker 1: don't you hate when that happens? For like the little
Speaker 1: messy and put on it runs down there? Hi, everyone,
Speaker 1: this is the Calm Down Podcast. If you're watching, Aaron
Speaker 1: is cleaning up the residue of her mascara below her eyes.
Speaker 1: I mean, my hair done, even though I just got
Speaker 1: it done. What's happening, my dear? Another week? Another week,
Speaker 1: you know? And it's we love football and we're so
Speaker 1: excited for it, but you know, like our summer is
Speaker 1: quickly coming to an end. You feel that right as
Speaker 1: we're starting to cross these days off. It's like everybody's
Speaker 1: like it's summertime, and I'm like, it's almost time for camp,
Speaker 1: which means we're almost back to work. But I'm still
Speaker 1: gonna breathe deeply in and out of my nose. Maybe
Speaker 1: hold it for five seconds and out for five seconds,
Speaker 1: because no needs have anxiety. I'm pumped about sports. But
Speaker 1: time is a flying man. Time is a ticking and
Speaker 1: it's actually that's a perfect lead into We have an
Speaker 1: incredible guest on the podcast today. Even if you're not
Speaker 1: a sports fan, you should listen to this because it
Speaker 1: is a woman that is the first, but not the
Speaker 1: last to do this. Lori Locus. She is the assistant
Speaker 1: defensive line coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This story
Speaker 1: is incredible. I cannot wait to dive in. I know
Speaker 1: that you've been a big fan of hers for a
Speaker 1: long time, and um, you guys have a you know,
Speaker 1: social media blessing and a phrase, but like you guys
Speaker 1: have a relationship over social media, and I just cannot wait.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about this, this defense for the Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: what they did, and she is just you know, obviously
Speaker 1: we're women in sports. She's a fucking woman in sports standing,
Speaker 1: I mean, a leader of men. I'm really excited to
Speaker 1: talk to her. But as you just mentioned, like once
Speaker 1: July comes around, it's like, okay, the season is upon us.
Speaker 1: The season is upon us. I start looking for tank
Speaker 1: tops appropriate to wear on television for the hot games.
Speaker 1: In the beginning part of this season, I start being like,
Speaker 1: where's my raincoat? Has anyone seen my raincoat? Did I
Speaker 1: bring it? Do you want to know an unbelievable story
Speaker 1: about my rain gear. I probably have never told you
Speaker 1: speaking of football. So guys, I'll just let you in
Speaker 1: on a little secret. I have a bag on each truck.
Speaker 1: We have a Thursday night football truck, and then we
Speaker 1: have a Sunday truck. I keep a bag on each
Speaker 1: truck and it's got my rainpants, my rain jacket, and
Speaker 1: I go. And if you've ever seen me work a
Speaker 1: rain game like I fell, I love. I play the
Speaker 1: part like I do. I go baseball. Have I put
Speaker 1: my you know, extensions in a braid. I've got the raincoat,
Speaker 1: I've got the rain boots. I am like ready, I
Speaker 1: look like an official half the time. So I keep
Speaker 1: that tucked away, sarah. Um and uh so if I
Speaker 1: ever need it, obviously we grab it. Well one season
Speaker 1: wasn't last year, maybe it was the two year before. Um.
Speaker 1: We always have to have our own food down on
Speaker 1: the sidelines. There's no time to really have a meal,
Speaker 1: but I always like to do like a peanut butter
Speaker 1: and jelly sandwich or do some sort of bar And
Speaker 1: I love our crew. They're so wonderful before we get
Speaker 1: to the game, because we're at the game like twelve
Speaker 1: hours before. That's an exaggeration, but it feels like it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tell people at home, because I think they actually will
Speaker 1: find this interesting. So if you have a four o'clock kick,
Speaker 1: what time are you getting to the field? If we
Speaker 1: have it's a four thirty five kick, Sit back, everybody
Speaker 1: for America's Game of the Week, Um for you want
Speaker 1: me to do it? Coming up next, America's Game of
Speaker 1: the Week. Joe, Troy and Erin on the call. No,
Speaker 1: that's not how you say it. You say Joe, Troy
Speaker 1: and Aerin. No, I know whatever. Alright, I'm gonna change
Speaker 1: it up this year. I'm just gonna leave you out
Speaker 1: of it. Let's go back to Joe and Troy. Okay,
Speaker 1: So it's for thirty five kick, America's Game of the Week,
Speaker 1: for think, and we usually get picked up. We see
Speaker 1: your show, we see the pregame show. We usually get
Speaker 1: picked up, like right right at the end of the
Speaker 1: pregame show, which is what time Eastern dude, that's ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: Well ten o'clock for the one o'clock kick, So you're
Speaker 1: that's ted. So we get picked up at one or
Speaker 1: the three, three and a half hour. We get there
Speaker 1: three and a half hour, so you know, I get cranky,
Speaker 1: I'm hungry. So our guys on the crew. They usually
Speaker 1: get like subs and everything like that. They'll throw a
Speaker 1: turkey cheddar you know, let us come in my way.
Speaker 1: One game I had and it was a rain game,
Speaker 1: I put the sandwich in my rain duffel bag. We
Speaker 1: get to this is unbelievable. We get to the year
Speaker 1: that it was Patriots, you know, Cowboys at Patriots. One
Speaker 1: of the worst weather condition games I've ever done. It
Speaker 1: was pouring sideways. It wasn't cold enough yet for it
Speaker 1: to turn into snow, but it was so freaking cold
Speaker 1: you couldn't stay warm. My notes were a mess, like
Speaker 1: it was a blowout. But before that, I went to
Speaker 1: go get my gear. I opened it up, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what is that smell? For sixteen weeks that tech that
Speaker 1: turkey and cheddar cheese sandwich had been in my back.
Speaker 1: The amount of hold on it and it was all
Speaker 1: in my rain gear was on. It was next level,
Speaker 1: next level rose holy sixteen weeks and it was like
Speaker 1: a hairy, gray and green fungus that was growing on
Speaker 1: my rain pants and growing on my rain jacket. It
Speaker 1: was did you throw it all away? I threw the
Speaker 1: whole bag away, Okay. Then I'm gonna I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you another story then, which you're better than I am.
Speaker 1: I had mice up at the lake and they went
Speaker 1: to the bathroom all over this blanket. But the pictures
Speaker 1: I remember when I sent you that. Since got an
Speaker 1: exterminator because there was I was doing construction and I
Speaker 1: hate the contractor that did it the worst. He left
Speaker 1: the door open and it was mice. I took that
Speaker 1: blanket to the dry cleaner three times. I still use it.
Speaker 1: I still use it. I couldn't get rid of it.
Speaker 1: That's okay. That gross. No, you got this stuff out right,
Speaker 1: You got all their little droppings out. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: nothing on it, but it's kind of I mean in
Speaker 1: when I'm saying it out loud, like there was mouse
Speaker 1: ship all over the blanket. And I still used the blanket.
