Episode 30: What’s That Smell?

get a caffeine sponsorship? I think we'll need it during eighteen weeks of football? Hey, um, it was fucking awesome. I was so excited to be back. How are you about it? Oh, I'm good, but my life was easy. I just drove down the ten West and headed Topico Boulevard. You're the one who had seventeen things to do in

three days, and obviously you're in Jacksonville. Originally supposed to be in New Orleans, but because of the hurricane Hurricane Ida thoughts and perished everyone that was impacted by that, your game was displaced and moved to Jacksonville. It was so much fun for me to watch you. I always pretend like I mean, it's like I forget you're on TV.

And then when you come on TV and Terry was talking, I was like, shut up, Aaron's on, She's doing her report like a little bit like I'm all excited for you. But your interview with Aaron Rodgers was awesome. Colin Coward, who used to be on the show with us, I'm so bumped on this year, but he needs a day off. He text me and he was like, make sure I showed you. I screen up the text, but he said make sure to send e a love and a good

get on Aaron Rodgers. Not the game Aaron Rodgers wanted, but a great interview by you, and it's it was an awesome way to start the season. So tell us all the things. Yeah, So headed out to Green Bay on Wednesday to get our sit down on Aaron Rodgers. You know this story all too well. So we head out and we get there. We land about one am. This is on Thursday morning. We get Aaron Rodgers after practice at about two forty five on a Thursday. You get a panic text. Around eight am. We land. We're

in a car service headed to the hotel in Green Bay. Wisconsin. It's myself, it's Jillian Gregory, guest and friend of the show, makeup artist, and Joel Santo's guest. And oh, not a guest, but a friend of the show. We'll have to get him on one time. He'll be great. He's our producer that does our sit downs. And all of a sudden, you know, when you're just going somewhere or you're thinking about something and it just hits you of a massive mistake that was made or something you don't have. Yes,

ladies and gentlemen, I land at one am. I'm in the car service by one thirty and I scream pull over. They pulled over, and I said, I don't have my outfit for my sit down with Aaron Rodgers what not to be bougie and Kim Kardashian. But we did take a jet there because I was tied up all day on Wednesday doing something else, so we needed to get

there quickly. And you'd think when you have a jet, you'd make sure you'd take an extra second to see if you have your outfit, because when listen, when you're in Green Bay, there aren't many options. Aaron's not bougie at all. This is how this is how dedicated Aaron is to getting to Green Bay to do an interview with the reigning m v P. If she goes out of pocket to make sure that she and she won't

say it, so I'm saying it for her. She finishes her responsibilities in l A writes that check, so she can put herself on a plane to do an interview. Not everyone would do that, and I will exclude names, but no one would do that but you. So anyway, it's a big get and I'm grateful he did the interview and it was a big deal. And listen and and and not even being bougie in terms of what

I wear, but look, it's Aaron Rodgers Week one. As everybody remembers, the off season was filled with these headlines. So watching in Montana as he was doing his conference and we were like, holy sh it, he's saying all this stuff. So of course that's the number one person that everybody wants to talk to. You get him to sit down and do an interview. You walk to Green Bay if you have to, Okay, I will, I'll watch

to Green Bay. So and I had done a couple of days before a fitting, like what am I going to wear what would look good on camera? How we do? In one thirty it hits me my garment bag did not make it on the flight. So as tired as I was and wanted to get a good night's sleep, it all went away because I had massive anxiety and chest pains about what time, what stores? Where can we go? Can I find something that fits? This is horrible. I'm like trying to meditate in bed to chill out. I

can't do it. My port stylist, Alyssa Green is sitting up all night like trying to look for stores. I text you, I'm like, I haven't slept, I'm having chest pains. I'm going to try on outfits right now. The malls. Well that ends well. We end up going to a store at ten am, fifteen minutes away from Lambeau. This sweet lady, I think it's called a joy. It's on my I freaking follow them if you ever need an outfit in a pinch In Green Bay, Jillian went with me. We walk in like a bad out of hell. It

wasn't like I gotta dress a cocktail one. It was like it wasn't even it kind of was I have all this money nobody will help me. Mine was like, I have all these money and I have the Green Bay packer, and I did. I walked in. Holy sh it. This poor woman doesn't know what hit her. I walked in. I looked at her Instagram, I looked at it online. I was like, Hi, I have an interview with Aaron Rodgers in about five hours and I have nothing to wear. I have these high heels, but that's it. What do

you have for me? And she's like, sit down, let me pull some options. And it was great. It was great, you know what I was thinking it was gonna be like, though, Chris And when I walked in the part when Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate goes shopping for the wedding after they were soaking wet, and they were like a movie montage. Sweetest thing if you guys haven't seen it. They go into this vintage store and they're like trying on all these different outfits and as they're getting ready to go

to that wedding. What was the town? It doesn't matter, but I can only imagine this woman who hasn't even like opened up her cash cash register for the day and started it because who's at the door. Do you remember that Mervyn's commercial. I don't think Mervin's is even a thing anymore. And it was like for Black Friday, and they it would have the woman against the window and she'd say open, open, Open, open, like she couldn't wait to get into the store. That was you, but

you were sending me pictures. They had the cutest stuff, so crazy, you looked awesome. The interview was unbelievable. We were watching it was it aired during our show, and then the full interview aired the next hour, and so Spoon and I were sitting there watching it in the green room and he looked over at me at one point and he goes, holy sh it, like he's just going there, and I'm like, yeah, because she's going there.

