Speaker 1: It's time full of a Happy half Hour with your
Speaker 1: friends Kristin Balboni, Miles Simmons, and Will Brian. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the Happy Half Hour podcast presented by Morris Jenkins. Kristen
Speaker 1: here with my buddies Miles and Will. And uh, this
Speaker 1: is a big day because currently I'm sitting across from
Speaker 1: Will Brian. We got producer Matt. The three of us
Speaker 1: are in the studio. Unfortunately, UM to do this safely,
Speaker 1: Will right, Um, there could only be three of us
Speaker 1: in here, and Miles drew the short stick. We didn't
Speaker 1: invite Miles. So does this mean that I get sent
Speaker 1: home next week? Because no one? No one wants that.
Speaker 1: I've seen on Twitter that people say that I'm recording
Speaker 1: from my bathroom and it just really doesn't sound good.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna I'll just there's another room over there
Speaker 1: that I'll go hide in and record from over there
Speaker 1: because no one wants to hear me from home. Is
Speaker 1: it a bathroom? It's not a bathroom. I promise producer
Speaker 1: Matt knows where it is. He's gonna hoop me up. Okay,
Speaker 1: it will be a bathroom. And we are just kidding,
Speaker 1: of course, we wish Miles was here, but I was
Speaker 1: already here in the stadium. Today. Will had been recording
Speaker 1: from his bathroom and it just wasn't cutting it. So
Speaker 1: Miles took win for the team, uh, and just staying
Speaker 1: home until we can figure this all out, how to
Speaker 1: do it all safely? Miles, we miss you, buddy, do
Speaker 1: you really? I mean, you don't have to say that.
Speaker 1: That's okay. I bet Will doesn't actually miss me because
Speaker 1: we're not really friends. It's been weeks. It's been weeks
Speaker 1: since that one. Apparently we're we we've lost our friendship again.
Speaker 1: It's so easy to just start the show that way.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just kind of rolled off the tongue.
Speaker 1: I don't even know, like if that's a real thing
Speaker 1: or not. Now I probably shouldn't just let it go.
Speaker 1: I can let it go, Will, whatever you say, it's okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll survive. Well, one thing that I cannot
Speaker 1: let go, and look, I know this isn't an audio medium,
Speaker 1: but I can't not reference the fact that Will is
Speaker 1: rocking an incredible mustache. I mean it's I know that
Speaker 1: that doesn't do much on a podcast, but well, it's
Speaker 1: you can't not talk about I'm sitting across from you,
Speaker 1: and this thing is it's majestic. Majestic. Yes, I I
Speaker 1: like that. It was it was time for a little,
Speaker 1: a little trim on Monday, and you know, started on
Speaker 1: the outside, went to the bottom and then got to
Speaker 1: the mustache last, and it was like, nope, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep it. I'm gonna I'm gonna leave it and see
Speaker 1: what happens. So it's there for now, Miles. Can you
Speaker 1: ever imagine going mustache for yourself? You know, I've done
Speaker 1: it for a Halloween costume, but I just feel like
Speaker 1: I'm mustache. Will a question about facial hair, like, what
Speaker 1: is the worst facial hair you've ever had? Oh? Um,
Speaker 1: I think I tried whatever this is? You try a
Speaker 1: soul again. No one doesn't help anybody. Yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 1: even help me because I'm not pointed to. He pointed
Speaker 1: to right up underneath his bottom lemp. So that's the
Speaker 1: soul patch, right, I think, right, I can beat that.
Speaker 1: I went chin only goatee for about a year and
Speaker 1: a half. It was roughly, but you committed to it, Matt, Yeah,
Speaker 1: for a long time. And now Matt, now that I'm
Speaker 1: looking to Matt you still have your mustache. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: went with a mustache as well. I got bored and guys,
Speaker 1: me too. By the way, no one can say now,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I'm the only person in this room
Speaker 1: without a without a mustache, So I'm feeling a little
Speaker 1: left out or you can change that. I can't, Thank goodness,
Speaker 1: I can't. Um, I don't even know what to say now.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about the fact that if I had
Speaker 1: grown a mustache and just walked in, what if I
Speaker 1: just do that next week? Guys, It's like, hey, what's
Speaker 1: up anyway, Miles, we miss you. Um, you may have
Speaker 1: to have a mustache upon entry next week if if
Speaker 1: we're all in here together, we'll see. But more importantly,
Speaker 1: it's not just Will and Matt and I that are
Speaker 1: back in the building. Of course, the team is here.
