Episode 253: Pregame - I Can’t Handle Fake People

to answer them. And Carissa, this one, wait for it, I sound like I'm seventy five really stumped us. Oh god. The question comes from Blake Johnson at twelve ninety eight, and you would think it'd be easy for us to answer. But when you've done this job for so long, you've interviewed a lot of people, the question is one current player you want to interview, but having yet Aaron and

I were thinking about this. We have obviously been very lucky. Aaron, you interview a lot more people than I do because you're doing you do NFL films, so you get to talk to a lot of guys. Yes, and I love that and those are actually some of my favorite things, long form interviews. But I'm saying like in all your postgame interviews, your production meetings, like you get access to all of like a lot of these guys, I would say, if I have to say football, this is what I

like Caleb Williams. My idea here is like you interview a rookie in the league, and then you reinterview them in five years and you almost pull back up the answers to their questions in their rookie season and then five years later, like how much they've learned in that time span. So someone like him when you talk about a current player, but outside of football, I really would want to interview a Rinaldo or a Messy And because in my limited experience of covering soccer covered one World

Cup for Yahoo Sports years and years ago. But I was blown away by you know, football is our mecca here in the NFL, but football on a global scale, soccer on a global scale, is insane and I can't imagine. And I watched his wife's reality show, What a gal she is. I just think it's really fascinating the stardom that they have on a global level. So Ronaldo or MESSI would be mine outside of American football yours. This was hard because, like you said, we get a lot

of these guys in production meetings. I know that's not like a sit down interview that we get to do for the Fox pregame show. I've talked to this guy a million times, especially when he was the defensive coordinator for the San Francisco forty nine ers. I have not done a sit down interview ever with him. I'd love

to talk to Demiko. I know that you just did one and you said it was great, Right, Aaron, when I tell you, I have never sat and this is and I have been very lucky to sit with great and this is not a knock on any previous coaches that I've sat for players. I have never walked out of an interview and wanted to be a better person the way that I did with Demiico Ryan's I left there.

I had to sit there for a second after he left the room and be like and look around, and I looked at our camera guys and our production car I go, does anybody else like feel like they're a terrible human and you just want to go back out into the world and like action, No because it's just he's so infectious and like motivating and every I remember Richard Sherman telling me because he had played underneath him in San Francisco and it Richard responds very well to

a positive type of coach, like a Pete Carroll that instead of you know, uh, speaking natively like oh, you fucked that up, it's like, hey, you did great here, but let's work on this area because I think you could be better here, and just that like flip of the script. Instead of leading with negativity, Demiko leads with

so much positivity. And I was like, and I can't wait actually to see that piece come together for NFL Films this season when it airs, I'll make sure to let all of our listen to let us know that I think you would. You would because sometimes you and I will. We definitely vent and we use our friendship for a lot of different reasons, but to like keep us out of therapy. We just bent to each other.

And I think when sometimes when you meet those people that are so positive, you're like, Okay, I'm going to try not to bitch as much, and then I go back to but at least minute I'm positive, I will say I had a chance a couple of years ago to interview the entire offensive line for the Philadelphia Eagles and the retire what was that from? She was on variations, that's hysterical. I would love to sit down again with another offensive line group. Yes, that was What is that

hard for you to do those kinds of interviews? I sat down with the offensive line for the Detroit Lions, and those guys as you know, like they're just they don't love the spotlight like they're they're guys that are just, you know, get into the trenches, do our job, and so it's like you got to pull stuff out of not everyone's like a Trent Williams that is, you know, so large and bigger than life. But I don't know, sometimes I find those interviews really difficult for me. I

love them, but they're just hard. It's a good challenge. Yeah, Dwayne Johnson and Jason Kelsey obviously are the talkers in that group, but everybody else was so much fun. I just remember our photo that I have with those big beauties, and it was one of my favorites. Judy Witt underscore you heard me, And how do you handle fake people? I can't. I have the worst time handling them. I am not an actress. I am I'm not good at

