It’s officially time to deck the halls! Join Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson for a festive, feel-good episode of Calm Down as they dive into all things holiday cheer, seasonal traditions, and your most-asked holiday questions.
From nostalgia to laugh-out-loud moments, the ladies share their personal favorites, including:
- Their all-time favorite Christmas movies
- The best childhood gifts that still make them smile
- Their go-to holiday songs (yes, Mariah might be involved)
- The great debate: white lights or multicolor?
- Gift-wrapping hacks to help you survive the season
…plus plenty more holiday stories, memories, and surprises!
Whether you’re decorating the tree, wrapping presents, or just trying to stay sane in December, this episode brings the perfect mix of humor, warmth, and holiday spirit.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My dad took video one time and we were opening
a gift and my dad and mom are so great.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What is it? What is it?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
And there is just pure joy and screeching snowby snow.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Comas shoes, my God.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Calm Down with Erin and Chrissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
We welcome you to our Holiday special. Your holiday is special.
Hey Mac, that a real thing right now?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh you saw it. He's learning how to say a
and then he can't.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Say it after that you I'll.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Tell you what I saw.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Welcome everybody to the Calm Down Podcast Holiday edition post Thanksgiving.
It is December, so that we are full holidays all day,
every day. And Jared on the four Top Text Change
sent the wow, I can't talk.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'm so excited about Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well I sent the video, Oh Mac decorating his first
little apartment in his personal house with the Christmas decorations,
and I was like, Mac, it has a whole setup
down there. It's just too cute. The stockings, the Christmas lights,
all the things. Santa's coming down the chip He'll make
you a hot cup of air.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
On it.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yes, but you know as evidence by my if for
those of you listening. I'm holding up my coffee cup
that says Mary, I just love the holidays. You love
the holidays, Mary. That's my name, Christmas vacation. We will
be quoting it. I'm wearing my Griswold jersey. So all
things holiday.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You're so cute.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We were talking about it last night, Aaron and I
were on the phone being like thinking, we were so
on top of it, you know, two months ago talking
about holiday shopping, and now this is me frantically searching,
and I'm like, what does Macy's have for all.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Things we need?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So we asked some questions every day, which is the
best part about them. But we asked you guys some
questions and you were awesome. We have a whole list
of questions that we're going to go through and just
talk about the holidays, because.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Again, who doesn't love it?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Shall we start gal Casey Cole, Let's do it, Casey
Cole favorite Christmas, Favorite Christmas song? God anything the second
Steve did this the other day. A bunch of packages arrived,
mostly from Macy's and he goes, okay, is that time
of year? He puts on Mariah Carey around the house
(02:28):
and I have to do an unboxing. Listening to the
Mariah Carey Christmas album Oh Holy Night gets me every
time I want to cry. Santa Claus is coming to town.
I mean, just pick a song, any song Celindi on
Christmas album Oh You Gone God, Oh Come All Ye
faith Fait or whatever the title is.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Don't want to offend anyone.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
If I got it wrong, probably you are always one. Yeah,
I got to tell you there is you give me
a couple of cocktails. And Kendra Andrews and I are
doing incredible lyrics.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I know, and I'm holding on to things.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You know that such good flexibility, Aaron, that's really good.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Wow, you should see it when that song comes on.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Chloe Kilgaman, what gift did you receive as a child
that still sticks with you?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Mall madness?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I got this All Badness was a game I wanted
so bad. It was one hundred dollars and I remember
asking my mom or Santa for this, and I my
mom goes, I don't think Sanna is going to be
bringing that this year. That should have been my first
indication that Kathy was Sanna again. Sorry if we offended
you believers AnyWho, But don't worry my Grandma, my grandma,
(03:49):
my dad's mom. She always wanted to stick it to
my mom. And I say this respectfully because I have
her middle name because of her, Carol Jean, love you gal,
I'm Prissa Jean because of her. I was the only
blonde hair, blue eyed person, so was my grandma in
my family. But my grandma loved me obviously because I
had her middle name, so I was her favorite. So
(04:09):
anything I wanted and my mom said, no, Tom's, my
grandma was like, I got your kid. So A Mall
Madness was this animated like you go around to the
different storefronts and you press a button. It says there's
a sale at Macy's and so you go in and
you get a little deal. And it was like who
could buy the most things and still have the most
money in their wallet? But yeah, it still sticks with
(04:30):
me to this day. Always wanted it and Grandma Carol
came in strong. Oh, I love that story. Ours was
kind of the same thing, you know, like the hot
Christmas gift, the Cabbage Patch Kid or the Nintendo. My
parents would always kind of play it like, hey, don't
get your hopes up, not gonna happen. We I think
when VHS like over the shoulder recorders became popular. My
(04:54):
dad was sporting one and we have this insane video.
Move this, move the hand into the little velar where
you hold a holding the focus in, focus out, pull in,
pull out. God so good, and I'm always like, Dad,
can I do it?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Can I do it?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And you hear the tape going, you know, and the
big old VHS smack was closing it on the side.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Got jack, Those are great, so good.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, And then it was like, Dad, can we watch
the Christmas video again? We look so good, you know,
like just all that. But my dad took video one
time and we were opening a gift and my dad
and mom are so great, what is it?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And there is just pure joy and screeching snowby snow
cone masses.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So the snoopy snow cone machine was always a big hit.
Never I think we used it twice. God was it
hard to turn the ice in? There says you barely
got any snow conde.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And the thing's gonna break. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The crank wouldn't work because by the time you got
the third ice cube, the thing is the blazer bent.
And then you had the little die for like the
blue Raspberry. Now the dies all over the hands. It's like,
what a man? Wasn't that good? It melted quick. My
parents were really good to the year of Nintendo. Like
the scene from a Christmas Story with Ralphie and he
(06:23):
wants the Red Rider everything, he didn't get it, and
then the dad at the end is like, hey, what's
that behind the desk? My dad did that with the Nintendo,
ripped through everything.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Steve no Nintendo, and my Dad's like, hey, what's that
behind the desk? And it was like the power.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Contr for life, up down, up, downside side.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Oh, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You know what, Kathy, My mother is a saint. My
dad is Clark, so is Steve. The whole thing, Paula, Kathy,
they all share this in comment. My mother to this
day's Bill does stockings. Davian's what a thankless thing this is.
She wraps every one of those little things and the
little chapstick and the amount of time I'm sure that
I don't even want to wrap the massive box.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And I'm like, I hate rapping. I hate it.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Does this so I have such I'm like this, I'm
a gift back, gift back gift. I mean, you're lucky
if have the ship is even in a gift bag
under the tree. I'm like, you know, me, it's not
Christmas yet. I'm like, here, I got you something not wrapped.