Speaker 1: Like that sounds terrible. But so when you're cuddling up
Speaker 1: yourself in that blanket, you don't think of little rodents
Speaker 1: like legs and tails all over you, Like, no, I don't.
Speaker 1: But now I'm thinking about it, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just love the blanket. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to throw it away, but um, good for you.
Speaker 1: Good for you for getting rid of that. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine if you got some like staff infection from your
Speaker 1: turkey sandwich on your rain gear. No, but I got
Speaker 1: enough respiratory infection after that game because it was so calm.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. I sat there the offensive line.
Speaker 1: I could not keep my hands warm because it was
Speaker 1: freezing out, and then my gloves were getting wet that
Speaker 1: you know, all the guys were like hanging out in
Speaker 1: front of that like heater or thing, and one of
Speaker 1: the old lineman I don't know who they were for
Speaker 1: the cowboys just grabbed my gloves and he just laid
Speaker 1: it on the heater. I was like, thank you. You
Speaker 1: know what I always loved when I was covering hockey,
Speaker 1: and you know this better than anyone being married to,
Speaker 1: uh former hockey player. The gloves on those heat you
Speaker 1: want to talk about a bad smell, I would have
Speaker 1: to stand outside because during intermissions when you did your
Speaker 1: interviews with the players, um, and those gloves stunk so bad?
Speaker 1: What is the deal? Can we ask Jarrett why I
Speaker 1: love him? I know it's sweat, but how is that
Speaker 1: to be different than any other It soaks into the equipment.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll get grosser than gross on that not
Speaker 1: only does their gloves smell, but like I've literally driven
Speaker 1: home from with him from a game and I'm like,
Speaker 1: fucking smells in here his hands, like they would absorb
Speaker 1: this stink from wearing the gloves, so his hands would smell.
Speaker 1: Let's go one step further. I mean, you know not,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't we jaredt will love this. I mean my husband,
Speaker 1: I love him. He's got a hairy chest. I mean
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, at night you cuttle up and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, like do you have your jersey on? Still,
Speaker 1: Like it's just what happens, like the funk gets in
Speaker 1: a man. But he's right about this. He does say
Speaker 1: like there I remember not a lie when I was
Speaker 1: covering um and my dad talked about it in the
Speaker 1: podcast we did the Stanley Cup Finals. God love him.
Speaker 1: I forgot the player I was been may have been
Speaker 1: Kipper so Off. I was doing like an interview with
Speaker 1: after morning Skate his pants like the pads were hanging
Speaker 1: right there, Crissa. I started dry heaving in the middle
Speaker 1: of the interview, like no, because it was so bad
Speaker 1: to get that. But Jared has said, like obviously, like
Speaker 1: the clean that they do, like the training staff, um,
Speaker 1: the equipment trainers, like they've done such a good job
Speaker 1: that it's not like that anymore. But it's the worst
Speaker 1: smelling locker room you can imagine, the worst tough Well.
Speaker 1: A woman that knows about bad smelling locker rooms is
Speaker 1: Lori local. She is going to join us in a
Speaker 1: little while. Man. But it's easy. I bet you. Jared's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't care how bad it smells when you're hoisting
Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup trophy two times or for her the Lombardi.
Speaker 1: The smell of victory is much sweeter, I will tell you, though.
Speaker 1: That's still one. I mean, I was so excited being
Speaker 1: on the ice and it was his second one, and
Speaker 1: it was such a crazy grueling playoff for them. They
Speaker 1: had so many Game sevens in the series. But you
Speaker 1: go to hug them and they're soaking wet and they
Speaker 1: just smell like bo and you're like, yea, do they
Speaker 1: roll the mat? They roll the mats up right, You're
Speaker 1: not like walking out onto the ice. Oh no, we're
Speaker 1: on the ice. How are you afraid the ice? Well?
Speaker 1: I mean I wasn't gonna wear heels. There were some
Speaker 1: girls obviously those were two times Stanley Cup winners. But
Speaker 1: I mean, I've worked the playoffs before. We had to
Speaker 1: walk on the ice, but I think I wore a
Speaker 1: low boot that night with my Stella McCartney neutral beige blazer.
Speaker 1: This is so interesting. Wait, this is so interesting because
Speaker 1: you think to yourself, if they win, that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be photographed in this outfit. And you gotta like the
Speaker 1: Outphit is that what we're doing here. You want to
Speaker 1: know what we did after Game three in New York,
Speaker 1: Megan Mitchell, you're getting some love right now. Game three,
Speaker 1: the Kings for and hand it to the Rangers, and
Speaker 1: we're like, holy shit, they could win this. Game four
Speaker 1: in New York, msg Meg and I are like, we
Speaker 1: gotta get a fucking outfit. So we're like going everywhere
Speaker 1: of yes, what we want to wear on the ice
Speaker 1: and be photographed. And they lost and we went back
Speaker 1: to l A. Well that's okay. You still eventually got
Speaker 1: your pictures. But those things last forever. Yeah, Oh they do,
Speaker 1: they do. I have some great stories of girls just
Speaker 1: talking about how they were walking out onto the ice.
Speaker 1: One of my girlfriends, she said, not that year, but
Speaker 1: a year before she's pregnant, and she's trying to walk
Speaker 1: her little kid out on the ice as she's pregnant
Speaker 1: to go see her husband and her mother in law
Speaker 1: just motoror over to try to get to her son.
Speaker 1: And she's like, don't mind me holding your grandkid and
Speaker 1: my your future grandkids. You're mowing me over trying to
Speaker 1: get to your son. I was like, I wasn't hurrying
Speaker 1: at all out there. I was. I remember watching Jackie
Speaker 1: quick dancing around. She her baby in her arms, going
Speaker 1: to Quickie And why is you worried about falling? I'm everybody.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I will have to tell Jared for
Speaker 1: the Calm Down podcast. I g which, by the way,
Speaker 1: check it out. Don't you like that? How I put
Speaker 1: that in right? You got to check it out. There
Speaker 1: is footage from that night when we're all on the ice.
Speaker 1: Someone wiped the hell out. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was a girlfriend or maybe a news reporter, but they
Speaker 1: wiped the hell out. We've got to find it. You
Speaker 1: got to find it. And as your dad so sweetly
Speaker 1: retold the story last week about me eating ship at
Speaker 1: your wedding off the Ottoman, oh my god, you did.
Speaker 1: I would bet all the money I don't have on
Speaker 1: me eating ship on the ice. In fact, if I
Speaker 1: was going out for a celebratory thing, I never had
Speaker 1: to go out onto the ice for interviews. But there's
Speaker 1: no chance that I would make it out alive, for sure.
