WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 2: Are We Friends Yet? 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:12.360 It's time for a Happy half hour with your friends 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:21.960 Kristin Balboni, Miles Simmons, and Will Brian. Welcome to Happy 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.640 half Hour. I'm Kristin Balboni here with Can I say 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:30.480 it my friends? Will Brian and Miles Simmons. I asked 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.120 that because in our first episode, Will introduced us as 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.680 his friends, and Miles, right off the bat you said, Uh, 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.800 no way, let's pump the brakes. We're not friends yet, 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.680 but last night we did uh meet up in a 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.760 very socially responsible way here in Charlotte, Miles, now that 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.320 you've moved so so, Miles, what's the verdict on saying 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.360 we're friends? You know what, Kristen, I can say you're 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:57.760 my friend. Will. Wow, this is gonna be like the 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.280 ongoing thing every start of every podcast is whether or 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.920 not Miles and my friends yet? Well, well you did 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.319 set yourself up for it. I mean, just right off 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.640 the right, off the top of the first episode, you 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:10.759 threw you, you threw yourself into both of us, into 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.000 the deep end, and Miles was like, I'm not coming 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.880 to get you. Yeah. I mean we'll we'll see how 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.760 this thing evolves. But I think it's a pretty good, fun, 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:24.319 funny running joke. I agree. Well, Miles, thank you for 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.240 saying that that we are friends. I appreciate that. So 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.240 it was the first time, um, that Miles and I 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.600 met in person. Although we've done a lot of stuff 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.360 on video, video chat and zoom over the past few months, 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:41.200 but we actually got to meet in person. Will and 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.920 I had met during my interview, but Will had you 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.520 and Miles met. I don't think we ever discussed that. Yeah, 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.640 we met during miles interview, so so Will was the 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:52.400 common thread. But it was the first time that Miles 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.360 and I got to meet, um, and it was great. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.080 It was just right on the tail end of of 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.520 your move. Miles. You moved just a few days ago, 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.320 and the first thing you did was drop everything and 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.400 come hang out with the two of us. I'm honored, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.400 it's true. And I got lost on the way there. 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:12.120 I believe we get into a little bit, so but yeah, 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.280 it was it was as I told you guys last night. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.840 I mean, it was funny because it was really the 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:20.440 first time that I've seen people that I even sort 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:25.320 of know in person since March, which is just bizarre. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.040 So I guess, like you know, I was, I was 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.480 kind of ready to like actually talk to some people. Yeah, 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.320 I mean it was a it was I think probably 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:36.760 weird for all of us, and I'm sure it'll be 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.800 weird for everybody the first time that, you know, we 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.600 kind of I'll re enter society, like I don't know. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.560 I was just like, how do I order food? What 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.120 do I which was like are you? Are you good? 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:48.760 And I was like, yes, I think so. Is that 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.359 what I'm supposed to say? It's just a it's weird 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:55.040 not having gone anywhere for so long and then kind 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.360 of going back into it. But we did it all together, guys. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.720 We got the first public meet up out of the way, um, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.639 and we did socially responsibly just so everyone knows masks 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:11.880 distance um. And it was fun. I think, right, do 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.360 we have fun? I still have a hard time of 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:20.280 like reading people's expressions behind masks, Like there's this whole 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.040 thing where you you forget how much of like being 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:27.520 able to see someone's mouth can like determine what exactly 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.040 they're really trying to say, and now like not being 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.280 able to see it, I can't tell if they're like 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.680 smiling or like making laughing or making fun of me 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:38.920 or like not happy with what I just said, Like 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.880 it's kind of a weird sensation. Yeah, I've read I've 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.520 read articles about this. It's all about smizing. Now you 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.800 have the smile. Yeah, I guess. So is that where 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:53.440 that came from? America's Next Top Model? It's from a 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.960 while back? All right, well then that's I guess is 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:57.680 where it came from. But yeah, I think you you 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.000 have to make sure that you know your eyebrows or 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.520 raised and you open your eyes and you know, just 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.240 try to smile with the corners of your eyes. I 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.440 don't exactly know how to do it sounds so when 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.720 you say it like that, I'm just I've got the 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.600 mental image in my head and I don't know. I 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.359 don't know if that's just wide eyes, raised eyebrows the 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.719 entire time. I don't know. I don't know. I love, 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.960 but I just know that my default is like RBF 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:26.840 and if you understand what that means, and you mean 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.000 but I don't think it's the word I can say 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.720 on the podcast, so I won't. But like that's my 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.840 default facial setting. So like anytime I'm out in public, 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.840 I like, you know, have furrowed brows as opposed to uh, 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.240 you know, happy brows. I pretty much thought Miles gets 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:47.520 angry at me all of last night. I had no idea. Well, 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.200 I mean, judging by the fact that he doesn't want 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.000 to be friends with you, it could have been. You know, 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:53.839 I didn't say I don't want to be friends. I 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.760 just say that we're not yet. Miles had no happy 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:02.120 brows last night when we met. But speaking of our 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.960 our meet up, because we are good podcasters, we did record. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.440 We've been sitting there for for a couple of hours 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.680 and we decided to pull out the phone and do 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.800 a little recording um of our first meetup. So so 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:18.040 excuse the audio quality, but here it is. Okay. This 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.560 is the first official meeting of the Happy half Hour crew. 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:27.919 We are at a happy hour, essentially happy couple of hours. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.520 Who knows, you know, it's been a good, happy couple 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.080 of hours. I would say, um, we just like to 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.320 know that. Miles immediately reached for the phone so that 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:40.040 you can out of Christian's hand. I got to get 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:44.080 close to it. I haven't had any social interaction in 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.720 person with people since March, so this is new for me, 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.040 and I don't know how to act in public anymore. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:53.520 I like it. Miles has been so responsible the entire time, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.240 and then immediately the recording comes out and he just 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.720 jumps and you've been a microphone. Then my face, this 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:05.880 is what's gonna happen. You gotta love the commitment you 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.800 are on What day did you actually make the flight 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.000 to Charlotte? I flew here on Friday, so I stayed 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.120 in a hotel on Friday night, and then I moved 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:22.640 in air quotes, I moved in on Saturday. So I 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.040 don't know what day is. Today is today? Tuesday? We're 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.039 talking Tuesday night. Okay, so it's Tuesday night as we're talking. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.640 So I've been here for fourish fiveish days. What do 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:37.280 you think so far? It's very green? It is? It 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.839 really have a lot of green. And I was really 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:41.839 scared during the thunderstorm last night because I had an 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.240 experienced the thunderstorm in four years. Wait, what, they don't 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.520 have thunderstorms. They don't have thunderstorms in a way that 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.440 is true, I can haven't you heard? Will It never 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.080 rains in southern California. I lived there for three years. 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.560 When I ran in l A, traffic gets backed up 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:01.040 by an extra at least Yeah, it's a wild No 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.200 one knows how to drive in the rain. Get the earthquakes, 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.880 then yeah, yeah, you get earthquakes, get other stuff. You 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.760 enjoyed the storm. I enjoyed the storm. Nobody got scared. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:13.800 I'm scared. I was very scared for a minute. There 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:18.160 is a quality to thementually in your ideal world. If 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.080 none of this what's happening, Is this what you imagine 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:26.000 your first interaction. You just moved. You probably haven't even 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.880 unpacked your boxes. I don't even have at a table. 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.280 We're all wearing masks and we're the first people that 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:37.440 you've socially seen in months. Well you're welcome, yes, no, 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.200 thank you, um for getting me out of the house, 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.040 I guess um, And you know breaking bread with me 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.320 is I continue to wear this mask because I was 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.760 on a plane with an alarming amount of unsafe people 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.520 when it comes to COVID. But yeah, you know what, 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:56.240 I think that in prefer my first social interaction in months, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.240 this this is this was pretty good, pretty pretty pretty good. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:06.120 I guess I'm watching that. Larry David wat can we 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.080 also just quickly before we move on, wrath is back, 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.520 and we also just publicly acknowledge that Miles got boss 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.560 and the red locks away from this. Yeah to this, 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:18.960 I picked it because I figured he doesn't have his 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:23.680 car yet. It's an easy lost. He got lost. It's 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.880 really bad because, like I have a good reputation with 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.280 having a really good sense of direction. That I turned 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.640 onto the street, I was exploring the neighborhood. I thought 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.880 there would be another streets back onto. So yeah, as 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.720 you'll get to, Charlotte has streets that curve and then 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:44.920 they intersect with themselves. Yes, so they do a lot 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.000 of things, so you can't you know, it's not a 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.920 grid here. You can't rely on and that's what I'm 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.280 used to after four years of living on the West Coast. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.720 Pretty much everything is a grid in l A, in Vegas, 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.960 like that's the way things work. So yeah, in other words, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.760 I'm just indudiate though, So like that's time can handle that. Well. 