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Speaker 1: heard the big voice guy at the beginning of the podcast.
Speaker 1: Darren gant Is is on the introduction. He is gracing
Speaker 1: us with his presence. He has agreed, Well, it took
Speaker 1: a lot of negotiations. I know it took it took
Speaker 1: some jangles we had to you know, we had to
Speaker 1: do a lot of trade negotiations here he sat out
Speaker 1: some days, you know, things got testy. But he has
Speaker 1: agreed to be come a permanent member of the Happy
Speaker 1: Half Hour Podcast. I'm just I'm like J. C. Horne.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy to be here and concentrateing on balls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you left your agent to do all the tough talk
Speaker 1: for you. I leave. I leave the business stuff to
Speaker 1: the business and the people upstairs. I just you know,
Speaker 1: I just want to concentrate on ball and be a
Speaker 1: good teammate. Did Semeer do the negotiations Sameir's tough. I
Speaker 1: don't want any part of that. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: why I have an agent to let people handle those
Speaker 1: things for me so my hands don't get dirty. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good. It's good to be here. That's good. I
Speaker 1: mean we're talking ball. How bad is it really? It's
Speaker 1: not at all. I know it's a good thing and
Speaker 1: this is cool. So I'm glad we get a chance
Speaker 1: to do this on a regular basis. You know, you're
Speaker 1: stuck with us now, right, stuck with no, that's the
Speaker 1: wrong way of putting it. I get to I have
Speaker 1: attained happy half hour. It's all rosie right now. Ye
Speaker 1: looks stay full time. But wait, wait until August. Man,
Speaker 1: Wait we do this in August, Well, then we get
Speaker 1: to October. It's just no, this is great. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a good outlet. I mean it's good. It's
Speaker 1: cool because I do think. I mean, in all seriousness,
Speaker 1: I think between Kristen and I, we we've got perspective
Speaker 1: and we're inside there, you know, having a chance to
Speaker 1: watch practice, talk to these guys in a setting, and
Speaker 1: being able to share some of that insight, some of
Speaker 1: that behind the ropes stuff is cool and I and
Speaker 1: I think that's a good platform for a lot of
Speaker 1: that that doesn't always come through on the video, on
Speaker 1: the written articles on the website, stuff like that, because
Speaker 1: there's plenty of stories to be told. Well then let's
Speaker 1: start telling them. Yeah, let's go. Let's start with mini camps.
Speaker 1: So we are recording this on Wednesday morning. We have
Speaker 1: seen one practice of mini camp and there will be
Speaker 1: one later this afternoon. Um. But but Darren and I,
Speaker 1: as he said, have been fortunate enough to get to
Speaker 1: see quite a bit of O t A S. And
Speaker 1: it's not not all that different. Yeah, I mean, the
Speaker 1: practice itself is not. It's the only real difference from
Speaker 1: what's going on at O t AS is everybody's here,
Speaker 1: and prior to this week, everybody but Robbie Anderson was
Speaker 1: here and Robbie shut up yesterday and and that gave
Speaker 1: him perfect attendance basically, so you know, everybody was happy,
Speaker 1: and it was you kind of got to look at
Speaker 1: what it was going to look like and you know, I,
Speaker 1: I know, not to make too big a deal of
Speaker 1: one guy coming. But you could see a certain difference
Speaker 1: in the receiving core because it hasn't been complete out
Speaker 1: there because Taris Marshall has been dealing with some old
Speaker 1: injuries near trying to get him right for training camp.
Speaker 1: And DJ. It's basically been DJ and who are all
Speaker 1: these other guys? And so you could see when Robbie
Speaker 1: was out there yesterday. Matt Rule talked about it after practice.