Like he would start to answer a question and you're like, come on, like and you obviously have a great relationship with him, and he's going to give you answers that he's not going to give to anyone else. But just you know, even asking that question of like were you really going to retire? Because come on, like, you know, you just finished this m v P year and all the ship in the off season. But it was a great interview. And you had to feel very good about

how that turned out given how it started. Thanks. Yeah, Aaron Tom, there's a couple of them out there that you know are gonna push back at you. I'm not saying that they all don't do that, but I'm lucky enough that I'm friends have worked with a lot of those guys. They're very good to me, but they also they want their message out there, right, And so you kind of have to be careful. When I sit down with Aaron, I look at every question. I dissect it.

I try to think of like me being him. One question we had written, Joel and I had talked about was with so many unknowns for next year, where's your head at with this likely being your last year here? And I was like, no, Jewel, there's it's an unknown. You don't know if it's going to be his last

year here, it's an unknown we don't know. And Joel's like, well, you just asked a question to ask a question, because I start dissecting it like a beautiful mind, because like Aaron Tom, they all you know, they just you just want to be on point for them. Yeah, and they're methodical. I mean, they're they're no stranger to how they know everything. Every answer they give is dissected and what does that

actually mean? But it was really refreshing to hear him be so honest, even when, you know, when we were in Montana and his presscott friends there, and then to follow up with the questions that you had, it was great. Clearly that wasn't the way that he wanted to start the season with a big loss to the Saints. But as he mentioned in his postgame press conference, it's week one, you know, and I was waiting for him to part because I did, you know, as an ice breaker with him.

I was just kind of like, you know, I was gonna throw out a couple of jokes and then he's like, so, how's the trip to Green Bay? And I was like, well, now that you mention it, I had to wake up early this morning. I had chest paints and I had to buy this in Green Bay. And he's like, you bought this in Green Bay? And I was like, I thought this in Green Bay? So what was the interview

really like talking about your outfit? Um? Wait, so then you fly from there to you came back home for a second, and then you went to Jacksonville, right, Um, how was it being in this because it was so enjoyable to watch games with fans in this Oh my god. Yeah, because first of all, like you know, watching the game, you're there and you I mean, it's obviously was so

quiet for you. But it was the same feeling last year when there wasn't fans or you know, a couple of thousand people, so just hearing like the roars of the crowd and like all of that kind of stuff. Yes, I said, roars of the crowd. It was just a different roar. It was a different experience watching it with fans, and I forgot how much I've missed that, So I can only imagine you feeling the same being there. Yeah, it was neat, you know last year of it neat I said that to me. We were very far from

any action. We weren't allowed really inside what we weren't allowed down in the field and what you're gonna love this. I haven't even talked to you today, so on purpose, we're down on the field and right, okay, when you go inside the tunnel, there's a door off to the right that was like a stats room or something somebody used,

so they made that as a green room. For myself and Tom Rinaldi and Jillian's in there and it's a place to cool off and drinks and her to touch up our makeup and us did our nice and usually the back room of the groundskeeper area. Don't worry. I was using that all day too, because I was trying to hydrate so much, so I was peeing a lot. Normally I don't pee during games, but when it's a thousand degrees on the field, I was trying to hydrate.

And yeah, you're you're sharing a bathroom with the groundskeepers, the officials, all the things. My favorite is and this happened yesterday. Literally, I have to pee so bad because I'm pumping electrolytes in me. But I'm waiting for Matt la Fleur to come out. And the last thing you want to do and take this as you want to be caught with your pants down. I don't want to be in the middle of going to the bathroom and Matt, look, I miss him right. The defense has been on the

field the whole first half. They're playing, as he called inefficient. The offense isn't going I mean, I don't want to be using the potty, and I miss Matt la fleur. Let's go down Aaron Andrews and see what Matt Flour had to say. Well, I don't know what he had to say. So I'm trying to go to the bathroom and I'm not going to say who. It's not anybody that anyone would know, but it's maybe I'm gonna keep it quiet. Is in the bathroom, taking a really long time.

