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Sunday Sports Club with Allison Kuch
Inside NFL gossip and mom confessions with guest Jamie Erdahl
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The following podcast is a Dear Media Production. What's up, guys? Welcome back to Sunday Sports Club podcast, a podcast all about sports told by a woman. Hi guys, I'm Alison Kooch, obviously, because it's my podcast and you guys are here every week, so you probably already know that. But today we are joined by Jamie Erdahl, who is on Good Morning Football. That's how I know you, because my husband just loves Good Morning Football.
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Friend and a coworker.
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A
Friend. Coworker like my husband sometimes. No, I'm kidding. Welcome to Sunday Sports Club. Thank you. On this podcast, we obviously talk all things, all things women and sports. How long have you been in the sports world?
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B
Okay, let's see.
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That's a broad question because I played.
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B
I was a, I played basketball in college, low level, Division 3 basketball. And so it feels like I had a, to put it to probably to start the chapter in the first page is like I had a, an internship at a sports talk radio station when I was a junior in high school.
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A
Oh, wow.
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B
Yeah, I was like 17. So back, back and I was, had to fill my time as a junior. They were like, go have a job, shadow. And I was like, the only thing I want to do is sit around and talk about Minnesota sports teams because I grew up in Minnesota and I had a friend of a friend and they set me up and I answered phones. So like answering the phones to the crazies. And I was like a 16 year old girl and I was like, this is awesome. I'm hooked. And here I am 36 years old, 20 years later and like still answering the phones a little bit like via Twitter to the crazies.
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A
36 years young.
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36 years young.
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A
That's. It's wild to hear. Whenever a woman's in the sports world, I always love hearing like the come up story because for, I feel like a lot of like men now in the space, usually they have like the sports background. They used to play in the NFL, they used to play like this or that.
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So.
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So I always love hearing from a woman like, how did you get here?
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B
Their entrance point is just the legitimacy of playing the sport. And mine, unfortunately we do always kind of have to justify like why we're here. But mine was, was truly like I couldn't stop talking as a, as a high schooler, as a kid, whatever. And it was constantly about sports. I just loved watching it. I love playing it primarily. And I was like that kid who was like trying to skip class, like talk to our football coach who was like the athletic director in school. So it's just always been, like, the thing that I do, and I just was able to maneuver into getting paid for it.
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A
Yeah. Love that. I love getting paid for things that I'm really good at. Like yapping. Like, I love getting paid for yapping.
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B
All I have to do is put a headset on and it gets recorded. Great.
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A
Like me on this podcast. Like, yay, I'm yapping. This is so fun. Okay, well, I'm, like, in awe of you because you are on a live TV show. Mm.
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B
Which you've been on with us.
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A
I almost shit my pants. You can say that on my podcast because we're not on live. Can I try?
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B
You almost shit your pants?
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A
Yeah.
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B
I never get to do that.
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A
Yeah. You're like, so when on live tv, first off. Okay, so I got to go on Good Morning Football for a little segment a few weeks ago, and I loved it. It was like a huge thrill. I love just like going into a workspace because I. I work at home.
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B
Yeah. Yeah. Usually my office is like a real security desk. And you, like, had to get a.
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Badge, like, buzzing in. I'm like, hi. I'm like, allowed to. The thing with being on live tv, you have somebody in your ear talking to you. Do you get used to that? Because I was again, actively shitting my pants while sitting there. I was like, he's like, okay, go. I'm like, go where I'm seated.
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B
Well, first and foremost, you came into the studio quite Zen, in my opinion. I actually told that to Isaac later. I was like, she did great. She seemed so calm. And he was like, that was her first time on live television. You would never have known.
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I was terrified.
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B
It does. Honestly, I would say if I were sitting here talking to you, but we didn't have the headsets on. That would alarm me more to not have this, like, audio support crutch, whatever. It's. It's like a. It's like a cozy blanket at this point is having the support of someone in your ear, being like, you only have 30 seconds or like, rap or this is what you're doing next. It's just like the thing you do. I don't. I can't explain it, but I've also been doing it since I was 24. I had my first full time TV job when I was 24.
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So.
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B
Sure. Probably back then. I had to get used to the execution of someone talking in your. As you're talking, but it gives you direction editorially. And so it kind of. You're not just like on an island.
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Which you're like, it was supposed to be there.
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B
Yes. Right. Like, so I just keep talking. That's the danger of a podcast for me is like, I just won't stop until someone's like, go to commercial. Okay, we're done.
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So then the. If you ever have somebody, like, zooming in, you hear them through the headset.
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B
Correct. Zooming into my ear. Like, like, oh, so we call interrupt. They, like, they interrupt me. That's an interrupt button.
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Okay.
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So they interrupt and it's. And I hear them in my earpiece when I'm in a studio. But if I'm at a football game doing sideline.
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Yeah.
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Then it is. I would probably put two ears in because the band and the. Everyone's so loud that I literally. It's like those commercials you hear with, like, you put. And the whole world is eliminated. And everyone looks like they're screaming, but it's silent in my head. Except I hear the game broadcast the way that everybody else does.
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A
It's my husband. When among my husband, you. You know, Isaac, like, so I. So we could. I guess we could call him by name. We don't have to say the H word. So Isaac, when he went on Good Morning Football for the first. It was like a, A stint of like a few times.
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Yes.
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Over the course of like, maybe a week or two.
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B
Well, to pull back the curtain. I actually think in the time that we were in, in the summer, we had him on maybe one or two days and we were just like, keep bringing him back. Like, is he gonna keep coming up? And he was doing the drive and he was loving it. So we just kept having him and he did so great.
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Well, he said the first day when he got home, he was like, yeah, there's somebody talking your ear telling you to wrap up your thought process, essentially. So you have to get everything out. You want to get out, but also be funny and also like, yeah. Know what everybody else is saying.
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B
Yep. It's a lot. It's. It is a lot when someone else explains it to you like that. But I think on. I think many people would say, and I think this is true for a lot of careers. It's not some profound thought, but like, people who work in live television are just like high functioning adult adhd, ADD.
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People that, you know, Isaac does. Check that box.
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B
Yeah.
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So.
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So it's just like if I was just doing a singular task, that's when I get, like, intimidated. But if it's like, because it's the Same when you're sideline reporting. It's like, get the coach, have him talk to you. Can't write anything. Cause that's rude. So you have to, like, retain the information. Then he walks away. Write it down. Go eat a granola bar because it's halftime. And then, like, spit that back out. And like, never lie about anything, because you can't do that. And like, this is a direct quote from a coach that said this to me 12 minutes ago.
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A
And just, like, so many different moving parts.
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B
Yes.
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I have so many questions because I, like, you guys look so seamless on TV from my couch.
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B
Thank you.
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And I know there's just a lot that goes into it looking perfect. You like knowing what to say, when to say it. But also it's starts with you being interested in.
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Yes.
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A
Are you looking forward to off season being over?
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B
That's a great question. Because in the off season, I'm allowed to take my vacation. So I just had a nice little juicy, like, couple weeks off, which was great. I. I call it. When we get to football season on Good Morning Football, it is like the true snowball effect. The games get played, we're just gifted story storylines and things to talk about. And then the next week, it just. All of a sudden, it's week 11, and you could fill three hours of commentary from week four. Like, it just, It's. It's just a bulk of content. And we're not just creating things out of literally our hats. Today we had a question on the show that was like, a movie, a movie in the 80s came out this week, and like, let's recruit. Let's parallel it to football. And I'm like, oh, my God. You're like this. I was born in 88. Like, it was like an 83. So it just. You're. You're pulling things out of your hat. But in a season, it is.
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But I. I kind of understand what you say. Like, as the, like, weeks go by in football, it kind of like, snowballs into, like, bigger and bigger and bigger. There's so many storylines that you can talk about. And it becomes a lot. Because last year, or no, I guess that was two years ago when I started this podcast, I would go week by week and kind of explain what was happening each week. And I feel like around week seven, I was like, there's too much.
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Yeah.
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And we're just gonna summarize it as, like, this team's doing good.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And also, you're, like, trying to connect the dots. It's like a Beautiful mind. Like all the post it notes everywhere and you're like, so do you remember four weeks ago that this happened to the Panthers? Well, okay, so remember that And I'm going to tell you about this. It just, it's wild times and you.
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Have to know everything. Like, are you watching every football game?
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More or less. In, in some. Not in totality. So like the one o' clock games, what are they, like seven or eight of them? Yeah, that's like a red zone. I do red zone. Just to get into the technicalities of it. I watch Red Zone. I'll have one dedicated broadcast up. Just listen to. It's kind of the one I cared about. Or. And then I'll watch all those. We have our nanny come on Sundays. The first season I didn't do that smart. And I, I struggled because of it. I was really behind and I was like trying to parent and watch all these games and then like survive on Monday. And I was like, no, no, no, no more, no longer.
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Well, you can't, I mean, I feel like I can't do anything. I can't even unload the dishwasher without toddler right there.
