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Speaker 1: welcome to the Group Chat. In this episode, we're recapping
Speaker 1: what has been happening lately, including a riveting trip to Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 1: Did have a very nice conversation with the Reese's mascot.
Speaker 1: What what did that conversation consist of? Confidential? Oh yeah, right,
Speaker 1: I can't really get into but let's just say he impressed.
Speaker 1: And then we get into New Year's resolutions, but really
Speaker 1: the ones that we're not keeping anymore and we're jumping
Speaker 1: into things we hate. The Redskins do a great job
Speaker 1: of making you feel like it's packed because they cordon
Speaker 1: off most of the stadiums. They forced all the fans
Speaker 1: that are the ones that actually show up closer to
Speaker 1: the field because you know, so it feels like it's
Speaker 1: a really intimate environment, especially when the Redskins fans are
Speaker 1: booing their own team. We have that end so much
Speaker 1: more on this week's the Group Chat. You've been added
Speaker 1: to the Group Chat with your friends Caroline, can, Max Sensen,
Speaker 1: and Will Brian. Everybody, It's the Group Chat. But I
Speaker 1: have no idea what day it is. It could be Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Is it tuesday? Are we recording this on our normal
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think it is. I actually
Speaker 1: was going to say to the office, how was everyone's
Speaker 1: weekend today? It's Thursday, so not Tuesday, the weekend weekend.
Speaker 1: I need to be asking how everyone's upcoming weekend is
Speaker 1: going to be. But this offseason has been wild. We
Speaker 1: just got back from Mobile, Alabama, Max and I. Max
Speaker 1: and I went out there and got some good stuff
Speaker 1: for y'all. The Senior Bowl, the Senior Bowl. What about
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl? Did you have a lot of Rece's.
Speaker 1: I grabbed one, you had to grab You didn't grab one?
Speaker 1: Have to They're literally like every like five ft there's
Speaker 1: another pile of refs. I couldn't because they're asked. They're
Speaker 1: like begging you. They really are, and they really are.
Speaker 1: But we had our fill of rece's during the season,
Speaker 1: That's true. I had no desire to reach. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: kind of like down with full pet butter cups. I
Speaker 1: did have a very nice conversation with the Reese's mascot.
Speaker 1: What did that conversation consist of? Confidential. Oh yeah, right,
Speaker 1: I can't really get into you don't clear, but let's
Speaker 1: just say he impressed. Yeah, I might might be keeping
Speaker 1: tabs see how the rest of the pre draft process goes.
Speaker 1: But just like, look into his eyes, which are massive,
Speaker 1: and you can tell there's an intensity there. There's something
Speaker 1: going on behind. It's like, Okay, there's something to this guy.
Speaker 1: Could be a strong football like you, big hands, big hands,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure he has five fingers, hands sentence.
Speaker 1: He's a little stiff, so I don't know how that
Speaker 1: will translate because Bendy Bell break his his his flexibility
Speaker 1: is a little questionable. However, he will only lead by example.
Speaker 1: He's not a not a leader. The guy who brings
Speaker 1: the energy, drives the energy bus great attitude. I mean
Speaker 1: he's literally never not smiling. He's just always like you
Speaker 1: know that phrase is like I've never seen him not
Speaker 1: with smile on his face. Like that is literally just always.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to be around that kind of energy.
Speaker 1: And that's the type of scouting they did to the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. Know, the Senior Bowl is an interesting It's
Speaker 1: an interesting place because this is a less intense from
Speaker 1: the media perspective, combine, but more intense for the players
Speaker 1: themselves because this is their first introduction to it. By
Speaker 1: the combine, a lot of these players have been through
Speaker 1: these All Star games, They've met a lot of these
Speaker 1: scouts in these coaches, and that combine is crazy. But
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl always just an interesting place. It's not
Speaker 1: as big media wise, so there's more up close between
Speaker 1: the scout and the player. Uh, interviews go, Laura. I mean,
Speaker 1: these teams are holding over a hundred interviews with these prospects.
Speaker 1: It is a crazy place, but it's in Mobile, Alabama,
Speaker 1: and some cities are known for things. Mobile Alabama is
Speaker 1: known for the Senior Bowl. They actually had a slogan
Speaker 1: that said what was there? The stat was, you know
Speaker 1: every NFL first round has come from Mobile. Like, uh,
Speaker 1: you only say that all they did was they came
Speaker 1: to Mobile for four days and then played in this game.
