I met a guy out and he ended up being a pretty well known actor in a TV show later on, like ten years after I went out with him and I met him.
These are my New York days.
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Calm Down with Aeron and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio. Hello. Hey, well was that it?
No, there's some fantastic names on here, you guys. Welcome to the Calm Down Podcast. A little pregame for those of you that are new to the podcast. Welcome pregames where we answer your questions, comments and concerns and they induce wonderful topics for the big show, as Aaron calls it on Thursday, Big show, Big show. All right, we've got our first question, and I'll be asking it because it's about your little man. This question comes to us from me or handsome adorable. Love the name Mac, But
what happened to the name Saban? Love the name Saban. Want it to be Saban at some point, you know, maybe when we're pregnant with our second we'll go Saban.
With that breaking news, kid's three months old.
We got another one on the way. Yeah, sure, not yet, not yet, not yet, Calm down, Yeah, listen, it's already hard enough. I wasn't somebody that wanted to have multiple middle names. And that was kind of a conversation with us. Do we do we use my grandfather's name as his middle name, and then it's.
Like Roger Jared's grandfather. Do we do both?
Like it's already a lot, So I thought that would be a lot to ask to do Mac Roger Sabin stole and kind of unfair for Jarrett. But oh well, there's always baby number two. Do we want to explain where the name Mac came from? Yeah? Yeah, So we were gonna go with Jack for the longest time, and I know too many Jack's and I once our friend Peter Schrigger had a baby and named her Betty.
I had said, Jarrett, we need to be creative.
Betty is so cute Jack and nothing against anyone named the name Jack's fantastic right and what was my top notch? But then we have a little cute cut twelve year old friend, mutual friend, Carson Phipps, who we died here. She's done some digging and we were on our way to a little trip in the Bahamas and her father made a comment, oh, I think Mac Brown head coach of the tar Heels had a house here, has a house here, And all of a sudden, Carci yelled, wait a second, what about Mac Stole And we were.
Like, oh, with Jack, same idea.
Did I ever tell you that Mac Brown texted me about having a baby and I.
Said to him, with coach, sorry, tell the story. Yeah. Yeah.
So Coach Brown texted and said, Sally and I want to just congratulate you on your new edition. And I said, coach, did you hear what his name is? And he said I did, and I said, well, let me tell you the story behind it, and he just loved it. And so I thought I would get like some tar Heels gear from the Brown and Heels family. But still, no, I'm just kidding that's them joke.
No, we're not really.
Please MC, please send it, would you mind? I do love a Carolina Blue Michael Jordan, Where art thou come on?
So cute?
Jack Stole, though, has a book for Christmas that he will be reading because I pre ordered this book for Aaron's kid when I thought his name was Jack, So just from Carissa for Jack Stole, watch Jared. But yeah, hey, Jarrett. And then there's a Jack Stole with the Philadelphia Eagles.
So the thing, Yeah, did you mere Hansom? Did you want all that information?
You're welcome because we are the gifties I'm giving next. Oh next, Jeff Boyard twenty four, Is I like so good? One worst date you've been on, Carrissa Jean Thompson, Yeah, I think, uh, I think we talked about it once. But the guy cried the first time we hung out when we're at a movie theater and it was a movie and he started crying. But let me think about another worst date I've ever been on.
I don't know.
I mean, nothing gives people that are sober. But I met a guy out and he ended up being a pretty well known actor in a TV show later on, like ten years after I went out with him and I met him. These were my New York days.
And I met him out on a date and.
It was like an afternoon date and it was like a perfect New York day where it's like everybody was out drinking and he was sober, and all my girlfriends were out drinking at the time, and I was I had to make a reason why I had to leave. Yeah, that's tough because you feel bad and like as you're ordering another Yeah, did you order any drinks? No? Because we ended up just hanging out at his place and I was like, no, this is I don't know.
Oh my god. I okay, well this.
Is I'm going no, no, no, sober, it's shorter. Oh my god, now Jack, please, no, we're kidding. We like people that are shorter sober, I do.
I though.
My dad and my brother are both sober. And I said to them a time, I go, you're not as fun when you don't drink, and they're like, okay, think that's enough out of you. They're like, hey, how about you put the bottle down? Psycho?
All right?
Anonymous? Oh remember we love you can see the anonymously. How do you keep the spark alive in a long term relationship? Well? I don't really have many of those. So let's go to the gal who's been married five years?
Now? Are we five? Or seven?
Six?
