I had family in town. I was dealing with stuff. I was trying to deal with the holiday, I was trying to deal with this game, and there was just some things falling through the cracks, and I literally fell through the cracks, and like I just like started feeling like I was having panic attacks, like I was having chest pains. I know, I need to go talk to someone. Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio. What's Happening Everyone, and Welcome to the Calm Down Podcast.
Aaron is a fresh off the plane from Philadelphia for the NFC Championship rematch from yesterday that was more one sided than not. She can get into all of that. I was in Dallas and second homeway from home. How many times have you worked at Dallas Cowboys game? Oh my god? We haven't even talked. I texted you and I was like, how's Dallas my home? How was it? How great is it? Were you in my greenroom? Moving there? I'm moving there? Oh? I'm sorry? Who didn't want to
move there? I'm sorry? Were we having conversations and you don't want to go? No? Tell me everything? I just want buying a Christmas present from you? Right now. That just popped up on my Instagram. So while you're telling this story, I'm gonna, okay, do your duel whatever, go ahead, Yes you're going to multitask. Okay.
I love, but I also love this is what we'll talk about later too, is the Instagram shopping.
Is this sweater from Instagram? And guess what I accidentally pulled in Aaron Andrews while drinking wine.
I ordered too, So you're also getting this? Hey, you like it? It came open up the box and there was two and I was like, perfect, she'll love this. I have only been shopping on Instagram these days, and I will have the same sweater in the same jacket that every other goddamn influencer out there will have.
You better not get this for yourself.
It is, It populates, it's so easy double click, and it's often running. Although I did go to them all today and I realized, Wow, I need to get out more often because there's a lot of great options out there.
You went to the mall, you heard me. I mean it was like in the stores, but technically like that mall vibe, you know, like anehen Market, like the nieh Men's, the sack this is whatever that is. Besides the point, I got your kid a Christmas present from there, there was having a great sale.
If you're interested. Now, you don't tell me what I can buy and what I can't buy. Now, going back to Dallas, it's not a mall. It was on Wilshare Boulevard. It's like the string of shops, you know what I mean. There's a day I didn't menure do on that one, but I wanted the other ones. Okay, so reach bev well write it down writing about Dallas.
I no, I'm buying your present.
Okay, Dallas, I've never been into the idea of living there.
I'm gonna tell you why. Because when I lived in Denver, I felt landlocked. I was like, Ah, as a gal that grew up in Seattle, I like to be on the coast. I went to school in California Coast, lived in Connecticut, lived in New York Coast. I don't like, Okay, hey, you focus on what you're doing. I don't like for those of you that are watching, She's She's hate.
When they says denied, then I'm like, oh my god, is it that debit card that I had locked in from years ago?
And I lost that and now it's declined. Fine.
I don't like living in the middle of the country because I just feel stuck. But Aaron has always advocated said, Dallas is amazing, You'll love Dallas. I don't go to Dallas very often. Why because Missus Dallas herself over here was yeah, is always there and she has waved the Dallas flag for years now. It I like to go for Thursday night football. Great game, I gotta tell you. Flying in, I didn't realize how much water there was there. There's the lakes, like in South Lake, there's like and I.
Was like, as long as I have a lake, as long as I can see water, I'm gonna be okay. Cool. Then that's not the same.
I need to have like I need to walk out and like see a vastness of water so I feel calm and peaceful. And here's the reality. We live in California. You go to the beach because you're by the beach. I'm not going to the beach every day, okay, So I need to get out my head this idea of like, oh, I live in California and I'm close to water. No, just unless you're going to the beach you don't really okay.
Flying back in, I saw water. Loved it, the people, the restaurant, dinner, the one Nick and Sam, the old classic ow was. I was the plus one of the Michael's family because they're just the frickin' best and Linda and Jen and I were just having martinis and having a grand old time as cute as can be.
And so loved it. Loved the shopping. I ended up at the mall. I died in the park. I went to the mall.
I well, first of all, I went to one mall and it wasn't really the mall that I wanted. So then I got back in the uber and went to another one, the nice upscale mall.
Fancy I could get lost in that AnyWho. Then as we're flying out, I'm with Andrew Witworth, who's a dream and used to live in Dallas for a little while in his off season between Cincinnati and then going to LA. He and I were looking up real estate. It's crazy, the amount of real estate, the amount of land manchients, the property taxes, like no income tax in that state.
