January 2, 2025 • 39 mins
Back from the holiday break, Erin and Charissa won’t Calm Down because it was a busy week! Charissa wants to know if Erin is mad at her and also gives the backstory on why her and Steve “broke up” on Christmas Eve. Erin discusses Mack learning to ski and why she was shedding tears on a recent flight.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He's going to O'Hare and I'm going to Midway. Two
flights going to Chicago thirty minutes apart. I'm on one
that's now going to take off without me, and he's
on another. So guess where my bag's going one way
and his is going another. So now now I'm lost.
Now I'm like, what the fuck? Calm down with Erin
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and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio. I was so
annoyed in Minnesota this week. Hi everybody, and welcome to
the big Show. I hope everybody had a great holiday.
Great hotel in Minnesota. Four Seasons use the four Seasons app.
Even Kevin talked about it, how wonderful the app is.
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Don't have to talk to anyone, just text on the app.
But didn't get my girl on Fox in Mini and
I just felt so I love you lost And then
I tried to go to the app and I couldn't
get you on the app and like, oh, I know.
Well then, okay, I have a confession to make. Are
you ready? Yeah? This is this is what losers we
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are for me. I'll start out of four Seasons in Chicago.
Did you use the app? No? I didn't. I'm not
using the app. I mean, you're lucky. I'm even using
this app to be on riverside. I am not an
app girl, Okay, I like advertisers. I can't do the app.
The phone's overflowing with apps, Like I just want to
go it. No, I had. I didn't hear from you
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on our game. Did you think I was mad at you? Yeah,
because I didn't hear from you. No. I didn't hear
from you during our Thursday game and we always usually
tie for a game, or at least day after Christmas,
Day after Christmas, which, by the way, like it was
more of like, okay, well, holidays were busy. And then
I didn't hear from you in the show yesterday, and
then I was like and then I text you before
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your game, being like I can't wait to watch you.
I'm so excited for this game. And then you didn't
respond back, and I call you and I was like,
all right, well this is where we're at. Up. We're
breaking up again. We're breaking up. Before breaking up, you
almost broke up, like so much breaking up. We have
a lot. Now are we breaking out? We don't know, no,
do things We're going to run through on the Big
Show again. As Aaron mentioned, hope you guys had a
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great holiday and this will air after the New Year,
so happy New Year to all of our calm down crew.
We will go over the fact that Steve and I
almost broke up. Not really, it was a dramatic situation,
but I would love your guys' I'd love the calm
down communities feedback on said thing. I'll give you your
my feedback when you finally I'm like, leave me a
voice note, stop texting me, leave me a voice I
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ran next time I couldn't. She's like, we're breaking up.
I'm breaking up with him as we speak. It's Christmas Eve.
I'm like, what this is not what I want to hear.
And then of course, over on our end norovirus and
like no dive with the no really dramatic on our end,
Jared's like, well, I mean I'm inviting him to a
voice trip and I'm still going to invite him, like
I already got him like a next thing, like and
now you know the map, and like he's coming. And
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I was like, no, they're not breaking up, and if
they do break up, we've got to get them back together,
because like what the fuck, And so I love that
all of that turned into okay, so we'll explain that
Mac went sledding and went skiing for the first time,
and was this guy was very busy during the holidays,
and also we got to talk about all things NFL.
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As we enter into week eighteen, the playoff picture is
almost set. I'm just I'm so freaking excited. All right,
I can't believe we just finished week seventeen. That is
it is bananas. It is went by very I think
it's went by really fast. You don't you have that
that face makes me think that you don't think it's
went by. I do, and I don't. It's like there
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are some things that have been like a lot, but
then there's something that it's just been like, holy shit,
how are we in week seventeen? Like I laid down
this morning when I got finally in bed and I
said to Jared, that was just week seventeen, and he goes,
holy crap, right, and then another thing. Ryan didn't add
to the rundown, but I definitely want to talk about it.
I was on a flight to Washington for my Baltimore
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game before Christmas, and I got sucked into my seat
mates movie who I didn't know, and we had a
whole exchange about it and both started crying, and it
was a whole situation. So I want to talk about
that too. All right, let's do it. Let's jump right in.
So Christmas you were in you had time off finally,
so you were with the whole family Netflix amazing. I
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was in Chicago with Steve and the crew of Steve.
We went a couple days earlier, and then of course
the Thursday Night crew because we had a game on
the twenty six. Yeah, so Steve and I are like,
all right, we're gonna spend Christmas in Chicago, but let's
go a couple of days early because Chicago Christmas time great.
So work has booked my trip and Steve is using
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the miles whatever of my account. So he's I don't know,
I can't remember if I he must have he must
have booked it whatever it was. But we both so
we have a connection through Minneapolis. Okay, everything's going, everything's
going great, you know, because we started the day off
in the Delta one. Laud we are we are just
We've had our mimosas, we've had our eggs. Benedict that
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the smoke salmon, the bagel and locks. I mean, things
are going great. And I said to him, I don't
have to work tomorrow. I don't even have to work
the next day. So mama is going to have herself
a time. I'm going to enjoy all the cocktails and
for once, I'm not going to be worried about the travel.
You've got it right, like you take over. I just
want just tell me when we need to board, and
let's do it. He goes, I got you. So the
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first leg of the trip goes great. Now we're in Minnesota, correct, Okay,
So now Delta, how going to Chicago? Why are you connect?
Am Adelta loyalists? So I'm going to go on the
Delta flight that connects her Minneapolis because the only directs
were United or American Loyalists. Loyalists loyalists. Sure, so I
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said to say, I don't even care if I have
a connection. It's Delta, Delta Minneapolis. We get picked up
in the car, we get the whole, the whole royal treatment.
We are now in the second lounge. I'm going back
in those too mini lounge, you know the one, and
there's like a bunch of the chili. Yes, actually, I
normally I would not know that, but it was so
close to the gate. It was so funny. The guy
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picked us up and he goes, where's your gate? And
we look at it. We look down and he goes, actually,
it's right here, like he picked us up to go
like not even It was so funny but anyways, so nice,
great service, Delta, Delta, Delta, love you, Delta Gamma. So
back in the lounge cocktail cocktail, and I look at
him and I said, hey, like, I have no idea
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when we're supposed to be boarding, Like are you paying
attention to what's going on here? He goes, I got it,
like in the whole, Like, oh I got it, dismissive.
Way great, I'm gonna sit back enjoy this. All of
a sudden, I get a text on my phone from
the Delta representative, Miss Thompson. Your flight is boarding. We
don't see you on board again, great service. So I
hold it up to Steve if I go, uh, why
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is the flight boarding? And he did and he exactly
and he said, well, Bargo, according to my app, we
don't board for another forty five minutes. Point of the
story is he's going to O'Hare and I'm going to Midway.
Two flights going to Chicago thirty minutes apart. I'm on
one that's now going to take off without me, and
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he's on another. So guess where my bag's going one
way and his is going another. So now now I'm lost.
Now I'm like, what the fuck? I wanted one flight
where I didn't have to pay attention because normally, obviously
I'm flying by myself and I don't know being lucid.
So I'm like, I wanted one time where I could
just kick my heels up and relax. And now and
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so I'm like, I am motherfucking and I don't normally
did it. I didn't actually swear. Maybe I did once,
but I was like, are you kidding me? So I've
got it. I'm not going to make it on mine.
So now I got to get rebooked on his. Well,
now I'm going to land in Chicago and I don't
have any luggage. I don't have a dress for dinner
tonight tonight. So, needless to say, the thirty minutes between
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when we were gonna the boarding time, I said, leave
me alone. I want to be left alone. I went
to a restaurant hate by myself. I'm girl. No. It
was like a Minnesota centric restaurant. There was a Kirby
Pucket jersey hanging shout out Minnesota Twins, and it was
so bad. I'd been crying because I was now dramatic
after five cocktails and let yeah, right after five cocktails
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and I the waitress goes, are you okay? And I
was like, I'll be fine, thanks, Like just so dramatic
at this point. So now we get on the plane.
I'm not looking at him, I'm not talking to him.
I'm just texting Aaron. I'm breaking up with Steve. We
are breaking up. It's over. I'm like, did he cheat
on you? What happened? This is what she wrote. She
literally wrote, did he cheat? I go No, that I
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would understand, because that, by the way, first of all,
the way I'm acting, I would understand if you cheated. No.
I swear to God, if he ever cheats, that's it.
That's the end of us. That really is the end
of us. But I was so upset and so I
couldn't voice note. She's like, voice know me what is happening?