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:02.160 I don't think I'm the right person to do this. 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.559 It should probably be Will Maybe you can follow this 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.319 up because I've been here all over two or three 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.640 months and have been essentially nowhere. But we welcome to Charlotte. 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:16.600 Thank you. Welcome to Charlotte. Yeah, that's why that's more official. Okay. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.839 My My favorite part of that, and we kind of 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.719 roasted him on the recording itself, was that, you know, 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:26.520 we were all so socially responsible. Uh you know, Miles said, Hey, 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:28.000 when we meet up, you know, I just flew on 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:29.600 a plane. I want to make sure you guys are safe. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.480 Let's all be uh, you know, very careful. Immediately the 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.040 phone comes out to record, Myles grabs it out of 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:41.000 my to get the best, to get the best sound 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.520 that he can and get us get his points across. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.960 And you know what, Miles, I gotta say, I respect 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.520 it as as someone who has done that before as well. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:51.839 You know, you got to make sure you got the 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.720 you gotta have the good sound. Well, listen, like I said, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.000 you know, when we're doing it, it's been a long 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.599 time since I've had a microphone in my face, and 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.040 I all one, and I just need it. I needed 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:07.480 the microphone really bad. My Miles is jumping at the microphone. Well, 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.199 I'm just like leaning back having some more of my flatbread, 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.160 you know, because like I have my priorities. The flatbread 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.800 was delicious. Yeah, well it took a start of restaurant 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:19.560 that that he I mean of course, Miles and I've 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.360 moved here a few months ago and haven't been anywhere. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.000 Miles just got here the other day. So we left 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:25.319 it to Will to pick out a place. And I 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.000 got to say, Supert Flatbreads, you did not do us 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.360 wrong there. And I was trying to make it walkable 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.480 for Miles since we're still working on his car, and 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.079 even then I made it as literally, this is the 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.160 closest place of business that there is two miles his 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.320 new apartment, and he still got lost on the way. 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:46.400 And it wasn't like you three blocks right, three blocks 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.839 away from from where you live, and I want to say, 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:50.240 Miles and don't want to call you out, but it 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:54.600 was something like, you're twenty minutes late. I was very late. 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:59.480 I was fashionably late three blocks or you just didn't. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.439 You were like, I'm not showing up early for these two. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.199 They're not even my friends. I mean, that was part 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.599 of it, but it was it was mostly that. So 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.839 I started walking and then I was like, oh, then 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.800 you two, I will say you guys both texted that 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.160 you were running a little bit late. So I was like, 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.559 all right, I will walk around the neighborhood. I will 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.079 explore my new surroundings, and so when I did that, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.360 I kind of got lost, and because it really could 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.800 have been a straight shot just up the street, but 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.880 then I decided that I would make it not a 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.800 straight shot, and my sense of direction got a little 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.040 bit messed up, and then I I ended up seeing 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.679 a little bit more than neighorhood than I bargained for. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.120 But it was cool. It was nice. You know, it's 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.000 very green and luscious, which is very different from where 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:43.599 I was just living in Las Vegas. So it was 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:45.640 very nice. It was a nice one, just a little 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.760 bit different. I do want to say that Will mentioned 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:52.040 that you are not supposed to get your car until today, right, 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.280 everything is being shipped. Yes, everything is being shipped. So 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.600 you know, as I sit here and record this, there 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.360 may be a bit of more of an echo because 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.120 there's basically nothing in my apartment except for a few 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:08.360 suitcases and air mattress, uh and my laptop and the 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.679 cable and internet things. So that's about it. I just 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.240 want to say, though, I dispute the fact that, uh 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.600 that your car, you say your car isn't here, because 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.520 last night, after I left the restaurant, I drove home 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.160 behind a Lamborghini with the license plate that said unemployed. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.680 And if that doesn't scream Miles Simmons car, I don't 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.439 know what does. It was a little Lamborghini, was the suv? 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.160 It was it was just the car. I didn't know 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:38.040 what they made. Oh you're like, oh, yours is the suv? Yes, 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.920 you guys. It was a wild I was behind the Slamborghini. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:44.440 For first of all, I don't know if I've ever 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.520 driven behind the Lamborghini. I find this car for fifteen 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.479 minutes and the license plate just flat out said unemployed. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.439 And I'm like, who is this person? Like, I don't 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.200 know if I'd want to talk be friends with them, 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.480 but it was just it was just it was quite 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.280 the flex. It is if that's not even a weird flex, 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.079 but okay, like that's just a super good flex. So 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:09.160 what's that unemployed though? Because they're self employed and they're 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.160 just trying to be a jerk, or they like got 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:15.319 some kind of you know, big settlement from some company 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.679 for some reason, right, and then they're like, I'm the 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.080 Lamborghini and now my license plate is going to stay unemployed. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.319 I kind of respect it a little bit, but I 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:29.559 mean the Lamborghini. Of course, what color was the Lamborghini? No, 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.240 it was well maybe I don't know. It was black 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:36.360 or dark blue? Well, then that's what I think it 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.360 could have been. Yours. Well, where do you fall on 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.920 this cool or not cool? I'm I'm so off the 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.880 cool radar when it comes to automobiles that I have 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:49.440 no valid opinion, Like every car I've ever had has 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:53.280 been at least fifteen years old and used and yeah, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.800 no word, I can't even weigh in. I hear you. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.400 I know, Miles, like, what color was it? What kind 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.079 was it? I was like, it's it was dark, it 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.600 was it was a Lamborghini. I read the I read 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.800 the back, that's all, but I don't know. I made 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.240 me laugh the entire way home. I was like, was 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.719 this person when I've had this car thing for a 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.640 long time? So I was dating somebody once and I 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.800 would always be like, oh, I would do the same thing, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.520 like what you know, what kind of car was it? 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.240 L L DA DA? And they said I saw this 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.320 cool car and she would be like, oh it was silver. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:27.120 I'm like, all right, well that tells me nothing. Just 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:31.000 a silver car. I like it. Uh, some Miles, how 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.160 was the move you have UM. In the course of 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.160 starting this job, you had to fly twice, I believe 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.440 right you you came here to Charlotte to kind of 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.000 scope out the area and find an apartment UM, and 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.320 then you made the official move the other day. So 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.000 so how did that all go in these you know, 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.280 in the time of COVID. It's very interesting because when 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.640 I flew the first time, that was in mid to 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.840 late May UM, and then when I went to the 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.840 airport in Las Vegas, I actually felt decently comfortable because 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.880 people I felt like, at least in the term ALLI 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:09.120 was in, we're really socially distant. They were, they had 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.080 on masks, and there really were not a lot of 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.040 people that were flying. And so contrasting that with what 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:17.360 happened last Friday when I flew here to move, and 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.920 it was just a completely different thing. I mean, it 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:24.680 seemed like people were not taking social distancing you know, 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:29.280 guidelines seriously at all. And that was a little bit 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.440 terrifying because this is an airborne virus. You know, it 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:39.560 spreads through people, um, you know, breathing droplets and things 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.320 into the air. If you're talking and you're in an 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:47.200 enclosed space and there's many more informed people who can 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.800 uh and educated people in epidemiologists who can say things 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:52.640 that are probably a little bit more coherent on things 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.240 like that. But I just it was a little scary. Um, 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:56.960 So that was part of why, you know, if we're 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:58.280 gonna meet up, you know, I was like, all right, 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.440 we gotta be outdoors. I gotta have my mask on 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.680 the whole time. Like I was trying not to breathe 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.680 much as I took my mask off and was eating. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.360 And it's just impressive because I don't want to get 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.320 I don't want to get anybody else sick from this thing. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.000 This thing is serious and even if you're asymptomatic, you know, 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.360 it can really do a number on your loans. So yeah, 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.600 it was it was an experience. Um, I'm glad it's over, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.080 and I'm glad that, you know, I don't necessarily have 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.080 to do commercial flights any other times soon as people 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:25.920 don't take this as seriously as I kind of think 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.000 they should. Well, I'll give a quick p s. A. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.640 Last week I went and gave blood um at the 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.840 like one of the mobile blood banks at the night Stadium, 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.760 and apparently they're supposed to be able to give you 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.400 both like your blood type, so you know, because I 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:46.320 know like some blood types are more um susceptible or 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.680 less susceptible. But also that I think they're supposed to 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.600 perform like an antibody test, so they're supposed to like 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:55.880 tell you whether you've shown the antibodies for covid um 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.360 and like whether you've had it and been asymptomatic in 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.760 the past. Um so, and plus giving blood is always 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.159 a good thing because the hospital still need need all 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:09.560 that blood. Yeah, that's great to know. I did not 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:13.320 know that admittedly until you told us. So I'm I'm 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.879 glad to know about that. We should all be giving blood. 