June 19, 2025 • 29 mins
Erin and Charissa refuse to Calm Down bringing you a new episode from Cannes! They (over)share on their recent travel struggles and why Charissa says it’s officially time to give up on AirPods. Erin worries that she’s sweating through her dress, but thinks back to her time on the sidelines in Tampa Bay. They praise Taylor Swift for her latest trip to a children’s hospital and why they need to come up with a secret code word, fast!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I'm the girl at the ticket desk. The luggage
is open, same shits.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Everywhere, and it's like I'm screaming, like, who's the person
that's never traveled?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We travel every week, but the guidelines are different.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
One airline it's fifty pounds, one airline it's seventy five pounds.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Can't keep it straight. There's stuff falling out everywhere.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Hi everybody, how are we doing?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We are the dynamic duo behind the Calm Down podcast?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, that's what it says, at least on the placards.
He do you have a towel back there? I'm gonna
shove it up my dress? WHOA just kidding? Can you
get me one? We're shy? You know what this feels like?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
This feels like Tampa Bay in September. Yeah, by god,
I'm trying to be fantastic and you're doing it.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'm so impressed that.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
You have no marks on that it's starting and then me,
don't worry, It'll come out orange from the spray tan.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Aaron got spray tan spray tan in the UK.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Thank you guys for here for those of you that
have just joined us. My name is Carissa, this is Aaron.
We host a podcast called Calm Down. It's not our
day job, but it's something that we like to do
and we.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Always have Yeah. Thank you, thank you, thank you. See
you up there, yes you, thank you to see you
in the back row. Adorable. Do you guys want to
become part of our show? Sell ads? You can see
our group a top perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So Aaron and I met working in sports. I got
hired at ESPN. I was so nervous. I was scared.
I was walking into what was my first day of
quote school and this one comes running out the door
of the Bristol campus.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Gives me a massive hog.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
At this point, her and I have only cross paths
here and there for different events.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I didn't really know.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Her, and she looked at me and she said, I
got you anything you need.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I'm here for you.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And we have been fast friends ever since and now
best friends. So I tell that story just to give
you guys a little background on the impetus of the podcast,
because her and I respectively have worked in industry for
fifteen going on whatever, twenty plus years at this point,
so to have an ally in.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
This business is awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And then also we started the podcast because it's fun
to talk about all things sports and motherhood and all
sorts of things that are going on.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
So, yeah, we don't get a lot of time in
our everyday jobs.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I get fifteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You at least get to talk a minute and a
half before you have to throw it to somebody else.
So it's kind of nice to get our personalities and
maybe our thoughts out there, our attitudes out there. We
have people that write in every week and we love
them so much for doing this. We call this our
pregame get it and we're going to answer some pregame questions.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You're dollar right now?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Nope, No, I got it on my face perfect. It's
gonna come through the dress soon, all right, Emma Eckert,
what's your favorite thing about sports reporting?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You go, My favorite thing about being a sports broadcaster
is the teammates that I have. I'm lucky enough to
host two pregame shows, one for Amazon one for Fox,
and it's the guys that I get.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
To sit on the desk with Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Tony Gonzalez, Julian Edelman, Charles Woodson, just to name a few.
So Gronk, Michael Strahan, so on and so forth. So
for me, those guys have become brothers, they've become family,
And when we go on the road like you do
every single week, you spend so much. You spend more
time with them than you do your own family. So
for me, it's all about the relationships that I get
(03:23):
as a.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Results of the job that we have.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, we have amazing fellowship on our crew. This was
Tom Brady's first year with us, which was super exciting.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I think he did an amazing job.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
We called an awesome super Bowl with most watched super
Bowl ever.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, so that was huge.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
But mine is to have a front row seat to
the best, to the best of the best, to the
best that's ever done it. To be able to watch
the Philadelphia Eagles defense just absolutely pummel a Kansas City
Chiefs team that I'm very fond Eagles.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Fans out here.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Oh okay, fantasy, I feel like I'm in Philly right
now with that language.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
AnyWho is Santa here?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You know, it's amazing to watch these guys that you
become close with, you sometimes meet their families, hear their stories,
to be able to see them up close and personal
do the job is fucking awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Next question. We love anonymous questions. If you ever want
to submit one, just go to our Instagram account. Submit
any questions you have.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
New job. Boss is so fake, can't trust him and
hard to be around. How do ideal?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
My father had a many things that he said growing up,
but he always said, the coach is not always right,
but he's the coach.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
This is your boss.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
If he's fake, lean in like don't try to resist it,
because that's only going to.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Make your life harder. Try to find some things.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
That maybe your boss does, like if he's an Eagles fan,
if he's a Chiefs fan, whatever it is. Try to
find some commonalities and look past the fakeness. But find
things that you can relate to him on or at
least at the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Everybody loves talking about themselves. Find things that he likes,
and then he'll talk about him and he'll think by
proxy that you're great because he's only talking about himself.
I'm also a therapist. If you need me, it's your boss.
Do you want to keep your job exactly? Put your
head down and do your work. It's tough.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You don't have to trust him, he's your boss. Just
do your job. Whoo zeke Omaha.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I freak out at airports when cancelations happened.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
What is the first move you make?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Don't go to the line, get right on the app
and start looking for the next plane.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I thrive off this. It's like a game show to me.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I absolutely love to figure out how do I get
on the next plane. Where's my hotel situation? Getting a
car here? Call me, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I was just gonna say, call Aaron because she's fixing everything. Me.
I'm just like, I'll just go to the airport bar
and hang out and hang out with Ed's friends.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
At Diagia all the di'agio products.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I'm not as quick of a like, oh, I'm gonna
fix this. I'm just like, well, it's canceled. I'll go
to the whatever what town are we in? Or can
we have fun there? Ye can call it out. Olivia
Jennifer asks. This has been my first season as the
in stadium host for Nashville.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I love that. It's a dream come true. I've received
lots of popive feedback.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Congratulations Livia on the job, by the way, but I've
also been told my voice can be a little high pitched,
especially when I get excited. Any advice on grounding your
voice in high energy moments, any advice on handling criticism
from the public. All right, so two questions here. Will
start with the voice question. I had a voice coach?
Did you have a voice coach?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Starting out? Yeah, but it didn't work for me. Yeah,
how did you develop voices? Awful?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And everyone they always see that because everybody says to me, oh,
I recognize that voice.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I'm not Delilah after Dark, I'm not coming Burkhart, I'm
not Al Michael's.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I'm not trying to be I'm just really excited. I
love doing what I do. I don't care anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
But the thing I need to stop like saying like, oh,
say that sounding like a valley girl, which is insane,
knock it off.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
But I don't think I come across like that on air.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
The only time I get super excited is postgame, if
it's like in, yeah, a major game winning situation, something
like that. But hold the mic close to your mouth,
lower your voice. You don't have to scream because then
your voice gets really really high.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Just keep the mic close to your mouth. I talk normal.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I get a little my dad, I get a little too, Yes,
Aaron's dad. How many Emmy Awards has Steve won? This
is foundation, not spray Tan, so many a lot of Emmys.
