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August 14, 2025 18 mins

Part 2 of Steve filling in for Erin and joining Charissa on this week’s episode of Calm Down. Producer Ryan hosts the “Not Newlyweds Game” where Charissa and Steve are quizzed on how well they know one another. They reveal why Charissa has a new favorite color and the truth about the pet peeves they can’t stand about one another.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When CHRISA says impetus, I said.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
He drives me fucking nuts, Like, oh well, the impetus
of the plus ones podcast was born.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Calm down with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio. Okay,
so here we go.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
I'm gonna Ryan, our wonderful producer, is going to pop
in here and he's going to lead this little game
that I am affectionately calling Hi Ryan, the not Newlywed Game.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
All right, let's go.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Whoa?

Speaker 5 (00:43):
All right, not Newlywed Games. Steve, you're our guests. Thanks
so much for being here today, So we are going
to start with you.

Speaker 6 (00:49):
As the game goes, we'll throw out a question about
what you believe Carissa's answer will be, and then Carisa
will revere whether or not you got that rights then
vice versa. I will ask Chris about Steve, and Steve,
you will let us know she got that correct.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I love this.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Before we go, Before we get going, I just need
to point out, because Steve, you get complimented on your
hair a lot. You've got great hair. How great is
Ryan's hair?

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Look good?

Speaker 6 (01:16):
Steve was talking about using the hair dryer, getting the
quaff going.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
And then we're showing man, we're showing AI pictures of Steve.
I'm like, I gotta step my game up.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Well, you look fantastic. The volume is voluming.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Question.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
I appreciate that, all right.

Speaker 6 (01:32):
I also got to remember cord integrity on putting the
hair dryer away, right, Steve.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
It's.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
It has gotten better.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Actually, listen, we're always improving. We're always improving, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Maintenance when you're like tell or something the way that
they wrapped if somebody got a tutorial on that, the
way they wrapped the cord around.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Like the hair dryer or whatever other tool, the tool you.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Can't get it off. It's incredible, I know. So like
pushing it and learn like I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Know it just like a pass down from generation to generation,
uh person, or like you get like a course when
you go like, hi, I knew, employees, how you wrap
the hair dryer.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
It's probably install type of thing, right, Yeah, good point.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
And how about when you're at the really nice hotels
and they wrap yourself they wrap your phone charging cord
in that little velcrow thing, you know, the one ye
shout out for seasons. We should get called those things.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Cell phone cord wraps.

Speaker 6 (02:30):
Although I did, I did get a little sneaky error
on that without realizing it. One night, I just went
and plugged my phone in. After they did that, I
was like laying the battle. I plugged this in for tomorrow,
wasn't plugged into the wall, so that, yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
You got.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
It, goes back to maintenance. That's right, That's what I say.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Ready, all encompassing?

Speaker 3 (02:54):
All right, all right, well, thank you guys for listening
to our ted topord maintenance.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Okay, first question is.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
Steve, I'm starting with you. What is Carissa's favorite movie?

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (03:06):
So, do I say it out loud or do I
show what I wrote down?

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, Carissa's favorite movie is Sawshank Redemption or.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Shot the nailed it on the first one, Pretty Woman's
Number two.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
But you're right, it is Shawshank Redemption. Okay, all right,
good job, babe, you're on the board.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
That's right, same to you. What is Steve's favorite movie?

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Steve's favorite movie is also Showshank Redemption.

Speaker 6 (03:39):
Okay, all right, there we go, right right right, I'm right. So,
how quickly into the relationship did we realized we had
the same favorite movie?

Speaker 5 (03:48):
Because this feels.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Like a week and a half ago.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Really no, Yeah, because I.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
We're talking about it.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
I think it's a ranch and because I was like,
your favorite movie is Pretty Woman, She's like, yeah, but
it's alsome.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
But I honestly did not. I know that you said
you liked Shoshing, but I can't. I couldn't remember if
that was your favorite, So I wasn't listening.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Okay, or that or wedding crashers for sure.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh wow, okay, good to note for the next time
we play this game.

Speaker 6 (04:16):
All right, well, I am glad considering you guys just
talked about that within the past week that you both
got it right, So good job on you.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
That's well Ryan, that'd say lesson in listening listening to
each other.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
So good.

