December 12, 2024 • 50 mins
Erin and Charissa will try to Calm Down as they reflect on the end of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. They also look back on another wild week in the NFL with on the sidelines of Bills v Rams and Charissa in Detroit to cover Packers v Lions. Erin shares the backstory for her “My Cause My Cleats” and we also find out if she was telling the truth about being a pretty good karaoke singer.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The end of the Eras tour two years, two billion dollars.
But most importantly, the news that came out today, which
is why she is one of one, is giving out
over one hundred and seventy five million or whatever the
final number was of additional bonuses to her crew. Of course,
she made headlines when she donates food at the local
food banks. It's just she continues to impress me, just
(00:22):
when you think she can't get more impressive in who
she is as a performer but also as a person.
Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Welcome everybody to the Calm Down Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh oh, are you okay?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I'm making notes, She's making notes. We're making notes fifteen.
I just wrote down it is three week of week
fifteen when I do my Thursday night Wow. San Francisco
forty nine Ers versus Los Angeles Rams a battle in
the NFC West.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But let's go back for a second.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We both had incredible Week fourteen matchups. I was in
Detroit for the Packers' Lions. You were working RAMS bills yesterday,
go gas like it was two years ago. Exactly. That's why,
like I want to I want to touch on your
game just because it happened yesterday. Incredible thinking about what
Josh Allen did in a losing effort. I know, but
(01:25):
I was so happy for you guys getting a game
like that because I feel like you guys have had blowouts, blowouts,
blowout City's sister. Yeah, terrible, it was great. I would
I love working games like that. Sorry, I almost had
a burp. I love working.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Games like that. But I also, you know, it's not like.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You're sitting back at home going holy shit, Like you're
sitting there on the sidelines, who's hurt, Who's okay?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Oh my god? Do I need? Am I doing a
postgame interview? What am I asking? What where are they on?
Third down?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So it's like you are a lot of different places
with all that. It was amazing. But yeah, back and
forth game and good for the Rams. I mean this
is uh, obviously the Bills. I've been having a great year,
but I was excited for Selfishly, It's always this is
totally selfish actually watching games where both teams win going
(02:12):
into your matchup, because then the week is easier because you're.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Like, oh, they're in a better mood. They're not like disgruntled.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So both the Niners and the Rams winning yesterday sure
sets up a great matchup. And then this division obviously
being as close as it is, coming down to the wire,
the fact that it is going to be Week fifteen,
it'll come down to Seattle and the Rams, depending of
course on you know, that last game of the year
for that division. But anyways, yeah, excited about that one.
(02:42):
What else do we have? I had that that Lions
Packers game was so awesome. It lived up to all
of the hype. Of course going into that game. You know,
you forget just from the outside looking at if you're
not follow football closely, like that wasn't a battle for
the division. I mean the Minnesota Vikings or in the
middle of the Lions Vikings and then the Packers. But
(03:04):
just the winning I think the overall winning percentage of
that division it's like eight hundred or something. It's like,
never in history has a division been so good. But yeah,
that game was awesome, so much was made. We were
standing on the sideline at the very end of the game.
Of course, it was tied thirty one, thirty one with
a minute and a half left to play, And it
comes down to this fourth and inches play, Dan Campbell
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decides to go for it. Up until that point, he
was three for four on calling and going for it
on fourth down and converting. So Fitz and I are
standing next to each other and he's like, there's no
He's like, yeah, they kick the field goal again, there's no,
there's no reason to go for it. And then all
of a sudden, you see Jared the football and come
back out and you're like, wait, he's going for it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
So I love it.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And then the next day all of these people, So
I'm gonna go on a ram for a second about
this because what I think is so wild is you're
not on that team, You're not in that locker room,
you're not in those teams. So if Dan Campbell wants
to go for it, and as Jared Goff told us
at the end of the game, Dan Campbell was kind
of bascillating, like should I go for it?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Should not go for it?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And then he decides to go for it, and Jared
Goff is like, let's fucking go kind of a thing
like this is our team, this is who we are,
Like we're all in one way or the other, but
all of these like individuals that I hear the next
day on all these different shows like this is so risky,
this is so, this is whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Who cares, that's his decision, that's his team. And guess what, Like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
If he wants, he's made those calls in the past,
and they've been him in the ass. If that's who
this guy is, if that's who this team is, then cool.
I just don't understand why everyone everyone has to have
an opinion on every little thing and it's like, well.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He should do it this way.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It's like, well, guess what if Dan Campbell wants to
paint his house fucking purple, then he can paint his
house purple and deal with the neighbors later.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Like that's his decision to go for it, and his
team is all for him.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And if I'm in that locker room, I am riding
with somebody like that, like we die together, we win together,
whatever did it, we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
So.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I just found it so annoying that everyone thinks that
they get to have opinions on situations that they're not
a part of. So and same thing with the Chiefs,
Like the Chiefs are now ten to zero in one
score games. They win last night they doing a field goal,
and it's like, oh, well, the Chiefs, they can't keep
winning like this. Guess what they can't they like last year,
Like they can't go on the road and win all
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these playoff games without home field advantage.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Guess what they did.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It's just I am like last time I checked the
who you know the winner of the Super Bowl from
nineteen sixty five? Did you keep track of how many
games they won by one score? How many points did
they go forward on fourth down? No? You keep track
of wins. In the words of Al Davis, just win baby.
So like, if you keep winning, who cares how you
do it? So for like both of those teams, Like,
(05:47):
I'm so overwatching shows where everyone wants to critique.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Like this shit. I'm like, they win and who cares? Yeah,
Grant it's no.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I think they're trying to fill time and commercial space
and all that.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Why.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
People are paid to debate it, and that's what they
do and that's what they sign up for. But it's
pretty amazing to watch. I was at kind of a
Christmas fireworks event last night, which was fun, and they
had the game on and people were like I'm so
sick of this. I'm so I was like, why this
was awesome of the Chiefs. Why because Patrick Mahomes is
fucking cool.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And like they win and they win different way, it's fun.
The NFL is fun.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
The same thing happened with the Patriots when they would win,
like so you know and like, oh, I'm so sick
of the Patriots winning, or like the Lakers in their
prime or the Seltics and their prime.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Like I'm so sick of it. I'm like, hey, guess what,
then somebody else be better? How about that?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Like somebody else you want to win the division nine
straight years?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Good for sucking you. Who cares how you win it?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You want to miss win it with doinked field goals
and blocked field goals whatever, cope. But yeah, I'm very
I can't believe it's already fifteen. We said this every
single week going back. If you were to listen some
of our podcasts in week three, it's like, oh my god,
this season so long and now here we are it's
going to be over in two seconds.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So season.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I literally marched across my face like it really has Wow,
I'm so tired.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I just look so tired. I looked at myself today in.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
The mirror plates and I went, whoa hell, I need
a good night sleep. We talked about this on a
pregame show. I just tis this season. It's December ninth
as we're taping this right now. I have so much
to do as we get except for Christmas. I was
so excited to sleep in my own bad last night,
not have to get on a plane. I might as
well have gotten on a six am flight. That's how
much sleep I got. I just woke up at random
(07:41):
times like shit, did I get this person something? Did
I do this? I need to tie this end. I
need to finish this up. It was like, girl, rest
your brain.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Enough, Yeah, you do need to do that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But I feel the same way I was saying on
a pregame that I felt like I had a great
jump start to Christmas. I was ordering things early, I
was getting stuff. Now I'm way reading for all of
these things to get here, and I'm tracking every single
day because I can't send the packages out. But here's
my thing. And I would love the viewers, the viewers
and the listeners input on this where it's like I
(08:12):
think in my head, I have a good list of
people that I know I need to get stuff for right,
just based off of like, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
The friend group, the work group, whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
But there's always those randoms that you don't think are
going to come in with a gift, and then all
of a sudden you're standing there and they hand over
the gift. You're like, oh my god, yeah, yours in
the car. I'll go run and grab that later. Or
yours is at home, Oh my god, I'll get No,
it's not at home, and it's not in the car
because I didn't get you a gift because I didn't think.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
We did gifts. But now you're a new doing gift.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
We're doing gifts, and so Steve it's mad and he's like,
you're always buying gifts for people that you don't even
know are going to buy gifts for you. I'm like,
cause I'm so paranoid that if I don't have the
gift then I'll feel terrible. So I would rather have
a bunch of August Sary gifts for sure. I would
rather have a bunch of auxillary gifts and some last
second cards where I can quickly write, because there's nothing
(09:04):
worse than standing there and being like, oh, I didn't
get you anything terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
So that's where I'm at right now.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Shopping gifts additional pressure to put on yourself as well,
like I'll tell you crazy. Oh, I'll tell you I
don't want not to get into my headspace for tonight.
Oh God, just grab grab like five or six extra
little bags of like goodies or something. Hey, what's what's
the bag of goodies? What's the bag like a lip gloss?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Like?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Think of you got to have auxiliary for guys and
for gals. Okay, you got to have the wine. God,
you've got crazy extra.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You got to do it.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Okay, Well, then you know, look I'll buy some what
are you putting these in like a little gift bag?
And then just have a backup card already in there,
because by the way, people are onto you if you
don't have the card filled out and you just hand
them over the gift and there's no card, they're like, oh,
I'm an auxiliary gift person. You don't care about me
enough to have a card. But if you have the
card in there, you've bought yourself sometime and another friendship.
(09:58):
I also one always have the backup wine. Yeah, that's
an easy one. What's your price range? And what backup
wine do you have? You got to go thirty five
to sixty five on the auxiliary gift.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Oh my god, I have more anxiety. No, I didn't
mean to add this to you.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
We're gonna have more anxiety if somebody hands over a
gift and you don't have one for them.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Plus I gotta have some card waiting. Yeah, you always
have to have the card in the what's your excuse?
You're like, hey, one second, let me run upstairs. That's
exactly what I did.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
What about if the inkstill is like what, well, that's
what you doing that? How about when the you're recycling
the gift bag and your name it was like to
Carissa love mom, and it was like shit, I forgot
to pull that off. And then you pulled like part
of the bag off and then there's like a whole
part of the missing. Yeah, that's why you gotta be
prepared gooby gun or something. But I'll tell you who's
(10:48):
not prepared. And this is where I said to him.
I was like, men don't think about this stuff. Men
don't think about Hey, you know what, the dog walker
needs a gift because she takes her dogs.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Out every single day. Why I'm not sleeping.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
We have the luxury of having a house cleaner. The
house cleaner needs a gift. And then they're like, well,
we pay them. We don't have to buy them a gift.
We paid them, And I'm like, I don't care. Guess
what I get paid from my employer. But sometimes they
also give us a gift. So you can't apply that
principle at all. Okay, so men, don't think about it.
Steve hasn't done one fucking gift shop. You think he's
(11:21):
stressed out. He's not losing any sleep at night. Oh,
Jared's not losing any sleep. In fact, he's still snoring
away and I'm using all the sleep.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I want to know what I did last night?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Picked up the phone, turned the baby monitor on louder
because Mac has a sound machine in his room so
we hear it.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
He turned it up where it's basically.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Like like the winds are crashing into the house.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The fucking phone down.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And the next morning he's like, Babe, I'm so sorry.
