Episode 288: Happy Thanksgiving & Calm Down!

you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I love that Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio. You go talk to your friends up, do you visit? Talk to me? I really want to go to Vancouver for the Eras tour. We have zeral fucking time to do that. I She's like so emotional in this Toronto tour. We're crying, We're upset. Think about how much your life is evolved in the Eras tour. That's what we're talking about, ladies

and gentlemen. Her last weekend is coming up, and I really really would love to Jennifer Thompson, my sister and my niece are going and is it this weekend, very jealous. I don't know. Is it? I don't know? Is there any way we can go? Oh my god, I'm off? Oh my god, you are off. I'm not. When is it? Though? Maybe I could make it? Well, I'll be in Minnesota on so I'll be in Kansas City on Thursday and Friday. I'll be on Minnesota on Saturday. And I was supposed

to be at Fox on Sunday. Debatable, so might be tough. Welcome everybody to the Calm Down Podcast, where we are in our football era, where my girl just got off a flight from Green Bay, her second show. He will because his game is on Friday. On Friday, Yeah, we show. Is it this weekend? I don't know. Look it up while I tell everybody what we're going to try out December six, not this weekend. We're being nice hall scenario

in our heads. But wait, like most things that we do in life, because we try to convince ourselves of things, Okay, well we could goo then, oh you can't. I'm in La. Well I'm in La. Wait, you're in La that weekend? Yeah, okay, we're going to off figure this out offline. Anyone that knows this podcast and know It was named Calm Down, not because of taylor'swilt, but it's really worked out that way because we love her. You understand the need and

want to finish this thing out London. I still think the dream of London London was I'm so sorry I forget that. Okay, I'm so glad. We also are in Week twelve. Week twelve is over tonight after the Ravens Chargers game. Since we tape our podcast on Monday. Aaron was in Green Bay, I was in Cleveland. We're going to chat about that. We're also going to talk about Christmas shopping and why I'm never doing it again with Steve.

We're talking about my New Year's resolutions. I'm starting before New Year's Okay, there, and then Aaron has a follow up to some of your guys' comments on her talking to me on the phone while in line ordering a smoothie. All right, and with that we say hello everybody, and welcome to the Calm Down Podcast. You straight off a plane. The delays are starting. It is thanks Oh wait, hold on, our podcast comes down on Thursday. It will be epy Thanksgiving.

So happy Thanksgiving to all of you guys that listen to our podcast. Thank you for going on this journey with us, and I'm very thankful for so many things in my life, but especially just this platform too, for Aaron and I to chat but also make friends. You guys are so wonderful. When we see you out on the road and either you say hi and say you listen to podcast, or you have a cute sign or whatever it is, we love you, and we thank you, and we hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I love that.

Just got back from Green Bay. The airports are starting to get crowded. Enjoy every minute of being on al Michaels is playing this on Weekeds like this, it's a lot. But yeah, there were delays. It's just Flying through o' hair is the home alone movie every single time. I did it four times this week, Flying through real hair. Wow, Yeah, it's wild. It's fucking wild. And today I was like, I knew we were going to be delayed. I knew like I was gonna when you just laugh to yourself,

I'm like, okay, but it was fine. I just yeah, it was good. But today, this week a short week for us. We leave Wednesday, calls start tomorrow. Already kind of said my box out in forty five minutes, which I haven't packed for for Dallas. But there you have it. It's week fourteen. Let's go. I knows as sometimes these weeks I don't know. I guess it's like when you have children. As I say, days are long, but the

years are quick kind of a thing. This feels and maybe you can't say this right now because you're just on the heels of a terrible flight home, but it feels fast. It's week thirteen. It feels fast. It always flies right after Thanksgiving, Like this is where it's just like, wait, what happened? We're doing Super Bowl stuff now, what's going on? So, yeah, it's flown. I'm gonna do a little bit of non bitching right now, which I know is exciting. And Steve

and Jarrett would appreciate this portion of the show. Lambo's fucking cool. Yeah, Lambo's fucking cool at night. It's just the people are so nice. Our game, you know, sucks. It was such a bummer that Brock and Nick Gosa didn't play, and they have a bunch, you know, Trent Williams and so forth, and it wasn't the matchup we had wanted. But it still it looked like they were going to have a little bit of a chance in there. But Lambo at night, it is just such a time.