Speaker 1: You do kind of like a poopy pants shuffle, like
Speaker 1: you have a diaper full of the more Jackson, is
Speaker 1: that you? But you do you like have to shuffle
Speaker 1: your feet, dude, there's no way he didn't have to
Speaker 1: take a ship. Oh god, I don't know. I said
Speaker 1: that to him. I go pro. You know what it
Speaker 1: looked like, because I had to interview him like like
Speaker 1: two weeks after that. You know what it looked like.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't that I was like bullshit, It
Speaker 1: wasn't that. We all know what it's like when you
Speaker 1: have to get there fast. I paid my pants on
Speaker 1: the field. But that's another story. You know, you've realized
Speaker 1: what we've covered in just one segment. Mouse shit, yeah
Speaker 1: bo and crapping your pants and paying your pants, I mean,
Speaker 1: all in all, it's a great day. I've never crapped
Speaker 1: my pants. I do know someone that has well, like home,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. That's where you should go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom home or stay home if you know. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean we all could, we all could hope, right, America.
Speaker 1: But more importantly, I've only peed my pants in an
Speaker 1: inebriated situation. I need to know why you peed your
Speaker 1: pants on the field, but we're gonna use that for
Speaker 1: next podcast. I'm gonna tell you right now, you're also
Speaker 1: lying you ped your pants on a Halloween costume. Anything
Speaker 1: before the age of thirteen doesn't count, you know, man,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Laurie is delighted to join us given this conversation.
Speaker 1: Hopefully she's not online yet. Coming up after our quick
Speaker 1: break so we can use the bathroom. Is Lori Locus,
Speaker 1: assistant defensive line coach the Super Bowl champion Buccaneers. We'll
Speaker 1: be back with more, Hey girl, without further ado, This
Speaker 1: woman is the envy of many and has the admiration
Speaker 1: of both of us and so many others. Lori Locus,
Speaker 1: the assistant defensive line coach for the Super Bowl winning
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. You know, there are so many moments,
Speaker 1: Lauria from that Super Bowl run that stand out, but
Speaker 1: you on the field at the end, They Aaron and
Speaker 1: I just cry with the emotion into all of it.
Speaker 1: The men, I should say, right, um, we are honored
Speaker 1: to have you on the Calm Down Podcast, and we
Speaker 1: will not calm down about all the things that you
Speaker 1: have done and the barriers that you have broken. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show. Thank you very much, you guys. Really,
Speaker 1: it's it's an honor. I've been hyped about this all day,
Speaker 1: which is probably why I was thirty minutes early. But
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Well, I Chris has said it perfectly that
Speaker 1: and I've d m this to you, Lori. Chris and I,
Speaker 1: by the way, after that super Bowl we got on
Speaker 1: the phone. It was CHRISA that called me first. We
Speaker 1: were walking the dog and we were just I think
Speaker 1: we talked for about three hours after the super Bowl
Speaker 1: and Chris I was like, I just this was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: The next morning, forget about you, Lorie, it's more about us.
Speaker 1: We were in our Chammy's watching the highlights and watching
Speaker 1: and I couldn't wait for the mic dup. And the
Speaker 1: mic dup was one of the best things. And that
Speaker 1: is where we saw goose bumps. The exchange with you
Speaker 1: and JPP, and every time I talk about it to people,
Speaker 1: I just choke up, and because so many things, and
Speaker 1: obviously the one that we can all relate to is
Speaker 1: that we are women. And the one thing in my
Speaker 1: career that I just wanted validation from those guys that play,
Speaker 1: those coaches on the sidelines, those gms that are in
Speaker 1: those press boxes, and to see that man embrace you
Speaker 1: the way he did. Oh like, just knock it off.
Speaker 1: Knock it off. I found you on on Instagram. I
Speaker 1: started dm ng you, I send you quotes. I like
Speaker 1: your stuff, and I actually was thinking about today. I
Speaker 1: just feel like you've become like a fairy godmother to
Speaker 1: me because I've started like venting to on d M.
Speaker 1: I just you are so wonderful and this is your
Speaker 1: fan club if you were looking for it, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm so honored. You have no idea. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: seen you guys, have watched you guys well before you know.
Speaker 1: I've gotten to this level. So please understand, like what
Speaker 1: you do and how you do it speaks more to
Speaker 1: two more women than you know, because that's like you said,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a validation, but it's also leading by
Speaker 1: example where we know what the knockis. Sometimes for women
Speaker 1: in sports, and when you do it the right way
Speaker 1: and you have the right reputation and your work ethics
Speaker 1: speaks for you before you even get into a room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no better so to be affiliated with you guys
Speaker 1: and to sit here and talk to you. It's really
Speaker 1: like I just I was so exciting, so well or
Speaker 1: even more humbled by by that. Hell no, I know
Speaker 1: that you were hired by the Bucks in two thousand nineteen,
Speaker 1: you became the first female position coach in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and and I, you know, just reading a little bit
Speaker 1: about where you came from the fact you played and
Speaker 1: so forth, I'm curious to know with you and Chris,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you feel the same way for me.
Speaker 1: It was never about I'm a woman. I'm different. I
Speaker 1: just want to fit in. I just want the guys
Speaker 1: to respect me. I want them to know I am
Speaker 1: obsessed with the game. I have so many questions. Do
Speaker 1: you get hired of sharing things like the first female
Speaker 1: position coach in the NFL. I know you're proud of it,
Speaker 1: but how much is it just like, Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 1: I just want to fit in. Yeah, I mean, I definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't do a lot of like self
Speaker 1: reflection where like stuff like that like becomes markers. So
Speaker 1: I think that huge honor, right, But I never, like
Speaker 1: you said, I never set out to be that, or
Speaker 1: to have a title or you know, to rip and
Speaker 1: run with this flag of being the first or whatever.
Speaker 1: In my mind, it's not just getting here, it's staying
Speaker 1: here and love it, making an impact, being you know,
Speaker 1: viable to the organization, helping the team win, helping the
Speaker 1: players get better, still continuing to learn as a coach.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not It wasn't ever like my end
Speaker 1: goal to just be the first and be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's it now, I'm done, you know what I mean
Speaker 1: and kind of fall back on laurels and try and
Speaker 1: make a career out of it. Yeah. I don't ever
Speaker 1: think in those terms. So sometimes when I get to
Speaker 1: ask that question, I have to think about it and
Speaker 1: it kind of takes me like off kilter because I'm like, oh, yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what it was. But that's never been my motivation
Speaker 1: as far as like coaching. We're you know, just being
Speaker 1: part of a staff at all. Just want to keep rolling.
Speaker 1: I've been very blessed to get my first extension with
Speaker 1: the Bucks. So hopefully that's you know, a good yeah
Speaker 1: right right to the rest of the people out there
Speaker 1: that you know, I'm with them and I'm blessed and
Speaker 1: we're looking to turn it around. I don't want to say,
Speaker 1: run it back. That was Kansas Cities, right, go for two?
