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September 25, 2025 36 mins

NFL Week 3 is in the books, and Calm Down with Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson is here to break it all down! Erin and Charissa share behind-the-scenes stories from covering Dolphins vs. Bills and Cowboys vs. Bears, including the emotional toll of seeing players go down with injuries and the uphill road to recovery they face.

The ladies talk fashion as they reveal their Week 4 NFL sideline outfits as well as a look back at week 3—because yes, football and style can coexist.

Then, in a fun twist, the ladies dive into some “controversial” parenting advice they found online… and surprisingly agree with. Whether you’re a football fan or a parent (or both), this episode has something for you.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I was getting photographs all day long of Mac
and what he was up to. And they were down
at the beach and then I think they stopped by
the poop dec you have a baby at a bar.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Mac the fake phone that he likes to act like
he's taking.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Selfies with stop So he bouncer at the bar he
saw was giving stamps, so we wanted a stamp. And
then as he's getting a stamp, he was taken a selfie.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Did you welcome? Did you go to that Buffalo restaurant?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
No, we didn't go this time because Wit and Fits
actually had this incredible event that they hosted and Stevie
Johnson came and I met some incredible people in Buffalo
and Fits of course is the mayor of that town
and so they did sort of like a live podcast
thing and it was so much fun. It was at
this brewery and yeah, we just had a great time.
So we didn't end up going to the one that

(00:58):
we told you Mulberry and get.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, it was so good set it up for us.
Last time we went. It was amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, really good. Welcome everybody to the Calm Down Podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
It is weak.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, it's about to be Week four in the NFL.
Week three is in the books for both my Gal
and I. We have a lot to talk about on
this podcast. Aaron was in Chicago, I was in Buffalo.
We will talk about our outfits because apparently people want
to know we're wearing one. I know, I always think, like,
do you really? But okay, give the people what they want.
A bird delayed. Aaron in Chicago, we had some dropping

(01:34):
of the wine. I have some droppings on the other
side and I don't mean animal droppings on the other
side of my fans over here. We're gonna have a
real neighborhood brawl here shortly. I will talk about that
and a whole lot more. Plus we've got some great headlines,
so let's get right to it. My Gal, you were
in Chicago. You had the Cowboys Bears. Wow Cowboys. Unfortunately

(01:55):
Ceedee Lamb, as you reported, went out with an injury
and suffered severed lost. But the Bears got their first
win of the season.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Wow, Kayleb. But Williams looks amazing. Dallas defense felt bad,
couldn't couldn't get off the field. Man that was that
was tough. It was just yeah. And then I had
sat down with Dak the night before and talked to
him about how excited he is for the weapons he
has on this offense, his relationship that he has with
Brian Schottenheimer. You know, they had a couple of they

(02:25):
had the fumble or the punch, and then the Bears,
you know, get points off of that turnover. And then
obviously the George Pickens won and then CD goes down,
so you see that happening to the offense and they
can't stop the bleeding on the defense. But then on
the other side of things, Holy moly. I mean the
Bears had so many explosive plays that was crazy. Chicago's

(02:46):
a good time. What did it look like from your vantage.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Playlor Williams.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, in the studio, I just kept thinking, God, there
was so many wild games that I mean, like like
an nmn wacker number games came down to the last
two minutes and thirty seconds, the five field goals that
ended up winning or losing someone in the game.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
It was crazy. We'll get into that in a second.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
But as far as Caleb Williams goes, I imagine that he
woke up Monday morning and was like, thank you, just
like that massive benight and he's right, the massive weight
that both those guys have been carrying on their shoulders
where it's like, you know, and I feel so bad too.
We had Drew Brees in the studio this weekend, and
I was excited to have him in because it's just

(03:29):
always nice to get, you know, someone like that, thirteen
time Pro Bowl or Super Bowl hitting.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Great job with you guys, Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
I hope that he hangs out with us more often
because I just it's playing the quarterback position in the
NFL arguably the most difficult position in all of sports
to play the number of things and if you've ever
watched I know you have, but for our listeners have
watched the Quarterback Series on Netflix, and they do this
fun thing where it's like they show like the verbiage
and the vernacular that these guys have to do and

