Episode 321: Steve & Jarret Part 1 – Tell Us About Reentry

Published Apr 16, 2025, 7:00 AM

It’s the episode you’ve been waiting for, the debut of The Plus Ones with Steve Cundari & Jarret Stoll! In part 1, Erin, Jarret, Steve and Charissa answer your questions about their early days of dating and what reentry is like for the boys.

Trend seventy seven. What's the most difficult thing you guys faced during the reentry phase?

Oh, February. Tough month, tough month, February.

I don't like, I like, and April aren't much better, but.

Yeah, I don't know.

Little Stretch can't wait for a fifth is.

Bye?

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Perfect.

I love that. Oh good, we should start with that. Really get them loose, you know, yeah, yeah, okay.

Yeah, because these stories from previous shows are going to be World War three, I'll tell you that. Oh for alas, I've been waiting for this day for a long Oh.

I bet you, I bet you have seved. This sounds like it should be a charter. Well, the long awaited day is finally here. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the plus ones. You're clapping for yourself.

Oh you know, I'm excited to be here.

Are those of you that are new to the program. This is Stephen Candarry and Jared Stole. Jared Stole, who's been sick for nine Okay, all right, we don't need it's allergies, so fine. Okay, So, first of all, we would like to thank you on behalf of Aaron and I, we collectively thank the plus ones for being a part of this, not only in our lives.

But just here on this podcast.

We know this isn't really your thing thing, It's totally Steve's thing.

Would you like to orgin so?

Is this the plus one podcast on the Calm Down Network or is this just a segment?

Okay?

Wait, why don't you definitely.

The plus Ones today?

Bud?

Definitely you and Jared not every day, not every day?

You and Jared explain what the plus one where, what the impetus of that was, and sort of how we found ourselves here today.

Yeah, super Bowl New Orleans. We're having a great time.

Obviously, Jared and I are there to support our significant others.

Chat before New Orleans though, right see, there was another chat before New Orleans.

It just kind of took. It took really come to I guess you could say it that way.

Yeah.

Yeah, And you know, we just Jared and I maybe or maybe not a few cocktails deep decided, you know what, this is our week too. We're here putting our best foot forward to support the ones that we love and love us most and it we decided why not take it to another level and do the Plus ones podcast Behind every star, there's a plus one for today's conversation, and plus ones are Jared and I and we got.

To make you guys look good, right, We can't be pigeons out there on the road with you guys and then you guys look bad. So you guys should be thanking us actually, because everybody loves you guys, and everybody loves us, So yeah, we take care.

We take the other plus one within Fox scores.

So for those of you that are avid listeners to the Calm Down podcast or never at all, and just watch the clips because I get it. We gave you plus ones high praise for your performance at the super Bowl. That is why you're being invited back here today. So I did see a clipper too, Yeah yeah, okay, great clip it. I got some questions, yesener reditions, which these are awesome. I've kind of been looking at them, and we have questions for you guys. So Chris do you want to you read one? I read one? The perpose both answer last question?

Hit it okay.

Alyssa twenty two to twelve says, how was the first meeting nerves, automatic hitoff. So I'm assuming how we met, and then how you guys met? You guys go first, because you wait, by the way, you're about to celebrate a big anniversary.

What are we eight years?

How many years are we.

That we're eight?

Because I kept saying to you, we're at the seven year itch and this is when either people bring a cup or keep her going.

My man, my man, how did we first meet? When first?

Yeah? How did you was it?

How was the first meeting?

Did you have nerves or did it you have an automatic hit off or what?

I always think you have nerves for sure. I think that's people would be lying and they said.

How many beers deep were you?

I would have been drinking and driving.

No, that's not true. You were at the you were at the baseball game. You came to the World Series.

Oh that's yeah, okay, that yeah, okay. I was thinking of a different.

So wess meeting?

Yeah, maybe I was drinking when the way we're here, illy, try some We have just won the Stanley Cup.

Where were rolling?

There was any NHL lockouts? We had some extra months to kill and.

We went on a roll.

We were touring around doing our thing and San Francisco was playing Detroit. Yeah, I think Troit Tigers in the in the World Series that year, twenty twelve. So a bunch of us guys drove down to you know, we flew down. We would drive first class, say Steve.