It is so great. I had a chance to sit down with Jordan Love this weekend, and Chris and I speak all the time about a producer that does our features. His name is Joel Santos. He's the most talented person I think I've ever worked with. Holy shit, that feature and it was Jordan was so lovely in it, and I thought the parts where he was looking over at Lambeau were really great. But it was shot so beautifully. It made Lambeau look like a cathedral. I loved it

so much. Any sports geek out there, if Kevin said this yesterday, if you haven't gone to Lamba and you love sports, make a trip. It's so fun. If you cover sports, you'd never forget your first trip to Lambo. I think even Tom said it on Your Guys's broadcast, where it's like it's just it is the mecca of the NFL and all of the storied history and Vince Lombardi's name up on you know, the Ring of Honor

and just sort of everything that comes with Lambeau. But I just have to say, and this is again, Yes, there's always the x's and o's of football, and we study our ass off and all these other stuff, but I'm gonna be the girl for a second. Seeing you in that interview, like lit perfectly in your hair on one side, and you had this skirt on with nylons and heels, and like, we don't have to see our

girls a short like but it was classy. It was everything in like the lights, and you brought the best out in him, and you're the best to do those. You are just you have a way of disarming people and it's it was fun to watch as a fan of football. But also you know, just having done a million of my own interviews to watch you get the best out of him, I really enjoyed it. And you

should be very fund yourself for that. It was a bitch to get to and do all that, but in the end you never regret doing it because it's worth it. So did you love my ah and n leather skis dude from H and EM Aaron? Yes? It was How cool is that? And it's fake leather? But how I was keeping that from you? I was about to FaceTime you as I was walking out the door and being like, look, how fuck and awesome this is. But I didn't want

to ruin the surprise. Okay, so that's so exciting. Yesterday I was waiting for your I was actually home by myself. Steven went to the Rams game. I didn't get home until later, and so I couldn't go to it, but he was gone. It was that moment where like I walked in the door and I love Steves. We get it,

we love Steve. But it's the moment that I know I'm walking through that door and no one's home, and I'm going to pour myself a glass of wine after I take a shower and wash all my makeup off, and I'm gonna sit on that couch and I'm gonna watch the Sunday night game. And it's like I just can do anything I want. Do you want the temperature hot? Do you want the temperature cold? No one's talking to you.

It's great. So I was like waiting for you to call me because for our normal Sunday, But then I figured, like I just did. It was so late, but I was. I almost called you, and I was like, she's like, you know whatever, probably having a cocktail and in a meeting room having seventeen cocktails. But when you were we were on our text chain with con and you were she said she asked you. She's like, that's from H and M. And you didn't respond and I was like, oh,

there's no way. And I say that like in the best way, because there's nothing better than having to fucking rad outfit. And you're like, yes, it was Amazon, or it was AH and M or it was whatever. It was good cool? Is it really good? Yeah? Someone saying on your comments you look like a Russian spy I've worn or a fighter pilot. I've worn everything you could

possibly wear. At Lambeau Green Bay, you know, cooler temperatures, and my qutcute stylist, Daniella, was like, let's try this like ski suit, and I was like, I don't know, and I tried it on. I was like, well, I fucking not. I wish I had. I wish I had that ski suit when I was trying to be a snow queen and then it ended up snowing because when we were in Cleveland, it was supposed to be cold, like like the weather report, and you know, I don't

love a weather report. Aaron always asked me two things, where are you staying and what's the weather, to which I always say, I don't know where you're going to dinner, So I packed clothes, like, obviously it's going to be cold. It's Cleveland in November, okay, And anyone that's been to Cleveland in in the winter knows that wind off the lake because the stadium is right next to Lake Erie. It is cold. It is eerie, all right. It is cold, it is windy, and it was supposed to be rainy.

But I hadn't anticipated that the snow was going to come down the way it did, Like when the before and after shots of the stadium when the game started, even at halftime, it wasn't like that to the end

of the game. And it was so fun. It was probably you were we were texting throughout the game and you're like, I'm so jealous that you're working a game like this because it was fun and like you feel like little kids again in the snow and like our snowball fight after and Jamis, I know everyone talks about

it because they should. He is a national treasure. The things that come out of this this guy's mouth are so great and his love and joy of the game, and Fits played with him in Tampa and Fits just talked about how this guy makes everything better, like in a locker room, just this infectious energy. And look, this was a team that before the win, they were two and eight. They don't have a lot to root for.

