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Speaker 1: It's time for a Happy Half Hour with your friends
Speaker 1: Kristen Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Brian. It's that time
Speaker 1: of the week. It's the Happy Half Hour podcast presented
Speaker 1: by Morris Jenkins. Here with Miles. We got Will in
Speaker 1: the booth of Shame. We're happy to be here. We
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Speaker 1: what a coincidence that is because we are all wearing
Speaker 1: Panthers jerseys underneath our regular work clothes, because we are
Speaker 1: so pumped about Week one. It's game week, baby, it's
Speaker 1: game week. We are here. We'll be honest. Did you
Speaker 1: ever think we would get here, say, four months ago,
Speaker 1: did you think we'd get to week one? I think
Speaker 1: somebody did. I didn't think I would. You're like, the
Speaker 1: team will take the field, but I may not be
Speaker 1: here to see it. I don't know if I'm here anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll find out. His will an illusion. Stay tuned for
Speaker 1: more on Happy in the Booth of Shame. We can
Speaker 1: barely see him. It's true. I like it this way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go far away from me. Took one for the team.
Speaker 1: Didn't even have a reason to be in the Booth
Speaker 1: of Shame this week, but just you know, he walked
Speaker 1: in and just went right to it. He's a team player.
Speaker 1: He is a team player. So, as you said Week one, Miles,
Speaker 1: we could not be more thrilled. You know the Raiders,
Speaker 1: they are coming to town. You have some history with them,
Speaker 1: so give us, give us your big keys to the game.
Speaker 1: About what we all should be looking for from an
Speaker 1: opponent's perspective. It's funny. I did cover the Raiders last
Speaker 1: year for the Las Vegas Review Journal, so I do
Speaker 1: feel like I have a lot of familiarity with that
Speaker 1: team because, look, they they've overhauled their defense a little bit,
Speaker 1: especially the linebacker position with Nick Watkowski Cory Littleton, but
Speaker 1: by and large, they are mostly the same team on
Speaker 1: offense except for the addition of Henry Ruggs, and I've
Speaker 1: got Edwards, another young wide receiver over there as well.
Speaker 1: So well, we talked about a lot how the Panthers
Speaker 1: receiving corps predicated on speed. I think the Raiders are
Speaker 1: a little bit less predicated on speed, but the addition
Speaker 1: of Henry Ruggs, really, I mean, he can take a
Speaker 1: top off a defense at any point in time, and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, this is sec country, right, you know,
Speaker 1: I think everybody knows what Ruggs was able to do
Speaker 1: um at Alabama, and that's a exactly what the Raiders
Speaker 1: want him to do for them. And so it's interesting
Speaker 1: me last year, obviously, the Antonio brown saga that went
Speaker 1: on for a really long time, and it was it
Speaker 1: was it was bad as a reporter, like, I'll, I
Speaker 1: mean it was weird. Um. There was one day I
Speaker 1: guess it was probably the day that they ended up
Speaker 1: releasing Antonio Brown, right, he had put out that weird
Speaker 1: video that had Gruden's voice. Either a day or two before,
Speaker 1: I think a day before that he had kicked the
Speaker 1: football and practice and had the big blow up with
Speaker 1: Mike Mayock. And then it was that Friday morning he
Speaker 1: had put out the release me Raiders video. And so
Speaker 1: I was sleeping because I were on the West coast
Speaker 1: or whatever, and he posted this thing. It's something like
Speaker 1: five or six in the morning Pacific time, right, and
Speaker 1: so I get up at seven and I have twenty
Speaker 1: text messages like, oh, Miles, wake up, Miles, Miles, have
Speaker 1: you seen this from my boss? And so that made
Speaker 1: my head explode. Um. But in terms of the Raiders,
Speaker 1: I think that they don't necessarily have that kind of
Speaker 1: drama going on, and it'll be interesting to see what
Speaker 1: they can do in Las Vegas. Yeah, they don't have
Speaker 1: the drama going on, but they do have Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1: They do have Josh Jacobs. And that's not only somebody
Speaker 1: that you know we're familiar with here I'm familiar with,
Speaker 1: but you know, to your white Head is very familiar
Speaker 1: with him too, and so I'm looking forward to to
Speaker 1: speaking with white Head over the court later course of
Speaker 1: this week just about what he knows about Josh Jacobs
Speaker 1: and you know, going against him sort of in practice
Speaker 1: and scout team and in training camp and things like that.