It's like I need to be better about that.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Anyways.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Kathy Thompson, the gift wrapping, the stalking stuff and then
the wrapping paper was always different from the gifts that
were from Santa because her wrapping paper had to be
color coordinated, color coordinated each year to the theme. She
really did it, and you know she really.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Did it.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
If it's going around or I'm just like it's you know,
a recency bias, whatever they call it. It's like Christmas
was magical because of what our parents did. And there
even me, my dam right, now you realize it it's
magical because of your parents.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, it's so true.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And you look back and you're like, oh my god,
all the effort and you just thought that that's like
what happened. But now as adults were like, no, none
of that shit happens if you don't have parents or
friends or family that make it that way.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I pulled my kids. This is why I love Christmas.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I do too, I pulled my first last night after
Mac took the plate of rice and beans in Caesadia
and flipped it upside his head. Santa's not coming this year,
so let's go take a shower. Because he's not coming.
There's no need to stay stay up and look at
the Christmas tree. Santa doesn't like kids that foot and again,
I apologize if I right, you know, ruining the allday
(08:38):
not thinking of others, But I was thinking of myself
and what. I don't want my kid to be a
crazy person. Any who, Nanny's okay, Chloe klink Klingeman.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Did you receive? Oh? And she's great too. Christina Lashbrook?
What are you?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
What are we getting our husbands who don't want nothing
but deserve who don't want nothing but deserve a gift?
You don't want anything but deserve a gift.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I don't know. I need help. You got any ideas?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Jared's good about basically sending the link. Hey, if your
dad's looking for anything, yea, here's this.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Hey? Oh yeah? Really his size too? Oh yeah? Way, thanks?
Jared's so thoughtful. I actually love that.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Steve is so hard to shop for because he doesn't
ask for anything. I I just I hope he doesn't
listen to this because I'm gonna just I just ordered him.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
He's been on.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
This real kick lately that he loves Macha. No, you don't, Steve.
You don't even know what Macha tea is? Okay either
macha if it bit me in the face. So here
he is. He does the you know, twelve dollars coffee
or order from Alfred's. Alfred's. Again, no offense to people
that love Alfred's. It's so expensive. You're really paying for
(09:55):
an experience over there. I used to think Starbucks will
really I have Ali Ben Oh, oh my god, it's
so pricey. I'm always like I just paid fifty ten
dollars for blueberry muffin.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You know again, get it.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Get your ass up, Grison and go to the store
and don't order this. Anyways, Steve loves Alfred's and he loves.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Me about it. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
He's like he's like he's like actually one of these
like secret hipster cool guys that like tries to pretend
like he's like just lunch pale, like you know, Dan
Campbell type. No, he's bougie. This guy, he's like, oh, matchup,
what are you talking about? He takes two SIPs and
then he doesn't drink the rest of it, and half
the time it's left on the counter. But again, it's
not my money. So I'm like, if you want to
(10:36):
spend your money on that, that's all you. I ordered
him because I'm trying to put together a basket of
stuff hold on.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Of This is such a side tangent.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I just got back from running errands and he goes, wait,
where are you And I'm like, I'm running errands.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
He goes, oh, no, what kind of errands? What are
you out there doing buying baskets?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And he's on to me because I always say I'm
going to buy a basket and I'm gonna put the
items in that I think he likes. This is a
long way of saying I bought him a shirt that
says I love Macha.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I love you so Macha, and.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
He's never gonna wear it, but it's just funny to me,
and so I'm like, I'm trying to think of all
the shit that he likes but doesn't ever like buy
for himself. The aside is the Mantra shirt. But he's
so hard to shop for I bought him one time,
like a trip to Jackson Hole to go snowboarding, because
he loves snowboarding, and then the whole time he complained
that he was there with his friend and not me,
(11:29):
because I was like, I'm not going snowboarding with you,
so you can take your friend.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
All I've got right now is a Mancha shirt. I
got nothing else. So I think you're winning. I think
you're winning the race here. I don't know, but I'm
gonna go to Macy's because they've got that Holiday gift Finder,
and they've got the Shopper, the Personal Shoppers. So I'm
going to put in some requests and say these are
the things that Steve likes. Help me find something, because
right now I am out of ideas. Clearly, it's as
easy as that jsm hare Christmas Eve or Chris Smith's Day.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh, it was a tough one. It's Telly. I like
them for different reasons.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Christmas Eve the anticipation of Christmas. My dad and I
would always watch We'd be the last ones up and
I'd be waiting for Santa, and He's like, we have
to go to bed before Santa comes down the chimney.
But I'm like, what we have to watch It's a
Wonderful Life. And that was our routine, our tradition. We'd
always watch It's a Wonderful Life. I wouldn't make it
past the first five minutes of the movie. I'd be asleep.
But yeah, same as what you do now, same as
(12:26):
what I do now, exactly. I just it's nothing has changed.
I just love the anticipation of Christmas. But then I
love Christmas Morning because it's like a presence. I don't
know what about you. I like Christmas Morning, but Christmas
Eve is all great. Yeah, No, it's my family.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
We really draw out.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Christmas for like days. We're not going to get the
chance to do it this year because we got it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
We're on a schedule. We got to keep it moving.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You see, nine oh two six, my brother in law
and his fiance are always one hour to Holidays. Starting
to piss me off. Help, I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Oh are they going to say late?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It probably just she probably means like late, because if
it's going to piss her off, I'm if they're an
hour early, then I mean good for them.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm going to assume it means late.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Okay, well, I don't really know how to help you
with this. I would just say, hey, guys, maybe book it.
Say you're going to start an hour earlier when you
really you know what I mean, kind of map it out, manipulated.
Say what do you need to be on time for?
I guess the meal?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I don't know. I'm afraid to say.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I think in this situation, you don't apparently want advice
for me. I think you need to just say to them, hey,
look it starts at ten. If you're going to show
up at eleven o'clock, we're going to take away a
present every hour you're late, So show up early or
so we're going to take some of these gifts away
because everyone else is making the effort to be here
on time. Why do you guys think you're special and
get to show up late?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Okay, well I don't want I don't want it to
piss you as up. And so I would definitely say
something to them, because again this goes back to it
sometimes we don't know when we're pissing people off, and
so we got to just say it and then allow
people the opportunity to respond to you.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
So Diana frees fancy rapping or just the presence wrap.
As we just mentioned, Diana, I hate rapping, but I
got to tell you you too, I so appreciate the
effort of wrapping. Like when I get a gift and
someone's actually wrapped it, I'm like, oh my god, thank
you so much. So I need to remember that it
makes me feel good to receive that because it all
goes back to effort that I will be better about that. Yes,
(14:30):
so fancy wrapping, not necessarily fancy rapping, just wrapping the present.
