Speaker 1: Eats. Time for the Happy Half Hour with your friends
Speaker 1: Christian Balboni, Will Brian and Darren Gamp. Welcome to episode
Speaker 1: forty two of the Happy Half Hour Special. Episode here
Speaker 1: from from spartan Burg. We're closing up training camp and
Speaker 1: it's just me and Darren, so this is all new. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kristin Balboni is on special assignments, special assignment. She has
Speaker 1: a lot of special assignments. It seems like right now
Speaker 1: she absolutely does. She's awesome and she's killing it down here.
Speaker 1: So she's working her on a hundred different things. So
Speaker 1: Will and I are just sitting around eating boach Angles
Speaker 1: in the office, so we figured we'd come over here
Speaker 1: and talk today about that. We got some football, y'all
Speaker 1: want to hear about football. We like Football's people seem
Speaker 1: to like football, and there's a lot of football going on,
Speaker 1: there is no doubt about that. So it is Wednesday.
Speaker 1: We've just had our first UH joint practice with the Ravens.
Speaker 1: H Darren, you saw some joint practice with Indie last week.
Speaker 1: How did today's compare well? And I think the interesting
Speaker 1: thing about these joint practices and and we'll see I'm
Speaker 1: still curious to see what the Mars looks like with
Speaker 1: the Ravens. But the thing I have taken away from
Speaker 1: this primarily is you're looking at two rosters that that's
Speaker 1: where the Panthers are trying to get to and and
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily a bad thing, and it's not oh
Speaker 1: my god, they're so far behind. But these are teams
Speaker 1: that are in the playoffs every year. These are teams
Speaker 1: that have established themselves on both lines of scrimmage. These
Speaker 1: are teams that are really good and really smart, good coaches,
Speaker 1: good gms who you know, know what they want to be.
Speaker 1: And the Panthers are still trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: they want to be. So I think it's valuable to
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, they walked into Indie last Thursday
Speaker 1: and kind of got punched in face a little bit
Speaker 1: on that first day and they were getting pushed around
Speaker 1: a little and it got a bunch of people's attention.
Speaker 1: Friday was a much better practice. Today wasn't as weird
Speaker 1: and sloppy and messy as that first day in Indy was.
Speaker 1: And I think guys are starting to get some of
Speaker 1: that is we can't do it like this every day.
Speaker 1: It can't be all the d b O sign touching
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. I I think the
Speaker 1: message is starting to come through, and it should. But
Speaker 1: I think the reality is it's good format rule to
Speaker 1: show his team the kind of people you want to be.
Speaker 1: And and if you're in the NFC South, then if
Speaker 1: you're on the other side of the bracket from them,
Speaker 1: it's safe enough to point over there and say, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's how you want to put together a roster. That's
Speaker 1: what your offensive line is supposed to look like, That's
Speaker 1: what your defensive line is supposed to look like. And
Speaker 1: pretty two pretty good examples, because those those teams are
Speaker 1: as solid and I think people here solid as a
Speaker 1: as a slight, but those are teams that win ten
Speaker 1: eleven games every year, and that's you know, the Panthers
Speaker 1: aren't there yet. I think they're moving in an appropriate direction.
Speaker 1: And there are things you've seen in these practices along
Speaker 1: the way that suggests some movement in that direction. But
Speaker 1: we'll see as as the preseason goes on and the
Speaker 1: season goes on, how much they begin to look like
Speaker 1: those teams they're trying to emulate. It certainly seems on
Speaker 1: the defensive line standpoint, you know, from Sunday's game. You know,
Speaker 1: strip sack, another sack for um from each tour. Frankie Luvu,
Speaker 1: you know, busting in. He had a big play today.
