WEBVTT - The Group Chat Episode 24: A Family Matter 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.600 Hey guys. This week on the group chat, we are 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.640 getting pretty honest about what we want to see out 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.200 of this team for the last three weeks. Just a 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:09.800 few weeks ago, they were down in New Orleans and 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:13.360 had that Saints teams on the ropes. My question that 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:15.400 I'm gonna I'm going to see this team answer is 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:17.799 it did that loss take it out of them? But 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.040 before we get into that, it's time to embarrass a 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:25.040 member of the group chat. Matt drops the line that 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:29.240 I don't think could have been delivered any better in 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:34.240 the moment, The line was, um, are we not going 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.400 back to the hotel? It was more of a whisperer. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.599 We have those things and so much more. On this 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:55.440 week's the group chat, You've been added to the group 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.560 chat with your friends Caroline, can Max Sensen, and Will Brian. 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.800 Here at the group chat, we're a family. We feel 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.240 that right everyone here we agree we're a family. Faking 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.240 the head. Yeah, we're a family here, and in a family, 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.720 sometimes you have to deal with family matters, which means 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:18.200 embarrassing a member of the family. Normally, I feel like 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.640 I do a good job of embarrassing myself with some segments, 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.520 so I don't feel bad when I turned that embarrassment. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.600 I'm a member of the family. And today we have 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.679 a great story about producer Matt. Yeah, not about me 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.240 or Wills. It's definitely not about me. We have a 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.840 great story anyone out there that has had something happened, 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.080 maybe in the first year or the first moment of 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:47.840 a job, and you just it just went wrong, everything 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.440 went wrong. We have a moment like this for our dear, 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.880 sweet producer Matt, who already has the microphone in front 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:59.400 of his face so ready too. He can't defend himself, 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.600 so I think, maybe just clean up the story. So 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:06.880 here we go. We're in Atlanta. Everyone, We are on 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.440 our way back from Atlanta, and this is Matt's first 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:14.000 time traveling with the team, but he has been told 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.520 about the procedures of this process. And one of the 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.720 biggest things that maybe people don't understand and don't know 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.800 is that immediately following the game, I'm talking fifty nine 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.080 minutes after that game ends, the buses pull out of 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:33.160 the stadium and they go directly to the airport where 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.919 you board a plane and you come right back home 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.160 to sleep in your own bed that night. Now, one 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:43.320 thing I want to make sure we clarify. Did Matt, 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.600 had you ever been told that and it just slipped 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:55.160 your mind? Or he had been told it had been 0:02:55.200 --> 0:03:00.560 made very clear that that this process. I think that's 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.440 like I think David took me aside like two or 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.080 three days. My boss took me aside two or three 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.000 days before we left and was like, this is what's 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.120 going to happen before, during, and after. Because I was 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.480 immediately going to point the finger at David and be like, 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.079 how did nobody tell him? David is the most thorough 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.680 in prepared person. Sound like David. I wish he would. 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.360 I wish he was listening right now. He's sitting in 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:21.880 the room, but he's not listening to this. I wish 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:27.320 he was. So but you were told multiple time, multiple times. Okay, okay, good, Yes, 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:32.840 So Matt knows of this process. And I I feel 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.480 so privileged to have been sitting in the seat behind 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:41.160 him on the bus going to the airport and d 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.400 L David, this boss that we speak of, is sitting 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.800 across from Matt and there's there's no one else really 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.480 around us. That was about it. And you know, when 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.280 you pull up to an airport or you know that 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.680 you're at an airport because of the signs that are 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.000 on the runway, so it will be like a random 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:04.560 or you see the planes. What sparked this is because 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.680 it's it's nighttime. What sparked his mind to think, oh god, 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.440 we're not where I think we are is there's the signs. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.000 I say, like am dash like letting the pilots know 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:17.600 where they are and how they're going, and you see 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:23.920 the runway lights. Matt drops a line that I don't 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.960 think could have been delivered any better. In the moment, 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:32.880 the line was, um, are we not going back to 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:38.480 the hotel? It was more of a whisper because you 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.680 weren't saying that's anyone in particular. You're just da, He's 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.680 the only one I trust. Because Caroline was sitting right 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.400 behind me, and I knew I knew she was going 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.400 to laugh at me. You could definitely not trust Caroline 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.320 in that moment. Yeah, So I was just I was like, yes, 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.119 we're not going to the hotel, right, and and David 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.880 was like no, Now, you have probably been worrying about 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.120 that for a while before saying that, right, because you 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.960 had to realize that suddenly we were leaving downtown Atlanta. 