But man, I gotta tell you Kathy again, all roads
lead back to Kathy the effort she put forth every
single Christmas. My mom, Paul the same thing that Kathy goes, Okay,
this year we're doing only gold and silver, so I
(14:50):
had to have only gold and silver ornaments, only gold
and silver wrapping paper. Then one year it was only
green and everything was green ornaments, lights, one year was
only red. She was Yeah, she committed to the bit,
but I appreciated that.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
My mom's job is she was an art teacher.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
My mom is so creative, and I think I've spoken
about it on other shows we've had before. My mom's
bows are so beautiful that we even like save them
and we hot glue got them back onto the presence
because they're so gorgeous. They look like Bo's out of
Doctor Seuss's Who Will. They're so beautiful, you know what.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I love? I love that when you go to Macy's, Yeah,
they have I like in.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
So many things for wrapping because like they have like
all of the decorations and everything. Yeah, I love it
makes it so easy and it's gorgeous, totally.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
All right. Elder nine three two.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Fancy dressed, fancy dressed up for holidays or comfy holiday
theme clothes. In our house, we're very chill. We are
enjoying the day where you like that. Growing up, was
it always jammy time?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Really?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
We were cozy, cozy, night before, like whatever, things like this,
Griswold jerseys. His in the movie, of course, was a
black Hawks a sweater situation. This shout out to Michael Smith,
who I used to work with at ESPN. He got
me this a couple of years ago when we were
on Amazon together. Griswold jersey, which makes me so happy.
But yeah, night before, comfy, cozy, morning, cozy. But then
(16:30):
we always we'd start at my house and my mom
and dad's house in the morning. Then we'd go to
my grandma's house on my dad's side, and there we
were still like semi casual. But then nighttime at my
mom's house, we were tights matching dresses happy had sewed
for dinner.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Oh yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Was fancy fans And I remember I always got so
excited to pick out that my my mom would make
us all matching dresses until we got to a certain
age and then we got to buy some, probably from
Macy's of course, and so then we just like loved
dressing up and like we were so cute.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
And I remember it's like if.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
We had to be in the car at three o'clock
to go to grandma my mom's side, uh, it was
like and if you were late then it was a
real problem. Like and I was like flying into the car,
like with the tights in my hands, I hadn't to.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Put them on yet. Yeah sounds like that. Yep.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Also still happening, flying in the car and eating tights.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Q last week's Thursday Night game where I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Freezing and all I needed was pair, Like ten pairs
of tights should have went to Macy's. What do you got,
Laura Suki favorite Christmas movie? Sorry, I'm I'm walking all
over you. You know, no, no, we were walking on
broken glass. Annie Lennox, what a great song?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That is too.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Down?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
J girl, you really due me?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You Aaron needs to be not only on ninety nine
to be, but she needs to be on a show
where it's named that tune.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I mean, is that still.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Around because she's on a Fox? Oh my god, it is.
Why are you not hosting that? Because ninety all the tunes?
Fox doesn't know that it's not me yet? Well, I mean,
now's the time. If not now, when favorite Christmas movie
for me? Number one Christmas Vacation, as evidence again by
(18:35):
the jersey that's been referenced five times now at this point,
it is number one. If I had to power rank
top three Christmas movies, I'm going Christmas Vacation number one,
the Holiday number two and number three. Athlete back and
forth between nostalgic purposes of It's a Wonderful Life, but
then also comedy of four Christmases. Four Christmases is so
(18:56):
goddamn fine, it's fun. I can't even handle it. And
we watched it in March. So funny. We did watch
it in March, yes, yes, right after we had dinner,
which you thought crazy things were happening. But yeah, that's
my power rankings Top three movie touchdown. Yeah, mine or
the Your two are the same as mine. Christmas Vacation,
(19:18):
the Holiday. I love a Christmas story because it makes
me think of my parents, grinches right up there alone alone,
It's so good, family Stone. If you want to just
absolutely the whole time, No, I can't.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
For Christmas, God, Mistletoe, Mistile, Orlando. Stop it so good,
so good.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Jackson under Courtney Court.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
The jump jump. There's a jump jump there to jump
jump in the back.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I think christ and Jenny and funny and and funny
that my god, her booms around and she's like someone's Cassie.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
So good, JESU, what's lining there?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
You're upset about something and my husband totally made out
in the whole market man or something.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I don't know. It's so funny. I'm likeing it. You're no,
it's so impressive already.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I need to get more well versed in those lines
because the other movies were going on, all right, what
else you.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Got going on? Vince on his jose up and he's
like I said.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Woman club that baby, and people are like, whoa.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
It's so good. It's one of the funniest movies ever.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Do what I tell you what, Friendie that haven't seen
four Christmases, this is your PSA.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Don't walk run all right, Katie Hogan. Five white lights
are multi colored on the tree. This is where Aaron
and I have differing opinions.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Oh what do you got white only?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I'm not interested in those multi colors, but I understand
the appeal.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I understand that it's like it's colorful.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's all these things, because some could look at just
the white lights and be like those are boring. But
I like my trees to look like I'm at Macy's,
like they're just like picture perfect. You know, I have
white lights on our tree here and then in Martana,
I think we're having multi colored.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Oh I thought you had multi colored. No really outside
the house we do for mackiew Doodle do make it
look like candy Kanelane. You know that's cute. That's cute.
For some reason, I thought you were doing your tree
like that too. We're baby, oh yours is?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah? Man? Those and light that fur candle, you know
the one the Fraser fur I got your phone right now?
Is your fig?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, God, I love it. I love the smell. I
get it. I totally Hey shout out to Skip by
the way. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh, okay, good our incredible incredible ZP. I wish he's
so much more than a DP exactly. He sends us
every year a wreath. I just put my nap or
not so good?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
He is just Skip. I mean, what a dream.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah, so a wreath, real wreath, and then the fake trees.
It's like you have the aroma of the thing, but
not the needles every single all over the place.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
But I totally get why people have a real tree.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Don't get me wrong, it's just at this point, Yeah,
I got to do the whole like they all come out,
the lights are on, it all works. How dare you next?
VT Fire sixty two? Does your Christmas tree topper go
on first or last? When decorating the tree?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Last? Or whenever we find it? Oh? Where might it be?
I don't know. We lose our off all the time.
I did a really good job with the ribbon this year.
You did?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, tell me what'd you do? I just watched Instagram
and I got an idea. Usually I try to like
trail it along, but this time I went, yeah, what
does that mean?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Group? Like you? You like put it down like.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Puts on this way instead of going like this way,
like a cross going vertically. I did it horizontally. You
did not horizontally. To you for more in the studio, Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, okay, okay,
I'll send you a pick. I would love to see that.
