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October 30, 2025 35 mins

The Big Show Edition of the Calm Down Podcast with Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson is here!

Charissa kicks things off by addressing the fake news headlines making the rounds this week and sets the record straight about what really happened before her Thursday Night Football broadcast between the Steelers and Bengals. Meanwhile, Erin shares stories from her trip to cover the Giants vs. Eagles, including why chicken fingers at 11 AM absolutely SLAP.

But that’s not all — Erin opens up about a heartwarming and life-changing encounter she had on a recent flight that will leave you inspired. From NFL sidelines to personal moments in the sky, this episode has it all: laughs, honesty, and the kind of real talk only Erin and Charissa can deliver.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The chicken fingers slap at eleven am, They're just good?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
What what does that mean? In our green room that
I share with Tom Rinaldi.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
They have, like you said, chicken fingers slap it eleven.
Is that like slang? Yeah, they slap. Calm down with
Erin and Chrissa is a production of iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's true. Oh, I can't wait. Damned if you do,
Damned if you don't.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Welcome to the thumb Dawn Podcast. Aaron and I just
joke before we jumped on here that the men in
our life, which by the way, we will just start
by saying, no one gives them more praise than us.
I tell Steve every single day, every single chance I
get how much I love him.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm constantly Steve, Steve, Steve Aeron.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
I know you did the same for Jared, but man,
I'll tell you what, Steve, Steve should be afraid of
me right now.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm so annoyed at him. Go and she just.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Launched right into it, sister. Go you guys, and I
know women or men too, Men do ads. You know
when you need help, like you're doing an ad okay,
and I needed Steve's help on an ad I was doing,
and it involved me being in a bathing suit. I
won't see what the ad is for. But I'm like,

(01:23):
I can't take this picture on my own, okay. And
I'm also not hiring a production thing for this because
then by that time now I have no money from that.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
So I'm like, Steve, you.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Know, you own a marketing company, you own you do
all these photo shoots all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
If he is a great photographer, a great photographer.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Like if anyone can do I'm like, Steve, this is
not a difficult request, Like, you know, no problem, It'll
take five minutes. Because I'm one of those I take
direction very well. If on television, if someone's like, hey,
move to the left a little bit, you're in better light.
I'm gonna move to the left. I'm not putting off
a file laying in the light.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Literally.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
So I'm like, so we're I'm in the I'm in
the thing that I'm supposed to be doing an ad for,
and I'm getting nothing from him. He's not saying anything.
He's just holding the phone up and just you know,
moving in a little bit, but not saying anything, not
like hey, put the leg down, put the leg up.
That would be, but hey, maybe like you know, your
nipples hard, like we can't have that, like you know something.
And so I'm like, hey, what's going on there, like

(02:19):
is it working? What's happening? And he goes, well, I
don't know. You look and he hands me back the phone.
I couldn't look fucking worse.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I mean, it's like and I go, these are terrible
and he goes, it's what you look like. And I'm like, oh,
so now that's not.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'm like, oh, fucking Pandora's box is open, okay, And
I'm like.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
You want week nine?

Speaker 3 (02:42):
You got week It's like, dude, you get to reap
the benefits of the thing that I'm asking you to
shoot for. So just give me a little bit of
direction on this because I'm sorry, I now can't. I'm
not posting any of those, but I mean I might
as well have had Willis take the photo.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's going to be better than Steve.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
And he say, dude, you produce like you know whatever,
commercial shoots all the commercials photos all the time.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
He goes, well, what what do you want?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
And so then it became like a whole fight and
like Steve and I very rarely fight, but I was like,
I haven't talked to him since.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
And he left the house and he went golf and
I was like, oh, yeah, you go golfing. Oh that's
a tour going. Yeah, you're this close to a green jacket,
I bet.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
But I was just like, oh, I'll just be here
trying to take my own pictures for the thing that
you get to enjoy, so swipe up. Which gets me
to my point. I don't get a New York Post headline,
and I don't try to act like I'm famous.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I don't get a New York Post.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Headline or a Daily Mail headline saying, oh, Corisa tells
her boyfriend off or Choris is breaking up with her
boyfriend or rejects his marriage proposal. Those are one I
went on a real tangent this week. And you know why, Look,
I'm we're not famous. You're famous. I'm not famous.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
No, I don't.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
I don't pretend to have like anyone gives a shit
about what it is that I do.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
But I'm going to tell you what I do give
a shit about. If everyone wanted to pounce on me
for journalistic integrity, I got a going to pick with you,
Daily Mail.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Because two weeks ago. I got sick before the game.
I was sick in the morning at a production meeting.
Came out of nowhere. We might have pinpointed it to
the seafood tower from the night before, but either way,
it hit me during the production meeting. I told the
story on the podcast by the time. By the time
the game rolled around, I was lights camera action, bitch, smile,

