Speaker 1: I walked out onto the field and I grabbed my
Speaker 1: ESPN mic and I said, I got the ring. I
Speaker 1: got the ring and they said whose is it? And
Speaker 1: I said, David fucking' orty and I showed it on
Speaker 1: Sports Center. Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a
Speaker 1: production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Entry and two and three and two and.
Speaker 1: One that was like step by step New Kids on
Speaker 1: the Block. I know that you are a dazzler, which
Speaker 1: is a dancer, but were there any cheers? Welcome everybody
Speaker 1: to the Calm Down Podcast. For those of you watching
Speaker 1: on YouTube or a social clip, you can see this.
Speaker 1: If not Aaron, describe what you're doing, she's going. She
Speaker 1: doesn't ever palmp poms on her. If she does, oh
Speaker 1: Jesus Price, I hear them, Oh my god, she just
Speaker 1: has them in case I ask Dunn.
Speaker 2: Give me something. Just start performing.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if they beat Vanderbilt this weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm so frustrated. Is that how you pronounced frustrated camaraderie?
Speaker 1: She's referencing that I made her resay camaraderie because she
Speaker 1: had set miss pronounced it wrong. Her pronunciation of camaraderie
Speaker 1: wasn't up to my standards for vocabulary because I miss Webster. Okay, Miriam?
Speaker 1: Is that you AnyWho?
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Calm Down Podcast. We are raring to
Speaker 2: go these days.
Speaker 1: I had a pumpkin coffee. Yes, I did also have
Speaker 1: a diet coke. Anyone want to mix in a water
Speaker 1: water water?
Speaker 2: Hey? Week five, hanh, Let's do a little recap.
Speaker 1: You had a home game cost you and not from
Speaker 1: a plane ride because all you did Gal was just
Speaker 1: work seven shows, drive to Sofi, drive back home.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: Week started. You had the Rams and the Eagles now
Speaker 1: home game. Please describe the difference for everyone that is
Speaker 1: not familiar. Is this better? Is this worse?
Speaker 2: Has it change your prep? All the things?
Speaker 1: Home games are tougher? Why because pros and cons. Pro
Speaker 1: don't get on a plane, don't have to pack. Con
Speaker 1: don't have the time by yourself in the meeting room
Speaker 1: or on the four hour flight to get somewhere, to
Speaker 1: really get your last minute grind, study all the things on.
Speaker 1: Kind of got to balance it out in your house.
Speaker 1: Con when you pack to go on a trip, all
Speaker 1: your shits there. When you're at home, all your shits everywhere?
Speaker 2: Every week? Where the fuck is this, I don't know,
Speaker 2: so that's true.
Speaker 1: Pro you get to go right home with your hobby
Speaker 1: and get your Jammy's and order a big fat burger
Speaker 1: and watch forty nine Ers Dallas.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so.
Speaker 1: It's good with the baby in your lap as I
Speaker 1: FaceTime you, and he was so well behaved. He was
Speaker 1: just sitting and Mac was just sitting in Aaron's lap
Speaker 1: like not making a sound. I was like, this child
Speaker 1: is perfect and look like a Gurber baby.
Speaker 2: In Jammy, but a cool thing that I am so grateful.
Speaker 1: And we talk, you know, we always him and Hob
Speaker 1: about how you know, are how difficult sometimes our job
Speaker 1: is and how competitive it is. This is also where
Speaker 1: it's great. And Fox is very, very wonderful. When we
Speaker 1: are home. They do utilize us in the studio. On Sunday,
Speaker 1: Greg and I get to come in. We did that
Speaker 1: last year. I was sick as a dog last year.
Speaker 1: This year, I was excited. I got to have anything,
Speaker 1: and so we got to come in and even Friday
Speaker 1: night Fox postseason baseball has started up, and my play
Speaker 1: by play announcer, Kevin Burkhard is doing double duty. So
Speaker 1: Fox was cool enough, which is incredible. Yeah, he's the
Speaker 1: that is so him and Joe Davis like when they
Speaker 1: both do football and baseball. And that's how I feel
Speaker 1: about Kirk kurb Street when he's doing college football and
Speaker 1: the NFL. Like this skill set and the amount of
Speaker 1: knowledge in the brain to be able to do that.
Speaker 2: I digress, go ahead, shout out.
Speaker 1: Oh, I can't even focus right now and I'm not
Speaker 1: even doing the double duty that keV is doing.
Speaker 2: So Friday night was really cool.
Speaker 1: Our bosses had us get together for a big dinner
Speaker 1: with Major League Baseball and with our football crew.
Speaker 2: And it was a time.
Speaker 1: I mean, anytime you can get Greg Olsen, Derek Jeter,
Speaker 1: big poppy hot a Rod was there. It was just
Speaker 1: awesome and I got to sit next to those two.
Speaker 1: I brought my husband, which I thought was so thoughtful,
Speaker 1: and there were just times and I called you afterwards.
Speaker 1: It's just that's royalty, baseball, sports royalty, and it's just
Speaker 1: so special. Can I tell you something, This was a
Speaker 1: really cool moment. We watched the Jeter doc. Have you
Speaker 1: watched it?
Speaker 2: I haven't, admitting me, I've only seen clips of it.
Speaker 2: I need to watch it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now that you guys do not love him even more, exactly,
Speaker 1: couldn't be a nicer person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ridiculous, Like he left.
