Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio Okay three two one and now from Seattle,
Speaker 1: Washington and Tampa, Florida. That was my best Efford. Hi,
Speaker 1: we're doing it. We are actually doing it. We're in
Speaker 1: the street kind of or hopefully on this couch. We
Speaker 1: decided to do a podcast, Why, Aaron, Well, because everybody
Speaker 1: else is doing why That's literally why we decided to
Speaker 1: do it. But we do. We listen to podcasts. We
Speaker 1: we know other people that have one. Um we leave
Speaker 1: voicemails that are as long as podcast episodes. So we thought,
Speaker 1: let's just do it. I feel like before we officially
Speaker 1: start our first podcast episode, we should do what you
Speaker 1: made Derek Jeeter do the very first time that you
Speaker 1: sat down with him. Here's the backstory. Everyone knows who
Speaker 1: Derek Jeter is. I was a twenty six year old
Speaker 1: nervous kid to interview him working for the Colorado Rocky.
Speaker 1: So I was like, how am I going to introduce
Speaker 1: myself to Jerk Jeeter? I know he can introduce himself
Speaker 1: to me. I said, Derek, can you please look in
Speaker 1: the camera introduce yourself in case anyone doesn't know who
Speaker 1: you are so nice. He goes, Hi, I'm Derek Jeter,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I was kidding, but that's amazing
Speaker 1: and you're very attractive. Um, why don't you introduce yourself
Speaker 1: to anybody and everybody who may not know who we are. UM,
Speaker 1: if you're still listening, I'm Clarissa Thompson and and I'm
Speaker 1: Aaron Andrews, and this is calm down, Calm down. We
Speaker 1: needed to calm down with that intro with Aaron and Karissa.
Speaker 1: Thanks for giving us say try here. Yeah, I'll try
Speaker 1: anything once. Hopefully you guys will too. So why a
Speaker 1: podcast because everybody has one? And also, look, you know
Speaker 1: we spend so much time together anyways, we just thought
Speaker 1: we would sort of pull back the curtain on our
Speaker 1: lives and and share stuff that maybe people think we
Speaker 1: wouldn't talk about. Um, we've been friends for the better
Speaker 1: part of God should we set ten fifteen years? I
Speaker 1: don't know how long, so I my crow's feet would
Speaker 1: indicate something else for me. But you know, we've been
Speaker 1: friends for a long time, and I think that we're
Speaker 1: both very comfortable with who we are that we're willing
Speaker 1: to share more of our lives. UM, and sort of
Speaker 1: just be open and real with stuff that we probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't have done a few years ago. It's going to
Speaker 1: be an interesting balance for me, honestly. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we are used to talking about sports. I feel comfortable
Speaker 1: and at ease talking about sports. A little Tampa to
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Single high safety, Yeah, that's hot.
Speaker 1: Cover two. I just you know you're gonna go out
Speaker 1: on the edges, You're gonna go up the middle. But
Speaker 1: being what a route tree is here? Everyone raise your
Speaker 1: hands exactly, but being real, I remember all name drop
Speaker 1: first one to do it. Calm down. I told Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers we were doing this in a in a sit
Speaker 1: down interview, and um yeah, he said, okay, are we
Speaker 1: gonna here and see the real e a or what
Speaker 1: are we getting? And that's going to be something that
Speaker 1: I have to calm down and kind of balance out
Speaker 1: because I'm not really comfortable with it, but I'm gonna try.
Speaker 1: And you are really my one friend that kind of
Speaker 1: pushes me because you just think people don't know how hysterical,
Speaker 1: so funny, and I'm always like if everyone knew who
Speaker 1: you really were, I think sometimes, uh, you know, we've
Speaker 1: been trained in our life and with various things that
Speaker 1: have happened to us in our life that all of
Speaker 1: a sudden we sort of became more reclusive. I've always
Speaker 1: been a little bit outlandish and out there and probably
Speaker 1: say more than I should. Um, But anyways, I think
Speaker 1: that this podcast is a great opportunity for people to
Speaker 1: get to know the real us and hopefully, um, we
Speaker 1: would like to think that it's a podcast for everyone
Speaker 1: in your household. Maybe not the young children. Not the
Speaker 1: young children, keep them out of the room. But guys,
Speaker 1: you know, that's sort of our demo, our demo, if
Speaker 1: you will. The insights on Instagram indicate that apparently women
Speaker 1: don't like me at all what I have both I
Speaker 1: have the guys in the most a reality ballroom ballroom
Speaker 1: show for a while and then get fired. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that out of I mean, I was on Extra,
Speaker 1: but apparently no one to watch that show because my
Speaker 1: demographic was only but calm down is sort of the
Speaker 1: climate that we're in as well. Um, we don't take
Speaker 1: ourselves too seriously. The world is very serious in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, and that's wonderful for certain topics, but um,
Speaker 1: we think just in general, being a little bit more
Speaker 1: jovial and lighthearted is sort of the place that we're
Speaker 1: in with our lives that we can make fun of ourselves,
Speaker 1: self deprecate all the things. So when we stay calm down,
Speaker 1: we're also saying it to ourselves. Um, who who are
Speaker 1: the kind of people we're looking to talk to? I mean, guys,
Speaker 1: there's only so many times you can talk to the
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's, you know, or the Aaron Rodgers. I mean, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm so busy talking to Tom Brady. We're gonna give
Speaker 1: those guys a break. Yeah, well, Aaron, you talk to
Speaker 1: Tom Brady a lot, and Aaron Rodgers. Um, I am
Speaker 1: talking to Terry Bradshaw, which who's equally as wonderful. Of course,
Speaker 1: he in the studio, got a reality show literally out
Speaker 1: in the field. So um, yes, we will talk about sports,
Speaker 1: but I think there's a lot more that we can
Speaker 1: talk about and have an opinion on a lot of
Speaker 1: other things as well. So we're gonna hit all different topics. Um,
Speaker 1: nothing's off limits, And much to the chagrine of our husbands,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that they will, you know, reprimand us at
Speaker 1: some point by saying that might be too much reprimanded
Speaker 1: a lot Kyle. I'm new to the marriage things, so
Speaker 1: Kyle doesn't really know how to look. I can't show
Speaker 1: you this finger because that's broken. I I picked a
Speaker 1: bad hand to break a finger on because gets your hand,
Speaker 1: you're gonna leave some diamonds for the rest of us.