Seven? Sure? Right? Where's that smart? Does anyone have a match around here? I don't know? I mean seveny oh? Yeah, we haven't married six years?
Because I said to jareded a lot of people get divorced during their seven year itch, seven year itch, which I don't like that itch thing.
What does that mean? I get it?
Like you know, what do you call it a bee in your bonnet? Or like something be in my bonnet?
I don't know.
I always I don't know. We we try to be good with communication. I don't know how we keep this far. It's not like I feel like we're lacking a spark, but I don't know.
I'll tell you what I got his staff. I'll tell you what Steve is trying to do to keep the spark alive. Don't worry.
I got a calendar invite for a date night. Oh what's it in a calendar?
I love that.
I know that is very sweet. Anyways, Okay, okay, I haven't I haven't replied yet. I haven't accepted these. You haven't priced excepted. It's still in the inbox. It hasn't been moved into the calendar portion of the program.
How do you keep the spark a live? I'll say this.
I'll speak on the relationship that has lasted the longest in my life, not me personally, because we know those don't last. My parents, my dad insisted, maybe this one with Steve will last because he does exactly what my dad did. Insisted on a date night every week with my mother. I mean from the earliest memory I have of my parents. He would always, and they had no money.
He would take her to the movies and they would make popcorn ahead of time, and she'd sneak it in her purse because they didn't want to have to buy popcorn because they had no money. Because he always would say, you kids will come and go, but she will be here. So he made here the priority. So I think, as someone who's trying to have healthy relationships, I think making your spouse a priority is good and a little sexed time, you know what I mean, Because I don't want a roommate.
I gotta gotta jazz it up every now and then. All right, next one, girlfriend, you're up, Miss britt Morgan.
It's fall.
What are your things about? Or what are your things? How about I read? What are your thoughts on all things pumpkin? I am not a pumpkin spice girl. I like my house smelling like pumpkins. I want to hire someone to decorate my house to be a little fall and fabulous. But yeah, I'm not a pumpkin in my coffee, pumpkin in my tea. I just don't pumpkin it up. I get grossed out really easily. What are you grossed out by? I just sweet things? Oh right, right right,
I'm the opposite. I don't like sweet. I never like I'd like a black iced coffee all day, every day. But guess what I did on my way home prior to our podcast. I stopped by Dunkin Donuts because they have pumpkins.
The one by my house. I wish it was the one by my house. I didn't have time or else I would have swung on by walk home by.
So this is a pumpkin iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts and I love it. I am running on Duncan today. I love anything pumpkin. I will crush pumpkin muffins all day, every day. In fact, for the Big Show, I have a fun story about George Kittle, Fred Warner and pumpkin loaf. That's a tease in the biz. You don't love anything pumpkin, right, I yeah, I sure not have of that. It is a weird word, but yes, anything pumpkin from me. In fact,
the best pumpkin muffin I've ever had is from Bristol Farms. Ooh, do what you want with that?
I like your smoothies after my pilans clams. Oh my god, you're so la.
We have got multiple submissions, that's the name, or is that actually multiple submissions? Ryan, our wonderful podcast producer who's also wearing a Calm Down T shirt.
I'm wearing the mug.
I'm going to update the gear because I think it's time for us, like we're cool, We're funky. We've been around one hundred thousand followers. I love you guys, Thank you, thank you. I think it's adorable and I'm not like the goal like give a shit about followers because half the time people buy followers.
But you guys are so sweet. We love you.
Yeah, you know the ones? All right, multiple submissions. I digress, getting a late start, but finally pursuing my dream to work in sports broadcasting. Best advice and tips, Aaron, You're up first. You know what. I think we spoke for a quick five minutes today because that's all our calendars would allow. But I think the way we've gone about it, I'm very proud of.
We worked our asses off.
I was talking to somebody about this the other day, actually, somebody, uh yeah, on my at my gate in the industry that when we were going to Detroit this weekend, Chris and I worked our asses off. We still work our asses off. My girl is working really hard right now, doing two games a week, like that's a lot.
Shows a week, that's a lot.