Speaker 1: Training camp is under way, and we've heard a lot
Speaker 1: from players this weeks. So we're going to share some
Speaker 1: of the best or most interesting things that we have
Speaker 1: heard this week in a new segment we are calling
Speaker 1: Overheard Overheard Alright. First up, we have got Stephen Weatherley,
Speaker 1: who was just a quotes machine. Everything he says is gold.
Speaker 1: But we really liked this one, um, where he is
Speaker 1: talking about the d line, and he begins this by
Speaker 1: comparing Brian Burns to his former Vikings teammate Daniel Hunter.
Speaker 1: So take a listen, Um, I see very similar freakish
Speaker 1: style abilities in regards to body awareness and body control
Speaker 1: that d has um back in Minnesota. Regards to speaking
Speaker 1: of Burns right, and so he very much knows how
Speaker 1: to use his body, how to position his body to
Speaker 1: get past the tackle for pass rush and the Ryan game. Uh,
Speaker 1: he may not look overly big, but he's very strong
Speaker 1: and very confident in places behind his hand, so he
Speaker 1: he sets good edges. And then uh, dv Derek Brown,
Speaker 1: he's a he's big like I'm big, But he's big
Speaker 1: and he does not move like he's big, Um, which
Speaker 1: is always a great thing. So once again, learning how
Speaker 1: one another plays, that's what's going to determine how well
Speaker 1: we play as a defense, because we definitely have pieces.
Speaker 1: Believe that, because I really like that, and and Will
Speaker 1: we were listening to these a little bit earlier just
Speaker 1: to pick out our favorites, and you made such a
Speaker 1: good point that this is really where it all starts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean last year it was almost like being a
Speaker 1: dead horse of like the defensive line, the run game,
Speaker 1: stopping the run every week, week over week, and it
Speaker 1: was obvious this is where they you know, address this
Speaker 1: in the draft. You know, the very first first round pick. Uh,
Speaker 1: Derrek Brown d b as as Stephen calls him. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's a big guy. He is big, and so
Speaker 1: you know, like seeing him and seeing what he's going
Speaker 1: to be able to do next to KK Short on
Speaker 1: that line, getting Brian Burns back health. You know when
Speaker 1: when Burns was in there, you know, he was just
Speaker 1: wrecking offensive tackles, you know, being able to he had
Speaker 1: so many different moves, He's able to set the edge. Um,
Speaker 1: he's bendy as people say. So you know, I think
Speaker 1: that there will be some people that are surprised by
Speaker 1: this Panther's defensive line, including having Weatherley on it as well.
Speaker 1: I just want to give um some numbers because you
Speaker 1: mentioned how big Derek Brown is, and of course even
Speaker 1: Weatherly mentioned how big he is. I love that part
Speaker 1: in the quote where he's like, I'm big, but he's big.
Speaker 1: So Dirk Brown is six five three, and you think
Speaker 1: about Stephen Weatherley six five two sixty five, So I
Speaker 1: can't wait to get there. We're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: see practice from our safe bandage point next week and
Speaker 1: just see kind of the two of them standing beside
Speaker 1: each other but six five at three and can move.
Speaker 1: It's it's so exciting. I'm so excited to see what
Speaker 1: Derek Brown does at this next level for the Panthers. Uh, Miles,
Speaker 1: I gotta say, I really like it feels like this
Speaker 1: d line is jelling from everything we've heard. And I
Speaker 1: know you have been locked in on all the things
Speaker 1: that these players have said, have been saying. You agree, right,
Speaker 1: the rookies, the new guys, the old pros. It feels
Speaker 1: like it's really coming together. Yeah, it does. And I
Speaker 1: think what's good about it right now is at least
Speaker 1: what Weatherly said is that because they have this longer
Speaker 1: ramping up period, they have more time to communicate together
Speaker 1: and to start to get the develop those relationships that
Speaker 1: are going to be so important on the field once
Speaker 1: they really start getting going. And it's interesting because when
Speaker 1: you have so many different pieces that are going to
Speaker 1: be able to cut, that that have to come in
Speaker 1: and that have to contribute, and you know, everybody knows
Speaker 1: what k Short's done throughout the course of his career.