What are we doing here? I like came home. I said to Steve, I go pack up the place. We're moving to Dallas. Like enough, what we.
Were in the middle of the country. So when we fly to do Giants games, it's only two hours. When we fly to California, it's two and a half. I'm ready, let's go. Yep, I am. I'm really sold on this. And so then I because I did a house and home project in Vacara, one of the neighborhoods in there, and so then I was like looking at the House of Dams, like this is where we need to be in life. So stay tuned for Aaron and I's big
move move season, because it just doesn't make sense. I can't keep looking at my pay stuff with these taxes. Don't take it out anyways, I digress. So I had a great time in there, great time there, and then the game was Fantoma. Where's your green room? Were you in my green room? Yes?
With your picture on the wall and all the things, and yep, let's just goating. No, you looked great and it was wonderful everything about it. The Cowboys are just pure class and just they do everything the right way.
So did you think of me during the when the cheerleaders came out? Because I saw you on the pregame to games like, if this bitch doesn't Thunderstruck, does not think of me right now? That killer.
So there was a girl in the There was a woman, I should call her a woman.
She was doing the.
Whole routine and Scherm goes, Wow, that one's really into it and I go, no, she's doing the routine.
Look at she's doing the routine.
And I alway knew that because of you and Ashley, I wouldn't have known what was going on.
But it was great.
So, yeah, great experience. The game was fantastic. Obviously my Seattle bias a little bit. I was kind of hoping that the Seahawks would at least sneak one in there because I know Dallas will be fine.
But it was a great game. And yeah, Sherm almost lost his voice. He was like screaming he was so excited.
Yeah, so it was fun, great experience all the way around.
I'm moving to Dallas. Come on, come one, come on. Not to pump up the Joneses even more, but they are one of my faves. How much of it is such an experience. It's like even where I have to stand to do my open for a Cowboys game, is right where the boys run out, which I love, Like they showed a shot in your game and Smith is walking out Connor or uh, what am I doing anyways? Tyrone Smith, Dak and uh why Martin? We were talking Zach Martin? Why did I call him? Connor? Zach Martin?
Were walking because you have seven hundred different names I had from last night's game. So I was just like, there are my guys, and like they come out and this whole like like robot experience is happening. And then they're like Dallas gab boys now broke, like this is just an experience. It's awesome.
And then Dion was there because he was promoting Prime Season two, so it was fun to see him.
Yeah, it was just great, really really great. I know that the NFL schedule has those certain games that you circle and hope that it lives up to the expectations, and this one did and then some so another one that I know that you have had circled since the last year because of the NFC Championship game. The way that went down.
Your interview with Rockberty was great personality I've seen come out of that sweet kid. So start from the beginning, go Eagles San Francisco. Oh well, heading into that game, we were just like seeing that it was supposed to be one hundred percent chance of rain, and I was like selfishly thinking no, because I'd love to like actually
look nice for it. And then I started thinking, we have so many great athletes, and then I started thinking, like, not about myself and about the athletes that actually get paid to play, just we have such amazing athletes that are going to take center stage, and it would be nice if they didn't have to deal with the wet field, wet ball, all the things, missed rain. It was fine, It wasn't that great. But you know, my hair still looks like dog crap from it.
No, it wasn't. It looks fantastic. And you can get away with a slick back down. Oh shout out real quick to the sweet girl that brought a Calm Down podcast sweat Or to Dallas. She threw it over the railing for me to sign. She was adorable. And I just really hope that, like anyone that is a Calm Down fan and does things like that, I hope you know how much it means to us.
Okay, go and that great Tony that jacket I need your jacket hold fantastic.
Before I get to that, I did a virtual speaking engagement on Friday before I left for Philly and this girl the gallery all shot up and this girl was drinking out of her calm down. It was really cute. I was. I was so excited about that. So I was pupped. I took a picture of it. Yeah, hair looked like crap. Weather was crap. But I will say I loved my jacket. Deets on the jacket a company Canadian company called Moose Knuckles. Yes, take it as you will,
but it was such a warm and fabulous jacket. And I know when Michael Strahan is texting me during the game and is like that jacket's fire, I was like, we got it. It was great. It's a really great jacket. It's hot. Yep, and obviously from that company which is known for like very warm and does the job that.
