December 9, 2025 • 19 mins
On an early-morning Pregame edition of the Calm Down podcast, the holiday season is making Erin and Charissa feel nostalgic about being with family for the holidays.
They talk about their favorite Christmas treats after a fan suggests the peppermint martini and Charissa crowns eggnog as the champ. Erin goes nonalcoholic with a surprising and classically simple answer that sparks her to drop a hint to her mom and sister for a holiday sweet treat that's sure to be a hit!
They also talk about fangirling over stadiums and some of the greatest players of all time, how to deal with an emotionally unavailable man, how to share stuff with a partner when you are not married and why watching The Little Mermaid is okay at any age. Plus, we finally get an answer on the age-old turkey or ham debate.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Last night we did a Christmas light stroll at like
five point thirty and we were trying to look at
the lights and he was.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Like, oh ho ho ho ho, and then grinched.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Geep.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, it's cute. Makish moshmish. Calm Down with Erin and
Chrissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Welcome to the early edition of the pregame Aaron's and
her jammies because I'm making her do this at seven
thirty in the morning before we leave to go to
Thursday night football on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Look at how cute those shout out to Brittany.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, CHRISA has a pair of two Brittany mahomes got
us a pair of these.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Look at the little naves on.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's such a nice gift, so nice. And that cozy
Earth pajamas is the softest, not an ad, but does
it need to be?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Those are cozy cozy?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I love these? Anonymous.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Should I leave this man I have been dating for
a year because he's emotionally unavailable.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yes, yeah, year, it's been a year.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, if it's been a month, we can kind of say, like,
all right, let's give it a second. Maybe we're easing
into these things a year. Then a year is going
to turn into two years, and it's gonna turn into
three years, and then you're gonna go, what am I
doing with my life?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So and define emotionally.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Unavailable like he's just right, No back, I need more
information because I feel like, I mean, the answer is yes,
we need to leave him, but I would like to
get a little bit more just out of curiosity what
that actually means.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, hit us back, let us know what it is.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Anonymous you know the one, Okay, Gina giver kin yep,
I butchered that. After all of them, after all of
them amazing folks, you have talked with, who do you
fan girl over?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So after all the amazing guys we have worked and
interviewed with, who.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Do we fan fan girl over?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I fan girl over a lot of people just because
I love sports so much. And Chrissa was on the
end of a lot of text messages this week.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Listen, I'll say it getting and I'm not complaining. I
love my job.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I don't want to be doing anything else. I understand
people have it harder than me.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Disclaimer disc disclaimer disclaimer.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, lat lat lat Latin know who you are. It
is so hey, it's so hard. It's a truck, it's
a track yep to get.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
To Green Bay. Now I've got a callund stuff. It
is you. How are you feeling?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
God, I just got it over it well later again disclaimer.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
People have it hard.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's a truck to get there all the way from California.
But once you were there, you it is so awesome.
It is so majestic. It's like it's history. It's it's
football royalty. Yeah, so I fangirl over stadiums as well.
Let's see do you still fangirl over got Yeah? The
great quarterbacks? Yeah, you've interviewed like this. You know what
(02:59):
I'm gonna say, this is kind of cool. We have
Matthew this week. I know you have him on Thursday.
Matthew Stafford. Yes he's a friend. But I'm going to
say this. Tom Brady in our film sessions with him,
goes over what he does, right, what he likes as
a quarterback. Just watching Matthew Stafford this year, he's in
our backyard with the Rams. I have him this weekend,
you have him coming up on Thursday. This is special
(03:21):
what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I'm fangirling over this in year seventeen with how old
he is?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
MVP, Hi, Steve, this is cool, like this is really
really cool.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Well, Matthew needs to Matthew needs to call her friend
because Steve is in trouble with.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Me right now?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Hey, yeah, well all he asked him to do is
make the bed in the morning. This guy never makes
the event. I love him, so he did really at
first started He's emotionally unavailable from making the bed, is
what's going on? I know. I just made him go
to CBS to pick up these pictures, because what do
people want for Christmas? They want pictures. Anyways, this is
a whole tangent. I'll save it for the big show.