Speaker 1: But somebody like a Derrek Brown, you know, he helping
Speaker 1: him get integrated and making sure that he is on
Speaker 1: the p's and cues from jump. That's gonna be really
Speaker 1: important because what I've always liked about defensive linement, and
Speaker 1: they say this cliche throughout the league, you have to
Speaker 1: stop the run in order to earn the right to
Speaker 1: rush the passers. So that means first down, second down,
Speaker 1: You've got to keep opposing offenses in uh an unenviable positions,
Speaker 1: right you don't you want to keep them in second
Speaker 1: and long and then third and seven or longer, so
Speaker 1: that means you get a chance to pin your ears
Speaker 1: back and rush the passer. And is what was just saying.
Speaker 1: You know, last year with Panthers was like beating a
Speaker 1: dead horse, right. The run defense just was not good.
Speaker 1: So if those guys can gel upfront well enough so
Speaker 1: that they can stop the run, well, well that's gonna
Speaker 1: mean good things for guys like Brian Burns who can
Speaker 1: get around those edges so well. And then you have
Speaker 1: somebody like shortened Derrick Brown who can push the pocket
Speaker 1: up the middle, and then we'll see on the opposite end,
Speaker 1: whether it's Gross Mattos, whether it's Weatherly, somebody else can
Speaker 1: then rush on the other side too. So those how
Speaker 1: those guys up front play on the early downs is
Speaker 1: going to determine a lot about then how they're going
Speaker 1: to be able to get after the passer. And mom As,
Speaker 1: while I got you here talking about Weatherly, you talk
Speaker 1: to him earlier this offseason right for a piece, and
Speaker 1: I think he's gotta be like, he's gotta be up
Speaker 1: there in contention for the team's renaissance. Man. I know
Speaker 1: there's quite a few, but he is just I think
Speaker 1: the most interesting guy. What was the most interesting thing
Speaker 1: that you learned about him? When it's you know, not
Speaker 1: relating to football interesting because there are a lot I
Speaker 1: know I put you on this thing now, but it's
Speaker 1: it's it's it's fun to talk to somebody like that
Speaker 1: because he has so many different interests and I could
Speaker 1: point to him playing I think eleven different instruments. He
Speaker 1: did a glass blowing class last year when he was
Speaker 1: with the Vikings that I thought was very interesting. Um,
Speaker 1: he's also really into social justice causes and so like
Speaker 1: even a couple of days ago when he was talking.
Speaker 1: He said that, you know, the decal he wants to
Speaker 1: wear on his helmet is all black lives matter, not
Speaker 1: just black lives matter, because of the way that people
Speaker 1: might see him one way because he's a professional athlete,
Speaker 1: but you know the other his the other members of
Speaker 1: his family, those black lives matter too. So what he
Speaker 1: said was all black lives matter, not just the ones
Speaker 1: you root for, right, So I think those things come
Speaker 1: to mind. I guess when you ask what else is
Speaker 1: interesting about him? And that's a cop out because I
Speaker 1: just said three things instead of one thing. But I
Speaker 1: think that's so kind of indicative of who he is
Speaker 1: because literally we picked we could have picked any quote
Speaker 1: from his press conference because he is so interesting, so eloquent,
Speaker 1: you just want to be around I just want to
Speaker 1: be around him. I want to ask him a million questions.
Speaker 1: So Miles will give you that one. You know, I
Speaker 1: said one thing, but he's just such an interesting guy.
Speaker 1: We'll we'll give you three or four. Another very interesting
Speaker 1: guy is Robby Anderson. So we heard from him and
Speaker 1: we picked out one of his quotes that we liked
Speaker 1: a lot. He spoke about the culture of this Panthers team,
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's just the standards in you know,
Speaker 1: he's planning to win, and you know, the process, like
Speaker 1: it's literally like the saying like listening to cold snow
Speaker 1: defensive coordinate that he spoke last night and I didn't
Speaker 1: remember like the exact things that he was gonna say,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't nothing like, it's nothing new to me.