I had a voice coach. I think it was really
important early on for me to have authority in my voice,
to have I kind of have a deeper voice anyways.
But yeah, that I don't know. I would just say
(07:28):
slow down. That's always my thing. When I get excited,
I'm like, I naturally talk fast. So my advice ad voice,
my advoice to you, my advice to you that I've
not coined the phrase a voice to Olivia is to
just slow down, take a beat, and then also take
a deep breath before you're going to do the report,
so you're not out of breath after making it. The
other part of her question was any advice on handling
(07:49):
criticisms from the public. We're very good at this. Twenty
years in. There's nothing that people haven't said. We talked
about it on our podcast one week. Actually we actually
know what they're already going to say about so it
doesn't I mean, it doesn't bother me anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
You it bothers me. Of course it does. I'm human,
But you got to move on. It's it's hard. I've
had an athlete tell me I could be in an
arena stadium with one hundred thousand people screaming my name
and I see one thing on social media or do
you see one thing on people dot Com or the
New York Post.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Everyone's your day, everyone's my day.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
But you got to move on, you really do, because
in the end, all I care about making happy are
my bosses, the athletes, the coaches, the general managers, yeah,
the team owners yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Uh. I just think like there's never gonna be anyone
that's one hundred percent on you. You don't like everyone. Not
everyone's gonna like you, and that's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Next question, Gal, we got an anonymous I dropped mine, Sorry,
no problem, anonymous. Turmoil between my husband and his sibling.
Stay out of it or get involved.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I was looking for my husband. Oh, the plus ones
are up there. It's hard. You have to be there
as a partner.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Sometimes you have to be careful of what you say
because that'll always be their sibling. I think you have
to kind of temper it with what kind of situation
you're dealing with Yeah, that's tricky, so tricky, or like
the mother in law, anyone have any of those situations?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I don't, thank god, don't have anymore. I had that before.
Who we don't even need that. Next question we've got
Jill m Henson twenty nine. How to deal with a
friend that needs a whole day with you every time
she wants to hang to say.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
You don't have it, Say I have a few hours
and I got stuff going on.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
You just have to be honest.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I think that that's also one thing that we talk
about a lot on this podcast that just cut to
the chase, Like, don't feel like you have to please
everybody all the time. And if she's your real friend,
then if you can only hang out for a couple hours,
that should be enough. I mean, I love that she
wants to hang out all day, but like it doesn't
have to be all day things going on. Yeah, all right, Carrie, WHOA,
(09:58):
this is a long one. My brother or and I
have always been best friends. Now on his second marriage,
he's never had a great taste in women. His current wife,
who he has two kids with, never makes our family
a priority. While this is long, really comes around for
anything constantly showing up two events by himself basically saying.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Just go to the end, skip to the end. Yeah,
I'm looking for the thing. Okay, his first wife was
the same way. They didn't have kids. It was easier
for the divorce. I'm assuming. Yeah, they have kids. Do
I say something?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
What do you do? That's also really hard? Yeah, I
don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Family stuff gets messy. We'll get back their Carriad's involved,
We'll get back.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, there's kids involved in families. We'll get back to
Carrie on that one later. It is a great question,
but it warrants actually answering with some more time. But
let us know how it goes, Harry, if you do
decide to confront your brother.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
For those of you just joining us, welcome. We are
the co hosts of the Calm Down Pod.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Past we just.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh I'm sweating, don't worry about it. It's all hidden
underneath the dress. But the whole point of our podcast
is to have fun, talk about things that's going on
in our daily life, answer questions from viewers. And I
think one of the things Aaron and I have done
the podcast now for are we going on five years,
is that we always love and whatever respective stadium that
we're at or at an airport. Got Greg the other
(11:22):
day from Miami. Randy Gregg said he loved the podcast.
Is I love when you guys see us out and
tell us that you love us, because sometimes you don't
even know who's listening. So thank you if you are
fans of the podcast, and if you've never listened, please
tune in.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
We just answered some.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Pre game questions, which we do every week, and then
we also talk about what's going on in our life.
This one has been on the road, so fill everybody in.
I haven't seen Aaron in over a month and so
I was so excited to see her here.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
You've been busy doing a bunch of stuff, Gal, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I was just in the UK for three weeks filming
a new game show for Fox that's gonna come out
in the fall, so look out for that. I think
it's gonna be great. I'm so excited for you guys
to see. It's with Ken jong as ninety nine to beat.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It's a shareway. But it was.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Fifteen sixteen hour days and that's really a long time.
It was a fun time, but it was long. Also
being away from my family was really hard, you know,
trying to FaceTime with my kid who's on a different
you know, totally different times z. It was a nine
hours or something about eight hours, and he is not
(12:24):
doing well with the phone. The second you put it
in front of him, he wants to start playing with
the apps.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
He's always doing open share on Spotify.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
What's know what that means? He wants to share the app.
I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
So?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And then when you take it away, you start screaming
and then it's like, all right, I love you. So
that was really hard.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Food situation, a little tough because our hours were always different.
But I think the toughest part about being away, and
we talked about this on our last week podcast. I
have zero swagger in Europe, none, I know, I scream American.
It's awful and embarrassing. But coming here you better have Steve,
my husband, Jared, and myself. We all failed the luggage.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Over the weight. Anybody else have.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
To buy another suitcase because of all the track.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
When I left the States, but I'm here, it was dramatic.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I was leaving Miami, you were coming from somewhere else.
Eve was coming from l eight. She goes, you're thirteen
pounds overweight. On your thirteen pounds that's max weight. I
mean as a child. So I'm the girl at the
ticket desk. The luggage is open, same shit's everywhere, and
it's like I'm screaming, like, who's the person that's never traveled.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We travel every week, but the guidelines are different.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
One airline it's fifty pounds, one airline's seventy five pounds.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Can't keep it straight. There's stuff falling out everywhere.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
So I was the person that had to go buy
a new suitcase and you're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I puok my cubes out.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I was walking around with them like they were wait
for it, pocket book. Sure, and you're better half did that,
Mine did it, and so now we all have to
find it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
To me, this is what I also want to know.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And again I'm open to all things, but there's not
any universal set stuff. So when you come here, now,
I got to put all of my deodorant, you love,
I had no deodorant. Well luckily I have it now,
but I mean that was a problem. But all of
this stuff has to go in like the little bag,
and we don't do that in the States.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
So just I and Aaron admittingly are those people that
travel when we're over in Europe and are very American.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
So we're gonna get better at it. Are you guys
good at it?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Okay, good? All right? I feel seen. Thank you well.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Plus I was traveling for three weeks, so I had
all that shit. You you're going off after this. We
are going on vacation. We are out on vacation and
we have no idea where we're going, which is great.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I mean we have we know the cities we're going,
but our better halves have planned the vacation, which is
such a dream because I we are. She is a
better planner than I am. I don't like planning anything.
