Speaker 1: Pigs Time Full of a Happy half Hour with your
Speaker 1: friends Kristen Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Brian. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: we're back. It's the uh wait group chat. No, no,
Speaker 1: that's not it. Um oh yeah, it's the Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 1: And I have some new friends. I found some new people.
Speaker 1: I went down. I've been on this whole like internet
Speaker 1: thing and I've been trying to find some people to
Speaker 1: hang out with since we've been quarantining, and I found
Speaker 1: some new people. I want to introduce you guys. It's
Speaker 1: Kristen and Miles. Welcome guys. Well, well, I just gotta
Speaker 1: take issue with one part of your intro, and that's
Speaker 1: where you said you found some new friends and you
Speaker 1: know what, we're colleagues and everything. But I just wouldn't
Speaker 1: go that far yet. I really wouldn't. Wow, Wow, I can.
Speaker 1: I can literally call Max right now and get him
Speaker 1: to hop on and he can tell you about how
Speaker 1: great friends you guys are going to be with me
Speaker 1: as soon as as soon as we're done with this podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of the opposite way where I've never met
Speaker 1: someone who wasn't my friend, Like I think I'm friends
Speaker 1: with everybody I talked to someone once. I'm like, we're
Speaker 1: close now, so I'm I'm on board. Will, thank you. Well,
Speaker 1: we we already know how this is gonna go. We're
Speaker 1: it's going to be the Kristen and Will show, and
Speaker 1: then like Miles is going to start talking, We're just
Speaker 1: gonna hit the mute button. I'm fine with that. So
Speaker 1: it's the Happy half Hour. We've we've signed off from
Speaker 1: the group chat a couple of months ago. Um, Caroline's
Speaker 1: moved on, Max has moved on, but we have some
Speaker 1: new people in the house. Kristen is our new ever
Speaker 1: do everything reporter. You've seen her everywhere on social on
Speaker 1: Panthers dot com. She even already like preempted this and
Speaker 1: started her own podcast. I needed to warm up. I'm
Speaker 1: needed a warm up for the Happy Half Hour podcast.
Speaker 1: So I'm doing a podcast with the players just to
Speaker 1: get ready for for you, Will and Miles. Right, yes, podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's called the Weight Room. So we're talking to players
Speaker 1: about about you know, how they're how they're kind of
Speaker 1: keeping their minds right, their bodies right. Uh, just how
Speaker 1: everything's going in the midst of this quarantine. So that's fun.
Speaker 1: But like I said, it's all just practice to get
Speaker 1: ready for this. What have you been doing? Um, I've
Speaker 1: been doing a lot of weird things. So I guess
Speaker 1: the thing that we should start with here probably is
Speaker 1: the fact that I am not currently in Charlotte, like
Speaker 1: I currently live in Las Vegas, and the fun part
Speaker 1: of everything that I think has gone on in terms
Speaker 1: of like me getting this job and me starting this job.
Speaker 1: So I interviewed the two days before, uh the NBA shutdown.
Speaker 1: Actually no, no no, no, it was the day before everything
Speaker 1: shut down with Rudy Gobert, you know, test being positive
Speaker 1: with the NBA. And that was also the week that,
Speaker 1: of course the n C Double A Tournament was supposed
Speaker 1: to start. So you know, maybe this is two inside baseball.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But funnily enough, right, like I thought
Speaker 1: that after everything shut down, like I was like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm not going to get that job because
Speaker 1: who's gonna hire me in the middle of a pandemic?
Speaker 1: And lo and behold, here we are. So the funny
Speaker 1: thing is that I still am in Las Vegas, and
Speaker 1: I did just recently take a trip out to Charlotte
Speaker 1: to sort of try to find an apartment. Um, We'll
Speaker 1: see how that ends up. Um, but yeah, that's me
Speaker 1: in a nutshell. How can we do? Can we do
Speaker 1: a straw pole of our listeners and then have them
Speaker 1: just tweeted you where they think you should live in
Speaker 1: Charlotte because they're very opinionated. Yes, please, I can use
Speaker 1: all the help I can get. Wait, what are the
Speaker 1: so I've never I'm from North Carolina, but I've never
Speaker 1: lived in Charlotte. What are the listeners strong opinions? Do
Speaker 1: they tend to go one way or another? Will in
Speaker 1: terms of where to live? Because I might be on
Speaker 1: the wrong side of this. I now, well, I mean
Speaker 1: I certainly know where I like and I'm I'm a
Speaker 1: I'm a plaza not a person which can clash with
Speaker 1: the whole Yeah, you would be that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just felt like saying I just felt like, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I haven't lived in Charlotte long enough. I
Speaker 1: haven't been nothing has been opened. I moved to Charlotte
Speaker 1: two months ago. Nothing has been open. So I have
Speaker 1: no idea what that means. But it just seemed like
Speaker 1: the right thing to say. You do you know what
Speaker 1: what a South End person is versus a plot plas person.
Speaker 1: I would assume Plausa, nota is a little more ah,
Speaker 1: I would assume South End is Can I say this,
Speaker 1: I don't know. This is just coming from an outsider.
Speaker 1: Just the vibe I've gotten from what I've heard people
Speaker 1: say is like South End would be a little more
Speaker 1: bougie and plus and note would be a little more
Speaker 1: I don't know if hipster is the right word, but
Speaker 1: like laid back. It's a little more artsy over there.
Speaker 1: Am I am? I on? I don't know yet, which
Speaker 1: is funny because some people have like called me. They
Speaker 1: say that I dressed like I'm like a like somewhat freddy,
Speaker 1: which is funny that I were tend to just want
Speaker 1: to drink I p a s and hang out over here.
Speaker 1: But you know that's me. So we're living off South
Speaker 1: End vibes, you think, but you're actually I think I
Speaker 1: just don't know how to dress otherwise. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: either like just like polos in free things that I've
Speaker 1: been given or that's pretty much it. Are you from well,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't know this. Are you from North Carolina?
Speaker 1: I'm from Charleston. Actually, Okay, Well then, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, I grew up in North Klina. Of course
Speaker 1: you don't know another way to dress, Like that's what
Speaker 1: we've grown up with, right, Like that's yeah, that's how
Speaker 1: people who are from your dress, like myself included on
Speaker 1: the on the girl's end, I got like twenty pairs
Speaker 1: of Nike shorts. Isn't that? Like I'm still in college,
Speaker 1: you know, I just did. Yeah, I get it, Miles.
Speaker 1: What about you? What would you call your personal style? Um,
Speaker 1: that's really interesting. I'm the type of person that, like
Speaker 1: I figure out one thing to wear, and then I
Speaker 1: just buy pretty much all of the versions of that
Speaker 1: thing to where So like a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: I figured out that vests and long sleeve shirts that
Speaker 1: button downs go very well together with jeans. So basically
Speaker 1: I wore that every single day. And so there was
Speaker 1: a time where I literally there's a brand. If Ted
Speaker 1: Baker wants to sponsor me, that'd be awesome. So Ted
Speaker 1: Baker makes these vests, right, and that first when the
Speaker 1: Rams went to London, I guess it was in sixteen
Speaker 1: or seventeen, I went to a Ted Baker store and
Speaker 1: I bought this red vest and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I really like this red vest. I wish that they
Speaker 1: were made in another color, and I saw that they
Speaker 1: were made in two more colors. So I got the
Speaker 1: blue vest first, and I decided that the blue vest
Speaker 1: was great. But then there was also a gray one.
