Episode 381: Pregame - Holiday Hints, Surprises and Classics

Calm Down with Erin and Charissa

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On an early-morning Pregame edition of the Calm Down podcast, the holiday season is making Erin and Charissa feel nostalgic about being with family for the holidays.

They talk about their favorite Christmas treats after a fan suggests the peppermint martini and Charissa crowns eggnog as the champ. Erin goes nonalcoholic with a surprising and classically simple answer that sparks her to drop a hint to her mom and sister for a holiday sweet treat that's sure to be a hit!

They also talk about fangirling over stadiums and some of the greatest players of all time, how to deal with an emotionally unavailable man, how to share stuff with a partner when you are not married and why watching The Little Mermaid is okay at any age. Plus, we finally get an answer on the age-old turkey or ham debate.

Send in your Pregame questions to @calmdownpodcast on Instagram or write us an email [email protected]

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.3	Last night we did a Christmas light stroll at like 5.30.
0:07.8	And we were trying to look at the lights.
0:09.6	And he was like, oh, ho, ho, ho, ho.
0:11.8	And then Grinch and Ginch.
0:15.2	Yeah.
0:16.3	It's cute.
0:16.7	Aw.
0:17.5	My maki, smesh, mish, mosh, smush.
0:19.3	Calm down with Erin and Carissa is a production of IHeart Radio.
0:27.8	Welcome to the early edition of the pregame.
0:30.8	Aaron's in her jammies because I'm making her do this at 7.30 in the morning before we leave to go to Thursday night football on Tuesday.
0:38.3	Look at how cute those are. Shout out to Brittany.
0:40.9	Yes. Chris has a pair of two. Britney Mahomes got us a pair of these. Look at the little names on.
0:45.1	It's such a nice gift. So nice. And that cozy earth pajamas is the softest, not an ad, but doesn't need to be. Those are cozy cozy.
1:29.0	Love. Love these. Anonymous. Should I leave this man? I have been dating for a year because he's emotionally unavailable. Yes. A year. It's been a year. Yeah. If it's been a month, we can kind of say like, all right, let's give it a second. Maybe we're easing into these things a year. Then a year is going to turn into two years and it's going to turn into three years. And then you're going to go, what am I doing with my life? So define emotionally unavailable. Like he's just not. I need more. I need more, I mean, the answer is yes, we need to leave him.
1:32.2	But I would like to get a little bit more just out of curiosity.
1:33.9	What that actually means.
1:35.1	Yeah, hit us back.
1:36.9	Let us know what it is, anonymous.
1:38.0	You know the one.
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