WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 4: Fireworks 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:12.360 It's time for a Happy half Hour with your friends 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:22.040 Kristin Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Brian. That's right, it's 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.440 time for the Happy Half Hour podcast. Kristen, Will and 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.760 Miles here with you and guys. I haven't talked to 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.080 you since before the holiday, so Will, how how is 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:36.080 your fourth of July? First off, it was pretty low key, 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:40.120 so I was actually waiting on a COVID test over 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:49.800 the weekend. That's fun for the results. Aliping er there, Will, Yep, 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.680 I'm negative got it today, so we're all good. But 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.240 it meant that needed to. Um, I was going to 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.760 try to go see my parents, but didn't end up 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.200 getting able to do that, so I'm just kind lay 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.320 load to the weekend. But I don't have COVID at 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:06.240 least right now. Congratulations. Yeah, I'm sorry that you didn't 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.040 get to to see your parents. But just for anyone 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.959 who's who's wondering about your overall health, you feel okay? Correct? Yeah? Yeah, 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.720 I felt okay the whole time. UM, but you know, 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.640 I just wanted to be take precautions just to make sure, 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.520 you know, my parents will be older. UM, so I 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.280 was trying to do all that but didn't have a 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.280 test back, so I couldn't really go see them. M 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.679 that's a bummer. Hopefully, hopefully you'll get a chance to 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:32.560 see them safely soon, but definitely a different way than 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.400 we would normally spend fourth of July Miles, How was 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.920 your fourth of July? My fourth of July was very boring? Um, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.200 I was not waiting for a COVID test, but I 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:45.240 too basically just kind of quarantined in my apartment here. 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:49.960 Uh and you know I've gotten couch um, but that 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:51.800 was not here over the weekend, so I basically spent 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:56.040 the weekend in my bed watching a lot of Netflix. Um. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.240 I think I got some take out a couple of times. Uh, 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.400 And yeah, that was about it. It was it was interesting. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.920 I mean I heard fireworks. I didn't really see any 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.120 from my deck, but I heard some, so good for 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.760 the people who were shooting them off. But yeah, otherwise, 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:16.799 pretty pretty boring. How was yours? Christen? It was good? Um. Actually, 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:18.839 my my husband and I went down to Hilton Head 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.560 for a couple of days. We were able to find, yeah, 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.519 a secluded airbnb that felt safe and you know, we're 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.000 masks at all times, even you know, as we were 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:31.520 headed out to the beach until we could get to 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.720 our space, and uh, you know, so it was a 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.480 little different, but it was great. It was the first 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.720 time that we have really gotten to to do anything. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.720 So I had a great few days. I love getting 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.680 to be back in North Carolina and get to do 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.560 stuff like drive to the beach. That's definitely not something 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.400 you do in Chicago. So it was nice. It was 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:51.960 it was kind of a spur of the moment thing. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:56.160 We happened to find a place that felt safe and um, reasonable, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.680 and so we went for it and it was a nice, little, 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:04.320 nice little holiday. Okay, I have two questions, Um, because 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.760 I am geographically I don't know. I want to say illiterate, 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.200 but that's not quite limited. Yeah, I mean I don't know. 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.160 I just I've never really spent much time down here. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.520 So A how far is Hilton Head from here? In 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.960 b did they shoot off fireworks at the beach that 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:23.120 you guys could see? It was about a four over 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:27.080 four hours um drive Yeah, four and a half maybe, 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.600 so it was not bad too bad. Anything over that 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.600 then I'll start to get cranky, There's no doubt about it. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.360 And of course you don't want to stop anywhere because 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.160 who knows what's what's going on, and you want to 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.600 try to limit, you know, your exposure to people. So 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.480 but overall the drive was not bad at all. As 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.240 far as fireworks goes. We did not want to go 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.040 down to the beach. We heard them and we could 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.280 kind of see them on our little porch area, but 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:51.920 we didn't want to go down and you know, kind 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.080 of be around a big crowd of people. But I'd say, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:59.119 I saw, I'm gonna go three fireworks, three total fireworks 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.440 that I could actually see over the tree line, which, look, 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.680 I'm gonna be honest, it's no fireworks from me. I 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.120 don't know how you guys feel, Miles. What are your thoughts? 