(03:55):
the different checkdowns at the line of scrimmage and they're
doing all of this within a matter of seconds. And
so I look at that position and we live in
a world like so many things, not just in sports,
but the immediacy in which you have to have success
and if you.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Don't, it's next man up. You're replaceable.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
We'll get someone else in here, whether it's at the
head coaching position, whether it's quarterback position, GM whoever. So
for Caleb Williams, the pressure of being the number one
overall pick the last couple of years through that organization,
not just for him, obviously he was the number one
pick last year, but there's been a ton of turnover
at the head coaching position. So you bring Ben Johnson
in and he's supposed to just save the day week one,
and it's like, stuff takes a minute. I don't care

(04:33):
any kind of relationship, you know. So I was just happy.
I'm not a Bears fan, It's just I was happy
for both of them to wake up and feel a
little bit of relief of like, can you get off
our backs.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
We'll get this thing going.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
And then just to see, you know, when organizations are
able to, hopefully for their sake and for the organ
you know, fan base, to get that thing turned around,
because it's been a long time since the Bears have
been good. And I mean this goes pre j Cutler days,
So I know that the organization is ready to have
some success and hopefully for them, this is the start
of something.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Do I work for the Bears? Okay? Anyway, It's true.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
You go to these organizations that have been through it
and they have such a rich history of success in
this fan basis. I think Kevin at one point said,
you know, I don't remember our you know, they were
up big in the game, and he just said, no
Bears fan, Like you can take a breath, you know.
It's something like funny like that, But yeah, you see
these people, they just want to win so bad and

(05:31):
they almost These are the fan bases that when you
get to town are like.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
What do you think, right play?

Speaker 1 (05:37):
I mean, I just observe what's happening and report it
or you know, listen in these meetings like talk to Tom,
talk to you know, our guys in the studio and
so forth. But yeah, they're just dying for some success.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Here.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Tom speaking of that, it was actually funny because he said,
you know the wild West that is the NFL, and
every week, week to week, it's something different. Daniel Jones
and the Indianapolis cults are under feeded, and you've got
all these you know, the two block field goals, and
you've got the Eagles winning in the last second and
you got the Jets, you know, or the Bucks winning,
and it's like Ali Stefan, I remember Tom in the

(06:09):
broadcast yesterday. It goes it's like all my buddies asked
me for fantasy football. And then it's like when I
get it wrong, You're like, man, you got it wrong,
and it's like because there's parody, like every week it's
something different, and it's just it's why it's the best,
my humble opinion, the best sport out there, because every
week matters, and any game can come down to that
last second field goal or block kick or turnover or whatever.

(06:32):
It is so such a fun, fun week in the NFL.
I was in Buffalo. I had the great pleasure of
going to Buffalo in September. I was when our schedule came.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Out and great, I'm glad it was a game you
looked fabulous. The Wings contest was hysterical, hysterical Tony.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Tony So Tony almost got decapitated when we were in
Miami last year.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
We're these gokarts.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
He had this like strap goal around his neck actually
really scary. Yeah, he was like burn on his neck
and I was like, dude, this could have been so bad.
So it's uh for our you know whatever, our postgame
show or TNF show. We always like to do something
fun and so this whole idea of these hot ways.
Tony was the guy from the beginning that was like,
I don't want to do this because I don't even
like anything hot.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm like, what are the changes? It lands on you?

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Of course it lands on him, and it was let
me tell you, I like hot stuff. And afterwards I
was like, how hot can it be? I put it
to my lips eron and it was scorching my lips.
So I actually felt really bad for me. No, but
you mentioned it was a game.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
It was a game.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
It was at halftime, it was tied all the way
up until late in the third quarter, and then it
was like, oh my god, like are we asking for
Tua of the desk?

Speaker 2 (07:45):
After?

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Are we asking for you know, It's like again on
any given Thursday, Sunday or Monday. But for that Miami
fan base, I know that there's more questions than there
are answers. But you know, the conversation like we were
having is like Mike Daniel Zy on the hot Seat.
They went into Buffalo, a place that they have not
won in so long. I mean, Buffalo's had their number

(08:06):
and they held their own. So I know there's a
lot of things that they want to clean up, a
lot of there's sometimes it comes down to the Jimmies
and Joe's and it's not even about the ex'es and o's.
Do you have the personnel to play in this league
and especially in that or in that division. But anyways,
it was a great game. It ended up being a
much closer game. I think the spread was like twelve
and a half and they ended up losing by ten.

