Episode 3: Are You Actually Friends?

A change of settings, bill in uh the listeners slash viewers if you're watching this on YouTube, Yes, I split my time between New York and l A. So the lighting is always changing. It's actually pitch dark here. Nothing a ring light won't fix. I love a light, as you know at this age. Give me a Christmas tree. What a week we've had, though, doll, since we had

our last podcast, Tiger Woods. Thankfully he's okay. What an incredible sportsman showmanship that we saw from the entire p G A lp G A uh, the whole golf community coming out and wearing red and black for him. So so happy to hear that he's doing all right. We have J. J. Watt. He'll also be wearing red for different reasons. Yeah, Red and Black Way to Go. JJ excited for them. Also, we had the Golden Globes and I had my first Peloton ride. So where do you want to start? Well, I want to go back to

the Golden Globes really really quick. And actually before I do that, another thing I want to add. I just saw on Instagram memor Maiol breaking news the Billions cast back on set, which is huge. That excites me so much. I totally got into Billions as we talked to Kevin Hart about over quarantine. Have to watch it on close caption. I don't know how to short of stock, I don't know how to up it. I don't even know how

to invest in it. But I fully, fully want to hang out with Wags so badly and go clubbing with him when that's possible in New York. Also, Golden Globes, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, they just rock. They're amazing, and you and I know and everybody a part of this podcast doing things with technology right now, super difficult. One was in New York, one was in California. I thought it was for can Awesome. I love them. They should

host everything. Well, right now, you're in California and I'm in New York and this might be a very similar Golden Globe situation where they broke the third wall. I don't know what it's called the show. How they hosted that from two different coasts, which is awesome. Uh, you mentioned Billions. I saw a sign in New York the last time I was here two weeks ago, and they said they were filming around the corner. I may or

may not do some stalking around the city. Look my day. Yes, no other than when we're doing the podcast and house and house and home stuff. Swipe up. Um, wait before we get to peloton, which I cannot wait for this story. You're a little sensitive about swiping up? Right? Now, what's wrong with you? You're a little sensitive, You're a lot sensitive. Let me tell you, guys. How so Aaron and I

part of this podcast. This episode, we'll talk about our friendship because half the time people will go, I didn't even know that you guys were friends, Like, okay, well that's been fifteen years. But girls can be friends. Girls can be friends. So we will tell some funny friends stories that Aaron and I have had over the tenure of our relationship. A little bit later on in the podcast. But Aaron and I routine goes a lot like this morning,

text send stories of what's happening in the world. Then if the stories are really juicy and we know we shouldn't be texting about them, then we call each other because line offline, offline. And one of those stories was I went off this morning. How people are really annoyed by me and doing all these ads on my Instagram account. It's probably why I don't have any music capabilities anymore. I'm gonna tell you because I have. I live in

a couple of places. I've got I've got mortgages, I've got rent to pay, i have a business that I'm trying to build. So if you don't like that I'm doing the swipe ups, then on follow me. I'm sorry. I saw Jennifer Andison to a swipe up, so I feel a lot better about me out here hawking stuff in the streets. So thank you for letting me get that off the jet. Call you down, Carissa, Yeah, I know, calm down people that have a problem with swipe bomps.

First of all, I love it. I made my poor husband. Uh, yesterday was our swipe up day that I had to do a few and everything is staged. I've learned now, God love him. Not a photographer wouldn't know a filter if it fell over him. I'm like, no higher angle, Like we like a light, but give me a high ankle or ankle angle. And then I'm always like, come on, you know I don't look cute this, try harder, and

then it turns into a situation. So swipe ups. Not only do we love him because it pays for some things, may or may not cause some marital distress. You know. I love Kyle for so many reasons. But when I first met Kyle, I was like, so here's how this is gonna go. I'm gonna need you to take a few pictures and videos, and he's like, sure, not a problem.

He would stand on the side of the road. We were up where we were like to stay in this lake, and he would stand on the side of the road and take so many pictures where I went back in my phone at one point I'm like, oh my god, it took you a hundred pictures to find the right one of Me's like, you just said, keep snapping, I love you. What he laid on the click button, Well, I mean, it took that many for me to get

the right angle. Apparently that said you mentioned a high angle. Yeah, neat little girl at the restaurant that I went to the other night, because we're now finally allowed to go to restaurants. So Sarah was in town and so we were documenting the moment and the girl got on the ground and took a picture. I said, well, well, that's not going to be a good angle, and she goes, no, trust me, it is. I'm telling you next time, tell Jared to get on the ground and take a picture elongates.

