February 11, 2025 • 44 mins
Erin and Charissa will not Calm Down as they react to their Super Bowl LIX experience on Fox. They start by discussing their outfits and prep leading up to the Big Game. They also share some of their favorite behind the scenes moments including a surprise run in with a newly crowned champion after the game. They also give a shout out to everyone involved that made Super Bowl LIX the highest rated Super Bowl ever!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So he's like, well, like, what are you doing, coach,
Like where's your car? Like we'll walk you that way,
and he's like, oh, it's just I don't know. I
was going to walk back, and we're like, the defensive
coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles is not walking back to
the hotel right now, Get in the.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Car with us.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Calm Down with Aeron and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hey Girl, it's over. The season is over, which makes
me sad and happy and all the emotions.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Welcome to the Calm Down Podcast post super Bowl party.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
What's happening? It's funny.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I was thinking how you go from a week which
we're going to dive into about like not wanting to
talk too much, saving your voice, to today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Call everyone and help them, I miss them and recap
all I want to do. It's like when you have
a fun vacation or like a crazy night out.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I just want to recap.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
My text chain with the Kickoff Boys started at six
am with shregs firing away literally like all these text messages,
which were great, and then I just went and I
go Mike Vick studying for spring practice. Poor guy's already
like onto his next coaching assignment, and he's still inundated
with text.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I have so much discuss.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I send one to Brady and Burkhart of and I
sent it to you. To the footage in the Eagles
locker room of Landon Dickerson from the O line with
an ivy and a beer in his hand.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Incredible, awesome, that was like amazing. That looked like us
in Tuloom one year, I think is what was going
on there? All right, we have a lot to discuss,
so wonderful producer Ryan and Kurt they know that we'll
go off topic, so we've created a way for it,
a rundown to keep us organized with all of our thoughts.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
We're going to start with We're gonna start from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So obviously anybody that's listened to this podcast before knows
how much Aaron and I get excited, like you should
to cover a super Bowl, and especially because this is
the last one we're going to be actually broadcasting on
Fox for the next foze. We kept talking about it
all week, like, even if you're tired, even if you're whatever,
who cares, It's the Super Bowl. So let's start with
(02:07):
choosing outfits.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Today.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I saw that video that you posted from the designer
that made your outfits. I was like, this is probably
the most incredible thing I've ever seen. So how did
you choose your outfit? What went into it?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Go?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Sorry for the obnoxious videos that I am posting in photos,
but this is our Oscars, guys, and for anyone that
has any issues, look away or just fun fallet Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I'm trying to look hold on. I'm getting this note
from the designer.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Patricia Pepe did both of my outfits my pregame and
my in game, and I loved it so much. And
in style did this amazing kind of rundown of everything. Daniella,
my stylist, what are your intentions? It was the much a.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Great cruel intention, cruel summer.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's kind of what my inspiration for the little Boussie
bodysuit was.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It was so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I loved it so much, and I also loved it
because she just took so much pride.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
In it and wanted to look special in it. It
felt really fun.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I will say this, Chrissa, you looked like an absolute knockout.
You looked amazing in your sequin dress. But the thing
people don't appreciate, appreciate about Chrissa. She had fucking heels on.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
The whole day. And our day started well.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
We were in here in makeup starting at about eight o'clock
in the morning. But Carissa had her full blown outfit
on before I left the hotel, so that was probably like.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Five Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
She runs down in her number adorable, like amazing ball
mod dress.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'll let you talk about it.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But she had her heels on, you guys, she kept
her heels on the whole day.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I looked like I.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Played on the defensive line for the Eagles or the
offensive line for the Chiefs. I couldn't walk the net.
I don't know how you do it, Carrie Bradshaw.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
But you did. I love you for that.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But even in this old age, this old bottom line
dragging around, I'm like, I don't care how much my
dogs are barking. At the end of the day, I
refuse to do the slip into the sandal move even
if my feet hurts so bad, because I'm just I'm like,
there is this thing I have with like when you're
wearing so this dress. Thank you Victoria Feeling and Fox
(04:15):
for helping me get dressed. And look and feel like
it was to Aaron's point, our oscars because I'm like you,
I'm not like a full like sequence kind of goaln naturally,
like that's not really my vibe.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But I'm like, it's the super Bowl, and we had
a couple.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Of different options, and even that morning, I'm like, Dominique,
should I do this or should I do that?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
She's like the sequence? So it was blue.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That's the other thing too, when picking it out, Obviously
you're not gonna wear red, you're not gonna wear green.
You want to make sure that you stay neutral in
terms of the super Bowl people, you know, the teams
that are playing. So anyways, I did love it. It's
one of those things. Steve's so funny. He goes, should
we frame that? And like hang it as like a jersey,
and I go, no, we're not framing that. So I
(04:59):
appreciate that compliments. That's very sweet. But I loved playing
dress up for the day. And my favorite part of
the whole day, as it is every super Bowl, is
always just getting to do it with you, starting from
the hair and makeup room, which was so fun. So
you're fine, and you guys have to remember this too,
is that we never get to get ready for a
game together, right, We always see different places. This is
(05:20):
our prom, yes, and I never had gotten ready with
Aaron for my own wedding or anything like together to
do like you know, the the fun, you know, get
ready makeup stuff together. So anyways started together in the
hair and makeup room. Boys are coming in and now
Glazier Charles getting their hair like trimmed up, you know
(05:41):
whatever or whatever. Glazier has no hair but like just
you know, trimmed up and ready to go. Charles, fucking
what's in God? Love? Only Charles can get away with
this with Brady because of their relationship. Charles doesn't even
see Brady because he's like looking at the wall and
getting his hair trimmed, and he just hears Tom's voice
(06:02):
and then says, you're drinking enough water, Tom, because Tom's
always carrying around his water bottle. And Brady just says
something smart as I'm back, and it was like such
a fun I'm like, this is going to be a
great day.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So yeah, it was a good people day.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Don't understand is Fox is so wonderful enough they all
put they put us all in a hotel together and
it's great. And then we kind of all have this
meeting area and ours was on the third floor, and
it's cool. They do meeting rooms and certain teams go
certain places, like our crew, and then the the you know,
the pregame show. But everyone ends up in the middle
where there's a ton of coffee, there's food, and then
(06:37):
there's a wardrobe room.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
To make up some of our cocktails. I was like, oh,
I love us.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Oh my god, I don't know if you ate it.
There was always walking chips in the afternoon and evening,
which is phenomenal. But something about our hotel with these
saltine crackers, they were like fried.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Did you even Tom Brady was eating them? Oh my god?
With this pimento cheese. Demento cheese is well. I was
going to talk about pulling it in. It was fantastic,
the pimento cheese.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
That's fairly funny because Shreg said during during our meeting
our production meaning we had both the Kickoff crew and
Stray and all the boys whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And he's like, Memento cheese, where are we? It was real.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I didn't think it was delicious though, Yeah, Like saltines
were like fried and crispy.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And they were so amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
But so anyways, we have this third floor and everybody,
you know, it was cool because on Sunday we've all
been there five six days.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
We're all tired, We've all you know, you don't sleep
a lot. It was so funny. And went to work
out today and people were like, do you have to
go the whole time? Is it? Like? Is it RESTful?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I'm like, no, you're lucky if you get six hours
sleep at night, Like that's a good shift you can
put in. And Sunday morning, the girls are already started
their makeup. We've you know, those boys are our family,
so you know, having your putting your extensions in in
front of a Tom.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Brady or I had eye patches in Nonsen, Right, it's
not a big deal.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And they're all walking in and out, and everyone was
downstairs already on the third floor. Because I feel like
we were like caged animals and we were like we're ready,
like being a player, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Was just going to say, imagine them, Like all week long,
I kept asking the boys that were lucky enough to
play in Super Bowls on her crew.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It was like, let's just play this fucking game. Already
so but so much fun.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Part of that process is getting ready together and being
able to do it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But also what's so much.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Fun is when your best friend's a hypochondriac and she
is working the Super Bowl in front of one hundred
and twenty six million viewers, she really doesn't want to
get sick. So every day leading up to Sunday, I
had that Oh my god, Oh my god, am I sick? Aaron,
Thank god you made it through that without getting sick,
because if you would have, I've been like, felt so
(08:40):
bad for giving you a hard time. But you took
every goddamn precaution to make sure that my gal was ready,
including IVS.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
In the Eagles training room. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I was really worried about any sort of flu, and
there were people already going down in New Orleans and
people on our team were getting sick, and I was.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Like, oh Jesus, I got sick first day with you
did so I d something poor Dominie, because I'm getting
ready for the next Sirianni interview. I had to listen
to me throw up in the other room because I
had some kind of food bug.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Thank god, it was quick in and out, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And we like, you have to also understand these events
and dinners. And it's not like Chris and I were
going to a ton of parties, but you.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Walk in our hotel room.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Our bar was a scene, so it was like people
like hey, and in your face. One thing I'd like
to say is I would like to publicly apologize to
anyone that I quickly saw at the bar waved and ran.
It wasn't you. It wasn't anything about you. I just
wasn't breathing in anything. I felt like I was back
to ten feet apart, like I.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Was just very worry. Yeah, you don't want to be
sick for the Super Bowl. No.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I started by Wednesday getting a little tiny bit tickle
in my throat. So it was really concerning to myself
and Kevin Burkhardt. We were animals. I was four zincs
a day. I was all these supplements, and you know,
by Thursday, I was pretty run down, and like somebody
else on our crew was six and I was like shit.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And I looked at somebody with.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
The Eagles and I was like, I think I'm going
to get sick, and they said, let's go hook me
up to an IV and I was sitting there like
I was freaking land in Dickerson on an IV trying
to protect Jalen herds.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I was trying to protect myself. It was wild Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I did barely slept because I was swallowing all this
crap in my throat.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I'm like, I'm going down. I'm going down.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I was really ridiculous, even so much so you don't
know this for my skin.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Now I'm starting to break out.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I had acne pills ready, I had creams ready. I
brought lancets like if I had a white head, and
which I did on Saturday night. You didn't tell me
how right here, but I got to see that. I
also had a medic I would let you have someone.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Oh my god, if you think I want you to
embarrass me in front of all of our friends to
get that thing.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I had a medspa ready and waiting if I got
any cistic acne for a quarterzone shot.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I was an animal super Bowl week animal.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Well, it all worked out, and all the precautions were
important because you were in front of one hundred and
twenty six million people. Congratulations to Fox, by the way,
ye wait, super Bowl it turned out. Oh oh up,
took some unaccounted viewershot came somebody redo the graphic. I'm excited,
(11:20):
but that's awesome. It is, I have to say. And
not just because they you know, we work for them.