Speaker 1: She is my finger green kidding. My husband did wonderful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now the great news about doing a podcast with Aaron Andrews.
Speaker 1: Her rolodex of people that she knows is a lot
Speaker 1: deeper than mine and a lot more famous. I'm like
Speaker 1: down in the e level you worked on extra, you
Speaker 1: work still for I still do work for extra. I've
Speaker 1: never sat down with George Clooney. How good does he's?
Speaker 1: My God, He's not even better. He's fun to hang with,
Speaker 1: like he's like drank with him while I was drinking
Speaker 1: his tequila and his lovely wife Mamma every night drinking
Speaker 1: on the red carpet. But we were drinking his tequila.
Speaker 1: Mario and I were at the time, and he's so
Speaker 1: does he smell like is it more of a forest
Speaker 1: or is a fabulous It's it's like it's just a
Speaker 1: manly smell, but like with a hint of um, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know how to describe it, but like a
Speaker 1: little musty, but in a good musty usually has a
Speaker 1: negative connotation. He's like a he's like a red, he's
Speaker 1: a Bordeaux. He's a smell of a boardeaux, which is
Speaker 1: rich mahogany. I can't have that on an empty stomach, honestly. Oh,
Speaker 1: I can't everything, because it's really to start now. No,
Speaker 1: but I will say he is somebody not to go
Speaker 1: off on a tangent. That's the one thing we were
Speaker 1: going to say about our podcast Keep up. But she
Speaker 1: does like the game of tennis or ping punk because
Speaker 1: it's a lot of this. George Clooney is somebody that
Speaker 1: Oprah Winfree is somebody else. I feel like you look
Speaker 1: at them and they're like they have to smell good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And Oprah's that person that makes you feel you know
Speaker 1: that you've known her for a hundred years. She puts
Speaker 1: her arm around you and she's like hi. And her eyelashes,
Speaker 1: I don't care if they're real or fake. I'm not judging.
Speaker 1: They are butterflies. They will reach out and touch somewhat. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's be honest, let's get loud. We're gonna drop
Speaker 1: that every now and then drink every time you see. Um,
Speaker 1: where's Andy Cohen? He'll be on here. Don't worry better, Andy,
Speaker 1: So our first guest. I'm freaking out. You can't see it.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can. I'm already sweating. I'm excited. Why Black,
Speaker 1: he's the best. Why don't you say who we got?
Speaker 1: You got him? Okay? Our first guest without you know,
Speaker 1: drawing this out any longer? Chris time's worth? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise no heart is our first guest? Am I yelling? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I'm clapping. We're pumped. I I've been in a
Speaker 1: cold tub with him. Um. I laughed so hard my
Speaker 1: face hurt. He made fun of my laugh, he said,
Speaker 1: I sounded like an old woman smoking a cigarette. Also
Speaker 1: looked like you were doing something inappropriate when the cell
Speaker 1: phone was vibrating. Yeah, I'm excited. Are you ready? We're
Speaker 1: gonna dive right in. Kevin Hart is going to take
Speaker 1: two minutes out of his busy schedule and he's actually
Speaker 1: gonna sit down with us and everything podcast. I will not.
Speaker 1: My face is already hurting. No, you can't calm down
Speaker 1: for this, can't wait for it? All right? You guys,
Speaker 1: hang tight, we will be right back with more Calm
Speaker 1: Down with Aaron and Carisa right after this. Alright, guys,
Speaker 1: we're back. And um, this is our first ever guest
Speaker 1: on Calm Down might be our last guest. That's a
Speaker 1: good way to go out. All I'm gonna say is
Speaker 1: I've been in a cold tub with him. His balls
Speaker 1: were cold, mine weren't. Um, I'm shocked. He is time
Speaker 1: for us right now with all that he has to do.
Speaker 1: And uh, from here on out, we are screwed because
Speaker 1: this is our first guest and what we just popped
Speaker 1: the cherry with this one, right Yeah, without further ado,
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart, you look at that introduction. First of all, Aaron,
Speaker 1: I don't have time. I don't have time to do this. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just make that very clear. I have absolutely no
Speaker 1: time at all. But it's you and I am such
Speaker 1: a friend, such a fan, uh and and lover for
Speaker 1: what you do. I said, I'm going to make the time,
Speaker 1: so your priority is my priority. Let's kick your let's
Speaker 1: kick your new world off with a bank. It's so sweet, Kevin.