Jarrett said it was the best one I've done. I
(23:39):
love that. I was thinking, as you were talking about
Paula's bows, my mom same thing the other Like a
couple of years ago, I had a wreath making party.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't know where you were.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You were busy working, because that's all you do during
the holidays. So I was making these bows, was making
these bows and I couldn't remember how my mom did
them because they were gorgeous, and so I had a
caller and FaceTime and like, remember exactly how she did it.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And it's great. Your husband's texting the fore top right now. Okay,
here we go. I told Steve. I told Steve I
have to write him all the time.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I said, hey, taping the podcast today, don't be walking
in in the middle like you do. And I think
you do that intentionally because you just want to like
pop in. He goes, Oh, please, I don't need I
don't need to be popping in on accident. I've been
on the podcast and the other day walking around a
community that's very close to you, and sweet Blanche shout
(24:31):
out to Blanche, who is hot by the way, she
stopped me and she was like, hey, big fan of
the podcast, and I was like, Blanche, I'm a big
fan of you, like you're gorgeous. And then she was
talking about a woman that I found in the streets
near where you live, and Steve and I were down
in the community and she shot me and said and
then I go, oh, this is Steve. She goes, I know,
the worst thing, Blanche you could say is that you
(24:53):
know Steve because he's on the podcast. So then the
whole goddamn ride home for forty five minutes, I had
to hear about how popular Steve is and everyone knows
about Steve from the Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Okay, Steve's so great and everybody wants to Steve. Steve.
We get it.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You're wonderful and you really are wonderful, but you are anyways, Blanche,
You're adorable and hot, and thank you for what you said,
she said, And I'm really sorry about your dog. I
can't take it. Also, Blanche, if you're single, I feel
like we have a lot of guys I could set
you up with. But if you're also in a great relationship,
good for you.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Dm us.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I was in a car shout out to Rachel Burkhart
and Sally Russo or our director's wife, and of course
Kevin burkhart better half, and they were talking about how
they love their male plus ones whenever they're all together
the best. This is the dream I've had in my
whole life. Lisa Grigorich her my old boss at Extra,
(25:51):
who I now consider like another mother to me. She
has this incredible husband who's like another father to me.
Gary is his name, and I would always say to always, Yeah,
it's a great name, very like stately Gary.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It's like a man, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Kirk Curve Street and Mike Trico and I call each other.
We could just call each other Gary. There's a long
story with it.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, we're on it. We've done ever.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
No way, Mike Trico and kirkhurb Street and you call
each other Gary's. That's so funny. Wait can you tell
the story like at another time?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Okay? Cool?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So anyways, for the Calm Down Podcast Extended version, please
pay twenty nine to ninety nine to get the stories.
And you can't get here. So I always said to Lisa,
I want a Gary. I was like in my life, like,
if I could have a Gary, I know, like, oh,
I would be the happiest person. So I found a
Steve and who was it the other day? Said to me,
(26:45):
I can't shoot, it's escaping me. They're like, I want
to Steve, Like I need to find a Steve. And
I was like, I know, and now I think I
know who said that?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Who? Who did you go to lunch with the other day?
Didn't say that, but but it was like along those lines.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Anyways, Oh no, it was Jessica Toll, sweet Jessica Toll
yesterday at work? What hair that ciras do everything for
us at Fox. They are truly, like, oh my god,
I just love those women so much, just the best.
Truly if I had I never had a younger sister.
But I'm like I want them. And this might sound weird,
(27:20):
I'm like, they're like my younger sisters. I just like
adore them. So Jessica said to me. Jess said to
me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
She was like, I need a Steve And I was like,
oh what a full circle moment. Anyways, So and I
need you.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I need your hair exactly. Jessica, toll Adore and Kira
both great hair. These gals ridiculous, all right? Running next running.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
See cam?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
God, why am I so bad at reading names? How
do you read this one? This should actually be like
a psychology test of like what do you see when
you look at that C C anna d Y twelve?
Or is it CC and A d Y twelve?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Okay? Are you still?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Are you all like me and collect new gift bags
from everyone and reuse next year?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You're damn right. I do CC and A d Y twelve.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
And I'm hoping that they did nobody wrote on the
little tag because then I can use the tag.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
But if they wrote on the tag, then I have
to rip it off.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
And I'm like, I hope no one, you know, remembers
that this was the bag they might have given me.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
But that's recycling.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I think that's I think that's actually very environmentally sound
lain to be recycling. Why are we just throwing them
out and getting a new bag every time?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah? No, I absolutely reuse, Yeah I do.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
It just depends on what kind of shape the bag is.
My family's big on reusing for each other, and we
always get a big hoot out of it. So and
then we get a hoot a hoot and a handbag
we get a hoot out of, like rubbing off the name,
and then a gift bag.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Three Andrea Vibe. Do you have a favorite ornament? If so,
why is it so special to you?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
We have.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
We have a lot of fun ones that I've gotten
actually from Hallmark Disney ones that mean a lot. Max
to the age now where he's pressing them all and
he thinks they're so cute. Somebody got his one from
a company last year where it's Max face but the
whole to put the like hangar, it's like he's got
a hole in his head, so we're like the holes
in his head.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I like, I almost took a picture of it and
sent it to h our friend tex Chain where it's
Alexis from She's because she's just like this and Uh, yeah,
I want to carry that one.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
What a gal got to meet her with? Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
And I told her, I said, I have like two
Christmas ornaments with your face on him.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Weird, not weird. I don't think that's weird.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
She probably likes it. She's probably someone that like was
cool about it. She doesn't seem like she's great.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Also was like three tikilas in when I told her.
But yeah, obviously I don't have I have no ornaments
of sentimental value. I gotta be honest.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I'm not that person with any that like sentimental ornaments whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I like all my.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Ornaments to be again, like look like they're out of
from a department store.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So they're all this.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
They're not all the same, but they just like don't
have any differentiation in terms of like there's like a
silver ball, a gold ball, you know, different things like that.
My dad did buy me one when we were at
Tavern on the Green we had it was our first
Black Friday game, So I did.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I do have that.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
But my dad will appreciate this because it's again the
way that I was raised with the cemetery of the tree.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I have it. I just have it on the back
of the tree.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
So you can't see it. So I still put it up.
It's just not front and center to you know, mess
up the fung shue of the old tree and whatnot. Okay,
but yeah, Christmas, I just you know that the in
summary of all these wonderful questions, thank you guys for these.
By the way, I just think, oh we do, Oh
my god. C Well, I was hoping it wasn't the
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end we got.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Okay, Jeremy castperson, how many unspent gift cards do you
currently have? God?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I currently have five? That's what the person said, so right,
because you.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
What you you? I got to I'm not going to
answer this question. I will. I will.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I will because I won't be able to answer it
on Christmas because I'll be working. So I'll answer it
now and say that I have I'm sure a plethora
of gift cards over the years that have found their
way into some random corner or whatever of a purse
or a cabinet. Do they expire? That's what I want
(31:41):
to know. They've got to expire to check out the
shainy days.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
It's void.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't think they do. Okay, Well, I hope not.
I mean I don't know at this point what where
or if I do. I'm just assuming because sometimes random
things end up in this house. But yeah, not, I
don't have a tally in my head. But I got
to be better about that. I should put them like
in a little like container or something, because in my wallet,
my wallet's so like I only have like a I
(32:06):
only have like like my license and.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Two cards in there, like a little low profile wallet.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
So then it's like when you you know, what happens
to me when I get to the store and I'm like,
damn it.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I have a gift card from the store, but I
don't have it with me. You know what I mind? Now,
I'm not going to get into it. Okay, okay, Well, anyways.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
We hope, we hope that you guys have a wonderful holiday.