So we clew down and we uh.

I knew she was working and we were texting already through Michael Strahand, so I had her number. We were texting, and I knew where she was in the dugout of the third base side. Yeah, yeah, good. We're all along the first base side, so I could see right across. And I took my buddy Scott Hartnell with me and we just walked over there and I walked down like I was sitting first roll over there, but on the third base line, and got her attention. That's how we How did you get potentially wasn't it wasn't close enough to touch her or shake.

Her hand or anything. But I don't know what to.

What am I like Mickey Mouse?

We'll not touches is probably the wrong way to say it. But shake her hand there, give you a high five?

Yeah, what'd you do? You just said, Aaron?

I think I just yelled your name.

I remember you were wearing and you did even come.

Hold us after the game because you had an early flight, you said, And next morning.

No, it's because I had a cold and I had a cold sore that was forming on my nose that looked like like permanent snots we just.

Met, started lying, Yeah, you guys.

Also at a game. Yeah, first time we met. Yeah, first time we met was at a game, But that wasn't the that was like way before. That was just because we were both in the same suite together, But that wasn't like first time we met in terms of like actually being together. So that that was at a game because mutual friends. We've talked about four The staffords ended up setting us up. But that was later.

And it was in when did I see you? It would have been we.

Went to Uh no, we went to uh, I don't know. She texted me late night.

Okay, all right, relaxed, We had.

Been relax It was late you were with Aaron and Jared.

Guys. You were there house, Yes, yes, that was tonight. That was eight hundred, right, was that? Uh?

That was That's why I have a bad rating on Uber because Jackie took.

My We're getting into that.

I love you, Jackie, Jackie. That was.

Sound like and I'm like, nothing, what are you doing?

Came over to Ponchos, had a few margarita's, went to the Quick's house.

Lovely evening.

Okay, I'll fill in the planks here. We've been we've been texting back and forth, and then we were talking about meeting up, and so then that's what that happened. But then, what would you say that was our first Are we just talking about our first meetups? Yeah, not a first day, because that was first. I think that was.

But the first real date was probably like date ish was probably.

No, it was when we yeah, when we held hands on Aaron and Jared's couch, you reached them, touched my leg and yeah, we were watching a movie. We're watching Four Christmases. Mm hmm where the magic happens. Oh yeah, okay, Rocks Garvey, what was Stephen Jarrett's take on the tailors?

To hit it for a three and a half hour concert, It went by like in an hour.

Basically it seemed like an hour. We had a good setup, obviously, we were Yeah, me and Steve.

We had you know, chicken wings, chicken tenders, fries, Margarita's Beers water Services.

Fantastic setup.

Was shout out to Tailor and Taylor for hooking us up in the tent.

So Jason was there. Jason was there, was there, so.

We were lucky enough to hang out with them, and it was great.

It was what did you like the most about it? What did you what were you impressed by as somebody who's played in front of big crowds but not by yourself.

Yeah, good question. Just non stop, like she just kept going and kept going.

Three and a half hours and there was no break.

Fans are so good like that. They just keep her going even when she's probably a little bit tired. She doesn't like well no, but yeah, I'm sure fans help her with that. But no, it was fun. It was a great time we got there.

Yeah, I thought it was fantastic. I think, uh, even if you're not a fan, if you go see that, it's it's wild, Like I don't know, she changes costumes like forty times or thirty times or something crazy.

Very endurance.

That's what.

Yeah. As an athlete, I feel like you guys would be like Jesus Man and you're doing.

It in heels and the bracelets shout out to law to the bracelets. I think eight hundred bracelets that were handmade.

Customer's right, Lauren.

So good.

Uh.

Yeah, shout out to Steve Candary forgetting us that sprinter vanla the music get off the stage, the awards it out, Thank you guys.

Yeah, so we didn't even have to go to the bathroom. We could just go to the bathroom on the sprinter van.

Yeah, it was.

Key multiple times here.

Yeah, thanks, appreciate it. Also shout out, So that's about Taylor. We're talking rocks under Garvy, Rocks underscore Garvy. The question. Really appreciate you.

