WEBVTT - The Group Chat Episode 26: A Group Chat Christmas 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.320 Merry Christmas and Groupies, we get into some of our 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:07.680 favorite Christmas traditions and we recap some big news frame 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:09.880 member of the group Chat, it's me. I'm the one 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:12.000 with the big news. We gotta give him a lot 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.960 of credit. This was not just a like Caroline makes 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.000 it sound like he's got no time. He made himself 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.360 some time to prepare for this. This is an intricate 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:24.800 plan that involved multiple steps. Multiple people came in for it. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.920 So Parks just want to give you a big round 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.120 of applause from all of us here. And then we 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:34.080 put together our Carolina Panthers at Christmas list. I want 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:38.840 flashing lights at night games when we score touchdowns. Oh yeah, 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:44.640 it's kind of copycatting everyone. Really, we have those things 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.160 and so much more on this episode of the Group Chat. 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.880 You've been added to the group Chat with your friends Caroline, Can, 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:11.039 Max Sensen, and Will Brian. Merry Christmas, Groupies. Can we 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.240 believe it's already here, that it's Christmas? You've been preparing 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:18.080 for Christmas? First, I've been in the Christmas spirit really 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.080 since I moved here, since May. It's been Christmas. But no, 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.679 I did put my Christmas tree up. What everyone thinks 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.360 is too early, but really I've just been more joyful, 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:31.080 more happy, more full of the holiday spirit than everyone else. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.119 So welcome, guys. This is what it felt like for 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:39.399 me for the past six Back in July, she was 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:43.000 getting ready. We just we just turned down the air 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:47.000 conditioning at Watford and it felt very cold. Ye. No, 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.800 I did put my Christmas tree up this year before Halloween, 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.760 which was a new ear, a new early for me. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.120 But I didn't have any Halloween plans, so that's kind 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.760 of skipped over that one. But everyone, welcome to the 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.240 Christmas edition of the group chat. We are all excited 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.840 for Christmas because it's the best time of the year. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.080 That's what I say. Maybe the other guys disagree. But 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.080 if you don't like Christmas, if you don't like the 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:17.320 holiday spirit, get out, Matt. Do you like it? My 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.480 favorite is Thanksgiving? But Christmas is I'm just kidding. He's gone, 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:25.040 all right? Well did invite him in? Why? Why did 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:28.680 I extend the invitation and early invite and early exit? 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.160 Oh man, No, but it is. We're excited for Christmas. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.920 We're excited for the last week of this season. And 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.200 don't take that the wrong way out. There groupies that 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.000 I'm excited for the season to end. That's not what 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.919 I mean. But it is one last final home game 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.600 for the Carolina Panthers, and we're going to get into 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.520 the game a little bit coming up. But first, let's 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:58.400 talk about Christmas and just how wonderful. Let's if it's 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:03.000 this time of year, holidays, a lot of love, lots 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.240 of love. You know, it's it's kind of this is 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.720 this the most popular time here where people, you know, 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.520 get down on a knee and pop a question. It's 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.639 a good time of year. I have seen a lot 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.320 of couples get engaged. I have seen one couple in 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:23.280 particular get engaged that it was me, Guys, yeah I 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.720 got engaged. If you haven't heard the news yet, where 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.520 have you been? I think you're living under a rock 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:34.280 because it was the news of the weekend, before it 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.720 was before the game. It was yeah, you just showed 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.480 the Gerald McCoy literally just like having a dance party. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:43.760 As soon as he found out and saw you, I 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.840 was very, very surprised. I did have a small hunch 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.120 and everyone has asked that, how did you not see 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.600 it coming? Because we talked about that this wouldn't happen 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.120 until after the season. So my fiance, now I can 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.200 say that he, if you don't know, is a coach 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.080 for the Indianapolis Colts. So I never thought it would 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:07.360 happen in season because they live, breathe, eat, sleep football, 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.760 and there's no time. He would get home late at night, 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.640 get up in the morning going to the office. I 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.800 wasn't thinking at all that he was he was going 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.200 to propose. So he got me really really good on Saturday, 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:22.280 December one. Because you're listening, groupie, he's a big groupie. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.599 We gotta give him a lot of credit. This was 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.240 not just a like Caroline makes it sound like he's 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.960 got no time. He made himself some time to prepare 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.799 for this. This is an intricate plan that involved multiple steps. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:39.520 Multiple people came in for it. So Parks just want 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.600 to give you a big round of applause from all 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.480 of us here at Bank America Stadium. That was very, 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.880 very well done. He did such a good job. The 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.960 best part was, you know how every girl, this is 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.560 what I've heard, we start giving nudges like you just 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.600 you know, hints here They're like, hey, buddy, when you 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.520 gonna ask or know how to buy ring or do 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.919 you know all of these things that females think we 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.640 know all about. The best part was I started to 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.039 do this in the last couple of weeks, knowing that 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.279 the season was coming to an end, and the way 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.240 that he was talking about it when we would talk, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.560 I genuinely didn't think he knew how to even buy 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:18.080 a rink. I was thinking, Oh, my gosh, how do 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.839 I how he got some help from a friend of yours? 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.560 Is that right? He did? Yeah? So smart man, that's part. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:28.200 So I started talking about this at the beginning of December. 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.160 He had already started this process at the beginning of October. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.599 So he made me eat all of my words and 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.560 it was hilarious. And all of my friends and family 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:42.640 have known since October. So everyone, you've been hiding this 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:47.200 secret for I know, props to my dad because my 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:51.280 dad cannot keep a secret. And he almost he almost 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.480 blew it. He almost gave it away a week before 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.360 and it made my intendants go up a little bit 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.240 of like could it happen? But he didn't blow it. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.960 No one did, and he come really surprised me. All 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.600 I thought I was doing was going to pick him 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:04.560 up from work because when I'm up there visiting him 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.240 in season, i'd take his car during the day. Well, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.280 he's at work, so I dropped him off at five 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.159 thirty in the morning, and I come pick him up 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.719 whenever he's done. And on Saturday, that was at around 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.680 two thirty, and I showed up and I was not 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.880 just picking him up. So then everything when it was 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.080 it was a multiple stop. He took me to different 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.279 places around Indianapolis that um, well he did it. He 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.320 sent me there, and then at each location there were 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.760 five different locations. And at each location, I have different locations. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.719 I mean, like this is a this is the real deal. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:39.160 I'm writing taking just honestly, men out there take notes. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.640 He's seeming to different locations, and at every location was 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.479 a different part of my family, his family or my 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.680 best friends. And then at the final location where my 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.280 best friends and they sent me around the corner and 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:54.400 that's where he was, and then he proposed and boom, 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:59.000 we're engaged. Just like that. Boom as the adrenaline rush 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.400 still in full force. Have you started like come down 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.720 a little bit or is it still like cloud nine? No, 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.039 it's still cloud nine. Him and I were talking about that. 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.280 Actually this morning because when we left each other, normally, 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.840 when we would leave each other, it was so sad 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.160 and it was just the worst feeling. But we left 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.880 my name. I left Indianapolis Monday morning to come back. 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.320 We were just so happy. We were like, okay, Like 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:24.520 now now starts the actual planing of Okay, we get 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.440 to plan the actual wedding day, but then make plans 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.400 to be together for the rest of our lives. And 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.560 it's not just talking about it anymore. So I think 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.800 that was no, We're still in cloud nine. I wake 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.680 up in the morning and I haven't taken the ring 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.000 off since I got it, and so I'll like wake 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.960 up in the morning and I posted it on my Instagram. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.640 It feels like, you know when Miss America she wins 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.400 and then she takes that photo with the crown on 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.360 and the sash on, like she just woke up. She's 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.760 living her dream, Like I get it. I wake up 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.720 and I'm like, oh, yeah, we're still engaged, Like we yeah, 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.960 this is real, that really happened. So I've hung the 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.480 cliche we are engaged banner in my apartment. But yeah, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.560 so that person, I feel like it was ten episodes 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.360 ago where you were literally unable to even mention that 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.760 you were dating him. It's so weird. I know, I know, 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.520 it was a weird thing. You know, when something means 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.520 so much to you, you get weird about sharing it. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.560 That was how I felt with him and I because 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:19.360 a lot of my life is on display for many people, 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.880 and a lot of people that I know nothing about 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.440 their lives, they know a lot about my life. So 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.240 I was very protective about this piece of my life. 