And remember if you can't think of gift good gift
ideas and you're stumped, go to Macy's. They have everything
you need and most importantly, they've got great customer service.
People of Macy's always very friendly.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
You know. I love that.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
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My dad took video one time and we were opening
a gift and my dad and mom are so great.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What is it? What is it?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
And there is just pure joy and screeching snowby snow.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Comas shoes, my God.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Calm Down with Erin and Chrissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
We welcome you to our Holiday special. Your holiday is special.
Hey Mac, that a real thing right now?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh you saw it. He's learning how to say a
and then he can't.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Say it after that you I'll.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Tell you what I saw.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Welcome everybody to the Calm Down Podcast Holiday edition post Thanksgiving.
It is December, so that we are full holidays all day,
every day. And Jared on the four Top Text Change
sent the wow, I can't talk.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'm so excited about Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well I sent the video, Oh Mac decorating his first
little apartment in his personal house with the Christmas decorations,
and I was like, Mac, it has a whole setup
down there. It's just too cute. The stockings, the Christmas lights,
all the things. Santa's coming down the chip He'll make
you a hot cup of air.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
On it.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yes, but you know as evidence by my if for
those of you listening. I'm holding up my coffee cup
that says Mary, I just love the holidays. You love
the holidays, Mary. That's my name, Christmas vacation. We will
be quoting it. I'm wearing my Griswold jersey. So all
things holiday.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You're so cute.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We were talking about it last night, Aaron and I
were on the phone being like thinking, we were so
on top of it, you know, two months ago talking
about holiday shopping, and now this is me frantically searching,
and I'm like, what does Macy's have for all.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Things we need?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So we asked some questions every day, which is the
best part about them. But we asked you guys some
questions and you were awesome. We have a whole list
of questions that we're going to go through and just
talk about the holidays, because.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Again, who doesn't love it?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Shall we start gal Casey Cole, Let's do it, Casey
Cole favorite Christmas, Favorite Christmas song? God anything the second
Steve did this the other day. A bunch of packages arrived,
mostly from Macy's and he goes, okay, is that time
of year? He puts on Mariah Carey around the house
(02:28):
and I have to do an unboxing. Listening to the
Mariah Carey Christmas album Oh Holy Night gets me every
time I want to cry. Santa Claus is coming to town.
I mean, just pick a song, any song Celindi on
Christmas album Oh You Gone God, Oh Come All Ye
faith Fait or whatever the title is.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Don't want to offend anyone.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
If I got it wrong, probably you are always one. Yeah,
I got to tell you there is you give me
a couple of cocktails. And Kendra Andrews and I are
doing incredible lyrics.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I know, and I'm holding on to things.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You know that such good flexibility, Aaron, that's really good.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Wow, you should see it when that song comes on.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Chloe Kilgaman, what gift did you receive as a child
that still sticks with you?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Mall madness?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I got this All Badness was a game I wanted
so bad. It was one hundred dollars and I remember
asking my mom or Santa for this, and I my
mom goes, I don't think Sanna is going to be
bringing that this year. That should have been my first
indication that Kathy was Sanna again. Sorry if we offended
you believers AnyWho, But don't worry my Grandma, my grandma,
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my dad's mom. She always wanted to stick it to
my mom. And I say this respectfully because I have
her middle name because of her, Carol Jean, love you gal,
I'm Prissa Jean because of her. I was the only
blonde hair, blue eyed person, so was my grandma in
my family. But my grandma loved me obviously because I
had her middle name, so I was her favorite. So
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anything I wanted and my mom said, no, Tom's, my
grandma was like, I got your kid. So A Mall
Madness was this animated like you go around to the
different storefronts and you press a button. It says there's
a sale at Macy's and so you go in and
you get a little deal. And it was like who
could buy the most things and still have the most
money in their wallet? But yeah, it still sticks with
(04:30):
me to this day. Always wanted it and Grandma Carol
came in strong. Oh, I love that story. Ours was
kind of the same thing, you know, like the hot
Christmas gift, the Cabbage Patch Kid or the Nintendo. My
parents would always kind of play it like, hey, don't
get your hopes up, not gonna happen. We I think
when VHS like over the shoulder recorders became popular. My
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dad was sporting one and we have this insane video.
Move this, move the hand into the little velar where
you hold a holding the focus in, focus out, pull in,
pull out. God so good, and I'm always like, Dad,
can I do it?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Can I do it?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And you hear the tape going, you know, and the
big old VHS smack was closing it on the side.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Got jack, Those are great, so good.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, And then it was like, Dad, can we watch
the Christmas video again? We look so good, you know,
like just all that. But my dad took video one
time and we were opening a gift and my dad
and mom are so great, what is it?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And there is just pure joy and screeching snowby snow
cone masses.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So the snoopy snow cone machine was always a big hit.
Never I think we used it twice. God was it
hard to turn the ice in? There says you barely
got any snow conde.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And the thing's gonna break. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The crank wouldn't work because by the time you got
the third ice cube, the thing is the blazer bent.
And then you had the little die for like the
blue Raspberry. Now the dies all over the hands. It's like,
what a man? Wasn't that good? It melted quick. My
parents were really good to the year of Nintendo. Like
the scene from a Christmas Story with Ralphie and he
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wants the Red Rider everything, he didn't get it, and
then the dad at the end is like, hey, what's
that behind the desk? My dad did that with the Nintendo,
ripped through everything.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Steve no Nintendo, and my Dad's like, hey, what's that
behind the desk? And it was like the power.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Contr for life, up down, up, downside side.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Oh, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You know what, Kathy, My mother is a saint. My
dad is Clark, so is Steve. The whole thing, Paula, Kathy,
they all share this in comment. My mother to this
day's Bill does stockings. Davian's what a thankless thing this is.
She wraps every one of those little things and the
little chapstick and the amount of time I'm sure that
I don't even want to wrap the massive box.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And I'm like, I hate rapping. I hate it.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Does this so I have such I'm like this, I'm
a gift back, gift back gift. I mean, you're lucky
if have the ship is even in a gift bag
under the tree. I'm like, you know, me, it's not
Christmas yet. I'm like, here, I got you something not wrapped.
It's like I need to be better about that.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Anyways.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Kathy Thompson, the gift wrapping, the stalking stuff and then
the wrapping paper was always different from the gifts that
were from Santa because her wrapping paper had to be
color coordinated, color coordinated each year to the theme. She
really did it, and you know she really.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Did it.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
If it's going around or I'm just like it's you know,
a recency bias, whatever they call it. It's like Christmas
was magical because of what our parents did. And there
even me, my dam right, now you realize it it's
magical because of your parents.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, it's so true.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And you look back and you're like, oh my god,
all the effort and you just thought that that's like
what happened. But now as adults were like, no, none
of that shit happens if you don't have parents or
friends or family that make it that way.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I pulled my kids. This is why I love Christmas.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I do too, I pulled my first last night after
Mac took the plate of rice and beans in Caesadia
and flipped it upside his head. Santa's not coming this year,
so let's go take a shower. Because he's not coming.