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Exactly. And so they just started watching too much. It was just, it was, it was a lot. I'm being a bad mom either way. Not a bad mom. I'm being a distracted mom and like not a present mom either way. So I might as well give them somebody who can give them their full attention. So I, we have our nanny come and I have her come 10:00am to 4:00pm on Sunday. So it's like the bulk of the 1:00 clock games. Y then those four, those mid afternoon games and then I can watch Sunday night football with me kids around.
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Right.
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Have dinner, whatever. It's one game.
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Yeah, it's one game.
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And then the other ones are just one off. So I can watch those.
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But hey, that's so smart.
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Yeah, I, I, I really tried to be a hero the first season and I was like, this isn't fair to anybody. And I really struggled because of it.
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Yeah, my job's a lot less intense than yours, but like whenever I'm editing a TikTok, I'm like, I can't edit this in front of my daughter.
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No, it feels terrible.
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No, because I'm like, she's looking at the back of a phone and so it feels silly to like, hey, I need to hire a babysitter to come over so I can edit my funny little videos.
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But you're so much more efficient that way.
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Way more Efficient. I'm like, I. My daughter be fully occupied for an hour than me trying halfway edit a video for like two hours while trying to entertain her and also teach her the color yellow. Like, it becomes way too complicated. How many kids do you have?
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Three. Three daughters.
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Love that.
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Yep. Thanks.
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I love that. Are they interested in what you're doing?
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I think it's just their norm. I don't know if it's interest because that's just like, what she does it actually, I think for a while it was cool justification. They're like, oh, she's there. It's not like mom went to a bank and like, I don't understand what banking is. Like, mom's not here, but there she is on the tv. So like, they understand.
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A
I don't know what my dad does for work to this day.
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Right.
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But like.
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But if you saw him on a.
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TV screen, Mom's right there.
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Yeah, exactly. Um, my oldest does kind of do the occasional eye roll come Monday Night Football when she's like, you go to grab the remote and she's like, oh, my God, are you putting on a show? And I'm like, yeah, my show. It's a football game. She's like. Cause it's been all weekend. Yeah, the middle one mostly, they're six, four and one. The middle one mostly just kind of like, likes her dad more than me. And she will sit and watch anything with him.
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Middle child things.
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And the one year old is just right here on the. Oh, yeah, she's my Klingon.
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Oh, yeah. I feel like. Well, the. Especially with like having two older siblings or. I'm sure she's just like, I just want my mom.
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Yeah, you're my safe place. Because everybody else touches me, like, way too much and I'm like, can we not touch the head and neck? Like, just hands off.
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Like, I'm being over touched. You're just like, stop. Yeah, but. Okay, so it's so interesting to me that good morning football has, like, seasons.
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Yes.
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Because you guys have like right now, good morning football is not going to.
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It is.
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I can't change it just started.
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No, we. I mean, we had like a week dark. A dark week that we call it. But it goes year round. It's just like, people fill in when I'm not there. That's. It's four weeks off. That's it.
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Okay, four weeks off.
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A week off in February, a week off in May, and then like two random ones in June.
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Is it the week after Super Bowl?
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So we do a week of Shows right after. And then it's the week after that. Okay. Awkwardly. Like the third week. President's week or something like that.
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It's something like that, yeah. Okay. So then you're pretty much just like, it's. It's year round. I mean.
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Yeah. As all lot of jobs, but emotionally and what. I essentially, I did the show today and, like, I didn't retain a lot of the information.
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We just hope they're not listening, you.
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Know, I feel like the producers feel the same way. Like, we talked, we did things and then. But come, like, August 1st, like, we're locked in. Come August 1st in October. I will be referencing things we said in August.
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Yes.
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In these.
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Like the start of your season.
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Yes, exactly.
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Oh, my gosh. And this is. This is another question I had.
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Okay.
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When it comes to oh, my gosh. Because there's so many players.
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So many players.
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So many new players every year.
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Yeah. And then they change teams.
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They change teams, they change numbers. They head coaches are always changing. Are you memorizing all these things? Because my husband. To prepare for Good Morning Football.
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Yeah.
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We made motherfucking note cards.
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Yeah. I love that you swear on this podcast. It's, like, such a thrill. One time I said on TV and I got like, the. An ear lashing, if you will.
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Oh, my God.
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I said, nick and lost his da, da, da. And they got to commercial and they were like, loved that story. But, like, you can't say that.
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I love your passion. Put it somewhere else.
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I got goosebumps. Like, please don't. Please don't get me in trouble.
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I know I'm gonna get cut.
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Yes, exactly. Let's see. Do I memorize it at this point? It's hard. I've just been in it.
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I just like, who's a head coach for the Colts?
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Oh, my gosh. Jonathan Gannon. No, that's the Cardinals. You know where my brain goes. Shane. Shane Steichen is the Cardinals head coach. Jonathan Gannon is the Colts head coach. They were both coordinators in Philadelphia. They left.
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Like, the fact that you even know that.
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Yeah.
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Philadelphia piece.
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And then this is what my brain just did. So you asked me, the Colts head coach, and I'm like, well, he left two years ago from Philadelphia, and the other head coach went to the Cardinals, which is what the Lions just went through, because both their coordinators just left to go to the jets and the Bears. And, like, that's the ultimate question for the Lions. It's too much. But that's how I remember it. Like, in my.
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You have to have that knowledge, Correct?
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Yes.
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Like, you have to have the knowledge of all of the boring stuff to be able to talk about it, Correct?
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Yes. However, I care about the boring stuff. I can't do that with, like, investment banking. I wouldn't. I can't.
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Realistically, I don't even know what that entails being any.
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Literally, any other career path.
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Yeah.
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I wouldn't be able to retain that knowledge like a Rolodex, because I don't care about it. I love football.
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That you're. You're interested in it.
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Yes.
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I always think of, like, oh, why was I so invested in all of these other players while Isaac was playing in the NFL? And I think because I was invested, like, I was part of it. So I felt like I needed to know, like, what. Who the players were, who the backups were, who's on practice squad, who might get pulled up this week. Like, what's happening with this?
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What's happening?
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It's. I knew everything, and now I'm like. I feel so removed.
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And you. But also, you come across as a highly empathetic person.
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Highly.
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So you all have this attachment to this human who this is happening to actively. And then when it happens to other people, you feel that deeply, like, oh.
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My God, are you gonna be playing this week?
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Like, I know. Is he okay? That's not your husband. I don't care. I want to know if he's okay.
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Literally.
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B
Yeah.
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No. Yeah. The empathy piece during my husband's career was really interesting because at the same time, they're also competing for his job.
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B
That's weird.
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A
And, like, we have to put food on the table, too.
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B
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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A
I mean, obviously, you make a lot of money.
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B
No, no, no.
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But food is.
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No, that's. It's. Yeah. The price of eggs these days, which have come down. What's the next thing that's going to be pricey?
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Exactly. I'm like, God only knows. So are you able to hold your own opinion when it comes to good morning football?
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B
I can. I mostly choose not to. I've put up that boundary.
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A
Really?
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Yeah. I just. It's not worth some of the feedback that I receive to. I know I can. I don't need to justify that. I can. And my role has become truly, like. And I was a point guard in basketball. Like, to be that conversationally. I like to get to know that I got the guys that I work with a lot, like Isaac, Kyle, Manti. Like, in my mind, I am setting them up. Like, I would tee up Isaac differently than Kyle. Or differently than Manti. And that's just what I've learned to become. And I like that. And, like, if I just was generic across the board, then I'd be generic at that, and I wouldn't be giving my takes. But, like, I have actively removed myself from the take machine because. And I will deliver it when I want to, but, like, not all the time. I'm protecting my feet.
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Isaac says he loves to be the person not everybody agrees with. Like, he. Like, devil's advocate.
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I feel like we could dig a little deeper on that. Yeah, he likes to be devil's advocate.
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Oh, he does it at home all the time. I'm like, you don't nothing. Like, it doesn't always have to be a competition. Like, we don't always have to disagree. I. I will say, like, oh, yeah, this woman pulled out of the grocery store parking lot, and she cut me off, and I was so pissed. Blah, blah. You'd be like, what if she was having a bad day?
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Oh, like, what if I was. Yeah. Myself.
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Like, what do you mean? You know my side. Yeah.
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I'm like, are you kidding me? Isaac? To me. What? What? I. Honestly, when I've talked with people about Isaac on the show, and this is more of an assessment about anybody who comes by, it's like, I think one of the greater skills that you learn in television, if you are going to be good at it, is, like, you have to be able to listen and speak. And somehow that is a. It's a complex skill because I can be listening to you talk at me, but first, fully engaged in what my mouth is about to say.
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Well, you have to think of what you're gonna say next.
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B
Yes.
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And you have to think about what the person's saying.
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B
Yeah.
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Digest it and put it into what you're about to respond. And then there's somebody in your ear.
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Yeah. And we can suss out immediately if someone's not listening to, like, us engage. And then they're just like, yeah. So anyways, the Colts. And I'm like, that. You didn't listen to a single thing I just said, did you? And so Isaac listens. He. He actually said, like, the feedback I got about him was that Angie. Which is like, he gives a thought about what the other person just said and then does his. Which intellectually, honestly, on television is a hard thing to do. He's got his little notebook in front of him now. He does the professional TV glance, or he finishes that, and then he looks down and looks back up, which, like, tracked it great.
