Speaker 1: Welcome to this episode of the Group Chat, where we
Speaker 1: are talking preseason game number four and the big decisions
Speaker 1: that are coming for this Carolina Panthers roster. Joey Sly
Speaker 1: and he pretty much made a promise to his brother
Speaker 1: that you know, I promise I'm gonna work every day
Speaker 1: of my life to make it the NFL and then
Speaker 1: for almost half of the current Carolina Panthers roster, this
Speaker 1: week is full of anxiety. So we're talking what else
Speaker 1: gives us anxiety? If I worked really hard in a story,
Speaker 1: I feel that way. Just it's mainly just like man,
Speaker 1: I hope people like this. All of this and much more,
Speaker 1: including Southern accents. On this week's the Group Chat. You've
Speaker 1: been added to the Group Chat with your friends Caroline, can,
Speaker 1: Max Sensen, and Will Brian. Welcome to the two thousand
Speaker 1: nineteen preseason super Bowl. We've made it. You say this
Speaker 1: week doesn't count, doesn't matter? Try again, ladies and gentlemens,
Speaker 1: this matters. You guys are both smiling. Get after me
Speaker 1: about this cheesy open, but this week matters. I don't
Speaker 1: care who you are. Come on, it matters, people. Everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna having the Super Bowl parties. Yeah, where take pictures
Speaker 1: at your Super Bowl parties, post them, let me see
Speaker 1: your best who are you cheering for? We need to
Speaker 1: do that. Now. This is a This is a big week.
Speaker 1: It really is. I know some people are like, let's
Speaker 1: just get to the regular season. But I was even
Speaker 1: talking to coach very earlier this week and he, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's saying the whole like, all right, one more to go,
Speaker 1: but just like this is a big deal for us
Speaker 1: to get out healthy, Like this is the depth. This
Speaker 1: is what matters when you get later into this season
Speaker 1: of if your depth is going to be there. This
Speaker 1: is a big deal. And for the guys that you
Speaker 1: know want jobs next week, that too. This uh, this
Speaker 1: game last year, the very first play of the game,
Speaker 1: the opening kickoff, Elijah Hood broken. Come on, we're knocking
Speaker 1: on all we're knocking on all the What we're saying
Speaker 1: is that if you're knock on, what if you're with me?
Speaker 1: We don't want that to happen. Yeah no, but I
Speaker 1: mean that's the point, right, that's why we're watching, That's
Speaker 1: why we're here. Yeah. Yeah. The fourth preseason game is
Speaker 1: always interesting because every year you kind of hear like
Speaker 1: there's three or four or five spots up for grabs, um,
Speaker 1: And yeah, the guys at the bottom of the roster
Speaker 1: are fighting for those final spots, But it's also a
Speaker 1: body of work thing, right, So it's it's like, yes,
Speaker 1: you want to play well in this game, but the
Speaker 1: coaches and management have been evaluating these guys all spring,
Speaker 1: summer leading up to this game too, So it's not
Speaker 1: like this this one game is for everything. Um, it's
Speaker 1: a piece of the puzzle. Uh. And certainly some of
Speaker 1: these guys want to come out here and whether it's
Speaker 1: you know, getting into the end zone, creating a takeaway,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, you want to end on the right note.
Speaker 1: But I think it's important to remember too that this
Speaker 1: is this is the end of a very long summer
Speaker 1: for these guys, and it's not just about what happens
Speaker 1: to night. It's about what happened in practice three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: it's about what happened in the first few weeks of
Speaker 1: the preseason. It's all those things and this is kind
Speaker 1: of the culmination of that. And obviously they're going to
Speaker 1: get more reps and they've ever gotten in a game
Speaker 1: sitting before, so this is your chance to truly which
Speaker 1: puts it on film as well. For other teams. You
Speaker 1: have to have to have that on film, both for
Speaker 1: the Panthers in the future and for other teams that
Speaker 1: are you know, looking at these roster changes this weekend.
