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Speaker 1: Max Senson, and Will Brian. Welcome to the Group Chat.
Speaker 1: It's Max, it's Will. Good intro, We're here. That was
Speaker 1: pretty smooth act. That wasn't that bad? Matt. I don't
Speaker 1: know what did you think? How do you think Will's
Speaker 1: intro was gonna go? Be honest, I didn't think it
Speaker 1: was going to be very good. But I didn't even
Speaker 1: have to say that much. I didn't know what you
Speaker 1: were gonna say. We didn't talk about it. You just
Speaker 1: jumped into I thought you did a good job though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was pretty simple, better than I would have done
Speaker 1: that natural. That sounded good. Yeah. You know, I've I've
Speaker 1: been working on apps all day like I've been I've
Speaker 1: been knee deep in trying to create these apps. Max
Speaker 1: are you're a big apps guy, not appetizers. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know you the advertisers too. That's that's what I
Speaker 1: was gonna say. Yes, Yes, you love a good app.
Speaker 1: Um you always get you always get an app before
Speaker 1: a good meal. I like to. Yeah, I like to, especially,
Speaker 1: you know, if you've got a group and you can
Speaker 1: share some apps. Yeah, that's true. We we did that
Speaker 1: this week. Get it going a little bit, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: kind of my prefer so. I mean, obviously people have
Speaker 1: probably figured out by now Caroline they're not hearing her voice. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: where is she? Everyone knows where she at this point now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess because you know why, because they're on their
Speaker 1: apps on Instagram and Twitter and they see there down there,
Speaker 1: and you know what app you should get. I think
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Speaker 1: I think they took a lift down to Miami. If
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, that's a big that's a big Actually, yes,
Speaker 1: what would you actually guess? That? Fair would be? I've
Speaker 1: seen stories about lift rides that long. Let's say if
Speaker 1: you were a driver and somebody like it popped up
Speaker 1: in it was like someone here in Charlotte, North Carolina
Speaker 1: wants to drive down to Miami, Florida. No, like, would
Speaker 1: you take that? No? I mean that's a big chunk
Speaker 1: of change. How long does that drives? It? Like twelve
Speaker 1: hours with a stranger and then and then how are
Speaker 1: you getting back? I mean, yeah, yeah, I guess it
Speaker 1: wouldn't really make much sense. No, but I think there
Speaker 1: have been stories about people taking crazy long that long
Speaker 1: but crazy. Yeah. Anyway, Yeah, Caroline's down in Miami. The
Speaker 1: two of us here are holding down the fort in
Speaker 1: the shoot studio back here in Charlotte. Uh. And I
Speaker 1: guess it's a pretty big football game going on this weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think there is. I do you have
Speaker 1: plans for it? I don't. I don't have huge plans.
Speaker 1: I'll probably to be pretty like casually just sit back
Speaker 1: and watch the game. I don't know about you. Seem
Speaker 1: like a big Super Bowl party, Yeah, I've I've had
Speaker 1: some in the past. I think this year, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: laying low. You know, it's ironic because I'm actually excited
Speaker 1: to watch this. This do a lot for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is gonna be a great game. I agree. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. I don't necessarily think before the season started
Speaker 1: and well, actually I should say Mahomes and the Chiefs
Speaker 1: have always had a lot of sizzle just because he's
Speaker 1: the Madden cover. He's like kind of becoming one of
Speaker 1: the young faces of the NFL. Now. Um, and this
Speaker 1: Niners team, I mean, they're they're super fun to watch too.
Speaker 1: I Mean I know that offensively they may not be
Speaker 1: looked at as explosive and as you know, just video
Speaker 1: game style offense as the Chiefs do. Um, but with
Speaker 1: the way they run the ball and the way that
Speaker 1: defense plays, like, the entire energy of that team has
Speaker 1: just been a ton of fun to watch throughout the
Speaker 1: season unless you were a Panther fan. Of course, we
Speaker 1: all experienced the worst of it that day. Um, but
Speaker 1: that's just what this that team has been like. So
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be an awesome matchup. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of good Super Bowls over the years,
Speaker 1: and this has the potential to be one of those
Speaker 1: kind of classic at least on paper. And you'd hope
Speaker 1: so because you know, especially after you know, no touchdowns
Speaker 1: going to the fourth quarter last year, you would think
Speaker 1: there might be a couple more this time. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I mean again, the with the way that's Niners
Speaker 1: defense is playing too, I think that's the that's the
Speaker 1: big thing Niners defense. Chief's offense. How's that wanting going
Speaker 1: to go down? I always like to do the opposite. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I want to see Niner's offense, Chief's defense. Chiefs
Speaker 1: defense has struggled against the run. You know all of
Speaker 1: those run the great running backs from the Niners, and
Speaker 1: we can I think they can control the clock. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, and I think you know that. The two
Speaker 1: head coaches and you read Kyle Shanahan, young guy looking
Speaker 1: for his first, guy has been around forever, still looking
Speaker 1: for his first. There's a lot of choices to be
Speaker 1: made from a fan standpoint, I who, you want to
Speaker 1: win this game? And we might as well bring in
Speaker 1: the person who's down there in Miami to absolutely we
Speaker 1: get some some real and and Ma, can we get
Speaker 1: Caroline on the phone? Can she? Is she too busy
Speaker 1: or can she available? Could she call in here? I
Speaker 1: think she's available. Let's get her on the horse, Carol,
Speaker 1: can you hear us? Yeah, yeah, I got It's so
Speaker 1: busy down here, just you know, so much going on.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think I've got you. I've got you.
