August 11, 2025 • 39 mins
A very special Pregame with Steve filling in for Erin and joining Charissa on this week’s episode! They answer your questions including what Steve does for a living, what his first impression of Charissa was and why they have decided not to get married.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're not gonna get mad at me though in like
ten years, when you're like, oh, we'd never had a kid.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I mean, I'm keeping it in my back pocket in case,
like I ever need it, So maybe I'm not going
to say I'm not not gonna get mad in ten years.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I know you're gonna find this hard to believe. My
phone is low battery. Welcome to the pregame. We've got
a special guest this week. For those of you that
are just listening to the podcast, it is Stephen Henry
Kindarry will be joining us not only for the pregame,
but for the full length episode of the Calm Down
Podcast because our girl Aaron is over filling in on
(00:44):
Jenna and Friends on NBC. We love that Today's show excitement.
But Steve, thank you for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah. No, I really appreciate coming off the bench for this.
I'm extremely excited.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We are thrilled to have you.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But in all all chokes aside, Steve said to me
this morning, you guys, as we were driving back for
the ranch, I was like, all right, so we'll just
record the episode at two o'clock and he goes, well,
hol hold on, I'm going to the recording studio, the
podcast studio, and I go, what podcast studio are you
going to? He is, currently, why don't you tell everybody
where you're at.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, as most of you know, and thousands of you
have been asking, Jared and I are starting a podcast
called The Plus Ones Podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
So of course with that, we're going to do things right.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And we just finished the build out on our podcast studio,
so we're very excited about it. We can't wait to
show it off for the first episode, which is coming
maybe this year, maybe next year, maybe the year after.
We're not sure yet.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So okay, none of that is true that you are
not actually starting the podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
There's no build out for it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You are in a conference room in some random office building,
making it look like you're at a podcast studio.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
God, you're great. Okay, I love you.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Here we go, so, Steve, I'm not sure if you're
familiar with how the pregame works.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Oh are you kidding me? This is the only podcast
I listened to.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Okay, I love that. Thank you, great answer. You already
have to a good start. Yes, so we have incredible listeners.
Slash viewers because some people consume this medium on YouTube,
which we love and overclips. So people send in questions. Now, Ryan,
our wonderful producer, and Kurt as well send out some
questions and ask people to write in.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Are you what are you zipping on it?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Chardonnay, I wish sawls it's spread season? Oh it is,
It's not over yet. Some people went back to school.
Not this guy. Okay, here's the first question. Are you ready?
It comes from w N some k I get all
of these wrong, so just roll with it. I apologize
to the individual that wrote in question is what does
(02:43):
Steve do for a living?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Take it away, Steve?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh well, thank you for writing in w N son
ke huge fan Steve myself, I own a company called
Summit House. I have three amazing business partners, Roman, Carson
and Dan and at some House we own and operate
seven different specialized creative agencies, so they all have individual teams.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
We all work together. We started at about eight years ago.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We do amazing work across the spectrum from design to production,
to social to you name it. So that's what Steve does.
I also take care of Willison Daisy in my off
time and.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
All the other animals at the ranch and all.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
The other animals at Ruby Ranch.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I will say we've been together for three years now
and I had my first experience, my first production experience
with your company this past weekend. We shot something up
at Ruby Ranch, so I got to see, like in person,
how your whole operation runs. And I will say, Steve,
I was very very impressed with your company, with your employees,
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shout out Montana and everything that goes into that. So
I know you work very hard, so very proud to
watch that all unfold. And thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, we appreciate it. If you can leave a review
on yell, those go a long way so already have I.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Know you're big into the five start rating. Oh yeah,
thank you, Okay, Karen Kendrick. One next question is what
was your first impression of me? Well, Kara, I'm dying
to hear this. I'm gonna sit back and listen. First
impression of me was?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
What first impression of you? Well, man, that's a loaded question,
uh laugh, Like the first.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Time we met.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, your first impression of it?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, I thought you were beautiful, very very confident, which
I love.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And I don't know you seem fun.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I remember, uh yeah, a lot about that. You seem
like you are a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
So you know after which espresso martini? Are you referring to?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The second?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He's answering it, so I don't get pissed thirteenth Okay, JR.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Zuber, thank you. That's very nice for you.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
JR Zuber. What is your favorite thing to do as
a couple? Even rope, keep it clean, kids, it's a
family show.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
You got you favorite things? Calmed Down after Dark? I
thought I signed up for Calm Down after Dark.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
No, but see if there's any room in that podcast
studio for that. We'll add that to our.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, perfect, yeah resume, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So since I can, I'll start on this one favorite
thing to do as a couple. I would say a
lot of.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
It depends on the season that it is.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Because during football season, when I travel a lot, all
I want to do is when I get home is
just lay on the couch with you, watch TV, hang
out with the dogs, or you know, just be kind
of home and not doing anything. I think when it's
not football season, like I loved traveling this off season
with you. Love anything at the ranch that comes with
an asterisk, because there's some things. When Steve messes up
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at the ranch, I'm like, I don't ever watch you
come in here. That's few and far between, but I
would say, yeah, just spending time together is my favorite
thing to do with you. And again, if it's a
specific thing, I also like, you don't know this. I
also like the car ride with you to and from
the ranch, because then you're stuck in the car with
me for three and a half hours and you're force Yeah,
(06:21):
we're forced to talk to each other. We're not on
our phones. We're like, it's a communication. Well, sometimes I
fall asleep, but you know what I mean, say every.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Single time halfway through your snoring, So I guess I'm
not sure you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It's that.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And I also enjoy we've added something new into our
relationship called the coffee conversations, which this is great.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
This could be my new favorite, This could be my
new favorite thing to do together.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So Steve is always on his phone always, And I understand,
you own your own companies, so there's a lot of
moving parts.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You're the boss. You've got to be like dialed in
on things.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That's fine, but the phone is attached to your handle lot.
So we have a space in our house that's right
above me called the no Phone Zone, and there's a
couch and you're not in chairs, and you're not allowed
to bring your phone in that area.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
So I love that. So taking that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Same time, you can't even have your phone, and it's
not like you put your phone down next to you
in the zone.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
It's no phones.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Allowed in the zone and no phone zone.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
You got to keep it outside of the zone.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So we uh took that that idea and then created
the coffee conversations where in the morning each have coffee.
You're not a big coffee drinker, so you have an
energy drink whatever, and then we chat. And I really
enjoy that and I want to be more consistent about
that too, because we we are we've both been traveling independently.
So anyways, that's what I enjoyed doing, was are we
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all out of time?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I think we're out of time? That was really nice.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'm glad to know you enjoy so much of so
many different things with me. This is three minutes podcasts
a lot more often we don't even have to record it.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Can we just ask each other questions?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
This is in fact the coffee conversation.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, here's great.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, okay, what's your favorite thing to do with me?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
My favorite thing to do with you is I love traveling.
I mean the same, I love relaxing, you know, when
we're both worn out. I love that just spending time together.
You're my best friends, so I enjoy just spending time.
It doesn't matter what we're doing. We could be, you know,
(08:27):
taking the trash out. I enjoy it, except when you're
really tired. Except when you're really tired, then.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Like what what?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
What? I just you know, I just.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
No, and you get you know, when you're really tired.
It doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
No, I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I didn't say it. I didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I know you didn't say it. You don't have to
say it. It's implied. We know what you're thinking.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Two things on that. One is you don't let me
take the trash out. Whenever I go to get the trash,
he goes, what are we doing here? And that's very
much like at your job. So you're good about that.
And the other thing is I have from the time
I was very young, I would fall asleep on the
couch ask my parents, says Steve, you know this about me.
I love falling asleep on the couch. It's like so comfortable,
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and it's like, don't wake me up. If it's like
a baby, don't ever wake up a sleeping baby. If
I fall asleep there, it's because I'm so relaxed and
I'm just like I'm good. I don't need to then
have somebody wake me up and be like go upstairs,
go to bed. My dad used to try to do that.
