Happy Half Hour Episode 2: Are We Friends Yet?

no way, let's pump the brakes. We're not friends yet, but last night we did uh meet up in a very socially responsible way here in Charlotte, Miles, now that you've moved so so, Miles, what's the verdict on saying we're friends? You know what, Kristen, I can say you're my friend. Will. Wow, this is gonna be like the ongoing thing every start of every podcast is whether or not Miles and my friends yet? Well, well you did

set yourself up for it. I mean, just right off the right, off the top of the first episode, you threw you, you threw yourself into both of us, into the deep end, and Miles was like, I'm not coming to get you. Yeah. I mean we'll we'll see how this thing evolves. But I think it's a pretty good, fun, funny running joke. I agree. Well, Miles, thank you for saying that that we are friends. I appreciate that. So it was the first time, um, that Miles and I

met in person. Although we've done a lot of stuff on video, video chat and zoom over the past few months, but we actually got to meet in person. Will and I had met during my interview, but Will had you and Miles met. I don't think we ever discussed that. Yeah, we met during miles interview, so so Will was the common thread. But it was the first time that Miles and I got to meet, um, and it was great. It was just right on the tail end of of

your move. Miles. You moved just a few days ago, and the first thing you did was drop everything and come hang out with the two of us. I'm honored, it's true. And I got lost on the way there. I believe we get into a little bit, so but yeah, it was it was as I told you guys last night. I mean, it was funny because it was really the first time that I've seen people that I even sort of know in person since March, which is just bizarre. So I guess, like you know, I was, I was

kind of ready to like actually talk to some people. Yeah, I mean it was a it was I think probably weird for all of us, and I'm sure it'll be weird for everybody the first time that, you know, we kind of I'll re enter society, like I don't know. I was just like, how do I order food? What do I which was like are you? Are you good? And I was like, yes, I think so. Is that what I'm supposed to say? It's just a it's weird not having gone anywhere for so long and then kind

of going back into it. But we did it all together, guys. We got the first public meet up out of the way, um, and we did socially responsibly just so everyone knows masks distance um. And it was fun. I think, right, do

we have fun? I still have a hard time of like reading people's expressions behind masks, Like there's this whole thing where you you forget how much of like being able to see someone's mouth can like determine what exactly they're really trying to say, and now like not being able to see it, I can't tell if they're like smiling or like making laughing or making fun of me or like not happy with what I just said, Like it's kind of a weird sensation. Yeah, I've read I've

read articles about this. It's all about smizing. Now you have the smile. Yeah, I guess. So is that where that came from? America's Next Top Model? It's from a while back? All right, well then that's I guess is where it came from. But yeah, I think you you have to make sure that you know your eyebrows or raised and you open your eyes and you know, just try to smile with the corners of your eyes. I don't exactly know how to do it sounds so when you say it like that, I'm just I've got the

mental image in my head and I don't know. I don't know if that's just wide eyes, raised eyebrows the entire time. I don't know. I don't know. I love, but I just know that my default is like RBF and if you understand what that means, and you mean but I don't think it's the word I can say on the podcast, so I won't. But like that's my default facial setting. So like anytime I'm out in public, I like, you know, have furrowed brows as opposed to uh,

you know, happy brows. I pretty much thought Miles gets angry at me all of last night. I had no idea. Well, I mean, judging by the fact that he doesn't want to be friends with you, it could have been. You know, I didn't say I don't want to be friends. I just say that we're not yet. Miles had no happy brows last night when we met. But speaking of our our meet up, because we are good podcasters, we did record.

We've been sitting there for for a couple of hours and we decided to pull out the phone and do a little recording um of our first meetup. So so excuse the audio quality, but here it is. Okay. This is the first official meeting of the Happy half Hour crew. We are at a happy hour, essentially happy couple of hours. Who knows, you know, it's been a good, happy couple of hours. I would say, um, we just like to know that. Miles immediately reached for the phone so that

you can out of Christian's hand. I got to get close to it. I haven't had any social interaction in person with people since March, so this is new for me, and I don't know how to act in public anymore. I like it. Miles has been so responsible the entire time, and then immediately the recording comes out and he just jumps and you've been a microphone. Then my face, this is what's gonna happen. You gotta love the commitment you are on What day did you actually make the flight

