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November 28, 2024 42 mins

Erin and Charissa give thanks to all the awesome Calm Down listeners. They recap their travels from week 12 in the NFL including Charissa making snow angels after the Browns thrilling win over the Steelers. Erin gives a shout out to star Packers RB Josh Jacobs for his stellar performance against the 49ers. They also explain why LOL & BRB are DUMB.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you guys that listen to
our podcast. Thank you for going on this journey with us.
And I'm very thankful for so many things in my life,
but especially just this platform two for Aaron and I
to chat but also make friends. You guys are so wonderful.
When we see you out on the road and either
you say hi and say you listen to the podcast,
or you have a cute sign or whatever it is,

(00:21):
we love you and we thank you, and we hope
you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I love that Calm Down
with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio. You
go talk to your friends up, do you visit? Talk
to me? I really want to go to Vancouver for

(00:42):
the Eras tour. We have zeral fucking time to do that.
I She's like so emotional in this Toronto tour. We're crying,
We're upset. Think about how much your life is evolved
in the Eras tour. That's what we're talking about, ladies
and gentlemen. Her last weekend is coming up, and I
really really would love to Jennifer Thompson, my sister and

(01:02):
my niece are going and is it this weekend, very jealous.
I don't know. Is it? I don't know? Is there
any way we can go? Oh my god, I'm off?
Oh my god, you are off. I'm not. When is it? Though?
Maybe I could make it? Well, I'll be in Minnesota
on so I'll be in Kansas City on Thursday and Friday.

(01:24):
I'll be on Minnesota on Saturday. And I was supposed
to be at Fox on Sunday. Debatable, so might be tough.
Welcome everybody to the Calm Down Podcast, where we are
in our football era, where my girl just got off
a flight from Green Bay, her second show. He will

(01:46):
because his game is on Friday. On Friday, Yeah, we show.
Is it this weekend? I don't know. Look it up
while I tell everybody what we're going to try out
December six, not this weekend. We're being nice hall scenario
in our heads. But wait, like most things that we
do in life, because we try to convince ourselves of things, Okay,

(02:07):
well we could goo then, oh you can't. I'm in La.
Well I'm in La. Wait, you're in La that weekend? Yeah, okay,
we're going to off figure this out offline. Anyone that
knows this podcast and know It was named Calm Down,
not because of taylor'swilt, but it's really worked out that
way because we love her. You understand the need and

(02:30):
want to finish this thing out London. I still think
the dream of London London was I'm so sorry I
forget that. Okay, I'm so glad. We also are in
Week twelve. Week twelve is over tonight after the Ravens
Chargers game. Since we tape our podcast on Monday. Aaron
was in Green Bay, I was in Cleveland. We're going
to chat about that. We're also going to talk about

(02:51):
Christmas shopping and why I'm never doing it again with Steve.
We're talking about my New Year's resolutions. I'm starting before
New Year's Okay, there, and then Aaron has a follow
up to some of your guys' comments on her talking
to me on the phone while in line ordering a smoothie.
All right, and with that we say hello everybody, and

(03:12):
welcome to the Calm Down Podcast. You straight off a plane.
The delays are starting. It is thanks Oh wait, hold on,
our podcast comes down on Thursday. It will be epy Thanksgiving.
So happy Thanksgiving to all of you guys that listen
to our podcast. Thank you for going on this journey
with us, and I'm very thankful for so many things

(03:32):
in my life, but especially just this platform too, for
Aaron and I to chat but also make friends. You
guys are so wonderful. When we see you out on
the road and either you say hi and say you
listen to podcast, or you have a cute sign or
whatever it is, we love you, and we thank you,
and we hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I love that.
Just got back from Green Bay. The airports are starting

(03:55):
to get crowded. Enjoy every minute of being on al
Michaels is playing this on Weekeds like this, it's a lot.
But yeah, there were delays. It's just Flying through o'
hair is the home alone movie every single time. I
did it four times this week, Flying through real hair. Wow, Yeah,

(04:16):
it's wild. It's fucking wild. And today I was like,
I knew we were going to be delayed. I knew
like I was gonna when you just laugh to yourself,
I'm like, okay, but it was fine. I just yeah,
it was good. But today, this week a short week
for us. We leave Wednesday, calls start tomorrow. Already kind
of said my box out in forty five minutes, which

(04:36):
I haven't packed for for Dallas. But there you have it.
It's week fourteen. Let's go. I knows as sometimes these
weeks I don't know. I guess it's like when you
have children. As I say, days are long, but the
years are quick kind of a thing. This feels and
maybe you can't say this right now because you're just
on the heels of a terrible flight home, but it

(05:01):
feels fast. It's week thirteen. It feels fast. It always
flies right after Thanksgiving, Like this is where it's just like, wait,
what happened? We're doing Super Bowl stuff now, what's going on? So, yeah,
it's flown. I'm gonna do a little bit of non
bitching right now, which I know is exciting. And Steve
and Jarrett would appreciate this portion of the show. Lambo's

(05:23):
fucking cool. Yeah, Lambo's fucking cool at night. It's just
the people are so nice. Our game, you know, sucks.
It was such a bummer that Brock and Nick Gosa
didn't play, and they have a bunch, you know, Trent
Williams and so forth, and it wasn't the matchup we
had wanted. But it still it looked like they were
going to have a little bit of a chance in there.
But Lambo at night, it is just such a time.