Speaker 1: Our dinner and Gregg and my husband were just breaking
Speaker 1: it down like what a normal dude. But he's not right,
Speaker 1: like he's the captain so but he's just normal and
Speaker 1: he's royalty. So anyways, Jarrett I had said to Derek,
Speaker 1: I said, we love your doc. My husband works with
Speaker 1: a bunch of young kids in the NHL now and
Speaker 1: was writing down so many of your sayings. And he
Speaker 1: just said and I was like, oh, why do you
Speaker 1: have to ask such a basic question. But he's like, hey, Derek,
Speaker 1: besides yan Key Stadium, where was your favorite place to play?
Speaker 2: I like that, where do you I think? He said?
Speaker 1: He can't say Fenway, he can't say Boston, Seattle.
Speaker 2: M M no, where Anaheim? You want to know why?
Speaker 2: Why grass? Anaheim?
Speaker 1: No? I know we were both we were like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's nondescript. Like the reason I said Seattle's because I'm
Speaker 1: from there. But that's like a beautiful backdrop, like it's
Speaker 1: right on the water. My next one was going to Beriggly. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Anaheim because the grass was good. Grass was always fantastic.
Speaker 1: Think about it, and I thought about it. It was like
Speaker 1: Pasadena and the Rose Bowl, like said, that's some of
Speaker 1: the best grass in college football, and he said the
Speaker 1: weather was always perfect, and he was like it was
Speaker 1: just such.
Speaker 2: A nice like you know, change venue. It was cool
Speaker 2: to hear that. Yeah, I mean, go angels.
Speaker 1: That would be the only redeeming thing about that stadium
Speaker 1: because I no offense, but like Anaheim's kind of like, eh,
Speaker 1: you're not on the water, No you're.
Speaker 2: Not, Like, but that's where we thought it was, sotadium. Yeah,
Speaker 2: very cool.
Speaker 1: So so Jarrett, you apologize and said that was a
Speaker 1: great question. Yeah, that was great. And then I kept
Speaker 1: being like my breath smelt is my brasth smeuth because
Speaker 1: I felt so bad because we were having dumplings. And
Speaker 1: then I tried some sauce that was super spicy and
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, that was really hot, and I
Speaker 1: looked over at Derek and I go, and that's why
Speaker 1: your eyes are gonna water because my breath is so
Speaker 1: bad right now, like I did you know? Well, we
Speaker 1: were also at upfronts with him, and I'm sure you
Speaker 1: said that same line there because asked shear, you're repeating
Speaker 1: the lines not to be confused with here's a breath mint.
Speaker 2: Hey, here's a question for you.
Speaker 1: When someone offers you a breath mint, do you immediately
Speaker 1: think it's because I have bad breath? Or do you like? Okay,
Speaker 1: I feel terrible about my side. Yep, I know I
Speaker 1: have a real thing about that. And then Dominique, sweet Dominique,
Speaker 1: who does my makeup, said to me the other day,
Speaker 1: would you ever tell me if I had bad breath?
Speaker 1: I said, I would offer you a mint, and I
Speaker 1: would offer myself one too, because I have two things
Speaker 1: in life, like bad breath or like just body odor,
Speaker 1: like or any of those things. That one I'm not
Speaker 1: as because like that happens. In fact, Sweet Jacob Balman,
Speaker 1: I was blowing my nose the other day. I got
Speaker 1: to stop black in my nose. I'm waxing my nose
Speaker 1: and just running. It's because there's nothing there to stop it.
Speaker 1: So I wiped my nose, and Sweet Jacob, one of
Speaker 1: our seventeen bosses, was like, go like this on your nose,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, I mean, I don't care
Speaker 1: about that, but bad breath and body odor, well I'm
Speaker 1: not going to have. I not want that breath. Maybe
Speaker 1: no booger Another thing. I get so embarrassed because my looke,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about the wood word booger?
Speaker 2: Booger? Is? I can't terrible. What's your Luke Keagley incident?
Speaker 2: I don't know that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I said it on air before I did a
Speaker 1: pregate my boy. I went to go talk to him,
Speaker 1: and after I got back to somebody who's like, you've
Speaker 1: got a huge booger in your nose, And I remember
Speaker 1: that I just talked to a little shit.
Speaker 2: Every time Greg talks about him, I'm always like, does
Speaker 2: he bring out my booger? Oh fuck, I did not
Speaker 2: realize that. I don't remember that story, but the yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I leave a mark.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we love being home but also hate we
Speaker 1: come to the studio. Yes, So Sunday was a big day.
Speaker 1: Aaron and I only get to be together at work
Speaker 1: once a year. If you're lucky it does because it
Speaker 1: doesn't even happen every year. And it just so happened
Speaker 1: that your home game this year coincided with all the
Speaker 1: baseball guys being in studio because October. Let me just
Speaker 1: tell you, I love all my employers, but my favorite employer.
Speaker 1: It's like if I had ten kids, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: do you have a favorite child.
Speaker 2: No, you can't pick a favorite.
Speaker 1: I have a favorite employer in the month of October,
Speaker 1: and that is Fox, because where else are you going
Speaker 1: to get Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Howie Long, Michael Strahan,
Speaker 1: Terry Brodby, Big Poppy, like Rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman, Charles Woodson.
Speaker 1: I mean, the list, we get it, okay, we get
Speaker 1: all the people we work with. But in the studio
Speaker 1: at the same time, let me just give you guys
Speaker 1: a little preview what that green room looked like yesterday.