I knock on the door again. He opens up. He goes a sorry, I'm just fixing my hair. I'm like, are you on camera? He's abohowing the scenes. Person. God, I wish I could say who it was and a guy and I wanted to be like too asked out of here. I'm wanting from Matt one Floren. I gotta go to the bathroom. Oh my god, averte the time that the official I was, but it was in Detroit. I was. I was always in Detroit, um being in the groundskeeper bathroom and didn't lock the door because I

was in such a hurry. I wasn't paying attention and official opens the door, literally caught with my pants down, and I was like, offsides, holy penyard penalty, we do we don't want to replay it at all. Closed door were you literally got under the hood. Whoa, I'm just kidding. Um, that's glamorous. Oh yeah, So we're down on the we're down in the field in our green room. Sorry I went into another story about going potty. But we're in the green room and we're waiting and this is before

like pregame warm ups. It's when the buses are starting to roll up and I'm doing my um my notes and everything, and the music is just bumping like it's just good. And I was like, damn, are they playing that outside? And I actually went outside to get something and I was like, there's no music out here. What is this? So I went back into the green room and it is just we're like, okay, okay. I don't think Tom Rinaldi was doing that, but Jillian, myself, v

we were all doing that. Um. I realized we're next door to the packers locker room and this is their playlist. I didn't tell you. I put my phone up to the wall and was Shazami, that's still a thing, every single song because it was like, God, this isn't okay, you know, and it just got me excited. I was like I missed this so much, like I miss being near the guys. I miss hearing their music. It's so good.

I even FaceTime Jarrett because he, you know, it was like, how's it going, And I FaceTime already the biggest smile and he's like what and go. We're right next door to the packers locker room. We can hear their entire playlist and I was like, here, listen, and I put it up there and he goes, I can't hear anything, and I was like, okay, fine, I'll call you later. But it was so good. Just things like that you miss,

you know. Of course you can remember the bulls in tro when they I mean, the greatest music of all time was when those guys are coming out. That reminds me they'll ask whoever because there's always a guy. I remember talking to Camp Georgian about this. There's always the guy that's in charge of the music. And it's like to be in charge of the music because it's hard to satisfy everyone's needs. I may have to send word to Devontae or Aaron Jones on that and be like,

who's in charge of this list? Because it was some great jams share on Spotify. Um, okay, so that was fun. Wait what else was I gonna ask you? Because I deliberately didn't call you this morning because I wanted which we would normally download, but I was like, let's save it for the podcast. He so, okay, yeah, And wait, why did Jillian instagram that she only had five seconds

to get you ready? Well that was because I was doing the intro to the Aaron Rodgers piece and I was on Troy's plane and we got in later than I had anticipated. So I ran in yet again like a bad out of hell, and had like thirty minutes and I was like, hey, can you do this? And she was like, the lash gods are on our side. He got your lash is done. But more importantly, I mean, I'm from Florida. I went to school in Florida. I used to walk to class when it was a hundred degrees.

But my god, it was. It could have been a lot hotter. I mean I remember doing LSU games and you know, my makeup just melting off my face. But she was warm out there, and it was just one of those that going in I'm a sweater, Like I'm

just a sweater. I've botox underneath my arms because I was told like I would sweat through every silk shirt and I was then it sucks because it's not like a smell sweat, but it's just was it perspiration, I guess whenever, And I'm like, fuck, like ruining clothes over it. So I need to do that actually, because that is helpful. But yeah, I'm a sweater too. See, I've always been afraid to put botox in my armpits because I just worry it will mess up my pH balance in terms

of like the smell. But nothing would have helped me yesterday. It was like once you started, you couldn't stop. I literally wrapped a gator I stole a gatoray towel from the packers. I put it over my shoulder because I was dabbing inside on my chest and then I'm not gonna lie stomach sweat sweat an issue, and I was like, this is gonna be a real scene. But it didn't

come to that, thank goodness. But it was just like you smelled gamy and it was like there's a couple of times, you know, I'm lucky enough to be literally right there by the players and you're like, oh gosh, guys, and then you realize it's you and you're like, oh, hey, hello, Jillian um Uh instagrammed with calm down on it her deodorant. Because I will say this, I thought I had packed it. I thought I packed it. It turns out I did, but I was in such a rush I didn't see

it in my backpack. So I just said, oh my god, I need deodorant, like I need more. And she goes, here, try this Donna Karen stuff, I promise you. And I was like, is this like really expensive bougie deodorant? It's really going to cut the stink. It was good. It was good, but just in fact, she goes, I don't care if we share deodorant. We're friends, and okay, let's let's get into the do you have a problem. Yeah, I don't have a problem with sharing deodor I don't

have a problem either. I am going to buy her a new one because I know it's not like you're you know, yeah, I know it's an expensive deodor and it was on my sweaty pits, so I am going to purchase okay with that, as long as really it takes. I mean, if it's you or someone that I'm really close with, I don't have a problem sharing deoda because I don't know, it just feels like it's cutting the smell and it's like whatever, it's not that big of deal.

