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April 24, 2025 41 mins

A Big Show with big things to talk about on the latest edition of Calm Down with Erin and Charissa. They discuss the reaction to the “Plus Ones” episode and why the boys might need to be humbled a little bit. Charissa address some of the fake news headlines she’s seen about herself and the wonderful time she had hosting family at Ruby Ranch. Erin can’t figure out why she’s comfortable in front of the camera but awkward opening up gifts.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guys, they're getting ready to do intros and I got
my one light on me as I'm doing my hit
and I feel fucking great, but you asked me to
open up a Christmas present in front of people, and
I'm like, I'm shy.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
What is that? Calm Down with Erin and Chrissa is
a production of iHeartRadio Welcome to the Big Show.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Chrisa just asked me as I was singing, let me
just tell you what you're not missing in your life.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's great.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
But every morning my little guy comes down and he
points to Alexa and he says day and he wants
his musica on. We say musica because apparently I speak Spanish,
you know. And so right now, ever since we went
to Disneyland, it's it's.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Come inside, we'll have a to
you know.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
I used to walk down and be like, I love you,
it's ruining mine.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
But now Mickey mouth plub Yeah, it's listening to that,
and I'm not the kid. So it's very sweet. But
I can only imagine that after the like, remember your
baby baby shark was like a thing, and like every
parent's like the fuck this baby shark thing is taking
over my life. We were a world, but that this

(01:20):
is the song that never ends. Do you remember that
when we weren't kids, we were older, but this was
in my babysa sitting days. This is the song that
doesn't end because it goes on and on. My friend
and it went on and on and on, and I
was like, and the kids loved it because, you know whatever,
it has the Miss Rachel like vibe to it. I

(01:42):
was like, oh my god, make it stop. But we're
also so you do it.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I know we're big into Elmo and we have we
put that station on and there's always one the yell.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Most slide, the Elmos.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Slide, and it's like, by twenty minutes of breakfast, he's
screaming our nanny, our sweet nanny is asking what we need.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Jared's like, do we have any more Kleenex?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I'm like, Alexa off because it's just like my sensory.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's like, holy shit, Oh shut the fuck duma side
the slide.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I gotta say this about Sesame Street. One thing I've
really started to appreciate about Sesame Street, and I grew
up watching it. I love Sesame Street. Mac is falling
in right now. He's obsessed with cookie Monster. They do
a really good job of sliding adult jokes or adult
like skits in and like, what's the one there's one song? Uh,

(02:41):
it's almost song. God, I cannot believe I'm forgetting it.
How it goes, It's like, well, you well, you try
to think of it.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I was, you know what I was thinking about, and
you said this Sesame Street has had an incredible, incredible
what is going on over there? We got to talk
to the executive executives because the life span long jefvity. Yeah, yeah,
of Sesame Street, and we think about it. We watched
that as kids, so you're talking like one hundred and
ten years ago because we're old. But like, wow, good

(03:11):
for them, Like you know what, like when you talk
about fats and coming in Outcrossme Street, that shit is
still popping.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
They're okay, here we go, and then I'm done singing
you our nursery rhymes that we sing every day.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
This is the song La La La la Elmo song.
And then they have characters in the background.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I find it so funny, especially when I'm tired and
like big birds in the background.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
He goes to think he came up with it. Himself, Like,
I think that's so funny sing it. It's like it's
so dry sense of humor. It's really fucking funny. Any Who,
what's happening in your neck of the woods? Right? I
gotta tell you, I love Al Rokers so much, speaking
of longevity, I just love him so much. I don't know,

(03:53):
I just because I'm looking at the woods right now.
I'm in the woods, into the woods. Do you run
the wood? Because I'm looking at the woods because I'm
obviously at the branch. But I I just love Al Roker.
He is so funny. I got to spend time with them.
I know you've done the weather with him now that
is a real ornpit sweating. God, that's a dream. But yeah,

(04:14):
I got to spend time with him at a charity
event in Kansas City. He is so funny. You want
to talk about dry sense of humor and like, just
house there. God, he's great. Anyways, I digress sweat too.
Love Al Roker? All right, So what's happening in our lives? Hey,
let's just I I want to just get this out there.
I got a few things that I'm going to rip

(04:35):
off during this podcast because I'm real soap. I know
Hare knows that that we'll get to those after the break.
But what I'd like to start with is those of
you that are tuning in early here on this podcast
and you don't see the plus ones we've created monsters. Okay,
we knew we would. If I had to Steve one
more time over the last few days, be like, well,

