Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. We're good to go. You want to
Speaker 1: hit it, hit it and quit it? Whoa, this is
Speaker 1: the Dad's episode. Don't say that, don't say it. My
Speaker 1: dad's heard it all, to be honest. She you know what, sister,
Speaker 1: Well let's get let's get a table for four reservation
Speaker 1: under been there, done that. Hi everybody, this is another
Speaker 1: episode of the Calm Down podcast. She's Aaron, I'm Carissa,
Speaker 1: and this is a very special episode. Aaron, you want
Speaker 1: to tell our listeners and viewers. Why well? Our clarks
Speaker 1: are coming on this. First of all, two things dry
Speaker 1: mouth got the mouth garden, so don't mind me. But um,
Speaker 1: the other one, Clark Griswolds, are coming in. What do
Speaker 1: you call your dad? I call my dad Clark Griswold.
Speaker 1: What about you? I don't know why when this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: my dad's name is Scott, but he goes by Scotty,
Speaker 1: or used to at work. He's recently return fired, which
Speaker 1: is why he had to come on later today because
Speaker 1: he had a golf lesson. This guy looking to join
Speaker 1: the Senior Tour apparently, Um, it's never too late. Scott
Speaker 1: reach for your dreams, Pal, I'm here for you. Um,
Speaker 1: but he always texts me and ends text with daddy. Oh.
Speaker 1: We should ask him why because I didn't calling him daddy,
Speaker 1: So I have no idea what that's about, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of cute and daddy, Oh yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: the inception of it, but yeah, I'm really excited. You know,
Speaker 1: anyone that knows us knows how much we love our fathers,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, it's just one of those people
Speaker 1: that you know. With Father's Day coming up this Sunday,
Speaker 1: we thought to ourselves, why not bring him on the podcast?
Speaker 1: And I actually, you know, we'll get into our weekends
Speaker 1: as we always do with each other, but um, I
Speaker 1: actually got to spend time with my mother this weekend
Speaker 1: and I was like, is dad cool with like coming
Speaker 1: on the podcast? Goes, oh, he's so excited. Now. Of
Speaker 1: course he won't admit that. He'll act cool when he
Speaker 1: comes on, but yeah, mc cathy was in town. So
Speaker 1: as we have begun, but began be gone, big gone
Speaker 1: um to do on this podcast talking about our highs
Speaker 1: and the low. So that was definitely my high was
Speaker 1: spending some quality time with Kathy. She came to town.
Speaker 1: We went up to the lake house and did you
Speaker 1: guys drink of course together? Of course we did lots
Speaker 1: of wine. Was consumed a copious amount. But it was
Speaker 1: really nice. I always take my dad to the Masters
Speaker 1: and then my mom and I do a fun little
Speaker 1: gals getaway. We went to Napal last year and so
Speaker 1: we just hung out at the lake and it was
Speaker 1: really nice and it makes me miss them. You know, what,
Speaker 1: how old were you when you moved away from home? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: college one and then for like, I went back home
Speaker 1: after college. I moved in with my parents to cover
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Lightning and lived with them. But basically
Speaker 1: I was on the road, you know, all the time
Speaker 1: with the team. But hey, save money, live with my
Speaker 1: mom and dad. It was perfect. I'm not mad at
Speaker 1: any of that. And then so after that I moved
Speaker 1: away to go to Atlanta. So maybe two thousand's yeah,
Speaker 1: I left when I was oh wow. Yeah. I came
Speaker 1: back for three months because I couldn't transfer to Santa
Speaker 1: Barbara until whatever, and so I went home and that's
Speaker 1: when I worked at the cheesecake factory. But the point
Speaker 1: is once I left home, I really didn't ever go
Speaker 1: back and my parents, you know, living in Seattle, I
Speaker 1: don't get to see them a whole lot, so it's
Speaker 1: nice to spend the quality times. That was my high.
Speaker 1: What was your high this week? Doll? What was my high?
Speaker 1: I think my high was what I saw on Instagram
Speaker 1: today our friend and a guy we covered in the
Speaker 1: NFL and our teammate Greg Olson and his son my
Speaker 1: God getting discharged from the hospital and the family got
Speaker 1: to ring the bell. Of course, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've been living under a rock and not following that story,
Speaker 1: but Greg Olson, his son t J, has been um,
Speaker 1: I don't know the word. Was he born with half
Speaker 1: a heart. I know that they have the Half a
Speaker 1: Heart Foundation and basically went into heart failure last month.
Speaker 1: And I think what I heard from our bosses at Foxes,
Speaker 1: they always thought he was going to need a heart transplant,
Speaker 1: they just didn't know it was going to be at
Speaker 1: the age of eight years old. And he got one
Speaker 1: and he's getting out of the hospital. And Greg has
Speaker 1: documented the journey, So you could check out all of
Speaker 1: those on Instagram, and they you suggested I do that. Anyways,
Speaker 1: You're like, hey, if you're having a bad day, go
Speaker 1: to that positivity and just the things that he was
Speaker 1: saying about his eight year old son, like he never
Speaker 1: felt sorry for himself. That kid looks so healthy. It's
Speaker 1: hard to believe how sick he was. And I'm just
Speaker 1: so overjoyed for the oldson family. God love him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's well, that's incredible, and I, you know, concur with
Speaker 1: everything you said. That is a high this week, next
Speaker 1: week and the week after and um, you know a
Speaker 1: post that I lost it on and like we'll just
Speaker 1: tear up even thinking about. Is that somebody's family didn't
Speaker 1: didn't have a great week because of Greg's high. It
Speaker 1: was somebody else's low. Of course, the heart transplant meant
Speaker 1: that somebody else lost their child. And of course I
Speaker 1: can't even begin to imagine, um, the pain that came
Speaker 1: with that. I you know, you know, very well documented.
Speaker 1: My niece had a brain tumor. Diagnosed with a brain
Speaker 1: tumor when she was six years old. And man, it's
Speaker 1: different being in that pediatric I to you, it's awful
Speaker 1: when anyone is sick, but when kids are animals get sick,
Speaker 1: there's something about that that just makes me. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure anyone that has an ounce of a heart or soul.
Speaker 1: They're helpless, you know, and it just breaks my heart.
Speaker 1: But I'm so happy for Greg and his family. And
Speaker 1: it also speaks to the kind of person that Greg
Speaker 1: is to be able to acknowledge that somebody else wasn't
Speaker 1: as lucky. But you know that, as we always lean into,
Speaker 1: is that the bigger plan is UM, something we don't know.
Speaker 1: So celebrating those victories with UM. As you mentioned, he's
Speaker 1: now our teammate over at Fox, so big shout out
Speaker 1: to him. Um. You know, I don't even know if
Speaker 1: I had a look, did you have a low this week?
Speaker 1: I feel like, oh yeah, it's very petty my low.