Speaker 1: And I know those things that they that they closed behind,
Speaker 1: what they live by, and I've seen it firsthand that
Speaker 1: it worked. So it's just I feel like the thing
Speaker 1: is with where I'm at, I can feel everybody here,
Speaker 1: like the energy. Everybody's bought in. You know, I've been
Speaker 1: places where some people are some people aren't, some people
Speaker 1: are established, they don't you know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: just feel like it's a collective. It's a collective. Everybody's
Speaker 1: bought in and on like pretty much on the same
Speaker 1: page and trying to win. We're not. I don't feel
Speaker 1: like the you know, sometimes you get a new coach transition,
Speaker 1: it's let's focus on the futures for the future. I
Speaker 1: don't feel like that's the like that. I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody is trying to wait. So yeah, Robbie. You know,
Speaker 1: he spoke today about Coach Rule, his relationship with Coach
Speaker 1: Rule from Temple and what he sees. You know, this
Speaker 1: was a guy that was with the Jets. You know,
Speaker 1: he's been around um, he's been around this league a
Speaker 1: little bit, and he's something different going on here. And
Speaker 1: I think that is really worth pointing out that these guys,
Speaker 1: there's a culture, there's a hunger, there's there's some chips
Speaker 1: on some shoulders here. You know, people feel like they're underdogs.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's a little bit by design
Speaker 1: and the way that this roster was kind of created
Speaker 1: the spring and summer of Rule knows what types of
Speaker 1: guys he wants in this locker room and the way
Speaker 1: they're all going to feed off each other. And I
Speaker 1: think Robbie is a big example of that and is
Speaker 1: really kind of speaking to that right now. Well, I
Speaker 1: think it's interesting what you said about this underdog almost
Speaker 1: by design. We heard Christian McCaffrey last week and in
Speaker 1: his press conference says something to the effect of there's
Speaker 1: a lot of guys on this team with something to prove,
Speaker 1: mostly to themselves versus anyone else. And you think about
Speaker 1: a guy like that. Saying, Hey, we're kind of underdogs.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm kind of kind of kind of see
Speaker 1: myself as an underdog is just interesting. Um, considering all
Speaker 1: that he's accomplished and where he is in his career, Uh,
Speaker 1: Miles being around football so much, do you like that
Speaker 1: kind of mentality from rule of Look, we got something
Speaker 1: to prove to ourselves. Um, let's go out there and
Speaker 1: do it every single day. And that's the kind of
Speaker 1: mentality that we're gonna adopt this year. Yeah, everybody's everybody's
Speaker 1: got to get an edge somehow. You have to create
Speaker 1: that sort of mental edge for yourself, and I think
Speaker 1: Tom Brady does it by, you know, saying that everybody
Speaker 1: thinks we suck and can't win any games, right, And
Speaker 1: like I remember, like he said something to that effect
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years when he was with
Speaker 1: the Patriots, and I bet he'll say the same thing
Speaker 1: now that he's down in Tampa Bay. And it's just
Speaker 1: like that, whatever that internal motivating factor is for him,
Speaker 1: it works because it's strange because literally nobody was saying
Speaker 1: that the Patriots sucking can win in the games. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody said that over the last twenty years
Speaker 1: or even now as they're going through a lot of
Speaker 1: changes up there because they still have pill Belichick. But
Speaker 1: I think when it comes to having a new coaching
Speaker 1: staff and a young roster, you have to instill some
Speaker 1: sort of edge, some sort of mentality, and I think
Speaker 1: that that's kind of tough just considering that these guys
Speaker 1: didn't even get into the building together until a weeker
Speaker 1: too ago, right, so you had you didn't even have
Speaker 1: an off season where you could really start to get
Speaker 1: to know people um on a on a face to
Speaker 1: face basis as opposed to just over the internet with
Speaker 1: Zoom calls and Microsoft team calls. So now that they're
Speaker 1: in the building and this culture is starting to get established,
Speaker 1: it's going to be how do we make sure that
Speaker 1: this team is connected enough so that we can go
Speaker 1: out and accomplish what we need to accomplish on a
Speaker 1: week to week basis. That's hard to do, you know,
Speaker 1: with with a new coaching staff. It's hard to do
Speaker 1: because a lot of times new steps don't exactly know
Speaker 1: what their personnel is and how to best utilize that
Speaker 1: personal into a few weeks into the season, we'll see
Speaker 1: how that you know, turns out this year with the Panthers.
Speaker 1: But I think if everybody's on the same page in
Speaker 1: terms of what the culture need is and what the
Speaker 1: culture needs to be, that's the first step. So as
Speaker 1: long as the Panthers are taking that first step right now,
Speaker 1: that's a good sign. All I can think about was
Speaker 1: when you talked about Tom Brady inventing slights, I thought
Speaker 1: about Michael Jordan's yes, Will Will nodding to that poor guy,
Speaker 1: the poor was it a rookie that he said said
Speaker 1: something to him and then it turned out it never happened.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of his name off the top
Speaker 1: of my head, and it wasn't there someone on the
Speaker 1: hornets to think he did it too as well. But
Speaker 1: there was that one poor guy that was the focus
Speaker 1: of one of the episodes of The Last Dance UM
Speaker 1: that he said, oh yeah, he insulted me at halftime
Speaker 1: so I had to go out and score, and he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty years later, like it never happened. But Miles, you're right.