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:08.800 It sounds like you were into the are you guys 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:14.240 fireworks people? Pro fireworks? Anti fireworks? Miles? You first, I 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.960 think a more pro fireworks. I guess as I've gotten older, 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.320 I am shocked by this. Yeah. Well, when I was little, 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.280 I really did not like fireworks. I didn't like how 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.520 loud they were. And I remember I think it was 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.600 like the Cleveland Bicentennial celebration, and my mom really wanted 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.280 to go, and so she had to get me these 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:38.359 ear plugs so she could tolerate me whining about how 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.080 much I didn't like fireworks because I just as a kid, 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:42.960 I never really like It's it's kind of the way 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.240 I feel about thunder and lightning now, especially now that 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.880 I've been in places where thunderstorms don't usually happen in 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.520 California for the last four years of my life. Like 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.240 the first time when I heard a thunderstorm here, I 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:01.360 was very afraid. But it's different, I guess when it's 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.839 fireworks now because I like the colors and stuff I 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.080 don't know, so yeah, well, well how do you feel 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:14.440 about fireworks? So I'm relatively indifferent, like I enjoy them, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:19.320 but I also am now more around a dog that 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.200 doesn't like them, and I'm still kind of coming around 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:27.240 to the empathy for dogs that just freak out, and 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.440 especially this particular July four It's one thing if it's like, hey, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.919 it's going to be a big fireworks show att in 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.880 one particular place and we can kind of plant on it. 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.599 It's another thing when there's literally hundreds of thousands of 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:47.120 fireworks and just going just wherever, whenever, forever, and it's like, 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.080 I mean, did you guys see that video of l 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.720 A of like the helicopter video. It was incredible. Yeah, 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.800 I've actually every year there. Yeah, I've actually spent I 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:00.640 had the good fortune too spends. Gosh, this must have 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:02.760 been five years ago when I lived in l A. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.040 A group of us rented a house in the hills. Um, 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:07.400 and it had to be a big group of us 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.000 because this, I mean there was twenty of us to 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.359 afford like one night and in a house in the hills, 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.400 and it had a view kind of like that and 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.440 you could see fireworks from everywhere. It was awesome. I 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.960 mean it was absolutely incredible to get to see them 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.160 from all that because it's all the different well in 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.160 the past it's been all the different communities and if 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.480 you've got a great view, you know, you can see 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.280 the like a hundred different communities shooting off fireworks. This 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.920 I'm sure it was people, but um, yeah, it's it's 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.479 great when they're like you said, when it's a planned 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.960 thing and it is beautiful and how I don't know beginning, middle, 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.080 and end in the grand finale, but I think my 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.440 biggest thing about the fireworks is, oh, what I mean, 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.480 why is it like the whole week of July four, 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.800 from seven o'clock in the morning to three am. People 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.599 just feel like they can just set all fireworks whenever, 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.480 Like I gotta get some sleep at some point. I 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.080 know that makes me sound like a curmudgeon, but well, 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.320 no it doesn't. I think that people need to be 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.800 able to sleep, right. I don't see anything wrong with it, 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.560 And I totally agree with your viewpoint on this, Christen, 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.360 But I do think and I'm not a person who 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.640 would ever shoot off fireworks because I think I would 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.960 be the guy who blows off his hand, and like 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:20.000 I need my hands for my job, like it's very 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.560 very typing heavy job that I need all of my 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.960 fingers force. So like that to me is the like 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.600 I can't really go out and shoot off fireworks. Um, 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.760 but I think it's interesting when people do it. I've 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.480 actually never seen somebody shoot off the firework in my life, 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.080 though I've never been that close to it. Stay in 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.680 North and South Carolina just a little bit longer miles. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.920 You'll see it next summer. Well, but it happens in 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.880 Ohio to like I'm thinking about it. I don't know why. 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.160 It's just I've just never really been around I don't know, 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.560 but I guess living in densely populated suburbs, it wasn't something. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.320 But like if you go probably ten fifteen minutes in 0:07:55.360 --> 0:08:00.200 one or direction or another, everybody's got fireworks in Northeast. 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.640 So I don't know, we'll put that on its fun 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.000 We'll put it on the calendar for next July four. Well, 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.080 let Miles gets them. Well, although I mean you can 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.160 at least be near them. I understand this an occupational 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:16.160 hazard for I don't want to lose those hands a 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.960 pencil in all right, Well, I feel like the two 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.440 things that you can count on when it's July four, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.000 if you're scrolling through social media, are people are gonna 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.280 be boomerang their fireworks on on Instagram and Instagram stories 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.160 right like they saw I mean, you flip through and 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:35.440 it's thirty in a row of just a firework, you know, exploding, 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.920 or they're complaining about people shooting off fireworks on Twitter. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:40.880 Like I feel like those are without a doubt you 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.240 can count on them. Which is worse, which is the 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.559 thing that you wish would go away on July four, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.720 which is more annoying. Um, Miles, I feel like you 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:54.320 might have a strong opinion on, So I don't know 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.680 if that's good or bad. Well, I would just start 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.880 by saying this, I mean, do you ever feel like 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.480 a plastic bag drifting through the wind when Katie Perry? 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.800 Of course? Um, you know, do you ever feel already 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.600 buried deep six ft under stream? No one seems to 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.800 hear a thing. Um. I don't even remember what the 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.319 question was. I just that we started talking about fireworks 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.240 and the song came into my head. Are you a 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:24.880 Katy Perry fan? Oh? Heck yeah, got bangers, man, katiers, 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:29.679 Got bangers for days? Teenage Dreaming? Teenage stream is classic. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.839 It's so good, total classic. Uh, Mannequin. That's a little 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.880 known Katie Peririe banger. That's a deep cut. That's a 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:42.160 toe banger to that one. There's a live album on 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:47.800 Spotify that is sort of acoustic versions of the songs. Anyway, Yeah, 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.280 immediately go no, but immediately going to go check that 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.600 out after this. Okay, But which do you find more 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.199 annoying people boomerang and their fireworks on Instagram or complaining 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:02.480 about shooting off fireworks on Twitter? Um, people complaining about 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.440 people shooting out fireworks on Twitter. I don't mind the boomerangs. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.720 I think it's kind of fun. Okay, Miles, I gotta say, 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.880 you're much more pro firework than I thought. I thought 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.760 we were going to have a great like, Oh, I 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.480 can't and I don't know why. It kind of just 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.880 like gets my blood boiling a little bit. I'm like, 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.280 all right, I get it. Another firework, another firework, And 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:21.880 I was like, Miles is going to be with me 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.280 on this, I think. And I gotta say, I love 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.880 that you just kind of love all things fireworks makes 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.240 me happy. Yeah, I guess I really do. And this 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.840 is honestly, it's kind of surprising to me because in 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.640 my m O of like things that Miles probably would 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.800 not like, fireworks would probably be one of those things 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.199 that people would think I don't like, But I actually 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:45.160 kind of do like fireworks. Now we're gonna get you 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.200 out there, I know. I'm Are you shocked to Will, 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.160 I'm very shocked. And I just have to say, the 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:55.040 only thing worse than either an Instagram boomerang story or 0:10:55.200 --> 0:11:00.760 post of fireworks is the Instagram story of you're really 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:07.240 far seat at a concert for like seconds? Yes, there 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.480 is nothing, we get it, You're at a concert. Cool, 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.840 I'm not watching seconds of horrible video for a song 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.600 that I like and don't want to hear from your phone. 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:19.720 It's the same thing with fireworks. I don't want to 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:24.000 see your phone small version of fireworks that are also 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.679 happening right outside my window. I get it, like I'm 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.880 looking at them too cool. I don't need to see 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.120 it on your phone. And well, what about when the 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.679 concert with the concert Instagram stories when you could hear 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.400 the person singing so loudly, but you can't hear the 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.360 actual song itself. It's so bad. It's just like when 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:47.840 you fire, just like, oh, this is the kind of yes, 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:50.640 this is the kind of commiseration I was looking for. 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.360 Thank you will. I thought it would be coming from 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.040 I thought it'd be coming from miles. But I feel 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.559 a little bit better. I love the holiday. I love 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.640 to see, you know, everyone having fun, say, of course 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.400 this year, but it just gets a little much, and 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.079 I'm glad to know that I'm not the only person. 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.920 But we don't have some rage around here. I know, really, 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.839 Mouse is really letting us down in that department. We 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.240 got a nice story about loving the colors. I'm like, 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.720 what my rage meter? I guess it is just slow today. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:25.199 I don't know. I like it. I think that's awesome. Um. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:26.760 But you know, now that we are are back at 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.880 work fresh off of our few days off from the holiday, 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.200 of course, now is the time that we're turning our 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.760 attention to training camp and what have you guys, because 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.960 I'm sure fans want to know what have you guys heard? 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:43.040 What have you not heard? Um? What's the latest miles 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.319 from from everyone you're talking to? Yeah, you know, it's interesting. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.240 I think everybody is pretty much is in the dark 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.360 as everybody else is on this, and I know that, 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.280 you know, between the three of us, we've talked to 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.320 some of our colleagues around the league about what they're 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.400 trying to figure out in terms of what we can 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.800 all do you, um, once training camp starts and things 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.720 like that, and it's just hard because there are no 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.920 at this point, no really hard and fast set rules. 