(04:25):
no problem. I didn't have any issues on air. I
didn't even bring it up to my It wasn't even
worth bringing up to my bosses because I was fine.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
I just got sick.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Even if you were still vomiting during the game, you know,
it would have brought it up to your bosses, because
we don't do that.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
So the Daily Mail headline is NFL host Carissa Thompson
reveals she suffered a medical nightmare during live broadcast, going
to die. First of all, I never said it was
during the broadcast. I said it was in the morning meeting.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Okay. Aaron said, oh, you were going.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
To die as a figure of speech, because when you're
vomiting in a hotel garbage, can you feel like you're
gonna die? It came it went We're on But when
I saw this headline, I was like, okay, again prefacing this,
I'm not famous, so I don't care. But I'm also like,
this didn't happen, so I am going to bring it up.

(05:17):
If it's something like this, Chris and Thompson opens up
on Thursday night, nightmare at New York Posts.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Come on, you're adorable. I love you New York Post,
New York Posts. But that's not right.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
So everyone just ease up on these headlines. I understand
their clickbait. I understand all that. And then people will
be like, well, then just don't do a podcast if
you don't want people to pull headlines. What. No, I'll
talk about anything on this podcast, but it has to
be accurate information. Like I didn't say anything about having
a medical emergency during the broadcast. So that's my two cents.

(05:46):
Fake news alert alert alert. I wasn't going to die
during the broadcast, thank god, it'd be so lonely. Well,
it's crazy out there anyways, So that's my rant.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
What are you've it up to.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
You?

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, you know, funny, you should ask. No, we just
had the weekend in Philly. Philly's great.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
It is Philly's great. Philly's great.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
And that was only five minutes. Ryan, Oh god, I
felt like that was twenty minutes.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
I was ranting, are you adding in this Steve point
of the show because I thought that one too?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Oh wow, you feely nailed that one. Nothing. We went
to Philly. Philly's great.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I will say there's certain teams that are just a
real good time to be around.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
The Eagles are one of them. They make you feel
at home.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Maybe it's because we do a lot of their games
and we're so used to them, but it was great
to be with those guys. Great to go to the facility.
Nick Sirianni was wonderful. I love going out Like the
weather was perfect. It was just enough for the jacket,
but then when the sun was coming you take it off.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
It's just great there. I enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
The chicken fingers slap at seven or at eleven am,
they're just good. What well in our green room that
I share with Tom Rinaldi.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
They have, like you said, chicken fingers slap it eleven?
Is that like slag?

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Their slap? They slap? Where's my friend? And what have
you done with her? What does that kid say that?

Speaker 3 (07:16):
I don't know?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
I feel like did they used to say slap. I
thought they did it really slaps.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Certain places can really crush a chicken finger, and we
usually we got to the green room by about ten
thirty and nine eleven, I'd had three or four.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, we're good.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
That brings me to this point because I was thinking
about this as I swung through the old Chick fil
A drive to delicious home, because I was I was
having a sad moment. Yeah, not about you know it.
I was having a sad moment, you know what. It
was about our post New York post. I was having
a moment. And I was like, I'm going to do
what Aaron does when she's got a sad moment. She

(07:56):
swings through that drive through, and I got myself diet coke,
French fry, a cob salad. And I also I said,
and you know what, Wyatt, who was so cute by
the way, I was like, why are you working at
the Chick fil A drive through?

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Hot?