Speaker 1: I love that you said that, because I said, Aaron's like,
Speaker 1: I I think I got our first guest, and I
Speaker 1: was like, what she's like Kevin Hart. I was like, uh, remember,
Speaker 1: I said, well that's casual. I said, well, at least
Speaker 1: you get to talk to Kevin Hart. And I know
Speaker 1: that you guys have a great relationship, is evidenced by
Speaker 1: your your admiration for Aaron right there, Kevin. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you your publicist that little Beach wouldn't let
Speaker 1: me interview you because she always handed you off to
Speaker 1: Mario Lopez. When I was at Extra and I was like,
Speaker 1: please let me interview Kevin. He was not happening. Not happening.
Speaker 1: Only Mario gets to interview a list celebrities. So I
Speaker 1: was stuck with the cast of Southern Charm. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's always use and I had no
Speaker 1: I had no idea about this. This this is information
Speaker 1: that never came to me. And this is how stars,
Speaker 1: this is how they get the bad red because people go, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: that person is such a dick. So they've never talked us,
Speaker 1: they never stopped here, they never ever give us a shot.
Speaker 1: We don't even know that that was an option. I
Speaker 1: just go where I'm told. And now look at this.
Speaker 1: I found out that this amazing woman wanted to talk
Speaker 1: to me, and I've just avoided her all this time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she gave me the She gave me the heisman every
Speaker 1: time I requested to interview you. But this is your chance.
Speaker 1: Here we go, here we go. So the only thing
Speaker 1: that we have in common, Kevin, because it's not our
Speaker 1: bank accounts, is that we now both have a podcast.
Speaker 1: So congratulations on yours. You obviously had a very casual
Speaker 1: first guest in Jerry Seinfeld my favorite thing, and we
Speaker 1: both did our homework and listened to it, of course,
Speaker 1: which we would have anyways independent of starting our own podcast.
Speaker 1: Is Jerry's like, I come very prepared for guests and
Speaker 1: all these things that I've got the whole road. He's like,
Speaker 1: you know, a road diverged in two woods and I'm
Speaker 1: going the road less traveled, and you go, I don't
Speaker 1: prepare for ship. I was like, yes, that's me. And
Speaker 1: Aaron spends hours. I'm you know, see what happens next
Speaker 1: kind of gale. It's little Yanyana Yang. You need the
Speaker 1: best of both worlds. I think having someone that's prepped, uh,
Speaker 1: and having someone that's not that actually that makes great
Speaker 1: radio and makes a great podcast like material. The only
Speaker 1: reason why I don't like to prep is because I like,
Speaker 1: I like real conversations. So you know, nine times out
Speaker 1: of ten, if I don't know the person, while I say,
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity for me to get to know him.
Speaker 1: And if I didn't know you and I wanted to
Speaker 1: get to know you we were talking on the street.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna ask you questions, You're gonna answer them,
Speaker 1: and that's your springboard great dialogue. Uh. If it doesn't,
Speaker 1: then that means you're a person and I really shouldn't
Speaker 1: have gotten I mean, this conversation with ship and then
Speaker 1: we both have an offered by and we never see
Speaker 1: each other again. So uh, just don't put yourself in
Speaker 1: those situations. And I think if you, if you both
Speaker 1: are here, it's never gonna be that bad because one
Speaker 1: would always be able to get the other one out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, that's great. Okay, I'm like blowing it off now,
Speaker 1: Yeah that's great. I did a lot of homework. No,
Speaker 1: but seriously, I I come from a sports world. I
Speaker 1: sit down with you, as you know, not with the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles this year because they had some problems. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that after the break. Yeah, it was you know,
Speaker 1: I came for that biggest. I guess your keys to
Speaker 1: the game. If we're moving forward on how to have success?
Speaker 1: What have you learned? I don't even know how many
Speaker 1: of these you've recorded. I know one is out with Jerry,
Speaker 1: But what is your advice for us to have success?
Speaker 1: Because this is it, baby, this is the first one.
Speaker 1: This is week one of the NFL season right here.
Speaker 1: So how do we do? I think we'll put yourself
Speaker 1: in a position where you can be different, you know,
Speaker 1: when it when it comes to talking, you know, to athletes,
Speaker 1: when it comes to talking to entertainers, there's a there's
Speaker 1: a model that's kind of followed by so many. There's
Speaker 1: like a plug in play, right, Like it's almost like
Speaker 1: what a talk show. Every every talk show has a desk,
Speaker 1: and after the desk there's a live band. And we
Speaker 1: don't know how that became the thing, but somehow, some way,
Speaker 1: that became the model that people felt like they should
Speaker 1: that they should follow. Then it became two chairs and
Speaker 1: take comfortable looking chairs and and in a deep conversation
Speaker 1: with three about five cards. Somebody made this look like
Speaker 1: this is supposed to be the way because it's not
Speaker 1: this way and it's not the right way. Um, break
Speaker 1: new ground, shake, shut up. You know, when you talk
Speaker 1: to athletes, I think you talked to him about more
Speaker 1: than just the sport. Get to actually know the people,
Speaker 1: and I think the talent within the craft of you know, football, basketball, hockey,
Speaker 1: whatever that thing is, becomes secondary and a bonus. But
Speaker 1: the person, the person is more interesting. So your stats
Speaker 1: are just that, but we can hear and know them
Speaker 1: all the time. But when you when you get to
Speaker 1: know who who has a dog and who does it?
