Speaker 1: It's time for a Happy half Hour with your friends
Speaker 1: Kristin Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Brian. That's right, it's
Speaker 1: time for the Happy Half Hour podcast. Kristen, Will and
Speaker 1: Miles here with you and guys. I haven't talked to
Speaker 1: you since before the holiday, so Will, how how is
Speaker 1: your fourth of July? First off, it was pretty low key,
Speaker 1: so I was actually waiting on a COVID test over
Speaker 1: the weekend. That's fun for the results. Aliping er there, Will, Yep,
Speaker 1: I'm negative got it today, so we're all good. But
Speaker 1: it meant that needed to. Um, I was going to
Speaker 1: try to go see my parents, but didn't end up
Speaker 1: getting able to do that, so I'm just kind lay
Speaker 1: load to the weekend. But I don't have COVID at
Speaker 1: least right now. Congratulations. Yeah, I'm sorry that you didn't
Speaker 1: get to to see your parents. But just for anyone
Speaker 1: who's who's wondering about your overall health, you feel okay? Correct? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I felt okay the whole time. UM, but you know,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be take precautions just to make sure,
Speaker 1: you know, my parents will be older. UM, so I
Speaker 1: was trying to do all that but didn't have a
Speaker 1: test back, so I couldn't really go see them. M
Speaker 1: that's a bummer. Hopefully, hopefully you'll get a chance to
Speaker 1: see them safely soon, but definitely a different way than
Speaker 1: we would normally spend fourth of July Miles, How was
Speaker 1: your fourth of July? My fourth of July was very boring? Um,
Speaker 1: I was not waiting for a COVID test, but I
Speaker 1: too basically just kind of quarantined in my apartment here.
Speaker 1: Uh and you know I've gotten couch um, but that
Speaker 1: was not here over the weekend, so I basically spent
Speaker 1: the weekend in my bed watching a lot of Netflix. Um.
Speaker 1: I think I got some take out a couple of times. Uh,
Speaker 1: And yeah, that was about it. It was it was interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean I heard fireworks. I didn't really see any
Speaker 1: from my deck, but I heard some, so good for
Speaker 1: the people who were shooting them off. But yeah, otherwise,
Speaker 1: pretty pretty boring. How was yours? Christen? It was good? Um. Actually,
Speaker 1: my my husband and I went down to Hilton Head
Speaker 1: for a couple of days. We were able to find, yeah,
Speaker 1: a secluded airbnb that felt safe and you know, we're
Speaker 1: masks at all times, even you know, as we were
Speaker 1: headed out to the beach until we could get to
Speaker 1: our space, and uh, you know, so it was a
Speaker 1: little different, but it was great. It was the first
Speaker 1: time that we have really gotten to to do anything.
Speaker 1: So I had a great few days. I love getting
Speaker 1: to be back in North Carolina and get to do
Speaker 1: stuff like drive to the beach. That's definitely not something
Speaker 1: you do in Chicago. So it was nice. It was
Speaker 1: it was kind of a spur of the moment thing.
Speaker 1: We happened to find a place that felt safe and um, reasonable,
Speaker 1: and so we went for it and it was a nice, little,
Speaker 1: nice little holiday. Okay, I have two questions, Um, because
Speaker 1: I am geographically I don't know. I want to say illiterate,
Speaker 1: but that's not quite limited. Yeah, I mean I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just I've never really spent much time down here.
Speaker 1: So A how far is Hilton Head from here? In
Speaker 1: b did they shoot off fireworks at the beach that
Speaker 1: you guys could see? It was about a four over
Speaker 1: four hours um drive Yeah, four and a half maybe,
Speaker 1: so it was not bad too bad. Anything over that
Speaker 1: then I'll start to get cranky, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And of course you don't want to stop anywhere because
Speaker 1: who knows what's what's going on, and you want to
Speaker 1: try to limit, you know, your exposure to people. So
Speaker 1: but overall the drive was not bad at all. As
Speaker 1: far as fireworks goes. We did not want to go
Speaker 1: down to the beach. We heard them and we could
Speaker 1: kind of see them on our little porch area, but
Speaker 1: we didn't want to go down and you know, kind
Speaker 1: of be around a big crowd of people. But I'd say,
Speaker 1: I saw, I'm gonna go three fireworks, three total fireworks
Speaker 1: that I could actually see over the tree line, which, look,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, it's no fireworks from me. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you guys feel, Miles. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 1: It sounds like you were into the are you guys
Speaker 1: fireworks people? Pro fireworks? Anti fireworks? Miles? You first, I
Speaker 1: think a more pro fireworks. I guess as I've gotten older,
Speaker 1: I am shocked by this. Yeah. Well, when I was little,
Speaker 1: I really did not like fireworks. I didn't like how
Speaker 1: loud they were. And I remember I think it was
Speaker 1: like the Cleveland Bicentennial celebration, and my mom really wanted
Speaker 1: to go, and so she had to get me these
Speaker 1: ear plugs so she could tolerate me whining about how
Speaker 1: much I didn't like fireworks because I just as a kid,
Speaker 1: I never really like It's it's kind of the way
Speaker 1: I feel about thunder and lightning now, especially now that
Speaker 1: I've been in places where thunderstorms don't usually happen in
Speaker 1: California for the last four years of my life. Like
Speaker 1: the first time when I heard a thunderstorm here, I
Speaker 1: was very afraid. But it's different, I guess when it's
Speaker 1: fireworks now because I like the colors and stuff I
Speaker 1: don't know, so yeah, well, well how do you feel
Speaker 1: about fireworks? So I'm relatively indifferent, like I enjoy them,
Speaker 1: but I also am now more around a dog that
Speaker 1: doesn't like them, and I'm still kind of coming around
Speaker 1: to the empathy for dogs that just freak out, and
Speaker 1: especially this particular July four It's one thing if it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a big fireworks show att in
Speaker 1: one particular place and we can kind of plant on it.