Speaker 1: That would be like if you know some kid went
Speaker 1: to Fayetteville, Arkansas to visit his family for a couple
Speaker 1: of days, that that first round draft guy, Fayetteville. Why Fayetteville,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, why don't you go Fayetteville? I
Speaker 1: don't even know anyone, but that's what I maybe it's
Speaker 1: just an interesting place. But I will credit for their food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a good food, so I mean seafood.
Speaker 1: You're right there on the water, the flame and oysters
Speaker 1: and all that. It's good stuff. It's just weird, how
Speaker 1: of all places for the NFL to converge, and like
Speaker 1: you're literally just walking down the street and there's like
Speaker 1: a NFL GM and there's like two head coaches and
Speaker 1: it's it's just of all places, it's weird. Here we
Speaker 1: are in mobile but literally the NFL just comes to
Speaker 1: a stop and everyone is there. Um, So it's a
Speaker 1: it's an interesting place to to be. And like you
Speaker 1: were saying, Caroline, I think the thing about this in
Speaker 1: the combine too, is like the guys actually play real
Speaker 1: football down there. I mean, not only do you have
Speaker 1: to go through the interviews, but someone's gonna try to
Speaker 1: like knock you on your on your butt the next day,
Speaker 1: like you're putting the pads on and you can get
Speaker 1: embarrassed if you're not ready. So I think that's a
Speaker 1: whole another layer of it for the players that are
Speaker 1: down there. The interviews, of course, we're super important and
Speaker 1: from a panther's perspective, and Caroline, you know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you felt the same way. I'm just like, you're looking
Speaker 1: all these people with Panther logos on, and it's like,
Speaker 1: who are all these people? We're just trying to still
Speaker 1: wrap our head around what this staff looks like and
Speaker 1: who's a part of it. And the Panthers, in addition
Speaker 1: to doing interviews with prospects, were also doing interviews with
Speaker 1: potential coaching candidates on the staff while they were down there.
Speaker 1: So just a lot of moving parts right now for
Speaker 1: Matt Rule Marty Hernie, is that kind of get that
Speaker 1: in place and really try to figure out I think
Speaker 1: it's important for those two individuals what are the kind
Speaker 1: of players that Matt Rule wants and needs and how
Speaker 1: does Marty go about and his staff finding them? And
Speaker 1: that the senior goal is a good place to start.
Speaker 1: Can you mentioned the logos walking around? The funny thing
Speaker 1: about the Panthers logo is there's a lot of clothing
Speaker 1: and hats and all of this that don't have any
Speaker 1: blue on it. So all these other teams are very
Speaker 1: loud colors, and you know, you can easily pick out
Speaker 1: different teams, but not knowing who is on the staff
Speaker 1: for the Carolina Panthers, and then also with the logo
Speaker 1: being a bit muted sometimes unless they're in the bright
Speaker 1: blue jacket, which they were just black jackets and black
Speaker 1: hats with like the little logo on it. I didn't
Speaker 1: introduce myself to anyone because scouts. Fun fact about it,
Speaker 1: if you don't really know the dynamic of scouting department,
Speaker 1: these scouts are not in the building every day. So
Speaker 1: we see them at training camp and at the combine.
Speaker 1: We don't really see them at the combine. Really. At
Speaker 1: training camp is where you can kind of get some
Speaker 1: face time with them. So I do some of them,
Speaker 1: but the other ones, if I if I was like,
Speaker 1: m I don't know him. I didn't know if he
Speaker 1: was a scout and had been with the Panthers for
Speaker 1: twenty years or if he was this brand new coach,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to go up to him and
Speaker 1: be like, Hey, I'm Carly Kanna, the team reporter. You know,
Speaker 1: what's your name and him be like, I've been here
Speaker 1: for twenty years, my name is and you know I didn't.
Speaker 1: I just didn't. I So I didn't. So I was
Speaker 1: either extremely rude to some of our new coaches or
Speaker 1: I played my cards right, and the scouts just thought
Speaker 1: I knew who they were and didn't need to introduce myself.