to Charlotte? I flew here on Friday, so I stayed in a hotel on Friday night, and then I moved in air quotes, I moved in on Saturday. So I don't know what day is. Today is today? Tuesday? We're talking Tuesday night. Okay, so it's Tuesday night as we're talking. So I've been here for fourish fiveish days. What do you think so far? It's very green? It is? It really have a lot of green. And I was really scared during the thunderstorm last night because I had an

experienced the thunderstorm in four years. Wait, what, they don't have thunderstorms. They don't have thunderstorms in a way that is true, I can haven't you heard? Will It never rains in southern California. I lived there for three years. When I ran in l A, traffic gets backed up by an extra at least Yeah, it's a wild No one knows how to drive in the rain. Get the earthquakes, then yeah, yeah, you get earthquakes, get other stuff. You enjoyed the storm. I enjoyed the storm. Nobody got scared.

I'm scared. I was very scared for a minute. There is a quality to thementually in your ideal world. If none of this what's happening, Is this what you imagine your first interaction. You just moved. You probably haven't even unpacked your boxes. I don't even have at a table. We're all wearing masks and we're the first people that

you've socially seen in months. Well you're welcome, yes, no, thank you, um for getting me out of the house, I guess um, And you know breaking bread with me is I continue to wear this mask because I was on a plane with an alarming amount of unsafe people when it comes to COVID. But yeah, you know what, I think that in prefer my first social interaction in months, this this is this was pretty good, pretty pretty pretty good.

I guess I'm watching that. Larry David wat can we also just quickly before we move on, wrath is back, and we also just publicly acknowledge that Miles got boss and the red locks away from this. Yeah to this, I picked it because I figured he doesn't have his car yet. It's an easy lost. He got lost. It's really bad because, like I have a good reputation with having a really good sense of direction. That I turned onto the street, I was exploring the neighborhood. I thought

there would be another streets back onto. So yeah, as you'll get to, Charlotte has streets that curve and then they intersect with themselves. Yes, so they do a lot of things, so you can't you know, it's not a grid here. You can't rely on and that's what I'm used to after four years of living on the West Coast. Pretty much everything is a grid in l A, in Vegas, like that's the way things work. So yeah, in other words, I'm just indudiate though, So like that's time can handle that. Well.

I don't think I'm the right person to do this. It should probably be Will Maybe you can follow this up because I've been here all over two or three months and have been essentially nowhere. But we welcome to Charlotte. Thank you. Welcome to Charlotte. Yeah, that's why that's more official. Okay. My My favorite part of that, and we kind of roasted him on the recording itself, was that, you know,

we were all so socially responsible. Uh you know, Miles said, Hey, when we meet up, you know, I just flew on a plane. I want to make sure you guys are safe. Let's all be uh, you know, very careful. Immediately the phone comes out to record, Myles grabs it out of my to get the best, to get the best sound that he can and get us get his points across. And you know what, Miles, I gotta say, I respect it as as someone who has done that before as well. You know, you got to make sure you got the

you gotta have the good sound. Well, listen, like I said, you know, when we're doing it, it's been a long time since I've had a microphone in my face, and I all one, and I just need it. I needed the microphone really bad. My Miles is jumping at the microphone. Well, I'm just like leaning back having some more of my flatbread, you know, because like I have my priorities. The flatbread

was delicious. Yeah, well it took a start of restaurant that that he I mean of course, Miles and I've moved here a few months ago and haven't been anywhere. Miles just got here the other day. So we left it to Will to pick out a place. And I got to say, Supert Flatbreads, you did not do us

wrong there. And I was trying to make it walkable for Miles since we're still working on his car, and even then I made it as literally, this is the closest place of business that there is two miles his new apartment, and he still got lost on the way. And it wasn't like you three blocks right, three blocks away from from where you live, and I want to say, Miles and don't want to call you out, but it was something like, you're twenty minutes late. I was very late.

I was fashionably late three blocks or you just didn't. You were like, I'm not showing up early for these two. They're not even my friends. I mean, that was part of it, but it was it was mostly that. So I started walking and then I was like, oh, then you two, I will say you guys both texted that you were running a little bit late. So I was like,

all right, I will walk around the neighborhood. I will explore my new surroundings, and so when I did that, I kind of got lost, and because it really could have been a straight shot just up the street, but then I decided that I would make it not a straight shot, and my sense of direction got a little bit messed up, and then I I ended up seeing a little bit more than neighorhood than I bargained for.