Speaker 1: You know, dogs versus cats, underwear versus no draws, you know.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm home. I don't have on pants, so really, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's different because I'm home. Yeah this You're supposed to
Speaker 1: be comfortable your home green back, but I don't even
Speaker 1: do that. My kids aren't allowed to come to my
Speaker 1: office during the day because I've been working home. And
Speaker 1: it's a gamble every morning you busting here. It could
Speaker 1: be pants or not. You know that. And I told
Speaker 1: you guys that several times. Because I'm running late for
Speaker 1: a lot of these meetings, a lot of these zooms
Speaker 1: and stuff. Sometimes I just get out the bid and
Speaker 1: hall as downstairs. I'm a nude sleeper. See this is
Speaker 1: no yeah, because things just moved shift that love it
Speaker 1: with clothes? Oh my god? Wait is it? Is it
Speaker 1: for a climate control situation? No, it's because my body's great.
Speaker 1: That's why I feel you. I mean I've seen it.
Speaker 1: But I mean my wife's understand what's going on here
Speaker 1: every night. But how lucky you are? One roll over
Speaker 1: like the boom baby hanging all over, But nothing's rolling
Speaker 1: over here. I mean, things are proportionate like I I
Speaker 1: like it when you do the old Kate Winslet Titanic
Speaker 1: like that feels like a lot of work. It's a
Speaker 1: cat's cradle in the bed, and we're not just give
Speaker 1: you my whole grow up, Okay, grow up, it's extremely immature.
Speaker 1: Grow up. It's a bed. There's blankets there for a reason.
Speaker 1: All right, are you get out of bed in the morning.
Speaker 1: It's time to get dressed. It's time to get I'm dressed.
Speaker 1: That's the whole purpose of getting in the bed. Nobody
Speaker 1: wants to sleep next to a woman would have turtleneck on,
Speaker 1: and a woman don't want to sleep next to a
Speaker 1: guy with corduroy is on. That would hurt, especially if
Speaker 1: you are naked. Now we've got chafing. There's a whole
Speaker 1: situation happening here. Alright. So you told you you have
Speaker 1: four beautiful babies, and that's why he has them because
Speaker 1: he sleeps exactly, So we needed to get going life. Honestly,
Speaker 1: is has has gravitated to more clothes as the as
Speaker 1: the baby turtle nack. She's a thousand percent more more
Speaker 1: dressed than she's that have been today. Yeah, that's we're
Speaker 1: sure you are to long journey? Are you all right?
Speaker 1: I guess okay. I love you. So I'm obsessed with
Speaker 1: the name Hendrix. I love Jimmy Hendrix. Whatever. I know
Speaker 1: your son's names Hendrix. Where was the name derived from? Jimmy?
Speaker 1: I'm always curious about name naming a child because they're
Speaker 1: stuck with it forever. My name came from a Sports
Speaker 1: Illustrated swimsuit edition because I was the third kid, and
Speaker 1: my my mom's like, I don't care, just name or something,
Speaker 1: and so my dad's like, I got a name, and
Speaker 1: so that's where my name came from. I can say, honestly,
Speaker 1: I am not responsible for any of the names of
Speaker 1: my kids. Uh, it's one of those things where I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, um, throughout a pregnancy, a woman
Speaker 1: finds excitement in so much and and the naming process
Speaker 1: and figuring out is one of those things. I'm there
Speaker 1: to support the list of names and the journey of
Speaker 1: how and why has always been one and I just
Speaker 1: sat through and it's whatever you wants. My my ex wife, Tori,
Speaker 1: she's a massive Jimmi Hendricks fan. She wanted to play
Speaker 1: with the h uh and the h h because our
Speaker 1: daughter heaven Uh is heaven Lee Heart altogether, Heavenly Heart.
Speaker 1: I'm not responsible for that. And my son is Hendricks
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart once again, not responsible for that. And my
Speaker 1: kids now Kori my Heart and Kindled cash Heart, all
Speaker 1: great names. Not responsible for Linium. I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: take the credit for not one name. But I feel
Speaker 1: like he You're really good at picking your battles with this.
Speaker 1: Because I had a girlfriend that just had a new
Speaker 1: baby and it was a whole like we were calling
Speaker 1: him the last name for a while. We had to
Speaker 1: figure it out. Her husband didn't like, but I love it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're a guy. I I know I've told
Speaker 1: you this before. I need to learn a lot from
Speaker 1: especially how to grow that bank account. But picking the
Speaker 1: battles with your wife, and I feel like your latest
Speaker 1: special on Netflix did that as well, So that's interesting.
Speaker 1: What other information do you have with picking your battles
Speaker 1: with marriage, having the baby, the name, what's in another
Speaker 1: key one that you don't I don't have any battles
Speaker 1: that I can that I can win. I've I've done
Speaker 1: my fair share of sucking up. So at this point,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm just a white flag walking a bank account.
Speaker 1: You're there, You're not gonna pushback, nothing, no pushback. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that we should do a house side kitchen,
Speaker 1: sure shot, yes, whatever, whatever those things are. And when
Speaker 1: I do have a problem, and I can be honest,
Speaker 1: it's very far few and in between. But if I
Speaker 1: do have a problem with something, because it's so rare,
Speaker 1: there's never really a thing of where I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know there, there needs to be a presence that
Speaker 1: has to be felt, like we gotta go to war.