Because he's sitting right next to me, So I don't know. However,
many hours. It was later by the time I land
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in Chicago by myself because I have now gotten into
cab by myself, because I'm like, you have to go
to O'Hare and get our bags. So I check into
the hotel and the hotel is so nice. Okay, we
know it's so nice. Great too. They gave me like
a massive room, and all I could think of is good,
when he walks in here, he'll see this incredible room
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and he should be so fucking lucky to be with me,
and there and that and that. So then what do
I get. I've now taken a shower, I'm in the room,
I'm in my robe, all cozy because I'm not gonna
worry about this luggage. This is a hymn problem in
true Steve fashion, I get and I'll show the picture
on here. I get a picture of him and baggage
claim with this sweet old woman going like this thumbs
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up because they got the bag. He's not affected by this,
he's having a great time, and I'm like, yeah, So anyways,
the next day I think is what I called you know,
I was like, we're not break or no. I called
you that night. Whatever it was, we didn't break up.
I was being a little dramatic, but also I'm curious,
wouldn't you guys be pissed off if you let your
significant other handle the travel plans? And then the travel
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plans got all mixed up, and now we got luggage
one way and one person's going this way. I probably
could have handled it better, but in the moment, I
was really upset. I think you really did yourself in
in the Kirby Pucket restaurant. I did. I did because
as I was crying and the waitress was like, are
you okay? Would you like another? I was like, yeah,
I do and another. Wow. Everything was fine. The next
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morning we woke up and I was like, can you
please just be responsible next time? And look, and he
was like, yes, I got it, no problem. I'm like okay,
and it was fine. How is your Christmas adorable? Well?
Thank god, Christmas was safe. After I woke up Christmas
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morning and you guys were not broken up, because I
was very learned about our future. Christmas was good. Christmas
was as I've learned from everybody that does this with kids,
and how do people do this with kids? I mean,
I'm coming in hot from a game I've got my
family there, I've got my kid there. We let which
we should our nannies have a break, and I was like,
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oh my god, where are these people. It was a lot,
and my son was hysterical and fun and he loved
every second of all these winter sports. And he was
so freaking cute, so cute and putting snow gear on
a child of that age and I guess, really of
any age is really a lot. But by this car,
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oh my god, he doesn't I mean, he doesn't know
to put his thumb in the glove and then holding
him for the boot and the head. Shit. But you
don't want to be the asshole where the kid is cold.
But man, he was a trooper. He was awesome. We
had a great time. I was so tired when I
showed up in Minnesota this weekend, but it was great.
And now before the podcast, I was just kind of
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unwrapping everything and going through Christmas again, being like, oh
my god, we got this and oh my god, we
got that. But we had a very sesame Street Christmas,
which was super cute. And now he's got all the
little friends and I want to so badly make a
little appearance on Sesame Street. So badly for my kid.
Make your play right, now, make your plea. Let's go
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to Sesame Street. Listen. It's funny when you talk to
Macki Stole. You're like, hey, what does cookie monster say?
And he goes, I miss him. I haven't seen him
in a while. I feel like he's like a grown
When you sent that text on our text chain of
him going down the hill with Jared on Skis, Steve
and I were then back together and I looked at him, go,
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oh my god, is he allowed to be? I was like,
I was the mother. I was like, I don't think
that's allowed. He's so young, but like he crushed and
I loved it. This little smile at the end, yay
clapping so cute. Yeah, it was fun. It was a
good time. Good But it's a lot holy cow, and
it's you know what was so nice today coming home
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and not having to be like I gotta go get
this gift and I gotta go get that gift and
I gotta wrap this shit. So that was really nice today.
So I wonder. I wonder because I think about this too,
and every year Steve does have a funny thing. So
this year he goes We're making a list of every
person you got a present for, and we're gonna check
off and see if they even unwrapped all your gifts,
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because you got me seventy five gifts. I want to
know what I have on right now. Two things. I
feel like the woman from Home Alone, Catherine O'Hara, like
or Haa, whatever her name is. She's great. And I
can give you love the ear rings. You love the earrings.
These are so great? Still that great? Oh my god,
Jarret loves him so much. He never wanted to take
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them off. Thank you so much. So are they? First
of all, I think as I've gotten older, I've turned
into a toddler. I don't want any shoes with ties
on it, like I want I'm up at the ranch.
I want rain boots, tuck them right in. No ties,
I want slippers, I want vans. I just I'm not
interested to tying. And now it's untied, and now it's
like the ties too tight, and it's like I love
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a slip in and slip out situation. But yeah, no,
you were so generous for Christmas. Aaron gave me this
amazing book. I wanted this book since the second I
saw it. At her house. I was so worried you
had it. No, Oh my god, you don't have to.
It's a football book and it's who that I don't
know the company asked a line or I'm going to
say it, but it's also like any you guys know
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those coffee table books that are so so beautiful and
Task is another brand, but this one was massive. I
mean it's probably twelve inches. It's gorgeous deep, and every
picture it's like almost like three D, like it has
an overlay. Anyways, it's stunning, and you were wildly generous. Anyways,
Oh stop, Steve has a whole thing where everyone that
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I that we gave a gift to it. He's not shopping.
He wasn't doing that everyone that Why is it always
falling the women and they don't think about those other people? Anyways,
we get it. You're just walking around the house looking
for regifting. Well, hey, we could give him this. We
don't use this, by the way, steep it back. I
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will use that step this year with some stuff that
we got. He goes, Hey, he goes, I'm not gonna
use that. Do you think that we could save it
for someone else? I said, absolutely not. I said, no,
we are going to donate. If you don't think that
that's something that you could use, we're going to donate.
We're not regifting because you know what's going to end
up happening. Karma's going to bite us square on the
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ass and somewhere, somehow it's going to get back that
we're regifting. Absolutely not have some gratitude because you didn't
buy one of these presents. No, So he has a
whole thing of like check off who gave you things?
And he really did it. And I said, this is insane.
You don't have time to buy the gifts, but you're
making sure that the inventory is aligned. Oh yeah, it off.
So this is my point. It's excessive. I think that
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we should. It's too much and it's too much pressure.
And then every year, and I'm saying this to you,
miss Andrews, because you're so generous. You are you bought
my kids seven thousand different kids. Kids don't count. I'm
talking about adults. I think that we have to do something.
I know we're doing the next I know I got
to get next to day. I'm not gonna have anybody.
I'm not gonna have any money. You guys, my neck
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is getting so bad. Okay, stay with me, squirrel. You
and I are going to buy each other nut surgeries.
Great because and I get this there too. Oh yeah, no,
I've got a whole like thing. Hey, if any plastic
surgeons are listening, and no, and I'm not saying this
in a way, you can do it for you. Seventy
five surgeries. Okay, I never even got the boobs I
was gonna get. Okay, like I still yet to get
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a surgery that I've talked about, but I need to
know how to get rid of this. Right here, we
got like a whole pocket, like a little squirrel is
storing her nuts for the winter, and it's still from today.
I need it to look like from this to this.
And I thought the strings we're going to do it.
I'm past the point of strings. Okay, here's what we're
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gonna do. After the surgery. We're then not going to
buy each other gifts like excessively. We're going to do
the white elephant thing. Yeah, I really think like whether
it's well, we don't have any of the friends, I
don't come to the solution I would love. Here's the deal.
Let me open this up again to the to the community,
the calm down community. What do you do for girlfriends
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where it's like we don't need anything. We didn't buy
each other anything, Like enough is enough? What is something
that can crush you with your your girlfriends or your
sister or whoever. Where you want it to be meaningful
and you want to show that you love them, but
like it's not an excess of all your person So
that I love any feedback because it's getting crazy. I mean,
at this point, we're buying boats for each other. We
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don't need that. Actually looking to sell my boat. Okay,
oh god, really, I haven't used the goddamn thing in
two years. I'm paying storage fees. Oh geez, yeah, you
don't need that. That's throwing money away. Hey, sheep to feed.
I got to tell you the story about going to Baltimore. Yes,
so I'm on this fight to Washington because that's the
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best route for me to get there, and it's a
five hour flight and I'm just grinding away because it's
the holiday. I haven't really covered Baltimore too much. I'm
all over their website doing a ton of stuff. The
guy next to me's great, it hasn't said a word
doing his own thing, and I've looked over a few
times and I've noticed it's the Christopher Reeves documentary. I
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believe from peeping on it the whole time that his
kids must be involved in it, because it had his
three kids. I don't know if they produced it with somebody,
but I was a big Christopher Reeves fan, and I
remember man when his wife was on Oprah because they
showed part of the interview. Anyways, I am in and
out looking at this thing, and finally at some point
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I'm in. I'm in, I'm watching. I don't want him
to think I'm the person that I bitch about all
the time, or you're looking at my shit. Okay, I'm
still studying and there are fucking I could never watch
this documentary. First of all, I don't have sound. There's
no close caption, but you can tell everything happening. It
is so beautifully done, and it's not a beautiful subject.