I mean, no, it didn't work, so I'd get pissed.
I'd be like, why did you wake me up? I
was so comfortable. So Steve, I have told over and
(09:37):
over again if I'm sleeping on the couch, just let
me sleep there, and you're still not getting it, or
three years every night.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Because some nights, you know, I just leave her there
and then it's like, well, why'd you leave me down there?
And I'm like you told me to. And then other
nights I wake her up and she's like why are
you waking me up? So it's I can't win here.
I can't win.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And if anybody has any.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
True that's not true.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I say to you, you ask me before I fall
asleep on the couch, is tonight and night that you
want me to leave you down here or not leave
you down here? To which I say leave me sometimes
and sometimes not good. Okay, well this ought to be
(10:21):
because there's another question.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Puzzled.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Puzzled k one bad habit he wants to drop, he
being you, and one good habit he picked up or
is trying to pick up. Okay, so you answer the
question one is what is one bad habit that you
want to drop? And what's one good habit that you
have picked up or you're trying to pick up.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
One bad habit I want to drop. I say yes
to too many things. Oh I don't know if that's
a habit, but I say yes to too many things,
and sometimes I just can't do them all, so some
of them fall through the cracks. So I think maybe
saying less, more, saying less to things, more, saying yes.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Less, saying less to yes, saying less yes.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yes, yeah, my kid that tattooed on my forearm.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, So that I think, uh yeah, when you just
kind of say yes to too many things and things
fall through the cracks, it just doesn't feel good on
any side. That's probably your biggest pet peeve if I
had a guess, but who knows. Uh, that's just my
guess with that, and then have it I picked up
that I enjoy.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
What is the question, haven't I picked up that?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I up one habit that you want to drop? So
you answer that one habit you picked up or you're
trying to pick up.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Habit I picked up. Making the bed every single morning.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Is something that is a really great habit to have
for anyone in any But you know, there's some mornings that.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Just you know, okay, what what you going?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You got like, you know, you're rushed, you woke up late,
you got stuff going on. You're nervous about a meeting
or a thing or the gardeners at whatever, you know,
so you just kind of forget.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Okay, I'm going to interject on this one real quick.
So there was an episode of this podcast with Aaron
and I where we talked about things that we do
when our significant other is gone. Right, she said, like, oh,
she orders certain food that has like onions or garlic
in it, and then she doesn't have to care if
she like kisses Sharrett.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Or something like that.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I said that I don't make the bed and I
just throw shit all over the house when you're gone
because when I and I shouldn't have revealed this because
now you know, but I do that because when you
are here.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I'm very very much like I grew up.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Every morning, you have to make your bed before you
go to school, and I think it's a good way
to start the day if you don't start the day
like having a you know, organized house and bedroom and
all that kind of stuff, like what does your life
look like? But when you walk out the door, all
hell breaks loose and I feel like I am. I
feel like I'm a bachelorette that just gets to do
whatever the hell he wants around here. So that I've
(13:14):
had people come up to me and be like, I
do the same thing, which which by your own admission,
I asked Steve one day, you guys, I said, okay, well,
now that you know that I do that, that I
just don't pick up around my around here when you're
gone or the bed. What's something that you do at
this house when I'm not around?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You know what he said?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
He said, When I go to get ice out of
the freezer and I drop a few cubes, I just
kick them underneathneath the refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
He doesn't do that.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
What what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
So there's just a water water, huge water puddle underneath
the refrigerator that's just eroding the hardwood floor, and god
knows what's going on there because Steve is just you know,
playing soccer with the ice cubes underneath the freezer.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
That's wild.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Since I was a kid, I feel like that's like
a thing. And maybe I'm weird and I'm the only
one that does that, but there has to be other
people there that just you can't come under there, and
they disappear and you never see them again.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
You don't see the water, you don't see any They're
just they're gone.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
What else do you do? Come on? This is the
same space. I've been very open on this point.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
This is your chance to you know, reveal some with
and I will say, here's the disclaimer, without judgment. I
won't hold it against you when this podcast is over.
I won't bring it up later and be like, well,
remember the time that you Okay, So what else do
you do around here when I'm gone, which I'm gone
(14:39):
a lot during football season, So who the hell knows
what goes on around here?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I don't know I mean, that's a big one. I
don't know if that's a big one. That's probably a
small one in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But okay, I'm gonna okay, I'll start prompting me with questions.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Since I know what goes on around here, do you
put all that? So women?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And you know what, maybe some men too. It's remember
the scene in Along Came Paoli. Like all the pillows
on the bed, I also have a lot of pillows
on the couch. And to Steve's credit, he's never brought
up all the excessive pillows. He hasn't, so I appreciate that.
But I have a very specific way that I like
the couch organized. If some pillows go in a certain direction,
this is the interior designer in me. I like the
(15:21):
colors came to be a certain way, the blanket hangs
over a certain way, the couch cushions, the whole thing.
So when I'm not here, do you put the couch
back together?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Every day? I do, just because it bothers me when
it's not so, yeah, I do do that. Pillow orientation
might not be right. I usually orient that to my comfortability.
Some of those are decorative pillows. And extremely uncomfortable. Uh so,
you know, I kind of lead the comfortable ones in
(15:51):
the spots that I know I'm gonna need him later.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
So okay, if you know assue.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Me, that's fine. That's that's fine. Okay. The other thing,
I work.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
My packages a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I Like, if I'm like doing something and there's a
package out front, I'm just like, I don't feel.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Like picking that up right now. I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And I look at it to see if it's like
important or perishable. If it's perishable, I'll bring it inside.
If it's not. You know, like these people that send
us like meat, it's like it's like, hey, that sends
frozen meat to the house.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Hey, here's a here's a steak from Omaha Steaks, or
you knowson, here's a turkey, Like, come on, we'ren't have
any more room for anymore meat.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Meat.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Were full of meat. So anybody listening that sends the
meat to the house, we're good, thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Here's here's here's the here's why pause you say we're
full of meat. That's very funny. No wonder half the
packages are missing, Sarah. If you're listening, the ship that
you said that house, it's probably just been so what
did I just.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Order a lovely new sign to alert all of the
delivery people stop leaving the packages outside of the gate?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah that's a really nice edition.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah yeah, well I will say that, get those.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Guys, you get lazy, which when they're delivering ten to
twelve packages a day to the house, I understand why
they probably don't like our house very much.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
But uh, I love the guy. He's great.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Yeah, he's a nice guy. He's nice.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
But thank you for many nag. This is the same,
this is the safe space.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Laura m Klung says, my husband and I are child
free by choice. What's your favorite part of being child free?
Thank you Laura for that question.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Do you want thank you so? Yeah? Lovely yeah, Laura.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, what's your favorite thing about being child free?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Steve?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
My favorite thing about being child free is our freedom.
I feel like you and I go to America. Yeah,
whenever we want, whenever we want, which.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I really do enjoy.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I feel like if maybe, if we didn't enjoy each
other so much, I'll speak for you there so you
don't have to answer that I love you. Yeah, I
know you do. I love you too. Yeah, I just
the freedom to do whatever we want. If we want
to pick up and uh go to Vegas for the night,
We're going to Vegas if we want to go, if
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we want to do nothing, we don't have to do anything,
like we're not running. So I think, uh, that's probably
my favorite part freedom. Also, I feel like if we
had a kid, I feel like I'd have to like
split my love in half, so like I'd like half
would have to go to the kid.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
And so I enjoy just getting you know, to you.
You know, I just don't feel like I so, yeah,
that's so nice. Yeah, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You're in your in your fake podcast studio. That's very
very sweet.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I echoed that sentiment that freedom is number one. And
I also think that and any parent would say this,
And I'll speak from the child of parents that even
still worry about me at the age of forty three.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
The worry, the stress.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
The fear that something bad is going to happen. That's
a lot of emotion that is allocated towards when you
have children that you're always going to worry about them,
and that creates a lot of tension within the marriage
or the relationship because and also different parenting styles, Like
there's so many variables and different things that go into
having kids that create stress that we don't have. Like
(19:34):
you and I don't have to worry about talking if
we want to, you know, let our kid have a
cell phone or not have a cell phone. We don't
have to worry about are we going to let Johnny
walk to the bus station by himself or not. Like
there's so many things that we don't have to stress
about because we don't have kids, number one, the safety
or you know, any of those kinds of things. So
I think being less stress free is a big one.