Speaker 1: So I had to go away this week. It was
Speaker 1: very exciting to start working again. Here comes the list.
Speaker 1: These things are going to come out in no time.
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of you for keeping them in as
Speaker 1: as often as you do. I can't. So anyways, I
Speaker 1: had to travel to Atlanta for you know, and as
Speaker 1: I'm not in a signment but kind of an advertising thing,
Speaker 1: I had to do and I have a mother of
Speaker 1: assisting Zip coming in right now. So one great thing
Speaker 1: is you can wear a mask and you can wear
Speaker 1: those ZIP patches. Without people seeing them, and so I
Speaker 1: wore one on the four and a half hour flight.
Speaker 1: Then I went to sleep in one. It ate through
Speaker 1: my skin. So now I have a circle of raw
Speaker 1: skin from the patch below right now. Thank you. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I love a cellosilic acid. Easy for you to say.
Speaker 1: You try to say cell a silic acid right now
Speaker 1: with those in leave, leave them and try to say
Speaker 1: cell a silica cells, cell a silic acid, cell asilic acid.
Speaker 1: I'm taking these dirt bag right off. There's two things.
Speaker 1: While you do your surgery, your oral surgery. I can't
Speaker 1: believe he's never had braces. You have like the most
Speaker 1: beautiful smile. I had it all and I still need
Speaker 1: that retainer on the bottom. But independent of that, I
Speaker 1: love me something. I know I'm I'm that person, and
Speaker 1: I know you're the same way. If that product isn't
Speaker 1: burning on my skin, that she doesn't want to you too,
Speaker 1: But not the around area, because that's what gets so red.
Speaker 1: And I just stood upstairs and was like, you know,
Speaker 1: peeling it off with a tweezer, and then you get
Speaker 1: the other raw area. I'm supposed to go to dinner
Speaker 1: tonight and then I'm gonna get foundations with your other friends?
Speaker 1: Are you going to dinner with your other friends again?
Speaker 1: Got my other friends go out and they make plans?
Speaker 1: I mean, Hill is Open, Beverly Hills. You know that's
Speaker 1: a movie you haven't seen or watched together? True Beverly
Speaker 1: hid that movie? My god, I said, I can't wait.
Speaker 1: That's actually another thing we need to talk about with
Speaker 1: our pops because I mean, well, our affinity for Christmas
Speaker 1: vacation hence the why you know the clars in our lives.
Speaker 1: So we got to talk to him about that. There's
Speaker 1: so many movie lines. Actually, did your dad ever make
Speaker 1: you like? Did he when you guys were listening to
Speaker 1: music in the car? Was he ever like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is what this song means or this is what that means?
Speaker 1: Like were you guys music people? Yeah, my dad's huge
Speaker 1: into the Beatles, Like he's obsessed into the Beatles. He
Speaker 1: loves like everything. We actually went to Paul McCartney together
Speaker 1: two years ago before the world shutdown and that was
Speaker 1: really fun. At where was Paul McCartney was at Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 1: so great, we had a time. Um, I was a
Speaker 1: real dick to my dad about the Beatles because I
Speaker 1: used to say. New kids on the block were like
Speaker 1: way better. And my dad one time, I like called
Speaker 1: John Lennon a really bad word and my dad put
Speaker 1: soap in my mouth and then you know the move
Speaker 1: that he did. He I didn't suck on it, so
Speaker 1: all this bit was coming down on my face. My
Speaker 1: dad took it out and scraped my two front teeth
Speaker 1: with the soap. And now you're wearing a retainer? Are
Speaker 1: those teeth three? And I wonder they're so perfect? Um,
Speaker 1: give piece a chance. By the way, what are you
Speaker 1: doing Yogo? Oh? No, would not have been a fan
Speaker 1: of mine, so whatever, No, she wouldn't. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: where she is though. She's in my guest bathroom a
Speaker 1: picture of her and John. I bought these prints. I
Speaker 1: was like my dad also loved the beat, and I
Speaker 1: opposite of you. I had a great appreciation for John Lennon.
Speaker 1: In fact, I went and visited his apartment in New
Speaker 1: York because I wanted to see the whole. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's also tragic that he was shot right outside of
Speaker 1: his apartment. But I have a picture. It was the
Speaker 1: last photo shoot that they did John and Yoko, and
Speaker 1: it's in this bedroom and like it's very sexy. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's in the guest bathroom. If you're ever over what
Speaker 1: you need to come over a well, oh, you're too
Speaker 1: busy with your other friends. My other friends. Here we go. Hey, also,
Speaker 1: are we so excited? The world is returning California no
Speaker 1: mass starting June fifte. I know you're weird about it.
Speaker 1: You're not ready. I'm fully ready. I am out there.
Speaker 1: I'm like moonwalking that I don't have to wear a
Speaker 1: mask anywhere. I was on a plane yesterday and the
Speaker 1: day before, and I'm glad they're still enforcing the mass situation.
Speaker 1: I will see. I don't know for days like this
Speaker 1: when I have a planet growing on my chin. I
Speaker 1: really like the mask. I got to be honest. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, your anus, my bad, my bad breath phobia too.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, I really really liked the whole
Speaker 1: mask thing. Sometimes you're the person that always has listerine
Speaker 1: or something with you, So why is it because you're
Speaker 1: phobia you're worried about it? Probably now with these things
Speaker 1: in my mouth, they don't help either. God, do you
Speaker 1: know how do you clean those at night? Oh? I
Speaker 1: clean those like three times a day. I have a
Speaker 1: breath phobia. I scrub them with whitening. Have you have
Speaker 1: you if you tell me you've never whitened your teeth.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna be really piste off just with crust
Speaker 1: Um three D, which an endorsement or free product. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, hell, I'll take the two D one D.
Speaker 1: I mean anything with the crest grip at that point, Well,
Speaker 1: that's something that I'll never have, you know what I mean? Um,
Speaker 1: all right, well, I am very excited. There's no point
Speaker 1: in just getting delaying the inevitable. Let the stars shine.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with with Aaron's father. First coming up
Speaker 1: after the break, Stepo, Hi, right here? Can you see us? Okay?