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.680 The hotel is not this direction. Well, you guys are 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.039 used to the just incredible pace that everyone's on, and 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.359 I am like, I think I'm the only person on 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.200 the trip who isn't a full time employee. So I'm 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.400 like the bottom of the food change is not knowing 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.280 what's going on. I've never been to the stadium as 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.839 a fan before. I've never like it was. I hadn't 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:21.760 been to Atlanta a couple of years. It was crazy. 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.599 So We're moving really fast to get out of there, 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:26.560 and I'm just eating my barbecue because they give you 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.360 this thing a barbecue. It was really good, by the way, 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:33.400 So I was just I should have just noticed that 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:37.039 everyone all day had both bags and I only had one. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.560 That was I guess because I had one bag, people 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.679 didn't ask like, hey, where's your bag? But yeah, I 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:44.880 if it was one of those was one of those 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:46.720 things where if I had just taken three seconds to 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.080 been like, Okay, we're leaving very fast and very quick 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.440 after the game, I should have my bags. But I 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.720 did ask two people, and the fact that I can't 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.560 remember who it is doesn't help my case. But I 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.159 did ask two people, and I think I asked the 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.560 only two people of them, and one of them was 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.880 the only person that was actually going back to the hotel. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.040 So out of the I think we travel with around 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:13.080 a hundred and twenty, maybe a hundred people, but a 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:17.000 hundred people. He asked the one person that was going 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:18.880 back to that And what did you ask that person? 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:20.760 I said, we're coming. This was in the morning, before 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.279 we had left for the stadium. I said, we're coming 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.400 back to the hotel, right, And I think they thought 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.520 I was asking if they were coming back to the hotel, 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.320 which for them the answer was yes, and for me 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.120 it was definitely not. That's a really tough break. I mean, 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.719 I think the question is who was the second person? Yeah, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.919 I don't know. The first person was Harold. I'm pretty 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.480 sure when Harold was staying behind, he actually thank you, Harold. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.680 I don't think he listens to this, but he did. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.040 He didn't. I don't think he listens any of the podcast, 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:47.200 but I do appreciate what he's bringing back my bag. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.600 So he's not rude. Well, it gets better, it gets better. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.400 So not only does he realize he doesn't have his bag, 0:06:54.560 --> 0:07:00.359 the next sentence out of his mouth is I have nothing. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:07.360 And that's when I realized how hilarious this story was 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.440 about to become. Because d L is very much a 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.040 handle it yourself kind of person. He's going to task 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.240 you with something like these podcasts. He wants you to 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:17.600 make it great. But then he's going to leave it 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.000 up to us of what we want this podcast to 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:24.160 be about. So he puts it on. Matt called the hotel. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:26.680 Call the hotel and Sue, see what see what you 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.400 can do? So it isn't very much. Here are the 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.960 consequences of your actions. So Matt's on the phone. Everyone 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.080 is just you know, it is a very fast paced process. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:37.760 So you get off the buses, you immediately bore the 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.040 plane and maybe in twenty minutes your airborne. So he's 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.800 on the phone with this hotel. Now think about when 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.280 you leave the hotel room and you think you're coming back. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:51.960 Is your backpacked? Absolutely not. Your stuff was every everywhere, 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:58.120 is in the bathroom, is in the hallway. Chip to 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.600 the SEC Championship game, which I just gonna say it 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.200 wasn't the best set up for this. Do you feel 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.000 good when you woke up on Sunday morning, actually yesterday 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.520 when I got to the office Mick. Mick was like, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.000 I'm not a doctor, but if I was a betting man, 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.800 I'd say you were a little hungover. And of course 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:22.000 I was like no, no, no, But he he had 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.880 a great weekend that really benefited more than just him 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.920 because of this story. So I think you missed the 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:29.520 best part though. I don't think I told you. When 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.760 I was on the plane, I was like on the 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.400 phone and they didn't believe it was me because apparently 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.240 we didn't check out until the next day like on paper. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.760 But they were like, this isn't the real Matt Hogan. 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.840 You're still here at the hotel. And I was like, no, 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.840 this is me. So they had like fight them to 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.760 get Harold access to my room. They thought I was 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:52.079 like faking. Yeah, it is a great moment in this story. 