Speaker 1: Hi, this is Dewey Jenkins. After my four years in
Speaker 1: the Navy, you're an AE and I moved to Charlotte,
Speaker 1: even though neither of us were from here. I was
Speaker 1: from the mountains of Virginia and she was from Florida,
Speaker 1: but we agreed that Charlotte was where we wanted to
Speaker 1: build our future together. I was a full time student
Speaker 1: at U n c C by day and ran a
Speaker 1: janitorial business that night. And a few years later I
Speaker 1: bought a little air conditioning company, and that's how I
Speaker 1: met you, and I'm really glad I did. It's time
Speaker 1: for the Happy Half Hour with your friends Kristen Belboni
Speaker 1: and Will Brian, presented by Morris Jenkins. That's right, it's
Speaker 1: that time of the week, The Happy Half Hour podcast
Speaker 1: presented by Morris Jenkins, and Mr Jenkins told me that
Speaker 1: he loves football and he looks forward to this show
Speaker 1: all week. When you're plumbing her air conditioning is acting up?
Speaker 1: Morris Jenkins or is it Morris Jenkins dot com. Kristin
Speaker 1: here with my good buddies Will and Matt. Fresh off
Speaker 1: of a celebration Sunday. I guess a celebration all week?
Speaker 1: A nice win for the Panthers over the Washington football team,
Speaker 1: and what was a reunion for a lot of these players,
Speaker 1: coaching staff, um, everyone involved. So it was neat to
Speaker 1: see guys, I thought them the camaraderie um, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone kind of it kind of felt like a family
Speaker 1: reunion before and a little bit after. But it was
Speaker 1: all business um during the game and a nice win
Speaker 1: for the Panthers. They played lights out in that first
Speaker 1: half and then we're able to to make some stops
Speaker 1: where it counted, hang on to that win in the
Speaker 1: second half. Yeah, it's it's like one of those things
Speaker 1: where you go and play your old friend or you
Speaker 1: play you know, maybe like a cousin or a family member,
Speaker 1: and you really really liked them and you really respect them,
Speaker 1: but man, you really want to beat them, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think it kind of had that feel to it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously, you know, coach Rule didn't necessarily have
Speaker 1: the relationship with with Ron Rivera that a number of
Speaker 1: the players and obviously a lot of the staff, some
Speaker 1: of the staff did, but it felt like that a
Speaker 1: little bit like hey, yeah, we love you man, like
Speaker 1: we really we've been thinking about it, but man, we're
Speaker 1: gonna come out here and we're gonna win this game,
Speaker 1: like we're we're we're gonna win this game. And I
Speaker 1: think it kind of had that feeling kind of leading
Speaker 1: up to it and certainly through it. Um and there
Speaker 1: was just so much There was so much intensity from
Speaker 1: from guys like Dante Jackson and Trey Boston, you know,
Speaker 1: Trey getting that interception right before half, um, the big
Speaker 1: plays in in special teams. There was really just a
Speaker 1: sense of, Hey, we want to break through. We've been
Speaker 1: so close to kind of winning these things. We're not
Speaker 1: going to let this come down the fourth quarter. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get this thing done. And this one was um
Speaker 1: an example of two things that Matt Rule has preached
Speaker 1: all season. One is that he doesn't want to let
Speaker 1: um emotion get the best of anyone when there is a,
Speaker 1: you know, a reunion type game. I remember talking to
Speaker 1: him the first time that the Panthers were facing the
Speaker 1: Saints and he said, I said, you know, what do
Speaker 1: you think about Joe Brady and and Teddy Bridgewater going
Speaker 1: back to face their former team. And He's like, actually,
Speaker 1: I just wish every week I hope that everyone prepares
Speaker 1: exactly the same way. And so this is a very
Speaker 1: emotional game, and he thinks that sometimes emotions can get
Speaker 1: the best of you if you don't channel them in
Speaker 1: the right um, if you don't channel them in the
Speaker 1: right way, and that you play off emotion um rather
Speaker 1: than than doing your job and and knowing the game plan.