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It goes in and out of him, you know, paralyzed
him with the feeding tube, him being the hot superman,
him with his kids when he was injured. From everything
I could gather from snooping this whole time, his son
was like very very small, with his youngest son. This
thing is so emotional. There was no sound, there was
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no close captioning. I'm fucking crying. I'm crying and I
can't stop now. The guy next to you said anything
at the sime, No and nothing. He's paused a few times,
gone up to go to the bathroom. I then am
googling his wife because I'm like, she died, didn't she die? CHRISA,
She died like nine months after his dad came of
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lung cancer, and she didn't even smoke. So then they're
on that part portion of the documentary, Kids are Children.
She's delivered the eulogy. Then she's said, I finally this guy.
I finally grab his arm and I said, hey, I
gotta be honest with you. I am the person I
hate right now. I have been sitting here looking and
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watching this over your shoulder. I'm even texting my girlfriends
about it. And he goes, I know you have, and
I said, I've been crying the whole time. He goes,
I've had to stop crying because I knew who you
were and I didn't want to be crying in front
of you. And I'm like, is it awful? He's like,
it's awful. Robin Williams is in it. I didn't realize
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their friendship, but it looks so well done but so emotional.
I forgot at the Oscars he rolled out there in
front of everybody like it's fucking Superman. Yea. So last
night I'm flying home for Minnie and I've got the
I've got the Washington Atlanta game on, and I look
in front of me person's Washington document. I'm like, no,
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You're like, wow, I want to. I bet it's so insane,
but I can't. I mean, I watched it, but yeah, wow.
I just I think that, you know, again, not knowing
every of not knowing all the details of it, just
the headlines of it. I just sometimes whether it's God
or whoever you believe in, I just sometimes go, why
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why do you like those poor children? Like it's I
just I guess it's You'll find out whatever you believe
in later in life that you know some there's a
reason or I don't know, And I think this is
why religion is so important, or a belief in something
bigger is important, because some things on earth just don't
make sense. That there's no logical explanation for why a
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family would have to endure that much or you know,
any story that we hear of heartache and pain and anything.
It's just it's really really sad. But yeah, I just
it's said. Maybe you know that. I don't know how
old are his kids now, I don't know. They're all gorgeous.
They all have The youngest is is superman. He looks
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just like his father, and like I could tell again
because I'm snooping when he started talking about his mother.
He has still been warning America. I don't know, Ryan,
do you want to help us with any of this?
I don't believe so is he Yeah, he's a correspondent.
God's gorgeous. Yeah, now that when you're describing it, I'm like, wait,
I think he is. Yeah, we'll figure out that part.
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It was. It was, I mean, it looked like torture
to watch it. It was so beautifully done. And last
night when somebody had it on, they were like, I
was just like, holy shit, this is so well done
and I cannot have somebody watch it now. Thank god.
The guy across from me turned it to Ferris Bueller's
day off because I could I needed a day off.
It was so much Wow. Yeah, well that's the night
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next to me was so great and he's like, good
luck with the game this weekend. I was like, oh yeah,
so will Lee Will his son is a correspondent for
a Okay, yeah beautiful, he's gorgeous. What they've been through
My goodness. All right, this is not me trying to
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make a turn or have any kind of segue to that.
But since our job is to talk about football, yeah,
I also talk about football because things are getting very exciting.
Playoff picture. We record our podcast on Monday, This will
come out on Thursday. So playoff picture beginning to take
shape or almost I mean Monday night. That depends on
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what happens or excuse me, in the Sunday night game
Monday night next week between lose. Could the NFC just
be flipped upside down? The fact that you go from
the one seed to the fifth seed because it's so
bad for them, they lost everyone, but just like you
could be a sixteen win team and be a fifth
seed I mean anyways, So not to get entrenched in
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the details, because things will take shape and figure it out.
But what we do know is Saquon Barkley as when
our podcast airs is one hundred and one yards or
just over one hundred yards away from breaking Eric Dickerson's
single season rushing record that was done back in nineteen
eighty four. And Aaron and I were talking about before
(24:13):
we came on, like, if you're Nick Sirianni, do you
start him? And I'm gonna say this, Obviously it's up
to Saquon. Saquon is ultimately the person that can make
that decision. But he also needs his offensive line. And
if you think about it, because Saquon is such a
thoughtful person, is he gonna say, guys, I need you
or like I don't want to? Jempard buy question there.
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So here's the storyline. For people that do not call you,
here's the thing for people that don't follow football. Here's
the storyline. Saquon Barkley, running back. We answered your question
in the pregame the difference of running back and wide
receiver if you're listening. Running back who played for the
New York Giants his whole career. He then goes to
Philadelphia this year and has had an unbelievable season. He
broke the two thousand rushing mark this previous Sunday and
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he's going for the record. But he is going to
try to break the record against the New York Giants,
his former team, and here's my name, want to sign him?
The New York Giants are not making the playoffs. In fact,
they might have now screed themselves out of the number
one overall pick. I just it's a record that has
stood for forty years, and eight other players have been close,
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have been in the two thousand yard mark range, but
have not broken it. And I just love it. I
love it for him. I loved a storyline that he
could be against his old team that didn't re sign him.
I just I love some offensive line that could be
a part of it. Jordan Mylata, Landon, Dickerson, Lane Johnson,
They're such fucking good, Dreible, I just we were talking
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about it a lot last night at Chili's at the
Minnesota Airport and breaking it down. And my good friend
rich Gross is a diehard Giants fan, and he is
just sick. What did he say? But he loves Saquon
so much. He tells a story about how at training
camp a couple of years ago, his nephews were in
the stands and Saquon's I think child was there and
(26:02):
pr was like, no, no, he's not going to sign
his kids there. And Saquon, I guess, was the only
person that stayed and signed for the kids, and so
he signed Grosy's kids, come on nephew's stuff. So he
just loves Saquan. He's like, I hope he gets it.
He deserves to get it. I cannot believe this is
happening to our organization. But yeah, and we were just
talking about maybe we could do that game. We didn't
(26:24):
get the game, but it would be so much fun.
And like you have to ask your offensive lineman if
they it has to be like a team to say
get it right. It has to be something like that.
But no, and you can't getting hurt. I get it
right because you're in the playoffs and it's like that
brings you to a different level in the league. You're
now a legend. You are you know, royalty. It would
(26:46):
just be these guys want him to get it too.
It would be the ultimate exclamation exclamation point for him
and the season that he's had and the whole storyline,
and I just I am excited. I wonder when they'll say, hey,
like this is what we're going to do. This is
how it's gonna go. Yeah. I just I love the
NFL so much, I really do. It's so great. And
(27:08):
Jayden Daniels watching him last night, and even for Michael
Pennock Junior to come down and you have that game
come down to the end, it's just and what Peden
Damers and this organization has been through and just for
Dan and for Dan Quinn, like I am so excited
for the future of football and like even its current landscape,
and for Sam Donald. There was a thing I posted
(27:29):
about it today that there was a picture of Baker
Makefield and Sam Donald playing in Carolina just two years ago,
and it was two people that a lot of people
wrote off and was like, you know, their careers never
really panned out, you know, no, no, no, and here they
fricking are, Like, I'm so excited for Sam Donald and
Baker Mayfield has been showing like you know, just like
he's just is a guy that never gives up. But
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I don't know, I just I love I love sports
so much, and I love the idea that it's like
these guys get other chances and when they're with the
right coach or with the right team say same thing,
Like I just it makes me really excited. And Brian Flores,
who kind of resurrected, Yeah, he was like freaking crushing
with the bloodze yesterday. Yeah, it's awesome. It's forty percent
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of dropbacks this guy. But and guess what. You know
what's crazy. It's like they know it's coming. Any opposing
team knows it's coming, and you can't stop it like
this cat. This is Taylor Swift. You guys, I'm at
the ranch and we were talking about it on the
pre game. Gime me bo i. The last time I
was here, I showed this is my my little kiddie
that's not a kid anymore. This is Taylor Swift and
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she's gotten so big, but she's so cute. You guys,
who ah, I love you. Do you want to do
some headlines? Yeah? Wait, are we still going? Oh my god,
(28:54):
Brian said, remaining topics headlines. I love this, Okay, headlines, headlines,
this is for you. Start the first one. I ruined
my skin following beauty influencer advice and wasted thousands of dollars.
I didn't waste thousands of dollars, but I had to
use a good amount of money to fix my skin.
(29:15):
Emma Miller posted a video showing how Korean skincare products
commonly promoted on Skin Talk ruined her skin. In the video,
she shows clips of her before and after using those
types of products. At first, her face appears clear and glossy,
A big thing they always advertise is glass skin, glass skin,
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and then she claims she got covered in large red bumps.
She claims they were caused by an allergic reaction. If
you're trying to follow every fad to improve your skin,
you're gonna have to exacerbate the underlying problem. People need
to realize less is more. That is from a dermatologist.