Speaker 1: What are the bus saying? What are you guys saying
Speaker 1: it camp? What's going to be yours? I don't know
Speaker 1: what the catchphrases yet, I've heard, you know, go for two,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. I'm sure somebody'll come up with something
Speaker 1: A lot that year then that LORI. I um am
Speaker 1: employed by Fox but I'm also employed by Fox Bet,
Speaker 1: which is a wagering platform. In our wagering world we
Speaker 1: call double down. So I'm going to say, for the box,
Speaker 1: you guys are doubling down on your money because you're
Speaker 1: that confident in what you're doing. I I just have
Speaker 1: to I mean, again, there's so many things I want
Speaker 1: to ask you, but I just gotta, uh know, having
Speaker 1: a front row scene to what you guys did this year.
Speaker 1: I mean, of course Tom Brady comes back all of that,
Speaker 1: but man, Tom's not a dumb man. He came to
Speaker 1: Tampa because that dea. So what was it like for you?
Speaker 1: And to just know that this it was so I
Speaker 1: mean like I literally have goose bumps everywhere, talk like
Speaker 1: just I'm not was I'm from Seattle. I mean jeez,
Speaker 1: I'm like trading like you know, turning on my hometown.
Speaker 1: But I like winners, Lorie and watching this um from Afar.
Speaker 1: I can only imagine the emotion um for you. Can
Speaker 1: you describe it at all? What this was like? Yeah? So, um,
Speaker 1: if you think about when we all came in, uh
Speaker 1: initially and the year that we had the first year,
Speaker 1: we knew that we had the talent base, We knew
Speaker 1: that we had the scheme, but there was a culture
Speaker 1: shift that needed to happen. And be As certainly drove
Speaker 1: that culture change, but then Tom seemed to be the
Speaker 1: missing piece for it. Right. So it's not that anybody
Speaker 1: totally changed in the defense. Obviously, you know, we pick
Speaker 1: up other people, but the building had this lift when
Speaker 1: he came in, and you know, they talked about it
Speaker 1: being the Brady effect, and I have to tell you
Speaker 1: that that's true. And it's not that the guys got better,
Speaker 1: because they were very good. It's just we had another
Speaker 1: year in the system. We had a professional come in
Speaker 1: who was a leader, who was a quiet leader, who
Speaker 1: was a champion in his own right, and it just
Speaker 1: was the right missing piece to the puzzle for everybody
Speaker 1: to be like, you know what, we're gonna be contenders,
Speaker 1: Like we can play at the level, we can dominate games.
Speaker 1: And the thing looking back is on a daily basis,
Speaker 1: on a weekly basis, on a game by game basis,
Speaker 1: you're so locked in two, I have my opponent in
Speaker 1: front of me, and you can celebrate for about five
Speaker 1: minutes after that game, But like on that plane ride
Speaker 1: home on breaking film down because we have to get
Speaker 1: ready for the next opponent, probably by midday on Monday,
Speaker 1: So there's this constant churn of one gets put to bed,
Speaker 1: and meanwhile, as that one's coming up, you're already preparing
Speaker 1: for the next opponents. So there's never really time where
Speaker 1: you sit back and you're like wow, like you know
Speaker 1: we're doing great, and you know we really dominated that game.
Speaker 1: Because you can always find things to work on and
Speaker 1: you can always find things to find tune. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't until the like the minutes after the super Bowl
Speaker 1: and I know that I know Aaron's follow a picture.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw the picture and my
Speaker 1: son and I collide laying on the turf m but
Speaker 1: that's kind of like when it hit. You know, we're exhausted,
Speaker 1: were the COVID restrictions just everything like hit. That's when
Speaker 1: the emotions hit, more so than during the year, because
Speaker 1: you're just you're you're so wrote, you're so repetitive in
Speaker 1: your preparation. There's really no time to allow that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff to filter in because it can break focus,
Speaker 1: and and that's something that we just try so hard
Speaker 1: not to have happened. My last question on Tom um
Speaker 1: I remember talking to Sue this past year JPP interviewing
Speaker 1: Shack Barrett, and one thing Troy Aikman and I had
Speaker 1: said after we saw you guys win in the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship game was the defense. The first thing they said
Speaker 1: was we we found that missing piece to the puzzle.
Speaker 1: And they always were so great and complimenting him, and
Speaker 1: and Troy had mentioned to me, you know a lot
Speaker 1: of times guys could be like, all right, come on,
Speaker 1: I am so freaking sick of talking about Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: but that just shows the respect. I'm curious how somebody
Speaker 1: like him was able to come over and relate to
Speaker 1: the defense because he's got to figure out his toys
Speaker 1: over here on the offense, Like how is he getting?
Speaker 1: And those are some strong personalities on the defense that
Speaker 1: Chris and I adore. But how did he? I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: I get it, he's number twelve, he's walking in the building.
Speaker 1: But it was never like it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's Tom Brady in our locker room. It's like that's
Speaker 1: our boy Tom. You know we're going for he's going
Speaker 1: for seven. How was that? How did that you see
Speaker 1: that unfold? I think it was really organic. I don't
Speaker 1: think that there was really anything marked like he sat
Speaker 1: down and had a power out with him, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But I think that when you talk
Speaker 1: about like somebody like Sue, who's the ultimate professional and
Speaker 1: everything that he does, when he saw now the leader
Speaker 1: of our offense be in that same mindset being that
Speaker 1: type of championship sort of mentality like all the time,
Speaker 1: I think it's really let those guys say, you know it,
Speaker 1: he's okay, and we're going to stand behind him and
Speaker 1: we're gonna take care of our side of the ball
Speaker 1: because we want to give the ball back to him.
Speaker 1: Like every time we were on the field, that was
Speaker 1: the main intent. We want to get the ball back
Speaker 1: to the offense. So I think just by again a
Speaker 1: mutual respect the careers, obviously some of them had crossed over. Um,
Speaker 1: it just was a natural fit bit. I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody could have realized until it actually happened. And he
Speaker 1: was in the locker room. So cool, you know, Lauria.
Speaker 1: We were doing a Fox Watch party and Terry Bradshaw
Speaker 1: was on, coach Jimmy Johnson, Marshawn Lynch and then at
Speaker 1: the end Ray Lewis came on and so at this
Speaker 1: point it was a foregone conclusion that you guys were
Speaker 1: gonna win the Super Bowl. And I asked Ray, I said,
Speaker 1: you know what makes Tom Brady so great? And this
Speaker 1: will always stick out to me. He said, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: is great, but greatness is making everyone else around you better.
Speaker 1: And he said, that's what Tom does. And I found
Speaker 1: it to be such an interesting to Aaron's point. When
Speaker 1: that defense knows that we can get the ball back
Speaker 1: into the hands of the man that's going to get
Speaker 1: the job done, and then it's easy to to be
Speaker 1: humbled by that, and so I can I can only
Speaker 1: imagine how much fun this run was for you. But
Speaker 1: as you you know, previously mentioned, it's not over right,
Speaker 1: It's not enough to just have that and I love
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's It's why you play the game, right,
Speaker 1: is to win and to keep going. Sort of, how
Speaker 1: do you rally your group now here in the off
Speaker 1: season to turn your your attention forward and celebrate the victory,
Speaker 1: of course, but turn your attention forward. I think it's uh,
Speaker 1: I think it's I don't even want to say that
Speaker 1: it's easy because again, going back to the very first year, right,
Speaker 1: we knew we were out of contention for any type
Speaker 1: of playoffs, and there was something about the young guys
Speaker 1: enthusiasm to still really want to play the game right,
Speaker 1: which stuck out because I'm not at this level obviously,
Speaker 1: but like at lower levels, sometimes you know, when you're
Speaker 1: out of it, some guys check out and they're just
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, they're going through the motions,
Speaker 1: they're just not really engaged in the process. Whatever happens happens.