It was multifunctional good. It looked great and it kept you warm. Okay, So the game obviously ended up being lopsided in San.
Franisco won by a lot. Wow, it looked good. Take us through sort of you know everything that was happening. I saw you out there pregame.
She also Aerin was doing a hit to lead into her Brock thirty piece, and I don't know if she realizes that seven is funny before well her two things happened yesterday. Your feed was up before you did your hit, so Aaron's hysterical. Actually, Vicky took a video of it because it was really funny. You like do all of your quirky normal things, but like not everyone normally gets to see that, so it was great. Thank god you didn't say anything inappropriate.
And then during the Rams game, I'm sitting there doing highlights and all of a sudden, I look up on the feed and it's Steve and Chloe and Kelly and they're all Choey Kardashian, Steve Candery and Kelly Stafford are all having a conversation and this is what He's not getting back to me on text about something that was very important. And I go, oh, I know why you're not getting back to me on text. And so I'm sitting with my sweet researcher.
Matt, and I was like, oh, well, there he is. There's the boyfriend. And he's like, wait, where's your boyfriend? I go talking to Chloe right there on the feed because they were taking a shot of their suite and I was like, look, Steve, maybe should be careful about what I was kidding. He wasn't doing anything inappropriate, but I was like, be careful with.
New York Post Chris Compson in a fight with Chloe kar and fuck here we go.
Yeah, yeah, go ahead and write some headlines. I got some headlines for you and your little dog too. You know, I love Chloe. In fact, I was just up said I wasn't in the conversation. So yeah, those were the two feeds that I got yesterday that I was thrilled about you and Chloe and Steve and Kelly. All right, so in the game yesterday, I saw you bebopping around the field. You were having the time of your life, talking to John Lynch pre game doing all these things. Yeah, yeah,
so cute. And what is your favorite part of a game like that? That magnitude because you don't get a lot of those, like real.
Big dog, heavy hitters. I just got my confirmation that when I bought you just went through. So my credit card cleared. That's good, Thank you, No I need anything, thank you. Right before we went on like it was obviously they turned off all the lights and there were all these little sparkling like green lights everywhere. They were doing their big you know, this is Eagles like, you know,
it's just cool. It was bad ass and forty nine Ers came out the Eagles fans are mfing them all that kind of stuff, and you know, despite whatever you had going on during the week and how you feel like, shit, I'm never going to do enough prep. I hope I don't screw up this first hit. You're like, this is
where I love my job. You obviously, you know, the game wasn't as back and forth as we wanted, although there was a lot of drama, and I obviously was covering the forty nine Ers sidelines, so there was you know, keeping my eyes on all them, just walk watching Brock take the field where he had injured it last year in the NFC Championship. Deebo, who had talked to a lot of trash leading into that game, well, just a little
bit after the NFC Championship, he was fucking unreal. I mean, this is where two stories bad ass, two stories from the casterday. Did you trying to tackle that guy? No? Absolutely not, absolutely not. I'm going to get to my appreciation for the players in a second. But I have over the last couple of years, talked about Kyle Shanahan in the press, our walk off interviews a lot, and I've had fun with the fact Kyle scoots he runs. Yesterday, I was in like water rain boots or whatever, so
I knew I couldn't run. There's also not a lot of room to run, so where we were going was right up like the visitor's tunnel, and it gets congested. You've got big bodies in there with the boys, and I'm trying to scoot with Kyle. I am going to talk to Kyle this week on Zoom because we have them against the Seahawks this coming weekend, and I want to apologize to him. I feel so bad, and I'm sure this is the last thing on his mind, but it is in my mind, and I feel so bummed
about it. I've talked so much about how Kyle runs, and I've got to keep up with him, and blah blah blah. I'm trying to fit through this tunnel with him, right And I don't even write down stuff anymore. With Kyle. I use my phone recorder. Then after I can cure it and write it down because I don't have time to do that and then walk right. I find myself.
I took about seven, like you know, sprays of listerine because I know I'm gonna be up in his face and asking him about how they the offense got back on track in the second quarter. And then the Eagles offense is known for being explosive in the second half, So what does his defense have to make sure they do? But Carissa, the tunnel is so tight, We're walking fast,
I'm dodging guys. I am like on him, on him, hitting him, like body checking him, and then my breath is in his face and I can't speak properly because I'm trying to yell, and Eagles fans are like, fuck you fuck. It is so high pressure, and I'm like body slamming him and then breath in his face and it's just the desert. He understand well, first of a lot, you and I are the same way that we are.