(05:45):
It is so great. I had a chance to sit
down with Jordan Love this weekend, and Chris and I
speak all the time about a producer that does our features.
His name is Joel Santos. He's the most talented person
I think I've ever worked with. Holy shit, that feature
and it was Jordan was so lovely in it, and
I thought the parts where he was looking over at
Lambeau were really great. But it was shot so beautifully.

(06:08):
It made Lambeau look like a cathedral. I loved it
so much. Any sports geek out there, if Kevin said
this yesterday, if you haven't gone to Lamba and you
love sports, make a trip. It's so fun. If you
cover sports, you'd never forget your first trip to Lambo.
I think even Tom said it on Your Guys's broadcast,
where it's like it's just it is the mecca of
the NFL and all of the storied history and Vince

(06:32):
Lombardi's name up on you know, the Ring of Honor
and just sort of everything that comes with Lambeau. But
I just have to say, and this is again, Yes,
there's always the x's and o's of football, and we
study our ass off and all these other stuff, but
I'm gonna be the girl for a second. Seeing you
in that interview, like lit perfectly in your hair on
one side, and you had this skirt on with nylons

(06:55):
and heels, and like, we don't have to see our
girls a short like but it was classy. It was
everything in like the lights, and you brought the best
out in him, and you're the best to do those.
You are just you have a way of disarming people
and it's it was fun to watch as a fan
of football. But also you know, just having done a
million of my own interviews to watch you get the

(07:17):
best out of him, I really enjoyed it. And you
should be very fund yourself for that. It was a
bitch to get to and do all that, but in
the end you never regret doing it because it's worth it.
So did you love my ah and n leather skis
dude from H and EM Aaron? Yes? It was How
cool is that? And it's fake leather? But how I

(07:37):
was keeping that from you? I was about to FaceTime
you as I was walking out the door and being like, look,
how fuck and awesome this is. But I didn't want
to ruin the surprise. Okay, so that's so exciting. Yesterday
I was waiting for your I was actually home by myself.
Steven went to the Rams game. I didn't get home
until later, and so I couldn't go to it, but
he was gone. It was that moment where like I

(07:59):
walked in the door and I love Steves. We get it,
we love Steve. But it's the moment that I know
I'm walking through that door and no one's home, and
I'm going to pour myself a glass of wine after
I take a shower and wash all my makeup off,
and I'm gonna sit on that couch and I'm gonna
watch the Sunday night game. And it's like I just
can do anything I want. Do you want the temperature hot?
Do you want the temperature cold? No one's talking to you.

(08:19):
It's great. So I was like waiting for you to
call me because for our normal Sunday, But then I figured,
like I just did. It was so late, but I was.
I almost called you, and I was like, she's like,
you know whatever, probably having a cocktail and in a
meeting room having seventeen cocktails. But when you were we
were on our text chain with con and you were
she said she asked you. She's like, that's from H
and M. And you didn't respond and I was like, oh,

(08:40):
there's no way. And I say that like in the
best way, because there's nothing better than having to fucking
rad outfit. And you're like, yes, it was Amazon, or
it was AH and M or it was whatever. It
was good cool? Is it really good? Yeah? Someone saying
on your comments you look like a Russian spy I've
worn or a fighter pilot. I've worn everything you could
possibly wear. At Lambeau Green Bay, you know, cooler temperatures,

(09:04):
and my qutcute stylist, Daniella, was like, let's try this
like ski suit, and I was like, I don't know,
and I tried it on. I was like, well, I
fucking not. I wish I had. I wish I had
that ski suit when I was trying to be a
snow queen and then it ended up snowing because when
we were in Cleveland, it was supposed to be cold,
like like the weather report, and you know, I don't
love a weather report. Aaron always asked me two things,

(09:26):
where are you staying and what's the weather, to which
I always say, I don't know where you're going to dinner,
So I packed clothes, like, obviously it's going to be cold.
It's Cleveland in November, okay, And anyone that's been to
Cleveland in in the winter knows that wind off the
lake because the stadium is right next to Lake Erie.
It is cold. It is eerie, all right. It is cold,
it is windy, and it was supposed to be rainy.