They're obviously not going to make the postseason, right, and to go into a game like that against a Steelers team who's rolling, who was eight and two, they had one six straight, like this whole thing, and so it was just like a really fun game for a lot of different reasons. Obviously not if you're a Steelers fan, but it reminded me that like someone like Jamis can come in and attitude is everything that you can like change how people feel about things, even if you're having

not having the year that you want. So kudos to Jamis and how adorable you are. Can I say that about the TNF pree halftime and postgame show, you guys, if you think of any pregame desk to sit there and do that post game with the elements with Jamis, it was so fitting and so perfect. You guys ran out and did that. I was looking at the pictures the next morning like a five year old just I couldn't get enough of the photos of it. I couldn't get enough of you guys doing you know, sliding, slip

and slides. I was. I was such a proud friend. You looked so perfect. I know you said you weren't dressed appropriately or whatever. I thought you was a little snow going. I saw your little pants getting wet. So cute. But it was so much fun. I am in love with your crew that you have. Like I've said, I feel like I'm a part of it. You are just because there I from you all friends and I The pictures were amazing. Okay, this is what I was worried

about the whole broadcast though. How is everybody getting home? This? This looks very dangerous to drive in. Well, this is again why Jamis is so great. Witt asked him to go to snow Angels and he's like, yeah, let's go do it. As he points to the crowd, and he's like, okay, everyone drive home safely now, like what quarterback in the National football he gets pointing to the audience, making sure that they're getting home safely. Adorable, How do we get home?

I mean, it was okay, like like the fans and stuff, those conditions were very well, you're a weather you're a weather woman. I mean you understand. But no, there's uh, there's some games that are just better than others. The gable because the game was also great. So like great at first everyone, because you know how this goes. We're in the green room and at this point we're prepping to like interview. We're like, okay, ask for Russell on the desk. These are what we're going to talk about

in postgame. The Steelers are going to win. And then it's like wait a minute, redirect not the case, but all right, can I do a real quick speaking of players and interviewing and all that. A little shout out to Josh Jacobs three touchdowns yesterday he free agent signing by the Green Bay Packers. Came over from the Vegas Raiders. Don't know if a lot of you know about his story. He's had a tough life, lived in a car at one point of his life, lived in fifteen different places.

Just a guy that really made a lot out of himself from coming from a really tough background. And those are the stories that we all love to people. We love to cheer for in the stories that you read and stuff as you're prepping for these guys. A gorgeous smile, seems like a great dude talking to Matt Lafleur and Jordan Love. They fucking love this guy. And listen, he came in for a guy, and Aaron Jones at that

entire community and organization loved. I still loved. The day I saw he wasn't going back there hurt my heart. Jacobs is a fucking baller and he those guys say that he when he is going up against defenders, he talks more shit than they've ever heard. And I love that. And he wouldn't tell you. I want to know what he's but there were so many miss tackles yesterday by San Francisco. They had their own thing to deal with,

and he was finding all these holes. And what a cool story for him, like to come to Vegas, and obviously Vegas is Vegas, but Green Bay is the royalty part, you know, the upper echelon of the NFL. And for him to come there and you know, fill in for Aaron Jones and pick up right where he left off and do other things as well, it's amazing and I'm so happy for him, and so happy he's wearing my

dad's favorite team colors. So he's a great deal. And as you're saying all that, I couldn't help but think of another running back who has moved from one team to another. Oh, absolutely lost his damn you mentioned Josh hen retouchdowns yesterday. You have Saquon Barkley, who himself rushed for two hundred and sixty yards. Go ahead, two hundred and sixty yards. Like he's such a sweet These were three hundred total scrimmaget like, I'm a this guy. And so the last non quarterback to win an MVP was

Adrian Peterson back in twenty twelve. And I'm sorry, but Saquon Barkley the year that this guy is having when you tie. I know that most MVPs always go to a quarterback, and I can understand why. You can easily argue it's the hardest position in sports other than I don't know. I guess sometimes people say pitcher in baseball, I say a quarterback. But maybe I'm biased because covering

the league. Anyways, I Saquon Barkley is a frickin' beast and a game changer and good for frickin' him, you know where it's like just getting in the right situation. Jalen Hurts. There was like this shot of here on the sideline and the smile that he had when Saquon went off for his first seventy yard run, and it was just like, hey, I got an idea hand off the ball and the dude does the rest. Like as a quarterback, you're like, well, that makes my job fucking easy.