There's no need to stay stay up and look at
the Christmas tree. Santa doesn't like kids that foot and again,
I apologize if I right, you know, ruining the allday
(08:38):
not thinking of others, But I was thinking of myself
and what. I don't want my kid to be a
crazy person. Any who, Nanny's okay, Chloe klink Klingeman.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Did you receive? Oh? And she's great too. Christina Lashbrook?
What are you?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
What are we getting our husbands who don't want nothing
but deserve who don't want nothing but deserve a gift?
You don't want anything but deserve a gift.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I don't know. I need help. You got any ideas?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Jared's good about basically sending the link. Hey, if your
dad's looking for anything, yea, here's this.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Hey? Oh yeah? Really his size too? Oh yeah? Way, thanks?
Jared's so thoughtful. I actually love that.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Steve is so hard to shop for because he doesn't
ask for anything. I I just I hope he doesn't
listen to this because I'm gonna just I just ordered him.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
He's been on.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
This real kick lately that he loves Macha. No, you don't, Steve.
You don't even know what Macha tea is? Okay either
macha if it bit me in the face. So here
he is. He does the you know, twelve dollars coffee
or order from Alfred's. Alfred's. Again, no offense to people
that love Alfred's. It's so expensive. You're really paying for
(09:55):
an experience over there. I used to think Starbucks will
really I have Ali Ben Oh, oh my god, it's
so pricey. I'm always like I just paid fifty ten
dollars for blueberry muffin.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You know again, get it.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Get your ass up, Grison and go to the store
and don't order this. Anyways, Steve loves Alfred's and he loves.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Me about it. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
He's like he's like he's like actually one of these
like secret hipster cool guys that like tries to pretend
like he's like just lunch pale, like you know, Dan
Campbell type. No, he's bougie. This guy, he's like, oh, matchup,
what are you talking about? He takes two SIPs and
then he doesn't drink the rest of it, and half
the time it's left on the counter. But again, it's
not my money. So I'm like, if you want to
(10:36):
spend your money on that, that's all you. I ordered
him because I'm trying to put together a basket of
stuff hold on.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Of This is such a side tangent.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I just got back from running errands and he goes, wait,
where are you And I'm like, I'm running errands.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
He goes, oh, no, what kind of errands? What are
you out there doing buying baskets?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And he's on to me because I always say I'm
going to buy a basket and I'm gonna put the
items in that I think he likes. This is a
long way of saying I bought him a shirt that
says I love Macha.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I love you so Macha, and.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
He's never gonna wear it, but it's just funny to me,
and so I'm like, I'm trying to think of all
the shit that he likes but doesn't ever like buy
for himself. The aside is the Mantra shirt. But he's
so hard to shop for I bought him one time,
like a trip to Jackson Hole to go snowboarding, because
he loves snowboarding, and then the whole time he complained
that he was there with his friend and not me,
(11:29):
because I was like, I'm not going snowboarding with you,
so you can take your friend.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
All I've got right now is a Mancha shirt. I
got nothing else. So I think you're winning. I think
you're winning the race here. I don't know, but I'm
gonna go to Macy's because they've got that Holiday gift Finder,
and they've got the Shopper, the Personal Shoppers. So I'm
going to put in some requests and say these are
the things that Steve likes. Help me find something, because
right now I am out of ideas. Clearly, it's as
easy as that jsm hare Christmas Eve or Chris Smith's Day.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh, it was a tough one. It's Telly. I like
them for different reasons.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Christmas Eve the anticipation of Christmas. My dad and I
would always watch We'd be the last ones up and
I'd be waiting for Santa, and He's like, we have
to go to bed before Santa comes down the chimney.
But I'm like, what we have to watch It's a
Wonderful Life. And that was our routine, our tradition. We'd
always watch It's a Wonderful Life. I wouldn't make it
past the first five minutes of the movie. I'd be asleep.
But yeah, same as what you do now, same as
(12:26):
what I do now, exactly. I just it's nothing has changed.
I just love the anticipation of Christmas. But then I
love Christmas Morning because it's like a presence. I don't
know what about you. I like Christmas Morning, but Christmas
Eve is all great. Yeah, No, it's my family.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
We really draw out.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Christmas for like days. We're not going to get the
chance to do it this year because we got it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
We're on a schedule. We got to keep it moving.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You see, nine oh two six, my brother in law
and his fiance are always one hour to Holidays. Starting
to piss me off. Help, I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Oh are they going to say late?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It probably just she probably means like late, because if
it's going to piss her off, I'm if they're an
hour early, then I mean good for them.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm going to assume it means late.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Okay, well, I don't really know how to help you
with this. I would just say, hey, guys, maybe book it.
Say you're going to start an hour earlier when you
really you know what I mean, kind of map it out, manipulated.
Say what do you need to be on time for?
I guess the meal?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I don't know. I'm afraid to say.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I think in this situation, you don't apparently want advice
for me. I think you need to just say to them, hey,
look it starts at ten. If you're going to show
up at eleven o'clock, we're going to take away a
present every hour you're late, So show up early or
so we're going to take some of these gifts away
because everyone else is making the effort to be here
on time. Why do you guys think you're special and
get to show up late?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Okay, well I don't want I don't want it to
piss you as up. And so I would definitely say
something to them, because again this goes back to it
sometimes we don't know when we're pissing people off, and
so we got to just say it and then allow
people the opportunity to respond to you.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
So Diana frees fancy rapping or just the presence wrap.
As we just mentioned, Diana, I hate rapping, but I
got to tell you you too, I so appreciate the
effort of wrapping. Like when I get a gift and
someone's actually wrapped it, I'm like, oh my god, thank
you so much. So I need to remember that it
makes me feel good to receive that because it all
goes back to effort that I will be better about that. Yes,
(14:30):
so fancy wrapping, not necessarily fancy rapping, just wrapping the present.
But man, I gotta tell you Kathy again, all roads
lead back to Kathy the effort she put forth every
single Christmas. My mom, Paul the same thing that Kathy goes, Okay,
this year we're doing only gold and silver, so I
(14:50):
had to have only gold and silver ornaments, only gold
and silver wrapping paper. Then one year it was only
green and everything was green ornaments, lights, one year was
only red. She was Yeah, she committed to the bit,
but I appreciated that.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
My mom's job is she was an art teacher.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
My mom is so creative, and I think I've spoken
about it on other shows we've had before. My mom's
bows are so beautiful that we even like save them
and we hot glue got them back onto the presence
because they're so gorgeous. They look like Bo's out of
Doctor Seuss's Who Will. They're so beautiful, you know what.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I love? I love that when you go to Macy's, Yeah,
they have I like in.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
So many things for wrapping because like they have like
all of the decorations and everything. Yeah, I love it
makes it so easy and it's gorgeous, totally.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
All right. Elder nine three two.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Fancy dressed, fancy dressed up for holidays or comfy holiday
theme clothes. In our house, we're very chill. We are
enjoying the day where you like that. Growing up, was
it always jammy time?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Really?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
We were cozy, cozy, night before, like whatever, things like this,
Griswold jerseys. His in the movie, of course, was a
black Hawks a sweater situation. This shout out to Michael Smith,
who I used to work with at ESPN. He got
me this a couple of years ago when we were
on Amazon together. Griswold jersey, which makes me so happy.