(09:48):
But I hadn't anticipated that the snow was going to
come down the way it did, Like when the before
and after shots of the stadium when the game started,
even at halftime, it wasn't like that to the end
of the game. And it was so fun. It was
probably you were we were texting throughout the game and
you're like, I'm so jealous that you're working a game
like this because it was fun and like you feel

(10:09):
like little kids again in the snow and like our
snowball fight after and Jamis, I know everyone talks about
it because they should. He is a national treasure. The
things that come out of this this guy's mouth are
so great and his love and joy of the game,
and Fits played with him in Tampa and Fits just
talked about how this guy makes everything better, like in

(10:30):
a locker room, just this infectious energy. And look, this
was a team that before the win, they were two
and eight. They don't have a lot to root for.
They're obviously not going to make the postseason, right, and
to go into a game like that against a Steelers
team who's rolling, who was eight and two, they had
one six straight, like this whole thing, and so it
was just like a really fun game for a lot

(10:51):
of different reasons. Obviously not if you're a Steelers fan,
but it reminded me that like someone like Jamis can
come in and attitude is everything that you can like
change how people feel about things, even if you're having
not having the year that you want. So kudos to
Jamis and how adorable you are. Can I say that

(11:17):
about the TNF pree halftime and postgame show, you guys,
if you think of any pregame desk to sit there
and do that post game with the elements with Jamis,
it was so fitting and so perfect. You guys ran
out and did that. I was looking at the pictures

(11:40):
the next morning like a five year old just I
couldn't get enough of the photos of it. I couldn't
get enough of you guys doing you know, sliding, slip
and slides. I was. I was such a proud friend.
You looked so perfect. I know you said you weren't
dressed appropriately or whatever. I thought you was a little
snow going. I saw your little pants getting wet. So cute.

(12:01):
But it was so much fun. I am in love
with your crew that you have. Like I've said, I
feel like I'm a part of it. You are just
because there I from you all friends and I The
pictures were amazing. Okay, this is what I was worried
about the whole broadcast though. How is everybody getting home? This?
This looks very dangerous to drive in. Well, this is

(12:22):
again why Jamis is so great. Witt asked him to
go to snow Angels and he's like, yeah, let's go
do it. As he points to the crowd, and he's like, okay,
everyone drive home safely now, like what quarterback in the
National football he gets pointing to the audience, making sure
that they're getting home safely. Adorable, How do we get home?
I mean, it was okay, like like the fans and stuff,
those conditions were very well, you're a weather you're a

(12:45):
weather woman. I mean you understand. But no, there's uh,
there's some games that are just better than others. The
gable because the game was also great. So like great
at first everyone, because you know how this goes. We're
in the green room and at this point we're prepping
to like interview. We're like, okay, ask for Russell on
the desk. These are what we're going to talk about
in postgame. The Steelers are going to win. And then
it's like wait a minute, redirect not the case, but

(13:09):
all right, can I do a real quick speaking of
players and interviewing and all that. A little shout out
to Josh Jacobs three touchdowns yesterday he free agent signing
by the Green Bay Packers. Came over from the Vegas Raiders.
Don't know if a lot of you know about his story.
He's had a tough life, lived in a car at
one point of his life, lived in fifteen different places.

(13:30):
Just a guy that really made a lot out of
himself from coming from a really tough background. And those
are the stories that we all love to people. We
love to cheer for in the stories that you read
and stuff as you're prepping for these guys. A gorgeous smile,
seems like a great dude talking to Matt Lafleur and
Jordan Love. They fucking love this guy. And listen, he
came in for a guy, and Aaron Jones at that

(13:52):
entire community and organization loved. I still loved. The day
I saw he wasn't going back there hurt my heart.
Jacobs is a fucking baller and he those guys say
that he when he is going up against defenders, he
talks more shit than they've ever heard. And I love that.
And he wouldn't tell you. I want to know what

(14:12):
he's but there were so many miss tackles yesterday by
San Francisco. They had their own thing to deal with,
and he was finding all these holes. And what a
cool story for him, like to come to Vegas, and
obviously Vegas is Vegas, but Green Bay is the royalty part,

(14:32):
you know, the upper echelon of the NFL. And for
him to come there and you know, fill in for
Aaron Jones and pick up right where he left off
and do other things as well, it's amazing and I'm
so happy for him, and so happy he's wearing my
dad's favorite team colors. So he's a great deal. And
as you're saying all that, I couldn't help but think
of another running back who has moved from one team

(14:56):
to another. Oh, absolutely lost his damn you mentioned Josh
hen retouchdowns yesterday. You have Saquon Barkley, who himself rushed
for two hundred and sixty yards. Go ahead, two hundred
and sixty yards. Like he's such a sweet These were
three hundred total scrimmaget like, I'm a this guy. And
so the last non quarterback to win an MVP was

(15:17):
Adrian Peterson back in twenty twelve. And I'm sorry, but
Saquon Barkley the year that this guy is having when
you tie. I know that most MVPs always go to
a quarterback, and I can understand why. You can easily
argue it's the hardest position in sports other than I
don't know. I guess sometimes people say pitcher in baseball,
I say a quarterback. But maybe I'm biased because covering
the league. Anyways, I Saquon Barkley is a frickin' beast

(15:41):
and a game changer and good for frickin' him, you
know where it's like just getting in the right situation.
Jalen Hurts. There was like this shot of here on
the sideline and the smile that he had when Saquon
went off for his first seventy yard run, and it
was just like, hey, I got an idea hand off
the ball and the dude does the rest. Like as
a quarterback, you're like, well, that makes my job fucking easy.