But it was cool. It was nice. You know, it's very green and luscious, which is very different from where I was just living in Las Vegas. So it was very nice. It was a nice one, just a little bit different. I do want to say that Will mentioned that you are not supposed to get your car until today, right,

everything is being shipped. Yes, everything is being shipped. So you know, as I sit here and record this, there may be a bit of more of an echo because there's basically nothing in my apartment except for a few suitcases and air mattress, uh and my laptop and the

cable and internet things. So that's about it. I just want to say, though, I dispute the fact that, uh that your car, you say your car isn't here, because last night, after I left the restaurant, I drove home behind a Lamborghini with the license plate that said unemployed. And if that doesn't scream Miles Simmons car, I don't know what does. It was a little Lamborghini, was the suv? It was it was just the car. I didn't know what they made. Oh you're like, oh, yours is the suv? Yes,

you guys. It was a wild I was behind the Slamborghini. For first of all, I don't know if I've ever driven behind the Lamborghini. I find this car for fifteen minutes and the license plate just flat out said unemployed. And I'm like, who is this person? Like, I don't know if I'd want to talk be friends with them, but it was just it was just it was quite the flex. It is if that's not even a weird flex, but okay, like that's just a super good flex. So

what's that unemployed though? Because they're self employed and they're just trying to be a jerk, or they like got some kind of you know, big settlement from some company for some reason, right, and then they're like, I'm the Lamborghini and now my license plate is going to stay unemployed. I kind of respect it a little bit, but I mean the Lamborghini. Of course, what color was the Lamborghini? No, it was well maybe I don't know. It was black or dark blue? Well, then that's what I think it

could have been. Yours. Well, where do you fall on this cool or not cool? I'm I'm so off the cool radar when it comes to automobiles that I have no valid opinion, Like every car I've ever had has been at least fifteen years old and used and yeah, no word, I can't even weigh in. I hear you. I know, Miles, like, what color was it? What kind was it? I was like, it's it was dark, it was it was a Lamborghini. I read the I read the back, that's all, but I don't know. I made

me laugh the entire way home. I was like, was this person when I've had this car thing for a long time? So I was dating somebody once and I would always be like, oh, I would do the same thing, like what you know, what kind of car was it? L L DA DA? And they said I saw this cool car and she would be like, oh it was silver. I'm like, all right, well that tells me nothing. Just a silver car. I like it. Uh, some Miles, how

was the move you have UM. In the course of starting this job, you had to fly twice, I believe right you you came here to Charlotte to kind of scope out the area and find an apartment UM, and then you made the official move the other day. So so how did that all go in these you know,

in the time of COVID. It's very interesting because when I flew the first time, that was in mid to late May UM, and then when I went to the airport in Las Vegas, I actually felt decently comfortable because people I felt like, at least in the term ALLI was in, we're really socially distant. They were, they had on masks, and there really were not a lot of people that were flying. And so contrasting that with what happened last Friday when I flew here to move, and

it was just a completely different thing. I mean, it seemed like people were not taking social distancing you know, guidelines seriously at all. And that was a little bit terrifying because this is an airborne virus. You know, it spreads through people, um, you know, breathing droplets and things

into the air. If you're talking and you're in an enclosed space and there's many more informed people who can uh and educated people in epidemiologists who can say things that are probably a little bit more coherent on things like that. But I just it was a little scary. Um, So that was part of why, you know, if we're gonna meet up, you know, I was like, all right, we gotta be outdoors. I gotta have my mask on

the whole time. Like I was trying not to breathe much as I took my mask off and was eating. And it's just impressive because I don't want to get I don't want to get anybody else sick from this thing. This thing is serious and even if you're asymptomatic, you know, it can really do a number on your loans. So yeah,

it was it was an experience. Um, I'm glad it's over, and I'm glad that, you know, I don't necessarily have to do commercial flights any other times soon as people don't take this as seriously as I kind of think

they should. Well, I'll give a quick p s. A. Last week I went and gave blood um at the like one of the mobile blood banks at the night Stadium, and apparently they're supposed to be able to give you both like your blood type, so you know, because I know like some blood types are more um susceptible or

less susceptible. But also that I think they're supposed to perform like an antibody test, so they're supposed to like tell you whether you've shown the antibodies for covid um and like whether you've had it and been asymptomatic in the past. Um so, and plus giving blood is always a good thing because the hospital still need need all that blood. Yeah, that's great to know. I did not know that admittedly until you told us. So I'm I'm glad to know about that. We should all be giving blood.