Speaker 1: So I think that we do a great job of
Speaker 1: respecting one another. But also I have no problem with
Speaker 1: saying this is your domain, this is this is your home,
Speaker 1: and if you're not comfortable in this domain, and you
Speaker 1: don't feel like you have the tool that you need
Speaker 1: to be able to do what you do at the
Speaker 1: best level possible. Uh, then I'm messing up because priority
Speaker 1: and your energy is important. So that's that's my take
Speaker 1: on that. I love that. And part of your interview
Speaker 1: with Jerry on your podcast to be Named Later was
Speaker 1: that when Jerry was saying that spouses are like rescue dogs. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's so true. And I have a rescue dog, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. I bought the first dog. I
Speaker 1: felt so guilty about buying the first dog that I
Speaker 1: got a rescue dog. I went to a breader. Well,
Speaker 1: I see, so then you're gonna have to feel guilty
Speaker 1: and get a rescue dog. So I the rescue doctor
Speaker 1: needs a lot of attention. The one I bought. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm cool man of strutting around this place. I'm doing
Speaker 1: my thing. The rescue dogs like I need you, I
Speaker 1: need you, I need you, I need you. So it
Speaker 1: really resonated with me that spouse are like that. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, I agree a thousand percent. There's so much
Speaker 1: that you have to to learn. And by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm still I'm still learning. I'm forty one,
Speaker 1: uh and and you're you're You're constantly growing. But that partnership,
Speaker 1: that that that friendship, you know, that ship has got
Speaker 1: to be worked. Marriages is fucking work. You're personal every
Speaker 1: day three sixty five. And even if you're doing something
Speaker 1: that you know allows you to get on the road
Speaker 1: and come back, you're still with the same person. So
Speaker 1: you're gonna have good days, bad days. But the beauty
Speaker 1: is figuring out how to overcome those days and still
Speaker 1: get back to you coolert ship. I love you too.
Speaker 1: That's that's the that's the hard task, and I think
Speaker 1: when you figure that out, then it becomes a breeze
Speaker 1: for most. Well, I'm on my second marriage. This one
Speaker 1: just happened a month ago, so I'm new to the game.
Speaker 1: But thank you, sir, you would have known that. How
Speaker 1: I have been allowed to interview Haley again with the
Speaker 1: high has been I want to know about having another
Speaker 1: baby at forty one because I'm older than you and
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. The fun facts they're forty two,
Speaker 1: haven't had a kid. Need to work on it, obviously,
Speaker 1: I need to get off the road and get into it. No,
Speaker 1: you need to get naked in bed. Apparently there's a
Speaker 1: lot more to it than that. But apparently marble, I
Speaker 1: mean marble counters high waisted gene. What is it like
Speaker 1: having it? I mean, I know you have several kids,
Speaker 1: but now another baby at forty one, especially when you're
Speaker 1: just so I feel like accustomed your life, setting your ways.
Speaker 1: Help it's it's I can say. Right now, the funniest
Speaker 1: thing for me and my wife, Me and my wife
Speaker 1: are please tell me you're flagging her in right now.
Speaker 1: I knew, I knew it. I saw the move. By
Speaker 1: the way, she's not flagging. She's not like coming in
Speaker 1: a room to check on me, because it's an amazing
Speaker 1: She just has no respect for what does she have
Speaker 1: pants on? I hope not that she's hot. Just poke
Speaker 1: your head in to say hi, Just pull and this
Speaker 1: is how, this is how you'll be able to like,
Speaker 1: this is what you'll you'll see that I'm really telling
Speaker 1: the truth because I say it in front of her.
Speaker 1: We laughed so much now looking at what we used
Speaker 1: to be like, me and my were, my wife, we were,
Speaker 1: we were road warriors. At one point it was a baby,
Speaker 1: let's go, we're out with restaurants were lounges and clubs.
Speaker 1: We're on a plane where vacation we're done. We're both
Speaker 1: like we were really at one point living living our
Speaker 1: best lives through travel and experience. And you know, then
Speaker 1: the babies start to pile up right, and you really,
Speaker 1: you really find yourself at a loss for words because
Speaker 1: you don't know when it went bad. Where when did
Speaker 1: we get here? Like like we can't past eight o'clock
Speaker 1: eight pm. There's a there's a weird thing of who
Speaker 1: falls to sleep first, and and you know, the the
Speaker 1: changing of the guard is now like my wife forever
Speaker 1: fell asleep on me. When I was in those stages,
Speaker 1: when I was a rabbit, I used to get mad, goddamn,
Speaker 1: like you got to sleep, you're gonna sleep so fast
Speaker 1: white a thirty you knocked out. And now now she's
Speaker 1: built up this schedule. Her bed time is a little later.
Speaker 1: My wife could push to nine thirty, which is absurd,
Speaker 1: by the way, party nine thirty, not forty five. And
Speaker 1: it's almost as if you're on drugs. I don't know
Speaker 1: how she stays up this left. I don't know what
Speaker 1: she's doing. You sit me down, and you stopped talking
Speaker 1: to me. I'm out and we realized we were like
Speaker 1: the kids fucked us up, like we we got nothing left.
Speaker 1: We at the end of the day, we're so tired
Speaker 1: from baby exchange, the conversations with the kids, to making
Speaker 1: sure that the kids are at the extracurricular activities, to listening,
Speaker 1: understanding attitudes versus no attitudes. Why aren't you eating? Why
Speaker 1: aren't you bathing? Brush your damn teeth? Did you go
Speaker 1: do your homework? We've been in the how so you
Speaker 1: are so invested into your kids lives lives that you
Speaker 1: you don't have nothing else. So now we're at this
Speaker 1: point like where we I think we low key honey,
Speaker 1: are we scheduling sex? And it's by the way, I'm fine,
Speaker 1: I'm fine. It's not like it has to happen, you know,
Speaker 1: like I'm not pressing the gas for that. She is.