Fox does an un frickin believable ol Michaels called me yesterday,
my sweet Al Michaels, and just said, what an incredible
job Fox does with these big events, Like no one
can I say this respectfully and again maybe bias, whatever,
(11:41):
they just do it.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Just like Bourbon Street that scene out there.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Then we had the scene in front of you know
where our set was outside the super Dome, just like
it's incredible and I don't even think that I mean,
we can't even understand the magnitude of the planning, Kira,
just like all these people that do so much for security,
we charity around New Orleans. It is wild to think
about how much goes into a Super Bowl. So shout
(12:06):
out to Fox, not just because again we work for them.
I would as a viewer, I would just sit back
and watch and be like, that is a kick ass production.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And it started for us.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Earlier in the week when we found out that we
were going to be a part of something that unfortunately
was a tribute because of the horrific incident on New
Year's Eve and New Year's Day in New Orleans and
the tragedy that took place there. But Fox of course
wanting to honor those victims and also everybody with the
fires in California and in the Carolinas and Philadelphia and DC,
(12:39):
and just shout out to our boss, Brad Zeger and
all of sort of the brains behind that idea with
Lady Gaga on Bourbon Street. So fill in the details
because it was really incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
On what would it have?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
We don't want to give away too much because I
hope that Brad ends up giving an interview about how
he was able to put this whole thing together. Kind
of what we were all told as a as a group,
all the talent was You're being picked up at the
lobby at three point fifteen in the morning on Thursday.
Everybody's like, huh huh. They provide us like all shirts
(13:13):
and stuff to wear for either you know, Nola Strong,
Chris and I wore LAFD proudly hats. It was amazing,
But I don't think we really understood what we were
in for until we all met downstairs and I mean
it's all of us, eighty one year old, Jimmy Johnson,
Jerry Bradshaw, all of us. We are all down there
ready to go. They take us down to Bourbon Street.
(13:34):
They had clothes shut down Bourbon Streets, one of the
one of the streets, right, because that was really the timing.
They could do it from four am. We were told
to six am. And it was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, and Lady Gaga seeing her, you know, obviously we've
always all been a fan, just whether it's you know,
her as her own super I mean the Super Bowl
performance that she had in Houston that year was unbelieved,
but a huge Lady Gaga fan. But seeing her in
the way that she worked up close and personal and
her how what a perfectionist she is and that she
(14:09):
wanted to do this and to pay tribute to everybody
affected by all those horrific events over the past few months.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
It was incredible to watch.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I hope you guys got a chance to see it,
because it was really really special in a moment that
I know I'll never forget watching and being a part
of something like that, and being surrounded by first responders
and nurses and doctors, you know, firefighters, policeman, all these
incredible individual individuals that do so much in those moments
of complete crisis and chaos. So beautiful tribute there, and
(14:39):
she rushed it. Yeah, it was so good.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
It was really really good, and they played that in
the stadium before the game, which was really exciting. I've
come home and watched it a few times. I even
showed Mackie Doodle doooo. It was fun and it's crazy.
I was explaining it to Jared when we're standing there
around the piano. It's not like they have speakers all
around so we can hear her, but it's not like
we can really hear with all the music and the singers,
(15:03):
and we couldn't hear and see that until obviously we
saw the final finished product, and it was so fun.
Chris and I were standing together and we were swaying
and the part she was hitting it and Charles was
right with us.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
We were like, whoa awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And jewels and it was like we were just it
was a really really cool moment in the wake of
something so horrific. But the messaging, of course that Stray
and Tom delivered so beautifully that that Brad was the
director of Was That Come Together in the moments of crisis,
And I cannot overstate this sports does that like nothing else.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
We've seen it. After nine to eleven, we've seen it
when in.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
The worst of tragedies that people unite around sports. So
it's one of the many reasons that we love it.
So awesome stuff and that Bradzeger, well, well well done.
So again, Aaron and I are going into full details
(15:59):
just because I think people sometimes are curious. I want
to pull back the curtain on the week that was.
So the week also included some of our favorite things
to do, which is sit down with these athletes and coaches,
and they're so generous to give us time, especially during
a Super Bowl week like that. So you got to
sit down with Jalen Hurts. The interview was awesome. I
love that moment when he turned the question back on you.
(16:20):
I'll let you explain that for anyone that didn't get
to see it, But really cool moment with him.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, I guess I had.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Heard about it before, but his screensaver was and still
up until they won the Super Bowl, was him walking
off on Super Bowl fifty seven and the confetti falling
down and redding gold and somebody on his team had
taken a picture, not of that deliberately, but just of
something and you saw him holding his phone. So then
it got out. He spoke openly about it, and it,
(16:48):
you know, drove him. And yeah, it was kind of
fun because Jalen's a guy that you know, he's heard
about it in Philly, like can he do it?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
You know, will he be able to pull it off?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
He's had eight million offensive coordinators and so I think
I had just said to him something like, if you
win this, do you think the critics will stop?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And he goes, do you think they'll stop? And Oh,
I like it? Uh huh. Now, you know, work's pretty straight,
jam straight. So I liked that. Yeah, that moment.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And I also the Tom Brady not Tom Brady, Michael
Jordan and Jeter texts.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, that was really cool. That was really cool.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
He had said after the NFC Championship he got two techs,
one from MJ and one from Derek Jeter, And you know,
we had heard from Derek Jeter, which was a pretty
cool moment for these two gals. Friend of the show,
Derek Jeter, the captain, our co worker, but yeah, Derek
had just said I I told him, look, you know
you're not done yet, you have one more left, go
(17:44):
finish it.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And that was pretty cool. I love the way it
turned out.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
He is.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
He is a very honest guy, very soft spoken.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
To move it forward and then talk you can talk
about Nick Sirianni standing there postgame interview. We had to
wait for Nick Sirianni to do his postgame with Tom Rinaldi.
And as we're standing there, the confetti was coming down
and I was just like, I smacked him a few
times on his chest pad because I was like, look
at this, look at this.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And then I was like, look at this. He's just
taken it in. It was pretty cool, really really cool.
I'd love to see the jacks. I always love this word,
so I want to say it jex'supposition of like that
emotion that you lose to the Kansas City Chiefs, that
confetti's falling, that's your motivation, and now you're standing there
and it's your confetti and they're walking off the field.
It's just that's always the hard part. We talked about
(18:29):
it earlier in the week when people were like, oh,
who you want to pick and it's like I don't
want anyone to lose, Like watching those Kansas City Chiefs
walk off the field, like my heart hurt for them
because I love you, know you as well. We had
that moment with Chris Jones before the game. It came
up and gave us a big hug. When you get
when you are allowed to, you know, interview these guys
(18:50):
and cover these guys and become friends and get close
with them, just you don't want anyone to lose. So
there's such that high and low of emotions. But that's always,
you know, the worst in sports. But so Nick Sirianni,
same storyline there has experienced both now and so congratulations
coach to you, because there's a lot of noise around
(19:11):
Nick Nick Sirianni, especially in a sports town like Philadelphia,
that is, after their skid last year and losing those
games at the end of the year and then they
start the season two and two, there was a lot
of chatta rangas we like to say, around fired Nick
Sirianni and this whole thing. And now you've got a
coach that is the only Eagles coach that's ever taken
an Eagles team to two Super Bowls. And he's done
(19:32):
it in his first four years, and there's still conversation
of like, oh yeah, but it's this guy and this
is this guy that does it, and it's like, you know,
he's the head coach.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Of your football team.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So AJ Brown when we interviewed him postgame, had some
great comments about him, and so did Saquan just the
endorsement of their head coach.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So sitting down with him prior.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
To the Super Bowl, it was cool to see because
we had sat down two years ago in Arizona, and you.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Could tell this was a different guy.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Even if it was only two years removed, sitting in
front of me that had a different level confidence. You know.
I was like, okay, like I've been here before and
now I wanted this result's got to be different and
I'm ready. And he said in the last line of
the interview that he was hungry before and now he
was starving. So it's happy for him in that organization
to come out victorious.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So appreciate that. What else made we also have? Yeah
we got the work element of Super Bowl week, but
we also get to do behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Yeah, I this was a super Bowl I had in
the past, had a good time and stuff like that.
I think it's because am older bo super charged up
about getting sick. I just was really good about Hey,
I want it to be low key. I want to
just be chill. You and I went to a dinner
one night. We went to Chris Stapleton. That was really fun.
(20:44):
But it wasn't like a lot of hooting and hollering
for me. You know, it was pretty tame.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It was a good It was a small, smaller venue,
but we love him. He was great. I also too,
I think that my.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Maturity, I justized the opportunities don't come around that often
to be able to cover a super Bowl that, like
the last thing I wanted to do is because anyone
that knows me knows I like to have fun. But
now I'm learning to have fun responsibly where it's like
I don't need to be at every part. By the way,
like I'm there to wearing a cocktail dress. Yeah, I'm
good a cocktail dress for dinner tonight night. I'm there
(21:20):
to have I'm there to work, have fun. I love
seeing my boys, even from Amazon, some of those guys
are there. That's the thing too about super Bowl is
like the convergence of everyone and you have to remember,
Aaron and I have been in this industry twenty plus
years almost, and so it's like, you know people this well.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Chris Berman, you guys.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I grew up watching Chris Berman and sitting on the
couch with my dad on Sundays. And I was like, I
want to do that. And just he looked at both
of us and he's like, I'm really proud of you, guys.