Speaker 1: You got to get the edge wherever you can. UM.
Speaker 1: And of course coach Rule is trying to instill that
Speaker 1: mentality and that culture UM. And one of the things
Speaker 1: we have heard him talk about so much is is
Speaker 1: toughness and competitiveness. He wants guys who are going to
Speaker 1: be tough and go out there every single day and compete,
Speaker 1: and that's not just on the field, that can relate
Speaker 1: to anything and eat our Rosmatos proved that earlier this
Speaker 1: week when he was talking about the hot dog eating
Speaker 1: contests that they had. I knew, I know, coach role was,
Speaker 1: you know, big on competing this stuff. So there's no
Speaker 1: rate I was really gonna get out of it because
Speaker 1: went out there and competed um eight nine nine hot
Speaker 1: dogs and in the three minutes, and I don't anticipate
Speaker 1: in any hot dogs anytime soon. So the rookie d
Speaker 1: line came out took the dub in this hot dog
Speaker 1: eating contest first of all, each eight nine hot dogs.
Speaker 1: That feels like a lot to me, Miles, what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that? It sounds gross man, I couldn't
Speaker 1: eat that many hot dogs in one sitting. More gross
Speaker 1: smatoes say to us face, well, work, I feel like
Speaker 1: to do a fail horn for that pun there. You
Speaker 1: used to just mute his mic when he said stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, go go back to that we're in
Speaker 1: the studio. Now anything's possible. Oh goodness. Eats a lot
Speaker 1: of hot dogs, and I loved He was like, look,
Speaker 1: I'm not eating any Morgan, but I did when he
Speaker 1: he got asked the question about the hot dog eating contest,
Speaker 1: and he was so serious as you hear, He's like,
Speaker 1: what coach rule likes competition. I went out there and
Speaker 1: I tried to have that competitive mindset and I I
Speaker 1: loved it. I absolutely love that kind of stuff. Will
Speaker 1: what's the most Like, have you ever done anything? And
Speaker 1: I've I've won a competitive eating contest at a minor
Speaker 1: league baseball game. No you haven't, tell us tell us
Speaker 1: the story right now. Yeah, So, like there was it
Speaker 1: was like the end of a doubleheader, so no one
Speaker 1: was around for the second one. And I was friends
Speaker 1: with like the marketing assistant for like the single a
Speaker 1: team in Charleston, and she's like, hey, we have to
Speaker 1: do this. You know, Buffalo Wild Wings or whatever whoever.
Speaker 1: The sponsor was like a chicken wing eating contest, So
Speaker 1: can you and your friend just do it? And yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was like hot wings. You know, I had
Speaker 1: I Yeah, what were your stats? Come on? What's I
Speaker 1: think it was at least like fifteen in in like
Speaker 1: a minute, and hot that's a lot in a minute.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much it would have counted because
Speaker 1: I kind of left someone the bone, you know, I
Speaker 1: was able to kind of what's going to inspect? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you screwed through and you cannot get the big chunks,
Speaker 1: and you just keep going, you know, you keep going, Yeah,
Speaker 1: who's going to go in there afterwards? And and really
Speaker 1: just you know, so, oh this one's got too much
Speaker 1: meat on, but let me pick it up and inspect it.
Speaker 1: No one's Yeah, so obviously this is something that Miles
Speaker 1: would a poor competitive eating, right, Yes, it absolutely is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's really gross. I mean, like I love chicken wings.
Speaker 1: I love hot dogs, but I want to enjoy them,
Speaker 1: you know, like I might have chicken wings for dinner
Speaker 1: now keep talking about them. And I got some frozen
Speaker 1: ones from Costco in my freezer. Like that sounds delicious,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to sit down and I'm gonna enjoy them, uh,
Speaker 1: non competitively. Um do you guys, what do you guys
Speaker 1: put on your hot dog? For topics? Because this is
Speaker 1: actually a big thing for me. Catch up, that's it?
