WEBVTT - The Group Chat Episode 30: LUUUUKE 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.040 Hey, groupies. This week on the group Chat, we're talking 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:07.480 about the huge surprise news that dropped earlier this week. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.520 From our side of things, it was crazy to be 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:15.840 in possession of that news, and like watches, it was 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:20.120 as like we hit send on the media to share 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:23.439 with fans out there, and just because you just knew 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:25.320 what the reaction was going to be and how hard 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.480 that was going to hit people. So to literally watch 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:31.560 it all happen in real time and just us as 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:36.120 people ourselves, we were very impacted by the news. And 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.080 then we are sharing some of our favorite loop keek 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.400 Lee stories. He had the guys come into the TV 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.440 studio and he had them believed that they were doing 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:50.040 a live feed to a local elementary school for whom 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.680 the teacher of the elementary school baked Thanksgiving pies. His 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.360 whole thing was he put everything from his coveroard, you know, 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.279 just a bunch of salt, you know, like, and so 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.320 they're in the back watching these guys have to eat this. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.560 We have those things and more on this week's the 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:18.640 group Chat. You've been added to the group chat with 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:23.000 your friends Caroline can, Max Sensen, and Will Brian. In 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.760 the NFL offseason, people always ask us, what do you do? 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.800 You still work? Is it? Yeah? We work? Hello? This 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.399 has been the craziest last couple of weeks for the 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.280 Carolina Panthers. Are really as far as any off season 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.000 that I've been a part of. Has this been the 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.880 craziest one for you guys? You think without a doubt, 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.119 Oh yeah, without it. I mean, that's the first time 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.760 I've gone through a head coaching change. It was always 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:50.080 just Ron, so that alone was going to make things crazy. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.320 And then when somebody walks into the office and says 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:58.480 Luke Kikleys retired, it's just kind of a I mean, 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.840 everybody just kind of stops in their tracks. It's excuse me, 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.800 you're kidding, right, yeah, and then okay, it's time to 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.720 get to work. And that was last night. Was crazy, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.440 just crazy. It was crazy. I did not know about 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.760 it until it hit the press. Like for everyone else, 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.280 I was not in the office yesterday. I was. I 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.640 called to check in at the end of the day. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.079 Nothing had happened. At about five oh five p m. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.560 Nothing had happened. Said, you know, all right, I'll see 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:31.799 you tomorrow, but I'm probably gonna come in a little late. Nope. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.720 Then about we were driving to Charlotte and popped. I 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.320 thought it was a joke, but I was very confused 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.120 about when. I was like, why is Luke playing this? 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:47.799 Like this is an odd joke. It's not funny, and Luke, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.080 this is not on brand for Luke. He wouldn't sign 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.680 off on this. I just kept waiting for one of 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.120 the pauses in the video when he had to collect 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.400 himself a little bit. I was expecting to be like, guys, 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.720 I'm just kidding back, but it's like, why would he 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.960 even do that? That's not I was not requestioning if 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.760 you were leaving Luca. Maybe you know, Larry Fitzgerald just 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.560 said he's coming back, but not these other I don't. 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.400 I was very confused my I had to watch it 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:17.200 multiple times before I finally realized, oh my gosh, he's 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.960 he really is stepping away from football. This is not 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:21.679 a joke. Yeah, I mean, this is one of the 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.560 things I wrote about today was I think anybody who's 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:30.440 watched Luke for the past few years now probably probably 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.680 saw this coming, not quite this quickly, but knew that 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.720 this was not going to be like a Ray Lewis 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.800 situation where he was going to play this game until 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.160 he was pushing forward it. I mean, like we we 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.080 you could tell with the injuries that he had sustained 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.640 throughout the course of his career, this is probably going 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.800 to be something that was It was just not going 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.640 to be that kind of career years old though. Is 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.960 that's going to shock people? And from our side of things, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.800 it was crazy to be in possession of that news 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.760 and like watches it was as like we hit send 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:08.360 on the media to share with fans out there and 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.280 just because you just knew what the reaction was going 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:12.880 to be and how hard that was going to hit people. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.840 So to literally watch it all happen in real time 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:21.240 and just us as people ourselves, we were very impacted 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.640 by the news. Um as we're about to talk about 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.239 for the next however long we go, half hour or whatever. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.680 It is like everybody loves this guy and everyone's really 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.480 gonna miss him. So it was a lot to digest 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.600 and process last night. I don't know what will Yeah, 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:40.760 it was having having to go from hearing it doing 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.000 what everyone did last night was which was oh my, 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.760 you know, like processing and you know, getting that information, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.719 wondering whether it's a joke, you know, and then like, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.839 wait a minute, we're doing what right now, and then 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.400 immediately have to go into okay, how does this work? 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:00.320 You know? Unfortunately, I think we've gotten we've gotten pretty 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.600 good at these big at these big news breaking things 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.560 that we're doing now. Um, so we we kind of 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.599 had a sense a little bit, but then working through 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.120 what we were doing behind the scenes, and then then 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.159 there's Luke in the building and you're just like it 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.279 hits you again, you know, like you get hit the 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:17.599 first time, and then you see him and then you 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.279 hear him, and and and kind of having to digest 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.320 all of that. I mean, it was it was something 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.640 to then try to then put his career in perspective 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.840 and try to step back and try to think, okay, 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.080 what is how do we put this into words? How 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.000 do we make this feel right? How do we make 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.040 this feel classy? How do we how do we do 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.480 something for him? Because you know, it really felt right. Yeah, 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.120 we need to do right by him in that moment. 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.839 I also think in this time, it is funny sometimes 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:47.560 to see the reaction on social media when retirement comes 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.600 for players or even when coaches get fired. It's almost 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.599 like people are mourning the person we're not mourning the person. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.120 We're we we I will not even say we are 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.640 mourning Luke Ki Gleef. He's still a lot. I he's kicking, 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.400 he's doing well. Uh, he's just decided to change careers. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.479 I always think about this in retrospect of we know 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:12.200 plenty of people every week, multiple people a year for 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.240 sure that just decide, Hey, I'm going to take a 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:19.000 career change. Can you imagine if a accountant just halfway 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.000 through it was like, I'm going to law school. I'm 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.120 just I'm gonna do. I'll put out a press release, 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.520 I'll have a press conference this afternoon. I'm going to 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.680 law school. I'm gonna give up this illustrious career that 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:33.040 I have in taxes and being a financial advisor. I'm 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.120 going to law school. And that's what I'm doing. That's 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.960 that's what's happening here. People. Yes, it is very crazy 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.160 that Lucas he's not going to be in the spotlight anymore. 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.760 And there's a there's a strong possibility, there's a strong 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.800 possibility we never hear from Luke keeek Legan. He has 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:54.440 no social media, he does not He's going to go 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.160 walk off into the woods. That is the piece of 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.400 this that is is astounding in that you know you're 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.240 not going to see him on Sundays anymore. He's not 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.479 a part of the franchise and the way that we've 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.479 been so used to seeing him. My big question is, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.720 and I'm going to put this out there for anyone listening, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.960 we never heard retire come out of Luke Keikley's mouth. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:19.560 He never said he said stepping away from football. I 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.760 am going to put it out there. He's not retired. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.440 People until that paperwork is filed, which you can overturn. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.480 We've seen this multiple times. He's stepping away from football 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.200 now I think where he's coming from. Yes, it is 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.960 a it's not he's not meaning for He made this decision. 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.240 He's not being forced out. He made this decision. And 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:39.520 I think a lot of it has to do with 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.720 the injuries that you were mentioning. But yeah, guys, yeah, 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:47.080 I think he retired. Him saying I can't play the 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:51.160 game the way it needs to be played. It tells 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:55.160 you everything. Um, his the position he plays, it's inherently 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:59.800 extremely violent and is so physically demanding that you can 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:01.720 you can only do it one way, and that's what 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.120 That's what Luke said in the video, and this is 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.640 where he got pretty emotional too, was you know, there's 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.320 only one way to do it, uh, and if he 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:13.280 feels like he can't, then he can't walk back on 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.400 that field. And that's and that's that's why he's he's 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.600 not going to again. It's just as I said, we've 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.520 we've we've all witnessed and we all know how hard 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.560 it was to witness what happened to Luke a few 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.840 years ago in the