Speaker 1: To be able to go back to, oh this, this
Speaker 1: is what this guy did on Thursday night, just three
Speaker 1: days ago. You know, you can kind of be fresh
Speaker 1: in people's minds. Yeah, I agree, but there are still
Speaker 1: so many question marks that these coaches are asking. So
Speaker 1: they've put together this great body of work, but these
Speaker 1: coaches and the scouts get staff and you know, Marty,
Speaker 1: they have big decisions coming and I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of still question marks. Mean very ran through the
Speaker 1: positions that he's looking at, and I mean when he
Speaker 1: got done, I said, you've got enough time for that,
Speaker 1: yeah you know, and he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know yes. But I think that's like the interesting
Speaker 1: part is it's not like you know, they are they
Speaker 1: feel good about their starters a lot of places, but
Speaker 1: it is the depth the guys we're going to see
Speaker 1: out here. So I mean, you go out here and
Speaker 1: have a really bad game, what have you done for
Speaker 1: me lately? You know? And so what will was saying
Speaker 1: to you know, oftentimes it's not just about who's playing
Speaker 1: on this field we're looking at right now, but the
Speaker 1: scouting staff has been working all summer and it's like,
Speaker 1: who else might be out there if someone isn't going
Speaker 1: to make that team, that might be able to help
Speaker 1: our team. I mean, that's that's all part of this
Speaker 1: final preseason game, as well as the days leading up
Speaker 1: to that. Yeah, things are about to get really really interesting,
Speaker 1: especially once you start talking about what you just said
Speaker 1: of all the other players that are out there. When
Speaker 1: this roster does get cut down to fifty three that
Speaker 1: back you know, four five spots are very much a
Speaker 1: revolving door. So it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Speaker 1: That will happen on Friday and Saturday are kind of
Speaker 1: those cut down days around the NFL. Um Eric question
Speaker 1: had said there's two times a year that he hates
Speaker 1: about this business, and it's that, you know, day after
Speaker 1: it's that Monday, Black Monday, when all the coaches will
Speaker 1: get fired and when they have to cut guys and
Speaker 1: and a lot of them will not find their place
Speaker 1: again on an NFL roster and say it's tough. Well,
Speaker 1: Graham had a good point too. He has no idea
Speaker 1: what it's like to be on a fifty three man
Speaker 1: roster because as long as these rookies have been here,
Speaker 1: it's been a big team. He came from college and
Speaker 1: it was a big team. He kind of said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what's coming. I don't know what this
Speaker 1: is like. And it really is, um a crazy deal
Speaker 1: if you think about it. But in the spirit of
Speaker 1: this preseason game and what is to come, what we've
Speaker 1: been talking about, we're going to pick one player and
Speaker 1: we're just going to We're gonna see if we can
Speaker 1: predict maybe where they will be, what will happen. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do this, and all of you out there gonna
Speaker 1: hold us accountable. We will hold ourselves accountable because we're
Speaker 1: gonna table this and come back to this, uh prediction
Speaker 1: that we are having here of these players. UM, I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see what you guys have to say and
Speaker 1: who you're going to pick. So let's go Max first,
Speaker 1: our resident Yankee. We're gonna get to that later. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get to this point later, but we believe that
Speaker 1: he's a closet Yankee. So go ahead with your pick
Speaker 1: and we'll be back with more on that later. I
Speaker 1: don't I want to get into that right now. My
Speaker 1: tongue hold. I hope, I hope I sound okay right now.
Speaker 1: I'm not too a couple of y'alls in there. You
Speaker 1: just come from my radio voice in the last episode here,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of nasially, I guess everything subjective anyway. So
Speaker 1: the the premise for this, what I took it as
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this is fourth preseason game. Who am I?
Speaker 1: What story? What stories out there? Am I are we
Speaker 1: rooting for? Which guys you know, have a compelling story
Speaker 1: to tell personally how they've got to this point? And
Speaker 1: I think I'm sure you guys are gonna have great
Speaker 1: ones to j V and Elliott to me, has a
Speaker 1: great story. And here was a guy who signed Layton
Speaker 1: free agency, signed like kind of in the heels of
Speaker 1: that after Jerald McCoy signed, so another former buccaneer McCoy
Speaker 1: had signed, and obviously the huge deal was made out
Speaker 1: of that. No one really paid much attention to the Elliotts.
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, a couple of days later
Speaker 1: we signed another team of baby Buck No one knew,
Speaker 1: but this kid he picked off Cam Newton last year
Speaker 1: for his first career interception. So he may have remembered
Speaker 1: the name Um. But he's at your classic underdog story.
Speaker 1: A guy who came out of high school, wasn't even
Speaker 1: playing college football for a few years before he then
Speaker 1: got into what was it will junior college route. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he went to Tallahassee Community College, community didn't even go
Speaker 1: on a college visit in recruiting, found his way to
Speaker 1: Florida State as a walk on, was on the scout team,
Speaker 1: and then finally got one year on scholarship, played for
Speaker 1: the Seminoles, and now finds himself, you know, in the NFL.
Speaker 1: This is the second team he's trying to play in
Speaker 1: the regular season for UM. So he's a good kid.