Speaker 1: You I don't think you need to see you look
Speaker 1: handled the camera. Yeah, you're fine. I'm putting more light
Speaker 1: on the subject shine a little really, but it's okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Thank you for doing this, of course, of course, Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks John. What did you do today? What did I
Speaker 1: do today? Um? Gosh, not much at all, not much
Speaker 1: of anything at all. Um. I went to Coachacks with
Speaker 1: Keith Kate and uh has some lunch caught up. He's
Speaker 1: uh Chris is no, he's the editor at the station
Speaker 1: I retired from. And I really haven't talked to Keith
Speaker 1: or seen Keith since gosh, well February, you know, of
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty, like a sick and uh. I saw
Speaker 1: him very briefly at the retirement thing when we said goodbye,
Speaker 1: but we're not wearing face masks and stuff, so it
Speaker 1: was kind of in per Well, thanks for doing this, dad. Um.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of questions for you. It's our
Speaker 1: Father's Day, addition, and I was asking Carissa what she
Speaker 1: calls her dad, and she says, Scottio, we call you Clark,
Speaker 1: so you uh, yeah, I I'm excited to do this. Chris,
Speaker 1: I'll let you start off the questionnaire. Well, Steve, you know,
Speaker 1: first of all, you know the love that I have
Speaker 1: for your daughter, and how appreciative I am that you
Speaker 1: brought her into this world. My father always said, I
Speaker 1: brought you into this world, I can take you out
Speaker 1: of it. So that's how I was raised. Um. Your
Speaker 1: your hand is much softer with airin and so sweet,
Speaker 1: and you've been so sweet to me in my um
Speaker 1: you know life, even from Afar. So I just wanted
Speaker 1: to be remissed if I didn't say thank you for
Speaker 1: always been so sweet and kind to me as well.
Speaker 1: And you know when we were talking about Father's Day,
Speaker 1: we're like, there's no way we can't. How are our
Speaker 1: pops on? So you know, throughout this podcast, even in
Speaker 1: its infancy, Steve, we've talked about the stories and how
Speaker 1: you guys have impacted us. In one story that stood
Speaker 1: out in particular, as there are many um with you
Speaker 1: and Aaron, is the sweet relationship you guys have while
Speaker 1: she's actually working and the text that you guys send
Speaker 1: back and forth. So we've heard Aaron's account of this.
Speaker 1: I want you to set up the stage for us
Speaker 1: as only you can and how this all goes down
Speaker 1: during a game. Let's pretend it's the NFC Championship in
Speaker 1: Lambeau once again, Green Bay Packers Campa Bay Buccaneers, yea
Speaker 1: or or the end All be All and this is
Speaker 1: your team, Chris. When Dad, when the Packers blew it,
Speaker 1: sorry Aaron against the Seahawks and I was like, Dad,
Speaker 1: I have to interview Pete Carroll and they're gonna lose,
Speaker 1: and You're like it's not over yet, and then you
Speaker 1: were so upset, and I was like, Dad, I have
Speaker 1: to interview Russell, help me, help me, And they're like
Speaker 1: not typing fast enough because you were so pissed about
Speaker 1: the Packers. Yeah, tell us, that's so fun. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: the whole routine starts well before the game even starts, generally,
Speaker 1: you know, we're talking on the phone or texting each other,
Speaker 1: well before she leaves the hotel and and as she's
Speaker 1: on her way to the stadium or or whatever. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm a sports fan, you know, I just like to
Speaker 1: hear the inside scoop on what's going on. Of course, Aaron,
Speaker 1: you know, she's she she has some really juicy stuff,
Speaker 1: and she goes, you can't tell anybody. I can't tell you.
Speaker 1: You can't tell anybody. Yeah, I mean she was telling
Speaker 1: me about well I can't. But you know, the process
Speaker 1: starts actually probably when you go to the well. Of course,
Speaker 1: the show was different with the pandemic, but when Aaron
Speaker 1: shows up, you know it coaches meetings, or when she
Speaker 1: shows up at the stadium David for or practice facility,
Speaker 1: and you know, she starts telling me a little bit
Speaker 1: about what went down and who's hurt, and you know,
Speaker 1: what kind of a move this guy is in, or
Speaker 1: what a jerk that person might and uh, so, you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of retained this and then you know, we
Speaker 1: we just kind of have a conversation throughout the weekend
Speaker 1: and as the game progresses. I think the one the
Speaker 1: one game that stands out to me is is, uh,
Speaker 1: the Giants were playing and Eli had thrown an interception,
Speaker 1: you remember this one, but thrown an interception and late
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and Fox showed a shot of Eli
Speaker 1: on the sideline and he was biting his lip. He
Speaker 1: was really tense. And I sat here on a text
Speaker 1: about because I can't see that. I can't see what's
Speaker 1: on TV. By the way, my dad's telling me this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw this. I saw I saw Eli. You know,
Speaker 1: Biden's lip really upset, very tense as the other team
Speaker 1: was marching down the field. Now the Giants stomped them
Speaker 1: and they actually won the game him. But I sent
Speaker 1: out in a text and I said, you've got to
Speaker 1: ask Elie about the interception and how it was on
Speaker 1: the side, what he was thinking on the side, And
Speaker 1: she's like, why you know, I there was no shot,
Speaker 1: there was no mention, And I said, well, I just
Speaker 1: saw the shot of him and he was really really
Speaker 1: uptight and so she went with it and she did
Speaker 1: it and it turned out to be a really good answer.
Speaker 1: I forgot it well, you know when you sat off
Speaker 1: the top of my head here because it was a
Speaker 1: few years ago. But that's kind of what I do.
Speaker 1: I kind of looked to see if there's anything that
Speaker 1: maybe a shot of something that that maybe Joe and
Speaker 1: Troy don't mention, and I try and get it to her.
Speaker 1: But you know, during the game, I'll sometimes text her
Speaker 1: my emotional response to a play. Um, you know, she
Speaker 1: wasn't doing the lightning game last night when they were
Speaker 1: playing the the Islanders in game two. But man, we'll
Speaker 1: re text and back and forth. You know. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: kind of how we do it on game day. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I when who was Brandon point was called
Speaker 1: for a penalty, you know, when he was cross checked
Speaker 1: into the goalie, I just like, this is bullshit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is just absolute bs, you know. And sometimes she
Speaker 1: gets those and she'll right back and she goes, Dad,
Speaker 1: I can't ask that, you know, Well, Steve should mention
Speaker 1: some doozies for me, for Mike McCarthy, Dad, in the defense,
Speaker 1: you used to have doozies for me. I'm my dad.
Speaker 1: I can't ask him not well, we should mention to
Speaker 1: our audience. Steve, you know your illustrious background in broadcasting
Speaker 1: and how many years? How many years were you before
Speaker 1: you recently retired? Were you UM an anchor at your station? Yeah?
Speaker 1: This this particular station. I worked in Tampa for thirty
Speaker 1: five years. UM. Prior to that, I was an anchor
Speaker 1: reporter in San Antonio, Texas. And prior to that, I
Speaker 1: was an anchor reporter in Port Maine. So you know,
Speaker 1: I say, And prior to that, I was in radio
Speaker 1: for ten years. So you're not talking to any Spring
Speaker 1: Chicken here. I was just Steve. You you look forty two.
Speaker 1: I don't know when you had time to do all
Speaker 1: these jobs, but broadcasting is in your guys blood. So
Speaker 1: I can only imagine how proud you are of your daughter.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about her like she's not sitting here. Do
Speaker 1: you have and I know there's a lot of them,
Speaker 1: do you have a proudest moment of hers to date? Steve?