(08:26):
But Josh Allen, can I just give Josh Allen a
shout out?

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Please?

Speaker 3 (08:30):
This is raining MVP of the league. He is a
class act in every sense of the word. I just
adore him. He is everything that the NFL is so
lucky to have some of these guys represent their league.
And he is anything you ask him to do if
you want to. You know, like in him and fits
have such a great relationship. But like we get up
there and Dean Dawkins is like talking to Wit and

(08:53):
they're talking to their offensive lineman talk, and out of
the corner of my eye, Josh Allen is just like
slowly unbuttoning fits his shirt cut.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Two goofy guys like up there having fun.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Anyways, Buffalo's fans are one of one, such a great place,
and last time we'll be in high Mark Stadium, which
is a really cool stadium to be And I saw
their new stadium right which is right next door.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
That thing is a beast. It looks like a spaceship
landed in.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
The middle Orchard Park and you're like, it looks a
lot like Allegiance Stadium, which will be so fun for
them because you know, in that town, it's not like
there's a bunch of shiny, brand new buildings and things.
It's like and now you've got this gorgeous stadium. So
for the players, for the community, they deserve all of
that because some of the best fans in the league
are there.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Where are you headed this week?

Speaker 1 (09:45):
I don't even know, Oh Tampa, Old Baker made game
eathing the news about Mike Evans comes back. Okay with
that hamstring, I'm so short. So we talked about it
in the pregame show. We just the best part of
this job was getting to know these guys and appreciate
that they put their bodies on the line. The worst
part of this job is seeing them go down because

(10:07):
I have kind of a behind the scenes look with
my husband and what he you know, put his body through.
And to know these guys and you know what they
do in the off season, preparation time away from their families,
and when you get news today that Nick Bosa is
out for the year, James Connor and some of the others,
it's just heartbreaking.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's heartbreaking.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
And then they go through a whole mental thing, let
alone the physical aspect to get back and it's so difficult.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
It was interesting I saw I don't follow her. It
came up on an algorithm of Instagram. Austin Eckler's wife
actually did this video of like what goes what happens
once a player gets hurt, right, Like you forget the
fact that, like especially if it's a wife and their
wife is sitting there, but then you've got to go
pack up your house and now you're going to go
get the surgery and rehab somewhere else, and you're moving

(10:53):
and all these different things, and so it was just
kind of you know, behind these reports that come out,
there's a whole fail and life, and especially if you
have kids and all the other things. And you know,
obviously as you just articulated all too well on that
kind of stuff. So yeah, it's more than just like,
oh man, this guy went down. That sucks from my
fantasy league. It's like, well, that sucks for him all
of you know who. I think about those Olympic athletes

(11:14):
where they have trained for four years for that one
tenth of a second or that one moment on the
balance beam or off a diving board, and then when
they don't have success, you're like, oh my god, think
about all of those mornings they got it so early
and trained and anyways, I just have so much respect
for athletes.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
And it's not like, oh, they get paid a lot
of money. Okay, knock it off.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Okay, there's a lot of people that can get paid
a lot of money and don't do as much work. Anyways,
I hope for Mike Evans and for you know, for
that team, that he gets better because you saw him
in the tunnel and he like threw his helmet.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
So but that's going to be a great game.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Shirt Bucks hosting the Eagles. The only downside to it,
it's a one o'clock tilt, darn it.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
And in Tampa. Oh, baby, girl, baby, Yeah, that's hard.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
It's just I worry about my guys, my guys that
are on the field, my camera guys, the security guys.
Everybody is like trying to play hero, right, We're just
trying to get through it. Our camera guys that are
holding the handhelds, they're heavy and they're just running up
and down. They're running with the players. And last year
we were there for Week four and my handheld guy, Phil,

(12:19):
he was just all red in the face and I
knew his eyes were a little red, and I just said, Russo,
you have Rich Russo is our director. You have to
make him drink water, and like you just forget So, yeah,
you got to be like really really careful. Hopefully the
tempts aren't that bad, but man, those games are tough
and it'll be interesting to see with how Philly deals
with it. Last year week four, they had a really

(12:40):
hard time with the heat. So it's going to be
a big storyline, it.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Is, And that was the same similar kind of storyline
that we were talking about with Glazer was actually reporting
this on our pre game when we were in Kansas City,
about Sirianni making it a point of epic emphasis for
his players because in Kansas City it was ninety this
over the weekend. Because again where I sit game breaks,
I have access to all the games. And they had
taken a shot in Tampa of the thermometer and it

(13:06):
was one hundred and ton degrees on the field.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, that you want to. I don't need to tell you.
You've done this for So what are we wearing? All cream?