I will never share a toothbrush with anyone, Like never, not a husband. No, no bar of soap, dingy, I won't do it. I don't even like a bar of soap. Give me a body wash. I'll do a bar of soap if I have to, but that's a one time usage. Well, I don't even like to reuse my own bar of soap in the shower in a hotel. No, I don't like got it, I'm not. I'd rather take the shampoo bottle on the on the washcloth and create my own body wash situation. I don't want to see the sediment

that settles on the soap bar. And no I'm not interested. Yeah, big thing with guests, like if they're deodorant, you're okay. Huh. I'm okay with that. But like this is why you're also a great host, because in Montana, like you had a fresh bar of the bar soap and I felt bad. I didn't have body was getting upset about it right now. First of all, I was just complimenting you. I was just complimenting you that you had a new bar of

soap in there. Know what, I'm sweating so stupid, says, gave me like a bedroom that has seventeen thousand thread count sheets wallpaper on the wall, every pillar. I mean, this guest room was like us at the Four Seasons and she's worried about a bar of soap in a box, but she she went so far in these guests rooms. You guys, this is amazing. You know the rolled floor matt towel you get at the Four Seasons outside the shower, she had that, not even a bath mat, an actual

bath towel. That's when you know you're fancy. Well. I've also stayed in a ton of hotels. I know how I like it, but I it was on the body wash. Damn. I know. No, No reminds me you're missing the point. Really nice hotels have bars of soaps in the box. Any who, um are we having to Ryan? Is that our producer telling us that we needed to take a

break fifteen minutes in. I wanted to wait, let's talk really fast about the rest of the Green Bay game, and then after the break, I want to hear about your day in the studio thoughts on Green Bay, New Orleans. My thoughts is that I lost a lot of money, but that's fine. I made out really, yeah I did, because what I did is that I did a teaser bet, meaning like I had Kansas City and um, the Packers to win. So you thank god Kansas City want and pulled that game out. I was not interested in what

was happening there. Um anyways, But yeah, so I lost money on that, but I actually did pretty good. Buffalo is the only other team that screwed me, and they're lost to the Steelers. But here's how I look at it, and going back to what you said about Sean Payton, he's a great coach. This is a team that this is a team that has and I loved your guys

stories throughout the game. Um we're talking about how when they were you know, decided to go to tech exist and like the organization doing it in the first class way of families pets. By the way, that's so if top it so anyone that didn't hear or watch the game. Because of Hurricane Ida, New Orleans, the team moves to Texas. They're practicing at TCU, they're living there, but the organization brought all of their families, including their animals, like that

is making moments. What an angel? Right? Um So anyway, so yeah, so they you know, and they're always gonna get up to play emotionally for things like that. So I'm not that worried about it. A lot was made of you know, Aaron Rodgers not playing in the off season. I'm not worried about the talent on that side of the ball. Is just a matter of you know, getting getting some reps under the belt. So I know, I'm not a big overreactor in week one on that kind

of stuff, even though I overreact about everything. But I don't think this is an overreaction. I think Dennis Allen and Sean Payton are freaking awesome coaches. I mean, I I don't think they get enough praise. I'm not sure why Dennis Allen doesn't get more looks as head coach. I love him. Uh Cam Jordan's just Alvin Kamara. Okay, this guy, I mean, his body just bends in fifteen

different ways. Gumby. I'm also going to say this too, and I've been the first to be critical of him, but um yeah, j and he looks so cute in his postgame with his little suit on and like all professional. But I'm a big like wear a suit in a postgame press conference kind of gal. It's the hockey. It's the hockey part of me. You will appreciate that is your husband, like you having to go to the rink in a suit postgame press conferences in in nice attire.

Although dk metcalf snap snaps that d J it's swagger, he replicated the Jordan's alphin and that not the stuff that gets me music. And it was so damn good. I thought Jamal Adams looked good too. I even commented on his I g um, we just so everyone. Yeah, we'll take a break and we'll tell you why it's okay to um compliment players on how attractive they are because we say it in front of our husbands. More on that after the grou I'm in the outfit, not how hot they Oh no, I just comment on how

hot they are. More on me after the break. Hey, I just got a comment on my I g don't forget to check out Calm Down podcast. I g didn't hear Chris's say back to Joe, Troy and Aaron, I hear it freaking yesterday. Either I got to you, like, what the hell I'm going? Okay, good, I'm glad you brought that up. Who was this sweetheart that made that comment? Because I'm gonna address it to them specifically listener, hopefulease, I mean up the name. Hey, it's all in a name.