Speaker 1: So many UM, you know from a personal standpoy, from
Speaker 1: a professional standpoint, UM. Listen, you know a game six
Speaker 1: of the It was a two thousand thirteen UM World
Speaker 1: Series Red Sox and Saint Louis Cardinals. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: a big Red Sox fan. And you know, Aaron was
Speaker 1: covering the game for Fox. And after the game, she's
Speaker 1: she's up on the scoreboard, she's up on the leggage
Speaker 1: or whatever they call it, a Fenway asking questions of
Speaker 1: these guys who just won the World Series. And it's like, wow,
Speaker 1: you know, this is just just the dream come true.
Speaker 1: It's just amazing. And then what happened, Well, we'll get
Speaker 1: to that. What actually what happened after that? Dad? What
Speaker 1: did we do? Right after that? We went to the
Speaker 1: Green Monster and we took pictures with mom. But then
Speaker 1: what did we do? We went down, we went down
Speaker 1: on the field and we went into the dressing room
Speaker 1: right into the clubhouse area and big Poppy came out. Everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm like, God, this is awesome. But Dad, this is
Speaker 1: one of the questions we were going to ask you.
Speaker 1: I'm going to answer it for you. And if this
Speaker 1: isn't the one, you can say it. But favorite celeb
Speaker 1: athlete you've gotten to meet because of my connections, And
Speaker 1: if it's not the same one, you can still say it.
Speaker 1: Who can you tell me who it is well, honestly, uh,
Speaker 1: I know who it is. I mean, yeah, I mean generally, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm a news guy and I were retiring new guys,
Speaker 1: and I you know, I'm used to interviewing or meeting
Speaker 1: people who are you know, on a on a national
Speaker 1: stage or whatever. And you know, it's they are who
Speaker 1: they are, um, so uh and and generally, like when
Speaker 1: I meet people, it's you know, it say hey, how
Speaker 1: are you nice to meet you? You know, um, thank
Speaker 1: you for being so kind to Aaron and helping her out.
Speaker 1: And that day, I think was that the day that
Speaker 1: I met Francona and Verite and each of them were
Speaker 1: so you know, hospitable and kind, and they were all
Speaker 1: telling me what a great job she did and how
Speaker 1: they really have great respect for her and and and
Speaker 1: you know, I'm very out and thanked them and told
Speaker 1: him what a great job they were doing. And then
Speaker 1: she calls me over and she goes, hey, came here
Speaker 1: a minutes. I go the big poppy standing there and
Speaker 1: he Aaron introduces Dad and he goes picks him off
Speaker 1: off the ground. Yeah, I got a big poppy bear hunt.
Speaker 1: I just stood there going you said, nice to meet Poppy.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I don't think I remember getting anything out,
Speaker 1: to be honest, that's so sweet one of the many moments.
Speaker 1: But I can only imagine as a parent, right, You've
Speaker 1: watched your daughter grow up to live out her dream
Speaker 1: and then have it coincide with your affinity for not
Speaker 1: only sports, but but your team in the Red Sox
Speaker 1: and even for the Packers. I mean all the times
Speaker 1: that you've seen her at Lambau. And didn't you guys
Speaker 1: go to Lambeau together? Wasn't there a special times? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And they're twice right, Yeah, and yeah, one not so great,
Speaker 1: but they both The second time I wasn't great. But um,
Speaker 1: I was sick and I wasn't telling anybody, and so
Speaker 1: my dad and Jarrett flew to like be by my
Speaker 1: side because I just had surgery. So but but and
Speaker 1: we almost got you to meet Brett Farve was so close.
Speaker 1: That was the and Troy and I just it was
Speaker 1: it was Brett farm day. Yes, and that's why I
Speaker 1: wasn't going to miss it. There's no freaking way I
Speaker 1: was going to miss it. And he was in with
Speaker 1: like I said, Troy and Troe and you know, chatting
Speaker 1: up and you know doing some commentary and then uh,
Speaker 1: as he was leaving, I just kind of stood there
Speaker 1: and watched them. I I didn't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: act like a silly fan and go Mr Farm, so
Speaker 1: I just kind of watched them go kind of went out. Well.
Speaker 1: My next question, Steve is for your dog utter Aaron,
Speaker 1: what is the best advice that your father has ever
Speaker 1: given you? Fuck them? Um no, no, no, he's God,
Speaker 1: that's good. That's um. I don't know. I mean there's
Speaker 1: so much and a lot of it early in my
Speaker 1: career because that was the beginning of social media and
Speaker 1: these stupid message boards was just like listen, you know,
Speaker 1: on my ass and and I wish I hadn't cared
Speaker 1: as much, but I think we all did. And and yes,
Speaker 1: that was that was a word that my dad, you know,
Speaker 1: used a lot with me in terms of like let
Speaker 1: it go, who cares? You know. I remember crying to
Speaker 1: you when I was a lot yesterday. Um no, when
Speaker 1: I was with Turner and I just kind of said
Speaker 1: I was a fraud and I didn't I didn't know
Speaker 1: what I was doing, and I felt like you were
Speaker 1: rock sand like I you know, you were kind of
Speaker 1: helping me with things to say, and you were like, look,
Speaker 1: I'm helping you get started, but you are ready to
Speaker 1: take this on your own. And I don't know, you
Speaker 1: just that was the biggest thing for me. You really
Speaker 1: pushed me. You pushed me out of the house, Dad, No,
Speaker 1: you pushed me out there, go and go nastional to
Speaker 1: take that turner job, even though I probably wasn't ready.
Speaker 1: But like you knew, I was going to work hard
Speaker 1: and I was going to nail it. But you were
Speaker 1: great about helping me with it. But it was it
Speaker 1: was a hard one to do for me. Sure. You
Speaker 1: know that. In the beginning when Aaron started with the Lightning,
Speaker 1: a couple of things that I remember most well. After
Speaker 1: the first game, you know, again, social media was just
Speaker 1: starting up, and you know, some idiots wire going, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, she needs a noose job, or she needs
Speaker 1: she's too nasily and all that, and and Aaron reading
Speaker 1: this stuff and she was very upset, and I just
Speaker 1: looked at her and so listen, if you're going to
Speaker 1: be in this business, you better have a thick skin,
Speaker 1: because this will drive you right out if it If
Speaker 1: it bothers you, you know, you're done. Yeah, And then
Speaker 1: season what was the most fun for me. It was
Speaker 1: I watched every game she did and recorded it, you know,
Speaker 1: like on our old VHS machine. And then when she
Speaker 1: came home from the road trip, no matter what time
Speaker 1: she came in ten it was three four in the morning,
Speaker 1: you know, um when when playing out and she got
Speaker 1: home on her bed was the tape, the time codes
Speaker 1: that she needed to go to a critique of everything
Speaker 1: she did and how she what she did right, how
Speaker 1: how she could improve. I tried not to be critical
Speaker 1: and said, boy, you really blew this, but I don't
Speaker 1: think I did. I just said I think you can.