(04:59):
everyone else thinks I'm fun I don't know why you
don't think I'm funny. Like, Okay, Steve, yes, you're funny. Yeah,
we got it, You're funny. You and Jared are great.
The plus ones are great. We are encouraging of that.
But you also, if you're going to be a star
Steve and Jared, you have to have some new humility.
Break it down. Like he's like commenting on everyone's thing.
I go, you don't need to comment on every every

(05:20):
Get out of the comment section, I said, Get out
of the comment section. This is we have shit to do.
Run here. I was hosting my family fourteen people. I
was so happy. I was like, wait this, I don't
need you to be over here in the comments center,
replies replying, Okay, get off of there right now, Travis replied,
and or the second Travis made a comment. It was

(05:41):
over for the both of them. It was just over. Yeah, well,
Jimmy stop, okay, Steve, get out of the comment section
and get out in the lawn because the lawn needs
to vote, okay, and the plants need to be planted.
So anyways, we've created monsters and I would love to
have them back on, but the egos need to come
back down to Earth space.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Oh wait, hold on, before you get to that. I
wanted to comment really quickly. It was a great It
was a great segment. I was actually at the King's
game last night and one of my girlfriends and one
of Jared's teammates, the Lewises, Trevor and Kara Lewis. Kara
was in the wives room and she was like, oh
my god, we had the podcast on the other day.
She goes, I was laughing my ass off, and she

(06:26):
said that. Trevor looked over and goes, is that Jared
And she goes yeah, and he goes, he's on the show,
and she's like, he is. This week also shout out
to Rangers goalie former King's goalie three time Stanley Cup
winner Jonathan Quick, who reached out and said it's the
place where magic happens, referring to at the quick.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well, guess what. Things moved very quick after that night.
I think we were engaged and according to one recent headline, okay,
I got a new segment call No, is this headline
real or not? What happened? I'll start with the first one.
So I will preface all of this with saying that, no,
I don't google myself, because we all know what happens

(07:06):
when that pops up. It makes you go into a
fetal position, and.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Especially when you see the photos they've chosen. Jes Rice,
I'm like, you could really want me to hate myself? Yeah, exactly,
nine chins, one eye looks like my face has been over.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Tom looks great. I'm like, god, I know what they're awful.
But okay, I have a few things here, So I'm
going to organize my thoughts because sometimes my tangents are
hard to follow. It's like write it down, write it down.
Here we go. I will start with the news segment
I'm calling is this headline real? No? I'm not leaving Fox.

(07:45):
I was never leaving Fox. I don't know where this
took on a life of its own. Where I, as
I was hosting my family here at the ranch for
the past weekend. Four of my family members asked, well,
the place looks great. How are you going to afford
it now that you don't have a job, And I'm like,
when did I end this headline here? Like it's crazy. No,
I'm not even kidding, and I would only I wouldn't

(08:07):
normally address this because we all get fake headlines. And
it's also why I love Kylie Kelsey. She was like,
part of the reason I started a podcast is so
I could refute this fake that's out here. But no,
I'm not leaving Fox. I was never leaving Fox. I'm
not fired. My family rest assured, was like, okay, good
because there was these weird headlines, but so, yeah, I'm

(08:28):
not fired. I hope like giants, but I hope I
die at one O two oh one West Peacocha. No,
I don't want you to die there, so cold, as
I always talk about, Fox is my longest relationship. I
have worked there since I was what twenty two years old,
starting in the HR department. So yes, I love Fox.
I will hopefully end my career there in a long

(08:51):
long time, but anyways, it's not ending anytime soon, So
let's just get that out of the way. That's a
fake headline. The other fake headline is, and we're going
to pop it up here, is apparently I married Steve.
Have you seen this headline?

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Oh so there's men, there's Well, the only reason I
know is because my family, that my sweet family, wants
to make.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Sure that I am. Okay, I'm not fired. I didn't
marry Steve, but US Weekly says that Steve and I
are husbands. Our husbands enjoyed the Eras tour. So my
dad laughed, He goes, did you get married again and
not tell me? Because, by the way, there's some precedents
to support that I have gotten married the first marriage

(09:34):
and didn't tell my parents until six months later. So no,
I'm not married and I'm not fired. Look at the
US Weekly headline. Why am I swinting when I sell glasses?
On Jesus, you're doing? I need glasses?

Speaker 1 (09:49):
And Andrews husbands react, Oh fun, So we're married.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Steve and I are married. Also, I love these headlines.
This is crazy. Travis Kelsey gives heartfelt shout out to partners.
Heartfelt he just can't like thumbs. So yeah, that's our
new segment around here called what Headlines are Real and
what headlines are fake? I'm not married and I'm not fired.