We have phobias about smelling good, our breath and just in general because it's like just like body checking this man.
No, but he understands what you're you have to do and what you're trying to do, like if there's anyone like that.
Kyle is so.
Cool, Like I mean, I don't need to tell you this. You just cool half the season with him. No, he doesn't care.
I know. I like appreciative that you're like you understand the urgency of like we're trying to get in there at halftime, and you ask enough questions where it's like get the information you need and get out and not having to like take up ten minutes of his time that he needs to designate to his team at halftime. Everybody's always like with our podcast, they like the inside stories of things. That's what was affecting me at halftime,
and I needed to make an adjustment. I was like, I literally just sprayed Kyle with my saliva and my listing over breath and I body checked him with my like wet jacket the whole time. I just feel terrible again. I know it's the last thing on his mind, but I felt that, well, guess what, he had a nice victory. He feels tined about anything. You could have like thrown water on him, beIN a care or a finger in his face. The last thing I'll say about it is,
you know you become friends with these guys. You become big admirers of their work and their time. We went back to the hotel. We watched the Packers Kansas City game. That was fantastic buying out and I went back into the room and I just started watching Instagram clips of our game. This is unless you really love football. I don't know how much Y'll care about this, CHRISA. I
had a front row seat. I know this is the last thing you'll think I'll talk about Lane Johnson and Nick Bosa, fucking animals of men being with men, just going after each other. There was so many moments yesterday that I was like, these men that we have a chance to cover are the best of the best, and I am so grateful. I never take time during the game to really appreciate it because I'm worried, like did I just hear what the guy said? How can I
fill in? And should I put this in my postgame interview. There was a moment Lane and Nick Bosa are just beating the dog shit out of each other, and I'm watching Nick Bosa try to get off the field and it's not like he was heard. He was just exhausted. And then he comes over to the sideline, He's on one knee, and I'm like, these guys are badasses. There was another moment it was clearly the forty nine Ers had it. Trent Williams just walked over to the side I was on and went over to the forty nine
Ers fans and just went like this. Also standing on the field next to Deebo Samuel, who I'm not really close with because I don't really get to talk to him very much, but he was kind enough to let me interview him after the game. He is just watching the highlights of what he fucking did on that field and how he jukes the guy, and he just they're unbelievable. Christian McCaffrey is such a badass. It was just really cool, Like I just hope, like, yeah, I need to not
let these moments pass me by. But these guys are undot and I'm so honored to cover them. It's really cool. That's well, first of all, I'm glad that you're taking time to enjoy your job and when you stand and not letting it just feel like the norm, because now that you're twenty years into this gig, and I feel the same way where it's not like taking it for granted.
Like I don't ever take for granted that like right after Dak wins the game, like he's going to come up to our post game, that he's going to spend most game fifteen minutes with us and like be charismatic and you know, and have fun with us and like be willing to willing to feel ridiculous questions or just sort of dive into the game the good, bad, and ugly, and that this is these guys' job. And I understand sometimes but like we've spoken about it before on you specifically, where it's like.
You know, this is their job, and like at their job. I get that some people might argue like oh.
Yeah, well you need to do interviews and you need to do that. You don't have to, and there's a lot of ers that don't. So the fact that like these guys after they've just you know, spent and you think about like all the time, and yes, I get it, they're paid money, well whatever, it doesn't matter to human same thing as an executive that makes twenty times that what that person makes, and they're not throwing their body and their emotion and like all this other thing out
onto the field the same way. It's just I'm totally aligned with you on how lucky we are to have a front row seat to this job, how lucky we are to be able to interview and to know these great players and great coaches, and like, you know, like I felt like that way, you know, seeing Sean the other day when we were in Denver and we talk about it last time, like, you know, this person who's trying to turn around an organization and yet will still take the time to, like, you know, just do stuff.
It's time out of their day. They're very busy day.
Anyone that knows a coach or anyone that knows a player knows that during football season, like there's nothing else. So yeah, I don't think that we can overstate how grateful we are being on this side and anybody that doesn't appreciate it on this side and just thinks like, oh, yeah, that's part of the thing.