So why he's walking in the back of this shot
(03:58):
right now? He's striked too this morning not even eight
o'clock yet. Okay, back to who we fan girl over? Yeah,
I think it's always a privilege and it is a
luxury to be able to steam. If you don't think
get down here, No.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You just walk outside and now you're walking up this
what's happening? What do what do I mean? Do you
think that you're just gonna walk up and I'm not
gonna hear you but I already made the bed.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, Steve Aaron's waving Okay, hi daddy. Anyways, it's a
to cover any of these any of these teams, these players,
we know that it's you know, for some of these guys,
it's like, yeah, they could be in year seventeen, but
also you know, running back shelf life. They unfortunately just
(04:51):
the way that they have to play like isn't as long.
So yeah, I mean, whether it's sakuon Barkley, whether it's
when I was doing the Dallas game, like I'm so
happy for Dak and granted like that that game didn't
turn out the way they wanted to, but he was
playing at an MVP level.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Uh walking watching Jerry Jones walk.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Behind us, Like, I don't know, I just feel like
there's there's a plethora of people for different reasons where
I don't it's not necessarily a fangirl thing. It's just
out of like it's more of a like admiration and
respect for what it is they do playing at a
high level and for the amount of years because this
is the NFL. As far as like fan yeah, it's
(05:28):
fan growing.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I mean, I still feel like there's you to have
it different because you're friends with him and he's on
your crew. I mean there's still like the Tom Brady's,
the Derek Cheaters, Like there's those people that are just
like sports where it's like no matter how many times
you meet them or like know them, you're just still
like you're still fucking awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So it's funny with TV, Like, you know, now it's yeah,
I realize. I'll say that to people, Oh we were
just talking to her, I'm just texting TV or and they're.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Like, oh, casual, and it is for you, not blend.
I didn't know he's great. I didn't blend.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I tried to do a contour at seven am because
it looked like crap, what happened anyways. Yeah, so now
it's like, you know, and and and what's so great
about our crew is we just like rip each other
in a fun like brother sister way, and nobody's off limits,
which is great, and he he loves it because he
(06:24):
does it too, and it's a good time. Yeah, but
then you realize and you remember and you're reminded you're
with the goat when.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
We go on the field.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Although he didn't go on the field this year and
we'll talk about it a big show.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Someone who was a little cold. So you go out
on the.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Field and all the players come up to him, or
we're on the phone and we do these zooms and
he gives a player a compliment and you can just
see their face light up and he's They're like, Tom,
thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Or when we get on the phone and these coaches
are just so excited to get knowledge, and You're.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Like, we're working with the goat, Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I know it's really I know it is very cool,
and I never take that for granted, especially like when
we're at Fox.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And when those baseball boys and stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Like it's like we always do that one team picture,
like you and I always have that moment where we're like,
we are amongst the best here.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So it's very cool.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Next cast g seventeen favorite Christmas treat mine is peppermint Martini.
I've never had a peppermint Martine. That's seventeen. You have
everything I do. I am the Baskin Robbins of Martini flavors.
I will try one of everything, even at one sitting.
As you have said before this South, I have never
(07:42):
had a peppermint martini. I love an eggnog. I do
I know, I know you can't do.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It it following for the last twenty four hours, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
What is this flackus? That no idea?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I woke up on Monday morning, you know, five point
thirty to get the flight, and I'm like, my right
nostril is clogged? Why is my right nostril clogged? It
was clogged all Thanksgiving? How is this back?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Now? We're back. We're back, and I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
We'll talk about it on the big show that game.
I was so cozy, warm, and all day yesterday I
couldn't get warm, and I'm like, what's going on? AnyWho?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
That's what a berry shreadmill won't fixed.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
My girls just so good at that. So yeah, favorite
mine's eggnog is a seasonal what's yours? Or a hot
Toddy Hot Toddies?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I know it's naughty right now, whiskey.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh I love one right now? Yeah, fresh ones.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's good with the cinnamon little stick and the little
orange slice in it. I love the if we're not
talking alcohol, which I know that's weird for us. I
like the little peanut butter cookie with the melted Hershey
kiss on top.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Those are cookies.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Well it says favorite Christmas tree. Oh but it doesn't
say drink. Oh it doesn't. Oh okay, that's fair. I
was just thinking like like a cocktail.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
But I love those those. Look, I'm like, where did
we just go here? Those are so good? My mom
makes those.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
My mom and my grandma always used to miss My
grandma always used to make, like spend two days making
Christmas cookies and it was all the kinds.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And I would always take the Hershey kiss out. My
Mom's like, leave those in there.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
They need to set because you put them man when
they're still a little bit warm, so that they stay.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yes, this.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I love those with the coconuts, the walnuts, the creamy
whatever that is ram cracker crumb.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I came home. Max dol had made sugar cookies with
a lot of sprinkles on. Really good. Oh my god,
Max making cookies. How about me? Whatever? Door dashing cookies? Yesterday?