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer, Hall of Famer, Hall of Famer, All Star, Allstars.
Speaker 1: And you're like a and that the young aspiring sports broadcaster,
Speaker 1: and me the like eleven year old little girl. I
Speaker 1: was like, I wanted to call my dad right when
Speaker 1: I left, but he was gone, he was out of town.
Speaker 1: I was on be like Dad, Like, these are those
Speaker 1: moments where I rem myself like, how freaking lucky we
Speaker 1: are to have these jobs, because it is it's that
Speaker 1: little sports fan in me and the sports broadcaster that's
Speaker 1: just like, that's pretty cool. So and the cherry on
Speaker 1: top is my gal and I actually got to do
Speaker 1: TV together, which never ever happens. So we're getting wave
Speaker 1: reviews right. Wow, the votes are in. The Academy has spoken.
Speaker 1: We are nominated for an award, a major award. No,
Speaker 1: not at all, but it's very sweet when people that
Speaker 1: we don't expect us text us. I'm like, oh, you
Speaker 1: guys should do segments together more often, and we say
Speaker 1: we're always available. Also, I have something to say. I
Speaker 1: told how Hee tighten my neck. Or I said to
Speaker 1: Howie I heard you're concerned about our podcast, and he goes, what.
Speaker 1: I love that thing. It's like therapy for me. I
Speaker 1: just lay on a couch and listen to it. How
Speaker 1: We Long is our second father. We love. I love
Speaker 1: Dio and I can can speak for Aaron on this too.
Speaker 1: I'm mortified. Whatever he says to me, you guys on
Speaker 1: that podcast, you're gonna get fired. And I'm like, oh no,
Speaker 1: what did we say? And then my flashbacks of all
Speaker 1: the things that we've said. My armpit looks like a vagina,
Speaker 1: I've got boogers in my nose, I can't take a
Speaker 1: pee with the s banks on, and I'm like, well, no,
Speaker 1: wonder he thinks we're gonna get fired.
Speaker 2: But how we would say.
Speaker 1: Howe, yesterday I was wearing the spanks with that dress
Speaker 1: and I go, you.
Speaker 2: I can't even breathe in this thing.
Speaker 1: I said, let alone go to the bathroom and Michael
Speaker 1: how he goes savor it for the podcast there he said,
Speaker 1: I already did three episodes ago.
Speaker 2: I love him.
Speaker 1: I love him so much because this is and by
Speaker 1: the way he goes you and Chris, I listen, is
Speaker 1: his son Chris Long so cute. He's also like you
Speaker 1: and Chris and Aaron the things that you guys say.
Speaker 1: But Howie, what a dream you are? So yesterday was
Speaker 1: great and all the things. And I love being with
Speaker 1: you in studio. Also this text chain that we're both on.
Speaker 1: I should not look at tech chains while we're busy
Speaker 1: doing our podcast. This guy's like twelve years late to
Speaker 1: the story of party. Anyways, look at this scalp applying
Speaker 1: lipstick the podcast friend Derek Jeter would ever come on
Speaker 1: this podcast. I think Derek just wants to limit the
Speaker 1: interaction to the dinners and the Sunday hellos. Hey, do
Speaker 1: you can you let everyone know what color that is?
Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna tell you what. We're gonna get so
Speaker 1: many inquiries about what color that is and what brand
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: Just this influencer.
Speaker 1: This is a real, really old, honest stick. It's so
Speaker 1: old the color is not even on here anymore. Hold on, ooh,
Speaker 1: it's a truly kissable lip crayon by honest Jessica Alba.
Speaker 2: You know I love your product. She's very generous. Sheer
Speaker 2: chestnut kiss. It's very kiss.
Speaker 1: It's very kiss You know, that's the holidayday. We never
Speaker 1: have gales over those little girls in that movie in
Speaker 1: the holiday with their little English accents. For the longest
Speaker 1: time after I saw that movie, which I still watch it,
Speaker 1: I watched it in July. Sometimes I wanted to marry
Speaker 1: someone British and my kids could.
Speaker 2: Have an accent.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll start talking British around Mac so he thinks
Speaker 1: we're Burnish. Okay, Madonna, let's bring it back. Now, how
Speaker 1: old is that lipstick? We don't need any fungus. Kelly
Speaker 1: Stafford line one, this one on her. No, Now, I
Speaker 1: got to throw this out if you guys have any
Speaker 1: old products. And this is one of the many reasons,
Speaker 1: you know, Kelly just tells it like it is. This
Speaker 1: shadow is as honest as they come. She used a
Speaker 1: mask that was older and didn't realize it and it
Speaker 1: messed up her face. So everyone throw out your projects.
Speaker 1: This is a PSA. It's also an ad. Listen to
Speaker 1: Kelly's podcast the morning. I was checking to see if
Speaker 1: infection was still there. There's still I still got to
Speaker 1: be on antibiotics. I think I didn't take them last night.
Speaker 1: I was trying to wean myself off.
Speaker 2: But since.
Speaker 1: Heroin trying to wean myself skin, you're supposed to finish
Speaker 1: an antibiotic. This is why I'm bad on antibiotics, and
Speaker 1: hence the chronic QTI is you got to finish the medication.