Speaker 1 (13:13):
We were gonna go black pants, so if you sweat
through them at this point, I'm just doing cream. If
you see me sweat through my pants, it happens, yep.
I tell you what I am gonna wear because it's
just beastly hot. Like last week, I literally sat with
my like my binder up or this like this because
the sun is just on you and it's like uh,

(13:35):
and it's your face, it's your hair, it's just everything.
So I think, when I'm not on camera, I'm gonna
where like like what we wore like in South of France,
just I'm just gonna wear it and when I'm on
camera I'll take it off.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
But really, why take it off? I loved you wore
a hat last year. I ami, vice, what are you doing?

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (13:52):
I like it. Well, we'll see, we'll see how she goes.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
But sometimes it's just nice to have shade on yourself,
you know.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
You know it's also nice is the way that you
dress on the sideline like it is a professional gig
that you have. And I love how much time and
effort you put into your outfits because you love what
you do and it is reflected in your outfits. Eron
has always taught me along the way where it's like
invest in. It's not about like, oh, spending money on

(14:20):
clothes that the clothes could could not have a high
meriting and.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Sorrow and still look exactly.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
But it's that you look in your dress for the
job that not only you have, but that you are
not only that you want, but you have.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
So I always write, no way you dress exactly, thank
you you as Wow.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
That purple number in studio was glorious about Bobby.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
The audience was that a blore. He goes like this,
He was like, are you going to a ball? After that?

Speaker 3 (14:44):
And Terry Terry walked on the set and he goes,
what is that velvet? I go, Terry, You're not. There's
no way your quoting coming to America. He just actually
was asking if it was velvet. I'm going to tell
you what it was. It was a beautiful Alex Perry
dress who I love wordshiner that I wore a commercial
with Gronk last year, and I was like, why going
back to recycling things? Who do I think I am

(15:07):
that I can't wear this gorgeous dress that I wore
in a commercial that was twenty seconds that I can't
recycle that and wear that again. So anyways, thank you.
So that's what I wore for my yeah, in the
Sunday Show do outfit details?

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, so you did that for Sunday? What did you
do Thursday? And then I'll give you my.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Shop Bop Shop Pop who I loved great. I love
Shop Bop. I have a great partnership with them for Amazon.
They are so incredible. They will ship anything to me
anytime if I like, if the weather changes, they like.
I just cannot say enough good things. And I if
you guys have not went on their app, it's incredible.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
I'm pulling out more because it was so good. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
It is so many good designers on there. This one
was Mansy. I'm gonna maybe I'm pronouncing that wrong. Mnsee
good because again, it was hot in Buffalo still eighty
seventy degrees, so I wanted to wear shorts, but I
didn't want to wear like short shorts, and so these
were like kind of what do they call them, bermuda shorts?

Speaker 1 (16:02):
With this photo of you looking up at the sidelines
as you're walking, God, it's gorgeous.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
So you're gonna shout out to Coop Cooper. He's so great.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
He's a photographer and I am not that person, you
know me, Like, I don't love that. But he's always like,
just walk, just do your thing and I will take
the picture. Or when I sit on the desk, he's like,
just look somewhere and I will do it because I
always watcheck an idiot as some of these guys are
like warming up and I'm like walking around like I'm like,
it's about me, but the reality is like these are

(16:33):
beautiful clothes, and my relationship with shop Up, I should,
you know, make sure that I represent the outfit well.
So anyways, it was a little different, like it was
at a cross whatever, thank you. But Steve always names
my outfits. He's so weird he you know how his
nickname for me is Linda, And yeah, My nickname for him,
of course, is Tommy. It's our ranch names. He texts