So added bonus there, um miles. Going back to your move, how has it been? So I think anyone who's listening to this would probably know this, although you are you're very um low key about this and don't make it a big deal. But you have been working Vegas. You've

been working East coast hours from Vegas. So sometimes you and I will do something with the we've been doing these gets to know interviews with the coaches, and they'll want to do it early before meetings start, you know, eight am, nine am, and so you're getting up at like five six, like your work day was starting at five or six every single day. I assume I gotta think that you're pretty happy that that's over with Yes,

I'm very happy that that's over with it. And it's funny, Like, I mean, I didn't I didn't make that big deal because it's like nobody needs to feel bad for me, you know, like it just it sort of was what it was. Um. But yeah, I'm like now sleeping like a normal person. Uh so that's cool. But there were benefits to getting up that early. So I would get up around five, and work day starts around six, uh Pacific time, because that's nine o'clock Eastern, but you're done

around two. So most days, like I would finish up my work around two to thirty and then go on a walk and I enjoy what was then nine degree temperatures And now as I was looking at my calendar or the weather app yesterday, it's like a hundred and eight degrees in lass and I guess, so I'm glad I'm not there. Um, but yeah, it was. It was kind of weird some days where it would be like six in the morning, and you know, you and I were about to talk to Joe Brady and everybody's like,

why is it so dark where you are? And I'm like, oh, let me turn on the light because it's not really up out here yet. So yeah, well, we're glad that you're you're on East Coast time with the rest of us now. So that's kind of one of the main things that you and I have been working on, which I have really enjoyed. UM this series on getting to know the members of the new coaching staff, and we do a written piece and a video piece UM for each of these coaches and they're coming out about once

a week. So I want to talk about that. But before we get to that, Will on on the workfront, what's what's new with you? I feel like we didn't even get into that last night when we hung out. It was all just about me and Miles getting getting

adjusted our good friend Will. We didn't even ask well. So, yeah, I've been doing some doing some more stuff on the app, and it's kind of funny, like I've been building just all of these new pages and areas of the site, uh for for Panthers dot Com that hopefully, well we'll get to start launching soon. I think a lot of this is trying to figure out some launch timings with

with everything we're doing. But we're working with like a voting initiative to kind of, um encourage people to vote and keep people in formed on how to vote and how to register. UM, so that hopefully that's coming out soon. Um. You know, we've been working with elements of kind of the Player Impact Committee that you know, you guys are certainly Miles was a big part of some of those coverages, those articles with Andre Smith and and all those guys.

And then just like you know, it's completely my weird little world of nerdiness where I'm trying to build out essentially all of the history of the Panthers on all these pages, which takes a little bit. So that's what I end up just like going into this like little weird bubble for hours and looking up random stats and records and stuff. Oh I love it. So what do you mean when you say built out the history in

what way will it present itself? So essentially, right now, if you google, like what's the longest play in Panthers history, you'd have to have, you know, either some sort of subscription to some of those like stat sites, or really understand how to use some of the stuff online. Um, and so we I'm just trying to make it easier and trying to make it all available on our platform rather than going to like a Pro Football Reference or

an NFL dot com. And um, we have a lot of the stuff in our media guide, but you know that that it's just a harder sort of PDF too to comb through and stiff through, and it only gets updated, you know, once every twelve months. So I think it's it's just something when we went to our new platform, we kind of had to rebuild all of it, and it's taken a while, and um hasn't always been kind of in front of mine. So I think it's been a nice offseason in summer to really kind of jump

into that. That is awesome. As someone who will frequently look for for stats like that when it comes to you know, story ideas or interviews, I'm very excited that I won't have to control fa media guide, you know with the word longest or whatever history you could you could literally do what everyone else does and just like text me because apparently that's kind of my function, you know, like between Joe person or or like mat acts back

in the old days. Now, Miles like, yeah, it's literally just like I'm like the texting encyclopedia for for any of us. Heck, yes, I'm glad I know that now I love it. Uh yeah, so so Miles, with you and I. The big thing, like I said, that we've been working on, is this this get to No series with the coaches. What is the thing that has interested you or surprised you the most that you've learned as we've been doing this now for I guess over a month, there's I guess there's a lot of things that have