And it's just anyways, nut to make this about us,
Guys's we're just going.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
To make this all about us.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yes exactly, it was our super Bowl, but it was,
and so I just think it's that convergence of all
of those people that you've worked with.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Along the way or whatever. Anyways, it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
But I always point out my favorite part of Super Bowl,
and I've said it before on here, is getting to
do this job alongside not always actually in person alongside you,
but in parallel, and then to stand on the sidelines
with you before you're about to do your first hit.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
It makes me tear up. It does a big deal.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
It does, and I just I am never it's never
ever lost on me that we get to do this
job just as individuals. But then when we get to
do it together and I get to watch you on
the world's biggest stage and you just shine bright. I
just like a diamond. I just I'm always grateful for that,
and I love you. And whoever got we got to
post the picture, whoever took that picture of me hugging
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you after and cool to act us in it. I
appreciate that. I yelled to see if I say, did
you get Aaron and I on the sidelence? He goes, no,
I go, God, damn it. You make you always. You
always capture great moments. You missed this one. And it
wasn't just you know, for I knew that we had
those memories, but it's for me to put in a
frame and like when we're old and gray and we
aren't doing this anymore, to look back because it's really special.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
So I love you and it is really special. Oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I we my producers really smart and creative this year.
And he just said, hey, how about when the teams
are out of the tunnel, let's have you with Patrick,
Let's have Tom Rinaldi with Saquan.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
So I was like, okay, And I.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Was just waiting, waiting, and they're doing the coming on
the Kansas City Chiefs, and I'm like, holy fuck, Like,
I've interviewed guys eight thousand times. I've talked to him
eight thousand times. But then you're thinking of everybody that's
standing there watching this, and you're just like, God, don't
screw this up now. I felt like this year I
took a different tone. Normally, I'm like, get so excited.
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I felt like it was a lot more chill. It
was like Patrick this moment and even I saw somebody quote,
fuck the internet trolls.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I saw some quote you could tell Aaron and.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Or Jalen Hurts interview was disappointed that Kansas City didn't win.
I'm disappointed both teams didn't win. I actually was trying
to slow down, beat chill.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Instead of being like Hiylen.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Bit, I was trying to be calm and like, because
he's fucking calugh, he's not crazy and raw raw. So
I was like, Jalen, we talked about that, you know,
because you don't want the high pitched boy.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
It's whatever you do, and you're damned if you don't.
If you show that you're excited, then you're too excited.
If you aren't excited enough, and by the way. That's
how I empathize with these athletes on that. It's like,
you can't fucking win for nothing. That's like half the criticism. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
go ahead, Oh you're good.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, I cut you off. I am.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I feel bad for these athletes. Damned if you do,
damned if you don't. I feel bad for the most famous,
amazing woman in the world who fucking gets booed at
this super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Get out of here. I mean, I sit here. Well,
she's just like I love I love her.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
She holds these I mean, I'll probably she holds the
record in every stadium, the attendance record in the Superdome
as an in individual, as one individual standing up on
that stage, rocking the world, and.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
You're gonna be look I get it, look at and.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I say this, by the way, I love I love
the fandom, like of like the Eagles are proud fans,
so it's like they are going to hate her on
that day even because you're rooting for your team.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I mean, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Like I That's what I love so much about Kylie
is like she's like, look, it's my brother in law,
but like this is my team and I'm going to
always root for his success, but not when they're playing
the Eagles. And it's like I and Jason put it
so eloquently, I mean, imagine that feeling.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
He then said, I now know how my parents feel.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
You know, where it's like you want this, but then
you're also like I want that too, and when it's
your family, it's hard. But yeah, Taylor, obviously we all
know our Aaron and I's affinity for her, but she
does she handles everything so well, and so does Travis.
How many you know to answer all? I even said
this to Julian uh and to Gronk. Actually we were
sitting there was Travis was doing some posts, like doing
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press early on in the week, and I looked at
those boys and I was like, damn, so he handles
this still beating.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Uh huh. He handles this so well.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Like that is not I mean imagine like you and
I like, if people kept asking us over and over
the same question, we'd be like, Okay, we're good here again,
just leave her alone, right, So they both handled with
so much grace, and I just, uh, yeah, I didn't
want anyone to lose.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
But that didn't either. The game that we cover has
a loser and a shot.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
That they the shot that they have of him coming
out of the locker room and now you know he
was going up to the suite.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I was actually coming off the field and he was
just walking out and I was kind of like walking
and I was like fuck it, and I just turned
around and I walked up to him because I.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Was like, I don't want to bug him, but I
was like, no, he's like, that's our friend and this
really sucks.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
And I just walked up to him and he stopped
and gave him big hag and I was just like,
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I love you. I'm so sorry. Like they're just they're
humans too. This justin you know, and oh man.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
And then on the other side of that too, it's
said I was so excited to have Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
He was we just had come on. We weren't even
on the air yet.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
We're here in our ear you know, we're start We're
coming on the air for the postgame show in thirty seconds,
and so you're like, Okay, we're gonna get guys big
picture thoughts reaction to this game. And then they're like,
we're getting Saquon We're getting Saquon, and so I'm like great,
They're like, well, come in with an aerial shot.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
At the Superdome. I go, no, just give a straight
shot on him. That's all I care about.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Like he's surrounded by all this press and he was
walking with the trophy and his family and then he
walks upon to set and I was so happy for
him that this is a guy.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Again.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We know all the storyline lines with Saquon, but you know,
it's just that moment and to think about where he
was a year ago to where he is now and
I just couldn't be happy for him. And he went
on his birthday, so we sang Happy Birthday to him
and his fiance. He had his son and his daughter
and then his fiance Anna there and I just was
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so happy for him. He is just a guy that
has so much grace and gratitude. And it was really cute.
He like, as I was like introducing him, I hett
this moment and he like grabbed Charles shoulder and he
was like my god. It was like so he was
just so excited, so happy for him. Aj Brown, all
those guys, all those guys, they are good, good dudes.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And I love the d line. I love that offensive
and we talk about defense. Okay, shits so crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Moment we are walking out of the stadium and so
it's after postgame, so it's like, you know, the stadium's
got cleared out, but like it's you know, starting to
thin out.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Most the crowd's left. Some people are here.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Some people are there in terms of players, and they're
you know, locker room celebration all that kind of stuff,
and Shregs goes coach and Vic Fangio turns around. For
anyone that doesn't know, Fan Joe is the defensive coordinator
for the Philadelphia Eagles. And that performance and that game
plan was from the beginning, like just those guys came,
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they came. That front, all three phases of that defense
was next level.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Some of those hits Patrick took, I don't know how
he got back up, the one with Jalen Carter, the
one right away where he was sacked on his shoulder,
it was like, holy shit, I.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Know, it was just a whole nother level.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And you know those guys afterwards, Patrick mahomes showing such
grace and he's just such a class act, answering every question,
sitting at the podium for twelve minutes, like it just yeah,
it's just I can only imagine how it feels in
that moment to have grace and doing it. Anyways, So
Vic Fangio's walking out of the stadium and here's a
guy his first coaching position was back in you know,
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mid eighties, and now it's twenty twenty five and he
wins his first Super Bowl and Shreg's is so good about,
you know, pointing that out.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
He's right there, and so he's like, well, like, what
are you doing, coach? Like where's your car?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Like, we'll walk you that way, and he's like, oh,
it's just I was going to walk back, and we're like,
the defensive coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles is not walking
back to the hotel right now. Get in the car
with us. So it was a really cool moment he's had.
In the front seat, There's Charles Woodson, Julian Edelman, Schreger
and I are in the back, and I'm like, it's
just those moments where you realize, like, our job's really
(30:25):
fucking cool. And so we were just asking him different
questions and I was like, you know, how excited are
you like right now?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
And he's like, this is.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So cool, and like just for him to have that
moment too, because you know, that's a long journey for
someone and with his resume to finally get one as well.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
So shout out to you, coach.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And then I mentioned your name, of course, because you've
talked with such affinity about him, and I know you
guys are close, and so I said, my girlfriend, Aaron
just adores you, and his face lit up and he
was all excited, and I just I'd love for you
to speak about how much he's like meant to you
and your guys' relationship, because he was I was the
first time I'd met him.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
No, I got to know him when he was the
defensive coordinator for San Francisco and those were my first
couple of years with Fox, So I don't know how
we ended up striking up a relationship.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
He was just always so nice to me, and I just.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Kind of loved he was an older coach and people
kind of say he's a little like, you know, Grougy's
Philly times, he's Philly. He's adorable, and I just loved it.
And I would always talk to him and I'd be like,
get over here and he's great. So he would start
texting me like at the end of this season or
if he saw commercial I was in, and he just
would always say the nicest thing. So in our production
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meeting with Vic Fangio this week, Patrick Mahomes was eight
and oh versus a Vic Fangio defense and we were
kind of just talking to him about it and it
was really really special.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
He said to us, you know, I hope it works out.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
You never know, because Patrick is obviously the wildcard there,
but he said, kind of have like this feeling. He goes,
I've gotten a lot of text messages this week, and
he goes, it feels like a lot of people are
rooting for.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Me, and he got a little teary. It was very
very sweet.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
But he went up Tom Brady his first game in
the NFL leading. You know, obviously New England's offense was
against Vic Fangio, and Vic Fangio was talking about breaking.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Down the film of him.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Tom had obviously taken over for Drew Blatsoe, and Vic
said he was looking at the film of Tom Brady
and was like, this guy's insane. He's going to have
an unreal career. And he was like I'm the one.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
That I'm a scout, I'm the one respond I love
you guys were in the car with him. That's so special.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
It's another thing when you sit there and you look
at these guys and they are superheroes, but they also
are human and it's so cool for us to get
to know that side. I'm grateful for those relationships.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And I was thinking about this today because these are
the things that we think about because we love this
game so much and we love our job. Is that
every body, let's anybody you know, there's to talk about.
