Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Karissa is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Pre Game is right, never boring, but
Speaker 1: start stretching because we don't want to pull a muscle
Speaker 1: from all the things that we have to talk about
Speaker 1: this week. I might not do a lot of the
Speaker 1: talking considering my voice is horror. What happened. I've been coughing. No,
Speaker 1: not COVID. I've been tested. We're good here, but I've
Speaker 1: been coughing and I can't stop Anyways, Una clumped Aaron
Speaker 1: and all the listeners and viewers out there. We have
Speaker 1: had a week, weeks, two weeks. We've had like seers.
Speaker 1: But to consolidate this because this is the pre game
Speaker 1: for those of you guys that are new to this,
Speaker 1: we do a little ten minute preview of what we
Speaker 1: will talk about in its entirety over on our full podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for making this such a huge success
Speaker 1: early on here. We appreciate it. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's a good thing or a bad thing. It means
Speaker 1: that you only need ten minutes of us or you
Speaker 1: just like a little teaser. Either way, here's the teaser.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers back in Green Bay, Russell Wilson's out in Seattle,
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner's out in Seattle, and Tom Brady is coming
Speaker 1: back to Tampa. Is this mic on? It is? I'm yelling,
Speaker 1: I know your Darlington. Why didn't you write that news chapter?
Speaker 1: Mom's the word from them. He broke the internet when
Speaker 1: he came back on and said he was coming back,
Speaker 1: and you used all caps to text me and said,
Speaker 1: thank god, God, Hey, so how did you find out?
Speaker 1: I was looking at something on my phone, like I
Speaker 1: was watching something, and I was getting buzz after buzz
Speaker 1: after buzz after buzz, and I just thought it was
Speaker 1: one of my girlfriend's text chains and I was like, okay, fine, God.
Speaker 1: But then when I got it was like yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it was like holy sh it. But the one person
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard from was you. So that's why I
Speaker 1: texted you. And I was like, thank god, what were
Speaker 1: you doing? Well? I was in I was being present,
Speaker 1: which is something I'm working on in my life right now,
Speaker 1: and so thank you. Um So, I was with a
Speaker 1: couple of girlfriends and one of them was having our
Speaker 1: baby shower over the weekend, so we were sort of,
Speaker 1: you know, doing all of that, and then I picked
Speaker 1: up my phone and you can't escape what's happening, and
Speaker 1: then text very soon after that, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I was so happy for you because I know that
Speaker 1: you were honestly super upset when he had that he
Speaker 1: was leaving. But I told you, And look, I didn't
Speaker 1: know anything obviously, but the dude never used the word
Speaker 1: retire in his concession speech as I'm now referring to it.
Speaker 1: He never said he was gonna retire. And a guy
Speaker 1: like that and we know all of our you know,
Speaker 1: friends in the industry and you know, calling friend and
Speaker 1: we gotta get calling on this. You know, Ryan, our
Speaker 1: producer who's also Collins producer, was talking about that that, um,
Speaker 1: a guy that's that competitive doesn't just walk away from
Speaker 1: the game. So are you surprised that he a Is
Speaker 1: coming back? And b are you surprised that he even
Speaker 1: said anything to begin with? If he always knew he
Speaker 1: was coming back? Kind Of like, I'm confused, Like where's
Speaker 1: that in between? Is I'm gonna tease a sit down
Speaker 1: interview with him because I better get one next season?
Speaker 1: But I just don't Something obviously was going on where
Speaker 1: he was like, Okay, I don't think he I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously he wasn't sold either way. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: hear what he has to say about this. But maybe
Speaker 1: at the time thought I'm either not happy with this
Speaker 1: or maybe it's time to move on. But yeah, obviously
Speaker 1: not sold on it. I'm not surprised he's back. I
Speaker 1: am surprised he's back with Tampa. I really, really really
Speaker 1: thought he was going to end up in San Francisco, which,
Speaker 1: selfishly for me and my travel would have been great.