(16:55):
me all caps, Lindiana Jones, not even close.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
You looked so good. I want that.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
But the problem again for me, we talked about it.
I can't wear a heel on the field. You have
to have that, like you have to have a heel
at that. Yeah, but I did love and Sharman goes Jumanji.
I said, you guys are no looks so good. I
loved it a great and to.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Your point, I recycled a number.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
I took a page out of your and Kate Middleton
two great pages to take books page.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
What are you? You know where I'm going with this?
I wore this top and skirt. I think it was Jevon.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
She gorgeous, but I had won it and I sit
down with Patrick Mahomes for our Arizona super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
So it's like, why can't I recycle this? It's gorgeous.
Your legs. I can't text you about it. In this
your sit down that you were doing with Dak that
you wore that it is your legs were looking.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Oh, I love you a lot of make on them.
But thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, how.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
About all the makeup that comes off on my I
gotta stop using white towels, all the makeup that comes
off on the white towels and my leg because I'll
forget that I had put the leg makeup on. This
appen me last night when I came home, so obviously
full scrub down whatever whatever. But then I forget that
I put it on my legs, and so I get
out of the shower and I'm like, shit, son, I
get back in the shower.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
I'm scrubbing it off. I think I get it all
off pouring a white towels.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, I get it on the white towels when it's
on my neck like like you know, I'm like, oh no,
I went back there.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
But then I always have this theory about white towels
because I'm like, hotels have a lot of shit that
ends up on them, and it's like they always have
white towels because you can flee chump.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, so I'm loud.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
I know, I know, I know. So you're going to Tampa,
all right, I'm going to Arizona. I'm very excited to
go to Arizona. I get to see my knees.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
She's in college there. Siata so shy.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
I know, I'm so excited because the boys will bring
like their kids, like you know, for a game or
something like that, and so Sienna's going to be my
kid for the game.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
So she's gonna come around with me and see you
what to do. I know, I was like, do you.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
Want to bring someone to the game? She goes, no,
I just want to hang out with you, which is
so sweet.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
So I will, yeah, inciting the.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Seahawks, which of course she was born and raised in Seattle,
so there's a family connection there.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
So yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
And I also looking forward to that hour and fifteen
minute flight, So I'll take that any day.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Week four.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
You had some troubles getting home last night, my little Angel,
which is a big storyline always for us, is the
travel hell, some gaps that specifically you go through.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Go yeah, I had never had this happen in all
my years of traveling and I've seen a lot. But
thankfully it was a good and safe ending. But my
plane when it landed in Chicago for us to board,
we noticed there was a delay. First of all, I
want to give a shout out to sweet Sweet Errand
from American airlines. Concierge key, they're fantastic. She loves you,

(20:02):
big fan of yours. But she bailed us out. She
took us right to the gate last night as we
were supposed to board, and she just said, hold on
one second, please, ran to the front, disappeared for a minute,
and said, okay, grab your bags. We've had a bird strike.
A bird strike. What happened? The birds are angry with O'Hare.
No a bird or several birds got into the engine

(20:24):
of our plane.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yikes.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Set they had to clean up that situation, figure it out,
and sweet Aaron was like, I got to get you home.
I'm putting you on another airline to get you out.
You have Mac waiting.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
She took you my boys.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
But I had never a bird strikes. Interesting, that was
the first time I had ever heard that before. Yeah,
I'm sure it happens a lot. I mean, think about it,
you know.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
But that's obviously very sad.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's a you know, an occupational hazard of flying an
airplane in the sky where they live. But thank God
for Aaron. And that's another thing too. I know we
talk a lot about flight attendants. It's and rightfully so
it's not just the flight attendants, it's that ticket agent,
it's the you know, the hospitality service. I get so
excited when they drive me to the plane, and I
feel like I'm Kate Middleton. I just feel like a

(21:11):
real point when our you know, whether it's American or
a Delta or whatever your preferred airline is Like, traveling
is hard enough, and so when you have those people,
because think about all the shit that they have to
deal with, because it's always complaints, it's always someone bitching,
and so to have a positive attitude or go out
of their way to help us, I never ever.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Take that for granted. So shout out to Aaron, what
a gap? When I got a gal Oh? And then
from there, what a what a move? We're delayed getting out?

Speaker 3 (21:41):
What a move?

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Twelve thirty?