It was awesome to watch. But anyways, go ahead Saykan you deserve it, every bit of it. And I have a couple of Giants fans that I work very closely with at Fox on our crew, and they're just like, good for him, good for freaking him. Yeah, the league is awesome a lot of different. I mean, it looked like yesterday like Kansas City was going to lose, but then of course you give the ball back to Patrick Mahomes and you're just always signed away. But you know,

if you're a Panthers fan, you can appreciate. We were talking today on our Amazon call because we've got Kansas City and the Raiders for our Black Friday game. And when you talk about I mentioned you know when you're on a team like the Browns who aren't going to make the postseason, and you just kind of like, what are you playing for? Like the Raiders for example, and what they're going through. It's like this is their super Bowl, Like you always like trying to knock off the team

that's on the top. So watching the Panthers yesterday, you know, show up. You got to remember it too, like you obviously we go to work, but we're not. There's no score being kept for our performance every single week except for when we're hard on ourselves. But you know what I mean, Like, imagine having to show up every single week and know that your season's over, but you still got to show up and play hard. So I respect those guys a lot. All right, So you're in Dallas

for your Thanksgiving game. I've never worked a Thanksgiving game. Obviously Black Friday as a tradition that started with Amazon last year, so I get the day after Thanksgiving. But what is it like working a game on Thanksgiving? Other than obviously with the negatives, it's like, oh, I want to be home, but everyone's watching. You know. It's like

those like you know, I don't know, just traditional games. Yeah, it'll be interesting this year because obviously these teams are into you know, they haven't had the best of years. And yeah, I mean I know it's their job and everything, but also I'm thinking about our meetings tomorrow with them. Those are tough meetings because it's like, all right, you know, we have to speak with Brian Table, we have to

speak with Mike McCarthy. I love both of those guys a lot, and you feel bad, You just feel so bad, but they also have a job to do. Coach McCarthy would be the first person to say, don't feel bad, this is our job. Yeah, listen, it's still the Giants and the Cowboys. Everybody's going to watch. It's going to be super fun. Hate being away from my family, but I'm with my work family and we are going to have a great night. None of us can get out, so we're all going to do a big Thanksgiving back

at our hotel. We did that a couple of years ago in Dallas, where all our families came in. This year, our families are not going to come in. One of our family members is going to come and join us. Our old family member, Troy Aikman's going to come to me. I'm really excited about that. I even tried to maybe think of taking a Q from the Thursday Night football crew, and I wanted to get a karaoke machine, but things

got really thankful and crazy. But Dean Blandino is not going to be with us and made us promise we wouldn't do it without him. Oh, what's your karaoke song? Share? I have two, Bonnie Ray, Let's give him something to talk about and share. If I could turn back time, Wow, Okay, I think I would do fast Car because I think, like the chorus, everybody would be like, hey, a little Tracy. Just what I feel like it would be like in

my Yeah. Anyways, so yeah, and then we'll all leave Friday a little hungover and dehydrate it and get home and have the weekend off, which is gonna be really fun. I'm excited for Black Friday. It's a fun new tradition the day after Thanksgiving football gamely and first time to Kansas City this year. I don't know if Taylor is going to be there, but you know, I'm going to be looking and see if she's there. I may linger in a weird way in the halls, hoping to see

her come in on her golf. Kelsey got a podcast. I know that's so cool. Shout who is a dream. We loved We loved her before we got a chance to meet her when we're in London. But she is as advertised. She's what you see is what you get and she yeah. She And by the way, also congratulations to Kylie and Jason Kelsey on having the baby. She's

pregnant with their fourth girl. And I just all I could think about was her because she is just so like normal and down to earth, like getting the whether it was the ultrasound you know, results or whatever it was that revealed that she was having a girl like I would have loved to see what her face was. Four girls. She's great, great skin and hair. What I said, she's great with that great skin and hair and the jawline and we say makeup. I'm the one that's having

to go get a next surgery. This girl's jaw line is like cutting me from across the room. It's so sharp. The turtleneck up, Hi, Jordan Love, I just wanted to know your keys are for the second half of the season. Don't take don't take a picture of me from the profile it has the weird you know, happy Thanksgiving jowels or turkey goblet. He following a plastic surgeon today. Heym just wondering if that next surgery was still available for after February. Yeah, thanks, give me a call back. Don't

book it when we're going to go away. Hey, you know what I was telling Jordan Love I wanted to bring up on our podcast, and I meant to do it last time. I've realized there's certain guys in the league I have to say their full name, and it's really obnoxious. It's like I saw a postgame with he and I a couple weeks ago, him and I and I whatever our card and I was like, Jordan Love country grammar, you don't have to say his full name

