Episode 412: Sports Is Like Life with Wayne Gretzky
Calm Down with Erin and Charissa
iHeartPodcasts
5.0 • 11 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson welcome a very special guest to the Calm Down podcast; The Great One Wayne Gretzky! The ladies talk to Wayne about his transition into broadcasting and why he chooses positivity when covering the game he loves. He shares incredible stories from his historic career and why pushups don’t lead to goals!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | Sports is about life. |
| 0:06.6 | You learn how to practice. |
| 0:08.0 | You learn how to train. |
| 0:09.1 | You learn how to prepare. |
| 0:10.4 | You learn how to not be selfish. |
| 0:12.5 | You learn what it's like to lose. |
| 0:14.9 | You learn what it's like to win. |
| 0:16.3 | Calm down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:27.6 | Music Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of IHeart Radio. Reunited and it feels so good. |
| 0:30.8 | Aaron and I are back together in the podcast setting that is Calm Down. |
| 0:36.5 | Welcome, everybody, to the Calm Down podcast. It feels like it's been |
| 0:39.8 | about 12 years since you and I have, well, not really sat across from each other. It feels that way |
| 0:44.6 | because I'm looking at my computer at you. But we haven't done a podcast in a minute. |
| 0:49.0 | We've been here, there, you were on the road for work, all sorts of things. But we were together in person, which made me happy at the Netflix is a joke festival, which was so much fun. I'm holding my microphone down here. I even forgot how to hold the microphone. Hi. Hold it up like Dirk Nowitzky. Remember how he did a cover? I loved him for that. Me too. Great. But I don't have my stand here because I'm at the ranch. But anyways, we were together in L.A. for Netflix as a joke, which was an awesome thing. Thank you, Netflix, for having us. And thank you to everyone who came. It never is lost on me that people actually bought a ticket and showed up to listen to us, say, God knows what. So thank you for that, everybody. |
| 1:27.9 | And when we walked away, not to Tud a horn or anything, but walked away and talked to people the next day that were there. |
| 1:34.5 | I mean, people, I was like, oh, gosh, how was it? And people were like, we were cracking up at you guys. |
| 1:38.9 | I mean, cracking up. So thank God, those jokes landed, you know? |
| 1:42.3 | Thank God. You know, in our own mind, we are hilarious. |
| 1:46.5 | But, no, I'm thrilled to be back with my girl. |
| 1:49.6 | And we have so many things going on. |
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