Speaker 1: Brian Burns with the forced fumble today. You know that
Speaker 1: that kind of that pass rush, that pressure, you know,
Speaker 1: getting getting pushed up the middle. You know, Phil Hoskins
Speaker 1: had a couple of plays that people were looking at
Speaker 1: on Twitter where he was getting big push. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: what have you seen so far from that? Is that
Speaker 1: carrying through? I think that's where they're closest. I think
Speaker 1: when you think about, you know, the process in that direction,
Speaker 1: that's clearly the side of the ball where they're closest
Speaker 1: to and making the most headway. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. We had just got Fitter over talking
Speaker 1: earlier today and and I asked him about j C
Speaker 1: Horne and he talked about that alpha mentality and he's
Speaker 1: like j C walks in the room and there's a
Speaker 1: gravity about him that people know and part of it's
Speaker 1: being born to Joe Horn, part of it is being
Speaker 1: in the NFL life for so long. But j C
Speaker 1: just walks out on that field and when a fight
Speaker 1: breaks out, Marcus Peters runs over and is jawing at
Speaker 1: j C. Marcus Peters is that guy in Baltimore. And
Speaker 1: when that guy recognizes that guy here, I think that
Speaker 1: says something. And other players you can see the way
Speaker 1: they respond to j C on the field that he's different.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is. He is not like the other kids.
Speaker 1: He's not like a rookie who walks in here kind
Speaker 1: of big guyed and not knowing what training camps all
Speaker 1: about and what's expected to him. He kind of he
Speaker 1: kind of knows and he comes in and I think
Speaker 1: it's interesting when j C had a couple of picks
Speaker 1: early in practice, you could hear coaches saying, yeah, but
Speaker 1: you gotta watch your hands. You're committing too many penalties.
Speaker 1: And they're constantly leaning on him because they know he's
Speaker 1: capable of a pretty high level of football, so they
Speaker 1: keep pushing him to do more. And I and I
Speaker 1: think kind of what they got and it was interesting
Speaker 1: here in fitterers say it. I mean, it's it's hard
Speaker 1: for football people to praise rookies this amount. They're just
Speaker 1: not used to it. It feels weird. It's not what
Speaker 1: they expect to do because you're expecting to constantly remind
Speaker 1: rookies of what they've still got to do, what they
Speaker 1: don't know yet. And and there's not as much of
Speaker 1: that with j C because he keeps moving the target
Speaker 1: out there farther and farther away. So you know, I
Speaker 1: think with him being mature, with all those pass rushers,
Speaker 1: like you said, I mean to see that kind of
Speaker 1: pressure from a second pass rush group with Marki's Haynes,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of leading the way out there and
Speaker 1: Frankie Luvu jumping in and making some plays. It's it's
Speaker 1: a good sign for what they're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: do in the depth they've created. I think we also
Speaker 1: saw it, especially this second day in Indianapolis. You saw
Speaker 1: Shaq Thompson and Hassan Reddick and day Kwan Johns and
Speaker 1: those guys sort of bob up and stick their chest
Speaker 1: out and say, all right, this is who we're gonna be.
Speaker 1: This right here is what we're gonna be about. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll be about that life today, whereas the first day
Speaker 1: they were not about that life. So today, look, there
Speaker 1: are a couple of guys that we maybe haven't seen
Speaker 1: in a while starting to come back on the practice field.
Speaker 1: Where are we from an injury STEMP. I think getting
Speaker 1: a lot closer, you know, getting some of the Miles
Speaker 1: hearts Fields back. You know, Denzel Paramount was out here
Speaker 1: today for the first time since the first day in
Speaker 1: pads when he kind of tweaked a muscle um. And
Speaker 1: we don't really have any idea what to expect from Denzel,
Speaker 1: But some of the other guys are are getting back
Speaker 1: into shape. A J boyer is getting closer, but he's
Speaker 1: another one of those guys. A J boy is such
Speaker 1: a known commodity that it's almost like, Okay, use these
Speaker 1: reps in training camp. See if Miles Hartsfield can play Nichols,
Speaker 1: See if you can do this with other corners. Let's
Speaker 1: throw more reps Keith Taylor's way and see how he responds. So, uh,
Speaker 1: the indication I get is that aj is gonna be
Speaker 1: all right by the start of the regular season. You know,
Speaker 1: may not be out here much for the next week.