Speaker 1: We've got a few minutes to spare for us, thank goodness.
Speaker 1: Just a little bit. I mean that that's just insane
Speaker 1: down here, in the amount of interview request that I'm getting,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's insane. Yeah, So I'm glad
Speaker 1: you guys caught me when you did. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: Panthers are just all the rage right now down there
Speaker 1: and everyone just wants to talk. Listen, guys, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I've run into a lot of people and
Speaker 1: they're just like, why are you here? Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: they're not playing? Yeah, yeah, news to me. That's weird.
Speaker 1: I thought the whole team was here, but no, there's
Speaker 1: actually a couple of teams down here that are not
Speaker 1: actually playing in the game. But does the media cruise
Speaker 1: down here? Of course, we're gonna be doing some stuff
Speaker 1: with David Tepper and Nicole later on this week, so
Speaker 1: that's kind of our big pool and draw to be here.
Speaker 1: But I've never been to the super Bowl, and this
Speaker 1: this is insane. I've always heard about the big media hooplon.
Speaker 1: Of course it's all that's on TV for a while,
Speaker 1: but I mean, this is this is next level with
Speaker 1: all the different networks that are set up and just
Speaker 1: how crazy it is. But the big question, though, the
Speaker 1: big question, and you guys, you know I know you
Speaker 1: guys were kind of talking about earlier. It's this, this
Speaker 1: or that? Do you want? Do you want the chief
Speaker 1: you want the forty Niners? Do you want that quarterback?
Speaker 1: At this quarterback? Do you want? I mean, that's all
Speaker 1: we're here and when you walk around. So since you
Speaker 1: brought me on, I came prepared with a segment. You
Speaker 1: always come prepared. Thank you, Thank you. I think we
Speaker 1: should do. We're gonna play a good game of this
Speaker 1: or that. Enough you just have to pick one. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I've got a couple of different scenarios. Let's just
Speaker 1: first go with a very obvious one, the one that
Speaker 1: we're hearing all the time. Do you want the Chiefs
Speaker 1: or the forty Niners? Who do you have in this game?
Speaker 1: Make your predictions. I will make you eat your words later.
Speaker 1: I guess that is the big question. Will who do
Speaker 1: you get? Niners? Niners? Huh? Yeah, I'm going Niners. Give
Speaker 1: us your quick, like thirty second rationale. I'm going Niners
Speaker 1: because I think in games like this, offenses like the
Speaker 1: Chiefs sometimes just don't live up to everything that they've
Speaker 1: done in the past on paper. And yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I I like I like defense, and controlling the clock
Speaker 1: and running the ball, and no one has done that
Speaker 1: better than Niners this year. I agree with you. I
Speaker 1: want the Chiefs to win. I think the Niners will win,
Speaker 1: and for the reasons you just said. I trust the
Speaker 1: defense in this sort of moment more than I do
Speaker 1: the offense. Kansas City has started really slow. They've been
Speaker 1: flirting with it, and it's just like, man, is that
Speaker 1: going to catch up to the eventure. You've got to
Speaker 1: think eventually it will. Uh. This Niners team is just
Speaker 1: so sound everywhere. Um, I just don't see a real
Speaker 1: weakness that people might point to Garoppolo and say, if
Speaker 1: they're down a score late, he can can they really
Speaker 1: count on him? But I think they can get a
Speaker 1: lead and maintain it with that defense and run game,
Speaker 1: and I think they win. I mean that being said,
Speaker 1: if Casey jumps out to a one nothing lead on
Speaker 1: the first three drives of the game, you know, I
Speaker 1: I don't know if San Francisco can catch up, Like
Speaker 1: I don't think they're not. They're not built to catch up.
Speaker 1: I would agree, But if they can control the ball
Speaker 1: and hold it, and can they do to the Chiefs
Speaker 1: what the Broncos did to the Panthers. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what we're all thinking. Interesting, Caroline, what about you there
Speaker 1: is Well, there is a certain saying about defense wins championship.