I'm always have a scoring issue.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I feel like he has.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
But it's gotten worse. We did go get looked at.
They did say do you have a couple of cracks
in your nose. You have a deviated septum. You definitely
broke your nose a couple of times. We should get
this fixed. And this sweet guy last night, we're going
to bed and I'm so tired, and he's like, hey,
just a heads up. I did book an appointment for
surgery on my nose. And I said, whoa, Like, we're
(12:18):
not doing a pointments dentist appointment and book surgery exactly.
I was like, am I home? Will I be able
to pick you up? We need to find out more
information about this surgery. What's the recovery time? But he
is so frightened about me killing him in the middle.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
About that too. Yeah, yeah, this has been going a
little bit. Yeah, it's time. I don't appreciate.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Have we thought about, like maybe a sleep apnea machine
or something? Oh we failed test. We have a deviated septum.
Can I say septim one more time?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Septic tank?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Because he's yeah, so apparently. Yeah, it's just getting worse
and worse and worse, and so is my adague.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Dude, it's okay, it's okay, you're allowed to have that.
We'll get through it. So everybody is like, did you
love a home game? Loved it so great?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You we can get through it together. Don't worry about
I just need you to be able to get some sleep.
That's the thing I told you about. And I don't
know if anybody else of their significant other snores.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Steve used to that, We've talked about it before.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
He has this tape that he puts over his mouth.
It's called hostage tape, which is an inane title. He
looks insane, but guess what, he does not wake me
up in the middle of the night anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So come three or four a m.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
The hostage tape is coming off like we're a loud
breather man, and he's like in the morning, he's like,
I'm sorry it fell off. Oh yeah, well maybe we've
got to double up on the old the tape. I
don't know what to tell you. By the way, go
grab some duct tape. So we need to get my
gals some sleep immediately, all right. But other than that,
(13:59):
you are headed to Philadelphia. Yeah this week for I'm
really really excited for your game. You've got the Eagles
and the Steelers. And for Russell Wilson Man, there was
not a time long ago where it was like, oh god,
Justin Fields or Russell Wilson and he has this team
playing exceptional.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
So good for you, young man, and the guy who
made that decision, Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I get to do a sit down with him, and
I am so excited by the way those glasses, those
aviator glasses, that guy and when he I don't know
if he swag is so sick, so great, that's very exciting.
I love that for you and the Eagles playing great football,
Steelers playing great football. This is a great week fifteen matchups, sister,
(14:45):
and I'm excited for your game too. Look, I know
that San Francisco has their injuries.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Holy crap.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I just saw their third string running back is now
like banging up as well. But like Shanahan gets his
guys to play, it's a big ival read between those two.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
It's all on the line for the Rams. So I
think it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And I gotta tell you Sofi Stadium, that's our place.
The tunes, the Jams, they love the Calm Down podcast
or not so Fi. Excuse me to le Lee VI Stadium.
They love Calm Down podcast. There they play our clip
all the time over the loud speaker that yes they
do not ye. Yeah, like the tunes, the jams Levi Stadium.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
The in game.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Experience at Levi is so much fun. And like I said,
their DJ is freaking awesome. You're gonna be jamming out
Pump Bump, eat it, eat it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I'll tell you what I love. I love a West
Coast game. We had a lot of East Coast games
this year, so we're back to back West Coast, which
is great. Yeah, it's week four. Well, Jesus Week fifteen.
Every game matters, you know what else matters? Because I
know that the Calm Down community all has an affinity
(15:58):
for Miss Taylor Swift. Yeah, I need to give a moment,
take a moment, take a moment of silence for our girl.
The end of the Eras tour two years, two billion dollars,
But most importantly, the news that came out today, which
is why she is one of one, is giving out
over one hundred and seventy five million or whatever the
(16:18):
final number was of additional bonuses to her crew. Of course,
she made headlines when she donates food at the local
food banks. It's just she continues to impress me. Just
when you think you can. She can't get more impressive
in who she is as a you know, performer, but
also as a person giving out additional bonuses for her crew.
I just take a lesson everybody out there. I don't
(16:39):
care if you have five dollars to give people that
help you or you know, fifty million. It's like, just
take care of the people around you. And I love
her for that, and kudos to her because, you know,
we talk all the time about you know, jobs are demanding,
and your traveling and your this and that. I remember
when we went to the one in June and then
thinking about her performing night after night, like we were
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tired after one night and we weren't performing. So what
she's done for two years is incredible. And the fact
that she's got on a plane after performing in Tokyo
flew all the way to Las Vegas for her boyfriend's
game in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Like, I just love her.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
She's just great and Bravo's sister on a job well
done on the Era's Tour tour.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I loved I have.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
My sister is a dancer. My sister did some professional dancing,
and we always we know a lot of people in
the industry and one thing I've kind of always learned
through my sister is when artists take care of their
dancers and they have such a great relationship with their dancers,
that's really cool. My sister always kind of tells me
stories about who does who's great. Like Ken told me
(17:49):
when the Celine Dion traveling tour, not not her residency,
but the tour, her dancers were obsessed with her and
she always took care of her dancers, And I think
that's so cool when people are tight with them. You
could tell from the clips last night, like as they
were all walking off and hugging her, I mean they Yeah.
My sister was like, oh my god, this breaks me
(18:09):
up because, like you can just tell she loves them
so much. That's a lot of time with those people.
They're away from.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Their family, but they're also living their dream because of her.
It was really cool.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I love seeing all that last night off them just
hugging her and thanking her.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It was really really special. She's amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I hope she gets the time off that she deserves
she enjoys the rest of the football season with her. Man.
I was kind of waiting to see if there was footage.
I was trying to do the math. Okay, can he
get on a plane from Kansas City and go meet.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Her out like at her celebration?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But I know that that's a long flight, and obviously
he just played an amazing game himself. But yeah, go
enjoy your man, girl, Go enjoy the rest of this
amazing football season. And if you ever want to get
a drink or hang out, we know two good hangs.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I promised to be super normal. She will, She should
be on her best.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Actually, you know where you know we're not going to
be going We're not going to be going to karaoke,
But you, my dear, have put it out there in
the universe that you are great at karaoke. And it
has been brought to my attention by some members on
your crew that you are not just thinking you're.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Good because of a few cocktails.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Kevin Burkhart, Grossy Casey, and Jason Bob Ak Bob have
taken it to the streets and take an act. In fact,
I believe that we have one of those members joining
us here on the podcast today.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, very excited about it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Jason Thornberry are statistician on our NFL on Fox crew.
He's been with the company what he say for about
twenty years, so that's super exciting. We'll give you guys
a little bit of a look of what his job
is like. Watching a shot of Micah Parson's rolling in
right now to at and T Stadium. I think that's
a white tuxedo. God, he's great. I like Michael. A
(20:00):
lot of people I know have thoughts about him. And
ooh they have the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders starting up. I
love them. I know a lot of people like you know.
Mike has even said I've heard a lot of people
say some things, but I love a guy that speaks
his mine.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It's great. I enjoy him. I like authenticity.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I like people who don't apologize for who they are,
and that's whether the you like them or not.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I like consistency.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I like people that just you know, like what you
see is what you're gonna get. This is not the
segue into the story, but today because I'm very decisive
in my life, Like today when I was shopping, I
when I'm in I know exactly what you're the person
(20:46):
the sales associate was like, wow, you know exactly what
you want? I'm like, sure, do I'm this I'm this,
I'm this, I'm this. I'm a person who has purchased
homes and never even went and looked at them. I
got an inspection, I saw them online. And whatever I
purchase cars, I don't even go and test drive it.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I just know what I want.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
We all know what I've done in marriages, so it
doesn't always work out, but I am very decisive.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Today.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I was sitting there getting something quickly to eat before
we jumped on here, and I was at a restaurant
and I was like, I got twenty minutes. We got
to get the order in, we got to pay, we
got to eat, We're in, we're out. So the woman
she drops off the menu. I go, oh, you don't
even need to go anywhere. I was like, I'm got this, this, this.
She's like, okay, fine. So I'm waiting for the food,
and there's these gals that sit down next to me,
(21:31):
nice enough group.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
There's like three or four of them.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
From the time that I put my order into the
time that I left, it was probably maybe twenty two minutes.
If I was to clock this thing, twenty two minutes,
and this group next to me couldn't even figure out
their order.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
They were going back and forth and well do I
want this? Do I want that? Look into the mind,
Well what are you going to get? What are you
gonna get?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
By the time I left, I want to be like, look, bitch,
you're gonna have that. You're gonna have that. You're gonna
have that, You're gonna have that. It is wild to
me you are going to waste twenty two minutes of
your life deciding what you're going to order to eat, Like,
let's go, don't you have things to do? Or there
are some times I feel like we've been out and
we've been talking so much, they're like, do you have
(22:12):
you had time to look at the menu?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Not?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
That's different, That is that is different. That's because we're talking.
We're catching up, so we haven't even looked at the menu.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Babe.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
This was twenty two minutes of looking at the menu. Okay,
we're flipping it. We're going back and forth. The waitress,
this poor waitress brought over three times answering questions, does
this have chicken in it?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Does this?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Is this vegan? Is this?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I'm like, oh my god, this poor waitress has already
earned her money and she hasn't even taken their order yet.
But he just was sitting there and I was like,
I can't imagine being that indecisive in my life. Imagine
their husbands. He's like, Jesus, what are what are we
going to do?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Let's get on with it.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And maybe that works for some people, and maybe some
people think about me and they're like, Okay, just relaxed, lady,
take a beat. But I can't imagine. We're moving, we're shaking,
we're doing things.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
We got it ordered.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
This is not a decision on what you're going to
name your child. This is lunch. Yeah, these are I'm
trying to think of a catchy thing to call these,
like calm down, like observations or something that's what you
saw in the streets today. I'm going to tell you
what I saw in the streets today. Container store lady
wants to return something. The woman and I'm holding like
(23:21):
seven things trying to I'm like, I'm balancing.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I'm like, ask, you.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Haven't got the car because you thought you were just
coming into one eye.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Things are falling.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I got ten seconds to get in and out make
pilates this woman. The woman at the register goes, okay,
so you want credit what do you want for this?
She's like, i'd like credit for this. She goes, yeah,
you bought this in June. I could give you store credit.
And she's like, yeah, i'll take that. So the lady goes,
can I get your license please? And she goes why
and she goes because the store credit. Like at this point,
(23:52):
just just do what. She says, like, I'll hold in
seven things. She's like, well, I don't want to give
it to you. And then the lady's like, then I
can't give you the store credit. It's to be under
your name. I don't know, Like, we're only keeping the
information here. What do you want like a stowaway? You're
not supposed to be here? Like, why can't you give
you license information? See?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I'm with see, I'm with the woman though on the
license we.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Don't bring your ship back from June, and the cashiers
wouldn't of course you My shit's in the back.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I don't even where went.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
So the lady goes, I shouldn't even be giving you
credit anyways, but I'm doing this. So then she's like fine.