Speaker 1: Here's a certain energy to practice when he's out there
Speaker 1: a little bit, and you can sort of see a
Speaker 1: difference because well you should be able to see a
Speaker 1: different anytime you add Robbie Anderson back into the mix.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. And he yes, quite a few touchdowns um,
Speaker 1: and he is excited to be here at a chance
Speaker 1: to talk to him just a little bit yesterday and
Speaker 1: he couldn't be happier to be back. Yeah, he's in
Speaker 1: such a good space. I mean, he was talking about
Speaker 1: Sam's ra and his energy and stuff and his brother
Speaker 1: ship with d J Maher. He was just he was
Speaker 1: in a good place yesterday. It was cool. It was
Speaker 1: cool seeing Robbie hearing hearing that voice again me and Sam,
Speaker 1: you know, I think when I walked in the building
Speaker 1: and just you know, viewing him, I see like a
Speaker 1: new energy out of him, like you know, like a
Speaker 1: glowing charisma that I didn't really see in New York.
Speaker 1: I can view, you know, a difference in him so far.
Speaker 1: So I mean you could just you know, you know,
Speaker 1: when a person like you can see like Alan throw
Speaker 1: on him, you know, their energy to or you know,
Speaker 1: I can kind of view that when I walked in
Speaker 1: the building and you know, just being around them. What
Speaker 1: are some of the other things that have stuck out
Speaker 1: to you over these I mean, I know, just one
Speaker 1: mini camp practices, not a lot. But as I said,
Speaker 1: we've we've seen o t a s. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: something that's stuck out to me is the pieces that
Speaker 1: have been added on Defense and this unit as a whole.
Speaker 1: The energy is just I mean, in addition to what
Speaker 1: the fans have been able to see. You know, we
Speaker 1: were putting out highlights on social media. There were some
Speaker 1: of those that were out yesterday. Um Defense had a
Speaker 1: good day yesterday at OTS. But but just the way
Speaker 1: they're talking to each other, communicating the energy and then
Speaker 1: you look at a guy like um Hassan Reddick or
Speaker 1: Denzel Perriman. I'll tell you what. I met Denzel on
Speaker 1: his first day in the building. We both did or
Speaker 1: we all all three of us did. Um. And now
Speaker 1: he's walking around like I'll be doing an interview with
Speaker 1: someone else, and he's like the leader of the path.
Speaker 1: You would have thought he had been here for five
Speaker 1: years the way he has bonded with you know, I
Speaker 1: was interviewing Christian the other day and he's walking with
Speaker 1: Shack and a bunch of other guys and he's yelling out, Christian,
Speaker 1: you're my guy. You know, all this kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: and you would not think he had only been here
Speaker 1: for a few months. And that really is I think
Speaker 1: the whole. That's a great way to encompass the way
Speaker 1: this defense has seemingly bonded so quickly and and added
Speaker 1: some really important pieces I think on the field, and
Speaker 1: then also for the the Chemist three and um kind
Speaker 1: of the energy of that unit. Yeah, the enthusiasms absolutely real,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of fun yesterday watching them. You know,
Speaker 1: Brian Burns who's still in a red jersey still, you know,
Speaker 1: coming off some off season stuff and and they say
Speaker 1: he's gonna be ready for training camp, which is good
Speaker 1: news obviously for the defense. But Burns is out there.
Speaker 1: Even though he wasn't going through the reps on the
Speaker 1: practice field, he would be in the huddle and he
Speaker 1: was jumping around and chest bumping with guys in high
Speaker 1: five and after plays and stuff like that. And there
Speaker 1: is a level of engagement and there's a level of
Speaker 1: enthusiasm amongst all those guys that that's tangible. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's real. They honestly believe they're on the verge of
Speaker 1: something big there defensively, So, uh, you did you brought
Speaker 1: in a lot of old heads. I mean, Denzel Pairman
Speaker 1: has been around the league, a j boy has been
Speaker 1: around the league. Hassan Reddick has done some big things,
Speaker 1: and they think that when you add them to burn
Speaker 1: and his too Chin, to Derek Brown, all these young
Speaker 1: guys that were in place last year. You know, even
Speaker 1: Phil Snow said last week, Yeah, it looks pretty good now.
Speaker 1: I mean, and everybody's trying to keep the brakes on
Speaker 1: a little bit in those conditions and well and still
Speaker 1: figure things out what what what they have as a unit.