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, if anyone visits Lincoln Boulevard here in Santa Monica, Wyatt,
the Chick fil A is smoking hot. And Steve, You're fine, okay,
take a good picture.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Why would have directed that photo? Shoot, but whyatt? As?
I winked at him and I was like, yeah, I'll
take that fry and I said, you know what what,
I'll also take that Polynesian sauce. I said, B B C. No,
I said, I'll take that vanilla milkshake. And he goes,
good choice, Good choice, and I said, thank you? Whyatt?

(08:46):
So as they were putting the whip cream and the old.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Cherry on top, I was like, you know what, you
know what's great about being an adult?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
There's a lot of pitfalls of being you know, it's
a trap.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Don't grow up, they say, But there's some real perks
of being it an adult. If I want to have
a motherfucker milkshake at ten am. If you want to
have a chicken finger and have that thing slap slap
before eleven am and you want three or four, you can.
No one's going to tell us we can't have it.
If I want to eat my food on the couch
and I want to watch TV, no one's going to say, hey,
come sit at this table.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
No, I can do whatever I want. It's when I
want I can say who. I can't say when. Remember
w Hotel used to have the wherever whatever whenever Welcome
to the W Hotel. I always felt bad for those operators.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
They'd have to say that seven hundred times whatever wherever, whenever,
welcome to the W Hotel Miami AnyWho, Oh my god,
you know those things were that the one in Dallas,
the W Hotel in Dallas when I used to work
Dallas Star in the the NHL circuit. I know that
Michael Irvan knows this one because my man loved that bar.

(09:53):
And I'm happy to call him out because he was
the mayor. Obviously he still is of Dallas, Texas. I
would always see Michael Irvin in the and he was
with his friends and he was having a great time,
and I was always like, eighty eight, what's up, kid?
But I'm blaming brands on over to that American Airlines
Arena and work at Dallas game and then saunter right
back over across the street to that W Hotel and

(10:14):
get me a martini and it was great.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
But yeah, being an adult has its first Thank Bill sucks.
But yeah, other than.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
That, let's see what let's talk about Week eight of
the NFL season, and we all keep saying it's flying by,
but I will.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Say this, I feel like we're seeing some teams really
starting to separate themselves. Okay, who do you think them?

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Okay, this is I will say, more than any other year.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
And maybe it's recency bias. I don't know. I don't
feel like it is this year.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Is So I'm already out of my Survivor pool because
I picked the Atlanta Falcons to beat the Miami Dolphins
yesterday and thought that was a lock. Miami's been on
a skid, a lot of question marks. Two, I can't
see out of one eye. We don't know what's going on.
Jon Robinson's been running all over everyone. Yeah, Michael Pennix
was out, but I was still like, it's we still
have Kirk Cousins, still formidable all the time.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
No, I'm out of.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
The Amazon Survivor pool because I picked the Falcons to
beat the Dolphins. So now here we are. I've done
for Thursday Night this week. I've got the Ravens who
all of a sudden behind you know, the legs and
arm of Tyler and Huntley were able to pull that off.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
So then is he in your game? No, hopefully it's Lamar.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
And I say that hopefully because yeah, well that's what
all science point to that, and I think that John
Harpot intimated that in not so many words. But as
we tape this on Monday, I would say, I mean,
what the hell do I know? But I would say, yes.
So I'm sitting here and I'm looking at these two
teams and I'm like, hey, Baltimore can still easily win

(11:51):
that division because now we got Pittsburgh with a few
question marks there after what happened last night and then
they dropped that game to Cincy the week before. The Browns,
we know what's going on their Miles Garrett five sacks
and a losing effort.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
That poor guy is probably like I feel bad for him,
I know.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
So it's just like there's all these it's like, as
much as there's like starting to be some you know, separation,
there's still so much space, like wide open, depending on
whatever division that you're in. I feel like the only
consistent team in the NFL all year has been the
Indianapolis Colts. That's the only team that we don't I mean,
Kansas City is starting to come into form. But like

(12:27):
at the beginning of the year, everyone pushed the panic
button because they were owing to and and then the
Eagles have question marks, and then the Ravens what do
they want?

