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dot com. There at the end, like I always say, when Mr Jenkins tells me something, I've got to tell the people. That's right. Uh, it's good to see you guys, um, everything has been a little crazy so far this week. We gotta you know, we had the Sunday game against New Orleans, a little bit of a heartbreaker there for the Panthers. Yeah, you know, it's it's a shame that it came down to a sixty five yard field goal at the end, because, as Joey Sly put it, he
thought he had it. And when you think you have it and it's that long and it's a record, it's a little bit disappointing when it comes up a little bit short. But I think, as everybody talked about in the aftermath of that game, the sack on third down really was the problem because when you take an eight yard loss and then you see the length that Joey slide was able to get on that kick, it's like,
oh man, that thing was really really close. And if you don't take that sack and you don't lose so many yards, you probably tie that game up there at the end. I mean, and as as others said, you need to get some stops before that. You shouldn't have had to come down to that when your offense is playing that well throughout the course of the game, and you know, the defense allows twelve third down conversions twelve
of fourteen. Well, we gotta we gotta make sure we put it like that, because that's the way you gotta you gotta put it like that. And then you gotta say the percentage eighty six percent or eighty seven or eighty five point seven point six, say the percentage. And then you just named four percentages. I know that was a bad moment of broadcasting. None of those percentages were good. So no, no, not anytime it's like a above eighty percent, I mean, above fifty is unideal. But when you get
to that much, it was like, oh my goodness. Yeah, it was just a really bad, bad, bad, no good game, the terrible, horrible, no good, really bad day for the defense on third down. Let's talk about that. Since we're here already, we gotta get to Christian McCaffrey stuff. Of course that's what everyone wants to know about. But let's put this loss against New Orleans to bed. How do you come back from from those third down numbers, which will I believe we're historically bad? Yeah, we're worst, worst
in a game. How do you focus on that this week on a short week and show improvement for this Thursday game against Atlanta. Well, I think the first thing you have to do, and all defensive players say this, is you have to be better on first and second down. You can't allow Atlanta to get into these third and short opportunities because look, Todd Gurley is he's not performing at the same level that he did in when first he was Offensive Player of the Year and then the
next year he led the league in touchdowns. But he has still shown that when he's gotten the when he's given the opportunity, he can get you a few yards. Right in that game that the the Panthers played against the Falcons a few weeks ago, it's not like Todd Gurley was a slouch. He had over a hundred yards for the first time since the playoff game in season so yes, exactly, definitely not a slouch. No, and he's only had a hundred and ten yards in the two
games since. So again, this is not and and Julio Jones will be playing in this game exactly. So when you give Atlanta options and they've got a veteran quarterback in Matt Ryan who knows how to read things and pick apart z own coverage, then you're gonna put yourself in a bad position. So it's about making sure that you are stout on first and second down. But even so, when you get into these third medium situations, sometimes you just got to make a play. And I think that's
something that we haven't seen the Panthers do enough. Yeah, it really you know, as you said, it's about making a run up the middle. Be one yard and not five, you know, I I think it looks like there's contact that's happening. People are meeting him at the line, and then it was like and then camera or you know, LaTavia Murray gets another one to three or four yards, pulling people falling forward, breaking you know, the first shoulder tackle. You have to get guys down at first contact when
you know what's coming. You know they're gonna run at you, they're gonna do a zone read, they're gonna go up the middle, and you've got to stop people because there's a big difference between second and nine and second and five. There really is. And then of course there's a huge difference between thirty and one, third and one and third and seven. But you know, at the same time, this is a defense that gave up what that huge third and fourteen two Camara on a screen pass, Like my goodness.
I mean, they've they've got to be able to make tackles in the open field. And because of the way that you know, they're kind of scheming things a lot, it's about coming up to a play and making tackles moving forward. You know, they're putting things in front of them. They've got to make plays if they're going to do that. Yeah, I mean, and it's a lot to focus on and
fix in this short week. And then you look at you know, you get you get a little bit of a break after this Thursday game against the Falcons, but then you gotta do with the Chief's offense. So one aim at a time, and we can't look too far ahead. I'm just saying, that's it. This is an issue, as you said, historic historically, um bad third down defense. Uh, this is an issue that's that's gotta get fixed. I mean, think about this. It was just the second time in
Panthers history that they didn't force a punt. New Orleans never punted. Did you see That's gross? It's gross. It is they didn't punts. You know, it's not It's not the kind of thing that you want to hear. I mean, look, right now, the Panthers are thirty first in third down defense, which is hard to believe that a team is worse. Who's who's worse the Tennessee Titans, and they're giving up I think around six, if not quite right at six
the last time I look. So that's it's it's a little bit weird because the Titans have been so good, um, and they didn't have the best game against the Steelers, but then they all also almost tied that thing up at the end there um last week. But right now, the Panthers giving up fifty six of third down so that's got to come down. It's just frankly, it's got to come down. We'll see if if they can make that happened on Thursday night against the Falcons under the lights. Um.