Speaker 6 (04:27):
I'm taking notes. I'm taking notes, believe you. Yeah, all right, Steve,
here we go. Carissa's favorite color, Chris's favorite color.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
If you were.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Listening, then okay, okay, okay, okay, Steve, I swear to
god you were listening because I wrote it was blue.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Now green.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
Wow, See this guy's on fire.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
God, that's fantastic. Steve's favorite color is also green.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
It is right, oh, and remains green until we're not changing.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
No, he didn't change. I do remember that because he
has green eyes. And I was like, oh, that's good
that you're this is fun, okay to both of you.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
Question Steve Carrissa's favorite show?

Speaker 1 (05:14):
This is a no brainer.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Willis date Line? Everyone knows that too easy to I
want to be on Dateline, not in like case.

Speaker 5 (05:22):
I want to be the way.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
If you guys should get him on the podcast, I
think that'd be fantastic.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
It's like my celebrity crush.

Speaker 6 (05:29):
Okay, careful, see if he may replace you permanently as
a fill and co host, if that ever happens.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
To be Honestly, there was one guy that I would
be Okay.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
I think he meant it's my boyfriend. I was like, Mary, Okay.

Speaker 5 (05:40):
Steve's favorite TV show is what Carissa.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Ship I have?

Speaker 1 (05:44):
I honestly have no idea what his show is.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
I think you talked about this, not on a recent episode.
No way. Well, I'll let you guess, and then I'm
going to say what I think. My guess is.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Steve doesn't even like TV. He doesn't watch TV.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
Yeah, but I do have a favorite TV show.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh, Arrested Development.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
I didn't write that down, but but I did. I
do know now when you say that.

Speaker 6 (06:11):
Yes, OK, I was going to say the other day
when we were talking about TV shows and stuff, you
said mad Men.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
You were talking about how much he likes mad.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Oh, he does like mad Man.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Just a good job. Yeah, yeah, but development if you
haven't seen that with Jason Bateman, it is the funniest
show ever written on TV, and ever it is.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
I'm going to try to watch it again with you
because I don't. I don't think I give it enough.
I'm like ten minutes in and I'm asleep.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
Are you going to let her skip ahead to like
the last episode since that's how she is.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
You want to talk about?

Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's crazy?

Speaker 4 (06:45):
It is. It should be legal, they should start it
shouldn't allow that.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Guys, we all know the Titanic saying okay, and we've
still watched the movie. Who cares what happens at the end.
I need to then, I figured out how.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
You want to feel it. I don't want to see you.
I want to like get into it.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
And you know what that works for you, and I
applaud you for that, But I how about this move?
How about when you're with your significant other on the
couch and they're like, oh, do you want to watch
a new show. And then I'm like, yeah, let's watch
that one, and you click on it and you already
see there are three episodes in. I go, hey, what
the hell's going on here? You've already started the show.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
You do that?

Speaker 1 (07:20):
You do that, Steve, You pretend because you're hoping I
don't pick that show as the one to watch. And
then we make the show and I go no.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
No, and I go, wait a minute, you already started
watching this, And you go no, no, just one episode.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
No.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Netflix doesn't lie either. Just prime video. It shows you
what episode you're in.

Speaker 5 (07:39):
You know, don't blame it, Steve. You know, well, tape
does not lie. Never does.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah, it's the truth. It is the truth.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
And this guy never lies. I actually we talked about
this right when we moved in together, about how you
can really learn a lot about somebody when you like
see what they've watched. So if you know, we move
in together and like you know, whoever whatever's logged in.
But and she comes home and she sees I've watched
like eighteens co ed cheer Camp and like all these

(08:08):
weird things that are on, like you know, Sex Island
and all this weird shit.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Like just sit here watching this.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Or recently I noticed that the only thing that Carissa
watches are like, you know, How to Kill Your Husband?

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Season thirty seven, episode forty three. She's watched six hundred
episodes disappear.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Continue watching How to Get Away with Murder?

Speaker 7 (08:36):
Yes, you continue watching them?

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Okay, sorry? Right, what was the next question?

Speaker 5 (08:48):
All right, here we go, Steve. We're under you here
and by the way, we are on you, Steve.