Speaker 2: Where are you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, everyone stay with us. We're just getting started
Speaker 1: here on the Calm Down Podcast. All right, So Week
Speaker 1: five in the NFL. What a crazy time. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna go on a full on race here before the
Speaker 1: season started. Okay, and we work for Fox NFC Centric.
Speaker 1: That's contract stuff. You know, a lot of quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: teams we'll see in the NFC. So it's like, oh man,
Speaker 1: a lot of the perennial quarterbacks have left the NFC and.
Speaker 2: Here we are. Let's go ahead.
Speaker 1: All the talents on the AFC side are tho those
Speaker 1: real like you know, Marquee guys, what's going on in
Speaker 1: the AFC? Now, you've got the best quarterbacks in the
Speaker 1: NFCRE around here. You got Buffalo. We don't know who
Speaker 1: Buffalo is. Is Buffalo the team that can you know,
Speaker 1: score sixty on you? Or is it the team that
Speaker 1: loses to the Jaguars. The Pittsburgh Steelers are in first
Speaker 1: place in their division and they're three and two, and
Speaker 1: last week we were telling them to just leave the league.
Speaker 1: You got your Chase scores three touchdowns and hadn't had
Speaker 1: a touchdown all year. The Bengals look all world, you
Speaker 1: got I mean, it's like, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: You've got the Patriots. We got back to back games,
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2: Whoa, I shuugh. The AFC is all over the place.
Speaker 2: I don't know who's good. I don't know who's.
Speaker 1: Bad, and literally perpetuates the movie the phrase any given
Speaker 1: Sunday because as a wager in a gambler, I don't
Speaker 1: know who and where.
Speaker 2: I say who, I say how much? So I mean it's.
Speaker 1: Difficult to bet on games because I don't know who
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get, although I do want to point out
Speaker 1: in my three game parlay, I'm two for three.
Speaker 2: Let's see who wins tonight. I've got the Packers beating
Speaker 2: the Raiders. I digress.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the NFC side of Daron. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys the Niners game. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: rematch of the NFC championship game. You know, the Niners
Speaker 1: have blown out the Cowboys in the playoffs the last
Speaker 1: two years. This is such a great matchup. Wanh like
Speaker 1: freaking San Francisco runs away with it.
Speaker 2: So who's dalla? I don't know. Eagles looked very dominant yesterday,
Speaker 2: especially in the second half when they ran away with that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just can't put my finger on the pulse of
Speaker 1: the NFL, which is why we love it. I thought
Speaker 1: the whole emotion in our game was really, really interesting,
Speaker 1: and I struggled with it because I asked Jalen Hurt
Speaker 1: in our conference call with him keys to the game.
Speaker 1: He listed several keys to the game. One of them
Speaker 1: was good communication with coach and player. They have new coordinators.
Speaker 1: That's such a big deal when you are both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball, yeah, on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: And I thought our pictures were really I think our
Speaker 1: our crew does such a phenomenal job with pictures. And
Speaker 1: the picture of Sirianne, Jalen Dante Smith walking Jason Kelsey
Speaker 1: blowing up after he felt that they didn't have their
Speaker 1: acts together on the line. I thought that was really interesting,
Speaker 1: especially for a team that's five and zero that you know,
Speaker 1: is just has picked up where they left off.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I just thought that was so so interesting. I
Speaker 2: like it.
Speaker 1: I like the emotion on the sideline, and I know
Speaker 1: that media, you know, we were quick to but like,
Speaker 1: oh they're fighting, Like they're not fighting, They're trying to
Speaker 1: figure it out, make it perfect, right, I'm like, and
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think that that also says a
Speaker 1: lot about the confidence of that team that they can
Speaker 1: show that outward emotion and like have no question as
Speaker 1: to whether or not I.
Speaker 2: Can't remember, which tells you my brain.
Speaker 1: In our game with the Eagles, Jalen Hurts was going
Speaker 1: at it yeah with someone on the sidelines and then
Speaker 1: oh okay, yeah, and we were talking about it in postgame.
Speaker 2: He's like it was fine.
Speaker 1: It's like anyways, but and can I tell you something?
Speaker 1: I almost texted you, and I texted Joel about it.
Speaker 1: My sit Down features producer who works with both Chris
Speaker 1: and I and he's also a good friend.
Speaker 2: He produced our segment yesterday. I struggled with it.
Speaker 1: I almost gave myself like a freaking migraine during the
Speaker 1: game because I only get two quick questions and before
Speaker 1: they're booting me off. And I did the postgame with
Speaker 1: Jalen and I almost asked a question about it. But
Speaker 1: this is where it sucks all you aspiring whatever reporters
Speaker 1: or want you know, want behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: Look, the game's out of reach.
Speaker 1: You know, for most of the fourth quarter, we kind
Speaker 1: of knew that obviously the Eagles were gonna win.
Speaker 2: Jalen's numbers were insane. There's so many questions you can ask.
Speaker 1: I only get too and when you are sitting there
Speaker 1: and he's on a podium, you can get into that.
Speaker 1: But I really did want to ask about the emotion
Speaker 1: on the sideline, but that's like for somebody that has
Speaker 1: four to five questions, you can't ask that.
Speaker 2: So I tried to allude to that in the way.
Speaker 1: I asked a question like emotional win on and off
Speaker 1: the field we saw for you guys. He told me
Speaker 1: in our meeting that I don't even remember how I
Speaker 1: phrased it. People think this game is easy and it's not,
Speaker 1: and we saw that with their emotion. But what impressed
Speaker 1: you the most about the way your team was able
Speaker 1: to grind it out and get another win.