(16:03):
It was awesome to watch. But anyways, go ahead Saykan
you deserve it, every bit of it. And I have
a couple of Giants fans that I work very closely
with at Fox on our crew, and they're just like,
good for him, good for freaking him. Yeah, the league
is awesome a lot of different. I mean, it looked
like yesterday like Kansas City was going to lose, but
then of course you give the ball back to Patrick

(16:24):
Mahomes and you're just always signed away. But you know,
if you're a Panthers fan, you can appreciate. We were
talking today on our Amazon call because we've got Kansas
City and the Raiders for our Black Friday game. And
when you talk about I mentioned you know when you're
on a team like the Browns who aren't going to
make the postseason, and you just kind of like, what
are you playing for? Like the Raiders for example, and

(16:44):
what they're going through. It's like this is their super Bowl,
Like you always like trying to knock off the team
that's on the top. So watching the Panthers yesterday, you know,
show up. You got to remember it too, like you
obviously we go to work, but we're not. There's no
score being kept for our performance every single week except
for when we're hard on ourselves. But you know what
I mean, Like, imagine having to show up every single

(17:06):
week and know that your season's over, but you still
got to show up and play hard. So I respect
those guys a lot. All right, So you're in Dallas
for your Thanksgiving game. I've never worked a Thanksgiving game.
Obviously Black Friday as a tradition that started with Amazon
last year, so I get the day after Thanksgiving. But

(17:26):
what is it like working a game on Thanksgiving? Other
than obviously with the negatives, it's like, oh, I want
to be home, but everyone's watching. You know. It's like
those like you know, I don't know, just traditional games. Yeah,
it'll be interesting this year because obviously these teams are
into you know, they haven't had the best of years.

(17:48):
And yeah, I mean I know it's their job and everything,
but also I'm thinking about our meetings tomorrow with them.
Those are tough meetings because it's like, all right, you know,
we have to speak with Brian Table, we have to
speak with Mike McCarthy. I love both of those guys
a lot, and you feel bad, You just feel so bad,
but they also have a job to do. Coach McCarthy

(18:08):
would be the first person to say, don't feel bad,
this is our job. Yeah, listen, it's still the Giants
and the Cowboys. Everybody's going to watch. It's going to
be super fun. Hate being away from my family, but
I'm with my work family and we are going to
have a great night. None of us can get out,
so we're all going to do a big Thanksgiving back
at our hotel. We did that a couple of years

(18:29):
ago in Dallas, where all our families came in. This year,
our families are not going to come in. One of
our family members is going to come and join us.
Our old family member, Troy Aikman's going to come to me.
I'm really excited about that. I even tried to maybe
think of taking a Q from the Thursday Night football crew,
and I wanted to get a karaoke machine, but things
got really thankful and crazy. But Dean Blandino is not

(18:52):
going to be with us and made us promise we
wouldn't do it without him. Oh, what's your karaoke song? Share?
I have two, Bonnie Ray, Let's give him something to
talk about and share. If I could turn back time, Wow, Okay,
I think I would do fast Car because I think,
like the chorus, everybody would be like, hey, a little Tracy.
Just what I feel like it would be like in

(19:13):
my Yeah. Anyways, so yeah, and then we'll all leave
Friday a little hungover and dehydrate it and get home
and have the weekend off, which is gonna be really fun.
I'm excited for Black Friday. It's a fun new tradition

(19:37):
the day after Thanksgiving football gamely and first time to
Kansas City this year. I don't know if Taylor is
going to be there, but you know, I'm going to
be looking and see if she's there. I may linger
in a weird way in the halls, hoping to see
her come in on her golf. Kelsey got a podcast.

(19:57):
I know that's so cool. Shout who is a dream.
We loved We loved her before we got a chance
to meet her when we're in London. But she is
as advertised. She's what you see is what you get
and she yeah. She And by the way, also congratulations
to Kylie and Jason Kelsey on having the baby. She's

(20:18):
pregnant with their fourth girl. And I just all I
could think about was her because she is just so
like normal and down to earth, like getting the whether
it was the ultrasound you know, results or whatever it
was that revealed that she was having a girl like
I would have loved to see what her face was.
Four girls. She's great, great skin and hair. What I said,

(20:41):
she's great with that great skin and hair and the
jawline and we say makeup. I'm the one that's having
to go get a next surgery. This girl's jaw line
is like cutting me from across the room. It's so sharp.
The turtleneck up, Hi, Jordan Love, I just wanted to
know your keys are for the second half of the season.