Right now, the fact that you remembered that. Good job, Steve. Okay, pm Sweeney for how much fun do you guys have during the football season.

Oh, as a quick response, a lot of different kinds of fun season, I think, yeah, before.

The football season.

Yeah, yeah, a few nights alone a week, a lot of fun.

I think football season is good.

Uh, it's stressful, stressful for you guys, but I think it's a really interesting way to have a relationship where like I guess, us four the same we're together all the time in the off season, and then football season comes and it's like you guys, go do your thing and uh, we really become the plus ones.

Then you know, off season is our time.

And I'll brag about you for a bit a minute during football season.

You're incredible.

You let me focus on work like you handle all like dog stuff, house stuff like you're really good about just not letting me like have to stress out about anything other than work.

So great job.

I enjoy watching you guys. I enjoy watching your guys games, and like.

Jeff Thursday night, Chris, you on Sunday Sunday morning, and I do I appreciate watch especially now with Mac and we just sit there and if he hears your voice and he perks up and looks and does his point.

That I know, any points on the TV, it makes me so happy.

He's a pointer d baby boy.

Also a great question that goes along with this from Sam r Hentages, what's Jarrett and Steve's work life balance with Aaron and Chrissa traveling so much? Hit it, how do you balance it all having a life and work and.

All of that with us well, a lot of definitely a lot of moving parts. So communication has to be there, and you know it's with my work. I still work in hockey, so I'm I don't travel definitely as much as you do. But like Chris has said, when when you're gone, like someone's got to be there to hold things down and vice versa. So I think we we do a good job balancing that. But you guys are busy. It's it's a lot. It's it's I can't imagine the amount of miles you guys put on on your accounts, but you.

Know, haggard, Yeah, on our faces.

To look easy and yeah, oh that's sweet.

Yeah, I mean it's uh. I think you have to have good people around you too.

To help with my business, I've got a lot of great business partners and employees and.

Stuff that, uh understanding. Yeah, they're understanding.

They get it and you know, when I can't be there for something, they step in and vice versa. So yeah, but to Jared's point, communication is huge, especially with these two.

You don't communicate.

Oh oh you know what, I get really excited abou I'm going to tell you when I first knew that I love Steve.

It's the little things people.

So I leave for work. I leave for work on Sunday morning at four, what thirty in the morning, so it's dark out. So Steve, I love this, wakes up with me so I don't have to wake up alone.

I never asked you to do this, you just did it.

And he opens up the coffee shop, he calls it, and he makes me coffee and then he goes and gets my car and brings it in front of the house so I don't have to walk in the dark. And that's when I knew. I was like the fact that he because he didn't want me walking alone by myself outside in the dark.

And every time, every time morning, but what you do on the.

Super Bowl morning, but it's very sweet and you do that and he and he because it's hard, like to wake up in the morning. And then it's like you don't want to like interrupt the person sleeping. So when the person wakes up with you, and he's like playing music and he's like, hey, the coffee shop's open. And one morning I came down to do this.

With my shoulders, so morning, so let's throw a flag there. I'm not both shoulders aren't moving like that.

But yeah, one morning, energy, I came down and there was just beans all over the floor, and he goes, oh, Daisy was the he goes. Daisy was the barista. She tried to help out this morning, we're firing her.

But it was cute. It's very cute. Yeah you do.

What do you got? Sure?

So you didn't love me before that? No?

Okay, all right?

Question of like, there's little things that you you know, there's little things that you do or did early on in the relationship, and that was one of them that I was like, I really this guy's great. Yeah, all right, we're all out of time. Hey, I'm going to submit a question on here because I know that a lot of times we get questions about like Jarrett and Steve dealing with that we work with so many men. I would like to ask a question of Jarrett and Steve about what you guys, what it's like for you guys working or have us go and be on the road with a bunch of men, and what you love so much about our all male crew.

To be honest, some people could look at it, you know, in a stupid immature way, but I look at it as they take care of you guys. You guys are like you're all best friends. You're all really really good friends. And they I've seen it. We've seen it, right, Steve first hand.

On the road.