But yeah, night before, comfy, cozy, morning, cozy. But then
(16:30):
we always we'd start at my house and my mom
and dad's house in the morning. Then we'd go to
my grandma's house on my dad's side, and there we
were still like semi casual. But then nighttime at my
mom's house, we were tights matching dresses happy had sewed
for dinner.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Oh yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Was fancy fans And I remember I always got so
excited to pick out that my my mom would make
us all matching dresses until we got to a certain
age and then we got to buy some, probably from
Macy's of course, and so then we just like loved
dressing up and like we were so cute.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
And I remember it's like if.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
We had to be in the car at three o'clock
to go to grandma my mom's side, uh, it was
like and if you were late then it was a
real problem. Like and I was like flying into the car,
like with the tights in my hands, I hadn't to.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Put them on yet. Yeah sounds like that. Yep.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Also still happening, flying in the car and eating tights.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Q last week's Thursday Night game where I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Freezing and all I needed was pair, Like ten pairs
of tights should have went to Macy's. What do you got,
Laura Suki favorite Christmas movie? Sorry, I'm I'm walking all
over you. You know, no, no, we were walking on
broken glass. Annie Lennox, what a great song?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That is too.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Down?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
J girl, you really due me?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You Aaron needs to be not only on ninety nine
to be, but she needs to be on a show
where it's named that tune.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I mean, is that still.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Around because she's on a Fox? Oh my god, it is.
Why are you not hosting that? Because ninety all the tunes?
Fox doesn't know that it's not me yet? Well, I mean,
now's the time. If not now, when favorite Christmas movie
for me? Number one Christmas Vacation, as evidence again by
(18:35):
the jersey that's been referenced five times now at this point,
it is number one. If I had to power rank
top three Christmas movies, I'm going Christmas Vacation number one,
the Holiday number two and number three. Athlete back and
forth between nostalgic purposes of It's a Wonderful Life, but
then also comedy of four Christmases. Four Christmases is so
(18:56):
goddamn fine, it's fun. I can't even handle it. And
we watched it in March. So funny. We did watch
it in March, yes, yes, right after we had dinner,
which you thought crazy things were happening. But yeah, that's
my power rankings Top three movie touchdown. Yeah, mine or
the Your two are the same as mine. Christmas Vacation,
(19:18):
the Holiday. I love a Christmas story because it makes
me think of my parents, grinches right up there alone alone,
It's so good, family Stone. If you want to just
absolutely the whole time, No, I can't.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
For Christmas, God, Mistletoe, Mistile, Orlando. Stop it so good,
so good.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Jackson under Courtney Court.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
The jump jump. There's a jump jump there to jump
jump in the back.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I think christ and Jenny and funny and and funny
that my god, her booms around and she's like someone's Cassie.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
So good, JESU, what's lining there?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
You're upset about something and my husband totally made out
in the whole market man or something.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I don't know. It's so funny. I'm likeing it. You're no,
it's so impressive already.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I need to get more well versed in those lines
because the other movies were going on, all right, what
else you.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Got going on? Vince on his jose up and he's
like I said.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Woman club that baby, and people are like, whoa.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
It's so good. It's one of the funniest movies ever.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Do what I tell you what, Friendie that haven't seen
four Christmases, this is your PSA.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Don't walk run all right, Katie Hogan. Five white lights
are multi colored on the tree. This is where Aaron
and I have differing opinions.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Oh what do you got white only?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I'm not interested in those multi colors, but I understand
the appeal.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I understand that it's like it's colorful.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's all these things, because some could look at just
the white lights and be like those are boring. But
I like my trees to look like I'm at Macy's,
like they're just like picture perfect. You know, I have
white lights on our tree here and then in Martana,
I think we're having multi colored.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Oh I thought you had multi colored. No really outside
the house we do for mackiew Doodle do make it
look like candy Kanelane. You know that's cute. That's cute.
For some reason, I thought you were doing your tree
like that too. We're baby, oh yours is?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah? Man? Those and light that fur candle, you know
the one the Fraser fur I got your phone right now?
Is your fig?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, God, I love it. I love the smell. I
get it. I totally Hey shout out to Skip by
the way. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh, okay, good our incredible incredible ZP. I wish he's
so much more than a DP exactly. He sends us
every year a wreath. I just put my nap or
not so good?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
He is just Skip. I mean, what a dream.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah, so a wreath, real wreath, and then the fake trees.
It's like you have the aroma of the thing, but
not the needles every single all over the place.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
But I totally get why people have a real tree.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Don't get me wrong, it's just at this point, Yeah,
I got to do the whole like they all come out,
the lights are on, it all works. How dare you next?
VT Fire sixty two? Does your Christmas tree topper go
on first or last? When decorating the tree?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Last? Or whenever we find it? Oh? Where might it be?
I don't know. We lose our off all the time.
I did a really good job with the ribbon this year.
You did?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, tell me what'd you do? I just watched Instagram
and I got an idea. Usually I try to like
trail it along, but this time I went, yeah, what
does that mean?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Group? Like you? You like put it down like.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Puts on this way instead of going like this way,
like a cross going vertically. I did it horizontally. You
did not horizontally. To you for more in the studio, Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, okay, okay,
I'll send you a pick. I would love to see that.
Jarrett said it was the best one I've done. I
(23:39):
love that. I was thinking, as you were talking about
Paula's bows, my mom same thing the other Like a
couple of years ago, I had a wreath making party.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't know where you were.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You were busy working, because that's all you do during
the holidays. So I was making these bows, was making
these bows and I couldn't remember how my mom did
them because they were gorgeous, and so I had a
caller and FaceTime and like, remember exactly how she did it.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And it's great. Your husband's texting the fore top right now. Okay,
here we go. I told Steve. I told Steve I
have to write him all the time.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I said, hey, taping the podcast today, don't be walking
in in the middle like you do. And I think
you do that intentionally because you just want to like
pop in. He goes, Oh, please, I don't need I
don't need to be popping in on accident. I've been
on the podcast and the other day walking around a
community that's very close to you, and sweet Blanche shout
(24:31):
out to Blanche, who is hot by the way, she
stopped me and she was like, hey, big fan of
the podcast, and I was like, Blanche, I'm a big
fan of you, like you're gorgeous. And then she was
talking about a woman that I found in the streets
near where you live, and Steve and I were down
in the community and she shot me and said and
then I go, oh, this is Steve. She goes, I know,
the worst thing, Blanche you could say is that you
(24:53):
know Steve because he's on the podcast. So then the
whole goddamn ride home for forty five minutes, I had
to hear about how popular Steve is and everyone knows
about Steve from the Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Okay, Steve's so great and everybody wants to Steve. Steve.