Speaker 1: But what does a J boy a really need to
Speaker 1: do in a preseason at this point in his career.
Speaker 1: He's he's basically thirty years old, nine years into the league,
Speaker 1: so you know, he knows, he knows what's happening out here.
Speaker 1: So I would say that side of the ball especially,
Speaker 1: the signs are reasonably positive. They're not deep, Uh, they're
Speaker 1: not deep at linebacker. Uh. They've got guys dinged up
Speaker 1: and they've got you know, some questions in the second
Speaker 1: and third lines. But Jermaine Carter has been really good
Speaker 1: this camp. I thought, I mean, in watching him, I
Speaker 1: always wondered what to make of him and whether he
Speaker 1: was just a guy kind of the way to hear
Speaker 1: Whitehead was just a guy last year. But he's not.
Speaker 1: He's a little bit bigger, he's a little bit more solid.
Speaker 1: He can still run, he can still move. But I
Speaker 1: think the vibe I get off Jermaine Carter is just
Speaker 1: of incredible competence. There's not a god where's he going now,
Speaker 1: There's not a false step this direction or yeah, any
Speaker 1: of that kind of stuff. I mean, Jermaine just for
Speaker 1: a young guy, he feels like one of those young
Speaker 1: guys that gets it. And I think that's good to
Speaker 1: have in the middle. And as long as him and
Speaker 1: Shack are on the field, you know, at those two
Speaker 1: basically inside linebacker spots, I think, you know, there's kind
Speaker 1: of a floor through which They're not gonna fall now
Speaker 1: if one of those guys gets hurt, obviously, and they've
Speaker 1: talked about trying to keep Shack off the field, not
Speaker 1: playing as many snaps as he did last year. They
Speaker 1: don't have that guy yet. They're still looking to see
Speaker 1: if you know, cats like Julian Stanford, you know Clay
Speaker 1: Johnston can be backup linebackers that they can trust in there,
Speaker 1: and and that's gonna be something that continues through cuts.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think linebackers one of those positions where
Speaker 1: you can plug in guys later who were in another
Speaker 1: camp or maybe not even in a camp at all,
Speaker 1: when they can pick up quickly. You saw him bringing
Speaker 1: Josh Bines last week, and he's kind of one of
Speaker 1: those old heads who you know what he's gonna do.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing with those guys. You knowing what
Speaker 1: to expect is a big part of what you want
Speaker 1: out of that linebacker. And if and if I can
Speaker 1: adjust expectations to you and know what you're gonna do
Speaker 1: basically play and play out, I can playing around all
Speaker 1: the other stuff. So that's a long way of saying
Speaker 1: Jermaine pretty good. But they're not particularly deep there, uh,
Speaker 1: your favorite topic, the offensive line. Yeah, what's going on
Speaker 1: there about that? Um? You know, here's the thing. I know,
Speaker 1: you you people, the people listening to you people out
Speaker 1: all you people out there who listen to this podcast,
Speaker 1: who are on the Twitter machine, who call into the
Speaker 1: radio shows. All of you people hate Camp Irving. They don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's you know, it's almost like it feels
Speaker 1: like sometimes when I talk about Cam Irving, I'm almost
Speaker 1: apologetic about it because it's like, you know, nobody's expecting
Speaker 1: him to be the answer at left tackle, and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna sit here and try to tell you he's
Speaker 1: going to the Pro Bowl anytime soon. He's got to
Speaker 1: a stay healthy and be be a more consistent player
Speaker 1: than he's been. They like him, and they think he's
Speaker 1: all right. And I think the stuff about Taylor Moten
Speaker 1: playing on the right side is more driven externally than
Speaker 1: it is internally. Yes, playing on the left side. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: playing on the left. So I think I have always
Speaker 1: thought they would have much rather just left Taylor alone
Speaker 1: and proceed accordingly. And you know, playing him on the
Speaker 1: left side was just in case of emergency, Brake Glass
Speaker 1: and you know, listen, Cam Irving has not been a
Speaker 1: durable guy in his career, so we'll see. I talked
Speaker 1: to him in Indy. He said, part of that is.