Speaker 1: It's another thing when there's literally hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: fireworks and just going just wherever, whenever, forever, and it's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, did you guys see that video of l
Speaker 1: A of like the helicopter video. It was incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've actually every year there. Yeah, I've actually spent I
Speaker 1: had the good fortune too spends. Gosh, this must have
Speaker 1: been five years ago when I lived in l A.
Speaker 1: A group of us rented a house in the hills. Um,
Speaker 1: and it had to be a big group of us
Speaker 1: because this, I mean there was twenty of us to
Speaker 1: afford like one night and in a house in the hills,
Speaker 1: and it had a view kind of like that and
Speaker 1: you could see fireworks from everywhere. It was awesome. I
Speaker 1: mean it was absolutely incredible to get to see them
Speaker 1: from all that because it's all the different well in
Speaker 1: the past it's been all the different communities and if
Speaker 1: you've got a great view, you know, you can see
Speaker 1: the like a hundred different communities shooting off fireworks. This
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was people, but um, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: great when they're like you said, when it's a planned
Speaker 1: thing and it is beautiful and how I don't know beginning, middle,
Speaker 1: and end in the grand finale, but I think my
Speaker 1: biggest thing about the fireworks is, oh, what I mean,
Speaker 1: why is it like the whole week of July four,
Speaker 1: from seven o'clock in the morning to three am. People
Speaker 1: just feel like they can just set all fireworks whenever,
Speaker 1: Like I gotta get some sleep at some point. I
Speaker 1: know that makes me sound like a curmudgeon, but well,
Speaker 1: no it doesn't. I think that people need to be
Speaker 1: able to sleep, right. I don't see anything wrong with it,
Speaker 1: And I totally agree with your viewpoint on this, Christen,
Speaker 1: But I do think and I'm not a person who
Speaker 1: would ever shoot off fireworks because I think I would
Speaker 1: be the guy who blows off his hand, and like
Speaker 1: I need my hands for my job, like it's very
Speaker 1: very typing heavy job that I need all of my
Speaker 1: fingers force. So like that to me is the like
Speaker 1: I can't really go out and shoot off fireworks. Um,
Speaker 1: but I think it's interesting when people do it. I've
Speaker 1: actually never seen somebody shoot off the firework in my life,
Speaker 1: though I've never been that close to it. Stay in
Speaker 1: North and South Carolina just a little bit longer miles.
Speaker 1: You'll see it next summer. Well, but it happens in
Speaker 1: Ohio to like I'm thinking about it. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: It's just I've just never really been around I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I guess living in densely populated suburbs, it wasn't something.
Speaker 1: But like if you go probably ten fifteen minutes in
Speaker 1: one or direction or another, everybody's got fireworks in Northeast.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, we'll put that on its fun
Speaker 1: We'll put it on the calendar for next July four. Well,
Speaker 1: let Miles gets them. Well, although I mean you can
Speaker 1: at least be near them. I understand this an occupational
Speaker 1: hazard for I don't want to lose those hands a
Speaker 1: pencil in all right, Well, I feel like the two
Speaker 1: things that you can count on when it's July four,
Speaker 1: if you're scrolling through social media, are people are gonna
Speaker 1: be boomerang their fireworks on on Instagram and Instagram stories
Speaker 1: right like they saw I mean, you flip through and
Speaker 1: it's thirty in a row of just a firework, you know, exploding,
Speaker 1: or they're complaining about people shooting off fireworks on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like those are without a doubt you
Speaker 1: can count on them. Which is worse, which is the
Speaker 1: thing that you wish would go away on July four,
Speaker 1: which is more annoying. Um, Miles, I feel like you
Speaker 1: might have a strong opinion on, So I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's good or bad. Well, I would just start
Speaker 1: by saying this, I mean, do you ever feel like
Speaker 1: a plastic bag drifting through the wind when Katie Perry?