hiding my emotions with anybody that's fake. I can take doses of fake people, but if you expect me to be around somebody that is fake, it's gonna be a problem. Yeah. I think it's good. I don't know. I I have less talk learns then I used to for that. But I also try to look at it like this, like ooh, that sucks to be them, Like I feel bad. I don't have life figured out. I got a lot of deficiencies that I work on daily. But one thing that I do try to pride myself on, and I know

you're the same way. We almost do it to a fault. I know a Constance gets mad at us, which is very sweet. She's like, stop self deprecating on everything. But we are both very You and I are both very self aware. So I think sometimes when I see fake people, I almost feel bad for them. I feel bad that they are putting on this act and I think about how much energy it must take to have this facade and to play this character or play this role, and they must get home or get in their car after

they're done performing and be like that's exhausting. I obviously sometimes get in trouble for being so real, but I think that it is. It's it's a lot less weight to carry being authentic. So for fake people, I feel bad for you, and I hope that one day you can just be who you really want to be. And it's very liberating, is what I will say to that. I got, oh, yeah, yeah, let's go. Let's go. No no, go, go no no. I just when we talked about being so self deprecating, I and this is a topic for

the Big Show, which we've already talked about. I almost go out of my way to just cut myself down, which isn't a good quality in front of other people so they will feel comfortable. And we got to a Fourth of July party and I had a massive, massive, super duper breakout, used an incredible scrub, have some anxiety right now in my life, and wow, it's just like you said, tipography and people can see it like there's no way they can miss it on my face. But

I felt the need. When people were like, oh my god, good to see you guys. We haven't seen you guys since the winter, I was like, yeah, but my zits are so excited to see you, like we get it. Are everyone in the entire barbecue you heard it, so you know. But I feel like it's comfortable for them to hear it instead of looking at me and going home and being like, what I know, Yeah, I know, I don't know. But I think that's sometimes. I mean, it's all I think. It's also part of your charm

is that you are so like open about it. But yeah, I don't know if maybe we can we can both like be let Yeah we could use some toner maybe that don't share the breakout Anonymous. My friends always hijack our dinner conversation to talk about their kids. Help you

take this away, sister, you have a kid. You I'm trying really really hard, except for lately I've been really My poor dear friend Chris has been hearing a lot of shit and life about this, but we try really hard not to because we're kind of like, who wants to hear about your kid? I don't know. I think also too, that has a lot to do with Jared and I having kids so late in our life. Now, am I guilty of pulling out the photo and sending everybody pictures of Mac walking and this in this but yeah,

we're doing that. But I think we're super conscious of it because we forever were the ones that were like, it's just us. I don't know, what do you think? Ah, that's interesting. I think about it like that, like you're trying to be sensitive maybe to other people that like want a kid and don't have one. I think you. If anything, I'm the one that has to like ask you like cause you're so you don't want to do that.

I'm like, Okay, what's going on? Or I or I asked you, like for more pictures or more videos of Mac because I just want to know his every moment. I wish I could have like a tracker on. I mean,

like see what he's doing. But I don't know. I think in this particular situation, like if that's all they want to talk about, see if you can steer the conversation in a different direction, like ask them like yeah, like you have to be like, Okay, we don't want to go down this lane anymore, so like redirect the conversation to things that don't have anything to do with their kids, and if they keep going back to it, be like Okay, who wants to a drinking game, called

your kids every time you mentioned them, We're going to take a drink. And if they don't get the point, I wouldn't go to dinner with that man. That's what I'm yeah, or they're paying Wait, I love his name. Going with the flow twenty two. Are you counting the days until football season or wishing for more summer days? I love your handle on your name. I think it's both.