Speaker 2: It's just hard.
Speaker 1: I really battled with that on the sideline to ask
Speaker 1: about the emotion. But I knew that story with you
Speaker 1: with the AJ Brown and you guys doing that game,
Speaker 1: So if that was a hard one, I was so
Speaker 1: closely texting you about how to handle that. But you
Speaker 1: know what's interesting about that, because I always feel like
Speaker 1: some questions, you know you're not going to get an answer.
Speaker 1: He's not going to say no, oh I hate Agro
Speaker 1: their best friends, Like, he's not going to say that.
Speaker 2: So it's almost like, do I waste.
Speaker 1: One of my two questions when I know I'm going
Speaker 1: to get a generic response back. So I think I
Speaker 1: couldn't hear your post game because it was just the
Speaker 1: all the screens were up and I only had sound
Speaker 1: from our guy's post game show.
Speaker 2: But I think that in.
Speaker 1: That situation, you asked the question and I don't need
Speaker 1: to tell you how to do your job. You've done
Speaker 1: it a lot long at the highest level. But like,
Speaker 1: you ask a question that's going to elicit the best response. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if that's not going to get you anywhere, then
Speaker 1: it's like, let's not waste anything. And then he looks
Speaker 1: at you like you really think I'm gonna say something
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, But asking questions is hard in those situations.
Speaker 1: I never did, which is probably why I don't do that.
Speaker 1: Went to the clinic on like, I should probably take
Speaker 1: a course in asking questions again?
Speaker 2: No, what, where? When? Why? How? I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: what's a good tool for me?
Speaker 1: Even when Sean McVay I was coming out of the
Speaker 1: half with Sean McVay, I just texted Greg real quick
Speaker 1: and I said, what's the one thing you want to
Speaker 1: hear from McVeigh because I knew it had to be
Speaker 1: something about defense, you know, with the fact that Jalen
Speaker 1: they had just given up that huge drive at the
Speaker 1: end of the half, and Greg thought of one I
Speaker 1: wasn't even going to ask now that Cooper cup. You know,
Speaker 1: do you know that the Eagles are going to adjust?
Speaker 1: How do you try to move him around? And guess what,
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup wasn't as effective in the second half as
Speaker 1: he was in the first. And that was a great
Speaker 1: question by Greg and I used it. I'll have a
Speaker 1: little teamwork, you know, makes the dream work. And also
Speaker 1: that just goes to show that you're not arrogant. You're like,
Speaker 1: I have all the answers. No, no, you know what
Speaker 1: Ryan just put in our chat. Circling back to pregame
Speaker 1: on switching roles question.
Speaker 2: There was a great question.
Speaker 1: We have a little segment every Tuesday called the pre
Speaker 1: Game and people submit questions, comments and concerns. One of
Speaker 1: the questions was would we ever want to switch roles?
Speaker 1: I think meg a to do in sidelines and aerin
Speaker 1: going into studio. I think we've talked about this before,
Speaker 1: but readdressing it just because you were in studio yesterday.
Speaker 1: I have been very vocal, not in a negative way.
Speaker 1: I just have the utmost respect for you and going
Speaker 1: on the road and being, you know, a sideline reporter
Speaker 1: for how many years have you done this? Twenty something
Speaker 1: at this point when you think back, anyways, I couldn't
Speaker 1: hack it on the sidelines. Nathaniel Hacket, congratulations on your win.
Speaker 1: I I it wasn't my thing. I just felt like
Speaker 1: there was more that I wanted to say throughout a game,
Speaker 1: and if I didn't get in, I got frustrated. I
Speaker 1: was like, why am I doing all this work if
Speaker 1: I'm only here to react to what I got seeing?
Speaker 2: What's the Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I always felt like I left a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff on the cutting room floor and I wanted to
Speaker 1: be not like more front facing. I just it was
Speaker 1: difficult for me to do all of that work and
Speaker 1: feel like sometimes, especially early on, I was a baby
Speaker 1: reporter and I wasn't good.
Speaker 2: I frankly, I don't think I was a good sideline reporter.
Speaker 1: So you're great at it, you love doing it, and
Speaker 1: so no, I'm much more comfortable and happier in Stewdo.
Speaker 1: And you're so really you're great at it. You're amazing
Speaker 1: at it. We were having this conversation. I appreciate that,
Speaker 1: but I definitely think like, it's so you're just you're
Speaker 1: it's you're you're at the mercy of the people around you,
Speaker 1: Which is why I feel so grateful to have the
Speaker 1: best teammates in both shows, because you know, I look
Speaker 1: at Ernie, I love him. On the TNT show, and
Speaker 1: he's got Shack and he's got Charles, and it's like
Speaker 1: you are You're only as good as the people around you.
Speaker 1: The same way for you like Kevin and Greg, like
Speaker 1: you know, you are only as good as the crew
Speaker 1: that you work with, or your producer that's going to
Speaker 1: let you get in, or the director that's going to
Speaker 1: get the shot of the things that you're talking about. So,
Speaker 1: without rambling further, for those of you that aren't really
Speaker 1: interested in the sports broadcasting part of this podcast, I
Speaker 1: just think that we are both in our respective positions
Speaker 1: for a reason, and I am very happy in the
Speaker 1: studio or on the road hosting a show.