Speaker 1: And so I thought this was a nice um win
Speaker 1: for them in the sense that they did not let
Speaker 1: emotion and seeing the former coaches UM and former teammates
Speaker 1: get the best of them um, which I know that
Speaker 1: Rule is very happy about. And then also the other
Speaker 1: thing that he's talked a lot about lately is learning
Speaker 1: how to win in December. And you know, he says
Speaker 1: he considers it a skill, and it's something that he's
Speaker 1: had an eye out this month, especially when it comes
Speaker 1: to the young players. Here is what he said on
Speaker 1: Monday in his press conference in this week's Overheard, did
Speaker 1: you hear something overheard? I really believe that it's a
Speaker 1: skill to win late in the year. Like you watched
Speaker 1: the Patriots and years ago the Super Bowl, they high
Speaker 1: flying and all of sudd at the end of year,
Speaker 1: they transformed themselves when it gets cold and they run
Speaker 1: the ball and stop the run and do all those things. So, um,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to give you a complete kind of
Speaker 1: football answer that makes sense. Why I think it's so
Speaker 1: important that we went to Lambeau and didn't roll over,
Speaker 1: that we fought back. Why it's so And if you
Speaker 1: look back to the first game was Denver, we didn't
Speaker 1: play very good, and so to go from Denver to
Speaker 1: the way we played at Green Bay. So now the
Speaker 1: way we played yesterday, I mean that was that was
Speaker 1: a hard fought game. And then we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: this week versus Saints. I mean, it's four twenty five,
Speaker 1: it's national TV, it's Saints. You know. The fighting for
Speaker 1: the bye, I mean the bye this year is so
Speaker 1: importantcause only one team gets it. So I mean they're
Speaker 1: they're gonna play, and so if we go like that,
Speaker 1: hopefully that will be another step. Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: about it's about a sense of in order to win games,
Speaker 1: you have to win in the fourth quarter. In order
Speaker 1: to win seasons, you have to win in December. In
Speaker 1: order to be a successful franchise and program, you have
Speaker 1: to get to the playoffs. And when you can tell
Speaker 1: who's Will Brian and who's Matt rule Now after listening
Speaker 1: to these that I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I love it
Speaker 1: though I love it, but yeah, I mean it's something
Speaker 1: we talked about. You know. I referenced what Jake and
Speaker 1: Jordan's said back in November before even in it was
Speaker 1: one of those things that back in the back in
Speaker 1: the day when the Panthers went three straight um or
Speaker 1: three straight playoff appearances under Ron Rivera, one of the
Speaker 1: things that they kept talking about was you gotta win December,
Speaker 1: win December. And they were able to do that. And
Speaker 1: these last couple of years, I mean, obviously injuries all
Speaker 1: the things kind of contributed to it, but I think
Speaker 1: the thing that really got people around here was just
Speaker 1: it just fell off. And that's just something that I
Speaker 1: think was really important that for that rule that didn't
Speaker 1: happen this year, that yeah, things were you know, maybe
Speaker 1: you're out of the playoff race, maybe uh, there isn't
Speaker 1: seemingly as much to play for, but we're not gonna
Speaker 1: fall off. And you know, we're gonna keep building, We're
Speaker 1: gonna keep getting better. We still have games to play,
Speaker 1: you know, we're professionals, uh, and and we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: getting better at it. And I think that that has
Speaker 1: has shown itself. I mean it's hard to win in Lambeau,
Speaker 1: you know against Green Bay, and they still did a
Speaker 1: pretty good job of that. And obviously this week, um,
Speaker 1: you know, going to Washington, a team that uh needed
Speaker 1: to win that game to win the to win the division,
Speaker 1: and they did it. And then again again this week
Speaker 1: against the Saints. The Saints need to win to have
Speaker 1: a chance to get a buy. So, as Coach Rule said,
Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, they're simulating kind of playoff atmospheres
Speaker 1: and they're they're going against teams that are really trying. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I I completely agree. And I asked him, I said,
Speaker 1: did this win. I was talking to coach Rule earlier
Speaker 1: this week. I said, did this win show you that
Speaker 1: that foundation is being laid for starting to learn how
Speaker 1: to win? In December? Now it's only been you know,
Speaker 1: the one win. Um. But he said, yeah, he saw
Speaker 1: it in those things will that you were just talking about, Um,
Speaker 1: in the commitment, in the intensity. And I tell you
Speaker 1: what I saw it in practice last week. Um. It
Speaker 1: was Wednesday, right, you know, the first day of practice
Speaker 1: last week, coming off of a tough loss, of disappointing
Speaker 1: loss and the defense as soon as they came out,
Speaker 1: like all gathered together and did I asked Jack about it,
Speaker 1: and he referred to it as like stomp the yard,
Speaker 1: you know, where they're all in like a circle and
Speaker 1: there now I'm like moving back and forth in front
Speaker 1: of my mic and no one can see me. It
Speaker 1: just is you know, great audio right here. But you
Speaker 1: know they're all moving back and forth, and uh, you
Speaker 1: know Jack jumps in the middle. I mean that's that's
Speaker 1: the first minute they get out um onto the practice
Speaker 1: field after a tough loss, when they only have two
Speaker 1: games left and are you know, mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I just thought that was the coolest and I asked
Speaker 1: Jack about it and he said, yeah. He said, well,
Speaker 1: Trey thought we needed some energies, like so I jumped
Speaker 1: in there and it just set the tone. And I
Speaker 1: really feel like that translated. I could see it in
Speaker 1: practice all week, and then it translated to this game.