I agree, I can't listen. I talked about it on
a little Docs is still and for the shit I
(29:56):
did to myself, it turns out I was adding more
oil to an oily face and that didn't work out. Well. Okay,
So this is interesting because I appreciate you also using
the word exacerbate in this explanation. Oh yeah, well it
was written there. I'm proud of it. I loved, I loved.
There wasn't a question of if you could read. I
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just love the word exacerbate. So here's here's my question
about all this so I, as you know, shop a
lot on Instagram. Sure close, I find like random fun things.
So I'd like to admit that the other day I
bought into the masks. You've seen a lot of the
peel off masks. Oh, let the mask sit for five
(30:37):
hours and then keel it off, and it looks amazing.
I don't know if it's one I've been using. Is
that the one you've been using the C two lift? Oh,
I don't know if it's it. No, no, no, no,
it's not in your gift basket. Oh well, great, because
that one I trust. Because this one I it was
a mask and I had to leave it on. It
said five hours. There's no way in hell I can
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leave something on the five hours. Who has time for
all that? Well, an hour in Minnesota to Chicago. Yeah,
you could have alone. I could have done that one hour,
in which I'm shocked I even made it an hour.
I took it off Aaron. My face was on fire, okay, fire,
and I said to see if I go, I think
something's wrong, like my skin's like burning. And he goes, well,
what is that mask? And I go, I don't know.
(31:20):
I got it off Instagram. He goes no, this is
the shit. Why are you doing that? You spend all
your space on your face stuff, and then all of
a sudden you want to do a swipe up on
Instagram and he goes only buy reputable products. And I
was like, okay, and here's the thing. Maybe there is
some Koreans. We don't want to say all Koreans. Storm
cares back totally. We're not saying that. We just need
to consult a dermatologist. I need to not buy masks
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off Instagram, and you need to get off that doxa selling.
Oh my god. I fell into this whole thing where
this like cream like whatever sort of like rents or
whatever was bringing cistic act to a head. And they
were like you can feel it come out. So I'm
like sitting here scrubbing my face with it. Meanwhile I'm
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just putting more zits in my skin. It was crazy behavior.
And how are we feeling now? Is the journey almost over?
You're back to normal? I feel like I'm pretty much
back to normal. I still am like traveling with the
antibiotic and two creams that I'm on, but like this weekend,
I had a dooozy. This one was like coming like
it was. It was really circulating, it was pulsating, it
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was starting to come up, and I was like, I'm
hat feel it. Oh and then you're like, I really
go bad. I had a couple of cocktails the night
before a game and I was like, I feel kind
of cocky. I brought something to Pocust. I got it all.
You did a good job and it was minimal damage. God,
that is a huge victory forgets the victory the next
day for whatever team you're covering. It's like the night
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before when you can go to bed knowing that you
got it out and it's not going to be a
catastrophe for Gillian or Dominique. That day can also something psycho.
Not only do I always like manifest or try to
feel what the needle feels like in the hole that
could get this stuff out. I am constantly seeing it
come out like in my I know I might have
(33:12):
like a although I had to like block some of
the videos like I don't need all of the like
Puss videos like the Shore too much, the Big Head
cistic like the back of the whole thing, but the
satisfaction of a blackhead where like you didn't even know
how about Donna, my sweet facialists who I absolutely love.
No like I have like a custom facialist. She's just
(33:33):
who I consistently go to Donna, who's on staff as
my facialist. She knows I need her to narrate it
what I need her to narrate it. While she's doing extractions,
she will go go, oh wow, this one's been here
for a while, and I was like, oh good good.
Sometimes she'll show me like if I want to see
I'm like a video. Yeah, there's such satisfaction. My favorite, though,
(33:56):
is right when you lay down on the table and
they bring over that light, that magnifying light, and she
like pokes around and she's like, ooh, we got a
lot of good ones in here, and I was like, yes,
it's gonna It's like what would I have done if
I didn't come here, you know, like how long would
this blackhead just be accumulating? Look, I need a little
bit of a clean out right now. Pre playoffs suckage.
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Yeah all right, well we have another headline, but we'll
wait for next week. I love that. Okay, Well, I
love you so much and I'm glad you're not mad
at me. I am so concerned Oh my god, I
should have called you. It was just such a quick
trip to Minnesota. We're there, we're at dinner, we gotta go.
It was like I also felt like I wasn't I
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was prepared. I love this, by the way. I love
what I put myself through to prepare. And then it's
like I'm good. No, you know what though, this is psycho, No,
this is stop. I'm gonna stop you right here, because
there's a lot of people sometimes not a lot of people,
but there's some young women or men that might be
listening to this podcast and always wonder how you prepare,
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and yeah, how we got here. Over Preparing is never
a negative thing because then it's the one time you
don't that you're exposed for something and then you know
that's the end of your career. So totally don't ever
worry about over preparing. Just be like, well, I'm so
glad that I did that, even if it was you know, Okay, Steve,
this is what Steve's doing. He just came in and
(35:24):
he's videotaping us dough the pod. No, you know, I
don't need it because he can't hear what we're saying.
So he's all he's hearing is blackheads. Hey, I told
the story of us breaking up, but not really. Yeah,
okay whatever. He seems really concerned. I have a question
for you. Have you ever done a Thursday night Minnesota
game in their new stadium? No, holy shit, I'm a
(35:46):
fucking I have not in this school. I'm dying. I'm
trying dying to do that. We had Minnesota this year
in La mm hmmm yeah, and like, hey, it's good,
it's real good. They got the whole thing. They got
the fake snow coming down, they got the like they're
(36:06):
oo chan. It's pretty cool. It's really really cool. How
about the moment on Instagram today. I'm watching it right
now on Monday Night football where the locker room's going
nuts and Kocs in the back just kind of watching it.
It was really cool. Have you seen that? Do Sam
Darnold up and just it's so good. Speaking one last
thing and then we can go. Speaking of locker rooms,
(36:28):
I can't get over the Kansas City Chiefs locker room.
Andy Reid dressed up as Santa Claus so cute, and
this is the thing. And I know I've went on
a ramp before about Kansas City, but again, like this
team doesn't care about how they win. They just win.
And now you know they can have a month. They
don't have to play those starters for a month. I know,
I know. And our little Chris Jones, he'd better be
(36:50):
okay because you know this this this podcast, big fan.
Oh my god, Chris Jones is that funny buddy? God's great? Hey?
Speaking of great, why don't wennoyed people even more? And
I don't care? Sure? How great does Taylor look post
tour the last in New York with the hair? The
hair is a little darker and we look good. I'll
(37:11):
tell you what. She doesn't have this everybody. Oh stop,
She's also ten years younger than us. I need to
know who Lindsey Lohan's surgeon is or Taylor Swift's routine
aside from her just being younger and hotter. But anyways,
also resting finally from all that her legs, she looked great,
(37:33):
the hair, the lips, were going to dinner. We're fucking
out on the You know what it does? It reminds
me if she can after everything she's just done toward
the world, popping in on a deal. I need to
fucking maybe throw on some lipstick. I mean, I, hey, Grandma,
get out of your sweater. You know, Hey, farmer Joe,
(37:55):
maybe just like, how about it? How about how about
this week where I say to Jared, Hey, so and
so it wants to know if we want to do
dinner tomorrow. He goes, it's smart New Year's Eve. I
was like, I don't know, is it? And he goes, yeah.
I'm like, it's not that, it's it's it's just you know,
I just got home. I got stockings ship on the ground,
you know, I know, you know what. I'm just so
glad you guys are still together for New Year's Eve.
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You know that would have been awkward. Hey, who do
we ask to hang? I'm just so glad we're still together.
I thought we broke up. No, please, so panicked. I
wasn't ready for my game. That's what happens to me.
I love you you guys, Call down community. Stay tuned
for some more exciting headlines next week. We love you,
we love you. Thanks for listening. I got to go
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get the cats now. They're everywhere. They're literally jooping around.
Can't get that. Oh my god? Can you imagine my
kid running after your cats? Yes? I can, and I
can't wait for that day. He's up here feeding the
sheep and feeding the horse and all of the things.
I can't wait. But he probably won't have time for
me because he's an Olympic, so busy. It's going to
(39:00):
some class right now. My man mood's crazy. He's so cute,
Aaron really though, Like I also act like it's my
kid every time you send me a picture if I'm around,
so I'm like, look at Aaron's kid. She goes that
kid is perfect. I'm like no, but really, I know.
It's like you have to be like, oh, it's like
so cute. Everyone's real cute. Okay, love you buy, I
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He's going to O'Hare and I'm going to Midway. Two
flights going to Chicago thirty minutes apart. I'm on one
that's now going to take off without me, and he's
on another. So guess where my bag's going one way
and his is going another. So now now I'm lost.