Speaker 1: They're still experimenting, but it's absolutely real that they believe
Speaker 1: they're a lot better on that side of the ball.
Speaker 1: And yesterday in practice there were so many tip passes
Speaker 1: and interceptions and stuff like that. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: easy and I hate to be I've talked to Bill
Speaker 1: about this. When you know people tweet out individual plays
Speaker 1: from practice, it's easy for that to get turned into,
Speaker 1: you know, out of context thing is really not. But
Speaker 1: there were a bunch of plays being made yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I mean it became thematic at a certain point that, Hey,
Speaker 1: these guys are flying around picking off a bunch of passes.
Speaker 1: That's that's new, that's different, that's something right there. And
Speaker 1: I think some of the context of that is, you know,
Speaker 1: in these practic the settings, you don't have necessarily have
Speaker 1: the pass rush, but you don't necessarily have like, you know,
Speaker 1: the past blocking either. So you know, guys that are
Speaker 1: just jumping at the line tipping balls there, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they're not necessarily in the quarterback space like they
Speaker 1: would be. But from a secondary standpoint, if you're a
Speaker 1: corner on a wide receiver just one on one and
Speaker 1: you maybe don't have you know, the safety help over
Speaker 1: the top, or you don't have the pass rush, you know,
Speaker 1: rushing the quarterback and it's just you and this guy
Speaker 1: when you're guarding him. The way these guys are guarding
Speaker 1: these guys, that's a little bit different. And that's something
Speaker 1: you can maybe see in these sort of drills, and
Speaker 1: you can see at this time of year, and those
Speaker 1: guys when they're on islands, they're looking pretty good, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think more than anything, I mean, they have
Speaker 1: raised the level of personnel in the secondary last year.
Speaker 1: And I've had a couple of players over the course
Speaker 1: of the off season mentioned this to me and and
Speaker 1: we'll get to this later on on the website and
Speaker 1: kind of putting some of this stuff in the context.
Speaker 1: But last year was almost all right, bring somebody in
Speaker 1: all the street he's playing, he's starting. I mean, who
Speaker 1: is this guy? I have no idea, And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you're trying to count on him and know
Speaker 1: what he's supposed to do when you've never even met him. Uh.
Speaker 1: This year, they brought in a a better grade of
Speaker 1: player again, a J boy. It was kind of a
Speaker 1: bargain signing almost that guy has played at a high
Speaker 1: level and to bring him into to play alongside Dante
Speaker 1: and alongside J. C. Horne, who again, j C. Horne
Speaker 1: was drafted to be that guy. I mean, then they
Speaker 1: haven't had one of those around here in a long time.
Speaker 1: I mean, as good as he was, Josh Norman was
Speaker 1: a different kind of player. I mean he was mid
Speaker 1: round pick who had to work his way up and
Speaker 1: it was years before he was an all pro level player.
Speaker 1: J C. Horn walks in the building pedigreed and and
Speaker 1: ready to sort of raise the level of the entire secondary. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and he's looked good to my eye, it's very good
Speaker 1: when he is on those islands that you're talking about
Speaker 1: will and then also we forget so you look at
Speaker 1: the moves they made to that secondary and free agency
Speaker 1: and then, as you said, Jase Horne in the draft,
Speaker 1: So do you think Dante Jackson was not healthy for
Speaker 1: the majority of the season last year, constantly battling that
Speaker 1: turf toe and he looks good. This is gonna it's
Speaker 1: just gonna look entirely different back there. They've got a
Speaker 1: I mean, they had the thing during the Super Bowl year,
Speaker 1: the Thieves Avenue, and you don't want to put anything
Speaker 1: on these guys at this point, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: of potential for guys to make a lot of plays
Speaker 1: in the secondary this year, and and again with Jeremy
Speaker 1: Chen probably playing more of a safety role this year.