Speaker 1: And you know, Rule has also spoken about how the
Speaker 1: veterans have to lead the way for these young guys
Speaker 1: to learn how to win. In December, and there's this
Speaker 1: quote that we've heard him say a couple of times,
Speaker 1: which is like knowing the game plan and also being
Speaker 1: able to make sure you have a present for your wife.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not just that this is the most
Speaker 1: important time of the season, um, because it leads to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. How you play in December leads to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But also it's the holidays, um, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: And so he said that he thought this the way
Speaker 1: in which they won the game, UM, really showed him
Speaker 1: that they are starting to kind of grasp onto that
Speaker 1: to meet the moment. But but they gotta do it again.
Speaker 1: You know. It's just, um, you can't just be a
Speaker 1: one time thing for this this culture to to change
Speaker 1: and to have that winning in December mindset. So, as
Speaker 1: you said, well, another great opportunity on Sunday. And I
Speaker 1: think one of the things that maybe got a lost
Speaker 1: a little bit or at least not articulated well enough
Speaker 1: on the on the twitters over the last seventy two hours,
Speaker 1: because I mean, it's it's been it's been crazy out here,
Speaker 1: crazy out here in the Twitter streets. It's it's crazy
Speaker 1: in the Twitter streets. And you know, I'm sure people
Speaker 1: that are listening to this, you know, have no you know,
Speaker 1: in their mind, have no patience for us defending this
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know, they want that top three pick.
Speaker 1: And you know, we can go back and forth about
Speaker 1: you know, all the statistics of top five quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: two thousand and ten only winning uh, you know, like
Speaker 1: two playoffs or twelve playoff games, and only two of
Speaker 1: them could potentially go to the playoffs this year. You know,
Speaker 1: not that I didn't look that up just before we talked,
Speaker 1: but I want to I want to go into this. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: I want to go into this real quick. You look
Speaker 1: at this team of of young guys, and certainly this year,
Speaker 1: maybe more than other years, there's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: still under contract coming back, you know, really trying to
Speaker 1: build this thing together. But you look at a guy
Speaker 1: like like Mike Davis. Mike Davis doesn't know necessarily what
Speaker 1: any year is going to like for him, you know,
Speaker 1: whether he's back with the Panthers, whether he's somewhere else,
Speaker 1: whether he's backing up Christian McCaffrey, whether he's splitting carries
Speaker 1: with Christian. He's not going to go out against Washington
Speaker 1: with a chance to get a thousand scrimmage yards to
Speaker 1: enhance his life, his family, his his future, you know,
Speaker 1: his money and just say, well, but you know, if
Speaker 1: I score this touchdown, we may not get a top
Speaker 1: five draft pick, and maybe I should just bumble it,
Speaker 1: you know, like I mean when you never happened do yeah,
Speaker 1: of course not, you know, I mean he tiered up,
Speaker 1: he teered up in his press conference this week about
Speaker 1: getting a thousand yards. So obviously this game is important
Speaker 1: to him on a level that none of us understand, right,
Speaker 1: you know, Kurt mean, Curtis Samuel doesn't. He has no
Speaker 1: apologies for someone that wants a top five draft pick
Speaker 1: when he's out here getting records for scrimmage yards and
Speaker 1: helping himself, you know, whether it's here next year with
Speaker 1: a contract, whether it's somewhere else. You know, he he
Speaker 1: doesn't care, like these guys are professionals. And that's right.
Speaker 1: Brian Burns going out there, we didn't think he was
Speaker 1: going to play all we can practice and then the
Speaker 1: last minute he was like, no, I'm gonna play like
Speaker 1: and getting back in the game because he wanted it
Speaker 1: so bad, right and that you know that that's how
Speaker 1: that that, I mean, that's what the point of the
Speaker 1: culture part is. You know, it's not just this you know,
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, yeah, they're really going to remember
Speaker 1: that game in December when they're entering training camp in August,
Speaker 1: and it's like maybe they will, maybe they won't in
Speaker 1: terms of a gut feeling. Maybe it's different players. But
Speaker 1: when you have guys that you know are always ready
Speaker 1: to compete, if they're ready to compete in December when
Speaker 1: it doesn't count, that means that they're ready to compete
Speaker 1: when they wake up in March and they go down
Speaker 1: to their home gym and they're working out on their own,
Speaker 1: you know, or they're ready to compete when they show
Speaker 1: up to to May camp or training camp or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. You know, if they're ready to compete now,
Speaker 1: then that's something about them that means they're always ready.