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Good prep, but, yeah, that's.
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He does a good job.
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He listens. That's important. It's interesting hearing him in a different type of career. Like one where you're not wearing a unit. Well, it's a different type of uniform.
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B
Yeah, I know.
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Was like, look good, feel good, but instead of, like, a helmet, I don't know.
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B
How does your daughter feel about seeing him?
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Oh, she loves it.
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B
Yeah.
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She goes, dad, dad, dad, dad. Oh, my. I posted a video about it, and I was like, this is so special because, like, we never got to see him on the field as, like, me and her. I would have loved for that day to come. Maybe if there's ever like, a. Like, a retired football game.
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B
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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With all these old.
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Maybe, like, Olympic flag. You know, he could, like, enter flags.
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You know what, Isaac, if you're listening, which you should be like, you should really look into that.
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B
Yeah.
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A
With Good Morning Football, I feel like it is kind of like a family.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Does it feel that way?
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B
Yes. Yes, it does. With some brothers that I know, I only have a one sister. And these gentlemen and all of them that come through and the ones that we retain, like, they become brotherly to me, which is very important as, like, a woman, a longtime female in sports television. Like, that. That odd line of working around so many men, none of which are the one that I'm married to, and most of which are married.
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A
Yes.
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I. I work very hard at just immediately being like, brother, sister. Like, we're good here, and, like, we're gonna just do the football thing, and that's what this is gonna be. So it is like a family in that respect, and it, I think, spend a lot of time together. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot.
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A
And when it comes to, like, all the crew, like, there's so much production that goes into it. Do those people kind of become like family, too?
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B
Truly. So the show. Two years to the last year at this time, I. We had just moved to California. The show used to be in New York.
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A
Yeah. I'm grateful it's in California.
- [20:03]
B
Yeah. Right. For seven years, it was in new. Eight years, it was in New York. And then last year, I was 36 weeks pregnant and got this call with my third that was like, the show's moving to California. Mind you, we had moved to New Jersey for the show originally. So I called my husband, and I was like, the show is moving to California. And, like, bless his soul. He's like, let's go. Cool. That's cool. You're a Maniac.
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A
Me and Isaac ended any team. I was like, yes, Cleveland sounds great.
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B
Yes, exactly. So we did it. I had her, I had my third. And my postpartum was like, with the three of them on the plane coming across country. And he drove our dog. Yeah. You get it?
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A
Yeah, I get it.
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B
Some of them moved with us. And so I honestly think just being displaced like that, and we like banded arm in arm together and we're like, let's go to California. And then we were joined by other people at the network.
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A
Right.
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B
And we have. But yeah, it's. It's a lot. Because the hours are weird. Yeah, the hours are insane.
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A
What time do you get up?
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B
3:00Am Okay, I get up at 3 now I get in the car at 3:05. So like, okay, so brush my teeth.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Sometimes I go in the clothes I slept in.
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A
But then you have everything there.
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B
Everything is there.
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A
So you get glammed.
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B
Glammed.
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A
They do your hair. Everything.
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B
Everything.
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A
People pick out your outfit.
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B
Yes. Oh, hell yeah. So, like, for the guys come in, like, Isaac will come in and the guys come in 20 minutes after me and I'll be like, isaac, is that what you're wearing today? Which I think he was one of the ones who was like, what does that mean? What does that question mean? And I was like, only because I. I like to match who. Somebody said this once, like, I want to look like we're at the same party. So, like, if Isaac comes in in a button down, I'm not going to be in a hoodie.
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A
Right.
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B
But if he comes in in a T shirt, I'm not going to be in a dress. So, like, I see what the guys are wearing and then I just kind of tell wardrobe, like, go with that.
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A
It's. That's so interesting that, like, you don't really have to worry. Oh, I would be getting in the car, like, right. I would almost get a driver. But she's like, let me sleep on the way there.
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B
Yeah, well, I do.
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A
You're like, no, no, no. Yeah, that still checks out. I'm like, okay, this makes sense. But I do like working at that office. That office is so cool.
- [22:13]
B
Beautiful. It's beautiful. So I. When I was at CBS for eight years as a sideline reporter, I never did the studio thing, so I was always on the road with my crews. And that was also very much a family atmosphere. But it's in Tuscaloosa, it's in Atlanta, it's in. Constantly evolved.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Yes. This is cool. In the capacity. That's like the same security guard, the same route, you know, it becomes, hey, Tim. Yeah, exactly. So I do like it. It feels, it feels almost like fancier than we are at times, you know, like we're, we're pretty stripped down operation. And I'm like, wow, this studio looks like a Jeopardy Studio.
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A
But everyone's there for you guys.
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B
Yeah.
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A
It's crazy.
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B
When we're just sitting around talking about.
- [22:53]
A
Shooting the shit, shitting this.
- [22:54]
B
I really have to. You're gonna create a bad habit. I'm gonna swear on the show tomorrow.
- [22:58]
A
You are.
- [22:58]
B
And it's gonna be like, blame Allison.
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A
Oh my gosh. No, I'm sorry. With having three kids. Yeah, it's a. I mean, it's a full time. Like, I was like, it's a full time job being a mother and your.
- [23:11]
B
Actual second, you get pregnant, it's a full time job.
- [23:13]
A
Yeah, it is. Please.
- [23:15]
B
Yeah.
- [23:15]
A
I'm like, yeah, Isaac, when he signed to the Raiders and I was 20.
- [23:18]
B
Weeks pregnant, we'll go, oh my God.
- [23:20]
A
So you're missing the anatomy scan. He's like, I'm going to camp. Like, oh, yeah, I forgot about that. But do you like now having like a job, you're going to the same place all the time versus, like sideline reporting?
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B
Yeah.
- [23:33]
A
Do you still do sideline reporting?
- [23:35]
B
Occasionally for the network for the international games. That's kind of. Yeah, it's really fun. Like they just send me to place. Great places. I can't say where I'm going this year, but great places.
- [23:44]
A
Oh, I know, I know.
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B
I do love it. It was my, my. I had my first two and I was still sideline reporting. And so I would leave on Thursdays. I had a two year old and a three month old and Sia Thursday, pumping in the airport, pumping in the car service, fighting my way through TSA with that breast milk and those clear bottles. Be like, don't touch my breast milk.
- [24:08]
A
Can you unscrew so I can put the little film over top? I go, if you fucking touch that.
- [24:12]
B
You put on a clean glove.
- [24:15]
A
Put on a glove and don't breathe near it.
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B
Also, has anyone ever asked you when they're like, this is breast milk. And they're like, where's your baby? And I was like, if the baby was with me, I wouldn't have all this breast milk in bottles. How does that, how do you not compute? How does it not compute? Like, it just. It fills me with rage to this day to be asked that question, well then where's the baby? I was like, she wouldn't have all the breast milk in her body if I was with her.
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A
Do you ever discover something and you're like, wow, I wish I would have discovered this sooner because it has greatly changed my entire life. That, for me, is Nuuly, because I think back to a few years ago when Isaac and I were traveling, traveling, moving for football season, and I would pack all of my clothes into these vacuum bags and travel across state lines. And then I wouldn't even wear half the clothes that I brought because I was usually moving to somewhere that had seasons and I didn't actually have seasonal clothes. And I always think, now Nuuly would have been such a game changer, but it is still a game changer for my life. So if you guys have never heard of Nuuly before, Nuuly is a subscription clothing rental service that's all about helping you have fun and get creative with your style. Renting from Nuuly allows you to shift your gears in your wardrobe without completely overhauling your entire closet. Or like me moving my entire closet. So every month I get to rent six items from Nuuly's shared closet of thousands of styles for everything that I have going on. So, like dressy stuff for occasions, going out clothes, cute tops, or I don't know, maybe you're thinking, I know. I think I would look good in polka dots. You can try it out with Nuuly and if you like it, you even have the opportunity to buy it at a discounted rate or you can ship it back if you know you maybe you don't look too good. I'm sure you're gonna look great, though. But Nuuly takes care of everything from shipping to laundry. I can even pause without paying a fee if I need to take a break for any reason. So again, Nuuly is a subscription clothing rental service. So for just $98 a month, you get any six styles each month and access to thousands of styles from more than 400 brands. And they're brands that we know and love, like Free People Farm, Rio, Hill House for Love and Lemons. They have inclusive sizing, too, up to 5x, as well as petite and maternity. See? Exactly. I wish I would have known about Nuuly back when I was pregnant because I now have clothes that have been sitting in my closet that I should just get rid of because they're eating up space. And also, again, you have the option to buy what you love at a discount. So if you guys can't tell, I'm a huge fan of Nuuly and if you are interested in trying out Nuuly Nuuly is a great value at $98 a month for any six styles. But right now you can get $28 off your first month of Nuuly. When you sign up using the code Sunday just go to N u u l y.com that's newly with two use and enter the code Sunday and sign up to get $28 off your first month. That's Nuuly.com newly with two use with code Sunday newly Subscription Clothing Rental Change your clothes if you guys have been following me on social media for a while, you know I love my drinks like any type of drink. I actually used to have a little series on social media that I would like try out a new drink every week and and I would rate it with 1 to 10 and it would kind of just be all over the place. All that being said, I just love drinks and a drink that I have been a recent fan of is called Simply Pop. So Simply has launched a new prebiotic soda, Simply Pop, which is the new juicy soda. There are five flavors. They have Pineapple, Mango, Lime, Strawberry, Citrus Punch and Fruit Punch. Simply Pop is a new fruit forward bevy of prebiotic sodas made with sea 6 grams of prebiotic fiber to support gut health and vitamin C and zinc to support immune function which you guys, if you've been following me on social media know that I have some problems with my gut health and I'm always traveling. So anything to support my immune function I'm a fan of. That's why Simply Pop contains the same real fruit flavors you know and love and no added sugar makes for a soda that even a juice would drink. My favorite flavor is the Pineapple mango. I just feel like it's so fresh and juicy and it's perfect for summer. And whenever I'm drinking it, I feel like I'm doing something for my body, both immune system and my gut health. And the best part is that again, no added sugar. So I just feel like you can't beat something like that. I personally highly recommend this. Whether you're on the go, you wake up and you want something juicy, or you know, just an outdoor summer beverage by the pool. Why not? So if you guys are interested in trying out Simply Pop, I'm a huge fan of it. I would recommend heading over to cokeurl.com simply pop to find out where you can try Simply Pop. Life is busy and chaotic and if there's anything I've come to learn about myself is that My sleep is so important, trust me, especially after the newborn phase. I realize sleep is very important. And that's why I've fallen in love with chili pad by Sleep Me. 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A
A transcontinental tailgate with a few other content creators. They got us a private jet to Brazil from Kansas City. We took a private jet to Brazil to go to that game and then took a private jet to Detroit for the. It was like the first three games of the football season.