Speaker 1: They just want to get the season over with. It
Speaker 1: was never like that for the young guys, and that's
Speaker 1: stuck out to me because that's different, that's special. So
Speaker 1: now we go through this season, the young guys are
Speaker 1: still learning, the young guys are still there's so much
Speaker 1: upside and up to that you're going to see from
Speaker 1: our defense. With the young guys having a third year
Speaker 1: in this system that yeah, and um, they can't wait
Speaker 1: to get back onto the fields and start to play again.
Speaker 1: So in everybody's mind, it's not really you know, oh,
Speaker 1: we're super Bowl champs. You know, we're this and we're that.
Speaker 1: That's kind of like, it's it's great, it's it's a
Speaker 1: dream come true. But that's been put to bed for
Speaker 1: all of us. Um and I think be a slept
Speaker 1: the tone pretty well too. He's like, you know, we're
Speaker 1: not going to be complacent. We're going to go out
Speaker 1: and work, and by treating them in the manner that
Speaker 1: they've always been treated at this stage of our season,
Speaker 1: it's just really a clear message like, Okay, that was great.
Speaker 1: Now you know what do we do this year? And
Speaker 1: the guys have already brought into that, so I don't
Speaker 1: know that we're really gonna have to amp them up
Speaker 1: anymore than we are. We are, and like we talked
Speaker 1: about with the crowds being allowed back this season. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be a whole other aspect for them.
Speaker 1: That's just gonna set them, you know, through the roof.
Speaker 1: I can't wait, and they can either. I have two questions. One,
Speaker 1: now that all the fans are coming back, I wonder
Speaker 1: how many new best friends you have and how they're
Speaker 1: all for tickets. And then my my second question, it
Speaker 1: kind of just your your startup with be a Bruce arians.
Speaker 1: There's no cooler cat out there. Win or lose your booze. Yes,
Speaker 1: please write Chris at just the opportunity he gave you
Speaker 1: and what that means to you, and and you know
Speaker 1: how you'll always hold him up because of it, and
Speaker 1: just you know, getting into the NFL because it be
Speaker 1: a yeah, no, no doubt. First on the ticket thing,
Speaker 1: everybody already knows. Don't ask me, don't don't you know,
Speaker 1: don't don't want to be with your feelings hurt, don't
Speaker 1: only ask me for tickets, And yeah, be a uh it,
Speaker 1: you're right, there's there's really nobody like him. And to
Speaker 1: have um, to have him, have the staff that we do,
Speaker 1: to have the connections and the loyalty, be so important
Speaker 1: to him and to be a part of that is
Speaker 1: mind blowing. You know. Obviously, my my days with him
Speaker 1: go back to Temple when he first started teaching, UM
Speaker 1: coach my ex husband. Yeah, there's a couple of guys
Speaker 1: on staff that were fellow teammates of my ex husband
Speaker 1: and one of our position coaches was his position coach
Speaker 1: a Temple. So there's a lot of ties to this staff.
Speaker 1: But the people that be A surrounds himself with he
Speaker 1: knows and he knows that they can do the job,
Speaker 1: and he trusts them to do it. And the autonomy
Speaker 1: in the building, what he allows Todd to do, what
Speaker 1: he allows Byron to do, that's second to none too.
Speaker 1: So it's not even just you know, giving me, giving
Speaker 1: MJ you know, a start in the NFL, but it's
Speaker 1: looking past with the packaging looks like and looking at
Speaker 1: the promise and the potential and the chemistry on staff.
Speaker 1: He doesn't like the word chemistry. I still say chemistry. Um,
Speaker 1: but how why doesn't he like the word chemistry. I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure, but I think he thinks that it's
Speaker 1: just you know it, it's a working model, not just
Speaker 1: something you know that just I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: that's one of those words he doesn't like. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure why we're gonna ask. He's like, I don't like
Speaker 1: the word chemistry, but I think that it's just he
Speaker 1: understands that it doesn't have to look perfect to get
Speaker 1: perfect results. And I think that we're just, you know,
Speaker 1: we're an example of that bit. Man. It works, It
Speaker 1: really works. He might not like the word chemistry, but
Speaker 1: he likes the word culture. You had a fantastic article
Speaker 1: in the USA today and there was a great paragraph
Speaker 1: that I've found so important in Erin with your affinity
Speaker 1: to Alabama. Be A had mentioned the story that legendary
Speaker 1: Alabama coach Beart Bryant had told him that it's so
Speaker 1: important in building that culture within the locker room, getting
Speaker 1: everybody to buy in. And it says how he told
Speaker 1: I'd rather hear it from you than than read the
Speaker 1: article back. But you know he talked about how he
Speaker 1: told you to be yourself. Could you replay a little
Speaker 1: bit of that conversation when he brought you into this building.
Speaker 1: Albeit you guys had history, but now at at this
Speaker 1: next level, sure, I'll take you back a little bit
Speaker 1: further than that when I was working in Birmingham with
Speaker 1: the Iron and had gotten my resume in front of
Speaker 1: b A and got an email back about ten minutes
Speaker 1: later to say, you know, I'll get I'll be in touch,
Speaker 1: you know, which would have been enough right then, but
Speaker 1: I was UM. I was waiting to pick up something
Speaker 1: at like a local store, and I got a phone
Speaker 1: call and I didn't recognize the number, so it didn't
Speaker 1: look like a Florida number, so I did n't pick
Speaker 1: it up and it was b A And I called
Speaker 1: him back and we had a ten minute conversation and
Speaker 1: it was just basically that it was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want you coming in for media attention, no problem,
Speaker 1: not me, never has been. I want you to, you know,
Speaker 1: learn as much as you can. I don't want you
Speaker 1: to filter who you are UM, and I want you
Speaker 1: to feel like you're comfortable enough to be able to
Speaker 1: add in when you can and learn as much as
Speaker 1: you can. And I'd like you to come work for me.