Now I'm like, what the fuck? Calm down with Erin
(00:22):
and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio. I was so
annoyed in Minnesota this week. Hi everybody, and welcome to
the big Show. I hope everybody had a great holiday.
Great hotel in Minnesota. Four Seasons use the four Seasons app.
Even Kevin talked about it, how wonderful the app is.
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Don't have to talk to anyone, just text on the app.
But didn't get my girl on Fox in Mini and
I just felt so I love you lost And then
I tried to go to the app and I couldn't
get you on the app and like, oh, I know.
Well then, okay, I have a confession to make. Are
you ready? Yeah? This is this is what losers we
(01:07):
are for me. I'll start out of four Seasons in Chicago.
Did you use the app? No? I didn't. I'm not
using the app. I mean, you're lucky. I'm even using
this app to be on riverside. I am not an
app girl, Okay, I like advertisers. I can't do the app.
The phone's overflowing with apps, Like I just want to
go it. No, I had. I didn't hear from you
(01:29):
on our game. Did you think I was mad at you? Yeah,
because I didn't hear from you. No. I didn't hear
from you during our Thursday game and we always usually
tie for a game, or at least day after Christmas,
Day after Christmas, which, by the way, like it was
more of like, okay, well, holidays were busy. And then
I didn't hear from you in the show yesterday, and
then I was like and then I text you before
(01:51):
your game, being like I can't wait to watch you.
I'm so excited for this game. And then you didn't
respond back, and I call you and I was like,
all right, well this is where we're at. Up. We're
breaking up again. We're breaking up. Before breaking up, you
almost broke up, like so much breaking up. We have
a lot. Now are we breaking out? We don't know, no,
do things We're going to run through on the Big
Show again. As Aaron mentioned, hope you guys had a
(02:13):
great holiday and this will air after the New Year,
so happy New Year to all of our calm down crew.
We will go over the fact that Steve and I
almost broke up. Not really, it was a dramatic situation,
but I would love your guys' I'd love the calm
down communities feedback on said thing. I'll give you your
my feedback when you finally I'm like, leave me a
voice note, stop texting me, leave me a voice I
(02:35):
ran next time I couldn't. She's like, we're breaking up.
I'm breaking up with him as we speak. It's Christmas Eve.
I'm like, what this is not what I want to hear.
And then of course, over on our end norovirus and
like no dive with the no really dramatic on our end,
Jared's like, well, I mean I'm inviting him to a
voice trip and I'm still going to invite him, like
I already got him like a next thing, like and
now you know the map, and like he's coming. And
(02:57):
I was like, no, they're not breaking up, and if
they do break up, we've got to get them back together,
because like what the fuck, And so I love that
all of that turned into okay, so we'll explain that
Mac went sledding and went skiing for the first time,
and was this guy was very busy during the holidays,
and also we got to talk about all things NFL.
(03:18):
As we enter into week eighteen, the playoff picture is
almost set. I'm just I'm so freaking excited. All right,
I can't believe we just finished week seventeen. That is
it is bananas. It is went by very I think
it's went by really fast. You don't you have that
that face makes me think that you don't think it's
went by. I do, and I don't. It's like there
(03:39):
are some things that have been like a lot, but
then there's something that it's just been like, holy shit,
how are we in week seventeen? Like I laid down
this morning when I got finally in bed and I
said to Jared, that was just week seventeen, and he goes,
holy crap, right, and then another thing. Ryan didn't add
to the rundown, but I definitely want to talk about it.
I was on a flight to Washington for my Baltimore
(04:01):
game before Christmas, and I got sucked into my seat
mates movie who I didn't know, and we had a
whole exchange about it and both started crying, and it
was a whole situation. So I want to talk about
that too. All right, let's do it. Let's jump right in.
So Christmas you were in you had time off finally,
so you were with the whole family Netflix amazing. I
(04:23):
was in Chicago with Steve and the crew of Steve.
We went a couple days earlier, and then of course
the Thursday Night crew because we had a game on
the twenty six. Yeah, so Steve and I are like,
all right, we're gonna spend Christmas in Chicago, but let's
go a couple of days early because Chicago Christmas time great.
So work has booked my trip and Steve is using
(04:43):
the miles whatever of my account. So he's I don't know,
I can't remember if I he must have he must
have booked it whatever it was. But we both so
we have a connection through Minneapolis. Okay, everything's going, everything's
going great, you know, because we started the day off
in the Delta one. Laud we are we are just
We've had our mimosas, we've had our eggs. Benedict that
(05:05):
the smoke salmon, the bagel and locks. I mean, things
are going great. And I said to him, I don't
have to work tomorrow. I don't even have to work
the next day. So mama is going to have herself
a time. I'm going to enjoy all the cocktails and
for once, I'm not going to be worried about the travel.
You've got it right, like you take over. I just
want just tell me when we need to board, and
let's do it. He goes, I got you. So the
(05:29):
first leg of the trip goes great. Now we're in Minnesota, correct, Okay,
So now Delta, how going to Chicago? Why are you connect?
Am Adelta loyalists? So I'm going to go on the
Delta flight that connects her Minneapolis because the only directs
were United or American Loyalists. Loyalists loyalists. Sure, so I
(05:49):
said to say, I don't even care if I have
a connection. It's Delta, Delta Minneapolis. We get picked up
in the car, we get the whole, the whole royal treatment.
We are now in the second lounge. I'm going back
in those too mini lounge, you know the one, and
there's like a bunch of the chili. Yes, actually, I
normally I would not know that, but it was so
close to the gate. It was so funny. The guy
(06:11):
picked us up and he goes, where's your gate? And
we look at it. We look down and he goes, actually,
it's right here, like he picked us up to go
like not even It was so funny but anyways, so nice,
great service, Delta, Delta, Delta, love you, Delta Gamma. So
back in the lounge cocktail cocktail, and I look at
him and I said, hey, like, I have no idea
(06:31):
when we're supposed to be boarding, Like are you paying
attention to what's going on here? He goes, I got it,
like in the whole, Like, oh I got it, dismissive.
Way great, I'm gonna sit back enjoy this. All of
a sudden, I get a text on my phone from
the Delta representative, Miss Thompson. Your flight is boarding. We
don't see you on board again, great service. So I
hold it up to Steve if I go, uh, why
(06:51):
is the flight boarding? And he did and he exactly
and he said, well, Bargo, according to my app, we
don't board for another forty five minutes. Point of the
story is he's going to O'Hare and I'm going to Midway.
Two flights going to Chicago thirty minutes apart. I'm on
one that's now going to take off without me, and
(07:14):
he's on another. So guess where my bag's going one
way and his is going another. So now now I'm lost.
Now I'm like, what the fuck? I wanted one flight
where I didn't have to pay attention because normally, obviously
I'm flying by myself and I don't know being lucid.
So I'm like, I wanted one time where I could
just kick my heels up and relax. And now and
(07:35):
so I'm like, I am motherfucking and I don't normally
did it. I didn't actually swear. Maybe I did once,
but I was like, are you kidding me? So I've
got it. I'm not going to make it on mine.
So now I got to get rebooked on his. Well,
now I'm going to land in Chicago and I don't
have any luggage. I don't have a dress for dinner
tonight tonight. So, needless to say, the thirty minutes between
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when we were gonna the boarding time, I said, leave
me alone. I want to be left alone. I went
to a restaurant hate by myself. I'm girl. No. It
was like a Minnesota centric restaurant. There was a Kirby
Pucket jersey hanging shout out Minnesota Twins, and it was
so bad. I'd been crying because I was now dramatic
after five cocktails and let yeah, right after five cocktails
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and I the waitress goes, are you okay? And I
was like, I'll be fine, thanks, Like just so dramatic
at this point. So now we get on the plane.
I'm not looking at him, I'm not talking to him.
I'm just texting Aaron. I'm breaking up with Steve. We
are breaking up. It's over. I'm like, did he cheat
on you? What happened? This is what she wrote. She
literally wrote, did he cheat? I go No, that I
(08:43):
would understand, because that, by the way, first of all,
the way I'm acting, I would understand if you cheated. No.
I swear to God, if he ever cheats, that's it.
That's the end of us. That really is the end
of us. But I was so upset and so I
couldn't voice note. She's like, voice know me what is happening?
Because he's sitting right next to me, So I don't know. However,
many hours. It was later by the time I land
(09:04):
in Chicago by myself because I have now gotten into
cab by myself, because I'm like, you have to go
to O'Hare and get our bags. So I check into
the hotel and the hotel is so nice. Okay, we
know it's so nice. Great too. They gave me like
a massive room, and all I could think of is good,
when he walks in here, he'll see this incredible room
(09:26):
and he should be so fucking lucky to be with me,
and there and that and that. So then what do
I get. I've now taken a shower, I'm in the room,
I'm in my robe, all cozy because I'm not gonna
worry about this luggage. This is a hymn problem in
true Steve fashion, I get and I'll show the picture
on here. I get a picture of him and baggage
claim with this sweet old woman going like this thumbs
(09:47):
up because they got the bag. He's not affected by this,
he's having a great time, and I'm like, yeah, So anyways,
the next day I think is what I called you know,
I was like, we're not break or no. I called
you that night. Whatever it was, we didn't break up.