interested me. Um. I have liked hearing about how the coaches have interacted with Matt Rule over the course of their career, because there are a lot of these coaches who have come to Charlotte from Baylor, and then even a lot of those coaches were with Matt Rule Um

at Temple as well. So it's interesting to hear how they have such an immense respect for what he's done and how he builds a program, and it is very clear that there is a plan and for the way that they want to go about doing things and the way that they want to go about implementing things and so I think if you're a Panthers fan, then that's good news because I think one of the most concerning things that can really be in any industry is when

a leader comes in and there's no vision. So I think there is a clear vision for what Matt Rule wants this team to look like, what he ideally wants it to how he wants it to function, I should say, on the field, and how he wants the building to function on a day to day basis when it comes

to the football operations. So I think from that standpoint, yes, COVID is definitely upended that and the implementation of that from being around from guys being around each other every day in that standpoint, but I think just from a general knowledge of what the vision should be and what things should look like, it is very clear from the head coach on down to the assistance and then into the players what this thing should look like on a day to day basis and how they should go about

trying to win football games. Absolutely, and you have a special teaser for us write something that I didn't know about until you mentioned it. You and I talked to, Oh, can you can you just give us a little bit a little bit of I'll give it him, I'll give you. So when we were talking to Evan Cooper, who is the cornerbacks coach now for the Carolina Panthers, and he's one of those guys that spent time with Rule both

at Temple and then at Baylor. What what we learned is that his grandmother is one of the you know, people who fostered his love of football. And he said, you know, my family loves football, and my grandmother she even knows what covered two is. She'll call me after some night after certain games and she will get on me about different things about coverages and things like that. So I actually was able to talk to Evan Cooper's grandmother, Margaret Accent, and that part of that interview will be

in the Get to No profile of Evan Cooper. So that was fun. I love that so so much. That's uh, that's amazing. I can't wait to read that. Yeah, the thing too, And I'm sorry to doctors and like, it was funny talking to her because I literally was like, hey, they're all analysts. There are football analysts that are on TV that really couldn't tell you what cover two is and get what the difference between zone and man and the back end and all that, and she's like really

like huh, She's like, I know a little bit. I'm like, but if if what Evan Cooper is saying is true, then you know more than you're giving yourself credit for. So, yeah, that was fun. She gets Bill to call her. Bill needs to learn a little bit about our defense too. He's always leaning over. He's like, wait a minute, like we is that a nickel? Is that a dime? Or wait, what's the dime again? I didn't mean to throw our boss under the bus. I'm very I'm very I'm very

happy to we can. I can do that once a podcast. We'll see if Phil, oh my gosh, that'd be another good easter. And I will see if Phil listens to the So just like minute twenty eight or whatever it is, Bill slam about about his defensive knowledge, I love it. Yeah, No, I've just had I've had a great time, Miles kind

of what you were saying. Um, with all of these guys going back for so long, I think that's been one of the most interesting things to be is to hear little tidbits about coach rule and whether they you know, Phil snow he was a coach Rule is a grad assistant for him at U c l A when he was the defensive coordinator and now the rules have changed and they've been together for a long time. Or Evan Cooper, as you mentioned that interview that we did is coming

out soon. He says that you know, he was a grad assistant for Coach Rule, and Coach Rule said, I'll never hire you because you're a terrible grad assistant. And

now he's the quarterbacks coach. And it's it's very cool to me to hear um all of these connections and miles, like you said, the respect that they all have for Coach Rule, and more so than that, I do love It's as a lot to me about the loyalty between all of these people, not just uh Coach rules loyalty to them, but their loyalty to him, and the fact that so many of them have been together through all of these iterations, whether it was a temple or bailor

or um the new additions, how well they started to to mesh with everyone, and the familiarity that they have even if they haven't known the rest of the staff for very long. So I've just really enjoyed that it's

it's seems like a great group. Um and like you said, guys that really know what they want this to look like and have a clear vision, no doubt, and that I think when you have something like that, that is the way that you have to That's the way, the only way really, I think that you can turn things around if everybody has to be pushing and pulling up the same direction. And the respect and you know, appreciation that all these guys seem to have for one another,

that's going to help in that absolutely well. All right, so we have, um, we've been doing this get to know kind of series, as I've said, so we're going to do a couple of get to know questions amongst ourselves now that we've you know, officially met and officially are on the way to becoming friends at least, you