Although you're like six ft tall as it is. So I don't want anything from Ncca I need like looking down, I don't need. It's actually just try it. Just humor me and let two of the pictures you'll end up deleting being up angle. And yesterday really fast, sorry to cut you off. We were doing the final photo and it we were still speaking, which was great because again these cause tension in the marriage. He got it and

I was over it. At that point. I was doing the look away part because I was not, you know, and he's like, this light looks great, and I was like, okay, that's funny. But let's not tell anyone you said that. And I just told the five listeners we have, so six now if you want, I'm ready for this story. I'm ready. I'm so my, I'm my arm pits are sweating. I'm so ready because preface it, I am a massive, massive peloton like like I'm just junkie. I'm obsessed. I

don't know what you would call me. I'm super freaking annoying about it. I d M the instructors. I'm so excited, go getting up because I need like a booster chair. This is like very uncomfortable. Okay, yeah, okay, So again part of Aaron and I's routine is this working, is this thing on? Yeah, I'm getting comfortable. Okay, great settle in everybody. Um so, part of sens Senz sens Mines eyes routine. We talked for a living um is like, okay, what are you doing today? What are you got going on?

So this morning our conversation was what are you doing? And I'm like, oh, well, before the podcast, I'm in New York and so downstairs which the gym open back up in the building, they have peloton's. Well it's a peloton or peloton or what it cares okay. That's so. I was so excited because I was like, I'm gonna do my first peloton ride. And she's like, oh my god, stop it. Who are you going to take? What's the class? And yeah, I don't I don't know. She's like, so

do you have shoes? And I'm like, you need like special shoes for this? What are you talking about? So I go down there. I'm all excited. Luckily, you're supposed to sign up for the gym. I didn't know how to use the app. I just went down there hoping that, come on, you're one of those. I am totally one of those follow the rules. I'm not a rule follower, you know that. So I go downstairs. Luckily, no one's in the gym the bike. I got the bike all to myself. I'm so excited. All of a sudden, I'm like,

I gotta put in my information. I'm logging in and it says I already have a log in. I have no recollection of ever signing up for a pelotonic. Now we had twenty minutes to log in. It's a whole thing. Fine, I set up a new code. It's like, you know, I try like ct one to one. They're like, that's taken. I'm like, oh is it that? That's very common anyway. So I get logged in, I keep class and there's

no audio. There's nothing happening in the sound. But not to worry, because you also turned me onto this new podcast about how entrepreneurs like started their business and where are both starting a business? Well underway, as evidenced by the clothing line behind you. Please, woman's happening there. For those that you can't see are watching on YouTube, you should be though, um, I'm in my wear closet. But

go on. This is about Peloton, not an ad. Aaron would love it to be very very interested in our entrepreneurship and starting companies, etcetera, etcetera. So she sent me, ironically the John Fully I asked on how he started Peloton. So I spent the entire ride, which I then turned into an hour ride because I'm amazing to the John Fully podcast on how he started Peloton, and I was so into it and I was sweating. I didn't even

know what the instructor was saying. She had this cute little outfit on this like you know, I don't know, you guys know all the names. I don't know the name of any of these people, but I was so into it. I wasn't even hearing what she was saying, like go harder, go faster. I was making up my own but I still enjoyed it. I had a great time. Okay. So the gist of that podcast that you were listening to he talks about how he sells it is the

instructors and the new zick. So not only did you not pay attention to the instructor or the music, Okay, I mean, but the great news is that I still was a fan of the product because I was sweating so much, so much, I was just trying to go off of my experience from Soul Cycle, where I was like, Okay, let's do five seconds here that are like like up the hill, twenty seconds here that are up the hill.

And the whole time he was saying like about the story about how we started selling them at the Short Hills Mall and that that's how Peloton got like you know whatever, Like he was like, if we can just sell one bike a day, And I loved listening to his story while on his product. Now I'll figure out the you know, music and the instructors the next time. But I was super inspired when I got off the bike by his story the success of Peloton, and I got a great sweat. So I'm hooked. I get it.

