Episode 370: Fake News Headlines & Chicken Fingers at 11am SLAP

Calm Down with Erin and Charissa

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Sports, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Big Show Edition of the Calm Down Podcast with Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson is here!

Charissa kicks things off by addressing the fake news headlines making the rounds this week and sets the record straight about what really happened before her Thursday Night Football broadcast between the Steelers and Bengals. Meanwhile, Erin shares stories from her trip to cover the Giants vs. Eagles, including why chicken fingers at 11 AM absolutely SLAP.

But that’s not all — Erin opens up about a heartwarming and life-changing encounter she had on a recent flight that will leave you inspired. From NFL sidelines to personal moments in the sky, this episode has it all: laughs, honesty, and the kind of real talk only Erin and Charissa can deliver.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.4	The chicken fingers slap at 11 a.m.
0:07.8	They're just good.
0:09.0	What?
0:09.5	What does that mean?
0:12.1	In our green room that I share with Tom Rinaldi, they have like...
0:15.9	You said chicken fingers slap at 11.
0:18.2	Is that like slang?
0:19.5	Yeah, they slap.
0:23.6	Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of I-Heart Radio.
0:32.7	It's true. I can't win. Oh, can't win. Damned if you do. damned if you don't. Welcome to the Calm Down podcast. Aaron and I just joke before we jumped on here that the men in our life, which by the way, we will just start by saying, no one gives them more praise than us. I tell Steve every single day, every single chance I get how much I love him. I'm constantly,
0:54.9	Steve, Steve, Steve, Aaron, I know you do the same for Jared, but man, I'd tell you what,
0:59.4	Steve, Steve should be afraid of me right now. I'm so annoyed at him. Go. Just launch right into it,
1:06.7	sister. Go. You guys? And I know women or men too men do ads you know when you need help like
1:18.2	you're doing an ad okay and i needed steve's help on an ad i was doing and it involved me being
1:23.9	in a bathing suit i won't say what what the ad is for, but I'm like, I can't take this picture
1:29.2	on my own, okay? And I'm also not hiring a production thing for this because then by that time,
1:35.9	now I have no money from that. So I'm like, Steve, you know, you own a marketing company,
1:41.4	you do all these photos shoots all the time. If he is a great photographer, actually.
1:46.1	Great photographer. Like, if anyone can do this, I'm like, Steve, this is not a difficult request. Like, you know, no problem. It'll take five minutes because I'm one of those. I take direction very well. If on television, if someone's like, hey, move to the left a little bit, you're in better light. I'm going to move to the left. I'm not putting up a fight.
2:00.1	I'm laying in the
2:01.0	left. Literally. So I'm like, so we're, I'm in the, I'm in the thing that I'm supposed to be doing an ad for. And I'm getting nothing from him. He's not saying anything. He's just holding the phone up and just, you know, moving in a little bit, but not saying anything. Not like, hey, put the leg down, put the leg up. that would be better. Hey, maybe like, you know, your nipples hard. Like, we can't have that.
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