WEBVTT - The Group Chat Episode 38: H.A.G.S. 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.520 You've been added to the group chat with your friends Caroline, can, 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:18.640 Max Sensen, and Will Brian. You guys were almost about 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.040 to say Happy New Year, you know in March. Isn't 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.680 that what people normally do in marked Happy New Year 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:29.560 or have a great summer hags? We should tell people hags. 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:31.720 How many of you wrote that? And did you guys 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.239 write that in any new books? Yes, of course, I've 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.760 never heard haggs. Really, do you know what it's hands for? Well, 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.839 you just said it. I'd never heard that, you know 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.960 what we say on here. I'm shocked you've never never 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.720 heard hags have a great summer. That's everyone used to 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:51.240 write in the yearbooks. Yeah, wow, I'm shocked that you 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.880 never heard of that. Well, we are going to say that, 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.040 but it's not because of any reason. A great season, 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:02.600 have a great go back X, Yes, that is we 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:04.800 That was good Max, good job on that. But we 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.959 are doing this end of the year, end of the 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.960 new well not new the new league year is coming. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.640 So this is the end of the season officially for 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:18.319 the NFL. Every March. It bounces around on some dates, 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:22.280 but every March, a new league year begins, fresh start, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.600 a clean slate, all the things that you want to 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.320 say with it. But as a new league year begins, 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.640 it's a good time to reflect back on just this 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:35.520 calendar year, some things that happen for the Panthers, for 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.160 your life, for anything. So that's what we're gonna do 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.840 in this podcast is just look back. I got a 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.560 little nostalgic last last night. I posted on Instagram it 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.360 was this what made me think of doing this? I 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.640 was looking back at photos of the year. It's just 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.320 oh the mims, you know. Yeah, well, I mean obviously 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.480 and especially for you coming to this organization, I guess 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.200 let's start at the beginning. What a kind of your 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.840 What are your What are your first memories? I guess 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:07.920 the good ones, but feel free to share of like 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:09.760 when you first got in the door and sort of 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.600 get started to get a feel for what this place 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:13.560 was like and getting to learn the team and all that. 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.519 What like sticks out to you think, Well, my very 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.480 first memory is I stayed at a hotel right beside 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.000 the stadium when I first moved here for four weeks 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.200 and I would walk to work. It was super close, 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.800 the weather was great. I just remember being so joyful 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.640 walking to work because you would pass the Big Panthers, 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.800 and I had grown up watching this team and now 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.919 I was getting to work for them. It was warm. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.040 It was just such a great time, and it really 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.480 did feel like a new beginning. And then how nice 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.960 Panther fans were of welcoming me. I didn't feel like 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.079 there was a get to know period with this fan base. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.360 I feel like maybe that was day one when it 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.000 was posted that I was taking this job, but then 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.040 from from that point on, I was a part of 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.480 the family. Um getting to know the team was really 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.200 cool and interesting. It was an interesting year to get 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.640 to know this team, though. And I tell a lot 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.200 of people that and they're like, oh, like, how's the 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.040 locker room. I'm like, I don't think I got a 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.680 true sense of what a Panther's locker room is like 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.280 because the big players in this past year's locker room 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.600 they were new guys. You didn't have Cam really running 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.720 that locker room like you normally. What if he was starting, uh, 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.519 you know Christian of course, but he's an under the 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.560 radar guy in the locker room. You don't see much 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.440 of him when we are in there. So it was 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.640 good to get to know this roster but I do 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.200 feel like I don't have a true sense of what 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.560 I see. What you're saying a real you know, when 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.920 when this team is rolling, what that locker room is like. Yeah, 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.920 I mean because for so long the locker room was 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:47.040 run by guys like Thomas Davis, Charles Johnson, Ryan khalil 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:52.640 Um and those urban legends. Yeah, and I think there were, 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.520 you know, obviously guys like Greg Olsen this past year, 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.120 Christian Luke, they kind of carried the torch, but it 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.040 was different. There were remnants of kind of what that 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.000 everyone I think has looked at this that there's that 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.000 photo from the NFC Championship game of all these captains 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.400 with the trophy, and that I think is what you're saying. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.880 What you're talking about this this decade of Panthers football 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:14.960 is kind of defined by that group and like what 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.279 the locker room became with them steering the ship. And 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.240 it's changed a lot. I mean this year, like I said, 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.479 there were pieces of it still and obviously in the 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.880 off season some of those pieces have now left as well, 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.240 with with Olsen now a Seattle Seahawk, which is so 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.880 weird to say, Um and Luke, Keikley retiring, So I 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.000 see what you're saying. It was. It was definitely a 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.040 transition year for just what this locker room and the 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.920 team's identity certainly was. It was different, but it was 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.279 It was fun to get to know another organization and 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.360 it was fun. I think we have a really great 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.520 group of content producers and we're fun. We're fun, dang it, 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.240 We're a fun group. And I thought that was a 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.039 lot of fun of just traveling around and getting to 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:57.200 know that the staff was fun um and the content 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:58.640 we were able to put out. I thought it was 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.320 really awesome and I'm super proud out of So it 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:06.000 was a great year for like personally. I mean, I 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:07.600 know the football wasn't that great, but I think that's 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.400 what I mean with the locker room. It was. It 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.600 was just weird. It was a weird year for Carolina football. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.400 And moving on now you have this new, fresh, clean 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.120 slate that's coming and it it truly does feel that 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.479 way because a lot of the pieces have gone. Um, 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.120 I'm sure more changes are coming this offseason of of 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:30.479 adding pieces and maybe other other pieces leaving. So it 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:34.280 is it has been a wild year. I tell people 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.320 that I feel like I didn't. I got to know 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.520 Charlotte once this season started to end, because that's when 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.799 you can actually have your weekends and go and explore. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.640 So it was it was a wild year that for 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:50.240 me started in May. Yeah. Crazy. How about how about you? 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.360 What do you think back to the beginning of Yeah, 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.560 I mean, I mean from a personal standpoint, like it was, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.039 it wasn't nearly as wild as as Carolines, But you know, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.200 I transition a little bit from more of a kind 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.880 of the pr side too, you know, now joining the 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.960 podcast and then a training camp, you know, working with 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.880 Max too, kind of right Stories, which was kind of 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.520 a new experience for me. Like I was in huddles 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.280 you know, or like interview scrums and everyone was like, 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.640 wait a minute, Will's will interviewing people? Well, what's happening 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.160 over here? So that was that was kind of a 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.800 cool exercise and in doing something different for me. And 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.279 I mean, I I still think, you know, the memory 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.000 for me from this year is kind of, you know, 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.280 is London. I think that really it felt like the 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.000 kind of there was that month long period where things 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.680 were really good and Kyle Allen was five and oh 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.720 and and you go to London, and it's like this 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.880 is this is really fun seeing how Panthers fans kind 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.320 of dominated the bucks in the city and then in 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.000 the game, and just really getting to spend time with 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.960 you guys. I mean, I'll remember that that morning with 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.479 with Paul mcgouan and that group chat that was that 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.960 was quite a group chat. Yeah, the London experience almost 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.080 makes it feel like, well, this was a lost season 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.640 in many ways. It was like there was that you know, 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.240 like and I feel like that was like a winning 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.680 that game in the fashion they did this, the fan 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.560 experience and the way it seems that just seemed like 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.760 a really big moment for the organization and a proud 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.120 moment to show for a fan base that that's whatever 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.880 you want to say about small market, it's always seemed 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.800 to be a bit of an underdog and kind of 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.400 relished that feeling that doesn't maybe get the respect it 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.480 deserves to put on a show like it did, and 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.880 you know, we were at the events and to see 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.400 the fan base show up the way they did for 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.080 for that moment, to me, that's what I'll remember from 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.360 was like and I'm glad that I was able to 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.200 be a part of that. It looked. The way the 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.640 season ended was was really really difficult, um. And to 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.000 see so many good people leave in the in the 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.280 that was hard. But that moment in London, I think 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.280 is something that it's cool to be able to have 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.000 that from this twenty nineteen season. And I think fans 0:07:58.000 --> 0:07:59.720 would feel the same way, especially the ones who were 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.280 out there. Oh, I know that was that was a 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.800 memory you'll always keep. Yeah, just you know, being on 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:05.480 the you know, I was on the commercial flight that 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.880 was packed to the gills with with Panther fans. That 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.160 are you know channing keep pounding at two am the morning. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.200 I mean a little annoying at the moment when you 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.000 look back at it, I mean it was really very cool, um, 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.360 to to kind of see that outpouring of support in 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.520 a big way. Yeah, and you know the fa whether 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.640 it was getting becoming a captain before and then after 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.360 the game as he's blowing kisses to the fans, I mean, 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.160 that was that was special. It's a shame that that 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.200 didn't catapult this team forward in the way we may 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.080 be hoped, um, But still just as an isolated moment, 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.040 that was that was pretty darn cool. I'm tired just 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.560 thinking of that week. I'd be onto a couple of 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.760 times during those stories because that week was it was 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.400 awesome because you wanted to take every bit of it in. 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.920 So you're you're going all in on the football and 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.000 the work, but then you're going all in on just 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.720 being in London and taking the tube to go, you know, 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.880 forty minutes or however long it was to get downtown. 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.400 It was that feels like it was like two or 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.760 three years, right, it really does. Ever. I was thinking 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.320 about that another memory when I was talking about this 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.640 year and talking of the locker room, I will miss 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.920 the the defensive line row. Who knows what it's going 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.360 to look like, you know next year in that locker room. 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.760 I think there is going to be some retooling and 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.360 you know, new faces and maybe some familiar faces, but 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.840 that whole you know, Gerald McCoy defensive line row was 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.640 absurd last year in the locker room. They were always 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.520 fun and welcoming to the media and you know, talking 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:40.080 and being very honest and just the energy was unreal 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:41.760 from that group. And when I when I think about 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.360 this locker room, I didn't get the normal Painthers experience, 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:51.080 but that defensive line this group was absurd interesting characters, 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.480 Like the whole McCoy recruitment was a big memory and 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.800 landing him, um, such a big personality, and you know 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.040 him in training camp and we you know, all this 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.960 stuff with carrying the guy's helmets and having the ice 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:09.480 cream truck coming, Like the whole McCoy experience was pretty cool. Um. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.320 It's a real shame that he and kay K didn't 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:12.839 get to play together. And I think that that was 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.480 one of a real bummer um. And you just wonder, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.160 you know, how things maybe would have been different if 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.680 k K didn't get hurt. But you know, Bruce Irvin 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:26.760 another guy who a unique personality. Bruce is just um 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:28.839 there everyone said there was there's an edge to him. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.400 There's also yeah, there's like and there's like a there's 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.000 like a sense of humor. I think he's trying to 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.440 be funny at times there. I don't know, maybe not, 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.320 but Bruce was certainly interesting guy to get a chance 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.800 to know. Um. So yeah, I agree, And even the 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.320 young guys like Burns again another one where it's like, 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.280 what a shame that he got hurt because he was 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.320 off to such a great start, and you wonder how 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.480 his rookie season maybe would have gone differently if not 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:56.920 for punching the turf in Houston. Um. But uh, but 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.559 I'm I'm really excited about Brian in his future. I mean, 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.040 I think that guy showed to everybody that you know, 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.240 he's he's got the juice off the edge and if 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.160 he can just kind of harness things a little bit 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.280 and become a little bit more of a technician, I mean, 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.440 that guy has has the makings of a double digit 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.400 sack pressure in this league, and so it was it 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.079 was cool to get a chance to know him as well. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.440 So so young, I mean, that's the thing about us, Like, 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.120 isn't it crazy to think that we're all older than 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.960 most guys in the locker room now, Like Brian Burns 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.920 is significantly younger than us. I remember my first year 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.760 in the league, I was my first year, my rookie year. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.040 That sounded like I was playing, But my first year 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:40.880 working in the NFL I was. I just turned three, 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.480 So I still felt very twenty two. Coming out of 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.880 college was the very first job, and it did blow 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:51.000 my mind that even then I was older than the 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.120 rookie that we're coming in of Like this is my 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:58.559 first job. This is their first job. Wow, the pay differences, 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.880 yeah's mind boggling. Yes, and then now every time, I 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.240 mean we're getting I at least this is my first time. 