On the offensive side. Of course, the thing that everyone is talking about, Panthers, fans, fantasy owners, you name it is that Christian McCaffrey was designated to return on Tuesday. Now, what that means does not necessarily mean that he's going to be playing in this game, but it is significant in his return to getting back on the field. Yeah, it is, because right now as you get designated to return, that means it starts your twenty one day practice window.
At the end of that twenty one days, you have to, uh, you have to choose between whether a player is activated or then good remains on I are for the rest of the season. Now, it doesn't necessarily take twenty one days to be clear for somebody to be activated once they are designated to return. So basically, at any point over the next twenty one days and now twenty days is since that started yesterday, Christian McCaffrey can be activated to the fifty three man roster. Now will that happen
this week? I don't know, especially because at this point he's he's been on the field for practice. We don't necessarily know how much he's done for practice. And I think if you're talking about a player of his caliber, does he want to be on the field. I'm sure he does. But at the same time, you probably want him to get a full week of practice in before
you get him back there on the field. So it will be certainly interesting to see over the next twenty four you know, twenty six eight is hours however long it is before kickoff tomorrow night. Um whether or not the Panthers decide to activate him. But at this point, I'm not sure that that's something that's going to happen. And just so I'm clear on this, Um, and I had to ask you this every day, but just so we put it out there for everyone who's listening. He
can be activated whenever. Yes, yeah, pretty much right before the game. He gosh, And I really should probably know the why. I'm sorry. I don't mean to put you
on the spot. It's just all everything's so different this year, and I just I'm curious of like, Okay, when if you're a Panthers fan or or you know, a fantasy owner or whatever, when do you say, like, Okay, he's definitely not playing, because to me, the signs say that as of right now, doesn't look like he's going to play for all of the reasons that you just said, Myles, Um, I mean, Miles, would he have to be Would that have to be a transaction submitted by five pm Thursday
to go from a reserve list to an active roster? Probably? So, yeah, I mean wouldn't it. I mean it would have to come out on the Yeah, usually it would be. It would usually be the day before a game, like usually that would happen on a Saturday at the latest. Now it's Thursday night football, So I'm not sure if that means it can happen on earlier on Thursday or not. It might be I think it can happen earlier on Thursday.
Um so, but yeah, that's that's a good point though, regardless of what the timeline is with Thursday, there is another step that has to happen so that you know, fans, I think it's important. I think a lot of people are seeing him back and practice and side like all right, it's happening. Um. But it's just good to know that there's another step to look for if if you want know if he's gonna play or not. Yeah, I mean
I would imagine you're gonna know before tomorrow night. It's not going to be like, oh yeah he oh is he coming out there? Well you gotta have I mean, it's ninety minutes before the games for active, so we will probably know if he's gonna play. We're gonna know Thursday, probably morning afternoon, if he's going to be activated to the roster. We will definitely know when the game kicks off if he will be playing or not. Yes, make sure to follow Miles Simmons on Twitter Panthers dot com
for all your latest updates. I like that. And you know, while we're at it, UM It's the Happy Half Hour podcast presented by Morris Jenkins. Well and Mr Jenkins told me Chris and that he loves football and he looks forward to this show all week. When you're plumbing, her conditioning is acting up, you call Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. Whenever Christian McCaffrey comes back. The question has been how will that play with Mike Davis
and Matt Rule. Got asked that question the other day and he said, yeah, I think we use them both. He said, it has proven that that he deserves to have a place in this offense. Um and and that's what it will be. Now we don't know how that will take shape, but I've I've heard that conversation happen a lot, and I just think, what a great problem for Joe Brady to have in my opinion, But I've heard people say like, oh my gosh, how is this
gonna work. I think they're going to figure it out. Yeah, It's interesting because different offensive coordinators and different offensive minds have different philosophies on the way they like to use personnel groupings. And from what I've noticed here, Joe Brady likes to be multiple and I think when you have the skill sets of the guys that they have, you can use more than one running back, because it's uh sometimes when coaches talk about it, it's like, Okay, who
do you take off the field? The Rams are a good example of this because they in the past they've had three really good wide receivers when they've used what's called eleven personnel with three wide receivers, one running back, one tight end. Okay, so that's like what they do, and they've used a little bit more too tight end sets. But when you do that, it's like, okay, who do
you take off the field? And so here I think it's a little bit different in that they rotate through guys a lot, you know, so it's not just been Okay, Robbie Anderson, d J. Moore, Curtis Samuel are on the field every play. Ian Thomas is going to be on the field, you know. Whatever. They've rotated through their guys, and so they were even doing that a little bit
with Christian McCaffrey. Mike Davis would get a series here and there in those first couple of games, and there were a couple of times I believe we're Mike Davis and Christian McCaffrey were on the field at the same time. And the great thing about McCaffrey is you don't just have to put him in the backfield. You know, you can split him out wide and use him in the slot.