field. Nobody ever wants to see 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.520 that again. Um most importantly the people close to Luke, 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.400 and that's where a lot of the emotion I think 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.400 from that video is coming from. Yeah, I'm going to 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:40.439 fuel the fire of he's not retired for I'm just 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.120 gonna feel that fire. But I alost say it sounds 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.120 a lot like when Andrew Luck retired. There was a 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.959 sense of peace of it was tough. In the same 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.280 way of watching Andrew Luck say he's stepping away and 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.280 he loves the game of football, but he in the 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.280 same mind, I think they're they're that next level of 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.320 football intelligence. They're they're the standard. That's what it side 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.280 with Luke Keikley he's making this decision, and he is 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.760 at peace with the fact that he can't do that anymore. 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.480 You can't play at the level that he feels is 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.360 required of him in the NFL. So he he is 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.600 at peace with stepping away from that. But it doesn't 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.600 mean that he just all of a sudden hates football 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.679 and doesn't want to be a part of it. But 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.640 I think there is this natural shift, and he mentioned 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:24.640 a little bit in the video, there's a natural shift 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.480 here that's happening in the Carolina Panthers to where it's 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.480 not just a mindset of getting your body ready for 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.160 another season for you, it's also getting on board and 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.400 ready for this shift that's coming in the locker room. 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.520 We said, I said just last week, unless you're Luke 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:45.480 Keikley or Christian McCaffrey, your future is not set here 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.319 in Carolina. And maybe some of the young high draft 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.520 picks outside of those guys, anyone's up. Well now it's 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.720 just Christian, although I've seen some reports out on Twitter, 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.800 people having fun of what the Carolina Panthers could do 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:07.320 with Christians. So nobody, you know, And I heard check Um. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.400 I heard a lot of people on the radio yesterday 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.800 and this morning talking about you know, wanting Luke to 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.520 immediately be like the defensive coordinator, you know, like like 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.520 and I think that potentially there is some pathway back 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.120 to that, maybe not here, but somewhere, you know, yeah, 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.160 like right away. It's just of course not for obvious reasons, 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.000 but like I just think it's it's it's still so raw. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:30.720 I think for him, like he wants to be out there. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.600 That's another thing he said, like he wants to be playing. 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.880 He can't, so I think it'd be really hard to 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.200 be that close to the action. My thing for Luke, 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.600 I could see him going back to like Sainting Xavier 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.320 and Cincinnati, where he's obviously he's like a hometown kid, 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.520 feels comfortable there, just like high school seems like an 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.360 area he'd thrive in with kind of guys that obviously 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.640 look up to him in so many ways and you're 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.120 involved in the game. Like the think about Andrew luck 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.920 is he seems like this worldly character who has interests 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.000 in all sorts of different things, and I'm not seeing Luke. 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.160 Ke Lee doesn't have interest other than football and fishing. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:09.560 But that's kind of Luke's m O. The guy loves football. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.680 There's ever you know, like pre draft, like personal people 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.840 are always like we gotta find guys that love football, 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.319 you know, Like that's Luke Keickley to a t. So 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.599 I feel like someway or another, he's going to be 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.280 around the game. And that's another thing he said is 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.040 he wants to stay involved with this organization. Of course, 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.800 the alumni are a really important part of things now 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.520 and going forward. Um, but I wonder how he gets 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.240 himself involved, maybe in some aspect of coaching, and I 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:36.360 don't think college NFL right away, but man, I could 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:37.960 see him doing a lot that would be I'd been 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.000 quite an athletic feature on Luke Keikley, the High School 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.280 Assistance Fall imagining a high school kid and Luke Keickley. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.480 It's right, alright, Well, we have a lot more that 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.760 we're going to talk about here about Luke Keickley and 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:53.679 his surprising stepping away from football announcement. But we did 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.400 mention that we're sponsored and so with that comes these 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.439 really cool reads that we get to do in the 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.040 middle of these podcasts. 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We're taking a 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.800 ride down memory lane. We're doing this Luke keik Ley style. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.760 So there are so many stories on Twitter right now 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:43.320 that are just if you need some just wholehearted family 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:48.120 content Twitter. This is not normally say where is the 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.480 place for you to go? Right now? Panthers, Twitter is 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.480 the place. So if you were trying to show your 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.240 son or daughter this world space with Twitter, they keep 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.319 hearing about now is a good day to go. Do 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.360 that you don't have to worry about some cuss words 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.199 are like weird accounts tweeting at you. So let's go 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.800 with our our favorite stories. I of course I only 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.280 have one year of Luke. So I feel like I 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:11.600 am just going to take in some of these stories. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.400 I have a couple of tidbits, but I want to 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.880 hear I want to hear you guys have first because 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.800 you've been with him from multiple multiple years. I think 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.400 one of the Yeah, I think one of the things 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.080 that's just more generic that first of all, everyone has 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.439 a Luke story, which I think is cool. I think 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.439 that's that's really unique about him. I mean, as you 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.880 referenced on Twitter, that everyone has this story of them 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.800 in Luke. I I think that one of the cool 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.440 things about him is that everyone's first impression of Luke 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.160 is always the same. And there's this clip last night 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:45.079 from Austin Duke, this hometown UNC Charlotte kid that was 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.480 undrafted free agent signed by the Panthers in seventeen, and 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.360 he put this video out from one of his interviews 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.440 back back then. Because you kind of feel like when 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.000 you walk into locker room kind of walker to head 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.000 now becauld you see Cam Newton and Luke Keickley and 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.240 then you know the humbling moment is when Luke keakly 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.200 comes up and say Hi, I'm Luke, and I'm like Luke, 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.719 I gotta know who you are, man like. So he 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.679 just a real humble guy. So just coming in and 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.319 being welcome like that, you know, it just made me 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.920 feel comfortable, made me feel that whole. I mean literally, 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.559 Luke throws up to everybody. Hi, I'm Luke. Hi, I'm 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.600 hi am Luke. I mean, that's how he introduced himself 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:20.240 to me. Did Kelly Street a Grand Designers, that's what 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.800 she's having to her. He walked into the office and 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:27.040 he's like, Hi, I'm Luke. Hi, I'm Kelly. I mean, Hi, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.080 I'm Luke. But that's that's that's so him. That's that's 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.640 a great representation. He did that with a Chloe, who 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.880 does the Panthers Spanish broadcast. He works on that on 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:38.760 game days. He did the same thing to her. He 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.280 knows the media members by face and name. In the 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.920 locker room, she was new. He was like, well, who 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.240 is this new girl? Walked up and said, Hi, I'm Luke. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.160 I was like, I mean she she senior in college, 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.040 you know, looking for a first job. She turned around, 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.880 why do not just Holy cow, Luke? What Luke? Just 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.560 that's what my name is, what I'm doing? Very cool. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.760 I've seen on Twitter to so many fans just kind 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.280 of saying that they had this interaction with him where 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.280 like he came and signed their autograph and he like 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.320 thanked them for coming to the game, and it's just 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.760 like he's It's sometimes it's like, man, is this guy 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.960 for real? Like he's just so nice, like to to 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.680 its point where you're like, nobody's this nice, but that's that. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.160 That's who this guy is, um And I think a 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.320 lot of people who crossed paths with him would all 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.160 say that. And usually people like as as big a 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.080 star at somebody like Luke Kikley is like they have 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:32.760 a bad day every once in a while and maybe 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.840 somebody gets like blown off by an athlete when they're 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.560 trying to get I don't think you can find a 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.320 single person who has. That's the kind of story about 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:45.200 Luke Kikley. Just always approachable, humble, just a normal dude 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.120 who happens to be really good at football. And that's 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.520 just across the board. So he's also not bad looking, 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.040 which when I think about when people talk about how 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.400 nice he is, like normally if you're like cut that 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.480 person in there, just so nice, what you're saying is 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.840 that that's something nice I can to say about them. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:06.120 They're a very kind person. No, Luke checks checks multipleses, 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.600 so that's why. That's why he also can do the 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.680 whole no Twitter account but still twitters talking all about me. Yeah, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.680 I'm just gonna put it out there. Stories we got 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.680 um yeah, you got more. Yeah. So that in seventeen 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.720 Christians Rookie Year. This was back when Ryan Khalil was 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.360 on the team, and Ryan would always have these very 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:32.160 elaborate kind of rookie prank sort of things, and so 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.320 this year was he had the guys come into the 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.520 TV studio and he had them believed that they were 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.640 doing a live feed to a local elementary school for 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.360 whom the teacher of the elementary school baked Thanksgiving pies 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:48.840 or holiday pies for them, and so they're gonna like 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:50.880 eat the pies and like, oh yeah, these are great, 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.080 thanks so much kids. Of course Luke baked the pies. 