Speaker 1: Of course? Um, you know, do you ever feel already
Speaker 1: buried deep six ft under stream? No one seems to
Speaker 1: hear a thing. Um. I don't even remember what the
Speaker 1: question was. I just that we started talking about fireworks
Speaker 1: and the song came into my head. Are you a
Speaker 1: Katy Perry fan? Oh? Heck yeah, got bangers, man, katiers,
Speaker 1: Got bangers for days? Teenage Dreaming? Teenage stream is classic.
Speaker 1: It's so good, total classic. Uh, Mannequin. That's a little
Speaker 1: known Katie Peririe banger. That's a deep cut. That's a
Speaker 1: toe banger to that one. There's a live album on
Speaker 1: Spotify that is sort of acoustic versions of the songs. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: immediately go no, but immediately going to go check that
Speaker 1: out after this. Okay, But which do you find more
Speaker 1: annoying people boomerang and their fireworks on Instagram or complaining
Speaker 1: about shooting off fireworks on Twitter? Um, people complaining about
Speaker 1: people shooting out fireworks on Twitter. I don't mind the boomerangs.
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of fun. Okay, Miles, I gotta say,
Speaker 1: you're much more pro firework than I thought. I thought
Speaker 1: we were going to have a great like, Oh, I
Speaker 1: can't and I don't know why. It kind of just
Speaker 1: like gets my blood boiling a little bit. I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, I get it. Another firework, another firework, And
Speaker 1: I was like, Miles is going to be with me
Speaker 1: on this, I think. And I gotta say, I love
Speaker 1: that you just kind of love all things fireworks makes
Speaker 1: me happy. Yeah, I guess I really do. And this
Speaker 1: is honestly, it's kind of surprising to me because in
Speaker 1: my m O of like things that Miles probably would
Speaker 1: not like, fireworks would probably be one of those things
Speaker 1: that people would think I don't like, But I actually
Speaker 1: kind of do like fireworks. Now we're gonna get you
Speaker 1: out there, I know. I'm Are you shocked to Will,
Speaker 1: I'm very shocked. And I just have to say, the
Speaker 1: only thing worse than either an Instagram boomerang story or
Speaker 1: post of fireworks is the Instagram story of you're really
Speaker 1: far seat at a concert for like seconds? Yes, there
Speaker 1: is nothing, we get it, You're at a concert. Cool,
Speaker 1: I'm not watching seconds of horrible video for a song
Speaker 1: that I like and don't want to hear from your phone.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing with fireworks. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see your phone small version of fireworks that are also
Speaker 1: happening right outside my window. I get it, like I'm
Speaker 1: looking at them too cool. I don't need to see
Speaker 1: it on your phone. And well, what about when the
Speaker 1: concert with the concert Instagram stories when you could hear
Speaker 1: the person singing so loudly, but you can't hear the
Speaker 1: actual song itself. It's so bad. It's just like when
Speaker 1: you fire, just like, oh, this is the kind of yes,
Speaker 1: this is the kind of commiseration I was looking for.
Speaker 1: Thank you will. I thought it would be coming from
Speaker 1: I thought it'd be coming from miles. But I feel
Speaker 1: a little bit better. I love the holiday. I love
Speaker 1: to see, you know, everyone having fun, say, of course
Speaker 1: this year, but it just gets a little much, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad to know that I'm not the only person.
Speaker 1: But we don't have some rage around here. I know, really,
Speaker 1: Mouse is really letting us down in that department. We
Speaker 1: got a nice story about loving the colors. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what my rage meter? I guess it is just slow today.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like it. I think that's awesome. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, now that we are are back at
Speaker 1: work fresh off of our few days off from the holiday,
Speaker 1: of course, now is the time that we're turning our
Speaker 1: attention to training camp and what have you guys, because
Speaker 1: I'm sure fans want to know what have you guys heard?
Speaker 1: What have you not heard? Um? What's the latest miles
Speaker 1: from from everyone you're talking to? Yeah, you know, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: I think everybody is pretty much is in the dark
Speaker 1: as everybody else is on this, and I know that,
Speaker 1: you know, between the three of us, we've talked to
Speaker 1: some of our colleagues around the league about what they're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out in terms of what we can
Speaker 1: all do you, um, once training camp starts and things
Speaker 1: like that, and it's just hard because there are no
Speaker 1: at this point, no really hard and fast set rules.
Speaker 1: And so because of that, I think you know, we're
Speaker 1: seeing on Twitter right now you get J. C. Trader,
Speaker 1: the president of the the NFL Players Association. He's going
Speaker 1: and writing something that is basically like, hey, we really
Speaker 1: want to make sure that everything is going to be safe.