I like singing, I got there's Oh my god, this
is from here. No, They're like, no, they weren't open
this brand. Whatever this is is so good. Brady's Bakery.
(09:56):
Have you ever had these?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
No, Tom Brady has a bakery. Now, yeah, why doesn't
this guy have Brady's Bakery. This cookie is called the
OMFG Cookie. Where'd you get it from? It was just
on door dash and it was They're excellent.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But yeah, I was craving cookies.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I miss like being home, like I know, you know,
me and I don't live by our parents, and I
just miss that, Like, you know, I'm so jealous. There's
a guy we work with, Lonnie on Sundays, and he
has a family meal every Sunday.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
He goes over to his mom's house.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And it's like a home cooked meal, and like, I
just have forgotten, like how long we've lived away from
our parents, like since we were eighteen. And I'm like,
oh my god, I like would love that to be
able to go over to my parents' house and just
like my mom wouldn't have a home cook meal, my
dad would make the meal. Kathy would be providing the
entertainment and cocky but anyways, yeah that I don't like
(10:48):
nostalgic and miss my family me too.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I don't mean I miss my girlfriend Jackie Quick.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
She used to do that all the time with her kids,
and so I would just go over there and be
her fourth child.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
But I we're.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Going to get together as a family, and I have
to be in and out because I'm going, you know,
to work Chicago Packers part do Jesus. We'll get to
that on the big show. But I'm kind of dropping
hints for my mom and sisters. So if you guys
want to bake cookies while I'm gone, let me know.
I'll get you the ingredients.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
You know, that's very cute. I'm jealous.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I'm not going to be in that living room too,
I know.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Next.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Okay, Anonymous not married but happily partnered with a great man,
and we have no intention.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
To marry Steve.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
He's been divorced. I have had bad relationships. We live together,
but pay for everything separate. What's the best advice you
have or have received about sharing assets or expenses with
your partner when you're not legally married.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh this is me?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Did I write this? It is Anonymous? Maybe I wrote this.
My advice is given my experience. Again, everything is coming
from my own purview, But I believe in keeping everything
separate because as much as you think, like, oh it's forever,
it's not always forever.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And then it gets messy.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
So even when I was married, I never shared like
the houses, all that stuff with mine, and so it
made it easier with a prenup and bye bye. The
advice that I would give is keep everything separate, but
I would get one joint bank account for things like
Steve and I have one for if we want to
(12:33):
go on vacation or if we want to I don't know,
like just do something where it's like collective or like
we're saving up for a house that we could buy together,
so it's our So I think that there is a
lot of value in having a joint saving a savings
account together so you can feel like you're building a
future without having the paperwork that supports like, oh, we're
married or whatever. Which, by the way, I need to
(12:55):
look into this after like being together for like ten
years or something. Aren't you legally like there's like some
legal ramifications. I think so right, like because I know
it's almost.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Like a.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm kidding if you don't know, if he doesn't, if
you don't make that bed, you are you're making your
own bed, or actually, you know what, it won't matter.