know Miles and Will maybe we'll see. So we're gonna do five quick ones kind of some of the questions that Myles and I might ask the coaches just to get to know a little bit more about each other. So first job ever, Will, I was a baker delivery truck driver. That's all. Is that why you're I mean, because you have said that you are baking a lot of bread, and I kind of thought this was a new hobby during quarantine. But you start so you can bake. I know I can't make, but I was really good

at driving the driver. Oh, I thought you were saying

baker slash delivery driver for the bakery. So I would get there five o'clock in the morning and we had this like massive key ring to essentially all of the these restaurants that had breakfast in Charleston, and I would go and just drop off whatever their wholesale delivery was for that morning, like croissants or you know, rolls or or French bread or whatever it was, and then like do this route all that all through downtown Charleston at like six in the morning, and then come back and

they would be cooking like the lunchtime bread and then pick that up and then go deliver that like out around like the lunch spots, and did that all through like the summer after my freshman year. How awesome did

you mess up orders? Um? So, I will admit, because I think there's a statute of limitations at this point that sometimes we'd have like these huge brown paper bags and it would be like a hundred and fifty uh like bread rolls or like dinner rolls, and they would just be in the back of this completely empty truck.

So I'd make a turn in like the bag might tip over and like the top roll that was like might just start rolling towards me in like, oh my, well, if it's rolling all along this, you know, dirty truck, I probably shouldn't deliver it. So you know, they get a hundred and forty nine roles that day, and I had a little bit of a lunch. Oh you ate

the dirty role across them. You know, that's where the statue limitations should be, the fact that you went it went across the dirty truck and then you're like, yeah, this is for me. It's all just like flower back there. Anyway, the flameter just got reduced on that knowledge. All right, next one, I'm going to alternate these um. So that was that was Will's first job ever. Miles. What was

your first job in sports or first internship? My first job in sports, I worked for radio station in Cleveland, the Fan. I was production intern for the Bull and Fox Show, and it was from two to seven week days. So I would go in and a cut audio for them, um for like you know, sound and their segments and things like that. Uh. And then they let me answer phones one day and they're like, oh, you're pretty good at this. And they also let me help cover training

camp with the Brown Speet writer for him. So that was that was a good summer. I think it was summer of that I did that. Yeah, no kidding. I also love like, do you ever think about what your local radio name would be? Like Bull and Fox is such a great we wanted to think on that, and we can all we can all come back to maybe we should have named it something, you know with our local radio names. Um, all right, Well, what's your favorite

Panthers memory? And it can be I know, you have been with the team since you're an intern, and also you're a fan before that, so so anyone you want to pick, what's one that sticks out to you? Well, I mean, I think the the easy one is the fact that I like destroyed my couch when I was in high school when Smitty caught the pass in St. Louis for the X Clown touchdown that I literally jumped over it in like the whole thing like kind of broke.

So I mean, but you know, everyone's gonna say that that's like everyone's favorite Panthers memory, So I would say probably, um, the first UH fan fest that I worked, UM a couple of years ago, there was it was like it

was really cool. You know, it was at night. You know, Cam was doing his thing with you know, the wave with the crowd, um, and but there was this gigantic storm cell that was like you know, bearing down on us, and we were like trying to like get coached to finish practice early because we didn't know how much time we'd have before like trying to do like the whole firework display and like the ladis. It was so literally like everyone was running off the field. They're like started

started started. You have like all of us literally on our radar maps like looking at the cell, like trying to time out how much more time we had, Like we knew we had like a seven minute fireworks show. Literally right after the last one popped, like it started dripping, and then by the time we all got inside, it was a full on you know storm that Like I felt bad for the fans because they all had to like walk home in it, but it was still like the intense I was fine, I know I just love.