(10:15):
Next question, Oh my god, people are crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well okay, the next question, Oh sorry, you're no, no,
no no, that's one of my few rants.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
I just wanted to address that. I would like to
go back to what else has been happening in your world?
You are wearing we touched on it?

Speaker 1 (10:40):
No no, no, no no no no. You have a
couple of things you want to go, you.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Know, I can. I can circle back and need to
take a breath, you know. Mm hmm. Okay, you brought
up about you hosting. Oh you want to get into
the family hosting. I want to. I have so many questions. Okay,
because okay, you asked the questions and I'll fill in
the blank.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Okay, So Carissa had adorably so great, had her entire family.
I'll let her obviously give more details on this to
the ranch. I love this because we, admittedly, you know,
always complain to each other. We're not host We're not
hosts like I have friends Samantha Phipps, Alvarez Ashley Phipps

(11:20):
who are insane hosts like you walk in you got
a drink, here's your cheese board, here's your thing. I
at some point in our lives will discuss we hosted
a couple of weeks ago and I was through the
roof stressed out. I'm through the roof stressed out. When
we did Easter last year, when we had Max's birthday,
Carissa and Kevin talked about it here. I thought we

(11:41):
ran out of wine. I ended up having to get
thirty more bottles. I don't want people to be hot, right,
hungry or thirsty like it's and I don't want my
house to smell. So I am to the point where
I'm obnoxious. Carissa, you hosted how many people.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
For fourteen and thirteen? That was just my immediate family,
and then I had the I'm obviously not here at
the ranch all the time. And I have the most
amazing people and the most amazing community of individuals that
I have met here that work on the ranch, that
have fixed this place up, because when I bought it,
it wasn't in the best shape, and I have renovated it.

(12:21):
I've got amazing contract will Ian, Tony Josh. I could
go on and on all these amazing people, and I
don't know in your life headline, I can't wait for
you to come. Honestly, I know it's not really your thing,
but I do think like you have to at one
point come here, and it was coming. It's my Disneyland,
and I'm very, very very proud of how I've had

(12:44):
it for two years now and all the work that's
been done to it. Okay, anyways, so yes, to Aaron's point,
her and I are not hosts. It stresses me out.
I can't have a great time because I want everybody
else to have a good time. I never feel like
it's good enough, and then I'm just in awe of
people that it comes naturally too. I don't even have
like like I don't even have people over for dinner.
Like when when you and Jared were even coming over

(13:05):
just to get an uber to go to Kelly's event,
I was like, we need flowers, we need all of this. Guys, No,
but it's like you want yet anyways, So I admittingly have,
you know, not spent enough time with my family. I
left Seattle when I was eighteen. I moved to California,
and all of my family's still there. Every holiday, every birthday,

(13:28):
every event, they are all within like a ten mile
radius of each other, so they're constantly together, and I
it's my fall. I moved, but I was like, I
want to create new traditions, and I want to spend
time with my nieces and nephews. They're getting older, one's
going off to college, and I don't feel like I
know them, and this is my fall. So I'm like,
I'm going to create a new tradition and we're going
to have Camp Ruby Ranch. So my brother, my sister,

(13:50):
brother in law, sister in law, all my nieces, and
nephew's mom and dad, they all came, which I'm so
appreciative of because everyone's got busy schedules. Get on a flight,
you've got to drive two enough hours. It's not like
the easiest. That's a little over the river and through
the woods too. Grandmother's house we go. So they come.
I am so excited to have them here. But in

(14:10):
saying that, it's also like, oh my god, I got
to make sure that I have everything in order, and
then I wanted to have all the people here who
have helped on the ranch. Okay, we get it. So
at one point there's like forty people here I'm running
around making sure everything's happening, and then there's little kids
and I don't want them to get hurt. It's just
like a hole to do. But I had the best time.
There was only one incident and we want to share

(14:32):
that at a later date because it's part of the
plus one podcast that seems to participate in because well,
that's funny. It wasn't funny at the time. AnyWho. I
say all this to say that I had the absolute
best time, and it was reminder to me that family
and the people in our lives, like even if I'm

(14:54):
not like the most exceptional host, they don't care all
they want they just want to be with you exactly.
They want to spend time with you. I had so
much fun it just like we went out like the
little rowboat with my nephew and like just conversations with
my sister and sitting around we play games with This
game called blank Slate is so much fun with categories.
So yeah, it was a reminder to myself that I

(15:16):
am so so lucky to have the family that I do,
the people that I've met from buying this ranch, and
just yeah, my heart was as cheesy as it sounds.
My heart was so full, and now I'm here by myself,
and I got really sad. I looked around and I
was like, what's the point of any of this if
you don't have like people to share it with. So
my cup was run us over with like love and