Speaker 1: You could do. You could have said this, or you
Speaker 1: could have said that. So I was fortunate to be
Speaker 1: able to help her. And I do hope that that
Speaker 1: I didn't butt into much there, kidd, Dad stopping that
Speaker 1: is so special. I mean, what am I asking you now,
Speaker 1: like right before I sit down with Tom or like
Speaker 1: I like Chris has said, like at Lambeau, like what
Speaker 1: do I ask Aaron here? What do I do? I mean?
Speaker 1: Come on, give me a break. You're like the producer
Speaker 1: that you're the blood producer. You know, I've I've always
Speaker 1: wanted No, It's perfect. I love this question, Dad, And
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're going to say here because
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, what's the one event I've covered
Speaker 1: that you wished you could be at. Came to the
Speaker 1: championship game last year, but since they lost them. Here's
Speaker 1: how glad I wasn't there. There would have been another
Speaker 1: big powder on the field. But Dad's so good, uh,
Speaker 1: I mean scoreboard quarterbacks that ever played the game, and
Speaker 1: I truly hope that he remains a Green Bay Packer. Um,
Speaker 1: so do I we have six of their games? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean the first games you know if if you
Speaker 1: say it there anyway, but sorry, yeah, you know, listen, Um,
Speaker 1: she I could say the game seven Stanley Cup finals
Speaker 1: of the you know, Lightning and Calgary Flames. But you
Speaker 1: were there, baby, Yeah. She was working for ESPN. I
Speaker 1: didn't expect to go, and she called and said, hey,
Speaker 1: the I don't know who wasn't. ESPN said they had
Speaker 1: to take marks Shapiro love you, Okay, yeah, if you
Speaker 1: want to, if your family wants to go, we had
Speaker 1: a couple of tickets. She called me to work because
Speaker 1: she told me that and said, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you want to go or not. But and she said,
Speaker 1: so what time you want me there? You know I
Speaker 1: love it, But so I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: really watch her do the game. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: afterwards we sat down and watched it several times. So
Speaker 1: do you remember what color sweater I was wearing for
Speaker 1: Game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals. You helped me
Speaker 1: go pick it out and Taylor, Mom, we went to
Speaker 1: a Taylor. Wait, dad, how about when I lost my voice?
Speaker 1: Remember I was at Game five I got I wore
Speaker 1: my voice out and you took me to Urgent Care
Speaker 1: to get a steroid shot in my ass. And I
Speaker 1: was crying so hard. I was like, I want to
Speaker 1: wear at the Stanley Cup Finals. Please help me, and
Speaker 1: you were making me ginger tea. Yeah, Andrewscasters is that
Speaker 1: our voices are sensitive, you know. And Aaron, of course
Speaker 1: doing the Stanley Cup playoffs that you're you know, you're
Speaker 1: in the middle of the crowd, as you know, Chris,
Speaker 1: and and you have to speak louder, you have to
Speaker 1: project and and it's a stringing on the voice. And
Speaker 1: she has the same sinus issues as I do, and
Speaker 1: we have a lot of one in our family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know it takes a toll on the voice
Speaker 1: in the throat, and she sounded kind of like I
Speaker 1: do right now, raspy voice. Um. We got her to
Speaker 1: an urgent care clinic because an e n T that
Speaker 1: that I had gone to had because I had the
Speaker 1: same problems in broadcasting. He said, anytime you need one
Speaker 1: of these, come on it. We'll get you and gave
Speaker 1: me a steroid shot and it helped clear things up,
Speaker 1: you know, reduced the swelling that type of thing in
Speaker 1: the Hey, hey, speaking of swelling, can this be our
Speaker 1: final one before we get Scott on the phone. Hey, Dad,
Speaker 1: what's your best memory of Chris at my wedding? Oh? God,
Speaker 1: her falling. I was going to say, um, Chris, I
Speaker 1: haven't seen your sister. Well I have. I still have
Speaker 1: a hangover from that wedding. So there we are. That
Speaker 1: was five years That's the scene of her eating ship
Speaker 1: at my wedding. What was it? It was such a
Speaker 1: fun wedding. I mean it was it was cold. It
Speaker 1: was cold at night and Larry, where's the black outside?
Speaker 1: Because yeah, we were, Yeah, we're outside. There was a
Speaker 1: fire outside. Now inside it was warm and outside you know,
Speaker 1: I went out to get some air and my brother,
Speaker 1: my older brother was there and it was cold. It
Speaker 1: was in the thirties that night, wasn't it. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: we were down blankets around, let's buy a fire like
Speaker 1: a couple of old guys, and U, Charissa, I love you.
Speaker 1: And she bounced out and you know, effervescent as always,
Speaker 1: and she's like she went to sit down. Um was
Speaker 1: in an automan of some sort. Boom boom, My middle
Speaker 1: name is not great. What you didn't miss me? You know,
Speaker 1: you hit the ottoman and you hit the ground and
Speaker 1: you kept on talking like you've never happened. You're up
Speaker 1: on the ottoman or just carrying on a conversation like
Speaker 1: it never happens. Oh my god, they called me Carrie Strong.
Speaker 1: You know you got to bounce back to the ultimate
Speaker 1: pro thank you next play mentality. I appreciate the endorsement,
Speaker 1: and I apologize. I'm sure I'm an embarrassment to my father,
Speaker 1: but at least it brings humor. I mean, what do
Speaker 1: you want for me? It was a great wedding, you know.
Speaker 1: I will tell you both. I mean, I think Chris,
Speaker 1: I sent your texts after I watched you do your
Speaker 1: thing on Fox, and just tell you that I think
Speaker 1: You're just so good. You did such a great job.
Speaker 1: And I have a lot of admiration for you as
Speaker 1: well as your partner here. You know, I think you're
Speaker 1: both terrific. You're at the top up your field and
Speaker 1: uh you know what you should be because you deserve
Speaker 1: you both work your butts. Oh Steve, thank you. That
Speaker 1: means so much coming from you for a number of
Speaker 1: different reasons. But thank you, and that like makes me
Speaker 1: tear up. Um. You know, I always uh say that
Speaker 1: children are a reflection of a parent's work. So you
Speaker 1: did a good job, Steve. He did a good job,
Speaker 1: so well, you know what. I thank you for that.
Speaker 1: But I have to give a lot of credit to
Speaker 1: the mom because she was she was here a lot
Speaker 1: more novels. And but I am very proud of Aaron
Speaker 1: and actually tender two and and you know, but knowing
Speaker 1: what it's like in the broadcast field, and I was
Speaker 1: talking with this gentleman today that that anchored the news
Speaker 1: with me in Tampa. You know, we're talking about how
Speaker 1: brood of the business is and how people lose their jobs,
Speaker 1: you know, heartbeat and you guys, you guys have seen it,
Speaker 1: you know it and you've just listen to the top.