Speaker 1: I think he's really taken well to the secondary room.
Speaker 1: The guys like him. He's a playmaker, always seems to
Speaker 1: just be around the ball. Uh. And look he you know,
Speaker 1: with the amount of time the Panthers defense is gonna
Speaker 1: have to be in the nickel this year, whoever is
Speaker 1: gonna wins that small nickel job is gonna be out
Speaker 1: there a lot. Uh, and it very well might be
Speaker 1: j V and Elliott UM. And so I think he's
Speaker 1: He's done a nice job as a guy who even
Speaker 1: like those of us, didn't know anything about right when
Speaker 1: we came into training camp. Really and now here we
Speaker 1: are on the precipice of him perhaps being out there
Speaker 1: with the starters depending on what defense they come out
Speaker 1: in Week one against the Rams. Let's give people who
Speaker 1: is he competing with when they're watching on here, who
Speaker 1: are some other guys small nickel job has pretty much
Speaker 1: been battled all summer between he Korn Elder, Cole Luke,
Speaker 1: and then where Shawn Galden has pretty much settled into
Speaker 1: the big nickel roles. So like when they go, you'll
Speaker 1: hear the coaches be like the Buffalo package and the
Speaker 1: like Buffalo nickel is what Rashan has been lying up bad.
Speaker 1: It is. It's like a bigger body. If a tight
Speaker 1: end or a big wide receiver is kind of in
Speaker 1: the slot area, they like Rashan matched up against him,
Speaker 1: and then you've got like your oldbaslies for instance, who
Speaker 1: we saw in the Bills preseason game would be an
Speaker 1: example of somebody where okay, you want a smaller shift
Speaker 1: to your guy. That's what j V Nelly is trying
Speaker 1: to prove he can be cool. What do you got
Speaker 1: Joey Sly everyone I mean and and his you know
Speaker 1: his story that that Bill told on on Panthers dot
Speaker 1: Com a couple of weeks ago. Just you know that
Speaker 1: every time he hits a kick, he puts up six fingers. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know for if for people have seen that
Speaker 1: kind of out in the game. And that's for his
Speaker 1: his brother who passed away in two thousand and fourteen, Um,
Speaker 1: who was at Salisbury was you know, really you know,
Speaker 1: trying to come into his football career. You know, had
Speaker 1: had had this disease and passed away. And um, so
Speaker 1: he's he's had this foundation, the Sly Strong six Foundation,
Speaker 1: and he pretty much made a promise to his brother
Speaker 1: that you know, I promise, I'm gonna work every day
Speaker 1: of my life to make it to the NFL. And
Speaker 1: you know, here here he is. He's had the strong
Speaker 1: preseason and you know, whether it's with with the Panthers
Speaker 1: or potentially somewhere else, you know, kind of potentially on
Speaker 1: the precipice of being on a roster. And you know,
Speaker 1: here's a guy that last year Virginia Tech, you know,
Speaker 1: wasn't you know, a big name in the a sec
Speaker 1: you know, didn't have a great percentage made. But I
Speaker 1: mean his video when he hit what a seventy yard
Speaker 1: field goal, you know, he's he can bomb the ball.
Speaker 1: When they when they did that play that people saw
Speaker 1: when um Will grew through, uh kind of that that
Speaker 1: quick pass to get it too, like one second to
Speaker 1: get him a little bit closer to get his field
Speaker 1: goal closer. I'm pretty sure he went over the top
Speaker 1: of the uprights, like that ball was going into the
Speaker 1: five hundred level. It was, it was so high. So
Speaker 1: his story and just kind of who he is in
Speaker 1: the locker room, who he's been around this team. Um
Speaker 1: really really fascinating guy and in kind of a really
Speaker 1: cool story. Well of how kickers they don't get maybe
Speaker 1: the national headlines. Man new fan bases love a good
Speaker 1: kicker gate, and they happened more times than not. They
Speaker 1: get the national headlines when they miss, right, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: but that's the that's the using life of a kicker
Speaker 1: and our offensive lineman. You don't really met, Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: producer Matt his phone off. He seems to be fine.