I was being a little dramatic, but also I'm curious,
wouldn't you guys be pissed off if you let your
significant other handle the travel plans? And then the travel
(10:10):
plans got all mixed up, and now we got luggage
one way and one person's going this way. I probably
could have handled it better, but in the moment, I
was really upset. I think you really did yourself in
in the Kirby Pucket restaurant. I did. I did because
as I was crying and the waitress was like, are
you okay? Would you like another? I was like, yeah,
I do and another. Wow. Everything was fine. The next
(10:34):
morning we woke up and I was like, can you
please just be responsible next time? And look, and he
was like, yes, I got it, no problem. I'm like okay,
and it was fine. How is your Christmas adorable? Well?
Thank god, Christmas was safe. After I woke up Christmas
(10:56):
morning and you guys were not broken up, because I
was very learned about our future. Christmas was good. Christmas
was as I've learned from everybody that does this with kids,
and how do people do this with kids? I mean,
I'm coming in hot from a game I've got my
family there, I've got my kid there. We let which
we should our nannies have a break, and I was like,
(11:18):
oh my god, where are these people. It was a lot,
and my son was hysterical and fun and he loved
every second of all these winter sports. And he was
so freaking cute, so cute and putting snow gear on
a child of that age and I guess, really of
any age is really a lot. But by this car,
(11:39):
oh my god, he doesn't I mean, he doesn't know
to put his thumb in the glove and then holding
him for the boot and the head. Shit. But you
don't want to be the asshole where the kid is cold.
But man, he was a trooper. He was awesome. We
had a great time. I was so tired when I
showed up in Minnesota this weekend, but it was great.
And now before the podcast, I was just kind of
(12:00):
unwrapping everything and going through Christmas again, being like, oh
my god, we got this and oh my god, we
got that. But we had a very sesame Street Christmas,
which was super cute. And now he's got all the
little friends and I want to so badly make a
little appearance on Sesame Street. So badly for my kid.
Make your play right, now, make your plea. Let's go
(12:20):
to Sesame Street. Listen. It's funny when you talk to
Macki Stole. You're like, hey, what does cookie monster say?
And he goes, I miss him. I haven't seen him
in a while. I feel like he's like a grown
When you sent that text on our text chain of
him going down the hill with Jared on Skis, Steve
and I were then back together and I looked at him, go,
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oh my god, is he allowed to be? I was like,
I was the mother. I was like, I don't think
that's allowed. He's so young, but like he crushed and
I loved it. This little smile at the end, yay
clapping so cute. Yeah, it was fun. It was a
good time. Good But it's a lot holy cow, and
it's you know what was so nice today coming home
(13:05):
and not having to be like I gotta go get
this gift and I gotta go get that gift and
I gotta wrap this shit. So that was really nice today.
So I wonder. I wonder because I think about this too,
and every year Steve does have a funny thing. So
this year he goes We're making a list of every
person you got a present for, and we're gonna check
off and see if they even unwrapped all your gifts,
(13:25):
because you got me seventy five gifts. I want to
know what I have on right now. Two things. I
feel like the woman from Home Alone, Catherine O'Hara, like
or Haa, whatever her name is. She's great. And I
can give you love the ear rings. You love the earrings.
These are so great? Still that great? Oh my god,
Jarret loves him so much. He never wanted to take
(13:45):
them off. Thank you so much. So are they? First
of all, I think as I've gotten older, I've turned
into a toddler. I don't want any shoes with ties
on it, like I want I'm up at the ranch.
I want rain boots, tuck them right in. No ties,
I want slippers, I want vans. I just I'm not
interested to tying. And now it's untied, and now it's
like the ties too tight, and it's like I love
(14:06):
a slip in and slip out situation. But yeah, no,
you were so generous for Christmas. Aaron gave me this
amazing book. I wanted this book since the second I
saw it. At her house. I was so worried you
had it. No, Oh my god, you don't have to.
It's a football book and it's who that I don't
know the company asked a line or I'm going to
say it, but it's also like any you guys know
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those coffee table books that are so so beautiful and
Task is another brand, but this one was massive. I
mean it's probably twelve inches. It's gorgeous deep, and every
picture it's like almost like three D, like it has
an overlay. Anyways, it's stunning, and you were wildly generous. Anyways,
Oh stop, Steve has a whole thing where everyone that
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I that we gave a gift to it. He's not shopping.
He wasn't doing that everyone that Why is it always
falling the women and they don't think about those other people? Anyways,
we get it. You're just walking around the house looking
for regifting. Well, hey, we could give him this. We
don't use this, by the way, steep it back. I
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will use that step this year with some stuff that
we got. He goes, Hey, he goes, I'm not gonna
use that. Do you think that we could save it
for someone else? I said, absolutely not. I said, no,
we are going to donate. If you don't think that
that's something that you could use, we're going to donate.
We're not regifting because you know what's going to end
up happening. Karma's going to bite us square on the
(15:29):
ass and somewhere, somehow it's going to get back that
we're regifting. Absolutely not have some gratitude because you didn't
buy one of these presents. No, So he has a
whole thing of like check off who gave you things?
And he really did it. And I said, this is insane.
You don't have time to buy the gifts, but you're
making sure that the inventory is aligned. Oh yeah, it off.
So this is my point. It's excessive. I think that
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we should. It's too much and it's too much pressure.
And then every year, and I'm saying this to you,
miss Andrews, because you're so generous. You are you bought
my kids seven thousand different kids. Kids don't count. I'm
talking about adults. I think that we have to do something.
I know we're doing the next I know I got
to get next to day. I'm not gonna have anybody.
I'm not gonna have any money. You guys, my neck
(16:13):
is getting so bad. Okay, stay with me, squirrel. You
and I are going to buy each other nut surgeries.
Great because and I get this there too. Oh yeah, no,
I've got a whole like thing. Hey, if any plastic
surgeons are listening, and no, and I'm not saying this
in a way, you can do it for you. Seventy
five surgeries. Okay, I never even got the boobs I
was gonna get. Okay, like I still yet to get
(16:35):
a surgery that I've talked about, but I need to
know how to get rid of this. Right here, we
got like a whole pocket, like a little squirrel is
storing her nuts for the winter, and it's still from today.
I need it to look like from this to this.
And I thought the strings we're going to do it.
I'm past the point of strings. Okay, here's what we're
(16:59):
gonna do. After the surgery. We're then not going to
buy each other gifts like excessively. We're going to do
the white elephant thing. Yeah, I really think like whether
it's well, we don't have any of the friends, I
don't come to the solution I would love. Here's the deal.
Let me open this up again to the to the community,
the calm down community. What do you do for girlfriends
(17:20):
where it's like we don't need anything. We didn't buy
each other anything, Like enough is enough? What is something
that can crush you with your your girlfriends or your
sister or whoever. Where you want it to be meaningful
and you want to show that you love them, but
like it's not an excess of all your person So
that I love any feedback because it's getting crazy. I mean,
at this point, we're buying boats for each other. We
(17:42):
don't need that. Actually looking to sell my boat. Okay,
oh god, really, I haven't used the goddamn thing in
two years. I'm paying storage fees. Oh geez, yeah, you
don't need that. That's throwing money away. Hey, sheep to feed.
I got to tell you the story about going to Baltimore. Yes,
so I'm on this fight to Washington because that's the
(18:04):
best route for me to get there, and it's a
five hour flight and I'm just grinding away because it's
the holiday. I haven't really covered Baltimore too much. I'm
all over their website doing a ton of stuff. The
guy next to me's great, it hasn't said a word
doing his own thing, and I've looked over a few
times and I've noticed it's the Christopher Reeves documentary. I
(18:26):
believe from peeping on it the whole time that his
kids must be involved in it, because it had his
three kids. I don't know if they produced it with somebody,
but I was a big Christopher Reeves fan, and I
remember man when his wife was on Oprah because they
showed part of the interview. Anyways, I am in and
out looking at this thing, and finally at some point
(18:49):
I'm in. I'm in, I'm watching. I don't want him
to think I'm the person that I bitch about all
the time, or you're looking at my shit. Okay, I'm
still studying and there are fucking I could never watch
this documentary. First of all, I don't have sound. There's
no close caption, but you can tell everything happening. It
is so beautifully done, and it's not a beautiful subject.