Speaker 1: And that's what you need in guys to be elite
Speaker 1: NFL football players is, you know, competitors all the time,
Speaker 1: all the time. And another thing that that mentality that
Speaker 1: you're talking about that leads to a longer, more successful,
Speaker 1: more sustainable franchise. We're having a top five pick, isn't
Speaker 1: That is not necessarily indicative of of a culture change
Speaker 1: or of oh we we're gonna have a top five
Speaker 1: picks so obviously we're about to blow up and have
Speaker 1: a playoff team. So I looked this up, well, your Mr.
Speaker 1: Stat guy, but I looked this up last night because
Speaker 1: this is kind of a hot button issue for me.
Speaker 1: I hate the whole tanking argument. So eleven teams have
Speaker 1: had five or more top five draft picks since two
Speaker 1: thousand NFL. Since the two thousand NFL draft. Of those
Speaker 1: eleven teams, four have been to the Super Bowl, and
Speaker 1: only one team, the Bucks, have won a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and that was before they started picking in the top five. Okay,
Speaker 1: so eight teams have had one or zero top five
Speaker 1: draft picks in that same time span. Those teams have
Speaker 1: combined in for a sixteen and seven record in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, whereas the other eleven teams combined form a
Speaker 1: losing playoff record of thirty two and forty nine. So
Speaker 1: top five draft picks obviously do not translate into Super
Speaker 1: Bowl or playoff wins. Yep. I mean it's pretty simple,
Speaker 1: because there's there's there's more at play. If you're drafting
Speaker 1: at the top five, it's more. It's more than just oh,
Speaker 1: we need a quarterback and the next year will be great. Now,
Speaker 1: there's obviously there's there's usually other things that are problematic
Speaker 1: that need to get fixed. If you're in the top
Speaker 1: five and then you're in the top five again and again, UM,
Speaker 1: it's not someplace you want to be. So those eleven
Speaker 1: teams that have picked five or more times in the
Speaker 1: top five are Cleveland, Washington, Cincinnati, Jacksonville, Arizona, the Chargers, Detroit,
Speaker 1: the New York Jets, the Raiders, Tampa Bay, and the Rams.
Speaker 1: None of those teams have long sustaining called. I guess
Speaker 1: the Rams recently have done that. But those are not
Speaker 1: teams that you would want to be a fan of
Speaker 1: if you're asking me. Yep, all great points, and you
Speaker 1: know we are all on the same page about this. UM.
Speaker 1: You don't one team that's gonna give up. And it's
Speaker 1: just not likely in the NFL, Like it's just not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. UM. So I don't very proud personally of
Speaker 1: that when the effort that UM, this team continues to
Speaker 1: show um at the end of the year and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the game on Sunday. I hope
Speaker 1: we ruined the Saint season. I don't know if we
Speaker 1: can ruin their season, but if the Fathers can ruin
Speaker 1: anything for the Saints. Yeah, we'll take it when we're
Speaker 1: when we're when we're watching the Saints have to go
Speaker 1: in the snow to Lambo, knowing that they could have
Speaker 1: been in New Orleans except for us. Exactly, exactly great
Speaker 1: way to end the season in my opinion. All right,
Speaker 1: this is the Happy Half Hour podcast presented by Morris Jenkins.
Speaker 1: Mr Jenkins told me his plumbers in a c tex
Speaker 1: secretly where Panthers jerseys under their uniforms when you're plumbing
Speaker 1: or air conditioning. Is acting up? Called Morris Jenkins or
Speaker 1: is it Morris Jenkins dot com? All right, we been
Speaker 1: throwing stats around already, but like Matt's getting in on
Speaker 1: it too. I didn't I didn't know that I should
Speaker 1: bring my stat But what's well, what's your official stat
Speaker 1: of the week? Its time instead of the week, So
Speaker 1: the official stat of the week is Curtis Samuel. Yet
Speaker 1: again in the headlines, Samuel needs seventy scrimmage yards to
Speaker 1: get one thousand for the season, which, no, that's not
Speaker 1: a correction. You've heard that last week too with Mike Davis.