Speaker 1: So one day I ordered this gray vest, and so
Speaker 1: it came to my work on accident. But I was
Speaker 1: there with a colleague. He was also a friend, and
Speaker 1: so he saw that I had gotten something from Ted
Speaker 1: Baker and he looks at the box and he looks
Speaker 1: at me and he goes, is that another vest. It's
Speaker 1: like yeah, It's like it's the last color, isn't it.
Speaker 1: It's gray, isn't it. It's like yeah. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of my style. Basically, I just look for something and
Speaker 1: if I think it works, then I wear it that
Speaker 1: I wear the heck out of it. I think I
Speaker 1: just need to see a picture of a red vest.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever seen a red vest,
Speaker 1: but that was your first color. Yes, we need to
Speaker 1: see we need this post it somewhere. We don't Sara
Speaker 1: in Vegas. We obviously can't see each other. I need
Speaker 1: to see this red vest in action. Well, if we
Speaker 1: ever are working at the same building, I you can
Speaker 1: trust and believe that I will be wearing the three
Speaker 1: versions of this vest. You know, once it gets to
Speaker 1: like I don't I don't know what temperature does it
Speaker 1: get to you in December in uh Charlotte, Like does
Speaker 1: it get around the hours? It's like five degrees at
Speaker 1: like eight am, and then it's like sixty seven by
Speaker 1: one and it's back down to thirty five by eight.
Speaker 1: So it kind of depends on which time of day.
Speaker 1: But that's perfect vest weather because you need the vest
Speaker 1: when in the morning. Then the best part about the
Speaker 1: vest is you can take it off like it's a
Speaker 1: it's a total layer, right, So like once you're in
Speaker 1: the building, you're in the office, you need to go
Speaker 1: do whatever you can, just keep on your long sleeve
Speaker 1: button down, and then that's the perfectly good style, right
Speaker 1: and then afterwards when you need to go back home
Speaker 1: from work, then boom, you just put on your vest again.
Speaker 1: Have you Have you talked to coach role about this
Speaker 1: whole best thing? No, Like he used to wear the
Speaker 1: vest different. I think it was a little bit different
Speaker 1: than like a Ted Baker red vest were like the smock. Really,
Speaker 1: but let me tell you, so you talk about style.
Speaker 1: My style right now in Quarantine is basically jim shorts,
Speaker 1: long sleeve shirt, but then also like a smock style,
Speaker 1: like no sleeved hoodie. So Matt Rule and I may
Speaker 1: get along very well. Yeah, mine is um because I'm
Speaker 1: doing a lot of So I just filmed something um
Speaker 1: with the fancy camera upstairs. So I have on like
Speaker 1: a respectable on camera shirt, you know, like a blouse
Speaker 1: if you will, and then just shorts, like just sort
Speaker 1: like I've tucked my blouse into a pair of shorts.
Speaker 1: And that's just been my whole vibe for Quarantine because
Speaker 1: we actually had to go to work. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: we've all had to go to work, but I've had
Speaker 1: no one has to see us. I was. I would
Speaker 1: say that's different, not necessarily because Miles and I have
Speaker 1: been doing these interviews with the coaches, and I mean
Speaker 1: my part is recorded and those are going out every
Speaker 1: week as we get to know this new coaching staff.
Speaker 1: But they Miles does see them on the back end
Speaker 1: of that as he gets ready for his written article,
Speaker 1: and he's seeing them really early too, Like we talked
Speaker 1: with Joe Brady at nine am Eastern when we did
Speaker 1: his interview. So Miles was up at six am just
Speaker 1: showing Joe Brady just like Miles wake up, just vibes. Fortunately, Yes,
Speaker 1: it's true. Fortunately, you know, I don't I'm a man,
Speaker 1: and I don't have to do that much to get
Speaker 1: myself ready, right, So I can just kinda hop roll
Speaker 1: out of bed hop on the call. And my hair
Speaker 1: is really short, so I don't really have to like
Speaker 1: comb it or anything. And then you know, everything's fine.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's nice to be a guy sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a definite difference on the days that I'm recording
Speaker 1: stuff and the days that I'm not. When we're doing
Speaker 1: like zoom meetings, I'm like, look, this is what you're
Speaker 1: getting today. Everybody like watch out, Like hair all over
Speaker 1: the place, no makeup. It is what it is. There's
Speaker 1: really so much you can do in quarantine. You know.
Speaker 1: I think that that's perfectly fine. I don't even like
Speaker 1: to turn my camera on on those things. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys haven't gotten haircuts yet, right, I actually did. Um,
Speaker 1: I had not for like three and a half months.
Speaker 1: But everything Phase two in North Carolina started uh Friday
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon, right well last Friday, UM, and so I
Speaker 1: have really really dark roots. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: you guys know what those are being guys, but uh,
Speaker 1: and then I have highlighted hair okay, okay. So what
Speaker 1: I did was I was the first customer and um
Speaker 1: my hairdresser's shop, and it was all very very you know. Uh,
Speaker 1: they were waivers signed, there was lots of disinfectant, there
Speaker 1: were masks. But it was nice to get in there
Speaker 1: and do something a little bit normal. But it also
Speaker 1: did feel safe or safe as possible. So I have
Speaker 1: I have had a haircut for the first time forever.
Speaker 1: What about you? Is anything opening out there or did
Speaker 1: you get haircuts out there? Uh? You know what, I
Speaker 1: cut my own hair, so and I've done it for
Speaker 1: the past. How do you get the back? I just
Speaker 1: I don't know. I am the kind of person that like,
Speaker 1: I just you know, I put on the number one
Speaker 1: guard and just go to town and uh, yeah, what
Speaker 1: does the back of your are you? Are you even
Speaker 1: in the back back of my head? Probably looks ridiculous
Speaker 1: to quote mad TV, But no, the back of your
Speaker 1: head is ridiculous, yes, exactly. But I think it worked.
Speaker 1: I don't know, It's worked for me for years. I
Speaker 1: probably like do, Like the problem is right, Like I
Speaker 1: need a lineup, like real, real, real bad. I haven't
Speaker 1: had one, a proper one for years and years and years. Um.
Speaker 1: But I think the amount of money I've saved, you know,
Speaker 1: not doing to get haircuts and because you know, you
Speaker 1: buy a pair of clippers and it's thirty bucks and
Speaker 1: it lasts you for years and years and years versus
Speaker 1: having to go to a barber shop and spending ten
Speaker 1: to twelve dollars every two to three weeks. Like that's
Speaker 1: or I don't even know how much haircuts costs now
Speaker 1: like that, I feel like I'm really an out of
Speaker 1: touch human being when I say things like that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I just don't know. So I just feel like the
Speaker 1: amount of money I've saved has made it totally worth it. Well,
Speaker 1: what's your take on this? I can't really comment because
Speaker 1: I'm not a guy. Would you ever cut your own hair? Ah?