No, it's not, so knock it off. We are lucky. Can I have one bone to pick? I will say this, and obviously you have a bone to pick. You had a chance to give him a hug the other day and see Aaron at MetLife along with that I just
get really frustrated. And maybe it's when I feel like people don't know these guys like we know them and we're very lucky that we get a chance to But I remember, I mean, I guess now the rumors are the Aaron's not going to come back, But obviously last week and the week before it was like is he coming back? Could he come back? And then people were just giving their opinions. And I get that they're paid to give their opinions, but I just get so sensitive
about it. I was watching one show one night and this person said, save your leg, don't come back, and I thought to myself, you don't even know him, first of all, and I get sensitive with that, but I also thought, your attitude on television is just like save your leg, don't even do it. Like, I just get so frustrated because I don't know. It just bums me out. I don't know why what I always think, No, I don't. I mean, I don't think you have to apologize for that.
I think that there's a couple factors in that that we know that some people in television like the theatrics.
That's like to your point, they're like paid to that that's fine. Everyone's got different roles in this industry, and there's rooms to everyone. I just couldn't imagine commenting on somebody that I don't I haven't first had spoken to or been like and that's not true. I mean, I shouldn't do such a blanket statement because I know that we have analysis of all the time in what they do. I do it on Sunday, I do it on Thursday.
But as far as like their timeline of coming back from an injury or sort of that peak behind the curtain, if I'm not their doctor, if I'm not their psychologists, and if I'm not their friend, it'd be like if someone said to me, like, oh, you know, you had to sit out a few weeks and couldn't do your job, Like, It'd be so hard for me not to do my job because I love it so much. So if you want to come back and you know your body and you know your mind like and you can like, that
is ultimately your decision. So yeah, that's a whole other podcast that we could go on and on about, but we will leave it right there.
Okay, So those were our games.
Obviously incredible games for both of us this week, which is the best of both worlds when you get to have a great game and also.
Go to cool places.
Okay, so one thing that I you and I both love and this little clip. I know you've done a podcast with Hotocopy, who I just think she is just the best. She's like a she's an Oprah righty day wants to sit down. Yeah, everybody wants to sit down and talk to her. She's so relatable.
She just is.
I don't have any relationship with her. I've never I've met her once, but like you, I know, have you know, been on the show and done her podcast, so you could speak to her miss great?
I could.
But she sat down with Julia Roberts and I saw this clip today and it resonated with me because a Julia Roberts got bangs.
So I just want to start closing.
Okay, So that's one by proxy, it makes me closer to her. Be sure, we also have banks, although her real flowing lu like luscious locks are real in mine art. Okay, So we love Julia Roberts and we love her banks. But Hoda was asking. She said, whenever you talk about your family, it feels like you're just you're at home. Immediately when you talk about them and Julia Roberts, who is Oscar Award winner, one of the biggest movie stars of our generation, and then some and I'm on the
mount rushmore of actresses. For me, she said, I give all the credit to Danny Motor, to her husband, for she said, and that's not to turn it all over to him, but he is the captain of our ship
and he keeps us going in the right direction. And basically just professed this intense love and appreciation that she has for him, and it hit It resonated with me because I just think about all the time, like, you know, we need to be independent women, and it's like, look at us, and we're doing all these things, and it's
like that's great. But there's also a man, if you're lucky enough to have on the other side of that, that is strong enough to let you be the woman, to let you be Roberts, Julia Roberts, and he's taking care of the kids at home, or maybe he's doing all these things that she can't do because she's on
a set or because she's doing these things. And it's like her first thought when talking about family was that it's none of it without him, and I just thought that was so beautiful and it was a testament as I'm trying to find my balance of you know, feminine energy and not feeling like I always have to be
like well, I just have to do it all. It's like, no, like pass the baton off to a partner, and I'm lucky enough in my life now to have a partner then I can pass it off to because for the longest time, and I don't know if anyone listening feels like this, and if you do, then stay with me. Here inside my house was such chaos. I couldn't wait to get out of the house. It was like my peace was outside the walls of my house. And so I wanted to go on the road. I wanted to
be away from the house. I wanted to do anything. I would like get depressed knowing I had to come home because I had to face this horrible four walls of my existence. Now I have someone that's inside the house that is peace, so when there's chaos and there has been outside the house, I can't wait to come into the house like my safe space now.