Speaker 1: It was an interesting dynamic because the entire staff has
Speaker 1: not been put together yet and so they're still pieces
Speaker 1: being being put together, and you know, we were just
Speaker 1: there taking it in with everybody else. It was. It
Speaker 1: was an interesting scene. You could not miss Ron Rivera though, Burgundy,
Speaker 1: Scott embracing the Scott Turner walking around Mr Offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: just Steve rust former linebackers coach now Washington On Barkers coach,
Speaker 1: is literally head to toe Burgundy. It was like, just
Speaker 1: just go hang out with Burgundy. Literally, Yes, yes, Well,
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl is really just the beginning of all
Speaker 1: of the evaluation that's going to be coming in these
Speaker 1: next couple of months, and the segment we're going to
Speaker 1: do today, to be honest with you, has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with that. It has to do with the fact
Speaker 1: that it's that time of the year where if you
Speaker 1: made a resolution, it's out the window. Now. My resolution,
Speaker 1: if you all remember, it was to be nice to
Speaker 1: produce her bat So far, how would you evaluate my
Speaker 1: performance average? Great, it's going downhill from here. That resolution
Speaker 1: is out the door. I've I have, I've you know,
Speaker 1: that's just not me. I took it out for a
Speaker 1: test drive. I saw how it would go. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be nice to you. But we are going
Speaker 1: to do this segment just things we hate. We were
Speaker 1: going to be nice this year. We were gonna play nice.
Speaker 1: We're gonna play by the rules. Everyone was going to
Speaker 1: go to the gym and they were gonna look great.
Speaker 1: But you just can't keep eating those sweets. We all
Speaker 1: ate some some sweets before we sat dusk and do
Speaker 1: this podcast. All the things that you wanted to do.
Speaker 1: We are not even through January, which happens to be
Speaker 1: scientifically proven the longest month of the year, and we
Speaker 1: we have not dropped our resolutions. And if you're out
Speaker 1: there and you're thinking I've kept mine, good for you,
Speaker 1: check back with us in like two weeks. It got
Speaker 1: really cold, so I didn't want to keep oking out.
Speaker 1: It just got too cold. It's hard. So things we
Speaker 1: hate because we're not gonna be nice anymore. This actually
Speaker 1: came out of something we saw on Twitter. We're not
Speaker 1: afraid to steal a good idea and make it our own.
Speaker 1: We're going to do that and to get into the
Speaker 1: segment because our great friends at Lift now want to
Speaker 1: be a part of this group chat. We're going to
Speaker 1: say something about Lift here because we love them, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna start out by saying one thing that I hate.
Speaker 1: It's finding a parking place. You know what you don't
Speaker 1: have to do when you get a lift, find a
Speaker 1: parking place. I worry about it all, like like South End,
Speaker 1: trying to go somewhere, like somewhere, and you just got
Speaker 1: your like circling around these restaurants trying to I just
Speaker 1: want to I'm skipping the hassle of even finding parking,
Speaker 1: paying for parking, doing anything. I'm getting a lift. That's
Speaker 1: number one. Now we can get a little bit more
Speaker 1: Panther center right here. Let's go either a player or
Speaker 1: a game or stadium or something that we just don't like.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna set the record straight for the rest
Speaker 1: of we just we're not We're done being nice. It's
Speaker 1: not even February yet. Maybe we'll circle back around for
Speaker 1: the holidays, but nope, every other day of the year
Speaker 1: we're being mean, and right now here are the things
Speaker 1: that we hate. Boys go first. Well, so no one
Speaker 1: wants to go first because we're actually nice. People were.
Speaker 1: So Caroline was referencing this thing on Twitter where it
Speaker 1: was this graphic of every team's most hated player, and
Speaker 1: according to that was the one that found it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: give me the credit a dessert. I just gets awkward sometimes,
Speaker 1: how mean she is. We're trying to be We're all
Speaker 1: feel really weird. So according to that graphic, it was
Speaker 1: Cam Jordans of the New Orleans Saints, who I mean
Speaker 1: he wants to be. You know, he's trying. He plays
Speaker 1: the villain role he wants you know, sending the wine
Speaker 1: to Cam and all that see and Sean Payton with
Speaker 1: the broom and stuff. Okay, so I'm going I'm going
Speaker 1: with a less obvious choice in Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: because outside of that fifteen season, he is just every
Speaker 1: time the Panthers play really well against Seattle and then
Speaker 1: Russell does Russell things. Yeah, the last the last two years,
Speaker 1: just Callen is coming back. Russell just finds a guy
Speaker 1: for a fort r touchdown on fourth down this year,
Speaker 1: converts a fourth down to ice the game. You know,
Speaker 1: he was an NC State and he laughed, you know,
Speaker 1: like went to Wisconsin Badgers. You know, now he's okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's what I wanted to bring up. So, um,
Speaker 1: Andrew Hawkins, did you see this bit? Hilarious is the
Speaker 1: best because he so hawk does this where he like
Speaker 1: profiles or makes fun of different players coming into the stadium.