Speaker 1: That adds another guy who we've already seen can be
Speaker 1: an impact player and can make big plays in the
Speaker 1: course of a game. Puts another body back there that's
Speaker 1: capable of making a game change and play. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see how that all comes together
Speaker 1: once camp starts. What about a quarterback would have been
Speaker 1: your observations on on Sam Donald? You know, I think
Speaker 1: Sam is starting to figure out what it's like and
Speaker 1: what's expected. And I think in a sense, you know,
Speaker 1: we've created such a low bar for Sam. I mean,
Speaker 1: after the New York experience went the way it worked
Speaker 1: went for Sam, it's like, come here and reset. And
Speaker 1: Sam looks like a guy who feels relieved to not
Speaker 1: have to deal with a lot of external stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just been here sleeping on the floor like a
Speaker 1: college student with his mattress on the floor and that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. But um, he looks like a new guy.
Speaker 1: He looks relaxed. I think on the field, you know,
Speaker 1: you can tell certain things. He does have that big arm,
Speaker 1: and I think in a theoretical since they ought to
Speaker 1: be able to push the ball down the field a
Speaker 1: little bit more this year than they have in the past.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, we'll see. I mean, there's been
Speaker 1: some ups and downs, and again I think having this
Speaker 1: odd lot of receivers around him as part of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are times when you know he hadn't
Speaker 1: had the greatest of practices. Times he's had better ones,
Speaker 1: and you know, what's see how it develops. But I
Speaker 1: think just in terms of Sam getting his feet underneath
Speaker 1: him here in Carolina, he is starting to figure it out,
Speaker 1: I think a little bit, and and starting to get
Speaker 1: a sense for where he is in the world. And
Speaker 1: you know, Robbie talked about it yesterday. He's like, he's
Speaker 1: got a new r he's gotta he's got a glow
Speaker 1: about him. And you know he Robbie knows him from
Speaker 1: New York when he was probably glowing for other reasons
Speaker 1: because everybody was setting him on fire. But um, here,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean here he can be relaxed, he
Speaker 1: can be laid back Sam. He can be California cool Sam,
Speaker 1: and and sort of fit in because there isn't the
Speaker 1: same level of expectation on him yesterday, Coach said that
Speaker 1: he doesn't want him to have great practices. He wants
Speaker 1: him to have good practices and with the context stuff,
Speaker 1: he wants him to always see how he can get
Speaker 1: better because he's having great practices, not in the work
Speaker 1: on You know, what did you kind of take from that? Well,
Speaker 1: I think they want to keep pushing Sam again. I
Speaker 1: think this is sort of a period of acclamation and
Speaker 1: there will be a point in training, you know, once
Speaker 1: you transition into training camp in the preseason where they
Speaker 1: do turn the heat up on him a little bit
Speaker 1: and you do expect more of him again. Hi, Sam,
Speaker 1: meet Christian. You're gonna like him. You know he's going
Speaker 1: to help you. Okay, these are the new guys. That's
Speaker 1: Taylor Moten. He's better than anybody you've ever played with.
Speaker 1: You know, that kind of period is over and now
Speaker 1: it's okay, what have you learned? And you see them
Speaker 1: go through some of the situational stuff in this camp
Speaker 1: of you know, working on two minute, working on blitz
Speaker 1: pick up stuff such that you can in this setting
Speaker 1: where nobody's wearing pads and it's not contact and that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. So, you know, I think they keep
Speaker 1: adding a little bit more to his plate every day,
Speaker 1: and that's obviously going to get cranked up a notch
Speaker 1: once we get to training camp. Yeah, I completely agree.