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B
That's amazing.
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A
I was but eight months postpartum, so obviously I had my breast pumps and the guys.
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B
Did you use.
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A
Oh, my gosh. It's great. Mom. Mom. Cozy. And vibes.
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B
Okay, great.
- [33:20]
A
Those were always my go to. Love them. But you always take the spectra just because.
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B
Because you're terrified that, like, what if things malfunction in a foreign country?
- [33:27]
A
Yeah. And I don't know.
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B
Is like a purse.
- [33:31]
A
Exactly. I'm like. But I was on the plane and in the stadium in Brazil pumping. And the guys were like, why are you doing that? Your baby's not here.
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B
Yeah. I was like, do you want me to rip your hair out? Mine's falling out.
- [33:45]
A
You're looking a little like you need some protein.
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B
Yeah. So it. So all that being said is that I was traveling every weekend sideline recording. My husband was home with them and he was also. We were in Minnesota. We're both from there. We really wanted to at least try to live where we grew up. Didn't work out. He would be going to New York for his job and then on Sunday nights and then he was coming back on Thursdays. We would see sometimes see each Other in the airport parking garage.
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A
And then I was romantic, super like.
- [34:14]
B
Oh my God, you park three spots away from me. And then he would be with them and we'd see each other on Sundays. I'd be dog tired and then he would leave and I was. So when good morning football was became an opportunity for me, it required us to leave Minnesota, which was sad and heartbreaking. However, we saw each other every day again. And we had the third child.
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A
And like lo and behold, our marriage was great. We had a third child. Yes.
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B
So it every day that I wake up at three, if I ever have that, like, ugh. It's just like. But you're not driving three hours through Georgia to get across the state line to Alabama to get to Tuscaloosa to mind you be on television for a collective seven minutes on a game day. That is the plight of a sideline reporter.
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A
Like, can we use AI?
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B
Yeah, exactly. Like, I like being good at my job. It's fun, but at sometimes just the justifiable absence just wasn't there for me.
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A
Yes.
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B
So but here it's like two hours a day I get to like be on.
- [35:08]
A
Well, you leave the house when they're asleep?
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B
Yes.
- [35:10]
A
Are you back before they.
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B
If I pushed it? No. God, I wish my kids slept in like that. No, I back by like 10:00am okay. And then I wash everything off and I take a nap.
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A
Okay.
- [35:20]
B
90 minute nap. And then I mom the second half of the day.
- [35:23]
A
Oh, wow. So you have like a. I was. Wow. You have a routine.
- [35:26]
B
Crazy. Yeah, because we have our nanny works till like, like 12 o'. Clock.
- [35:30]
A
Oh, so then what does your husband do for work?
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B
He works for a big medical device company.
- [35:36]
A
But you guys are both working parents.
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B
Yeah.
- [35:38]
A
You need help.
- [35:39]
B
Yeah, my parents live with us half the time. I'm so jealous. And so they have a condo in Florida like all old people from Minnesota do. And then they did move to New Jersey to be adjacent to us. But then this move, we were like, enough. Can you just be with us? And then when you need to not be a grandparent, go to Florida. And then when come be a grandparent, help us out. So like they, they're amazing. They like we do like a master calendar. So like when I go out of the country, they, they make sure they're there. When my husband goes cross country, they make sure they're there.
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A
Wow.
- [36:09]
B
So there are times takes a village. Yeah. Like the survival and like, yes, we can.
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A
We do it.
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B
Three kids, dog job. We can. Is it horribly atrocious and challenging and exhausting.
- [36:20]
A
Absolutely, yes.
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B
So we have a nanny and we have my parents and they're amazing. And that's what we do.
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A
It is the. Do you go to sleep when your kids go to sleep? Because 3am Wake up call.
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B
I sleep. I like to say I sleep nine to three.
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A
Okay.
- [36:34]
B
I get a six hours. The six hour thing is I can survive on six hours. The nap is like a luxury.
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A
Right.
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B
The nap makes me a better parent the second half the day. Like my patience is refilled. My everything.
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A
Yeah.
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B
If I don't nap, it's fine. And I will actively tell them, like, guys, I didn't get to nap today. So like work with me here. Like, it's just if my voice sounds a certain way, only the 6 year old gets to.
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A
Mommy sounds a little. Mommy needs a nap. Like, what do you mean mommy needs to go to sleep.
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B
Yeah. So I, I would love to say that they're all asleep by 9 o', clock, but we have kind of a loosey goosey bedtime situation.
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A
Yeah. I feel like that's a lot to balance like motherhood and being like a present parent and like also making parenting decisions and then also being like fully in your job, which is not just it. You don't just like go and clock in and then clock out. It's like you have to be doing outside research.
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B
I do, but it's. I listen to a lot of podcasts on like two Times Speed. And I just in the car just for football. Not for like my mystery or my culture or whatever. Like I listen to those at regular pace. But like that's. You're crazy.
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A
No, just the football part where like the ADHD thing. Okay, got it. Yeah.
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B
Just making sure. I'm like keeping track on everything. And then, you know, I just, I. I don't say like I put my phone fully away, but like if breaking news happens, I just kind of. My husband's also. He played football at Michigan and like he was in. I know, sorry. I had to get it in there at some point just to acknowledge the elephant in the room. And then he actually worked in football for a little bit. It's like one. It's like the. Where our basis of our relationship started. And then. So he's also kind of like my sounding board. He's like, did you see this guy got traded or did you see this thing happen? And I'm like, no, but hook me up with the intel.
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A
Thank you.
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B
Yeah.
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A
So I don't go in blind not knowing anything.
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B
I'm also like A classic crammer. This was like me in college. This was like, I.
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A
If you're good at cramming, I. I'm good at cramming. I retain a lot of the information. I feel like I actually do my best work when I'm procrastinating.
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B
Yes.
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A
I'm sorry, but I. Why would I ruin something that I'm.
- [38:36]
B
Wait, When's your birthday?
- [38:37]
A
January 10th.
- [38:38]
B
Oh, you're Capricorn. Yeah. Sagittarius. You're Sagittarius. Yeah.
- [38:43]
A
Wait, that makes a lot of sense. It's. I didn't really care about horoscopes until I moved to California, and now I'm like, oh, what's your name? Oh, what's your horoscope? Yeah.
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B
And now you're into it. And my husband. Sagittarius, too. It's like two fire signs in a marriage. Which is, like, great and bad and.
- [38:56]
A
Terrifying and derivative, but it's. I hate to admit this, but when I found out when my daughter was due, I was like, oh, my God, yes. A Sagittarius.
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B
What's her birthday? Oh, near mine.
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A
I remember ninth.
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B
That's why I asked you that, because I knew there was a Descent. There was a situation close to my birthday because I'm the third, and it was either you or your daughter, because Isaac told me that.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And now even thinking about baby number two, I'm like, well, we have to pre. Plan.
- [39:18]
B
Stop it, don't finish.
- [39:20]
A
Like, to the best of our abilities. Like, if we don't get pregnant this month. Okay, well, we have to skip that month because that would be.
- [39:26]
B
That how I felt about having all my kids in the off season, because no one was gonna take my job.
- [39:30]
A
So then you pre. You tried, to the best of your ability, to plan out when your children would be due, which is a very common practice when it comes to NFL families.
- [39:41]
B
Yeah. March, May, and July.