Speaker 1: Part of that is keeping on weight and staying and
Speaker 1: the three oh five three oh a three tin range
Speaker 1: as opposed to getting down under three hundred. You know
Speaker 1: when they think, you know, the coaching staff is keeping
Speaker 1: a close eye on that, and they honestly believe with
Speaker 1: the scheme they want to play being a little more
Speaker 1: so on blocking that his athleticism, his feet help him. Again,
Speaker 1: That ain't me saying it, it's them, and and they
Speaker 1: are increasingly defensive about him. I mean, when you talk
Speaker 1: to coaches about cam Irving, it's like, hey, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: he's okay. You know, they're you know, up on the
Speaker 1: balls of their feet saying, I don't know why everybody
Speaker 1: thinks he stinks, but he he doesn't in our mind. Well,
Speaker 1: And and that's I mean, that's a that's a product
Speaker 1: of no one's actually really seen him. I me, in
Speaker 1: terms of the out you know listeners out there, it's
Speaker 1: just you know, they're you know, seeing what grades they
Speaker 1: took from people. A lot of this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But you know what someone said from Kansas City from
Speaker 1: three years ago. I mean, but I mean I think
Speaker 1: three years ago in Kansas City weighed two eighty five
Speaker 1: and was playing guard. So but your point about him,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he does need to get on
Speaker 1: the field, you know, like the the injury stuff is
Speaker 1: and not that you know a guy is just one
Speaker 1: guy is gonna be more injury prone than another. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes things just happened. But at the same time, like
Speaker 1: you know, you do need to have feel like he's
Speaker 1: going to be a guy that can be there, can
Speaker 1: play sixteen games or seventeen games there. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen him a ton, you know, inter minute
Speaker 1: spurts so far in camp, and we're getting pretty close
Speaker 1: to the time. I mean, Matt's talked about this all
Speaker 1: offseason that you reach a certain point in the in
Speaker 1: the preseason where you want to find your best five,
Speaker 1: your best five. He keeps saying your best five, and
Speaker 1: it certainly appears at this moment that his best five
Speaker 1: includes cam Irving, Pat al Fly, Matt Paradis, John Miller,
Speaker 1: Taylor Moten. Now Matt really likes him, some dentist daily
Speaker 1: what he call him the other day, a uniquely powerful
Speaker 1: guard you know, which I thought was an interesting turn
Speaker 1: of phrase. And Brady Christensen looked good. The other day
Speaker 1: in the preseason game, Deonte Brown had a really good
Speaker 1: first game, and seeing those two together on the right side,
Speaker 1: I think fuels a little more of that. Well Taylor's
Speaker 1: so what do you do with him? Um? You know?
Speaker 1: But Brady I think jumped in and played left guard
Speaker 1: a little bit in the second half of that game, um,
Speaker 1: and looked all right, didn't He hadn't played a lot
Speaker 1: of guard in his life, but he looked okay at it.
Speaker 1: But I I like, and again, everybody's got a type.
Speaker 1: I like my guards big and massive and able to
Speaker 1: move people. And John Miller is one of those kind
Speaker 1: of guys. And so it was weird today John Miller
Speaker 1: kind of got rocked back and knocked on his back
Speaker 1: a little bit. And it's like John Miller never gets
Speaker 1: knocked on his back. He's big boy. And Deante Brown's
Speaker 1: kind of that way too. So when you see big
Speaker 1: guys like Daily, like Brown, like John Miller in the middle,
Speaker 1: it gives you a little, you know, something resembling hope
Speaker 1: that they're at least moving in the right direction. There.