Is this Travis's last game? All of these different things,
whoever's last game? This is is that it's always going
You're always going to end your last game with a loss,
unless you walk out on top and like with a
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super Bowl victory, and that feeling of like, you know,
some guys you know, play their whole career and they
never even get there, or you you know, if you're
a Buffalo Bills fan, you go there four straight years
and you lose every single time, or if you're you know,
Dan Marino, you never win a Super Bowl. And Charles
Woodson told this great story in the car when we
were driving back with Vic Vangio. He said, Coach, I
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used to have this reoccurring dream that I was outside
a club and there were two lines, and one was
if you had a super Bowl ring, you got right
in through that line, and the other one was.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
If you didn't.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
And I'd have this reoccurring nightmare over and over again.
And then I won the ring. I won the Super
Bowl and I got a ring, and I never had
that dream again. And it's just a you know, for
a player or for a coach, that's like Hall of
Fame caliber. It's like not all Hall of Famers have rings,
and so it's a really special elite club. So congratulations
to the Philadelphia Eagles. I my heart hurts for the
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Kansas City Chiefs because I know you guys were going
for history. But it's it's that moment where you just
you know, get to applaud the winner and the losers
you go, hey, pick yourself back up and try to
do it again. What the Kansas City Chiefs have done
the last few years is incredible and that it's in
and of itself should be applauded as well. So grateful
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to cover another Super Bowl with you, gal, and football.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Is King one hundred and twenty seven milraziers when it
was really a blowout. It just says so much about
our sport and how much we love it. Shout out
to Roger Goodell. We got to spend some time with
him over the week as well. We have such a
great time.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
I mean, our bosses are like, all right, let's go,
come on, Roger, get out here.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
And Jane wants to tell him Jane. I love Jane Goodell.
Jane Goodell and she is a diehard Bears fan. Sweet.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
She showed up with a Walter Payton jersey on the
sideline and representing Walter Payton. I saw Walter Payton's children
before the game. They're always so wonderful. I just, yeah,
the league is great, the league. The league is literally
in good hands with Roger at the helm and the
players that we get to cover. I just I can't
say enough about it. I just love our fricking job
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so much.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Yeah, and you know, speaking of like Plus Ones, Jane
Goodell and you know.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
She's a she's a great Roger Goodell.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Our Plus ones put in a couple shifts in New Orleans,
I will say, and they will be very happy and
hey to hear this, but there are no better plus
ones to bring to a super Bowl than Stephen Panderi
and Jared Stole. You can leave them on Bourbon Street,
French Quarter, Memphis, Tennessee. They'll find their way back.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
And they additch an an article where you can leave
these guys anywhere and.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Getting videos at two am. I mean of their new podcast,
It's wild.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
It starts with a Jared Stole's organization because he and
those are so organized and.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
He's mapping out walking times for him and Steve and
reservations and the car and security.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Wow, they were busy.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
When I'd be like, what are you doing today, He's liked, well,
at eight o'clock it starts here, He's like going on
and I'm.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Like, are you working the super Bowl? What are you
doing this week?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
But yes, shout out to our plus ones because and
why we're calling them plus ones is because we will
make the announcement here on the Calm Down podcast that
our significant others have decided that they're going to start
a podcast. It'll never come to fruition, but the concept
is hysterical, and the concept is that they are our
plus ones to events like this because there's plenty of
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other times in life where we are there plus ones
and we're happy to do it. We're happy to write
shotgun in their life as well. But they're starting a
plus one podcast and their first guest is Diane Long,
the incredible Diane Long, Howie Long's wife. And then they're like,
and the next guest will be Taylor Swift because she's Travis.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Kelsea's plus one.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
So it's like the list that they came up with
was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
But yeah, there's a great shot.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
And again shout out to Brenda Brenda, what a goddamn
drink she is Shanks, Brenda Shanks organizing all of the
plus ones in our Fox crew that she organizing ours
and including ours. And so there's a shot of all
of these women dressed in the Marti grog gear and
this fun like thing.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
They're all going to walk to the stadium together. And
then there's Steve.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
And there's Jared as the plus ones with Violet Menafee,
all these people that are going to the game from
our Fox family and so they just fit right in.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
In fact, the night before the Super Bowl, you know,
CHRISA and I and we'll let's scoop back, well, no,
we'll tell that in a minute. The night before, to
continue the plus one conversation, Saturday night, Chris and I
go to bed, Jarrett and the Plus Ones all the
of the talent, then go to a big Fox party
Zach Brown performed.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Then we go to bed. We go to bed.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Jared gets in probably about three I was like, where
did you guys go? And he goes back to the
bar with the plus ones all the wives. I was
listening to the diante. I mean, that's what he's doing.
I would also like to say this with the shifts
that are plus ones put in like, yes, I know
my husband deals with a lot of shit for me,
But on the day that is my oscars and my
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prom I am walking around at eight am with a
flashlight as he's sawing logs and smells like the Four
Seasons bar, and I'm like, not sitting on a light,
God forbid.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
As I'm packing my spanks and my supplements to go
do the goddamn super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
This bitch is passed out, I mean as he was
the day before too, And I'm like, let you not
bother you on your time away for the super Bowl.
Laura knows you have three tailgates to get to with ste.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Oh, it's okay. I was in the bathroom after I showered.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
I had thirty minutes before i'd be downstairs, sitting on
the bathroom floor going over my notes.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
I can't be at the desk because he's sleeping, I thought.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I said to Steve, I go, do you mind if
I open these blinds. I can't see a goddamn thing
in here. I'm tripping over the shoes that he barely
got off from the night before because they came in
at three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
What is in my eye?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
No, that is so funny, but you know what, look
it is what it is good for them. You know,
they put up with a lot of shit with us
throughout the year. In fact, I came home today after
I got picked up the dogs from the dog roomer
because I needed them to smell all good and fluffy,
and I get a note on my front door, a
post it note that says shhh, Tommy's season starts today,
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basically meaning if I walk in here, he was on
a call and I needed to be quiet.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Tommy.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Tommy's season starts today. So I just said, you know
what you're right, Tommy, So filling you guys in. For
those of you that don't know, Steve's nickname is Tommy
and mine's Linda. So speaking of the branch, I can't
wait to get there and see all those animals. Really
excited for the off season, but just also miss the
season already, the season.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
That was everyone already.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Now we want to talk to everyone because I'm not
worried about getting sick now and now it's already everyone. Yeah,
And I just have to say one thing, And this
is also what I am going on and on about Fox,
and I swear, I mean it's not just because my contract's.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Up, but I love Fox so much because.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
My brother and my dad came to the Super Bowl
and I Fox's family to me, and so my own
family like sharing in those moments. It was so fun,
and Fox just makes them feel so welcome and make
sure they're included in.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
The events and everything.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
So I just would be remiss if I didn't mention
how wonderful my extended work family is to my own family.
And Marshawn Lynch, who I love so much, flings open
the green room doors were out on our set outside
the super Dome and Marshall Lynch, remember, does not work
for Fox. And I was like, what are you doing here?
And he's like, I'm just wandering around. I go perfect,
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because you have to remember a gal from Seattle and
your dad and my brother's in a Steve Largent Jersey
outside like watching us.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I was like, get over here.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
You have to say hi to my brother and my dad,
and Marshawn comes over and it's just his jovial fun
self and it just was like those moments where you
have to like remind yourself that, like your two worlds
when they intersect, it's really special. So I love you
Dad and my brother Tyson for coming, and I love
Marshall Lynch for just being a goddamn dream. All right,
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So super Bowl was amazing. We are sad that it's over.
We love our job so much. If that has not
just been conveyed over the last forty minutes of us
rambling about it, but now comes the portion of the
program where we just spent the last what is it
six months fully dedicated to our job and now it
is time to re enter back into our lives.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
You are a mother.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
I am a mother of like seven hundred animals that
one of them you never even met, so excited to
go back to the ranch and see them. What does
your re entry look like so far? Because you already
know what mine looks like. Tommy's season starts today.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
We got home at what about twelve thirty yesterday when
we landed about twelve thirty, got to the house at
about one thirty, laid down for like forty five minutes
before Mac was up. He was taking a nap. We
were so excited to go wake him up, and he
was cute and it was so fun. After the nap,
we needed to change him and get him ready for
the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
And I'm like, I'm so glad I'm home. Mag this
is great. Mommy's back. My husband's holding him down, my
head's pounding.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
So it is to clean my closet room that is
a shithole from everything I like hoarded for six months,
create a relationship with my son because he has no.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Clue to right, and knock it off. Don't you get
to my husband because I can't complain about lack of
sleep or traveling or packing. So fair enough, those are
three really good ones.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Yeah, Steve goes and I'm looking at it right here
and yesterday when we were all traveling back together, I
went to pull my chapstick out of here and I
was like, hey, can you get my chapstick? Steve's going
like this, I can't find it. Mary Poppins, there's so
much shit in your purse. Can you think you can
finally clean it out out of the season's over? And
He's right, I need to empty on every bag. I
need to just clean my act up, get my shit together,
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and definitely give Steve a lot of love because he
is incredible to me during the season, and just like
he wakes up every morning with me, I'll give it
a Steve shout out on my Sunday mornings at four
am and he opens up the coffee shop, he calls
it and he makes me coffee and he walks me
to the car so I don't have to walk in
the dark. He's just he's great. And I don't like
to tell him that a lot because everyone loves Steve,
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but he is pretty great. So I'm going to give
Steve the love that he deserves right after he stops
being so loud on the phone calls. Remind Steve, Steve
owns his own company, so Steve doesn't go into an.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Office every day.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
So Steve's office is the table back there, it's the here,
it's the garage, it's the upstairs, it's I mean, I'm like,
he goes, where do you want me to take this call?
Speaker 2 (44:05):
And I'm like, in the alley. I your half And
with that we say, welcome home.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
All right, We love you guys, Calm down, listen to
you for the journey of the season.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
Guys, always so great to come along with us and
now and as Roger says, we will miss you. Where
are you going?