Speaker 2: I tried being cute yesterday during the Rams game.
Speaker 1: I was wearing a little skipper Barbie outfit and our
Speaker 1: stylists had thrown me in a pair of boots that
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not going to make it past
Speaker 1: a first quarter, and I gutted it out.
Speaker 2: I mean I was in until the third quarter.
Speaker 1: And then finally in the fourth, I'm like, I am miserable.
Speaker 1: I put on my sneakers. I'm like, I'm fucking done.
Speaker 1: I can't do this.
Speaker 2: I am so.
Speaker 1: Proud of you because so here's the pull back the
Speaker 1: curtain and tell the viewers and the listeners. So again,
Speaker 1: Erin and I never get to be in studio together,
Speaker 1: so when she's there, I get so excited. So after
Speaker 1: the game, after our show's over, I run downstairs and
Speaker 1: Aaron's changing into her outfit to go work her game.
Speaker 1: And as I saw you put those boots on, I
Speaker 1: was like in my head, I was like, she's gonna
Speaker 1: wear those all game.
Speaker 2: And I almost text you and I was like, how
Speaker 2: are those feet doing of yours?
Speaker 1: Because they were so cute, But I'm like, that is
Speaker 1: that's a tough heel, but maybe maybe she's gonna be
Speaker 1: into it. Then I saw the picture you had posted
Speaker 1: for wear or something and you were in sneakers. I
Speaker 1: was like, I knew she didn't make it. I knew
Speaker 1: you didn't make it.
Speaker 2: I made it to the fourth.
Speaker 1: But I just after that and then I should have
Speaker 1: put him on for my Jalen interview just to be qutqutequte.
Speaker 1: But at that point I was like, Jalen, I can't
Speaker 1: feel my feet. I mean, I'll just yeah, you've played
Speaker 1: four quarters. I get it, but I can't feel my feet,
Speaker 1: you know. I can't feel my face. At least you
Speaker 1: want a jeans all right, So we've got a fun
Speaker 1: week coming up. You are headed to Cleveland. I am
Speaker 1: headed to Kansas City. Give that Travis keel me a
Speaker 1: big hug for us, can I can we say? I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy, he's got enough going on in his life.
Speaker 1: The comment he made on your page yesterday about our
Speaker 1: segment on the NFL pregame show say it louder for
Speaker 1: the people in the back.
Speaker 2: Travis appreciate it. I love him so much.
Speaker 1: It means more than people get. I mean, listen, yes, I,
Speaker 1: Jared and I were discussing it last night. Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: is one of the top five. He's one of the
Speaker 1: biggest names in the NFLF five s Drake voice he is.
Speaker 1: And it's just despite whatever is going on in his
Speaker 1: personal life. The fact when we get a pat on
Speaker 1: the back from people that are faces of the league,
Speaker 1: people we work with, people of power in this industry,
Speaker 1: it just means so much to us. And I love you, Travis,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Shit like that is just special
Speaker 1: and you never need here. I mean, let's just all
Speaker 1: say what it is. You never need validation. I don't
Speaker 1: think as an athlete you like have to have people
Speaker 1: talking about you. I don't think whatever respective business you're in,
Speaker 1: you don't have to have that. But it is really nice.
Speaker 1: I was having this conversation actually with one of my
Speaker 1: bosses that a little bit goes a long way, And
Speaker 1: as you know, we both own companies and have employees
Speaker 1: just saying hey, great job with that, or good job
Speaker 1: of that, or I was really impressed with what you
Speaker 1: did here, this and that. Like you may think it,
Speaker 1: but when actually when someone says in it. It doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be on a social platform, it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be anything. It could be a private message, but it
Speaker 1: just I don't know. For me, it's motivation no matter
Speaker 1: where that's coming from, not just because it's a compliment,
Speaker 1: because I also like, you know, getting feedback. I ask
Speaker 1: my producer for Amazon once a week to email me
Speaker 1: things that I did well and things that I didn't
Speaker 1: do well in the broadcast, because I always have to
Speaker 1: think about it, like that's my game film and I
Speaker 1: watch back every show. I do not because oh I
Speaker 1: want to watch myself on TV. But the minute that
Speaker 1: I start thinking that I'm so good at this job,
Speaker 1: is the minute someone else is going to take it.
Speaker 1: And for me, if those athletes that we watch go
Speaker 1: back and watch film of themselves on ways to improve
Speaker 1: the minute they come on the sideline, they got the
Speaker 1: Microsoft surface, what is working, what isn't working? I like
Speaker 1: to apply that same principle to my own job because
Speaker 1: there's little idiosyncrasies do I say, do I see like
Speaker 1: certain things that I can be better at? And I
Speaker 1: just think that it's important to always ask for constructive feedback,
Speaker 1: but then also unsolicited get compliments. And the thing that
Speaker 1: Aaron's referring to is this Travis is like so been
Speaker 1: so supportive of Aaron and I long before Travis.
Speaker 2: And the tailor and the whole thing.
Speaker 1: But like I know I've mentioned it before, but even
Speaker 1: like you know, when Mack was born, Travis knew the
Speaker 1: second I told him that you were having a baby,
Speaker 1: Like he was so genuinely happy for you. And I
Speaker 1: think that this industry is so special because you do
Speaker 1: become friends with these guys and create these relationships and
Speaker 1: not just players on the field, but as we were
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, at work, like that feels like
Speaker 1: a family, Like Michael feels like a brother, to me,
Speaker 1: feels like a brother to you. And if anything that
Speaker 1: we've went through in our lives, because we've went through stuff,
Speaker 1: those are the first people that call you. And it
Speaker 1: is really cool when work coincides and those individuals become
Speaker 1: friends and family.