So just tell me where to go, tell me when
to be there, and I'll make sure my attitude is good.
But I will say this about the attitude. It's going
to be great. The trip is going to be great.
(14:55):
But we literally cannot complain about one thing because it's
going to be like, well, wait a minute, I send
you emails, I send you information, and you never got
back to.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Me about it.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
No, So this is gonna be a real foot in
the mouth moment. This is gonna be like, it's so great.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
We need to have a code word so every time
we don't like something, we just say it to each
other and not to them. Since they did all the planning,
we can't complain about anything if the hotel, the air
in the hotel. This one has a huge issue with
air obviously if thea's.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Air conditioning on it at all times. But yeah, we're
just gonna go.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
We're gonna have a great attitude and we will report
back on the Calm Down podcast in two weeks how
the vacation went that we had no input on.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
It's gonna be. This is another thing I'm not great
about this.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
This is a whole this is a whole UK thing.
The things are attached and I just don't do well with.
Our code word at Super Bowl was zipper. Oh yeah,
when we will our code word be for the vacation
knock it off?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I don't know, can why not? We're here, you know
we'll think of something. But yeah, so we have. We're
excited about vacation. You and I don't get to travel
a lot together. I mean we do work.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
We have done it though we went is actually the
anniversary of our London Trich.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
True.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
We did go to London last year. We went to
the Taylor Swift Aras to a concert. Anyone been to that?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, right, hell yeah, we made that happen.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That was a forty eight hour turnaround for you had
the absolute best time.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So that was a year ago.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And yeah, I guess once a year we do a
little vacation, which is so nigh on the year before.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, we'll look forward to that.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Also have a big football season of course coming up.
Found out we'll be together week two. You know how
many weeks of your schedule do you know? Pretty much
a little over half over half? So Week two will
be in Kansas City. Aaron calling that game for Fox.
It's our biggest game I think on this schedule. It's
the rematch of last year's Super Bowl, the Eagles visiting case.
(16:51):
We're so excited about that really coming the pregame show
is going to do that. We always love when we
get to do games together. We had NFC champ Hips,
super Bowl and then this one, so that'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
What else are we looking forward to? We got a lot.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah, I just think it's like one day at a time,
like the athletes always tell us we're going on a trip.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
How has it been usually when you travel with Steve?
What's that like?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Steve is a great traveler, he's a passport situation.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
We do a great up. True, that's true.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I am not responsible with my passport and or wallet
or anything.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I love my phone.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
One of our production assistants be when I was in
Miami for the World Cup show I was doing. She goes,
I got back to the hotel and she goes, oh,
security has your phone. I go, oh, I left it,
Like I wasn't even paying attention. Like I am very
responsible with a lot of things, not responsible with others,
including the passport. So when I nowvel with Steve, I'm
always like, can you carry this cause I'm going to
inevitably lose it.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
There's a lot of paperwork.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I feel like you have to have the boarding past,
the passport, the work visa, and I just couldn't. Yeah,
I was That's why I was glad we were back together.
Jareded that, well, we finally saw each other.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
But I will hotel rooms when you're traveling with your
significant other and we have as much stuff as we do,
and there's just stuff all over the entire room. You
can't find anything. Things are everywhere, and like men, you're
so great. Most of you have one little corner and
our stuff has just exploded over the entire hotel room.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
So it's gonna be like my skin after I get
this makeup off, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Don't worry. Mine's already breaking out. I have a cover girl.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I have like seven pounds of makeup on right now.
I'm going through a breakup. Break a breakout, not a breakup,
maybe a breakups? Yeah, exactly, who knows.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You're not gonna buy any more air pods? What the
hell happened?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh as anyone else with I'm going back old school strings.
I'm done with the AirPods. I can't I'm not falling out.
I can't find it, and now I'm out two hundred
and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's always the one. Then it's not charge.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Now I can't use the charger because the chargers up
in the here it's low battery on the case. But
the AirPods are charged. We're not sinking up. I'm gonna
tell you what's consistent. The ones with the strings, they work,
don't have to charge them, and I can always find
keep them attached to the phone, wrap the cord around,
call it a day, Thank you, sir, And they're.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Twenty bucks that the car. I don't feel like I
don't have a lease. I got to talk.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Is Apple here? Two hundred and fifty dollars? That is
wild wild.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I saw a guy on the plane the other day
go into the airport bathroom, the airplane bathroom with his
I AirPods in. Do you know how dangerous that is?
That could so land in the toilet? Are you getting it?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Or are you one.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Hundred and fifty bucks right there? See literally down the drain.
That's a real problem. Yeah, I say, look, I love
their products, but I just I again going back to
maybe I'm irresponsible. I'm not good about putting them right back,
and then you don't know who's who's When I labeled mine,
don't ever lose these, and so when I open them,
the name on don't ever lose these, and inevitably.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I lose them.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
And then I got Steve's iPod. You got a real
problem with connecting to By the way, I know, I'm
not good with technology. There's a lot of tech experts
here this week. I'm gonna figure it out, but I
just don't like it.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I like simple stuff. That's why it's like I feel
like I was born in the wrong generation. I'm like
my parents, how does this app work? How was Miami?
You did the World Cup celebrations? All I was here,
excited for the World Cup next year?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Soccer fan, Okay, but this is massive, you guys.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Even I'm not. I only covered one World Cup.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I covered it when it was in South Africa and
it was incredible.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I loved the experience.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
But the World Cup is massive, and it's I'm so
excited for Fox because as Ed and I we spoke earlier,
it expands to one hundred and four matches, so there's
forty eight teams this year. That's the biggest field they've
ever had across three nations, and it's gonna be huge.
And even if you're not a soccer fan, all of
the local pubs, like you have to keep in mind
(20:55):
too when the other World Cups that we've had, the
time zones have been completely different, if you. So hopefully
viewership will be what they expect for Fox, because I'm
very excited.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I know we're going to obviously be doing.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Stuff yeah for them as well, So soccer fan or not,
it's something that you can get behind, rally around the
flag and support your country.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It's going to be really great.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I think, just when somebody said to me at this
other panel I did, it's like doing three super Bowls
in one day. That's insane, because if you think about
what goes into one of our super Bowls that we
get ready for, you know, we're there a week early.
I can't imagine doing three in a day, two more
in a day, that's nuts.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So we did a kickoff tour down in a kickoff
to the World Cup down in Miami. Shaboozy perform.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
How is that soya? Chaboozi in on the stage? Shaboozy.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
He is an entertainer's you can't like, help but move
when you hear his songs.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
He's a great performer. We had a great time and
this drone sing through my dress.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I don't know how you even were gonna wear tan
to begin with. I'm very impressed.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Well, I didn't want to change you for the back
of it will be soaked. It'll be incredible.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Just say you sweat water on the front of it.