Yeah, yeah, we're out with them.

But it's just they talk about you guys in such a such a positive way, like you guys are their sister, like you guys just we're not worried about you guys at all on the road.

Like they they they're such good guys. Straight is awesome.

You know, all those guys are good dudes that we'll make sure you guys get home safely.

Really and you talk to me about all the time, guys.

On your crew, guys behind the scenes, guys that nobody ever sees on TV.

Even walking you.

Back to your room some nights, just making sure that nobody's nobody's you know, doing anything they shouldn't be doing.

But to know I'm not worried at all.

Yeah, yeah, I think it would be.

It would be wrestle if you didn't have that support system there and like we're like, yeah, are they okay?

Are what's going on?

Like?

But the fact knowing that they're.

How close all you guys are and that they do take care of you is you know, that takes a lot of stress off of Jared and I For the eighteen nineteen twenty weeks a year that you guys are traveling.

But that says so much about who you guys are, because not all men been with some that are okay with that because they get jealous, they're insecure.

It's a whole thing.

It's like you're out with traveling with you know, famous people whatever, and you guys are very, very compl you know, I.

Think I'm gonna be honest after this podcast.

I do think that, you know, Jared and I we had some fans before, but this could really.

Oh you think this is the one that's going to set you over the edge.

Let's talk about the uh let's talking about the Hollywood improv that they did and walked in the door.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Things change right then?

Yeah, thanks, Jared and Steve show up and everybody.

Yeah, internationals were there. Yeah.

Yeah, a lot of inbounds last few weeks about the Plus one podcast, the Kings games, a lot.

Of you're right, and tell them about the women that came up.

With every game.

Now there's at least yeah.

People what they want, we're doing it. I don't know.

We're trying to figure it out, right, We're trying to figure this out.

We'll let you know.

We'll get it time.

I can't wait for seventy seven.

What I know so good, it's going to be really good.

It's going to be really good.

T seventy seven. What's the most difficult thing you guys faced during the re entry phase?

Oh, February tough month. Tough month.

February I don't like.

In April aren't much better, but.

Yeah, it's h I don't know, a little stretch. Can't wait for a fifth is yeah?

Every entry Uh, it's a well.

I really really focused on the re entry period this year after the Super Bowl obviously a lot longer season for them. It's an extra what four or five weeks work for you guys when when Fox heads the super Bowl? Uh, it's the redelegation of tasks that like, I'm in a good space rocking these you know, I'm in a good groove here doing Dog's house, every kind of thing we have going on, and then when she wants to come in and you know, re enter, it's like okay, and then stuff get falls through the cracks like I was doing that, but now you're doing that and who's doing it now? And then it just yeah, there should be maybe like a well, let's hear well, I would to hear.

This is this is the plus ones are on here for a reason. Yeah, speak our minds.

Yeah yeah, I'll let you have this one. Everyone knows how we Aaron and I feel.

I do think it would be good for you too to go away for a week or two post postseason to re enter together. Maybe Jared and I go away somewhere. You guys go somewhere, and then we we all re enter it together.

Okay, Jared, what's your experience with re entry?

I just can't wait for when the bathroom gets like tightened up, the closet, the unpacking starts to happen.

Hasn't happened yet, hasn't happened.

It goes days and days, sometimes weeks, and there's you know, the closet needs to get the bathroom needs to get back in order, back in the tip top shape.

That's just probably the toughest part of re entry. I just keep waiting for that to happen.

So what is it is? She just has her stuff everywhere? What's what's the what's the situation?

Like I'm kind of I'm kind of a little you know, all about that stuff. But it's just, you know, you lose stuff. Otherwise it's like, okay, let's talk about it.

Let's talk about it, you know, let's get it.

We're here to say.

Way, it's whar we're here. I'm going to lay down on this couch. So we were away this week this past week, and my sister was talking to us about things in her life, and so I was like, I'm just gonna go to the bathroom while you guys discussed this. I came back and I noticed Jarrett was talking and I was like, what are you guys talking about? You were getting off your chest how I can't close some of the drawers in my bathroom. Yes, very true. I need to three or four drawers. I need to go weed out again. I did do it upon re entry, but it's built up again. But I didn't realize you were so upset about it.