Speaker 1: So the best, so sweet, love you, Daddy, You're the sweetest.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on, Thank you, Steved. You mind staying on?
Speaker 1: Do do you mind if we just bring my dad
Speaker 1: and you guys can don't you guys have never met.
Speaker 1: Just say a quick hello and then yes, okay? Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We won't take up too much of your time. But
Speaker 1: I was going to make you tell this story while
Speaker 1: Scott's coming on about don't say the word that I
Speaker 1: said about John Lennon, because that's very disrespectful and I
Speaker 1: was an asshole, ignorant kid. But I was telling the
Speaker 1: story about having soap in my mouth, and I didn't
Speaker 1: you put soap in my mouth after I was really
Speaker 1: rude about John Lennon and I just let the spit
Speaker 1: fall down, And you remember what you did after that?
Speaker 1: Maybe I need a comment about somebody else. I don't.
Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't him. I think it was somebody else,
Speaker 1: but whatever, if it was, I'm sorry, Dad, that was rude.
Speaker 1: But remember what you did. No, you took the soap
Speaker 1: and you scraped it on my front teeth. I don't
Speaker 1: remember that. Hey, Dad, I told the story and I
Speaker 1: know you listened. To the cast of driving us by
Speaker 1: juvenile detention. That is amazing. It worked. I think it's fair.
Speaker 1: In the hell out of the massive You're not you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to go to the bathroom in front of people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: totally did Daddy. Oh we're ready for you to jump
Speaker 1: on Scotty. Yeah. Look at this guy straight off the links. God,
Speaker 1: what a sex symbol. Look at this guy. Dad, can
Speaker 1: you hear Datric, You're ridiculous? Dad meets Steve? Steve, Hey, Scott,
Speaker 1: how are you? Nice to meet you? Nice to meet you,
Speaker 1: Nice to meet you. You know what is the guy
Speaker 1: I used to coach the Falcons? You know, dan Quinn?
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn. It's just like him. That's a compliment, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a truple. Thank you. You look at a
Speaker 1: Bill Poward when you had a thick muf stack remember
Speaker 1: head hair or that a long time ago. No, you
Speaker 1: guys look you guys look great. Anyways, thank you guys
Speaker 1: for doing this for us. We just love you so much.
Speaker 1: We would, you know, not have a Father's Day show. Well,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have life without you, so we'll start with that.
Speaker 1: But also we just wanted to have you guys say
Speaker 1: hello and be on this and we just love you
Speaker 1: guys both so much. Yeah, well we both, i'm sure,
Speaker 1: are quite proud of our daughters and oh five oh
Speaker 1: four girls, that's right. And Scott, let me just say
Speaker 1: real quick that I just can't tell you how impressed
Speaker 1: I am with Parrissa as not only a professional, what
Speaker 1: is the person. She's just really sweet. She's really sweet
Speaker 1: Airon and uh and our family and we love her
Speaker 1: and I know the rest of the country does too,
Speaker 1: because she has such a great job and you know
Speaker 1: you can tell she genuine and uh, I think she's
Speaker 1: done a great job and you should be very very
Speaker 1: proud of you. Well, we we are proud of her,
Speaker 1: and her mom did a great job with her. So
Speaker 1: you'll give her mom all the credit. You guys, By
Speaker 1: the way, you bolted the same thing you both gave
Speaker 1: your wife credit for raising us. There you go, you guys,
Speaker 1: are I mean classic? Yep? I love it, Daddy, I
Speaker 1: love you so much. Thank you for getting on this
Speaker 1: and doing this with us very well. Okay, anything we
Speaker 1: can do to ever help. You're the sweetest. So Dad,
Speaker 1: all you're gonna do is press the Scott, not you,
Speaker 1: because we just put my dad through at the Q
Speaker 1: and A. The hang up, and then I'll call you later.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going out tonight, but I'll call you. Okay,
Speaker 1: you guys think daddy. I love you. Nice to meet you, bye, daddie.
Speaker 1: Oh so sweet dad. How is your golf lesson? That's good? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're we're taking me back to I said to start
Speaker 1: me over like I'm a ten year old boy. Um.
Speaker 1: You know when you when you when you start golf
Speaker 1: at thirty years old, you look for quick reason alts, right,
Speaker 1: and so you take shortcuts to try to find those results,
Speaker 1: but you end up being very inconsistent because you have
Speaker 1: no foundation, no fundamentals, like you do when you start
Speaker 1: sports when you're seven eight years old, and you learn
Speaker 1: the fundamentals, and then because those shortcuts, you so inconsistent
Speaker 1: and you get frustrated. But you're never going to be
Speaker 1: consistent because you don't have any fundamentals. So I said,
Speaker 1: start me over like I'm ten years old. Let's go
Speaker 1: with the fundamentals. And then well I got another my time,
Speaker 1: so let's see if we can start all over. So
Speaker 1: you're at the pot putt course, is what you're telling us.
Speaker 1: You're starting way back then. I'm starting off with a good,
Speaker 1: good instructor and and then trying not to get hung
Speaker 1: up on the results, which is, you know, where our
Speaker 1: egos getting the way at this age as we want results.
Speaker 1: But I'm willing to do the process. I love it. Well,
Speaker 1: my dad's all about the process. I'll just give to
Speaker 1: the first question. The best advice my dad ever gave me,
Speaker 1: Aaron was pan, you're with it and we're your plan.
Speaker 1: Growing up, we had these rules for success. It was
Speaker 1: on our wall. My dad wrote down all these different
Speaker 1: quotes of things we should do in our life in
Speaker 1: order to be successful or hope to be successful, and
Speaker 1: one of them on there was plan your work and
Speaker 1: work your plan. So I try to still adhere to that.
Speaker 1: But Dad, you know, I talked about you all the time,
Speaker 1: which Aaron you know, speaks of her dad the same way.
Speaker 1: And we have such a respect and love for you
Speaker 1: guys that we would have been remiss to not have
Speaker 1: you guys on UM as it is Father's Day, so
Speaker 1: happy early Father's Day to you. But Father's Day, yeah,
Speaker 1: we wanted to um. We asked Steve a couple of
Speaker 1: these questions. So we want to just go through them. Aaron,
Speaker 1: you want to fire the first question at at Scotty here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the advice one. You answered that, But I
Speaker 1: just want to know about the first time you watched
Speaker 1: Karissa on television kind of do her thing. And I
Speaker 1: don't mean those car commercials that will get to you
Speaker 1: in just a moment, but just your memory of seeing her.