She goes through all this, the lady gets the credit,
she doesn't even say thank you. So then I'm next,
and the ladies like, have a nice day. I walk
up and I go on, behalf of her. I'll say
thank you, and she goes. This is how I look
at it. That was five minutes of my time. I
don't have to go home. Door was like right, I
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like her, Yeah, that's really good. Yeah, I'm not you
don't have to be rude to the person. But I'm
also not at you know, these starts getting real cocky
with this information. You know how I feel about the email.
Enough with the email, the phone number, the freaking social
security number, the driver's license. You know, it's the container short.
We're not stealing plastic containers, Okay, the bins do not
need my driver's life finger printing me. Yeah, I don't
know about that, but whatever. I also understand. It's like,
(25:04):
well this is the policy. Okay, well the policy needs
to change. But I'm with you. If you don't want
to if you don't want to give up a license
and you're not going to get the credit, this is
very simple. This is the way we do things. Either
doing this way or you keep it moving. But yeah,
I just I just left there and I was like,
oh my god, these women good for you if you
have that much time on your hands. And that's not
to say like, oh I'm so busy, it's just more
(25:24):
of like that much time going over menu, big menu. Look,
I've worked at the cheesecake factory. You can only imagine
to say. I ever, you've been doubted some of those
people when they're going there with that book and they're
on page fourteen. I was like, look, I got to
turn tables. I gotta make money. You want me to
help you here? What are you looking for? You looking
for chicken, you're looking for seafood, You looking for steak,
(25:44):
you want a salad?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Salads? Page four let's rip it? Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I can't have you as a two top or take
it up actually at the eight top, taking up forty
five minutes of my session. Now you got to turn
and burn.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Speaking of the.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Order at cheesecake, I'd always go for the mars and
that would rip Guess what? It was so good, the
bow type hostas so buttery.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
They took the Marsala off the menu. Well yeah, because
it was probably ripping people up. Stop sacking ripping people?
I should Can you believe that?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And what is that with the most popular items get
taken off. It's like my favorite lipliner for mac or
whatever it is. You know at the time where it's like, oh,
we've just continued that my favorite bronzer. She now has
this bronzer which I pay way too much goddamn money
for Crewe. No, not the cream I wanted the it's
a powder. I can't always be with the creams. I
(26:37):
get it's a more dewey look, but sometimes I need
a mat. I don't want to be glowing in the door.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Okay, bring it down. It's like, oh, she's sweating.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Is no, that's just she, not she and they got
rid of and they had it was the nice big
mirror because you know, sometimes when you're in those small compacts,
I can't really see what's going on. Then you get
into a full length mir and you're like god damn,
like can we run the next So that big mirror
really gave me the estate that I needed to see
a full frontal discontinued it. What is with discontinuing the
(27:06):
best items? They're the best items. Keep them moving. Hey, guys,
I had that with my eyeliner. I don't like it.
I don't appreciate it. Yeah, what I like he was
Chanelle too. They discontinued it. I don't understand. Can somebody
from Corporate America way in here? Why are we discontinuing
the best items?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Not sure? Hey, you have a child, you have to
fly on an airplane? Wayne a child?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I sent you and are wonderful producer Ryan and Kurt
this story today there was and I really hope this
is here's the problem with AI and all this other stuff.
I really want this story to be true. I mean
it shows a picture of the little cute. No, here's
the deal. A mom is on a plane a ten
hour flight from Soul, Korea to San Francisco. A mother
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handed out more than two hundred goodie bags with candy
earplugs in case her four month old child cried during
the fl and even included a note that said, Hello,
I'm John Wiu and I'm four months old.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
She's writing it like she's the baby. Today.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I'm going to the US with my mom and my
grandma to see my aunt. I'm a little nervous and
scared because it's my first flight in life, which means
I may cry or make too much noise. I will
try to go quietly, though I can't make any promises.
Please excuse me. So my mom prepared little goodie bags
for you. It has some candies and ear plugs. Please
use it when it's too noisy because of me.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Enjoy your trip. Hi, n I can't even handle that.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Like that is the sweetest talk about me thinking I'm
I'm getting cocky with my auxiliary gifts back here, two
hundred gift bags of can't anxiety when she was getting
ready for this trip and now I got to make
candy bags and how many sweetest thing I ever did see?
And by the way, like a ten hour flight with
a baby, and to think like how she could when
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a natural thing for a baby is to cry. She's
thinking about other people's reaction.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I really hope on that flight no one gave her
one look, one whatever, And I hope that everyone was
nice to her, because that is just so sweet. I
can't take it. It's so sweet, it's so thoughtful. It's
also we thought Dan Campbell really you know, like went
for it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
She really went for it with that ten hour flight. Wow,
this is going forward.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I can.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
With my eighteen month old a ten hour flight with
a four month old.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You go, girl, I see how you good for you?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Oh my god, wow, speaking of children, you you take
Mac to a little gym. You sent Steve and I
a video the other day. You would think that Steve's
the father because he was so concerned about Max's head
in the video when he's rolling the back flip. Everything
is safe, everything is monitored, and Steve goes, I don't
know if he should be doing that. I go, well,
(29:52):
his parents sent us the video and they're fine with it.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So one thing I'm so thankful.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
For with are our child care is that they are doers.
He is not sitting around in a little squared off area.
They are out. Mac is busy. People want to come
see him. He doesn't have time. He's out, he's socializing.
He's doing a lot of adventures, which is what one
of our nanny says, which is so frickin' night nice.
(30:21):
So one of the adventures I was home for because
we had a home game this week and I decided
I want to go. I want to go with Mackie
to this gym. Be a part of it. See how
it goes well. It was so nerve wracking and so stressful.
There weren't a lot of children in the class. I
don't know where all the children were, but they weren't there,
and it was me and another mom and a little
(30:43):
girl and so yeah, Max, I wouldn't say his it's
like me right now. His not his patients. His attention,
well attention ladies and gentlemen. His attention wasn't all there,
and like it was really highly skilled, like stuff, We're
(31:03):
gonna go up and over here and then up on
top of here and then jump here and then leap here.
And I'm like, what happens after we get off the thing?
And it's like Mac is trying to do it. He's
off over here.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
So I'm like trying not to be the nagging mom
where I'm like no, no.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
No, this way, this way, this way, but it's like
we got to follow, and then you know, the instructor
is over with this kid.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
So I'm like, am I supposed to go on this trampoline? Anyways?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Jarrett would have hated it. It's so stressful. I'm trying
to get the kid. All the kid wants to do
is go over on the mat and run. So I
was like, you know what, there's nobody here in this gym.
I'm just gonna go with my kid onto this mat
because he doesn't want to come over here, and he's
gonna start screaming. So we start running around the mat.
He's screaming and so much fun. I start screaming and
so much fun. He picks up a scarf and like
(31:49):
throws it in the air. I pick up a scarf
and throw it in the air.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I'm like, this is great. We got reprimanded. Oh no,
you're not allowed to get creative liberties in the class.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
And I ended understand where they're coming from. We got
told you need to stay with your group. I understand
they're probably concerned if we fell then it could be
somebody got to the specifics. What did she say, ma'am, Eric,
excuse me, ma'am, you have to stay with your group. No,
my group was right there.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
What did you do when she said that?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I couldn't apologize enough. In fact, after I apologized twenty times,
it went back over and said, listen, I'm not a
war breaker at all, but like I kind of figured
he needed to blow off some steam here, and he
wasn't really following the direction, so that's all made fine.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I felt terrible. I looked at our nanny and I.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Was like, I'm never going there again. I can't ever
go back. I can't ever show face there again. My
armpits were sweating. It was such an ordeal. I made
it worse than I needed to. But anyways, it was
so stressful, and my kid didn't want.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
To do all this shit.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
He just wanted to run and I was so excited
because I was running after him. And you're paying to
get reprimanded. You're getting into your public class.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I know.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
But you know what you did the right thing, okay,
and look you apologize to the person your kid had fun.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Everyone wins. Jared would have.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Been, we have to get out of here. We have
to get out of here, right, I'm like driving away
like this, but it was like, how great is that place?
I'm like, I can never go back. Look for you
think you would have think you would have thought, I like,
knock something over, it broke, it spilled. No, we just
were on the floor routine, putting on a floor routine, and.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
We were told to go back with our group. Score
ten for you. You're a great mom. Look at you.
You knew what your child did. Because all stressful.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
So is Christmas shopping, so is all of it. But
you know what, we have each other.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
We got this. I need you to get a good
night's sleep because I feel better. Go in the other room.
You're fine and I love you.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us on the
Calm Down Podcast. In a moment, though, we're not done
because we teased it. The big moment where we find
out is Aaron a good karaoke singer or not? Hey,
before we do that, sorry to break this up. I
do want to give a shout out to My Cause
My Cleats. I did one we introduced you guys. It
(34:15):
was actually when we were at Top Golf doing our
show there. My girlfriend Jackie brought my attention to this
Jackie Quick of a little girl who's actually she just
turned eleven, named Claire.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
She is a sideline reporter for peewee football.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
She has been through it literally a poster child for
Boston Children's Hospital, and I had the opportunity to kind
of honor her with My Cause My Cleats.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
They are up for auction.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
The money goes to Boston Children's Hospital and they have
done an amazing job with Claire. She has an uphill
battle coming her way. I think next week and I
know she's going to kick the tail out of it,
and I know her parents have been through it. So
you guys check out my cleats on my ig page. Also,
(35:02):
there's a link, like I said in my bio, if
you want to bid on them. She is such a
little cutie pie. I know her mom sent me a
picture of her watching her game yesterday. And I love
that the NFL lets guys do that. It's solwity to
see what their causes are. It is Claire, We love you,
We are duting for you always, and make sure you
guys check out like Aaron said her page, and Claire
(35:23):
thinking of you in the next week. You got this girl,
You got it bag. I am so excited to have.
I have multiple work husbands, as you do, Chrissa.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
This is one of them.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Kevin Burkhardt self proclaim self proclaimed work husband Jason Thornberry
from the NFL on Fox A Crew statistician.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
How many years have you held that job, my friend.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
With the A crew.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
I think this is a six year, but I've been
at Fox for twenty now, twenty one something like that.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Wow, what would you start with?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Well, my very very first thing was doing just scoring
baseball games on the studio show, so they'd have guys
come in keep scoring, so everybody knew what was going on.
And that's what I did. My friend Brian Biederman said, Hey,
you want to come in on a Saturday and score
some games? And I said yeah. And he's now a
big director at Fox. He doesn't call him. The one
(36:27):
thing led to another, and here I am today getting
to work with fabulous.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
I love that Berkhart, Tom Brady, Tom Rinaldi, they the
name a few.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yeah, they're good.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
So last week on our podcast, have you guys met before?
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we were in passing. I don't get
the privilege of being on the road with you guys.
Wish I wish in an alternate universe we could like
all be together. We had the preseason game, which was
fun but still not enough time. But yeah, Aaron of
course loves you guys so much, and I'm so glad
has all of you.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
And so last week I was telling Chris all about
our experience in the karaoke I was gonna say karaoke room,
but really it was our meeting room at our hotel.