But I will I would never take anything back about the fact that I put my career ahead of everything. I didn't get married to late, obviously, didn't have a baby till late. Because now we are in this point in our career that we're having fun. It's crazy to say, at forty five, I feel like I'm finally showing my real self on air. It's nuts that it's taken this long. But look, we're in a male dominated industry that there's a lot of scrutiny, there's a lot of people, there's
a lot of naysayers. There's only a couple of these jobs available. And to feel comfortable in your skin, to have to be in a network with a network that you feel like allows you to do that says a lot as well. So I would just say, work your ass off as hard as you can, and then when you're old and disheveled and covering your gray hairs with your orange hair, that's when you can start having fun. I want to talk about this, and I'm going to a big cheffer now to the Big Show because Aaron
said that last week and it made me laugh. But show, this is a conversation I'd like to elaborate on because there was a little bit of an epiphany for both of us this week as it pertains to this idea of being ourselves. So sure we put a pin in that, but yeah, I would say for me and I try to be.
I hate this word. Let's take it easy.
You're not some role model, Caissa, but I do try to mentor young girls in the industry that ask for help because here's my thing. Ask I'm happy to help you. There were people that helped me, but I always my biggest piece of advice for them is always be yourself. You could like, yeah, you can try to like there's certain I mean, there's certain things that yeah, you can, you know, perfect your craft, but be authentic, be different. The things that will make you stand out are not
being like everyone else. So don't try to conform to what you think you're supposed to be on television. And then also just be humble and be hard working, work your ass off and know, like, for my thing is, you're not bigger than Rowe. You know thirty two B, sweetheart, and you're not picking a rental car and having to pick up your You're not gonna always have car service. You're not gonna always have first class. We didn't get
that till fifteen years into our profession. There was a lot of times I'm paying out of pocket for cab rides for all I had to do it in Detroit today or last week. Actually, don't be bigger than something, and remember that when you get hopefully to where you want to be, that it's okay to go back to that or take the cap, or sit and row thirty two B because guess what, there's someone waiting to take your job. So be humble, hard working and have fun.
Be authentic. Did everyone get all that?
And thank you for joining us here on this ted time? Okay? Now wait, Mara Connor, yep, sorry, I crucified that one.
Mar and Karta my Ana Conna.
Don't want nothing you'll never wear during games at heels, I got to walk around. I can't do it. It's crazy. Dropless BRA's hard too. There's a lot of movement. I don't want to be pulling it up during the game and it doesn't fall. Yeah, it's terrible. Third and four, well, this thing is third to my knees. Geez, it's third and a long way down the torso is what it is?
No, this strapless bras are terrible.
And then the problem with the stick ones, which I do love, because we've talked about this.
Four we start sweating.
Now one's off and the other one's hanging on by the last little morsel. You heard me, morsel, That's the what I were saying of like the stickiness as we talked about last week. Man, just don't just don't wear one any who things I never wear by covering a game. Yeah, I mean here's my other thing too. My outfits in studio can be different than being at a game. But I'm just gonna say this, Ladies out there sometimes and I've had my moments where I'm like, am I coming
in from the club. But I gotta tell you you guys, don't be distract I want to hear what people are saying. If you were wearing outfits that are just crazy or I think that you're doing a walk of shame, now you're what I'm talking about not the actual game itself. So I'm not saying you can't be an individual, but let's not just, you know, be an eye sore. Okay, listen off the shoulder, like the whole, Like, what are we doing here? You can't show bulls shoulders, maybe one shoulder.
I had a top one time. Remember when I did that interview with two a tongue of Iiloa last year because I was going through it and it was all I had in my closet in the Nashville thing. And I went into this interview. I looked like, I looked so trashy. I looked like a dick. Okay, I was exactly what I'm talking about right now. And maybe it's the forty one year old in me saying this, but some of you ladies that I see on television, you're getting crazy. Okay, this is still a place of employment.
Let's all remember that. Okay, this is bottom motherly advice, bottom. And I don't want this to be perceived as though you guys can buy these.
Clothes or this, this and this.
No, but I share clothes, so we can. We do share clothes. Actually, for the record, we share clothes. But keep it simple. Stupid, Like that's what I always think, Like, I don't think you have to go crazy with some like nutty Mickey outfit. We're a fantastic blazer and we're like a cute T shirt under it and a gene No, not a gen. Don't worry, don't work crazy, No, don't don't warrant t shirt that has writing on it. I don't want to be like WHOA, Actually, okay, this is
for the big show too. You know what dues and dones have outphits? What not to Wear? Is that show still on TLC? Because I have a lot of things that you shouldn't be wearing. Oh, looks like we're all out of time. Join us next week for our thoughts on the industry and because you're getting crazy out there, get crazy. Oh my god, I don't see anybody I'm working. Put on a turtleneck. Calm down with Erin and Carissa
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