Speaker 1: I mean, my dad was just talking about what a
Speaker 1: fan he is of her, watching her and just really
Speaker 1: hold it down, and you know, she she is like
Speaker 1: a quarterback out there. She's telling people when to go
Speaker 1: and not to go, and uh, yeah, what's your first
Speaker 1: memory of it? My first memory was she was on
Speaker 1: Best Damn Sports Show, and that had been a show
Speaker 1: that I had watched for many years prior to her
Speaker 1: going on this with the group, And so when all
Speaker 1: of a sudden she was there in the TV I
Speaker 1: looked over to the couch to the right of me,
Speaker 1: because that's where she would have been in the living
Speaker 1: room as a kid growing up while I was watching
Speaker 1: Best Damn But now she wasn't on the couch. She
Speaker 1: was in the TV set, which was very unusual. And
Speaker 1: then as a dad, you sit there and you're quite
Speaker 1: proud that you know that they're having some success and
Speaker 1: they're getting their opportunity to follow their dream. At the
Speaker 1: same token, at time, I tried to be somewhat honest
Speaker 1: about how good is she at this? And I came
Speaker 1: away after a week of it going she can hold
Speaker 1: her own with these people. She's not intimidated, and so
Speaker 1: she she's going to do well at this. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Do you remember anything she said during that show or
Speaker 1: anything that I mean stuck out besides you know, wanting
Speaker 1: to see if she could handle it, or any little
Speaker 1: moment she had, No I think, Um, one of the
Speaker 1: shows was Jesse Jackson came on and I thought that
Speaker 1: she might become a little intimidated, and she just fired
Speaker 1: right back with some questions right at him. And so
Speaker 1: I recognized then that the moment or the person wasn't
Speaker 1: going to be too big for her. She was comfortable
Speaker 1: and it's going to be on her own. So I
Speaker 1: was proud of her for that, because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, they're all we're all just people. A man,
Speaker 1: no kidding. Um, you know, Jed, I I have said this,
Speaker 1: and I say this lovingly that you were tough on
Speaker 1: us growing up. It's something I now appreciate because I
Speaker 1: feel like I am tough. And Steve was mentioning to
Speaker 1: you know, his incredible broadcasting career that spans what fifty
Speaker 1: plus years UM and so much experience that he has
Speaker 1: in this industry and telling Aaron early on when there's
Speaker 1: a lot of pundits and a lot to people that
Speaker 1: say mean things to her and I, especially at the
Speaker 1: beginning when we were going through this broadcasting thing, and
Speaker 1: his advice was to have tough skin. Um, I definitely
Speaker 1: know that that's how you raised us. Is it difficult
Speaker 1: for you and watching some of the things that I've
Speaker 1: went through personally or professionally too as a parent to
Speaker 1: sit back and support but also understand that you can't,
Speaker 1: you know, jump through the computer and fire back at
Speaker 1: these bullies. Well, I don't worry about that. There's always
Speaker 1: going to be the haters out there in the world. UM.
Speaker 1: I've had a philosophy, if you want to take credit
Speaker 1: for the sunshine, you gotta take responsibility for the rain.
Speaker 1: And if you guys are going to be out there
Speaker 1: in that sunshine and have a lot of nice things
Speaker 1: come your way because of who you are and what
Speaker 1: you do, then you've got to expect some of the
Speaker 1: bad stuff that comes with it. Every profession has both,
Speaker 1: and so it's just yours is a little different and
Speaker 1: a little more personal, a little more out there, which
Speaker 1: just means you got to be a little bit more
Speaker 1: cautious um and recognized that you're kind of always on
Speaker 1: stage even when you're not. Do you have a game
Speaker 1: or maybe you know, and I sit down interview she's done,
Speaker 1: or maybe even an event she's covered or you know,
Speaker 1: hosted or something where you sat back you just had
Speaker 1: a good chuckle and you're like, damn, she's she's made it.
Speaker 1: My favorite was she was doing a show called The
Speaker 1: Toughest Cowboy and she was doing the rodeo following these
Speaker 1: these rodeo guys would do multiple events, and she's interviewing
Speaker 1: this one gentleman. He was quite pleased with himself and
Speaker 1: what he had accomplished, and and he was just beaming
Speaker 1: on stage because he thought he had won. And as
Speaker 1: he was talking about how great he was and how
Speaker 1: he knew he was gonna come through, she had to
Speaker 1: break the news to him that you know, you lost,
Speaker 1: and his face became so sober, and he looked over
Speaker 1: and he goes what I lost? And I loved that
Speaker 1: moment to where a person he just thought he was
Speaker 1: the cats me out and it all turned back lar
Speaker 1: on him and she had to be the one to
Speaker 1: break the news to him. That's awesome. That's so funny
Speaker 1: that that's what you remember. Steve remembers when Aaron was
Speaker 1: working the World series and I was all on the job, Madron,
Speaker 1: you remember tough as cowboy. That's amazing. It's so good,
Speaker 1: all of it, um Dad. One of the stories that
Speaker 1: I've told on this podcast, and again it's all said
Speaker 1: lovingly because you know how much I appreciate the way
Speaker 1: you raised me, but you know there's consequences for your actions.
Speaker 1: And as a kid, when you know Tyson and I
Speaker 1: were fighting. Tyson's my brother and I were fighting. You
Speaker 1: went to go running and you said, if I come
Speaker 1: back from running and you guys are still fighting, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get it. And I got it, and I peeted
Speaker 1: through the Halloween costume and I had to change and
Speaker 1: remember that, Mr Thompson, do you remember her peeing her pants?
Speaker 1: After that? I remember after she had Peter pants and
Speaker 1: later when we took her to to trick or treating
Speaker 1: and costume wise, she didn't have it anymore because it
Speaker 1: was ruined. And she says, so one of my supposed
Speaker 1: to be now you know, or what am I now?
Speaker 1: I said, when you get to the door, just tell
Speaker 1: people you're in trouble. So that's that's what you got
Speaker 1: to go as that night in trouble. It's the vast
Speaker 1: one of the Beast stories. It was very traumatized at
Speaker 1: the time, but now in retrospect, it's actually very very funny.
Speaker 1: You know, Dad, I mentioned the best advice that you've
Speaker 1: given me. As I've gotten older, I find myself using
Speaker 1: your advice daily and now even our time when we
Speaker 1: go to the Masters or any time that we're out
Speaker 1: doing stuff together, I often hear, you know, people ask
Speaker 1: you for advice on different things and you just get
Speaker 1: into conversation. And I have been lucky enough to get
Speaker 1: a lot of advice from you. But what is something
Speaker 1: maybe for our listeners or our viewers, since there are both,
Speaker 1: that you would say is a good tool to put
Speaker 1: in your toolbox? Is what we like to call your advice.
Speaker 1: What's a piece of advice you can give people? And
Speaker 1: it can be about anything that you think is is
Speaker 1: applicable across the board. Well, I guess for all you know,
Speaker 1: I'm at a different age now, coming towards the twilight
Speaker 1: of of this. So dramatic, but yeah, you look great.