Speaker 1: So if you know, if there's some time, okay, we
Speaker 1: should rest, we should build up enough energy for this
Speaker 1: time that happened. But we are no longer who used
Speaker 1: to be, And you just gotta accept that. You gotta
Speaker 1: roll with it, You gotta you gotta love the you
Speaker 1: gotta love the fact that you're getting older and that
Speaker 1: you're watching the younger versions of yourselves part so much
Speaker 1: about your comedy special when when your wife's like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out and you're like, okay, yeah, no, look
Speaker 1: I'm going out. You're like, yeah, we find fact found
Speaker 1: out that you're a big fan of Yellowstone, which this
Speaker 1: one is. But you're not done. You're where are you?
Speaker 1: Tell me everything? Tell me where I'm gonna Season four
Speaker 1: just happened? Um season three? Yeah, I'm I'm, I'm when,
Speaker 1: I'm when it now got it's now it's now getting
Speaker 1: real from the takeover right, Like you know when after
Speaker 1: after the brothers had that little spat and the brother
Speaker 1: ended up killing uh what was the league guy from? UM?
Speaker 1: I believe it was like the Indian Um that that
Speaker 1: was it, which is like the story is just so
Speaker 1: real because I've traveled to these parts and I know
Speaker 1: how important the land is and why the fight over
Speaker 1: the land becomes what it becomes. But I also love
Speaker 1: the power that Kevin Costner's character has, Like this man
Speaker 1: that has built this this ranch, this thing, this this
Speaker 1: big entity, the brand. It's just such a big brand,
Speaker 1: and he runs this town own without running the town,
Speaker 1: and things have to go through him and if they don't,
Speaker 1: there's consequences and the people that are around it's almost
Speaker 1: it's like, I hate to say it, this is like
Speaker 1: the mainstream version of the cartel or or the drug
Speaker 1: the drug game in the black community. Like there's there's
Speaker 1: different levels to it. This is that, but the drugs
Speaker 1: are the land, and that's what you're trying to gain
Speaker 1: more access, and that's what you want more of. So
Speaker 1: from the writing, the evolvement, the characters, I just like it.
Speaker 1: I think all in all, Like I've even been searching
Speaker 1: after the showrunners to see, like how long is this
Speaker 1: ship gonna last? Loki, I'm like they should stop it
Speaker 1: just so I can go get the people that developed
Speaker 1: it and have them come and do some things underneath
Speaker 1: I Umbrella because it's so good. It's so good. Don't
Speaker 1: you even want the damn coffee cup he holds Like
Speaker 1: I tried to find it for Christmas for my husband.
Speaker 1: It's quite it's were good copy. Oh good, I can
Speaker 1: say I can say that that show um and and
Speaker 1: through the pandemic, I went back and I got back
Speaker 1: invested into billions. Billions is a good one too. Don't
Speaker 1: you want to sit down with Wendy Rhodes so bad
Speaker 1: and just have her like just totally get into your brain.
Speaker 1: And do you have to watch it on close caption
Speaker 1: because I don't know what the they're talking about half
Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, I watch everything on close caption. Everything,
Speaker 1: everything has a close caption on. And I'm more I'm
Speaker 1: more into the to the TV just because you know,
Speaker 1: there's uh, there's just time to to watch, time to
Speaker 1: really invest and and just be a fan of of
Speaker 1: great story evolvement. That's that's what I like. How much
Speaker 1: do you love Bath on yellow Stone? Stop it? What
Speaker 1: do you mean? How much? I love that? She's She's
Speaker 1: probably character second character in my opinion, Team Jamie or
Speaker 1: team Casey. So yeah, no one who likes Jamie. Who's
Speaker 1: the person that likes He's disgusting. Anyways, I want to
Speaker 1: be an extra on that show so bad. I want
Speaker 1: to be a barrel girl. I'll do anything to be
Speaker 1: on show. Who cares? There's so many opportunities. I better
Speaker 1: they knew that they would easily implement your show. You
Speaker 1: gotta be honest and put it out there. No one cares.
Speaker 1: Don't give a ship. I know You've got a million
Speaker 1: things to do. We've talked about it. You'll have to
Speaker 1: go soon, um, because you've got your family right down.
Speaker 1: Don't calm down, um, but real quickly. Another thing that
Speaker 1: I deduced from your conversation with Jerry, as you do
Speaker 1: a check in when you're in the gym, how are
Speaker 1: you feeling today, what are you doing? What's your vibe
Speaker 1: right now? A daily check in? I'm into it. My
Speaker 1: my vibe is is extremely it's extremely high in present. Um.
Speaker 1: That's that's this new kick that I'm just being present,
Speaker 1: being mindful of myself and my personal level of happiness.
Speaker 1: And I think when you when you really are um
Speaker 1: into just taking care of you, it gives you the
Speaker 1: opportunity to be a better person for other people. Right
Speaker 1: And and I think over my years of being so crazy,
Speaker 1: being so busy, I got wrapped up into busy, busy,
Speaker 1: busy that that I didn't check on me and my mornings,
Speaker 1: my mornings are the time to dedicate, um, you know,
Speaker 1: me to me Like I can talk to myself before
Speaker 1: my trainers get there. I can take a run, I
Speaker 1: can take a bike ride, I can get on my
Speaker 1: road machine. There's so many things I can do. But's
Speaker 1: where I lock in to just me. And I know
Speaker 1: it may sound, you know, an ideal, but talking to
Speaker 1: yourself and understanding yourself and hearing yourself out. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: my new ship. And it's and it's it's just making me.