(15:37):
I just really really love my family and appreciate them coming.
So yeah, Camp Ruby Ranch hopefully will be a thing.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Okay, So now, because I'm going to see you later
on this week and I can't wait to have a
margarita with you and just laugh and talk. But give
me though, okay, we get at your heart's full. I
love that everybody was had such a great time. Give
me a funny story about you trying to host, like
you know, because it's like me with fucking air conditioning
and calling the guy up and being like this isn't

(16:03):
working like any good shit.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, it's more about the because I don't like shoes
in the house. But it's also arranged so the reality
is like you're gonna have to take your shoes on
and off when you come in here or else. This
place is going to be like a c So it's
just like little things where it's like I had bought
everybody's slippers, and then some of them bits don't when
the slippers missing, the dog is taking the slipper, and

(16:27):
now we're like, where are those slippers. I don't know.
It's just like little shit. I'm trying to think if
there's like one thing in particular. I was all excited
that and you have to me. I got it catered
one night. Again I'm not cooking. Would shout out, we
love shout outs to my brother in law because Steve goes,
I can't do a cooking. This is so stressful. I

(16:48):
don't because Steve's not. I mean, like, my brother in
law cooked and it was awesome good, so he would
make like, again, I have the great luxury. Not to brag,
but I have I get like two dozen eggs a
day from the amount of chickens right now. That's a
big deal. It's great. So I'm like, we always had eggs,
we had you know, the muffins in the morning or

(17:10):
the whatever biscuits in the morning. But my brother brother
in law gorilla in doing all that stuff. So I
go to Steve, you are so lucky that he's doing
all that, because yeah, that's always stressful and roche. I
don't know if there's any like again, the one story
that I can't tell you because Steve needs to tell
the story. I had a horse trainer come because I
wanted to make sure that my nieces and nephews if

(17:30):
they wanted to ride Oz, they could and she, yeah,
she was awesome. Her name's Jamie. She gets here and
she had never met Oz before and she goes, oh,
he's an asshole. She was like, we got to whip
him into shape. She was giving us all of this
like incredible advice horse with like trainers are like they
have a connection to the horse. She's like, you need
to be firm but fair, and she was saying all
these things. I feel like I just got a lot

(17:52):
of parenting advice by watching this. So yeah, I don't know.
It was just fun but yeah, nothing nothing too crazy
as far as the host stuff other than just right
not wanting the air. Yeah. My brother's like, well I
got a little hot one night. I was like, oh,
oh my god, you're right. I mean it's it's all
in panics.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Like and I don't know if you can attest to this,
but when you're exhausted right from hosting and you just
want to go to bed, but I'm so worried about
the conditions in all the rooms and are you sleeping?
Did I put a comforter? Do you need the comforter?
Are you motherfucking me under your breath?

Speaker 2 (18:25):
That? Yeah? But the pillows. I also think about pillows.
Do you like hard pillows? Like soft pillows? And then
the great when everybody comes down in the morning, like
did you sleep okay? Was it bed okay? And like
just making sure the mattress is Some people like a
firm mattress, some people like a soft mattress. There's so
many things. I wonder if I should ask like a
questionnaire before people come, Like you like soft pillows, hard pillows?

(18:47):
Are you allergic to death? I mean so many.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Cool Meanwhile, I'm in the back of my head and
I don't know if I've ever told you this. You
and I are doing this to each other right about staying,
like having people stay at our house. What I've stayed
at somebody's house who you know?

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
And we had to get up and leave. There were
no towels in the bathroom. There was a washcloth and
I think it was old, and like that's what I
used to shower like I was so embarrassed a cowel?

Speaker 2 (19:22):
What am I yelling? What? And you, of course you
didn't want to embarrass them.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
No, And I didn't want to embarrass them, and I
was just like what, yeah, oh that's.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Bad if anything like mine's excessive. My mom was helping
me get one of the guest rooms ready, and she's like,
this is a lot of towels, Carissa, like literally the opposite.
And I was like, well, I don't know what kind
of towels they like me. Did they like a bath
sheet or do they like a bath towel? Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
And I've also been to somebody's place who you know,
where we spend the night and there was no.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Body soap, no, no, And I just was like, so shampoo,
we're using shampoo because I didn't want to tell them
and embarrass them, but like, this is the shit that
keeps me up all night. Okay, my sweet dog Walker
will stay at my house because I Willison Daisy don't
come up here all the time. I used to have
them come up a lot. And I realized it's kind

(20:16):
of better because these dogs like this is their place.
Willison Daisy like get to come inside. And then it
wasn't fair to the other dogs. So anyways, there's like
it's just sometimes better to not have them all together.
So she stays at my house. I am such a psycho.
Even with the dog walker staying at the house. I
will clean the toilet. I make sure I always look
at the guests room toilet because can you imagine if