Speaker 1: Um when we go into training camp and that's why
Speaker 1: we don't want preseason games. There's not necessarily a medical
Speaker 1: reason to have preseason games, according to the n f
Speaker 1: l p A. And so I talked to a linebacker
Speaker 1: tell your white head yesterday, UM for an article that
Speaker 1: you can read at Panthers dot com at some point
Speaker 1: in this near future. UM. But I asked him, you know,
Speaker 1: are you concerned? What is your level of concern really
Speaker 1: about the virus and coming back to practice, And he said, Yah, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course I'm concerned. And he right now has the
Speaker 1: three month old son, So that's another level of, you know, certain,
Speaker 1: because you don't want to bring something home and then
Speaker 1: potentially infect your own family, especially a child that is
Speaker 1: so young. So he said, what he's just looking for
Speaker 1: is a real solid plan um to keep all players
Speaker 1: and coaches and everybody involved safe. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what we're all looking for, right I mean, I think
Speaker 1: at this point, look, you see cases of COVID surging
Speaker 1: all across different states right now, and you just want
Speaker 1: to make sure that if people are going to come
Speaker 1: in and play football, there is a structured way to practice,
Speaker 1: there's a structured way to meet, and there's a structured
Speaker 1: way to keep everybody safe. And I think that the
Speaker 1: NFL and the end PA right now really working on
Speaker 1: trying to make that happen. But yeah, at this point,
Speaker 1: when we're about two weeks out from what should be
Speaker 1: rookies reporting um on July one, that's what that date,
Speaker 1: I believe is this is something where yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: start retching up the urgency here because everybody needs a plan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that that's I mean that that's where
Speaker 1: we are. And that's part of what's what's tough about
Speaker 1: this is I think all of the details that we've
Speaker 1: come to just understand as part of the way that
Speaker 1: the NFL works in terms of uh, you know, roster size,
Speaker 1: in terms of I R, in terms of you know,
Speaker 1: all these kind of designations of player status, and then
Speaker 1: you think about how that impacts uh salaries, how that
Speaker 1: impacts money. I mean, there's so many things that people
Speaker 1: don't quite know, Like what happens if you know, ten
Speaker 1: guys guys get it all on one one spot. You know,
Speaker 1: are you do you have to put those guys on
Speaker 1: a certain list? Is there a list that's only a
Speaker 1: fourteen day list for COVID? You know, how do you
Speaker 1: replace guys. I think there's so many questions along that
Speaker 1: and and just you know, I think it's it's one
Speaker 1: thing to say, all right, we're all going to come
Speaker 1: in and quarantine and everyone get tested every day and
Speaker 1: just you know, be in one spot, but there's so
Speaker 1: many other things that that every time it seems like
Speaker 1: there's a call, there's like an other Oh yeah, what
Speaker 1: about that? You know, what about this um And you
Speaker 1: just kind of feel it feels like in some ways
Speaker 1: they're kind of running out of time, which is why
Speaker 1: you know, there's more discussion about you know, kind of
Speaker 1: the preseason games and trying to give them more time
Speaker 1: to kind of keep working through this stuff. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was what we were all talking about during March, and
Speaker 1: you know, in April, when the draft was happening, when
Speaker 1: free agency was happening. In the NFL had the benefit
Speaker 1: of time right at the NFL had the benefit of
Speaker 1: being able to sit back and say, Okay, we can
Speaker 1: conduct these things virtually. We can make a virtual off
Speaker 1: season program. And because the season doesn't start until September, well,
Speaker 1: now when you have training camps that are supposed to
Speaker 1: start at the end of July, you're the benefit of
Speaker 1: time is running out, right, And I don't think when
Speaker 1: everything shut down in March that we I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody thought that we would be where we are right now.
Speaker 1: I think that we probably figured that we would have
Speaker 1: a better handle on this, but we don't. And that
Speaker 1: is another part of the issue. You know, how can
Speaker 1: we make sure that not only you know, football players
Speaker 1: are safe, but how can we make sure that everybody
Speaker 1: is going to be safe, so that everybody can return
Speaker 1: to work, so that kids can go back to school,
Speaker 1: things like that, And we need to get a handle
Speaker 1: on all of that in order to really I think
Speaker 1: I have a better sense of how the football season
Speaker 1: is going to be played. Yeah, I think you're You're
Speaker 1: absolutely right. And the short answer is that there's still
Speaker 1: so many unknowns when it comes to this football season.
Speaker 1: But the biggest thing has got to be keeping everyone
Speaker 1: is safe. And I think Miles you perfectly illustrated that
Speaker 1: when you're saying you're talking to tie your white head
Speaker 1: about his young son, I mean, he's got to be safe,
Speaker 1: and everyone's got to feel like this is a safe
Speaker 1: environment where everyone can go to work. So we'll we'll
Speaker 1: keep seeing how it's going to play out um, But yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. The biggest story this week, kind
Speaker 1: of while everything else feels like it's on pause. Biggest
Speaker 1: story Patrick Mahomes and that monster extension ten years reportedly
Speaker 1: worth up to five hundred and three million dollars. That
Speaker 1: is baseball. That is baseball money. That's like you said,
Speaker 1: half a bill. That's I can't even wrap my mind
Speaker 1: around that number. So first of all, I want to
Speaker 1: know what you guys uh would buy with that money.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about in a second. But I have
Speaker 1: to say this. It's my favorite part of the story.