Speaker 1: And look, that guy is really really good at running
Speaker 1: the football. Arguably should have been Rickie of the Year
Speaker 1: last year. We have a guy that's pretty good at
Speaker 1: running the football as well, which is a good thing, yes,
Speaker 1: no doubt. And well, you know, it's it's funny because
Speaker 1: we as members of of the Panthers and Panthers fans
Speaker 1: in general, this will really be our first chance to
Speaker 1: see what Matt rule coach team looks like. I mean,
Speaker 1: even Marty Hernie spoke earlier this week and he said
Speaker 1: it's gonna be our evaluation period a Sunday, you know,
Speaker 1: because we didn't have preseason. It's definitely gonna be weird
Speaker 1: to see what that looks like. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to see how this offensive line does. You know,
Speaker 1: we can talk about that a little bit in the second.
Speaker 1: You know, even even now, there's still gonna be some
Speaker 1: some shuffling along there. Um. You know you're gonna want
Speaker 1: to see how how this defense does against all of
Speaker 1: these weapons. For the Raiders, you know a lot of
Speaker 1: young wide receivers. Darren Waller, we haven't mentioned him yet.
Speaker 1: He was second or third in the NFL and receiving
Speaker 1: yards by tight end last year. Um. You know a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't necessarily know his name. But I
Speaker 1: mean there's a ton of guys that people do know
Speaker 1: from this team. You know, you have Clear and Ferrell Hunter,
Speaker 1: renfro Za Jones went to East Carolina, Brian Edwards from
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Um. You know a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: that that are from Trayvon Mullen the cornerback that went
Speaker 1: to Clemson. UM, so a lot of Clemson guys, a
Speaker 1: lot of people from the Carolina is on this team.
Speaker 1: It's kind of weird for like a West Coast quote
Speaker 1: unquote West Coast team to have so many familiar, young,
Speaker 1: familiar faces to North and South Carolina. Um. But but
Speaker 1: that's that's going to be interesting to see them all
Speaker 1: come in here. The joke last year in the Raiders
Speaker 1: media room was while Clemson West, it was just it
Speaker 1: was interesting that pipeline that kept coming from um, you
Speaker 1: know that the Carolinas all the way out there. Well
Speaker 1: and speaking of you know, all of the Clemson ties
Speaker 1: and the Carolina ties. Of course, in a normal year,
Speaker 1: fans would love to see that. Of course you want
Speaker 1: to come in a lot of the fans would be
Speaker 1: there to support the Panthers. But then you've got your
Speaker 1: guys that are now over on the West coast with
Speaker 1: those Clemson or South Carolina ties that fans would drive
Speaker 1: up and and come see. But no fans week one.
Speaker 1: And it's something that I'm really interested in. We talked
Speaker 1: either last week or the week before after the primetime
Speaker 1: practice about hey, you don't look I felt pretty normal.
Speaker 1: The juice was good in there, and then they had
Speaker 1: a mock game last Friday the Panthers and Matt Rule
Speaker 1: came out and said he was disappointed with the energy
Speaker 1: and guys are going to have to figure out a
Speaker 1: way to bring their own juice. And I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna see that, um that adjustment period. How are guys
Speaker 1: gonna handle that? Because I've been unsure is it a
Speaker 1: media narrative that you know, really the players can come
Speaker 1: in lock in play the game, or is this really
Speaker 1: going to affect everyone across the league, anyone who doesn't
Speaker 1: have fans, or even if you have a small amount
Speaker 1: of fans. So that's certainly that something that I'm going
Speaker 1: to be looking forward to see how it and if
Speaker 1: it changes the psychology of of the players as they
Speaker 1: step on the field, for sure. And one of the
Speaker 1: interesting things I thought about last Friday, as opposed to
Speaker 1: that night practice on the Wednesday, it was a lot
Speaker 1: quieter in the building, you know, like I could hear
Speaker 1: myself think, and you were on the field and trying
Speaker 1: to do interviews with players and coaches for that night practice,
Speaker 1: and you basically had like yell across thing right. Well,
Speaker 1: the decibel level of the crowd noise was turned down,
Speaker 1: and I believe it was at NFL standards during the
Speaker 1: Mark Mock excuse me practice on Friday, and that was
Speaker 1: lower than what it was during Wednesday's primetime practice from
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, because I don't think the required
Speaker 1: decibels had been released yet from the NFL, Yes, exactly that.