(20:37):
there's like something and then she's like, eh, these people
are dirty. I am psychotic about like that kind of stuff.
So I go so far as like, I know the
sheets are clean, but I will take all the seven
hundred pillows off the bed, lift the thing up, and
make sure there's not like some aarrant like little hair hair,
because if I hold that that cover back and I
saw like a black hair, I'd be like, oh, these

(20:57):
people are gross. What are you doing? I am like,
I'm like dog, I'm like dog rolling the like whatever
you call it the bed. Yes, crazy behavior.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
But all these other people that we've spent and night
get away with, no show, no body.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
They don't get away with them helping them out. Don't
make me call you out by name. No, I'm kidding.
It's dry and bolder. Everyone to have a good time.
I don't want you to have some weird hair in
your bed and or the dirty toilet. Yes, I'm so
proud of you though you did it. You did it,
I did it. I did it myself. All right. What

(21:40):
else happening? You're wearing a King sweater right now, which
is so so cute where by Aaron Andrews, I take it. Yeah,
so fill everybody and including myself because I'm late to
the hockey party, which, by the way, in my the
only three years that I got to cover hockey, playoff hockey,
I'll never have or ever forget the opportunity that I

(22:02):
had to cover them. I'll never forget Montreal. How many
times can I say I'll never forget forget this? Montreal
was the eight seed. They knocked off the Capitals, and
they knocked off the Penguins. They took the Flyers. Do
I think like six or something. I don't know. It's
just playoff hockey is fucking awesome and I'm miscovering it.
So it's fun. Kings came into the playoffs hot playoffs
started up on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Kings had Game one. On Monday night, they had home ice.
I went really exciting.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Everybody.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Don't forget if you want to buy your female in
your life, So playoffs NHB Apparel hit us up on
where we've got great stuff. It's always so much fun
to see a lot of it in the crowd they're
selling it.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
About that? How does thank you? How does that? Because again,
I'm always going to be your biggest fan because I'm
so proud of you because people don't know how much
goes into all of this. How does that make you
feel when you see your stuff like in a crowd,
whether it's a football game or a hawking game or whatever,
you have to have a tremendous amount of pride. I
know I would.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
It's super cute. But I think my reaction is I
need to change what I say. I saw this sweater
a lot last night. I saw our jacket was for
sale as you walked in kind of the VIP area,
and I saw a bunch of people in our jackets
and I was just like.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
That's mine, that's mine.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
And I think they think, no, you're wearing like that's mine.
I own that, but no, I'm like, so I need
to change that. Jarrett used to like freak people out
because he'd want to take a picture of them in
it and They're like, you creep. So it's so sweet though,
it's really cool. It's really exciting. We are carried in
the stadium stores as well, so if you get to
the arenas and you want to buy something, we are there.

(23:43):
It's really cool last night, just walking down. It's different
when your husband doesn't play anymore. My husband obviously works
with a lot of these guys, he does the broadcast,
but I have such a pride and a love.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Of Stanley Tubs with the King.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yes, and it's neat, so neat who says that, But
it's fine. I walk down to the glass for the
intros just to cheer on the boys, and it was fine.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
You know.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
The head of AEG and our owner, mister and missus
An Chuos were like.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
We love the gear, we love it.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
So obviously hockey is family to our house and I'm
so grateful for the support. And Hockey playoffs is the ship, like,
it's just so much fun. There's a rumor out there, Chrisa,
that you and I may get to do a show
with Lord Stanley, and I can't wait. What would you
like to put into Lord Stanley during the during the show?

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Are we doing a tequila what are we doing so,
I've had the great opportunity to meet Do we refer
to it as mister Stanley not the Stanley Copson Stanley.
I've never got to drink. I know you have got
to drink out of the Stanley Cup, so I would
love I feel like it has to be well for me.

(24:53):
It feels like beer would be the right thing, just
because it's We could.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Do a skinny spicy margarita in the Stanley Cup. Do
anything you want. You can have a bowl of cereal,
you can do nachos, you can do no, no, you
don't want to do like straws or you want to
drink out of I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
I'll do a cake stand. I mean, whatever it is.
I'm down. Why limit it to one cocktail?