You want a name, who is it? Smooth Hoosier, Smooth is his uncle. Smooth is his name. He's fresh Prince of Indiana. When you see me, you see love Pacers, Gang, I U B B I U F B and colds Nation. Okay, I just say that he pays attention. Fantastic. Well, I love him and I will love that because now there are four of you. It's Joe, Troy, Aaron, Tom. I mean, I don't have time for all these names, the highlights over, I mean the get all the names in. I don't know if I need to give a shout out to

to Z to Russo. I mean. Also, I did get one in though, with all of you, and that's it. Yeah, I got one in. It was the second um because I actually thought about it because I had just been sending it back to Joe and I was like, I'm gonna get one in here with all of these characters.

But it was when it was the Kansas the second Kansas City highlight with when I knew that at that point because I'm trying to be cognizant that, like, your audience doesn't need to hear about my highlights if the game is really good, like get this chick out of here.

We care about our game. But when it was a game, when it was right, so when it was a total blowout, it was a foregone conclusion that the Saints were gonna win handily, I was like, let me take my sweet time on this little highlight and make sure we get them all in. But yes, thank you for noticing. But yeah, that is That's another thing. You guys, Tom and Um you both being on the sideline. How does that change

actually for you? Does that make your workload easier because you're working just one sideline or how does that work? It does make it easier, But you still, I mean, you're still on the calls for the Saints. You're still reading the articles because you need to know, right, you need to know that Marshawn Lottimore is coming into the game with a knee injury. And then how about that freaking guy hurts his risk, gets X Rays, comes in, still makes a big play and gets paid right after

the game. I mean, gosh, Um, it is funny though, and people don't know this, but because you have great relationships with some of these coaches, and you know, Sean is awesome he texts me after the game. Well I texted him and I was just like, awesome, jobs, so happy for you. And um, again, that doesn't mean I wouldn't be texting Matt Lafleur and any of those guys. You know, you just you develop relationships with these people and time of years. I mean, my god, how long

have we known these people? I mean, and I know his daughter really well, and he's in the industry and all the things, and um, you end up being at events with them and stuff, and he you know, talks to my husband all the time. But he wrote me back and he goes, yeah, maybe next time you'll pick the right sideline. So it starts getting to be like that, like people do that all the time, and Saints pr did that to me too. Well, maybe next time you choose the winners, you know, and you would think and

I tell Jared about it all the time. He's like, why do they give a ship like they don't. But then sometimes in the playoffs they start really getting superstitious and they're like, well, wait a second, you were on our sideline. How are you not on our sideline again? Which I think, sorry, bib, I keep cutting off. How do you decide who were you on Green Base because you did the Rogers interview or how does that work? Yeah?

I was selfishly because I had, you know, I'd been given this opportunity to sit with him, and so I kind of figured, if I'm going to sit with him during the week and they're talking about Aaron, I mean I can add so many times from things that weren't used in our conversation or on the on the feature that was actually on TV. So yeah, so that's what

I did. But Tom's great. I love having Tom. I worked with him at college game Day when I was on ESPN, And one thing that kind of separates him is just we're such a team, Like we'll text during the game and you know, even when he goes to get Jamis or last year when I was doing interviews or he would do interviews, we would be like, Hey, what do you think about this question? Or what do you think about this. It's cool. It's it's very much like a team. And I really appreciate that about him.

And he got off the field yesterday and he goes, God, I kind of forgot how long you have to stand because you really are standing out there for four hours? Oh yeah, why do you think I have spider veins? Hey, if there's enough, if there's a group that wants to do a spider vein promotion to on our podcast, I am dialed in. I love you not only done the jacks a little sailine. Oh have you ever done that before? No? But I think I'm going to have to do it

after the season's over. I'm starting to get a few spider veins on my legs. But I feel like that was from dancing though, too. Wasn't that a lot of from No? You just think I just have poor regulation and it doesn't help. And I'd probably need to be better about getting off my feet and wearing compression pants when I'm on a plane. Um, absolutely stinking and dehydrated, and you know whatever, I want to wear compression pants on a Wednesday. I feel like those things that I love,

compression pants. I'm actually gonna buy some new ones right after we get just online. Jared has some good ones that they used to wear on the plane when he was playing to kind of save your legs and keep him fresh. But the only problem is with wearing compression pants when you travel is like that doesn't need to be your main pant, and then if you put a pant over it, it like just there's a lot of

clothing to wear, you know. Speaking of gear, Um, I know that you saw it, you text me, But how about Terry with I'm wearing the comfy brace while I'm doing highlights because I'm so jealous. I'm sitting there. I was telling Troy about it when I saw it. I said, oh, Chris is wearing her braves and He's like, does it help? And I was like, well, I don't. As soon as it gets cold, I'm gonna start wearing it on the sidelines. Five hours I'm sitting there. But longer than that, how