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.640 But now it's like, well, you better get on board 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.920 and know about him because he's going to be around 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.280 for the rest of my life. So or as we've seen, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:39.840 it's you better get off board now this might be 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.000 this is a great part. So for all of you 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.120 on social media that I it has been so great 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.280 and wonderful, and thank you so much for reaching out 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.480 on social media and saying such fine things. But for 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.560 the two hundred of you that decided to un follow 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.400 me on Instagram the day that I posted that I 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:00.880 was engaged, see you later, socause I appreciate the transparency 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:05.960 of why you were following me, the reality of moving 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:12.120 forward that you have no shot. So the mikes picked 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.560 that up. That was a loud, loud that was that 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.319 didn't know that that happened. People unfollowed me on Instagram 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.760 on Sunday, the day I posted about being in k 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.839 It's is just so funny. I'm sure. I don't don't 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.560 think Parks on mind that too much. No. I I 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.320 showed him last night. I was like, is this not 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.040 the funniest thing you've ever seen? He was like, I mean, 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:36.680 we know, but now we know that that's your fault. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.800 But yes, thank you guys so much for bringing that up. 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:42.760 I do love talking about it, but it is one 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.200 of those things I don't know if other people like 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.560 talking about it, so I will talk about it all 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.800 day long. So thank you for bringing it up. But 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.600 now we can talk about Christmas. I still think I 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.559 win Christmas. A really Parks wins Christmas. Also, I got 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.720 him a jacket for Christmas? Is that that kind of 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:02.600 funny and ironic? I was feeling and ear ring, so 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.400 he threw me off the scent we celebrated Christmas. I 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.880 will not see him this week. We celebrated Christmas actually 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.560 on Friday night, and he gave me a pair of 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.600 very nice ear rings. Yeah. Man, we are making Parks 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.480 sound like the greatest guy. Ever pretty much, very nice 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.120 beautiful hoop diamond earrings. And I was like, oh my gosh, 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.240 thank you so much as the best guy, and I 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.120 even laughed about it. Then I was like, babe, I 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:31.440 got you a jacket, a black jean jacket, which is 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.080 so cool, but a black jean jacket and then a 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:38.440 little a little pendent thing like you know. I thought 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.360 it was a pretty good gift. But then he gave 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.000 me the ear rings and I was like, wow, thank 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.600 you so much. And I was like, okay, well, maybe 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.520 he does know how to buy ring because he knows 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.600 how to do Okay, right, all right, We're fine. Maybe 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.760 he has talked to a jeweler because these obviously came 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.560 from a jewelery. Four hours later. Yeah, And he said 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:57.240 that he was just dying inside, as you know, as 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.160 we're like getting ready for bed and going to sleep. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.320 Of like, he has no idea, and he did. He 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.600 threw me off the scent. Apparently that was his mother's recommendation. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.520 He was like, Mom, I think she's she's catching online. 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:09.920 I don't know. She said a couple of things. She 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.360 was like she was like jewelry, get her jewlry for Christmas, 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.200 and she won't know, and I didn't know. So he 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.839 got me diamond earrings and big old diamond rings. So 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:24.360 and I got him a black jean jacket. Love you, babe. Yeah, 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:28.120 So sorry about that, Parks. I'll try and I'll try 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.560 and get you something a little bit more cool. I 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.520 said yes, though, that's a that's you said yes, which 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.920 is really all he wanted for Christmas, I said, I 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.000 said yes. But so I officially, or maybe Parks officially 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.360 wins Christmas unless one of you has a secret that 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.640 you haven't been telling us for the last couple of days. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.319 But I do want to hear. Do you want to hear? 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:49.960 What are you looking for to most about this week 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.520 in Christmas? Well? Is this? Do we want to do 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.640 Christmas memories? Now? It's just a good time to talk 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.800 about Christmas is past. Yeah, well let's why don't you 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.960 kick us off here? What what's what's one of your 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.200 favorite Christmas memories? So this is this is gonna sound 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.600 pretty funny to be on a Carolina Panthers podcast. But 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.960 I think when I was six or seven, I got 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:18.440 like the full jersey pants, shoulder pads, helmet, plastic for 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.520 Choy Aikman and I was just you know, I'm you know, 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.640 I have to uh two sisters that are a lot older, 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.920 and they were kind of like off um like with 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.760 with their family at this point, and I'm just like 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.200 running around the backyard by myself, growing passes to myself 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.440 as joy and then running into trees to try to 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.760 see how could the shoulder pads were. Yeah. I just 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:46.760 learned a lot about you in this moment, like not 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.040 not really an only child, but kind of an only child, 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.040 but you're also the baby, which makes a lot of sense, right, Yeah, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.640 they're sixteen years older than me. Yeah, I just I 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.360 thought it was so cool to have pads on, and 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.760 so I was just running into things, into trees, lowering, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:06.400 lowering my helmet, very very poor form. Yeah, it would 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.960 have been ejected from the game, Yes, absolutely, Troy Aikman. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.800 So yeah, so then you know, flash forward several years 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.880 later and you know, when you're working for the team, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.760 he's covering a game. We have any photos, Well, that'd 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.719 be good to see some photos of you, and I'm 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.640 not sure, Yeah, but yeah, that's a good. Yeah, it's 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.720 funny you say that. I guess it's it's telling that 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.720 we are both sitting where we are right now because 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.880 one thing I always remember about UM leading up to 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.080 Christmas in the holiday season, what I wanted. I would 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.800 get the NFL Shop um like brochure in the mail 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.040 every year, and there was a page that had all 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.080 the jerseys on it, and that was that was the 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.520 one thing I wanted every year was in New Jersey. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.719 And I made some horrible jersey choices over the years, 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.240 some really bad ones, like I would always pick a 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.840 guy who would then get like traded or without a 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.680 new team, like the very next year, like I gotta 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.760 I got like a Terrell Owens Niners jersey right before 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.520 he went to his next team, which was maybe like 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:03.439 the Eagle. Yeah, something like that. UM with Danny and Tomlinson. 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.959 Same thing, which is a cool jersey still Danni and 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.200 Thomlinson Chargers still pretty cool. Eventually I just started to 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.160 go to like the throwback which they came out with 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:16.079 those kind of like vintage and I really like this one. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:20.760 This was a Oiler's Earl Campbell jersey, like the baby Blue. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.520 I was really proud of that one. UM. So yeah, 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.800 I was always a Jersey guy. That was the gift 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.760 I wanted. So now I've got some that are just 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.160 do you still have them? Oh yeah, they're still Like 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.080 my mom is desperate to get rid of them, and 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.120 I just won't let her because there's something that like there. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.080 It's cool to me. Oh yeah, here's nothing. I like 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:43.720 Plexico Burris right before the whole like the thing. It's 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.560 like he's serious, but that's cool to have. Where you 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.640 were like a trading card guy. I was. I was 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.560 big into trading cards, big into that. UM got like 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.360 books and and then I would get like the magazine 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:58.960 that would like tell you how much they were worth. 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.640 So you like set up like the spreadsheet and like, oh, 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.560 I have five dollars worth of cards. And you would 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.520 get the ones that had like a little like game 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.400 Warn Jersey Patch on it, more like the autograph on it. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.480 Those were always really cool. Yeah there's some, there's some, 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.040 you know, and like so my era of like having 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.640 them was kind of like kind of like like Smitty Moose, 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:22.480 I remember having like bake It's kind of like early 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.640 two thousands. Mine was more like nineties, And I would 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.440 offer a lot of times. Family would get me once 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.360 that they would just like see in the grocery store, 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.760 not necessarily like tops or whatever that had all the licenses, 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.040 so you'd get these cards and they'd photoshop all the 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.280 logos off of them. So it's just like a guy 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.360 with a blue jersey and like a white helmet, and 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.400 it's just like who is that? Like what is what 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.000 is this? Like how do they get how do they 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.160 take pictures without the helmet on? Other random Christmas memory, 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.640 I remember being at that age where I was just 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.280 old enough to kind of start figuring out what it 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.520 was all about, you know, And we were at like 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.200 a friend's house and one of my friend's dad's dressed 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.040 up as Santa and was supposed to be kind of like, 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.160 you know, a big oh, I here's Santa, but I 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.920 could tell who it was, and so that was weird, 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.080 kind of like him coming in and like really trying 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.040 to sell it, but then also being like, I know, 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.640 I know who you are. You're not fooling you know, 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.040 Mr Stevens. So that always just kind of sticks out, 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.520 is like him really trying hard and he did a 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.880 nice job, but I was at that point where I 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:32.000 was like, I can't get this one past. My favorite 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.560 memory the memory is growing up is my mom always 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:40.240 made breakfast cast roles you're not a breakfast okay, so 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.280 we actually she had to make two because my brother 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:47.400 loved his with bacon, and I love bacon by itself. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.520 I don't like bacon on or in other things. So 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.800 she made a sausage one for me. So it's like sausage, eggs, 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.120 a little bit of gravy. Um. I don't even know. 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.480 I never made it. Yeah, there's there's cheese in it. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.240 But then mine, I liked the bread at the bottom. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.480 My brothers was the bread at the top, So completely 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:09.960 different ones. And I actually have not been home for 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:15.320 Christmas in four years because of working in sports, we 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:16.920 just don't really get to do that. And then being 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.240 an indie like we do here, we got half of Christmas, 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:22.159 even Christmas Day off, so it wasn't enough for me 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.720 to go home. So I am going home for Christmas, 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.200 and I'm so excited about the breakfast cast good for you. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.240 I'm excited. And I've never been home for Christmas while 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.280 my two nieces have been alive, so I haven't been 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.440 able to see their joy on Christmas. Is that that 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.600 the best part of Christmas? When the little kids get 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.320 to open that's the best. So I'm excited they do 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.440 Christmas at their house with Santa to see what he brought, 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.600 but then they come over to my parents house, so 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:50.000 we'll do Christmas afternoon together. So I'm so excited about 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.560 that for this week. Was the best gift we are 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.120 going to get to football? Just hang with us. What's 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.399 the best gift you ever got? I don't know that 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:01.200 I have one that immediate. Do you have one that's like? Yeah? 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.760 When I got that is when I completely lost my mind. 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.640 I was so crazy excited. There was a bike one 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:10.560 year because I didn't get like big gifts, and that 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.920 was like that was a big one. Yeah, I don't 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.840 know do you do you have? I just have one 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:21.199 year that I vividly remember that. Okay, let's hear Santa 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:25.640 brought me a scooter, a Razor scooter in a boombox. 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:29.560 So I remember going out in the driveway and in 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.439 the South, you can go out and it's seventy you know, 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.600 So we had the boom box going and my parents 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.280 that year got me an in Sync CD. So I 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.960 was playing the insnc C D and my boom box 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.159 on my scooter driving around the driveway and it was 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.040 if you had to guess what song you were playing 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:48.639 what would it be? Would be the track that you 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.000 It was the No Strings Attached album, so it was, 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.879 you know, one of those all of them big in 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.440 sync fan right here. I mean, I know a lot 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:00.560 of words to in sinc songs and not go. Yeah, 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.159 I don't know that I know the particular songs on 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.040 that album. I'm sure if you said what they were, 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.120 I would. Yeah, I didn't look that up for this podcast. Sorry. 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.840 Were you into Backstreet Boys too? Are just? And I 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.640 didn't have a favorite? I wasn't. I didn't a lot 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:17.800 of people like Backstreet Boys all the way. No, it 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.800 was kind of a rivalry. It was one or the other, 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.359 but I like, I loved them both. I do not 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.840 hate any boy band. So I was that kid. But yeah, 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:29.719 that's just the one. I just remember that one. I'm 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.160 sure there were other Christmas is where I got other 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:36.119 amazing gifts, but Razor scooter that's a big, huge My 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.680 brother got one as well, so we were scooting around. 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:42.880 It was very fun. My brother broke mine, not not his, 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:47.480 he broke mines and so no, we don't have ours anymore. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:56.560 We have a gravel drive away down to you guys, 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:58.760 don't remember a gift like one that just sticks out 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:00.800 the bike. That's a good one. Yeah, that was a 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:02.720 good one and in the class and like the big one. 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:04.720 Like I got my first car on my birthday, So 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:09.240 that was like the July one. But I remember so Carolin, 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:15.640 I don't know, I'm not sure. So nineteen nine, yeah, 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:20.639 that was. That was the winter after Hurricane Hugo, which 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.360 some some of our listeners here in Charlotte would have remembered. 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:26.440 It came through Charleston and then went straight up to 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.840 Charlotte and Charlotte doesn't usually get hit by hurricanes, but 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.240 it got hit by that one. So that Christmas was 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:36.440 the biggest snowfall ever in like Charleston history. So it's 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.120 literally like four months after the biggest hurricane hits, then 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:42.199 it's like the biggest snowfall. How old are you at 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:44.479 this point? I was three. Yeah, I was gonna say, 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.439 but I distinctly will always remember that because like it 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.919 was a white Christmas and we I've never had a 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.520 white Christmas in the South other than that one, and 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:54.520 so that was cool because we were like out, you know, 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:56.639 in the snow and learning how to Like I had 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.199