I get it, and I haven't even experienced the best part. Yeah you don't, and I'm I love that you listen to the podcast, and that's great now, but I'm now concerned what's wrong with the audio. I don't know. I just was excited that I got in the gym without a reservation, and that I got on the bike. I didn't have the right shoes on. They were just running shoes. So that's fine, fancy equipment. But I gotta tell you, whenever I talked to you, you know, like I'm in

a bad mood, I gotta get on the bike. I read it because afterwards, I mean, it's not just the coffee I'm drinking now. So I'm hooked, and I can't wait to go and figure out how to get the audio to work the next time, which is always a problem for me. I'm very technologically disadvantaged. Can you give me a clue of what the instructor looked like. I took a video. Yes, I'm so obsessed with all these people. Yeah. So he was talking about how he had put out

an ad um weird ads. Uh, even rich people do it, about how he was asking for instructors on social media and like the one girl, who's the one girl who wrote him, and like she was like the first one or whatever her name is Jen. She's not there anymore, but she was a fan favorite too many men many This is who it is again. I know that you can't. How's that nail looking? It's Olivia. She is a little firecracker.

She's in the easy you know who this? Yes, yes, and I will tell you her ABS class is phenomenal. She's she is a little like firecracker. She's amazing. She will kill you. Her tobottle rise thirty seconds on, twenty seconds off, amazing, her ABS classes unbelievable, full blown. I love you, Olivia, She's amazing. Oh my god, I'm just so impressed that you've got that just off a screenshot. But yeah, I mean, just to think I was that into it without even hearing what she was saying. So

I'm hooked. Thank you for turning me onto it again. Like everything in life, I'm very late to the party on so um, yeah, It's part of friendship is giving out advice and whether the person takes it right away or waits three years. Either way, here, I oh, you also have a nice coffee back there. Look at us. You know this is hot and I'm hot in my room even though I'm wearing a card again cute. Um. Yeah,

I'm so happy you joined the party. I need you to figure out the audio because that I feel like is as John says in that podcast, one of the best things about Peloton one thing. Last night, I did need to do a forty five minute ride and they did the bad Boy Entertainment ride and I was laughing the whole time because Daddy bad Boy. Yeah. They played every like song and it was amazing. It was so so good and even I'll be missing you like that was a slower ride. It was fantastic. But um, that's

what you forget. You're like, I just burned this thing for forty five minutes and I'm happy, and I feel like these instructors are my best friends. I d m all of them and I want to be friends with that. I love them. It's a cult. It's one of the best cults I've ever been a part of. If I could say that out loud. Please tell us about the ones that you didn't enjoy, bigger part of on the next podcast. Um, so we'd like you to be a part of our cult and subscribe. How's that transition ofve

that that's so good? Social handles I'm not sure what they are still, but um they're available somewhere. And then also remind everyone to subscribe and rate the Calm Down Podcast wherever you get your podcast, and don't forget to our I'm sorry, I'll plug this r I G. Account. Calm Down Podcast is freaking funny, like we're doing our people are doing. Scott Lauren there crushing life. I know, I really do job and I appreciate all the effort.

Aaron and I wanted to start a podcast for a long time, and we're gonna take our first break here on the Calm Down Podcast and we will be back with more on how Aaron and I became friends around the time of crushtrapher columb Welcome back to Calm Down Podcast with Aaron and Carrissa The Calm Down Podcast. Calm Down Podcast, don't forget to check us out on Instagram Calm Down Podcast. You can follow me at at Aaron Andrews. Your Instagram again is at Carissa Jay Thompson. The j

middle named Gene. It's from my grandma. I was told I was adopted when I was younger because I had blonde hair and blue eyes. The only person in my family that had blonde hair bloy. My grandma, my brother and sister used to say I was adopted. They would take my parents insurance papers from the glove box and say, these are the papers. They keep them in here to hide them from you. It's traumatic. Wow. Yeah, that's a lot. I didn't know that about you. I'm sitting on a

leather couch. That was therapy. I had to get it out. Um. So yeah, the Jay's from my grandma, Carissa Jane. That sounds Verry Hill Billy. I love it. I'm Aaron Jill. The pill, the pill whatever, I don't know because the pill meaning a pain in the butt, Jill. At least it's the other way. Wasn't the other pill? Like apparently it didn't work? Um, Bahamas. My parents were in the Bahamas. That's what I heard. You know where you working? See? Yes? And if I know that, I don't know. My mom

just threw it out there. I also know this I was. My mom was in labor for like eleven minutes. Basically I could have been named dots In because I was almost born in my parents dots In. No. Yeah, I had a lot of things to do. I was very, very busy. Eleven Oh my god, my mom was in labor for like seventeen hours. Because I was nine pounds and thirteen ounces. Do you want to know what my nickname was? But Caissa Tank? Mom said Tank Tank because