(19:58):
And then yeah, I agree with you on the love
part because I mean, let's be honest, if I like
have a child, like that's going to be something that
I'm spending a lot of time and energy and love
on and I get to give.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
That all.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
To you.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Well, is today Christmas? Or is today Christmas?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I mean happy holidays? You know.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
But actually, since we're on that subject, I think, because
this is our podcast, mind that I'm allowing you to
be a part of today, And thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
And you would have told me I'd be stepping in.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
For the greatest sideline reporter of all time on our own.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Show when I was a little boy, I'd say, yeah, right,
speaking of a little boy.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Because you're a lot younger than Aaron and I. So
there's that, I think if that's what you're getting at,
You're correct, you are younger than I, me and Aaron.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
No I was. I get asked a lot, and I
know you do too.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
In fact, I got asked this weekend by our wonderful
director of the shoot that we had when I'm going
to make an honest man out of you? So we
get asked about marriage, and we get asked about kids
very often, which is that a.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
What does that mean? Is that? Is that saying mean you.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Have make an honest man and out of you? Like
put like when are you? When are you going to
marry Steve? So that you're off, like you're not available,
you're not on the market anymore because you're taken by
being married to me.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
It's like it's just an expression.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Okay, yeah, okay, you're taken.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
No, it's just an expression. But it is a question
that we both get.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
A lot every single day.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So since we have this platform and I speak about it,
you know at length, because a lot of questions.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Oh boy, here we go. I always wanted you.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
To propose from a conference room in studio City.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I do, Okay, you.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Got to ask, you got to ask the question.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Nervous.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Okay, Well that's the next to the JumboTron. A conference
room in studio city is my favorite way to be proposed.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
To Studio City. Whatever. You keep going Studio city.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Oh that's right after. Remember you're not you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You haven't lived in Los Angeles that long, okay, as
somebody who used to drive to Burbank every day to
go work at extra. Studio City is right over there,
all right, I digress. We get asked about children, and
we get asked about being married a lot. Why don't
you answer this question? It's not on the it's not
on the pregame question. Also, how much do I love
you? You're my screensaver? Cute, it's a great picture. So is
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it going to be weird if one day like you're
not the screensaver and then you're gonna think.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
When you show. When I saw that, I was like, well,
like if I'm not anymore?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Just like do I ask if man? I hadn't thought
about that, Like now you're forever my screen saver.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Because I mean you can it's okay.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I mean, this has been a couple of months run.
That's long for me.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
It's good. It's good.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I answer this question a lot on here. So why
don't I get the floor to you? Are you okay
with not getting married? And we have part of the
kids question, so we'll start with marriage. Are you okay
with not getting married?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yeah? We've discussed this, I know, but.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
We're discussing it now in this setting.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, yeah, I am. If I wasn't, I would I
would be vocal about it. I am never at a
you know, I'm never short of words. So yeah, if
it was something that really bothered me, I would say,
like this is what I need.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
But uh, I don't.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Why are you okay? Why are you okay with not
being married?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I mean I think the same reason that you've are
you always vocalized? Like I don't need a piece of
paper to wake up and love you every day? Like
I don't know what would change, like when people ask them, Mike,
we're pretty much married anyway, I don't know what would
change except we'd spend a lot of money on a
wedding and sign a piece of paper. So maybe we
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have a party one day and then buddy that has asked,
can you know, come and put their fears to rest
that we're not going to get married and just have
like a party so everyone can enjoy that.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But no, I just I don't know. I don't I
don't need.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
That, Okay, thanks.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I never before you, I've never I never thought about it.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
It's just like you never need you were in a
relationships that never got brought up.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I mean maybe I was.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Just indifferent about like it was like one of those
things where you know, in Atlanta where I grew up,
that it was you go to school, you probably marry
your high school or college sweetheart, and you're having kids
by your early twenties, and if you haven't done all that,
you're you're so far behind, and like kind of like, well,
what's wrong with yeah, Steve, he doesn't you know, he's
(24:45):
not engaged or married and doesn't have kids, and he's
thirty now, he's thirty two now, he's thirty four, thirty
five now, So it's I'm thirty seven now, thirty eight
thirty seven or eight one of those.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Two old are you? Are you thirty eight things seven seven.
I'm six years older than you, so yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I have friends that have been married for fifteen years now, yeah,
seventeen years, and that is crazy. I have friends that
got married in college, so I just yeah, I'd never
really thought about it, like if it were to happen,
great and if not.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Like, but no, I'm uh, I'm totally fine with it.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Well and again this, I know you've been to therapy
with me.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
The one thing, the one thing that is weird is
when someone writes an art I guess you know, people
listen to this podcast and someone writes an article and
my friends and family will send it to me that CHRISA.
Thompson rejects Steven's marriage proposal, and they're like like, and
people won't send it. I'll just start getting text messages
random like dude, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Hey man, are you okay? I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Dude, you know, I'm sorry, Like, if you need anything,
call me, And I'm like, did somebody Well.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Wait till the headline comes out that you just proposed
in the conference room and I said, I mean this
is getting bad.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yes, yes, anyway, I don't know if like, did someone
die what happened? And then the like senate articles like
Carissa rejects boyfriend's marriage proposal and a Mike.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, like you read.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
So, so what I would say to that?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Since?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And again going back to that idea of you and
I have had these conversations at length, but I think
that there's people that listen to this podcast that may
be in similar situations as far as like not having kids,
as we just had one of the you know, somebody
write in not having kids or not getting married. So
what would you say or what advice would you give
to somebody that was in your position that I, you're
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not having kids and you're not getting married, because those
were my terms that I said entering into this relationship,
like those are my non negotiables. I'm not getting married
and I'm not having kids. How would what what advice
would you give to people that are in a similar
situation because those are massive things I don't want to
say to concede to but to like, okay, we have.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, I mean I didn't just I felt the same
way on both things. I didn't just go oh yeah,
I'm cool with that, Like yeah, there're two major life
moments or things that happen or things your parents and
grandparents they're great grandparents, or family wants.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
So it's like it's.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Something that you know, put thought into it, and you
know there's a ton of I mean, we've gone through
some of them reasons why or why not we've chosen
to not do those things. So yeah, I think it's yeah,
just put some thought into it. And it's you know,
I don't need like I said, I don't need a
piece of paper to wake up and love you every day,
like nothing would change.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
So you're not going to get mad at me though
in like ten years when you're like, oh, we'd never had.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I'm keeping it in my back pocketing case like I
ever need it. So maybe I'm not going to say
I'm not I'm not not going to get mad in
ten years. But like if I ever you know what
a trump card, if I ever need something, to just
really get mad about.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It and be like you, you don't make the bad
Andrew when.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
You asked me if we wanted to get married, and
I said no, well yeah I lie, Okay, I lied.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
How's that therapy sessionally gonna go?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Okay, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
That was a joke, yeah, relax, not good ones, blue
mind living, describe each other in three words.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
This is oh god, three words. Safe.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You make me feel very, very very safe. I've never
had that in a relationship before. There's always been chaos.
I've always been in fear of something, and just you
make me feel so safe. Two I've never You're my
best friend, so the friendship as well as loving you,
so I know they're not just three words. So maybe
(28:49):
I can be better of this. Safe, loved, and laughter.