You can have your own bed and you cannot make
it every single day. Yeah, so I think that there's
definitely there's value in having a joint bank account together
because it shows that you're building something, but yet you
don't have the stress of like all the assets have
(13:29):
been merged. Did I help answer that question best advice
receiver sharing assets?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I thought it was great.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
The other thing too, I will say this, Steve helps
me pay my mortgage here, and then also he pays
the lake house mortgage, and it makes me feel because like, yeah,
it's not technically like his house, but like he pays
for it all, and like there's so much with my
PTSD and not having partners that financially contributed it was
(13:57):
it's so comfort to know that, like he's invested in
our future, even technically if his name's not on something.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And that also just shows a lot of trust.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So I'm not sure what assets you guys have together, Anonymous,
but I think your willingness to help him on stuff
and his willingness to help you just as a sign
of trust and obviously like respect for one another, because
you know, these are the conversations you don't want to have,
right They always say, don't want to talk about sex
or or sex or money in relationships. But it's the
reality that if you are going to be together, these
(14:26):
are the tough conversations you're going to have, and the
more communicative and the more open you are, because I
think I've had situations where it's like you get resentful
if you aren't like open and honest with that, be
like hey, I need you to help me with this
or I need you to do this, and it's like,
once you have that conversation, I think it's very healthy
for the relationship. So open, honest communication, joint savings account
(14:46):
and help each other where you can. A great synopsis. Yeah,
look how far you've come. I know, well, you know
you got to go through all the bad ones.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Even if he doesn't make the bed, he's still great.
He's great.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He used to I remember when you first started dating,
and you're like, listen, I know this is stupid, but
this guy makes the bed.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Every fucking day.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
You would wowkeeper, I know, all right, h plam three
d I turkey or ham. I'm assuming this is for
Christmas dinner. I love it both really to get a
honey bagd haam and we would get a turkey.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I ever did the ham thing?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I mean like like, like, I know my grandma, she
would always both they would make a ham option, but no,
I was always turkey. Oh we also did a prime rib,
but real like let's get into the stick situation, you know,
a little red meat.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I remember it come my uncle.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
My mom has three brothers and my dad has three brothers,
a lot of brothers, and they always loved a rare
prime rib. And I remember like as a kid, you
see oh, like what like a blood? I was like,
this is I really drink? I'm a vegetarian when I
think about all the animals that I have, and it's
like even when I ordered chicken, I'm like, oh, I've
feel like I shouldn't be eating the chicken because I
(16:01):
have chickens. It's weird. Maybe I'll become a vegetarian after
the holidays. Turkey is my vote. Monica E. Smith's favorite
animated movie, Oh, Cinderella. I think it's always got to
be my like any Disney movie, but like the old
school classics where it's Cinderella snow white.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Ariel, I love me a little Mermaid.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I'm so jealous that like you have a baby, and
like you can watch these again and not be weird.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Whatef like steam comes on. I'm just watching The Little
Mermaid by myself. That's okay? Is it okay?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
We watched last night Matt key Stole and I while
Jarrett was watching the King's game, and I was it
was halftime or I don't know, maybe I was pausing
the Eagles game. We watched the old old school Frosty
the Snowman. I think it was like from the fifties
or sixties. He's it was twenty five minutes. He sat
there the whole time.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It was really cute. I kept looking over. I'm like
you good, and he's like, yeah, yeah, he loved it.
He loved it. Was really sweet. Oh cute. I love
that in the old Rudolph. Yeah, that was part of it,
right where he was.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That's cool getting to see all this new stuff for him.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, it's really cute.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Does he understand like the Christmas tree and stuff like that,
Like what do you like? You're just like it's Christmas
and he's like, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
We're still saying aga is Halloween, which we don't understand
where we got that from. Ah ha ha ha ha,
I don't know ag is Halloween? And we keep saying
I got I got and.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
We're like no, and then it's like, oh lad a
Christmas light stroll at like five point thirty and we
were trying to look at the lights and he was
like oh ho ho and then grinted geech.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
So he knows some of it.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I don't think he knows what the hell's going on,
but but he just yeah, than cute, mohish oh, oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I can't wait to tell you. Well, normally I just
tell you because I can't keep anything a secret. I
got some of Max Pressent yesterday. I'm so excited to
show you. Oh boy everything. That's a new car everybody. Yeah, No,
I won't like load you up with any more shit.
That's the thing too. If I had a kid, I
would say to my friend, hey, enough of this CHATCHKEI
knickknack shit, because it's like it just ends up piling
(18:13):
up and they don't need all these toys. They don't
need all this stuff, and then it feels gluttonous. You're like, hey,
can we make some donations here? We don't need to
have seventy five of the same toy and then where
we need.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
To do a good weed out.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, all right, that's the pregame, folks, thank you for
joining us. See on the big Show, we got to
talk about the big matchups we had this week. Aaron
had a banger in the NFC Northanger. I had Cowboys Lions,
and then we're off. We are off and running and
it's week fifteen. Now, Oh no, is it fifteen fourteen?