I was huge. That's cute, though, is it? Is it cute being nine pounds and thirteen ounces and big bone? I'm like, mom, did you need to eat for four I'll never forget this time. I was eight years old and my mom was like standing with her friend Michelle, and she's like, my Joe's h She goes, yeah, I'm still trying to lose the baby weight. Kathy's Meanwhile, me and Junior high, my nickname was Minute because my grosspert was so big. I had to wear elastic jeans and

I had no weight on me. I was taking those Insure shakes and all the boys called me Minute. Oh I know, which is why I'm hunched over and I'm buying back braces from Amazon. We'll get to that next episode, but to continue from you know, we were babies. We didn't know each other then, but you brought this up the other day, the day we actually met. I remember meeting you. I just didn't realize the impression I gave you was the one story you're going to tell right now,

which is absolutely not true. But I will indulge you more once you explain it. Okay. So people always say like, oh, how long have you and Aaron been friends? Like, well, I've known Aaron for a long time because when I was working at the Big ten network, she was working at ESPN. So background here is you would all sit at the same sort of like scores table and media table whatever. Each outlet had their own position, but you would sit literally right next to whoever the other said

outlet was. So I sat next to Aaron, and Aaron was very established. She was at ESPN. That's where I wanted to go. Okay, she's rolling her fancy that. She's very uncomfortable with any kind of praise. Aaron had the job that I but I was like, all right, work hard, Carissa, you'll get there one day. Right. So I'm sitting next to Aaron, she couldn't have been nicer. But I never

forget this is what I knew. She that I was like Kevin Costner in Bull Durham when he's riding on the minor league busses and they're like, what's the big leagues like, and he's like white Baseball's like he was like telling the story of like when you get to the major league level, they have like pure white baseballs. Aaron's major league moment for me, as I was sitting on the minor league bus that was the big tent network with all due respect of course, was she had

a handler. She had like somebody who runner runner, a runner right um who brought over. She was leaving, she was going to catch her flight. She was out of there. The second she was done piece out. Game was almost over. We're winding down, two minutes left in the fourth quarter. At the back of Felicia. Seriously, the runner comes over with her her rolling suitcase, which already I don't think

I had the money for. At that point it was still about back and she had a pillow on the suitcase, and I was like, oh my god, she's so ready. And it wasn't one of those ones that go around your neck, just to let people know it wasn't a temper pedic horseshoe bio Hutson News. This was like, this was like full down comforter were that's not true housan

thread couch pillowcase. I'm like, she's so rich she can travel with a huge, king size down pillow, and she has someone bringing her suitcase to her Aaron still rolling her eyes. There was a moment where I thought to myself, I know I will have made it when I a runner, bring me my rolling suitcase and my pillow, and off she went, like into the night like gizell on a catwalk exactly. She flew out of the arena like her

hair flowing. And I remember sitting there in my express suit that I had spent all my allowance on to buy it, and I was like, one day I'll get there. God's the handler was the thing where I was like, I knew that, you know, and she couldn't have You couldn't have been nicer in that moment. But I just remember looking at you and being like, someday, someday you'll get there. Okay. Side note about the pillow. The pillow I live by The pillow is my boba, my girlfriend,

my war CEO. Lauren Fenner, who is listening right now, knows way too damn much about this pillow. That pillow is a temper pedic neck pillow. Side note, I have the worst posture in the world. Part of the reason why I was called minute. I was very very tall growing up, so I was hunched over, never put my shoulders back. Also side side note, I fell when I was in junior high, passed out because I had my

ears pulled back. You had your ears pulled back. Yes, one of my ears was folded over when I was born. Two days later it's straightened back up. It always stuck out a bit. I was going through this phase in junior high of wearing my hair and a slick back ponytail or bun because I was a dancer, and I had said to my mom, Mom, my ears stick out, and she was always like, if it bothers you, we could go have him fixed. It's not a big deal. Your dad always needed to have them done, but your

grandmother wouldn't do it. So my mom was like, let's go do it. It was a day surgery, not a big deal. All they have to do is like, make a couple incisions, roll the cartilage back, and your ears are pulled back. Had it done? Going into ninth grade? Ready for this a story? So I go I have it done, get the surgery done. I walk out like this huge head wrap. Go to lay down in the living room. My head started hurting well because I just had surgery. I go to walk into my mom's room