No, and she does it.

It's like, okay, I'm gonna do She does one, and then they'll be like, you know, could be a month later there's another one done. But then by the time that one gets cleaned up, that other one that she just had she had done a month ago.

It was a disaster again. So it's like you never really cycle.

Yeah, it's a cycle.

So just to do it all, take a day, bang it out. I don't have a.

Date because I'm at gym with Mac and then I'm going to the park with Mac. Then I'm coming and doing the podcast. You know, I don't have an office like you, or you can go hide. Let me ask Let me ask you a question, Jared, does all of your ship in these drawers inhibit you from walking into the bathroom? Like what is it that? No, No, that's not true.

Plus ones are talking, so yes, one of them does one right by the door. So the bathroom door swings in to the bathroom and like it doesn't you know, it doesn't matter. So when you pull the pull the one out and it hammers the it hammers the drawer.

So there is You're right, Chris, So yes, the answer is yes.

Maybe sometimes I'm putting the drawer there because I don't want you to come in.

Oh, do you guys share? You share a bathroom? Like the whole bathroom? Like okay, yeah, Steve and I don't share the whole bathroom.

So he'll brush his teeth like you shower, but like you have another bathroom if you need to go to the bathroom, like, you don't use the bathroom like the toilet area that I wait for that.

Yeah, we do that kind of yeah.

Yeah, oh yeah.

You're acting like there's there's a little bit of like divide and conquer when it comes to bathroom.

I thought you were saying drawer space where I have my one drawer and you have like thirteen, So it's like, not.

You don't need you know what, you should worry that if you need thirteen drawers, we have a bigger problem. And you use the hair dryer more than I do. This is crazy.

This guy blow drives his hair thirty seven years old.

Look at his head of hair.

Okay, yeah, he uses the hair draw all the time and that drawer, and then you don't. You don't you don't put the like cord down so the cord's like sticking out.

Okay, No, I mean I'll work on cord maintenance. Yeah, that's a big one of.

My Well, I'm just saying it's like you can't just be like me dealing with the hair drop when you're the one happened. I don't even drive my hair.

I would brush my hair.

Cord maintenance. I'm on it. Just put that on my list.

Okay.

See, your life is so hard, isn't it. My bathroom's a mess, my drawers are a mass.

I get it.

But I also get a lot of like stuff in the mid and I.

Want to let's talk about that.

Let's talk about who.

These two households are. The guys that are delivering every day.

I have a great relationship with my FedEx driver, by the way, I love in fact, you save me the day. You have to have a great relationship with them.

Yeah, the stuff you guys get, yes, you got it.

You have to.

Okay, But Steve, you don't break down the boxes.

I already know.

No, he doesn't break down boxing.

You wanted to all that the episode Steve doesn't break it doesn't.

It drives me, And you do so many things while you do not break down boxes. And then I caught him on the security cameras where he was shoving them down in instead of breaking him down. And then he was fighting them in the garage, hiding them.

And brings your car.

I am the first, you know, I do this right now? You want boxes broken down? You want the coffee shop.

I have to pick one or the other. I'm the first to praise you. But I'm telling you that you don't break down boxes, and then you lied about it because I watched you on the security cameras. You came back inside and I go, oh my god, that's night she brought down the boxes. He's like, I know I'm learning. I go, you liar, I just watched you. You didn't break down the boxes. You're hiding him in the.

Garage and step on him. Yeah, I'll punch him, I'll stuff you know. I just I got a lot of stuff going on. I just don't have.

Yeah, Jared, you are the master of breaking down boxes. You should teach your friend over here a class on how to do it. You're incredible with the boxes.

Earned our re entry trip.

We'll go, uh, get a bunch of cardboard boxes and press Okay, you know.

What, Let's change this subject and turn this frown upside down. Nas says, what do you love most about Aaron and Carrissa's friendships? Friendship? I like this question.

Wow, I think you guys are real. I think you guys are real friends. I think there's a lot of people that are especially in what you guys do, Like they act nice and I see it the plug. We saw it sitting at that Four Seasons bar for what a week. People that just like see each.

