WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 1: One Has Got To Go 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:09.440 Pigs Time Full of a Happy half Hour with your 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:21.400 friends Kristen Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Brian. Hey, everybody, 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:25.520 we're back. It's the uh wait group chat. No, no, 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:30.680 that's not it. Um oh yeah, it's the Happy Half Hour. 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.400 And I have some new friends. I found some new people. 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:37.479 I went down. I've been on this whole like internet 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:39.360 thing and I've been trying to find some people to 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.920 hang out with since we've been quarantining, and I found 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.600 some new people. I want to introduce you guys. It's 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.920 Kristen and Miles. Welcome guys. Well, well, I just gotta 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.120 take issue with one part of your intro, and that's 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.239 where you said you found some new friends and you 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.120 know what, we're colleagues and everything. But I just wouldn't 0:00:56.160 --> 0:01:00.120 go that far yet. I really wouldn't. Wow, Wow, I can. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.040 I can literally call Max right now and get him 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.319 to hop on and he can tell you about how 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.480 great friends you guys are going to be with me 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.959 as soon as as soon as we're done with this podcast. 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:13.560 I'm kind of the opposite way where I've never met 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:15.839 someone who wasn't my friend, Like I think I'm friends 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.440 with everybody I talked to someone once. I'm like, we're 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:23.120 close now, so I'm I'm on board. Will, thank you. Well, 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.199 we we already know how this is gonna go. We're 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.200 it's going to be the Kristen and Will show, and 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.160 then like Miles is going to start talking, We're just 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:35.960 gonna hit the mute button. I'm fine with that. So 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.640 it's the Happy half Hour. We've we've signed off from 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.720 the group chat a couple of months ago. Um, Caroline's 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.800 moved on, Max has moved on, but we have some 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.520 new people in the house. Kristen is our new ever 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.920 do everything reporter. You've seen her everywhere on social on 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.880 Panthers dot com. She even already like preempted this and 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:59.360 started her own podcast. I needed to warm up. I'm 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.320 needed a warm up for the Happy Half Hour podcast. 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.120 So I'm doing a podcast with the players just to 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:12.480 get ready for for you, Will and Miles. Right, yes, podcast. Yeah, 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.720 it's called the Weight Room. So we're talking to players 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.840 about about you know, how they're how they're kind of 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.079 keeping their minds right, their bodies right. Uh, just how 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.519 everything's going in the midst of this quarantine. So that's fun. 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.799 But like I said, it's all just practice to get 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.320 ready for this. What have you been doing? Um, I've 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.799 been doing a lot of weird things. So I guess 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.920 the thing that we should start with here probably is 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.480 the fact that I am not currently in Charlotte, like 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.760 I currently live in Las Vegas, and the fun part 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.359 of everything that I think has gone on in terms 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.600 of like me getting this job and me starting this job. 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:53.840 So I interviewed the two days before, uh the NBA shutdown. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.720 Actually no, no no, no, it was the day before everything 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.560 shut down with Rudy Gobert, you know, test being positive 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.680 with the NBA. And that was also the week that, 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.320 of course the n C Double A Tournament was supposed 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.040 to start. So you know, maybe this is two inside baseball. 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.760 I don't know. But funnily enough, right, like I thought 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.760 that after everything shut down, like I was like, oh, well, 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.280 I guess I'm not going to get that job because 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.520 who's gonna hire me in the middle of a pandemic? 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.639 And lo and behold, here we are. So the funny 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.120 thing is that I still am in Las Vegas, and 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.440 I did just recently take a trip out to Charlotte 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.040 to sort of try to find an apartment. Um, We'll 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:34.960 see how that ends up. Um, but yeah, that's me 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.880 in a nutshell. How can we do? Can we do 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.520 a straw pole of our listeners and then have them 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.280 just tweeted you where they think you should live in 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.400 Charlotte because they're very opinionated. Yes, please, I can use 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:47.840 all the help I can get. Wait, what are the 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.400 so I've never I'm from North Carolina, but I've never 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:55.120 lived in Charlotte. What are the listeners strong opinions? Do 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.280 they tend to go one way or another? Will in 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.040 terms of where to live? Because I might be on 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:00.920 the wrong side of this. I now, well, I mean 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.640 I certainly know where I like and I'm I'm a 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.480 I'm a plaza not a person which can clash with 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.960 the whole Yeah, you would be that. I don't know. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:13.400 I just felt like saying I just felt like, I 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:15.960 don't know. I haven't lived in Charlotte long enough. I 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.720 haven't been nothing has been opened. I moved to Charlotte 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.800 two months ago. Nothing has been open. So I have 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.040 no idea what that means. But it just seemed like 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.800 the right thing to say. You do you know what 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.320 what a South End person is versus a plot plas person. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:35.080 I would assume Plausa, nota is a little more ah, 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.599 I would assume South End is Can I say this, 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.600 I don't know. This is just coming from an outsider. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.080 Just the vibe I've gotten from what I've heard people 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:44.800 say is like South End would be a little more 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.440 bougie and plus and note would be a little more 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.359 I don't know if hipster is the right word, but 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.440 like laid back. It's a little more artsy over there. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:56.920 Am I am? I on? I don't know yet, which 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.240 is funny because some people have like called me. They 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.680 say that I dressed like I'm like a like somewhat freddy, 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.480 which is funny that I were tend to just want 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.400 to drink I p a s and hang out over here. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.080 But you know that's me. So we're living off South 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.839 End vibes, you think, but you're actually I think I 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.400 just don't know how to dress otherwise. I mean, it's 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.000 either like just like polos in free things that I've 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:26.720 been given or that's pretty much it. Are you from well, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.480 I'm sorry, I don't know this. Are you from North Carolina? 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.520 I'm from Charleston. Actually, Okay, Well then, yeah, I was 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.360 gonna say, I grew up in North Klina. Of course 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.400 you don't know another way to dress, Like that's what 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:40.320 we've grown up with, right, Like that's yeah, that's how 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.279 people who are from your dress, like myself included on 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.160 the on the girl's end, I got like twenty pairs 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.320 of Nike shorts. Isn't that? Like I'm still in college, 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.039 you know, I just did. Yeah, I get it, Miles. 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.719 What about you? What would you call your personal style? Um, 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.760 that's really interesting. I'm the type of person that, like 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.359 I figure out one thing to wear, and then I 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.359 just buy pretty much all of the versions of that 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.400 thing to where So like a couple of years ago, 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:13.000 I figured out that vests and long sleeve shirts that 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.120 button downs go very well together with jeans. So basically 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.400 I wore that every single day. And so there was 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.440 a time where I literally there's a brand. If Ted 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.839 Baker wants to sponsor me, that'd be awesome. So Ted 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.800 Baker makes these vests, right, and that first when the 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:31.920 Rams went to London, I guess it was in sixteen 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.320 or seventeen, I went to a Ted Baker store and 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:35.880 I bought this red vest and I was like, man, 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.000 I really like this red vest. I wish that they 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.160 were made in another color, and I saw that they 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.760 were made in two more colors. So I got the 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.560 blue vest first, and I decided that the blue vest 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.440 was great. But then there was also a gray one. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.880 So one day I ordered this gray vest, and so 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:56.000 it came to my work on accident. But I was 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.120 there with a colleague. He was also a friend, and 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.719 so he saw that I had gotten something from Ted 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.080 Baker and he looks at the box and he looks 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.320 at me and he goes, is that another vest. It's 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.840 like yeah, It's like it's the last color, isn't it. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.320 It's gray, isn't it. It's like yeah. So that's kind 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.800 of my style. Basically, I just look for something and 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.720 if I think it works, then I wear it that 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.920 I wear the heck out of it. I think I 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:24.640 just need to see a picture of a red vest. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:26.720 I don't know if I've ever seen a red vest, 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.760 but that was your first color. Yes, we need to 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.200 see we need this post it somewhere. We don't Sara 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.280 in Vegas. We obviously can't see each other. I need 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.720 to see this red vest in action. Well, if we 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.000 ever are working at the same building, I you can 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.720 trust and believe that I will be wearing the three 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.960 versions of this vest. You know, once it gets to 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:47.640 like I don't I don't know what temperature does it 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.480 get to you in December in uh Charlotte, Like does 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:55.960 it get around the hours? It's like five degrees at 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.920 like eight am, and then it's like sixty seven by 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.560 one and it's back down to thirty five by eight. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.640 So it kind of depends on which time of day. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.720 But that's perfect vest weather because you need the vest 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.760 when in the morning. Then the best part about the 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.240 vest is you can take it off like it's a 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.320 it's a total layer, right, So like once you're in 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.120 the building, you're in the office, you need to go 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.119 do whatever you can, just keep on your long sleeve 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.760 button down, and then that's the perfectly good style, right 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.280 and then afterwards when you need to go back home 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.200 from work, then boom, you just put on your vest again. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.720 Have you Have you talked to coach role about this 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.000 whole best thing? No, Like he used to wear the 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.400 vest different. I think it was a little bit different 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:38.080 than like a Ted Baker red vest were like the smock. Really, 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.600 but let me tell you, so you talk about style. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.560 My style right now in Quarantine is basically jim shorts, 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.400 long sleeve shirt, but then also like a smock style, 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:54.520 like no sleeved hoodie. So Matt Rule and I may 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:59.000 get along very well. Yeah, mine is um because I'm 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.199 doing a lot of So I just filmed something um 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.200 with the fancy camera upstairs. So I have on like 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.160 a respectable on camera shirt, you know, like a blouse 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:13.079 if you will, and then just shorts, like just sort 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.360 like I've tucked my blouse into a pair of shorts. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.199 And that's just been my whole vibe for Quarantine because 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.319 we actually had to go to work. Yeah, I mean 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:22.760 we've all had to go to work, but I've had 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:27.320 no one has to see us. I was. I would 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:31.520 say that's different, not necessarily because Miles and I have 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.600 been doing these interviews with the coaches, and I mean 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.000 my part is recorded and those are going out every 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.040 week as we get to know this new coaching staff. 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.679 But they Miles does see them on the back end 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.640 of that as he gets ready for his written article, 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.640 and he's seeing them really early too, Like we talked 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.839 with Joe Brady at nine am Eastern when we did 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.520 his interview. So Miles was up at six am just 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:57.800 showing Joe Brady just like Miles wake up, just vibes. Fortunately, Yes, 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.840 it's true. Fortunately, you know, I don't I'm a man, 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.240 and I don't have to do that much to get 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:08.600 myself ready, right, So I can just kinda hop roll 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.959 out of bed hop on the call. And my hair 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.120 is really short, so I don't really have to like 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.000 comb it or anything. And then you know, everything's fine. 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:20.319 So you know, it's nice to be a guy sometimes. Yeah, 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.920 there's a definite difference on the days that I'm recording 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.400 stuff and the days that I'm not. When we're doing 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.280 like zoom meetings, I'm like, look, this is what you're 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:32.000 getting today. Everybody like watch out, Like hair all over 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.240 the place, no makeup. It is what it is. There's 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.000 really so much you can do in quarantine. You know. 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.560 I think that that's perfectly fine. I don't even like 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.000 to turn my camera on on those things. Yeah, you 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:46.960 guys haven't gotten haircuts yet, right, I actually did. Um, 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:48.880 I had not for like three and a half months. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:54.080 But everything Phase two in North Carolina started uh Friday 0:10:54.200 --> 0:11:00.120 Friday afternoon, right well last Friday, UM, and so I 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.720 have really really dark roots. I don't even know if 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.080 you guys know what those are being guys, but uh, 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.840 and then I have highlighted hair okay, okay. So what 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.920 I did was I was the first customer and um 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:17.000 my hairdresser's shop, and it was all very very you know. Uh, 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:21.120 they were waivers signed, there was lots of disinfectant, there 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.679 were masks. But it was nice to get in there 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.400 and do something a little bit normal. But it also 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.760 did feel safe or safe as possible. So I have 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.120 I have had a haircut for the first time forever. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.640 What about you? Is anything opening out there or did 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.280 you get haircuts out there? Uh? You know what, I 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.120 cut my own hair, so and I've done it for 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:44.200 the past. How do you get the back? I just 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.560 I don't know. I am the kind of person that like, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.440 I just you know, I put on the number one 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:54.200 guard and just go to town and uh, yeah, what 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.680 does the back of your are you? Are you even 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.679 in the back back of my head? Probably looks ridiculous 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.520 to quote mad TV, But no, the back of your 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.000 head is ridiculous, yes, exactly. But I think it worked. 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.080 I don't know, It's worked for me for years. I 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.320 probably like do, Like the problem is right, Like I 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.920 need a lineup, like real, real, real bad. I haven't 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.200 had one, a proper one for years and years and years. Um. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.920 But I think the amount of money I've saved, you know, 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.000 not doing to get haircuts and because you know, you 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.800 buy a pair of clippers and it's thirty bucks and 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.640 it lasts you for years and years and years versus 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.480 having to go to a barber shop and spending ten 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.520 to twelve dollars every two to three weeks. Like that's 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.080 or I don't even know how much haircuts costs now 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.880 like that, I feel like I'm really an out of 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.560 touch human being when I say things like that. But yeah, 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.439 I just don't know. So I just feel like the 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.240 amount of money I've saved has made it totally worth it. Well, 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.680 what's your take on this? I can't really comment because 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.000 I'm not a guy. Would you ever cut your own hair? Ah? 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.840 I mean no, I've so I had. I finally got 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:05.880 like the back in a little bit of the sides 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.400 over my ears trimmed up by my girlfriend and she 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.199 was like completely nervous the entire time just with the clippers. Um. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.440 Admittedly I kind of was to but but even then, yeah, 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.680 there's no way, there's no way I could do the 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:23.360 back without just going straight, you know, completely buzz. And 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.960 even then I still feel like the buzz amount would 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:30.280 be way low and very like you know, wavy and circular. 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.160 I I don't know it would it would be bad. 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.360 But I'm also the guy. I'm the guy that doesn't 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.440 spend more than seventeen dollars for a haircut at like 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.120 great clips. So I've been that guy for however many years. 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.760 I can't relate to that. Yeah, but that's a that's 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.400 the okay, But this is a societal pressure thing, especially 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.640 for you, right, That's exactly what I was gonna say. Yeah, 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.960 if your job is to be on camera like you, 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.600 there is a certain expectation of how women are supposed 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.000 to look, right, And so I think that I am 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.120 very fortunate because in the times that I have been 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.360 on camera, there are there is much much, much less pressure, 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.160 and all I feel like I have to do is 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.320 have my hair sort of you know, short at a 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.240 certain length, and then I just put on something that 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.160 I think is decent, and then that I go on 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.880 camera and that's about it. As a woman, like that's 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.880 it's much more complicated for you. Well, Miles, we have 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.120 a wake up call for you now that you're working 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.520 for the Carolina Panthers. We don't accept that level of 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:33.680 of you know that you have. Yes, I wasn't gonna 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.400 say it, but there you go. You have to step 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.800 up your game in terms of you know, christ is 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.480 not going to share. She's not going to share the 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:43.120 camera with you. If that's your attitude, only want to 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:44.880 see the back of your head and make sure that 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:49.240 it's in a straight line. There will be a check 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.080 every time you do something on camera. I feel like 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.120 you need to take a picture and then post it 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.440 to your social like I would love to see that 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.120 everyone can see it. I will not be doing that, 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.200 but I will say that one of my fa we're 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.640 saying is you did not wake up today to be mediocre, 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.720 and I think I need to start living by that more. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.400 With the back of my head. I like it. I 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.520 like it, or at least my my one of my 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.480 favorite sayings is you know pictures or it didn't happen, 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.200 So I just think you can continue to do it. 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.080 I thought we need to see a picture or a 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.000 video of of you cutting your own hair. That's all 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.840 I'm asking. I'll do it tutorial. Yeah, i'd be great, 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.280 So real quick, I want to do a quick lightning 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:31.760 round of one minute each. Like everyone's heard our our 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.120 group chat listeners have heard will go on and on 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.240 and on about Charleston and Davidson and sorry, did you 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.160 just refer to yourself in the third person? Yes, yeah, 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:44.360 but we're we're gonna I'm surprised he didn't just say 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.040 at panther stats at pan. Yes, And they've also they've 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.040 also heard that on and on and on and on 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.240 and not a seconds because it's tax guy, because we 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:57.040 ran out of characters in the Twitter handle, and it's 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.680 a whole thing. We've we've we've indulged it greatly on 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.400 the former Happy half Hour. But I want to get 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.480 a quick minute of each of you guys, of where 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.920 you're from, where you've worked, how did you get here? 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.080 But you don't have a You can't like go on 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.680 and on miles. You only have a minute, So you 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.200 gotta you gotta tell us quickly, and you gotta be suctating. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.200 Hold on, let me let me put a timer on 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.440 my phone so that I will actually adhere to the 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.480 minute time limit. Because I'm actually pretty good at that. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.360 If I have a time limit, would would you? Would 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.080 you give me a three to one and then I'll 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.360 go how make it like Kristen go first, and then 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:37.320 you can and then you can. I was really cared 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.920 for it. He's bummed. He's got to stop his time 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:45.200 or now I'll make this creepy. I grew up in Pinehurst, 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.000 North Carolina, little golf town in central North Carolina, which 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:53.480 school at u n c UM. After I graduated, I 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:57.080 took a job at ESPN. I was a researcher. I mean, 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.960 I'm no panther stats guy, but I did in in 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.719 research on Mike and Mike a morning show, and they 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.159 started putting me on air. UM. I was on there 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:08.920 for about three and a half years, and you know, 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:10.399 the first year I was never on air, and then 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.800 eventually a little bit and then weekly and then every day. UM. 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:18.840 In addition to being their researcher, it's something I always 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.040 wanted to do. So I ended up going taking a 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.280 job with Fox Sports out in l A. As a 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:25.919 host of a show called at the Buzzer, and I 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.800 did some sideline there and then I went to Stadium, 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.679 which is a network in Chicago, and I did a 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:37.080 bunch of college football and basketball sideline and hosted a 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:41.640 bunch of studio shows, and then I had this opportunity 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.800 of a lifetime to come home and cover the team 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.480 I've grown up rooting for the Panthers and moved back 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.960 to North Carolina. So very happy to be here. Hopefully 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.199 I made it under a minute that Miles did you 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:58.959 know fun Panthers stats got trivia? I actually was the 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.760 official stats coordinator for a game that Kristen called I 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.840 don't know, did you? It was three year four, I 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:11.880 can't remember how many years ago. It was at Davidson. 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:16.800 It was a stadium game at Davidson. Yeah, yeah, I 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.960 remember doing that game. You were the same. I don't 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.480 know if I knew that I was. I was for 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.880 like the for the for the truck, for their graphics 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.520 and everything. Oh you were in the truck, Okay, I was. 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.720 I was like the guy on the Yeah. It was 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:31.560 like it was like talent stats, but the other one 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:33.840 the official stats. I was still out on the court, 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.120 but you know you're giving stuff to the truck. That's awesome. Yeah, 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.119 I remember that game. I loved it because I got 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.959 to go home um and see my mom, and then 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:44.600 I drove up to the game. I remember I stopped 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.200 at Bojengles like twice on the way up, and then 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.400 I think again on the way back. I mean, look, 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.040 when you don't live in North Carolina, you gotta go. 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.000 So I do remember driving on to the Davidson campus 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.600 and having like just Boengles bags in my car. But 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:58.280 that's a story for another time. Yeah, I did not 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:02.240 know that. Well that's funny, huh. I Like you asked 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:06.520 Miles if he knew that. I was like, yes, I did. 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:12.919 I remember that I should have said yes, yes, and 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:16.520 it could have been like an improv thing. Okay, do 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:23.600 I get to go now? You do, memories? You should. 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:25.960 I'll just like stand over here in the corner talking 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.200 to myself. Okay, I'm gonna set the timer and I'll 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:34.399 go in three two alright. So I grew up in Cleveland, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.360 So that makes me kind of a sad sports fan 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.760 until when the Calves finally ended our fifty two year 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.439 championship drought and then I cried in a hotel room 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.879 where I was staying at the time. Um so, but 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:51.960 from Cleveland, I went to Columbia for college and then 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.720 after that, actually I spent about eight weeks in Charlotte 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.159 working for Sporting News at an internship, and then I 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.600 got hired by IV then St. Louis Rams I have 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.240 thirty seconds left, and so then I worked for them 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.480 for five years and moved from St. Louis to l 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.199 A with the team, which is why I was in 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:11.720 that hotel room when the Cavs won the NBA Finals 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:16.119 in because we were all staying in Oxnard together as 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.200 the team was going through its offseason program. I got 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.679 fifteen seconds. So from there I stayed in l A 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.000 for about three years. Then I started to work for 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.720 the Laws Vegas Regional covering the Raiders last year until 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:33.720 I just got this job, um in March. That's a minute, nice, 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:37.919 I got it in. Yeah, that was good, and I 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.680 like you brought a full circle in the hotel room part. 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:44.680 That was a good storytelling. Wow, thank you right there, 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:48.320 you guys. You guys were both like interviewing for this 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:52.320 right before the pandemic hit. How weird? How weird was 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.399 it to literally start a new job and not know 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.480