and I'm like, Mom, I have a headache. She's like, laid down. I'll go get you some tail and all. Of course I didn't listen to her. What did I do? I stuck my finger up my bandage because I didn't it pulled it out nasty like us and puss. My mom doesn't know it. I follow her out into the kitchen. I live in Florida. There's tile floors. All of a sudden, my mom said she thought she heard a bag of bricks hit the ground. It was me. I passed out massive whiplash. My sister just told me the other day

my head hit the stove. Who knew. All I remember waking up to is the Golden Retriever licking my face. My sister is screaming, she's dead, She's dead, and my mom's online one with my dad. I don't remember any thing. The only thing I do remember is Bill and Ted's excellent Adventure was on the TV and I said, didn't we just see that? And my Mom's like, yes, good. So anyways, I had my ears pulled back. I hurt my neck as a kid, so I always have to

sleep with this temper pedic pillow. Incredible, this is why you had the pillow. I just thought it's because you're rich. No it's not. But now I'm I'm not rich because the problem with this damn pillow. Not only is it fantastic, there's no like latch on it. I leave it every freaking place I go. No, it rolls up into a navy little container. It rolls up and it's dark. So every car service you're in rental car, it matches the uphoultery. What do you do? You grab your purse, you grab

your backpack, you grab your luggage. Oh shit, I left my eighty dollar temper pedic pillow. I kid you not. I've pop probably spent over under your betting gal, maybe over two hundred thousand dollars on these pillows. I've left one and every damn city I have. If you found my pillow. Let me know, well, as a professional swipe up individual, who was the pillow? I temper Pedic. It's the best temper peedick I've tried. I've tried. I've said, listen,

this pillow is amazing. I'd love to do ads for you. Want no interest? Okay? Well, as an ad gall herself, I'm gonna assume that you're going to get a bigger deal on this one. You should do the swipe up code Aaron twenty for your discount on a temper pedic pillow. I'm gonna tell you again, look at my rage on swipe ups is at all time high. You know who else does a swipe up and has no shame about it? Devin White? Well, Devin White, you can do anything that

I'm fine, He's the best. We're gonna get back to your ear story in a second, because don't think I'm just gonna run right over that real quick. The better because these ears are ringing. Oh my god, we'll sow our listeners. And White said, I was like, dude, you were wearing cowboy boots in that picture of him and his horse. This was, you know, pre him winning the

Super Bowl. Champ Justin boots. He's like, I was like, I want to use the discount code because he was offering Devon twenty off, like justin booth are really expensive and I'm gonna use a swipe up code because well, no, no, no no, I got another pair of coming out even better. Devin forty. I said, that's right, And we don't mean your forty time at the Combine Devon, we mean off now back to your ears podcast over we have any more time. That's an incredible fun fact about you. What

was worse about it? Not only did I get whiplash crack my skull, the sutures that we're supposed to dissolve in my ear ended up opening up. The Andrews family on a family trip to San Francisco because my dad had a job interview, and all of a sudden, I'm like, Mom, they're stuff coming from my ears. Were like at some you know, hotel. She's like, oh my god, her suitures have open, like I have gaping wounds in the back of my head. My poor mom is trying to deal

with this. Is there two kids are in a hotel in San Francisco like the National Poon's episode Oh my God, Audrey Audrey camp going face. It's all part of the experience. That tree wouldn't fit in our yard. Yeah, over, I'll show you good. It's all good. We're gonna take another break here so I can collect my thoughts because I have so many more questions about Aaron's ear surgery. We will be back before Calm Down Podcasts right after this. Welcome back everybody to Calm Down the podcast that you

find out things about your friends that you didn't know. Yeah, you're ripping on my pillows, and little did you know it's because of a condition I have. I'm so sorry. I apologize. I'm all. I'm all in on this ear story those of you just joining us. Aaron just told me that she had an elective surgery and it was a condition for her ears. Um, but that's why your hair looks so great in those ponytails. Also, didn't know that like when you're wearing when you're wearing these, it's

still gonna affect you. Yeah, we didn't get to that. So two quick things about having the ear surgery. I've learned. If I do a game in green Va, Wisconsin, I'm screwed. I have to wear some sort of hat because if it gets down below seventy degrees, my ears get sensitive. They cannot take cold. Also, sitting at a shampoo bowl or anybody who goes to flip my ears over, I instantly convulse because they're super sensitive. So again, fun facts about me and my ears. Yeah, and so now I

won't make fun of your pillow anymore. You actually needed it, So my apologies. But yes, Aaron and I have been friends for a long time, and I didn't know that. We have plenty of stories, most of which we can and we'll share. That's the whole reason to have a podcast is to say everything on here that we can't stay on television. I was told today to be careful with this next story. I was told just grow stole

draw lee. Still he goes, just be careful. I was like, you don't even know this story, Jared, what are you talking about? This is pre you. I love Jared, though Jared is so onsible to tell me some my big tell me that. Um, all right, So I'm in New York right now. Aaron lived in New York many years ago. Um and you, why did you you moved to New York originally? What what year was this? Because my memory

