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January 20, 2025 16 mins

Erin and Charissa are back! They answer your questions in a new Pregame:

  • Bridesmaids hate their dress, help!
  • Is asking woman out in person dead?
  • How do you exit a conversation you don’t want to be in?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is asking out a woman in person Dead No, I
think that's one pot so hot. Calm Down with Erin
and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hi, everybody, welcome to the pregame. We've missed you, We've
missed you. It's been a strange time, to say the least,
very very sad time here in Los Angeles. Of course,
everybody knows what's been going on with the fires, Aaron,
you and I are the lucky ones that we are safe,
but we know a lot of people that lost everything,

(00:38):
and you are doing incredible things. I'd love for you
to talk more about that or if we can get
on the Big Show, if you want to do it
about and you stuff set up.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Too right, Kylie told me through Ruby Ranch Ranch we're
doing stuff and did some volunteer stuff this weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'd love to talk about it, so we will do
that on the Big Show. But we've appreciate your guys's
messages and emails and all the things that you've sent.
Just needed to focus on things in our community right
now and with the people that we care about. But
we are excited to be back and distract ourselves with
all things football. I watched my gal, I got. I

(01:17):
don't even want to tell you how many text messages
I got about you from this weekend in Detroit, from
how amazing you looked from both got that's my knockoff
your Florida. Did you do a Jacksonville game on Thursday night?
Did you do? And it was like a million degrees?
Or Miami Miami? Because remember I text I sent it

(01:39):
to you, and I was like, this is Miami in
August or September A bad idea.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Anyways, Detroit in January perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I loved it. I loved it, and so did everyone else.
You looked amazing. Well, I want to start with that.
Your game, Oh my god, I know. I don't want
anyone to lose. I agree, and you know what, I
guess we should talk about this the Big Show. Sorry
I forgetting Okay, yeah, okay, that's a good teaser. Okay,
that's a tease. Sorry, we just jump right into these things.
I apologize, Okay, So pregame, join us on the Big

(02:09):
Show when we talk about Aaron's divisional matchup between the
Lions and the Commanders and all things all right, all
the games we got to talk about all the games exactly, Anon, Okay,
fiance's sister don't like the bridesmaid's dress I chose and
want to pick their own. Help sister don't like the
bridesmaid dress I chose, and they want to pick their own.

(02:32):
It's not your wedding, your wedding, I know, I know,
but see, you know what she's doing. She's doing what
we would do, Like we want everyone to be happy.
So it's like if especially since it's the sisters, it's like, okay,
well then now we're giving up control so other people
can be happy. And at the end of the day,
it's our day and you should wear whatever you want.

(02:52):
I wonder if you could talk to your fiance. I
don't know what your relationship is with your fiance's sisters,
but I feel like if you talk to your fiance
and say, hey, look, can we tell the gals to
it should come from her husband or her fiance. Not funny,
don't you think? Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Honestly, guys, gals of the fiance sisters, lock it up.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's not your day.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
And the fact that now that gossip even got back
to the bride, that ain't good because you just put
shit on her plate. She doesn't need to worry about.
She needs to worry about getting along with his side
of the family. No, I'm kidding.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
She's got so.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Many things to worry about. The fact you don't like
your dresses. That's annoying. It got to her, So they
need to be in time out and actually, anonymous, let
us know how this goes. You stick to your guns
and you keep talking on yours. You know, that's all
people are worried about. They don't care what they look like.
Who gives a crap, That's what I gotta say. I'm
tired of these attitudes.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
You know, well done.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Kitty cat mew, kitty cap corner m h okay, okay, sorry,
I was okay, Cheryl, Cheryl Bees, Cheryl Buys, Cheryl Bees.
Both of our kids recently got engaged. Any input on
how to be a good mother in law?

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh, look at this on the other side of things.
That's so sweet.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I think you've already achieved that because you are asking
and you seem concerned and adorable. I don't know, maybe
a sweet little gift or note to kind of what's
the word I'm looking for to celebrate.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
The moment, Yeah, yeah, yeah, to welcome them in to
your family. I think that's a really good idea, be
like welcome to a family.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
I got engaged right before Christmas, kind of ish early December,
and my mom for Christmas got us both like engaged ornaments,
which at the time is like, oh, that's so cute,
But every year when we open it up to decorate
the tree, we're like, oh, so cute, Mom, that's really sweet.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I like that a little gift to welcome them to
the family. And then I also think just not being
too pushy either, Like I think that that's I've definitely had,
you know, sence a bed of you. Don't be too
pushy when it comes to being the mother in law,
Like that's a big turn off. Like let the person
come to you, like the you know what I mean,