Speaker 1: But I'm actually with I'm with Max on this one.
Speaker 1: In my heart, I want Andy Reid in the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: but just the realist in me of how this game,
Speaker 1: how I think it's going to go. I'm going to
Speaker 1: forty Niners, so we think we like it? Proved me wrong,
Speaker 1: That's what I want, Like Chiefs proved me wrong. In
Speaker 1: my heart, I will be so happy and I will
Speaker 1: eat my words of picking the forty Niners. But uh
Speaker 1: that I like it. I kind of like that we
Speaker 1: all went clean sleep. Maybe we've cursed the Niners and
Speaker 1: now that Yeah, and when the Chiefs win, we can't
Speaker 1: make fun of any of us because we all got
Speaker 1: it wrong. We're all in this together, all right. Let's
Speaker 1: do the next one here? Going into season, do you
Speaker 1: want the Carolina Panthers to have the Chief's offense or
Speaker 1: the forty Niners defense? You can only pick one, Max,
Speaker 1: I think I'll take this off of what Matt Rule
Speaker 1: had to say, which was that the defense was the
Speaker 1: thing he wanted to address. First, and with that said,
Speaker 1: I will take the Niners defense. I think in his mind,
Speaker 1: the foundation for a successful team is going to start
Speaker 1: with the defense you can count on week after week.
Speaker 1: As they say, good defense travels. It's something that you
Speaker 1: know regardless of of weather of the venue. You want
Speaker 1: to be able to know that you're going to be
Speaker 1: competitive on that side of the ball and consistent. More so,
Speaker 1: maybe then an offense where sometimes you might have to
Speaker 1: win a game low scoring, sometimes it might be a
Speaker 1: high scoring shootout. I think he wants this team's identity
Speaker 1: to start with with strong defensive football, and that's really
Speaker 1: what this Panthers franchise has always really sort of been
Speaker 1: right at its core. UM. Not to say that it
Speaker 1: can't change, but I I do think that for the
Speaker 1: biggest step this team can take going into next year
Speaker 1: is getting this defense to improve from where it was
Speaker 1: towards the bottom in a lot of key areas. UM.
Speaker 1: To try to get some real incremental gains on that
Speaker 1: side of the ball, I think I think would help immensely.
Speaker 1: I tend to mostly agree with you, but I will
Speaker 1: take the Chiefs offense just for the sake of how
Speaker 1: much fun that could be. Entertainment fact. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: like there's there's something to be said for posting a
Speaker 1: ton of offensive highlights every game and just watching watching
Speaker 1: the way that they man handled teams in the playoffs
Speaker 1: this year with just you're not going to stop them,
Speaker 1: and they just scored five touchdowns in a row, and
Speaker 1: it's like, what like it? There's a there's an excitement
Speaker 1: in a demoralizing way that they just broke defenses down,
Speaker 1: which I would love to see her. Yeah, absolutely, I
Speaker 1: can't argue with that. That's a good one. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the next one here. Do you want
Speaker 1: kettle or kelsey? Kittle? Kettle? Was gonna do you call
Speaker 1: the kettle? Well? Laughing, he's thet do we call it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What is that calling? The way that George? We also
Speaker 1: have Caroline, you'd appreciate this week. We also have like
Speaker 1: three of those mini bags of Skittles right in front
Speaker 1: of us too, which literally, you know you can't spell
Speaker 1: skittles without kittle. Um, don't really were the products right there? Max? Yeah,
Speaker 1: feel free to send us some sponsorship. Let me fake
Speaker 1: shot me out. But that is that is an amazing question,
Speaker 1: great question. Both. I mean, these tight ends are so
Speaker 1: fun to watch. They're both What I like about it
Speaker 1: is the tight end position is very much always been
Speaker 1: the way Greg Olsen has played it, which is kind
Speaker 1: of like a no nonsense, I'm gonna already, I think already. Um,
Speaker 1: it's like the exact He's like the antithesis of what
Speaker 1: these guys do. Um. And obviously we love greg Olsen,
Speaker 1: but this like young edgy tight end uh kind of
Speaker 1: fat is is very entertaining. I mean Kittle with like
Speaker 1: the whole wrestling thing and how he just like runs
Speaker 1: through people, um, screaming the entire game. His mic up
Speaker 1: segments are just hilarious. And Kelsey is super funny too,
Speaker 1: I mean in a sort of different way, maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit more like toned down, like cool guy way,
Speaker 1: but he's also like super fun to watch. He and
Speaker 1: Mahomes have this great dynamic. It's really hard to choose.