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:20.400 So added bonus there, um miles. Going back to your move, 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.840 how has it been? So I think anyone who's listening 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.560 to this would probably know this, although you are you're 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.879 very um low key about this and don't make it 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.479 a big deal. But you have been working Vegas. You've 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.280 been working East coast hours from Vegas. So sometimes you 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.800 and I will do something with the we've been doing 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.640 these gets to know interviews with the coaches, and they'll 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.720 want to do it early before meetings start, you know, 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.760 eight am, nine am, and so you're getting up at 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.000 like five six, like your work day was starting at 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.520 five or six every single day. I assume I gotta 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.960 think that you're pretty happy that that's over with Yes, 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.399 I'm very happy that that's over with it. And it's funny, Like, 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.960 I mean, I didn't I didn't make that big deal 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.320 because it's like nobody needs to feel bad for me, 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:06.560 you know, like it just it sort of was what 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.840 it was. Um. But yeah, I'm like now sleeping like 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.000 a normal person. Uh so that's cool. But there were 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.160 benefits to getting up that early. So I would get 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.600 up around five, and work day starts around six, uh 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.400 Pacific time, because that's nine o'clock Eastern, but you're done 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.000 around two. So most days, like I would finish up 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.760 my work around two to thirty and then go on 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:35.040 a walk and I enjoy what was then nine degree 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.440 temperatures And now as I was looking at my calendar 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:39.960 or the weather app yesterday, it's like a hundred and 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:41.680 eight degrees in lass and I guess, so I'm glad 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.399 I'm not there. Um, but yeah, it was. It was 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.480 kind of weird some days where it would be like 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:49.520 six in the morning, and you know, you and I 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:53.159 were about to talk to Joe Brady and everybody's like, 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.919 why is it so dark where you are? And I'm like, oh, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.960 let me turn on the light because it's not really 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:03.520 up out here yet. So yeah, well, we're glad that 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:05.440 you're you're on East Coast time with the rest of 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.359 us now. So that's kind of one of the main 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:08.880 things that you and I have been working on, which 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:13.080 I have really enjoyed. UM this series on getting to 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:14.840 know the members of the new coaching staff, and we 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.760 do a written piece and a video piece UM for 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:20.720 each of these coaches and they're coming out about once 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:22.080 a week. So I want to talk about that. But 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.880 before we get to that, Will on on the workfront, 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.320 what's what's new with you? I feel like we didn't 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.080 even get into that last night when we hung out. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.520 It was all just about me and Miles getting getting 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:37.840 adjusted our good friend Will. We didn't even ask well. So, yeah, 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.240 I've been doing some doing some more stuff on the app, 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.399 and it's kind of funny, like I've been building just 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.200 all of these new pages and areas of the site, 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:49.040 uh for for Panthers dot Com that hopefully, well we'll 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:50.879 get to start launching soon. I think a lot of 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.720 this is trying to figure out some launch timings with 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.000 with everything we're doing. But we're working with like a 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.120 voting initiative to kind of, um encourage people to vote 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:00.920 and keep people in formed on how to vote and 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:05.200 how to register. UM, so that hopefully that's coming out soon. Um. 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:07.560 You know, we've been working with elements of kind of 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.439 the Player Impact Committee that you know, you guys are 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.560 certainly Miles was a big part of some of those coverages, 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.480 those articles with Andre Smith and and all those guys. 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:20.240 And then just like you know, it's completely my weird 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.880 little world of nerdiness where I'm trying to build out 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.920 essentially all of the history of the Panthers on all 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:28.920 these pages, which takes a little bit. So that's what 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.080 I end up just like going into this like little 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:36.280 weird bubble for hours and looking up random stats and 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:38.600 records and stuff. Oh I love it. So what do 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:40.560 you mean when you say built out the history in 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.560 what way will it present itself? So essentially, right now, 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:49.120 if you google, like what's the longest play in Panthers history, 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.440 you'd have to have, you know, either some sort of 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:54.440 subscription to some of those like stat sites, or really 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.639 understand how to use some of the stuff online. Um, 0:20:57.880 --> 0:20:59.800 and so we I'm just trying to make it easier 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.360