So there's been like this.
Paradigm shift where I just appreciate having a partner that makes everything stable and smooth. Because when I heard her say that, I was like, Oh, she can like go out there and be her and then she gets to come home and it's just like a great place to be.
So kudos for all the men or the.
Women if you're you know, or your partner, whoever your partner is that keeps you steady so you can go out and shine or do your job. Because I think that it's definitely something I've never had, so when I now had it, I'm like, oh, and it was nice to hear her say that. So Julia, I see you and Hodah you're adorable, and Danny Motor you're the captain.
Yeah, I'm the captain. Good for you. It's a good transition because I've really struggled this week with I can't do it all and I would love to know, and I've talked to Hoda. I've talked to Hoda a little bit about this, and I'd love to talk to Julia and whenever she has time for us to come on the Calm Down podcast of when she maybe what's the word when she not gave up but was just like, Okay, I can't do this all I surrender, surrender to it.
Yeah, yeah, last and not try to keep all the balls juggling in the air.
Yeah, yep. I had family in town and I was dealing with stuff. I was trying to deal with the holiday. I was trying to deal with this game, and there was just some things falling through the cracks, and I literally fell through the cracks, and like I just like started feeling like I was having panic attacks, like I was having chest pains. I know, I need to go talk to someone because I'm having a hard time surrendering.
I'm having a hard time thinking like, well, if I give this power up, then what's going to happen to this? Like even little things, Chris, I'll like prime example, turning off making sure I have somebody help me turn off the alarm at my office. So when the cleaning lady shows up on Sunday and I'm at the field at the link, it doesn't really it doesn't. You get the three hundred dollars showed up, caught Philip, that happened to me, and you're paying three hundred and fifty dollars because they
didn't have the alarm code. Yeah, And after I get off Live with the Pregame show. I look down and I've got seventeen thousand texts in miss calls, and I'm crying yep, and I'm just like my husband's like, I will do it. You need to just tell me, and
it's me so rendering the power. And then you know, the line I gave him and one of my girlfriends last week was like, I feel like I'm just giving twenty percent of myself to things in my life right now, whereas before I'm like a hundred here, one hundred here, one hundred and seventy five year, Like I just and
I feel like nothing is coming out right. And it was really refreshing because I was having this full blown meltdown, which I felt like an asshole doing because my girlfriends, Megan Carter Jacqueline Quick have multiple children, and they said I felt dumb telling them that when I have help and I only have one kid, and they're like, but we don't have a full time job where we travel, so that think of that as an extra kid. But they were like, this is called motherhood and this is
what it's going to be like. And I was like, wait, this is what it's like. This is wild there's a lot of lessons I'm going to have to learn, and I have to just I have to be nicer to myself. I have to be nicer to my hu, I have to be patient. Yeah, there's a lot of lessons, and I think I thought it was going to be a lot easier than it is.
Okay, And I will say I will say this, and I don't have children, so I can't lend any two though your.
Dogs and you have jobs and have responsibility.
Yeah, sure, but but that's not a human I will say this, though, give yourself grace because I have I don't have children, but I have similar meltdowns, the same thing where And I'm sure anyone that's listening has a multitude of responsibilities and whatever those look like, and that you do feel. And that's why it's all relatable because people are like, how do you do it all?
Right?
The key is is not feeling like you have to do it all outsourcing some of those we do it all, we do.
But I have gotten so much. I have to tell you, I have gotten so much better. I walked out to this garage, and this garage was a hot mess because it's this is also where I do the podcast and it's my house and home office. And I had it double the storage because I had to deliver a bunch of stuff to the ranch. Anyways, long story short, walked out here and now I can't find it to Steve putting this garage back together, and there was a night Oh my god, look at my COUCHIESE Harry is also
still on here. So there's that on this notepad.
Steve had written a nice note and he was like, you don't have to do it all.
Lean on me.
And it was like, lean on me. What a great song and movie that is. But AnyWho, you don't get an award for doing it all. I think that the strongest people that I know are the people that say, hey, I can't. So I'm going to designate the people that I'm going to outsource this, and I'm going to outsource this, and I'm going to go to work and I'm going to focus on making the money to pay for those things and then all works harmoniously together. But you have
to give yourself some grace. And my dad taught me this one thing. It's called CNN. CNN like the news station, but not the news station. Critical need and nice and you need to make a list what things are critical they need to get done this week, what things need to get done this week, and what things would be nice to get done this week. And then you're a big list person, go down the critical and check those things off.