(19:11):
It goes in and out of him, you know, paralyzed
him with the feeding tube, him being the hot superman,
him with his kids when he was injured. From everything
I could gather from snooping this whole time, his son
was like very very small, with his youngest son. This
thing is so emotional. There was no sound, there was
(19:31):
no close captioning. I'm fucking crying. I'm crying and I
can't stop now. The guy next to you said anything
at the sime, No and nothing. He's paused a few times,
gone up to go to the bathroom. I then am
googling his wife because I'm like, she died, didn't she die? CHRISA,
She died like nine months after his dad came of
(19:53):
lung cancer, and she didn't even smoke. So then they're
on that part portion of the documentary, Kids are Children.
She's delivered the eulogy. Then she's said, I finally this guy.
I finally grab his arm and I said, hey, I
gotta be honest with you. I am the person I
hate right now. I have been sitting here looking and
(20:13):
watching this over your shoulder. I'm even texting my girlfriends
about it. And he goes, I know you have, and
I said, I've been crying the whole time. He goes,
I've had to stop crying because I knew who you
were and I didn't want to be crying in front
of you. And I'm like, is it awful? He's like,
it's awful. Robin Williams is in it. I didn't realize
(20:34):
their friendship, but it looks so well done but so emotional.
I forgot at the Oscars he rolled out there in
front of everybody like it's fucking Superman. Yea. So last
night I'm flying home for Minnie and I've got the
I've got the Washington Atlanta game on, and I look
in front of me person's Washington document. I'm like, no,
(20:56):
You're like, wow, I want to. I bet it's so insane,
but I can't. I mean, I watched it, but yeah, wow.
I just I think that, you know, again, not knowing
every of not knowing all the details of it, just
the headlines of it. I just sometimes whether it's God
or whoever you believe in, I just sometimes go, why
(21:19):
why do you like those poor children? Like it's I
just I guess it's You'll find out whatever you believe
in later in life that you know some there's a
reason or I don't know, And I think this is
why religion is so important, or a belief in something
bigger is important, because some things on earth just don't
make sense. That there's no logical explanation for why a
(21:39):
family would have to endure that much or you know,
any story that we hear of heartache and pain and anything.
It's just it's really really sad. But yeah, I just
it's said. Maybe you know that. I don't know how
old are his kids now, I don't know. They're all gorgeous.
They all have The youngest is is superman. He looks
(22:02):
just like his father, and like I could tell again
because I'm snooping when he started talking about his mother.
He has still been warning America. I don't know, Ryan,
do you want to help us with any of this?
I don't believe so is he Yeah, he's a correspondent.
God's gorgeous. Yeah, now that when you're describing it, I'm like, wait,
I think he is. Yeah, we'll figure out that part.
(22:26):
It was. It was, I mean, it looked like torture
to watch it. It was so beautifully done. And last
night when somebody had it on, they were like, I
was just like, holy shit, this is so well done
and I cannot have somebody watch it now. Thank god.
The guy across from me turned it to Ferris Bueller's
day off because I could I needed a day off.
It was so much Wow. Yeah, well that's the night
(22:47):
next to me was so great and he's like, good
luck with the game this weekend. I was like, oh yeah,
so will Lee Will his son is a correspondent for
a Okay, yeah beautiful, he's gorgeous. What they've been through
My goodness. All right, this is not me trying to
(23:09):
make a turn or have any kind of segue to that.
But since our job is to talk about football, yeah,
I also talk about football because things are getting very exciting.
Playoff picture. We record our podcast on Monday, This will
come out on Thursday. So playoff picture beginning to take
shape or almost I mean Monday night. That depends on
(23:30):
what happens or excuse me, in the Sunday night game
Monday night next week between lose. Could the NFC just
be flipped upside down? The fact that you go from
the one seed to the fifth seed because it's so
bad for them, they lost everyone, but just like you
could be a sixteen win team and be a fifth
seed I mean anyways, So not to get entrenched in
(23:52):
the details, because things will take shape and figure it out.
But what we do know is Saquon Barkley as when
our podcast airs is one hundred and one yards or
just over one hundred yards away from breaking Eric Dickerson's
single season rushing record that was done back in nineteen
eighty four. And Aaron and I were talking about before
(24:13):
we came on, like, if you're Nick Sirianni, do you
start him? And I'm gonna say this, Obviously it's up
to Saquon. Saquon is ultimately the person that can make
that decision. But he also needs his offensive line. And
if you think about it, because Saquon is such a
thoughtful person, is he gonna say, guys, I need you
or like I don't want to? Jempard buy question there.
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So here's the storyline. For people that do not call you,
here's the thing for people that don't follow football. Here's
the storyline. Saquon Barkley, running back. We answered your question
in the pregame the difference of running back and wide
receiver if you're listening. Running back who played for the
New York Giants his whole career. He then goes to
Philadelphia this year and has had an unbelievable season. He
broke the two thousand rushing mark this previous Sunday and
(24:57):
he's going for the record. But he is going to
try to break the record against the New York Giants,
his former team, and here's my name, want to sign him?
The New York Giants are not making the playoffs. In fact,
they might have now screed themselves out of the number
one overall pick. I just it's a record that has
stood for forty years, and eight other players have been close,
(25:18):
have been in the two thousand yard mark range, but
have not broken it. And I just love it. I
love it for him. I loved a storyline that he
could be against his old team that didn't re sign him.
I just I love some offensive line that could be
a part of it. Jordan Mylata, Landon, Dickerson, Lane Johnson,
They're such fucking good, Dreible, I just we were talking
(25:39):
about it a lot last night at Chili's at the
Minnesota Airport and breaking it down. And my good friend
rich Gross is a diehard Giants fan, and he is
just sick. What did he say? But he loves Saquon
so much. He tells a story about how at training
camp a couple of years ago, his nephews were in
the stands and Saquon's I think child was there and
(26:02):
pr was like, no, no, he's not going to sign
his kids there. And Saquon, I guess, was the only
person that stayed and signed for the kids, and so
he signed Grosy's kids, come on nephew's stuff. So he
just loves Saquan. He's like, I hope he gets it.
He deserves to get it. I cannot believe this is
happening to our organization. But yeah, and we were just
talking about maybe we could do that game. We didn't
(26:24):
get the game, but it would be so much fun.
And like you have to ask your offensive lineman if
they it has to be like a team to say
get it right. It has to be something like that.
But no, and you can't getting hurt. I get it
right because you're in the playoffs and it's like that
brings you to a different level in the league. You're
now a legend. You are you know, royalty. It would
(26:46):
just be these guys want him to get it too.
It would be the ultimate exclamation exclamation point for him
and the season that he's had and the whole storyline,
and I just I am excited. I wonder when they'll say, hey,
like this is what we're going to do. This is
how it's gonna go. Yeah. I just I love the
NFL so much, I really do. It's so great. And
(27:08):
Jayden Daniels watching him last night, and even for Michael
Pennock Junior to come down and you have that game
come down to the end, it's just and what Peden
Damers and this organization has been through and just for
Dan and for Dan Quinn, like I am so excited
for the future of football and like even its current landscape,
and for Sam Donald. There was a thing I posted
(27:29):
about it today that there was a picture of Baker
Makefield and Sam Donald playing in Carolina just two years ago,
and it was two people that a lot of people
wrote off and was like, you know, their careers never
really panned out, you know, no, no, no, and here they
fricking are, Like, I'm so excited for Sam Donald and
Baker Mayfield has been showing like you know, just like
he's just is a guy that never gives up. But
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I don't know, I just I love I love sports
so much, and I love the idea that it's like
these guys get other chances and when they're with the
right coach or with the right team say same thing,
Like I just it makes me really excited. And Brian Flores,
who kind of resurrected, Yeah, he was like freaking crushing
with the bloodze yesterday. Yeah, it's awesome. It's forty percent
(28:12):
of dropbacks this guy. But and guess what. You know
what's crazy. It's like they know it's coming. Any opposing
team knows it's coming, and you can't stop it like
this cat. This is Taylor Swift. You guys, I'm at
the ranch and we were talking about it on the
pre game. Gime me bo i. The last time I
was here, I showed this is my my little kiddie
that's not a kid anymore. This is Taylor Swift and
(28:33):
she's gotten so big, but she's so cute. You guys,
who ah, I love you. Do you want to do
some headlines? Yeah? Wait, are we still going? Oh my god,
(28:54):
Brian said, remaining topics headlines. I love this, Okay, headlines, headlines,
this is for you. Start the first one. I ruined
my skin following beauty influencer advice and wasted thousands of dollars.
I didn't waste thousands of dollars, but I had to
use a good amount of money to fix my skin.
(29:15):
Emma Miller posted a video showing how Korean skincare products
commonly promoted on Skin Talk ruined her skin. In the video,
she shows clips of her before and after using those
types of products. At first, her face appears clear and glossy,
A big thing they always advertise is glass skin, glass skin,
(29:35):
and then she claims she got covered in large red bumps.