Speaker 1: But like the Bears, like that's just after after their
Speaker 1: playoff exit, Like the Kickers thing has followed the Bears
Speaker 1: every day since, so they figure out what they're kicking
Speaker 1: situation is going to be. And I feel like the
Speaker 1: backup kicker always some somehow if they're brought in during
Speaker 1: the preseason. This happened when I was in Indianapolis. Badger
Speaker 1: he's now out with the Chargers and he's like they
Speaker 1: call him the money, the money Badger. His name is
Speaker 1: Bagley compared to the Badger. Yeah, I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of his first name. That's terrible at it all, remember,
Speaker 1: But that was the thing when he was with the Colts,
Speaker 1: it was Adam Vinitary. This kid was just coming in
Speaker 1: so Adam didn't have to kick during the preseason. And
Speaker 1: then he does so well, he gets cut. The Chargers
Speaker 1: take him and now he is one of the faces
Speaker 1: of their organization and he has the swooped bag hair everything.
Speaker 1: And then you know it happened here a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago too. Yeah, he's in Kansas City. So it's
Speaker 1: always interesting when you see these guys come. I don't
Speaker 1: think this is the last that we will see of
Speaker 1: Joey Sly. I just don't know about in Carolina. I
Speaker 1: think he will stick around the NFL. I think he's
Speaker 1: done enough um to kind of be in those circles.
Speaker 1: But these kickers are crazy because they'll come in, they'll
Speaker 1: get cut, they may not get picked up again for
Speaker 1: like weeks, but they need to be able to come
Speaker 1: in week eight and like go and they're not sitting
Speaker 1: on practice squads. Yeah, And we're waiting for clarity on
Speaker 1: this Graham situation, right, I mean, that's something everyone's kind
Speaker 1: of wondering about right now. And Ron admitted himself he's
Speaker 1: quote uneasy about him right now. So they've got to
Speaker 1: figure out what's going on with Graham and if Graham
Speaker 1: will be ready to go, and if not, Look, you
Speaker 1: gotta give Joey Sly credit. All he can do is
Speaker 1: go out there and make the kicks that he's being
Speaker 1: asked to make, six or six right now through the preseason,
Speaker 1: made all his p a t s. He's doing, He's
Speaker 1: doing what he has to do in this situation to
Speaker 1: impress the people here, impress people across the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is crazy, all right. I'm going with that. We've
Speaker 1: talked about running backs this entire training camp, preseason, everything,
Speaker 1: So I'm going with one thing you probably don't talk
Speaker 1: about much out there. We've got Reggie Bonbon, Reggie by
Speaker 1: people should start calling him that Reggie Bonbon. Well that's
Speaker 1: Cam's nickname for him is Bonbon, Reggie bon Bon bonfon
Speaker 1: who I like number one. He's got a great name. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he should already be a fan favorite. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing that I love about him. I feel like
Speaker 1: you have CMC obviously, okay, then you have you know
Speaker 1: holy Field, Like, oh okay, we know that last name.
Speaker 1: Like that's going to get some people's attention. Scarlett has
Speaker 1: made this big splash in these last few weeks just
Speaker 1: of like he was out, he came in, he looked explosive.
Speaker 1: We love this kid, and then Cameron Artist pain is
Speaker 1: he again? Like there's all these storylines around these running backs,
Speaker 1: and then there's Reggie What like no one's talking about Reggie,
Speaker 1: but he has the best hands. Coaches have said he
Speaker 1: has the best hands out of that group and he
Speaker 1: just became a running back, a full time running back
Speaker 1: two years ago. Okay, so if he can catch the ball,
Speaker 1: and then maybe what they're saying about him that isn't
Speaker 1: greater still developing? Is the run game a part of
Speaker 1: it of like being able to figure out gaps and
Speaker 1: squeeze through the line. Two years, people like give him
Speaker 1: a little I think he deserves more time to develop there.
Speaker 1: He played three positions in college three I would people
Speaker 1: out there can't even make a roster playing one, okay,
Speaker 1: and he played three. Became at full time run back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seventeen. I didn't even know that
Speaker 1: when I started looking at him. I picked him before
Speaker 1: knowing all of this about him, So I was like,
Speaker 1: he's talking about him, like no one's talking about him
Speaker 1: because you have all of these other names. I would
Speaker 1: not be surprised if he's that under the radar running
Speaker 1: back that makes this roster because he can catch out
Speaker 1: of the backfield, and he's proven that he has great hands,
Speaker 1: and I think that is where and if you look
Speaker 1: at his stats, I mean, he had rushing nine attempts
Speaker 1: for forty four yards, So that's where it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: like that's not bad, but it's not jumping out receiving
Speaker 1: ten receptions for ninety three yards in three games that
Speaker 1: he had the biggest game of the New England or
Speaker 1: the biggest play in the New England game with that
Speaker 1: seven yards on that, so you can't like remember the name.