Speaker 1: Uh it's it's giving me more of a more of
Speaker 1: an uplifting and vibrant presence to date in my house
Speaker 1: and my surroundings and my company. Um, I just find
Speaker 1: myself just being a little more energized, a little more
Speaker 1: happy because I feel like I'm constantly working on me
Speaker 1: as well and not other things. I'm assuming because you're
Speaker 1: not wearing pants that no, I like going deep. We're
Speaker 1: into the long ball. We like taking the top off
Speaker 1: the coverage. Woe. By the way, I'm assuming because today
Speaker 1: you're not wearing pants. It was a leg day? Uh No,
Speaker 1: Because I have little legs, every day has to, unfortunately
Speaker 1: be some type of leg day. I can't miss any
Speaker 1: days because I'm I'm afraid that I'm gonna lose whatever
Speaker 1: growth up possibly have gained in the beginning of the week.
Speaker 1: So I try to do a little legs every day.
Speaker 1: Can we ask Kevin to give a calm down a
Speaker 1: word before his publicist tells us to calm down and
Speaker 1: get him the hell off this thing. Is there someone
Speaker 1: or something you want to give a calm down or too? Oh?
Speaker 1: I cannot. Yes, Um, you know what I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: a calm down. Two, I'm gonna saying to the to
Speaker 1: the majority of people that have lost sight and understanding
Speaker 1: of what an opinion is. Um, I think that we
Speaker 1: need to calm down and stop battling people based off
Speaker 1: of opinions and feelings. You're never gonna win that battle. Uh.
Speaker 1: You can make it right, you can make it left.
Speaker 1: You can drink tea, you can drink coffee. Nobody is
Speaker 1: ever gonna be wrong for either choice. It's their life
Speaker 1: and they can do what they want with it. But
Speaker 1: there's this crazy battle that we have for people not
Speaker 1: feeling the way that we want them to. And if
Speaker 1: you don't calm down and let's get back to understanding
Speaker 1: that it's okay to be different, it's okay to thank
Speaker 1: for yourself. Uh. None of us are programmed. And I
Speaker 1: think that the more that we understand that, the better,
Speaker 1: and just lead by example and know that you're doing
Speaker 1: your part. Hopefully the people follow. That's amazing, and it's
Speaker 1: okay to were jammys to bed or skinny jeans? Well
Speaker 1: for different coming cozy dammit, grow up that that wasn't available,
Speaker 1: that that already had a trademark. Kevin, that's so nice
Speaker 1: of you. Thank you. I think that's a really good
Speaker 1: sentiment for us to remember as we head into this
Speaker 1: podcast thing that we're embarking on where we're going to
Speaker 1: offend people or we're gonna not you know, we're not
Speaker 1: everyone's cup of tea or coffee in your case. But
Speaker 1: I think that that's a really good reminder to ourselves.
Speaker 1: So thank you, Thank you for your time. Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you kicked it off with a looking
Speaker 1: forward to hearing about like you have future success. This
Speaker 1: is cool. Guys. Where the hell do we go after you?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know where we go. You
Speaker 1: go to do what you mean, you go to McCully
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know these people out there to
Speaker 1: go to Little White, that's my friend, you'll do it.
Speaker 1: Tons of names I need, Yeah, we need your role
Speaker 1: at x Evan. Thank you so much. Thank you guys,
Speaker 1: Love you stay same, yes man, love you back bye bye.
Speaker 1: Calm down, Calm then down. Calm down. Bye, We're gonna
Speaker 1: have you calmed down for two seconds because we're gonna
Speaker 1: be right back more calmed down with Aaron Carissa. Right
Speaker 1: after this, I have to go to the bathroom. All right,
Speaker 1: welcome back to calm down with Aaron and Krissa. What
Speaker 1: do you think she I get it? I mean I
Speaker 1: have never obviously had an opportunity to interview him in
Speaker 1: that capacity and so relaxed, and his wife would have
Speaker 1: loved like coming in. But you know him very well. Um,
Speaker 1: it's not as shock while he's as successful as he is,
Speaker 1: because he is so relatable and so real and I
Speaker 1: just like anyone that I feel like I can beat
Speaker 1: myself with. Listen, there's a handful of people, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's more. I'll just be really lame and stay
Speaker 1: handful that have a ton of six says are actually
Speaker 1: you know, real, our kind. I give him a ton
Speaker 1: of credit for giving us a sliver of his time,
Speaker 1: which I couldn't be more grateful for. He's right up
Speaker 1: there and I could listen to him talk about it
Speaker 1: for hours and it's almost like i'd pay I'd pay
Speaker 1: him to be my marriage counselor not that I need it.
Speaker 1: But it's like the balance. That's something I want to do.
Speaker 1: And I love that he said he's trying to be
Speaker 1: present right now. That's something I know I need to
Speaker 1: work on. I'm excited to work on. I owe that
Speaker 1: to myself. I owe that to my husband, and I
Speaker 1: appreciate somebody like him with everything that he's done. He's
Speaker 1: still working on that and trying, and it's his focus
Speaker 1: right now. What did you love? I remember, you know,
Speaker 1: growing up, my parents have never been divorced, and I'm
Speaker 1: lucky they've been married since they were eighteen years old.
Speaker 1: But my dad would always say, you know, you kids
Speaker 1: are great now, but like your mom's my priority. She
Speaker 1: was here before you, and she's going to be here
Speaker 1: after you. So this idea of marriage and even in
Speaker 1: his mistakes and Kevin you know, um, you know, public mistakes,
Speaker 1: that he accepts responsibility for that and now it's her time.