is Jordan. And he was so sweet. He goes, well, maybe people won't know who I am if you just say Jordan come, yes, we will do. I say people's full name. I say Josh Allen Jordan Love like I can't say those two names, like I think I said Josh Jacobs yesterday. To stop, just say their first name. When I sat down with Matt Lafleur, I go coach and he goes, it's Matt and I go oh see, I would say coach. No, I'd say coach. I do

it to Jim always. I was saying bye to the guys yesterday in the green room, and I was like, all right, coach, I love you, Happy Thanksgiving. Like, I don't call him Jimmy disrespectful. No, I call coach coach. Yeah. I think I call all coaches coach. I feel like that's a very. That's a very if you've worked in college. I don't know why I feel like that. I don't know because I feel like in college, you don't call people their first names. You just say coach. Trying to think,

did I say coach? I don't know. No, Yeah, it's coach. And I would never be like mm hmm yeah Tom, it was so funny. No, I never say Izzo or Tom. It's coach. Yeah yeah, all right, So tis the season? Did you guys put your train name? Oh you've been busy. You don't have done right? We are trees app deared? Did it this weekend? Yeah? It's not degraded, but he put our tree app cute? Okay, good that I got

to tell you. I don't want to brag, but I'm going to my shopping is like, fuck, okay, you know what the last time are you knocking it out online? Are you going? I'm gonna tell you so last podcast, I was leaving to go do some shopping. Steve's like, oh, I'll go with you, and I was like, oh, no, you don't have to go with me, Like I didn't know what he was going to be like as the Christmas shopper. I've never went Christmas shopping with him, but I'm like, he's so very fun, you can come with me.

Or in one store, he goes, so what are we looking for in here? And I go, I don't know what we're looking for in here, We're just going to look around and like if something catches my eye because these are the people I need to get for get something for where are you going? Where are you going? For this store? So I started. I started in a jet so I could go Memens, I can go Barney's, I can go down each BEV will Rodeo drive. I can You're not Rodeo, yeah, not like I'm affording Rodeo.

But there's some like little shops in between there that are not astronomical, like in price, like you can find it's no I don't want to go to the mall. And it's like, I want to go to department store because then we've got all the people. We can do kids, we can do men, we can do women. Like okay, so I'll start there. We're we're first first fucking store, and even Marcus he's like, so what are we looking for in here? And I was like, hey, I got an idea. Trying to be positive. Hey, why don't you

go to the men's section. You look around, you see if you like anything up there for someone you know in your life. He goes, no, to say, for Andrew Whitworth, go see if you can find I'm just gonna stay with you. No, I don't want you to stay with me. Now we're looking around. Now I pick up and he goes, whoa, those are so expensive. Okay, I don't need that. I don't need you monitoring what I'm spending money off. First of all, this is my money, and he's like, we

don't need to spend that. I was like, we did I miss the part that your name's on this credit card? I missed that part. So now he's lecturing me on what I'm buying. How long it's gonna take uh. And then he sits down in the freaking couch thing and he all he's doing is making it seem like he just can't like I'm taking forever, and I go, fine, forget it, let's just go, and he's like, oh, we're you mad. I'm like, no, I'm not mad. I'm annoyed. I never asked you to come. You said you were

gonna come. So next time, if you want to come shopping with me, you don't ask questions. You don't ask who, what, where, when, why? And how much? Sit down? Shut up, or go there's a bar in here, go to the restaurant, get yourself a drink. And if I show up with twenty five bags, you don't need to ask who these are all for. No, are you wrapped at the store? Wrapped at the store? Yeah, I'm not rapping. I hate it. I hate it. I

don't want. First of all, I don't want. I get I get that it's extra effort and like it's all nice to unwrap something. No it's not. First of all, this is wasteful, you know. And I'm not like, oh, we can't waste everything because it's nice to have, you know whatever. But I'm like, no, we don't need to have all the wrapping paper and we're just throwing that away. No, so yes, I need them to wrap the I need them to put it in a box, a reusable box, or a bag. Sometimes I'm just tempted to just give

the person the bag, like the shopping bag. Oh yeah, not even like get a fancy although going back to shopping. When I got rid of the baggage, as in him and put him in a car and I kept on my merry way. Okay, you made him leave? Well no, I said, we'll go to the restaurant. We ended up having hanger. Then we went home the next day. Are cute? I knocked it out? But I I've been. I've been on the Etsy tip I'm made, I'm making moves. I'm making moves on Etsy. Wait do you see the amount