(05:13):
Like I don't know if it's the girl I guess
I imagine or either way, Yeah, just be cool, sit
on the sideline and know that that's like you're ushering
in like a new family member and like your son
or your daughter. I think it's harder too, Like if
Mac ends up marrying someone you don't like, can you
imagine it? Well, no, I do try to. I did
a fitting today. I was shooting something.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Why I have these this much makeup on, but I
also was doing a fitting maybe for New Orleans, and
everything I was thinking of is like, Okay, you and
I are going to dinner. Okay, you and I are
doing this. You and I are doing this. And my girlfriend,
she's so great, who dresses me? She was like, do
you see yourself wearing this? I go or to Max's
wedding and she goes, oh my god, stop it was
a little a little one bride or mother of the groom.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Laura m uh Laura McClung, how about that shirting forties soon?
What's the best thing about being in your fabulous forties, Laura,
let me tell you. I think it's just acceptance of self.
It's you know, you are not trying as hard to

(06:20):
I don't know to. You're hopefully established in your career,
and if you aren't, maybe you're even changing careers because
you're deciding that that career that you had you don't like.
I think there's just a real sense of self in
your forties that you're comfortable in who you are, You're
comfortable and where you're at in your life, and just
it's a little bit of a like Oucket attitude, you know,
like you've weed it out, hopefully you've weeded out the
people that don't matter in your life and you can

(06:41):
focus all your energy on like the core group that
you've built at this point in your life. I think
it just comes with forties, comes with freedom, in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
I agree, I agree, Okay Mac Morgan thirty eight is
asking out a woman in person dead No, I think
that's one pot so hot. Yes, where are you going
to do it? I just love that, Like I don't
like to come up to like walk up to you, approach.

(07:11):
We've talked about this before.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
I think the move of like you're at the bar,
you have the bartender send the drink over and say
this is from so and so down the way. You
can wave and then you can go over and talk
to the person. Or if you're not interested and you
just wave and say thank you so much and then
you leave. But don't put pressure on that person, like
you're come right up to them and you're like, hey,
I'd like to take you out for a date. I
guarantee you've had that happen before, Like if you're not

(07:34):
wearing a wedding ring or something, when someone's like Hey,
I'd like to take you out. I'm like, oh, I
don't think my boyfriend would like that very much. Like
that's what you have to say. Yeah, I don't feel
like anyone's ever done that time. Oh, knock it off.
I'mkay saying cree being married. Like when someone came up
and you weren't interested.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
You don't like shows those people like that you're not
interested in that do that. It's like the ones that
you're sitting there having the drink and it's be like,
are you gonna ask me out?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Are you gonna ask?

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, you want them to. I just think that it's
it shows. I would never shoot someone down, like in
front of their face. I think it takes a lot
of courage to do that. But I also think don't
put the pressure on the person to have to say
yes to it right there, Like just give send the
little note over or drink over. I told you about
the homecoming, ask right or the promise?

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, I feel so bad. And then my dog was
eating chicken, my chicken wings in the back. Yeah, beatings tough.
My mom is freaking out, shut Brock's eyed down, her hair,
her throat.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
So many things are good. Shit, I don't think we've
had those on the West Coast. Okay, Anna, oh I
already did it? Go ahead, No Anna to Cony. Just

(08:51):
moved and looking to upgrade my furniture. Where do y'all
show you go? All right, Anna, here's the deal. The
goate on a budge or not on a budge, exactly
on a budget, not on a budget. The go to
on a budget is always living spaces. You can get
good deals like an Ashley furniture. I mean those are
like budget budget, but like good staples. And then I

(09:12):
would say if your mid range price points you're looking
for like a CBE two or a Creighton barrel, a
west Elm is always good. And then the higher end
stunt stuff is more of like four Hands that's basically
half of your place in the mountains. Oh it's called
four Hands. Yeah, it's they have a bunch of different vendors. Okay,

(09:34):
you need to relax. Daisy is having an anxiety attack
because my dad my parents are visiting, and she loves
my dad and she can't see him right now, so
she's losing a shit. So yeah, so I would do that.
I would start living spaces. If you're on a budget,
CB two Creighton barrel mid range and then four hands
for the or Coco Republic HD Buttercupp. Also my favorites

(09:55):
is Ethan Allen still a thing not for me.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
I just didn't know if I I remember like growing
up by an Ethan Allen and being like that's so rich.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Z Gallery was the one for me. If it was
like if you shopped at Z Gallery.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Oh yeah, mm hmmm, I love that. Okay, pee gips
dot on, no clue if you're trying to get me
to say something pea gips dot on. When someone is
when someone is talking your ear off, how do you
politely exit the conversation.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
I usually just leave.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, I can't focus, and then Carissa or Jarrett will
get annoyed with me and be like, Okay, you can't
be nice, be nice?