Speaker 1: I don't know what will happen with him, but you
Speaker 1: have to remember his name because I think when you
Speaker 1: look at that running back, there's still that was one
Speaker 1: of the big question marks that this team still has.
Speaker 1: So I want to see what he's gonna do out
Speaker 1: here in this last game. But maybe if you combine
Speaker 1: a few of the running backs, you get this complete
Speaker 1: back that can you know, help Christian McCaffrey and take
Speaker 1: some of those snaps off of him. But I think
Speaker 1: he deserves more opportunities to prove that he can be
Speaker 1: a true running back. He's and he's definitely the one
Speaker 1: out of that group that can come in and most
Speaker 1: closely resemble the types of packages that you're running with McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: You know, he might not obviously execute them to McCaffrey's level,
Speaker 1: but you can put him potentially in slots or run
Speaker 1: him out, you know, run Hi out of the backfield
Speaker 1: in the same sort of looks that you would. You know,
Speaker 1: if one of those other guys come in, they're more
Speaker 1: limited in terms of what types of play call you
Speaker 1: can do. Because I think if you like gave Scarlett,
Speaker 1: Reggie Bonifon's hands and gave Reggie Bonifon Scarlett. It's like explosiveness,
Speaker 1: you would have a complete back. So then that yeah,
Speaker 1: so then that kind of leads to where is the
Speaker 1: staff thinking or are they you know? And then I
Speaker 1: mean bringing the other guys too, of you have ax armor,
Speaker 1: so he kind of fits into that too, of like, okay,
Speaker 1: well can we lean on him more in the run
Speaker 1: game too, you know then offset It's just it's an
Speaker 1: interesting I think you can kind of plug and play
Speaker 1: a lot of those players, but I want Reggie Bond
Speaker 1: Bond Bonafon on this roster next week. I'm writting for
Speaker 1: Reggie two. I mean, yeah, like the other positions, he
Speaker 1: played wide receiver one of them. So that's hence his
Speaker 1: great hands and the guys his experience in that and quarterback.
Speaker 1: He was Louisville's quarterback. I love it big time program. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and yeah, he's not far removed from that, which is
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. And he's just a different kind of back,
Speaker 1: Like you don't see six three running backs very much.
Speaker 1: Reggie's kind of like a longer dude, and he it
Speaker 1: just looks different with him out there, but he can
Speaker 1: move well. I just said, he can catch well, he
Speaker 1: brings he brings something to the table, he brings something different,
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting. There's a lot of those kind
Speaker 1: of storylines. But you know what all these players are
Speaker 1: feeling right now? Anxious? Can you imagine like what if
Speaker 1: our jobs were like this, like, hey, guys, get anxious broadcast. No,
Speaker 1: I'm saying anxious for you know, I'm saying like yes
Speaker 1: in that sense, but I'm saying, like what if it
Speaker 1: was like, hey, guys, we're gonna need you to come
Speaker 1: in and work the preseason training camp, got a lot
Speaker 1: of guys to cover and stuff, but once we hit
Speaker 1: the regular season, we're just gonna we're just gonna keep
Speaker 1: the best ones, you know. So, like we're sitting as
Speaker 1: could be very last podcast. I mean it could be
Speaker 1: depending on some of the reviews that you choose to
Speaker 1: leave on this. However, that's a that's frightening. I do
Speaker 1: get anxiety about work though. Any time we put out
Speaker 1: a vlog, I'm sweating. It's a lot of my face
Speaker 1: when you put it out. Yes, I mean, like getting
Speaker 1: it together is you get used to it, It's like okay,
Speaker 1: but when it's like all done and you're gonna sent
Speaker 1: it out there and you take that like final lookout
Speaker 1: you're like, wow, that's a lot of my face. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's in the anxiety. I hope people like you get
Speaker 1: before you publish. If I worked really hard in a story, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel that way, just because it's mainly just like, man,
Speaker 1: I hope people like this. Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: And it's just like because I put a lot into it,
Speaker 1: and like doing what we do creating content, you're you're
Speaker 1: putting yourself out there in a way like this is
Speaker 1: what you've worked on. And it's in social media especially,
Speaker 1: anybody can immediately say this sucked or you know, people
Speaker 1: didn't like my shoe. I wish I could have my
Speaker 1: five minutes back. For sure, people didn't like my shoes
Speaker 1: last week either didn't like or they loved my shoes.
Speaker 1: There was no lukewarm feeling about the shoes. So yes,
Speaker 1: anytime you have published or post, but it feels great
Speaker 1: when someone says this is a great read that article. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that is very real. Yeah, high risk, high reward.