Speaker 1: I mean no, I've so I had. I finally got
Speaker 1: like the back in a little bit of the sides
Speaker 1: over my ears trimmed up by my girlfriend and she
Speaker 1: was like completely nervous the entire time just with the clippers. Um.
Speaker 1: Admittedly I kind of was to but but even then, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no way, there's no way I could do the
Speaker 1: back without just going straight, you know, completely buzz. And
Speaker 1: even then I still feel like the buzz amount would
Speaker 1: be way low and very like you know, wavy and circular.
Speaker 1: I I don't know it would it would be bad.
Speaker 1: But I'm also the guy. I'm the guy that doesn't
Speaker 1: spend more than seventeen dollars for a haircut at like
Speaker 1: great clips. So I've been that guy for however many years.
Speaker 1: I can't relate to that. Yeah, but that's a that's
Speaker 1: the okay, But this is a societal pressure thing, especially
Speaker 1: for you, right, That's exactly what I was gonna say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if your job is to be on camera like you,
Speaker 1: there is a certain expectation of how women are supposed
Speaker 1: to look, right, And so I think that I am
Speaker 1: very fortunate because in the times that I have been
Speaker 1: on camera, there are there is much much, much less pressure,
Speaker 1: and all I feel like I have to do is
Speaker 1: have my hair sort of you know, short at a
Speaker 1: certain length, and then I just put on something that
Speaker 1: I think is decent, and then that I go on
Speaker 1: camera and that's about it. As a woman, like that's
Speaker 1: it's much more complicated for you. Well, Miles, we have
Speaker 1: a wake up call for you now that you're working
Speaker 1: for the Carolina Panthers. We don't accept that level of
Speaker 1: of you know that you have. Yes, I wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: say it, but there you go. You have to step
Speaker 1: up your game in terms of you know, christ is
Speaker 1: not going to share. She's not going to share the
Speaker 1: camera with you. If that's your attitude, only want to
Speaker 1: see the back of your head and make sure that
Speaker 1: it's in a straight line. There will be a check
Speaker 1: every time you do something on camera. I feel like
Speaker 1: you need to take a picture and then post it
Speaker 1: to your social like I would love to see that
Speaker 1: everyone can see it. I will not be doing that,
Speaker 1: but I will say that one of my fa we're
Speaker 1: saying is you did not wake up today to be mediocre,
Speaker 1: and I think I need to start living by that more.
Speaker 1: With the back of my head. I like it. I
Speaker 1: like it, or at least my my one of my
Speaker 1: favorite sayings is you know pictures or it didn't happen,
Speaker 1: So I just think you can continue to do it.
Speaker 1: I thought we need to see a picture or a
Speaker 1: video of of you cutting your own hair. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm asking. I'll do it tutorial. Yeah, i'd be great,
Speaker 1: So real quick, I want to do a quick lightning
Speaker 1: round of one minute each. Like everyone's heard our our
Speaker 1: group chat listeners have heard will go on and on
Speaker 1: and on about Charleston and Davidson and sorry, did you
Speaker 1: just refer to yourself in the third person? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: but we're we're gonna I'm surprised he didn't just say
Speaker 1: at panther stats at pan. Yes, And they've also they've
Speaker 1: also heard that on and on and on and on
Speaker 1: and not a seconds because it's tax guy, because we
Speaker 1: ran out of characters in the Twitter handle, and it's
Speaker 1: a whole thing. We've we've we've indulged it greatly on
Speaker 1: the former Happy half Hour. But I want to get
Speaker 1: a quick minute of each of you guys, of where
Speaker 1: you're from, where you've worked, how did you get here?
Speaker 1: But you don't have a You can't like go on
Speaker 1: and on miles. You only have a minute, So you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta tell us quickly, and you gotta be suctating.
Speaker 1: Hold on, let me let me put a timer on
Speaker 1: my phone so that I will actually adhere to the
Speaker 1: minute time limit. Because I'm actually pretty good at that.
Speaker 1: If I have a time limit, would would you? Would
Speaker 1: you give me a three to one and then I'll
Speaker 1: go how make it like Kristen go first, and then
Speaker 1: you can and then you can. I was really cared
Speaker 1: for it. He's bummed. He's got to stop his time
Speaker 1: or now I'll make this creepy. I grew up in Pinehurst,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, little golf town in central North Carolina, which
Speaker 1: school at u n c UM. After I graduated, I
Speaker 1: took a job at ESPN. I was a researcher. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm no panther stats guy, but I did in in
Speaker 1: research on Mike and Mike a morning show, and they
Speaker 1: started putting me on air. UM. I was on there
Speaker 1: for about three and a half years, and you know,
Speaker 1: the first year I was never on air, and then
Speaker 1: eventually a little bit and then weekly and then every day. UM.
Speaker 1: In addition to being their researcher, it's something I always
Speaker 1: wanted to do. So I ended up going taking a
Speaker 1: job with Fox Sports out in l A. As a
Speaker 1: host of a show called at the Buzzer, and I
Speaker 1: did some sideline there and then I went to Stadium,
Speaker 1: which is a network in Chicago, and I did a
Speaker 1: bunch of college football and basketball sideline and hosted a
Speaker 1: bunch of studio shows, and then I had this opportunity
Speaker 1: of a lifetime to come home and cover the team
Speaker 1: I've grown up rooting for the Panthers and moved back
Speaker 1: to North Carolina. So very happy to be here. Hopefully
Speaker 1: I made it under a minute that Miles did you
Speaker 1: know fun Panthers stats got trivia? I actually was the
Speaker 1: official stats coordinator for a game that Kristen called I
Speaker 1: don't know, did you? It was three year four, I
Speaker 1: can't remember how many years ago. It was at Davidson.
Speaker 1: It was a stadium game at Davidson. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember doing that game. You were the same. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I knew that I was. I was for
Speaker 1: like the for the for the truck, for their graphics
Speaker 1: and everything. Oh you were in the truck, Okay, I was.
Speaker 1: I was like the guy on the Yeah. It was
Speaker 1: like it was like talent stats, but the other one
Speaker 1: the official stats. I was still out on the court,
Speaker 1: but you know you're giving stuff to the truck. That's awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that game. I loved it because I got
Speaker 1: to go home um and see my mom, and then
Speaker 1: I drove up to the game. I remember I stopped
Speaker 1: at Bojengles like twice on the way up, and then
Speaker 1: I think again on the way back. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: when you don't live in North Carolina, you gotta go.
Speaker 1: So I do remember driving on to the Davidson campus
Speaker 1: and having like just Boengles bags in my car. But
Speaker 1: that's a story for another time. Yeah, I did not
Speaker 1: know that. Well that's funny, huh. I Like you asked
Speaker 1: Miles if he knew that. I was like, yes, I did.