Speaker 2 (10:41):
I uh. I had this happened to me, Oh my god, Daisy,
cutie cute. I had this happened to me a Thursday
night game, which this is the worst. Okay, when someone's
talking and it's it's like you're I here's the problem.
I'm a talker, so I really emphathize with people because Daisy, Okay,

(11:06):
this is crazy. Sit down for here and you have
a treat stop. I am a talker, so I really
do emphathize with people that talk. But like you got
to try to like look for that out in the conversation.
And I couldn't get the out in the conversation. And
I see my boys over here out of my periphery
and they're all looking at me, and they know that
I'm trapped by this person because this person has a
reputation of traffic and I am literally giving the middle

(11:28):
finger off to the side and they see it, and
now one of them uses that as a caller. I
d But I'm telling you right now if you need
to get out and be like I'm so sorry, I'm
just going to go run and grab a drink at
the bar. Do you want anything? And then you come
back with multiple drinks, set one down to deliver, and
then you go and then you're like, oh, I got
to deliver these, and so it's like you're not being rude,

(11:48):
You're still offering a drink or a beverage, but it's
like you've got to You've got to go.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah, and last but not least, okay, Oh is this
you or me?

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Who's going?

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Oh? Me?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
You know, it's you, okay, prop tour as women. Have
you ever felt an adequate or out of place in
a male dominated industry? How did you navigate those challenges?
I'm a corporate gals striving to make partner, but working
in a leadership team that's mostly men often feels like
breaking into a boys club. Any advice on how to
bridge that gap or make my mark? Well, first of all,
good for you, you badass in a corporate atmosphere, erin

(12:24):
you're good at giving advice on this. I'll piggyback off
what you say.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
I'm not. I feel inadequate all the time, but then
there's also times I know I belong and I know
Carrisa belongs. I just we've also been doing this for
twenty something years. And if you just said you know
you're looking to make your corporate gals striving to make partner,
I'm not sure that how long that means you've been
in it. Yes, I have my good days and I
have my bad days, but I also know how hard

(12:50):
I work. I also know how important I am to
the broadcast. I think there's different things that I struggle with, right,
So I'll be honest as a sideline reporter. You don't
get it in a lot, you just don't have It
was my first game the other day. I didn't get
in at all in game. And there's a lot of
shit that goes on during the game. There's a lot
like that. You know, they're worried about what the booth

(13:10):
is saying. We had so much crazy shit happening in
our Lions game. Jared Goff gets hurt. Da dah da
dah There's a lot happening. But I also know if
I'm not providing stuff on camera or on the mic,
I'm giving them shots. Hey, the secondary is going through this. Hey,
this is what I'm seeing out of the offensive line.
Pinay Shool just got bent over backwards like things like that. Yeah,

(13:32):
I felt I'm not gonna lie. I felt really down
about myself after the game on Sunday because I was like,
I didn't offer anything on camera or like on the microphone.
And I had a good conversation with my producer. He's like,
do you know how much you gave us with this? Like,
but I'm also really hard on myself, and I think
that is a lot to do with working in a
male dominated industry.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Do you agree with that I was just gonna say,
I think a lot of that is because you're compared.
You're like, oh, but I'm not doing as much as
this person or this person. I don't even think. I
don't even think that's a male thing, to be honest,
I do that that's just no, because like I don't.
I think in general, you and I are not competitive
at all in our jobs. If anything were more like

(14:13):
you take it or what you're doing is you want
to Yeah, exactly. But I still think that there's always
that part of if you really love your job, you
want to be the best, You want to be the
you know, the top of that position. So in this
particular case, I would just say that to Aaron's point,
know that you belong, but also I think it's okay

(14:33):
to still continue to have humility if you're at the
top of that manner, because the minute that you think
that you've arrived, like you're out. And so I think,
like Aaron and I talk about it a lot in
this podcast, be curious, be humble, but also have that
confidence to be like, you got here for a reason.
So I would just say, lean into your position, be confident,
but then also be curious and keep asking questions and

(14:57):
hopefully that helps you. But yeah, just remember that you're
a bad as and you belong there.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, holding your head up high with a bunch of
men in the room is the sexiest and I feel
like one of the best accessories you can.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Have because good, Yeah, I just I do.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, I do now I Sometimes it's hard to walk
that walk, but put something good to remember.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Shoulders back, tomphy Brace, Shoulders back, tomphy Brace. We got
a lot to talk about on the Big Show. The
playoffs are here, baby, and we've got an NFC Championship
game around the corner that will be on Fox, AFC
Championship on CBS. We will break down all that in
a whole lot more. Also ways to continue to help
for those of you that want to participate in all
of the devastation here in California. Okay, love you bye.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
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