Speaker 1: What are you anxious about? Will give us something? Um guy?
Speaker 1: Probably when we have to do a live stream on
Speaker 1: the site, yes, yes, that that literally literally before the
Speaker 1: before you know, we've been streaming these preseason games and
Speaker 1: usually when you do a live stream, you can kind
Speaker 1: of see stuff in the preview and you can know
Speaker 1: that it's there, but it has to go up through
Speaker 1: the NFL and they put the geo gait on it,
Speaker 1: which means that only people in a certain area can
Speaker 1: watch it. So essentially we can't see anything on our
Speaker 1: end until eight o'clock and it's just like refresh, refresh, refresh,
Speaker 1: Oh it's there, okay, yeah, pretty much. And that that
Speaker 1: was very nerve wracking the first couple of times we
Speaker 1: did that. That is a good one, a non football
Speaker 1: one that I thought about. It was like your car
Speaker 1: breaks down and you have to get out the car
Speaker 1: breaking down story from you. Yes, going back to the
Speaker 1: well here nothing this apparently really summer or winter really
Speaker 1: scarred me. Um And technically that wasn't a breaking down.
Speaker 1: I was just stuck this one. Like let's say you
Speaker 1: know something breaks in your house, air conditioning goes out
Speaker 1: or something. You must get it fixed, whatever the cost,
Speaker 1: and that guy's gonna come in and they're gonna be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fixed, Like great sim of the invoice like or
Speaker 1: don't and like you're it's stuff like healthcare like and
Speaker 1: like then it's like his insurance going to cover this,
Speaker 1: like you know, like it's life threatening, but like a
Speaker 1: car or your house or stuff like that, Like could
Speaker 1: I be hot for just a little while? No, so
Speaker 1: then just pay it. But it's a luxury like medical things.
Speaker 1: It's like you have to pay this to live in
Speaker 1: your home, like you could just be hot. How willing
Speaker 1: are you to withstand exactly? But then that bill comes
Speaker 1: and yeah, you gotta pay that. So that gives me anxiety.
Speaker 1: And I've never owned a home, but I feel like
Speaker 1: that way. But the car thing one time I just got,
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's something everybody can relate to.
Speaker 1: Is when you go to the mechanic, it's like they
Speaker 1: could say anything anything, Sure, I need this part fixed? Two? Okay,
Speaker 1: Like what am I going to say? My uncle tried
Speaker 1: to give me. He's not technically my uncle, but he's
Speaker 1: like you know those family members. I don't really family,
Speaker 1: but I went to college with my dad. He sells cars.
Speaker 1: He tried to teach me a couple of like lingo words. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just to go in there and say like, hey, I
Speaker 1: think blank, blank and blank is wrong. You know, can
Speaker 1: you just check it out for me? Probably not what's wrong,
Speaker 1: but at least I'll call him and say, hey, my
Speaker 1: car is doing this great, go in and just say
Speaker 1: this this, so then they feel like you know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. So they can't just say like, oh, um,
Speaker 1: your brakes are squeaking great, you need four new tires. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's where the noise is coming from. Sounds good
Speaker 1: to me. But talk about anxiety. I hate I hate
Speaker 1: anything with my car, even pumping gas. What about like,
Speaker 1: what about the three dots, especially when especially if you're
Speaker 1: trying out you're trying out something with maybe someone that
Speaker 1: you don't know that well at the pumping gas. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: I've already already taken up. Take it this another direction. No,
Speaker 1: you know, so maybe you're on you know, a first
Speaker 1: or second date with someone you know, you're you're working
Speaker 1: on a working on a line. You don't know if
Speaker 1: this person is going to find this funny, but you
Speaker 1: gotta try it anyway, you know, and you just get
Speaker 1: the three dots and then they disappear, and then they
Speaker 1: come back up, disappear and you're like, oh now or
Speaker 1: one like definitely have done this before where you send
Speaker 1: a like or you like an Instagram photo weeks ago
Speaker 1: and it's down at the bottom, and then like the
Speaker 1: anxiety of like if I unlike it, did they see
Speaker 1: that I liked it? Did they have pushed notifications on?
Speaker 1: Like like, yeah, I've definitely been I've text mind and
Speaker 1: you're accidentally stalking a profile and then you like for
Speaker 1: sure and if like, I don't know, I've gotten to
Speaker 1: the point where like do you do you own it?