Speaker 1: I lean Kittle just because of like the little bit
Speaker 1: of like crazy, you know, like this is like a
Speaker 1: screw loose in there, and I think that just makes
Speaker 1: him a little more fun to watch. I think Kelsey's
Speaker 1: too kind of bro for me, a little too BROI yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Kittle Kittles, he just doesn't care. And I
Speaker 1: really I like that about him. And I think, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think on the field on paper, I think Kittles
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit thing. I mean, he's a little
Speaker 1: bit better in dude. The way he blocks. I mean
Speaker 1: that's like Kelsey is a fantastic guy out in routes
Speaker 1: and I mean essentially one of the better receiving weapons
Speaker 1: weapons lit alone tight ends um. But kittle Man the
Speaker 1: way he gets after it in the run game. It's
Speaker 1: like people usually look at tight ends and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we can pick on this guy and they're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to hold up on the edge. Kittle
Speaker 1: it's the exact opposite. It's like he's going to clear
Speaker 1: the way for this run game, and I mean it
Speaker 1: literally makes him about his completed tight end. I think
Speaker 1: that there is right now, Well, we just kind of
Speaker 1: said bad things about both of them because I called
Speaker 1: Kettle Kittle a cattle and Kettle a kittle. And then
Speaker 1: what Kelsey to Bro is that what is that what
Speaker 1: will by? That's what a little too broy for him?
Speaker 1: I mean that that works for some people. I don't
Speaker 1: know Kettle or Bro. That's what I should have that one,
Speaker 1: the one in the last one. It's about food. Max,
Speaker 1: You're a food I'm ready. So are you going to
Speaker 1: go barbecue or sushi? I've had some of the best
Speaker 1: sushi that I've ever had in San Francisco. So are
Speaker 1: you going barbecue? I was wondering what you're going to
Speaker 1: choose as a San Francisco cuisine that is a good one.
Speaker 1: Great seafood out there. Um, I'm gonna go Kansas City
Speaker 1: Barbecue for that one. My experience in Kansas City is
Speaker 1: somewhat limited, but the barbecue seene out there is fantastic,
Speaker 1: and I just feel like it's more specialized. The barbecue
Speaker 1: in Kansas City is like a more their thing than
Speaker 1: sushi is San Francisco's thing. What do you think? Well,
Speaker 1: I have had barbecue in San Francisco. In San Francisco,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sorry, barbecue and kents today I went went
Speaker 1: with with Dave Monroe. Actually was really good, but I
Speaker 1: a I liked the Carolina barbecue better, So I'm already
Speaker 1: I already am discriminating against Kansas City barbecue just because
Speaker 1: I think our barbecue is better. So I'm going with
Speaker 1: seafood because I think I think the San Francisco seafood
Speaker 1: just blew away the Atlantic Ocean seafood. It was incredible
Speaker 1: the Atlantic. Sorry, I mean like coming from Charleston, that's
Speaker 1: saying a lot, but I think San Francisco was better.
Speaker 1: There's there's something I was gonna say. There's like I
Speaker 1: remember reading about this, like, Okay, I'm a big Paul
Speaker 1: Red guy, Paul read a huge Kansas City, huge chiefs,
Speaker 1: huge chiefe fans, royals, all that, and I remember reading
Speaker 1: about this like famous barbecue sandwich that's from Kansas City
Speaker 1: that Paul Rode is obsessed with, and I read up
Speaker 1: on it and it looks incredible. It's like this onion
Speaker 1: ring barbecue, Like like here's the picture, Caroline unfortunately can't
Speaker 1: show you right now, but Will is getting a look
Speaker 1: at it. Um, you can just imagine how delicious it looks. Um.
Speaker 1: But when Paul Rudd tells me that there's something out
Speaker 1: there that I've got a taste, I'm I'm in, that's
Speaker 1: like say no more so. Um. That's that's partially why
Speaker 1: I give the edge Kansas City too, because I I
Speaker 1: really trust Paul Redd in his his taste. Yeah. How
Speaker 1: good a friends that you guys, are he's never led
Speaker 1: you wrong? Exactly? How likable as Paula Red. Come on,
Speaker 1: nobody dislikes Paul It's it's Max Sinson and Charlotte Wilder
Speaker 1: right now that are just like going crazy over Paul Redd. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Well, guys, I am gonna have to
Speaker 1: go and cut this. I know, probably a little bit short,
Speaker 1: but you guys can continue the group chat. But it's
Speaker 1: so busy down here. There's interviews I've been, like I said,
Speaker 1: I've been putting on. So I'm going to go and
Speaker 1: knock out some of those interviews and I'll just talk
Speaker 1: to you guys when we get back. We kind of
Speaker 1: recap everything. Sound good, all right, see Caroline? Alright, bye, guys. Wait,
Speaker 1: that's it busy down there? Man, Well, I mean wait,
Speaker 1: but that's all we're getting. Yeah, we didn't even really
Speaker 1: get a chance are about. There's so much more I
Speaker 1: want to know. There's like there's all I've seen these
Speaker 1: videos of like pig games going on, like what's going
Speaker 1: on with Carson. I mean, obviously we want to know
Speaker 1: more than just the random people that you know, we
Speaker 1: know what it goes on A radio road A radio
Speaker 1: road today yeah, I'm curious, like what celebrities are actually
Speaker 1: down there. There's things people down there. I don't know, Matt,
Speaker 1: Why can you call her back real quick? Let's see,
Speaker 1: let's see what we can get her back on the
Speaker 1: line before things get too out of hand down there.