Speaker 2: Is this? I mean, I what Ted talk am I
Speaker 2: your life?
Speaker 1: There were two moments yesterday I have to tell you about.
Speaker 1: Well one Lily was fantastic. She captured that Lily, thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we both posted them. We were sitting back, all of
Speaker 1: us in that studio and watching this segment that was
Speaker 1: pre taped, and we were all laughing. I had my
Speaker 1: arm around Big Poppy and straight he had his arm
Speaker 1: around you.
Speaker 2: It was so special. It was so great.
Speaker 1: And that is also because and I know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've told the story about like how nice
Speaker 1: Big Poppy was to you when you first started covering
Speaker 1: baseball and when I just started covering football, like how
Speaker 1: nice Michael was. And I just think about, like I'm
Speaker 1: with Steve, because Matthew and Kelly, it's like this, these
Speaker 1: relationships end up really sort of intertwining. And so anyways,
Speaker 1: tell your stray story. I'll tell my Poppy story because
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever told my poppy story,
Speaker 1: tell your stray story. Yeah, I mean, he was on
Speaker 1: Best Damn Sports Show when he was still playing for
Speaker 1: the Giants. It was my first national show that I
Speaker 1: ever got and Best Damn Sport Show. For those of
Speaker 1: you guys that don't know, I'll sucinctly tell you. It
Speaker 1: was a late night talk show. It was one of
Speaker 1: my favorite shows like that, you you know, it was
Speaker 1: the intersection of entertainment and sports, and this was a
Speaker 1: time where culturally, like you could say what you wanted.
Speaker 2: I mean, just Tom Marnold's on the show. We'll leave
Speaker 2: it at that. And Michael being savvy.
Speaker 1: Michael Straham, which is why he has the career that
Speaker 1: he does, was smart enough and one of the very
Speaker 1: first place to go on these types of shows while
Speaker 1: he was still playing, and so he was a frequent guest,
Speaker 1: he was a weekly guest, and he was so kind
Speaker 1: to me, and it was like, oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: Michael Strahan, and like, I'm this dumb. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: saying dumb. He didn't ever make me feel like that,
Speaker 1: but you just sort of get insecure sometimes when you're
Speaker 1: first starting you're around these like massive personalities, and he probably,
Speaker 1: you know, just I had thought that he was like this,
Speaker 1: Oh god, who's the blonde bimbo over there? Never once
Speaker 1: made me feel like that. None of those guys ever,
Speaker 1: did John Sally, Chris Rose, Rob Dibble, any of those guys.
Speaker 1: And Michael was just so kind to me and like
Speaker 1: took the time to be like, all right, so like
Speaker 1: where you're from and this and that, and I never
Speaker 1: forgot that. And so now just you know, twenty years later,
Speaker 1: being able to when anything bad in my life has happened,
Speaker 1: or even good things have happened. He's always absscall or
Speaker 1: a text that says like here for you, and that
Speaker 1: like means so much.
Speaker 2: Look at me starting to cry.
Speaker 1: But it's really sweet because it goes far beyond the
Speaker 1: job itself, and you never forget that.
Speaker 2: Okay, big copy story. I love this one.
Speaker 1: That's actually a line that Derek and I were talking.
Speaker 1: Derek and I we reck and I you know, we
Speaker 1: were just talking. We're just talking about when I covered him,
Speaker 1: when I covered Poppy, like I was saying to Poppy
Speaker 1: doing home run Derby's with him, like I just feel
Speaker 1: like baseball will never It was just not that it's
Speaker 1: not special now, but it was just a time, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Derek's in the All Star Game. Marianna Rivera like, it
Speaker 1: was just great, and I was talking about I asked
Speaker 1: how Jorge Posada was doing, because he was always so
Speaker 1: nice to me, And Derek said, you never forget those
Speaker 1: that were nice to you, do you? And I said no,
Speaker 1: And I was like, you were always great for me.
Speaker 1: I said, you never would give me much an interview,
Speaker 1: but you're always awesome. But my first year of baseball
Speaker 1: with ESPN, my very very first game ever was the
Speaker 1: day that the Red Sox were getting their rings after
Speaker 1: they won it for the after what two thousand and
Speaker 1: four is that right, Ryan.
Speaker 2: The car thirteen?
Speaker 1: I think right, foury twelve, So it's when they celebrated
Speaker 1: at Fenway and the legends came out of the Green Monster.
Speaker 1: Bobby or walked out, Bill Russell walked out, Teddy Bruski,
Speaker 1: who had just suffered a stroke, walked out. My dad
Speaker 1: and I were praying to God that Larry would come out,
Speaker 1: but he didn't, so it was so exciting. I got
Speaker 1: my dad tickets to the game again. It's my first
Speaker 1: baseball game ever for ESPN, and I still remember who
Speaker 1: this person was. It wasn't a producer, it was an
Speaker 1: executive at the network. And I was just like, I
Speaker 1: wonder what my first story should be, and he said.
Speaker 2: I'll give you one.