Speaker 1: So Samuel will joined Mike Davis. Robbie Anderson and d
Speaker 1: J Moore as the fourth Panther with at least a
Speaker 1: thousand scrimmage yards in the same season, and in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl era back to nineteen sixty seven, that's only
Speaker 1: happened four other times, only four times as the team
Speaker 1: had four players with at least a thousand scrimmage yards
Speaker 1: in the same season. So I looked it up in
Speaker 1: the game because Will has started it to influence me
Speaker 1: with his stats and um, you know, with with Robbie
Speaker 1: and DJ getting to a thousand yards in the Green
Speaker 1: Bay game, and then you know Willison be on the
Speaker 1: lookout for Mike Davis. He got there and I was like,
Speaker 1: Where's where's Curtis Samuel and all this? And I looked
Speaker 1: m at where he started before um Sunday's game, and
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, still a long way off. And
Speaker 1: then he started having the game of his life and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, man, like I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen in here. So well, I had an
Speaker 1: eye on that too. Where he was with two something anyway,
Speaker 1: not important, but I just I'm saying Will is influencing
Speaker 1: me in terms of what to look out for with
Speaker 1: these milestones and I had the same thought. I was like,
Speaker 1: I wonder when Will is going to tell me when
Speaker 1: is the last time this happened where you could potentially
Speaker 1: have four guys over a thousand scrimmage yards And now
Speaker 1: I know. I literally I literally had people d m
Speaker 1: ng me on Sunday night asking about it and they're like,
Speaker 1: what is it? What is it like? Oh no, So
Speaker 1: I had to spend most of Monday morning. This one
Speaker 1: took a little bit of research to figure it out,
Speaker 1: both of Monday researching this. Do you guys, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw I tweeted it last night, but
Speaker 1: if you want to have any guesses on who any
Speaker 1: of the other four teams were, I don't I didn't
Speaker 1: look at your tweet. But my first guest is maybe
Speaker 1: the Marshall Falk, Isaac Bruce, Tory holt rams something like that.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know who that would be. I was
Speaker 1: looking for it, but no that it was just the
Speaker 1: three of them. They never had a fourth. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: was about to say, I don't know who the fourth
Speaker 1: one would be. Um, can I have a hint? Sir?
Speaker 1: So three of them, you're not gonna you're not gonna
Speaker 1: have recognized the fourth one was kind of that early
Speaker 1: two thousand's elite offense um with multiple playmakers so similar
Speaker 1: that sounds like the Rams, it's not. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: kind of the regime right after that. I guess early
Speaker 1: day in New England because I can't think of another.
Speaker 1: I'm terrible with historical like just guessing stuff out of
Speaker 1: the N A f C play inside. Okay, just misery here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the two thousand four Peyton Manning lead in you, James,
Speaker 1: And who was the fourth that year? Was it Dallas
Speaker 1: Clark Brandon Stokely? Oh my goodness, I would have never
Speaker 1: have not heard his name in a lot of time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Brandon Stokely. So the other three were Atlanta and Houston
Speaker 1: in the Houston Oilers and the Washington Washington's. That's great.
Speaker 1: Do you go back and look at all that stuff
Speaker 1: or do you have like a plug like are you
Speaker 1: calling like the Allia Sports Bureau or No. I probably
Speaker 1: could have, but they it takes a while on them.
Speaker 1: So I literally I have a I have just like
Speaker 1: a it's called radar three sixties system for all this stuff.
Speaker 1: And rather than at first I was going back two thousand,
Speaker 1: two thousand, two thousand eighteen and just kind of looking
Speaker 1: and then she'll still be doing that right now, if
Speaker 1: you right. Instead of doing that, I just did it
Speaker 1: by team, so there would only be thirty two and
Speaker 1: then just listed all of their seasons so I could
Speaker 1: just scroll through from sixty seven to And I didn't
Speaker 1: want it, Like the super Bowl era is a nice
Speaker 1: cut off because all sorts of crazy things happen in
Speaker 1: the fifties and forties, and I just don't even want
Speaker 1: to mess with it. Yeah, the context there is a
Speaker 1: little ski Yeah, it's just crazy, So I don't mess
Speaker 1: with that. We're gonna find a way to ask a
Speaker 1: little question about like is this has this happens at
Speaker 1: some point. I'm gonna keep that in mind, something to
Speaker 1: just really bother him. Um. I love it. I love
Speaker 1: the little status. Yeah, we get a good enough question.