Speaker 2 (12:34):
And five like all of these things.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
And it's like steady Eddy, Little Daniel Jones, I'm.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Feeling the old. The Eagles are starting to blosso you know,
you know, yeah, I mean that they start to show
that like, okay, if we can't do it through the air.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
A J. Brown's out Seguon Barkley when he wrapped off
that sixty five yard run. I said, you know, football
is just so fun to watch. It really greats as
sad as it is when you've got those injuries like
the camp scat of injury and you're just like, oh,
it's like but it's just I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
The NFL is great. We talked about it every single week,
but I don't know. I think this is what's so fun.
We don't know what's going to happen. We don't know,
we don't know.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Hey, you know what I said at dinner on Saturday,
when you know we're just Tom was on fire and
he was telling really great stories and it's so much
fun to listen to those. Is that we're just talking
about certain things in the NFL and certain storylines and
drama here drama there.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
You know what's going on here?

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Hearing this behind the scenes, and I said, you know
what's great about this is this is drama and these
are all men and usually it's the women they get blamed.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
For sure.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's great, which is great, which is why it is
the greatest sport there is. I just love it and
because every single week matters and it's just so I
had I had the Chargers and Vikings for Thursday night.
Am I felt so bad for Carson Wentz man. He
shout out to Carson Wentz because you have to have

(13:59):
another life level of toughness in this league and that
guy just every single hit he took, but he stayed
in there and kept fighting. But yeah, the Vikings isn't
They're an interesting team because they've got so much talent. Right,
But then it's like, Okay, I understand JJ McCarthy's been
out with this high ankle sprain. He missed all of
last year with injury. It's like, that's your franchise guy,

(14:20):
Like we got to see with what we have. And
it's a conversation that goes back and forth and everyone
has a different opinion on it. But it's like I'm
kind of with Tony Gonzalz always talks about it, like
throw him out there and see what you have. I
know Kevin O'Connell has maintained the head coaches said like, hey,
organizations failed these young quarterbacks because they put him out
too quickly. And everyone's got a different opinion. I am
not a head coach in the NFL. I am a
fan and I like to see good football and I

(14:42):
like to see like like, put Jackson Dart out there,
see what he has. And we've seen what he has,
so everyone makes decisions that are best for their organization.
I'll just speak from my own vantage point that I'm
a fan and it's like I want to see I
want to see JJ McCarthy, Like what does this kid have?
We saw him in the two games. You know, the
first game he played wasn't so great, but the second
and half of the second one was good.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
And you're kind of like, I.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Don't know, I'm kind of like it's like a package
under the Christmas tree that's half open. You can kind
of peek in and you're like, ooh, this is going
to be good, but like open up the rest of
it and see what we've got. So I'm happy for
the Bears. I know they lost yesterday, but they've been
playing better football and.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Good Packers looked good Packers was great. Tucker Craft, good morning,
good afternoon, and good night.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
How cute was that his mom who was the nurse
and I had a picture of her with the jersey
jersey on, and then he's got his restaurant that they
were showing.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Is it North Dakota that he's from North Dakota? Small town?
Any who?

Speaker 3 (15:35):
But yeah, I didn't realize that Aaron Rodgers the only
team that he hadn't beaten was the Packers thirty two
teams and so last night if he would have beaten them,
and he would have beaten every team in the NFL
during his eighteen years.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah, but yeah, South Dakota. Tucker Craft is from small,
small town. He's a part owner in that bar they
kept showing last night. That was a nice touch. That
was very very sweet, very swim.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Were you this way?

Speaker 1 (16:02):
I'm going to tell you, well, you were talking about
JJ McCarthy. We have vikings out Detroit, and I was
gonna ask you a question. I should probably save this
for off Mike, but I don't care. Can I still
be on your show even though I'm not doing a feature.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
We should have a second Yes, So Aaron and I
love when we obviously get to do any television in
person together. But I will say shout out to a
Fox NFL kickoff and Jeremy or producer who has made
it a point to make sure that whenever Aaron has
an early game this year that my gall and I
are together because I like it.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
The more the merrier, it's fun. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
So the answer to that is yes, I'm also a
producer on the show. So yes, you're in the D block. Okay,
you're that's your game?