I remember yesterday. I think it was my last year at ESPN, which I don't even remember when that was. And then I had just broken up with somebody and I was just over it. I was living in Atlanta. I do love Atlanta. I love their food. I miss it desperately. But I mean, how about this move. I was like, screw it, I'm just leaving. And I ended up running an apartment there in Tribeca. Had the time of my life. I felt like I was going to try to be Carrie Bradshaw for a minute. Didn't find

Mr Big out well. Actually I feel like I met Mr Big in l A and then had to move. But yeah, I went to New York and then it was such a fun time that you said to me you were out? Were you out there? Were you visiting? Yeah? So we overlapped at ESPN, but we never worked together because she always out doing games and so that I was doing Sports Nation at that point. So I was based in First Old But nobody needs to be in

Bristol when you're single on the weekends. Ever, Oh so you were in Bristol when we went out that time. I would always come up to New York on the weekends because my girlfriend, Megan lived here and her brother Ryan, and so I would always stay with them and we

were going out. This was the point in our friendship where our friendship has had like ebbs and flows, like we were really close, or we weren't that close because we're traveling, Like we've kind of like come in and out of like our closeness and friendship in the past couple of years, like as close as we've ever been. But this was a point where we were like peripherally friends, kind of trying to feel each other out and try each other on. Yeah, because you know how girls are

weird and whatever. But anyway, so I was like, well, I'm gonna invite my girlfriend errand like she just moved into the city. Let's see if she wants to come out. She's a good time. So it was a Sunday, and remember tell everybody the weekend, you know it was, But it wasn't the day she died. It wasn't. So I have a love affair with Whitney Houston. I had a poster of her on my wall growing up. My uncle Kevin bought me the post or Rest in Peace, Uncle Kevin.

That's a story for another day. And I was upset with Whitney Houston. She of course died a Grammy weekend, and so we were at this brunch spot, which seemed normal until the like you knew exactly what was going to happen. I had never been there. I was the little like girl in New York from Atlanta, Tampa that didn't know anything. Let me tell a little story here. I came back home to New York on a Sunday.

I had just worked a game at Vanderbilt. I'll never forget it because I was doing Saturday night basketball there and that's when it broke that Whitney Houston died. Go home to New York. I get a text from Carrissa, come meet me at brunch in the meatpacking district. I was like, Oh, this is fabulous, a little brunch. I'll wear a great navy blazer, my hair in a tight bun, and this will be fantastic. I'm so fancy I show up to this place that only my husband and Carrissa

would know back in the day. Go ahead, it turns into a full on club. Of course I knew that, but I couldn't say that to Aaron because I knew that she wouldn't come, I'm a pro, Like, hey, do you want your eggs benedict with the side of DMX and of full o? You know scrobe light where you're neon acrylic nails are lighting up? Right? Mind work? Is it Bagatelli or bagatell because Jared says Bagatelli Bagatelly? No, okay,

fancy Maybe he was at the after Hour. I mean pretty sure knows a bagatell and a bag of Telly when he sees it. So show up and I actually did order an omelet and it is it's what for all of you that don't know, apparently I was the only one that didn't know about this restaurant. It is. It's like a white tablecloth. It's very fabulous. Like you're like, oh, this is so New York is so fun. You're hurting just from talking about the years. I have to keep

adjusting my head fuh okay, trying to have them pulled back. Um. So it is white tablecloth, you know, we order a fabulous omelet and then all of a sudden, ship gets weird, Like how does it go down? I kind of forgot, well, the lights get lower and all this than like a certain and crowd comes in and you're like, all right, she started to heat up here, we got the drinks

are coming out. You're coming out. Bottomless mimosas turned into like bottomless crew drivers, like we've elevated the champagne into vodka. Now we're spraying the champagne. DJ comes out, J. That's always your first clue. He was right by our table. He was right by our table. I p so then all of a sudden, people are dancing on the tables and I remember Aaron looking at me and she's like, what's happening? And I'm like, just go with it, Aaron.