- [39:43]
A
I might have missed Mark a little bit and had a daughter in December, but it apparently didn't matter because Isaac ended up losing his job.
- [39:52]
B
But it's not funny.
- [39:53]
A
Yeah, it's not funny.
- [39:53]
B
It's funny.
- [39:54]
A
In hindsight, it's a trauma.
- [39:55]
B
Chuckle.
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A
It's. Yes. But had he not been released from his job, I don't know where it would be, because that postpartum was so hard that I'm grateful that he lost his job.
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B
Which part? Which part was hard?
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A
All of it.
- [40:09]
B
Yeah. No, like, physically, did you have, like, a delivery or.
- [40:12]
A
I had a plan C section. Plan C section was great. Love. My doctor. Highly recommend okay. If you're. If you're having a C section, like, I'm the person you want to talk to. Because I had such a glamorous experience. Experience until two weeks later when I got re hospitalized, a diverticulitis. I had something in my intestines, and they were like, oh, you're like sepsis. You could die. Well, that's something.
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B
Did they leave it on there? Well, I got.
- [40:37]
A
I don't know. Well, they put me on antibiotics. It's. This is why I was. Yeah, I had a lot of postpartum issues because then I had to go on a antibiotic that had a black box warning. So I had to stop breastfeeding, but I had pumped enough. So then I gave her all of the pumped breast milk. And so then I was like, pumping but then dumping it.
- [40:56]
B
And that will mess with anybody beyond.
- [41:01]
A
And then I wonder, I'm like, why.
- [41:03]
B
Why did I have postpartum depression? Like, oh, I had to do that with my third kid at nine months. Breastfeeding, the mark. And that after all my collective experience breastfeeding, I still struggled with that. So the fact that you had to do it at two weeks, that is beyond. And I understand.
- [41:20]
A
And then I. But then also, I had moved two weeks before I gave birth and then moved again at eight weeks postpartum.
- [41:26]
B
I'm having, like, heart palpitations for you. And I'm sorry, I don't know this story like, to list. I'm sure the people listening.
- [41:31]
A
You're not. You're not watching my stuff. You're not up to date. Weird.
- [41:36]
B
Weird.
- [41:36]
A
You know, football and not my life. It's crazy. Feels like the same thing sometimes. Oh, my gosh. No. But even postpartum and, like, baby planning, it's crazy because it. It's like being a woman in this space, it's. I'm so grateful that it has evolved to this point. But it is so crazy that, like, there are things just, like, constantly, like, going at women still. And it.
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B
Yeah.
- [42:00]
A
It's like if I wore an Eagle shirt, people would be like, how many Eagles players? Like, can you name?
- [42:05]
B
Right?
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A
Even, like, I actually can't rage. Name one. Right?
- [42:11]
B
Yes, you could.
- [42:11]
A
I'm like, jumped over.
- [42:14]
B
You can do it.
- [42:15]
A
You can't say it with me. Like, no, no, no. You know, like, not me, but not some of my friends, husbands, being on the team.
- [42:21]
B
I'm like, oh, oh, yeah. Oh, you're still on that team. Yeah, it's. It's that baseline. Even me feeling like I should. I should have my Kids in the off season, just like, no one told me I had to do that. That was a pressure I put on myself because of whatever the society and the industry and whatever, it's like, you don't miss games. And whether that's you're playing or it, or you're on the sideline of it, like, I will not miss a game.
- [42:45]
A
It's such an interesting take though, because I feel like I even saw that myself. I didn't want to take any days off because nobody else was taking days off. Right. And it's. I should have taken days off. Maybe that's.
- [42:58]
B
No, it's, it's. And then even now, like, my husband's like company, they have like paternity leave. And I'm like, I advocate for paternity, like through him. And I'm like, you get on that zoom and you sell those dads that work for you that they can take it. He's like, wow, relax.
- [43:13]
A
Like, no, make sure they do it again. I'm like, that, that's so. Oh, yeah. Like, but everybody thought that when my husband was playing, they're like, oh, yeah, he gets to like take time off.
- [43:24]
B
Right.
- [43:25]
A
I'm lucky he's there for the birthday. My gosh. No. Oh, my gosh. So if you were an NFL wife, okay. And your husband was playing in a football game, would you want him to miss a regular game for the birth?
- [43:43]
B
Knowing what I know now about birth and child rearing and raising the child as a total life experience, he can miss the birthday.
- [43:54]
A
Okay, so you're saying that for a regular game. I was gonna ask the super bowl after, but you're like, whatever.
- [43:58]
B
Yeah.
- [43:59]
A
The second I'm like, I.
- [44:03]
B
Labor and delivery. I don't know if it's because I'm just not a highly emotional person in the capacity that like, I need that like eye locked support, like, as I'm. Don't look at me dry heaving in pain. Like, I don't need that. I need you to just like kind of do everything else for me while I handle this, you know? And so I didn't.
- [44:25]
A
Almost like one last person you worry about.
- [44:29]
B
Yeah, kind of. And so I just. You see these couples on, they're like, they're like gripping hands and like that. I'm like, that's amazing for them. That's incredible. I'm so not that person that if it was like, that's the nature of the job. You get 17 weeks to be good at something and if that like a couple more. Yeah, go be good at that.
- [44:48]
A
And then.
- [44:49]
B
Because, like, you're around for the next 18 years of this life. You got 17 games. Like, you got 18 years, so.
- [44:55]
A
Oh, my gosh.
- [44:56]
B
I've never. That's such a good question.
- [44:58]
A
Yeah. Because.
- [44:59]
B
Because you.
- [45:00]
A
It's a topic to think about.
- [45:01]
B
Yeah. Well, no, I'm not having any more kids, and he doesn't play football, but.
- [45:05]
A
It'S something I had to think about, I guess.
- [45:07]
B
But. But I hear it, you know, in baseball, because they play so many games, and.
- [45:11]
A
Yeah.
- [45:11]
B
Up in arms, about like, he left in the middle of the night. It's like, relax, you know?
- [45:15]
A
Like, I.
- [45:16]
B
But I would say, you know, I would say. I guess if I had control of it, maybe I'd have, like, a planned C section on Tuesday. Don't they usually have Tuesdays off?
- [45:24]
A
Yeah, they do. And it's funny. When I first found out I was pregnant, my doctor was. He had. He was like, the birth doctor for the Los Angeles Chargers wives.
- [45:36]
B
Okay.
- [45:36]
A
And so a few of the other Chargers wives had given birth with him, and he was like, we can do the good old, like, NFL induction. You tell me what date you want to give birth, and we'll do it. And I was like, I love having a doctor on board.
- [45:46]
B
Yes.
- [45:47]
A
Like, thank you.
- [45:47]
B
Yeah.
- [45:48]
A
Like, yeah, there's probably a greater chance of a C section, but, like, look, I already had a C section.
- [45:51]
B
Great.
- [45:52]
A
My daughter was breached.
- [45:53]
B
Oh, that's why.
- [45:54]
A
Okay.
- [45:54]
B
I wasn't gonna ask.
- [45:56]
A
You could ask any question. Like, I cry on the Internet, so I'm pretty sure I'm an open book.
- [45:59]
B
Okay, that's true. Yeah. So. Wow. I've never really been pressed to answer something in that capacity, and I didn't know that that would be the answer. So I. I'm sure he would be okay with that answer.
- [46:09]
A
He's like, yeah.
- [46:10]
B
There's just so much else that goes along with it. Now having, like, so six years into the first one, I think I could do it by myself. I'd be okay. Just don't come back.
- [46:19]
A
Well, that kind of. That kind of leads to my next question. Is that do you think motherhood has changed the way that you work and how you work?
- [46:26]
B
Yeah.
- [46:27]
A
In what way?
- [46:28]
B
I work more intensely in these, like, smaller pockets of time. Okay. And that comes to with, like, the child care thing. It's like, I have my window right now, and that's either to, like, get some stuff done or take a nap. Like, essentially, I live my life like a terrible driver, drives a car, like, gas off.
- [46:47]
A
Gas sounds lovely.
- [46:49]
B
Right? So it's like, cram for the show. Do, like, two hours of live tv and then, like, take your foot off the pedal on the drive home and then take your nap. And then, like, parenting. And then. So it's like whiplash a little bit. It sounds like.
- [47:02]
A
Yeah, it sounds like it.
- [47:03]
B
It has changed me in the way that when you don't have kids, you are. You have the full freedom and power to peanut butter your life responsibilities out however you want to.
- [47:13]
A
Right.
- [47:13]
B
When you choose to have kids, like, you are taking your. You're putting yourself in a different scenario. So I've just adjusted, and it just feels like I've turned up. My sister said to me once, actually, when I told her over a dishwasher that I was pregnant with the third, and she was like, dishwasher, please. Why do you always have to make your life hard? Like, it just feels like you're always something, always intense is happening. And I was like, I don't. I. Unfortunately, I don't know it any other way. So we had just moved a year before. Now we're pregnant, and then little did we know we were going to move again. Like, and it does feel like that at times.
- [47:44]
A
I. I wouldn't change. I think you and I are very similar in this. I wouldn't change damn thing, though, right. I like life being chaotic.