Speaker 1: The Russell Wilson is Hilaryer's numb when the Angel luck
Speaker 1: what is so funny because no one comes around the
Speaker 1: corner and I don't care who you are, Like you
Speaker 1: giggled a little bit. You may have hurt him. I
Speaker 1: think he kicks off that video. Yeah he did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Cam is definitely in this with his I wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure I'm saying that right. That's a little fishy um.
Speaker 1: But no, the Russell Wilson one is hilarious because it's
Speaker 1: pre Sierra and then post Sierra unreal. I mean, you
Speaker 1: gotta look at Andrew Andrew Hawkins. It's so people people
Speaker 1: hate on Russell to just be like his interview style
Speaker 1: is like it's hard to describe, but it's almost like
Speaker 1: he's a robot and he just like hits the button
Speaker 1: when the interview starts. In his mind is programmed to
Speaker 1: say the same sort of things. It's just all his
Speaker 1: to the side. He does it. He does that think
Speaker 1: where it kind of looks through the side, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So that's that's a good one. And
Speaker 1: the thing I think the thing about Russell too, like
Speaker 1: you can play great defense and he still gets out
Speaker 1: of his sack. We hate that guy, lock it down.
Speaker 1: Few times have you said that about Russell Wilson? God,
Speaker 1: I hate that guy. I mean, honestly, not that much,
Speaker 1: but for the for the sake of the segment all
Speaker 1: the time, you know who? This year, I in the
Speaker 1: moment hated Drew brees m. We were playing them at
Speaker 1: New Orleans and it was that final drive where we
Speaker 1: were in it to win and we we could have
Speaker 1: done it, but they got the ball back. I said
Speaker 1: to myself before the drive when he walked out there,
Speaker 1: just in his little arrogant self. Yeah, but I don't. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. I know a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: guys on the Panther's defense. Hey Matt Ryan, really Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: Well he did. He'll I think he'll always have a
Speaker 1: spot in Panther fans. Hearts um for the whole Get
Speaker 1: the blank off our field momentum. He has two first names.
Speaker 1: Roddy White was a guy that I always was and
Speaker 1: he had some big moments against the Panthers too that
Speaker 1: I thought I thought was very hateable from a Panther's perspective. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the division rivals. Obviously, here's my big one, Vantes Perfect.
Speaker 1: He was hated across the league. Finally someone who likes
Speaker 1: that guy. Yeah, I as we talked about he literally
Speaker 1: we watched him twist the ankles of grigg Ols and
Speaker 1: and cam n in that game against the Bengals, which
Speaker 1: is just outrageous. Um, we didn't we we said we're
Speaker 1: gonna do some games we hate to write in addition
Speaker 1: to players. So Super Bowl fifty is the obvious one
Speaker 1: from a pantherge prospective, that was just doesn't get worse
Speaker 1: than having played so well and then have your worst
Speaker 1: performance in the biggest game of the mall. But I
Speaker 1: would also say the very next game for the Panthers,
Speaker 1: the opener in sixteen at Denver, was brutal, missing the
Speaker 1: kick late, and that whole season just never was the same.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, that so that one is is
Speaker 1: up there for sure, even though it was just week one.
Speaker 1: You know, week one, it's okay, you're going one whatever.
Speaker 1: That's got a plenty of season left. That one felt
Speaker 1: very different. And I would say two thousand and thirteen season,
Speaker 1: a playoff game against San Francisco. That's the twelve and
Speaker 1: four Panthers team that was really good and they just
Speaker 1: completely lost their composure against the Kaepernick led forty Niners.