But then like if you don't get to the other stuff, that's okay.
Or sit down with Jarrett and say like, hey, the cleaner comes on these days, if I can designate that to you, I didn't pick up the dogs from the dog rumor Steve wouldn't pick them up for you, because before I would be like I have to do the dip, divide and conquer. Like you guys are a team and it's the same thing that you would do and think about.
We love covering sports. Deebo Samuel doesn't play defense. Deebo Samuel is non special teams. Deebo Samuel doesn't play the quarterback position. Deebo Samuel does his job. Christian McCaffrey does his job. Everyone do your job. And right now it is football season for you and you need to focus on that and you need to focus on being a mother. Like those are those things like who cares that the
house isn't perfect? Who cares so I just think that you really need to give yourself some grace, pour yourself a glass of wine tonight, sit on that couch with that beautiful baby and dog and husband of yours, and make a list and outsource some of those things. And you are not a freaking hero by doing it all. And by the way, like who wants to do that?
Like there is no award show at the end of this life that says you did all of these things.
No, your could probably fail on it anyways, because I don't want to go to anything right now, Like literally, I don't want to go anywhere and do anything. But don't you feel like sometimes for me or I'm like this, I don't know about you. I'd rather not delegate stuff because it's gonna take me too long to explain it. I'd rather just do it myself some of those. But that's where they don't do it, and then I do the pregame show and my fucking alarm goes off. No,
but things like that, but I cry. But that's where you have.
To say, like some of those things are too small, you don't need to be doing them, Like that's just simple text, like hey, can you under the alarm? Or set yourself a timer and under the alarm before you
do the fre game whatever. It is, like, there's always going to be a solution, but the point is not getting so backed up and then have I By the way, I need to take my own advice, because I'm the same way now, but I think that I also like I had to do two things, and I was supposed to have plans to do two things.
I bailed on both of them because.
I was like, I'm baaring on everything, and I don't feel bad anymore for doing that, and I'm just honest about it.
I'm like, hey, you know what, now is not a good time.
Let's pick it back up at the end of the season and my you know whatever, it's okay.
Yeah, by the way, I'll probably like when you bail, so.
Release yourself and get surrendered to like needing to do it all before we let you go. Though we let you go as your guest down podcast of mine. Your shirt is and that's all. Put it all in perspective. And there's every other recipient of the past Summer All Award, which is I'm so proud of you for from last year. You're wearing a Saint Jude shirt, tell everyone who can see it, and tell everyone who's listening how they can get involved.
Well, and then I wanted to bring that up. This shirt saves lives Saint Jude obviously. I mean, if you don't know about Saint Jude and gosh, just look at them on Instagram. Laarlow Thomas just one of the most amazing experiences places. What they do is is just God's work. But I will tell you, and then you get in this spot and you know where I am. And I've been this last week where I just like everything you sets me either over the edge or like makes me emotional.
And I sit there and I look at Saint Jude's stuff, and now that I have this baby, I'm like, oh my God, like you relax with your life. It could be so much worse, Like I have no reason to be stressed out like these parents, and and you know, these doctors that are trying to save lives are the ones that have, you know, so much responsibility and stuff going on in their life. So you know, I just basically, when you come down to it, I've really been a ball of fine, you know, I really have.
And then I'm doing great. Set You're doing great. And here's the thing.
You don't have to apologize, and you don't have to also, Yes, what that's happening at Saint Jude and those babies there and those kids and those family, that's their journey and you shouldn't like you are doing what you can to support them. Yeah, like you don't. This is you have your own path and your own certain things that that are stressful. But the fact that you even acknowledge that there are bigger things out So give yourself some grace. Don't be so hard on yourself. Grace. She died forty
years ago. Is your house on fire? Clark?
We're on fire, And we could talk for another forty five minutes, but we'll wrap it up here. Plenty more to discuss. My to do list is on my list of topics. Headline in the paper, what do you think it's going to be? Aaron Andrews, She's a mass Aaron Andrews breaks down, and Steve's having an affair with Chloe Kardashian.
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