did it go? Uh? Yeah? So I mean we get off our well, we get off our set at shows from eight to nine Pacific standard time, and then I usually just like go grab coffee or whatever. I actually did something yesterday that involved you, cutie, But that's for a later time. It's just like a little surprise, nothing crazy, but this is a nice surprise, a real not surprise, cousin Eddie. So then I sat back down, and then I sit there from ten till three. We actually had

which I already know what it is. I knew you did it. Thank you for doing it. I wanted to say so much more than I was, like, I don't know this audience. Anyways, I presented Aaron with an award that she gets. It's a major award and for agile, and it's um yeah, and I'm very happy for her, but I didn't know what the audience wasn't because I have seen my classy people, so I just kept it really professional. But anyways, congratulations on that. It's a word

well deserved and um yeah. So sitting there, so I was like, I gotta put my brace on. And those of you guys that don't know Aaron started wearing this brace to help with her posture. And so then I ordered one off Amazon, the best twelve dollars that I ever spent because I just like subconsciously would hunch over. So I put it on, and Terry, like he normally does, wandered over and He was like, what are you wearing? And I said what and he goes, is that a backpack?

And I, oh, I forgot, I had my comfy brake. I forgot the name. I shouldn't say that. I go, I have my brace on, I said. Aaron turned me onto this and he said, let me try it. So I put it on him and he was loving it. He was like, I didn't know how comfy I was until I put this on. He did like a whole little bit for you. But it was really funny. Um. So yeah, that's what was the studio. Well, you're busy working, we're wearing comfy braces. Um. Studio was good. I was

so happy, like you were, just to be back. You know, football season is our favorite time of the year, and we have a new crew this year, so no, how do go good? Charles Woodson is now on our set and so is Schraeger, who's back in studio, which makes me happy. So that was good. You know, it's always week one, it's like macro conversations. But it was nice to just be back there and not as many restrictions still COVID protocol of course getting tested and all that.

But it was better than last year and all of the sort of red tape that came with that. It felt like a little bit of old time. So that was fun, and I mean there was a lot of great games yesterday. I was happy. I mean every team in the NFC West one, the Seahawks one one decisively San Francisco. The ending of that gaume. I know, you don't don't get to see games because you're working out. No, I was just about to say, who did they play? It's so hard? Did they play Detroit? And they were

like blowing them out? And then Detroit two minutes left in the game, e twenty four points they scored. They closed the deficit of twenty four points in two minutes and almost won the game. It was stupid. It was like very classic Detroit with like bands were probably like, oh my god, we're gonna come back and win. And then you know, Jared Goff wasn't able to complete a pass on fourth down, fourth and six or something. Um, But yeah, that was fun. That was a good game.

The Chiefs. Speaking of Chiefs, Yeah, that was insane. You were cutting in NonStop with that. That was you know. The Browns. The Browns are the sexy team to Pitt because every the Browns have been terrible for for decades and now they're going to be a really good team. I know when we talked to Kevin Stefanski during our quarantine Q and A last him love him. This is how classy he is. He's the guy that's like all

team all offseason. He wouldn't do an interview, he wouldn't do a commercial, he wouldn't do anything because he really Yeah, he was like, this is about the team and team centric. I don't need to be out here like talking and doing anything other than like what you know, what's in it for the team kind of a deal. So the Browns are good, clearly they showed that yesterday. But I'm not let me um Baker Mayfield tweeted something out and

I just have a problem with people. I love being confident in yourself and all that kind of stuff, but I'm a little bit more interested in like humility until you've earned the right to then be boisterous like Tom Brady, know, like doing his fun like stories or that kind of stuff like his Like I G confidence, the dudes earned

every school, yeah, like every second of that. But if you haven't won anything yet, like let's take it easy, like just about like, you know, this is like hype video of whatever, and that's cool like that you you know, are confident for your team, as you should be. But I'm like, dude, wins something first. Anyways, that's just my did he put out a hype video kind of like Tom and Aaron and all the guys like after they

lost before before. I think that's all the marketing branding thing that guys are doing, you know, But I get what you're saying. Interesting take O don't know. I'm just like, I feel like action should speak louder than words like throw that up after you went like you want to talk a big game, you know, beating the Chiefs, But

I don't know. Anyways, I digress. You want to talk about talking to big game and what seemed like a big game and I was only watching it from my phone as I had just landed in Dallas and then was getting on a flight from Dallas to l A. Last night was Bears at Rams. It looks like a freaking party at so Far and my husband was there and Kelly Stafford was nice enough to have Jared in their box last night, and I just kept texting him like,

how is it? How is it? And Jared said, you know, he's playing his ass off, and he goes, they're just so nervous in that box. And I can't I can't even imagine. I can't imagine because they gave up so much for him. It's his debut. The fans are, They're good for Matthew Stafford. I mean, I've seen so many pictures today of him smiling. I think on McVeigh was smiling bigger. And I heard our friend Calling Cowherd say this on his show. It just looked like a freaking party,