We after our Thanksgiving dinner, decided let's bust out the
karaoke machine.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I was a little timid to start it.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Jason, who we all lovingly call Thorn on our crew,
went right after it, went right after it.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
He was the master of ceremonies.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Then I started feeling comfortable, started feeling really comfortable with myself,
felt like I was doing the backup singing, backup dancing,
sometimes doing it on my own. In our conversation in
our podcast last week, Chrisa said, I she laughed at
me and said, I don't know if I believe you that. Okay,
go ahead, explain yourself. I was surprised Jason that she
(37:48):
said that she was a good singer. Aaron and I
have been friends for fifteen twenty years, and I didn't
know this about her. So I simply said, who else
thinks you're a good singer? And she said, I will
get some guys from the crew to co operate this,
you know, self proclaimed I'm a great singer situation, So
(38:08):
here you are. I just wanted to make sure that
it wasn't, you know, a few glasses of wine that
made her believe and have false confidence, because look, no
one is a bigger fan of a karaoke night than
I am.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
So what was her strength?
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Well, her strength was the dancing. I said, Oh, if
you're doing karaoke, you're gonna need a dancer. You gotta
call Aaron Andrews.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
I mean she never stopped stop. It was like, you know,
regular dancing. But then she throws some drill team cheerleading
moves into it, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Stuff like that Dazzler days.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Yeah, and then a random leid kick here and there.
It was great. It was great.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
That's when I pee myself. Actually, yeah, there was.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
One part where I think her family called, her husband called.
She took it out in the in the hallway, but
then she heard us song she came running back in dancing.
So the singing part of it, she was a little
timid on the singing, and she would like bring me
up there to do Tracy Chapman with her. And then
(39:16):
you know, I was like, you're good, you can do this,
you got it. And then she would belt out the
tomb and then we did I think we did Madonna together.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Uh what was that all the night with.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Like a prayer?
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I thought that was a great way to send everyone home.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
I kind of started, but then I handed it off
to her and she she belt it out the tunes.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
She went a few others too. She was good. She
was good.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
No one's good. Just carry o first of all. Oh,
and well, I'm just saying like the bar isn't exactly.
I'm not trying out for Broadway, okay. And I like
to go out, have a good time and seeing a few,
uh you know, television hits of the seventies and eighties,
and throw in a few more stuff and call it
a night.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
But she was good, she was she was good, Thorn.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
I'm missing the a whole intro to how you began
karaoke that night. I had told you, after many cocktails
that I really, really, really badly want to do Saturday
Night Live. You had said, if you do it, would
you please think about doing this as a skit hit it.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Well, I've always had the idea that if I was
ever on Saturday Night Live, I was singing television theme
songs from the seventies and eighties as like a lounge singer,
you know, a cigarette dangling out of my mouth.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
And then it dawned on me. I'm sitting there in
this room there.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
We got a microphone, we got an amplifier, so I
just went and no one's singing. So I went up,
I grabbed it, flipped it on, and started belting out
the you know now the world don't move to the
beat ad just one drone, So I started belting those
out nuh. Then I got everybody into it, and then
all of a sudden we were doing karaoke all night long.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
It was great, amazing. Mine would be the full house
theme song.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I think they go everywhere there's a place of some Oh,
I can only be seventies and eighties. It was a
very sif.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
My range, Jefferson's and facts love.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
It brings great joy to me to know that Aaron,
amongst her many skills, can now add in her arsenal
karaoke singer and not only cooperated by you, but also
by Grossy, by Casey, and by Kevin Burkhardt. So I
stand corrected, Aaron, you have a wonderful voice, and I
cannot wait to get on the mic with you. Our
next time that we have an opportunity will to be probably.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
The super Bowl, So watch out in New Orleans. That'll
be dream.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Heyd's just a little more confidence.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I need a lot of false content, so I'm happy
to give her some thorn give all our listeners who
are massive football fans, A lot of them are just.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Look into a peek into your wheat.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
How you are prepared preparing for our massive Steelers Eagles
showdown this weekend, big.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Show it on? How do I prepare well? On Mondays?
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Usually I usually watch our game that we just did,
and then I watched the games the two teams we have,
make some notes, and then on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays,
I start making my notes. For matt Yale, our broadcast associate.
He and I kind of do well. He and I
the whole graphics team make these graphics for the games,
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put pop the on air, and everybody says, wow, that's
a good note.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
So during the week you gotta prepare and get ready
for it.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
So I sent them a bunch of notes during the week,
and we pre build a bunch of graphics and then
hopefully during the game we get some of those on.
Then we react to the game during the game and
make graphics on the fly. But that's generally it. So
by Thursday, I've sent them my notes. Friday fly out
to our game Saturday night, hopefully I'm doing karaoke.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
We'll be in Philly.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
We'll be at that great restaurant, probably with our our
top by and in our pants un done. But that's
because of the food so great, not because of any
other reason, So don't get crazy. Wait, Thorn, what was
your favorite scat or graphic that was on television yesterday
from our Amazing Bills Rams game? Did you have one
that you were like? Because you're in the truck and
(43:16):
you are feeding things too, either our producer director, are
you feeding things.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
To Kevin and tell them sometimes I'm texting you.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Yeah, well, I usually come up with something or one
of the guys in the truck, Elvis the Fox Box operator,
he's part of it too. Mike Eldrid shout out the
knuckleheads of Michigan City, Indiana his bar, and then Jacksicato
he's there too, doing stats on the staff. So we're
all kind of, you know, thinking of the same same things.
And uh, I guess the I don't know if it's
(43:45):
the best one, but the one that sticks out was
Josh Allen. He had three rushing touchdowns with three passing
touchdowns and he was the first guy in the NFL
history to do that in the regular season. But I
wish we didn't have time. It's very you have to
be very quick, right, So I would like to have
put that Otto Graham did it in the playoffs. Who
But if you look at the note on the screen,
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it said regular season on the top. That's because it
was actually done once in the postseason by Ito Graham
way back when in like nineteen fifty four or something.
That would have been cool to have on there, but
you have to be very quick, and so we didn't have.
Really I was like, just just put it up there
like that. It was fine, it was accurate, It was
a great note, and our producer richie's ion Z liked it.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Put it in and away we go.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
As you know, Aaron and I get very excited for stats,
like we're such like in the best way, like we
just like love a good stat. The fact that Josh,
the Rams haven't beat the Bills at home since nineteen
eighty three, that was a stat that stood out to me.
I was like, I'm I was born in eighty two,
I'm old as shit, Like this has been a long
time since the Rams have been the Bills at home.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
They don't play that often, but it's only been five
five games. But still nineteen eighty three. So that was
one of the walkoff notes we had if if the
Rams won. But you know, we had another one too,
and there's not a lot of time and it didn't
get on.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
But what was the other one?
Speaker 3 (45:06):
I was the one that got on that I forget
there whatever. There.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
It was the first time all year they've had a
winning record, the Rams. They started off slow, they've chipped away,
chipped away. Now they have a winning record, so they're happy.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
The last one because Josh Allen is the fact that
he did all that in a losing effort is just
tells you how crazy that game was.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
But didn't the week before.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
That he had, for the first time ever receiving a
rushing and a passing touchdown like this, So back.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
To back weeks he's done things that are unheard of, basically.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:36):
And the other amazing thing about that game was that
you had all these points scored, there wasn't one turnover
or one sack. Right, it's amazing that a touchdown, but
it wasn't one turnover, one sack.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
So crazy, crazy game.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Okay, I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you. Since
I have you on here, I know you're a massive
Seahawks fan, right ish, Oh, there we go.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
Okay, the lookers to grab the mug. There we go.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
So I've got the Niners and the Rams for my
Thursday night matchup this week. And we were on a
call this morning talking about the NFC West race and
Suan was saying that he thinks.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
That Seattle will pull it out. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Give all of the Seahawks fans a reason to believe
that they will win the West given how tight it is.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
The reason to believe is their defense has gotten massively
better since they cashed out to I don't want to
rip anybody in your podcast, but they started the year
with two linebackers who are no longer with the team,
and they brought in Ernest Jones. They're starting this rookie
in the middle, and they've been awesome since then. And
I don't have to stay out the top of my fingers,
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but they haven't done They haven't allowed too many points
since then. They had the big game against the Bills
that we did and they got killed, but that was
still with like one of the bad linebackers who's no
longer a team. But that move, and it's a massive
move in the middle of the season to cash out
your middle linebackerers and say we're gonna throw caution to
the win. But the defense was not good. Mike McDonald
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he's known for defense, and he's the guy and hit
his schemes he's come up with and actually been pretty
amazing in sometimes a couple of games ago, when Leonard
Williams had the pick six, that was all scheme. I
won't go into it because you know it's the Calm
Down podcast. We don't want to get calmed up. But
it was all scheme. And then the guy took it
to the house. And to watch a three hundred pound
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man run that fast as that's remarkable to anyway. The
point is Seahawks fans should be encouraged because the offense
still hasn't hit its stride, I don't think. And Kenneth
Walker has been a little banged up yesterday and the
offense hits its stride. The defense is good now and
they're they're as good as anybody in the in the division.
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Forty nine ers have fallen off rams are coming along.
They're kind of that's going to be a massive game.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Yeah, at the year, I think the seas can not
just make the playoffs, but you know, do something in
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (48:02):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
All right, there we go.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Do you have a little nugget for us for our
game on Sunday in Philadelphia? Anything should just really get
us going, get us Okay, yeah, I'll Herery come downy.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
I mean, I've just started delving into this, so this
isn't her shattwing.
Speaker 4 (48:19):
But the Eagles got a nine game winning streak going
and during that time, Jalen Hurts has twenty three touchdowns
passing and rushing and only two turnovers.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
So the guy.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
Maybe their pass offense isn't light in the world on fire,
but they're still getting it done. Twenty three to two,
it's pretty darn good. But the interesting matchup in the
game is that in that span since I think Week six,
the Steelers have twenty takeaways their defense, which is the
second most in the league, and the Eagles have three turnovers.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
So something. Yeah, I'm all horned up over here. That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
It's crazy. Well, I know, what.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
About Christians game on Thursday? What do you have for us?
Speaker 3 (49:06):
Uh? Forty nine Ers rams.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
Matthew Stafford since he's gotten his his receivers back, Coopa
Cooper Cup and Pooka Nkua. He has sixteen touchdowns and
three interceptions in that time. They're five and two and
they're rolling.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
Like we saw yesterday, that catch that Pooka had on
the sideline was being insane to have the Now it
was number eighty in your program, number one in your hearts,
you know, and a congressman.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
He's there for the people.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
But uh yeah, that was a ridiculous catch. So good
and is there like a happier person in life than
Pooka and Akua?
Speaker 4 (49:47):
This guy the soccer show Football's life so good, he's awesome.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Well, you're the thorn. We love you so much.
Speaker 4 (49:58):
I just basking the of EA and try to gravy
train off that as long as I can.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
Oh. Pretty happy Thanksgiving. We thank you for joining us.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (50:11):
I mean, you know, if you want to make it
a weekly segment, I wouldn't say no. Good, But look,
I have to clear my calendar.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
I'll have to get it sponsored by uh beat for something.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
My man can take down a stake like nobody's business.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
We can talk about how Michaels would love that.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Yeah, oh yeah, I love you.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
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The end of the Eras tour two years, two billion dollars.