Speaker 1: And I lived in Chicago for two years, Chris, and uh,
Speaker 1: what's happening over there? Just drop his phone in protest,
Speaker 1: I dropped my pen that I was holding. Sell you
Speaker 1: that much, listen. Okay, so this is obviously something you
Speaker 1: guys don't necessarily know about me. But I'm a big
Speaker 1: team mustard guy for for hot dogs. Did you just
Speaker 1: did you just adopt a Midwestern accent on a mustard
Speaker 1: guy in the Midwest like our mustard? Yes, because mustard
Speaker 1: is the You don't put ketchup on a hot dog.
Speaker 1: You're not a child. You gotta stop doing that. That's
Speaker 1: That's probably one of the more grown up foods I
Speaker 1: eat sometimes. So I don't have a strong opinion of
Speaker 1: hot dogs and just us. It's a thing though, No, okay,
Speaker 1: it is in the In Chicago, you cannot say and
Speaker 1: like I said, I lived there for two years, you
Speaker 1: cannot say that you put ketchup on a hot dog.
Speaker 1: I guess when it tastes better, I don't care. No,
Speaker 1: it absolutely does not. It's a bit of bolting to
Speaker 1: do something like that. That's terrible. I can't believe that
Speaker 1: you live there and you would tell people you do that.
Speaker 1: But so usually in you know, situations where there is
Speaker 1: a press box and there's press box food. A lot
Speaker 1: of times at halftime there will be hot dogs, right,
Speaker 1: So I will go and get a hot dog and
Speaker 1: put mustard on it, and I take a picture of it,
Speaker 1: and then I tweeted with the hashtag team mustard. I
Speaker 1: would be doing this this year. But I don't think
Speaker 1: that there's going to be a situation where we have
Speaker 1: hot dogs in a press box anyway. But that's it's like,
Speaker 1: it's I could, it's but that's my thing. So you
Speaker 1: know the fact that you have sat here and said
Speaker 1: that you only put catch up on your hot dog,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a little bit of a problem. Well
Speaker 1: what do you put on your hot dogs? I'm going
Speaker 1: to judge you for this, aren't I I think it
Speaker 1: depends on the venue. So I will go, well, so
Speaker 1: like dog. Yeah, I mean, I like I like some relish,
Speaker 1: Like I like relish, but I also don't want to
Speaker 1: be in a situation where, you know, at halftime, this
Speaker 1: relish can get on my nice shirt, you know, at
Speaker 1: a football game. Like if I'm you know, if I
Speaker 1: don't really care, like i'd like to, I'd like to
Speaker 1: kind of fill it up and put a lot of
Speaker 1: things on it. But yeah, I will say I'm team catchup.
Speaker 1: Thank you. And this pains me to say because I
Speaker 1: feel like we're both on Miles bad side now. But
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest. I think Relish is gross. I'm well,
Speaker 1: that's tough. Yeah, just catch up. You know, if I
Speaker 1: can pick on this podcast anymore, I think we'll we'll
Speaker 1: looking daggers at me that I just insulted Relish. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm a simple relish. Relish isn't acquired.
Speaker 1: It's because you know you have good at It's good
Speaker 1: at a game too. Yeah, it's a little bit texture weird,
Speaker 1: but I mean I didn't like relish forever and then
Speaker 1: I kind of started trying it and I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is actually pretty good. I agree with what you're saying about.
Speaker 1: I mean, I still wouldn't order one. But it's different
Speaker 1: if you're going to like a baseball game and you
Speaker 1: know they've got the it's there's it's venue specific. It
Speaker 1: looks a lot more appetizing, I would say then than
Speaker 1: any other time. So um, but you know what doesn't
Speaker 1: is mustard just playing mustard on a hot dog. Never
Speaker 1: it's mustard and something usually right, so it's it could
Speaker 1: be mustard and onion, mustard, relish mustard, sour crowd. If
Speaker 1: you get a with all that mustard and there's a
Speaker 1: there's a reason why I'm single, right, I feel like
Speaker 1: I was not. I mean, looking from the apparently once
Speaker 1: a week during NFL season, that's a significant amount. I
Speaker 1: think that I felt. I sort of felt like I
Speaker 1: was describing like the SpongeBob Wombo as I just went
Speaker 1: through bombology, the study of Wombo first rate SpongeBob. You
Speaker 1: can turn my mic off now you we don't know
Speaker 1: what happened. We lost you halfway through that, and then
Speaker 1: you just came back and started Wombo and spun Bob.
Speaker 1: You were still going. It was amazing, My god, it was.
Speaker 1: We're leaving it, leave it all all right? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: even weirder. Now, Okay, I've open. I felt Miles took
Speaker 1: one for the team. Will how to get out of
Speaker 1: his bathroom. I was already here, and now Miles is
Speaker 1: at home and we're teasing him about us hot dogs.