Speaker 1: The thing we used to joke with Max about back
Speaker 1: in the day to kind of make a little more
Speaker 1: light here Darren is that whenever he would write about
Speaker 1: someone like he would kind of have the Madden curse,
Speaker 1: Max's Madden curse. Yeah, it does that now apply to you?
Speaker 1: I hope not. I hope not either. But you know,
Speaker 1: we feel monastic article about our guy panashk last week,
Speaker 1: and you know, and then yeah, I mean, and you
Speaker 1: know what you know when you go into this situation
Speaker 1: like that, that the Mike pana Shoots of the world
Speaker 1: or panashoots. Sorry Panas Shook gets heavy on the shoe. Um,
Speaker 1: but uh. And we got a lot of nice comments
Speaker 1: from our readers in Poland and and that's always good
Speaker 1: when we can expand the fan base a little bit.
Speaker 1: But you know, going in and and he knows, I mean,
Speaker 1: and he knew that he was a long shot to
Speaker 1: make this roster. When you're when you're a practice squad
Speaker 1: defensive lineman and the first thing the coach tells you
Speaker 1: in the all season is have you ever played center? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, you're change. It's is a long term stability
Speaker 1: on the roster. Not great, but it does speak And
Speaker 1: I think he's such a neat kid and I would
Speaker 1: love to see him get another shot somewhere. Unfortunately for him,
Speaker 1: he got hurt in the indie joint workouts and didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to play someday. So when he was waved,
Speaker 1: he was waved with an injury settlement. And you know,
Speaker 1: I hope he's able to get back in somebody's camp
Speaker 1: because he has the kind of work ethic. He has
Speaker 1: the kind of you know, Matt calls it that brand.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's that brand kind of guy because he works,
Speaker 1: because he grinds, because you knew every day he was
Speaker 1: showing up to get after it. This weekend, first home
Speaker 1: game for the preseason, Raven's coming in. It should be
Speaker 1: pretty exciting if to have seven o'clock home game and hopefully,
Speaker 1: uh this is kind of Will putting on his marketing hat. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, all all of our fans hopefully this weekend
Speaker 1: will actually be able to to watch some of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what I circled back. If you
Speaker 1: are not watching the Carolina Panthers Television Network preseason broadcast,
Speaker 1: what is wong with you? We're talking about Unfiltered eighty nine.
Speaker 1: And so this this time. We've got to make sure
Speaker 1: that it works. We'll get it out there and if
Speaker 1: you can't, if you can't find it on your TV,
Speaker 1: listen online, Panthers dot Com, Panthers app. It's there and
Speaker 1: Steve Smith is incredible. My mom called me and she
Speaker 1: said she was listening from the kitchen and she's like,
Speaker 1: I think he just called somebody stupid. Yeah, yeah, that's him.
Speaker 1: That's a boy. He um. You know, I loved Steve's
Speaker 1: energy about this because he has approached broadcasting the way
Speaker 1: he approached playing football. And I and I mean that
Speaker 1: by saying he takes it very seriously. He's passionate about
Speaker 1: doing a good job, improving the people he can do it. So,
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's out there watching practice and getting
Speaker 1: into granular football. But it's that personality. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: eighty nine. Man. You never know what's gonna fall out
Speaker 1: of that mouth. I don't think he knows a lot
Speaker 1: of times. I mean, listen, are there lines Steve's got
Speaker 1: teed up and ready to go that he knows he's
Speaker 1: gonna drop in at a certain time. Probably so, But
Speaker 1: that's part of his charm because even though you think
Speaker 1: you can't say that on TV. He says it anyway,
Speaker 1: because it's that's our guy. He's he's he's fascinating and
Speaker 1: and he's so much fun. And I think, you know
Speaker 1: not that preseason football isn't the most serious enterprise on
Speaker 1: planet Earth right now, but he makes it fun. And
Speaker 1: sometimes I think when people try to get caught up
Speaker 1: in some of the minutia of the game and here's
Speaker 1: the score, and here's the down and distance, you lose it.