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Where my Oh?

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, like I mentioned, I'm going to Miami for Ravens Dolphins.
It's a long trip, long trip.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
What else do we have? What else do we have?

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Did you have any Larry davidisms today? I have a
follow up to one?

Speaker 2 (17:02):
I have one? You have one? Son? Monday's trash Day.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Steve always see you trash outs on Sunday, Steve always,
He's close, Steve always, and he's wonderful at this puts
the trash out on Sunday night. And you know what
it is as much as I'm gonna rip on Steve
for not taking pictures what I need him to take
good pictures.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
He will.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
When I come home from work on Sunday and I
turn the corner and I already see the trash cans out,
I get so turned on because I'm like my man,
like he has already taken the initiative, knowing that they
get picked up at six am on Monday. I don't
have to do the nagging thing of like, hey, can
you bring the trash out? You know what it comes
out on Monday, So shout out to Steve. You do.

(17:42):
That's a great perture, Steve. So this morning trash gets
picked up. Fine, I'm out doing Eron's doing all these
different things I had to do. I was gone all day.
Went to Chick fil A because I hadn't eaten. Flying
through the drive through, which actually moves pretty fast.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Always not bad. Many lanes, many lanes.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Pick a lane, I don't know any lane bringing that
food out. I'm already eating the French fries before you
get out of the line. It's great, perfically cooked. Everything's great.
So by the time I get through there and i'm home,
I'm home in nine minutes after that, the food's already gone.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
I've already.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
I have already been able to doctor up the cop
salid while waiting at the stoplight Inhaled that French fries
halfway through the milkshake. So I have the garbage and
I'm walking and I see that the trash can on
my side have been picked up, but they must do
the other side later. So I'm like, well, I'm not
going to put this the leftover trash in my garbage

(18:39):
can because there's still a little bit of like food
in there, still a little bit of the milkshake, and
I don't want the milkshake going down the garbage. So
I put it in the neighbor's trash that hadn't been
picked up yet, And I'm like.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Is this the thing that they look at? Well, I
don't thin it's not.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Illegal, but I'm like, wonder if they walk like they
looked out their window right at the right time where
I'm dumping my garbage in their trash can, and they're like, Hey,
what's the neighbor doing using our trash can when she's
got her own trash can? But mine has already been
picked up and there's had it. So I felt like
a Larry moment where like if the neighbor pops out
and he's like, hey, lady, what's you doing.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
I'm like, who hasn't been picked up yet?

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Like, I can use yours because it hasn't been picked up,
and if mine's empty, then I can't risk the milkshap Yeah,
going down through the garbage can. And now we've got
flies and other bugs because it's sticking to this. You know.
I just was like, I took liberties and I used
the neighbor's trash can, so sueing.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Are you worried? No, I'm not worried. Come and knock
on my door. I got a bone to pick with
this neighborhood, you know what I mean. So, no, I'm
not worried. But it's it's not illegal. I don't think
it's not. It's not illegal. But I but I heard Ryan. No,
it's not. There's no way you can't please. By the way,

(19:50):
we should be so yeah, what no say it? I
should we should be so when we were using trash can,
good good? I mean he has done just chucking this
shit around here.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
By the way, anyone that litters, I have a real
problem with people that litter.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
What are we doing just chucking things out the window? Seriously,
are like people still doing that?

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yes, I saw that. I saw it the other day
and I wanted to be like road rage and go
through it. And I was like, I don't trust anyone today.
They probably killed me. But I was just like, we
are throwing things from our window.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
This is Carissa Thompson threatened to be killed by road ranger.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, bringing on file.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
This is a story. No, I just it's like, I
don't know. I use the neighbor's garbage can, so it's
it's what it is. But all I could hear was
Larry's voice, like where it's like if he got caught
like technically illegal?

Speaker 2 (20:37):
I thought it was.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
But you know, the story that I haven't told on
here is cousin Eddie's tenement on wheels that pulled up
in front of our house.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
This story bit back and enjoy I'm on today story.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
So you guys will appreciate this because.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
I get it. People go through tough times and they
have to live where they have to live. If you
have to live in that van, that I good for you.
This is not an indictment on you living anywhere that
you have to live. The indictment is on if you
have a place that you are living, and you're parked
right in front of my house and it smells of feces.