But most importantly, the news that came out today, which
is why she is one of one, is giving out
over one hundred and seventy five million or whatever the
final number was of additional bonuses to her crew. Of course,
she made headlines when she donates food at the local
food banks. It's just she continues to impress me, just
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when you think she can't get more impressive in who
she is as a performer but also as a person.
Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Welcome everybody to the Calm Down Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh oh, are you okay?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I'm making notes, She's making notes. We're making notes fifteen.
I just wrote down it is three week of week
fifteen when I do my Thursday night Wow. San Francisco
forty nine Ers versus Los Angeles Rams a battle in
the NFC West.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But let's go back for a second.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We both had incredible Week fourteen matchups. I was in
Detroit for the Packers' Lions. You were working RAMS bills yesterday,
go gas like it was two years ago. Exactly. That's why,
like I want to I want to touch on your
game just because it happened yesterday. Incredible thinking about what
Josh Allen did in a losing effort. I know, but
(01:25):
I was so happy for you guys getting a game
like that because I feel like you guys have had blowouts, blowouts,
blowout City's sister. Yeah, terrible, it was great. I would
I love working games like that. Sorry, I almost had
a burp. I love working.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Games like that. But I also, you know, it's not like.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You're sitting back at home going holy shit, Like you're
sitting there on the sidelines, who's hurt, Who's okay?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Oh my god? Do I need? Am I doing a
postgame interview? What am I asking? What where are they on?
Third down?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So it's like you are a lot of different places
with all that. It was amazing. But yeah, back and
forth game and good for the Rams. I mean this
is uh, obviously the Bills. I've been having a great year,
but I was excited for Selfishly, It's always this is
totally selfish actually watching games where both teams win going
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into your matchup, because then the week is easier because you're.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Like, oh, they're in a better mood. They're not like disgruntled.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So both the Niners and the Rams winning yesterday sure
sets up a great matchup. And then this division obviously
being as close as it is, coming down to the wire,
the fact that it is going to be Week fifteen,
it'll come down to Seattle and the Rams, depending of
course on you know, that last game of the year
for that division. But anyways, yeah, excited about that one.
(02:42):
What else do we have? I had that that Lions
Packers game was so awesome. It lived up to all
of the hype. Of course going into that game. You know,
you forget just from the outside looking at if you're
not follow football closely, like that wasn't a battle for
the division. I mean the Minnesota Vikings or in the
middle of the Lions Vikings and then the Packers. But
(03:04):
just the winning I think the overall winning percentage of
that division it's like eight hundred or something. It's like,
never in history has a division been so good. But yeah,
that game was awesome, so much was made. We were
standing on the sideline at the very end of the game.
Of course, it was tied thirty one, thirty one with
a minute and a half left to play, And it
comes down to this fourth and inches play, Dan Campbell
(03:27):
decides to go for it. Up until that point, he
was three for four on calling and going for it
on fourth down and converting. So Fitz and I are
standing next to each other and he's like, there's no
He's like, yeah, they kick the field goal again, there's no,
there's no reason to go for it. And then all
of a sudden, you see Jared the football and come
back out and you're like, wait, he's going for it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
So I love it.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And then the next day all of these people, So
I'm gonna go on a ram for a second about
this because what I think is so wild is you're
not on that team, You're not in that locker room,
you're not in those teams. So if Dan Campbell wants
to go for it, and as Jared Goff told us
at the end of the game, Dan Campbell was kind
of bascillating, like should I go for it?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Should not go for it?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And then he decides to go for it, and Jared
Goff is like, let's fucking go kind of a thing
like this is our team, this is who we are,
Like we're all in one way or the other, but
all of these like individuals that I hear the next
day on all these different shows like this is so risky,
this is so, this is whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Who cares, that's his decision, that's his team. And guess what, Like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
If he wants, he's made those calls in the past,
and they've been him in the ass. If that's who
this guy is, if that's who this team is, then cool.
I just don't understand why everyone everyone has to have
an opinion on every little thing and it's like, well.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He should do it this way.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It's like, well, guess what if Dan Campbell wants to
paint his house fucking purple, then he can paint his
house purple and deal with the neighbors later.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Like that's his decision to go for it, and his
team is all for him.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And if I'm in that locker room, I am riding
with somebody like that, like we die together, we win together,
whatever did it, we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
So.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I just found it so annoying that everyone thinks that
they get to have opinions on situations that they're not
a part of. So and same thing with the Chiefs,
Like the Chiefs are now ten to zero in one
score games. They win last night they doing a field goal,
and it's like, oh, well, the Chiefs, they can't keep
winning like this. Guess what they can't they like last year,
Like they can't go on the road and win all
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these playoff games without home field advantage.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Guess what they did.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It's just I am like last time I checked the
who you know the winner of the Super Bowl from
nineteen sixty five? Did you keep track of how many
games they won by one score? How many points did
they go forward on fourth down? No? You keep track
of wins. In the words of Al Davis, just win baby.
So like, if you keep winning, who cares how you
do it? So for like both of those teams, Like,
(05:47):
I'm so overwatching shows where everyone wants to critique.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Like this shit. I'm like, they win and who cares? Yeah,
Grant it's no.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I think they're trying to fill time and commercial space
and all that.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Why.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
People are paid to debate it, and that's what they
do and that's what they sign up for. But it's
pretty amazing to watch. I was at kind of a
Christmas fireworks event last night, which was fun, and they
had the game on and people were like I'm so
sick of this. I'm so I was like, why this
was awesome of the Chiefs. Why because Patrick Mahomes is
fucking cool.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And like they win and they win different way, it's fun.
The NFL is fun.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
The same thing happened with the Patriots when they would win,
like so you know and like, oh, I'm so sick
of the Patriots winning, or like the Lakers in their
prime or the Seltics and their prime.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Like I'm so sick of it. I'm like, hey, guess what,
then somebody else be better? How about that?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Like somebody else you want to win the division nine
straight years?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Good for sucking you. Who cares how you win it?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You want to miss win it with doinked field goals
and blocked field goals whatever, cope. But yeah, I'm very
I can't believe it's already fifteen. We said this every
single week going back. If you were to listen some
of our podcasts in week three, it's like, oh my god,
this season so long and now here we are it's
going to be over in two seconds.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So season.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I literally marched across my face like it really has Wow,
I'm so tired.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I just look so tired. I looked at myself today in.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
The mirror plates and I went, whoa hell, I need
a good night sleep. We talked about this on a
pregame show. I just tis this season. It's December ninth
as we're taping this right now. I have so much
to do as we get except for Christmas. I was
so excited to sleep in my own bad last night,
not have to get on a plane. I might as
well have gotten on a six am flight. That's how
much sleep I got. I just woke up at random
(07:41):
times like shit, did I get this person something? Did
I do this? I need to tie this end. I
need to finish this up. It was like, girl, rest
your brain.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Enough, Yeah, you do need to do that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But I feel the same way I was saying on
a pregame that I felt like I had a great
jump start to Christmas. I was ordering things early, I
was getting stuff. Now I'm way reading for all of
these things to get here, and I'm tracking every single
day because I can't send the packages out. But here's
my thing. And I would love the viewers, the viewers
and the listeners input on this where it's like I
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think in my head, I have a good list of
people that I know I need to get stuff for right,
just based off of like, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
The friend group, the work group, whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
But there's always those randoms that you don't think are
going to come in with a gift, and then all
of a sudden you're standing there and they hand over
the gift. You're like, oh my god, yeah, yours in
the car. I'll go run and grab that later. Or
yours is at home, Oh my god, I'll get No,
it's not at home, and it's not in the car
because I didn't get you a gift because I didn't think.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
We did gifts. But now you're a new doing gift.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
We're doing gifts, and so Steve it's mad and he's like,
you're always buying gifts for people that you don't even
know are going to buy gifts for you. I'm like,
cause I'm so paranoid that if I don't have the
gift then I'll feel terrible. So I would rather have
a bunch of August Sary gifts for sure. I would
rather have a bunch of auxillary gifts and some last
second cards where I can quickly write, because there's nothing
(09:04):
worse than standing there and being like, oh, I didn't
get you anything terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
So that's where I'm at right now.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Shopping gifts additional pressure to put on yourself as well,
like I'll tell you crazy. Oh, I'll tell you I
don't want not to get into my headspace for tonight.
Oh God, just grab grab like five or six extra
little bags of like goodies or something. Hey, what's what's
the bag of goodies? What's the bag like a lip gloss?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Like?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Think of you got to have auxiliary for guys and
for gals. Okay, you got to have the wine. God,
you've got crazy extra.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You got to do it.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Okay, Well, then you know, look I'll buy some what
are you putting these in like a little gift bag?
And then just have a backup card already in there,
because by the way, people are onto you if you
don't have the card filled out and you just hand
them over the gift and there's no card, they're like, oh,
I'm an auxiliary gift person. You don't care about me
enough to have a card. But if you have the
card in there, you've bought yourself sometime and another friendship.
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I also one always have the backup wine. Yeah, that's
an easy one. What's your price range? And what backup
wine do you have? You got to go thirty five
to sixty five on the auxiliary gift.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Oh my god, I have more anxiety. No, I didn't
mean to add this to you.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
We're gonna have more anxiety if somebody hands over a
gift and you don't have one for them.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Plus I gotta have some card waiting. Yeah, you always
have to have the card in the what's your excuse?
You're like, hey, one second, let me run upstairs. That's
exactly what I did.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
What about if the inkstill is like what, well, that's
what you doing that? How about when the you're recycling
the gift bag and your name it was like to
Carissa love mom, and it was like shit, I forgot
to pull that off. And then you pulled like part
of the bag off and then there's like a whole
part of the missing. Yeah, that's why you gotta be
prepared gooby gun or something. But I'll tell you who's
(10:48):
not prepared. And this is where I said to him.
I was like, men don't think about this stuff. Men
don't think about Hey, you know what, the dog walker
needs a gift because she takes her dogs.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Out every single day. Why I'm not sleeping.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
We have the luxury of having a house cleaner. The
house cleaner needs a gift. And then they're like, well,
we pay them. We don't have to buy them a gift.
We paid them, And I'm like, I don't care. Guess
what I get paid from my employer. But sometimes they
also give us a gift. So you can't apply that
principle at all. Okay, so men, don't think about it.
Steve hasn't done one fucking gift shop. You think he's
(11:21):
stressed out. He's not losing any sleep at night. Oh,
Jared's not losing any sleep. In fact, he's still snoring
away and I'm using all the sleep.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I want to know what I did last night?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Picked up the phone, turned the baby monitor on louder
because Mac has a sound machine in his room so
we hear it.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
He turned it up where it's basically.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Like like the winds are crashing into the house.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The fucking phone down.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And the next morning he's like, Babe, I'm so sorry.
I'm always have a scoring issue.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I feel like he has.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
But it's gotten worse. We did go get looked at.