Speaker 1: But I'm so excited that he's back. Just in general,
Speaker 1: I'm excited he's back in the NFC. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: Fox really needed him to stay there, selfishly because you know,
Speaker 1: if you listen to calling, all the quarterbacks are in
Speaker 1: the a f C. You've got Rogers, we've got Stafford Murray,
Speaker 1: all of that. But it's great he's there. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: to think he thought San Francisco because hey, they need
Speaker 1: a quarterback, and b because he'd be going home right
Speaker 1: to the Bay is that sort of what going home?
Speaker 1: And I feel like there was just a lot of
Speaker 1: conversation Shian that maybe John Lynch, who had a good
Speaker 1: relationship with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, would be able to
Speaker 1: get him out of that one year deal with the Bucks.
Speaker 1: I know Bruce arians said that they weren't going to
Speaker 1: give up the rights or trade him. But I thought
Speaker 1: maybe because Lynch was tight with the Glazers, played their
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, he could be like, all right, come on,
Speaker 1: let the guy leave, let him come to us. I
Speaker 1: thought that would be really fun to see him with
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel and Kyle Shanahan. But hey, listen the things
Speaker 1: I thought about selfishly, I thought about myself yesterday, you know,
Speaker 1: because I I win Super Bowls and was just him
Speaker 1: kind of. He probably came back because he was like,
Speaker 1: I need another summer in Montana with Aaron stagging balls.
Speaker 1: He was like, can't the back in business. I mean,
Speaker 1: the whole summer outlook has changed. I mean, we gotta
Speaker 1: make champions I gotta get Stafford going, I gotta get
Speaker 1: you know, Brady going on. The whole quarterback clinic out there. Now.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things going on. Um. But I
Speaker 1: did think right away of guys like Mike Evans, Devin White.
Speaker 1: I mean, geez, can you imagine they're just like kind
Speaker 1: of like how I've been feeling for the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: Like super sad and then all of a sudden it's
Speaker 1: like boo, here we go. Of course, the teaser on
Speaker 1: that is, you know, you lost your teammates of ten
Speaker 1: years and Joe Buck and Troy Aikman as their announcement
Speaker 1: that they're going over to the other network with four
Speaker 1: letters that we have spent some time at. But yes,
Speaker 1: I we will. We will talk about that at length
Speaker 1: in our our full podcast. But I know it's been
Speaker 1: a week for you because these are colleagues, but their
Speaker 1: family members after that long and and that's like kind
Speaker 1: of shaped for two weeks. Yeah, and I know it's
Speaker 1: it's definitely um something that we will elaborate on. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's interesting because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: end of the cue boys to men end of the
Speaker 1: road because I know from my family in Seattle and
Speaker 1: having you know the boys, Russell Wilson, Bobby Wagner. Now
Speaker 1: the longest tenured Seahawk is Tyler Lockett because it's over
Speaker 1: now that whole run of legion of Boom and you
Speaker 1: know the boys that you know went to two Super
Speaker 1: Bowls and one one of course, and the irony is
Speaker 1: now Russell is the only quarterback that will go to
Speaker 1: a team that he beat in a Super Bowl in
Speaker 1: the Brocos. So I was sad to see him leave
Speaker 1: because he was great for the city off the field
Speaker 1: as well, all of his charitable efforts with the Why
Speaker 1: Not You Academy with Children's Hospital. He was great for
Speaker 1: the city. But I'm also somebody who I like change,
Speaker 1: and I think that it comes to a point where,
Speaker 1: you know, people have to move on, and I think
Speaker 1: it was time. I think it was time for all
Speaker 1: of them, but it is sad to see them go.
Speaker 1: My sister has a picture of Russell's jersey and Bobby
Speaker 1: Wagner stacked in her kids room and she's like sad face,
Speaker 1: like it's over, but it's good. And Aaron Rodgers returning
Speaker 1: to Green Bay, are you surprised by that? Not surprised
Speaker 1: by that you'll be spending more time there? Yeah? That?