Speaker 1: I remember that I should have said yes, yes, and
Speaker 1: it could have been like an improv thing. Okay, do
Speaker 1: I get to go now? You do, memories? You should.
Speaker 1: I'll just like stand over here in the corner talking
Speaker 1: to myself. Okay, I'm gonna set the timer and I'll
Speaker 1: go in three two alright. So I grew up in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: So that makes me kind of a sad sports fan
Speaker 1: until when the Calves finally ended our fifty two year
Speaker 1: championship drought and then I cried in a hotel room
Speaker 1: where I was staying at the time. Um so, but
Speaker 1: from Cleveland, I went to Columbia for college and then
Speaker 1: after that, actually I spent about eight weeks in Charlotte
Speaker 1: working for Sporting News at an internship, and then I
Speaker 1: got hired by IV then St. Louis Rams I have
Speaker 1: thirty seconds left, and so then I worked for them
Speaker 1: for five years and moved from St. Louis to l
Speaker 1: A with the team, which is why I was in
Speaker 1: that hotel room when the Cavs won the NBA Finals
Speaker 1: in because we were all staying in Oxnard together as
Speaker 1: the team was going through its offseason program. I got
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds. So from there I stayed in l A
Speaker 1: for about three years. Then I started to work for
Speaker 1: the Laws Vegas Regional covering the Raiders last year until
Speaker 1: I just got this job, um in March. That's a minute, nice,
Speaker 1: I got it in. Yeah, that was good, and I
Speaker 1: like you brought a full circle in the hotel room part.
Speaker 1: That was a good storytelling. Wow, thank you right there,
Speaker 1: you guys. You guys were both like interviewing for this
Speaker 1: right before the pandemic hit. How weird? How weird was
Speaker 1: it to literally start a new job and not know
Speaker 1: anybody because you don't actually get to like go into
Speaker 1: an office and work with people. Very weird? Chris, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Like I guess I'll go first year. But
Speaker 1: like so, as I allude to earlier, I my day
Speaker 1: to interview was Tuesday, March tenth. I guess that was
Speaker 1: I don't know what. But the next day, like I
Speaker 1: flew back to Las Vegas, and then the next day
Speaker 1: was when Rudy Gobert testa positive and literally everything in
Speaker 1: America basically shut down. And so, as I said earlier,
Speaker 1: I didn't think that this was going to really become
Speaker 1: a possibility at all. But I think the weirder part
Speaker 1: for me is that now, so when I left the
Speaker 1: Rams last August, I moved to Oakland because that's where
Speaker 1: the Raiders were, right, and so then from there I
Speaker 1: moved from Oakland to Las Vegas because the team obviously
Speaker 1: was going to be here um in January. And now
Speaker 1: I'm going to move again for the third time in
Speaker 1: a calendar year coming up in the next month or so.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a one weird part. And b
Speaker 1: you're right, like I know, basically you two and our
Speaker 1: boss and not really anybody else on our staff, which
Speaker 1: is it is what it is, right, I think that
Speaker 1: that's something that everybody is kind of going through in
Speaker 1: this remote situation. But yeah, it's it's been odd for
Speaker 1: for sure. How about you, Christen, Yeah, no, it's been
Speaker 1: it's been different. I mean we I got to meet
Speaker 1: a lot of people before and I was there in February. Um,
Speaker 1: so I got to meet Will, I got to meet
Speaker 1: uh some of the people that I'd be working with,
Speaker 1: um PR staff, etcetera. But then there are a lot
Speaker 1: of people that that I haven't gotten to meet, so
Speaker 1: but I feel like I know them now right. It
Speaker 1: did take me a while to be like, okay, you're
Speaker 1: you do graphics, you do social media, because no one
Speaker 1: was like, hey, here's an ORC chart. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, so you're you're you're sending me an email
Speaker 1: because I don't know. So that took me a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I feel like I finally got my footing with everyone,
Speaker 1: and everyone is so awesome. Um and his made me
Speaker 1: feel so at home. Um, Like we've done like we
Speaker 1: all played pictionary on Zoom a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: you know, like stuff like that has has been really
Speaker 1: fun and really helpful in having all these video calls
Speaker 1: to know who everyone is. But I do think it's
Speaker 1: going to be very weird when I've developed these relationships
Speaker 1: over Slack, an email and phone calls with people that
Speaker 1: I've worked with, but I've never met them in person.
Speaker 1: So I for sure I'm gonna the first day that
Speaker 1: everyone is allowed to safely be back, I for sure
Speaker 1: I'm going to walk past people that I know well,
Speaker 1: like electronically, and not know who they are in the flesh. Like.
Speaker 1: That's going to be strange, you know what It's gonna
Speaker 1: be Like, It's gonna be like catfish, we should get
Speaker 1: you come in and help us, navigator. I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to meet everyone all over again, you know. So it's true.
Speaker 1: Has it been weird for you? Will working? I mean
Speaker 1: obviously didn't start like Miles and I did, But how
Speaker 1: has working from home been for you? The one thing
Speaker 1: I've like when we try to schedule time, your calendar
Speaker 1: is so crazy in terms of meetings and meetings and
Speaker 1: meetings and meetings, And how has the transition been for you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it's I think the you know, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: in a different place where you know, I kind of
Speaker 1: have to work with a lot of different groups of departments. Um,
Speaker 1: so you know, doing all the different things in our platforms,
Speaker 1: working with marketing, ticketing, UM, kind of some of our
Speaker 1: outside vendors. Uh. So, yeah, I feel like there's there's
Speaker 1: a everyone wants to have more meetings now because everyone
Speaker 1: just kind of knows where you are, you know, Like
Speaker 1: at one point there was yeah, you know, like well,
Speaker 1: you know they're busy. We all know where you are,
Speaker 1: Like you're sitting at your home, so call me now,
Speaker 1: you know. So there's there's a little bit of that
Speaker 1: that like took some getting used to it first, Like
Speaker 1: the first week, I think the first week we were
Speaker 1: doing this, or the first couple of weeks was like
Speaker 1: free agency, and that's kind of a time period where
Speaker 1: you just never know when you know, hey, you get
Speaker 1: to notice, like we're we're gonna be signing this guy
Speaker 1: gets something ready real quick, and then it could happen
Speaker 1: at any minute. So there was just this constant on
Speaker 1: edge since while you're also you know, having all these
Speaker 1: new groups trying to kind of do digital meetings and
Speaker 1: and kind of moving you know, because for so many
Speaker 1: groups for the Panthers that usually are doing things out
Speaker 1: in the community, you're doing entertainment events or you know,
Speaker 1: literally things in person, they all had to kind of
Speaker 1: shift their business to a digital form, and I think
Speaker 1: that's kind of been all of us needing to kind
Speaker 1: of work through that together. Um, So there's kind of
Speaker 1: more on us for the website and on social and
Speaker 1: on the app and all those sort of things. So
Speaker 1: it's it's been really it's kind of slowed down now
Speaker 1: that we've gotten through the draft and schedule released and everything.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the first couple of weeks where it was
Speaker 1: NonStop and you just you just keep going. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like six o'clock, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, we still
Speaker 1: know where you are. You're still home, Like, no, you
Speaker 1: don't know where I have? Um, yes, that was that
Speaker 1: was kind of weird at first. Strange times, man, and
Speaker 1: it's something everyone's going through, but it is. It is
Speaker 1: interesting that even though we all work for the same
Speaker 1: organization and in the same department, it's been i mean
Speaker 1: really different for all of us, right getting adjusted to this.
