Episode 385: Pregame - A Whole Other Layer of Courage
Calm Down with Erin and Charissa
iHeartPodcasts
5.0 • 11 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On this post-holiday Pregame episode of the Calm Down podcast, Erin and Charissa talk about the one thing about Christmas that they don't like; that it ends. That, along with the process of finding places to store all the Christmas plates!
They talk about feeling uncomfortable when they see themselves on TV, and other things you learn when watching “game film”. Another question leads to a discussion about being comfortable with your own journey and the challenge of trying to see the positives of that journey in the moment.
They talk about what they would do if they could do another job for a week - Charissa would like to be a kindergarten teacher and Erin would like to come back as a dancer on Taylor Swift’s next tour. After many discussions about facing life head-on, Erin talks about the bravery of those who tackle infertility.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | Instead of saying, how do you process this? |
| 0:07.9 | I would like to say because I don't know how, I think you're so brave for doing that. |
| 0:12.6 | That is a whole other layer of stuff. |
| 0:15.7 | But I think you're really, really brave. |
| 0:17.0 | I think you're brave for trying to tackle IVF. |
| 0:19.0 | I think you're brave for trying to tackle infertility. And to have even the whole conversation about donor eggs, that's a whole other |
| 0:25.2 | layer of courage. Calm down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:36.7 | Hey, the one highlight, well, I have several highlights of Christmas, but something, I have a lot of highlights. |
| 0:43.4 | I just got my hair done. |
| 0:44.2 | I can't wait to get them next week for the playoffs. |
| 0:46.9 | She's ready. |
| 0:47.9 | But before that, we'll discuss Week 18. |
| 0:50.2 | Welcome to the pregame, everybody. |
| 0:53.0 | One tradition that has started, I guess it won't be a tradition unless we do it next year, but Max started this thing for Christmas that there is the deck the hall song, right? He is obsessed with fal-la-la-la-la-la. But he does it as, Fala la la la. |
| 1:14.2 | But then it turned into every time the chorus comes, |
| 1:16.0 | he points to somebody in the house. |
| 1:16.6 | Daddy! |
| 1:17.8 | So daddy has to go, |
| 1:18.7 | Fala la la la la. |
| 1:21.3 | Mommy, fa la la la. Grandpa, la la. |
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