I laugh every day all day with you, and even example,
the other day, you guys. I have asked Steve multiple
times to fix the timer on the lights because they
come on. They come on when it gets dark, but
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the timer's off and I don't know how to fix it,
and so the lights are on all working day outside
and I'm like, Steve, can you please fix the lights? Okay,
So I'm gone and I check on our security cameras
and sure enough, the lights that he said he fixed
are on, and I text him, I said, so, did
you ever fix those lights? Because I see that they're
(29:33):
still on, to which he doesn't even miss a beat,
and he writes back, oh yeah, I forgot to tell you.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Those are love lights.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
My love for you never goes off, so they stay
on twenty four hours a day, to which, of course
I then had to laugh hysterically on the other end
of the text and be like, this fucking guy's pretty
good because now I can't be mad at you but
also fix the goddamn lights.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
But you're very funny and you make me laugh and
I love you.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
That's lovely. Well, thank you for that. This is this
is great. I hope I come on more often.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
You know, therapy, when you have the Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
You know that's true. That is true.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
So three words to describe me. You can be quick,
because you know you've already said how much wrong?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Oh yeah, for sure. You've been through a lot and
you've come out the other side of all of it.
So I think strong is an appropriate term to describe you.
Thank you, First and foremost confident. Uh, that's not that's
a good thing. It's for me. It's a good thing.
If you weren't, I just wouldn't work. Yeah, I love
(30:40):
that about you. Strong, confident. And the third word to
describe you is uh, I mean.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
You're you're low key, very funny.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I would say beautiful, but well, I don't feel like
you don't get enough credit for how funny you are.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Oh but I mean, I'm not about you.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Funny is like kind of a cop out. It's like,
oh you're funny. Yeah, we know you're funny. I would
say beautiful obviously physically beautiful, but I think your personality
is you have a really you're so sweet and kind
to everyone, like overly sweet and kind and caring.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
So I think all three of those were wrapped up.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
You know, we talked about this is really great for us.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
This is really about this, like with the gifts and
things like, oh yeah, you don't like some of you
that listen that never set those thank you notes off
the list this year, so when nothing shows up, don't
think it got lost.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
See you guys a little bit.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You gots red sheet that he thinks I buy too
many gifts for people, and he said the old I
should only buy gifts for people that buy me a gift.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
But that's not.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
No, no, nope, time out rewind that three two. I
said you should only buy gifts for people that say
thank you. If you buy a gift for someone and
they don't acknowledge it, okay, I think they should be
off the list.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Well, maybe I'm not acknowledging people that said me gifts
because the neighbors are stealing the packages. And now I'm
the person that you don't like because I can't say
thank you for the gift that's sent because you're It's
not about all.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
It's not about liking or not liking.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
It's about if you can't take the time to say
thank you when someone send you a gift, I think
you should be off the gifting list.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Okay, we got a question from Lauren Powers. How did
Steve and Matthew meet? Did y'all hang out? For those
of you that don't know, Matthew and Kelly Stafford introduced
me to Steve. So, how did you and Matthew meet?
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Steve?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, we met in college. I was Matthew's wife, Kelly.
I was dating one of her friends in college, so
we met through that.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I was wondering if you were going to include that part,
because that's an important part.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I mean, Calm Down podcast is all about telling the
truth exactly.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Thanks you guys, tagline, But it was no. Yeah, I
was dating one of Kelly's lifelong best friends. We met
that way.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
So one of the twins.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I can't wait to meet them, by the way, Yeah,
they due for a Georgia like reunion.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, I'm just inserting myself.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Yeah, sure, Tom any time.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Okay, sorry, go ahead. You met through Kelly's friend, Yes,
who you're dating?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
And then yeah, and you know, we've all been friends
ever since. So it's been I think we're going on
twenty years now, no, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years somewhere around there.
So we've got a great group of friends. We've all
been really close since then and even before. It's really
cool that, you know, that's when Matthew and I met.
But a lot of my friends from high school are
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also in our friend group, and Matthew's friends from high
school are also in our friend group. So it's really
cool how all of us have kind of been close
for a long time now.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Also, I don't know, well you should, you don't include
You wouldn't because it's not who you are. Be like, well,
I also played football. You played football at Georgia Southern.
That's how you ended up, right, Like in that same
How far is Georgia Southern from Georgia Matthew and Kelly? Okay, yeah,
so it's like typical to like have friends in both places. Yeah,
(34:10):
not low places. That's a different song. I love Garth Brooks. Okay, last,
but not least for our pregame questions. One tan hand?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
What a name?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
By the way, how about that handle? Which also brings
up one point. When Steve and I first started hanging out,
he would say these crazy expressions.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
There we go, there's a face, and I would write.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Them down because I thought they were In fact, I
might still have the list.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Let me look for a while.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Let's go what does a profile picture look like? Is
a the hand? Actually? That tan, Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I'd have to go back three years for this thing.
Steve would say ridiculous things like, I'm always so tan.
We can only take take pictures in black and white.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
You were pale at the time.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
You were pale right now. I don't know what it's
a time. So that's what he was saying.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I'm as a fitness model. That's not something you say
to the new world.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Yeah, that's easiest, So would so you would wait till
I find this list. I would write these things down
because they were so wild and just in without any context.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
You're like, who is this guy? Anyways, I'm finding the list.
I won't waste our time right now looking for it.
But it was very funny. So one tan Hand says,
what is Steve's favorite thing about ranch life?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
My favorite thing about ranch life is the place that
we can be together and just relaxed, like no one
can find us. It's just kind of, you know, usually
the grid, Yeah, off the grid. It's just us up there,
and it's kind of just our place to get away
from everything. We both run a thousand miles an hour,
(35:59):
seemingly NonStop, so when we're up there, it's nice to
be able to slow down and relax.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
My favorite thing about being up there is yes, slowing down,
but also seeing you with all the animals. Because I've
always had a love for animals, I've always left dogs.
I mean I just like always had a thing of,
you know, wanting to have as many animals as possible.
So when I first met Steve, he didn't tell me this,
(36:27):
but he really didn't tell me this at the time,
that he didn't really love dogs, and.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
So I was terrified of dogs.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
He came over and anyone that knows my two dogs
that are with me full time in Los Angeles, Willis
and Daisy. They're not the friendliest dogs they at first
because they protect the house, they protect me, and they're
a German shepherd and a husky and so they're very
like a lot if you walk up to them and
they don't know you. So the first time Steve came over,
(36:56):
he didn't even say that he didn't like dogs. And
I was like, Okay, dogs are a little aggressive and
they're probably gonna like lose their shit and bark at you,
but like it's okay. We walk around the backside of
the house to the gate. No, no dog barks, no one.
They don't make a sound, and I'm looking at I'm like,
are you guys okay, Like what's wrong? Literally did not
(37:16):
bark it, Steve, And I was like, maybe that, maybe
that was like the first moment I loved you, because
I believe that dogs no energy of people, and even
though you were terrified, they like probably sense that you
were such a good person. So they didn't dark and
they didn't bark, and any other person would have been
like like Kujo on the other side of the fence.
So you walk the dogs, which at that point you'd
(37:39):
never walk a dog, right.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
I mean, no, not right, and yeah, it was terrified.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
But I was cool, right, trying to be cool. And
he called the leashes strings. He's like, what are these?
Are these their strings that they walk with? And I'm like, well,
they're called leashes. So you had, like your baseline was
zero with dog interaction. And then fast forward to you
tell me the backstory on why you didn't like dogs.
You had something traumatic happened to when you were younger,
you saw a dog hurt somebody.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Okay, we get it. But now you have.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Seven dogs, you have cows, you have a horse, you
have pigs, you have a sheep and cats and everything,
and so I think it's the way that you love
the animals and that they love you that I enjoy
the most. Lowin he was I know, I know. Yeah,
(38:28):
but Bindy his daughter, what, she's amazing. Okay, again, if
I haven't said it, I appreciate you taking time out
of your busy schedule to fill in for Aaron on
the Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
This is literally one of the great days of my life.