I think I'm leaving tomorrow on a red eye to go do an interview for NFL Films, and I already looked at my calendar for the rest of July and it's twenty days of work, which is great. So I already feel like I'm kind of back in the swing the season, not our normal schedule swing. So yeah, I'm excited. I do wish I had like one more week to just do like I want to. I want to go

meet you where you're at right now. I want to, Like There's other things I want to do and I'm not going to be able to do them, So yeah, I wish there was a I just wish there was more days. But it doesn't mean that I don't want to work because I love our job, and I know, like even you know, watching TV right now and all these like the camps and everything that are going to start and ot is all that stuff, Like, yeah, it's a little bit of both. I missed the news coming

from camps. I wish no offense to the boys. I wish they would report and not because I just A'm like interested, you know where I am right now, there's a couple of football players out here, and so I'm like, what's going on? What's new? I also start to get super like panic, Like shit, when do I start like putting my notes together? Yeah, prepping, But yeah, I missed the chatter. Before we got on, I said to Ryan, what's new in the sports world? I don't even know? Yeah,

politics is what's taking center stage right now. Yeah, sure is.

like Pilot needs his medicine every day. Like there's like, there's certain things and there are a lot of responsibilities. So I'm not currently adding to the roster at Ruby Ranch, but I would love to get some sheep. I want to get another horse at some point. So yeah, there's obviously always plans to increase the tribe there. I just have to make sure that I am cognizant of Tony's workload and making sure that the other animals don't suffer

because I'm continuing to add more. But yeah, she where's the Oh my god, she killed the snake this morning? She sent me a picture. There was a Tony. She sent me a picture, So I Steve had to kill a snake last time we were there, not this like the last time. And it was a massive rattlesnake. She sent us a picture this morning, Aaron. It was I'm not kidding. This must have been like an eight foot long snake. It was so massive, and it's right where I feed Oz, like on the side of my house.

And I was thinking to myself, Oh my god, I'm like God, I didn't see that snakes. I mean it's inevitable. Like it's a ranch, there's gonna be snakes and when

it's hot out like I was. Dion has a ranch in Texas and Sanders and talks about how many rattlesnakes there are, y'all this y'all Kelly, Yeah, I don't know what I would do if, like, I mean, I've seen the snakes, but like having to like if I even got close enough where I could have been, like, I don't know, stepped on it or something like Steve was out in his bare feet the other day and I go, what is wrong with you? Like if you step on like a rattlesnake, a cockroach, like anything, It's over. I

don't know. You're in the woods. Are there rattlesnakes there? Scary? Are we out of the wood? No, we don't have rattlesnakes. We saw a baby fox outside our house today. Yoh, there's bears. There's a couple of bears which I don't want to see. But yeah, did you see that video of that mom? Oh yeah, it was on our text chain. I don't know if you guys saw this, Oh my god, Yeah,

this mom was incredible. Her baby like walked out the back door and the baby was like, oh, look a bear, like said bear and the mom was like, come back here, Phoebe or whatever the kid's name was, and she was like, oh shit, it was actually a bear and like grabbed the kid and like ran back inside. That is cuckoo. There is a lot of like videos because I get on like the ring cameras up at the lake house,

that these bears are like and I feel bad. Did you see actually in La there was a bear like in a neighborhood park, like in the pool or like these poor bears are getting displaced because all of these like residential places you know, are like being constructed, and it's like displacing these animals. It is very sad. But oh my god, a bear. I would That was a long answer to this question. No, that's great, h J Repo two one. Sorry I'm stealing from you. Ideal Sunday

morning in the off season. Mine is I can't sleep in anymore anyways, cup of coffee sitting outside, Take me to brunch and a Salve Blanc or a mimosa. I'm good, I'm excited. That's a great one. I do love a brunch situation. I also like not having to wake up. I mean, you wake up earlier than I do with the babes. But yeah, I like that there is an alarm like that first Sunday after the season's over, and that'll actually going off for a Yeah. No, you know what.

You know who I think about every time my alarm goes off on a Sunday at three thirty AM. Is news anchors or the good morning football peeps of the world that we love that do a morning show every single day. I don't know, do you ever I guess we could ask Shregs or Jamie. Do you ever get used to that when that alarm goes off? Everything? I used to always think I wanted to host a morning show. Now I'm not so sure. I mean, look, I know, but I want to host it with you. No, I would.