They did say do you have a couple of cracks
in your nose. You have a deviated septum. You definitely
broke your nose a couple of times. We should get
this fixed. And this sweet guy last night, we're going
to bed and I'm so tired, and he's like, hey,
just a heads up. I did book an appointment for
surgery on my nose. And I said, whoa, Like, we're
(12:18):
not doing a pointments dentist appointment and book surgery exactly.
I was like, am I home? Will I be able
to pick you up? We need to find out more
information about this surgery. What's the recovery time? But he
is so frightened about me killing him in the middle.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
About that too. Yeah, yeah, this has been going a
little bit. Yeah, it's time. I don't appreciate.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Have we thought about, like maybe a sleep apnea machine
or something? Oh we failed test. We have a deviated septum.
Can I say septim one more time?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Septic tank?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Because he's yeah, so apparently. Yeah, it's just getting worse
and worse and worse, and so is my adague.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Dude, it's okay, it's okay, you're allowed to have that.
We'll get through it. So everybody is like, did you
love a home game? Loved it so great?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You we can get through it together. Don't worry about
I just need you to be able to get some sleep.
That's the thing I told you about. And I don't
know if anybody else of their significant other snores.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Steve used to that, We've talked about it before.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
He has this tape that he puts over his mouth.
It's called hostage tape, which is an inane title. He
looks insane, but guess what, he does not wake me
up in the middle of the night anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So come three or four a m.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
The hostage tape is coming off like we're a loud
breather man, and he's like in the morning, he's like,
I'm sorry it fell off. Oh yeah, well maybe we've
got to double up on the old the tape. I
don't know what to tell you. By the way, go
grab some duct tape. So we need to get my
gals some sleep immediately, all right. But other than that,
(13:59):
you are headed to Philadelphia. Yeah this week for I'm
really really excited for your game. You've got the Eagles
and the Steelers. And for Russell Wilson Man, there was
not a time long ago where it was like, oh god,
Justin Fields or Russell Wilson and he has this team
playing exceptional.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
So good for you, young man, and the guy who
made that decision, Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I get to do a sit down with him, and
I am so excited by the way those glasses, those
aviator glasses, that guy and when he I don't know
if he swag is so sick, so great, that's very exciting.
I love that for you and the Eagles playing great football,
Steelers playing great football. This is a great week fifteen matchups, sister,
(14:45):
and I'm excited for your game too. Look, I know
that San Francisco has their injuries.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Holy crap.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I just saw their third string running back is now
like banging up as well. But like Shanahan gets his
guys to play, it's a big ival read between those two.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
It's all on the line for the Rams. So I
think it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And I gotta tell you Sofi Stadium, that's our place.
The tunes, the Jams, they love the Calm Down podcast
or not so Fi. Excuse me to le Lee VI Stadium.
They love Calm Down podcast. There they play our clip
all the time over the loud speaker that yes they
do not ye. Yeah, like the tunes, the jams Levi Stadium.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
The in game.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Experience at Levi is so much fun. And like I said,
their DJ is freaking awesome. You're gonna be jamming out
Pump Bump, eat it, eat it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I'll tell you what I love. I love a West
Coast game. We had a lot of East Coast games
this year, so we're back to back West Coast, which
is great. Yeah, it's week four. Well, Jesus Week fifteen.
Every game matters, you know what else matters? Because I
know that the Calm Down community all has an affinity
(15:58):
for Miss Taylor Swift. Yeah, I need to give a moment,
take a moment, take a moment of silence for our girl.
The end of the Eras tour two years, two billion dollars,
But most importantly, the news that came out today, which
is why she is one of one, is giving out
over one hundred and seventy five million or whatever the
(16:18):
final number was of additional bonuses to her crew. Of course,
she made headlines when she donates food at the local
food banks. It's just she continues to impress me. Just
when you think you can. She can't get more impressive
in who she is as a you know, performer, but
also as a person giving out additional bonuses for her crew.
I just take a lesson everybody out there. I don't
(16:39):
care if you have five dollars to give people that
help you or you know, fifty million. It's like, just
take care of the people around you. And I love
her for that, and kudos to her because, you know,
we talk all the time about you know, jobs are demanding,
and your traveling and your this and that. I remember
when we went to the one in June and then
thinking about her performing night after night, like we were
(17:01):
tired after one night and we weren't performing. So what
she's done for two years is incredible. And the fact
that she's got on a plane after performing in Tokyo
flew all the way to Las Vegas for her boyfriend's
game in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Like, I just love her.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
She's just great and Bravo's sister on a job well
done on the Era's Tour tour.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I loved I have.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
My sister is a dancer. My sister did some professional dancing,
and we always we know a lot of people in
the industry and one thing I've kind of always learned
through my sister is when artists take care of their
dancers and they have such a great relationship with their dancers,
that's really cool. My sister always kind of tells me
stories about who does who's great. Like Ken told me
(17:49):
when the Celine Dion traveling tour, not not her residency,
but the tour, her dancers were obsessed with her and
she always took care of her dancers, And I think
that's so cool when people are tight with them. You
could tell from the clips last night, like as they
were all walking off and hugging her, I mean they Yeah.
My sister was like, oh my god, this breaks me
(18:09):
up because, like you can just tell she loves them
so much. That's a lot of time with those people.
They're away from.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Their family, but they're also living their dream because of her.
It was really cool.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I love seeing all that last night off them just
hugging her and thanking her.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It was really really special. She's amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I hope she gets the time off that she deserves
she enjoys the rest of the football season with her. Man.
I was kind of waiting to see if there was footage.
I was trying to do the math. Okay, can he
get on a plane from Kansas City and go meet.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Her out like at her celebration?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But I know that that's a long flight, and obviously
he just played an amazing game himself. But yeah, go
enjoy your man, girl, Go enjoy the rest of this
amazing football season. And if you ever want to get
a drink or hang out, we know two good hangs.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I promised to be super normal. She will, She should
be on her best.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Actually, you know where you know we're not going to
be going We're not going to be going to karaoke,
But you, my dear, have put it out there in
the universe that you are great at karaoke. And it
has been brought to my attention by some members on
your crew that you are not just thinking you're.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Good because of a few cocktails.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Kevin Burkhart, Grossy Casey, and Jason Bob Ak Bob have
taken it to the streets and take an act. In fact,
I believe that we have one of those members joining
us here on the podcast today.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, very excited about it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Jason Thornberry are statistician on our NFL on Fox crew.
He's been with the company what he say for about
twenty years, so that's super exciting. We'll give you guys
a little bit of a look of what his job
is like. Watching a shot of Micah Parson's rolling in
right now to at and T Stadium. I think that's
a white tuxedo. God, he's great. I like Michael. A
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lot of people I know have thoughts about him. And
ooh they have the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders starting up. I
love them. I know a lot of people like you know.
Mike has even said I've heard a lot of people
say some things, but I love a guy that speaks
his mine.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It's great. I enjoy him. I like authenticity.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I like people who don't apologize for who they are,
and that's whether the you like them or not.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I like consistency.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I like people that just you know, like what you
see is what you're gonna get. This is not the
segue into the story, but today because I'm very decisive
in my life, Like today when I was shopping, I
when I'm in I know exactly what you're the person
(20:46):
the sales associate was like, wow, you know exactly what
you want? I'm like, sure, do I'm this I'm this,
I'm this, I'm this. I'm a person who has purchased
homes and never even went and looked at them. I
got an inspection, I saw them online. And whatever I
purchase cars, I don't even go and test drive it.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I just know what I want.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
We all know what I've done in marriages, so it
doesn't always work out, but I am very decisive.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Today.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I was sitting there getting something quickly to eat before
we jumped on here, and I was at a restaurant
and I was like, I got twenty minutes. We got
to get the order in, we got to pay, we
got to eat, We're in, we're out. So the woman
she drops off the menu. I go, oh, you don't
even need to go anywhere. I was like, I'm got this, this, this.
She's like, okay, fine. So I'm waiting for the food,
and there's these gals that sit down next to me,
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nice enough group.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
There's like three or four of them.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
From the time that I put my order into the
time that I left, it was probably maybe twenty two minutes.
If I was to clock this thing, twenty two minutes,
and this group next to me couldn't even figure out
their order.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
They were going back and forth and well do I
want this? Do I want that? Look into the mind,
Well what are you going to get? What are you
gonna get?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
By the time I left, I want to be like, look, bitch,
you're gonna have that. You're gonna have that. You're gonna
have that, You're gonna have that. It is wild to
me you are going to waste twenty two minutes of
your life deciding what you're going to order to eat, Like,
let's go, don't you have things to do? Or there
are some times I feel like we've been out and
we've been talking so much, they're like, do you have
(22:12):
you had time to look at the menu?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Not?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
That's different, That is that is different. That's because we're talking.
We're catching up, so we haven't even looked at the menu.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Babe.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
This was twenty two minutes of looking at the menu. Okay,
we're flipping it. We're going back and forth. The waitress,
this poor waitress brought over three times answering questions, does
this have chicken in it?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Does this?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Is this vegan? Is this?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I'm like, oh my god, this poor waitress has already
earned her money and she hasn't even taken their order yet.
But he just was sitting there and I was like,
I can't imagine being that indecisive in my life. Imagine
their husbands. He's like, Jesus, what are what are we
going to do?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Let's get on with it.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And maybe that works for some people, and maybe some
people think about me and they're like, Okay, just relaxed, lady,
take a beat. But I can't imagine. We're moving, we're shaking,
we're doing things.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
We got it ordered.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
This is not a decision on what you're going to
name your child. This is lunch. Yeah, these are I'm
trying to think of a catchy thing to call these,
like calm down, like observations or something that's what you
saw in the streets today. I'm going to tell you
what I saw in the streets today. Container store lady
wants to return something. The woman and I'm holding like
(23:21):
seven things trying to I'm like, I'm balancing.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I'm like, ask, you.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Haven't got the car because you thought you were just
coming into one eye.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Things are falling.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I got ten seconds to get in and out make
pilates this woman. The woman at the register goes, okay,
so you want credit what do you want for this?
She's like, i'd like credit for this. She goes, yeah,
you bought this in June. I could give you store credit.
And she's like, yeah, i'll take that. So the lady goes,
can I get your license please? And she goes why
and she goes because the store credit. Like at this point,
(23:52):
just just do what. She says, like, I'll hold in
seven things. She's like, well, I don't want to give
it to you. And then the lady's like, then I
can't give you the store credit. It's to be under
your name. I don't know, Like, we're only keeping the
information here. What do you want like a stowaway? You're
not supposed to be here? Like, why can't you give
you license information? See?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I'm with see, I'm with the woman though on the
license we.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Don't bring your ship back from June, and the cashiers
wouldn't of course you My shit's in the back.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I don't even where went.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
So the lady goes, I shouldn't even be giving you
credit anyways, but I'm doing this. So then she's like fine.
She goes through all this, the lady gets the credit,
she doesn't even say thank you. So then I'm next,
and the ladies like, have a nice day. I walk
up and I go on, behalf of her. I'll say
thank you, and she goes. This is how I look
at it. That was five minutes of my time. I
don't have to go home. Door was like right, I
(24:42):
like her, Yeah, that's really good. Yeah, I'm not you
don't have to be rude to the person. But I'm
also not at you know, these starts getting real cocky
with this information. You know how I feel about the email.