Speaker 1: He'll have to go look it up, um and spend
Speaker 1: most of his day on it. All right. Um, So
Speaker 1: well you had a great idea. Um, with the year
Speaker 1: coming to an end, you know, the Saints Panthers game
Speaker 1: will be the first game. Said that to me yesterday,
Speaker 1: and I was like, what in a couple of days? Um,
Speaker 1: But it's been such a crazy year and everyone has
Speaker 1: been through a lot, UM. But well, you had a
Speaker 1: great idea of saying, what part of do you want
Speaker 1: to bring with you? I love that question, UM, So
Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna talk about the
Speaker 1: parts of that that we valued, UM and that we
Speaker 1: appreciate it, and that we hope continue. Well, of course,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of it, doesn't We do want
Speaker 1: to take some things with us. So, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let you start first, since it was your question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this one is maybe a little bit. Uh. I
Speaker 1: started off with my first answer just being worked from home, UM,
Speaker 1: because I in some ways like that's been kind of
Speaker 1: this cool new thing that I've never done before, and
Speaker 1: there are parts of that I really liked. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I also realized, like, not everyone is
Speaker 1: privileged enough to have a job where that's possible. UM.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm changing it to that we could
Speaker 1: have businesses, organizations, companies, all sorts of things across the
Speaker 1: MAP UM continue to try to be innovative with how
Speaker 1: they handle work, with how they handle their industry, with
Speaker 1: how they handle employees. And to realize that, like we
Speaker 1: had to do things differently because of the circumstances, and
Speaker 1: we had to grow and innovate and be different um
Speaker 1: in order to fit what was. So let's keep trying
Speaker 1: to do that, you know, even if things go back
Speaker 1: to normal, quote unquote, I still think that people need
Speaker 1: to continue to find ways to to make work life
Speaker 1: balance better. So how can we keep pushing that forward,
Speaker 1: to continue to be open minded about using technology, using
Speaker 1: different practices and not just going right back to this
Speaker 1: is how things have always been done. I like the
Speaker 1: sound of that. That was on my list too, but
Speaker 1: I don't think I can articulate that better than what
Speaker 1: Will said. But I also have enjoyed, uh we we've started,
Speaker 1: me and my fiance started watching like one night a week,
Speaker 1: we'll watch like two or three movies. So I've kind
Speaker 1: of enjoyed. I've always been a movie guy, so I'm
Speaker 1: I enjoy kind of designated time to just sit down
Speaker 1: and watch a movie and turn the phones off and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. That was something that we didn't really
Speaker 1: do before. So other than working from home, I would
Speaker 1: say that's probably one thing I'd like to continue to do.
Speaker 1: Mine is going to be family time, and I know
Speaker 1: that might be a little odd considering the pandemic. But
Speaker 1: my husband and I moved back here in March, and
Speaker 1: it was just a total dream job because I've been
Speaker 1: a fan of the Panthers um for years and years.
Speaker 1: And then also we have not had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: live in North Carolina since I grew graduated college because
Speaker 1: while I've been incredibly lucky in my career ESPN and
Speaker 1: Fox Sports, it's those those places are not located in
Speaker 1: North Carolina, at least where I was working, and so
Speaker 1: we would move around the kind Tree to my next
Speaker 1: opportunity and it was it was great, but we really
Speaker 1: missed home. And so to get to this year, moved
Speaker 1: back home to where our families are and work for
Speaker 1: a team that I am such a fan of has
Speaker 1: been incredible. And even though I have not gotten to
Speaker 1: see my family very much, it's still amazing just to
Speaker 1: know that they're there and know when everything is safe
Speaker 1: that we will get to spend a lot more time together,
Speaker 1: which is one of the reasons that we wanted to
Speaker 1: move back. And um, you know, I think about everything
Speaker 1: that's happened this year and I can't imagine living far
Speaker 1: away and just mentally, you know, wanting to check on
Speaker 1: my parents and all that kind of stuff. So even
Speaker 1: though I haven't gotten to take advantage of it as
Speaker 1: much as I would like because we're trying to be safe.
Speaker 1: Of course, um, it's just nice to know that they're
Speaker 1: only a couple hours away, and so I definitely want
Speaker 1: that to continue. Alright, guys in here, we're gonna take well,
Speaker 1: that was a that was a really good question. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take a quick break. We'll be back with more. Hi, Jenkins.
Speaker 1: After my four years in the Navy, you're an AE
Speaker 1: and I moved to Charlotte, even though neither of us
Speaker 1: were from here. I was from the Mountains of Virginia
Speaker 1: and she was from Florida, but we agreed that Charlotte
Speaker 1: was where we wanted to build our future together. I
Speaker 1: was a full time student at U n c C
Speaker 1: by day and ran a janitorial business that night, and
Speaker 1: a few years later I bought a little air conditioning company,
Speaker 1: and that's how I met you, and I'm really glad
Speaker 1: I did. All Right, we are back. I want to
Speaker 1: remind you one last time. If the Panthers get a
Speaker 1: third down stop in the third quarter during a home game,
Speaker 1: one lucky fan will win a smart home smoke and
Speaker 1: carbon monoxide detector through the Morris Jenkins Protect and Check sweepstakes.
Speaker 1: If the Panthers get a fourth down stop in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, hey, they did that in the last game,
Speaker 1: that same fan will also be going home with a
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollar gift card. Be sure to check out
Speaker 1: contest at Panthers dot com from more details on how
Speaker 1: you can enter. Still one chance left. The way this
Speaker 1: defense played, I think this is possible. I'd go enter
Speaker 1: that contest if I eligible. All right, it's time for
Speaker 1: the weird Question of the week. Weird Question of the week.