Speaker 1: Like I might have more respect for someone if you
Speaker 1: just like own the factor like weeks ago and you're
Speaker 1: just because everything I was just scrolling through your Instagram
Speaker 1: and what about Isn't it worse though when you don't
Speaker 1: even get the three dots? Yeah, if you send something
Speaker 1: and it's nothing, it's radio side. Do you guys have
Speaker 1: read receipts or if they are, if they're on Android,
Speaker 1: and then you just don't know one way or another
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be talking in them any ways. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding out there, guys. It
Speaker 1: was just a hot take. Just um, I have my
Speaker 1: read receipts on for texting. Okay, does that make it
Speaker 1: better or worse? Here's my thing gets the point across.
Speaker 1: I read your message, got it, like I just feel
Speaker 1: so it takes away the need for you to respond
Speaker 1: with like an okay, that's I. I really appreciate it
Speaker 1: for work purposes or like you know, if just things
Speaker 1: that I don't need to respond to. But it's like good,
Speaker 1: I got that, but it also has served me well
Speaker 1: in the like if if it just says delivered, like
Speaker 1: did it Like there's some question marks if you don't
Speaker 1: get a reply like, well did they see it? Like
Speaker 1: they got that right? Like, no, I got it. I
Speaker 1: like it for those purposes. I haven't not not many
Speaker 1: times that sounds like I, you know, get hit up
Speaker 1: a lot and I don't want to respond. But it's
Speaker 1: just like sometimes it's like I don't have the time
Speaker 1: nor energy and and the like fake response. I don't
Speaker 1: appre she had a fake response, So I'd rather just
Speaker 1: turn the read receipts on and they they know I
Speaker 1: got it. I haven't tried read receipts of you. No, man,
Speaker 1: they've always been on. No, I'm not. I was about
Speaker 1: to say something creepy. If you're on a mac. Here's
Speaker 1: something about your reader seats. If you're weird about wanting
Speaker 1: your reader seats on on your phone. You cannot pick individuals.
Speaker 1: I don't believe. If I'm wrong about this, please let
Speaker 1: me know. You can pick what individuals for like the
Speaker 1: messages thing on the on the back. You can go
Speaker 1: in individually and give read receipts to some people and
Speaker 1: not others on your phone though it's a batch. Wait,
Speaker 1: so Max, what are you also outside of Here's what
Speaker 1: I was on the story, especially this time of year.
Speaker 1: What was it like first day of school for you guys?
Speaker 1: To me, there was something something so that like goes
Speaker 1: with my personality very well. Yeah, I could see you
Speaker 1: like in the backpack. Um, I loved it too. But
Speaker 1: it was also a ton of anxiety. There was a
Speaker 1: it was a healthy balance both. But it changes from
Speaker 1: year to year, like in college, like first day, like
Speaker 1: sophomore year of college, like awesome, you got your friends.
Speaker 1: College is the greatest four years of your life, Like
Speaker 1: this is amazing, Like seventh grade, first day of school.
Speaker 1: A little bit of a different story, new school, new
Speaker 1: middle school. Yeah, so and you know, like all the
Speaker 1: kids are starting up school again, and I saw it.
Speaker 1: There was this viral photo that went around. Have you
Speaker 1: seen this of like the kid with autism, with autism
Speaker 1: who was like super overwhelmed with his first day of school, right,
Speaker 1: and so he was like crying and this other kid,
Speaker 1: I believe they were eight years old, held his hand
Speaker 1: and like walked him into school. Very sweet. And so
Speaker 1: this photo was shared I believed by one of the
Speaker 1: kids mothers, and you got all this national attention. But
Speaker 1: it was just like, man, like that's awesome. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was that was really cool. That was very very cool,
Speaker 1: and I believe I believe the kid that you know
Speaker 1: held his hand and helped him, like seeked him out.
Speaker 1: I thought that was like a really cool thing. It's
Speaker 1: not like they were just standing beside each other in
Speaker 1: line and he felt it was like he saw him
Speaker 1: walked over and chose to do the right thing. That. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was really sweet. But first day of school, I
Speaker 1: get that. It's that is a very a very big
Speaker 1: day for people. Well, hope you guys enjoyed another week
Speaker 1: of the group chat. We will try and not have
Speaker 1: oh wait a minute, whoa, I can't go yet. We
Speaker 1: have to address something that happened. Are we Yankees? Okay, first,
Speaker 1: let's just get that out of the way. We're not Yankees.