We get it.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You're wonderful and you really are wonderful, but you are anyways, Blanche,
You're adorable and hot, and thank you for what you said,
she said, And I'm really sorry about your dog. I
can't take it. Also, Blanche, if you're single, I feel
like we have a lot of guys I could set
you up with. But if you're also in a great relationship,
good for you.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Dm us.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I was in a car shout out to Rachel Burkhart
and Sally Russo or our director's wife, and of course
Kevin burkhart better half, and they were talking about how
they love their male plus ones whenever they're all together
the best. This is the dream I've had in my
whole life. Lisa Grigorich her my old boss at Extra,
(25:51):
who I now consider like another mother to me. She
has this incredible husband who's like another father to me.
Gary is his name, and I would always say to always, Yeah,
it's a great name, very like stately Gary.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It's like a man, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Kirk Curve Street and Mike Trico and I call each other.
We could just call each other Gary. There's a long
story with it.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, we're on it. We've done ever.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
No way, Mike Trico and kirkhurb Street and you call
each other Gary's. That's so funny. Wait can you tell
the story like at another time?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Okay? Cool?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So anyways, for the Calm Down Podcast Extended version, please
pay twenty nine to ninety nine to get the stories.
And you can't get here. So I always said to Lisa,
I want a Gary. I was like in my life, like,
if I could have a Gary, I know, like, oh,
I would be the happiest person. So I found a
Steve and who was it the other day? Said to me,
(26:45):
I can't shoot, it's escaping me. They're like, I want
to Steve, Like I need to find a Steve. And
I was like, I know, and now I think I
know who said that?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Who? Who did you go to lunch with the other day?
Didn't say that, but but it was like along those lines.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Anyways, Oh no, it was Jessica Toll, sweet Jessica Toll
yesterday at work? What hair that ciras do everything for
us at Fox. They are truly, like, oh my god,
I just love those women so much, just the best.
Truly if I had I never had a younger sister.
But I'm like I want them. And this might sound weird,
(27:20):
I'm like, they're like my younger sisters. I just like
adore them. So Jessica said to me. Jess said to
me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
She was like, I need a Steve And I was like,
oh what a full circle moment. Anyways, So and I
need you.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I need your hair exactly. Jessica, toll Adore and Kira
both great hair. These gals ridiculous, all right? Running next running.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
See cam?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
God, why am I so bad at reading names? How
do you read this one? This should actually be like
a psychology test of like what do you see when
you look at that C C anna d Y twelve?
Or is it CC and A d Y twelve?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Okay? Are you still?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Are you all like me and collect new gift bags
from everyone and reuse next year?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You're damn right. I do CC and A d Y twelve.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
And I'm hoping that they did nobody wrote on the
little tag because then I can use the tag.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
But if they wrote on the tag, then I have
to rip it off.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
And I'm like, I hope no one, you know, remembers
that this was the bag they might have given me.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
But that's recycling.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I think that's I think that's actually very environmentally sound
lain to be recycling. Why are we just throwing them
out and getting a new bag every time?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah? No, I absolutely reuse, Yeah I do.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
It just depends on what kind of shape the bag is.
My family's big on reusing for each other, and we
always get a big hoot out of it. So and
then we get a hoot a hoot and a handbag
we get a hoot out of, like rubbing off the name,
and then a gift bag.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Three Andrea Vibe. Do you have a favorite ornament? If so,
why is it so special to you?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
We have.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
We have a lot of fun ones that I've gotten
actually from Hallmark Disney ones that mean a lot. Max
to the age now where he's pressing them all and
he thinks they're so cute. Somebody got his one from
a company last year where it's Max face but the
whole to put the like hangar, it's like he's got
a hole in his head, so we're like the holes
in his head.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I like, I almost took a picture of it and
sent it to h our friend tex Chain where it's
Alexis from She's because she's just like this and Uh, yeah,
I want to carry that one.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
What a gal got to meet her with? Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
And I told her, I said, I have like two
Christmas ornaments with your face on him.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Weird, not weird. I don't think that's weird.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
She probably likes it. She's probably someone that like was
cool about it. She doesn't seem like she's great.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Also was like three tikilas in when I told her.
But yeah, obviously I don't have I have no ornaments
of sentimental value. I gotta be honest.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I'm not that person with any that like sentimental ornaments whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I like all my.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Ornaments to be again, like look like they're out of
from a department store.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So they're all this.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
They're not all the same, but they just like don't
have any differentiation in terms of like there's like a
silver ball, a gold ball, you know, different things like that.
My dad did buy me one when we were at
Tavern on the Green we had it was our first
Black Friday game, So I did.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I do have that.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
But my dad will appreciate this because it's again the
way that I was raised with the cemetery of the tree.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I have it. I just have it on the back
of the tree.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
So you can't see it. So I still put it up.
It's just not front and center to you know, mess
up the fung shue of the old tree and whatnot. Okay,
but yeah, Christmas, I just you know that the in
summary of all these wonderful questions, thank you guys for these.
By the way, I just think, oh we do, Oh
my god. C Well, I was hoping it wasn't the
(30:59):
end we got.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Okay, Jeremy castperson, how many unspent gift cards do you
currently have? God?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I currently have five? That's what the person said, so right,
because you.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
What you you? I got to I'm not going to
answer this question. I will. I will.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I will because I won't be able to answer it
on Christmas because I'll be working. So I'll answer it
now and say that I have I'm sure a plethora
of gift cards over the years that have found their
way into some random corner or whatever of a purse
or a cabinet. Do they expire? That's what I want
(31:41):
to know. They've got to expire to check out the
shainy days.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
It's void.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't think they do. Okay, Well, I hope not.
I mean I don't know at this point what where
or if I do. I'm just assuming because sometimes random
things end up in this house. But yeah, not, I
don't have a tally in my head. But I got
to be better about that. I should put them like
in a little like container or something, because in my wallet,
my wallet's so like I only have like a I
(32:06):
only have like like my license and.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Two cards in there, like a little low profile wallet.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
So then it's like when you you know, what happens
to me when I get to the store and I'm like,
damn it.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I have a gift card from the store, but I
don't have it with me. You know what I mind? Now,
I'm not going to get into it. Okay, okay, Well, anyways.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
We hope, we hope that you guys have a wonderful holiday.
And remember if you can't think of gift good gift
ideas and you're stumped, go to Macy's. They have everything
you need and most importantly, they've got great customer service.
People of Macy's always very friendly.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
You know. I love that.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
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