Speaker 1: Perfect check done. Sometimes he's a man of little words,
Speaker 1: but he says a lot. And having Casey as a
Speaker 1: mentor working for Todd, you know, I do have a
Speaker 1: tendency to kind of lay back a little bit in
Speaker 1: coaching style, whereas like at the lower levels, like an
Speaker 1: arena or in semi pro, I was a lot more
Speaker 1: um involved and engaged sometimes, but I recognize the opportunity
Speaker 1: that's here to be mentored and to learn because I'm
Speaker 1: now part of Ba's extended coaching tree, I'm part of
Speaker 1: Todd's coaching tree, I'm part of Casey's coaching tree. And
Speaker 1: when not if this staffs are to go in directions,
Speaker 1: because that's how this industry is, I want to position
Speaker 1: myself in a manner that they're gonna be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Low can do the job, will take her with us,
Speaker 1: or Low can do the job, will recommend her somewhere else.
Speaker 1: So he knew that, you know, the only way you
Speaker 1: succeed is being authentic um and just really kind of
Speaker 1: like working hard and putting your nose down. And that's
Speaker 1: what I've been able to do with this staff and
Speaker 1: it's been great. Low. What is your dream job more
Speaker 1: than this? Right now? We'll be back with more Calm
Speaker 1: Down podcast right after this, Low, what is your dream job?
Speaker 1: What do you look to as being mean all be
Speaker 1: all for you more than this right now? Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: see what's the goal. Yeah, I mean I think that
Speaker 1: if you're talking like short term goal, um, just to
Speaker 1: stay employed in the league, and uh, long term, I
Speaker 1: mean I'd love to have my own D line room someday,
Speaker 1: um and be one of those defenses that we're talking
Speaker 1: about right now, and have those athletes that we're talking
Speaker 1: about right now and dominate offenses like we're talking about
Speaker 1: right now. Beyond that, you know it, it's just it's
Speaker 1: almost too much to like, you know, talk about because
Speaker 1: it's uncharted territory right. I don't know how far I
Speaker 1: can go, but I'm certainly open to all opportunities. But
Speaker 1: I think in my mind, the D line room or
Speaker 1: a backer's room or something like that would be an
Speaker 1: amazing feat to have. Beyond that, you know, we'll we'll
Speaker 1: let it ride out. But the most important thing is
Speaker 1: to stay here enough and long enough to uh to
Speaker 1: see anything on the next level happen. Well, Well, there's
Speaker 1: you know it. It remains to be seen where you go,
Speaker 1: but we know where you've been. And for those that
Speaker 1: are new to your story, would you mind giving a
Speaker 1: little background in an overview because this doesn't just happen, Um,
Speaker 1: you don't end up in the NFL. UM the way
Speaker 1: that you have without a probably many detours along the way.
Speaker 1: So how would you summarize your ascension to this position
Speaker 1: by um? So Aaron mentioned I've played. So I started
Speaker 1: playing full contact football in Harrisburg when I was just
Speaker 1: about to turn forty. UM raised the two boys, Um,
Speaker 1: that were pretty small at the time, and working full time.
Speaker 1: What did you do? What were you doing that you
Speaker 1: were working full time? I am an insurance geek really
Speaker 1: to the Oh my god, I've been looking at all
Speaker 1: of my premium So we can just talk about that offline,
Speaker 1: I am. I can talk to you about liability, workers,
Speaker 1: comp insurance, car insurance. I got it. Um, she does
Speaker 1: it all. Yeah, So that was like sales, marketing, underwriting.
Speaker 1: So a lot of those skills actually have come back
Speaker 1: into play and some of the coaching things so we
Speaker 1: have to do. So that's that was a plus. But
Speaker 1: I I heard really bad with my knee and then
Speaker 1: started coaching the women's team because I didn't want to
Speaker 1: be away from the game. So coached there for a
Speaker 1: couple of years, and then I went to high school level,
Speaker 1: and I was at the high school level for nine
Speaker 1: years at Susquehanna Township. From there, I did Men's semi
Speaker 1: pro in Harrisburg and in Virginia, and that was a
Speaker 1: culmination of probably five or six years. I did Men's
Speaker 1: Arena for three years. I did showcase teams in Canada
Speaker 1: and Philly and Florida, and then went to Baltimore to
Speaker 1: the Ravens on the Walsh Internship Program and then Birmingham
Speaker 1: Iron and then now with Tampa. What was the hardest
Speaker 1: point in this journey getting here to Tampa? What what
Speaker 1: do you remember where you were like, maybe not on
Speaker 1: the ground being dramatic like me reenacting a video music
Speaker 1: video in my head, but just like where you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, it's like really this is hard. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think always trying to balance it out when the
Speaker 1: kids were little bit, I never wanted to do the
Speaker 1: semi thing that they had, and they never wanted to
Speaker 1: take away from anything that they wanted to do because
Speaker 1: of this, right, because it was always on the fringe.
Speaker 1: I always had to work. I always had to make
Speaker 1: sure that they were taken care of. I think what
Speaker 1: happened where it was like the lowest is that the
Speaker 1: job that I had at a media group no names mentioned. Um,
Speaker 1: when I got the Baltimore internship, the internship obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: was six weeks and no job really should keep you on.
Speaker 1: But I was hoping because it was a sales position,
Speaker 1: they would at least let me work up to the
Speaker 1: time and then come back afterwards. Well, they fired me
Speaker 1: three weeks before I went. So I went to Baltimore
Speaker 1: with no job, no benefits, no source of income. When
Speaker 1: I came back, I just started to like immediately go
Speaker 1: and survival mode. I got out of the apartment that
Speaker 1: I was in. I moved into a friend of a
Speaker 1: friend's house to house sit. I sold like all of
Speaker 1: my furniture, everything that I could think of to get
Speaker 1: rid of. And that's when I worked in the pet
Speaker 1: food warehouse and I walked dogs and it was just
Speaker 1: dream Yeah. Really the smell was amazing. Um. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was at a time when my older son's already you know, established,
Speaker 1: he's out in California, he's doing his thing. But my
Speaker 1: younger son was still in college and I was paying
Speaker 1: for his tuition out of pocket. And it was like
Speaker 1: a crossroad, right, So it was either like I either
Speaker 1: had to try and make it work or I was
Speaker 1: going to have to go back to work and just
Speaker 1: put it to the side. Like you said, like sometimes
Speaker 1: I always think like your path is never straight. You
Speaker 1: do have to go off the path and then you
Speaker 1: have to find your way back. You have to work
Speaker 1: your way back to it. And it's not like I
Speaker 1: hadn't done it before. I was prepared to do it again,
Speaker 1: but it just that was a pretty low point because
Speaker 1: you know, like as a mom, to not be able
Speaker 1: to provide that was the worst feeling. And I was
Speaker 1: getting to that point where I wasn't If it was
Speaker 1: just me, it would have been okay, like, look, I
Speaker 1: can do without almost anything. For them, that was wicked.
Speaker 1: So and in about that time, a former player called
Speaker 1: to talk to me about how my experience was in Baltimore,
Speaker 1: and I was telling him, you know, some of the
Speaker 1: stuff that was going on. It was cool that he
Speaker 1: called because you know, it's nice when, like you said,
Speaker 1: you have the respected the guys and they're calling, you know,
Speaker 1: to check in on their coach. And I had a
Speaker 1: friend that I had met who was the d lin
Speaker 1: coach at Dartmouth UM at a convention that I drove to.