Speaker 1 (44:29):
We love you, guys until next week when we've got
a lot of re entry stories.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
I'm sure we'll follow that well, do you want to
go for a walk?
Speaker 3 (44:38):
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Speaker 1 (44:42):
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So he's like, well, like, what are you doing, coach,
Like where's your car? Like we'll walk you that way,
and he's like, oh, it's just I don't know. I
was going to walk back, and we're like, the defensive
coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles is not walking back to
the hotel right now, Get in the.
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Welcome to the Calm Down Podcast post super Bowl party.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
I was thinking how you go from a week which
we're going to dive into about like not wanting to
talk too much, saving your voice, to today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Call everyone and help them, I miss them and recap
all I want to do. It's like when you have
a fun vacation or like a crazy night out.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I just want to recap.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
My text chain with the Kickoff Boys started at six
am with shregs firing away literally like all these text messages,
which were great, and then I just went and I
go Mike Vick studying for spring practice. Poor guy's already
like onto his next coaching assignment, and he's still inundated
with text.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I have so much discuss.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I send one to Brady and Burkhart of and I
sent it to you. To the footage in the Eagles
locker room of Landon Dickerson from the O line with
an ivy and a beer in his hand.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Incredible, awesome, that was like amazing. That looked like us
in Tuloom one year, I think is what was going
on there? All right, we have a lot to discuss,
so wonderful producer Ryan and Kurt they know that we'll
go off topic, so we've created a way for it,
a rundown to keep us organized with all of our thoughts.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
We're going to start with We're gonna start from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So obviously anybody that's listened to this podcast before knows
how much Aaron and I get excited, like you should
to cover a super Bowl, and especially because this is
the last one we're going to be actually broadcasting on
Fox for the next foze. We kept talking about it
all week, like, even if you're tired, even if you're whatever,
who cares, It's the Super Bowl. So let's start with
(02:07):
choosing outfits.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Today.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I saw that video that you posted from the designer
that made your outfits. I was like, this is probably
the most incredible thing I've ever seen. So how did
you choose your outfit? What went into it?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Go?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Sorry for the obnoxious videos that I am posting in photos,
but this is our Oscars, guys, and for anyone that
has any issues, look away or just fun fallet Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I'm trying to look hold on. I'm getting this note
from the designer.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Patricia Pepe did both of my outfits my pregame and
my in game, and I loved it so much. And
in style did this amazing kind of rundown of everything. Daniella,
my stylist, what are your intentions? It was the much a.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Great cruel intention, cruel summer.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's kind of what my inspiration for the little Boussie
bodysuit was.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It was so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I loved it so much, and I also loved it
because she just took so much pride.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
In it and wanted to look special in it. It
felt really fun.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I will say this, Chrissa, you looked like an absolute knockout.
You looked amazing in your sequin dress. But the thing
people don't appreciate, appreciate about Chrissa. She had fucking heels on.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
The whole day. And our day started well.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
We were in here in makeup starting at about eight o'clock
in the morning. But Carissa had her full blown outfit
on before I left the hotel, so that was probably like.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Five Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
She runs down in her number adorable, like amazing ball
mod dress.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'll let you talk about it.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But she had her heels on, you guys, she kept
her heels on the whole day.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I looked like I.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Played on the defensive line for the Eagles or the
offensive line for the Chiefs. I couldn't walk the net.
I don't know how you do it, Carrie Bradshaw.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
But you did. I love you for that.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But even in this old age, this old bottom line
dragging around, I'm like, I don't care how much my
dogs are barking. At the end of the day, I
refuse to do the slip into the sandal move even
if my feet hurts so bad, because I'm just I'm like,
there is this thing I have with like when you're
wearing so this dress. Thank you Victoria Feeling and Fox
(04:15):
for helping me get dressed. And look and feel like
it was to Aaron's point, our oscars because I'm like you,
I'm not like a full like sequence kind of goaln naturally,
like that's not really my vibe.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But I'm like, it's the super Bowl, and we had
a couple.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Of different options, and even that morning, I'm like, Dominique,
should I do this or should I do that?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
She's like the sequence? So it was blue.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That's the other thing too, when picking it out, Obviously
you're not gonna wear red, you're not gonna wear green.
You want to make sure that you stay neutral in
terms of the super Bowl people, you know, the teams
that are playing. So anyways, I did love it. It's
one of those things. Steve's so funny. He goes, should
we frame that? And like hang it as like a jersey,
and I go, no, we're not framing that. So I
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appreciate that compliments. That's very sweet. But I loved playing
dress up for the day. And my favorite part of
the whole day, as it is every super Bowl, is
always just getting to do it with you, starting from
the hair and makeup room, which was so fun. So
you're fine, and you guys have to remember this too,
is that we never get to get ready for a
game together, right, We always see different places. This is
(05:20):
our prom, yes, and I never had gotten ready with
Aaron for my own wedding or anything like together to
do like you know, the the fun, you know, get
ready makeup stuff together. So anyways started together in the
hair and makeup room. Boys are coming in and now
Glazier Charles getting their hair like trimmed up, you know
(05:41):
whatever or whatever. Glazier has no hair but like just
you know, trimmed up and ready to go. Charles, fucking
what's in God? Love? Only Charles can get away with
this with Brady because of their relationship. Charles doesn't even
see Brady because he's like looking at the wall and
getting his hair trimmed, and he just hears Tom's voice
(06:02):
and then says, you're drinking enough water, Tom, because Tom's
always carrying around his water bottle. And Brady just says
something smart as I'm back, and it was like such
a fun I'm like, this is going to be a
great day.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So yeah, it was a good people day.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Don't understand is Fox is so wonderful enough they all
put they put us all in a hotel together and
it's great. And then we kind of all have this
meeting area and ours was on the third floor, and
it's cool. They do meeting rooms and certain teams go
certain places, like our crew, and then the the you know,
the pregame show. But everyone ends up in the middle
where there's a ton of coffee, there's food, and then
(06:37):
there's a wardrobe room.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
To make up some of our cocktails. I was like, oh,
I love us.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Oh my god, I don't know if you ate it.
There was always walking chips in the afternoon and evening,
which is phenomenal. But something about our hotel with these
saltine crackers, they were like fried.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Did you even Tom Brady was eating them? Oh my god?
With this pimento cheese. Demento cheese is well. I was
going to talk about pulling it in. It was fantastic,
the pimento cheese.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
That's fairly funny because Shreg said during during our meeting
our production meaning we had both the Kickoff crew and
Stray and all the boys whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And he's like, Memento cheese, where are we? It was real.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I didn't think it was delicious though, Yeah, Like saltines
were like fried and crispy.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And they were so amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
But so anyways, we have this third floor and everybody,
you know, it was cool because on Sunday we've all
been there five six days.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
We're all tired, We've all you know, you don't sleep
a lot. It was so funny. And went to work
out today and people were like, do you have to
go the whole time? Is it? Like? Is it RESTful?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I'm like, no, you're lucky if you get six hours
sleep at night, Like that's a good shift you can
put in. And Sunday morning, the girls are already started
their makeup. We've you know, those boys are our family,
so you know, having your putting your extensions in in
front of a Tom.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Brady or I had eye patches in Nonsen, Right, it's
not a big deal.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And they're all walking in and out, and everyone was
downstairs already on the third floor. Because I feel like
we were like caged animals and we were like we're ready,
like being a player, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Was just going to say, imagine them, Like all week long,
I kept asking the boys that were lucky enough to
play in Super Bowls on her crew.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It was like, let's just play this fucking game. Already
so but so much fun.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Part of that process is getting ready together and being
able to do it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But also what's so much.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Fun is when your best friend's a hypochondriac and she
is working the Super Bowl in front of one hundred
and twenty six million viewers, she really doesn't want to
get sick. So every day leading up to Sunday, I
had that Oh my god, Oh my god, am I sick? Aaron,
Thank god you made it through that without getting sick,
because if you would have, I've been like, felt so
(08:40):
bad for giving you a hard time. But you took
every goddamn precaution to make sure that my gal was ready,
including IVS.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
In the Eagles training room. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I was really worried about any sort of flu, and
there were people already going down in New Orleans and
people on our team were getting sick, and I was.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Like, oh Jesus, I got sick first day with you
did so I d something poor Dominie, because I'm getting
ready for the next Sirianni interview. I had to listen
to me throw up in the other room because I
had some kind of food bug.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Thank god, it was quick in and out, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And we like, you have to also understand these events
and dinners. And it's not like Chris and I were
going to a ton of parties, but you.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Walk in our hotel room.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Our bar was a scene, so it was like people
like hey, and in your face. One thing I'd like
to say is I would like to publicly apologize to
anyone that I quickly saw at the bar waved and ran.
It wasn't you. It wasn't anything about you. I just
wasn't breathing in anything. I felt like I was back
to ten feet apart, like I.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Was just very worry. Yeah, you don't want to be
sick for the Super Bowl. No.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I started by Wednesday getting a little tiny bit tickle
in my throat. So it was really concerning to myself
and Kevin Burkhardt. We were animals. I was four zincs
a day. I was all these supplements, and you know,
by Thursday, I was pretty run down, and like somebody
else on our crew was six and I was like shit.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And I looked at somebody with.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
The Eagles and I was like, I think I'm going
to get sick, and they said, let's go hook me
up to an IV and I was sitting there like
I was freaking land in Dickerson on an IV trying
to protect Jalen herds.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I was trying to protect myself. It was wild Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I did barely slept because I was swallowing all this
crap in my throat.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I'm like, I'm going down. I'm going down.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I was really ridiculous, even so much so you don't
know this for my skin.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Now I'm starting to break out.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I had acne pills ready, I had creams ready. I
brought lancets like if I had a white head, and
which I did on Saturday night. You didn't tell me
how right here, but I got to see that. I
also had a medic I would let you have someone.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Oh my god, if you think I want you to
embarrass me in front of all of our friends to
get that thing.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I had a medspa ready and waiting if I got
any cistic acne for a quarterzone shot.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I was an animal super Bowl week animal.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Well, it all worked out, and all the precautions were
important because you were in front of one hundred and
twenty six million people. Congratulations to Fox, by the way,
ye wait, super Bowl it turned out. Oh oh up,
took some unaccounted viewershot came somebody redo the graphic. I'm excited,
(11:20):
but that's awesome. It is, I have to say. And
not just because they you know, we work for them.