- [47:51]
B
Yeah.
- [47:51]
A
So when people are like, oh, are you ever going to, like, are you excited for life to slow down? I'm like, I'm sure I'm going to pick something back up. Like, we just got done with a huge stint of travel, and, like, now Isaac's heading into a different season of life.
- [48:02]
B
Sure.
- [48:03]
A
And it's going to be a little bit more of, like, oh, we have to stay at home. Like, we can't, like, travel as much and do this and that and say yes to every opportunity. And so here I am being like, well, now I need another project.
- [48:12]
B
Right.
- [48:12]
A
I literally was taking a walk the other day in my neighborhood, and I see that my neighbor is selling an Airstream. I go, I think I'm going to buy that and renovate it.
- [48:17]
B
Do it.
- [48:19]
A
I'm like, honestly? And. And everyone's like, can you just not. No. I was talking to even my social media management team, and I was like, I feel like things are slow. They're like, things are not slow. I think you're just used to just, like, constant. And I'm like, maybe that's why I was so good at the NFL piece, because I was like, whatever. Oh, we're moving to Cleveland. Sounds Great.
- [48:39]
B
Sure.
- [48:39]
A
Like Vegas for three weeks. Love it. Let's live in the M Hotel. Lovely.
- [48:44]
B
Like that sounds like the name of a podcast. Can you not? No, yeah.
- [48:48]
A
No, honestly, no. I like, I love the chaos and, and so hearing the way that, like, you, you love it as well.
- [48:56]
B
Now things go by the wayside. Like, I, I commonly don't do my laundry. I am.
- [49:00]
A
You don't send your laundry out?
- [49:02]
B
No. Should. How do you do that? What do you do?
- [49:04]
A
Oh, I have. Oh, my gosh. I have a. Oh, my gosh. Yes.
- [49:07]
B
Okay.
- [49:08]
A
Well, not all the time. I only do it. I, I see how much laundry I can get done in the week, and then at the end of the week, I, I. Yeah, we're restarting.
- [49:16]
B
Yeah.
- [49:17]
A
Ever. So every Monday they come and pick up laundry and they drop it off Tuesday morning.
- [49:21]
B
No, it's a bag of sweatpants. But is. They'll still launder that it's not fancy clothes. No. Oh, okay.
- [49:26]
A
Oh, I throw raggedy towels in there that I clean my dog off with.
- [49:30]
B
Okay, great.
- [49:30]
A
Because I don't want the.
- [49:32]
B
It will become like another entity in our house. And then my husband will be like, I've reached my point where I have to say something about this.
- [49:39]
A
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- [54:22]
B
Yeah. So like the personal responsibility of like that very small maintenance thing, that laundry that goes by the wayside. I have like a select great girlfriends like all over the three that I that come to my all over the country that like the fourth one's like, are you. Who is it that I keep. I don't keep up with them and they understand that as often as. But like they're my friends for that reason that like I might fall down as a friend sometimes in terms of that like daily check in. But it's also awkward for them because I'm sure similar to you. Like they call and they're like, yeah, I know everything you've been doing, it's all over.
- [54:55]
A
Like I see you so I'm. If I miss you, I can just throw on football.
- [54:59]
B
So like I feel at times I struggle like as a friend and doing my laundry. Those are my two things.
- [55:03]
A
Well, I'm like, well, you have a husband in a marriage that you're like, I have to.
- [55:07]
B
He's my friend.
- [55:08]
A
I have to do that sometimes too. Like figuratively and emotionally, you know, whatever. But you're like, I have that. I have kids. I have a job. I have football games. I'm sure football season is crazy. Do you guys make time for date night during football season?
- [55:20]
B
We do, but our date nights are because he, he loves it as much as sometimes it's like a brewery. And like watching football. It is he like, you know, college football Saturdays. I let that. That's actually one thing that I did actively sacrifice. Like when I left the college space because I was a sideliner for the SEC for three, four years. And then when we, when I left and I was like, great, I'm back to Sundays. And he was like, but I still want to watch Michigan. I was like, oh, go blue. Like fine.
- [55:45]
A
Yeah.
- [55:46]
B
So those Saturdays are mine. They are like my anti football day. Except that's on in the background.
- [55:52]
A
You know that God awful maze color. Whatever.
- [55:56]
B
I do love Tom Izzo. So like I just want to put that out there.
- [55:58]
A
Yeah, you know, I do too.
- [55:59]
B
Good.
- [55:59]
A
Like that. So that makes sense. So then your date nights are just like chill?
- [56:04]
B
Yes. Are we do more kind of in the same capacity of. I do everything with intensity. Like our date nights are going to be like a night at a hotel and like have a great dinner, stay the night, get like actual 11 hours of sleep adjacent to each other. And then we're going to do it this weekend actually. We're going to go down south Orange County. It's our anniversary.
- [56:23]
A
So are you going to the montage?
- [56:24]
B
No, we're going to.
- [56:25]
A
This is airing after you.
- [56:26]
B
Pelican Hill, the resort we're going to play.
- [56:29]
A
So we know that is my favorite restaurant, the Golf Grill.
- [56:32]
B
Okay.
- [56:32]
A
Go to the Golf Grill.
- [56:33]
B
We're going to golf.
- [56:34]
A
Okay. No, the Golf Grill has the best food I've ever had in my life.
- [56:39]
B
Great.
- [56:39]
A
Okay. They have a caviar and french fries.
- [56:41]
B
So like this is. I feel like you're not. That sounds great. This is what resonate with you. Going to do the show on Friday. Taking the car straight to the resort of Pelican Pin Hill. So like I will be poolside. 10:45am let's just say makeup off with a champagne in my hand. And then I'll be like, whenever you're done with your job, you can come join me.
- [57:01]
A
Do you have a massage booked?
- [57:02]
B
No. Should I?
- [57:03]
A
Absolutely. Okay. And they have like a hot tub in the spa area.
- [57:08]
B
Yes.
- [57:09]
A
Best massage. I'm telling you. Pelican Hill.
- [57:12]
B
Okay.
- [57:12]
A
My favorite place.
- [57:13]
B
Dinner, sleep, which is the greatest gift. Golf. And then we'll return home and then we'll do that again in six months. Like that's, that's zero to 100.
- [57:22]
A
I love that.
- [57:23]
B
Yeah, we can't. It's. We just don't do a lot of things casual.
- [57:26]
A
You know what's showing Me talking to you is showing me that I really need permanent like help with child care.
- [57:33]
B
Yes.
- [57:33]
A
You don't have that.
- [57:34]
B
Yes, you do.
- [57:35]
A
For some reason I think because working.
- [57:36]
B
From home, I'm like, it's a trick.
- [57:38]
A
I don't need to do that. But even the idea we're actually leaving our daughter for the first time this weekend, both of us and I'm feeling about that. Horrible.
- [57:46]
B
Where are you guys going?
- [57:47]
A
Cabo.
- [57:48]
B
Right. For like personally.
- [57:49]
A
Yeah. We're going with like a group of friends.
- [57:51]
B
Good for you.
- [57:51]
A
And it's our first couple's trip away from her together. So I think it'll be good for our marriage. Is it gonna be good for my mental health?
- [57:57]
B
Who is she staying with?
- [57:59]
A
In laws. So my mother in law and future father in law are coming out and they're like that. Right. Because if he marries her, that's my future father said. Yeah, yeah, that checks out.
- [58:11]
B
Yeah.
- [58:12]
A
So I have no worries about the hand she's in. But like not. We don't have family around us. We don't. And I just feel like up to this point we really haven't needed full time help. But now I'm like, I think you.
- [58:23]
B
Do honestly for if you are speaking of mental health in. There's daily maintenance to that.
- [58:28]
A
Yeah.
- [58:29]
B
And when I have weeks off from the show, I still, I don't like, I still keep our.
- [58:33]
A
You still keep your normal.
- [58:35]
B
Now. Now what I might do is like I might say to her I'm going to take the baby on a walk or to the library. Can you do these other things that might like, can you change their sheets or like whatever things that she'd be doing with her. Whatever. But like I'm going to go do this again because you take on that responsibility and I'm just going to give her this intense moment with us together. I will advocate for if you are capable of having childcare, I will advocate it all. The live long day and, and consistently.
- [59:05]
A
Yes.
- [59:06]
B
This in childcare. Finding someone who just shows up, I think honestly is. That's jarring for the child.
- [59:11]
A
Yes.
- [59:12]
B
And it's for you. And the more regularly it happens, the more the expectation. You're like diluting the expectation of what the departure feels like for the kid.
- [59:22]
A
I think I, I agree full not, not me just talking my own problems. I'm like, you're the guest. Like, yeah. There's something that I've realized about like hiring help is that they don't necessarily have to just watch your child.
- [59:35]
B
No.
- [59:36]
A
So something with one of our babysitters she comes every week. So I'm like, is that a nanny if she comes the same day every. She only comes one day a week. Like, I don't know.
- [59:43]
B
I would probably put her in the babysitter category. Yeah.
- [59:45]
A
But she. But we've been with her for like a long time. That our daughter loves her. It's great.