Speaker 1: But Steve, Steve's talking ball and and that's his element,
Speaker 1: and that's what he's great at, and that's why it's
Speaker 1: so much fun for me. I mean, listen, Ordinarily I
Speaker 1: would not circle back and rewatch a broadcast of a
Speaker 1: preseason game that I had already watched one time. But
Speaker 1: listening to Steve again, that was like, Okay, that's worth
Speaker 1: the price of admission, right there? Are you gonna do
Speaker 1: it again? Sure? Why why wouldn't you give our readers
Speaker 1: even more Sunday joy as they come back and hear
Speaker 1: what's deep set on Saturday? Exactly? The best of eighty
Speaker 1: nine is a thing now on Panthers. So, um, if
Speaker 1: you've got tips for the best of eighty nine send
Speaker 1: them to us, preferably with the game time and everything flagged,
Speaker 1: so we can go back in our DVR and find
Speaker 1: them quickly. But yeah, I mean, I just think it's
Speaker 1: tremendous fun for everybody. And when you've got somebody who
Speaker 1: means as much of the organization as he does, Man,
Speaker 1: this was a no brainer, and I think it's going
Speaker 1: really well for a guy who's done it exactly one time.
Speaker 1: So tomorrow, last day of training camp. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: believe we've already reached this point, But I want your
Speaker 1: best moments of the eight five experience. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: avoid the I eighty five experience as much as I can.
Speaker 1: It's actually, frankly kind of miserable. I have taken to
Speaker 1: getting off of eighty five as soon as I can.
Speaker 1: You cross state line in Blacksburg, get on Highway twenty
Speaker 1: nine and take the back roads in Man, it's a
Speaker 1: lot less stress that way. What's your what's your favorite
Speaker 1: town between Blacksburg, Gaffney and Pens or Lickety Creek for
Speaker 1: that matter. Wow, I didn't even know Lickety Creek and
Speaker 1: it's it's it's real quick in between Gaffney and cow pens.
Speaker 1: It's just literally just a bridge. That's pretty cool. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just like I I was driving that road the
Speaker 1: other night and saw a barbecue shack with a woodpile
Speaker 1: outside it. And that's how you know a barbecue shack
Speaker 1: is good. If they've got a woodpile, the barbecue is
Speaker 1: going to be good, um, and not just cooked on gas.
Speaker 1: So if you've got a wood pile outside barbecue shack,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna stop. It was closed on Sunday night
Speaker 1: the other week when I went past, But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the good stuff right there. I mean,
Speaker 1: you hate, I hate giving up a chance to drive
Speaker 1: by the p ch oid, But man, I'm I'm getting
Speaker 1: too old for this. I don't need the stress in
Speaker 1: my life for Constant five construction. And you know, I
Speaker 1: would also be remissed to get through this episode without
Speaker 1: saying God bless Matt Rule for the self awareness. You know.
Speaker 1: The day in press conference, he was asked about his
Speaker 1: offensive line, and he said, now we're kind of like
Speaker 1: I eighty five coming down here, we're under construction. I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, Matt, did you read the comments on
Speaker 1: that one? Yeah? I imagine that one got pretty good.
Speaker 1: I Uh, I would have said it's more like Exit three,
Speaker 1: a off to seventy but uh but yeah, under construction,
Speaker 1: that works. But hopefully Matt gets his offensive line straightened
Speaker 1: out sooner than the State of South Carolina gets eighty
Speaker 1: five up and running again. I asked Kristen on her
Speaker 1: way down what she listens to, and she says she's
Speaker 1: a drake person in the morning, in an audio book
Speaker 1: person on the way home in the afternoons. What about
Speaker 1: you you? I tend to get in the car. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've got satellite radio in the car, so I've got,
Speaker 1: you know, the five preset stations that are always there.