Speaker 1: So you know, because of that, now, I think players
Speaker 1: have a much better understanding of what it is that
Speaker 1: they're going to be stepping into you know, and I
Speaker 1: think that they're gonna it's gonna be interesting to see
Speaker 1: how they exactly bring their own juice right, because some
Speaker 1: guys you can see when they come out of the tunnel,
Speaker 1: they want to go high five the fake fans and
Speaker 1: like Burns. He told me that, he said, he visualizes
Speaker 1: the fans and he goes over. He's he did it
Speaker 1: on Friday, went over and pretended to high five and
Speaker 1: I asked him about it. I kind of thought he
Speaker 1: was having a little fun, and he said, no, I'm
Speaker 1: visualizing my fans. And in fact, there was this one
Speaker 1: little boy that always came to the railing to give
Speaker 1: us high fives, and I'm thinking of him, and I
Speaker 1: just loved that. That's really nice. Yeah, yeah, So, I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got guys who are doing things like that. You've
Speaker 1: got guys like waving their arms to pump up the
Speaker 1: you know, the crowd that is not there. So how
Speaker 1: different guys are gonna get motivated for different things. It's
Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting because I wonder too how
Speaker 1: NBA guys are doing it. And I wonder if some
Speaker 1: of these guys has maybe no anybody in the NBA,
Speaker 1: and they ask that because it it's weird to be
Speaker 1: on a field and not have fans there, especially for
Speaker 1: guys playing at this level of football. It's weird too.
Speaker 1: It was weird for me to think that this game
Speaker 1: it's gonna have steaks. It's weird to think that there's
Speaker 1: going to be a win or a loss on your
Speaker 1: record at the end of it. Because it does, it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna feel like a practice, at least to us.
Speaker 1: I mean that's just my perspective, right, I'm sure. So
Speaker 1: whatever the guys need to do to get themselves there
Speaker 1: as as coach rule, and you said bring your own juice,
Speaker 1: is the phrase, um orange juice. Yeah, to separate it
Speaker 1: in whatever way from practice. It could be tomato juice.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be bringing that juice personally if it were me.
Speaker 1: I think Will needs to make hype videos for every
Speaker 1: single player lemon juice with with the lemon and the
Speaker 1: lime juice. I I think we're gonna see some very
Speaker 1: interesting things on the bench. Yeah, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: and maybe and maybe there'll be some you know, line
Speaker 1: of preserve your energy and all this kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, typically you see guys,
Speaker 1: you know, if they're not on the field, you know,
Speaker 1: they're sitting down, they're talking to coaches, they're they're looking
Speaker 1: at tablets, they're just relaxing. I think early on you're
Speaker 1: gonna see it might feel like a high school game,
Speaker 1: Like people are standing up, everyone's lined along the sideline,
Speaker 1: everyone's watching, and these guys are all cheering or you know,
Speaker 1: yelling or or doing something. You know. I think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be potentially more there in a way that we've
Speaker 1: probably never seen an NFL game that will be curious
Speaker 1: to watch. Like I'll be curious how you know, CBS
Speaker 1: that's covering the game, you know, how how they choose
Speaker 1: to show. I mean you think of like as a producer,
Speaker 1: think of all of the shots that you go to fans,
Speaker 1: like coming in and out of breaks, all of the
Speaker 1: different things that you do to show the the atmosphere
Speaker 1: of a game, Like what are they going to show?
Speaker 1: Like what are they gonna do? Like it's just right,
Speaker 1: you know, Like I so I'm I'm curious to watch
Speaker 1: the bench. I think that's gonna be there could be
Speaker 1: some interesting things happening with how they try to provide
Speaker 1: juice and energy and in more than what they would
Speaker 1: usually do. Somebody mentioned that over the course of the
Speaker 1: last week, and I wish I could remember that basically
Speaker 1: exactly what you said, Will, that it's going to have
Speaker 1: more of that college high school atmosphere than it usually would,
Speaker 1: where guys on the bench are gonna have to be
Speaker 1: really really engaged and uh and you know bring it
Speaker 1: basically in order to um sort of spell quell the
Speaker 1: difference from the crowd. Boy, I really petered out there. Huh, yikes. Look,
Speaker 1: it's it's week one. We're all feeling like this. We
Speaker 1: all walked in and just like we're like, we're so excited.