Speaker 1: You're weird. You're weird guy? Will you want to do
Speaker 1: the honors? This is the season finale, and honestly, I
Speaker 1: wanted to insert this. I'm very upset at myself that
Speaker 1: last week I didn't get to say penultimate because that's
Speaker 1: my favorite penultimate. I always go penultimate, penultimate, You go penultimate, penultimate.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, I don't know what word
Speaker 1: you're saying, so like a second to last, get to last.
Speaker 1: It's just a really really uh it's a really incredible
Speaker 1: way to say second to last. That pisces people off
Speaker 1: because it feels like you're better than them. A lot
Speaker 1: of rage went through my hand, so I understand. Uh no, yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is the season finale. So I was thinking
Speaker 1: for our fun question of the week, what is your
Speaker 1: favorite or what is your top and worst. It's like
Speaker 1: series finale or movie finale of like a you know,
Speaker 1: a trilogy year series or something. Um what what was
Speaker 1: the best and what was the worst? Finale? All right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go first, because you guys are movie buffs
Speaker 1: show buffs. I am. I was trying to think of
Speaker 1: all the finalees like I've seen, like where I've watched
Speaker 1: a series through that is no longer on the air,
Speaker 1: might not come back, And I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: gotta really dig deep here. So I've got I've got
Speaker 1: a best and the worst. But these are just mine
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of shows I have not seen
Speaker 1: or finished. Um sorry, So here's what I've um For
Speaker 1: my best. I'm gonna say Friends because I remember it
Speaker 1: being an event when I was young, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's just one of those few multi camp shows that
Speaker 1: you don't that you don't um see very often, and
Speaker 1: when they left, you know, the whole the whole thing
Speaker 1: was then moving out of that apartment where all of
Speaker 1: the action took place, and they left the keys um
Speaker 1: on the counter and and they all kind of walked
Speaker 1: out and you saw the the audience and they were
Speaker 1: all there together, and it's just you don't you don't
Speaker 1: get to see that because that's not the way shows
Speaker 1: are shot anymore. But it just felt like the natural
Speaker 1: conclusion where everything took place in that apartment. They had
Speaker 1: finally grown up and uh, we're leaving. And I just
Speaker 1: thought that's a very natural conclusion. Um. It gave me
Speaker 1: a lot of feel good So I'm going with friends
Speaker 1: worst only because this is something I watched from start
Speaker 1: to finish. I'm gonna go Game of Thrones. Um do
Speaker 1: I think it's the worst ever? Know, but it's it's
Speaker 1: one that I've seen all the way through. Yes, and
Speaker 1: I just oh, man that last season, past two seasons.
Speaker 1: Really I can go on and on, but the pacing
Speaker 1: is the biggest issue that that show was so good.
Speaker 1: It's been two seasons walking down the King's Road in
Speaker 1: seasons you know, two and three with Ari and the Hound,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, there you know, sailing
Speaker 1: back and forth in five seconds Yeah, it just got
Speaker 1: You can tell that the author of the books wasn't
Speaker 1: really involved with the last season because it's just bad.
Speaker 1: But I want to give you guys your I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, I want to give you guys your time
Speaker 1: because you are much more adept at this question than
Speaker 1: I am. Will you go first on your I want
Speaker 1: to hear your best before I do my best. Okay,
Speaker 1: so kind of this isn't my best, but here's my
Speaker 1: honorable mention after hearing Kristen with UM with Friends. So,
Speaker 1: I actually just watched the Fresh Prince reunion special. I
Speaker 1: saw the ending of Fresh Prince. They also do something similar. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was just thinking about that. That reminds me of
Speaker 1: Fresh Prince. So like it's literally the same shot of
Speaker 1: will for the whole Yeah, so like that that's scene
Speaker 1: kind of reminded me of that. Um. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Breaking Bad as the best finale, um, just
Speaker 1: because of the way that it did such a great
Speaker 1: job of really like investing your emotions in these characters,
Speaker 1: and the way that they developed characters over the length
Speaker 1: of the series and the amount of emotion that you
Speaker 1: kind of poured into them, and then the emotion that
Speaker 1: you got back with Jesse, like fleeing that place at
Speaker 1: the very end, and like the last shot like that.