Speaker 1: So always good to hear how everybody else is handling it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so for you you guys, you guys have both
Speaker 1: already you know, kind of had to jump with two
Speaker 1: feet in with covering this team, you know, especially without
Speaker 1: meeting the players, meeting the coaches in person, what's kind
Speaker 1: of been one story or one nugget or one thing
Speaker 1: you've picked up on then you can talk about from
Speaker 1: either like a video interviewer, story males that you've written.
Speaker 1: Then you think it's just been really cool so far
Speaker 1: that you've gotten to know, as can say, I think
Speaker 1: buying there's definitely stuff that I just I don't know
Speaker 1: if anyone else relates to it that watches my stuff,
Speaker 1: but there's definitely stuff that I just like live for.
Speaker 1: And I had one of those experiences, uh like, it's
Speaker 1: just like the most silly stuff possible. And I had
Speaker 1: one of those experiences that kind of came to Fruition
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. So at the draft, we
Speaker 1: did this almost five hour live show. We had all
Speaker 1: these incredible guests, um and it was amazing. And we
Speaker 1: had one guest named George Munos who was he was
Speaker 1: an l s U. He was on the l s
Speaker 1: U Offensive coaching staff. And you know, of course we
Speaker 1: were talking about Joe Burrow was the night of the draft,
Speaker 1: he was going number one overall. But then at the
Speaker 1: end I kind of asked him, I said, look, you
Speaker 1: know we're working with Joe Brady this season. If someone
Speaker 1: wanted to get on his good side, like does he
Speaker 1: have a favorite candy? Um? Does he have a like
Speaker 1: a big good that he liked? Like how can you
Speaker 1: get in you know, good with him? So that if I,
Speaker 1: you know, go ask him questions, I'll answer them. And
Speaker 1: he started laughing and he said, bring him a candle.
Speaker 1: He said, he's a he's a candle guy, loves candals.
Speaker 1: He's always in his office, um because he's working all
Speaker 1: the time and so he likes his office to smell good.
Speaker 1: And I just like kept that in my back pocket
Speaker 1: for two or three weeks and I was like, the
Speaker 1: first time I talked to Joe Brady, I'm asking him
Speaker 1: about the candles. Like That's all I want to do
Speaker 1: is just like that. That's the first thing that I
Speaker 1: wanted to know, was like what kind of candles do
Speaker 1: you like? And so we got to We're doing this
Speaker 1: Miles SNAr doing this get to Know You UM series
Speaker 1: and Joe Brady was the first person on the coaching
Speaker 1: staff that we got to talk to. And I mean
Speaker 1: that was like my first question out of the gate.
Speaker 1: I was like, heard your big candle guy, like, please elaborate,
Speaker 1: and he like showed me the candle that he had
Speaker 1: in his office. It's like lavender and cedar would And
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's just the kind of stuff that
Speaker 1: I I live for, like getting to know that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff about people and hearing something, you know, during
Speaker 1: one segment or one show, and then being able to
Speaker 1: ask the person about it and kind of having this
Speaker 1: this moment that you would never know that about Joe
Speaker 1: Brady that he loves candles. So I don't know, that's
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that I like as a viewer
Speaker 1: um or as a listener, or as someone that's consuming content.
Speaker 1: Love to know that kind of stuff about the team
Speaker 1: that I root for and the the people that I'm following,
Speaker 1: the coaching staff, like those little insights, and so that
Speaker 1: was fun for me. It's a small moment, but it's
Speaker 1: like that kind of stuff is so fun for me.
Speaker 1: I thought that that moment was awesome mainly because he
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know if I'm that bog a
Speaker 1: candle guy and then proceeded to tell you about his
Speaker 1: favorite the candle into yeah and had it right there.
Speaker 1: The other My other favorite part of that conversation you
Speaker 1: had with him was when he said, I love Excel,
Speaker 1: really loves Excel, Like that's just such an interesting thing
Speaker 1: to say for a coach. But yeah, I mean, clearly
Speaker 1: it's working for him, you know, based on the way
Speaker 1: his career has progressed. So that was I just love
Speaker 1: to know those little things about people. That's the kind
Speaker 1: of stuff that I just absolutely love. Yeah. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: that's when my three minutes bill on candles? Sorry do
Speaker 1: I only I guess I get a minute again. I'm
Speaker 1: not tying myself this time though. No. Um, I think
Speaker 1: my favorite thing that I have worked on so far
Speaker 1: probably has been the Stephen Weatherly story that is up
Speaker 1: at Panthers dot com if you want to go read
Speaker 1: it right now. Um, because he's so yeah yeah, obviously,
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, christ and don't don't give away
Speaker 1: the game, uh no, But I think he's so interesting. Um,
Speaker 1: And he's done a lot of stuff in the past
Speaker 1: with the Vikings internal content team, and you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: if things allow, um, we can continue to do some
Speaker 1: cool stuff with him too. But he's the kind of
Speaker 1: person who he describes himself as weird and a nerd
Speaker 1: kind of guy. But I just think he's very interesting
Speaker 1: because he has so many different for lack of a
Speaker 1: better word, interests. He has played many different instruments. He's
Speaker 1: played nine different instruments. Obviously, he has gotten himself to
Speaker 1: a level where he is a productive NFL player, and
Speaker 1: now he is going to try to compete for a
Speaker 1: starting role on a team that needs people to be
Speaker 1: able to step up and be productive at defensive end.
Speaker 1: So I just think from an off the field standpoint
Speaker 1: in and on the field standpoint, he is a very
Speaker 1: interesting guy. He's the kind of guy that I think
Speaker 1: you want to root for. Yeah, I I love that story. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean just just going through and reading it and
Speaker 1: adding stuff to it. He and you you kind of
Speaker 1: kept going. I kept scrolling and there's like new sets
Speaker 1: of paragraphs, and I'm like, oh my god. And then
Speaker 1: he's like and then I did this, and then I
Speaker 1: like this, and then I'm into this, and you just
Speaker 1: it just kept getting more and more, and you're like,
Speaker 1: when who is this guy? Like what is this? One
Speaker 1: of the things that's been so cool for me these
Speaker 1: last two months is the way that you know, obviously
Speaker 1: this is you know, such a tough time and all
Speaker 1: the things going on that are you know, so tragic
Speaker 1: kind of you know, the stories that we hear about
Speaker 1: and you know, finding some of the silver linings, especially
Speaker 1: in our very small little world, is is just the
Speaker 1: way that we've been able to have conversations with guys
Speaker 1: that might not have happened otherwise. Like you know, we
Speaker 1: we've talked about this, but that five hour show on
Speaker 1: the first night of the draft, there is no way
Speaker 1: that you're getting all of those people just to have
Speaker 1: a conversation with on an interview platform. But the fact
Speaker 1: that everyone's just sitting at home because we have nothing
Speaker 1: else to do. We're all at home, and the ease
Speaker 1: of just hitting joint from your phone on a zoom
Speaker 1: call and to have you know, Peppers in Luke and
Speaker 1: Steph Curry and all of these guys just hop on.