Speaker 1 (25:17):
I know that be really fun. I'm excited about the
potential of doing that.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
I hope that comes to fruition because that would be great, great, great, great,
it would be great. Let's see what else do we have?
What else? Oh? Here, go ahead. I wanted to talk
about this and I'm on my little soapbox because again
I have been. Prior to being at the Ranch, I
had the great opportunity to go to Texas and I

(25:44):
got to broadcast the Blue Origin launch the new Shepherd
thirty one mission, the first all female crew to go up.
And I've been off Instagram because for a lot of reasons,
I just wanted to limit my time on it. I
found myself spinning a way too much time on it,
and it made me angry. It made me doing that
before you went, yeah, I was doing that before this,

(26:06):
and I just found myself being like, what am I
wasting all this time? So good after lesson, Yeah, after
covering the launch, it was brought to my attention that
there was a lot of negative chattaranga as you like
to say, erin. And the only thing I want to
say about it is for anyone, and it's a good
lesson to myself because the space world is not my world.

(26:27):
I got asked to cover it, which I was so
grateful to try a to be able to cover something new.
I mean, our whole you know, background has always been
in sports, but I've you know, covered rodeo, I covered hockey,
and I didn't know anything about hockey, and I you know,
did all these different things and so anyways, so to
be able to cover this launch, I was very excited.
I put a lot of time and effort into it.
I worked with incredible people, Kristin Fisher, Arian Cornell, this

(26:51):
girl Tabitha Lipkin, like they're all They're all in that
world and brilliant minds. And I think when I was
disappointed but also not surprised by, is people being like
it's so stupid, Like what's the point, Like it's so gluttonous,
There's other things to spend money on. It's like, okay,
I can say that about a lot of things and
inform yourself on what it's all about, because there's this
is the thirty first mission of the New Shepherd Rocket.

(27:15):
And I just was bummed that it was like when
men went up, like there wasn't this huge backlash. It
was just because it was like, oh, celebrities and it's
all women and what is it a bachelorette party? And
I'm like, I don't know. It just bummed me out
that we live in a society that wants to like
And again that's everyone's entitled to their opinion. But in
what I got to see firsthand and being there and

(27:37):
getting to know these really incredible people that have worked
in this industry and or have dedicated their lives to it.
It's not stupid. It's not stupid at all. So again
my opinion, just because I got immersed in it, I
was very proud to be a part of it. And
I hope that people will educate themselves a little bit
more on the purpose of these things and it's not

(27:58):
just some gluttonist bachelorette party that went up that each
time the rocket goes up, it comes down with a
lot of information. Is that then diagnostics and different things
that they do that will help advance space travel. And
like when anything is first starting, whether it was the
Right Brothers with airplanes, whatever it is, you know, even
when Amazon started. Everything is stupid until it's brilliant. So

(28:19):
I just wanted to say that because I saw a
lot of sayings or was informed that there was a
lot of stuff and that's cool, Like everyone can have
an opinion, but there's a lot more behind the curtain,
and there's some really really brilliant people that have worked
on this rocket and a lot of things that Yeah,
I just think sometimes people like to roll with it
it's so dumb. Well, okay, a lot of things are dumb,
but this isn't one of them. So that's it.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
I admittedly so don't know much about the mission or
what went into it because I wasn't there and I
didn't have a chance to meet the people.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
But I had.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
An opportunity to see you for the last couple of weeks,
even when we were in Tampa for the Bucks Women's event.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
She is football.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
You were off to the side as soon as we landed,
you were in the car, you were off to the
side at the hotel, working your ass off, trying to
get as educated as you could on this whole event.
That is a really hard, you know, thing to do
in our world is we know football very well well,
yet we still prepare and research for it a lot.
But when you're thrown into something you don't know a

(29:22):
lot about. Uh, you went out of your way to
try to get other people to help you out, to
get insight, to help the broadcast, which I.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Was up with my coffee. I was often. I was
pumped to see you.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
You looked fantastic and all your questions you really added
so much to that broadcast. So yeah, I, like I said,
I don't know much about everything that went on there,
but I saw you firsthand, and you try to get
it all together.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
So I love you. Thank you. That's very profect. That's
very sweet of you. I appreciate that. And this isn't like, oh,
you know, you know, whate was me or what was
these women? Like, no, not at all, these these women Aisha, Amanda, Carrie, Ann, Lauren, Katie, Gail.
I was so proud of Gail. Gail's like, I didn't
even get my ears. I haven't even got my ears, Pierce,

(30:08):
I was. I'm a nervous flyer, so for her to
overcome her fears. So again, people get caught up and
it's like, oh, it's some celebrity gluttonous thing. There's a
lot more that went into it, and I just think
about the people that work at Blue Origin. But anyways,
my rant is to say, people did that shit with
Taylor Swift with football, you're ruining football, like stop. Like
I just think that sometimes because of the world that