Speaker 1: And I just think that that's a really um real thing,
Speaker 1: and I just like it. I just like someone that's
Speaker 1: willing to admit fault. Yeah, it just humanizes them. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like you can talk to him and and no
Speaker 1: matter what he's got going on and whoever he was
Speaker 1: shooting a scene with two hours ago. He's still stuck
Speaker 1: in l A traffic, which I appreciate. That phenomenal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just it really really sets him on a level
Speaker 1: that I think is is totally relatable. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: liked his Calm Down Award, and I think it's a
Speaker 1: really good reminder for us as we embark on this journey.
Speaker 1: And again, without getting too deep, is that come on,
Speaker 1: and we're not here to hurt anyone's feelings. We're not
Speaker 1: here to be malicious or anything. Um, we make fun
Speaker 1: of ourselves first and foremost, and we're just all along
Speaker 1: for the ride and let's have some fun along the way.
Speaker 1: So I think it was an awesome way to kick
Speaker 1: off calm down. We are screwed. Though I wish I
Speaker 1: was gonna be He was trying to to to act
Speaker 1: like you know that it was gonna be okay. But
Speaker 1: I mean that was one hell of a way to
Speaker 1: kick it off. I can't wait to go home and
Speaker 1: be like, so, bab, this is what I learned from
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart. I'm sleeping nude and I'm gonna be present.
Speaker 1: Are our bedtime attire is very symbolic of who we are.
Speaker 1: I'm just out there and you're I love mine. It's
Speaker 1: really cozy and soft. It's fabulous. You do you, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do me. Remember what the calm down aboard
Speaker 1: was about is not judging and just be who you are.
Speaker 1: I am super cuddly and cozy and if you want,
Speaker 1: your team will go on and we'll be offering it
Speaker 1: on Fanatics and NFL shop dot com or wherever you
Speaker 1: buy your women's apparel because there's only one home. Now.
Speaker 1: All right, well we did it. I'm proud of us,
Speaker 1: and thank you guys for listening. Hopefully we're back next
Speaker 1: week unless we're canceled it. That's why you have to
Speaker 1: give us a rating. We want fives across the board
Speaker 1: from the French judge. So calm down and give us
Speaker 1: a rating and that will be a good one. No
Speaker 1: even seriously, you know, at the end of the service,
Speaker 1: they're like, take the survey, Please take the survey and
Speaker 1: give us a great rating because the suits say that
Speaker 1: it's very important that we get high ratings. Um. I'm
Speaker 1: also following along with the other things they told me
Speaker 1: to say, hild it. Look, this is our first podcast.
Speaker 1: I do what I'm told the second podcast, its completely
Speaker 1: going to be out the window. We won't listen to
Speaker 1: anybody follow us on socials. I didn't know my Instagram handle.
Speaker 1: Apparently it's very short. It's my whole name with my
Speaker 1: middle initial, Charissa J. Thompson. That seems successive. Was your
Speaker 1: other name taken? I mean probably there's another Cariss. I'm
Speaker 1: saying people for that. Well, well, after this we'll let
Speaker 1: her know how to do it. So at Aaron Andrews
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram, and Charis said tea on Twitter
Speaker 1: and literally I didn't want to do the whole name
Speaker 1: on Twitter when I started that account ten years ago.
Speaker 1: Hope you guys following, And of course you can follow
Speaker 1: our show at Calm Down Podcast on Twitter and Instagram.
Speaker 1: As we always say on social media, you can't take
Speaker 1: yourself too seriously. I like to make fun of everybody. Um,
Speaker 1: so yeah, including ourselves. Right. Make sure you guys follow
Speaker 1: us on Instagram and Twitter, because it will be extra
Speaker 1: things that didn't make our show some of you know,
Speaker 1: maybe the outtakes. If you always find outtakes, this whole
Speaker 1: thing might be an outtake, um to be the funniest.
Speaker 1: So the additional content on both of our Instagram accounts
Speaker 1: and Twitter accounts as well as the Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing, it's just like real life. If
Speaker 1: you want to give us a follow, and then you're
Speaker 1: afraid we're going to see if you want to follow us,
Speaker 1: we will, so just put us on mute, but at
Speaker 1: least give us the follow, and then if we want
Speaker 1: to be the people that you follow and we just
Speaker 1: annoy you every morning or afternoon, but you still feel
Speaker 1: like you've got to do it, we're with you and
Speaker 1: we're definitely going to get into that segment, no doubt,
Speaker 1: because I have those people, but I can't press on
Speaker 1: follow because I just I need to. I didn't know
Speaker 1: there was an app that shows who unfollows you. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that either. The only app you should care
Speaker 1: about is the I Heart Radio podcast app that I hope,
Speaker 1: So if it is, it's great. You know what's different
Speaker 1: for us in this podcast we don't have someone telling
Speaker 1: us in our ear how much longer we need to
Speaker 1: speak for freaking football. It's like I'm looking and the
Speaker 1: guy's getting ready. If the guy, the quarterback is getting ready,
Speaker 1: you know, to get the ball, so then you gotta
Speaker 1: be like Joe back to you, Joe, are you here.
Speaker 1: Aaron also makes fun of me when I do a
Speaker 1: game break and I send it back to her and
Speaker 1: I'm like, Joe, Troy and Aaron. She's like, you say, Aaron, No,
Speaker 1: this is how she does it. And the boarding niners
Speaker 1: are up fourteen to seven. Now let's send it back
Speaker 1: to Joe, Troy and Aaron. Yeah, I know this is nice.
Speaker 1: It was. We'll talk about that in a whole lot more.
Speaker 1: This is Calmed Down with Aaron and Carissa, and hopefully
Speaker 1: we will be back in a week with another podcast,
Speaker 1: unless we're canceled already. Calm Down with Aaron and Carrissa
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