Episode 383: Pregame - The Importance of Earning the Ability to Pop Off

Fresh off week 16 on this Pregame edition of the Calm Down podcast, Erin and Charissa unpack the emotions they are feeling as we enter the finale of the NFL season.

With so many possible options of how the story can end, the NFC championship game outfit options are already being heavily contemplated. The talk about how it is important to earn the ability to pop off when are are in a male-dominated industry.

Also hear them talk about the importance of paying attention to the action when on the sidelines and how to stay positive while trying to balance a job with finding a partner, and learn which cocktails they would cut, bench and start. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If anyone starts popping off, go right back at him.
It takes a minute to be able to pop off, though.
You gotta earn it. Yeah, don't come in hot. Here's
what I would say. It's an uphill battle, but you
kind of have to get off on it. Like I
love that. I'm always trying to prove myself. Calm down
with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio. It's

(00:25):
the holidays, things are going great. How's this lipstick? Because
I'm in my pajama and I was like, oh, we
have our podcast, so let me put on lipstick because
that's going to make up for this. Hi, everybody, Welcome
to the pregame. Hair looks great? Oh is Carissa right
off a very expensive shopping trip? Al's crazy. First of all,

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for any of you wondering, I know you're not wondering.
It was not real. It's Shop Bop. We love Shop Bop.
Not an ad. Wish it was me too. It was
very expensive, I will say that, but it's very expensive.
Is that a liah? Welcome to the pregame. It is

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Christmas week and we're all miserable misery. That's not that's
a movie line. If you don't know what it is.
That's your problem. Welcome, here we go. Hit it, sister,
Emily Fozzio. Do you get sad slash emotional when the
end of the football season is approaching. Yes, yes, yes, yes,

(01:29):
yes yeah. It's always that thing. And I know Aaron's
gonna feel the same way, so I'll just answer for
the both of us. It's when you're in it. Sometimes
you're like, oh my gosh, this is a grind, it's whatever.
But then as soon as you know, you're like gonna
And we don't have the Super Bowl this year, which
is suck. I wish we had it every year because
rights holders have to rotate, so this year it's NBC.
But we got really fortunate with the way the contract worked.

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We got two super Bowls in three years, and my
gal over here in front of the whole country as
I just get so excited like watching her. Anyways, don't
have the Super Bowl this year, so it'll end at
the NFC Championship game, and that really bums me out.
And I already I was going over outfit potential options
even though we don't know who's playing out. But I
didn't want to. I didn't want to return this suit
that was so beautiful and there was like a timeline

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and I'm like, well, it could happen if it's like
the Rams, or it could happen if it's that whatever.
So anyways, yeah, I get sad when I know that
the season is going to be over. If you want
to get really girly, girly like like, we have so
many weather potential situations. We could be inside it so fine.
We could be in the rain in Seattle, we could
be at we could be at Chicago, we could be

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in San fran I mean, well many Santa Claire, I know,
so many outfit options incredible. But yeah, we get sad.
But uh, it's also this has been an unbelievable year,
which we've talked about all season long. Heather Catherine twelve.
Have you ever been knocked down or hit on the sidelines.
I've seen crazy videos lately, I have not, have you. No,

(02:57):
I'm hit by a line drive on a Mets game
that was exciting. Manny Ramirez's returned from suspension. That was
wild behavior. No, I am overly I'm shocked there's not
video of that's our coffee maker. I'm shocked there's not
video of how overly cautious or anal I am on
the sidelines. If I see one dude going my way,

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I'm running. And my security is always like, hey, I
got you at No, no, I'll tell you what. Those
hits are so vicious. And I've seen a lot of
people lately knock on wood get hit by a football.
Christina Paint got hit this year. There's been a lot
of people with that. Jared Stacy good Amazon, Aaron Punt,
someack Jared and concussion protocol. That's no joke. No, it's

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no joke. I know I'm not laughing. Last week, last week,
he comes up in Seattle, he goes, do you want
to do an update on my injury? And I was like, yeah,
how are we feeling a week removed? It is it's scary.
You got to be like head on a swivel down.
There's what's happening real scary. So yeah, pay attention always. Anyway,

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I was talking to this girl and she's probably like,
please don't talk to me because my job is to
just look at the crowd. The stadium security job it
is to have their fact to the field and they're
not allowed to turn around. I'm like, those are the
people we need to be helping out because we're looking
at the field. So anyways, I had everyone be careful.
I had a girls shadow me this past week and Chicago,

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and she kept turning around and looking at the stands
and she said, Hey, do you have any advice for me?
And I said, don't do that. Watch the field because
you think it. I mean, I don't know if she
was looking for somebody or what was going on, but
you got a wad. These are two hundred and three
hundred pound guys with their equipment on that you'll get

(04:48):
really hurt. Maybe whatever, We'll leave it at that. I
still can't believe that you got hit by a line
drive and something worse didn't happen there, and that is
so Glara. Oh oh my god. It was scary times. Yeah,
lucky it didn't shatter the old job. Maybe that's what's
going on with my jowels. I would could buy a