(30:29):
we live in, that everyone has a platform to say
something that there's just a lot of negative stuff when
that's and like I said, I probably would have been like,
well that's dumb, had I not inform myself. So it
was a good lesson for me that when the next
thing comes about and maybe I'm like, well that's stupid
or why would you do that? Like, I'll learn a
bit a little bit about it, and you can still
not like it, but at least you're a little bit

(30:50):
more educated on why things are happening and the importance
of it.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
So that is that female audience and young female audience
grew in football.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Man, she really ruined it. Huh. People that said their
relationship was all for pr Yeah, yeah, say State Board,
I show it. Who's a rocket scientist and you know
it has done so much, she's an incredible person. Was like,
that's fine if people want to like, have they's comments,
But I also have an inbox full of responses from

(31:22):
young women and young boys that want to do this
and want to go up and explore space and do
stuff like that. So again, I just wanted to say
my piece on it because I'm protective now of those
individuals and or company that I got to learn a
lot about, in the women and men that I got
to meet that have dedicated their life to this. So
when space trial is available for the next generation and

(31:44):
the next generation like flight now is for us, it's
not stupid until it's you know, it's stupid until it's brilliant.
It's my whole thing. Anonymousollow up you ready for it? Yes,
you're going to like this.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
We love our anonymous, we love our people that write in,
and we like we always say, please let us know
what's going on.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Okay, here we go.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
This original question was from September, so when Chris and
I still looked kind of fresh before this season really hit.
I'm the maid of honor and through my bestiest shower.
It costs tons. Then she asked why I didn't get
her a gift.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Be mad or no.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
We told her hosting the show was a gift. We
told her hosting the show it was a gift. No
need to feel bad about it. Oh, hosting the shower
was the gift. There's no need. You can read there,
and here's the follow up. She said, I let it
go and didn't say anything about it. Fast forward to
the wedding. We're at the bar during the reception and
a member of the family comes up and says, I

(32:46):
hope you doubled down on a wedding gift since you
were the only one who didn't buy one.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
For the shower. What. Oh, that's coming from the bride,
not great.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Before I could even respond, my friend jumps in and
goes off. I actually had to calm her down. After
everything settled, I ended up getting an apology from that
family member, no excuse for all of that.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
So I'm confused.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
She said, my friend ended up coming, So I'm wondering
if that was the bride came in and said something.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, so either way that somebody was called her out
doubled down on that you didn't buy the gifts, So
I hope that you got her something great or whatever
it was.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Is that what we're yeah taking away from this? Oh,
she just said she so she let it go. She
was like, you know what, I'm not going to worry
about it. And then at the wedding, she was approached
at the bar and a family member came up and said,
I hope you doubled down on a wedding gift since
you were the only one who didn't buy one for
the shower. But wait, what does that mean? I hope
you doubled down.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Like, I hope you got her a really really good
gift for the wedding because you didn't get her one
for the other party. Well, that's just here's I don't
know the whole thing is like people are fucking ballsy man, like,
what are we doing? Also as a family, men, like
what is I think about like this? And I guess
maybe even my situation. My sisters texted me yesterday when

(34:06):
she got home. She was like, we can't wait to
come back and no need to buy us any gifts.
All we want to do is spend time with you,
just like idea of and again, you know, we want
to shower the people that we love with things. But
are some of the best gifts that I've ever gotten
are handwritten notes or a framed picture like something that
doesn't have always Now, don't get me wrong, I like

(34:27):
a nice gift, but it doesn't have a monetary attachment
to it. So this idea that like, you know, the
bigger the gift, like the more you love someone or whatever,
Like how about the thoughtfulness behind something like that? Maybe
it's just as I get older, like those things mean more.
But I don't like, what are we doing like any
because you didn't get a gift with this and maybe
that's young Maybe is that what we're worried about. It's

(34:48):
just bonkers. I don't want anyone to get me a
gift ever I want. I want you just awkward. And
by the way, I love that you. I never knew
that about you when you were a Kylie's podcast and
you were admitted that you don't open them right away.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Oh my god, I get so just I don't know
what it is. It's such an interesting I love. I
can't wait till you have like a therapist on it
at some point, because you know we will.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
What is that? That's fucking weird. I don't like opening
the gift in front of the green because that's always
not that I don't think that my fractionals. Yeah, it's
not that. It's just more about like I feel bad
that they got me a gift and so that it's
like I'm like overcompensated. Oh my god, I love it
so much as like relaxed lady. But yeah, I just
think that I'm awkward with that. But I don't wait