(21:02):
Don't take don't take a picture of me from the
profile it has the weird you know, happy Thanksgiving jowels
or turkey goblet. He following a plastic surgeon today. Heym
just wondering if that next surgery was still available for
after February. Yeah, thanks, give me a call back. Don't
book it when we're going to go away. Hey, you
know what I was telling Jordan Love I wanted to

(21:23):
bring up on our podcast, and I meant to do
it last time. I've realized there's certain guys in the
league I have to say their full name, and it's
really obnoxious. It's like I saw a postgame with he
and I a couple weeks ago, him and I and
I whatever our card and I was like, Jordan Love
country grammar, you don't have to say his full name
is Jordan. And he was so sweet. He goes, well,

(21:45):
maybe people won't know who I am if you just
say Jordan come, yes, we will do. I say people's
full name. I say Josh Allen Jordan Love like I
can't say those two names, like I think I said
Josh Jacobs yesterday. To stop, just say their first name.
When I sat down with Matt Lafleur, I go coach
and he goes, it's Matt and I go oh see,

(22:05):
I would say coach. No, I'd say coach. I do
it to Jim always. I was saying bye to the
guys yesterday in the green room, and I was like,
all right, coach, I love you, Happy Thanksgiving. Like, I
don't call him Jimmy disrespectful. No, I call coach coach. Yeah.
I think I call all coaches coach. I feel like
that's a very. That's a very if you've worked in college.
I don't know why I feel like that. I don't

(22:26):
know because I feel like in college, you don't call
people their first names. You just say coach. Trying to think,
did I say coach? I don't know. No, Yeah, it's coach.
And I would never be like mm hmm yeah Tom,
it was so funny. No, I never say Izzo or Tom.
It's coach. Yeah yeah, all right, So tis the season?

(22:48):
Did you guys put your train name? Oh you've been busy.
You don't have done right? We are trees app deared?
Did it this weekend? Yeah? It's not degraded, but he
put our tree app cute? Okay, good that I got
to tell you. I don't want to brag, but I'm
going to my shopping is like, fuck, okay, you know
what the last time are you knocking it out online?

(23:08):
Are you going? I'm gonna tell you so last podcast,
I was leaving to go do some shopping. Steve's like, oh,
I'll go with you, and I was like, oh, no,
you don't have to go with me, Like I didn't
know what he was going to be like as the
Christmas shopper. I've never went Christmas shopping with him, but
I'm like, he's so very fun, you can come with me.
Or in one store, he goes, so what are we
looking for in here? And I go, I don't know

(23:29):
what we're looking for in here, We're just going to
look around and like if something catches my eye because
these are the people I need to get for get
something for where are you going? Where are you going?
For this store? So I started. I started in a
jet so I could go Memens, I can go Barney's,
I can go down each BEV will Rodeo drive. I
can You're not Rodeo, yeah, not like I'm affording Rodeo.

(23:50):
But there's some like little shops in between there that
are not astronomical, like in price, like you can find
it's no I don't want to go to the mall.
And it's like, I want to go to department store
because then we've got all the people. We can do kids,
we can do men, we can do women. Like okay,
so I'll start there. We're we're first first fucking store,
and even Marcus he's like, so what are we looking

(24:10):
for in here? And I was like, hey, I got
an idea. Trying to be positive. Hey, why don't you
go to the men's section. You look around, you see
if you like anything up there for someone you know
in your life. He goes, no, to say, for Andrew Whitworth,
go see if you can find I'm just gonna stay
with you. No, I don't want you to stay with me.
Now we're looking around. Now I pick up and he goes, whoa,
those are so expensive. Okay, I don't need that. I
don't need you monitoring what I'm spending money off. First

(24:32):
of all, this is my money, and he's like, we
don't need to spend that. I was like, we did
I miss the part that your name's on this credit card?
I missed that part. So now he's lecturing me on
what I'm buying. How long it's gonna take uh. And
then he sits down in the freaking couch thing and
he all he's doing is making it seem like he
just can't like I'm taking forever, and I go, fine,
forget it, let's just go, and he's like, oh, we're

(24:52):
you mad. I'm like, no, I'm not mad. I'm annoyed.
I never asked you to come. You said you were
gonna come. So next time, if you want to come
shopping with me, you don't ask questions. You don't ask who, what, where, when, why?
And how much? Sit down? Shut up, or go there's
a bar in here, go to the restaurant, get yourself
a drink. And if I show up with twenty five bags,
you don't need to ask who these are all for. No,

(25:14):
are you wrapped at the store? Wrapped at the store? Yeah,
I'm not rapping. I hate it. I hate it. I
don't want. First of all, I don't want. I get
I get that it's extra effort and like it's all
nice to unwrap something. No it's not. First of all,
this is wasteful, you know. And I'm not like, oh,
we can't waste everything because it's nice to have, you
know whatever. But I'm like, no, we don't need to

(25:35):
have all the wrapping paper and we're just throwing that away. No,
so yes, I need them to wrap the I need
them to put it in a box, a reusable box,
or a bag. Sometimes I'm just tempted to just give
the person the bag, like the shopping bag. Oh yeah,
not even like get a fancy although going back to shopping.
When I got rid of the baggage, as in him