Speaker 1 (21:43):
I was going, you know, I think I fell asleep
a little bit after the Chiefs game, and then I
woke up and I was like I should get some stuff.
Grabbed my glass of wine I had not had a
sip of yet.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Went to drink.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
It went right through my hands and all over my
brand new white sweatshirt, my.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
White shoes, my socks, my jeans, and I was just like,
it's cool. Like this isn't going to affect me. I
look like I had been involved in a very bad accident.
Coming off the plane.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
So I get home, was a full frontal wine down
front down, the shoes, down the pan and like there's
nothing I could do to stop it. It was like
just gosh everywhere. So I walk off the plane, I
get in the car service. This is also two and
a half hours sitting in it, which was great. So
I fully needed a shower. Anyways, stopped at the laundry room,

(22:32):
took everything off, shoved it in there, went to take
a shower. By two o'clock, I like, have you know,
I'm too jacked up to go to bed, and I'm
like la la la la. Didn't get much of it out,
so that's a bummer. But whatever I did get that,
there's gotta be is it? Like I mean, I feel
like people at home, what are like some tricks for

(22:52):
red wine? Black on my sweatshirt So now it looks like,
you know, the legend sweatsuit we had like Taberne on it.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
It's that, but now.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
It's like almost like gray tied eye on there. I
didn't see if I got out of the shoes, you know,
the ones I got it on.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
I know, not great.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Oh well, worst thing you know that happens to me,
of course, but you know what always happens to me.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
I will spend the seventy five.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Dollars on the white T shirt, which I've always been
out of it of like, oh God, don't spend that
much on a white T shirt and somebody's gonna get
on it.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
It's the makeup, it's the this, it's that, and I'm
always like it without fail. It's the seventy five dollars
as opposed to the Amazon twenty dollars T shirt that
just lasts forever.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
So great. Yeah, whatever we had.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Oh, I was just gonna say, as I was, it's
going to move on to headlines, but I just say one.
I have to say one thing. I'm looking out my
window right now, you guys, So I love. I have
a couple of neighbors. I'm like surrounded by neighbors. They're like,
welcome to California. It's not like we have some you know,
spacious air.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Do you get along with them?

Speaker 3 (23:55):
One on the on the one fence line, Yeah, I
don't know this one. They just sold the house I
used to have an issue with the previous owner, but
they moved.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Now we got a new one, in which this brings
me to do.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
I knock on the door, and I'm like, Hi, I'm
your neighbor, Like, let me bring you something, because let
me tell you when I was this is so oh
my god. This okay, Everyone settle in because once I
go on a tangent, now here we go. I'll get
back to the issue with the neighbor over here in
a second. What the aforementioned James Connor? So he was
a house and home client. I was redoing his house.

(24:28):
He wasn't He wasn't there. He had just gotten to
the cardinals. I'm doing like a forty eight hour makeover.
I got to get in, I got to get out.
The doorbell rings, cutest little family standing there with a
tray full of cookies. Hi were the praterers. We live
next door. We wanted to welcome James to the neighborhood.
Matt Prater's family his door.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Wondering, ye and I agree, so sweet.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
And that got me thinking, like this neighbor just moved in.
Am I going over there with cookies? No?

Speaker 2 (24:57):
But should I?

Speaker 3 (24:58):
And then is it weird and then into day's day
and age, they probably think I've poisoned the cooking. Like
this is why my first thought is with them being like,
but I probably should do that, right, be neighborly and
like go over there. No, okay, anyways, the issue that
I have, I'm not saying that it's bad, you're not,
but I don't know. Okay, let's take it. Give yourself
some grace, as you would say, okay with the neighbor. Well,

(25:22):
I'm about to not I'm going to about to call
grace and ask for help.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
She died twenty years and died.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
There are these hedges, these really large hedges on my
fence line over here. Well they're not my plants. They're
the neighbors plants. Okay, Well they're creeping and impeding on
my fence line. And I'm like, why is it that
I got to trim and clean all these up when
these are your stupid plants that are a coming in
to mind and they grow so fast. So like I've
trimmed done before because it's all right whatever, I'm trimming

(25:50):
these things all the time. So then my sweet gardener,
who I love, he's like, we got no more room
for all these things because I'm constantly having to Should
I knock on their door and be like, hey, you
got to pay for the cleanup over here?