Speaker 1: And it just that that felt like that team left
Speaker 1: a lot out there because it was the personal foul penalties,
Speaker 1: Ron losing his cool. That's a game I felt they
Speaker 1: should have won at home. All the people, all the
Speaker 1: people are players or things that I hate, I actually
Speaker 1: kind of love. I hated them in the moment because
Speaker 1: they they didn't do what would have made me happy.
Speaker 1: For instance, the entire forty Niners team, I don't like them.
Speaker 1: An iteration is current one because when we were there
Speaker 1: playing them, they could do whatever they wanted, whenever they
Speaker 1: wanted to whoever they wanted, and covering that is a
Speaker 1: bit frustrating. Yeah, I hated them. Now I hope. I mean,
Speaker 1: I want Andy Reid to be honest, I want Andy
Speaker 1: Reid to win the Super Bowl with you. But I
Speaker 1: just feel like that forty Niners team made impression, but
Speaker 1: you know I didn't. We didn't see I gotta say though,
Speaker 1: I love watching George Kittle. That is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite guys so watching the league. That that T shirt
Speaker 1: he wore after the it's incredible. What about the two
Speaker 1: thousand eight divisional game versus the Cardinals with all the
Speaker 1: interceptions Will's boy Jake here, Yeah, that was that. That
Speaker 1: was even that that transcended hate to self loathing. We
Speaker 1: don't even blocked that out of our memory. We don't
Speaker 1: even think I'll meet my Mike against I guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: get out of here, get out most hated uh stadium.
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that our good friend Ron Rivera turns
Speaker 1: this one around. But for me, it's it's Washington's good one.
Speaker 1: I hate Washington. It feels like a bad college dump,
Speaker 1: like from outside inside press bos and then you lose.
Speaker 1: You go there and then you lose to him. If
Speaker 1: we were still in our New Year's resolution, like, how
Speaker 1: would you describe that stadium in a nice way? Like
Speaker 1: you know, when you don't like someone and they're like,
Speaker 1: you have to say three things nice about this person,
Speaker 1: So what are three things that are nice about that stadium.
Speaker 1: The Redskins do a great job of making you feel
Speaker 1: like it's packed because they cordon off most of the stadiums.
Speaker 1: They forced all the fans that the ones that actually
Speaker 1: show up closer to the field because you know, so
Speaker 1: it feels like it's a really intimate environment. Especially when
Speaker 1: the Redskins fans are booing their own team. That seems
Speaker 1: that seems like a backhanded Do I get two more?
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, No, you can. I think the thing,
Speaker 1: the thing you always say about something that's not very
Speaker 1: nice but you're trying to make it sound nicer, is
Speaker 1: like it has charm. Yeah, that's all the different colors,
Speaker 1: all different. The seats are really charming because they're all
Speaker 1: the different colors. My stadium that I hate is I
Speaker 1: kind of can't say it anymore because they are moving.
Speaker 1: But Oakland, Yeah, just terrible. The black hole. The black
Speaker 1: hole was terrible because it was a baseball stadium, so
Speaker 1: it was not you know, I just wasn't a football stadium,
Speaker 1: so it's so weird to get around the field. Looked terrible.
Speaker 1: It just felt awful. But since they're moving, I'll cut
Speaker 1: them a break. I guess they know it's bad too.
Speaker 1: The other one Jacksonville, there's I mean Florida. The only
Speaker 1: nice thing that I can say about the stadium is
Speaker 1: that they do have puppies. They have a they have
Speaker 1: a section of their stadium that is like the Humane
Speaker 1: Society has a portion and there's dogs there that's adoptable.
Speaker 1: So that part I like them for that party. Think
Speaker 1: that's really cool. But everything else about that stadium, I
Speaker 1: just I think it's terrible. Do you think the dogs
Speaker 1: count for attendance because they need all the attendance. They
Speaker 1: got to make sure they're not blacked out in Jacksonville. Actually,
Speaker 1: great Jacks fan from Jacksonville. How does this sit with you?
Speaker 1: This was actually a ploy. This is how it's not
Speaker 1: being No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, the Jacksonville stadium just
Speaker 1: isn't a good looking stadium. There's nothing about it. I
Speaker 1: think Jacksonville, I just don't have a great time when
Speaker 1: I go there. But I think a reason is they
Speaker 1: put the visiting team in this hotel that is only
Speaker 1: near David Busters. Yes, and listen, I don't want to
Speaker 1: go to Damon Busters. I just that's not what I
Speaker 1: want to do when I go to a city I
Speaker 1: like to go and experience a little bit of that city.