Speaker 1: You see them go through those those situational um instances
Speaker 1: and and work them out on the field, and then
Speaker 1: you'll see him and Joe Brady get together and talk
Speaker 1: and that's all part of this process. You know, this
Speaker 1: is I mean, he was was with the Jets and
Speaker 1: and now he's here, so he's learning an entirely new
Speaker 1: schim scheme, new personnel, everything, and um, I think it's
Speaker 1: progressing as it should be. And at this point in um,
Speaker 1: the off season, I think so. And again a lot
Speaker 1: of its adaptation and a lot of it's learning new people. UM,
Speaker 1: and that's sort of thing. And again some peaks and
Speaker 1: valleys are to be expected. I mean, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of new stuff coming his way. But I think, you know,
Speaker 1: so far, I guess I would say to sum it up,
Speaker 1: I mean Sam sort of been as advertised. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can tell he's got a big arm. And not
Speaker 1: to take away from anybody else who's been at that position,
Speaker 1: but Sam got a stronger arm than anybody we've seen
Speaker 1: here since I don't know that number one guy a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and it's and it's probably been
Speaker 1: a couple of years since you saw that. So it's
Speaker 1: visibly different from that standpoint. And now let's see how
Speaker 1: he puts it together. Well, one thing darreny mentioned new
Speaker 1: and different, Uh, you know, not just for for Sam
Speaker 1: and the guys on the team, but really for us,
Speaker 1: Like we're in this new phase where we are allowed
Speaker 1: to safely be around the players. And one thing we
Speaker 1: always try to do on this podcast is talk about
Speaker 1: some of the behind the scenes stuff. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I started with the Panthers not quite a year and
Speaker 1: a half ago. I started working from home. And Darren,
Speaker 1: you've obviously been around the team in some capacity since
Speaker 1: its inception, but you also started last year during a
Speaker 1: time where we couldn't be around the players. So this
Speaker 1: is really because of the tier status in the NFL. UM,
Speaker 1: you know, making sure that that certain staff members can
Speaker 1: be around the players in a safe manner. And you know,
Speaker 1: we we are compliant with everything in in the NFL
Speaker 1: rules and regulations. Um, we have been allowed to to
Speaker 1: be around the players and and do our jobs in
Speaker 1: a much more normal way than either you or I
Speaker 1: have experienced since joining the Panthers, It's been great. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like, hey, look there's an actual person. He's
Speaker 1: not on a screen. I've met you, You're You're an
Speaker 1: actual thing. Um. It's good. And that's great for building
Speaker 1: relationships and getting to know people and being able to
Speaker 1: share their stories. I mean, that's a lot of this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You can hear guys say words on
Speaker 1: a zoom call, but a lot of times when you
Speaker 1: see how animated they are about certain things, you can
Speaker 1: tell what matters to them, you can tell what's important
Speaker 1: to them. Um, and it just helps in that regard.
Speaker 1: I mean, these are human beings and and honestly, there
Speaker 1: have been a load of players this offseason talked about
Speaker 1: how important that is from their standpoint of building a team.
Speaker 1: Is Hey, I actually get to sit in a room
Speaker 1: with this guy. I actually get to you know, go
Speaker 1: to dinner with this guy. I actually get to meet
Speaker 1: him and know what makes him tip And Matt Rules
Speaker 1: said that was the biggest thing that he told me
Speaker 1: at the end of last season. We did almost like
Speaker 1: an exit interview the day after this season ended, and um,
Speaker 1: he said, you know it was we recorded it and
Speaker 1: it was great. That was the first time I'd gotten
Speaker 1: to be in person with him, and he said the
Speaker 1: thing that he was looking forward to most, you know,
Speaker 1: no hesitation Barnon was this offseason period of being able
Speaker 1: to be in person with the players. And you think
Speaker 1: back he was introducing himself to players behind a mask
Speaker 1: in July for the first time. This is really new
Speaker 1: for this entire staff too, now that I'm thinking about it,
Speaker 1: not just us. This is also their first time getting
Speaker 1: to be around all of the players in an off
Speaker 1: season capacity. And that that question, I think gets cliche
Speaker 1: if you've watched every press conference we've done the last
Speaker 1: three months, because two months, because the media keeps asking you,
Speaker 1: how happy are you to be back? But it's but
Speaker 1: there's something real to it, and there's something in in
Speaker 1: comparison to thirty one other teams, not everyone in this
Speaker 1: league has as much in person contact, as many practices
Speaker 1: as many everyone there altogether sort of stuff, yes, as
Speaker 1: the Panthers have. And you know, I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: you can look and point at at May in June
Speaker 1: and predict outcomes of fall games. That's exactly what you're
Speaker 1: saying that I think there's there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: that go into how successful you are in the fall,
Speaker 1: and I think it's easy to take for granted how
Speaker 1: important this stuff is. What we're doing, we're able to
Speaker 1: evaluate the players more importantly. Um players are gonna chance
Speaker 1: to spend time around each other and to spend the
Speaker 1: time in our scheme. And you know, as coaches, this
Speaker 1: is practice for us, like all the two minute situations,
Speaker 1: reacting to them like, well, we clock it here. When
Speaker 1: we do this and we go back, we have a
Speaker 1: real serious debrief on how it went. So again, I
Speaker 1: don't know how we did it without it. Last year.