Enough with the email, the phone number, the freaking social
security number, the driver's license. You know, it's the container short.
We're not stealing plastic containers, Okay, the bins do not
need my driver's life finger printing me. Yeah, I don't
know about that, but whatever. I also understand. It's like,
(25:04):
well this is the policy. Okay, well the policy needs
to change. But I'm with you. If you don't want
to if you don't want to give up a license
and you're not going to get the credit, this is
very simple. This is the way we do things. Either
doing this way or you keep it moving. But yeah,
I just I just left there and I was like,
oh my god, these women good for you if you
have that much time on your hands. And that's not
to say like, oh I'm so busy, it's just more
(25:24):
of like that much time going over menu, big menu. Look,
I've worked at the cheesecake factory. You can only imagine
to say. I ever, you've been doubted some of those
people when they're going there with that book and they're
on page fourteen. I was like, look, I got to
turn tables. I gotta make money. You want me to
help you here? What are you looking for? You looking
for chicken, you're looking for seafood, You looking for steak,
(25:44):
you want a salad?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Salads? Page four let's rip it? Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I can't have you as a two top or take
it up actually at the eight top, taking up forty
five minutes of my session. Now you got to turn
and burn.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Speaking of the.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Order at cheesecake, I'd always go for the mars and
that would rip Guess what? It was so good, the
bow type hostas so buttery.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
They took the Marsala off the menu. Well yeah, because
it was probably ripping people up. Stop sacking ripping people?
I should Can you believe that?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And what is that with the most popular items get
taken off. It's like my favorite lipliner for mac or
whatever it is. You know at the time where it's like, oh,
we've just continued that my favorite bronzer. She now has
this bronzer which I pay way too much goddamn money
for Crewe. No, not the cream I wanted the it's
a powder. I can't always be with the creams. I
(26:37):
get it's a more dewey look, but sometimes I need
a mat. I don't want to be glowing in the door.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Okay, bring it down. It's like, oh, she's sweating.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Is no, that's just she, not she and they got
rid of and they had it was the nice big
mirror because you know, sometimes when you're in those small compacts,
I can't really see what's going on. Then you get
into a full length mir and you're like god damn,
like can we run the next So that big mirror
really gave me the estate that I needed to see
a full frontal discontinued it. What is with discontinuing the
(27:06):
best items? They're the best items. Keep them moving. Hey, guys,
I had that with my eyeliner. I don't like it.
I don't appreciate it. Yeah, what I like he was
Chanelle too. They discontinued it. I don't understand. Can somebody
from Corporate America way in here? Why are we discontinuing
the best items?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Not sure? Hey, you have a child, you have to
fly on an airplane? Wayne a child?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I sent you and are wonderful producer Ryan and Kurt
this story today there was and I really hope this
is here's the problem with AI and all this other stuff.
I really want this story to be true. I mean
it shows a picture of the little cute. No, here's
the deal. A mom is on a plane a ten
hour flight from Soul, Korea to San Francisco. A mother
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handed out more than two hundred goodie bags with candy
earplugs in case her four month old child cried during
the fl and even included a note that said, Hello,
I'm John Wiu and I'm four months old.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
She's writing it like she's the baby. Today.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I'm going to the US with my mom and my
grandma to see my aunt. I'm a little nervous and
scared because it's my first flight in life, which means
I may cry or make too much noise. I will
try to go quietly, though I can't make any promises.
Please excuse me. So my mom prepared little goodie bags
for you. It has some candies and ear plugs. Please
use it when it's too noisy because of me.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Enjoy your trip. Hi, n I can't even handle that.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Like that is the sweetest talk about me thinking I'm
I'm getting cocky with my auxiliary gifts back here, two
hundred gift bags of can't anxiety when she was getting
ready for this trip and now I got to make
candy bags and how many sweetest thing I ever did see?
And by the way, like a ten hour flight with
a baby, and to think like how she could when
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a natural thing for a baby is to cry. She's
thinking about other people's reaction.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I really hope on that flight no one gave her
one look, one whatever, And I hope that everyone was
nice to her, because that is just so sweet. I
can't take it. It's so sweet, it's so thoughtful. It's
also we thought Dan Campbell really you know, like went
for it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
She really went for it with that ten hour flight. Wow,
this is going forward.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I can.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
With my eighteen month old a ten hour flight with
a four month old.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You go, girl, I see how you good for you?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Oh my god, wow, speaking of children, you you take
Mac to a little gym. You sent Steve and I
a video the other day. You would think that Steve's
the father because he was so concerned about Max's head
in the video when he's rolling the back flip. Everything
is safe, everything is monitored, and Steve goes, I don't
know if he should be doing that. I go, well,
(29:52):
his parents sent us the video and they're fine with it.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So one thing I'm so thankful.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
For with are our child care is that they are doers.
He is not sitting around in a little squared off area.
They are out. Mac is busy. People want to come
see him. He doesn't have time. He's out, he's socializing.
He's doing a lot of adventures, which is what one
of our nanny says, which is so frickin' night nice.
(30:21):
So one of the adventures I was home for because
we had a home game this week and I decided
I want to go. I want to go with Mackie
to this gym. Be a part of it. See how
it goes well. It was so nerve wracking and so stressful.
There weren't a lot of children in the class. I
don't know where all the children were, but they weren't there,
and it was me and another mom and a little
(30:43):
girl and so yeah, Max, I wouldn't say his it's
like me right now. His not his patients. His attention,
well attention ladies and gentlemen. His attention wasn't all there,
and like it was really highly skilled, like stuff, We're
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gonna go up and over here and then up on
top of here and then jump here and then leap here.
And I'm like, what happens after we get off the thing?
And it's like Mac is trying to do it. He's
off over here.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
So I'm like trying not to be the nagging mom
where I'm like no, no.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
No, this way, this way, this way, but it's like
we got to follow, and then you know, the instructor
is over with this kid.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
So I'm like, am I supposed to go on this trampoline? Anyways?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Jarrett would have hated it. It's so stressful. I'm trying
to get the kid. All the kid wants to do
is go over on the mat and run. So I
was like, you know what, there's nobody here in this gym.
I'm just gonna go with my kid onto this mat
because he doesn't want to come over here, and he's
gonna start screaming. So we start running around the mat.
He's screaming and so much fun. I start screaming and
so much fun. He picks up a scarf and like
(31:49):
throws it in the air. I pick up a scarf
and throw it in the air.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I'm like, this is great. We got reprimanded. Oh no,
you're not allowed to get creative liberties in the class.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
And I ended understand where they're coming from. We got
told you need to stay with your group. I understand
they're probably concerned if we fell then it could be
somebody got to the specifics. What did she say, ma'am, Eric,
excuse me, ma'am, you have to stay with your group. No,
my group was right there.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
What did you do when she said that?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I couldn't apologize enough. In fact, after I apologized twenty times,
it went back over and said, listen, I'm not a
war breaker at all, but like I kind of figured
he needed to blow off some steam here, and he
wasn't really following the direction, so that's all made fine.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I felt terrible. I looked at our nanny and I.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Was like, I'm never going there again. I can't ever
go back. I can't ever show face there again. My
armpits were sweating. It was such an ordeal. I made
it worse than I needed to. But anyways, it was
so stressful, and my kid didn't want.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
To do all this shit.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
He just wanted to run and I was so excited
because I was running after him. And you're paying to
get reprimanded. You're getting into your public class.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I know.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
But you know what you did the right thing, okay,
and look you apologize to the person your kid had fun.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Everyone wins. Jared would have.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Been, we have to get out of here. We have
to get out of here, right, I'm like driving away
like this, but it was like, how great is that place?
I'm like, I can never go back. Look for you
think you would have think you would have thought, I like,
knock something over, it broke, it spilled. No, we just
were on the floor routine, putting on a floor routine, and.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
We were told to go back with our group. Score
ten for you. You're a great mom. Look at you.
You knew what your child did. Because all stressful.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
So is Christmas shopping, so is all of it. But
you know what, we have each other.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
We got this. I need you to get a good
night's sleep because I feel better. Go in the other room.
You're fine and I love you.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us on the
Calm Down Podcast. In a moment, though, we're not done
because we teased it. The big moment where we find
out is Aaron a good karaoke singer or not? Hey,
before we do that, sorry to break this up. I
do want to give a shout out to My Cause
My Cleats. I did one we introduced you guys. It
(34:15):
was actually when we were at Top Golf doing our
show there. My girlfriend Jackie brought my attention to this
Jackie Quick of a little girl who's actually she just
turned eleven, named Claire.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
She is a sideline reporter for peewee football.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
She has been through it literally a poster child for
Boston Children's Hospital, and I had the opportunity to kind
of honor her with My Cause My Cleats.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
They are up for auction.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
The money goes to Boston Children's Hospital and they have
done an amazing job with Claire. She has an uphill
battle coming her way. I think next week and I
know she's going to kick the tail out of it,
and I know her parents have been through it. So
you guys check out my cleats on my ig page. Also,
(35:02):
there's a link, like I said in my bio, if
you want to bid on them. She is such a
little cutie pie. I know her mom sent me a
picture of her watching her game yesterday. And I love
that the NFL lets guys do that. It's solwity to
see what their causes are. It is Claire, We love you,
We are duting for you always, and make sure you
guys check out like Aaron said her page, and Claire
(35:23):
thinking of you in the next week. You got this girl,
You got it bag. I am so excited to have.
I have multiple work husbands, as you do, Chrissa.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
This is one of them.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Kevin Burkhardt self proclaim self proclaimed work husband Jason Thornberry
from the NFL on Fox A Crew statistician.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
How many years have you held that job, my friend.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
With the A crew.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
I think this is a six year, but I've been
at Fox for twenty now, twenty one something like that.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Wow, what would you start with?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Well, my very very first thing was doing just scoring
baseball games on the studio show, so they'd have guys
come in keep scoring, so everybody knew what was going on.
And that's what I did. My friend Brian Biederman said, Hey,
you want to come in on a Saturday and score
some games? And I said yeah. And he's now a
big director at Fox. He doesn't call him. The one
(36:27):
thing led to another, and here I am today getting
to work with fabulous.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
I love that Berkhart, Tom Brady, Tom Rinaldi, they the
name a few.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yeah, they're good.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
So last week on our podcast, have you guys met before?
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we were in passing. I don't get
the privilege of being on the road with you guys.
Wish I wish in an alternate universe we could like
all be together. We had the preseason game, which was
fun but still not enough time. But yeah, Aaron of
course loves you guys so much, and I'm so glad
has all of you.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
And so last week I was telling Chris all about
our experience in the karaoke I was gonna say karaoke room,
but really it was our meeting room at our hotel.