Speaker 1: I like to go find some good food. Well, this
Speaker 1: place you have to you have to lift, which I
Speaker 1: love lifting, but you have to lift to someplace you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't just you know, walk or scoop. It's it's
Speaker 1: a David Busters or bust when you're down there. And
Speaker 1: I don't like that. And I don't like their stadium,
Speaker 1: and I don't like their colors. Man, you don't like
Speaker 1: a lot of things about Jackson though. Max. Let's hear it.
Speaker 1: I want to hear this rant. Well, the super dumb
Speaker 1: for me. Home of the Saints obviously, I think if
Speaker 1: you're looking at from a panther perspective, okay, like where
Speaker 1: if we had like some House of Horrors moments, and
Speaker 1: that certainly has been one of them. The Saints have
Speaker 1: a tendency at home especially. I think I think they
Speaker 1: probably the best team in the NFL at home, right,
Speaker 1: Like playing in their home field Seattle is probably It's
Speaker 1: probably between those two. Maybe Green Bay, I would throw
Speaker 1: in book like the difference of facing the Saints on
Speaker 1: their turf versus when they're on the road is so
Speaker 1: like Drew Brees numbers at home are just insane, and
Speaker 1: when the crowd gets into it just feels like it's
Speaker 1: an avalanche. And they have the guy in the stadium
Speaker 1: that actually looks like Drew Brees and dresses up like him.
Speaker 1: The guy like the voice of the p A guy
Speaker 1: really annoys me. And they play that same they still
Speaker 1: playing that song they had every time. The score and
Speaker 1: then the press box situation. You're like souper, You're high
Speaker 1: high up like the top the top of the dome
Speaker 1: pretty much, and then they have the big air conditioning
Speaker 1: vents there so it's freezing. Literally it's gotten better of
Speaker 1: the years, but you used to have to bring like
Speaker 1: gloves because your fingers were frozen. Is it really hard
Speaker 1: on us? You know what? Really was really rude about
Speaker 1: that that stadium. So on the big boards they did
Speaker 1: the like comparisons of the city, and it was like,
Speaker 1: if you're going to try and be us, then like
Speaker 1: do better. So they showed like the light rail here
Speaker 1: in um Charlotte, it is nothing like what We're not
Speaker 1: trying to have what they have their New Orleans. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to have anything that they have in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: because God knows what they have. But the light rail.
Speaker 1: They were like, oh, we have so many miles, And
Speaker 1: then in Charlotte they have they always do that, they
Speaker 1: always try to take jabs with that's rude. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: at least we have an elevator that can hold more
Speaker 1: than four people at a time. Yeah, we haven't. We
Speaker 1: have real issues with the fake issues. Mobile is a
Speaker 1: is a miniature New Orleans hold of the original Marty
Speaker 1: of the original Marty Girl. How it what is it like? Cajun?
Speaker 1: It's like originally originally? Now I read this, so you
Speaker 1: can't read every or you can't believe everything you read,
Speaker 1: but I felt pretty certain about this one. Marty Girl
Speaker 1: started as a social lighte event where very rich and
Speaker 1: uh prestigious people would have these parties, Marty Gral parties,
Speaker 1: and they started like being super cut off from the
Speaker 1: other members of society. Well then these lower class people
Speaker 1: started sneaking their way into these parties and then opening
Speaker 1: up the back door and getting everyone to come in.
Speaker 1: So that's how it grew. But apparently Mobile was the
Speaker 1: original home of these socialite parties that we now know
Speaker 1: of Marty Grau and they were they were set up
Speaker 1: and ready to go. The first parade The first parade
Speaker 1: is on February five. Down there. Yeah, do you like
Speaker 1: Do you like kinkake? You're gonna have a kinkcake this
Speaker 1: you never had one? What? I don't get it? They're
Speaker 1: really tasty. There's a there's like a little baby inside
Speaker 1: and you get good luck if you eat the baby.