Speaker 1: But I was scanning through the other night, just trying
Speaker 1: to get through it. I mean, it's like I said,
Speaker 1: it gets a little stressfulhen you need to undwined. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I'm a satellite radio guy, so usually Outlaw
Speaker 1: country or Classic Rewind or Ozzie's Bone Yard, which sounds
Speaker 1: weird when you say you want to relax while you're driving,
Speaker 1: but every now and then you just need a little
Speaker 1: motor head in your life. Oh my gosh, Darren. So
Speaker 1: we're wrapping up camp tonight and we're doing it the
Speaker 1: best way possible with a digital party. What was what?
Speaker 1: What's your favorite moment of of getting to hang out
Speaker 1: with us young inns. It's so cool and I swear
Speaker 1: I think people think I'm making this up and being
Speaker 1: a company man or being corny or whatever. But being
Speaker 1: in a room with all these people we work with
Speaker 1: energizes me. It's like training. I mean it's training camp
Speaker 1: for us too. You get to know your co workers
Speaker 1: at a different level. You know, I walked in here
Speaker 1: and didn't really know a thing about Chanelle. I didn't
Speaker 1: know a thing about Kyle Toot, I didn't know a
Speaker 1: thing about Alex And now I at least know something
Speaker 1: about these people, and you know what makes them tick,
Speaker 1: their idiosyncrasies, what they're really good at. And these people
Speaker 1: are really good at the things they do. She Neel
Speaker 1: Smith Walker is an incredible photographer. You guys should follow
Speaker 1: her on all the Instagrams and social media's. She is
Speaker 1: amazing at what she does and she got a little
Speaker 1: sass about and that's what I like about. We were
Speaker 1: we were talking the other night in Indy and and
Speaker 1: something came up about getting in fights when you were
Speaker 1: a kid, and somebody as Chanelle if she had ever
Speaker 1: been in a fight, and she said, nobody's ever tried me.
Speaker 1: We're all like, dang you, I'm not trying that, and
Speaker 1: we're definitely not now. So, uh, it's tremendous fun. I
Speaker 1: mean all the minor inconveniences. Listen, do I want to
Speaker 1: sleep on a dormbed one more night? I do not. Uh.
Speaker 1: Do I want to sleep in a dorm room with
Speaker 1: a thermostat that's stuck at sixty seven degrees? I do not.
Speaker 1: That's too cold. Uh, that's not enough heats in my
Speaker 1: room at night. So you know, all that stuff kind
Speaker 1: of fades away. But this is it's a cool experience
Speaker 1: for us as a digital team because we're in the
Speaker 1: same place. We see the work, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: not just mean meeting new new people. They now know
Speaker 1: how I operate and what I'm doing, and I know
Speaker 1: what Kyle's doing, and you know, it's just just like
Speaker 1: with the football team, got a better sense of your
Speaker 1: team and the people you were with, and that can
Speaker 1: only be good for the product. That's it. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: another episode forty two of The Happy Half Hour in
Speaker 1: the books, just like this training camp and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to tell them all the stories about you after hours. No,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna We're not gonna do Spartanburg after Dark.
Speaker 1: That might be a that might be an extra bonus
Speaker 1: episode to subscribe and pay for that one. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you could sponsor the Happy half hour. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: put that behind a paywall and you know, put something
Speaker 1: on it. Yeah, we'll definitely do Spartanburg after Dark stories
Speaker 1: in a different format. Well for Kristen Balboni, who's not
Speaker 1: here with us, but here because she's on special special assignment.
Speaker 1: You can see her all weekend on the huddle, on
Speaker 1: the game, broke Gas, on the radio, everywhere. She'll be
Speaker 1: around for daring It. I'm will Brian. Thanks guys,