(21:28):
A daisies upset about it as well if it smells,
and there's garbage piling up in there, and it's just
like we pay taxes, We pay property taxes to not
have to deal with the remnants of all of the thing.
So it's literally the second I walked out my door,
it was like right there, and you're not supposed to
be parking there. It's actually like a no parking area.

(21:51):
So I was like, we can't have this in front
of the house. And I also don't know what nefarious
activities is being conducted in there or are they doing.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
I don't know what nefarious means. Ne faarius means something bad,
like uh, hi Steve, Like Steve, Steve, did you forget
when I do this podcast every week? Hey, and I
got a bone to pick. I'm can tell you how
to be at my house at four we have another
entrance to go to.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
I mean, in this in this sprawling estate we live, Steve,
I'm just gonna tell you now so you don't hear
it on a clip later. Okay, I went off on
how you did a bad job of taking pictures this
morning for me, and I don't want to hear it.
You can make it up to me later. I love
you. You do a lot of other things great, but come on,
I mean those pictures were crazy anyways. So I was like,

(22:34):
this can farious something bad could be happening in there.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Drugs, bad things. So I was like, this has to leave.
So we so Steve.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Goes to best Buy and buys this massive speaker. We
startpat kids music. This is the song that has an end.
It was Cat's Mowing.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
It was dark.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
I told you to do miss Rachel. We did rap music,
you guys. It was five forty five in the morning.
And at this point, I'm like, the neighbors really are
not gonna like me, but I'm like, I don't care.
It was ef your mother, you know, every rap terrible
lyric that you can imagine, was blasting out my front
door at five point forty five to just really get
these people off of the front stoop. And I had

(23:15):
to tell you, these people had some endurance. They lasted
about two hours, and I was like, we've got to
break up. I mean, this isn't breaking them down. They
might have been passed out in there. They didn't know
what was going on from that nefarious activity. So anyways,
after two hours, they rebbed it up and moved it
on down the street. But I was like, hey, uh ah,
and I tried to call the cops, but the cops
were like, we can't do anything. And I was like,

(23:35):
I know, but isn't there like some rules to like
why it is that we should feel like we are
safe in our own house. I guess not took matters
into my own hands, you know, blasting music at five am.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
But what else was I supposed to do? I was like,
I didn't feel safe.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
I was like, ah, anyways, hey, why don't you shout
out Lincoln Financial Field?

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Oh oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
We have talked about You're ridiculous. She literally just put
on the text that flew across the top of this
laptop notification jareded I'm going to jail.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
You're creat I wrote, I'm going jail, Jareded. So that
didn't work out too.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Hey, So we've talked about it before. Levive Stadium, the jams,
the tunes amazing. I haven't been there this year. Jacksonville
has great music. Lincoln Financial Field, we got in the
car to go to the airport, myself, Dean Blandino, Kevin Burkhart,
Casey Garland. The music was incredible. It was my prerogative.

(24:37):
Nois so take me home tonight, blow the whistle like
it was just take one.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
After another, those different genres. That's great.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
I appreciate it. Shout out Lincoln Financial, what a time,
and great chicken fingers.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
What else we got?