You look gorgeous, Oh god, flawless, You're fine.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Insane this is what it looks like again to do
a Bucks game.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It's hot, but you rock that hat situation on a
sideline pretty well? Do you ever get to use an
umbrella to like shield?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I don't want an umbrella. I don't want to deal
with it. I don't want it. I don't want to
deal with it. I need it for my hair dye though,
because that thing starts changing colors out there.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I would feel the only thing I would be adversed
on the umbrella is that people were like, oh, you're
a diva, you have to stand under an umbrella.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So I'd be like, just deal with it. But the
makeup always stays too right. It's not right now.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
But that's okay, okay, fineky, how's every How are you
guys doing out there?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Good? Floral? Loose?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
No kidding?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Do you guys have to any if you listen to?
Do you guys have any questions for us? I love
a question and answer period. If you don't, that's fine.
I have an interactive situation, So do I what you're
gonna raise your hand?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
She's asking the big media groups and covering women's sports
versus men's sports, and how they cover is that the
gist of the question. I think I'll speak just for
the companies that we work for. For for at Amazon,
I mean incredible, there's no difference in coverage. It's that
big now where it's like you don't have to alter
the way that you cover the sport. It's the same thing.
(23:11):
It's the same production trucks, it's the same marketing efforts,
it's the same talent, it's everything because as evidence by
the growth in numbers, whether it's the WNBA or women's
socc professional soccer we have on Amazon, it's the World
Cup for Fox used to be on Fox, now it's
moved somewhere else. But like there was always the same
amount of groundswell and support as you would cover a
(23:33):
men's event.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
So no different at all.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
And even what Jane was saying too is that the
only thirteen percent of the sponsorship go to women, so
that spotlight needs to be brightened. And as evidenced by
the growth of each individual women's sport, I think that
it is just maybe moving at more of a glacial
pace than we like, but it is happening. But there's
no difference in coverage.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, yeah, our ratings are up for women, which is
huge for us, obviously makes us viewer shit. I think
what's really cool is women aren't as afraid to not
listen America's Game of the Week, which is the game
I do on Sundays. The demographic has split down the middle.
It's like the highest rated watch show for women out there,
which is amazing for us. But I think the casual
(24:16):
fan doesn't feel as afraid to watch professional sports right now,
watch the NFL because well, our girl Taylor kind of
helped out with that. It's cool, which we're excited. We
want casual fans. We want fans that don't know a lot.
You know, listen to the podcast, watch our broadcasts. We'll
help you know, teach you the game.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, speaking of Taylor, anyone that listens to the podcast
or knows us knows our affinity for her. We'd love
her so much for so many different reasons. What she is,
about who she is as a person, what she's done
for the NFL, for female viewership, and just viewership in general.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
But also I've talked about it before.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I have a deep connection with Children's Hospital. My niece
suffered a brain tumor and Children's Hospital was so amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Another thing we do on our podcast as headlines. One
of the big headlines I'm leading it too, is Taylor
Swift has sweet moment with patients at Children's hospital in Florida.
We were texting about it when we saw the pictures
and stuff come out, her spending time, spending four hours
there and everybody talking about how generous and kind she
was with the patients. It doesn't take much, but not
everyone does that, and just further highlights how special she
(25:20):
is and the impact that she can make in each
of those sweet babies lives.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
But just a little bit of time.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah, I was a wreck looking at those videos, bawing
my brains out. I thought the coolest thing was seeing
the parents I love for a reaction walking in Hi,
I'm Taylor, and the nurses and the doctors. Just to
spread a little bit of joy to people that need
it the most.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
We love her for it. We do talk.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
About some of these other ones, I mean, middle we
might as well address us do it all, right, here's
the headline. Veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers agreed, you sign yet
a one year deal.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
With the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Any Steelers fans out here, okay, any Aaron Rodgers fans
out here, Okay, here we.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Go Steelers fan. Okay, so you're.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
He needs to be on a team. He's an interesting story. Yeah,
for sure. I think it's fun when he's involved. I
also think it's fun when he's playing. Well, there is the.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Name Aaron Rodgers elicits reaction on either side.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You either love him or you hate him.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Of course, you and Aaron are really good friends and
have covered him for years. He's always been great to me.
I agree with this Aaron Andrews that I think it's
good for football when his when he's involved job, he's
a Super Bowl winning quarterback, he's an MVP.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
He still play at a high level.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Obviously, the injuries is a few years back, that terrible
situation for him. The first game of the year for
the Jets was awful. His you know, rehab and everything
to get back. I think it says a lot about
the guy that his love for the game is so
strong that in the face of adversity or controversy, he's.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Like, Hey, I just want to play football.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
And at the end of the day, he's good to
cover and he's enjoyable to cover. So whether you love
him or you hate him, you'll watch him and guess
what that's good for the sport.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
It's like the giants being good. You want them to
be good. You want you know, you want Dallas to
be good. Yeah, people like love to hate them, so
it's fun for everybody. It's great, all right. I'd like
this one, not that I want this to happen. I
exposed my cheating ass at his job.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I was in bed laying next to him when I
saw a new message request from a girl who had
been messaging her now ex boyfriend's other love interests shared
screens okay what wow.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Interest shared screenshot evidence of him sexting. So I ended
up cutting out and putting them in an I'm sorry
for your lost card. Showed up to his work and
gave him the card. He opened it, stared at it
for a while, and he was clearly embarrassed. She was
his loss. Yeah, cools, his loss. I will say this,
and my sister won't care that I say this. My
sister found out.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Her husband was cheating on her with someone.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
They worked with, and then he ended up marrying her
and my sister stayed working at the job. I said, Jennifer,
you are a better person than me. How the hell
do you show up to work every day when your
husband has cheated on you and now married. The girl
that you all work with is wild behavior, but she
is getting paid. She's like, he took my life, He's
(28:13):
not going to take my job. And I said, well,
I'll give you that, you know, But I'm like, can
you imagine no, Oh my god, that nine to one
one would be called There's no way, Like I said,
she is a much better person than made for to
be able to do that. But I'm all about if, hey,
if you are up to no good, then you should
be exposed. I got no problem with that. And if
(28:34):
you go to bed at night and you haven't done
anything wrong, you can sleep soundly.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
But then this guy should be called out. I love it.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I'm so sorry for your loss. Yeah, I'm gonna call
nine one one on this dress right now. I'm gonna
go cool it off. Yeah, we got it you guys.
Thank you so much, very look at that. I can't
take it.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Look at him, man.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Thank you, Goda, Don Julio on.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
The rock, I'm joking, be a dolla.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Thanks Ed, Thank you guys for hanging with us for
the last hour. Obviously got some great insight from Ed
and from Jane.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
So if you guys.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Liked anything you heard, listened to the podcast, and if not,
then we will see you on an NFL sideline or
hosting a pregame show come this season.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Come yeah, we'll be doing that. We enjoy your guys
this week. Here ye have so much fine, go somewhere cool.