I'm gonna go ahead and say that.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
You know, I think this is really good for our
relationship lifetime.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Like we've been really telling each other a lot of
like how much you love each other and how you're
supporting This ole.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
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Speaker 1 (38:57):
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Speaker 5 (39:09):
M HM
You're not gonna get mad at me though in like
ten years, when you're like, oh, we'd never had a kid.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I mean, I'm keeping it in my back pocket in case,
like I ever need it, So maybe I'm not going
to say I'm not not gonna get mad in ten years.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I know you're gonna find this hard to believe. My
phone is low battery. Welcome to the pregame. We've got
a special guest this week. For those of you that
are just listening to the podcast, it is Stephen Henry
Kindarry will be joining us not only for the pregame,
but for the full length episode of the Calm Down
Podcast because our girl Aaron is over filling in on
(00:44):
Jenna and Friends on NBC. We love that Today's show excitement.
But Steve, thank you for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah. No, I really appreciate coming off the bench for this.
I'm extremely excited.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We are thrilled to have you.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But in all all chokes aside, Steve said to me
this morning, you guys, as we were driving back for
the ranch, I was like, all right, so we'll just
record the episode at two o'clock and he goes, well,
hol hold on, I'm going to the recording studio, the
podcast studio, and I go, what podcast studio are you
going to? He is, currently, why don't you tell everybody
where you're at.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, as most of you know, and thousands of you
have been asking, Jared and I are starting a podcast
called The Plus Ones Podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
So of course with that, we're going to do things right.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And we just finished the build out on our podcast studio,
so we're very excited about it. We can't wait to
show it off for the first episode, which is coming
maybe this year, maybe next year, maybe the year after.
We're not sure yet.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So okay, none of that is true that you are
not actually starting the podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
There's no build out for it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You are in a conference room in some random office building,
making it look like you're at a podcast studio.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
God, you're great. Okay, I love you.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Here we go, so, Steve, I'm not sure if you're
familiar with how the pregame works.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Oh are you kidding me? This is the only podcast
I listened to.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Okay, I love that. Thank you, great answer. You already
have to a good start. Yes, so we have incredible listeners.
Slash viewers because some people consume this medium on YouTube,
which we love and overclips. So people send in questions. Now, Ryan,
our wonderful producer, and Kurt as well send out some
questions and ask people to write in.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Are you what are you zipping on it?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Chardonnay, I wish sawls it's spread season? Oh it is,
It's not over yet. Some people went back to school.
Not this guy. Okay, here's the first question. Are you ready?
It comes from w N some k I get all
of these wrong, so just roll with it. I apologize
to the individual that wrote in question is what does
(02:43):
Steve do for a living?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Take it away, Steve?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh well, thank you for writing in w N son
ke huge fan Steve myself, I own a company called
Summit House. I have three amazing business partners, Roman, Carson
and Dan and at some House we own and operate
seven different specialized creative agencies, so they all have individual teams.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
We all work together. We started at about eight years ago.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We do amazing work across the spectrum from design to production,
to social to you name it. So that's what Steve does.
I also take care of Willison Daisy in my off
time and.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
All the other animals at the ranch and all.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
The other animals at Ruby Ranch.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I will say we've been together for three years now
and I had my first experience, my first production experience
with your company this past weekend. We shot something up
at Ruby Ranch, so I got to see, like in person,
how your whole operation runs. And I will say, Steve,
I was very very impressed with your company, with your employees,
(03:49):
shout out Montana and everything that goes into that. So
I know you work very hard, so very proud to
watch that all unfold. And thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, we appreciate it. If you can leave a review
on yell, those go a long way so already have I.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Know you're big into the five start rating. Oh yeah,
thank you, Okay, Karen Kendrick. One next question is what
was your first impression of me? Well, Kara, I'm dying
to hear this. I'm gonna sit back and listen. First
impression of me was?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
What first impression of you? Well, man, that's a loaded question,
uh laugh, Like the first.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Time we met.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, your first impression of it?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, I thought you were beautiful, very very confident, which
I love.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And I don't know you seem fun.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I remember, uh yeah, a lot about that. You seem
like you are a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
So you know after which espresso martini? Are you referring to?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The second?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He's answering it, so I don't get pissed thirteenth Okay, JR.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Zuber, thank you. That's very nice for you.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
JR Zuber. What is your favorite thing to do as
a couple? Even rope, keep it clean, kids, it's a
family show.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
You got you favorite things? Calmed Down after Dark? I
thought I signed up for Calm Down after Dark.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
No, but see if there's any room in that podcast
studio for that. We'll add that to our.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, perfect, yeah resume, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So since I can, I'll start on this one favorite
thing to do as a couple. I would say a
lot of.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
It depends on the season that it is.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Because during football season, when I travel a lot, all
I want to do is when I get home is
just lay on the couch with you, watch TV, hang
out with the dogs, or you know, just be kind
of home and not doing anything. I think when it's
not football season, like I loved traveling this off season
with you. Love anything at the ranch that comes with
an asterisk, because there's some things. When Steve messes up
(05:58):
at the ranch, I'm like, I don't ever watch you
come in here. That's few and far between, but I
would say, yeah, just spending time together is my favorite
thing to do with you. And again, if it's a
specific thing, I also like, you don't know this. I
also like the car ride with you to and from
the ranch, because then you're stuck in the car with
me for three and a half hours and you're force Yeah,
(06:21):
we're forced to talk to each other. We're not on
our phones. We're like, it's a communication. Well, sometimes I
fall asleep, but you know what I mean, say every.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Single time halfway through your snoring, So I guess I'm
not sure you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It's that.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And I also enjoy we've added something new into our
relationship called the coffee conversations, which this is great.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
This could be my new favorite, This could be my
new favorite thing to do together.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So Steve is always on his phone always, And I understand,
you own your own companies, so there's a lot of
moving parts.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You're the boss. You've got to be like dialed in
on things.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That's fine, but the phone is attached to your handle lot.
So we have a space in our house that's right
above me called the no Phone Zone, and there's a
couch and you're not in chairs, and you're not allowed
to bring your phone in that area.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
So I love that. So taking that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Same time, you can't even have your phone, and it's
not like you put your phone down next to you
in the zone.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
It's no phones.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Allowed in the zone and no phone zone.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
You got to keep it outside of the zone.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So we uh took that that idea and then created
the coffee conversations where in the morning each have coffee.
You're not a big coffee drinker, so you have an
energy drink whatever, and then we chat. And I really
enjoy that and I want to be more consistent about
that too, because we we are we've both been traveling independently.
So anyways, that's what I enjoyed doing, was are we
(07:43):
all out of time?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I think we're out of time? That was really nice.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'm glad to know you enjoy so much of so
many different things with me. This is three minutes podcasts
a lot more often we don't even have to record it.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Can we just ask each other questions?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
This is in fact the coffee conversation.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, here's great.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, okay, what's your favorite thing to do with me?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
My favorite thing to do with you is I love traveling.
I mean the same, I love relaxing, you know, when
we're both worn out. I love that just spending time together.
You're my best friends, so I enjoy just spending time.
It doesn't matter what we're doing. We could be, you know,
(08:27):
taking the trash out. I enjoy it, except when you're
really tired. Except when you're really tired, then.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Like what what?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
What? I just you know, I just.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
No, and you get you know, when you're really tired.
It doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
No, I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I didn't say it. I didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I know you didn't say it. You don't have to
say it. It's implied. We know what you're thinking.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Two things on that. One is you don't let me
take the trash out. Whenever I go to get the trash,
he goes, what are we doing here? And that's very
much like at your job. So you're good about that.
And the other thing is I have from the time
I was very young, I would fall asleep on the
couch ask my parents, says Steve, you know this about me.
I love falling asleep on the couch. It's like so comfortable,
(09:16):
and it's like, don't wake me up. If it's like
a baby, don't ever wake up a sleeping baby. If
I fall asleep there, it's because I'm so relaxed and
I'm just like I'm good. I don't need to then
have somebody wake me up and be like go upstairs,
go to bed. My dad used to try to do that.
I mean, no, it didn't work, so I'd get pissed.