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.520 And so because of that, I think you know, we're 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.120 seeing on Twitter right now you get J. C. Trader, 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:19.040 the president of the the NFL Players Association. He's going 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.760 and writing something that is basically like, hey, we really 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.440 want to make sure that everything is going to be safe. 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.520 Um when we go into training camp and that's why 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.200 we don't want preseason games. There's not necessarily a medical 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.800 reason to have preseason games, according to the n f 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.880 l p A. And so I talked to a linebacker 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.040 tell your white head yesterday, UM for an article that 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.319 you can read at Panthers dot com at some point 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.320 in this near future. UM. But I asked him, you know, 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.720 are you concerned? What is your level of concern really 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.560 about the virus and coming back to practice, And he said, Yah, yeah, 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.719 of course I'm concerned. And he right now has the 0:13:55.840 --> 0:14:00.360 three month old son, So that's another level of, you know, certain, 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.160 because you don't want to bring something home and then 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.599 potentially infect your own family, especially a child that is 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.800 so young. So he said, what he's just looking for 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:16.560 is a real solid plan um to keep all players 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.960 and coaches and everybody involved safe. And I think that's 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.360 what we're all looking for, right I mean, I think 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.200 at this point, look, you see cases of COVID surging 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:31.240 all across different states right now, and you just want 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.080 to make sure that if people are going to come 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.920 in and play football, there is a structured way to practice, 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.560 there's a structured way to meet, and there's a structured 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.240 way to keep everybody safe. And I think that the 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.040 NFL and the end PA right now really working on 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.160 trying to make that happen. But yeah, at this point, 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.560 when we're about two weeks out from what should be 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.440 rookies reporting um on July one, that's what that date, 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.400 I believe is this is something where yeah, you gotta 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:03.000 start retching up the urgency here because everybody needs a plan. Yeah, 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.600 I mean, and that that's I mean that that's where 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.560 we are. And that's part of what's what's tough about 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.120 this is I think all of the details that we've 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.720 come to just understand as part of the way that 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:18.000 the NFL works in terms of uh, you know, roster size, 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.240 in terms of I R, in terms of you know, 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:25.360 all these kind of designations of player status, and then 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.640 you think about how that impacts uh salaries, how that 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.160 impacts money. I mean, there's so many things that people 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.720 don't quite know, Like what happens if you know, ten 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.520 guys guys get it all on one one spot. You know, 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.800 are you do you have to put those guys on 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.680 a certain list? Is there a list that's only a 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.320 fourteen day list for COVID? You know, how do you 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.440 replace guys. I think there's so many questions along that 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.120 and and just you know, I think it's it's one 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:50.600 thing to say, all right, we're all going to come 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.160 in and quarantine and everyone get tested every day and 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.680 just you know, be in one spot, but there's so 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.840 many other things that that every time it seems like 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:00.880 there's a call, there's like an other Oh yeah, what 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.720 about that? You know, what about this um And you 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:05.440 just kind of feel it feels like in some ways 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.240 they're kind of running out of time, which is why 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.760 you know, there's more discussion about you know, kind of 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.240 the preseason games and trying to give them more time 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.280 to kind of keep working through this stuff. Yeah, that 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.120 was what we were all talking about during March, and 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.680 you know, in April, when the draft was happening, when 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.000 free agency was happening. In the NFL had the benefit 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.920 of time right at the NFL had the benefit of 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:28.680 being able to sit back and say, Okay, we can 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.720 conduct these things virtually. We can make a virtual off 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.680 season program. And because the season doesn't start until September, well, 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.040 now when you have training camps that are supposed to 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.680 start at the end of July, you're the benefit of 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:44.680 time is running out, right, And I don't think when 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.640 everything shut down in March that we I don't think 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.880 anybody thought that we would be where we are right now. 