I was like, when you said that, you were like, oh yeah, as soon as we got done, I was like, well, wait, what about the fans. I love that. You're like, it's probably as memory actually, so sorry sorry fans, Sorry about that one. No, but there is. I mean that kind of is a microcosm, and I think that's why we love the game and the sport. It's like, obviously even though that wasn't you know, on the field or a play, it's just when everything comes together and you're like, yes,

like this worked, we timed it out, this worked. How special is this moment um? So I think that's really cool. And you said that was your first one. Yeah, that was I think that's the tone high expectations. Now going forward. Alright, Miles, what is your favorite sports memory? Just in general? H h There are good ones. Um, there are bad ones. I guess. Uh, working um with the Rams for so long, it would probably well, I mean like the Cleveland winning

a championship in that was really awesome. Um, but I guess from a work standpoint. When you know, I've worked for the Rams for five years, so when they defeated the New Orleans Saints and the Superdome, um during the playoffs, Like that was awesome. Um. And I have a photo of myself hugging to Kell Roby Coleman in the locker room celebration after that, and it's one of my favorite photos of all time. And if you don't understand why that's fun, then uh, look up why they got the

rule changed to past interference in Oh. I know as soon as you said that game, I was like, well, I did say thank you because when I got the covers, remember that game. Yeah. I don't think anyone of the league has forgotten that game, that's for sure, Like I said, at least of all Sean Payton. Um. So okay, So those are my kind of typical get to know your questions that I might start out with with some of

the coaches. But last night we were talking about doing the segment and Will came off the top rope with a question that I've never heard anyone ask before the rope. Yeah, so do you want to introduce your your contribution to the get to know segment? Because it's great? Sure, So like every once in a while, you know, you're just trying to like look up random songs that you know to play on YouTube or play on your computer while

you're working at home. And so I like was googling or youtubing random, like some random nineties songs, and it turns out that like this Dave Matthew song was somehow like the music video had Mr Deed's in it, and obviously like the song was like where are you Going? And you know, far outlasted any sort of legacy of the Mr. Deeds movie. Yes, so I was thinking, like, what other songs have far more lasting power than the random movie that they just happened to be tied to

in that particular moment um. You know. Obviously there's some songs that are like notable soundtrack songs, but others are just like no, that's that's not that's not like a movie song, but the music video is forever that movie, you know, because they like tried to tie it into the music video. So I just thought that was like an interesting and interesting random thing to look up. Yeah,

so I'm proud of mine. So it is such a specific um specific criteria of like it's got to be a music video that has a movie in it, but that's not necessarily soundtrack. But I'm pretty proud of mine. Okay, and I think it for perfectly fits the Bill Seals Kiss from a Rose on the Grain, same list Man Forever. It is wild, it is okay, so then so but this also makes me feel better Miles if you do

the same one. That means you watch the video. It's a great song, it's a song that's stood the test of time, and he's like lad and then it's just the bat signal behind him. I mean wild. It is wild, and it's um, I guess Val Kilmer was Batman forever, but that is I had fun, Miles. I'm sorry, um that I stole your thunder there, but at least you've seen it. You know what I'm talking about. Well, you gotta go watch it after this. Yes, that is exactly

the song that I had picked. And the video, as you say, is wild because it's just like him standing there with the bad signal while like all these people are coming into like the show with the Joker and Robin or whatever it is. I don't really understand what's all was going on there because it is what it is, um,

But yeah, that was weird. That was a very weird video because that's a great song and Seal was a great He's standing there kind of with the what we now would call a Beyonce fan, and his shirt is open. It is, everything's blown up. I like, what is this behind? Well? Yeah, go ahead, no, go ahead? Like, did you guys know that or did you like have to look up to stumble upon that? Did that? Okay? No? I remember this from Sorry Chris, and I remember that the song was

from a Batman movie. I don't know why I knew that, but I did know that. So I was like, wait a minute, does this actually have a Batman themed um music video? Because I don't think I ever I don't recall ever seeing the music video before. So when I looked up the music video, I was like, yes, this fits the criteria. Oh man, No, I found I found a list. I was trying to jog my memory. I didn't think I would come across a gym so quickly, but I saw that. I actually didn't know. I used to.

I mean I was a kid when that song came out. I used to be on like the radio station. I was like, this is my jam and I saw that it was from a I didn't have no idea was from a Batman video. I was like, what see you Batman forever. I had no clue. So that was a fun trip down memory lane. Maybe my new favorite music video now of all time. That's well, thank you for introducing that one. That was that was way more fun than the questions I had and I will I've now

learned something that I'll take it with me for forever. Nice. Yeah. Um so, guys at the end, right before we go miles, what's the meter on you and Will being friends? Like where in right now? I would say we're at like a seven and a half. Okay, Okay, we're moving that up that night. You can work with that. Well yeah, alright, guys, well this has been fun. Um let's do it again soon. Huh absolutely all right. Thanks thanks everybody for listening to the Happy Half Hour Podcast. We will up to you

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