Speaker 1: We play honest, I mean a team like you know,
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers for instance. I mean Tom Brady was seeing
Speaker 1: veterans to not show up for O t A s
Speaker 1: this year. And now, granted they are those Super Bowl champions,
Speaker 1: it's Tom Brady. It's a veteran team. They've all been together.
Speaker 1: Their O t as were in January when they were
Speaker 1: practicing for the players, and the Panthers didn't get that stuff.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you're older, when you're established, you
Speaker 1: can get away with some of that kind of stuff. Maybe,
Speaker 1: But as they build this thing and this is such
Speaker 1: a young team. You know, even the old guys have
Speaker 1: talked about how imperative it is to be here together.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think that's been huge for those
Speaker 1: guys that Jack and Hassan and all those guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've said that from and Check said that from from
Speaker 1: last season as as well, right at the end of
Speaker 1: the season that to him as a player, as a leader,
Speaker 1: a captain last season, that the biggest thing that that
Speaker 1: defense needed was was the time before the season started,
Speaker 1: and he was looking forward to that. And they're getting it.
Speaker 1: Like I said, going back to the Denzel Perimin thing
Speaker 1: I said at the beginning, see all those guys walking
Speaker 1: around getting to know each other. I love to see
Speaker 1: the new guys and the guys that have been here
Speaker 1: for a couple of years, whether that's you know, the
Speaker 1: new guys through the draft or free agency. It makes
Speaker 1: my my heart grow a size bigger to see them all,
Speaker 1: you know, becoming friends, right and and to see who
Speaker 1: is hanging out with who, and who's walking up to
Speaker 1: practice or writing on the golf carts together. I just
Speaker 1: love that. I think that's such a hallmark during especially
Speaker 1: as you said, for one of the youngest teams in
Speaker 1: the NFL. They need this time and they're getting it,
Speaker 1: ye and and they're getting it. And like I said
Speaker 1: that knowing each other off the field is such a
Speaker 1: component of that. I mean, because you know, these guys
Speaker 1: have to trust each other on Sundays and how do
Speaker 1: you trust someone you've never met or don't know. So
Speaker 1: it's helpful for those guys. And you can kind of
Speaker 1: see it. I mean, there is you know, last year,
Speaker 1: when everybody's behind a mask, you would see people leaving
Speaker 1: one at a time, and it's almost like they were
Speaker 1: in a line on the way out in socially distance
Speaker 1: they had they had to be at certain points. It
Speaker 1: was still if you're not playing, you need to try
Speaker 1: to be as socially distance as possible. And now when
Speaker 1: you see guys walking in or walking out of Sillity,
Speaker 1: they're coming in two and three at a time. And
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like a small thing, that sounds
Speaker 1: like a simple thing, but it matters. It does. All Right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick break and when we come back,
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Speaker 1: you debuted Get Off My Lawn the Last the Last
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Speaker 1: we need to hear more of these. You have happen
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Speaker 1: thing now, huh. But it's almost perfect because you have
Speaker 1: you have moved recently. You have a whole new lawn
Speaker 1: that everyone can now get off, a new lawn for
Speaker 1: everybody to get off. And I will say, as I
Speaker 1: said before, and I got tweets about this, which I loved.
Speaker 1: You are just a lovely human. I think you try
Speaker 1: to pretend you know, but I have to say I'm
Speaker 1: not wrong in saying I have moved. Gosh, I've probably
Speaker 1: moved eight times, nine times since graduating college, all over
Speaker 1: the country. No one likes moving, So I thought, like,
Speaker 1: we got to get to get off my lawn moment
Speaker 1: for moving. You know what needs to get off my lawn. Boxes?