Fox does an un frickin believable ol Michaels called me yesterday,
my sweet Al Michaels, and just said, what an incredible
job Fox does with these big events, Like no one
can I say this respectfully and again maybe bias, whatever,
(11:41):
they just do it.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Just like Bourbon Street that scene out there.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Then we had the scene in front of you know
where our set was outside the super Dome, just like
it's incredible and I don't even think that I mean,
we can't even understand the magnitude of the planning, Kira,
just like all these people that do so much for security,
we charity around New Orleans. It is wild to think
about how much goes into a Super Bowl. So shout
(12:06):
out to Fox, not just because again we work for them.
I would as a viewer, I would just sit back
and watch and be like, that is a kick ass production.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And it started for us.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Earlier in the week when we found out that we
were going to be a part of something that unfortunately
was a tribute because of the horrific incident on New
Year's Eve and New Year's Day in New Orleans and
the tragedy that took place there. But Fox of course
wanting to honor those victims and also everybody with the
fires in California and in the Carolinas and Philadelphia and DC,
(12:39):
and just shout out to our boss, Brad Zeger and
all of sort of the brains behind that idea with
Lady Gaga on Bourbon Street. So fill in the details
because it was really incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
On what would it have?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
We don't want to give away too much because I
hope that Brad ends up giving an interview about how
he was able to put this whole thing together. Kind
of what we were all told as a as a group,
all the talent was You're being picked up at the
lobby at three point fifteen in the morning on Thursday.
Everybody's like, huh huh. They provide us like all shirts
(13:13):
and stuff to wear for either you know, Nola Strong,
Chris and I wore LAFD proudly hats. It was amazing,
But I don't think we really understood what we were
in for until we all met downstairs and I mean
it's all of us, eighty one year old, Jimmy Johnson,
Jerry Bradshaw, all of us. We are all down there
ready to go. They take us down to Bourbon Street.
(13:34):
They had clothes shut down Bourbon Streets, one of the
one of the streets, right, because that was really the timing.
They could do it from four am. We were told
to six am. And it was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, and Lady Gaga seeing her, you know, obviously we've
always all been a fan, just whether it's you know,
her as her own super I mean the Super Bowl
performance that she had in Houston that year was unbelieved,
but a huge Lady Gaga fan. But seeing her in
the way that she worked up close and personal and
her how what a perfectionist she is and that she
(14:09):
wanted to do this and to pay tribute to everybody
affected by all those horrific events over the past few months.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
It was incredible to watch.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I hope you guys got a chance to see it,
because it was really really special in a moment that
I know I'll never forget watching and being a part
of something like that, and being surrounded by first responders
and nurses and doctors, you know, firefighters, policeman, all these
incredible individual individuals that do so much in those moments
of complete crisis and chaos. So beautiful tribute there, and
(14:39):
she rushed it. Yeah, it was so good.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
It was really really good, and they played that in
the stadium before the game, which was really exciting. I've
come home and watched it a few times. I even
showed Mackie Doodle doooo. It was fun and it's crazy.
I was explaining it to Jared when we're standing there
around the piano. It's not like they have speakers all
around so we can hear her, but it's not like
we can really hear with all the music and the singers,
(15:03):
and we couldn't hear and see that until obviously we
saw the final finished product, and it was so fun.
Chris and I were standing together and we were swaying
and the part she was hitting it and Charles was
right with us.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
We were like, whoa awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And jewels and it was like we were just it
was a really really cool moment in the wake of
something so horrific. But the messaging, of course that Stray
and Tom delivered so beautifully that that Brad was the
director of Was That Come Together in the moments of crisis,
And I cannot overstate this sports does that like nothing else.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
We've seen it. After nine to eleven, we've seen it
when in.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
The worst of tragedies that people unite around sports. So
it's one of the many reasons that we love it.
So awesome stuff and that Bradzeger, well, well well done.
So again, Aaron and I are going into full details
(15:59):
just because I think people sometimes are curious. I want
to pull back the curtain on the week that was.
So the week also included some of our favorite things
to do, which is sit down with these athletes and coaches,
and they're so generous to give us time, especially during
a Super Bowl week like that. So you got to
sit down with Jalen Hurts. The interview was awesome. I
love that moment when he turned the question back on you.
(16:20):
I'll let you explain that for anyone that didn't get
to see it, But really cool moment with him.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, I guess I had.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Heard about it before, but his screensaver was and still
up until they won the Super Bowl, was him walking
off on Super Bowl fifty seven and the confetti falling
down and redding gold and somebody on his team had
taken a picture, not of that deliberately, but just of
something and you saw him holding his phone. So then
it got out. He spoke openly about it, and it,
(16:48):
you know, drove him. And yeah, it was kind of
fun because Jalen's a guy that you know, he's heard
about it in Philly, like can he do it?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
You know, will he be able to pull it off?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
He's had eight million offensive coordinators and so I think
I had just said to him something like, if you
win this, do you think the critics will stop?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And he goes, do you think they'll stop? And Oh,
I like it? Uh huh. Now, you know, work's pretty straight,
jam straight. So I liked that. Yeah, that moment.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And I also the Tom Brady not Tom Brady, Michael
Jordan and Jeter texts.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, that was really cool. That was really cool.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
He had said after the NFC Championship he got two techs,
one from MJ and one from Derek Jeter, And you know,
we had heard from Derek Jeter, which was a pretty
cool moment for these two gals. Friend of the show,
Derek Jeter, the captain, our co worker, but yeah, Derek
had just said I I told him, look, you know
you're not done yet, you have one more left, go
(17:44):
finish it.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And that was pretty cool. I love the way it
turned out.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
He is.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
He is a very honest guy, very soft spoken.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
To move it forward and then talk you can talk
about Nick Sirianni standing there postgame interview. We had to
wait for Nick Sirianni to do his postgame with Tom Rinaldi.
And as we're standing there, the confetti was coming down
and I was just like, I smacked him a few
times on his chest pad because I was like, look
at this, look at this.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And then I was like, look at this. He's just
taken it in. It was pretty cool, really really cool.
I'd love to see the jacks. I always love this word,
so I want to say it jex'supposition of like that
emotion that you lose to the Kansas City Chiefs, that
confetti's falling, that's your motivation, and now you're standing there
and it's your confetti and they're walking off the field.
It's just that's always the hard part. We talked about
(18:29):
it earlier in the week when people were like, oh,
who you want to pick and it's like I don't
want anyone to lose, Like watching those Kansas City Chiefs
walk off the field, like my heart hurt for them
because I love you, know you as well. We had
that moment with Chris Jones before the game. It came
up and gave us a big hug. When you get
when you are allowed to, you know, interview these guys
(18:50):
and cover these guys and become friends and get close
with them, just you don't want anyone to lose. So
there's such that high and low of emotions. But that's always,
you know, the worst in sports. But so Nick Sirianni,
same storyline there has experienced both now and so congratulations
coach to you, because there's a lot of noise around
(19:11):
Nick Nick Sirianni, especially in a sports town like Philadelphia,
that is, after their skid last year and losing those
games at the end of the year and then they
start the season two and two, there was a lot
of chatta rangas we like to say, around fired Nick
Sirianni and this whole thing. And now you've got a
coach that is the only Eagles coach that's ever taken
an Eagles team to two Super Bowls. And he's done
(19:32):
it in his first four years, and there's still conversation
of like, oh yeah, but it's this guy and this
is this guy that does it, and it's like, you know,
he's the head coach.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Of your football team.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So AJ Brown when we interviewed him postgame, had some
great comments about him, and so did Saquan just the
endorsement of their head coach.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So sitting down with him prior.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
To the Super Bowl, it was cool to see because
we had sat down two years ago in Arizona, and you.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Could tell this was a different guy.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Even if it was only two years removed, sitting in
front of me that had a different level confidence. You know.
I was like, okay, like I've been here before and
now I wanted this result's got to be different and
I'm ready. And he said in the last line of
the interview that he was hungry before and now he
was starving. So it's happy for him in that organization
to come out victorious.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So appreciate that. What else made we also have? Yeah
we got the work element of Super Bowl week, but
we also get to do behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Yeah, I this was a super Bowl I had in
the past, had a good time and stuff like that.
I think it's because am older bo super charged up
about getting sick. I just was really good about Hey,
I want it to be low key. I want to
just be chill. You and I went to a dinner
one night. We went to Chris Stapleton. That was really fun.
(20:44):
But it wasn't like a lot of hooting and hollering
for me. You know, it was pretty tame.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It was a good It was a small, smaller venue,
but we love him. He was great. I also too,
I think that my.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Maturity, I justized the opportunities don't come around that often
to be able to cover a super Bowl that, like
the last thing I wanted to do is because anyone
that knows me knows I like to have fun. But
now I'm learning to have fun responsibly where it's like
I don't need to be at every part. By the way,
like I'm there to wearing a cocktail dress. Yeah, I'm
good a cocktail dress for dinner tonight night. I'm there
(21:20):
to have I'm there to work, have fun. I love
seeing my boys, even from Amazon, some of those guys
are there. That's the thing too about super Bowl is
like the convergence of everyone and you have to remember,
Aaron and I have been in this industry twenty plus
years almost, and so it's like, you know people this well.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Chris Berman, you guys.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I grew up watching Chris Berman and sitting on the
couch with my dad on Sundays. And I was like, I
want to do that. And just he looked at both
of us and he's like, I'm really proud of you, guys.