I don't even want to see at the back of
this looks like that'd be pretty good.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Calm Down with Aeron and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
So I'm the girl at the ticket desk. The luggage
is open, same shits.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Everywhere, and it's like I'm screaming, like, who's the person
that's never traveled?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We travel every week, but the guidelines are different.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
One airline it's fifty pounds, one airline it's seventy five pounds.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Can't keep it straight. There's stuff falling out everywhere.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Hi everybody, how are we doing?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We are the dynamic duo behind the Calm Down podcast?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, that's what it says, at least on the placards.
He do you have a towel back there? I'm gonna
shove it up my dress? WHOA just kidding? Can you
get me one? We're shy? You know what this feels like?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
This feels like Tampa Bay in September. Yeah, by god,
I'm trying to be fantastic and you're doing it.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'm so impressed that.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
You have no marks on that it's starting and then me,
don't worry, It'll come out orange from the spray tan.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Aaron got spray tan spray tan in the UK.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Thank you guys for here for those of you that
have just joined us. My name is Carissa, this is Aaron.
We host a podcast called Calm Down. It's not our
day job, but it's something that we like to do
and we.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Always have Yeah. Thank you, thank you, thank you. See
you up there, yes you, thank you to see you
in the back row. Adorable. Do you guys want to
become part of our show? Sell ads? You can see
our group a top perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So Aaron and I met working in sports. I got
hired at ESPN. I was so nervous. I was scared.
I was walking into what was my first day of
quote school and this one comes running out the door
of the Bristol campus.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Gives me a massive hog.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
At this point, her and I have only cross paths
here and there for different events.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I didn't really know.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Her, and she looked at me and she said, I
got you anything you need.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I'm here for you.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And we have been fast friends ever since and now
best friends. So I tell that story just to give
you guys a little background on the impetus of the podcast,
because her and I respectively have worked in industry for
fifteen going on whatever, twenty plus years at this point,
so to have an ally in.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
This business is awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And then also we started the podcast because it's fun
to talk about all things sports and motherhood and all
sorts of things that are going on.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
So, yeah, we don't get a lot of time in
our everyday jobs.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I get fifteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You at least get to talk a minute and a
half before you have to throw it to somebody else.
So it's kind of nice to get our personalities and
maybe our thoughts out there, our attitudes out there. We
have people that write in every week and we love
them so much for doing this. We call this our
pregame get it and we're going to answer some pregame questions.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You're dollar right now?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Nope, No, I got it on my face perfect. It's
gonna come through the dress soon, all right, Emma Eckert,
what's your favorite thing about sports reporting?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You go, My favorite thing about being a sports broadcaster
is the teammates that I have. I'm lucky enough to
host two pregame shows, one for Amazon one for Fox,
and it's the guys that I get.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
To sit on the desk with Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Tony Gonzalez, Julian Edelman, Charles Woodson, just to name a few.
So Gronk, Michael Strahan, so on and so forth. So
for me, those guys have become brothers, they've become family,
And when we go on the road like you do
every single week, you spend so much. You spend more
time with them than you do your own family. So
for me, it's all about the relationships that I get
(03:23):
as a.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Results of the job that we have.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, we have amazing fellowship on our crew. This was
Tom Brady's first year with us, which was super exciting.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I think he did an amazing job.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
We called an awesome super Bowl with most watched super
Bowl ever.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, so that was huge.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
But mine is to have a front row seat to
the best, to the best of the best, to the
best that's ever done it. To be able to watch
the Philadelphia Eagles defense just absolutely pummel a Kansas City
Chiefs team that I'm very fond Eagles.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Fans out here.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Oh okay, fantasy, I feel like I'm in Philly right
now with that language.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
AnyWho is Santa here?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You know, it's amazing to watch these guys that you
become close with, you sometimes meet their families, hear their stories,
to be able to see them up close and personal
do the job is fucking awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Next question. We love anonymous questions. If you ever want
to submit one, just go to our Instagram account. Submit
any questions you have.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
New job. Boss is so fake, can't trust him and
hard to be around. How do ideal?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
My father had a many things that he said growing up,
but he always said, the coach is not always right,
but he's the coach.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
This is your boss.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
If he's fake, lean in like don't try to resist it,
because that's only going to.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Make your life harder. Try to find some things.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
That maybe your boss does, like if he's an Eagles fan,
if he's a Chiefs fan, whatever it is. Try to
find some commonalities and look past the fakeness. But find
things that you can relate to him on or at
least at the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Everybody loves talking about themselves. Find things that he likes,
and then he'll talk about him and he'll think by
proxy that you're great because he's only talking about himself.
I'm also a therapist. If you need me, it's your boss.
Do you want to keep your job exactly? Put your
head down and do your work. It's tough.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You don't have to trust him, he's your boss. Just
do your job. Whoo zeke Omaha.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I freak out at airports when cancelations happened.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
What is the first move you make?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Don't go to the line, get right on the app
and start looking for the next plane.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I thrive off this. It's like a game show to me.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I absolutely love to figure out how do I get
on the next plane. Where's my hotel situation? Getting a
car here? Call me, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I was just gonna say, call Aaron because she's fixing everything. Me.
I'm just like, I'll just go to the airport bar
and hang out and hang out with Ed's friends.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
At Diagia all the di'agio products.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I'm not as quick of a like, oh, I'm gonna
fix this. I'm just like, well, it's canceled. I'll go
to the whatever what town are we in? Or can
we have fun there? Ye can call it out. Olivia
Jennifer asks. This has been my first season as the
in stadium host for Nashville.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I love that. It's a dream come true. I've received
lots of popive feedback.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Congratulations Livia on the job, by the way, but I've
also been told my voice can be a little high pitched,
especially when I get excited. Any advice on grounding your
voice in high energy moments, any advice on handling criticism
from the public. All right, so two questions here. Will
start with the voice question. I had a voice coach?
Did you have a voice coach?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Starting out? Yeah, but it didn't work for me. Yeah,
how did you develop voices? Awful?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And everyone they always see that because everybody says to me, oh,
I recognize that voice.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I'm not Delilah after Dark, I'm not coming Burkhart, I'm
not Al Michael's.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I'm not trying to be I'm just really excited. I
love doing what I do. I don't care anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
But the thing I need to stop like saying like, oh,
say that sounding like a valley girl, which is insane,
knock it off.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
But I don't think I come across like that on air.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
The only time I get super excited is postgame, if
it's like in, yeah, a major game winning situation, something
like that. But hold the mic close to your mouth,
lower your voice. You don't have to scream because then
your voice gets really really high.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Just keep the mic close to your mouth. I talk normal.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I get a little my dad, I get a little too, Yes,
Aaron's dad. How many Emmy Awards has Steve won? This
is foundation, not spray Tan, so many a lot of Emmys.