Speaker 1: Another long story about you know, sleeping in the car
Speaker 1: to try and get to a conference in Carolina, but
Speaker 1: he had invited me to go up to Dartmouth and
Speaker 1: it was like I didn't have the money, right, I
Speaker 1: either paid for gas and do a couple of things,
Speaker 1: or I made this trip to Dartmouth. And the guy
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, He's like, you always helped me.
Speaker 1: He's like, you always leave me twenty dollars for gas
Speaker 1: or for food, and he then mowed me a little
Speaker 1: lump some money so I could go to Dartmouth and
Speaker 1: just be around football. And it was just like I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, Universe, I got it. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: full speed ahead. And um, from there, I got the
Speaker 1: call to go to Birmingham and then the rest of
Speaker 1: it started to just really pick up speeds while I
Speaker 1: got here. Laurie, I don't think it's a coincidence that
Speaker 1: you work in a sport that's all about team. You know,
Speaker 1: where you've had to lean on people throughout your journey.
Speaker 1: But it is a one collective, one collective team, right,
Speaker 1: It's not a single individual sport. Um. I could go
Speaker 1: on and on and on, and I know you have
Speaker 1: other things to do, so we'll let you go soon.
Speaker 1: But I just I'd be remissed if I didn't ask
Speaker 1: you where the love of football? That's good. My mind's
Speaker 1: from my father. Erin's is of course from her father
Speaker 1: as well. Where did your love of football come from?
Speaker 1: You know what? I have no idea one. My family
Speaker 1: was really into football, like my mom and her ste
Speaker 1: the family would watch the Redskins because that's where she
Speaker 1: was born and she grew up. My dad was a
Speaker 1: golfer like to my left. The US opens on right
Speaker 1: now as we've just been checking this stuff all day.
Speaker 1: But yeah, nobody else. I just remember the family used
Speaker 1: to go to Lake Thanksgiving Day games. There was a
Speaker 1: big city rivalry back in Harrisburg, and then we'd go
Speaker 1: home and eat. That was like the tradition on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: But I was five years old and I was watching
Speaker 1: TV and the Steelers were on and they were terrible,
Speaker 1: and there was just something about it that caught my
Speaker 1: eye and I have not looked back and unabashedly have
Speaker 1: been a Steelers fan for fifty two years now. And
Speaker 1: just remember like all of the games. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: you know how old I am. I Like I saw
Speaker 1: the Immaculate Reception game. I was watching that game, so
Speaker 1: to just have the ability to go back into like
Speaker 1: the football like grimy great like time when you know
Speaker 1: it was probably terrible sort of players, but it was
Speaker 1: great for fans. That's where it started, and it just
Speaker 1: it never left me. Played in the backyard with the guys,
Speaker 1: traded the cards with, you know, the neighborhood boys. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just always a part of we're around me.
Speaker 1: And then when I got to play, just kind of
Speaker 1: reignited a different kind of love for the game, and
Speaker 1: then it took off from there. Yeah. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: you no wonder you're on the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: the steel hurtings. Come on. Now, have you met r
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly so he I've never met Terry. That would
Speaker 1: be like amazing. But we can make that happy gri
Speaker 1: oh goodness, that would be We'll get him on the
Speaker 1: phone right now. Do you want to talk to him?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, do it? Do it. We're gonna call
Speaker 1: him right, Yeah, we're gonna call him right, Oh my god, Terry. Answer,
Speaker 1: he's probably like on the ranch or doing some reality
Speaker 1: and I hope you have pants on? Do you know
Speaker 1: have that reality? Well we will face side note though
Speaker 1: my spirit animal was Jack Lambert, so that's who I
Speaker 1: was every time we played in the backyard. God, I
Speaker 1: hope he answered the answers. If not, we'll facilitate. Will
Speaker 1: facilitate a FaceTime later. Oh you have to monitary. Hey Darlin,
Speaker 1: very busy. This guy with the reality of that shows
Speaker 1: he's probably selling something somewhere. He's on the branch a
Speaker 1: bourbon or something. But um, I'll him to call you
Speaker 1: immediately happen. Yeah, I'm in the message him. He's the
Speaker 1: only one with the text. I actually was going to
Speaker 1: ask you, Um, I'm big right now just because of
Speaker 1: of crap in my life. Any books you highly recommend, reading,
Speaker 1: any quotes you live by anything. I just feel like
Speaker 1: I can't like breathe in enough what you're putting out
Speaker 1: there in the universe. So I just you're such a
Speaker 1: agreed person to learn from. And I didn't know if
Speaker 1: you recommend anything or that you you have something by
Speaker 1: your bedside you recommend. So yeah, I mean I am.
Speaker 1: I am really anxiously awaiting the Nicole Lynn book. She
Speaker 1: represents me, like, read that book. But you know what, listen,
Speaker 1: I wish I was as worldly to be able to
Speaker 1: tell you like, this is the last book that I read,
Speaker 1: and I just I don't it's really awful. And you
Speaker 1: don't know breaking down films. No, I should use this
Speaker 1: time to do stuff like that. But um so there's
Speaker 1: two things. What I will tell you is that with
Speaker 1: the new house and Christy you'll love this. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to decorate it myself. So I listen woman Instagram room,
Speaker 1: I'll help you is but so listen. So I'm trying
Speaker 1: to force a color scheme into like a house that
Speaker 1: does not support this color scheme. So we can tell Laurie,
Speaker 1: why are you trying to play a four three defense
Speaker 1: when you're a three four scheme? What are we doing
Speaker 1: your stay in the colors? No, it will break this
Speaker 1: down in a language you can understand. Let's not force it.
Speaker 1: You know what, what's the color scheme you want? So okay,
Speaker 1: So this is the other thing. I'm kind of like
Speaker 1: all over the board. I think you'll understand this. It's
Speaker 1: a combo Mediterranean coastal farmhouse. WHOA, there you go. That's
Speaker 1: not that far off. That's not that far off. Mediterranean
Speaker 1: and coastal can go. We can go Italian coast with
Speaker 1: the Mediterranean and coastal, so that's fine, and then we
Speaker 1: can bring in some wood elements for the farmhouse. When
Speaker 1: we get off here, I'm gonna get all the pictures
Speaker 1: from you and I'll help you put it all together.