You can do a lot of different things. So that I think is gonna be the fun way of seeing how Joe Brady puts together the puzzle because there are a lot of possibilities because he's got a lot of different weapons that have a lot of different skill sets. I do. I think it's gonna be more about touches than about snaps because Miles, Well, you're right, Mike Davis did come in a little bit in those first four games.
McCaffrey only miss four snaps before he was hurt. Four snaps in two games, I guess a game and three quarters. So it's one of those things. Everyone they talked about it at nauseum last year before you guys got here. It's it's great to talk about, but until you're out there, like I will believe Christian McCaffrey comes off the field when I see it, you know, because it just it doesn't happen. He gets out there, and when he's healthy, it's really really hard to take him off the field
for any given amount of time. Well, and that's that's what I mean by saying that he if you want to put Mike Davis on the field with Christian McCaffrey, then he's got the McCaffrey's got the versatile skill set to go out wide and maybe you know, you are limiting the amount of hits that he takes because he then goes outside and he's not just running between the tackles and then you know, getting a little bit dinged up. So that's that's Curtis Samuel too. He's got the first
tile skill set to go in the backfield. But you also see what he can do on third downs when he is split out wide or he's in the slot and he just knows how to uncover and Teddy Bridgewater knows how to find him. So that's what I mean that it's the good problem to have. You don't necessarily have to take Christian McCaffrey off the field. To put somebody else on it and then see what kind of skill sets and what kind of matchups you can get.
And one thing I just really like about the Mike Davis Christian McCaffrey dynamic is they are each other's biggest fan. It feels like to me, you know, Mike Davis tweeted the other day, I'm not gonna lie, it's great to have Smack back out here in practice. Um. And it's just that kind of camaraderie between the two of them, UM that I really like, you know, game plan aside. When Christian McCaffrey comes back, I know that no one wants him back out there more than Mike Davis on
that team. And genuinely, like, they really do support each other and all they do. They're they're good friends. They joke with each other. Was talking to Mike not too long ago, and we're talking about who's the best at all the games that they kind of have in the locker room and stuff, and he was like, Christians so good at ping pong. He was like, there's nothing that
he's bad at. And he's texting him about it, and you know, I just I really like their relationship and I'm excited to hopefully see some some creative things when they're both healthy. Yeah. Yeah, it's fun when guys support each other like that. I mean you see things like that. You see Curtis Samuel talking about in his little press conference yesterday, how his face. Somebody asked him about, what's your favorite play that you've had so far this year?