Other get each other.

The fake Oh my god, I miss you. You don't miss him? Yes, it's so fake. So I think that you guys are like actual real friends.

Uh. You have tough conversations.

And you guys cry.

Yeah, it's like, but your relationship is I think, Yeah, you're right, definitely genuine because you guys go through all your emotions together with each other.

You have a lot of the same.

That's what I'm looking for.

I can't help you.

Let's play pictionary.

Let's play draw it out.

Every time on TV now Ferris Wheels everywhere. It's unbelievable.

Dictionary and it's hysterical. Jared Drew an incredible Ferris wheel that.

Was like it was.

It was great. Stephen Carrissa practice dictionary at home.

My god, we do know, I swear will we do not practice.

But I feel like, you know, mind melting, mind melting, like on the same page with things.

You guys know you left out a little.

If you get the first word right, you can put the first word down and then have the.

Rules of dictionary.

It's not by Paul, Jared, I didn't read the rules my phone.

Also, you threw away all instructions, boxes, everything, cards. I don't know who sent what, yes, and so you don't know who sends stuff. Yeah, but you're terrible the gift later maybe ish, Okay, let's see what's this one? Oh yeah? What does Jared think about all of Aaron's crazy face.

Treatments facial expressions?

When I go, are you going to get I haven't even told you what I'm doing. I'm going to.

Get hard hitting question there?

Oh sorry, I'm sorry. Good Steve, thank you, missus James, missus j Moore, miss all that stuff I like to go do.

Yeah, it's a lot.

I'm just I just don't want you to something goes wrong here, and I just think sometimes something sometimes last is more in certain situations, right people, especially if you have good skin.

I think you do have good skin, thank you. But and you look a lot younger than what you are, so I think.

What I am my god? Okay, but well you will go all younger than you are. I mean, don't say that.

Like that's just like misprovided by I L L Y dot com gold Brew when you need it most.

You know what I mean, guys, right now, I know exactly what you're saying. It's a compliment. It's fantastic, is the point. I will say.

This is j Moore, and I hope I answered your question.

This is miss j Moore. Didn't ask anything about me and Steve on this question, but I'll just jump in. I came home the other day because I hadn't seen seen Steve and what like two weeks, because you've been gone. I did the tattoo eyebrow thing and the lip thing, and he looks at.

Me and he's like, whoa.

I was like, it's gonna fade?

Is I swear?

We're still in the process of fading. But to your credit, you're so great at this though, because you're just like whatever, like you just yeah, how do you have how do you show any kind of restraint when I look like I just took sharpied to my face and.

I trust you know what you're doing.

Okay, that's nice. It will fade, though, these are pretty dark red.

It'll fade.

It'll fade.

The filler here and it turned into a massive black eye and you were like, Aaron, everyone's going to think something really.

Bad, horrible. That's fair.

It was not good. Yeah, okay, this is a great question.

Kay Wayne.

Eight.

How is it hanging with Aaron and Carissa at the same time as a man? Is it as fun as I imagine?

Go?

Yeah, it's fun. There's definitely a lot of laughs there. We shake our head, we laugh.

We yeah, you guys are of the same person, so it's like, yeah, very much the same person.

Yeah, you guys like.

The same person. So uh, and then you start feeding off of each other, so it's like a super errand and it's like a lot of Aaron Carissa uh.

And then again that's why we just look at each other.

We shake our heads a lot. We just like we just let them go. We let them go. There's like a stage there. We just yeah, yeah, let them go.

We do get a little rouled up, but then we mellow out, like like at first, and then it's like we mellow out and then we're yeah, we settle in. I think everyone in our life kind of accepts that, even our co work truths, or even any dinner we're invited to together. They act like they're so put out by it, but then really they are the ones that hold the strings, and we're like the clowns and we start singing and we start dancing.

Pool. Aaron ends up like this Eric.

Inevitably, in anything, she ends up going oh yeah and doing like, oh show, actually we just did it. We just did a theatrical dance recently and it was a great time.

Film things and oh yeah, yeah, man, it's a lot better than you two just like sitting in silence when you're together and it being boring and so yeah, yeah.

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