(25:57):
and put him in a car and I kept on
my merry way. Okay, you made him leave? Well no,
I said, we'll go to the restaurant. We ended up
having hanger. Then we went home the next day. Are cute?
I knocked it out? But I I've been. I've been
on the Etsy tip I'm made, I'm making moves. I'm
making moves on Etsy. Wait do you see the amount
of shit that I've got Mac off Etsy? You will

(26:18):
be like Carissa, this is crazy. The amount of personalized
Mac items that I got are out of control. No,
but it's more fun to buy, like little things like
a little sweater that says Mac than it is. You know,
they're so sweet? Hey, can I can I ask our
listeners out there if you guys have any great ideas
Christmas ideas for grandparents. I mean, I'm looking, I'm googling,

(26:42):
I'm trying to figure it out. I'm just trying to
find some real, thoughtful grandparent gift ideas. Oh my god,
I just realized I don't have any more grandparents. Jesus.
I didn't mean to bring it down like that. That's okay.
I just realized, like, well, yeah, my grandma. I was like, sorry, oh,
that's okay. Hurry, I'm trying to think of something else.

(27:05):
I'm gonna tell you, I know one of your New
Year's resolutions that you're starting early this year. No, I
just realized that. I was like, oh my god, so sorry. No, no, no,
not at all. That's just weird. I haven't thought about that.
Well for less presents to buy. No, I'm kidding. Is

(27:25):
your house on fire? Clark? By the way, my grandma
would like that joke. Jude, are you up there anyway?
She died thirty years thirty years ago. Grandparent gifts? She dead? Yes, good, good,
good God exactly. By the way, that's Father the Bride
For those of you not at the homekeeping track. I
don't know grandparents anything like anything personal. I don't like

(27:46):
anything personal too. Hey, you and I should put a
budget on our gifts because we'll get excessive in these years.
We don't need to be spending money on each other
like that. I know I have one gift I want
to get you. You're just so Chrisa is one of
the most awful people. And she's such a bitch because
I know she has less time than I do. And
then she shows up your house with like this gorgeous

(28:07):
basket with all these thoughtful things, and I'm still running
around town. That's completely cute. Body cubs. You showed up
seventeen candle Nope, nope, BHAs you showed up in the
Bahamas with a massive beach bag for me? Yeah, you
got me a Prada bag. I felt like an asshole.

(28:27):
I'm like stupid. By the way, the amount of money
that you spent on the supplies in the bag might
as well have equal that. No. I think that thought.
I think putting thought into gifts, especially as we get older,
and like, if you really want something, you're gonna go
buy it. If I want something, I'm going to go
buy it. I think thoughtfulness, like putting time and effort

(28:49):
into gifts is all that I want. I love that. Okay,
you know what else we need to discuss. We have
some dissension in a conversation that you and I had
on this podcast with a few men between you and I.

(29:10):
I was like, no, no, you were telling a story
about a guy that was getting a b in his bonnet,
as you always referred to as getting a little annoyed
at you for being on the phone because you were
on the phone with me while you were ordering a smoothie. Yeah.
So some of the responses that we got, I'm gonna
call you out. They were older six to three, kind

(29:30):
of rude for you to be on the phone in line,
and very petty to respond to him after you ordered. Well, Bob,
we're responding to you. Also, nev tango, get off the phone, respectful, disrespectful,
and also doctor Wood. People who are yammering for yammering
is amazing. People who are yammering on the phone in
line are annoying. Sorry, those are the responses, So listen,

(29:54):
I agree with all of all of these comments and concerns.
I agree. I'll be honest with you. I'm not yammering.
I am speaking quietly, whispering in my hand because I'm
talking about everyone. I'm fucking throwing everyone under the bus,
and I don't want the people in Bristol Farms to
hear about it. So I'm like, and yeah, and then
so and so did this, and did you see this?

(30:16):
So I'm not yammering, I'm whisper yammering. I'm going to
say this if I can't do that with a little
whisper to my friend in the line while I'm I
can do five things at once because I do that
on the sidelines. I do it at home, not well,
but I can do it. I don't need to be
sitting next to Jack Black, mister Magoo, whoever you are

(30:40):
in three seed today that is on we're delayed in O'Hare.
We're at on the O'Hare like tarmac. I don't need
to be sitting next to Jeremy whoever you are, and
you're on a full zoom with one, two, three, four, five,
six people. You want to know why. I know he's
right next to me, and he's like and ed, yeah,

(31:01):
there's letting this little little I can speak and ed.
This litigation is gonna be really tough. I'm gonna tell
uh Sydney next week, you better go with a Jeremy
to do this. I was listening to this shit for
twenty minutes. There was no whispering, there was no even
like trying to be like this. It was a full
blown I'm in the board meeting. At one point I
thought to myself, I'm still a little tipsy from the