I had a voice coach. I think it was really
important early on for me to have authority in my voice,
to have I kind of have a deeper voice anyways.
But yeah, that I don't know. I would just say
(07:28):
slow down. That's always my thing. When I get excited,
I'm like, I naturally talk fast. So my advice ad voice,
my advoice to you, my advice to you that I've
not coined the phrase a voice to Olivia is to
just slow down, take a beat, and then also take
a deep breath before you're going to do the report,
so you're not out of breath after making it. The
other part of her question was any advice on handling
(07:49):
criticisms from the public. We're very good at this. Twenty
years in. There's nothing that people haven't said. We talked
about it on our podcast one week. Actually we actually
know what they're already going to say about so it
doesn't I mean, it doesn't bother me anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
You it bothers me. Of course it does. I'm human,
But you got to move on. It's it's hard. I've
had an athlete tell me I could be in an
arena stadium with one hundred thousand people screaming my name
and I see one thing on social media or do
you see one thing on people dot Com or the
New York Post.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Everyone's your day, everyone's my day.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
But you got to move on, you really do, because
in the end, all I care about making happy are
my bosses, the athletes, the coaches, the general managers, yeah,
the team owners yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Uh. I just think like there's never gonna be anyone
that's one hundred percent on you. You don't like everyone. Not
everyone's gonna like you, and that's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Next question, Gal, we got an anonymous I dropped mine, Sorry,
no problem, anonymous. Turmoil between my husband and his sibling.
Stay out of it or get involved.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I was looking for my husband. Oh, the plus ones
are up there. It's hard. You have to be there
as a partner.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Sometimes you have to be careful of what you say
because that'll always be their sibling. I think you have
to kind of temper it with what kind of situation
you're dealing with Yeah, that's tricky, so tricky, or like
the mother in law, anyone have any of those situations?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I don't, thank god, don't have anymore. I had that before.
Who we don't even need that. Next question we've got
Jill m Henson twenty nine. How to deal with a
friend that needs a whole day with you every time
she wants to hang to say.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
You don't have it, Say I have a few hours
and I got stuff going on.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
You just have to be honest.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I think that that's also one thing that we talk
about a lot on this podcast that just cut to
the chase, Like, don't feel like you have to please
everybody all the time. And if she's your real friend,
then if you can only hang out for a couple hours,
that should be enough. I mean, I love that she
wants to hang out all day, but like it doesn't
have to be all day things going on. Yeah, all right, Carrie, WHOA,
(09:58):
this is a long one. My brother or and I
have always been best friends. Now on his second marriage,
he's never had a great taste in women. His current wife,
who he has two kids with, never makes our family
a priority. While this is long, really comes around for
anything constantly showing up two events by himself basically saying.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Just go to the end, skip to the end. Yeah,
I'm looking for the thing. Okay, his first wife was
the same way. They didn't have kids. It was easier
for the divorce. I'm assuming. Yeah, they have kids. Do
I say something?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
What do you do? That's also really hard? Yeah, I
don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Family stuff gets messy. We'll get back their Carriad's involved,
We'll get back.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, there's kids involved in families. We'll get back to
Carrie on that one later. It is a great question,
but it warrants actually answering with some more time. But
let us know how it goes, Harry, if you do
decide to confront your brother.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
For those of you just joining us, welcome. We are
the co hosts of the Calm Down Pod.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Past we just.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh I'm sweating, don't worry about it. It's all hidden
underneath the dress. But the whole point of our podcast
is to have fun, talk about things that's going on
in our daily life, answer questions from viewers. And I
think one of the things Aaron and I have done
the podcast now for are we going on five years,
is that we always love and whatever respective stadium that
we're at or at an airport. Got Greg the other
(11:22):
day from Miami. Randy Gregg said he loved the podcast.
Is I love when you guys see us out and
tell us that you love us, because sometimes you don't
even know who's listening. So thank you if you are
fans of the podcast, and if you've never listened, please
tune in.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
We just answered some.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Pre game questions, which we do every week, and then
we also talk about what's going on in our life.
This one has been on the road, so fill everybody in.
I haven't seen Aaron in over a month and so
I was so excited to see her here.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
You've been busy doing a bunch of stuff, Gal, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I was just in the UK for three weeks filming
a new game show for Fox that's gonna come out
in the fall, so look out for that. I think
it's gonna be great. I'm so excited for you guys
to see. It's with Ken jong as ninety nine to beat.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It's a shareway. But it was.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Fifteen sixteen hour days and that's really a long time.
It was a fun time, but it was long. Also
being away from my family was really hard, you know,
trying to FaceTime with my kid who's on a different
you know, totally different times z. It was a nine
hours or something about eight hours, and he is not
(12:24):
doing well with the phone. The second you put it
in front of him, he wants to start playing with
the apps.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
He's always doing open share on Spotify.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
What's know what that means? He wants to share the app.
I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
So?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And then when you take it away, you start screaming
and then it's like, all right, I love you. So
that was really hard.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Food situation, a little tough because our hours were always different.
But I think the toughest part about being away, and
we talked about this on our last week podcast. I
have zero swagger in Europe, none, I know, I scream American.
It's awful and embarrassing. But coming here you better have Steve,
my husband, Jared, and myself. We all failed the luggage.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Over the weight. Anybody else have.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
To buy another suitcase because of all the track.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
When I left the States, but I'm here, it was dramatic.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I was leaving Miami, you were coming from somewhere else.
Eve was coming from l eight. She goes, you're thirteen
pounds overweight. On your thirteen pounds that's max weight. I
mean as a child. So I'm the girl at the
ticket desk. The luggage is open, same shit's everywhere, and
it's like I'm screaming, like, who's the person that's never traveled.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We travel every week, but the guidelines are different.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
One airline it's fifty pounds, one airline's seventy five pounds.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Can't keep it straight. There's stuff falling out everywhere.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
So I was the person that had to go buy
a new suitcase and you're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I puok my cubes out.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I was walking around with them like they were wait
for it, pocket book. Sure, and you're better half did that,
Mine did it, and so now we all have to
find it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
To me, this is what I also want to know.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And again I'm open to all things, but there's not
any universal set stuff. So when you come here, now,
I got to put all of my deodorant, you love,
I had no deodorant. Well luckily I have it now,
but I mean that was a problem. But all of
this stuff has to go in like the little bag,
and we don't do that in the States.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
So just I and Aaron admittingly are those people that
travel when we're over in Europe and are very American.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
So we're gonna get better at it. Are you guys
good at it?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Okay, good? All right? I feel seen. Thank you well.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Plus I was traveling for three weeks, so I had
all that shit. You you're going off after this. We
are going on vacation. We are out on vacation and
we have no idea where we're going, which is great.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I mean we have we know the cities we're going,
but our better halves have planned the vacation, which is
such a dream because I we are. She is a
better planner than I am. I don't like planning anything.
So just tell me where to go, tell me when
to be there, and I'll make sure my attitude is good.