Speaker 1: We have a thousand things going on. So no one
Speaker 1: holds this against us. It's not right. Yeah, I feel like,
Speaker 1: hold on, let's take a quick break. Let Miles get
Speaker 1: his thoughts together. Let's Will and I get our thoughts together,
Speaker 1: and we'll be back with more Week one talk. Mr
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Speaker 1: are back, um, and let's get into our overheard segment.
Speaker 1: We had some some great soundbites this week and something overheard.
Speaker 1: We know Miles is familiar with John Gruden and the Raiders.
Speaker 1: So is Matt Rule. He talked about his relationship with Gruden.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a guy that in my previous life
Speaker 1: I would have considered, you know, a sort of a
Speaker 1: mentor from afar UM. You know, I got to know him.
Speaker 1: We hit it off, um even a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago when I had another NFL opportunity, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what to do. He's one of the
Speaker 1: first people that called. UM. I haven't talked to him
Speaker 1: very much. Mistaken this job is because I think we've
Speaker 1: all you know, it's been a it's been a unique
Speaker 1: set of circumstances. Mike Mayock is another guy that I've
Speaker 1: known for a long time. My first year as the
Speaker 1: head coach at Temple. He came in and talked to
Speaker 1: my team about the draft process. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people that that I respect, but I really respect
Speaker 1: John Gruden. Um. You know, here he is, you know,
Speaker 1: super Bowl winning coach Monday Night football at the time,
Speaker 1: and he's got the head coach and you know, Temple,
Speaker 1: he's pouring into and spending time with, and so I
Speaker 1: I'm very grateful to him, and so I think it'll
Speaker 1: be it'll be an honor to take the field with
Speaker 1: with someone that staid him and he's done and I'm
Speaker 1: excited to get on the field. I just love that
Speaker 1: even two guys that you may not associate immediately together,
Speaker 1: although of course John Green has spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time as a commentator and Matt Rule in college, so
Speaker 1: you could say, oh, there's maybe a possibility there. But
Speaker 1: two guys that you wouldn't necessarily associate together, there's just
Speaker 1: this coaching fraternity and they all talk to each other
Speaker 1: and provide mentorship, and I just think it's so cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some sometimes coaches like to downplay that stuff too, um
Speaker 1: at least in terms of um like what they get
Speaker 1: from other coaches, because it's like you don't want to
Speaker 1: have a perception of like the other coaches doing this,
Speaker 1: the other coach doing that. It's it's interesting I think
Speaker 1: about that with like Sean McVeigh and Bill Belichick, because
Speaker 1: those two guys have texted a lot, and that kind
Speaker 1: of became a storyline at one point and McVeigh tried
Speaker 1: to downplay it. But I think it's nice to see
Speaker 1: something like when Matt Rule was talking about Jon Gruden
Speaker 1: and he was like, Hey, you know, I was this
Speaker 1: coach at Temple and Jon Gruden didn't have to spend
Speaker 1: any time with me. He didn't have to do this,
Speaker 1: but he did. And I think that really shows just
Speaker 1: how much of a coaching fraternity it is, as you
Speaker 1: were just saying, Kristen, people, especially if you're not in
Speaker 1: a situation where it's competitive. You know, like right now,
Speaker 1: Matt Rule and John Gruden not family. They're not necessarily
Speaker 1: all that close, and so that's why they're not necessarily
Speaker 1: going to go back and forth clash and whatever. But
Speaker 1: I think in a in a situation where Gruen's a
Speaker 1: commentator and rules a young coach and he's trying to
Speaker 1: learn as much as he possibly can, that's exactly the
Speaker 1: kind of thing that coaches want to do. They want
Speaker 1: to help each other, you know, they want to make
Speaker 1: sure that people can get better, especially those who have
Speaker 1: an interest in getting better. Um so I like it too, Miles.