of shit that I've got Mac off Etsy? You will be like Carissa, this is crazy. The amount of personalized Mac items that I got are out of control. No, but it's more fun to buy, like little things like a little sweater that says Mac than it is. You know, they're so sweet? Hey, can I can I ask our listeners out there if you guys have any great ideas Christmas ideas for grandparents. I mean, I'm looking, I'm googling, I'm trying to figure it out. I'm just trying to

find some real, thoughtful grandparent gift ideas. Oh my god, I just realized I don't have any more grandparents. Jesus. I didn't mean to bring it down like that. That's okay. I just realized, like, well, yeah, my grandma. I was like, sorry, oh, that's okay. Hurry, I'm trying to think of something else. I'm gonna tell you, I know one of your New Year's resolutions that you're starting early this year. No, I just realized that. I was like, oh my god, so sorry. No, no, no,

not at all. That's just weird. I haven't thought about that. Well for less presents to buy. No, I'm kidding. Is your house on fire? Clark? By the way, my grandma would like that joke. Jude, are you up there anyway? She died thirty years thirty years ago. Grandparent gifts? She dead? Yes, good, good, good God exactly. By the way, that's Father the Bride For those of you not at the homekeeping track. I don't know grandparents anything like anything personal. I don't like

anything personal too. Hey, you and I should put a budget on our gifts because we'll get excessive in these years. We don't need to be spending money on each other like that. I know I have one gift I want to get you. You're just so Chrisa is one of the most awful people. And she's such a bitch because I know she has less time than I do. And then she shows up your house with like this gorgeous basket with all these thoughtful things, and I'm still running

around town. That's completely cute. Body cubs. You showed up seventeen candle Nope, nope, BHAs you showed up in the Bahamas with a massive beach bag for me? Yeah, you got me a Prada bag. I felt like an asshole. I'm like stupid. By the way, the amount of money that you spent on the supplies in the bag might as well have equal that. No. I think that thought. I think putting thought into gifts, especially as we get older, and like, if you really want something, you're gonna go

buy it. If I want something, I'm going to go buy it. I think thoughtfulness, like putting time and effort into gifts is all that I want. I love that. Okay, you know what else we need to discuss. We have some dissension in a conversation that you and I had on this podcast with a few men between you and I. I was like, no, no, you were telling a story about a guy that was getting a b in his bonnet, as you always referred to as getting a little annoyed at you for being on the phone because you were

on the phone with me while you were ordering a smoothie. Yeah. So some of the responses that we got, I'm gonna call you out. They were older six to three, kind of rude for you to be on the phone in line, and very petty to respond to him after you ordered. Well, Bob, we're responding to you. Also, nev tango, get off the phone, respectful, disrespectful, and also doctor Wood. People who are yammering for yammering is amazing. People who are yammering on the phone in

line are annoying. Sorry, those are the responses, So listen, I agree with all of all of these comments and concerns. I agree. I'll be honest with you. I'm not yammering. I am speaking quietly, whispering in my hand because I'm talking about everyone. I'm fucking throwing everyone under the bus, and I don't want the people in Bristol Farms to hear about it. So I'm like, and yeah, and then so and so did this, and did you see this?

So I'm not yammering, I'm whisper yammering. I'm going to say this if I can't do that with a little whisper to my friend in the line while I'm I can do five things at once because I do that on the sidelines. I do it at home, not well, but I can do it. I don't need to be sitting next to Jack Black, mister Magoo, whoever you are in three seed today that is on we're delayed in O'Hare.

We're at on the O'Hare like tarmac. I don't need to be sitting next to Jeremy whoever you are, and you're on a full zoom with one, two, three, four, five, six people. You want to know why. I know he's right next to me, and he's like and ed, yeah, there's letting this little little I can speak and ed. This litigation is gonna be really tough. I'm gonna tell uh Sydney next week, you better go with a Jeremy to do this. I was listening to this shit for

twenty minutes. There was no whispering, there was no even like trying to be like this. It was a full blown I'm in the board meeting. At one point I thought to myself, I'm still a little tipsy from the night before or morning before. I almost did this. Poked my head into the zoom and was like, Hi, ed, Hi, Jeremy. I think you guys should go ahead with that litigation. I trust this company. You guys seem to know what