(31:23):
night before or morning before. I almost did this. Poked
my head into the zoom and was like, Hi, ed, Hi, Jeremy.
I think you guys should go ahead with that litigation.
I trust this company. You guys seem to know what
you're doing. Oh great bookcase behind you, because I'm fucking
over his shoulder listening because you've given me no choice.
You're not in a line. There's storm arms that's moving

(31:44):
and only three D. You're stuck on a plane for
how long? Okay, So here's here's what I got to
say about this phone etiquette thing. There's a few simple rules.
It's all about to your point, the octave level. Who
says you can't be on a phone in a line,
you can do that. Just talk like a normal person
and also be aware that the line is moving, if
you're delaying the line, if you're doing other things, and

(32:06):
now we're all at a deficit because you're not paying attention. No,
that's not acceptable. But you've kept the line moving. You're
on the phone in a quiet you know, speaking like
yeah with her voice, that's fine. What I don't need
is you facetiming without the air pods in and yelling
did Timmy get his bath? No, but you've got to

(32:26):
check he only likes the dinosaur pajamas. No, did you
have the dinosaur pajamas? And now the dad's yelling in
the background. I understand that Timmy needs a bath. Okay,
I understand that all these things need to happen, But
do we have to do it on FaceTime when everyone's
around watching Timmy. Now we're also making sure that everyone's
hearing the respond to the father on the other end. Yeah,

(32:46):
I got it, Cindy. It's like, okay, well, you know what,
we don't all need to be included in these comments.
Get your shared ten months. Yeah. It's just like there's
just like basic simple phone etiquette that everyone has lost
their mind with. So bring the octave down. If you
want to do a FaceTime call, go stand over in
the corner. You don't need everyone to be a part

(33:07):
of it. And I don't think we need to be
taking our zoom calls on the on the plane. I
get that we all have work to do, but can't
you be like, hey, I'm going to take this one
to the text so I don't interrupt everyone else around me.
I listen. I'm sure I got to clean up my
act a little bit. There's no denying it. It's week twelve.
I probably got in there. But aren't you like I

(33:29):
feel like you're very aware of things I thought it was.
I thought it was, and I feel like I've let
America down. So I will take responsibility and say I
got to clean up my act and I'll wait to
yammer until I'm in the Yamma. But Jeremy next to
me with the six people zoom about the litigation is
fucking horseshit? Go ahead? How about people? How about people
losing their shit on me when I'm like about the

(33:51):
do not disturb? People? Don't need to be available to
you all the time? No? And Whitworth he's your brother, Yes,
he say they need to be available all the time.
First of all, I don't want you to be available
all the time. You know what, I don't like these devices.
That's why I'm not on the ranch. Goddamn it. I
don't even want it to as send it's goddamn telegram
or else in a pigeon to deliver the fucking message.
But when I need to ask you question, we said

(34:12):
we weren't cussing anymore. Fuck that, which reminds me I'm
gonna stop swearing as much because I don't think it's
lady like. But it brings up, it begs the question,
as they say when people have New Year's resolutions and
it's like, oh, I'm going to stop doing this, or
I'm going to lose twenty pounds or I'm going to
do whatever the new year's resolution. I got an idea,

(34:33):
why don't you start the new Year's resolution now in November? Okay,
So then that way you already got a jumpstart on
all these things. I don't know what my resolutions are yet,
but I'm going to start up very similar to like
I'm putting the tree up early, I'm getting the shopping
done early. Yeah, I'm doing resolutions early because then I
don't have this panic of like, oh, I said I
was going to do this and I haven't done it yet.

(34:54):
I'm really trying to get on top, like be on
top of this. You know I'm interested. Well, I'll keep
you post on what the resolutions are. I really wanted
to be something that I can follow through with. I
asked Steve the other day. I was like, we need
to make a list of things to do for date
night that aren't just like go to dinner. Like let's
go to a cooking class, let's go to a pottery class,
Let's go do like something like that. I don't know

(35:16):
if any of these things will happen, but I don't
want to just be like, oh, dinner every time. We
we did do dinner the other night as a date night.
We had failed miserably as a family to have a
good dinner night, like on a Monday last week, and
it was just bad. Mac wasn't interested. We were so excited.
We went to a sushi place. The big kid boat

(35:37):
came and we're like, ooh, he's got to crush this
at a mammy, He's gonna love it. Nope, had a
massive stomach ache, blew out his diaper right left. So
I went. I did the first leg of the Green
Bay trip, came back, and then I came back so
we could all go to dinner and like go to
the pier and walk up and down the pier, lighting
and all that kind of stuff. He crushed dinner. It

(35:57):
was such a great night. He went in to the
little creamery. He got a baby shark toy that was
lighting up. He was so happy. He was on the
pier looking at the lights. He went to dinner and
he crushed it. Like he sat in his highchair. He's waving,
he's clapping people. He sent you the picture. He was
so Chare's like getting competitive with the with the table