Speaker 1: So the funny thing about this podcast today that I'm
Speaker 1: just giggling inside about is we had this great sponsorship
Speaker 1: um meeting this morning where a bunch of partners for
Speaker 1: the for the Panthers and Temper Sport and Entertainment came
Speaker 1: to the Atrium Health Doome and we did this whole presentation.
Speaker 1: Vice presidents were speaking. The president was speaking, not Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: Tom Click And in this one of the vps, Paul,
Speaker 1: the one that we had on the group chat in London.
Speaker 1: Paul highlighted a great chat and it was like gave
Speaker 1: us a lot of props. So if you are listening
Speaker 1: this for the first time because of Paul and because
Speaker 1: of what you heard, I'm sorry, Like, but this is
Speaker 1: that what he did say that we're a little bit
Speaker 1: off the wall, that we're funny, but if you really
Speaker 1: want to know what's going on and some fun things
Speaker 1: about the organization. This is a good place to come.
Speaker 1: I feel like we've delivered. We've told you about the
Speaker 1: real Senior Bowl. We've told you the not pretty side,
Speaker 1: about the things that we hate. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: feel like that. I mean, I feel like this is
Speaker 1: a pretty honest evaluation after a couple probably had if
Speaker 1: I had other episodes where maybe should we tell them
Speaker 1: where that what else they should watch? The first time listener,
Speaker 1: maybe scroll on down those recent episodes and what is
Speaker 1: our favorite episode? What are some favorite segments that we've had.
Speaker 1: You got one, Matt, no group, it's going to be
Speaker 1: rude to Caroline again. That was good revenge. I still
Speaker 1: think you're saying Curtis Samuel getting two thousand yards because
Speaker 1: that was me not even trying deep into the memory band.
Speaker 1: That was like the second episode we talked about. I'm
Speaker 1: really proud of the Fixer Upper segment was the best.
Speaker 1: That was just an episode or two ago. Yeah that
Speaker 1: if you're listening, go back to that one. I enjoyed
Speaker 1: my stat of the weeks. Those were fun line of
Speaker 1: the week line of the week. Remember We're a train.
Speaker 1: I thought the London episode was cool with paul I
Speaker 1: remember good one. I'm trying to think the one where
Speaker 1: we left Caroline in Waco. That was really rude, Caroline.
Speaker 1: That's why you should have named that one, Matt, the
Speaker 1: one without Caroline. Southern Mama wasn't too bad. Have you
Speaker 1: been thinking about that? Oh? You're looking at I was like,
Speaker 1: trash was good to their trash was a good one.
Speaker 1: Southern Mama doesn't need to when Southern Mama meet met
Speaker 1: Lisa McCaffrey. Oh, we haven't told this story story time.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how long this is anymore. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Southern Mama, everyone remembers. I was defending Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: about how many carrious that he had had in this game.
Speaker 1: I was like, not my baby, hell, given forty five carries. Anyways,
Speaker 1: if you've missed that, just go back you can find it.
Speaker 1: So it was a bit of a running joke with
Speaker 1: probably just myself, but I feel like other people were
Speaker 1: in on it of actually telling Lisa McCaffrey about Southern Mama.
Speaker 1: So I told Christian about it when we were in London,
Speaker 1: and he was like, oh, my mom would actually put
Speaker 1: Southern Mamma to shame about the way that she would
Speaker 1: defend me, but like in a loving way he said it,
Speaker 1: not like you're about at your job. He would just say,
Speaker 1: like my mother would would be even better at that.
Speaker 1: So I was on the sidelines of the last home
Speaker 1: game and I see Lisa McCaffrey and Olivia Culpa and
Speaker 1: I was thinking to myself, this is the opportunity to
Speaker 1: go and and meet both of them. I had not
Speaker 1: met Lisa certainly, and not met Olivia. So I walk over,
Speaker 1: I introduced myself and you know when things kind of
Speaker 1: fall like silent, like there's a silent pause, Well that happened.
Speaker 1: In My first knee jerk reaction was, oh, Lisa, we
Speaker 1: did this really funny bit where I was a Southern
Speaker 1: mama defending Christian and she was like, ha ha. But
Speaker 1: if you don't like, that's not a true representation of
Speaker 1: the bid is. So I did it for them. So
Speaker 1: I did the Southern Mama boys in front of Lasa
Speaker 1: McCaffrey and supermodel Olivia And to say whatever, well, um
Speaker 1: would be true. I give a lot of credit for that,
Speaker 1: Like man spot to just have to pull that out.