you're doing. Oh great bookcase behind you, because I'm fucking over his shoulder listening because you've given me no choice. You're not in a line. There's storm arms that's moving and only three D. You're stuck on a plane for how long? Okay, So here's here's what I got to say about this phone etiquette thing. There's a few simple rules. It's all about to your point, the octave level. Who says you can't be on a phone in a line,

you can do that. Just talk like a normal person and also be aware that the line is moving, if you're delaying the line, if you're doing other things, and now we're all at a deficit because you're not paying attention. No, that's not acceptable. But you've kept the line moving. You're on the phone in a quiet you know, speaking like yeah with her voice, that's fine. What I don't need is you facetiming without the air pods in and yelling did Timmy get his bath? No, but you've got to

check he only likes the dinosaur pajamas. No, did you have the dinosaur pajamas? And now the dad's yelling in the background. I understand that Timmy needs a bath. Okay, I understand that all these things need to happen, But do we have to do it on FaceTime when everyone's around watching Timmy. Now we're also making sure that everyone's hearing the respond to the father on the other end. Yeah,

I got it, Cindy. It's like, okay, well, you know what, we don't all need to be included in these comments. Get your shared ten months. Yeah. It's just like there's just like basic simple phone etiquette that everyone has lost their mind with. So bring the octave down. If you want to do a FaceTime call, go stand over in the corner. You don't need everyone to be a part of it. And I don't think we need to be

taking our zoom calls on the on the plane. I get that we all have work to do, but can't you be like, hey, I'm going to take this one to the text so I don't interrupt everyone else around me. I listen. I'm sure I got to clean up my act a little bit. There's no denying it. It's week twelve. I probably got in there. But aren't you like I feel like you're very aware of things I thought it was. I thought it was, and I feel like I've let

America down. So I will take responsibility and say I got to clean up my act and I'll wait to yammer until I'm in the Yamma. But Jeremy next to me with the six people zoom about the litigation is fucking horseshit? Go ahead? How about people? How about people losing their shit on me when I'm like about the do not disturb? People? Don't need to be available to you all the time? No? And Whitworth he's your brother, Yes, he say they need to be available all the time.

First of all, I don't want you to be available all the time. You know what, I don't like these devices. That's why I'm not on the ranch. Goddamn it. I don't even want it to as send it's goddamn telegram or else in a pigeon to deliver the fucking message. But when I need to ask you question, we said we weren't cussing anymore. Fuck that, which reminds me I'm gonna stop swearing as much because I don't think it's

lady like. But it brings up, it begs the question, as they say when people have New Year's resolutions and it's like, oh, I'm going to stop doing this, or I'm going to lose twenty pounds or I'm going to do whatever the new year's resolution. I got an idea, why don't you start the new Year's resolution now in November? Okay, So then that way you already got a jumpstart on

all these things. I don't know what my resolutions are yet, but I'm going to start up very similar to like I'm putting the tree up early, I'm getting the shopping done early. Yeah, I'm doing resolutions early because then I don't have this panic of like, oh, I said I was going to do this and I haven't done it yet. I'm really trying to get on top, like be on top of this. You know I'm interested. Well, I'll keep you post on what the resolutions are. I really wanted

to be something that I can follow through with. I asked Steve the other day. I was like, we need to make a list of things to do for date night that aren't just like go to dinner. Like let's go to a cooking class, let's go to a pottery class, Let's go do like something like that. I don't know if any of these things will happen, but I don't want to just be like, oh, dinner every time. We we did do dinner the other night as a date night.

We had failed miserably as a family to have a good dinner night, like on a Monday last week, and it was just bad. Mac wasn't interested. We were so excited. We went to a sushi place. The big kid boat came and we're like, ooh, he's got to crush this at a mammy, He's gonna love it. Nope, had a massive stomach ache, blew out his diaper right left. So