I'd be like, why did you wake me up? I
was so comfortable. So Steve, I have told over and
(09:37):
over again if I'm sleeping on the couch, just let
me sleep there, and you're still not getting it, or
three years every night.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Because some nights, you know, I just leave her there
and then it's like, well, why'd you leave me down there?
And I'm like you told me to. And then other
nights I wake her up and she's like why are
you waking me up? So it's I can't win here.
I can't win.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And if anybody has any.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
True that's not true.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I say to you, you ask me before I fall
asleep on the couch, is tonight and night that you
want me to leave you down here or not leave
you down here? To which I say leave me sometimes
and sometimes not good. Okay, well this ought to be
(10:21):
because there's another question.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Puzzled.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Puzzled k one bad habit he wants to drop, he
being you, and one good habit he picked up or
is trying to pick up. Okay, so you answer the
question one is what is one bad habit that you
want to drop? And what's one good habit that you
have picked up or you're trying to pick up.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
One bad habit I want to drop. I say yes
to too many things. Oh I don't know if that's
a habit, but I say yes to too many things,
and sometimes I just can't do them all, so some
of them fall through the cracks. So I think maybe
saying less, more, saying less to things, more, saying yes.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Less, saying less to yes, saying less yes.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yes, yeah, my kid that tattooed on my forearm.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, So that I think, uh yeah, when you just
kind of say yes to too many things and things
fall through the cracks, it just doesn't feel good on
any side. That's probably your biggest pet peeve if I
had a guess, but who knows. Uh, that's just my
guess with that, and then have it I picked up
that I enjoy.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
What is the question, haven't I picked up that?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I up one habit that you want to drop? So
you answer that one habit you picked up or you're
trying to pick up.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Habit I picked up. Making the bed every single morning.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Is something that is a really great habit to have
for anyone in any But you know, there's some mornings that.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Just you know, okay, what what you going?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You got like, you know, you're rushed, you woke up late,
you got stuff going on. You're nervous about a meeting
or a thing or the gardeners at whatever, you know,
so you just kind of forget.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Okay, I'm going to interject on this one real quick.
So there was an episode of this podcast with Aaron
and I where we talked about things that we do
when our significant other is gone. Right, she said, like, oh,
she orders certain food that has like onions or garlic
in it, and then she doesn't have to care if
she like kisses Sharrett.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Or something like that.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I said that I don't make the bed and I
just throw shit all over the house when you're gone
because when I and I shouldn't have revealed this because
now you know, but I do that because when you
are here.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I'm very very much like I grew up.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Every morning, you have to make your bed before you
go to school, and I think it's a good way
to start the day if you don't start the day
like having a you know, organized house and bedroom and
all that kind of stuff, like what does your life
look like? But when you walk out the door, all
hell breaks loose and I feel like I am. I
feel like I'm a bachelorette that just gets to do
whatever the hell he wants around here. So that I've
(13:14):
had people come up to me and be like, I
do the same thing, which which by your own admission,
I asked Steve one day, you guys, I said, okay, well,
now that you know that I do that, that I
just don't pick up around my around here when you're
gone or the bed. What's something that you do at
this house when I'm not around?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You know what he said?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
He said, When I go to get ice out of
the freezer and I drop a few cubes, I just
kick them underneathneath the refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
He doesn't do that.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
What what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
So there's just a water water, huge water puddle underneath
the refrigerator that's just eroding the hardwood floor, and god
knows what's going on there because Steve is just you know,
playing soccer with the ice cubes underneath the freezer.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
That's wild.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Since I was a kid, I feel like that's like
a thing. And maybe I'm weird and I'm the only
one that does that, but there has to be other
people there that just you can't come under there, and
they disappear and you never see them again.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
You don't see the water, you don't see any They're
just they're gone.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
What else do you do? Come on? This is the
same space. I've been very open on this point.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
This is your chance to you know, reveal some with
and I will say, here's the disclaimer, without judgment. I
won't hold it against you when this podcast is over.
I won't bring it up later and be like, well,
remember the time that you Okay, So what else do
you do around here when I'm gone, which I'm gone
(14:39):
a lot during football season, So who the hell knows
what goes on around here?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I don't know I mean, that's a big one. I
don't know if that's a big one. That's probably a
small one in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But okay, I'm gonna okay, I'll start prompting me with questions.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Since I know what goes on around here, do you
put all that? So women?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And you know what, maybe some men too. It's remember
the scene in Along Came Paoli. Like all the pillows
on the bed, I also have a lot of pillows
on the couch. And to Steve's credit, he's never brought
up all the excessive pillows. He hasn't, so I appreciate that.
But I have a very specific way that I like
the couch organized. If some pillows go in a certain direction,
this is the interior designer in me. I like the
(15:21):
colors came to be a certain way, the blanket hangs
over a certain way, the couch cushions, the whole thing.
So when I'm not here, do you put the couch
back together?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Every day? I do, just because it bothers me when
it's not so, yeah, I do do that. Pillow orientation
might not be right. I usually orient that to my comfortability.
Some of those are decorative pillows. And extremely uncomfortable. Uh so,
you know, I kind of lead the comfortable ones in
(15:51):
the spots that I know I'm gonna need him later.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
So okay, if you know assue.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Me, that's fine. That's that's fine. Okay. The other thing,
I work.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
My packages a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I Like, if I'm like doing something and there's a
package out front, I'm just like, I don't feel.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Like picking that up right now. I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And I look at it to see if it's like
important or perishable. If it's perishable, I'll bring it inside.
If it's not. You know, like these people that send
us like meat, it's like it's like, hey, that sends
frozen meat to the house.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Hey, here's a here's a steak from Omaha Steaks, or
you knowson, here's a turkey, Like, come on, we'ren't have
any more room for anymore meat.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Meat.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Were full of meat. So anybody listening that sends the
meat to the house, we're good, thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Here's here's here's the here's why pause you say we're
full of meat. That's very funny. No wonder half the
packages are missing, Sarah. If you're listening, the ship that
you said that house, it's probably just been so what
did I just.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Order a lovely new sign to alert all of the
delivery people stop leaving the packages outside of the gate?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah that's a really nice edition.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah yeah, well I will say that, get those.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Guys, you get lazy, which when they're delivering ten to
twelve packages a day to the house, I understand why
they probably don't like our house very much.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
But uh, I love the guy. He's great.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Yeah, he's a nice guy. He's nice.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
But thank you for many nag. This is the same,
this is the safe space.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Laura m Klung says, my husband and I are child
free by choice. What's your favorite part of being child free?
Thank you Laura for that question.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Do you want thank you so? Yeah? Lovely yeah, Laura.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, what's your favorite thing about being child free?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Steve?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
My favorite thing about being child free is our freedom.
I feel like you and I go to America. Yeah,
whenever we want, whenever we want, which.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I really do enjoy.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I feel like if maybe, if we didn't enjoy each
other so much, I'll speak for you there so you
don't have to answer that I love you. Yeah, I
know you do. I love you too. Yeah, I just
the freedom to do whatever we want. If we want
to pick up and uh go to Vegas for the night,
We're going to Vegas if we want to go, if
(18:32):
we want to do nothing, we don't have to do anything,
like we're not running. So I think, uh, that's probably
my favorite part freedom. Also, I feel like if we
had a kid, I feel like I'd have to like
split my love in half, so like I'd like half
would have to go to the kid.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
And so I enjoy just getting you know, to you.
You know, I just don't feel like I so, yeah,
that's so nice. Yeah, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You're in your in your fake podcast studio. That's very
very sweet.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I echoed that sentiment that freedom is number one. And
I also think that and any parent would say this,
And I'll speak from the child of parents that even
still worry about me at the age of forty three.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
The worry, the stress.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
The fear that something bad is going to happen. That's
a lot of emotion that is allocated towards when you
have children that you're always going to worry about them,
and that creates a lot of tension within the marriage
or the relationship because and also different parenting styles, Like
there's so many variables and different things that go into
having kids that create stress that we don't have. Like
(19:34):
you and I don't have to worry about talking if
we want to, you know, let our kid have a
cell phone or not have a cell phone. We don't
have to worry about are we going to let Johnny
walk to the bus station by himself or not. Like
there's so many things that we don't have to stress
about because we don't have kids, number one, the safety
or you know, any of those kinds of things. So
I think being less stress free is a big one.