and that's what Ellie should be. That's awesome. I'm so freaking pumped for the Rams. That's awesome. Here's the thing about that too. And I was watching. As I was watching it, I was thinking to myself, here's a guy, I think matt Matthews in the thirteenth year in the NFL and and he was a class act while in Detroit. To have you know, the defense was was good his

first few years and had some weapons. But like al Michael's brought up a great point on the broadcast, he was like Calvin Johnson and Barry Sanders left this organization early Matt Stafford didn't have to leave this organization early. He asked to stay. They didn't put a deal together. He had every right to move on and go, you know,

try to try to win with a different organization. But when you leave after that long and I was even talking to and Dominican su about this in the interview that I had with him, he was like, I wanted to I wanted to stay in Detroit, but anyways, things didn't work out. When you have an opportunity, So the Dominicans who leaves Detroit, obviously his lineage, whatever goes on.

But when you win somewhere else. I am so rooting for Matt's Matthew Stafford to win with the RAMS because when you haven't, you've been with an organization and you're so used to losing, you know, for them to go

and like and for McVeigh. They also brought up on the broadcast that this is Sean mcveighs only thirty four years old or thirty five years old, like the trapically like teammates and so what he what al Michael said, which was awesome, I think he goes He said McVeigh was looking for a partner, not a student and I thought that was interesting. I mean, like he didn't want to have to teach. And nothing against Jared Goff. Look, you know, he's a very formidable quarterback, and I hope

he has success in Detroit. But just for Matthew Stafford to have success in l A after coming from Detroit and being used to losing, you know, over and over again, I think I'm really not I think, I know, I'm excited for them to do that. That has my Seahawks, and the Seahawks looked good yesterday, so that whole division top to bottom is really good. Although I was happy to see Joe Burrow. I'm going to go and interview him this week actually on good Yeah, I'm looking forward

to sitting down with him. Of course, all you know, the hype with him coming out well deserved what he did at l s U and then the injury, So I'll look forward to you know, there's a lot of young guys and different quarterbacks with different teams. I mean, I'm just excited. How long is this podcast we could keep going? I know I was kind of and I said it to Jared today, I was kind of thinking about, well,

you know, bringing this back to Aaron Rodgers. You look at Tom and what he's thinking about Tom going there and having success and not that he can't have success with green Bay, but if he's you know, having this big of a problem with the front office and then him going to the RAMS and having success, Uh, you know, Stafford going to the Rams. But but then that's where I'm tripping myself up in my head right now. He's

got a lot of tools right there. He has a ton of tools in green Bay, a lot of weapons. So you know, they really think they are close and green Bay despite of what happened yesterday. But yeah, I'm pumped for Matthew Stofford. I'm pumped for Kelly Stafford. Two things about that, you know, I what was I going to say? Gosh, it just escaped me. Oh, Colin said today, um, Monday, and I know this is running on Thursday, but he just said, Matthew Stafford feels big. He feels like he

should be in l A like Jared Goff. Yes, you're gonna win ten games with him, but Matthew Stafford feels like an l A player, you know, And that's really cool. And um, I just oh Sean McVeigh I was talking to him a couple of weeks ago about Matthew Stafford, and I just said, you know, I had a chance to hang out with him and his wife in Montana and McVeigh said, you don't like Matthew Stafford. Something's wrong with you. I mean, it's just a good breaking dude.

He is the same with her um. And yesterday they took a shot during the broadcast. They were talking about, you know, Matthew moving to l A and they did a split screen and it was a blonde on the other side of the screen and good catching. Her best friend Barrett said yeah, what's it? Yeah, and so they good catch by them. They didn't say somebody in the truck or whatever had taken that shot, like assuming that

that was Kelly. It was a hot blonde. And so then later on they went to Kelly in the box and they were like, that previous picture wasn't Kelly Stafford or whatever. And so we were talking before we got on, like would you care if if your husband, like if there's a split screen of Jarrett on the ice and they take a shot of someone other than you, Like, would you care? Would you be upset about that? I'm like,

Kelly is like so chill. She could care less about Yeah, I don't think I would care I mean no, yeah, obviously, And it happens all the time, you know people They do it sometimes with players, which is nuts, like they get the wrong player on um. But yeah, I know that's so funny. But I'm pumped for the Rams. We have that we have that big, big match up with Tom Brady coming to play the Rams in two weeks, so I'm very much looking forward to that. We need

to get Kelly Stafford on here. She's got a new podcast, I think, yeah, and doesn't follow her. She's hysterical. She was in her kids cheerleading clap or whatever the other day. Oh my god, he's got a whole issue with another kid in that class and like the like they're being whatever. Anyways, if you don't follow Kelly Stafford, you should, And she has a podcast, so we should get her on for sure.