But I will say this about the attitude. It's going
to be great. The trip is going to be great.
(14:55):
But we literally cannot complain about one thing because it's
going to be like, well, wait a minute, I send
you emails, I send you information, and you never got
back to.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Me about it.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
No, So this is gonna be a real foot in
the mouth moment. This is gonna be like, it's so great.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
We need to have a code word so every time
we don't like something, we just say it to each
other and not to them. Since they did all the planning,
we can't complain about anything if the hotel, the air
in the hotel. This one has a huge issue with
air obviously if thea's.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Air conditioning on it at all times. But yeah, we're
just gonna go.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
We're gonna have a great attitude and we will report
back on the Calm Down podcast in two weeks how
the vacation went that we had no input on.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
It's gonna be. This is another thing I'm not great
about this.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
This is a whole this is a whole UK thing.
The things are attached and I just don't do well with.
Our code word at Super Bowl was zipper. Oh yeah,
when we will our code word be for the vacation
knock it off?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I don't know, can why not? We're here, you know
we'll think of something. But yeah, so we have. We're
excited about vacation. You and I don't get to travel
a lot together. I mean we do work.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
We have done it though we went is actually the
anniversary of our London Trich.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
True.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
We did go to London last year. We went to
the Taylor Swift Aras to a concert. Anyone been to that?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, right, hell yeah, we made that happen.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That was a forty eight hour turnaround for you had
the absolute best time.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So that was a year ago.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And yeah, I guess once a year we do a
little vacation, which is so nigh on the year before.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, we'll look forward to that.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Also have a big football season of course coming up.
Found out we'll be together week two. You know how
many weeks of your schedule do you know? Pretty much
a little over half over half? So Week two will
be in Kansas City. Aaron calling that game for Fox.
It's our biggest game I think on this schedule. It's
the rematch of last year's Super Bowl, the Eagles visiting case.
(16:51):
We're so excited about that really coming the pregame show
is going to do that. We always love when we
get to do games together. We had NFC champ Hips,
super Bowl and then this one, so that'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
What else are we looking forward to? We got a lot.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah, I just think it's like one day at a time,
like the athletes always tell us we're going on a trip.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
How has it been usually when you travel with Steve?
What's that like?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Steve is a great traveler, he's a passport situation.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
We do a great up. True, that's true.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I am not responsible with my passport and or wallet
or anything.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I love my phone.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
One of our production assistants be when I was in
Miami for the World Cup show I was doing. She goes,
I got back to the hotel and she goes, oh,
security has your phone. I go, oh, I left it,
Like I wasn't even paying attention. Like I am very
responsible with a lot of things, not responsible with others,
including the passport. So when I nowvel with Steve, I'm
always like, can you carry this cause I'm going to
inevitably lose it.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
There's a lot of paperwork.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I feel like you have to have the boarding past,
the passport, the work visa, and I just couldn't. Yeah,
I was That's why I was glad we were back together.
Jareded that, well, we finally saw each other.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
But I will hotel rooms when you're traveling with your
significant other and we have as much stuff as we do,
and there's just stuff all over the entire room. You
can't find anything. Things are everywhere, and like men, you're
so great. Most of you have one little corner and
our stuff has just exploded over the entire hotel room.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
So it's gonna be like my skin after I get
this makeup off, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Don't worry. Mine's already breaking out. I have a cover girl.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I have like seven pounds of makeup on right now.
I'm going through a breakup. Break a breakout, not a breakup,
maybe a breakups? Yeah, exactly, who knows.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You're not gonna buy any more air pods? What the
hell happened?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh as anyone else with I'm going back old school strings.
I'm done with the AirPods. I can't I'm not falling out.
I can't find it, and now I'm out two hundred
and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's always the one. Then it's not charge.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Now I can't use the charger because the chargers up
in the here it's low battery on the case. But
the AirPods are charged. We're not sinking up. I'm gonna
tell you what's consistent. The ones with the strings, they work,
don't have to charge them, and I can always find
keep them attached to the phone, wrap the cord around,
call it a day, Thank you, sir, And they're.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Twenty bucks that the car. I don't feel like I
don't have a lease. I got to talk.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Is Apple here? Two hundred and fifty dollars? That is
wild wild.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I saw a guy on the plane the other day
go into the airport bathroom, the airplane bathroom with his
I AirPods in. Do you know how dangerous that is?
That could so land in the toilet? Are you getting it?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Or are you one.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Hundred and fifty bucks right there? See literally down the drain.
That's a real problem. Yeah, I say, look, I love
their products, but I just I again going back to
maybe I'm irresponsible. I'm not good about putting them right back,
and then you don't know who's who's When I labeled mine,
don't ever lose these, and so when I open them,
the name on don't ever lose these, and inevitably.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I lose them.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
And then I got Steve's iPod. You got a real
problem with connecting to By the way, I know, I'm
not good with technology. There's a lot of tech experts
here this week. I'm gonna figure it out, but I
just don't like it.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I like simple stuff. That's why it's like I feel
like I was born in the wrong generation. I'm like
my parents, how does this app work? How was Miami?
You did the World Cup celebrations? All I was here,
excited for the World Cup next year?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Soccer fan, Okay, but this is massive, you guys.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Even I'm not. I only covered one World Cup.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I covered it when it was in South Africa and
it was incredible.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I loved the experience.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
But the World Cup is massive, and it's I'm so
excited for Fox because as Ed and I we spoke earlier,
it expands to one hundred and four matches, so there's
forty eight teams this year. That's the biggest field they've
ever had across three nations, and it's gonna be huge.
And even if you're not a soccer fan, all of
the local pubs, like you have to keep in mind
(20:55):
too when the other World Cups that we've had, the
time zones have been completely different, if you. So hopefully
viewership will be what they expect for Fox, because I'm
very excited.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I know we're going to obviously be doing.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Stuff yeah for them as well, So soccer fan or not,
it's something that you can get behind, rally around the
flag and support your country.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It's going to be really great.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I think, just when somebody said to me at this
other panel I did, it's like doing three super Bowls
in one day. That's insane, because if you think about
what goes into one of our super Bowls that we
get ready for, you know, we're there a week early.
I can't imagine doing three in a day, two more
in a day, that's nuts.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So we did a kickoff tour down in a kickoff
to the World Cup down in Miami. Shaboozy perform.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
How is that soya? Chaboozi in on the stage? Shaboozy.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
He is an entertainer's you can't like, help but move
when you hear his songs.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
He's a great performer. We had a great time and
this drone sing through my dress.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I don't know how you even were gonna wear tan
to begin with. I'm very impressed.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Well, I didn't want to change you for the back
of it will be soaked. It'll be incredible.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Just say you sweat water on the front of it.