I would wake up our dream to host like the Kelly and whatever version of it is, because that's nine o'clock. We're fine there, We've been manifesting that we can do that. We're gonna we're gonna be cut. Yeah, that's our Look, that's fine. We have we would cross dream jobs, but like, it'd be so fun doing a morning show. Can we get like a petition. Can people start signing a petition? Again? We're in our manifestation. I feel like Fox should have

us do like a morning at nine o'clock. And I was gonna say, Rupert, is that you an tanks, t t and ks. So what do you like most about your job? What do god? I feel? I guess what I like most is that it doesn't feel like a job. Yeah, I feel like it is something where we can It feels a little bit like a job, sure, or the three third am thing. But I mean, look, we get to hang out. I mean especially you know, we talk

all the time on our podcast. I'm here on our podcast because what else are we talking on right now about our guys that we go on the road with or in studio with our family. And I just love that every time I get to go to quote work is with people I love and consider family. It's the freaking best And like, the guys in the league are awesome and just I don't know, it's a dream job. It always has felt that way, agreed. You get the best seat in the house to the most talented athletic

beasts there are in professional sports. You get to see it up close and personal. I have like thirty best friends on my crew that I love so much. That's been really cool about you know, Tom coming to our crew is that, you know, I've kind of been saying, Okay, so this person is this and he's my work husband, and then this person is my other work husband and

this guy. So that's like it kind of refreshes you that I apparently am married to a lot of men, but know that, like all these guys are just your closest friends. And actually, the other night, somebody said to me, like, who's the biggest asshole in the league that you don't want to talk to? And I was like, no, And everyone is so nice and so inviting and just always so cool to me. That I love that about the NFL. Yep, it's the best. Is a dream job and that's why

we are so grateful for it. We got a lot to discuss on the million. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. You're right, Okay, you guys we talked about this before. We love anonymous questions, but then we have follow ups, right, Like, we're just naturally inquisitive about we need more information. So we've got our first anonymous follow up from August of last year, the anonymous said, kissed my best guy friend. Give it a shot or stay friends. We told her, Aaron, We told her why not go for it, go for it,

and the follow up is go for it. We gave it a try and then he tore his ACL. I attempted to nurse him back to health and ended up fighting. We ended up fighting, and he didn't love me taking care of him. He wanted to take care of me sweet, but he wasn't capable of that. The man was on crutches. Anyway, we are back to being besties and closer than ever. He moved a few blocks away from me, and we are each other's number one supporters. You're going to end

up back together. I think that's very impressive that you could go back to the best friend situation, because I mean, I don't know how physical y'all got, but I feel like if you slept together and then you could just easily go back to all diss kissed though, what that's it? I think she got his best friend, given a shot or state friends. I had it in my mind too that they got physical. He tore his ACL while being physical. I got it. I see what's going on here? No,

I'm just kidding. I don't know. I just I think that that's very impressive if you can go right back, because I feel like once that line's been crossed, you like always, even if you don't have the feelings anymore, you cross the line and you can undo it. But good for you. I think these people are going to hook back up. I think they're going to hook back up after a couple tequila waters and look, Jerry in a lane from Seinfeld. It was like, I want to

give it a try. They hooked up in the beginning, Okay, then they hooked up in the middle again. Oh and then like there was apparently the last episode when they were going to go down in the plane and I think Alane was going to tell Jerry she always loved him, but then it ended up. Sorry if I'm spoiling the Seinfeld finale, but that was for a while. You're good

on that one. Don't worry about that. I mean another thing H series called urb Your Phusiasm that I don't think he's worried about you ruining the ending of Seinfeld. Oh my god, we have a headline coming up for the big show calling saying, embrace those awkward sex talks. I feel like you will have a lot to say. I'm not awkward about anything. I mean, I think that's the problem. If we've learned anything here about me, it's

that you know I'm an open book. How about when I tried to explain the dare to DM at Max's birthday party and people were like, you did what? I was like, guys, look, you know there's a time and a place for everything. That's amazing. And with that, I think we're going to say goodbye to everyone because we are just coming out of fine and we'll keep this going on the big big show. I'll be your eighty seven,

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