Speaker 1: She's got to be able to make some time for us.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a group chat, the groupies. Hello, guys, Hey,
Speaker 1: can you hear us? Yeah? Yeah, hey, yeah, where are
Speaker 1: you right now? My Miami? You know, we just hearn't
Speaker 1: like the super Bowl stuff or I'm working really hard,
Speaker 1: are you? It doesn't sound like it is that the beach.
Speaker 1: This is like no, this is like this is an
Speaker 1: experience with the super Bowl. Yeah, it's like like it's
Speaker 1: a part of the NFL experience, like NFL on the beach. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I knew you guys have heard of it. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: what it is. So there's just like some interviews and
Speaker 1: you know stuff, who are you going reviewing? Um? Gosh
Speaker 1: down here, there's so many um uh who's in front
Speaker 1: of you right now? Um? Right now? Well, a little
Speaker 1: bit earlier, it was you know Ed Reid is here?
Speaker 1: Not here? I mean he's not at the NFL experience
Speaker 1: right now with me. But he was he said this experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah he he's had a different experience. But you know,
Speaker 1: Ed Reid is here and William mc ginnis. We saw
Speaker 1: Marshall Falk earlier. Some w W E guys. Um a
Speaker 1: UFC guy that apparently he's a really big deal, but
Speaker 1: I didn't know who he was. Um, so sorry if
Speaker 1: any any of those fighter fans out there, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Uh O saw Kurt Warner, Um gosh. I mean so
Speaker 1: there's just so many guys. I can't really Camerly dot No,
Speaker 1: not not a boke at jack or again. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but just a lot. I didn't really know. MAT's really
Speaker 1: jealous right now. He's never been to the beach, I
Speaker 1: don't think, so, you know, he's he's trying to process
Speaker 1: all this. No, this isn't really the beach. It's just
Speaker 1: at the end of an experience. They kind of have
Speaker 1: this set up within the convention center. Did you just
Speaker 1: order a drink? I think that's what I heard. No, No, No,
Speaker 1: that wasn't Yeah, No, that wasn't me. You know that
Speaker 1: was someone Yeah, NFL PR people are just passing around
Speaker 1: my til yea that yeah, I know that that was
Speaker 1: just someone else, but they just want to show off.
Speaker 1: You know, Miami. It's warmed down here in the sun
Speaker 1: and they have a beach and all that, so they
Speaker 1: just kind of set up this little experience. Any are
Speaker 1: there Have you seen any like female celebrities down there,
Speaker 1: anyone besides like the the NFL players, Like usually there's
Speaker 1: some like random cameos from people. Yes, this is actually funny.
Speaker 1: I I don't know who this woman is, Okay, I
Speaker 1: know she's apparently a celebrity because there's a big bust outside.
Speaker 1: I think it's like a um Off brand Kardashian is.
Speaker 1: It's just big bus and it's it's her and her family.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Uh, there was no like great
Speaker 1: signage about it. But they have an entire bus here outside.
Speaker 1: She was walking around wearing a Neon jump suit. O.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, really, I mean very Miami. I don't know
Speaker 1: I should have. I honestly packed the same point. I
Speaker 1: thought I didn't prepare it on the same day. That
Speaker 1: would have been really years. But she was walking around
Speaker 1: and then of course, like you have all your network talent,
Speaker 1: which is just by the scene throughout throughout the year,
Speaker 1: we see them from time to time, and they're all
Speaker 1: in one place. It's a lot of the network talent um.
Speaker 1: But I haven't. I honestly am terrible at recognizing celebrity.
Speaker 1: I'm awful. I don't recognize them until someone else will
Speaker 1: later on be like, oh, did you see so and so?
Speaker 1: And I was like no, and they're like they were
Speaker 1: right beside you. I'm not. I'm not very not very
Speaker 1: good at that. What would be a good name for
Speaker 1: the off brand Kartashian family, I don't know, that's really mean.