You look gorgeous, Oh god, flawless, You're fine.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Insane this is what it looks like again to do
a Bucks game.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It's hot, but you rock that hat situation on a
sideline pretty well? Do you ever get to use an
umbrella to like shield?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I don't want an umbrella. I don't want to deal
with it. I don't want it. I don't want to
deal with it. I need it for my hair dye though,
because that thing starts changing colors out there.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I would feel the only thing I would be adversed
on the umbrella is that people were like, oh, you're
a diva, you have to stand under an umbrella.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So I'd be like, just deal with it. But the
makeup always stays too right. It's not right now.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
But that's okay, okay, fineky, how's every How are you
guys doing out there?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Good? Floral? Loose?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
No kidding?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Do you guys have to any if you listen to?
Do you guys have any questions for us? I love
a question and answer period. If you don't, that's fine.
I have an interactive situation, So do I what you're
gonna raise your hand?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
She's asking the big media groups and covering women's sports
versus men's sports, and how they cover is that the
gist of the question. I think I'll speak just for
the companies that we work for. For for at Amazon,
I mean incredible, there's no difference in coverage. It's that
big now where it's like you don't have to alter
the way that you cover the sport. It's the same thing.
(23:11):
It's the same production trucks, it's the same marketing efforts,
it's the same talent, it's everything because as evidence by
the growth in numbers, whether it's the WNBA or women's
socc professional soccer we have on Amazon, it's the World
Cup for Fox used to be on Fox, now it's
moved somewhere else. But like there was always the same
amount of groundswell and support as you would cover a
(23:33):
men's event.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
So no different at all.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
And even what Jane was saying too is that the
only thirteen percent of the sponsorship go to women, so
that spotlight needs to be brightened. And as evidenced by
the growth of each individual women's sport, I think that
it is just maybe moving at more of a glacial
pace than we like, but it is happening. But there's
no difference in coverage.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, yeah, our ratings are up for women, which is
huge for us, obviously makes us viewer shit. I think
what's really cool is women aren't as afraid to not
listen America's Game of the Week, which is the game
I do on Sundays. The demographic has split down the middle.
It's like the highest rated watch show for women out there,
which is amazing for us. But I think the casual
(24:16):
fan doesn't feel as afraid to watch professional sports right now,
watch the NFL because well, our girl Taylor kind of
helped out with that. It's cool, which we're excited. We
want casual fans. We want fans that don't know a lot.
You know, listen to the podcast, watch our broadcasts. We'll
help you know, teach you the game.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, speaking of Taylor, anyone that listens to the podcast
or knows us knows our affinity for her. We'd love
her so much for so many different reasons. What she is,
about who she is as a person, what she's done
for the NFL, for female viewership, and just viewership in general.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
But also I've talked about it before.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I have a deep connection with Children's Hospital. My niece
suffered a brain tumor and Children's Hospital was so amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Another thing we do on our podcast as headlines. One
of the big headlines I'm leading it too, is Taylor
Swift has sweet moment with patients at Children's hospital in Florida.
We were texting about it when we saw the pictures
and stuff come out, her spending time, spending four hours
there and everybody talking about how generous and kind she
was with the patients. It doesn't take much, but not
everyone does that, and just further highlights how special she
(25:20):
is and the impact that she can make in each
of those sweet babies lives.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
But just a little bit of time.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah, I was a wreck looking at those videos, bawing
my brains out. I thought the coolest thing was seeing
the parents I love for a reaction walking in Hi,
I'm Taylor, and the nurses and the doctors. Just to
spread a little bit of joy to people that need
it the most.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
We love her for it. We do talk.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
About some of these other ones, I mean, middle we
might as well address us do it all, right, here's
the headline. Veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers agreed, you sign yet
a one year deal.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
With the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Any Steelers fans out here, okay, any Aaron Rodgers fans
out here, Okay, here we.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Go Steelers fan. Okay, so you're.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
He needs to be on a team. He's an interesting story. Yeah,
for sure. I think it's fun when he's involved. I
also think it's fun when he's playing. Well, there is the.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Name Aaron Rodgers elicits reaction on either side.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You either love him or you hate him.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Of course, you and Aaron are really good friends and
have covered him for years. He's always been great to me.
I agree with this Aaron Andrews that I think it's
good for football when his when he's involved job, he's
a Super Bowl winning quarterback, he's an MVP.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
He still play at a high level.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Obviously, the injuries is a few years back, that terrible
situation for him. The first game of the year for
the Jets was awful. His you know, rehab and everything
to get back. I think it says a lot about
the guy that his love for the game is so
strong that in the face of adversity or controversy, he's.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Like, Hey, I just want to play football.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
And at the end of the day, he's good to
cover and he's enjoyable to cover. So whether you love
him or you hate him, you'll watch him and guess
what that's good for the sport.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
It's like the giants being good. You want them to
be good. You want you know, you want Dallas to
be good. Yeah, people like love to hate them, so
it's fun for everybody. It's great, all right. I'd like
this one, not that I want this to happen. I
exposed my cheating ass at his job.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I was in bed laying next to him when I
saw a new message request from a girl who had
been messaging her now ex boyfriend's other love interests shared
screens okay what wow.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Interest shared screenshot evidence of him sexting. So I ended
up cutting out and putting them in an I'm sorry
for your lost card. Showed up to his work and
gave him the card. He opened it, stared at it
for a while, and he was clearly embarrassed. She was
his loss. Yeah, cools, his loss. I will say this,
and my sister won't care that I say this. My
sister found out.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Her husband was cheating on her with someone.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
They worked with, and then he ended up marrying her
and my sister stayed working at the job. I said, Jennifer,
you are a better person than me. How the hell
do you show up to work every day when your
husband has cheated on you and now married. The girl
that you all work with is wild behavior, but she
is getting paid. She's like, he took my life, He's
(28:13):
not going to take my job. And I said, well,
I'll give you that, you know, But I'm like, can
you imagine no, Oh my god, that nine to one
one would be called There's no way, Like I said,
she is a much better person than made for to
be able to do that. But I'm all about if, hey,
if you are up to no good, then you should
be exposed. I got no problem with that. And if
(28:34):
you go to bed at night and you haven't done
anything wrong, you can sleep soundly.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
But then this guy should be called out. I love it.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I'm so sorry for your loss. Yeah, I'm gonna call
nine one one on this dress right now. I'm gonna
go cool it off. Yeah, we got it you guys.
Thank you so much, very look at that. I can't
take it.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Look at him, man.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Thank you, Goda, Don Julio on.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
The rock, I'm joking, be a dolla.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Thanks Ed, Thank you guys for hanging with us for
the last hour. Obviously got some great insight from Ed
and from Jane.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
So if you guys.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Liked anything you heard, listened to the podcast, and if not,
then we will see you on an NFL sideline or
hosting a pregame show come this season.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Come yeah, we'll be doing that. We enjoy your guys
this week. Here ye have so much fine, go somewhere cool.
I don't even want to see at the back of
this looks like that'd be pretty good.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
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Speaker 2 (29:31):
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