Speaker 1: There's so many bodies that guy in the neighborhood. Where
Speaker 1: did they? Where did they come with all this stuff?
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't realize I owned many of these items,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, they are many, many cardboard boxes. And
Speaker 1: I was breaking down a bunch of them last night
Speaker 1: stick in the recycling and It's like, where did all
Speaker 1: this come from? I have no idea. I have never
Speaker 1: been so excited to have a box cutter like I
Speaker 1: lost my box cutter during my last move for i'd
Speaker 1: say maybe a day or two, and it was devastating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a nightmare, and you wonder, and I truly and
Speaker 1: now that I'm part of the team, one of the
Speaker 1: one of the rituals. From my standpoint, I mean, you
Speaker 1: guys have stipulations. One of the things I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: is we're gonna have a reverse housewarming party. You're at
Speaker 1: my place and you two guys are gonna come over.
Speaker 1: And here's a deal. Unlike a regular housewarming party where
Speaker 1: you guys bring me gifts, when you guys come to
Speaker 1: my house for the reverse housewarming party, I get to
Speaker 1: give you items, items, and they're items of my choosing,
Speaker 1: and you cannot refuse. This the best idea. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I've got like an extra built sander that I think
Speaker 1: sounds like, well, it looks like a will gift to me, right,
Speaker 1: And I've already been promised his notebooks from the two
Speaker 1: thousand eight seasons. Yeah, I got. I got free reign.
Speaker 1: I got told that I could look through all of them.
Speaker 1: So I need to go. I need to go claim
Speaker 1: those because I think he wrote about me in the
Speaker 1: two thousand eight one. The the pr intern was only
Speaker 1: looking I'm see, I'm looking for for history for good nuggets.
Speaker 1: You're just looking for yourself pretty much. This kid seems
Speaker 1: in over his head, not if he's a player or not. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff over there, And yeah, I
Speaker 1: did bring a couple of those boxes here to the
Speaker 1: stadium because some of these things need to go downstairs
Speaker 1: into the archive with David. There's some there were some
Speaker 1: things uncovered in my garage. But when I brought stuff
Speaker 1: from one place to the other, it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: where did that come from? Well, you moved recently. What's
Speaker 1: the worst part of moving? Um? I had a nightmare
Speaker 1: of course with the internet set up, because like I guess,
Speaker 1: we were the the guy was over here, was just
Speaker 1: like digging through this box in the back, and then
Speaker 1: this box out in the corner, and then back upstairs
Speaker 1: and then back downstairs. And at one point he goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna work like this. Yeah, can you
Speaker 1: be more specific? You know, no internet plugging in and
Speaker 1: it it's supposed to work. He's like, I don't let
Speaker 1: me go try upstairs again. And then he went to
Speaker 1: another room and did some things and he's like, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna work. I'm like, what what what I mean?
Speaker 1: You had he for about twenty minutes. I was. I
Speaker 1: was on the verge of can we sell the house
Speaker 1: you know that we just bought because the Internet isn't
Speaker 1: gonna work? Like all the other things are great, but
Speaker 1: if the internet doesn't work, you know, I gotta move again.
Speaker 1: You never want to hear. Yeah, the Internet is just
Speaker 1: not gonna work. I mean, I mean it was essentially
Speaker 1: like this just place just won't work. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: do you mean? What does that is that? So that
Speaker 1: was that was my twenty minute nightmare. That's a good one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good one. I mean that one for you,
Speaker 1: but it's worse than that for me. Well, so you'd
Speaker 1: want internet like I would take. You would take internet
Speaker 1: over plumbing. Yeah, because the stadiums right across the street.