And because Whitney Houston had just passed away, every song was like a Whitney Houston rendition Diplo line one, it was remixed remix, and I was having the time of my life. And afterwards, I remember I even text Ryan this week and I was like, do you have any pictures from that time? And he goes no, thank God, And I'm thinking, because who knows what ended up happening, but it was a good time had by all. So that's when I knew that Aaron was like kind of

afraid of me because she's like she's a mess. But no, because I had a time I mean, what do you mean you don't remember. I remember exact Remember that tight bun I talked about, and that navy blue blazer. I walked into this fabulous place. We walked out. We had brunch, probably at eleven or noon. We left. I remember at like six seven o'clock at night. Blazer gone missing. M I a with the pillow with anyone's finds a pillow

and a blazer. Let me know the bun. It was then a soaking wet head like I just got off a peloton, Like yeah, this stuff comes all full circle. It got so hot in this civilized restaurant, I mean the stuff I was doing, it got so hot the windows started to fog up. I thought it was so funny and cute with my seven mimosas I had, I said, Carissa, watch, I re enacted Kate Winslet from Titanic. I put my hand up on the glass and then like like this on the YouTube, hand up on the glass and then

made it quiver come down. I thought it was so funny, and my missing blazer and weird hair do. It was the time of my life, and never forget it. It was so much fun. Says a lot about my life and I will always love you after that because the fact that you said your hand quivering on the front of the window. But it's true. Aaron re enacted the whole scene from Titanic where Kate's in the back of the you know, model T forward and the bowels of

the Titanic. It was hysterical. But you went out after that. I was the lame one that went home. You went out, Yeah, I know. I mean that's why I've had to have so much botox is because I've had to like cover up these wrinkles from my parting days. I do need to lay off. I have laid off the botox. I was a late although it doesn't look like it. Um, So I'll tell you why I needed botox. I'm so stressed out from another trip that we had. We went out to the Hamptons for a weekend because again we

were trying to be Carrie Bradshaw. Yeah, I rented a car. It was like that's from that scene actually where Carrie like goes to rent a car and she like drives two feet out of the thing and then drives right back. Anyways, I pick you up at your apartment and we're driving out to the Hampton's. I've never driven in New York. I mean, hi, I know how to drive, but like, who rents a car in New York? No one. We

didn't want to pay to go in the jitney. We weren't rich enough to actually like take a helicopter out there. So we're driving. I get a speeding ticket on my way out there. I'm like, and at this point, I had never actually ever gotten a speeding ticket, is like the only thing that like, really No, I had never gotten a speeding ticket prior to that, so I was annoyed. But then I was also like whatever, like you know whatever, I'm twenty six at this point, or however old we were,

and I'm like, it's about time I get a speeding ticket. No, not gonna ruin my weekend. So we go out to the hand it. No, not gonna do it. We have quite the time. We'll say all those stories for another podcast, because a plot to digest there. So then after a great time out there, we drive back. It's really early in the morning. I have to fly out. Something happens. You're wearing your Florida gat or sweat. I remember I'm wearing my zip cream on my face to Mario Baudusco

the drying cream. So it's like it looks like you have like calamine lotion, whatever it is when you have. We get pulled over again. Me driving, I'm like, fuck, this is twice in three days. I'm pulled over. I'm like, Aaron be trying to like wore out my friend of like Aaron, you're Aaron, So throw yourself together and try to sweet talk your way out of this ticket. And she's like what And I'm like anyways, yeah, I'm like, you gotta get me out of this. Start sweet talking,

do something whatever. Hand them your license so the cops not buying it. He gives us another ticket needless say I've cried. Oh yeah, I mean, please pull out all the stops. I never paid the tickets. Oh so, I'm pretty sure there's still a warrant out the right? Is that how that works? Like, don't you get a worn out for your rest if you don't go to your husband's a lawyer. Ask him. I know I should ask him, Kyle. He's at work, um but also looks again for the YouTube.

Look at the weird haunting light in the corner because it's gotten so dark in New York right now and it's just like one light is this little women antern. So yeah, so we've had some fun, interesting times here in the city. But yeah, well we've in more story as as we go through. We we've got to get to our wedding story and we'll definitely do that. I think we need a special guest to tell. Oh, I know what. Aaron got married in one of the most amazing places ever and it was a weekend of fun.