Speaker 1: I have a request. What can you do your best?
Speaker 1: John Group? I was going to ask you will, since
Speaker 1: you're the impression guy. No, no, no, no, Miles has
Speaker 1: been around him far longer than I have. I will.
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how much you want me to
Speaker 1: do it, John Gruden, All right, man, I'll tell you what. Man.
Speaker 1: This will guy. He's stuck in the radio booth over there.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily like this guy all that much, but
Speaker 1: really I think wolves and no, okay guy, I mean
Speaker 1: you know he likes to do all the things with
Speaker 1: the Panthers stats. How's that you run the ball, you
Speaker 1: stop the run? This is Raida's football. Knock on wood.
Speaker 1: If you're with me, man, knock on wood. I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it. Good job. Yeah, I gotta give Miles
Speaker 1: this edge there. But it had a little bit of
Speaker 1: like a Tony soprano, just a hint. Definitely had some
Speaker 1: mob vibes. Wow, okay, I mean there's some frank Caliendo
Speaker 1: in there. But you know, it was good. Not not much.
Speaker 1: I'm not a very good impressions person. It was I
Speaker 1: thought it was great. Thank you, really truly, I promise, no,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I really really thought I really really thought
Speaker 1: it was great. All right. Next up, we are going
Speaker 1: to hear from Miles. This guy, Miles Hartsfield and Miles,
Speaker 1: I know you have spent some time with the other
Speaker 1: Miles this week. Yes, I have, and it's interesting there
Speaker 1: are not too many people that I've ever met who
Speaker 1: spell Miles like me, you know, with a y. So
Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about how he actually started
Speaker 1: running the ball for the Carolina Panthers because he was
Speaker 1: a defensive back in all of college. So one day
Speaker 1: after practice, it was just a rookies out there. Was
Speaker 1: one of those early practices when the vets were still
Speaker 1: coming in but they couldn't really do much. So we
Speaker 1: were out there, Um, we went through the whole practice
Speaker 1: with the DBS coach, Coach Ruyle. That came out to
Speaker 1: me like right before and I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: after practice, you know, we're gonna, you know, see if
Speaker 1: you could still do some running back drills. And I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, you know, maybe he just wants to
Speaker 1: see how I have let us how athletic I am.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I go over there, they're doing the cuts,
Speaker 1: so I'm doing all the cuts, jump cuts and all that.
Speaker 1: So it's starting to come back, starting to feel familiar. Um,
Speaker 1: and what was going through my head. I was excited
Speaker 1: because I felt like going to college, I should have
Speaker 1: played running back, and I wanted to play running back,
Speaker 1: but going to score as an athlete, and you know,
Speaker 1: growing up with the parents I grew up with, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't you don't second guests with a
Speaker 1: coach is trying to tell you he's gonna put you
Speaker 1: in the best position to win for the team. And
Speaker 1: I've always been a team player, so I didn't argue
Speaker 1: when I when my coaches put me at dB at college.
Speaker 1: So uh, you know, I was bussed with the opportunity
Speaker 1: to show them what I can do on offense. And
Speaker 1: you know, I took full advantage because I know deep inside,
Speaker 1: like my true heart, that I want to play running
Speaker 1: back in the National Coball League. Even when I was
Speaker 1: five years old, I didn't start playing do you be
Speaker 1: really until I got to old Miss Hartsfield story is
Speaker 1: very interesting because he was a running back in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: He was recruited as a running back out a New
Speaker 1: Jersey and by Matt Rule at Temple. So he had
Speaker 1: gone up to Philadelphia a couple of times on unofficial
Speaker 1: visits um and then he actually ended up going East
Speaker 1: Coast Prep um up there in Massachusetts, and that's when
Speaker 1: he really started becoming a defensive back. So he had
Speaker 1: the sort of a gap year between high school and
Speaker 1: then going to Old Miss, and then once he got
Speaker 1: to Old Miss, he was really entrenched as a defensive back.
Speaker 1: So what he told me is that his coaches at
Speaker 1: Old Miss were a little bit surprised wised when he
Speaker 1: got to the NFL and they saw him taking carries
Speaker 1: and they were like, you were running back. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know. And it's because of just the way that
Speaker 1: things worked out for him. So he's a guy you
Speaker 1: root for. You know that. Um. You know, now that
Speaker 1: he's on the fifty three, he's probably gonna play a
Speaker 1: lot of special teams. I think it will only see
Speaker 1: him really as a running back, probably in an emergency situation.