(19:58):
And then yeah, I agree with you on the love
part because I mean, let's be honest, if I like
have a child, like that's going to be something that
I'm spending a lot of time and energy and love
on and I get to give.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
That all.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
To you.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Well, is today Christmas? Or is today Christmas?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I mean happy holidays? You know.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
But actually, since we're on that subject, I think, because
this is our podcast, mind that I'm allowing you to
be a part of today, And thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
And you would have told me I'd be stepping in.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
For the greatest sideline reporter of all time on our own.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Show when I was a little boy, I'd say, yeah, right,
speaking of a little boy.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Because you're a lot younger than Aaron and I. So
there's that, I think if that's what you're getting at,
You're correct, you are younger than I, me and Aaron.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
No I was. I get asked a lot, and I
know you do too.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
In fact, I got asked this weekend by our wonderful
director of the shoot that we had when I'm going
to make an honest man out of you? So we
get asked about marriage, and we get asked about kids
very often, which is that a.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
What does that mean? Is that? Is that saying mean you.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Have make an honest man and out of you? Like
put like when are you? When are you going to
marry Steve? So that you're off, like you're not available,
you're not on the market anymore because you're taken by
being married to me.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
It's like it's just an expression.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Okay, yeah, okay, you're taken.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
No, it's just an expression. But it is a question
that we both get.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
A lot every single day.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So since we have this platform and I speak about it,
you know at length, because a lot of questions.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Oh boy, here we go. I always wanted you.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
To propose from a conference room in studio City.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I do, Okay, you.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Got to ask, you got to ask the question.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Nervous.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Okay, Well that's the next to the JumboTron. A conference
room in studio city is my favorite way to be proposed.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
To Studio City. Whatever. You keep going Studio city.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Oh that's right after. Remember you're not you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You haven't lived in Los Angeles that long, okay, as
somebody who used to drive to Burbank every day to
go work at extra. Studio City is right over there,
all right, I digress. We get asked about children, and
we get asked about being married a lot. Why don't
you answer this question? It's not on the it's not
on the pregame question. Also, how much do I love
you? You're my screensaver? Cute, it's a great picture. So is
(22:28):
it going to be weird if one day like you're
not the screensaver and then you're gonna think.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
When you show. When I saw that, I was like, well,
like if I'm not anymore?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Just like do I ask if man? I hadn't thought
about that, Like now you're forever my screen saver.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Because I mean you can it's okay.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I mean, this has been a couple of months run.
That's long for me.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
It's good. It's good.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I answer this question a lot on here. So why
don't I get the floor to you? Are you okay
with not getting married? And we have part of the
kids question, so we'll start with marriage. Are you okay
with not getting married?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yeah? We've discussed this, I know, but.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
We're discussing it now in this setting.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, yeah, I am. If I wasn't, I would I
would be vocal about it. I am never at a
you know, I'm never short of words. So yeah, if
it was something that really bothered me, I would say,
like this is what I need.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
But uh, I don't.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Why are you okay? Why are you okay with not
being married?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I mean I think the same reason that you've are
you always vocalized? Like I don't need a piece of
paper to wake up and love you every day? Like
I don't know what would change, like when people ask them, Mike,
we're pretty much married anyway, I don't know what would
change except we'd spend a lot of money on a
wedding and sign a piece of paper. So maybe we
(23:58):
have a party one day and then buddy that has asked,
can you know, come and put their fears to rest
that we're not going to get married and just have
like a party so everyone can enjoy that.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But no, I just I don't know. I don't I
don't need.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
That, Okay, thanks.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I never before you, I've never I never thought about it.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
It's just like you never need you were in a
relationships that never got brought up.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I mean maybe I was.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Just indifferent about like it was like one of those
things where you know, in Atlanta where I grew up,
that it was you go to school, you probably marry
your high school or college sweetheart, and you're having kids
by your early twenties, and if you haven't done all that,
you're you're so far behind, and like kind of like, well,
what's wrong with yeah, Steve, he doesn't you know, he's
(24:45):
not engaged or married and doesn't have kids, and he's
thirty now, he's thirty two now, he's thirty four, thirty
five now, So it's I'm thirty seven now, thirty eight
thirty seven or eight one of those.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Two old are you? Are you thirty eight things seven seven.
I'm six years older than you, so yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I have friends that have been married for fifteen years now, yeah,
seventeen years, and that is crazy. I have friends that
got married in college, so I just yeah, I'd never
really thought about it, like if it were to happen,
great and if not.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Like, but no, I'm uh, I'm totally fine with it.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Well and again this, I know you've been to therapy
with me.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
The one thing, the one thing that is weird is
when someone writes an art I guess you know, people
listen to this podcast and someone writes an article and
my friends and family will send it to me that CHRISA.
Thompson rejects Steven's marriage proposal, and they're like like, and
people won't send it. I'll just start getting text messages
random like dude, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Hey man, are you okay? I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Dude, you know, I'm sorry, Like, if you need anything,
call me, And I'm like, did somebody Well.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Wait till the headline comes out that you just proposed
in the conference room and I said, I mean this
is getting bad.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yes, yes, anyway, I don't know if like, did someone
die what happened? And then the like senate articles like
Carissa rejects boyfriend's marriage proposal and a Mike.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, like you read.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
So, so what I would say to that?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Since?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And again going back to that idea of you and
I have had these conversations at length, but I think
that there's people that listen to this podcast that may
be in similar situations as far as like not having kids,
as we just had one of the you know, somebody
write in not having kids or not getting married. So
what would you say or what advice would you give
to somebody that was in your position that I, you're
(26:40):
not having kids and you're not getting married, because those
were my terms that I said entering into this relationship,
like those are my non negotiables. I'm not getting married
and I'm not having kids. How would what what advice
would you give to people that are in a similar
situation because those are massive things I don't want to
say to concede to but to like, okay, we have.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, I mean I didn't just I felt the same
way on both things. I didn't just go oh yeah,
I'm cool with that, Like yeah, there're two major life
moments or things that happen or things your parents and
grandparents they're great grandparents, or family wants.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
So it's like it's.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Something that you know, put thought into it, and you
know there's a ton of I mean, we've gone through
some of them reasons why or why not we've chosen
to not do those things. So yeah, I think it's yeah,
just put some thought into it. And it's you know,
I don't need like I said, I don't need a
piece of paper to wake up and love you every day,
like nothing would change.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
So you're not going to get mad at me though
in like ten years when you're like, oh, we'd never had.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I'm keeping it in my back pocketing case like I
ever need it. So maybe I'm not going to say
I'm not I'm not not going to get mad in
ten years. But like if I ever you know what
a trump card, if I ever need something, to just
really get mad about.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It and be like you, you don't make the bad
Andrew when.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
You asked me if we wanted to get married, and
I said no, well yeah I lie, Okay, I lied.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
How's that therapy sessionally gonna go?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Okay, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
That was a joke, yeah, relax, not good ones, blue
mind living, describe each other in three words.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
This is oh god, three words. Safe.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You make me feel very, very very safe. I've never
had that in a relationship before. There's always been chaos.
I've always been in fear of something, and just you
make me feel so safe. Two I've never You're my
best friend, so the friendship as well as loving you,
so I know they're not just three words. So maybe
(28:49):
I can be better of this. Safe, loved, and laughter.