Speaker 1: I'm committed to this podcast, right, But and it goes
Speaker 1: to show just how natural Southern Mama is for you,
Speaker 1: like you didn't have to practice it, you don't have
Speaker 1: to make sure. Okay, let me get the voice right
Speaker 1: constantly living inside me. She's just they're ready to be
Speaker 1: called on. No, she is, she is, she's a she's
Speaker 1: a true part of who I am. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: hope you guys enjoyed us, and thank you for honestly
Speaker 1: allowing us to vent. I needed this. It's been a
Speaker 1: long I don't know. I don't know what day it
Speaker 1: is outside. It is Thursday, and I know that. But
Speaker 1: the yeah, I mean your mom's birthday? Does she listen
Speaker 1: to the podcast? Right? Well, I wasn't that I was
Speaker 1: going to wish her a happy birthday, but never mind,
Speaker 1: you can do it anyways, Happy birthday. Will you send
Speaker 1: it to her? Sure, don't tell her where it is
Speaker 1: in the podcast, though, Just tell her that we wished
Speaker 1: her happy birthday and let her listen to the whole
Speaker 1: thing we need to we need to listen to. You know,
Speaker 1: is there anything else you guys want to get off
Speaker 1: your chest here? Any resolutions that you've genuinely given up
Speaker 1: after twenty three days? Nothing? Are you resolutions? I'm not
Speaker 1: really a resolutions person, but I was gonna say you
Speaker 1: were You were like just about to say how it's
Speaker 1: been a bit of a long week, and I would agree.
Speaker 1: The Senior Bowl down there, it was colder than we
Speaker 1: really thought it was going to be. You guys came
Speaker 1: back on a seven am flight, which I haven't seen.
Speaker 1: Means it's a pretty early wake up. So it's it's
Speaker 1: just been kind of one of those little events Sash.
Speaker 1: I really did because not to you know, I love
Speaker 1: my job and it's great and the opportunities are wonderful,
Speaker 1: but going to wake up and then coming back waiting
Speaker 1: on the coordinators, and then I decide to take a
Speaker 1: personal trip to Nashville, which you all know how that goes,
Speaker 1: and then you come back from that, and then we
Speaker 1: go to the Senior Bowl, and then we have this weekend.
Speaker 1: We're going to the super Bowl next the move. So
Speaker 1: it's a lot. I needed this, Thank you guys. This
Speaker 1: was almost like group therapy. I needed to get some
Speaker 1: things off my chest. Group therapies A good episode. Two.
Speaker 1: Don't need to toot our own horn, but it was
Speaker 1: a good one. Is that all we've got is that
Speaker 1: what we're venting about today Matt, you got anything you
Speaker 1: want to get off your chest? I think I figured
Speaker 1: out which one was my favorite. I did like the
Speaker 1: one where we told the story of me leading my luggage.
Speaker 1: What's the name of that one? We definitely want to
Speaker 1: point we need to talk, we need to talk, or
Speaker 1: a family matter. Oh, it is a family matter because
Speaker 1: he's family. You need to Yeah, that's the one. I
Speaker 1: like that. That's a good title. That is actually when
Speaker 1: people reach out about the group chat, that's the main
Speaker 1: topic they bring up. What you leaving your stuff? Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of my friends didn't really listen, and then
Speaker 1: after that when they started listening. Yes, yeah, you have
Speaker 1: six for it. You're being generous at least. Okay, you're popular.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that was a group job this week. Again,
Speaker 1: if you're a first time listener, you're welcome. But I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit You're sorry. You can go listen to
Speaker 1: other ones where we're a little bit more positive. But
Speaker 1: we're funny always, so I hope you enjoyed. We're always funny,
Speaker 1: except when will Like takes it to a weird place,
Speaker 1: which she did today, which he did today, but that's
Speaker 1: on brand for him. Yeah, it's still funny. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: turns into laughing at you, not laughing with you. I'm
Speaker 1: fine with that. Sometimes sacrifices need to be made. We
Speaker 1: do get some giggles, guys. Thank you so much for listening,
Speaker 1: Thank you Lift for making us feel so official, and
Speaker 1: we will see you guys next week