(35:31):
to open the gift because I'll feel so terrible if
I don't like say that I liked it or I
opened it.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
I'm just awkward in general. It's just so stupid it is,
But I know it, like I feel it. You are
not awkward. Why are you saying that you are the most.
You are so easy, You're like the best. Actually, get
rid of Jared and Steve.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
You're the best plus one because no matter what situation
I go into with you, I know it's going to
be met with humor, self deprecation a good time. Like
I'm never like, oh God, if I'm going somewhere with you,
like this is going to be awkward or annoying or
boring ever. So I don't know why you think that
about yourself.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
So here's a follow up also, and then we'll let
everybody go. Okay, So this was from three weeks ago.
We were talking about the teachers we had growing up.
I talked about my math teacher, Miss Jeuweno and how
hot she was. She can use that what was it
called the prompter, the projector projector. Yeah, that marker was
always so silky. Okay, So we got some feedback from

(36:31):
your high school teacher and mine. Okay, your former teacher
at body Crohn's responded. I went to Burns that was
my junior high had Miss Juino and Ken one hundred
percent confirm she was a baddie. Oh, she was a baddie.
I was hoping somebody would reach out and say where
miss Juwino was. I loved her, okay. Chris also mentioned

(36:52):
she had a huge crush on her former teacher, mister Gribble,
and she was jealous of the woman he ended up mirroring,
who was also a teacher at this school. At Haley
Gribbs reached out and said, my dad was your hot
fifth grade teacher. Mister Gribble retired now living in Maui
and living his best life.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
I'm so sorry, Haley, because I'm a creep. That's your father.
So again, I'm so sorry. But I don't think she cared.
I think she was like into it. Yeah, I just
you know, yeah, mister Gribble, he had something Hawaii that
doesn't surprise me, you know, hang loose bro, Yeah, toes

(37:33):
on the nose like we are so cool. He's just
like cool, you know. But yeah, that was when I
saw when Ryan pointed that out that his daughter responded.
I was like, well, first of all, she's beautiful. That
that's like selly. She well, I don't know, I clicked
on like length. But she also like to have an
adult daughter. I think I'm delusional about my age. Oh

(37:56):
we all am and as we are. You and I
have a birthday coming, so you don't know Aaron and
I share a birthday. Whenever I tell people that, people
are like floored by that, which it is kind of cool.
But I'm blad Zaeger. Brad Zaeger. Also Jared Stacy's may
fit my sister. Yeah, my dad share a birthday and
that's May twelfth. I was supposed to be born on

(38:18):
May twelfth. If my mom would have had three people
all with the same birthday, that would have been weird.
But I was a week early. But yeah, sharing a
birthday is kind of fun. I got harder. Also a
May fifth birthday, you know what.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
I shout out to our moms for giving birth to us,
a healthy and successful.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Birth, but I always wish they would have kept us in.
We could have been.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Sinking to by o kids and that would have been
cuckoo for cocoa pops.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Well, that's why I always like to celebrate sinkle to
my I don't like to celebrate my birthday, as somebody
who admittingly, I don't mind being the center of attention.
If there's a stage and there's a microphone, I'm the
first one up there, no problem. I don't have a
problem clearly with our profession state in front of a room,
no being you know, under the spotlight. But I hate

(39:05):
a birthday. It's also probably where's that psychiatrist? Why I
haven't even though I've had two weddings where there's never
anyone at these weddings because I don't like being the
center of attention if it's actually about me, if it's
a birthday, if it's a wedding, if it's that kind
of stuff like I that's where I get awkward. I
hate that. So I've never had like a big birthday

(39:27):
party if anyone and yeah, you love I mean, and
not in a bad way.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
It's like, as you just said, potentially along no no, no,
no stop it.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
I'm not saying it like that.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
But like you talked about bringing me as a plus one,
which I feel like when people do they're like, ah, fuck,
she's a weak link.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
But bringing you it's like we are going to tell
you right now. I know someone that I know someone
that would say that you aren't a weakling. No, I'd
hate being the center of attention if it's actually about me.
That's so interesting And I'm not saying that in any way.
It's like because we do. We're on camera, like we're right,

(40:04):
you didn't care.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
You're off in a stadium and like, guys, they're getting
ready to do intros. And I got my one light
on me as I'm doing my hit and I feel
fucking great.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
But you asked me to open up a Christmas present
in front of people, and I'm like, im shy, what
is that? I don't know. I don't know. But you
didn't have a problem at your wedding, Like, didn't you
feel awkward standing up there? You didn't like hate. You
looked in your veil like on the top of the
mountain was blowing and you look like goddamn vision. But

(40:35):
I'm like, I would feel so uncomfortable. I feel like
I'd have to like help to the crowd and make
a joke. What was back? My hair color was orange?
It was so fun. I want to back got married again.
Your wedding dress. Shout out to Carolina Herrera. Oh my god, Casule,
that ain't David's bridle. You know any who? Uh love you?

(40:57):
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