As you know, I just get married and I can only have ten people there because of COVID. So my wedding was not as exciting for a number of different reasons because sadly everyone wearing a mask. But Aaron got married in a really fun place and there was some really fun guests in My plus one is never boring um at that point in my life, So whenever I needed a plus one and wasn't in a relationship, I would make Larry David be my plus one. So that's

our teaser. Yeah, that was not name dropping. That's just literally like him and I were both so lame we were in relationships, and so then whenever we needed somewhere to go, so when we would like invite each other. But that was fun. Yeah, we'll tell the time that's that could be a whole episode. We'll make Larry come on for that one. No he has to. Um, Okay, So we're going to transition from getting speeding tickets to giving out awards. Ready, We're gonna do a Calm Down

Award award. It's a major award for Jeelie. Um. We didn't give out one last week. We're going to do this one. I you didn't get a chance to watch the Golden Globes last night. I didn't. I was on a plane flying from l A to New York, so that was the entire flight and they didn't have live TV. But I did see a recap today and was filled

in by you. Yeah. I actually really loved it this year because while with Quarantine, we watched a lot of the shows and so that was exciting because half the time Jared and I we have zero idea who's up for whatever, and we don't know anyone. My Calm Down Award and again, this isn't my world, Listen, I'm the girl always in T shirts and sneakers. I just felt like it was such a special event in such a

crappy time we get it. It's a zoom call. It's not being there, it's not the red carpet, just the people, like in their jammies and you know they're hooded sweatshirts. Just I just feel like it's such a special moment. It's not only honoring you, but it's also your entire crew, everybody that spent so much time and effort and hoping you would have this moment. I feel like it's honoring them as well. I mean, we saw some amazing gowns and I'm not even saying being in a gown, but

maybe just not your jammies and its hooded sweatshirt. That's my Calm Down Award. It's the Globes for goodness sake, get it together. And this is coming from someone who on our first podcast with Kevin Hart, you're the biggest advocate of jammies. You're just saying there's a time. Yeah yeah, And I mean gal Gal with the woman, Yeah, is it lovely? And she was pregnant and she's in heels and she's still dressed up. I mean, she's all of it. Vivica Fox Um, who else, Coco love her amazing. I

just feel like I get it. Been there, done that, but after this past year, we don't know if we're going to get there and do that again. And I just feel like there's a time and a place, and I actually feel like those people may look down the road and be like, maybe I should have given a

better effort. I don't know. I love that you said the part about for the for the crew, because it's not just about you, like when you're honored, right when Moira wins the award for Ship's Creek, Like that's that whole cast that puts her in a position, you know, to win the award, And that's yeah, I like that, So all right, a little effort goes a long way on something like that. I'm with you, and I'm saying you have to be in coultur or ballroom gown. Nobody

hates a ballroom gown more than me. And of course we'll get to that down the road. I mean, who doesn't love to shove eight mike, packs up your spanks and then call it a day. But maybe just put a little something something on. I mean this coming from the girl that probably should contour more for her husband, you know what I mean, he's sick, index maybe I should make more of an effort. I will. So that's actually great. We should make that a podcast topic. What's

that effort? Just a general so many things we can talk about. I mean, I was, I agree, except for cutting you off. I apologize for that. I will. I will make a better effort on that. But yeah, I feel like we kind of summed it all up there. What do you think? Um, I'm appreciative of the listeners. We will talk about all of things you guys want. I think that's another sort of call to action, as the kids say, is that Aaron and I are open for all the ideas is the listeners. What do you

guys want to hear? Do you want more stories of nonsense that we've had. Do you want more behind the scenes? Do you We have a lot of guests coming up on the horizon, so we're excited to share those with you as well. But we're open to all in any suggestion. So Aaron mentioned our social handles will include those again, and you can always d m us on our Calm Down podcast. We see and we hear everything that you guys are saying. So I love it. Shape the support, Aaron,

I love you. I love that this podcast after fifteen years of friendship is still teaching me things about you, and uh, we'll keep it going. So that's it for me. If my mom can find pictures of me and that head bandage, I'll see if I can post it on our social So look out for that. When I got the years done, you know what I mean? Well, Bermuda Bahama, Come on, pretty Mama. I'll never look at the Bahamas

the same again. We'll see you next week. Bye. Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of I heart Radio. For more podcasts from I heeart Radio, visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.