I went. I did the first leg of the Green Bay trip, came back, and then I came back so we could all go to dinner and like go to the pier and walk up and down the pier, lighting and all that kind of stuff. He crushed dinner. It was such a great night. He went in to the little creamery. He got a baby shark toy that was lighting up. He was so happy. He was on the pier looking at the lights. He went to dinner and he crushed it. Like he sat in his highchair. He's waving,

he's clapping people. He sent you the picture. He was so Chare's like getting competitive with the with the table next to us because the kid's on an iPad and another kid screaming and the mom's like, oh my god, your kid is so good. And Jared's like, yeah, he is, isn't he. I was like, shut the fuck up. Five days ago he was screaming at Izakaya. No, it's just a good night. It was a great way. That's really good getting. That's a whole bit right there is getting

competitive as their parents. It's like Max like coloring like all perfect. The other kids like, ah, like look at that kid, look at that kid. I was like, do I have to remind you about Monday? Monday? He was an animal. I mean now it looks like he ate an animal. God. I'll tell you what you don't realize you appreciate until it happens. A waiter or waitress that has a kid, because this guy's like, let me get something for you. What do you want? You have to

bring a tony a spinach apasta? What do you want for this kid? And then we're like, for dessert, He's like, I got you pistaschio ice cream with like some berries. It's coming, and we're like, Jared's like, I'm gonna give this guy a good tip. Good tip. Wow, what's the what do you mean? I like a Pat MacAfee clap, Like I just really he does the whole move off to the side. He's so good. He's great. He is just him, all of it. Yeah, good for him, Good

for him. Indeed, Hey, we love having headlines here and there that catch our attention. Ryan, our wonderful producer, throws in front of us and we see which ones we like. These two stood out to Aaron and I first one. If you use these common text abbreviations, there's big downside you could regret sending number of abbreviations and text messages is second nature to many people, with the abbreviations for it laugh out loud or be right back among the

many that are exchanged. But those instinct of responses can make you seem insincere or a new study found. You know, I don't even need I also think it makes you seem dumb ding ding ding. I don't need the study. I if you can't just just send an emoji the lol. There's something about the LOL or the BRB that makes me feel like a child. There's enough things that I do that are immature on some capacity. I'm not writing VRB or shaking my head smh. I'm like, come on,

here's the other thing. The people that use the l OL do it so much that I'm like, you can't be laughing at everything that's true, Like, stop laughing, it's not funny. The other night, I got so serious to someone on our crew who was laughing. I go, you laugh one more time, I'm gonna punch you in the face, like I was joking. But they were Everybody's like WHOA, And I was like, no, but it's not funny. It's

not funny. So I got another I got another one because I got a lot of text chains circle circling around here, and the people that are on this text chain will know exactly what I'm talking about. I won't name names, but there's someone in the text group that always throws out the thing that like, it's not funny. Then the rest of the group feels like they got a ha ha or they got an exclamation point or it's heart no, but it's like I say, I'm not

doing it. I said, go stop harding or ha ha ing or exclamation pointing, because now it's encouraging the bad behavior. Leave it alone, have no response, and then the person's going to get insecure, like oh no, one's laughing, yeah, because it's not funny. It's not funny, not exciting, or it's it's not to be hearted. Stop encouraging the bad behavior.

Not everything has to have a ha ha. I gotta find out what texting this is and who inspiring a couple of ideas and now the phone this is maybe this is why people do not disturb because the phone's going off every five seconds and I look and it's just exclamation point on something that doesn't deserve the exclamation point. So anyho, boy, don't text us, you know, lol lol, b RB. I think it's Airbnb. What the fuck? Okay? I love this one is near and dear to my heart. Ello. Yeah.

This DFW Dallas Fort Worth Airport was ranked number one in the United States. According to this report. I'm about to select copy and send to a text chain I have with my homies on my crew. According to a ranking by bet Us, TGI Fridays at DFW Airport has claimed the number one spot among airport bars in the United States, absent frea com leutely it has. I have frequented that frequented. I have visited that bar one million times and they've never done me wrong. I love them.

I saw one time somebody have video of that bar. I saw Cole what's his name country singer shoot anyways, uh caro. I saw Caine Brown in there one time. Anyways. I saw a video somebody was in there and a naked man walked by, and I sent it to my group. I was like, what's going on? You saw a video that someone took up. TGI Fridays at d sit there and some naked man walk by. I'm like, what's going on. That's our airport, people of Boston. I'm going to be

their Wednesday. Is that naked cowboys still in Times Square? I don't know. Is that a thing? Oh? The podcast is over? Oh my god. This was my alarm from the supposed to be this morning. I did four forty pm inst am. Well, how'd you wake up? I don't know. I didn't go to because I'm kidding. I already knew. I already knew by the way, I haven't woken up to that alarm, and it did go off at four forty am one time. Hey now, and ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure. It is a gift me with

you once a week. I love you. Get some rest, happy Thanksgiving, and figure out what I'm wearing. Smh b r b l O l F you Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.