Speaker 1: But there was a review that was left. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: read the reviews. Yeah, we read the comments. They say
Speaker 1: not to, but we do. And there was one particular
Speaker 1: I would like for you will if you have it
Speaker 1: pulled up, I would like for you to read the
Speaker 1: said comment that has hurt us, probably more than it
Speaker 1: should have. First of all, it's a one star, which
Speaker 1: is pulling down our overall ranking here. If I wanted
Speaker 1: to listen to a bunch of Yankees, I'd move up north.
Speaker 1: I'd rather kill myself than keep hearing this nasal nonsense. Okay,
Speaker 1: first of all, there's so much to dissect here. First
Speaker 1: of all, let's just address the first thing. Don't ever
Speaker 1: say you're gonna kill yourself. No, okay. Number two, we're
Speaker 1: not Yankees, and you don't even have to move up
Speaker 1: north to listen to Yankees. This is the Internet to homeboy,
Speaker 1: like you literally log on and you can you can
Speaker 1: listen to someone speak a completely different language without moving
Speaker 1: to that country. What's the user name? Um wall Street
Speaker 1: is better than Bell. Okay, the title of it was
Speaker 1: what the hell is this Wall Street? Now, technically Wall
Speaker 1: Street is up north. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: I mean what I don't because so all right now,
Speaker 1: I did not see this comment until Will alert to
Speaker 1: me to this. But Will phrased it as somebody has
Speaker 1: something bad to say about you about Max. So Will
Speaker 1: thinks it's about me because I'm the Yankee. I'm the one,
Speaker 1: and we've discussed on this show and from New Jersey.
Speaker 1: I'm from you two or the Southerners. You guys are
Speaker 1: from South Carol, the Carolinians. But he says, a bunch
Speaker 1: of Yankees. It would be like one thing if you
Speaker 1: wanted to call me out. He doesn't like how I sound. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's fine, but he says, a bunch of attack the group.
Speaker 1: You guys sound. I don't think you guys sound like Northern.
Speaker 1: I think it's because I say you guys. Sometimes he
Speaker 1: wants you to say, y'all, y'all, y'all over here at
Speaker 1: the pint, there's y'all want to us talk about on here?
Speaker 1: Talking about the football. I'll give you some Southern Oh
Speaker 1: my god, can you do an episode? Yes? Told the
Speaker 1: whole time. I'll be fantastic, Caroline. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Y'all believe with the boys. What's doing? Then? I will say,
Speaker 1: when I get on the phone with certain people, I
Speaker 1: will like, that's just does your Southern go faster or slower? Oh?
Speaker 1: When it sounds like it's going fast, it goes fast
Speaker 1: when I get when I get upset, drink a few beers,
Speaker 1: or on the phone with certain people, it just comes Max,
Speaker 1: can you do it too? No? Why because he's the
Speaker 1: Yankee you can't even try. I mean it should be.
Speaker 1: I grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. I would love
Speaker 1: an episode where you guys continue in these voices. You
Speaker 1: know who wouldn't enjoy that? Everybody else, the one else
Speaker 1: but this guy. Guy, this guy, this guy would like it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but everyone else would hate it. Producer matthe even saying
Speaker 1: he would he would love for me to get kicked
Speaker 1: off the show. And you do to talk in that voice?
Speaker 1: What are the chances that he leaves another review in
Speaker 1: response to this? Will you please? And do you mind
Speaker 1: naming yourself? Like? I feel like that's a bit unfair,
Speaker 1: Like Wall Street put your name better than what do
Speaker 1: you say? Bell Bell? I don't know we can also
Speaker 1: use some more reviews. Everyone. We will not do mean reviews,
Speaker 1: but we'll do funny ones like this one. It's not
Speaker 1: particularly me, it's you know, tweet should we do like
Speaker 1: a mean tweet says it says much more about him
Speaker 1: than it does us. So that's why we're bringing it
Speaker 1: up because it's kind of funny. Um. Although please don't
Speaker 1: use anything as serious as saying you're going to do
Speaker 1: something to harm yourself, because that's a bit extreme. But
Speaker 1: we do, uh, we do appreciate. I will say we
Speaker 1: appreciate the reviews, but if you hurt our average, we'll
Speaker 1: bring it up. We'll say something about it. All right,
Speaker 1: we can really go now. I'm glad we picked that
Speaker 1: bone though, Like that feels I feel better And I
Speaker 1: got to hear you guys talk in those accents, which
Speaker 1: is well. Everyone, I hope you enjoy this episode of
Speaker 1: the Great Check. We will be back after the last
Speaker 1: preseason game to kick off the regular season. We will
Speaker 1: get into our routine and we'll see who makes his
Speaker 1: final fifty three than roster. You guys, have a good weekend.