Speaker 1: But but I guess I I would remind everybody nobody
Speaker 1: gets out of this thing alive. They don't have luggage
Speaker 1: racks on hers, nobody takes any of this with them.
Speaker 1: It's just all a bunch of superficial stuff. So the
Speaker 1: real thing that you're going to leave behind when when
Speaker 1: it is all done, is who were you as a person?
Speaker 1: How were you remembered? And did you make the place
Speaker 1: a better positive place? Because you were here on the
Speaker 1: world and and you were in people's lives, and so
Speaker 1: that's what you should be shooting for. That's what I
Speaker 1: was shooting for, to to make the people around me better.
Speaker 1: I think that's was the coach and me was maybe
Speaker 1: not always being liked, but always making sure I was
Speaker 1: consistent and they could count on that consistency, and they
Speaker 1: also knew they could count on me to help them
Speaker 1: on whatever they needed. And so I guess that's kind
Speaker 1: of been my philosophy on my journey. I love that
Speaker 1: good it's it's I want the athletes story. Is there one?
Speaker 1: Does your dad have one? Like mine? My my dad?
Speaker 1: We asked, UM, just an athlete maybe just kind of
Speaker 1: was like a holy crop moment you've met because of
Speaker 1: your daughter's connections. Meeting wise, I've been enjoyed on the set.
Speaker 1: Terry Bradshaw was somebody who when I was in junior
Speaker 1: high in high school was was bread in the prime
Speaker 1: of his career, so as I was a quarterback, so
Speaker 1: I could relate to that. And then one night I
Speaker 1: got a phone call and gentleman's on the other end
Speaker 1: of the line said who's your favorite basketball player? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, you just said hello. And person
Speaker 1: says who's your favorite basketball player in the NBA of
Speaker 1: all time? And You're like, well, first of all, who
Speaker 1: is this you know? And the person doesn't answer, just
Speaker 1: please ask answer the question. So I go, well, it's
Speaker 1: Dr J. And it was Joyce serving on the other
Speaker 1: end the phone of UM. Let him know that he
Speaker 1: was my favorite player, and so he said, well, let's
Speaker 1: call your dad. And so I answered the question right,
Speaker 1: and thank God for that. How awkward would that have
Speaker 1: been if you said someone else? Well, I'm consistent, so
Speaker 1: I think you counted on that. Love it Dad, you're
Speaker 1: newly retired. What are we in, like three weeks or
Speaker 1: a month. I'm just starting the second month, about six
Speaker 1: weeks into the thing, the best summer vacation, everything, the
Speaker 1: eternal summer vacation. I love it. Well. I know you're
Speaker 1: taking guitar lessons, which is exciting. Guitar lessons, uh, water
Speaker 1: paid watercolor painting lessons, and I just finished my golf lessons.
Speaker 1: So I'm working on three different things right now, and
Speaker 1: then um, after I get those kind of settled in
Speaker 1: a little bit more than I'm gonna start working on
Speaker 1: a couple of writing projects I've got. I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: For me, retirement was was when somebody asked me, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do in retirement? I said, all of
Speaker 1: us have a thing where we look back and said,
Speaker 1: if I had it to do over again, I would
Speaker 1: have done learned to play the piano, learned to play
Speaker 1: the guitar, or had done to certain things. And so
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my retirement years as an opportunity to
Speaker 1: go back and touch all of those things that I
Speaker 1: would have done over because I don't have to be
Speaker 1: good at it. I don't have to make a living
Speaker 1: at it, so I get to do it just for
Speaker 1: the one of doing it and seeing what that's like.
Speaker 1: So experiencing that. What doesn't this guy do? I mean,
Speaker 1: what a dream? This guy, this guy who refers to
Speaker 1: us as the five four girls, he always does that,
Speaker 1: refers to us by our birthdays because it is unique
Speaker 1: that we share a birthday. But Dad, you know you've
Speaker 1: been a passenger in Aaron and I his friendship for
Speaker 1: a decade plus and and known you know our relationship
Speaker 1: and how it's grown. You are somebody that is very
Speaker 1: loyal and somebody that takes friendship seriously. What advice do
Speaker 1: you have for us before we let you go on friendship?
Speaker 1: H Um, you gotta work at it, and you you,
Speaker 1: you've got to make that decision whether they're fox old people.
Speaker 1: If they're fox old people, they're in there with you.
Speaker 1: They're good or bad in different whatever. Even if they're
Speaker 1: having a bad and even if they've told you to
Speaker 1: go after yourself and you're not my friend anymore, you
Speaker 1: still hang right in there because they might just be
Speaker 1: going through a phase where they need a little space
Speaker 1: and they need to know that you've got their back,
Speaker 1: no matter or even good times and bad times. So
Speaker 1: I think that's the most consistent thing you can do
Speaker 1: in a friendship is be consistent and let them know
Speaker 1: I'm always here for you can go to bad and
Speaker 1: if they're truly a foxhole person and or a family member,
Speaker 1: which I you know, we get to pick our friends,
Speaker 1: which is even better than our family. Um, then then
Speaker 1: then go with that on the journey for the rest
Speaker 1: of your life. And uh and at the end of
Speaker 1: that thing, that will be something that you'll be very
Speaker 1: proud of. At the end, my best friend is to
Speaker 1: be my best friends from five years old rank so sweet, Well,
Speaker 1: I would pick you to be a friend and family.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being a great dad. Um. You know
Speaker 1: you always had an expression growing up it's not my
Speaker 1: job to be your friend. But if I do my
Speaker 1: job at eighteen, when you become an adult, then you
Speaker 1: can decide if you want to be friends. So I'm
Speaker 1: twenty years past eighteen and every single day I consider
Speaker 1: you a friend, but first a father and just appreciate
Speaker 1: you always being there for me and I just love
Speaker 1: you and I am so impressed that you got on
Speaker 1: this computer with no issue because this is not a
Speaker 1: tech family and everyone on this podcast can attest. Kurt
Speaker 1: is our engineer and deals with my nonsense that I
Speaker 1: can never get on. We got a WiFi issues. So
Speaker 1: kudos to you for getting on and we appreciate you
Speaker 1: and love you so much. You knocked it out of
Speaker 1: the part. Well, thank you for having me and uh
Speaker 1: it's very h I'm quite proud of both you girls
Speaker 1: to keep it up. Thanks dad. Oh, these dads are
Speaker 1: like making me tear on. I love you so much.
Speaker 1: We love you, Dad. Happy Father's Day. You know that
Speaker 1: sidelines this year for Seattle game. When I come there,
Speaker 1: we go. I finally you can be there. I will
Speaker 1: make I will make a point of that. Aaron, No,
Speaker 1: you have to take her up on that offer now
Speaker 1: that you can get in the stadium. Oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. Done and time. I love you Dad. I'll
Speaker 1: call you later, Okay, love you to bye bye bye.
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