Speaker 1: I come to your house and build it up for
Speaker 1: his reality show. We're talking there we go. That's the
Speaker 1: thing I'm happy to help is. I do a lot
Speaker 1: of Um, I do a lot of like meditative type
Speaker 1: of just like kind of like rebalancing recentering activities like
Speaker 1: daily and it's usually while dog like super early in
Speaker 1: the morning. It's just you know, taking in you know
Speaker 1: the area. It's so pretty down here, and um, just
Speaker 1: you know, being grateful and just having that like kind
Speaker 1: of daily like walk and talk kind of faith walk
Speaker 1: all it's it just really helps to uh, to kind
Speaker 1: of put everything in perspective. You guys are are being, um,
Speaker 1: very zen and very positive. I'm gonna be petty for
Speaker 1: a second. Who you don't have to maybe you don't
Speaker 1: have to name names if you don't want to, but
Speaker 1: who's someone on your path to your position? Now? That
Speaker 1: was like that ain't never gonna happen, and that when
Speaker 1: you sat there with that Lombardi Trophy. You thought to yourself,
Speaker 1: you know what I did it like I just like
Speaker 1: you don't have to name names, so you don't have
Speaker 1: to name names. There's been a few. There's been a few, sure,
Speaker 1: um you know, and I thought about like un following them,
Speaker 1: but then I thought it's better for me to let
Speaker 1: them see all this stuff now that they'll never get
Speaker 1: to if I'm going to be a little bit pretty um,
Speaker 1: you know, on the back side of it. And I know,
Speaker 1: like I've told like, um, you know, the women at
Speaker 1: the forum. There's a lot of times where you have
Speaker 1: to make a marked decision to carve people out of
Speaker 1: your life that really don't bring you told me this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you have to be okay knowing that you're
Speaker 1: going to be cordial with that person, but you don't
Speaker 1: ever ever have to give them any energy ever again.
Speaker 1: And it's okay, and you can move forward and you
Speaker 1: can be successful, and they can watch you one Sunday period.
Speaker 1: They can buy a ticket, Oh amazing, and I will
Speaker 1: not be leaving one. It will call sir or ma'am
Speaker 1: whoever that was along your path. You can actually watch
Speaker 1: my d line chase around quarterbacks all day for five
Speaker 1: sacks and the game suckers. God. So, Laurie, I will
Speaker 1: help you with anything with your house if you give
Speaker 1: me a little dirt on JPP that I can throw
Speaker 1: into this interview. I need this, I need some some scoopage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's um. I mean, you guys, saw I'm so proud
Speaker 1: of him, you know what I mean. And everything he
Speaker 1: came back from everything, he came back from last year
Speaker 1: to be on the field, and like he just he
Speaker 1: just fucking leaves all of it out there, like he
Speaker 1: he's he's done at the end of the game, because
Speaker 1: he's just he's just such a fighter and like, you
Speaker 1: don't you can't coach that. You can't. That's so like
Speaker 1: internal to him. It's so special. He's such a special
Speaker 1: athlete and a special guy. And I've heard, you know,
Speaker 1: like the knock you know sometimes he's like he's you know,
Speaker 1: a misunderstood player and you know, blah blah blah. He's
Speaker 1: never been anything but very very like nice to me,
Speaker 1: very approachable, very professional, and I just I really really
Speaker 1: enjoy him as a person, and I'm just so glad
Speaker 1: that he's just kind of like that wild card like
Speaker 1: that I can't imagine and o C doesn't have headaches
Speaker 1: prepping for it, you know what I mean, Because you
Speaker 1: gotta pick your poison, Like who do you prep for?
Speaker 1: You prep for Shock? Prept for JPP? Do you prep
Speaker 1: for Vita? Do you prep for Sue? Like? Who do
Speaker 1: you prep for? Do you prep for Evin? You prep
Speaker 1: for Lavonte leg And I was telling Aaron, you know,
Speaker 1: try on this year, you know, might be a little
Speaker 1: bit of a force too, So it's going to be
Speaker 1: a really kind of pick your poison type of year.
Speaker 1: And that's what I think. We're really all excited about.
Speaker 1: The good problem to have over there. We were talking
Speaker 1: about with JPP and Crissa doing this interview. He bet
Speaker 1: on himself when he left New York. It was like,
Speaker 1: I'm watch me, I'm going too bad on myself and
Speaker 1: respect to him, and he has been through so much
Speaker 1: and I just think the way he's handled it has
Speaker 1: been just so classy. I think I was, I know,
Speaker 1: I was crying to Cursity yesterday just talking about his story.
Speaker 1: He's just somebody I'm just so happy I got to cover.
Speaker 1: And it's just a great, great guy. Yeah, yeah, he is.
Speaker 1: He is that people gave him a chance, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, they'd have the same type of feeling
Speaker 1: about him instead of just kind of taking some of
Speaker 1: the past into a cap. But yeah, yeah we will.
Speaker 1: We will end this incredible time with you with for
Speaker 1: me a simple question, what is the best part of
Speaker 1: your job? Just getting to go to one Buck every day,
Speaker 1: being around the guys. Yeah, it's just all of it.
Speaker 1: It's all of it. Just been able to wake up
Speaker 1: in the morning and make that trip has been an
Speaker 1: incredible gift. So that's the best part of it. Can
Speaker 1: we laugh about one thing with being a woman in
Speaker 1: this industry? And I do know that you want to
Speaker 1: get male dominated out of the conversation, which I like.
Speaker 1: But I always tell people one of the best parts
Speaker 1: of my job, besides having the best seat in the house,
Speaker 1: is the line to the women's room is not that
Speaker 1: long compared to the men's line. It's like, suck it
Speaker 1: about that. And like a lot of friends when we travel,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I get pissed because like somebody's in there,
Speaker 1: like who the funk? Else like me too, I'm like,
Speaker 1: get out of here. Guys walk out of our bathroom
Speaker 1: and I'm like, are you serious? You have your own line,
Speaker 1: get in it like for like eight thousand other choices, sir,
Speaker 1: but like, can you please leave that one for me? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think I can't remember. It was my first year.
Speaker 1: It may have, think Carolina. There was a guy in
Speaker 1: the bathroom and it was like, um, it was like
Speaker 1: our ore, like we're switching a we're so offense goes
Speaker 1: so sometimes you know, like you can have like thirty
Speaker 1: seconds it's a TV time out, Like I gotta go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom. There was a guy and the women's
Speaker 1: reath through when I was and I went install next
Speaker 1: to him, like do the fe don't mind on had
Speaker 1: a piece of day, I'll go into the guy's restroom.
Speaker 1: Sometimes let me take too long. I said, what do
Speaker 1: we bring the whole makeup kitten here? What are we doing?
Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go, ladies, I need to use the bathroom,
Speaker 1: so let's go. Come on. Yes, I fully agree. Well, Laura,
Speaker 1: you're incredible. Thank you so much for your time. You
Speaker 1: and I will talk decorating and we will talk to
Speaker 1: schemes throughout the rest of the year. Thank you for
Speaker 1: your time. You're amazing in so many ways. Thank you,
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys so much. Love you can't wait to
Speaker 1: give you a hug on the field when we see
Speaker 1: you out in l A when the Bucks come to
Speaker 1: town and we've got to get this Terry Bradshaw introduction
Speaker 1: to happen. CHRISA will make sure of it. On it.
Speaker 1: Double down, Laurie, Double down down. Thank you guys. Bye,
Speaker 1: You're amazing, Thanks Laurie. Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa
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