”Erin Andrews is used to running after Kyle Shanahan.Fox microphone in one hand, notebook in the other, Andrews has learned a thing or two about coaches’ habits in her years on the NFL sidelines. For the 49ers coach, it’s his speed, always keeping Andrews on her toes when it’s time to track him down for an interview.Which is why, before a recent halftime interview, it took Andrews by surprise when Shanahan didn’t run. He stopped.“I go, ‘Why’d you do that?’ And he goes, ‘Heard about the podcast,’” Andrews said in a recent interview with The Athletic. “For Kyle Shanahan, who’s trying to figure out how to defend Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams, it was so cool. It just gives you a little bit of insight into the reach we have.”“The podcast” is the one Andrews hosts with fellow sportscaster and good friend Charissa Thompson. The duo started their show five years ago, with the goal of peeling back the curtain on their daily lives, from their jobs covering the NFL to relationship advice to health and beauty tips. Thompson, who hosts “Thursday Night Football” on Amazon Prime, has heard her fair share of feedback from peers, too.Erin Andrews, left, has learned a few tricks about tracking down 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan. (Maddie Meyer / Getty Images)“I walk into a production meeting, and (analyst) Ryan (Fitzpatrick) asked, ‘How are Erin’s eyebrows?’ And I’m like, ‘What?’” Thompson recalled. “(He said) ‘I heard on the pod they’re growing like crazy and she doesn’t know what to do.“I was like, ‘Ryan, you have seven children, how do you have any time to worry about Erin’s eyebrows?’”Sideline rundowns and eyebrow appointments is perhaps the perfect dichotomy of topics to summarize “Calm Down with Erin and Charissa.” Apple Podcasts describes the show as “a text chain put into a podcast.” Thompson says it’s: “Girlfriends talking like girlfriends would, it just so happens to also revolve around our jobs that are intertwined.”In a crowded NFL podcasting space, Andrews said “Calm Down” stands out because of the perspective of its hosts. The duo will confess that their best NFL recap episodes are brainstormed in hotel bars and airport lounges. And while in most episodes Andrews and Thompson take a step away from their traditional interviewer roles, they’ve welcomed a varied guest list that started with comedian Kevin Hart on the pilot, and has since included sports legends (Derek Jeter, Wayne Gretzky), broadcasters (Dan Patrick) and actresses (Cameron Diaz).On the show, Andrews and Thompson discuss their best travel hacks and birthday celebrations (which they share: May 4). They haven’t shied away from deeper topics either, including discussions on divorce and infertility.As for the name, not only is it a nod to one of their favorite songs by Taylor Swift (with whom they have vacationed in the offseason and whose wedding they attended this summer), it’s a common phrase they’ve told each other as friends navigating life in the public eye of sports broadcasting.“We used to talk to each other all the time and be like, ‘OK, calm down,’” Andrews said.Andrews, 48, and Thompson, 44, first met when their respective work assignments for ESPN and Big Ten Network overlapped at a Big Ten men’s basketball tournament. A few years later, in June 2011, Thompson joined ESPN; she vividly remembers her first day.“I get out of the car and I’m walking up to the building and before I even make it to the door, (Andrews) comes flying out the front door of the building. … And she goes, ‘I am here for whatever you need, anything you need. Anything you could want. I’m here as a resource, lean on me,’” Thompson said. “I still get emotional thinking about it because in this industry, it’s really hard to find an ally and especially someone of her caliber who was doing it at the highest level.”