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:09.439 I'm twenty seven of when people talk about oh, thirty 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.319 thirty and year old in the NFL, might hold up now, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.240 yah's not getting crazy. I mean I can't run two 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.160 miles without hurting. But it is that's it is crazy 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.720 to think a lot of these guys in the locker room. Yeah. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.720 It hit me when Luke retired. Yeah, I mean when 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.920 when you're still when I'm still like trying to like 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.040 find your career path and this guy is that much 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:36.000 younger than you and he's retired, like what, Well he 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.640 was probably trying to find his career paths. Sure, but 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.520 still it makes you feel better. Yeah, you definitely start 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:45.760 feeling that's really old in there. Yeah. I remember Quincy 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:51.120 Wilson was drafted by the Colts at twenty. Yeah, I 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:55.160 think Curtis Samuel came to the team. It's it's just 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.920 and you know, I look, every year goes by, I'm 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.880 finding that I um more and more. Just like I 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.040 don't really know what these guys like. I just feel 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.439 out of touch with you know, because because you know, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.320 like I started, like you, Caroline, I was. I got 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.360 into the league as an intern with the Broncos when 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:16.560 I was three, and a lot of changes in seven years, 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.840 and all of a sudden, it's like, man, I'm I'm 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:24.280 not cool. That is confirmed. Um, well, Matt is not 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.839 here to defend himself. He's having to miss this because 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.320 he's recovering from the flu. Matt, we miss you. We 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.200 hope you're feeling better. But Matt just went to the 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.400 combine with us, and we mentioned this on the last 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.640 group chat. But it was fun to see his enthusiasm 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.719 for his job because this is a job and it 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.600 does get to the point where you know you're you're 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.800 going through and you've done it before, so you're not 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.199 as in awe of things. And I think that's when 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.520 I look back at my first year of working in 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.920 the NFL, I was just wide eyed and just wow, 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.000 like that all the time. Wow, I see them, And 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.280 now I'm complaining about a late bus leaving the hotel. Right, 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.640 stop it. That's what happens. You have to you have to, 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.840 you know, get out and be thankful for a little bit. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.240 So sorry if you think I'm complaining out there, but 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:10.719 that was a that was a fun part of the 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:15.720 combine was seeing his enthusiasm. So then we can remind ourselves. Yeah, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:20.040 and you know, I think our other memories of and 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.600 even though I not really but this league year before 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.920 this next one starts, is a massive change that happened 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.200 here in Carolina with this coaching staff, right, I mean, 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:33.240 um defining moment. Yeah, they've yet to really you know, 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:37.280 get started in earnest with you know, obviously I haven't 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:41.520 been on the practice field yet, but um, getting themselves 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.440 in the building, this whole new staff and really just 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.640 starting a culture change and and really it's it's it's 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:52.920 a huge shift in philosophy and just going about their business. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.400 I don't know we've all I think experienced that. And 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.600 just being in this building is you're you're starting to 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.000 feel it and see it just out and not right 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:03.920 or wrong. How one guy did it, how the next 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.000 guy does it. It's just different. Um, and that's very 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.920 new to this place. After going through nine years with 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.680 with Round rivera the Matt Rule era beginning, it will 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.720 always I think, you know, be another big memory and 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.240 that press conference and kind of kicking that thing off 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.120 the way it did. And in the atrium domes it's 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.200 another one you were on, you know, your way back 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.520 from from Waco. I mean that that that whole stretch 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.240 of time, I would say it was pretty memorable. It 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.600 was very memorable. I think the funny part about that 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.520 piece of content that we did in his house and 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.080 what we turned her out from there when we go places, 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.760 now you know, oh what you guys did with Matt Rule. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.200 That really pushed the needle and that was awesome. That 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.840 was great content. And I laughed though, because they have 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.840 no idea who went. And I love that, like they 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.200 know that I went because we did an interview and 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.880 you see my face, but they have no idea how 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.680 any of it happened. And that it really did remind 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.840 me the magic of what we get to do of 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.680 you just go and you turn this content and then 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.760 you come back and you move on to the next thing. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.520 So it can become a bit of a grind and 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.360 you're just kind of Okay, what's next, What's next. It's 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.520 been fun to hear people respond to that, because it 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.600 does it just makes you sit back and be like, wow, 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.000 you know, and we will take something to do, and 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.680 we recounted the story of that day kind of here, 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:18.520 you know, on the group chat. But I mean just 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.720 you know, yeah, the excitement of those mornings where it's like, 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.080 all right, what are we gonna do? Go get a suitcase? 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.360 You have forty five minutes. I mean just like literally, 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.360 those those moments that are you know, that is kind 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.880 of the the adrenaline and the lifeblood of this. And 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.360 you know what this is both on our end and 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:36.680 you know on their end. You know a lot of 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:41.000 these coaches they picked up and just got here. You know, 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:42.920 these players they pick up and they get here and 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:44.720 all of a sudden it's they're starting a new life. 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.920 And you know kind of what what that's like is 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.320 very I think unique to too sports in certain ways. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.200 I would also like to say that our office game 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.800 of pig from the league here if you haven't heard 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.480 out there. I don't even know what week this started, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:06.080 but we bought a remember I can go look back 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.800 at my receipts, but it's a it's a little, you know, 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.280 little basketball goal that you hang on the back of 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.879 a door. Only in our office there's no door to 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.080 hang it on. That makes sense because this is still 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.639 a place of work and employment. So we don't want 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.159 to put it on our office door and just be 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:25.359 banging around all day. So it hangs on a half wall, 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.720 like a partition for um, what you would maybe see 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.840 in an office with cubicles. It hangs on that wall. 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.560 It's maybe three and a half feet off the ground. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.439 Four it might be four ft off the ground. But 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.520 this game of pig that was supposed to be just 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.359 a way for creatives to get up and you know, 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.040 do something different, maybe shoot the ball while you're thinking 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:52.800 about some ideas, turned into a full fledged war. Yeah. Yeah. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.840 At its peak, there was a website created with player 0:17:55.920 --> 0:18:02.480 profiles and standing rules. Oh yeah, we have rules. We 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.280 had a commissioner. Yeah, it was. It was intense. It's 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.240 kind of faded. I think it was a little bit 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.879 because no one It was a little bit difficult when 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.800 everything with the coaching, and I think, honestly, I think 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:17.439 the players just needed a bit of an off season. 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.879 It was well, we were trying to go for the playoffs. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.760 We set a forty game minimum, which is a lot 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.639 to thank you, which is a lot, okay, And I 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:33.239 felt like forty game minimum. There are players currently on 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:37.440 our board that have three hundred games played. There is 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.720 one player that has almost three losses. He will go 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:45.439 on remain nameless. He knows who he knows we and 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.160 we know. But he also that same player also has 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:52.280 the most wins, which just means that he just plays 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:56.000 slightly too much, little too much, but not like too 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.760 much in a great way. You know, we're not hating 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.800 on him. But yes, Pig, this year was we'll go down. 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:03.600 I don't know if another office could do that. We 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:05.680 got some people to stop in and play pick. Maybe 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:10.680 you wouldn't expect appearances. Yes, mcmixon has come by and 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.320 shot a little KK short came in yesterday like just 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.680 just cleaned house. He beat two of us, and then 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.479 I do believe he got beat on. Maybe he was victims. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:26.840 But here's the thing. He's a much bigger man lengthwise, 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:31.359 so he really played to his advantage. He was, you know, okay, 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:33.920 you have to be touching this and make the shot. 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.840 Well to him, he was touching, you know, a knob 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.359 and could just drop the ball in. I was touching 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:43.520 the knob and having to you know, really stretched the 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:47.440 final The final shot is actually on TikTok on Panthers. 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.320 TikTok if you would like to go see that and 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:53.080 you'll understand how I lost because it's a ridiculous shot. 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:58.000 Um yeah pick. We also David Tepper caught us in 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.240 the middle of a game one time. It was my often, 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:04.600 our lead photographer. It was stressful. It was the day 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.280 where the broom would stand up on its own. So 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.120 we were playing with the broom, which is every day, 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.240 but you know this day on social media where everyone 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:14.960 thought it was just that it was a big day 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.719 and we had set the broom up and so every 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:19.960 the last shot had to do with the broom. That 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.359 was our rule. So it was my last shot and 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:26.639 he happened to open the door mid I was just 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:28.920 about to bounce the ball over the broom and both 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.760