And it's just anyways, nut to make this about us,
Guys's we're just going.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
To make this all about us.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yes exactly, it was our super Bowl, but it was,
and so I just think it's that convergence of all
of those people that you've worked with.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Along the way or whatever. Anyways, it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
But I always point out my favorite part of Super Bowl,
and I've said it before on here, is getting to
do this job alongside not always actually in person alongside you,
but in parallel, and then to stand on the sidelines
with you before you're about to do your first hit.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
It makes me tear up. It does a big deal.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
It does, and I just I am never it's never
ever lost on me that we get to do this
job just as individuals. But then when we get to
do it together and I get to watch you on
the world's biggest stage and you just shine bright. I
just like a diamond. I just I'm always grateful for that,
and I love you. And whoever got we got to
post the picture, whoever took that picture of me hugging
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you after and cool to act us in it. I
appreciate that. I yelled to see if I say, did
you get Aaron and I on the sidelence? He goes, no,
I go, God, damn it. You make you always. You
always capture great moments. You missed this one. And it
wasn't just you know, for I knew that we had
those memories, but it's for me to put in a
frame and like when we're old and gray and we
aren't doing this anymore, to look back because it's really special.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
So I love you and it is really special. Oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I we my producers really smart and creative this year.
And he just said, hey, how about when the teams
are out of the tunnel, let's have you with Patrick,
Let's have Tom Rinaldi with Saquan.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
So I was like, okay, And I.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Was just waiting, waiting, and they're doing the coming on
the Kansas City Chiefs, and I'm like, holy fuck, Like,
I've interviewed guys eight thousand times. I've talked to him
eight thousand times. But then you're thinking of everybody that's
standing there watching this, and you're just like, God, don't
screw this up now. I felt like this year I
took a different tone. Normally, I'm like, get so excited.
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I felt like it was a lot more chill. It
was like Patrick this moment and even I saw somebody quote,
fuck the internet trolls.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I saw some quote you could tell Aaron and.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Or Jalen Hurts interview was disappointed that Kansas City didn't win.
I'm disappointed both teams didn't win. I actually was trying
to slow down, beat chill.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Instead of being like Hiylen.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Bit, I was trying to be calm and like, because
he's fucking calugh, he's not crazy and raw raw. So
I was like, Jalen, we talked about that, you know,
because you don't want the high pitched boy.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
It's whatever you do, and you're damned if you don't.
If you show that you're excited, then you're too excited.
If you aren't excited enough, and by the way. That's
how I empathize with these athletes on that. It's like,
you can't fucking win for nothing. That's like half the criticism. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
go ahead, Oh you're good.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, I cut you off. I am.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I feel bad for these athletes. Damned if you do,
damned if you don't. I feel bad for the most famous,
amazing woman in the world who fucking gets booed at
this super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Get out of here. I mean, I sit here. Well,
she's just like I love I love her.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
She holds these I mean, I'll probably she holds the
record in every stadium, the attendance record in the Superdome
as an in individual, as one individual standing up on
that stage, rocking the world, and.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
You're gonna be look I get it, look at and.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I say this, by the way, I love I love
the fandom, like of like the Eagles are proud fans,
so it's like they are going to hate her on
that day even because you're rooting for your team.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I mean, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Like I That's what I love so much about Kylie
is like she's like, look, it's my brother in law,
but like this is my team and I'm going to
always root for his success, but not when they're playing
the Eagles. And it's like I and Jason put it
so eloquently, I mean, imagine that feeling.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
He then said, I now know how my parents feel.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
You know, where it's like you want this, but then
you're also like I want that too, and when it's
your family, it's hard. But yeah, Taylor, obviously we all
know our Aaron and I's affinity for her, but she
does she handles everything so well, and so does Travis.
How many you know to answer all? I even said
this to Julian uh and to Gronk. Actually we were
sitting there was Travis was doing some posts, like doing
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press early on in the week, and I looked at
those boys and I was like, damn, so he handles
this still beating.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Uh huh. He handles this so well.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Like that is not I mean imagine like you and
I like, if people kept asking us over and over
the same question, we'd be like, Okay, we're good here again,
just leave her alone, right, So they both handled with
so much grace, and I just, uh, yeah, I didn't
want anyone to lose.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
But that didn't either. The game that we cover has
a loser and a shot.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
That they the shot that they have of him coming
out of the locker room and now you know he
was going up to the suite.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I was actually coming off the field and he was
just walking out and I was kind of like walking
and I was like fuck it, and I just turned
around and I walked up to him because I.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Was like, I don't want to bug him, but I
was like, no, he's like, that's our friend and this
really sucks.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
And I just walked up to him and he stopped
and gave him big hag and I was just like,
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I love you. I'm so sorry. Like they're just they're
humans too. This justin you know, and oh man.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
And then on the other side of that too, it's
said I was so excited to have Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
He was we just had come on. We weren't even
on the air yet.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
We're here in our ear you know, we're start We're
coming on the air for the postgame show in thirty seconds,
and so you're like, Okay, we're gonna get guys big
picture thoughts reaction to this game. And then they're like,
we're getting Saquon We're getting Saquon, and so I'm like great,
They're like, well, come in with an aerial shot.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
At the Superdome. I go, no, just give a straight
shot on him. That's all I care about.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Like he's surrounded by all this press and he was
walking with the trophy and his family and then he
walks upon to set and I was so happy for
him that this is a guy.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Again.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We know all the storyline lines with Saquon, but you know,
it's just that moment and to think about where he
was a year ago to where he is now and
I just couldn't be happy for him. And he went
on his birthday, so we sang Happy Birthday to him
and his fiance. He had his son and his daughter
and then his fiance Anna there and I just was
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so happy for him. He is just a guy that
has so much grace and gratitude. And it was really cute.
He like, as I was like introducing him, I hett
this moment and he like grabbed Charles shoulder and he
was like my god. It was like so he was
just so excited, so happy for him. Aj Brown, all
those guys, all those guys, they are good, good dudes.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And I love the d line. I love that offensive
and we talk about defense. Okay, shits so crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Moment we are walking out of the stadium and so
it's after postgame, so it's like, you know, the stadium's
got cleared out, but like it's you know, starting to
thin out.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Most the crowd's left. Some people are here.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Some people are there in terms of players, and they're
you know, locker room celebration all that kind of stuff,
and Shregs goes coach and Vic Fangio turns around. For
anyone that doesn't know, Fan Joe is the defensive coordinator
for the Philadelphia Eagles. And that performance and that game
plan was from the beginning, like just those guys came,
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they came. That front, all three phases of that defense
was next level.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Some of those hits Patrick took, I don't know how
he got back up, the one with Jalen Carter, the
one right away where he was sacked on his shoulder,
it was like, holy shit, I.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Know, it was just a whole nother level.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And you know those guys afterwards, Patrick mahomes showing such
grace and he's just such a class act, answering every question,
sitting at the podium for twelve minutes, like it just yeah,
it's just I can only imagine how it feels in
that moment to have grace and doing it. Anyways, So
Vic Fangio's walking out of the stadium and here's a
guy his first coaching position was back in you know,
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mid eighties, and now it's twenty twenty five and he
wins his first Super Bowl and Shreg's is so good about,
you know, pointing that out.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
He's right there, and so he's like, well, like, what
are you doing, coach? Like where's your car?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Like, we'll walk you that way, and he's like, oh,
it's just I was going to walk back, and we're like,
the defensive coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles is not walking
back to the hotel right now. Get in the car
with us. So it was a really cool moment he's had.
In the front seat, There's Charles Woodson, Julian Edelman, Schreger
and I are in the back, and I'm like, it's
just those moments where you realize, like, our job's really
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fucking cool. And so we were just asking him different
questions and I was like, you know, how excited are
you like right now?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
And he's like, this is.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So cool, and like just for him to have that
moment too, because you know, that's a long journey for
someone and with his resume to finally get one as well.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
So shout out to you, coach.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And then I mentioned your name, of course, because you've
talked with such affinity about him, and I know you
guys are close, and so I said, my girlfriend, Aaron
just adores you, and his face lit up and he
was all excited, and I just I'd love for you
to speak about how much he's like meant to you
and your guys' relationship, because he was I was the
first time I'd met him.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
No, I got to know him when he was the
defensive coordinator for San Francisco and those were my first
couple of years with Fox, So I don't know how
we ended up striking up a relationship.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
He was just always so nice to me, and I just.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Kind of loved he was an older coach and people
kind of say he's a little like, you know, Grougy's
Philly times, he's Philly. He's adorable, and I just loved it.
And I would always talk to him and I'd be like,
get over here and he's great. So he would start
texting me like at the end of this season or
if he saw commercial I was in, and he just
would always say the nicest thing. So in our production
(31:34):
meeting with Vic Fangio this week, Patrick Mahomes was eight
and oh versus a Vic Fangio defense and we were
kind of just talking to him about it and it
was really really special.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
He said to us, you know, I hope it works out.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
You never know, because Patrick is obviously the wildcard there,
but he said, kind of have like this feeling. He goes,
I've gotten a lot of text messages this week, and
he goes, it feels like a lot of people are
rooting for.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Me, and he got a little teary. It was very
very sweet.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
But he went up Tom Brady his first game in
the NFL leading. You know, obviously New England's offense was
against Vic Fangio, and Vic Fangio was talking about breaking.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Down the film of him.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Tom had obviously taken over for Drew Blatsoe, and Vic
said he was looking at the film of Tom Brady
and was like, this guy's insane. He's going to have
an unreal career. And he was like I'm the one.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
That I'm a scout, I'm the one respond I love
you guys were in the car with him. That's so special.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
It's another thing when you sit there and you look
at these guys and they are superheroes, but they also
are human and it's so cool for us to get
to know that side. I'm grateful for those relationships.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And I was thinking about this today because these are
the things that we think about because we love this
game so much and we love our job. Is that
every body, let's anybody you know, there's to talk about.