Speaker 1: Um well. Also on Bobby Wagner, one of one of
Speaker 1: my favorites to deal with. And and I saw the
Speaker 1: buzz about Dallas and potentially dan Quin. I would love
Speaker 1: to see him in Dallas selfishly, were there a lot
Speaker 1: with Fox, so that would be great night. He is
Speaker 1: just such a wonderful guy and he's so easy to
Speaker 1: cheer for. Aaron pompt He's coming back to Green Bay.
Speaker 1: For a minute, I was thinking the day before the announcement,
Speaker 1: was actually texting with Pat McAfee. Didn't know he was
Speaker 1: going to break the news, but just said, I hope
Speaker 1: it's not Aaron Rodgers retire Tuesday. I'm glad he's back.
Speaker 1: I don't really think he might retire. Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: a little bit of buzz. Yes, because anyone, he's so competitive,
Speaker 1: he'd be willing to go out without another ring. But
Speaker 1: Aaron is somebody that I we've talked to him about
Speaker 1: this before in our meetings. He he would walk away
Speaker 1: and he would be fine. He really would, whereas look
Speaker 1: at Tom, let's go, let's go there. Just why are different? Yes,
Speaker 1: two of the most competitive athletes I've ever been around,
Speaker 1: which is why I'm like, please don't leave me, Please stay.
Speaker 1: You're so fun to cover. But yeah, Aaron Is said,
Speaker 1: point blank if I leave, I'm going to be fine
Speaker 1: with it. So I really kind of started thinking, Wow,
Speaker 1: he has other interests, he has other things going on,
Speaker 1: Maybe this is it. So super pumped about it, sent
Speaker 1: him a tax and was like, yes, thank you. Um,
Speaker 1: so that was great. Now it'll be interesting with Davante
Speaker 1: Adam saying he's not going to play with that franchise tag,
Speaker 1: you better open up the purse strings. Goody, could he
Speaker 1: go to Tampa? I know there's no way Aaron will
Speaker 1: let that happen exactly. He's not going back way without
Speaker 1: his security blanket and best friend on the team and
Speaker 1: the guy he said arguably is the best he's ever
Speaker 1: played with. So loved Adam, so they better get it done. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love it, though, I mean going back to that
Speaker 1: idea of change, it's hard for some people. I welcome
Speaker 1: it because I think that's just like the way that
Speaker 1: I've always rolled, hence my hair color changing normal like
Speaker 1: every other day. But I don't know, I think it's
Speaker 1: exciting and I've rooted for I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: like this, Are you a fan of just teams or
Speaker 1: players at this point in your career, because I now
Speaker 1: root for play individual players, so if they leave a team,
Speaker 1: but like to see even when Montana went and left
Speaker 1: San Francisco and went to Kansas City, I was like, no,
Speaker 1: you have to stay with a team your whole career. Well,
Speaker 1: Jordan left and ended up with the Wizards. That's how
Speaker 1: he retired. So I don't know. I just think it's
Speaker 1: it's a very rare thing, which is another reason why
Speaker 1: I love that Aaron assumingly we'll finish his career in
Speaker 1: Green Bay, because you don't see that a lot anymore. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of players. I mean, I'm a fan
Speaker 1: of some organizations just because of you know, maybe the
Speaker 1: group of players and what they stand for. And you
Speaker 1: end up in our position, you know, getting to know
Speaker 1: management and things like that. But people are always like,
Speaker 1: do you cheer for teams here? I cheer for guys
Speaker 1: like I cheer for guys that are nice, to cheer
Speaker 1: for guys that obviously selfishly helped me out. You get
Speaker 1: to know their families really well, things like that, so
Speaker 1: never boring. I mean, two people I think really have
Speaker 1: it going on, Andy Cohen with Bravo and The Housewives
Speaker 1: and Rogers NFL thing. I mean, it's the best reality
Speaker 1: show out there besides Real Housewives of Salt Lake in
Speaker 1: New Jersey. You know you or I just finished Love
Speaker 1: is Blind. Love is Blind is Crazy fun. That's also
Speaker 1: the title of my memoir. Anyways. But we'll get to
Speaker 1: that in the whole out more in the full episode
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