Speaker 2 (26:00):
What is the etiquette.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
On the on the branches and all the shit hanging
on the other side of the fence line. That's what
I want to know, because right now I'm being surrounded.
I have three houses as I'm looking right here, and
on both of them, I got real issues with the
trees coming into my neck of the woods. I feel
like it's the line from Steel Magnolia's you get those

(26:22):
magnolias from my tree? Well, the judge says it, Ah,
my tree.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
That's right, I'm shooting the birds out of it. Malia. Yeah,
I don't know what the etiquette is.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Maybe somebody that you know knows etiquette books can tell me.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
If I'm like, I love to meet the person I know.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Hey, let's do a two headlines or something before we
get on out of you know, Hey, here we go.
The wedding day red flag indicates a couple will soon
be divorced. According to wedding photographers, Here we go, Christopher
toddgri f.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
It's such a wedding name. I love it.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
A Southern California based wedding photographer with twenty years of experience.
One of the most reoccurring red flags that I see
is when either the bride or groom, usually the groom
really resists getting photos taken. It's not just camera shyness.
They really are unwilling to cooperate. This is a huge
red flag, and that suggests that they are not willing
to participate in something that really matters to their partner.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
That makes total sense. If on your wedding day I
tell you to take a picture with a goddamn clown,
you better stand there and take a picture with a
goddamn clown.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
And make me a bicycle. This is my wedding day,
and I thank god. Steve is not the person that
bitches about pictures. He really isn't.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
It has to.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
It takes a lot for him to bitch about pictures,
and then that actually bitches about much. Okay, Steve's not perfect,
but he does not bitch about pictures. There only comes
a point where I've asked, like for maybe the fifth person,
because I don't like the angle in these.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Okay, enough of this.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
But yeah, if you're not taking pictures for your significant
other on their wedding day when they want, like I
don't know whatever it is that they want, then that
does suggest we're going to have issues moving forward, because
then what else are you going to bitch about in
the future.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, I was just thinking this saysn't even like this
is a bad transition. But my husband was taking pictures
of taking our child to the poop Deck bar this
weekend while I was waiting for Dak to arrive from
their delay. I don't even think I told you that
that the Cowboys were delayed getting in because of everything
that happened in Dallas with the air traffic control. So

(28:37):
I was getting photographs all day long of Mac and
what he was up to. And they were down at
the beach and then I think they stopped by the
poop Deck.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
You have a baby at a bar. Mac at this
fake phone that he likes to act like he's taking.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Selfies with stop so he bouncer at the bar he
saw was giving stamp, so we wanted a stamp. And
then as he's getting a stamp, he was taking.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
A healthy.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
I was like, Dak was so sweet. I was showing
in pictures of my kid and I'm like, oh, see
how big he is. Oh, and he's at a bar.
Oh he's taking a selfie with the pouncer. How's it
going great?

Speaker 3 (29:18):
I also have dogs surrounding surrounding me. There's dogs in
every one of these yards. I got a real uproar
in this neighborhood. I got to get out of here.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
That's a neighborhood though. But do they bark much all
the time? And now this one's going to pipe up?
Look at him? Get him? Get yet?

Speaker 1 (29:36):
I like this one of five praise for her controversial rules.
In a recent video, Stephanie Woodward shared her controversial rules.
I can't say that word for her kids went on
summer vacation. The older boys have to do a math
workout sheet every day. I don't want them to experience
a summer slump.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
I don't think that's that bad. Kids have to lead
the navigation, whether we are walking around a to area
or resort. Have to be able to read a map.
That's pretty cool, that's great. I love this. You have
to stop and read aloud anytime you see a rules sign.
Were I like this controversial? This just seems like common sense,
by the way, making your kids accountable I am.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
I was just going to say, why is this controversial
at all? Yeah, it just sounds smart.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
I like this. We were recently out of water park.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
We will stop, read the signs that says all the
rules before you go in. I think that's phenomenal, fantastically
I want to follow her.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Great. Yeah, Stefanitely, what other parenting tips and tricks do
you have? I think that's great all of that.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
You know what, though, that just goes to show you,
no matter what, you could have a room full of
people saving puppies from a burning building and someone's going
to find something controversial about it. Is there anything in
this world that's not controversial? Honestly, I would love to
know there is just people having a like dissension just
for the sake of dissension, no matter what. I'm not kidding,

(31:01):
Like I could go and donate millions of dollars to
some you know, orphanage, and it's like someone would find
a problem with the money donation to an orphanage or orphanage.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Like, it's just everyone's going to find something wrong with something.
Everyone's the fucking victim. I'm so bored. Okay, Well, shout
out to you Stephanie Woodward, you are a dream. Before
we shot out into John Caliperry.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
We touched face with him today and you know what,
he misses us.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
He's great, what's up? What a dream?