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.040 And so his whole thing was he put everything from 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.600 his cupboard, you know, just a bunch of salt, you know, 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.280 like every different type of spice, you know, like whatever 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.920 I mean, Luke did, Luke did. So this is like 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.160 a Luke Ryan Special and so they're in the back 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.600 watching these guys have to eat this, and of course 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.120 like and then so it's just our TV people like no, yeah, 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.720 you gotta keep eating some more, eat some more, you know, yeah, 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.200 we're still rolling, We're alive. Eat some more. And they're 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.920 completely thinking this is real, and Luke is just like 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.760 trying not to crack up in the back, and Taylor 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.320 Martin's like, oh yeah, this is that's your Taylor, but 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:36.199 this is really good Christian. Christian was very upset when 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.840 Luke revealed that it was his pies that he made. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.280 That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Yeah, Luke, Luke has 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.360 a sense of humor. I was just showing Caroline here, 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:50.440 um season Uh, Luke came into the locker room dressed 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.159 in costume and that first, just saying those words is 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.119 not a Luke Keickley thing, like loose the guy on 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.800 Halloween who's like in the corner laughing at the other 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.479 people who were dressed up. But he came dressed as 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.359 Cam Newton and yeah, like as we look as we 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:04.879 look at this again, well I don't know if you 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.560 have what this looked like, but it was the full 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.280 on like it's the practice jersey number the number one 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:14.399 practice jersey like up to like barely like past his chest. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.840 He's got there was they called themselves the wolf Pack 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.040 the quarterback room that year. So he has the wolf 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.080 shirt on. It's like this bright orange sleeve. He's got 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.160 the towel, the Beats headphones. And this is a photo 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.160 that got shared on social media. I think Thomas Davis 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.199 put this out. But like Cam was there like posing 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.800 with him, and that was hysterical and it showed that 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.080 like Luke isn't just kind of kind of boring. Old 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.280 Luke is just gonna kind of sit there quietly, like 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:42.440 every once in a while he'll step out and do something. Um. 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.040 But I remember most about Luke in the locker room. 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:50.160 Just we've talked about my passion for food on this show. 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:55.160 Luke Wood just pretty much weekly be like Yo, Max 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.879 eat anywhere good lately, and we would just sit and 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.320 talk about restaurants we've eaten. He's like a foodie himself, 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.200 and a lot of times in what we do, like 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.560 we have to ask guys to like sit down and 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.119 talk with us. But the fact that he would like 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.199 reach out in that way and want you to come 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:15.200 and talk to him. You just don't find that often, um. 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.879 And so I'll always kind of remember him for for 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.120 those side chats, and then when it came to football, 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.240 his willingness to kind of even when the recorder was off, 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.360 just sit there and talk about the game and give 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:31.680 you some more intel into what is actually going on, um, 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:33.720 educate you a little bit, and not in a way 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.240 where it came off is like well, you don't know 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.280 what you're talking about because you never played. It was 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.480 more of a like, yeah, I mean, like I know 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.080 people are saying that, but like, this is kind of 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.840 what's actually been happening. And that was hugely helpful for 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.080 somebody like me who's trying to learn as much as 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:51.160 I can to help, you know, inform our fans about 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.760 what's going on. And Luke was always hugely helpful for that. 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.560 And again that that is not a common a common 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:57.879 thing for people who go out of their way to 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.560 do to do stuff like that. So his his just 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.760 willingness to be again a normal guy to talk to UM, 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.119 that that'll stand out to me for sure. So there 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.440 are many things that Luke kick Ley can do, and 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:12.520 we've heard a lot of those stories. There's one thing 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:17.040 that Luke Kickley cannot do, and that is walk during 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:19.879 an interview. He will, he just says it's not doable 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.000 for him. Me. He's not a walker and talker, He's 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:26.160 all I will stand and talk forever. But you asked 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:27.920 me to walk and talk and whatnot. So I did 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:30.359