- [59:50]
B
Yeah.
- [59:51]
A
But some days I'm like, I actually don't have any work to do and I would love to hang out with my daughter, but I also have to clean. And instead of cleaning, I'm like, she'll. She'll help out with like the. My daughter's dishes or like, helping her.
- [60:02]
B
Yes.
- [60:03]
A
I don't know, like, go through her closet. And I'm like, and now I get to hang out with my daughter instead of hiring help so that I get to go and do these things.
- [60:10]
B
Yep.
- [60:10]
A
And it's crazy, but child care is.
- [60:13]
B
There to care for the child. But also all the things that I think come with caring for the child, which is literally everything. Literally everything. So I'm a true advocate for it. Also, I'm sure there's people out there that would say that this is not the right way to do it, but like, I am all for, like, my kids get up and like, there's no, there's no like some grand goodbye. Like when I go on a trip or something. It is just. No, it's not. Mommy, we'll be back at three. Like, oh. You know, it's just I more hype the people that are gonna be there. I hype that. Like all the live long day or activities leading up to the departure. I'm just like, you know, I'm not really good at this puzzle, but, you know, who is that person who's coming to hang out?
- [60:53]
A
You know, I don't know how to work the remote.
- [60:55]
B
Yeah. Who does this guy?
- [60:58]
A
Like, I get in here broken.
- [61:00]
B
They're like, why does.
- [61:01]
A
Why does our. A babysitter know how to work? Like, I don't know.
- [61:04]
B
Right.
- [61:05]
A
He's younger.
- [61:06]
B
Yeah. So that's really. I try to hype the presence of the person and not my absence.
- [61:10]
A
I love that. I'm sure it's a learning curve. Like you've been in the space for a long time and you have three kids. So, like, there's been a lot of growing practice.
- [61:20]
B
I think hiring child care is a practice skill. I think hiring childcare is a practice skill. And I've had to do it three or four times every time I've moved. So just putting out the Job posting, interviewing the people describing the job correctly, all that stuff. And like, what is the job? So I leave the house at 3am yeah, you have to come on Sundays. Can you Literally. And my husband's traveling and my parents aren't here. Can you stay over? Because I leave at three. Three, yeah. Or do you want to come at three?
- [61:44]
A
Oh, my God. Asking our babysitter. When I was on Good Morning Football, Isaac was gone and I was like, so do you want to spend the night?
- [61:51]
B
Yeah.
- [61:51]
A
Then did they. Yeah. Yeah. No, she's great.
- [61:53]
B
Yeah, she's great.
- [61:54]
A
I love her.
- [61:54]
B
You just tuck that baby monitor in that closed door and you're like, I'm leaving.
- [61:57]
A
You're like, the dog's like, no, she doesn't. That's a different story. Okay, moving on to some football questions. Before we wrap up, I have a few, you know, hot takes.
- [62:09]
B
Oh, Lordy.
- [62:11]
A
Who's winning MVP this year?
- [62:13]
B
Oh, let me tell you something about Good Morning Football and the family that we're in. We have a packed. Like a blood packed. I'm just kidding. It's not. You're going to say. I can't say. I can't.
- [62:22]
A
Oh, you can't?
- [62:23]
B
No.
- [62:23]
A
Okay.
- [62:23]
B
We do a reveal. We do a week one. The. The days leading up to week one are massively intense. On our show, we do skits. Like last year, I was Mike McDaniel. I put on, like, the whole sweatsuit. That was just my justification to wear sweatpants on the tell in the show. The sunglasses, the gold watch. And I came out and I gave a press conference speech as if TUA had just won mvp. And that was my pick.
- [62:44]
A
Oh, wow. Okay. I'm excited for this.
- [62:46]
B
Yes. So I'm looking forward to this. Couple years back, Kyle Brandt picked Rogers, and it was during his, like, post darkness retreat, and he literally shut all the studio lights down in the studio and go, this is in New York. And then he turned them on and was like, I've seen the light. And then he gave this whole DIA log about why Roger's going to be mvp. So that's what we do on the show. So I will not tell you.
- [63:04]
A
Okay.
- [63:05]
B
I love that also because I haven't come up with it yet.
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A
Am I gonna get that too?
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B
Yeah.
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A
Hopefully you can answer some.
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B
Yes, I will.
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A
Which team is going to be under the radar this season?
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B
Okay, I've. I've used this line before on the show, but this is a different audience, so I'm gonna use it on you. Um, my husband hates this time of year. Because I start flirting with some teams, I'm just, like, thinking about putting them in the playoffs. I have one from each conference. I'm flirting with the Patriots, and I'm flirting with the Giants. I feel like the Giants is a little bit more of a sexy pick for people. Jackson Dart, like, just a comical quarterback room. The head coach is in a pickle, I think, with the quarterback situation, but sneaky. The Patriots, for me, I think, is going to be under the radar. I. Because I think they can jump on the jets and Dolphins pretty easily. I love Mike Rabel. I don't know if Isaac ever came across him in his career, but I don't think so. He was the head coach in Tennessee, and then he got let go. He took a year, worked at Ohio State, and now he's the new head coach of the New England Patriots. And you know that their first round draft pick was out of lsu, and I was on a stage in Green Bay for this. The interviews for the draft pick brag a little bit. This kid, like, cried during the interview, but then he turned around and delivered the most, like, epically phenomenal, intimidating line of the draft, which he was like, I will fight and die to protect my quarterback. He's, like, from Louisiana, and he had tears in his eyes. And I was like, this is. This is the greatest interview I've ever done.
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This is football.
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B
Yeah. So I kind of flirt with the Patriots.
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A
Okay. Be under the radar, you know, I don't hate that.
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B
Thanks.
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A
Give us a rookie who's going to take over the league sooner than we think.
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B
Sooner than we think. A rookie. Well, as of this week, weird news came out about Najee Harris, the running back for the Chargers. He has, like, a fireworks incident. And so they drafted a rookie, running back, Omarion Hampton, out of North Carolina. So he's gonna have to. I think Naji's supposed to be back by the season, but, like, I don't know what that's gonna look like.
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A
Even you knowing about the firework incident, you're. I think you're more like, oh, I'm aware, then, yes, you might be.
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B
I just only tap into it when it's, like, wildly necessary. But also, everyone lives their life in a normal capacity. Again, I always kind of go back to the banker reference. Like, a banker thinks that we all know how to, like, apply for a mortgage or how. I still don't know.
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A
And I own a few houses.
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B
Yeah.
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A
That's not.
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B
All I know is that the rates are high. Like, that's just, like, a topic of conversation. I'm like, darn, those rates.
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A
They're still high. And that's about it. What coach might be in the hot seat if their team starts slow?
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B
I don't know. Slow? Slow. Well, I just mentioned the Giants. I think Brian Dable has legs, but if it. If it is horrific for the quarterbacks because he's got a. He's got options. He's got James, Winston, Russell Wilson, and the rookie Jackson and Dart. I think the situation he finds himself in. It feels so strange talking to you about this, because I feel like you're looking at me like, stop talking.
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A
No, no, no. This is interesting.
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B
So my husband. I also don't want it to be condescending in any way.
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A
No.
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B
Okay.
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A
I don't. You don't give off that.
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B
So Russell Wilson, we all know his, like, trajectory. Awful, you're gonna say.
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A
We all know his wife.
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B
Yes. Gosh, she's so fabulous. Atrocious with the. With the Broncos. Couldn't figure it out with the Steelers. And now he's with Giants. Odd personality to be met with. Jameis Winston. Odd personality, eccentric af. And now this rookie Jackson Dart, who's like, you've seen him with the blonde flow, and he went to Ole Miss. That is a room and a half right there. So Brian Dable, the head coach of the Giants, he was in Buffalo when Josh Allen was drafted. So he was like, the Josh Allen. Like, be who you are. And then he did such a good job, he got hired by the Giants. So he's kind of looked at as, like, this quarterback guy. And so if things will go well for the quarterback, like, you kind of. You've had your options. You had Daniel Jones. Couldn't feel like. So, okay, maybe Giants.
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A
Oh, okay. Interesting. Who's your super bowl matchup?
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B
That's another thing I cannot say, or else I'd have to kill you, honestly. So that's. It's a huge deal. Last year, I picked the Ravens and the Packers.
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A
I hate the Ravens. But you guys don't know why? Oh, why?
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B
Did they do something to Isaac?
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A
No. Well, actually, you know what? Now that he's retired, I can say that they, like. I don't even know how to say this. You'll understand, but, like, I feel like other people listening might not understand because it's. The draft is so interesting that, like, one pick could throw everything haywire. So he was talking to the Ravens, like, his entire time as a free agent, and it. It got down to the point where it was like, hey, like, just be aware. Like, they're probably gonna pick you. They're gonna pick you there and pick you. And they didn't. But I have no. I have no complaints about that. That I'm just like, meh, whatever. I just, you know, I'm not gonna get into some of the reasons as to why I don't like the Ravens.
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B
Okay, okay, okay.
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A
But I feel like if you listen to this podcast, you probably know a little bit.
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B
Okay. My sister was. Oh, I do feel like I know this. So I saw you guys. A stagecoach.