And he's like, well, you know, I like making my teammates smile, So I'd say it was on d J. Moore's really long touchdown in Atlanta. I got a couple of blocks down field form and he got into the end zone and score. Yeah. That's nice to hear, you know, nice, nice little teammates support absolutely all Right, Well I should have asked you this last week, Um, but I didn't. But okay, we got Atlanta coming up on Thursday, and
then the Panthers were just in New Orleans. Now, when the Panthers went down to Atlanta, you went on a m I would call it a rant about how much you dislike Atlanta. Ales and I were both going down and you said that essentially there was no way that you would ever be caught dead in Atlanta. Is this is how if I'm paraphrasing, I think that that's really what it felt like. Um, I didn't ask you that, Like, how do you feel about New Orleans? Yeah, that's it. No,
New Orleans is fun. It's New Orleans. I've had some great times in New Orleans. I mean, that's what I would say about Atlanta, though you know, I've had some
bad times in Atlanta anyway. But as much as there are so many reasons, and you know, I think, you know, Sean Payton can be such a like can play that he'll in like the wrestling sort of way, you know, And but I mean watching him and watching the things he said about Teddy Bridgewater, you know it, watching those relationships of like Drew Brees and those guys before and after the game, like, it's really hard to feel the same. I mean. And obviously this is a particular small circumstances.
This isn't a generation stional rivalry feeling. But it just it didn't feel I think, particularly for this game, you felt a lot of camaraderie with them because of those relationships and in a larger sense the Superdome. While there's been some tough losses, you know, the playoff loss in seventeen that came down obviously, this one, it just hasn't felt like the House of Horrors that Atlanta has felt like. And I also think I don't know how fans feel
about this. I like seeing that camaraderie that you mentioned um before and after the game with Drew brees And and Teddy and Joe Brady and Sean Payton. I mean they were they were mixing it up, everyone was smiling. Was great to see um each other. I liked when Teddy ran out of Bounce and went over to the bench. I was you can tell he's just tired. He was like, i'mnna sit down for a second and talked to Taysom
Hill and Drew brees Um. Because I also feel like, especially on the offensive side, it felt like, all right, like these are two kind of worthy opponents that know each other. Well, you're gonna show what you have. You know, you're gonna show what you've been holding on too, and then we're gonna show what we've got. And I thought
it actually made it better. You know, I know some fans don't like that kind of Um, we're gonna chat right before the game and smile, and then we're gonna hug afterwards, and but I thought it kind of felt like, um, with those offensive minds and those quarterbacks kind of like alright, like you know, we're the opponent here, let's see what you got and I'll show you what you know, what I've been holding on to specifically for this matchup. Yeah,
it's funny. Fans sometimes I think, uh take those kinds of deals the wrong way. Like you're talking about like, oh, I want to see them talking before the game. Well, that's I mean, that's what it's. You're allowed to feel that way. Yeah, and I get it. There's a part of me that gets it, even though I just use
my I'm making fun of fans voice. Um. However, I think that at the same time, you get to realize like sometimes these guys are professionals, right, Like just because you say hello to somebody before the game doesn't mean that you're not going to go out and try to kick their butt, you know, Like that's the way, that's why these things work. So I don't know. I I
I too. I like seeing the camaraderie. Thought the Teddy going to the the bench area of New Orleans that was kind of fun, you know, Teddy and uh Sean Payton. They kind of got into a little bit on the sideline being like, hey, your team just got a penalty, and it's like, well, well your team got a penalty too, So that kind of stuff that that's fun. It shows that these guys are competitors, but they're also human beings, and sometimes I think we might forget that they are
human beings. It's easy to forget that sometimes. All right, let's take a quick break and then we're gonna be back with Will's Out of the Week. Hi, this is Dewey Jenkins. Most people think my first name is Morris, but it's not. It's Dewey. Mr Morris was the name of the man I bought the company from back when I was young. I'd like to take a few moments to say how proud we are to be Panthers sponsors. When I told the team at Morris Jenkins, you would have thought I was sending them on a free trip
to Hawaii. We're here for the Panthers, and we're here for you too, whenever you need us. It's that time of the podcast, Will what your stat of the week? The week so we're just talking about this rivalry, this series with Atlanta coming up tomorrow Thursday Night is a chance for the Panthers knock on wood to potentially sweep the season series with the Falcons by winning at home and on the road. I've done it. I've knocked one. I don't know about you, guys. I knocked on all
the wood in this little booth over here. I knocked on it. Alright. That hasn't happened since for the Panthers, and it's only happened three times in twenty six seasons. You could announce that sat afterwards if it happened. No, no, no, because here's the thing, because like I'm tired of like all these great cool things that will comes up with, but no, we can't talk about them because sports. Wait, when has this ever happened before? It's happened before, not
on this podcast, but it's happened. Just sounds like like myles are like, well, play, keep these amazing yourself. Don't bring your personal stuff into this. This this is the happy happen I'm pretty sure I bring my personal stuff into this every week. That's the whole point. You know,
I'm just teasing you. That is that is a great stat but it's I think it shows a you know how much you really want to beat Atlanta, but be just like, over the course of seasons, Carolina had the best season they ever had and they couldn't sweep Atlanta. They went fifteen and one that one, Like, how many times have the Falcon swept I'm sorry, I'm putting you on the spot. More than three. I'd have to take a look. But it's but it's not It's not an
astronomical number. I mean they have split way more than either one has sweat. Sure, right, but that's yeah, And I think that's with most division rivals. It's it's hard for one team to dominate another team in a in a division just because you see each other so much so you understand what it is that you're going to get.