Speaker 1: Did you guys see that we have a new Adam
Speaker 1: Schefter on our hands. The person that broke the story
Speaker 1: works at a liquor store in Kansas City, and a
Speaker 1: group of chief staffers came in looking for quite a
Speaker 1: few bottles of dumb and so or doumb. I can't
Speaker 1: even say it. I don't even I've never bought a bottle.
Speaker 1: If you can tell Dom Perignon Miles my saying that, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, you can tell I've never purchased a bottle. Um.
Speaker 1: That's that's But I know what to say if I
Speaker 1: ever want to not me I didn't even practice it.
Speaker 1: Um not me. I'm like, can I get that? D
Speaker 1: O m pe that thing? Uh? Anyway, she purchased a
Speaker 1: bott all of the stuff that Myles said, all right,
Speaker 1: the staffords purchased bottle of stuff that Miles said. She
Speaker 1: put two and two together and chweeted it out, realizing like, hey,
Speaker 1: why are all these staffers together buying all this expensive champagne.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love that story of Mills. You you have
Speaker 1: her name, I just know the story, right, You've got
Speaker 1: the lady that's the new Adam Schefter. Yes, her name
Speaker 1: is Katie Cameron and she works at Plasa Liquor in
Speaker 1: Kansas City. So next time I go for some barbecue,
Speaker 1: I will probably be hitting up Katie Plaza Liquor in
Speaker 1: Kansas City because obviously it's the best pace to go
Speaker 1: if the chiefs are getting there. And apparently it didn't
Speaker 1: like Schefter d m R after all this, Yes I did,
Speaker 1: I saw a story about that. Yes, I said, sorry
Speaker 1: about that. Sorry, Well in awful announcing today. Basically the
Speaker 1: d M is they posted his screenshot was he told Katie,
Speaker 1: well done, keep me posted the next time some chief's
Speaker 1: employee buy six bottles of bubbly, stay well, stay healthy.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I absolutely love that story. All right, I'll
Speaker 1: say it one more time for me before I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to say it without embarrassing myself again. We'll see
Speaker 1: how it goes. Now, Kristen, you're currently residing. I think
Speaker 1: so too. That's what I'm saying to say, don pregnant.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm never going to buy a bottle anyway,
Speaker 1: so um, you know, I'm more of an I'm more
Speaker 1: of an andre that five dollar stuff, all right, But
Speaker 1: but looking at that contract and how much money it is,
Speaker 1: half a bill, I want to take the responsible stuff
Speaker 1: off the table when we talk about what we would
Speaker 1: do with that money, all right, I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear you're gonna buy your parents a house, You're gonna
Speaker 1: pay off your you know, student loans, anything like that.
Speaker 1: We get it, everyone's going to do that stuff. Will
Speaker 1: what are you doing if you get that contract? What's
Speaker 1: the first few things you're buying? So I don't even
Speaker 1: look at it because I know I can't afford it,
Speaker 1: But I would start looking at like all of the
Speaker 1: cool tech that's out there that just would be life
Speaker 1: not life changing, but like day to day changing sort
Speaker 1: of tech. Like it's like a robot butler. Yes, all
Speaker 1: of the things, all of like all of that cool.
Speaker 1: Like I was just finishing up, like I was watching
Speaker 1: Hearts and Rack over the last like five days and
Speaker 1: like the last two or three seasons when like Grizzle
Speaker 1: comes into town and they have like these like Grizzle
Speaker 1: skateboards and every phone is like you know, the little
Speaker 1: tablet screen stuff. Like I want all of that and
Speaker 1: one of those things where you can like I want
Speaker 1: to jet pack and like fly and stuff. I've always
Speaker 1: wanted to try that, like on the water, the jet packs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh that'd be so cool. All right, I'm I'm into it.
Speaker 1: I'm into it. Miles, What do you got for me? Okay, well,
Speaker 1: first of all, I you you've tapped into the rage Miles. Here. Robots,
Speaker 1: robots gotta go. All right, you send this Boston Dynamic stuff.
Speaker 1: Do you know what the things that these people are
Speaker 1: doing with these robe bots, these little dog you know
Speaker 1: air quotes, these dog robots that can walk around and
Speaker 1: open doors and then they sense where these other things are.
Speaker 1: The robots are going to take over things. Okay, have
Speaker 1: you guys ever seen artificial intelligence seeing these movies, I
Speaker 1: am robot. No, I don't want anything. I don't want
Speaker 1: any part of that. I want no part of that.