Speaker 1: There there was something so cathartic about that that I
Speaker 1: just thought was really really incredible to be moved by
Speaker 1: by that, because it's so different than like your normal
Speaker 1: you know finale, we're hey, we're all kind of trying
Speaker 1: to be emotional about this. It's like, no, the main
Speaker 1: character maybe you're maybe not dies and this other character
Speaker 1: that you've come to really love, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: There was just something really incredible about that. I thought
Speaker 1: they did a really good job with it. So that's
Speaker 1: my number one two, and I'll go ahead and add
Speaker 1: more to that because I didn't. There's not a lot
Speaker 1: of great endings, I think in television. So I think
Speaker 1: that show is not only just a great ending in
Speaker 1: and of itself, because it delivers on the promise of
Speaker 1: of Walter White truly breaking bad and going from this
Speaker 1: goody two shoes teacher to I mean, a full blown
Speaker 1: drug lord. So I I love the show for that,
Speaker 1: but I also love that it ends on its time.
Speaker 1: It doesn't it doesn't cash grab for another five season,
Speaker 1: which it easily could have done. It just said, no,
Speaker 1: we've told our story. We're five seasons in, it's over.
Speaker 1: That's that. So I really respect that. Um. I guess
Speaker 1: Kristen did kind of remind me of Everybody Loves Raymond.
Speaker 1: I really like the ending to that show because it
Speaker 1: doesn't they just sit back down at the table and
Speaker 1: then they all start bickering again, and it's just like,
Speaker 1: that's funny because obviously they're still gonna picker after after
Speaker 1: the show ends. But my worst and there's a bunch
Speaker 1: but the Game of Thrones was on there. Lost is
Speaker 1: on there, Spider Man three is on there. Jaws, believe
Speaker 1: it or not, is on there because eventually, I think
Speaker 1: in the fourth Jaws, the shark is looking for revenge.
Speaker 1: You stuck with Jaws one through four. No, I al
Speaker 1: really like Jaws, But if we're talking truly horrible endings,
Speaker 1: that is horrible. I did not know there was a
Speaker 1: Jaw for shark revenge. It's that's not that's it's jolls
Speaker 1: for like revenge or something. Yeah, and then my Number
Speaker 1: one is a show that I loved a lot, and
Speaker 1: I hate the ending, and that's how I met your mother.
Speaker 1: I think that garbage and it makes no sense, and
Speaker 1: it's super contradictory to the entire idea of the show.
Speaker 1: I don't I didn't watch the show, but I remember
Speaker 1: I was working at ESPN at the time, and I
Speaker 1: just remember the uproar. You could feel it all around you,
Speaker 1: like on Twitter, and some of the guys I worked
Speaker 1: with I remember goal watched it, like I remember that
Speaker 1: day where everyone was just mad. It was such a
Speaker 1: dumbing thing they spent. They spent nine seasons getting you
Speaker 1: to believe that this guy is going to meet his wife,
Speaker 1: and then he meets his wife on like the last
Speaker 1: episode of the show, and then they do this whole
Speaker 1: like ten year montage of what their life is like,
Speaker 1: and then she dies and then he gets back with Robin,
Speaker 1: and that's that's a bunch of garbage. But yeah, you
Speaker 1: didn't have to do it, and you did it, And
Speaker 1: what's the point I am. Um, I'm gonna say maybe
Speaker 1: my hottest take of anything I've said on the show, um,
Speaker 1: and I fully know what you guys reactions are going
Speaker 1: to be. And then I think I'm just gonna leave
Speaker 1: it there and wrap up. You're gonna say Lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings, No, thank god, I couldn't get into breaking bad.
Speaker 1: That's all I want to say. I couldn't get into it.
Speaker 1: You're not alone, I know people, really, I think I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm like the only person that thinks. So
Speaker 1: I can still think. I thought this was going to
Speaker 1: be a real I think you're wrong, but I can
Speaker 1: see I can see why it can be. I haven't
Speaker 1: watched it again. I'll say that, like, I loved it
Speaker 1: and I watched every episode, but I haven't watched it again. Jeez,
Speaker 1: I've watched it like three or four times. Then yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't because I couldn't. I couldn't, just like it
Speaker 1: just took so I couldn't do it again. Not to
Speaker 1: go down a rabbit hole, but have you seen the
Speaker 1: l Camino movie that is like the Jac's Story after?
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty good too. It wasn't great,
Speaker 1: but it was pretty good. Don't see it. That's pretty good, right,
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll check it out. All right, that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for us. I really thought I was dropping a
Speaker 1: hot day on you guys. I was gonna just like
Speaker 1: drop the mic and walk out. But well, you're respectful.
Speaker 1: You said you couldn't get into You didn't say it
Speaker 1: was bad. You just said you couldn't get it like
Speaker 1: it was three months ago. Miles would have cut you off.
Speaker 1: You're true, that's true. We missed Miles. Thank you guys
Speaker 1: for for listening. We'll see you in twenty th