She claims they were caused by an allergic reaction. If
you're trying to follow every fad to improve your skin,
you're gonna have to exacerbate the underlying problem. People need
to realize less is more. That is from a dermatologist.
I agree, I can't listen. I talked about it on
a little Docs is still and for the shit I
(29:56):
did to myself, it turns out I was adding more
oil to an oily face and that didn't work out. Well. Okay,
So this is interesting because I appreciate you also using
the word exacerbate in this explanation. Oh yeah, well it
was written there. I'm proud of it. I loved, I loved.
There wasn't a question of if you could read. I
(30:16):
just love the word exacerbate. So here's here's my question
about all this so I, as you know, shop a
lot on Instagram. Sure close, I find like random fun things.
So I'd like to admit that the other day I
bought into the masks. You've seen a lot of the
peel off masks. Oh, let the mask sit for five
(30:37):
hours and then keel it off, and it looks amazing.
I don't know if it's one I've been using. Is
that the one you've been using the C two lift? Oh,
I don't know if it's it. No, no, no, no,
it's not in your gift basket. Oh well, great, because
that one I trust. Because this one I it was
a mask and I had to leave it on. It
said five hours. There's no way in hell I can
(30:59):
leave something on the five hours. Who has time for
all that? Well, an hour in Minnesota to Chicago. Yeah,
you could have alone. I could have done that one hour,
in which I'm shocked I even made it an hour.
I took it off Aaron. My face was on fire, okay, fire,
and I said to see if I go, I think
something's wrong, like my skin's like burning. And he goes, well,
what is that mask? And I go, I don't know.
(31:20):
I got it off Instagram. He goes no, this is
the shit. Why are you doing that? You spend all
your space on your face stuff, and then all of
a sudden you want to do a swipe up on
Instagram and he goes only buy reputable products. And I
was like, okay, and here's the thing. Maybe there is
some Koreans. We don't want to say all Koreans. Storm
cares back totally. We're not saying that. We just need
to consult a dermatologist. I need to not buy masks
(31:43):
off Instagram, and you need to get off that doxa selling.
Oh my god. I fell into this whole thing where
this like cream like whatever sort of like rents or
whatever was bringing cistic act to a head. And they
were like you can feel it come out. So I'm
like sitting here scrubbing my face with it. Meanwhile I'm
(32:05):
just putting more zits in my skin. It was crazy behavior.
And how are we feeling now? Is the journey almost over?
You're back to normal? I feel like I'm pretty much
back to normal. I still am like traveling with the
antibiotic and two creams that I'm on, but like this weekend,
I had a dooozy. This one was like coming like
it was. It was really circulating, it was pulsating, it
(32:26):
was starting to come up, and I was like, I'm
hat feel it. Oh and then you're like, I really
go bad. I had a couple of cocktails the night
before a game and I was like, I feel kind
of cocky. I brought something to Pocust. I got it all.
You did a good job and it was minimal damage. God,
that is a huge victory forgets the victory the next
day for whatever team you're covering. It's like the night
(32:49):
before when you can go to bed knowing that you
got it out and it's not going to be a
catastrophe for Gillian or Dominique. That day can also something psycho.
Not only do I always like manifest or try to
feel what the needle feels like in the hole that
could get this stuff out. I am constantly seeing it
come out like in my I know I might have
(33:12):
like a although I had to like block some of
the videos like I don't need all of the like
Puss videos like the Shore too much, the Big Head
cistic like the back of the whole thing, but the
satisfaction of a blackhead where like you didn't even know
how about Donna, my sweet facialists who I absolutely love.
No like I have like a custom facialist. She's just
(33:33):
who I consistently go to Donna, who's on staff as
my facialist. She knows I need her to narrate it
what I need her to narrate it. While she's doing extractions,
she will go go, oh wow, this one's been here
for a while, and I was like, oh good good.
Sometimes she'll show me like if I want to see
I'm like a video. Yeah, there's such satisfaction. My favorite, though,
(33:56):
is right when you lay down on the table and
they bring over that light, that magnifying light, and she
like pokes around and she's like, ooh, we got a
lot of good ones in here, and I was like, yes,
it's gonna It's like what would I have done if
I didn't come here, you know, like how long would
this blackhead just be accumulating? Look, I need a little
bit of a clean out right now. Pre playoffs suckage.
(34:18):
Yeah all right, well we have another headline, but we'll
wait for next week. I love that. Okay, Well, I
love you so much and I'm glad you're not mad
at me. I am so concerned Oh my god, I
should have called you. It was just such a quick
trip to Minnesota. We're there, we're at dinner, we gotta go.
It was like I also felt like I wasn't I
(34:41):
was prepared. I love this, by the way. I love
what I put myself through to prepare. And then it's
like I'm good. No, you know what though, this is psycho, No,
this is stop. I'm gonna stop you right here, because
there's a lot of people sometimes not a lot of people,
but there's some young women or men that might be
listening to this podcast and always wonder how you prepare,
(35:02):
and yeah, how we got here. Over Preparing is never
a negative thing because then it's the one time you
don't that you're exposed for something and then you know
that's the end of your career. So totally don't ever
worry about over preparing. Just be like, well, I'm so
glad that I did that, even if it was you know, Okay, Steve,
this is what Steve's doing. He just came in and
(35:24):
he's videotaping us dough the pod. No, you know, I
don't need it because he can't hear what we're saying.
So he's all he's hearing is blackheads. Hey, I told
the story of us breaking up, but not really. Yeah,
okay whatever. He seems really concerned. I have a question
for you. Have you ever done a Thursday night Minnesota
game in their new stadium? No, holy shit, I'm a
(35:46):
fucking I have not in this school. I'm dying. I'm
trying dying to do that. We had Minnesota this year
in La mm hmmm yeah, and like, hey, it's good,
it's real good. They got the whole thing. They got
the fake snow coming down, they got the like they're
(36:06):
oo chan. It's pretty cool. It's really really cool. How
about the moment on Instagram today. I'm watching it right
now on Monday Night football where the locker room's going
nuts and Kocs in the back just kind of watching it.
It was really cool. Have you seen that? Do Sam
Darnold up and just it's so good. Speaking one last
thing and then we can go. Speaking of locker rooms,
(36:28):
I can't get over the Kansas City Chiefs locker room.
Andy Reid dressed up as Santa Claus so cute, and
this is the thing. And I know I've went on
a ramp before about Kansas City, but again, like this
team doesn't care about how they win. They just win.
And now you know they can have a month. They
don't have to play those starters for a month. I know,
I know. And our little Chris Jones, he'd better be
(36:50):
okay because you know this this this podcast, big fan.
Oh my god, Chris Jones is that funny buddy? God's great? Hey?
Speaking of great, why don't wennoyed people even more? And
I don't care? Sure? How great does Taylor look post
tour the last in New York with the hair? The
hair is a little darker and we look good. I'll
(37:11):
tell you what. She doesn't have this everybody. Oh stop,
She's also ten years younger than us. I need to
know who Lindsey Lohan's surgeon is or Taylor Swift's routine
aside from her just being younger and hotter. But anyways,
also resting finally from all that her legs, she looked great,
(37:33):
the hair, the lips, were going to dinner. We're fucking
out on the You know what it does? It reminds
me if she can after everything she's just done toward
the world, popping in on a deal. I need to
fucking maybe throw on some lipstick. I mean, I, hey, Grandma,
get out of your sweater. You know, Hey, farmer Joe,
(37:55):
maybe just like, how about it? How about how about
this week where I say to Jared, Hey, so and
so it wants to know if we want to do
dinner tomorrow. He goes, it's smart New Year's Eve. I
was like, I don't know, is it? And he goes, yeah.
I'm like, it's not that, it's it's it's just you know,
I just got home. I got stockings ship on the ground,
you know, I know, you know what. I'm just so
glad you guys are still together for New Year's Eve.
(38:17):
You know that would have been awkward. Hey, who do
we ask to hang? I'm just so glad we're still together.
I thought we broke up. No, please, so panicked. I
wasn't ready for my game. That's what happens to me.
I love you you guys, Call down community. Stay tuned
for some more exciting headlines next week. We love you,
we love you. Thanks for listening. I got to go
(38:38):
get the cats now. They're everywhere. They're literally jooping around.
Can't get that. Oh my god? Can you imagine my
kid running after your cats? Yes? I can, and I
can't wait for that day. He's up here feeding the
sheep and feeding the horse and all of the things.
I can't wait. But he probably won't have time for
me because he's an Olympic, so busy. It's going to
(39:00):
some class right now. My man mood's crazy. He's so cute,
Aaron really though, Like I also act like it's my
kid every time you send me a picture if I'm around,
so I'm like, look at Aaron's kid. She goes that
kid is perfect. I'm like no, but really, I know.
It's like you have to be like, oh, it's like
so cute. Everyone's real cute. Okay, love you buy, I
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