Speaker 1: I you know, I do not want anybody to lose
Speaker 1: their job. But I think that the people in Boston
Speaker 1: Dynamics could be working on some other things that could
Speaker 1: improve our lives more than little robot dogs. I don't
Speaker 1: want those robot dogs. Let's refocus what they can be doing,
Speaker 1: all right, Because I know I'm not into the robot stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't want a robot butler. I don't want the
Speaker 1: robots that. I don't have an Alexa or anything in
Speaker 1: my house either, because I don't want them listening to
Speaker 1: my conversations. Because I know that whenever I searched something,
Speaker 1: I was talking to somebody about Outback Steakhouse on on
Speaker 1: Instagram and a d M or something the other day,
Speaker 1: or maybe it was in a text, I don't know,
Speaker 1: But next thing I know, I've got out Back advertising
Speaker 1: itself to me on Instagram. The robots have enough all
Speaker 1: rights not need to be butlers, don't need to be
Speaker 1: little dogs, and we don't need and so well, you
Speaker 1: know you can have that, but don't bring it around me.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm gonna say. You know what, A robot
Speaker 1: doesn't have feelings coronavirus. You don't know that. I don't
Speaker 1: think that you listen, I don't know. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I would rather. I don't know. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: need I don't need a butler anyway. I live in
Speaker 1: a small and awful apartment that I can walk around
Speaker 1: do things myself. But I'm just saying I don't know. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'll answer the question now, CHRISTI UM the thing that
Speaker 1: I would I I would focus on property first, probably
Speaker 1: like I would buy. I would get a really nice
Speaker 1: panhouse in Charlotte, one of the nicest buildings that I
Speaker 1: could get it in. Um, I do the same thing
Speaker 1: in New York. Probably have some more property in Malibu. Uh.
Speaker 1: South Florida would be another place. UM, I guess Cleveland,
Speaker 1: cause I'm from there too. Uh. Then I would buy cars.
Speaker 1: I just buy a lot of cars because cars are
Speaker 1: awesome and I've loved car since I was very little.
Speaker 1: So I would get a Porsche Macon S probably for
Speaker 1: daily driving. UM. A Ferrari would be on the list. Actually,
Speaker 1: I take that back, I was I forgot how much
Speaker 1: money we were talking about, So it wouldn't be a
Speaker 1: Macan S would actually be a Lamborghini Ruse because that's
Speaker 1: one of the best looking cars I've ever seen in
Speaker 1: my entire life. Um, but I guess we could have
Speaker 1: a Macan to sure? Why not? Just why not? There? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that kind of money we got, uh not loving Targa,
Speaker 1: that would definitely be something I'd have. Um, I've got
Speaker 1: a lot enough. I've thought you know about this enough
Speaker 1: that I think I would have a good plan and
Speaker 1: I would donate a lot of money too, would I
Speaker 1: said nothing? But yes? We all? Would we know that
Speaker 1: we got Come on, I mean yes, but I feel
Speaker 1: like I was talking about too many things that I
Speaker 1: would buy it. I had to throw it in there. Well,
Speaker 1: we all would donate, we all would you know, do
Speaker 1: the great stuff. There's no doubt about that, so you know,
Speaker 1: come on. I just I just felt like I should
Speaker 1: say it before passing it back to you. Chris, what
Speaker 1: would you do that, Aunty? I like the I like
Speaker 1: the real estate angle, I like the jet pack. I'm
Speaker 1: taking a little bit from both of you. The one
Speaker 1: thing that I would get I just want some sort
Speaker 1: of a private plane transportation Now, look, you guys have
Speaker 1: worked for teams before. Teams travel differently in terms of
Speaker 1: not having to go into the airport all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. I have always worked for a network, so
Speaker 1: that means when I was doing Sideline, I was at
Speaker 1: an airport every you know, sideline for network college basketball,
Speaker 1: football and airport every two days, multiple trips a week.
Speaker 1: I've gone through t s A so many times I've
Speaker 1: gotten stuck in a middle seat even I get my
Speaker 1: status bumped up. I've eating a lot of really bad
Speaker 1: airport food. I mean, there's just a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of crooks in the neck trying to sleep. Like,
Speaker 1: all I want is to just not have to go
Speaker 1: through that, not have to worry about fitting everything into
Speaker 1: a checked bag and the guy beside me up on
Speaker 1: my arm rest and sneezing. You know, I just I
Speaker 1: think I would really really enjoy some sort of a
Speaker 1: private transportation. That's all I want is a private plane.