Speaker 1: But you know, asking Marty Herney, general manager yesterday, about
Speaker 1: Miles Hartsfield and everything and her and he said, look,
Speaker 1: he's got a chance to contribute at two places and
Speaker 1: in a year where versatility is key because we don't
Speaker 1: know really what's gonna happen in a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: with COVID, you know that that's something that's pretty valuable. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just love that. He was like, yeah, I should
Speaker 1: have been playing running back. That's that's talent, that's some confidence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, yeah, I could have done that easily,
Speaker 1: and so I'm glad I might get to do it now.
Speaker 1: I just was like, that's awesome. I think the bigger
Speaker 1: question is ken Christian McCaffrey play defensive back, because then that,
Speaker 1: you know, then we're getting versatility, Like could imagine coming
Speaker 1: out on on defense, and I think Christians doing enough.
Speaker 1: I think he's doing it right. I'm sure he could
Speaker 1: an emergency rule say something like that a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago or whatever that like Christian McCaffrey probably safety
Speaker 1: if you wanted to, But like, yeah, I think there's
Speaker 1: a difference between somebody like Hartsfield and Christian McCaffrey. To
Speaker 1: state the obvious, I'm just trying to blow up Twitter
Speaker 1: over here. That's all Will. Will is always trying to
Speaker 1: blow up Twitter, whether it be a hot dog or
Speaker 1: a Christian McCaffrey hot take. You're listening to the Happy
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Speaker 1: Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. I love it,
Speaker 1: absolutely love it. Well, I want to start with you,
Speaker 1: do you have a pregame or game day ritual? Now
Speaker 1: that we are, you know, game days right around the corner.
Speaker 1: So this started maybe eight nine years ago. I was
Speaker 1: working at College of Charleston and I was like doing
Speaker 1: baseball and it was the Sunday of like a long
Speaker 1: weekend series, and I ran out of socks, and so
Speaker 1: I had to wear mismatched socks, like a black sock
Speaker 1: in a white sock. That's incredibly mismatched. That's not just like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, a great toe and uh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: very mismatched. And of course we we won the series,
Speaker 1: like we had a big win. We ended up with
Speaker 1: like clinching like our conference that day. And so it's
Speaker 1: always kind of been a thing that I try to
Speaker 1: wear mismatched socks on game days. Like here, it's more
Speaker 1: like dark blue and darker blue or something. It's not
Speaker 1: like completely different colors. But typically I will wear different
Speaker 1: socks on a game day. I am far too vain
Speaker 1: to do that. I just some socks fitch you differently.
Speaker 1: You know, does that not ever get uncomfortable, like like
Speaker 1: there's different thickness. It's it's about it's about the tradition.
Speaker 1: You ever go dress sock athletic sock? No, what's what's
Speaker 1: the weirdest match socks that you do? Um? Sometimes red
Speaker 1: and blue? Dear god. Yeah, Now every game day I'm
Speaker 1: aware that, oh what are you doing? Uh no, what
Speaker 1: about footie sock and like high crew like a well,
Speaker 1: I mean this this year it might be different. So
Speaker 1: this year, like since there will be fewer people that
Speaker 1: will see me, I might just have to do this
Speaker 1: just to mess with Miles and like throw him off
Speaker 1: his game and like show up in some ridiculous sock combination.
Speaker 1: I don't like it because Miles is already getting triggered
Speaker 1: over here. I really am leader Hosen on one side,
Speaker 1: no show on the other. What do you think that's
Speaker 1: pretty funny? Miles? What about you? All right? My game
Speaker 1: day ritual this started a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 1: it's sort of this was this thing that I did organically,
Speaker 1: and now it's just what I do every game day.
Speaker 1: I listened to Fed's Watching by True two chains in
Speaker 1: Farrell gotta blast it really loud when I'm on the
Speaker 1: way of the stadium. I love that to try to
Speaker 1: Maybe I should adopt you, guys, I'll wear mismatched socks
Speaker 1: and then just listen to Fed's Watching on the way
Speaker 1: and see how it goes. I wouldn't do the mismatched
Speaker 1: socks though, that's just I don't think that's gonna look good.