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line drive. You're ridiculous, Okay, sports, travel, food, interesting? How
to stay positive while simultaneously? Can I say that simultaneously?
Job and hubby searching? While you got you said a
mouthful there, sister. I want to start with your handle.
I did too to start with sports, travel food. Yeah,

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I need to know the origin story behind that, so
follow up, please let us know where that came from.
And to answer the question how to stay positive while
simultaneously job and hubby her searching, I don't know. I
don't think I would do it all at once. Maybe
worry about the job because that pays the bills and
you have no idea with your new job what that

(05:53):
could lead you to. I found my hubby because of
a new job I took. I went to Fox, and
then I found Jarrett. That's right, because those of you
that don't know the story, Michael Strahan set Aaron and
Jared up. That's right. That's very good advice. Yeah, yeah,
don't try to do those simultaneously. And also I think
it's hard just on the hubby searching part. Anytime you

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go searching for it, it's never really gonna like. You
gotta let that sort of organically, And I know that's
not what you want to hear, and that's annoying and
just let the process work out and if it's meant
to be, But I get it, you don't want to
hear that. But that is the reality. And it's a
cliche for a reason. So job make that money. Then
you won't be searching for the husband that needs to
take care of you. You can take care of yourself, and
then you're gonna be more attractive to the person anyways,

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because you got your own sheet Ethan Ethan d six
two eight. I like six seven three nine. Start bench cut,
hot chocolate eggnog, white Russian. Yes, as Steve says, we
can't say white Russian anymore, it has to be a
white Ukrainian. Okay, so start bench cut. Well, we're gonna

(06:58):
cut the white Russian. That's what I think. We're going
to just do that off the bat. Who orders those?
Do you know anyone that orders it? You know? Someone? No?
Was that what I got when I was in Boston?
A white Russian? Was that? What I It has kola?
And what else is there? That's a drink? That's a
drink that's kind of like that, a white Russian? A mudslide? Mudslide?

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I remember the story always goes back to the TGI Fri.
She says, well, pulling at her lip gloss that you
gave me in London. I was, by the way, how
many years ago did that? You know it's still worseful
if you're scraping the side of it. Okay, are we

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agreeing that we are going to cut that right? Yeah?
And sides cutting white Russians and mud slides. We're gonna bench.
Who's your bench? I think I know it's gonna be mine.
Oh I love starting. I just had I just had
it last night, good Martini, and I thought you you
did wow an ice skating rink, thought of the sixth

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top buffalo, buffalo shrapnels of ice just floating around. I'm
so proud of you. Aaron didn't used to be a
Martini drinker, you guys, and she would always get her
uh you know, tequila water water. Oh, I don't know
how you do that. So I gotta be honest. The
gal that waited on me knows the old order. She goes,
you want the usual or the ranch water. I said, no, no,

(08:29):
we've changed it. There was like a round of applause.
It was a bit all grown up Martini. Oh yeah,
teeny time. So she Aaron's starting hot chocolate, I'm starting eggnog.
We're I'm benching hot chocolate, and we're cutting to white Russian.
What a great question, Athan, Thank you so much. I
love that next ab uh dot Chris ac Oh my god,

(09:02):
the win. Best advice to women who want to work
in a male dominant dominated industry like sports, study your
ass off, study get don't be sensitive too. You can't
be sensitive. Got to have your own balls, you know,
have some big kahonas and be like and if anyone
starts popping off, go right back at them. You gotta

(09:25):
think it takes a minute to be able to pop off.
Though it does, it does, No, I agree, Yeah, I gotta.
There's definitely. Yeah. Don't come in hot. Don't come in
like you know, your first day on the job and
you're like, oh fucking man, You're like, no, no, let's
pump the brakes. It's great advice. Stay it a few
hamped in before you pop off, you know, absolutely, and
go get your own rental car and don't wait for

(09:46):
the car service. That's a rider. I call them three
c We got to earn. Yeah, thirty two f Here's
what I would say. Get ready to work hard. I
you got to have a thick skin. And oh I
had a good point. I think I missed it. You
just I've never worked harder and you have to know that.