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.600 It's a long story short. He ends up having to 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.440 call the hotel and asked him to pack his bag. Yeah, 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.480 you have to go in there and pack the bag, 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.640 because I did in everything is everywhere. And then did 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.719 you get your things? How did this end? Because I 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:13.200 lost interest after I found out what really happened. I'm 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.440 sure you got your things correct. I did get my things. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.200 They would not go in my room because of I 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.960 hadn't checked out yet, so Harold had to go in 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.400 there and pick up my dirty clothes and put them 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.440 in my bag. And I left my keys and my medicine, 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.680 like I left just everything I needed except for my 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.600 laptop in a hoodie which was my back. Oh, this 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.160 is brutal, dead and it was just it was more 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.120 so embarrassing. That's happened to me before. I have left 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:45.040 bags places the first time on a trip like this. Absolutely, 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.439 but like I've left things. I I lose my wallet 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.560 and keys every day, so I lose things all the time. 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.319 I'm very unorganized. An entire suitcase or have you left 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.680 it out? I wouldn't rule it out. Wow, it's possible, Max. 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:02.600 Would you have packed my bags in that situation? I mean, 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.800 and you would be you would never hear the end 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.720 of it, obviously. Yeah. I think I would have put 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.640 your suitcase somewhere obscure getting back. There's no way I 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.200 would have just walked in this room and given you 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.080 the suitcase. No way I would have put it. Yeah, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.840 I would have put it somewhere where it was. The 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.840 embarrassment would have continued for you to have to go 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:27.880 get your bad You've lost your wallet multiple times, multiple times. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:29.840 This is like my ninth wallet in the last You 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.160 have to cancel all your cards and all of that. Yeah, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.200 I have a spare license in my center console in 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:39.080 my car, just like in drive. Still that's my anxiety 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:40.760 to think about all the stuff you'd have to do 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:44.000 to replace. Oh my god. Yeah, you live a crazy life, man. 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:49.880 It's it's a radical way to live. But it's weird 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.800 because I'm not disorganized with like my work or anything else. 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.280 But when it comes to like my personal items or 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.240 like my apartment, it's it's pretty rough. Your apartment is 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.240 not a clean place. It is now. But when I 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.320 had a roommate that was also a man that was 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:06.440 not your fiance has elevated. She does a very good job. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.920 Good good job finding someone that would elevate. Uh yeah, 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.120 but that that's that's producer Matt for you. Right there. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.800 He left his bag in Atlanta. Now, the good news 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:19.880 about all of this, and what makes it so funny 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.800 is that there's a happy ending and that it wasn't 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.280 that big of a deal. It was just pure embarrassment 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.480 for Matt as he sat on this plane thinking could 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.200 this have been worse. All I want to know is 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.440 do you think I will get another invite for a 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:42.000 trip not this season? By not going to Indie. I 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.080 don't think you're gonna get on that one. I don't know. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.520 We'll talk about it, And by we, I mean, well 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.320 talk about it. You're saving grace? Is that it is? 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.400 It just affects you. It's not like you relate to 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.599 the bus or anything like. If you do anything so 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.120 I hold the team up, then you're in trouble. I 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.800 was perfectly at the time. But yeah, this is just 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.320 you and Harold. I mean, those are the only characters 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.839 the story may need to talk to Harold to make 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:13.000 the decision if you're going again, so you better be 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.199 in good graces. Does Harold get a thank you card 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.160 or thank you? I had to do something getting something 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.280 from you, man. We got to do something for him. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.959 And at least although you were not alone, you were 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:27.080 not alone this weekend in in the not so. I 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.439 guess suitcases were involved in this, but didn't. Was it 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:34.840 the Chiefs? The Chiefs equipment went to the wrong city, Yeah, 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.280 to the wrong went to New Jersey. Yeah, I went 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.199 to New Jersey. They actually had a time cut off 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:41.640 where they had to get into the stadium or they 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.840 would have had to forfeit the game. So thank goodness. Yeah, 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.200 forty minutes forty minutes into the flight, it was just 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.160 dead quiet, and I'm just stewing an embarrassment. And then 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.040 I get a text from Caroline and it just it's 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.840 a picture of the tweet of the Kansas City Chiefs 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:56.560 and he was like, you're not or she was like, 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:01.079 you're not the only one who the bag. I couldn't help, 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.040 but I was just trying to make him feel better, 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.680 because we all know how that feels when you've done 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:10.040 something and you're wondering, is everyone mad at me? Oh? 