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.000 I think that we probably figured that we would have 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.920 a better handle on this, but we don't. And that 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.520 is another part of the issue. You know, how can 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.560 we make sure that not only you know, football players 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.200 are safe, but how can we make sure that everybody 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:05.720 is going to be safe, so that everybody can return 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.479 to work, so that kids can go back to school, 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.200 things like that, And we need to get a handle 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.280 on all of that in order to really I think 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.880 I have a better sense of how the football season 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.800 is going to be played. Yeah, I think you're You're 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.200 absolutely right. And the short answer is that there's still 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:25.480 so many unknowns when it comes to this football season. 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.400 But the biggest thing has got to be keeping everyone 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.000 is safe. And I think Miles you perfectly illustrated that 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.480 when you're saying you're talking to tie your white head 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.520 about his young son, I mean, he's got to be safe, 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.640 and everyone's got to feel like this is a safe 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:41.359 environment where everyone can go to work. So we'll we'll 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:45.680 keep seeing how it's going to play out um, But yeah, 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.600 no doubt about it. The biggest story this week, kind 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.320 of while everything else feels like it's on pause. Biggest 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:59.400 story Patrick Mahomes and that monster extension ten years reportedly 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.359 worth up to five hundred and three million dollars. That 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:08.040 is baseball. That is baseball money. That's like you said, 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.280 half a bill. That's I can't even wrap my mind 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.199 around that number. So first of all, I want to 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.480 know what you guys uh would buy with that money. 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.000 We're gonna talk about in a second. But I have 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.440 to say this. It's my favorite part of the story. 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.200 Did you guys see that we have a new Adam 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.359 Schefter on our hands. The person that broke the story 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.960 works at a liquor store in Kansas City, and a 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.280 group of chief staffers came in looking for quite a 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.120 few bottles of dumb and so or doumb. I can't 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:37.960 even say it. I don't even I've never bought a bottle. 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:43.159 If you can tell Dom Perignon Miles my saying that, right, Okay, 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.920 all right, you can tell I've never purchased a bottle. Um. 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:51.439 That's that's But I know what to say if I 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.040 ever want to not me I didn't even practice it. 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.240 Um not me. I'm like, can I get that? D 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:02.080 O m pe that thing? Uh? Anyway, she purchased a 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.000 bott all of the stuff that Myles said, all right, 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.399 the staffords purchased bottle of stuff that Miles said. She 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:09.280 put two and two together and chweeted it out, realizing like, hey, 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.800 why are all these staffers together buying all this expensive champagne. 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.359 I absolutely love that story of Mills. You you have 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.160 her name, I just know the story, right, You've got 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.680 the lady that's the new Adam Schefter. Yes, her name 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.280 is Katie Cameron and she works at Plasa Liquor in 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.399 Kansas City. So next time I go for some barbecue, 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.040 I will probably be hitting up Katie Plaza Liquor in 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.439 Kansas City because obviously it's the best pace to go 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.119 if the chiefs are getting there. And apparently it didn't 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:39.640 like Schefter d m R after all this, Yes I did, 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:42.040 I saw a story about that. Yes, I said, sorry 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:45.680 about that. Sorry, Well in awful announcing today. Basically the 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:49.520 d M is they posted his screenshot was he told Katie, 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.280 well done, keep me posted the next time some chief's 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.639 employee buy six bottles of bubbly, stay well, stay healthy. 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.560 That's awesome. I absolutely love that story. All right, I'll 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:06.320 say it one more time for me before I'm just 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:08.640 trying to say it without embarrassing myself again. We'll see 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:15.880 how it goes. Now, Kristen, you're currently residing. I think 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:20.440 so too. That's what I'm saying to say, don pregnant. 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:22.440 Like I said, I'm never going to buy a bottle anyway, 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:26.320 so um, you know, I'm more of an I'm more 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:32.520 of an andre that five dollar stuff, all right, But 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:35.640 but looking at that contract and how much money it is, 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:40.080 half a bill, I want to take the responsible stuff 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:41.880 off the table when we talk about what we would 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:43.119 do with that money, all right, I don't want to 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:45.600 hear you're gonna buy your parents a house, You're gonna 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.280 pay off your you know, student loans, anything like that. 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.040 We get it, everyone's going to do that stuff. Will 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.840 what are you doing if you get that contract? What's 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.000 the first few things you're buying? So I don't even 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.479 look at it because I know I can't afford it, 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.200 But I would start looking at like all of the 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:07.399 cool tech that's out there that just would be life 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.480 not life changing, but like day to day changing sort 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:14.400 of tech. Like it's like a robot butler. Yes, all 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.080 of the things, all of like all of that cool. 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:19.680 Like I was just finishing up, like I was watching 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:22.639 Hearts and Rack over the last like five days and 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:25.080