Speaker 1: Come on, are you part of this podcast or not? Yes?
Speaker 1: But I'm too vain, man, I'm way too vain. Like
Speaker 1: it's weird. I mean, you guys have not actually seen
Speaker 1: me in a situation where I try to look good.
Speaker 1: But usually I try to look good most days, and
Speaker 1: I'm I'm kind of a vain guy. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: lie and so the thought of wearing mismatched socks to
Speaker 1: a public event. You can you can always wear socks
Speaker 1: over your mismatched socks. I say, you couldn't cover them.
Speaker 1: I'm not, No, why would I wear two pairs of socks.
Speaker 1: It gets cold here in Charlotte. It's not gonna be
Speaker 1: cold on Sunday. It's it's cold for September right now.
Speaker 1: Don't knock until you try. I don't even know I'm
Speaker 1: saying you should wear two pairs of socks. I just
Speaker 1: want to see Miles out of his startorial comfort zone.
Speaker 1: He's a that's true. So my pregame ritual, it's not
Speaker 1: necessarily on game day a um, but every the night
Speaker 1: before every game, as I was doing my notes, I
Speaker 1: traveled around for three iss years covering a lot of
Speaker 1: college football and college basketball, and I would always sit
Speaker 1: down the night before and you know, just really prepare.
Speaker 1: And that was my time. And so what I liked
Speaker 1: to have on in the background. What really gets me
Speaker 1: geared up for some great football, What really locks me
Speaker 1: in to knowing as much as I can about the
Speaker 1: players on whatever team I was covering, is great British
Speaker 1: bake off. I love to watch some Great British bake
Speaker 1: Off as I'm preparing my notes and guess what, I'm
Speaker 1: probably gonna do it Saturday night, just to keep the
Speaker 1: tradition alive because it's nice. It's comforting, but you don't
Speaker 1: miss too much and you can kind of favorite. I
Speaker 1: love Ruby. I loved Ruby. Ruby is awesome. The last Ruby, right,
Speaker 1: not the earlier. I liked the The guy that just
Speaker 1: won most recently, I think he beat Ruby. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the guy that he is a scientist. Yeah that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had really good Cardman buns. Yes. Absolutely. Are you
Speaker 1: a Paul Hollywood fan? And that's the last thing I'll say, promise,
Speaker 1: I mean yes and no, like I'm obviously a fan
Speaker 1: of that's the right answer. That's the right answer. There's
Speaker 1: no This is a whole different podcast. Stay tuned for
Speaker 1: Will and I has Great British Bakeoff podcast coming to
Speaker 1: your feeds next week. Um, it's so good. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a rare show. I haven't seen. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Look check it out. Check it out as you're getting
Speaker 1: ready for game day. That's all I say, nothing, Look
Speaker 1: is it? Is it? Two Chains is a great British
Speaker 1: bakeoff which one is going to get you more hyped?
Speaker 1: Who can say? I don't know. Alright, it's time for
Speaker 1: a weird question of the week. So Teddy Bridgewater has
Speaker 1: a children's series, the children's book series based on him
Speaker 1: and all that he has overcome in the last few years.
Speaker 1: It is written by his friend Erica Cardona, and they
Speaker 1: both talked to the media about it this week because
Speaker 1: the latest book in the series was just released. It's
Speaker 1: called a Little Bear, Little Bear Teddy Series. I just
Speaker 1: think it's absolutely adorable. So it kind of got me thinking,
Speaker 1: Miles as a kid, what was your favorite fictional character
Speaker 1: or cartoon? Okay, uh, I could easily sort of punt
Speaker 1: and be like Harry Potter, right like, because that's a
Speaker 1: good one that I mean, he was great, he's still
Speaker 1: he's still the best. I actually just recently watched all
Speaker 1: eight movies because they're on HBO Max so I and
Speaker 1: they were supposed to go away. I think that they
Speaker 1: already may have gone away. I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: was like, I haven't seen these in a long time.