I don't even know what it's fifteen fifteen.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
There we go. I am sixteen going on seventeen.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Li Up.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
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Speaker 3 (18:55):
For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
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Speaker 1 (19:06):
Mm hmm
Last night we did a Christmas light stroll at like
five point thirty and we were trying to look at
the lights and he was.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Like, oh ho ho ho ho, and then grinched.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Geep.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, it's cute. Makish moshmish. Calm Down with Erin and
Chrissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Welcome to the early edition of the pregame Aaron's and
her jammies because I'm making her do this at seven
thirty in the morning before we leave to go to
Thursday night football on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Look at how cute those shout out to Brittany.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, CHRISA has a pair of two Brittany mahomes got
us a pair of these.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Look at the little naves on.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's such a nice gift, so nice. And that cozy
Earth pajamas is the softest, not an ad, but does
it need to be?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Those are cozy cozy?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I love these? Anonymous.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Should I leave this man I have been dating for
a year because he's emotionally unavailable.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yes, yeah, year, it's been a year.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, if it's been a month, we can kind of say, like,
all right, let's give it a second. Maybe we're easing
into these things a year. Then a year is going
to turn into two years, and it's gonna turn into
three years, and then you're gonna go, what am I
doing with my life?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So and define emotionally.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Unavailable like he's just right, No back, I need more
information because I feel like, I mean, the answer is yes,
we need to leave him, but I would like to
get a little bit more just out of curiosity what
that actually means.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, hit us back, let us know what it is.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Anonymous you know the one, Okay, Gina giver kin yep,
I butchered that. After all of them, after all of
them amazing folks, you have talked with, who do you
fan girl over?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So after all the amazing guys we have worked and
interviewed with, who.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Do we fan fan girl over?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I fan girl over a lot of people just because
I love sports so much. And Chrissa was on the
end of a lot of text messages this week.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Listen, I'll say it getting and I'm not complaining. I
love my job.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I don't want to be doing anything else. I understand
people have it harder than me.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Disclaimer disc disclaimer disclaimer.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, lat lat lat Latin know who you are. It
is so hey, it's so hard. It's a truck, it's
a track yep to get.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
To Green Bay. Now I've got a callund stuff. It
is you. How are you feeling?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
God, I just got it over it well later again disclaimer.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
People have it hard.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's a truck to get there all the way from California.
But once you were there, you it is so awesome.
It is so majestic. It's like it's history. It's it's
football royalty. Yeah, so I fangirl over stadiums as well.
Let's see do you still fangirl over got Yeah? The
great quarterbacks? Yeah, you've interviewed like this. You know what
(02:59):
I'm gonna say, this is kind of cool. We have
Matthew this week. I know you have him on Thursday.
Matthew Stafford. Yes he's a friend. But I'm going to
say this. Tom Brady in our film sessions with him,
goes over what he does, right, what he likes as
a quarterback. Just watching Matthew Stafford this year, he's in
our backyard with the Rams. I have him this weekend,
you have him coming up on Thursday. This is special
(03:21):
what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I'm fangirling over this in year seventeen with how old
he is?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
MVP, Hi, Steve, this is cool, like this is really
really cool.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Well, Matthew needs to Matthew needs to call her friend
because Steve is in trouble with.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Me right now?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Hey, yeah, well all he asked him to do is
make the bed in the morning. This guy never makes
the event. I love him, so he did really at
first started He's emotionally unavailable from making the bed, is
what's going on? I know. I just made him go
to CBS to pick up these pictures, because what do
people want for Christmas? They want pictures. Anyways, this is
a whole tangent. I'll save it for the big show.
So why he's walking in the back of this shot
(03:58):
right now? He's striked too this morning not even eight
o'clock yet. Okay, back to who we fan girl over? Yeah,
I think it's always a privilege and it is a
luxury to be able to steam. If you don't think
get down here, No.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You just walk outside and now you're walking up this
what's happening? What do what do I mean? Do you
think that you're just gonna walk up and I'm not
gonna hear you but I already made the bed.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, Steve Aaron's waving Okay, hi daddy. Anyways, it's a
to cover any of these any of these teams, these players,
we know that it's you know, for some of these guys,
it's like, yeah, they could be in year seventeen, but
also you know, running back shelf life. They unfortunately just
(04:51):
the way that they have to play like isn't as long.