Speaker 1: You know. We We've got another video coming up with
Speaker 1: some guys from that from that Oh three team, which
Speaker 1: is just incredible. And I think that's that's been this
Speaker 1: really cool thing to watch of hearing these stories and
Speaker 1: seeing kind of guys being normal, like these celebrities, these
Speaker 1: football players kind of we're literally all going through the
Speaker 1: same thing. You know, you have these athletes that are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't really have a field to work
Speaker 1: out on, or I don't even have a basketball court
Speaker 1: to like practice on. These NBA players and they're just
Speaker 1: like us. They're all at home trying to learn how
Speaker 1: to cook and you know, and trying to find what
Speaker 1: to stream on Netflix. I think that's that's been a
Speaker 1: really interesting kind of sidebar of all this. It really
Speaker 1: has been. And I think it started with the draft,
Speaker 1: like the actual draft that ESPN put on. I was wondering,
Speaker 1: you know, as we started to do our own show,
Speaker 1: We'll let You talked about how this was gonna look.
Speaker 1: You know, you're expecting the expectation going into this draft
Speaker 1: when it was planned out a year ago. It was like,
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna be coming over on boats in
Speaker 1: the Bellaggio Hotel and you know, the dancing fountains and
Speaker 1: all that. Instead, everybody's in their house. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say I enjoyed it more than a lot of the
Speaker 1: drafts I've seen in recent years because it's it's back
Speaker 1: to what you said, Well, it's so relatable, like it's
Speaker 1: just you see everyone at home with their families as
Speaker 1: their lives are being changed, and I mean you still
Speaker 1: get that on a regular draft, but it's just you're
Speaker 1: at home, you know, with your people, and you get
Speaker 1: to see kind of into their lives. So I'm with
Speaker 1: you on that. Another thing I loved was the rookie draft.
Speaker 1: We did a zoom call with with the whole class um,
Speaker 1: and we got at the start of the zoom none
Speaker 1: of them really knew each other, like they hadn't spoken. Um,
Speaker 1: they've been on some group text or whatever, but they
Speaker 1: hadn't had a chance. And then by the end they
Speaker 1: were cracking jokes. They were saying who's going to be
Speaker 1: the two K champ, who's going to be you know who?
Speaker 1: In spades, like challenging each other, and you could see
Speaker 1: like we got to be a fly on the wall
Speaker 1: for them to get to know each other, which is
Speaker 1: also another thing that I don't think you you see, um,
Speaker 1: if this were a normal year. So I think you're right.
Speaker 1: It's it's been really cool to to see certain things
Speaker 1: that in spite of everything that's going on, there have
Speaker 1: been some bright spots in terms of like content and
Speaker 1: what you're able to do and kind of relating to
Speaker 1: people on a much more human level. That's been really cool.
Speaker 1: All right, we gotta we gotta play a game. Um,
Speaker 1: and like, props to Christen for coming up with this.
Speaker 1: So these are all of her her suggestions, right, so
Speaker 1: if they're if they're lame or weird, we're blaming it
Speaker 1: on her. That started out really nice. And then props
Speaker 1: to Christen for he's lame if they're if they're good,
Speaker 1: If they're good, I'm taking credit. They're not, it's on
Speaker 1: it's on Kristen. So the game is one's got to go.
Speaker 1: So it's a category with three things, and then we
Speaker 1: say who's got to go, and then we make fun
Speaker 1: of Miles for why he picked the wrong thing. I
Speaker 1: do have to say, I do have to say my
Speaker 1: my priority in this as I was coming up with these,
Speaker 1: was to throw some North Carolina South Carolina things in
Speaker 1: there and then just see what Miles thinks of them.
Speaker 1: That's really where I wanted to go with this. I
Speaker 1: really have not spent much time in the South, right,
Speaker 1: Like I did have that eight week stint in Charlotte,
Speaker 1: But other than that, I've really not spent much time
Speaker 1: in the South, even though I've lived pretty much all
Speaker 1: over the country. So let's go. I'm into it. Yeah, Miles,
Speaker 1: feel free to take some time right now and quickly
Speaker 1: google some of these things if you don't know, but
Speaker 1: they're coming at too quick. Alright, Southern foods, one's got
Speaker 1: to go, grits, fried chicken, or biscuits also it off.
Speaker 1: I love all of these. This was you know, this
Speaker 1: was tough. But if one has to go, I guess
Speaker 1: it's gonna be grits. Although I did have some grits
Speaker 1: recently and they were delicious. Um, But there's no way
Speaker 1: I can get rid of biscuits. There's no way I
Speaker 1: can get rid of fried chicken. Well, I think you
Speaker 1: should go next, and we'll give Miles some time to
Speaker 1: kind of process. It's gonna this is gonna be controversial
Speaker 1: with biscuits. For me, I've never I've never been a
Speaker 1: biscuits and gravy guy. I like a good No Jangles
Speaker 1: biscuit or just any other biscuit from any other our
Speaker 1: great sponsors. Um, but I like gets some gravy. But
Speaker 1: I just like a nice but I feel my grandmother
Speaker 1: used to make buttermilk biscuits. They're the best. Right, But
Speaker 1: I've had literally, I literally have the thing of grits.
Speaker 1: The instant grits has been in my cupboard and it
Speaker 1: is consistently there all my life. It's just always been there.
Speaker 1: Grits have always been a part of things, always been
Speaker 1: a part of will Alright, alright, Miles, where you going?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, first, well at least you guys, and
Speaker 1: either you said fried chicken. I mean, like, because if
Speaker 1: anybody says fried chicken, I'm calling the FBI, right, Like,
Speaker 1: that's fried chicken. Fried chicken is the one thing that
Speaker 1: should be able to bring us all together. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily know what the right fried chicken establishment to
Speaker 1: go to is in North Carolina, but I am a
Speaker 1: huge Popeyes fan, like a Popeyees three piece spicy, you know,
Speaker 1: two thighs and a leg like I'm in heaven um.