(36:18):
next to us because the kid's on an iPad and
another kid screaming and the mom's like, oh my god,
your kid is so good. And Jared's like, yeah, he is,
isn't he. I was like, shut the fuck up. Five
days ago he was screaming at Izakaya. No, it's just
a good night. It was a great way. That's really
good getting. That's a whole bit right there is getting
competitive as their parents. It's like Max like coloring like

(36:39):
all perfect. The other kids like, ah, like look at
that kid, look at that kid. I was like, do
I have to remind you about Monday? Monday? He was
an animal. I mean now it looks like he ate
an animal. God. I'll tell you what you don't realize
you appreciate until it happens. A waiter or waitress that
has a kid, because this guy's like, let me get
something for you. What do you want? You have to

(37:01):
bring a tony a spinach apasta? What do you want
for this kid? And then we're like, for dessert, He's like,
I got you pistaschio ice cream with like some berries.
It's coming, and we're like, Jared's like, I'm gonna give
this guy a good tip. Good tip. Wow, what's the
what do you mean? I like a Pat MacAfee clap,
Like I just really he does the whole move off

(37:24):
to the side. He's so good. He's great. He is
just him, all of it. Yeah, good for him, Good
for him. Indeed, Hey, we love having headlines here and
there that catch our attention. Ryan, our wonderful producer, throws
in front of us and we see which ones we like.
These two stood out to Aaron and I first one.
If you use these common text abbreviations, there's big downside

(37:47):
you could regret sending number of abbreviations and text messages
is second nature to many people, with the abbreviations for
it laugh out loud or be right back among the
many that are exchanged. But those instinct of responses can
make you seem insincere or a new study found. You know,
I don't even need I also think it makes you
seem dumb ding ding ding. I don't need the study.

(38:09):
I if you can't just just send an emoji the lol.
There's something about the LOL or the BRB that makes
me feel like a child. There's enough things that I
do that are immature on some capacity. I'm not writing
VRB or shaking my head smh. I'm like, come on,
here's the other thing. The people that use the l

(38:31):
OL do it so much that I'm like, you can't
be laughing at everything that's true, Like, stop laughing, it's
not funny. The other night, I got so serious to
someone on our crew who was laughing. I go, you
laugh one more time, I'm gonna punch you in the face,
like I was joking. But they were Everybody's like WHOA,
And I was like, no, but it's not funny. It's
not funny. So I got another I got another one

(38:51):
because I got a lot of text chains circle circling
around here, and the people that are on this text
chain will know exactly what I'm talking about. I won't
name names, but there's someone in the text group that
always throws out the thing that like, it's not funny.
Then the rest of the group feels like they got
a ha ha or they got an exclamation point or

(39:12):
it's heart no, but it's like I say, I'm not
doing it. I said, go stop harding or ha ha
ing or exclamation pointing, because now it's encouraging the bad behavior.
Leave it alone, have no response, and then the person's
going to get insecure, like oh no, one's laughing, yeah,
because it's not funny. It's not funny, not exciting, or
it's it's not to be hearted. Stop encouraging the bad behavior.

(39:35):
Not everything has to have a ha ha. I gotta
find out what texting this is and who inspiring a
couple of ideas and now the phone this is maybe
this is why people do not disturb because the phone's
going off every five seconds and I look and it's
just exclamation point on something that doesn't deserve the exclamation point.
So anyho, boy, don't text us, you know, lol lol,

(39:58):
b RB. I think it's Airbnb. What the fuck? Okay?
I love this one is near and dear to my heart. Ello. Yeah.
This DFW Dallas Fort Worth Airport was ranked number one
in the United States. According to this report. I'm about
to select copy and send to a text chain I
have with my homies on my crew. According to a

(40:20):
ranking by bet Us, TGI Fridays at DFW Airport has
claimed the number one spot among airport bars in the
United States, absent frea com leutely it has. I have
frequented that frequented. I have visited that bar one million
times and they've never done me wrong. I love them.

(40:42):
I saw one time somebody have video of that bar.
I saw Cole what's his name country singer shoot anyways,
uh caro. I saw Caine Brown in there one time. Anyways.
I saw a video somebody was in there and a
naked man walked by, and I sent it to my group.
I was like, what's going on? You saw a video

(41:05):
that someone took up. TGI Fridays at d sit there
and some naked man walk by. I'm like, what's going on.
That's our airport, people of Boston. I'm going to be
their Wednesday. Is that naked cowboys still in Times Square?
I don't know. Is that a thing? Oh? The podcast
is over? Oh my god. This was my alarm from

(41:27):
the supposed to be this morning. I did four forty
pm inst am. Well, how'd you wake up? I don't know.
I didn't go to because I'm kidding. I already knew.
I already knew by the way, I haven't woken up
to that alarm, and it did go off at four
forty am one time. Hey now, and ladies and gentlemen,

(41:48):
it is a pleasure. It is a gift me with
you once a week. I love you. Get some rest,
happy Thanksgiving, and figure out what I'm wearing. Smh b
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