Speaker 8 (08:53):
You guys are just dialed in. We're dial every single one.
See what happens when gotten married? Second and you're on
the same wavelength and everything.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
All right.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
Carrissa's favorite meal to order.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
This is tough ship, I said, soup.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
Soup, soup, Aaron. Aaron talked about loving soup, and you
gave her ship for it that one day.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
That was three years ago. Ryan, I love soup.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
I love you're not ordering soup though you're making it
at home.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
I think this is you order that coconut soup for
me that I love.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
You do like the tom ca, Yeah, I do like
the For those who don't who are familiar with the.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Language, yeah, please do a lingo. Okay, I like soup,
but yeah, do you like dominoes.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
First incorrect answer, that's all right.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Ship Steve tries to go all fancy. Was like ordering
food and I'm like, just give me.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Order a lot of dominoes when I'm not Oh yeah, the.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Boxes are packed stacked up by the garbage can and
by the way, I admit that. Do you ever throw
things away and you don't want me to see them?
And so you like lift up the bag and you
put them underneath it like a trash bag.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
No, I don't think so, but I don't know.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
I just want to.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Right order.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
I don't know if discounts because I wrote too, because
he always orders from this Mexican food place that has
the yellow bag that I just I hate that place sushi.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
So you sushi, we'll give it, okay, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Always orders from this Mexican food place and it's gross.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
I don't understand why you like that. And every time
I comes, You're like, this is gross. I don't know,
every time.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
I don't get it, but I.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Don't want to. I don't want to out him on
this podcast.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
But well, we didn't say the name of the place.
They just yellow that it's going to.

Speaker 5 (10:52):
Be one of those things where like he loves it
and you hate it, so that's why he was order.
But if you don't even like it, what are we
doing here? Steve?

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Thank you and like it's like okay enough and it's
always passage.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
Yeah, okay, all right, hearing us? Steve? What is Chris's
biggest pet?

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Peeve?

Speaker 1 (11:10):
I have a lot of them.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Uh, we know, uh, when not following through with something.
That's when someone doesn't follow through with something, like when
the gardener says he's going to fill the fountain and
he doesn't.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Don't put it on the gardener. This one's on you, bro.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
It's not breaking down boxes, lights and ac on you
and the boxes. Steve's gotten to a place where he's
got a secret dumpster because he doesn't want to break
down the box.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
Do you have a secret dumpster? CD of l A
find me. You won't. It's top secret.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Also, there's a there's not a no dumping sign, So
I'm really not breaking any laws.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
No, you're not.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
It's in a trash can. You're not just rolling on
the side of the road. I'm just saying you would
never that's how. But you don't like breaking down boxes
that you're going to drive to a location that has
a big recycling bin and throw it in there.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
So, but it's leaving premise.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
That's that's.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Down boxes once a week up the leaving lights on
and AC on. So if you're not home, we don't
have to run the a C. There's no dogs in
the house.

Speaker 5 (12:18):
There nothing.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Okay, okay, okay, can here with sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
The nest has a scheduling function.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
If you turn the A C on at the same
time day after day, it'll like learn and it'll just
come on.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
It will.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
I don't know how to combat that.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
I'm not a big fan of infrastructure and technology, but
it's what we have. Like, yeah, it's always thegith.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
He's blaming the algorithm. Hey, there's a function on it
called off and you just turn it off and then.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
I know you do that schedule it pops back on.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
No, it doesn't question for you. And since we have
Ryan on here, what is it with men and air conditioning?
I swear to god, you guys can't survive without air conditioning, Steve,
Like it has to be on twenty four hours a day.
Do you guys really run that hot women are the
one that has metapause or whatever.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
Yeah, I'm a hot sleeper, so I'm going to need
to see an airflow going otherwise the sweats start.

Speaker 6 (13:21):
Happening and then you know you're waking up in the
middle of the night, and that's not good.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Can't sleep if you're hot. Exact to sleep one of
the most incredible inventions of It's true Sean.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Actually, Sean Payton was the one that told me about that.
He bought that for all of his players when he
was in it was New Orleans at the time, and
then I worked with Sean the following year when he
took a year off from coaching. An ate sleep not
an ad, but wish it was. You can make one,
and this is why it's perfect. Steve's bet side of
the bed can be freezing. Mine can be normal, or
it could be hot. Like you can change the temperature.