Speaker 1: I'm sure she's a very nice lady. I just didn't
Speaker 1: such basically, well, you know how like Walmart you can
Speaker 1: get like off brand pop tarts and like toaster tarts
Speaker 1: instead of pop tarts. I wonder what the brand family
Speaker 1: for the Kardashians would be called. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm sure she was very nice, but that's
Speaker 1: just what came to mind when I saw her. Was
Speaker 1: very made up. You know a lot of makeup, big hair,
Speaker 1: kind of walking around, jumpsuit and like media row where
Speaker 1: you have you know, like beat writers all the way
Speaker 1: to network talent, but then no one is wearing right right, Um,
Speaker 1: do you wanted to really fly under the radar, you know,
Speaker 1: can I I hesitate to ask this because it takes
Speaker 1: this very fun conversation we're having into a somewhat different place.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm curious, Caroline is, like, is Kobe a
Speaker 1: topic of conversation down there? Like with so many major
Speaker 1: professional athletes all at one place. I just wonder if
Speaker 1: like that is still um kind of like permeating throughout
Speaker 1: like Radio Row, Like do you feel any of that
Speaker 1: Just it just seems like the entire media world still
Speaker 1: is very much um, kind of coming to grips with
Speaker 1: with what happened. Yeah, it definitely is. Even when you know,
Speaker 1: we we showed up on Tuesday and we just came
Speaker 1: down a radio row kind of get a lay of
Speaker 1: the land and see what was going on, and that
Speaker 1: was a lot of the topic of conversation. We We
Speaker 1: came probably around I would say five o'clock to walk around.
Speaker 1: So that's when a lot of the you know, later
Speaker 1: network shows are starting, and so that's what a lot
Speaker 1: of the topic of conversation that we were seeing on
Speaker 1: the telepropters and that they were talking about. And then
Speaker 1: you know, walking through Radio Row. These are legends that
Speaker 1: are here. There's Hall of Famers here, UM from football,
Speaker 1: but then like I mentioned, there's w w E Stars here,
Speaker 1: UM Ultimate Fighters. I mean that we're we're seeing a
Speaker 1: little bit of every sport here and on this on
Speaker 1: this stage. So we have heard, you know a little
Speaker 1: bit here, and they're just still the shock and disbelief
Speaker 1: that this world did lose Kobe and and and the
Speaker 1: other families. I think that's what's been you know great
Speaker 1: is not just here but everywhere else. Is that you're
Speaker 1: also you know, you are getting to know the other
Speaker 1: families that have gone through this tragic, tragic loss and
Speaker 1: m bringing awareness to you know, the hurt that is
Speaker 1: happening to multiple families right now. And it's it's so
Speaker 1: heartbreaking to hear. But I think everyone's just rallying around
Speaker 1: that that you know, tragedy and talking about it. But certainly,
Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, on the stage, where there's
Speaker 1: so many athletes here that are at the top of
Speaker 1: their game to lose someone that they look up to.
Speaker 1: We've heard a little bit here and there about that
Speaker 1: UM and and you know, talking about his legacy and
Speaker 1: what he meant to them. UM and then of course
Speaker 1: the networks still circulating that. Yeah, yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: just seems like everyone who is it has come of
Speaker 1: age in sports in this era looked at Kobe as
Speaker 1: an icon and an idol in so many ways, right,
Speaker 1: just the whole Mamba mentality, the way he went about it. Um,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what sport it was. And I've seen like
Speaker 1: Novak Djokovic was is a guy who looked up in
Speaker 1: the tennis world and obviously a bunch of guys in
Speaker 1: our locker room here Kobe. I mean, um, if you're
Speaker 1: an athlete of any kind, it seems like he had
Speaker 1: a major influence and it permeated everything. You know, I've
Speaker 1: seen so much on social and you know, all of
Speaker 1: these you know, even like today in the hallway, like
Speaker 1: you know, everyone did that thing where you just throw
Speaker 1: the trash and yell Cooke. You know, he permeated our lives.
Speaker 1: Even if you didn't like basketball, you know, it was
Speaker 1: just it was he was. He's a first Namer. He's
Speaker 1: not Kobe Bryant. He's Kobe. Yeah, I mean that's different.
Speaker 1: He's in a whole different sphere. Well, I appreciate the
Speaker 1: inside out out. Yeah. Well, something I thought was interesting
Speaker 1: last night, there was a media party, and so I
Speaker 1: got to catch up with um a friend of mine
Speaker 1: from um l A and she works with the Chargers
Speaker 1: and so they're building where their studio and kind of
Speaker 1: media services is a share kind of business. There's other
Speaker 1: businesses that share that one building. And it was actually, uh,
Speaker 1: Kobe's foundation is in that building against of some of
Speaker 1: what he does. And and she said that, you know,
Speaker 1: she would show up to work at eight o'clock and
Speaker 1: sometimes his car would already be there, and that when
Speaker 1: he was coming in, he was always getting there so early.