I laugh every day all day with you, and even example,
the other day, you guys. I have asked Steve multiple
times to fix the timer on the lights because they
come on. They come on when it gets dark, but
(29:12):
the timer's off and I don't know how to fix it,
and so the lights are on all working day outside
and I'm like, Steve, can you please fix the lights? Okay,
So I'm gone and I check on our security cameras
and sure enough, the lights that he said he fixed
are on, and I text him, I said, so, did
you ever fix those lights? Because I see that they're
(29:33):
still on, to which he doesn't even miss a beat,
and he writes back, oh yeah, I forgot to tell you.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Those are love lights.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
My love for you never goes off, so they stay
on twenty four hours a day, to which, of course
I then had to laugh hysterically on the other end
of the text and be like, this fucking guy's pretty
good because now I can't be mad at you but
also fix the goddamn lights.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
But you're very funny and you make me laugh and
I love you.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
That's lovely. Well, thank you for that. This is this
is great. I hope I come on more often.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
You know, therapy, when you have the Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
You know that's true. That is true.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
So three words to describe me. You can be quick,
because you know you've already said how much wrong?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Oh yeah, for sure. You've been through a lot and
you've come out the other side of all of it.
So I think strong is an appropriate term to describe you.
Thank you, First and foremost confident. Uh, that's not that's
a good thing. It's for me. It's a good thing.
If you weren't, I just wouldn't work. Yeah, I love
(30:40):
that about you. Strong, confident. And the third word to
describe you is uh, I mean.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
You're you're low key, very funny.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I would say beautiful, but well, I don't feel like
you don't get enough credit for how funny you are.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Oh but I mean, I'm not about you.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Funny is like kind of a cop out. It's like,
oh you're funny. Yeah, we know you're funny. I would
say beautiful obviously physically beautiful, but I think your personality
is you have a really you're so sweet and kind
to everyone, like overly sweet and kind and caring.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
So I think all three of those were wrapped up.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
You know, we talked about this is really great for us.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
This is really about this, like with the gifts and
things like, oh yeah, you don't like some of you
that listen that never set those thank you notes off
the list this year, so when nothing shows up, don't
think it got lost.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
See you guys a little bit.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You gots red sheet that he thinks I buy too
many gifts for people, and he said the old I
should only buy gifts for people that buy me a gift.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
But that's not.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
No, no, nope, time out rewind that three two. I
said you should only buy gifts for people that say
thank you. If you buy a gift for someone and
they don't acknowledge it, okay, I think they should be
off the list.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Well, maybe I'm not acknowledging people that said me gifts
because the neighbors are stealing the packages. And now I'm
the person that you don't like because I can't say
thank you for the gift that's sent because you're It's
not about all.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
It's not about liking or not liking.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
It's about if you can't take the time to say
thank you when someone send you a gift, I think
you should be off the gifting list.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Okay, we got a question from Lauren Powers. How did
Steve and Matthew meet? Did y'all hang out? For those
of you that don't know, Matthew and Kelly Stafford introduced
me to Steve. So, how did you and Matthew meet?
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Steve?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, we met in college. I was Matthew's wife, Kelly.
I was dating one of her friends in college, so
we met through that.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I was wondering if you were going to include that part,
because that's an important part.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I mean, Calm Down podcast is all about telling the
truth exactly.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Thanks you guys, tagline, But it was no. Yeah, I
was dating one of Kelly's lifelong best friends. We met
that way.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
So one of the twins.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I can't wait to meet them, by the way, Yeah,
they due for a Georgia like reunion.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, I'm just inserting myself.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Yeah, sure, Tom any time.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Okay, sorry, go ahead. You met through Kelly's friend, Yes,
who you're dating?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
And then yeah, and you know, we've all been friends
ever since. So it's been I think we're going on
twenty years now, no, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years somewhere around there.
So we've got a great group of friends. We've all
been really close since then and even before. It's really
cool that, you know, that's when Matthew and I met.
But a lot of my friends from high school are
(33:39):
also in our friend group, and Matthew's friends from high
school are also in our friend group. So it's really
cool how all of us have kind of been close
for a long time now.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Also, I don't know, well you should, you don't include
You wouldn't because it's not who you are. Be like, well,
I also played football. You played football at Georgia Southern.
That's how you ended up, right, Like in that same
How far is Georgia Southern from Georgia Matthew and Kelly? Okay, yeah,
so it's like typical to like have friends in both places. Yeah,
(34:10):
not low places. That's a different song. I love Garth Brooks. Okay, last,
but not least for our pregame questions. One tan hand?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
What a name?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
By the way, how about that handle? Which also brings
up one point. When Steve and I first started hanging out,
he would say these crazy expressions.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
There we go, there's a face, and I would write.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Them down because I thought they were In fact, I
might still have the list.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Let me look for a while.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Let's go what does a profile picture look like? Is
a the hand? Actually? That tan, Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I'd have to go back three years for this thing.
Steve would say ridiculous things like, I'm always so tan.
We can only take take pictures in black and white.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
You were pale at the time.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
You were pale right now. I don't know what it's
a time. So that's what he was saying.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I'm as a fitness model. That's not something you say
to the new world.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Yeah, that's easiest, So would so you would wait till
I find this list. I would write these things down
because they were so wild and just in without any context.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
You're like, who is this guy? Anyways, I'm finding the list.
I won't waste our time right now looking for it.
But it was very funny. So one tan Hand says,
what is Steve's favorite thing about ranch life?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
My favorite thing about ranch life is the place that
we can be together and just relaxed, like no one
can find us. It's just kind of, you know, usually
the grid, Yeah, off the grid. It's just us up there,
and it's kind of just our place to get away
from everything. We both run a thousand miles an hour,
(35:59):
seemingly NonStop, so when we're up there, it's nice to
be able to slow down and relax.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
My favorite thing about being up there is yes, slowing down,
but also seeing you with all the animals. Because I've
always had a love for animals, I've always left dogs.
I mean I just like always had a thing of,
you know, wanting to have as many animals as possible.
So when I first met Steve, he didn't tell me this,
(36:27):
but he really didn't tell me this at the time,
that he didn't really love dogs, and.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
So I was terrified of dogs.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
He came over and anyone that knows my two dogs
that are with me full time in Los Angeles, Willis
and Daisy. They're not the friendliest dogs they at first
because they protect the house, they protect me, and they're
a German shepherd and a husky and so they're very
like a lot if you walk up to them and
they don't know you. So the first time Steve came over,
(36:56):
he didn't even say that he didn't like dogs. And
I was like, Okay, dogs are a little aggressive and
they're probably gonna like lose their shit and bark at you,
but like it's okay. We walk around the backside of
the house to the gate. No, no dog barks, no one.
They don't make a sound, and I'm looking at I'm like,
are you guys okay, Like what's wrong? Literally did not
(37:16):
bark it, Steve, And I was like, maybe that, maybe
that was like the first moment I loved you, because
I believe that dogs no energy of people, and even
though you were terrified, they like probably sense that you
were such a good person. So they didn't dark and
they didn't bark, and any other person would have been
like like Kujo on the other side of the fence.
So you walk the dogs, which at that point you'd
(37:39):
never walk a dog, right.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
I mean, no, not right, and yeah, it was terrified.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
But I was cool, right, trying to be cool. And
he called the leashes strings. He's like, what are these?
Are these their strings that they walk with? And I'm like, well,
they're called leashes. So you had, like your baseline was
zero with dog interaction. And then fast forward to you
tell me the backstory on why you didn't like dogs.
You had something traumatic happened to when you were younger,
you saw a dog hurt somebody.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Okay, we get it. But now you have.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Seven dogs, you have cows, you have a horse, you
have pigs, you have a sheep and cats and everything,
and so I think it's the way that you love
the animals and that they love you that I enjoy
the most. Lowin he was I know, I know. Yeah,
(38:28):
but Bindy his daughter, what, she's amazing. Okay, again, if
I haven't said it, I appreciate you taking time out
of your busy schedule to fill in for Aaron on
the Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
This is literally one of the great days of my life.
I'm gonna go ahead and say that.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
You know, I think this is really good for our
relationship lifetime.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Like we've been really telling each other a lot of
like how much you love each other and how you're
supporting This ole.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
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Speaker 1 (38:57):
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