Speaker 1: We'll make up for this. There's also some weird stuff
Speaker 1: going around on my part. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys can hear it through like the microphone. But there's
Speaker 1: like some crashing stuff going on outside my walls. I
Speaker 1: don't really know what's happening out there. It seems like
Speaker 1: people are moving furniture around. I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm confused by it. Oh that was amazing. This was
Speaker 1: just I did not know that we were going to
Speaker 1: get so passionate about hot dogs. Um, but I'm glad
Speaker 1: that we did. Absolutely that we did. Absolutely. I definitely
Speaker 1: feel like I know you guys better. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: don't like us anymore. I think I think you like us,
Speaker 1: you know us better and like us less. That's a
Speaker 1: trend to each Yeah, every week. I don't know how
Speaker 1: how low the bottom is, because we keep going lower.
Speaker 1: I was actually I was pretty good. Well, we all
Speaker 1: know that you you know, are are down there in
Speaker 1: miles estimation. You know, guys are not quite friends. But
Speaker 1: I think I'm going now with my hot dog takes.
Speaker 1: I think I'm I'm scooting pretty far down there with you,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. Look, Mile is gonna Mile is going
Speaker 1: to be here in person. He can't you know, he
Speaker 1: can't deny us. You can't make fun of us for
Speaker 1: our hot dog takes right in person, Miles, We'll climb
Speaker 1: back up. We'll climb back up the list when you
Speaker 1: get here with us, fair enough, and I have faith. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna hand the mic over right now
Speaker 1: because it is time for something, the debut of something
Speaker 1: that I'm very excited about. We are calling it the
Speaker 1: Minute of Mayhem. And uh Will texted me, gosh, this
Speaker 1: was a while. This might have been after we recorded
Speaker 1: our last episode, and you said, I have a surprise.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do something on the podcast. I have
Speaker 1: an impression. Do you want me to say what the
Speaker 1: impression is or do you want to say what it is? No?
Speaker 1: I think you you have more experience with this world,
Speaker 1: so definitely, and you need to set it up all right.
Speaker 1: So for this week's Minute of Mayhem, Will is going
Speaker 1: to do an impression of something that is very near
Speaker 1: and dear to my heart. Um, and that is a
Speaker 1: solo radio host. You know. I think it is truly
Speaker 1: a gift to be able to talk to yourself for
Speaker 1: four hours straight and in some instances right, Um, I
Speaker 1: could never do it. I it is insane to me
Speaker 1: that anyone can can pull that off every single day,
Speaker 1: and I think it really takes a special breed a person.
Speaker 1: So well, when you texted me about this, I've been
Speaker 1: excited for this for a week. For a week. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, the pressure now. So without further ado, Panthers
Speaker 1: rebuild or reset. You tell me they're young, but it
Speaker 1: sounds like they're hungry. You don't want to mess around
Speaker 1: with a young, hungry team with a chip on their shoulder,
Speaker 1: especially when you have no idea what their playbook is
Speaker 1: going to be. You don't know who's lining up where,
Speaker 1: you don't know where the blitzes are coming from. You
Speaker 1: don't know who's going to be in the backfield touching
Speaker 1: the ball. Who do you guard, especially when the ball
Speaker 1: is coming out fast, especially when you have the best, best,
Speaker 1: best running back in the game, especially when you have
Speaker 1: the fastest skill players on offense and a quarterback that
Speaker 1: knows the system. I'm not saying I'm just saying, hungry, hungry.
Speaker 1: I'm hungry. Do they won't have any snacks? I'm hungry.
Speaker 1: It was the dead air that did it for me.
Speaker 1: The dead air where you're like, is this a commercial break?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Tennyson, I was trying to keep it
Speaker 1: together over here, Miles, what did you think? How did
Speaker 1: he do? Could he host his own radio show by himself?
Speaker 1: I mean I had to mute my mike because I
Speaker 1: was laughing hysterically. Matt, please edit in some fake applause
Speaker 1: right here, because that was wow, wow, wow, wow, that
Speaker 1: was great. Um, but I do have a question, sir.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, long time listener, first time caller. Uh, you
Speaker 1: don't know who's lining up in the backfield? Um? I
Speaker 1: think we do know that. Who? What do you have
Speaker 1: to say? Who you know? Who? No? I'm serious? Who?
Speaker 1: Who are you? Like? Where can someone screen these calls?