Speaker 1: And that stuck with me last night because you know,
Speaker 1: we hear about him getting up and going into the
Speaker 1: gym early, or we hear about him, you know, working
Speaker 1: out and having that MoMA mentality in his life. But
Speaker 1: really what we heard was you know in basketball, but
Speaker 1: I mean she's talking about his foundations and you know
Speaker 1: some of his business. Um that he was there before
Speaker 1: the rest of the crew was there to get some
Speaker 1: things done. And I you know that that stuck with
Speaker 1: me when I left that party last night. Was No,
Speaker 1: it's not just it's not just basketball people, it's not
Speaker 1: just sports people. I Mean, he touched the lives of
Speaker 1: so many people in business and in these foundations and
Speaker 1: in the work that he was doing. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think that's been a special part of hearing all these stories. Um,
Speaker 1: outside of just what he was able to do with sports,
Speaker 1: that's what he did across the board, and that is certainly, um,
Speaker 1: you know, permeating still through you know, this big stage
Speaker 1: that has nothing really to do with basketball. But that's
Speaker 1: why your pory can say, yeah, well said, Well, I
Speaker 1: guess we've taken up enough of your time, Caroline. I
Speaker 1: know there's just there's a lot of sun, sand and um,
Speaker 1: some really hard work that lies ahead of you. So
Speaker 1: we'll let you get to it. I've got to do.
Speaker 1: Are you guys gonna call me back again? Or do
Speaker 1: you think you know? Are we good? Put that phone down?
Speaker 1: I think you you've deserved this. Put us You've deserved it. O, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for letting us have some fun on this. I'm
Speaker 1: not really on the beach, but I am. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's up to you, guys. You know it is a podcast.
Speaker 1: It's up to It's up to us. But when I
Speaker 1: come back with a nice pan, just just know I
Speaker 1: was working really hard. Okay, we will alright, sootically. Thanks
Speaker 1: all right, Max, Let's wrap up with one final Super
Speaker 1: Bowl personal memory? What's your? And I think I think
Speaker 1: both of ours are going to be some what's similar
Speaker 1: but different? Well, obviously I was um here covering the
Speaker 1: team when the Panthers went, which was what sticks out
Speaker 1: for me about that. Obviously, the game itself couldn't have
Speaker 1: really gone worse, but the week leading up to it
Speaker 1: was extremely special. And I think what I remember most
Speaker 1: about the whole Super Bowl experience, which really winning the
Speaker 1: NFC championship and being able to say we're going to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. That was it was It was such
Speaker 1: a euphoric moment um and just knowing that, you know,
Speaker 1: in that locker room after the game, with the guys celebrating,
Speaker 1: they knew they were headed out to San Francisco for
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl. You knew the planning was going to start.
Speaker 1: It was just there was such an excitement to finding out, Okay,
Speaker 1: what was the schedule gonna look like? When are we
Speaker 1: gonna get out there? Okay, we got media day. It's
Speaker 1: just such a whirlwind and the week itself being out
Speaker 1: there with that team, which had as much fun as
Speaker 1: anybody we've really ever seen in the NFL. UM was
Speaker 1: an absolute blast. And the game, of course is always
Speaker 1: going to be a painful memory for people associated with
Speaker 1: the Panthers. UM, but I'll never forget what it was
Speaker 1: like to be out there that week and really to
Speaker 1: watch that team come out of the tunnel for that game.
Speaker 1: You know that where you see the end zone painted
Speaker 1: with panthers and it really starts to like hit that
Speaker 1: this is you know super Bowls are that's the stuff
Speaker 1: of legends. You know that that stuff lives in hidden
Speaker 1: history forever, you know. UM, So just watching that team
Speaker 1: come out, uh, and you know, Steph Curry out there
Speaker 1: with the key panting drunk, all of that before before
Speaker 1: we got started, was truly truly special. UM. And even
Speaker 1: the end, the end result doesn't take all of that away,
Speaker 1: doesn't take away the feelings that were associated with this
Speaker 1: team winning that NFC championship and going to the grandest
Speaker 1: stage of them all. So that that'll always stick with me.