Speaker 1: Why don't you go try to get a ring and
Speaker 1: not a bat boy's ring and show it on Sports
Speaker 1: Center because before our game, sports Center was on and
Speaker 1: so you always had to fill for Sports Center and
Speaker 1: have stories. And I was like, okay, I grew up
Speaker 1: a Red Sox fan because my dad, my dad's from Springfield,
Speaker 1: mass He's at the game. Frickin' awesome. I knew who
Speaker 1: my favorite player was. Never met him before. I walked
Speaker 1: right into the Red Sox clubhouse. Boys had just gotten
Speaker 1: their rings at probably the night before, and I walked
Speaker 1: up to Big Poppy David Ortiz and I said, Hi,
Speaker 1: my name's Aaron Andrews. I'm new to baseball on ESPN
Speaker 1: of college football, one of my favorite baseball players ever.
Speaker 1: Sports Center is asking if I could get your ring
Speaker 1: to show? Would you mind? If you know anything about
Speaker 1: the Big Poppy? He loves the word fuck, and he
Speaker 1: just said in the most darling way. He goes, I
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck have it. Gave me his World
Speaker 1: Series ring. MLB security was there. I don't know if
Speaker 1: Team security was there, and like, she can't walk out
Speaker 1: on the field with this, and he goes, why not
Speaker 1: never met the guy after shaking my hand with his
Speaker 1: gorgeous smile, and he goes, she can have.
Speaker 2: It, bring it back.
Speaker 1: I took big Poppies ring and I walked out onto
Speaker 1: the field and I grabbed my ESPN MIC and I said,
Speaker 1: I got the ring. I got the ring and they
Speaker 1: said whose is it? And I said David.
Speaker 2: Fucking' Ortiz and I showed it on Sports Center and
Speaker 2: he's been my man.
Speaker 1: Then Nope, not a bad way, which is such a
Speaker 1: backmannd it but that's just yeah, good for you.
Speaker 2: And those guys were awesome.
Speaker 1: I had Derek and I were talking about this. Rick Suckcliffe,
Speaker 1: I worked with him. He's such a great guy and
Speaker 1: he really broke the ice for me with a lot
Speaker 1: of people. I remember him telling Roger Clemens, she's with us.
Speaker 1: She's a good one. And you know, Derek was asking
Speaker 1: what he's up to. I need to get back in
Speaker 1: touch with him. But what's really cool for us? And
Speaker 1: I know you know this with your amazing group that
Speaker 1: you have on Thursday nights and the bond that you
Speaker 1: guys have created, like to get into certain circles, it's
Speaker 1: really helpful when your teammates go to bat for you.
Speaker 1: And the Yankees clubhouse, I mean they weren't. They weren't
Speaker 1: like the Red Sox Clubhouse. Red Sox Clubhouse is there.
Speaker 1: They're like, either're drinking and the clubhouse they're having a time.
Speaker 2: Yankees are hiding. You're not finding them.
Speaker 1: But when Rick Sutcliffe said to Mike Mussina, Roger Clemens,
Speaker 1: Derek Jeter, like she's one of us, they were really
Speaker 1: really cool.
Speaker 2: To me, that was awesome. It's really cool.
Speaker 1: And that is that invitation into a sacred space, the clubhouse,
Speaker 1: the locker room, the whatever, you know, insert analogy here,
Speaker 1: but it is once you get invited, it's your job
Speaker 1: to stay there and appreciate it because it can get
Speaker 1: taken away at any moment. So it's really special when
Speaker 1: it does. And yeah, for all of you Boston fans, four, seven, thirteen,
Speaker 1: and eighteen, those aren't my measurements, those are your World
Speaker 1: Series championship. Yeah, it was up to the two thousand
Speaker 1: and four World Series. I got to do that for again,
Speaker 1: all of you Boston fans yesterday. It was really cool
Speaker 1: having Poppy came on. Our set was Poppy, Jewels and
Speaker 1: Gronks and I'm like, holy shit, between and the Bruins
Speaker 1: were great and the Celtics were great, Like the Convergence
Speaker 1: in a fifteen year span. That city had ten championships
Speaker 1: in fifteen years. Like growing up in Seattle, like we
Speaker 1: have one. We have the Seahawks with one and it's like,
Speaker 1: it's crazy to think like that, you know, that is
Speaker 1: like the mecca. And yes, of course you've got New
Speaker 1: York because I at one point I was like, there's
Speaker 1: a guy next door. Because they were like, oh, we
Speaker 1: have the best fans in the world. I'm like, there's
Speaker 1: a guy next door that might, you know, think a
Speaker 1: little a little bit differently of that.
Speaker 2: But sports it is highest level. It's very cool. All right,
Speaker 2: Week five, sister, you're headed to Cleveland. I'm headed to city.
Speaker 2: Week six. Oh, it's gonna be weak. Yes, Week six,
Speaker 2: I can't keep it straight.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to have a wonderful You and I are
Speaker 1: off to dinner tonight and we will have stories.
Speaker 2: I'm sure on that. At some point, and we love
Speaker 2: you all.
Speaker 1: We cannot thank you guys enough when you yell calm down,
Speaker 1: I see you out on the road, or when you
Speaker 1: send in sweet clips or just even comments that you
Speaker 1: make on the platforms. We don't need the compliment, but
Speaker 1: we appreciate you guys very very very much, and we
Speaker 1: never take you for granted. So thank you for listening.
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