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A
Yes.
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B
And you were in your tent. And we met Tiana.
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A
Yes, Tiana.
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B
Tiana and Adrian. Adrian. And Adrian went to Michigan.
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A
Yes.
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B
And I actually covered him in the NCAA tournament and my husband to Michigan. So we were, like, talking to Adrian a bunch. And then I met Tiana and she was like, wow, you're so cool. Whatever. And. And. And she did not know what I did, which is great. And she. So I was like, yeah, I host. And Isaac was standing over us physically, and he was like, jamie hosts this NFL show. And Tiana goes, do you know my NFL stuff? And I was like, I got nothing. I got. And she was like, you don't know. And I was like, I. I am. I suppose I looked at Isaac and I was like, I feel so terrible right now. Am I supposed to. And he was like, no. And he almost. I think he was just torn between the two of us because he was like.
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A
He's like, no, no. She's in the NFL world. In a professional.
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B
Yes. And also now that I've fully caught up in. In a way that is so embarrassing, I feel for, like, my age of woman where I was like, how did I miss this? And also, like, there's a reason why I don't know that guy.
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A
So, like. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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B
So, no. But back to your sister.
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A
The Ravens, I just. I don't love them. But also, they were in the AFC and, like, Isaac was with the Chargers for a long time, and, like, they played a few times. I just didn't love them.
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B
Fine. You're totally allowed to do that.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Yeah.
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A
So. But I'm gonna. I'm gonna get your hot take on two teams.
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B
Okay.
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A
And then we'll.
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B
Is this my hot take, like, analysis or, like, what. Or like, your kind of story where, like, do I like them as people?
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A
No, this is not outside of the people. I want your actual professional take on these.
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B
Okay.
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A
And then we'll jump into some rapid fire questions before we end, but what is your take on the Los Angeles Chargers and the Detroit Lions?
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B
Are you Telling me your super bowl pick.
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A
I. Maybe.
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B
Okay.
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A
So if those two teams go to the Super Bowl, I will be great.
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B
Great. Thrilled.
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A
I don't know who I would root for.
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B
Okay.
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A
Probably the Chargers.
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B
Okay. There we go. We have the answer. I am. I am biased towards Jim Harbaugh. As a Michigan man.
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A
I see. I'm not right.
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B
But you.
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A
What?
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B
So. But you would like the Chargers to be there. So.
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A
I love Hispanos. I like the organization.
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B
Yep. Yep. I. I am disenfranchised by Justin Herbert. Talented af, but, like, do something beyond. As I. I grew up a minute. The Vikings fan. Like, my heart is purple. Kirk Cousins just would start to grind my gears towards the end because, like, I used to call him, like, the statistical king.
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A
Yeah.
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B
But, like, what does that mean in January?
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A
Do something.
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B
Yeah. So Herbert. I don't know what's going on there. So talented, so bright, so handsome, so young. The hair, the whole thing, it's all working.
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A
Love him. He's the nicest human I've ever met.
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B
Wonderful for him. But does he have it to get over the hump?
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A
I think this year we'll see. With Harbaugh. Yes.
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B
Yes. And then he's. They have Omarion Hampton and also a hell of a defense. So, like, if not now, then what are we doing?
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A
Yes.
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B
So that's how I feel about the Chargers. I'm currently considering putting them into my playoffs. They are on my. They're my seven, eight right now.
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A
The issue is just, like, the conference and.
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B
Yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. The conference. And then the Lions, as I. The aforementioned issue that was, like, rolls through my head, which is they just had both their coordinators depart. And so what does Jared Goff and the offense in terms of. Because we all fall in love with, like, the creativity that the Lions have done offensively. That was Ben Johnson or some would say. And now he's in Chicago. So I don't know how this is going to go, you know, pretty. My little Detroit heart. I know. And gosh, I just love those running backs that are there. Dave Montgomery and Jameer Gibbs. The defense is fantastic. They were decimated last year. Wow. And. And then I also think Week 18 last year, the Vikings and the Lions, they. They just took each other out at the knees.
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A
Yeah. No, I. I completely agree. So that's.
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B
I'm just like.
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A
I'm so. You're right. I am an empathic person because I really want, like, Jared to get, like, a Super Bowl.
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B
Also, like, sweet as pie, that couple.
- [72:12]
A
Oh, my God. I feel like a Bad person around them sometimes because they're so down to earth and sweet.
- [72:16]
B
You say around them sometimes because you're actually around them. I meant, like, by watching them on the Netflix series because not a lot of us have access to them in that capacity. I guess you're like, justin Herbert's such a nice guy. I'm like, is he?
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A
Yeah, I guess. I guess I'm like, wait, I'm speaking. Like, what am I talking? Like, I know these people, but. Oh, wait, you do. So weird. That's crazy. You do.
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B
You have access to them. So you're. You're authentically assessing their personality. I purely said that off of the Netflix series, they seem like a sweet couple.
- [72:46]
A
The whole wedding. I mean, Heather's so down to earnest.
- [72:48]
B
Like, the whole thank you notes debacle with, like, the stamps at the beginning, I was like, why? Guys get it.
- [72:53]
A
I haven't watched it because I'm like, I don't know how. I don't know.
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B
I don't know what.
- [72:57]
A
I have to watch it. Why? Because it's. Those shows stress me. I mean, granted, it's like, not this season.
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B
Like, it's not. Right. Right. Yes. So you already know how it goes. Yeah.
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A
But I don't know.
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B
It just stresses me. Okay. That's. Whatever.
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A
Okay.
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B
Would you be. Would you be on a show like that?
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A
You know what? I would be on a show like that as long as the reality TV aspect wasn't in my marriage. Like, they weren't getting the, like, juicy things from the marriage aspect.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Like, if you got. If you want to talk about, like, how cutthroat, like, Isaac's job is or this or that, that's fine. But, like, I don't want the. I don't know. I don't want the trailer to be like, me and Isaac having an argument.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Cuz yeah, we do argue. I'm a passionate person.
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B
Yeah. You know what I always think about? It's kind of how I work my way through, like, scary movies. How I'm just like, okay, there is, like, a whole production team in this room. It's not actually happening.
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A
Yes.
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B
That's how I feel about people fighting on television. I'm like, so you're just screaming at each other, like, with an audio guy.
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A
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. I'm like, you guys are talking about this.
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B
Actually, the boom mic guy is probably like, am I getting it? Am I getting it?
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A
He's like, the mics better be working because I want all of this. I. I do think, though, I would get really comfortable, really quick. If there was a crew around us and I would probably.
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B
Right.
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A
We're digging that.
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B
Yeah, I would. I, I, My husband is more like, do you ever watch Home Improvement?
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A
Yes.
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B
My husband's like Wilson. Like, he wants to be seen like that, like, as a size.
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A
So that used to be Isaac and now look at it.
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B
Yes.
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A
Oh, you know, he hated social media. When I first started, he told me he didn't want me to do social media, and if he, if I did, he didn't want to be a part of it. And look at him. Wow.
- [74:40]
B
Now he's. Now he comes into our show and he's just spewing advice.
- [74:44]
A
Yeah. I, I'm like, buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy.
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B
It's half my fault because I literally, I'm like, are you done? Because I would like to ask you some questions in the hallway.
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A
Exactly. We'll talk about this later. Okay. Rapid fire. Okay. Questions. This or that?
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B
This or that.
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A
College football Saturdays or NFL Sundays?
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B
NFL Sundays.
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A
Pre game analysis or post game breakdown?
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B
Pre game analysis.
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A
Coaching your kids team or cheering from the sidelines?
- [75:08]
B
Coaching my kids team. I have a video on Tick Tock right now that's quite divisive.
- [75:12]
A
Wait, I need to see fantasy football quarterback Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson.
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B
Lamar Jackson.
- [75:20]
A
Wow.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Rushing yards and Kelsey Brothers or Manning Brothers?
- [75:25]
B
Manning Brothers.
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A
Week one, hope or the chaos of week 17?
- [75:29]
B
Chaos of week 17. Absolutely. Absolutely.
- [75:32]
A
Okay. Well, thank you for coming on the show. Where can people find you?
- [75:34]
B
Oh, at Jamie Erdall on I think everything. There might be a dot in there on TikTok, but I'm more newish to that than anything else.
- [75:41]
A
But I want to see a tick tock of your day, of your morning. Morning, the life.
- [75:44]
B
That's what Isaac keeps telling me to do.
- [75:45]
A
But it just literally just have the phone on you and record the entire morning and then just go over an audio.
- [75:51]
B
I am alar. I am alarmed to show people how little I do for myself in the morning. Like getting the car and you're. Someone else drives me get there. Everybody does my hair, makeup, and literally dresses me. Like, we're not to, like the Downton Abbey type where they're putting the shirt on me. But, like, you worked your ass off to get there.
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A
Thank you so.
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B
Hey. All right. There.
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A
There you have it, people. Thank you for tuning into your Sunday Sports Club podcast. Be sure to tune into Good Morning Football. I'm sure there's some good Stu stuff coming this season.
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B
We're not biased.
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A
Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products.
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B
Or services referred to in this episode.