(13:51):
It's really nice. It's great.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
Just get out with a new version with a blanket
that goes over.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
We can't afford that same thing. We don't have Sean
Payton money.

Speaker 6 (13:59):
Okay, next question, Steve's Steve's biggest pet, Peeve, what do
you think CHRISA.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Oh, he has Steve. Okay, this is one thing. Steve
has so many redeeming qualities. Steve doesn't vocalize his disdain
for me the same way that I do.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Like, Steve knows very much where I stand on things
like we hate the box as we hate they.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Steve, this is why he needs to go to therapy,
because he holds everything in and one day he's just
going to unleash on me.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
And so I don't even know.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
When I was going to answer this question on the paper,
I was like, I don't even know what his pet
peeve is because you don't really vocalize it except whenever
I say things like.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh, I hate everyone. You don't like that.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
So I wrote down saying I hate everyone. Okay, but
that's not a good pet. I can't think of a
good pet peeve that you have with me, So why
don't you tell me?

Speaker 1 (14:46):
And I won't get mad?

Speaker 4 (14:48):
Okay, I wrote it down. Okay, So serenity now, insanity later.
It's a great way to live. Trust me.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
When CHRISA says impetus.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
I say it drives me fucking nuts. Are you like?

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Oh, well, the impetus of the Plus Ones podcast was
born like.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
Nuts. I don't even know if I spelled it right,
that might not be.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
I'm sorry that my large vocabulary upset you that.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
And then to your point of what you wrote down
when you say I'm the assholes like those two things.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Other than that, I think you're perfect.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
You also like what I say the word circuit is
You don't like when I say, like any sort of.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Four words other than that you're great?

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Why do you get upset with my great books?

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Just like because sometimes like you saying when like you
don't need to say them, Like.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
You're like like you think I'm showing off.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Kind of, but like it's just like unnecessary showing off,
like you're saying them and no one else even knows
what the hell they mean. So it's not like showing off, Like.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
It's just you're intimidated by my vocabulary. That's fine, Okay, last,
but not late.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
My last question, Steve, here we go Carrisa's favorite vacation spot,
Ruby Ranch.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well, no, that's not that's wh we live there part time.
That can't be a vacation. Think about vacation like.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
We have to get on the planet.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
No, but that's good. I love Santa Barbara. It's the
new one. You just took me to Lake Como.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, that's my new favorite vacation spot. My favorite place
to go in life is Ruby Ranch. I do love
Santa Barbara, but your.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Favorite vacation you wrote the question r Yeah totally.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, yeah, you're playing the gardener.

Speaker 6 (16:35):
You're playing uh like, I'll make sure that we get
those lights turned off in the ace figured out, don't.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
I mean, the neastest guy out.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
I'm gonna videotape the scheduling function on the nest. They
need to fix it.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
Okay, this is after he drops the boxes off. So
how did we do overall?

Speaker 5 (16:54):
Steve's favorite vacation spot.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Oh, Steve's favorite vacation spot. I wrote Like Como too,
because I you love that, but yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
I really will we know what is your planning our
next trip back?

Speaker 2 (17:04):
I wrote Ruby Ranch because I thought it was like
favorite place to go it.

Speaker 5 (17:09):
Yeah, it's a bad question. That one doesn't count.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
It's okay, well yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:12):
We only did let's see one two.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Oh no, I think we're fifty percent.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
Maybe we started out red hot, started out red hot,
the pet Peeves.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
We lost we lost our direction a little bit there,
and then vacation h Yeah, all right, good, We're good.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
We have room for improvement. But you know what, I'm
willing to put in the work for you. I'm willing
to do that.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
All right.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Well, I will close out this session by saying, and Ryan,
you can listen, becauld you listen to the podcast anyways.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
As our producer.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Steve, I love you. Thank you for filling in for
Aaron in her absence. You are the best thing that's
ever happened to me. And I adore you.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
I might get back down on one knee. I might
get back down on one knee. Do we have any
more time left? We're almost no, We're all.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Out of time. All right, guys, We'll see you next
week week Bye.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
I love you.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
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