Speaker 1: Too much to ask, guys, No, not at all. And
Speaker 1: I will say that those chartered flights they do hit
Speaker 1: different as the kids say. I wouldn't know. So we'll
Speaker 1: see as how the season plays out. But now I'm
Speaker 1: I'm economy all the way. So, uh, that's that's what
Speaker 1: I would have. Well, I got the first class upgrades
Speaker 1: and it's amazing, but it's not as you would say
Speaker 1: that the chartered flight. If I'm getting, if I'm getting
Speaker 1: Patty Mahomes money, that's the main thing I'm buying. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I messed up what we were doing there. Yes, I
Speaker 1: currently in my life, oh yes, my life. Yes, but
Speaker 1: if I had that kind of money, I probably would
Speaker 1: get a plane. But I would at least be first
Speaker 1: class because there's nothing better than first class. I think
Speaker 1: the charter flights would be better, but what do I know.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. So that's that would be my
Speaker 1: big that would be my big purchase. Alright, guys, it
Speaker 1: is time for the Weird Question of the Week and
Speaker 1: we have a special guest asker today. Our friend, the
Speaker 1: Mayor of Flavor Town at j T f C underscore
Speaker 1: TM on Twitter, one of our our favorite listeners of
Speaker 1: all time, has submitted some of his weird questions and
Speaker 1: he didn't go just one. He gave us a whole
Speaker 1: page of questions, a whole iPhone note of questions. The
Speaker 1: Mayor of Flavor Town is awesome. Because he is an
Speaker 1: O G follower of what this podcast used to be
Speaker 1: and he's just rolled that fandom right into us, and
Speaker 1: that is very nice of him, and so Mr Mayer,
Speaker 1: I thoroughly appreciate it. I agree. You know, he was
Speaker 1: a great fan and an important fan of UM group chat,
Speaker 1: and he didn't have to like you know, me and Miles,
Speaker 1: just like all of the other fans will that you
Speaker 1: guys had. And so we appreciate UM all of everyone
Speaker 1: for sticking with us, especially the mayor of Flavor Town. So,
Speaker 1: without further ado, we picked our three favorite questions from
Speaker 1: the Mayor of Flavor Town for our Weird Questions of
Speaker 1: the Week. We're gonna get started here. Miles, what is
Speaker 1: your most used emoji? The cry laughy face That is
Speaker 1: the most used emoji, followed by well, right now, it's
Speaker 1: the train, but usually it is it needs some explanation
Speaker 1: on that. Uh, usually it's the guy. It's the embarrassed guy,
Speaker 1: like with the with that's blushing with the big guys.
Speaker 1: So when I lived in Oakland last year, I lived
Speaker 1: right across the street from a train station, and I
Speaker 1: was describing that to somebody recently in a text message
Speaker 1: and I used a bunch of trains, and I guess
Speaker 1: that just vaulted that emoji up to number two. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, well what about you? So mine is the
Speaker 1: guy in the blue shirt with like kind of his
Speaker 1: hands up like I don't know, and he kind of
Speaker 1: looks like you too. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like I used that one a lot um also,
Speaker 1: So I guess I was looking at this because I
Speaker 1: looked in like my most recently used like apparently I've
Speaker 1: used the actual goat a lot, So I guess instead
Speaker 1: of writing out go O a T, I just put
Speaker 1: the goat and say that a lot in text. Too
Speaker 1: much trouble to type it all out. Uh, mine is
Speaker 1: all right? You guys had to explain years. Let me
Speaker 1: see if I can explain this. Right. It's what I
Speaker 1: would consider the hugging emoji, but it's with the smile face.
Speaker 1: So it's the smiley face and then the two hands
Speaker 1: popping out at the bottom. Do you know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about? Used? I absolutely love that one, and then
Speaker 1: followed closely by the one that has two different sized
Speaker 1: eyes and his tongue is hanging out like just wild,
Speaker 1: like crazy wild like, oh my god, guys like that one.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about? It just yes, yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: all right? We successfully That's why we love these questions
Speaker 1: from the mayor. It's like, how do you describe you know,
Speaker 1: this is an audio format, how do you describe them?
Speaker 1: But I think we I think we nail that pretty successfully,
Speaker 1: all right. Next, next up from the mayor. If you
Speaker 1: could live with any sitcom family, will which one would
Speaker 1: it be? The Blutes? Oh that's that's amazing. I got
Speaker 1: it's a well, I don't know how living with that
Speaker 1: would be. I mean, it'd be entertaining but incredibly dysfunctional.
Speaker 1: But well, I have to tell you my dog. Her
Speaker 1: name is Lucile and her full name is Lucille Bluth. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: I just feel like it would be really entertaining and
Speaker 1: also very easy to take advantage. You know. It's just
Speaker 1: like there is always money in the bananas stand. I
Speaker 1: watched it if there's there's money in banana span and
Speaker 1: I totally would have liked taken advantage of that. All right.
Speaker 1: I love the Blues, Uh, one of my absolute favorite
Speaker 1: shows of all time. Miles, Where are you going if
Speaker 1: you're living with a sitcom Family. Okay, my my first
Speaker 1: instinct because of how much I love this show, and
Speaker 1: I've I'm now rewatching it for like the second time.
Speaker 1: Um during Quarantine is the family from I don't think
Speaker 1: I can say this word, so I'll spell it s
Speaker 1: H I T T apostrophe s Creek, the show that
Speaker 1: Dan Levy and Eugene Levy created. I think that that's
Speaker 1: enough context to fill you and I I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I don't really want to live in the Rosebud Motel.