So yeah, I mean, whether it's sakuon Barkley, whether it's
when I was doing the Dallas game, like I'm so
happy for Dak and granted like that that game didn't
turn out the way they wanted to, but he was
playing at an MVP level.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Uh walking watching Jerry Jones walk.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Behind us, Like, I don't know, I just feel like
there's there's a plethora of people for different reasons where
I don't it's not necessarily a fangirl thing. It's just
out of like it's more of a like admiration and
respect for what it is they do playing at a
high level and for the amount of years because this
is the NFL. As far as like fan yeah, it's
(05:28):
fan growing.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I mean, I still feel like there's you to have
it different because you're friends with him and he's on
your crew. I mean there's still like the Tom Brady's,
the Derek Cheaters, Like there's those people that are just
like sports where it's like no matter how many times
you meet them or like know them, you're just still
like you're still fucking awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So it's funny with TV, Like, you know, now it's yeah,
I realize. I'll say that to people, Oh we were
just talking to her, I'm just texting TV or and they're.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Like, oh, casual, and it is for you, not blend.
I didn't know he's great. I didn't blend.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I tried to do a contour at seven am because
it looked like crap, what happened anyways. Yeah, so now
it's like, you know, and and and what's so great
about our crew is we just like rip each other
in a fun like brother sister way, and nobody's off limits,
which is great, and he he loves it because he
(06:24):
does it too, and it's a good time. Yeah, but
then you realize and you remember and you're reminded you're
with the goat when.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
We go on the field.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Although he didn't go on the field this year and
we'll talk about it a big show.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Someone who was a little cold. So you go out
on the.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Field and all the players come up to him, or
we're on the phone and we do these zooms and
he gives a player a compliment and you can just
see their face light up and he's They're like, Tom,
thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Or when we get on the phone and these coaches
are just so excited to get knowledge, and You're.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Like, we're working with the goat, Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I know it's really I know it is very cool,
and I never take that for granted, especially like when
we're at Fox.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And when those baseball boys and stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Like it's like we always do that one team picture,
like you and I always have that moment where we're like,
we are amongst the best here.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So it's very cool.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Next cast g seventeen favorite Christmas treat mine is peppermint Martini.
I've never had a peppermint Martine. That's seventeen. You have
everything I do. I am the Baskin Robbins of Martini flavors.
I will try one of everything, even at one sitting.
As you have said before this South, I have never
(07:42):
had a peppermint martini. I love an eggnog. I do
I know, I know you can't do.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It it following for the last twenty four hours, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
What is this flackus? That no idea?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I woke up on Monday morning, you know, five point
thirty to get the flight, and I'm like, my right
nostril is clogged? Why is my right nostril clogged? It
was clogged all Thanksgiving? How is this back?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Now? We're back. We're back, and I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
We'll talk about it on the big show that game.
I was so cozy, warm, and all day yesterday I
couldn't get warm, and I'm like, what's going on? AnyWho?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
That's what a berry shreadmill won't fixed.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
My girls just so good at that. So yeah, favorite
mine's eggnog is a seasonal what's yours? Or a hot
Toddy Hot Toddies?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I know it's naughty right now, whiskey.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh I love one right now? Yeah, fresh ones.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's good with the cinnamon little stick and the little
orange slice in it. I love the if we're not
talking alcohol, which I know that's weird for us. I
like the little peanut butter cookie with the melted Hershey
kiss on top.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Those are cookies.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Well it says favorite Christmas tree. Oh but it doesn't
say drink. Oh it doesn't. Oh okay, that's fair. I
was just thinking like like a cocktail.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
But I love those those. Look, I'm like, where did
we just go here? Those are so good? My mom
makes those.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
My mom and my grandma always used to miss My
grandma always used to make, like spend two days making
Christmas cookies and it was all the kinds.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And I would always take the Hershey kiss out. My
Mom's like, leave those in there.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
They need to set because you put them man when
they're still a little bit warm, so that they stay.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yes, this.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I love those with the coconuts, the walnuts, the creamy
whatever that is ram cracker crumb.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I came home. Max dol had made sugar cookies with
a lot of sprinkles on. Really good. Oh my god,
Max making cookies. How about me? Whatever? Door dashing cookies? Yesterday?