Speaker 1 (24:55):
My seat mate, Why so I'm going in to work.
I'm going to Philly banging it out.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
Bang.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
I had a ton of work to do. I don't
know why I didn't get a lot of work done
this week. But it's like, we got a five hour flight,
we got working on defense. We're going Johad Campbell, Nikobe, Dean,
we got it.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
We're looking it up.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
We're pro football focus all the things. Okay, So this
woman sitting next to me, great, let me do my thing.
I didn't even get out, asked to go potty, all
the things. She just like asked me a couple of questions.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
I was like, blah blah blah.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Great, we're getting ready to get out, and I'm like,
all right, I got it. I got in time to
go get a cocktail with the boys. This is going
to be good. So she's like, well, good luck at
the game. And I was like, oh, thanks so much.
I said, what are you in town for. We're going
to pick up our adopted baby. It was yeah, I
don't know what the sex is, but yeah, we got
the call and so and I went.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
I was like, everybody's gathering their stuff to go. I
looked at her and I go, oh my god, I'm
so happy for you this. So I was this poor
woman is trying to grab her bags, get with her
husband and get off the flight. And I'm like, this
is the most amazing thing, and blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
I love you and.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
I've had such horrible times getting pregnant and we have
a baby.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
And she's like, Okay, thank you, thank you so much.
I'm like, do you go to if you need a saragate?
You should use my Thank you so much. Having ranking
thank you, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
She's trying to get away from you, this poor lady,
which I'm so happy for her.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Now I feel like, say, they're way.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Ahead of me because I'm taking forever to get out
because I haven't packed up because I was like.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
So then I finally am I'm walking off the plane
and we were talking about fertility clinics and she was
saying maybe they'd go Sarahgacy next and all that kind
of stuff. So you know what I'm doing, I'm grabbing
my ship and I'm scrolling up. I'm looking for the
photo of the day Mac was born with our beautiful
Sarahgate and her family.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
They're so ahead of me. I'm running in the Philly
airport time out. You already said goodbye.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
And I was so overcome with emotion and so happy
for her, and I was continuing to be in my
feelings and I was like, hey, hold on, hold on,
and she turns around. She's with her husband. I'm like, hey,
not to be a total crazy, but if you ever
think so, yeah, she's like probably, like Jesus, why girl.

(27:24):
Like there were times and I was always like, oh no,
this isn't the way I wanted it to go in
my life. I said, You'll always forget, like it doesn't
matter how you get them here, like as long as
they're here.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
And I said, here's a picture of the day my
son was.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Born, and this is her course and We're like slapping
it through Philly Airport. These poor people just want to
get to where they need to go. And I'm like,
so are you staying in a good hotel? Like what
are you doing tonight?

Speaker 3 (27:47):
You're like, shut up, lady, We're going to get our child.
Like don protests too much.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
I was so excited that we're going down the escalator
and they're like yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
I said, do you have a good dinner spot for tonight? Okay?
I was so excited. Jesus Christ. They're like, okay, en excited.
I was so excited.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
And then I said, well okay, and then it was
time for me to go off and meet security, and
I don't know what they were doing.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
I was like, they also needed to meet security for you.
If you just asked me, I'll come to the hospital
with each tomorrow. I've got time.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
I will see the lady reached out and DM me
and said it was amazing seeing the baby. Oh good,
and trying to get that for legal reasons because she
needs to make sure that there's a trail of like
we've told you please don't come find us.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Oh, but that's amazing. Congratulations to whoever that is.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
I Oh, that's so sweet and no intimity is important,
although not for you.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
I mean you just right up in her grill, my son,
this is the birth. Also Jared hutting the cord. That's
so sweet though, very very kind.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah, I hope, I hope it all went well for
that you're able to see that baby before you're arrested.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
All right, well battle do it for us. On the
Calm Down Podcast.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
The Dessert Wine.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Keeps fun.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Hol la Ato adios not mistad.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Movies from putting it on today. Afort Oh god, damn right.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
We are.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Halloween Halloween.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Hey, my god, the Halloween costumes that your kid has
had and it's not even Halloween yet, you guys, Aaron
will send me these pictures. Is that Lauren doing the
face paint?

Speaker 1 (29:53):
You did that?

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah, but it's not good. It's as good as I
wrap a Christmas present. It ain't, Aaron.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
This is like professional No, you are really under selling.
You're selling yourself short here, you guys. When we show
you pictures of mags Halloween costumes leading up to Halloween,
it's like he is in a professional child's photoshoot for
Halloween clothes or costumes.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
I don't know what we're gonna do when the holiday
is at a holiday when it's officially over, because it
has absolutely rocked our house for two months. It is
nightmare before Christmas twenty four to seven. In our house,
it is all that is talked about. This kid is
going to have a real void in his life when
it's over. And then here comes the Grinch.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
And I was gonna say, well, we'll throw in a
turkey costume in between the hey where are you at?
On the whole kid eating candy situation? What kind of
mom are you? Are you like?