Speaker 1: I don't know who this guy is calling in? But no, no, seriously,
Speaker 1: who is lining up in the backfield? Christian McCaffrey, Reggie Bonifon, Cartis,
Speaker 1: Samuel D. J. Moore, Teddy Bridgewater, Alex Arma, Chris Man, Hurts,
Speaker 1: Ian Thomas? Who where are you talking about? Tight ends
Speaker 1: lining up in the backfield? Back? Man? I'm I'm an
Speaker 1: h back guy. You really you really think that? Believe?
Speaker 1: I believe in the H back. I don't. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: just because I watched Sean McVeigh run an eleven personal
Speaker 1: offense for you know, two plus years. Um, but you know,
Speaker 1: I think it. I don't know where I'm going to
Speaker 1: go with this, but I've thought that that was hysterical
Speaker 1: on on a solo radio show. He would have cut
Speaker 1: you off as soon as you started disagreeing, and then
Speaker 1: what would have just kept going on his point exactly.
Speaker 1: It's like you hear the listener, you hear the caller,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they're just not there anymore,
Speaker 1: and then another five minute tangent. Yes, that was wow.
Speaker 1: That was that was great. I'm chef's kiss for sure,
Speaker 1: it was. It was great. Um, can we get another
Speaker 1: one of those? At some point in the future, can
Speaker 1: we have will Brian radio hosts come back? I think
Speaker 1: was it actually a minute? Though? Because it felt like
Speaker 1: it could have been longer. I should have timed it.
Speaker 1: That's a good point I didn't think about. I think
Speaker 1: it was Usually was pretty close. Usually we tied me
Speaker 1: on these. Thats true, we do put miles on the timer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. Next time, it needs to be exactly sixty second.
Speaker 1: It was a lot harder to do in the studio
Speaker 1: because I was I'm looking at it. Kristen was literally
Speaker 1: falling out of her chair. I was trying to I
Speaker 1: was trying to not make eye contact, but I couldn't start,
Speaker 1: and then I was trying to not laugh. It was
Speaker 1: too much. It exceeded my expectations. Thank you for that
Speaker 1: minute of mayhem. Oh my gosh. M all right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna wrap this up our weird question of the week,
Speaker 1: and this one is coming to us courtesy of Patrick T. Vogel,
Speaker 1: one of our amazing listeners. He tweeted us and asked,
Speaker 1: with Shark Week coming up, which type of shark would
Speaker 1: you be? And why? I love it? Because you know,
Speaker 1: on this podcast we get to all the hard hitting
Speaker 1: questions what do you like on your hot dog? And
Speaker 1: what kind of shark would you be? So Miles, the
Speaker 1: floor is yours. What shark would you be? I would
Speaker 1: be a great white shark? Because okay, that's okay, real original. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a great white shark gun Shark Week, So I
Speaker 1: think we should start eating Miles. The baton has been
Speaker 1: passed easily. It was just that joke. Um any specific
Speaker 1: because it's the it's the king of the sharks. That's true.
Speaker 1: That's reason enough. I like it. Well, what about you
Speaker 1: tiger shark? Okay, The tiger shark eats everything they find.
Speaker 1: Tiger sharks with all sorts of things inside them. They
Speaker 1: not not hot dogs of ketchup. Surely if if a
Speaker 1: hot dog with ketchup slips in there, then who's to say?
Speaker 1: How dare that tiger shark? It's not a child. They
Speaker 1: eat everything. I like it. I like it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go hammer Head, uh, only because I could only think
Speaker 1: of two, and that was the Great White and I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, that's not you know, someone else is
Speaker 1: gonna take it. I was right about that. Hammer hads
Speaker 1: the only one other one that came to mind, And uh,
Speaker 1: I kind of like what they got going on, you know,
Speaker 1: one eye on one side, one eye on the other
Speaker 1: checking everything out. I'm a fan. Also, the the blue
Speaker 1: shark jumps out of the water the whale. The whale
Speaker 1: shark is the whale shark is yes, yeah, in the ocean. Alright,
Speaker 1: so you're clearly a shark. Weak guy. I looked up.
Speaker 1: I looked at Patrick. Thank you so much for that question. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, that is gonna do it for us first
Speaker 1: time in the studio for Will and I on this
Speaker 1: edition of The Happy Half Hour. Miles. Uh we hope
Speaker 1: that we get to see you in person next speek
Speaker 1: and everyone, thank you for listening. O