Even the Rams when they were really bad, you know, going on those years and like fifteen, they weren't really really bad, but you know what I'm saying, like they would they were not good, but they would take on Seattle very very well. Seattle was at that time one of the best teams in the league, but the Rams would give them everything that they could handle every time. Because you just know the teams in your division really really well. So I mean that's that's something that always
happens for the Browns. For comparisons sake from Cleveland, I can say that, Yeah, they don't sweep anybody. Um uh, the series with the Saints, they've swept the Saints six times and they swept the Bucks nine times. Okay, so yeah, it's so it's Atlanta. It's Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta. Martia Marsha Marcia does not like the city. Not I don't like. I don't like them. We talked about the Panthers third down defense, so this is something that that fans are
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how you can enter. So even more pressure on the Panthers to get some of those stops. Look negativity over here. I don't think that was negative. I don't think that was negative at all. Luck, good luck. It's a it's a great contest. Um. We appreciate Morris Jenkins for doing it, so we'll keep an eye on that. So let's talk about a short week. We are in the midst of it right now. This is, uh, this is my short
for a short week. Um, what typically for for anyone who's wondering what typically gets left on the cutting room floor when you have to go from a Sunday to a Thursday night game In terms of the players recovery and preparation, I was going to say, miles articles. Yeah, there we we we have to compile six days of articles into like two. It's not fun. Um. I think that one of the biggest things is just the recovery aspect.
Right when you start to recover as a player, it's a process and a lot of times guys say, you know, my body starts to feel right Wednesday Thursday, and that's when they have to start playing this week. So it's it really puts a lot of stress on can you get the right amount of sleep, can you make sure you're getting a massage, maybe an extra massage. Um, what are you doing to make sure that your body is
as recovered as it possibly can be? How does that affect practice or you know, you're usually doing things a lot lighter than you normally would because again, your body is not recovered. Usually this is the first day of practice, right, They've already had two days of practice this week because again they're playing tomorrow night. So it just it truncates everything and it makes everything a little bit more difficult.
I think it it's like that it pushes on the things that you're maybe not good at, and it stresses the things that you are good at because I think that there's there's just not enough time to kind of really completely reset, so you're kind of still going. And I think it's interesting. You know, the Panthers have played Thursday night games against you know, a FC teams. You know the they played it against, uh maybe it's been a while since an ANFC team, but they haven't necessarily
played them always against divisional teams every year. You know, played them against the Eagles a couple of years ago. It's different when you literally just played this team two weeks ago and you know you're not doing the full reset of a full new scouting report over the course of them. You're trying to cram it in there. But at the same time, it's like, hey, remember what worked, Remember what you just did. This is how they might try to tweak what they're doing against us, and this
is how we're gonna respond. But you really don't have a ton of time to completely do something completely new in that in that aspect. And the wild thing too in this particular case is that you're doing this against a team that just fired and said coach right after you played them. So now with Raight Morris, it's not like they're doing things that are all that differently, and you really can't because you can't install things again once
you're in the middle of the regular season. But there are a little bit of a couple a couple of tweaks here and there that you might notice. Um, so that's something that again, you know this team well enough because they're in the division, because you've seen them for years, that you probably will be able to figure that out. I mean. But at the same time, it's like, all right, you know, they might approach a couple of different things.
They might approach a couple different situations differently, so you have to anticipate that and be ready for it. And Kristen, you mentioned this earlier, but you think back over the last month or so, against the Arizona Cardinals, you had Hopkins that was hurt, banged up, eventually played but probably wasn't. Then you have the Falcons Julio doesn't play, and then you have the Saints. Yeah oo with Michael Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders don't play. And now it's like, all right,
Julio's back, Calvin Ridley's out there. You know, there's some stud wide receivers going against you, and you've kind of gotten little bit lucky on that front the last month or so. Yeah, it's something that that I thought about, you know, knowing that Julio Jones will play in this game and no Russell Douglas um from from at least at this point from what we understand. Um, But Dante Jackson didn't play in that Atlanta game. I think he played maybe yeah, one snap and then the tow flared up.