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.840 I thought everybody was mad. No one was mad. I was. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.480 I was sitting next to Matt in the plane, and 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.000 you look pretty content. I mean, in came the first 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:24.280 of course of food, ice cream bar. Then came yeah, 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.600 he seems like he was trying. He was eating all 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.679 that stuff, and I said, Max thinks I am a pig. 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:32.920 He looks like a guy who'd been on his first 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.920 road trip, you know, because like when you're first on 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:36.680 the team plane, it's like, oh my god, there's a 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.280 lot of food, Like I can take hog does ice cream. 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.600 I can take this candy bar, I can take chips, 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.800 like all the grapes, And he looked like like a 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:46.800 kid who was like, I'm not going to say not 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:51.200 any of this because that might have been your only one, 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.360 but do you say you might as well get everything 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.720 you can? All the food? The whole weekend was great 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.520 and they were like, would you like flame Mignon and 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.120 I was like, wow, yeah, and they brought it and 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:04.800 it was like microwavable still airplane. Yeah, but I didn't know. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.840 I assumed it was assuming that Ruth Chris was catering 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.560 like steak and chicken at breakfast, like it was crazy. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.200 Oh yeah, that the breakfast is oh I would love. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.280 What was your favorite part of this first time traveling 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:18.880 with the team. What was your favorite part of the 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.360 experience Now that we've steak and chicken to breakfast, obviously 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.000 it was pretty good. Um, I don't know. I just 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.240 really enjoyed the stadium and being on the sidelines. Borrowing 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.400 your phone charger because before I left Atlanta, so um 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.400 a charger to he didn't even that didn't even make 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.160 it to it. Oh my god. I had to borrow 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:37.560 one from Mick and then I had to borrow one 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:42.000 Caroline man, so I was, I don't know. She can 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:43.960 only go up from here, l s u one. He's 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.360 a happy man. It can only go up from here, Matt. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.120 If I get an invite back, I think I'll be 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:52.160 prepared next time. Oh man, that's just phenomenal. Well, I'm 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:53.880 glad we got that out of the way. Thanks for 0:14:53.880 --> 0:15:00.840 the feature. You're welcome. It all works out, Matt. Congratulations 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.040 on completing your first trip with the team. Um, and 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:05.840 let us know if you get the fight back. We 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:09.040 can't wait for it. But for this podcast, we are 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.320 going to talk some football, not just embarrassed Matt for 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.960 an entire forty minutes and talking football right now for 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:21.920 the Carolina Panthers. Where do we rank this on enjoyable 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.320 things to do? Just as as a collective group, there 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.240 are plenty of topics to talk about, but as far 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:31.080 as enjoyable, what this talking about? It is just talking 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:36.280 about Panther football right now? Where's the where the excitement? Excitement? Well, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.000 you guys, the excitement. I mean if you were you 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.920 were in the stadium in Atlanta Sunday, Um, yeah, it was. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:47.800 It was not exactly a sizzling electric atmosphere. Well, what 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.920 did you think of from from watching the broadcast version? 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.520 Did you feel the energy? Yeah, it was there. There 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.560 is a level of conversation here in the in the 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.040 Sunday crew as we call it. You're in the stadium 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.400 um in Bank of America Stadium as we're watching the game, 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:08.480 and it got increasingly quiet after a couple of plays. 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.640 That sounds about the same as it was in the 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.760 stadium me, Mercedes Benz, it's not the most exciting football 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.560 right now to watch. We'll be honest with you. We're 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.440 going to keep it real on the group chat. But 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:24.200 this leads to the conversation of what does this team do? 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.200 And Perry Fuel was asked this week how do you 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:33.040 balance the evaluating young players and looking ahead to and 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.160 still having to win football games. I think that is 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.560 the topic of conversation for the next three weeks for 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.360 this football team. You're not going to the playoffs. There's 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.720 a lot of guys that are up for contracts, big 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.400 players on this team, and they're upper contracts after this season. 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.000 You're doing this whole new regime of you know, Ron 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.320 River for the past nine years now, Perry Fuel is 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:57.120 getting his shot, Scott Turner is getting his shot. Interviews 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.320 and conversations are being had away from that coaching staff 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.440 with David Tepper of finding this new head coach. So 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.760 then you get into how do you evaluate the talent 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:10.000 you have first trying to win games? Because there is 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.960 a fine line there and I thought what Perry said 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:13.840 it was nice. It's a little bit of both, and 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.720 I think that's why we saw Zilstra in the game 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.560 late in the game, Um, you know Dorge being back 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.000 at kick return and point return. I think that was 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.600 also an experiment there. So there's a lot going on. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.800 But one thing that is exciting is puns. I think 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.080 we can all get excited about a good pun and 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:36.600 Perry fuel come on, like fuel up. We already jumped 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.200 on that one early. We jumped on the fuel up early. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.400 So for the exciting segment of this podcast, we're doing 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:48.400 Perry Fuel puns. Go ahead, who's going first? I want 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.520 to hear Will's Will is excited about his Well. So 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.920 here's the thing you guys each week, and we've we've 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:58.680 heard y'all, sorry y'all on the podcast. We've heard about 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.400 y'all's epic rant from Max A couple of weeks back 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.040 about you know, kind of in the max mentions on 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.880 on Twitter, you know, Carolines. You know, we we've we've 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.480 gone into some of the things Caroline's experienced on the Twitter. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.399 So this week I got to experience a little bit 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:19.440 of that on my Twitter. Panthers panther stat guy, um, 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.360 and I have to say that for all of the barbs, 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:34.280 for all of the attacks put on me, Barbara, there 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:38.000 could have been a barb. Yeah, all yeah, all of those, 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:42.000 all those stinging attacks on me. I thought that I 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:43.920 did a pretty good job and i'mna continue to do 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.880 that job here on the podcast of parrying the attacks 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:57.400 quite well. Mm hmm, oh my god, oh god. Honestly 0:18:57.520 --> 0:18:59.640 I missed it. So maybe it was such a good 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.600 pie and that I didn't catch us it was such 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.240 a terrible I'm not sure what that means perry to 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.800 ward off a weapon or attack with a counter move Perry. 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.440 So that's not really a pun, just using it in 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:17.680 a sentence. Well, it's it's the it's the name, but 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:22.520 used differently. It's the same. Well it's spelled different. Yeah, 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.280 so it's a different word completely, but it sounds the same. 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.920 It's a hominem. I want to know why now you're 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:35.200 you're under attack again. I want to know why you 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.200 were under attack in the first place. All right, here's 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.159 the original, the premise of what I was trying to 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:42.480 get to about football. So I was tweeting about some 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:46.280 Christian stats, your favorite thing to do. I mean, it's 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:51.119 it's easy, and got a lot of attacks, especially after 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:55.960 um a certain Twitter account retweeted me about, um, get 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:57.920 him out of the game. Why is he in there? 0:19:57.960 --> 0:19:59.920 He should not play another down for the rest of 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.720 this season. Why is he playing at all? Like, you know, 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.520 sit him down, take his pads off, get him out. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:10.920 And this is Christian who didn't you know, obviously didn't score, 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.440 didn't have no one really had a great day offensively, 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.960 fourth quarter with three minutes left, you have the ball. 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:21.800 He's trucking people on the side, angry runs, you know, 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.720 and certainly there's a there's a level to be you know, 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.040 to be careful and to make sure you're not putting 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:29.520 yourself out there. But he's a competitor, he's a football player, 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:32.200 you know, he should be angry about the way that 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:34.560 that game and this season is going. He should want 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:36.960 to show that you know, he still has some competitive 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:38.560 fire in him. I we were listening to the Jake 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:40.760 and Jordan podcast from last week, and one of the 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:43.720 things Jake said was when John Fox took over the 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:45.399 one and fifteen team, one of the first things he 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.840 did was looked at the last game of the year 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.359 from the year before and saw who was still fighting, like, 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.280 who was still trying, who still wanted to to prove 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.200 something to themselves and their teammates into the fans. And 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.639 I think that Christian obviously is still doing that. I 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:01.280 think the number of players on this team that are 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.760 still doing that, and I I want to say, I 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:07.000 mean week sevent team, We'll see the next two weeks. Yeah, 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:08.520 he should go out there and ball out and do 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.320 his best. All these guys should. Yeah, And I mean, look, 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:14.480 Christian is putting together a pretty spectacular season. You know, 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:16.280 I think he wants to finish it the right way. 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:20.200 I mean, this is a team sport, but individually, Christians 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:25.000 got goals, He's got aspirations, and yeah, you better believe 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:26.600 he's going to continue to go after that. If we 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:28.240 know one thing about Christian, every time he's on the 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:30.159 football field, he's trying to make a count, and I 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:32.400 think that's I was now on the sideline at this point, 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:34.679 sitting next to Caroline. The game is decieted, and I'm 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:36.040