Speaker 1: But the to answer that, the actual question here, the
Speaker 1: answer is grits. I mean, grits are gross, Like they're
Speaker 1: just like I'm sorry, like they're just they're not gross.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I don't like the texture. I
Speaker 1: can't handle it. I don't know why. Like, there's just
Speaker 1: a couple of things that I'm a big foodie person,
Speaker 1: But there are a couple of things that I just
Speaker 1: can't really do, like grits or one of them. I
Speaker 1: don't try them. And you know, people put the shrimp
Speaker 1: in there, the bacon and the cheese and everything, and
Speaker 1: it should be really good, but I just can never
Speaker 1: get over the texture. So the two things that I
Speaker 1: really just can't stand when it comes to food are
Speaker 1: grits and asparagus. I think asparagus is nasty. Wow, we
Speaker 1: have different I love both of those things. I wow,
Speaker 1: well yeah, that's yeah. On the team trips. Well, now
Speaker 1: who's going for the grits and asparagus and who isn't? Wow,
Speaker 1: grits are not wow, Like I think linema beans are nasty.
Speaker 1: I would never say grits. But anyway, alright, alright, Myles
Speaker 1: has some suspect and we were gonna come. Grits will
Speaker 1: be a part of every podcast from here on, just
Speaker 1: to make fun of Moss. All right, next category, non
Speaker 1: NFL sports, Which one has to go? NBA College Football UFC?
Speaker 1: All right, okay, I'll go first this time. The answer
Speaker 1: is easy here also UFC. I mean, like, look, NBA,
Speaker 1: I missed the NBA playoffs a lot right now, and
Speaker 1: I understand that it's a safety issue as to why
Speaker 1: they're not happening. So I'm not saying that we should
Speaker 1: just get NBA players together and just play basketball and
Speaker 1: not have it be safe. But one of my favorite
Speaker 1: things about, you know, April, May and June is the
Speaker 1: NBA Playoffs. And it's funny being a Cavs fan. Last year,
Speaker 1: you would think that it would not have been the
Speaker 1: same and that it would have been worse because the
Speaker 1: Calves weren't in it. But I'll tell you what, man,
Speaker 1: after even that, after four years of lebron and we
Speaker 1: only had that one championship out of it because Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant never mind, Uh, but you know, you get the
Speaker 1: NBA Playoffs and it was just really really fun. Like
Speaker 1: I had so much fun just watching all those games.
Speaker 1: So I really missed that. In college football. I love
Speaker 1: college football, I mean, I love I love any football.
Speaker 1: I will watch whatever is on television because that's just
Speaker 1: who I am. Um. And also, honestly, though, as I
Speaker 1: have been more associated with Las Vegas and I've lived
Speaker 1: here for a few months, like I've I've enjoyed Ufcymour
Speaker 1: and I do enjoy it. But if one's got to go,
Speaker 1: it's gotta be UFC. Christen, Yeah, I agree. I thought
Speaker 1: maybe you guys might have more of an affinity to
Speaker 1: UFC um than I did when I was making this question.
Speaker 1: Although I will say, guys, let's all be honest, it
Speaker 1: was awesome when it was on the other day because
Speaker 1: there's been no live sports on for forever. I was
Speaker 1: so into those fights. Uh a few weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: was like, this is amazing. But yeah, in a normal world,
Speaker 1: UFC has gotta go. Yeah, I would. I would say
Speaker 1: UFC over. I can give you four or five other
Speaker 1: things that I'm still picking over UFC. So that one,
Speaker 1: that one was pretty easy for me. Okay, okay, not
Speaker 1: so controversial in this one. Al Right, next one, breakfast cereals.
Speaker 1: This one could be interesting. Lucky Charms, cinnamon toast crunch,
Speaker 1: fruit loops. All right, there's one right answer here. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see what you guys say. I mean, they
Speaker 1: can all go. I don't remember I'm no lier doing
Speaker 1: this podcast. I don't remember the last time I ate cereal.
Speaker 1: I'm being dead serious. I don't remember it. As a kid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as a kid, though, I mean, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: like Lucky Trumps because they got marshmalls and u uh,
Speaker 1: cinnamon toast crunch is cool either, any one of them
Speaker 1: can go, Like, honest to god, I don't. It's just
Speaker 1: fruit loops, all right. I guess I'll say fruit loops
Speaker 1: can go because cinnamon toast crunch is all right. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not a serial person. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't because I don't buy milk either, Like if the
Speaker 1: only time I'm buying milk is if I'm making something
Speaker 1: specifically in a recipe, and usually then it's heavy cream.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what a gallon of milk costs.
Speaker 1: To show my law, you know, my lack of touch
Speaker 1: with reality with other people again, right, correct answer. The
Speaker 1: correct answer is lucky charms, no arts, stars, corseshoes, clovers
Speaker 1: in lots of golden rainbows, and the rep cinnamon toast
Speaker 1: crunch is dessertsch is number one and then you or
Speaker 1: or you eat it and then you got the milk
Speaker 1: at the bottom. Oh my gosh, like talk about like
Speaker 1: that's your like second helping of dessert. It's just like
Speaker 1: the the cinnamony milk at the bottom. So good, higher
Speaker 1: standards for desserts, man, No lucky charms are great because
Speaker 1: of the marshmallows, fruit loops. They're fine, they can get out.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Wow, I need to know where we're
Speaker 1: all mad at each other. We're never doing this again.
Speaker 1: It was a great one podcast, guys. Oh man, even
Speaker 1: do the rest of these? Like through them? Really quick? Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: real quickly? Um childhood movies, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Lion King.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can choose, but if I
Speaker 1: had to, I might say finding Nemo. I too would
Speaker 1: go with Finding Nemo. Yeah, I mean, finding Nemo, you
Speaker 1: know it's good, just keep swimming and all that. But
Speaker 1: I think Toy Story and Lion King are just such
Speaker 1: landmark movies. Not the Finding Nemo isn't important within the culture.
Speaker 1: But I don't think you can. I don't know. Lion King,
Speaker 1: for instance, there's a Broadway play. You know it's awesome.
Speaker 1: You know. You also have the newer version that's got
Speaker 1: Beyonce and Donald Glover and those people in it that
Speaker 1: I still haven't seen. Um. And Toy Story. You got
Speaker 1: four of them now, so I think finding Memo can go. Ye. Alright, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: well we agree again. All right, we're friends again. Guys,
Speaker 1: I think that next one we might here we go favorite,
Speaker 1: or one can go fast food, cookount Miles gonna look
Speaker 1: that one up, Chick fil A, and shake shack. Well, Okay,
Speaker 1: first of all, I know what cookout is. I've been
Speaker 1: had it. Yes, I have had it. I've I've had
Speaker 1: it after a night of debauchery in Nashville, which is
Speaker 1: it's good. Um, but if you're giving me these three options,
Speaker 1: Cookout's gotta go. I suspect that I suspect that you
Speaker 1: people would say shake shack. But shake shack to me
Speaker 1: reminds me of the some of very happy times. Um.
Speaker 1: I used to go shake shack as like a celebratory
Speaker 1: thing when I was in college. And actually the background
Speaker 1: of my phone is a picture that I took from
Speaker 1: the first shake shack. I think it's on like fourteen Street,
Speaker 1: and I really am yeah, and like, it's a picture
Speaker 1: that I took there of the it's a view of
Speaker 1: the Empire State Building. And that's I've had it as
Speaker 1: my phone background for years, and every time I try
Speaker 1: to change it, I'm like, no, I really like that picture. Um.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I love shake shacks. So Cookout's gotta go. Well, Miles,
Speaker 1: I hate to tell you that you're wrong about this.