Speaker 1: Doesn't seem like a place that uh my, as my
Speaker 1: friends sometimes call me, Princess Miles would So maybe if
Speaker 1: I lived in Elmdale then they would be better. But
Speaker 1: I think the family that I will live with is
Speaker 1: Jay and Gloria on Modern Family, because they have the
Speaker 1: nice house and Jay has his life figured out and
Speaker 1: you know he's about to retire. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he did retire in the last couple of seasons. I
Speaker 1: didn't watch them, but they live in a nice house
Speaker 1: in southern California, sensibly, and yeah, I think that that
Speaker 1: would suit me pretty well. They seems fun. Scotch. I
Speaker 1: like Scotch. I like it. I like it a lot.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna go with a little bit of
Speaker 1: a thrill back. I'm gonna go with the family from
Speaker 1: full House. Now. I know that it is, as the
Speaker 1: title suggests, a very full house, but think about that
Speaker 1: opening shot. They've got that prime San Francisco real estate.
Speaker 1: You know those houses? Where are they? The painted ladies
Speaker 1: are called something? Those houses right there? Can you imagine
Speaker 1: what the property value on that is? Right now, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get in on that family. Get a piece
Speaker 1: of that pie person ians and millions of dollars basically,
Speaker 1: So yes, that is from the prety value standpoint, I
Speaker 1: like where your head's at there, Christ And that's smart. Well,
Speaker 1: I thank you, thank you, all right. Last question, last
Speaker 1: weird question of the week from Mayor flavor Town. I
Speaker 1: love this question and I've got some wild answers. I think,
Speaker 1: all right, what is the most popular movie you've never seen? Miles, Uh,
Speaker 1: They're a lot, um man. I could I did see
Speaker 1: Saving prim Rounds. That's usually my answer to that. Back
Speaker 1: to the Future, I've never seen that. Um, I've seen
Speaker 1: most of like the big franchise movies of the last
Speaker 1: ten fifteen years. I think Back to the Future is
Speaker 1: a solid one. Back to the Future. Let's go with
Speaker 1: that one, because I've never seen that, all right, what
Speaker 1: about you will the Godfather? Whoa yep and just no
Speaker 1: interest or I don't it's just it's never I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just have never had the opportunity. I guess I
Speaker 1: think it's on Netflix. Maybe I do have the oor
Speaker 1: watched it. I think you could have had the opportunity
Speaker 1: at some point if you really wanted to. It's like
Speaker 1: it's inaccessible, but I do. I like, that's a really
Speaker 1: good one. I don't know if mine can beat this.
Speaker 1: I think I have to. Uh number one, I'm I
Speaker 1: get a lot of shock value for this one. But
Speaker 1: I mean I'm not a child and I don't have children.
Speaker 1: I've never seen Frozen. I don't know any of the
Speaker 1: words to the song, right. I think that that's a one. Um.
Speaker 1: The other one that always surprises people never saw Avatar.
Speaker 1: Wasn't like the biggest movie. No, that's why I'm not
Speaker 1: seeing it. But isn't that like one of the biggest
Speaker 1: movies of all time? And like they're coming out with
Speaker 1: a ton more I'm not interested. Yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: movie is a little bit overrated. I mean it's a
Speaker 1: solid movie. It's good, but I don't think I don't
Speaker 1: think it's worth all the hype that it's gotten. And
Speaker 1: I certainly do not think that we need two more
Speaker 1: Avatar movies, please. I have seen Frozen, though, so I've
Speaker 1: seen That's It's funny because I'm usually the person in
Speaker 1: like the friend group who has never seen movies, and
Speaker 1: data people get on, oh my gosh, I would have
Speaker 1: not seen that. I have not seen this, and like
Speaker 1: my friends text me all the time like, well, I
Speaker 1: know you haven't seen this movie. So I've actually seen
Speaker 1: both The Godfather and I have seen Frozen and I've
Speaker 1: seen Avatar, So that is a little bit ironic. That
Speaker 1: is ironic. I have a I have a big I'll
Speaker 1: save this for another podcast, but I have a hot
Speaker 1: take current circumstances notwithstanding, you know, but I have a
Speaker 1: hot take on movie theaters. I'm not a fan. I
Speaker 1: don't want to go. If I never go to a
Speaker 1: movie theater for the rest of my life, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: So yeah, ALCOA, well how about this. That's a tease.
Speaker 1: We'll save that for We'll save that for for another podcast,
Speaker 1: because I could go for a while on that but yeah,
Speaker 1: they are not my favorite places at all. So I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna leave you guys with that something to think
Speaker 1: about until next week. Well, I do think somebody needs
Speaker 1: to make you an offer that you can refuse to
Speaker 1: see the god Father. I know what that is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the main line. So yeah, I'm glad to know that.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to know that you know what that one was. Uh. Guys,
Speaker 1: this has been a blast. Thank you to the Mayor
Speaker 1: of Flavortown for for all of the questions. Thank you
Speaker 1: to the new Adam Schefter for breaking the Patrick Mahomes news. Uh,
Speaker 1: and thanks to all of you for for listening. Will
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week.