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Here's a candy?

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Are you like?

Speaker 2 (30:49):
No, I didn't need something pro like Whole Foods. He'll
get a couple pieces, but I don't think he needs
to like crush it. I mean, bo I just didn't
know if it was like some rain A couple of pieces,
Yeah right, don't deprive them of like American tradition. Okay,
go ahead, Hey uh.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
This isn't a spooky costume. I love this costume. I'm
gonna give a little shout out. The La Kings and
Wear are dropping two of their pieces of merch and
they're going to have another drop in March of twenty six,
which seems so far away, but it's not. You can
find these online at tmla store dot com or the
store at Crypto, which.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Is really really cool. This is a levers are in
the hail. Is this called whatever? It's the button snap one.
I love this. It looks like a jacket, but it's
actually like a sweater feel. I love. We've talked about it,
the little sleeves, the cuffs if you will.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
But yeah, I love our King stuff. So if we
have any Kings fans, we got some good gear coming.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
I comment, I wear your stuff unintended every single week.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
Look at that. It's cute. It's cute.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
I can go.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
I love it so much. You have the best stuff.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
I wore my Seahawks jacket the other day, and then
when I saw Constance at the Thursday night game she
had on it's that set, the black with.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
The hood and the buttons. We'll add a picture. It's
a goodie and show you guys. But yeah, you got
you guys have such great stuff. Go Kings, go and
go King's other sports. Hey, we had a Jennifer Aniston
headline that I loved. We love Jennifer Aniston.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
You're watching in the morning show. It while Aaron looks headline.
I have been watching the Morning Show. I've been I
think we're on the third season or second whatever season
it is.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
How is it?

Speaker 3 (32:35):
It is eerily close to all the things that really
go on in this year television world and the different things.
I mean, yes, of course some of it's exaggerated for
television and storylines and whatnot, but yeah, it's it's very good. Oh,
it's very good. Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston and all the
all the other actors, but like, they are very, very

(32:56):
good in it, So we love.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
It, except for the part where the boss takes Reese
Witherspoon to like a Barney's at night and says, whatever
you want.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
I know that's not happening. That's like I said, some
things are fictionalized for television, but the whole like just
inner office politics and inner workings of stuff. It's like
fun to see just you know, the TV version of that.
But you love the headline. What was it then? Oh?

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Jennifer Aniston reveals the ultimate compliment she gets about her
show Friends. People will say that they go back and
watch episodes to help their mental health, that if they're
stressed about.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
The news or the world.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
They'll just sit down and watch a friend's episode. That's
the ultimate compliment. See, Jennifer, I knew we could be
friends too. It's all I have on It's our favorite thing.
We've told this story before. But then our first time,
we had a rough go with our first arrogate and
we ended up having we lost. We had some loss
and it was horrible, and I just remember I was like,
how am I going to get my husband out of bed?

(33:55):
We threw the friends reunion on and laughed and cried
that it was so amazing in a sense that they
were way ahead of our their time. They talked about sarrogacy, adoption,
what else did they have? They had so many things, Carol,
you know getting married, Yeah, watched lesbian getting married, having
a baby, all that, marriages, every single massive like topic

(34:21):
and thing in the world. They were so ahead of
you know where they were at the time.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah, I you are.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
You've watched a lot more Friends than I have. But
it's definitely one of those things, especially in a hotel
where you know, I don't I used to order movies
and hotels all the time. I feel like you Yeah,
I was always I was like so excited to order
a movie because it was like, oh, I'll only watch
this if I'm in a hotel. Like now I don't
watch as many movies because we have them on demand
at home the way that like we didn't used to

(34:50):
used to have to go to the movie theater. So
now I don't watch the movies. But like Friends, if
it's on in hotel, I can always count on like
having that just like on in the background.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
But yeah, we love her all. You're so her in
that show.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
You are just the nicest thing you could say you are.
You are, like think her mannerisms in that show and
things she says in that show.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
I'm like, that's Carissa. Oh my god, Well thank you.
What a compliment. You know, people watch Friends to cheer up.
You cheered me up with that compliment.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
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