But in summary, like we are just clearly if you can't tell, it was like the day after Christmas and we're like again, but wait before we go, I want um you because again I didn't get to talk to you before this podcast. Deliberately you said something about you were really loud when you came home last night? What was that? My god? You know who's not excited about football season? My husband? Because like, so last night I get home, I land like around whatever, Levin. We're really

lucky were by the airport. So I get into the house about I don't want to think this is him coming in. He could reenact it. I get in at eleven. He you know, leaves a light on. Couldn't be better. How he's with him? Howie, I try to make a lot of noise when I'm coming in the gate with the car service, so he doesn't do because that's what we're it does when you know, anyone walks in. He gets very scared. So I'm trying, as I'm you know, rolling through the front of the before I get to

the entryway, make a lot of noise. So how he's like down in the entrance way waiting for me, and so um, I opened the door and right away and I know he's on the bed with Jared, and I'm like, oh my god, sorry, So he runs down. I open up the door so he doesn't pee on the floor, and he's crying outside in the front of the house and everything. Yeah, it's bad. So I'm like sorry, So I walked back in, and then how he goes right back upstairs to daddy, Like that's what he does. He

doesn't wait down for me. He comes so I'm hungry. I also, as you can tell from our podcast, I show the cheese. I'm eating the I g and then um, you know, I need some fluids because I it was so freaking hot in Jacktonville. So I'm doing my thing downstairs. I get upstairs at this point, it's about fift get upstairs, go to the other room. I try to open my suitcase because my skincare products are in there, like my pills, all that stuff. My zipper stuck and I cannot open it.

And I'm like doing anything I can. I'm like shoving stuff in there. I cannot open it. So it's twelve thirty. I'm still sweating. I stink. Finally, I roll the suitcase into our bedroom and I'm like, babe, and he's like, it's like, can you help me with my suitcase? I can't get it open. He needs to be on the

ice at seven fifteen, so he's like, yeah, babe. Gets up and it's Andy's and he's like trying and he's like and it's obviously i'ms and he opens it up so easy, and I was like thank you, and he's like, no problem, and I roll back into my room. I go and I grab my stuff. Then I bring it into our bathroom. I go to set the alarm. Well I said it accidentally without the delay, so it starts going babe story. Then I go into the bathroom. I knock over this huge metal trash can. It's like boom.

I'm like, sorry, I love you. Turn on the shower, knock over the shampoo like, I'm like sorry, yeah. Jared's like jeezus, Like I need to start getting ready in the other room or well, season half, she's here, she's home, Mommy's home. I love it. The kicks up and it's good. I'm so excited that football is back. For those listeners that don't know a lot about football or don't care

about football, you know, I was thinking about that. Then tell us what you guys want, like what's interesting to you, because I'm I'm guessing if I don't care about football, like the behind the scenes stories of like you at the shop or like your travels or whatever, let us know on our Calm Down podcast, I swear we look at all of that not to miss you that if you follow Aaron or I on our normal i G s, we do a lot more nonsense, and Aaron, you're better

about this. I'm gonna be better about it too. You put more on your on the calm Down I G than you would on your regular one. So if you like that better the scene stuff, then make sure you follow us on that platform. I'm so excited that football is back. I love you. I'm glad you're safe and sound and where you had it this week. I love you too. Um, I head on a plane on Wednesday because we have our first Thursday Night game Giants at

Washington Football Team. So sad about Ryan Fitzpatrick and his hip. He's already put on the I R for that. Oh god, I know. I talked to Logan Ryan in Sae Kwon Barkley. Tomorrow. I'm excited to talk to them, and it's already like pedal to the metal for me. Tomorrow it's like or today, it was like reading Giants. What I forgot? I thought you'd started Thursday Night on in week three. We do

it on the NFL Network for two three weeks. Um, okay, Well, great. Well, then you already have a busy week and here to support in anyway. I can thank you guys for listening. I'm home this weekend. If you and Tregor want to go to dinner on Saturday, say no more on a text chain now, um wee? Can I give a calm down a word? Calmed down a word to the fans that we're jumping over the stands, broke our audio table and our audio equipment and then got wrestled to the

ground by cops. And then those two fans that ran into one ran into the blue tent with Lucas Patrick, which I got so piste off about, and then ran into where the Green Bay packers were trying to shake hands with the Saints, and I got so scared and ran intold Green Bay security and they had to run and wrestle him down. Stay in your seats, don't do stupid stuff, be excited you're back in the stands. Don't cause mayhem like that because you're gonna go to jail.

And you also could hurt somebody, and don't do that. You ruin it for everyone and hits me off. And to the same asshole that ran out on the field during the Yankees Mets game. Oh I'm sorry that this is a game that is a total tribute to the victim of nine eleven and it has to be about you. So you calm down, to calm down and enjoy that you're back. Don't ruin it for everyone, for everyone exactly. Bye. Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of

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