Speaker 1: That's still what are you gonna be like? Showering in
Speaker 1: the locker room in shower shoes. He's got a shower
Speaker 1: cap on and his patty. Hey, guys, what's up? At
Speaker 1: least if I can get on the internet at home
Speaker 1: though there's also internet here, Well, yeah, I don't have
Speaker 1: to shower every day though, all right, And you know what,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm I'm nervous to even move on
Speaker 1: because will you came up with the weird question of
Speaker 1: the week, and I just now after saying you don't
Speaker 1: have to shower every day, I'm nervous to find out
Speaker 1: what'll go for it? Shower, shower this morning. I'm sure
Speaker 1: likely story so could be worse. You wait until training camp,
Speaker 1: my man, Just wait, that's a different kind of sweat. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: so this time of year, mini camp is over at
Speaker 1: the end of the week. Between now in training camp,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of vacations being taken. I think there
Speaker 1: was some point in the history of this podcast in
Speaker 1: which I, uh d, I made some very bad statements
Speaker 1: about the city of Paris in terms of its vacation spot. Yes,
Speaker 1: you didn't make bad statements. You were just wrong in
Speaker 1: the sense that you thought you thought it was overrated.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, I was corrected offline, as they say,
Speaker 1: as the kids say, take this offline, um, and I
Speaker 1: want to I want to retract it. I want to
Speaker 1: retract that statement and give Darren a chance to weigh
Speaker 1: in on the most stereotypical vacation spot that is in
Speaker 1: fact quite bad, that is in fact quite bad that
Speaker 1: people still go to like, oh, I'm gonna go vacation there.
Speaker 1: But in true, in true reality, it's not a place
Speaker 1: do you want to go? Myrtle Beach count on the
Speaker 1: dirty Myrtle is Uh, that's special for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think you know, and certainly I'll
Speaker 1: raise my hand. I have spent my share of time
Speaker 1: in Myrtle Beach and when you're in college on spring break,
Speaker 1: I think that's appropriate. But I think now that you
Speaker 1: hit another phase in life, you know, Myrtle is not
Speaker 1: really the place to roll anymore. But I feel like
Speaker 1: for people outside of the Carolinas, it's still has this
Speaker 1: allure to it, rightly, right, Oh yeah, I mean, madam,
Speaker 1: I am I right. No, I've definitely known people who
Speaker 1: aren't from South Carolina or North Carolina and they talk
Speaker 1: very highly about going like their yearly trip. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's a surprise to people that have been
Speaker 1: around these these parts for a while, that like people
Speaker 1: from Columbus, Ohio just worshiped Myrtle Beach. West Virginia is
Speaker 1: big in a Myrtle Beach. Yeah. And not to tell
Speaker 1: him myself, but one time when I was in college,
Speaker 1: we met some young ladies from West Virginia and one
Speaker 1: of them had six toes. I swear to God that's true. Story.
Speaker 1: Um six total or six on one ft? Yeah, eleven total?
Speaker 1: It can I just ask I'm afraid to even ask
Speaker 1: a question about this, um, but I guess Matt can
Speaker 1: always cut it. Was that like, did she introduce herself
Speaker 1: and and tell you that? Did you go to even
Speaker 1: does she bring it up? Or did you just see it?
Speaker 1: And you couldn't let it go? Even at an early age,
Speaker 1: I had this finely tuned reporter. And so the store,
Speaker 1: and you notice things and when something you know, when
Speaker 1: you look out on the practice field and Jeremy Chin's
Speaker 1: and Rid Jersey, you say, hey, he's not practicing today.
Speaker 1: If you see something that's out of place, you notice that.
Speaker 1: And so when you're walking around you meet new people
Speaker 1: and you look down for some reason, or pick something
Speaker 1: up off the floor, it's like, hey, there's an extra
Speaker 1: one that's not supposed to be there about it? It
Speaker 1: may have come up in conversation. What a memorable first
Speaker 1: episode from Darren the first four time here, this was
Speaker 1: not We start with mini camp, We end with a
Speaker 1: woman from West Virginia with six toes. What more can
Speaker 1: you ask mar in Myrtle Beach? Of course, I mean
Speaker 1: I don't think a podcast could give you more. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. With that, we'll leave it right there.
Speaker 1: We'll leave you with that image. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for listening to the Happy Half Hour podcast. We'll see
Speaker 1: you next time.