Is this Travis's last game? All of these different things,
whoever's last game? This is is that it's always going
You're always going to end your last game with a loss,
unless you walk out on top and like with a
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super Bowl victory, and that feeling of like, you know,
some guys you know, play their whole career and they
never even get there, or you you know, if you're
a Buffalo Bills fan, you go there four straight years
and you lose every single time, or if you're you know,
Dan Marino, you never win a Super Bowl. And Charles
Woodson told this great story in the car when we
were driving back with Vic Vangio. He said, Coach, I
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used to have this reoccurring dream that I was outside
a club and there were two lines, and one was
if you had a super Bowl ring, you got right
in through that line, and the other one was.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
If you didn't.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
And I'd have this reoccurring nightmare over and over again.
And then I won the ring. I won the Super
Bowl and I got a ring, and I never had
that dream again. And it's just a you know, for
a player or for a coach, that's like Hall of
Fame caliber. It's like not all Hall of Famers have rings,
and so it's a really special elite club. So congratulations
to the Philadelphia Eagles. I my heart hurts for the
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Kansas City Chiefs because I know you guys were going
for history. But it's it's that moment where you just
you know, get to applaud the winner and the losers
you go, hey, pick yourself back up and try to
do it again. What the Kansas City Chiefs have done
the last few years is incredible and that it's in
and of itself should be applauded as well. So grateful
(34:19):
to cover another Super Bowl with you, gal, and football.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Is King one hundred and twenty seven milraziers when it
was really a blowout. It just says so much about
our sport and how much we love it. Shout out
to Roger Goodell. We got to spend some time with
him over the week as well. We have such a
great time.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
I mean, our bosses are like, all right, let's go,
come on, Roger, get out here.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
And Jane wants to tell him Jane. I love Jane Goodell.
Jane Goodell and she is a diehard Bears fan. Sweet.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
She showed up with a Walter Payton jersey on the
sideline and representing Walter Payton. I saw Walter Payton's children
before the game. They're always so wonderful. I just, yeah,
the league is great, the league. The league is literally
in good hands with Roger at the helm and the
players that we get to cover. I just I can't
say enough about it. I just love our fricking job
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so much.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Yeah, and you know, speaking of like Plus Ones, Jane
Goodell and you know.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
She's a she's a great Roger Goodell.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Our Plus ones put in a couple shifts in New Orleans,
I will say, and they will be very happy and
hey to hear this, but there are no better plus
ones to bring to a super Bowl than Stephen Panderi
and Jared Stole. You can leave them on Bourbon Street,
French Quarter, Memphis, Tennessee. They'll find their way back.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
And they additch an an article where you can leave
these guys anywhere and.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Getting videos at two am. I mean of their new podcast,
It's wild.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
It starts with a Jared Stole's organization because he and
those are so organized and.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
He's mapping out walking times for him and Steve and
reservations and the car and security.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Wow, they were busy.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
When I'd be like, what are you doing today, He's liked, well,
at eight o'clock it starts here, He's like going on
and I'm.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Like, are you working the super Bowl? What are you
doing this week?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
But yes, shout out to our plus ones because and
why we're calling them plus ones is because we will
make the announcement here on the Calm Down podcast that
our significant others have decided that they're going to start
a podcast. It'll never come to fruition, but the concept
is hysterical, and the concept is that they are our
plus ones to events like this because there's plenty of
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other times in life where we are there plus ones
and we're happy to do it. We're happy to write
shotgun in their life as well. But they're starting a
plus one podcast and their first guest is Diane Long,
the incredible Diane Long, Howie Long's wife. And then they're like,
and the next guest will be Taylor Swift because she's Travis.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Kelsea's plus one.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
So it's like the list that they came up with
was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
But yeah, there's a great shot.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
And again shout out to Brenda Brenda, what a goddamn
drink she is Shanks, Brenda Shanks organizing all of the
plus ones in our Fox crew that she organizing ours
and including ours. And so there's a shot of all
of these women dressed in the Marti grog gear and
this fun like thing.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
They're all going to walk to the stadium together. And
then there's Steve.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
And there's Jared as the plus ones with Violet Menafee,
all these people that are going to the game from
our Fox family and so they just fit right in.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
In fact, the night before the Super Bowl, you know,
CHRISA and I and we'll let's scoop back, well, no,
we'll tell that in a minute. The night before, to
continue the plus one conversation, Saturday night, Chris and I
go to bed, Jarrett and the Plus Ones all the
of the talent, then go to a big Fox party
Zach Brown performed.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Then we go to bed. We go to bed.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Jared gets in probably about three I was like, where
did you guys go? And he goes back to the
bar with the plus ones all the wives. I was
listening to the diante. I mean, that's what he's doing.
I would also like to say this with the shifts
that are plus ones put in like, yes, I know
my husband deals with a lot of shit for me,
But on the day that is my oscars and my
(38:26):
prom I am walking around at eight am with a
flashlight as he's sawing logs and smells like the Four
Seasons bar, and I'm like, not sitting on a light,
God forbid.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
As I'm packing my spanks and my supplements to go
do the goddamn super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
This bitch is passed out, I mean as he was
the day before too, And I'm like, let you not
bother you on your time away for the super Bowl.
Laura knows you have three tailgates to get to with ste.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Oh, it's okay. I was in the bathroom after I showered.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
I had thirty minutes before i'd be downstairs, sitting on
the bathroom floor going over my notes.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
I can't be at the desk because he's sleeping, I thought.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I said to Steve, I go, do you mind if
I open these blinds. I can't see a goddamn thing
in here. I'm tripping over the shoes that he barely
got off from the night before because they came in
at three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
What is in my eye?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
No, that is so funny, but you know what, look
it is what it is good for them. You know,
they put up with a lot of shit with us
throughout the year. In fact, I came home today after
I got picked up the dogs from the dog roomer
because I needed them to smell all good and fluffy,
and I get a note on my front door, a
post it note that says shhh, Tommy's season starts today,
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basically meaning if I walk in here, he was on
a call and I needed to be quiet.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Tommy.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Tommy's season starts today. So I just said, you know
what you're right, Tommy, So filling you guys in. For
those of you that don't know, Steve's nickname is Tommy
and mine's Linda. So speaking of the branch, I can't
wait to get there and see all those animals. Really
excited for the off season, but just also miss the
season already, the season.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
That was everyone already.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Now we want to talk to everyone because I'm not
worried about getting sick now and now it's already everyone. Yeah,
And I just have to say one thing, And this
is also what I am going on and on about Fox,
and I swear, I mean it's not just because my contract's.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Up, but I love Fox so much because.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
My brother and my dad came to the Super Bowl
and I Fox's family to me, and so my own
family like sharing in those moments. It was so fun,
and Fox just makes them feel so welcome and make
sure they're included in.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
The events and everything.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
So I just would be remiss if I didn't mention
how wonderful my extended work family is to my own family.
And Marshawn Lynch, who I love so much, flings open
the green room doors were out on our set outside
the super Dome and Marshall Lynch, remember, does not work
for Fox. And I was like, what are you doing here?
And he's like, I'm just wandering around. I go perfect,
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because you have to remember a gal from Seattle and
your dad and my brother's in a Steve Largent Jersey
outside like watching us.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I was like, get over here.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
You have to say hi to my brother and my dad,
and Marshawn comes over and it's just his jovial fun
self and it just was like those moments where you
have to like remind yourself that, like your two worlds
when they intersect, it's really special. So I love you
Dad and my brother Tyson for coming, and I love
Marshall Lynch for just being a goddamn dream. All right,
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So super Bowl was amazing. We are sad that it's over.
We love our job so much. If that has not
just been conveyed over the last forty minutes of us
rambling about it, but now comes the portion of the
program where we just spent the last what is it
six months fully dedicated to our job and now it
is time to re enter back into our lives.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
You are a mother.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
I am a mother of like seven hundred animals that
one of them you never even met, so excited to
go back to the ranch and see them. What does
your re entry look like so far? Because you already
know what mine looks like. Tommy's season starts today.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
We got home at what about twelve thirty yesterday when
we landed about twelve thirty, got to the house at
about one thirty, laid down for like forty five minutes
before Mac was up. He was taking a nap. We
were so excited to go wake him up, and he
was cute and it was so fun. After the nap,
we needed to change him and get him ready for
the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
And I'm like, I'm so glad I'm home. Mag this
is great. Mommy's back. My husband's holding him down, my
head's pounding.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
So it is to clean my closet room that is
a shithole from everything I like hoarded for six months,
create a relationship with my son because he has no.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Clue to right, and knock it off. Don't you get
to my husband because I can't complain about lack of
sleep or traveling or packing. So fair enough, those are
three really good ones.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Yeah, Steve goes and I'm looking at it right here
and yesterday when we were all traveling back together, I
went to pull my chapstick out of here and I
was like, hey, can you get my chapstick? Steve's going
like this, I can't find it. Mary Poppins, there's so
much shit in your purse. Can you think you can
finally clean it out out of the season's over? And
He's right, I need to empty on every bag. I
need to just clean my act up, get my shit together,
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and definitely give Steve a lot of love because he
is incredible to me during the season, and just like
he wakes up every morning with me, I'll give it
a Steve shout out on my Sunday mornings at four
am and he opens up the coffee shop, he calls
it and he makes me coffee and he walks me
to the car so I don't have to walk in
the dark. He's just he's great. And I don't like
to tell him that a lot because everyone loves Steve,
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but he is pretty great. So I'm going to give
Steve the love that he deserves right after he stops
being so loud on the phone calls. Remind Steve, Steve
owns his own company, so Steve doesn't go into an.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Office every day.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
So Steve's office is the table back there, it's the here,
it's the garage, it's the upstairs, it's I mean, I'm like,
he goes, where do you want me to take this call?
Speaker 2 (44:05):
And I'm like, in the alley. I your half And
with that we say, welcome home.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
All right, We love you guys, Calm down, listen to
you for the journey of the season.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
Guys, always so great to come along with us and
now and as Roger says, we will miss you. Where
are you going?
Speaker 1 (44:29):
We love you, guys until next week when we've got
a lot of re entry stories.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
I'm sure we'll follow that well, do you want to
go for a walk?
Speaker 3 (44:38):
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