Speaker 1: And it's been cool for me. You know, I came
Speaker 1: here in seventeen and just listening to all of y'all
Speaker 1: stories about you know, the individual moments of the week,
Speaker 1: and you know the way you know you can kind of, um,
Speaker 1: you know, bring it all in and focus on it
Speaker 1: and savor it. I think for me, like I've only
Speaker 1: been to one Super Bowl. I was a pr in
Speaker 1: turn back and oh eight, and I was lucky enough
Speaker 1: to be at one of you know, I think they
Speaker 1: ranked them all. I think this is gonna it will
Speaker 1: always be maybe top ten, maybe top five, you know,
Speaker 1: Cardinals and Steelers and Santonio Holmes is catch and I
Speaker 1: happened to be in the corner of the end zone
Speaker 1: maybe five ten feet away from it. Um, you know
Speaker 1: there were you for James Harrison's I was up in
Speaker 1: the upper deck. Um, so like I had to. I
Speaker 1: was like sitting with the auxiliary media. Essentially passing out
Speaker 1: hot dogs was my job. So yeah, I mean just
Speaker 1: sitting in the upper deck for that. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: there was but like even that was back when I
Speaker 1: think there's more like there are more old school cameras
Speaker 1: than cell phones. So like you still had that cool
Speaker 1: flash moment, you know at kick off. I mean it
Speaker 1: was incredible to watch, like because everyone was ready for
Speaker 1: it to like look at all the flashes at kick
Speaker 1: off and that those those sort of things that you'll
Speaker 1: never forget, but being on that field and watching that
Speaker 1: moment and just realizing, oh my god, this is a
Speaker 1: super Bowl moment, like that just happened. This is going
Speaker 1: to always be played forever and forever that that that
Speaker 1: game was incredible, so many just unbelievable moments. It is
Speaker 1: absolutely one of those that's you know, in the argument
Speaker 1: for the greatest Super Bowls of all time. There's just
Speaker 1: something so like amazing about being at the place where
Speaker 1: you literally know the entire world's watching, Like like you're
Speaker 1: when you're like standing on that field or you're in
Speaker 1: that press box, and like you literally know that, we
Speaker 1: know that, we know the world is a pretty big place.
Speaker 1: Everybody focused on where you are at that point in time,
Speaker 1: which is just one of those kind of like out
Speaker 1: of body experiences. Nothing like that. It's kind of hard
Speaker 1: to comprehend. So hopefully this team gets back there soon.
Speaker 1: That'd be fun. It's all about the process, well, process,
Speaker 1: gotta build it back up and look one day to
Speaker 1: Niners are a perfect example too in fourteen, four and
Speaker 1: twelve Super Bowl. Yeah, I get you get the right pieces,
Speaker 1: get the right leadership. You just gotta build it the
Speaker 1: right way, you know, everyone's got to buy in and
Speaker 1: it can be done. I mean, that's the beauty of
Speaker 1: the NFL, honestly, is that these kind of stories that
Speaker 1: they're not fairy tales like this, This can happen, and
Speaker 1: it happens a lot quicker than NBA or anything else. Really.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can turn it around quick, but you
Speaker 1: got to do it the right way. Yep. You got
Speaker 1: the right leadership in place, and that's hopefully, you know,
Speaker 1: Dave Tepper believes he's done that. And you know, this
Speaker 1: season is going to start in earnest here. As soon
Speaker 1: as the super Bowl comes and goes, everyone's record goes
Speaker 1: back to zero and zero, as they say, so it
Speaker 1: begins again, and obviously we're all anxious for that. I
Speaker 1: think we did a pretty decent job without Caroline again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was nice to have her part of the show.
Speaker 1: This time. We didn't leave her out completely like we
Speaker 1: did when we talked to Pete them all about that rule.
Speaker 1: She She had a She had a great, great part
Speaker 1: in today's show. Even even though we're all a little bit.
Speaker 1: Mat shifted in as well. I thought Matt brought us
Speaker 1: strong today. This this made up see how he does
Speaker 1: in post made up for last week? Yeah, what happened
Speaker 1: last week? We had a better we had a better week,
Speaker 1: this week, better week, always getting better. I don't know
Speaker 1: what he means by that, Mat, but I'm gonna we
Speaker 1: gotta review the tape. Yeah, we gotta review the tape.
Speaker 1: Yeah we can get better. Yeah. Anything else for us, Well,
Speaker 1: I think I'm good. I started. So you're gonna you broughtesting.
Speaker 1: You gotta bring it out, bring it out. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: on you. I never never brought it out before. I
Speaker 1: always just take my headphones off and then it's over.
Speaker 1: I just yet close the computer, take it out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then just walk out and you know, bring us out. No,
Speaker 1: this is we're gonna. We're gonna. They're gonna make him
Speaker 1: do this right, absolutely right, as long as it takes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna stay right. From producer Matt Hogan, from host
Speaker 1: Caroline Can down in Miami for Max Sinson. I'm Will Brian.
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Speaker 1: and have a great week. Nailed it.