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Hey? Since we're doing shout outs before we get out
of here, I know you were in Chicago at a
restaurant and you wanted to say, oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
This place is fun. Ams. We've been there two years
in a row. They are fantastic.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Ryan, our producer, I know you are in Chicago a lot.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
What is where were we? Sorry? Sorry? Sorry sorry sorry?
K A Villy.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
I hope I'm saying that right av l I on
the park. It's great, Mediterranean fire, so fire and then
let me tell this really quick because I'd love to
get our listeners and even you into this. We were
talking about on the pregame show what we do on
Saturday night. So if we have a later kick, we
usually have a good time, stay out a little bit later,

(32:22):
have a couple glasses, and we did that at a Villy.
It was fantastic. So we started talking about music. And
last week I watched the Dallas Giants game that Greg
and Joe and Pam day to get ready incredible game,
and I noticed their music was fire on there, like
going to break, going in and out of break, you

(32:43):
notice that people use music, or sometimes they do, sometimes
they don't. That is one of my favorite things to
do when I listen to music is be like, this
is so good going to break second, it is such
a fun exercise. So then what we started to do
as we were having this luxurious, fantastic wine that tasted
like water, is like God. There was one song and

(33:06):
there's a lot of cuss words in it, but people
know what the song is. So I was like, if
you started in the beginning with just the instrumental, like beginning,
everyone knows what that song is, so it would be
so hot.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
To have this.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
And it's like coming up so and So's up thirty
to like, you know whatever.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Then and then you have like the Nasty It's so good.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
So we're starting to think, like what's great music going
in and out of break? And everybody was getting their
Spotify out or Pandora.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Did you guys make a list? Oh yeah, okay, oh great.
You know we love a playlist around here.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
If any of you at home you're listening and you
hear a banger or you hear a beat, send it
our way and be like, this would be baller going
a break, like you know, like one of them Buffalo's Dance.
It's an old eighties song. We love it so much
when we did it how a build game last year.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
We always hang in the Buffalo dance. We do the
jab at vite. We dance baby, not romance or like
blow the whistle.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
You want to play that when you do an Eagles
gamer or things like that.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Sure, I love that stuff. So if you guys have a.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Banger that you think would be good going in and
out of break, remember think about if there was a
big turnover, like you know, something like oops, I did
it again, like stupid.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Crap like that.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah, last night they played a great one at Soldier Field.
I forgot what it was and I was like, try
to remember. But anyways, I love that game.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
So if the here's the the ask, the request to
the listeners, good songs, send them in d m us
all the things. We also need to make a new
playlist for our calm down listeners. And I was just
thinking I have before we go. I almost peeled this
scab off. This one is a doozy it.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Oh my god, I've been getting them around my lips
a lot lately. I don't know what that's all about.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
I showed up yesterday morning at five o'clock to work,
and poor Brittany and Dominiue looked at me, like, what
the hell is wrong? I've never had this happen before.
I put on iron cream on this monsters it that
I had. It must have like got on my lip.
My lip was so swollen, like I should have had.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
That, but you have. Yeah, it looks like I got
my and then my just lip went out. Yeah, oh yeah.
I was like, oh my god, it's like seeping in anyways.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
But I'm working up the scab right here, and it's
like a day and a half away from a little.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Did you get what was in there? Yeah? Oh yeah,
no I got it.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
But it was definitely like it was one of those
where you're like, is.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
This a spider bite? It's so big?

Speaker 3 (35:31):
But yeah, I never had that happen where my whole
lip swollen because of it.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
I can tell. I was staring at that draft girl,
Are you going to a ball after this? Is that
a ball gown?

Speaker 3 (35:43):
He looks great, and we're going to play Ball, I Love.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
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