We after our Thanksgiving dinner, decided let's bust out the
karaoke machine.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I was a little timid to start it.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Jason, who we all lovingly call Thorn on our crew,
went right after it, went right after it.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
He was the master of ceremonies.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Then I started feeling comfortable, started feeling really comfortable with myself,
felt like I was doing the backup singing, backup dancing,
sometimes doing it on my own. In our conversation in
our podcast last week, Chrisa said, I she laughed at
me and said, I don't know if I believe you that. Okay,
go ahead, explain yourself. I was surprised Jason that she
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said that she was a good singer. Aaron and I
have been friends for fifteen twenty years, and I didn't
know this about her. So I simply said, who else
thinks you're a good singer? And she said, I will
get some guys from the crew to co operate this,
you know, self proclaimed I'm a great singer situation, So
(38:08):
here you are. I just wanted to make sure that
it wasn't, you know, a few glasses of wine that
made her believe and have false confidence, because look, no
one is a bigger fan of a karaoke night than
I am.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
So what was her strength?
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Well, her strength was the dancing. I said, Oh, if
you're doing karaoke, you're gonna need a dancer. You gotta
call Aaron Andrews.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
I mean she never stopped stop. It was like, you know,
regular dancing. But then she throws some drill team cheerleading
moves into it, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Stuff like that Dazzler days.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Yeah, and then a random leid kick here and there.
It was great. It was great.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
That's when I pee myself. Actually, yeah, there was.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
One part where I think her family called, her husband called.
She took it out in the in the hallway, but
then she heard us song she came running back in dancing.
So the singing part of it, she was a little
timid on the singing, and she would like bring me
up there to do Tracy Chapman with her. And then
(39:16):
you know, I was like, you're good, you can do this,
you got it. And then she would belt out the
tomb and then we did I think we did Madonna together.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Uh what was that all the night with.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Like a prayer?
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I thought that was a great way to send everyone home.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
I kind of started, but then I handed it off
to her and she she belt it out the tunes.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
She went a few others too. She was good. She
was good.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
No one's good. Just carry o first of all. Oh,
and well, I'm just saying like the bar isn't exactly.
I'm not trying out for Broadway, okay. And I like
to go out, have a good time and seeing a few,
uh you know, television hits of the seventies and eighties,
and throw in a few more stuff and call it
a night.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
But she was good, she was she was good, Thorn.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
I'm missing the a whole intro to how you began
karaoke that night. I had told you, after many cocktails
that I really, really, really badly want to do Saturday
Night Live. You had said, if you do it, would
you please think about doing this as a skit hit it.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Well, I've always had the idea that if I was
ever on Saturday Night Live, I was singing television theme
songs from the seventies and eighties as like a lounge singer,
you know, a cigarette dangling out of my mouth.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
And then it dawned on me. I'm sitting there in
this room there.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
We got a microphone, we got an amplifier, so I
just went and no one's singing. So I went up,
I grabbed it, flipped it on, and started belting out
the you know now the world don't move to the
beat ad just one drone, So I started belting those
out nuh. Then I got everybody into it, and then
all of a sudden we were doing karaoke all night long.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
It was great, amazing. Mine would be the full house
theme song.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I think they go everywhere there's a place of some Oh,
I can only be seventies and eighties. It was a
very sif.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
My range, Jefferson's and facts love.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
It brings great joy to me to know that Aaron,
amongst her many skills, can now add in her arsenal
karaoke singer and not only cooperated by you, but also
by Grossy, by Casey, and by Kevin Burkhardt. So I
stand corrected, Aaron, you have a wonderful voice, and I
cannot wait to get on the mic with you. Our
next time that we have an opportunity will to be probably.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
The super Bowl, So watch out in New Orleans. That'll
be dream.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Heyd's just a little more confidence.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I need a lot of false content, so I'm happy
to give her some thorn give all our listeners who
are massive football fans, A lot of them are just.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Look into a peek into your wheat.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
How you are prepared preparing for our massive Steelers Eagles
showdown this weekend, big.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Show it on? How do I prepare well? On Mondays?
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Usually I usually watch our game that we just did,
and then I watched the games the two teams we have,
make some notes, and then on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays,
I start making my notes. For matt Yale, our broadcast associate.
He and I kind of do well. He and I
the whole graphics team make these graphics for the games,
(42:28):
put pop the on air, and everybody says, wow, that's
a good note.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
So during the week you gotta prepare and get ready
for it.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
So I sent them a bunch of notes during the week,
and we pre build a bunch of graphics and then
hopefully during the game we get some of those on.
Then we react to the game during the game and
make graphics on the fly. But that's generally it. So
by Thursday, I've sent them my notes. Friday fly out
to our game Saturday night, hopefully I'm doing karaoke.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
We'll be in Philly.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
We'll be at that great restaurant, probably with our our
top by and in our pants un done. But that's
because of the food so great, not because of any
other reason, So don't get crazy. Wait, Thorn, what was
your favorite scat or graphic that was on television yesterday
from our Amazing Bills Rams game? Did you have one
that you were like? Because you're in the truck and
(43:16):
you are feeding things too, either our producer director, are
you feeding things.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
To Kevin and tell them sometimes I'm texting you.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Yeah, well, I usually come up with something or one
of the guys in the truck, Elvis the Fox Box operator,
he's part of it too. Mike Eldrid shout out the
knuckleheads of Michigan City, Indiana his bar, and then Jacksicato
he's there too, doing stats on the staff. So we're
all kind of, you know, thinking of the same same things.
And uh, I guess the I don't know if it's
(43:45):
the best one, but the one that sticks out was
Josh Allen. He had three rushing touchdowns with three passing
touchdowns and he was the first guy in the NFL
history to do that in the regular season. But I
wish we didn't have time. It's very you have to
be very quick, right, So I would like to have
put that Otto Graham did it in the playoffs. Who
But if you look at the note on the screen,
(44:07):
it said regular season on the top. That's because it
was actually done once in the postseason by Ito Graham
way back when in like nineteen fifty four or something.
That would have been cool to have on there, but
you have to be very quick, and so we didn't have.
Really I was like, just just put it up there
like that. It was fine, it was accurate, It was
a great note, and our producer richie's ion Z liked it.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Put it in and away we go.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
As you know, Aaron and I get very excited for stats,
like we're such like in the best way, like we
just like love a good stat. The fact that Josh,
the Rams haven't beat the Bills at home since nineteen
eighty three, that was a stat that stood out to me.
I was like, I'm I was born in eighty two,
I'm old as shit, Like this has been a long
time since the Rams have been the Bills at home.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
They don't play that often, but it's only been five
five games. But still nineteen eighty three. So that was
one of the walkoff notes we had if if the
Rams won. But you know, we had another one too,
and there's not a lot of time and it didn't
get on.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
But what was the other one?
Speaker 3 (45:06):
I was the one that got on that I forget
there whatever. There.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
It was the first time all year they've had a
winning record, the Rams. They started off slow, they've chipped away,
chipped away. Now they have a winning record, so they're happy.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
The last one because Josh Allen is the fact that
he did all that in a losing effort is just
tells you how crazy that game was.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
But didn't the week before.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
That he had, for the first time ever receiving a
rushing and a passing touchdown like this, So back.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
To back weeks he's done things that are unheard of, basically.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:36):
And the other amazing thing about that game was that
you had all these points scored, there wasn't one turnover
or one sack. Right, it's amazing that a touchdown, but
it wasn't one turnover, one sack.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
So crazy, crazy game.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Okay, I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you. Since
I have you on here, I know you're a massive
Seahawks fan, right ish, Oh, there we go.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
Okay, the lookers to grab the mug. There we go.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
So I've got the Niners and the Rams for my
Thursday night matchup this week. And we were on a
call this morning talking about the NFC West race and
Suan was saying that he thinks.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
That Seattle will pull it out. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Give all of the Seahawks fans a reason to believe
that they will win the West given how tight it is.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
The reason to believe is their defense has gotten massively
better since they cashed out to I don't want to
rip anybody in your podcast, but they started the year
with two linebackers who are no longer with the team,
and they brought in Ernest Jones. They're starting this rookie
in the middle, and they've been awesome since then. And
I don't have to stay out the top of my fingers,
(46:44):
but they haven't done They haven't allowed too many points
since then. They had the big game against the Bills
that we did and they got killed, but that was
still with like one of the bad linebackers who's no
longer a team. But that move, and it's a massive
move in the middle of the season to cash out
your middle linebackerers and say we're gonna throw caution to
the win. But the defense was not good. Mike McDonald
(47:04):
he's known for defense, and he's the guy and hit
his schemes he's come up with and actually been pretty
amazing in sometimes a couple of games ago, when Leonard
Williams had the pick six, that was all scheme. I
won't go into it because you know it's the Calm
Down podcast. We don't want to get calmed up. But
it was all scheme. And then the guy took it
to the house. And to watch a three hundred pound
(47:26):
man run that fast as that's remarkable to anyway. The
point is Seahawks fans should be encouraged because the offense
still hasn't hit its stride, I don't think. And Kenneth
Walker has been a little banged up yesterday and the
offense hits its stride. The defense is good now and
they're they're as good as anybody in the in the division.
(47:49):
Forty nine ers have fallen off rams are coming along.
They're kind of that's going to be a massive game.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Yeah, at the year, I think the seas can not
just make the playoffs, but you know, do something in
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (48:02):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
All right, there we go.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Do you have a little nugget for us for our
game on Sunday in Philadelphia? Anything should just really get
us going, get us Okay, yeah, I'll Herery come downy.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
I mean, I've just started delving into this, so this
isn't her shattwing.
Speaker 4 (48:19):
But the Eagles got a nine game winning streak going
and during that time, Jalen Hurts has twenty three touchdowns
passing and rushing and only two turnovers.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
So the guy.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
Maybe their pass offense isn't light in the world on fire,
but they're still getting it done. Twenty three to two,
it's pretty darn good. But the interesting matchup in the
game is that in that span since I think Week six,
the Steelers have twenty takeaways their defense, which is the
second most in the league, and the Eagles have three turnovers.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
So something. Yeah, I'm all horned up over here. That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
It's crazy. Well, I know, what.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
About Christians game on Thursday? What do you have for us?
Speaker 3 (49:06):
Uh? Forty nine Ers rams.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
Matthew Stafford since he's gotten his his receivers back, Coopa
Cooper Cup and Pooka Nkua. He has sixteen touchdowns and
three interceptions in that time. They're five and two and
they're rolling.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
Like we saw yesterday, that catch that Pooka had on
the sideline was being insane to have the Now it
was number eighty in your program, number one in your hearts,
you know, and a congressman.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
He's there for the people.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
But uh yeah, that was a ridiculous catch. So good
and is there like a happier person in life than
Pooka and Akua?
Speaker 4 (49:47):
This guy the soccer show Football's life so good, he's awesome.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Well, you're the thorn. We love you so much.
Speaker 4 (49:58):
I just basking the of EA and try to gravy
train off that as long as I can.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
Oh. Pretty happy Thanksgiving. We thank you for joining us.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (50:11):
I mean, you know, if you want to make it
a weekly segment, I wouldn't say no. Good, But look,
I have to clear my calendar.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
I'll have to get it sponsored by uh beat for something.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
My man can take down a stake like nobody's business.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
We can talk about how Michaels would love that.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Yeah, oh yeah, I love you.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
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