Speaker 1: So Harry Potter, Harry Potter is really good. Hermione was
Speaker 1: much better than ending up with Ron, Like, if we
Speaker 1: can roll back and watch those things. J K. Rowling
Speaker 1: is admitted that she probably should end up with Harry
Speaker 1: because Ron. I mean, Ron's gotta loser. Man. Wait, can
Speaker 1: I tell you this really quick. I was doing a
Speaker 1: an interview with with Coach Rule and he's a he's
Speaker 1: a big reader. And I said, I'm going to ask you,
Speaker 1: just so you can think about it. I'm going to
Speaker 1: ask you what book you recommend. And he said, okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta think about it. And I said, hey, I
Speaker 1: just finished my annual reread of Harry Potter. I don't
Speaker 1: know how I feel like that. You just started laughing,
Speaker 1: so rolls. Okay, Yeah, so those hermione Harry, not Ron,
Speaker 1: uh serious black obviously, but Tommy Pickles love Tommy. That
Speaker 1: was my guy. I liked Angelica too. She was a jerk.
Speaker 1: She look she was a strong independent lady and what
Speaker 1: she wanted. No, no, no, Susie was the strong independent
Speaker 1: lady who knew what she wanted. Yes, Angelica was just
Speaker 1: kind of mean. All right, we'll probably run she's probably
Speaker 1: running Fortune five D somewhere right now. Well, what about
Speaker 1: your favorite fictional character cartoons? So then that just jogged
Speaker 1: my memory. At first, I was going to go much
Speaker 1: younger and kind of along the same line Clifford as Teddy.
Speaker 1: I was gonna go with Winnie the Pooh that's adorable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was more younger. But then hearing rug Rats then
Speaker 1: obviously there was definitely a period of my youth where
Speaker 1: I was a stand for Doug. I was a Doug stand.
Speaker 1: You know what Doug did. Doug picked out his close
Speaker 1: every single day so that they were exactly the same,
Speaker 1: and I bet he had matching sucks. Doug was. Doug
Speaker 1: was great. Do you guys remember there were two Dougs,
Speaker 1: Like one like Patty Mayonnaise had a different haircut, and
Speaker 1: one Doug. Yes, O G. Doug was on Nick and
Speaker 1: then it went to Disney, and like which one was
Speaker 1: the Patty Mayonnat's longer hair. I think that was O G.
Speaker 1: I think that was a new one. She had pretty
Speaker 1: short hair in the O G and the O G. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I liked them both, guys. I was a big Hay
Speaker 1: Arnold fan. That's going to be my I think my favorite.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved it so much that do
Speaker 1: you remember they did the movie a few years ago.
Speaker 1: I was also on the road for that and I
Speaker 1: was like, I gotta get back this basketball game is
Speaker 1: you know, gotta end so that I can get back
Speaker 1: and watch the Hey Arnold movie. Was it? Was it good?
Speaker 1: Was it worth it? It It was just nostalgic. I don't
Speaker 1: want to Okay, first of all, I'm not like still
Speaker 1: the biggest super fan. I thought you guys were like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, sure love Heroin. You're both looking at me
Speaker 1: like I am. You know, Helga, she was more than Angelica,
Speaker 1: I will put it that way, like shelved Arnold. I
Speaker 1: just thought Arnold had the coolest room. Arnold. Yeah, Arnold, Arnold.
Speaker 1: I can't believe none of you mentioned Patrick Starr or SpongeBob.
Speaker 1: SpongeBob's great man. SpongeBob's the obvious choice, right SpongeBob is
Speaker 1: that yours? I would probably be mine because that show
Speaker 1: got really big, like right when I was in the
Speaker 1: height of my Nickelodeon. Yeah, watching days, but it's just
Speaker 1: really I mean, is it Overexpoon? I mean, at this
Speaker 1: point with the culture, I wombo you wombo Alright, Well, um,
Speaker 1: that point is I was gonna say. The point is
Speaker 1: we're excited for a week one, right, what other what
Speaker 1: other podcasts talking about Week one? Are you going to
Speaker 1: get Great British Bake Off, mismatched socks and SpongeBob Princess,
Speaker 1: You're not. You're not. Guys. When we talk again next week,
Speaker 1: we'll have seen again and we'll be on the season.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. It's finally here. We are so
Speaker 1: excited and we appreciate all of you listening. We'll see
Speaker 1: you next week.