(10:08):
And it's it's an uphill battle, but you kind of
have to take this as you want, get off on it.
Like I love that. I'm always trying to prove myself.
I do now there are some days that I'm like singing,
you know, I'd be the man with Caissa. But it's
my chip on my shoulder. It is. It is like
how we see these players who get drafted, and what's

(10:30):
their chip on their shoulder? Like Tom Brady, you know,
for all those years, the chip on the shoulder, Aaron
not going to San Francisco late in the draft, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Mine is that I'm not a guy. I didn't play
the sport. I also had somebody ask me this weekend, like,
do you feel like you know as much as the guys?
I said, I feel like I know a lot of
things as well as the guys do. But I said, well,
I ever know as much as Tom Brady. Absolutely not,

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But I'm not expected to. That's not my role. And
so you know, this girl said to me, well, even
though you've done it this long, I said, no, I've
never made an adjust at that half. I've never tried
to come back in a Super Bowl. I've never done
any of that. But now if you ask me to
navigate the hell out of these sidelines, I can do that.
I got that. But that's imo. Yeah. Well, and there's

(11:12):
also the thing that it's like, you know, play the
role that you're supposed to play, right where it's that
thing where it's like you've been drafted on this team
to play that role and you crush that role. So
it's like it's not same thing, like you're not supposed
to I'm not supposed to be Julian Edelman. That's why
Julian Edelman's there. I'm not supposed to be Charles Woods.
And that's why Charles Woods my job. Yeah, my job
as a host of these shows is to bring out

(11:35):
the best in those guys. But also I'm the fan
at home. I always am reminded of that by our bosses,
Like you're the voice of the fan at home, So
ask the question that the fan at homes being like, no,
that's this be the conduit that like the person but
on the couch that isn't on the field. You're that
in between person. So love it. Love it like prime
example for me and my role. You know, I don't

(11:57):
need That's not why I'm employed to know what Tom knows.
You know, Yeah, that's not why I'm there. But for example,
I'm on the packer's sideline this weekend, Jordan goes down,
Malik Willis comes in, does a fantastic job, falls and
gets body slammed. Right before overtime we cut to break.
The boys can't see what I see, so I start
following him. He's got the athletic training staff. They're like

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looking at him, looking at him, asking him to throw.
Finally the trainer said, get a ball and throw so
we can see. And so that was my report. That's
the shit I can provide that Tom and Kevin can't see.
That's why I'm there absolutely, So yeah, no, know what
your role is and then be the best at that.
It's love that and so yeah. But with the combination
of that, since we're going to bring this full circle,

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have humility, but also have a little you know, gusto
while doing it too, I think that goes a long way.
Elle Schultz thirty, how much PDA do y'all typically show
with the plus ones? I was at a concert where
two couples in front of us were doing too much,
both in their thirties or forties, I'm not a huge
PDA person. I'm just also like I don't know. I mean,

(13:04):
I love Steve obviously, and like I also like, yeah,
give me a kiss in public, that's fine, but we
don't need to be making out in front of people.
No one wants to see that. And also, are you
trying to like prove Like I don't know, I just
feel like that's great, But that's also like I feel
like you do that when you're like sixteen or twenty
years old and you're like, I don't know, or just
started dating. I guess yeah. Now I'm not knocking the

(13:27):
people that do show the PDA. I just also I'm like,
I'm good. I think. I also think he would know
I was up to something. He'd be like, what's happening here?
That's not my m O. You know? How about you?
When this reminds me of when last time we were
all in Montana together and we were doing like pictures
because it was like the great background of the golf course,

(13:47):
the whole thing, and you and Jarrett were standing there
and I was like, somebody was like give her a kiss,
and he like grabbed you, and you were like, why
is happening? I don't know. It was a very it's
a very awkward photo for me. Yeah, so I'm Kylie
Kelsey is like that too. She's like, I No, not
Kylie Kelsey. Kara Olsen dream who is married to Greg Olsen.

(14:11):
I think we were talking about. Yeah, I was talking
with them the first time at tight End you. They
were so excited, obviously about meeting Taylor and they were
talking about what a great person she is and how wonderful.
And I joked with her, I said, doesn't it make
you wish you had made out with your husband more?
Because they just are so in love? Oh. She's like,
I love how in love they are and she goes, no,
Greg wishes I would and he's like, yeah, it's so though.

(14:35):
I love Lauren and Jeff are like that, and Taylor
and Travis are like that. Were when you're around him,
you're like, oh, I look at Steve. I'm like, we
should be more in love, because it's like when you're
around couples that are just like that, it's it is motivating.
But no, I am good. I'm a limited media and
we just go at it while we're at home, you know,
throw me up against the wall. Could you not look

(14:56):
at me. Look when you look like this, Steve Kak,
hands of me. All right, we've got a big show.
It was week fifteen or week sixteen. It's a week.
It's week sixteen. Hell are we sixteen? And I'll let
it be. We got a recap your time back in Seattle.
Crazy games. We had the best games of the week.

(15:19):
I'll say it. I mean they were fantastic. Although that
Detroit game came down to the end too, that was
also very good. God Lion Steeler one. Oh, don't worry.
We had a zoom call last night with Dean Dean
to recap everything. We didn't want to bother you. You
were just getting settled in on me and Steve. We
did Sunday night sessions with Dean. It was a zoom call.
I would have done it, I know next week. That's

(15:41):
so funny. It was very funny. We had a lot
of questions about my two point conversion in the game,
and then also the Lions call. All right, we got
a big show. Join us Week sixteen recap and maybe
I'll brush my hair by the bye bye. Calm Down
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