I like singing, I got there's Oh my god, this
is from here. No, They're like, no, they weren't open
this brand. Whatever this is is so good. Brady's Bakery.
(09:56):
Have you ever had these?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
No, Tom Brady has a bakery. Now, yeah, why doesn't
this guy have Brady's Bakery. This cookie is called the
OMFG Cookie. Where'd you get it from? It was just
on door dash and it was They're excellent.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But yeah, I was craving cookies.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I miss like being home, like I know, you know,
me and I don't live by our parents, and I
just miss that, Like, you know, I'm so jealous. There's
a guy we work with, Lonnie on Sundays, and he
has a family meal every Sunday.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
He goes over to his mom's house.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And it's like a home cooked meal, and like, I
just have forgotten, like how long we've lived away from
our parents, like since we were eighteen. And I'm like,
oh my god, I like would love that to be
able to go over to my parents' house and just
like my mom wouldn't have a home cook meal, my
dad would make the meal. Kathy would be providing the
entertainment and cocky but anyways, yeah that I don't like
(10:48):
nostalgic and miss my family me too.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I don't mean I miss my girlfriend Jackie Quick.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
She used to do that all the time with her kids,
and so I would just go over there and be
her fourth child.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
But I we're.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Going to get together as a family, and I have
to be in and out because I'm going, you know,
to work Chicago Packers part do Jesus. We'll get to
that on the big show. But I'm kind of dropping
hints for my mom and sisters. So if you guys
want to bake cookies while I'm gone, let me know.
I'll get you the ingredients.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
You know, that's very cute. I'm jealous.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I'm not going to be in that living room too,
I know.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Next.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Okay, Anonymous not married but happily partnered with a great man,
and we have no intention.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
To marry Steve.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
He's been divorced. I have had bad relationships. We live together,
but pay for everything separate. What's the best advice you
have or have received about sharing assets or expenses with
your partner when you're not legally married.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh this is me?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Did I write this? It is Anonymous? Maybe I wrote this.
My advice is given my experience. Again, everything is coming
from my own purview, But I believe in keeping everything
separate because as much as you think, like, oh it's forever,
it's not always forever.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And then it gets messy.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
So even when I was married, I never shared like
the houses, all that stuff with mine, and so it
made it easier with a prenup and bye bye. The
advice that I would give is keep everything separate, but
I would get one joint bank account for things like
Steve and I have one for if we want to
(12:33):
go on vacation or if we want to I don't know,
like just do something where it's like collective or like
we're saving up for a house that we could buy together,
so it's our So I think that there is a
lot of value in having a joint saving a savings
account together so you can feel like you're building a
future without having the paperwork that supports like, oh, we're
married or whatever. Which, by the way, I need to
(12:55):
look into this after like being together for like ten
years or something. Aren't you legally like there's like some
legal ramifications. I think so right, like because I know
it's almost.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Like a.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm kidding if you don't know, if he doesn't, if
you don't make that bed, you are you're making your
own bed, or actually, you know what, it won't matter.
You can have your own bed and you cannot make
it every single day. Yeah, so I think that there's
definitely there's value in having a joint bank account together
because it shows that you're building something, but yet you
don't have the stress of like all the assets have
(13:29):
been merged. Did I help answer that question best advice
receiver sharing assets?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I thought it was great.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
The other thing too, I will say this, Steve helps
me pay my mortgage here, and then also he pays
the lake house mortgage, and it makes me feel because like, yeah,
it's not technically like his house, but like he pays
for it all, and like there's so much with my
PTSD and not having partners that financially contributed it was
(13:57):
it's so comfort to know that, like he's invested in
our future, even technically if his name's not on something.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And that also just shows a lot of trust.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So I'm not sure what assets you guys have together, Anonymous,
but I think your willingness to help him on stuff
and his willingness to help you just as a sign
of trust and obviously like respect for one another, because
you know, these are the conversations you don't want to have,
right They always say, don't want to talk about sex
or or sex or money in relationships. But it's the
reality that if you are going to be together, these
(14:26):
are the tough conversations you're going to have, and the
more communicative and the more open you are, because I
think I've had situations where it's like you get resentful
if you aren't like open and honest with that, be
like hey, I need you to help me with this
or I need you to do this, and it's like,
once you have that conversation, I think it's very healthy
for the relationship. So open, honest communication, joint savings account
(14:46):
and help each other where you can. A great synopsis. Yeah,
look how far you've come. I know, well, you know
you got to go through all the bad ones.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Even if he doesn't make the bed, he's still great.