Speaker 1: I love them, all three of them. This was hard
Speaker 1: for me to pick as well. I tried to pick
Speaker 1: the ones that I like the most, but I gotta
Speaker 1: let shake check go. And look, I lived in l A.
Speaker 1: I lived in Chicago. I've eaten shake Shack plenty of times.
Speaker 1: It's delicious. Nothing will ever top cook out. You can
Speaker 1: literally get. You can get a corn dog as a
Speaker 1: side at cookout, like the milks. The fancy shakes are phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, they're First of all, I'm not putting
Speaker 1: a corn dog in my body. If that's your problem,
Speaker 1: that's that's your loss. Mr. Mr. My body is a
Speaker 1: temple over here. Okay, it's not that much of a temple,
Speaker 1: but I we got to have some kind of standards.
Speaker 1: Not me, not me. My standards are a cookout, um,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't go there often, but it is.
Speaker 1: It's so good. You get all you get like three
Speaker 1: full meals on one tray for like five dollars and
Speaker 1: a shake. Well what are you going with? I mean,
Speaker 1: cookouts love hate because you love it and then you
Speaker 1: hate it. Oh you feel terrible, but but you immediately
Speaker 1: but then you bounce back and you love it again.
Speaker 1: So it's I mean, it has to be shaped check
Speaker 1: because yeah, the love for cook out, I mean, and
Speaker 1: I love it. And won't you even mentioned Chick fil A.
Speaker 1: There's just yeah, there's no way, there's there's no way
Speaker 1: that's spicy de look sandwich? Are you kidding me? Also,
Speaker 1: I just want to point out the fact that this
Speaker 1: is elevated fast food as this category, and will is
Speaker 1: cook out elevated? Yeah? Okay, so I was gonna do yeah,
Speaker 1: I did. I changed it. When I sent you guys
Speaker 1: this stuff. I was making notes to myself. I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to put cookout on there. I was going to
Speaker 1: put other ones. But but then I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't know if you knew cook out, and I
Speaker 1: thought we had to have that conversation, Miles as you
Speaker 1: being a future resident in North Carolina. So disregard the
Speaker 1: word elevated. It's I mean, it's not you know, never mind,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to trash other places, but you know
Speaker 1: it's not a certain places alight. Moving on, last one.
Speaker 1: Last one, and this is the one that our podcast
Speaker 1: listeners will already know about because you guys are gonna
Speaker 1: trash me and I get it, and this will be
Speaker 1: the will trash moment. I'll take it from Miles. Chocolate, candy, Twigs,
Speaker 1: Rec's or Snickers. Can I say this really quick? I
Speaker 1: love that you say recy's. I've always said rec's instead
Speaker 1: of reces and I've been made fun of so many
Speaker 1: times throughout my lefe. Well, that was that was the
Speaker 1: first That was the first part was to see how
Speaker 1: you say it. Okay, alright, go ahead, Miles. It's definitely Spies.
Speaker 1: I have no big opinion on this, as I do
Speaker 1: gift versus Jeff in terms of recess versus resays um,
Speaker 1: but candy that's got to go. Of these three. I
Speaker 1: probably say Snickers because I don't feel like nuts elevate
Speaker 1: candy as much as some people think that it does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Snickers is garbage, so I'm out on that. Well,
Speaker 1: what I wouldn't say not garbage. I would never reach
Speaker 1: for one, and I feel like I feel like everyone
Speaker 1: loves it. Okay, I'm sorry, Mr. Grits are disgusting. I
Speaker 1: don't say disgusting, I said gross. I think Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't like Snickers. I know everyone loves it.
Speaker 1: It's not a bad candy bar. It's not for me.
Speaker 1: I would never reach for it if I were on
Speaker 1: a road trip and I were at the store. Well,
Speaker 1: what's your opinion. I don't like peanut butter, what just
Speaker 1: in general? In general? Wow? Interesting, I love boiled peanuts.
Speaker 1: I don't. Well, you have to love boiled peanuts if
Speaker 1: you're from South Carolina, I guess. But is that like
Speaker 1: a thing in there? Wow, it's a thing. I've never
Speaker 1: lived there, I don't know. To a minor league baseball
Speaker 1: game in Virginia and asked them if they had bold
Speaker 1: peanuts and was very upset when they were upset at me,
Speaker 1: and they're like, no, here's the bag of roasted peanuts.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, No, that's not as not even close
Speaker 1: ess for you. No res no any of the other
Speaker 1: peanut butter things. I feel like I've learned so much
Speaker 1: about the two of you. I feel like that too.
Speaker 1: This is good. Well, I guess we can consider ourselves
Speaker 1: friends now. Yeah, well, I think the next step is, clearly,
Speaker 1: once we all can get back into the stadium, is
Speaker 1: a blind taste test of all of our least favorite foods. Right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna put some blindfold Miles and put some grits
Speaker 1: in front of him. Maybe some butter pops up. No,
Speaker 1: it's just me that I'm the only person I had
Speaker 1: that idea. Okay, you just wanted to. It's fun, but like,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't know what more, because isn't that what
Speaker 1: friends do. I think I would reckon as the taste
Speaker 1: and texture of asparagus, I would recognize the texture of grits,
Speaker 1: unless you certainly polina, in which case, like polenta, is
Speaker 1: basically the same. But for some reason, I like Polentimore.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. Um, but yeah, it's strange. Um.
Speaker 1: But then yeah, I don't or ruga rugla tastes like
Speaker 1: dirt to me. That's the other thing. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: All right, we got completely opposite taste. I love rugla,
Speaker 1: having a rugla salad tomorrow sad prayer. All right. I
Speaker 1: do feel like we've learned so much about each other. Though. Well,
Speaker 1: I've learned that you guys have some suspect one's got
Speaker 1: to go opinions. But look, I'll deal with it. That's fine.
Speaker 1: A right, guys, that was fun. Should we do that again?
Speaker 1: Probably next week? Maybe? Sure? Why not? I'm down. Let's
Speaker 1: let's let's gather again and then we'll we'll figure out
Speaker 1: something else to be mad at each other about. Question
Speaker 1: after all of this, was this a happy half hour
Speaker 1: for you guys? It was happy. I think we went
Speaker 1: over the half hour. I'd say just a little bit, yes,
Speaker 1: but we got excited. It's a mindset. That's the same thing,
Speaker 1: is what I said about happy hour when we were
Speaker 1: trying to come up with the name of the podcast.
Speaker 1: Happy hour is not necessarily a time or a place.
Speaker 1: It's a mindset. Can you get into the happy half
Speaker 1: hour mindset? And if you can do that when you're
Speaker 1: spending your half hour or longer with us than we've
Speaker 1: done our jobs. Yeah, I agree. Well, happy first happy
Speaker 1: half hour guys. I love it. Thanks guys. This was fun.
Speaker 1: That's what's fun, all right, So you guys next week