He's great.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He used to I remember when you first started dating,
and you're like, listen, I know this is stupid, but
this guy makes the bed.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Every fucking day.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
You would wowkeeper, I know, all right, h plam three
d I turkey or ham. I'm assuming this is for
Christmas dinner. I love it both really to get a
honey bagd haam and we would get a turkey.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I ever did the ham thing?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I mean like like, like, I know my grandma, she
would always both they would make a ham option, but no,
I was always turkey. Oh we also did a prime rib,
but real like let's get into the stick situation, you know,
a little red meat.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I remember it come my uncle.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
My mom has three brothers and my dad has three brothers,
a lot of brothers, and they always loved a rare
prime rib. And I remember like as a kid, you
see oh, like what like a blood? I was like,
this is I really drink? I'm a vegetarian when I
think about all the animals that I have, and it's
like even when I ordered chicken, I'm like, oh, I've
feel like I shouldn't be eating the chicken because I
(16:01):
have chickens. It's weird. Maybe I'll become a vegetarian after
the holidays. Turkey is my vote. Monica E. Smith's favorite
animated movie, Oh, Cinderella. I think it's always got to
be my like any Disney movie, but like the old
school classics where it's Cinderella snow white.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Ariel, I love me a little Mermaid.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I'm so jealous that like you have a baby, and
like you can watch these again and not be weird.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Whatef like steam comes on. I'm just watching The Little
Mermaid by myself. That's okay? Is it okay?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
We watched last night Matt key Stole and I while
Jarrett was watching the King's game, and I was it
was halftime or I don't know, maybe I was pausing
the Eagles game. We watched the old old school Frosty
the Snowman. I think it was like from the fifties
or sixties. He's it was twenty five minutes. He sat
there the whole time.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It was really cute. I kept looking over. I'm like
you good, and he's like, yeah, yeah, he loved it.
He loved it. Was really sweet. Oh cute. I love
that in the old Rudolph. Yeah, that was part of it,
right where he was.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That's cool getting to see all this new stuff for him.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, it's really cute.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Does he understand like the Christmas tree and stuff like that,
Like what do you like? You're just like it's Christmas
and he's like, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
We're still saying aga is Halloween, which we don't understand
where we got that from. Ah ha ha ha ha,
I don't know ag is Halloween? And we keep saying
I got I got and.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
We're like no, and then it's like, oh lad a
Christmas light stroll at like five point thirty and we
were trying to look at the lights and he was
like oh ho ho and then grinted geech.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
So he knows some of it.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I don't think he knows what the hell's going on,
but but he just yeah, than cute, mohish oh, oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I can't wait to tell you. Well, normally I just
tell you because I can't keep anything a secret. I
got some of Max Pressent yesterday. I'm so excited to
show you. Oh boy everything. That's a new car everybody. Yeah, No,
I won't like load you up with any more shit.
That's the thing too. If I had a kid, I
would say to my friend, hey, enough of this CHATCHKEI
knickknack shit, because it's like it just ends up piling
(18:13):
up and they don't need all these toys. They don't
need all this stuff, and then it feels gluttonous. You're like, hey,
can we make some donations here? We don't need to
have seventy five of the same toy and then where
we need.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
To do a good weed out.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, all right, that's the pregame, folks, thank you for
joining us. See on the big Show, we got to
talk about the big matchups we had this week. Aaron
had a banger in the NFC Northanger. I had Cowboys Lions,
and then we're off. We are off and running and
it's week fifteen. Now, Oh no, is it fifteen fourteen?
I don't even know what it's fifteen fifteen.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
There we go. I am sixteen going on seventeen.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Li Up.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
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Speaker 3 (18:55):
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