So you know, we'll we'll see, we'll see what happens with that. UM. So I have an answer to your question from earlier, and this actually blew my mind. So Atlanta has swept US ten times, and three times it was in back to back season, so they went four straight three separate times. Oh wow, what um? When we're the three straight? Um? I didn't look up the years, but the most recent time was I think two seasons. Well,
at least that street's been broken. We'll see if we'll see if the Panthers can complete the sweep and make will stats valid um on Thursday night. All right, we're gonna end it with our weird question of the week. As always, weird Question of the week. You're weird, You're a weird guy. No context given for this one. Usually will say, hey, this happened this week, Like last week it was, you know, Robbie talked about coming to McDonald's. So it's just this is just the question favorite ride
at an amusement park, will um. So I'm gonna get even more specific than just a generic one, Like my favorite ride is the Fury, the Giga coaster at Carowin's. Well, I don't even know what the words you just said, We're sounds like a computer part of Yeah, it's it's the giga coaster, which was open maybe four or five years ago. What is a giga coast? It's faster than all the other coasters. But I don't know why is it called giga because the gigabytes are better than megabytes.
I don't know. It's better than a megabyte coaster, that's true, or a kilobyte coaster from the nineties. Anyway, So the giga the giga coaster is what they call it. You can literally see our office from the top of it. That's awesome. You get that the one that you can see um on the highway like when you're taking the accent. That's the huge straight drop one, and it's the way it's like. And then you go on the other coasters at Carowin's, you can tell how much better technology is.
Like that one you ride and it's so much faster and it's a bigger drop, and yet you feel fine after it's just such a rush, And then the other ones, you know, you feel awful because the technology just your your head's shaking around. Anyway, I can't do I can't do the spinny things. I only do coasters. How fast does it go? Looking it up? All? Right? What about what about you? Miles? Favorite? I have no favorite rides. I I do not do rides. I don't do amusement parks.
Uh you know why, because I'm definitely afraid of roller coasters and you hate fun. Did you did you have a bad experience or have you ever been on the road. The last time I was on a roller coaster was in the summer of twenty and I cried. Whoa, yep, I cried. There were tears in my eyes during before, after,
during slash after, and I really didn't want to do it. So, uh there, I had a friend and we were at this event for our job, and they took us to the Santa Cruz boardwalk out in California, right, and he was like, we gotta go on the roller coaster. We gotta go on the roller coaster. I was like, dude, I really don't want to do that, and like I was his only friend there, so I was like. Eventually I relented and I shouldn't have done it. I just it was it was very scary, and I cried. Yeah,
so I don't go from that on. I just I don't go on roller coaster. Man. If I ever have kids or whatever, you know, I hope that uh their mother is a roller coaster person. I will not step foot on the roller I'm not doing it. I'm not going to do it, Matt. So. I don't know the name of it, but when I went on a field trip when I was a kid, there was a we went to Bush Gardens in Virginia and there was a ride that dropped two and fifty ft straight down roller coaster.
Remember the name of it, like Will does. I don't know if it was a Giga or a Mega or whatever, but it was pretty coaster. Um yeah, I like the ones that do the spinny stuff. I like the incredible hule um don I like all that stuff. I don't love. There are two kinds that I don't love. I like most roller coasters. I don't love a straight drop ride, so I can. I can deal with it on a roller coaster, but like a drops on a Tower of Terror, I'm I'm out. It feels awful to me. Um and
handle the spinny rides. I get sick every time. I don't want to go around and around in a teacup. But I don't mind like a loop de loop and uh, don't bother me. I need to be moving like forward. I need to have like open air, like flowing through anyway. I looked it up. It's nine in three drop. Nice. That sounds fun. So the top thrilled Dragster at Cedar Point, Now I know that one is faster because it goes like a d mile an hour way you start shooting
you up. So I don't love roller coasters, but I do know that about my Ohio uh Cedar Point attraction, which is one of the best uh what do we call those theme parks in the world us that, And so I just want to make the other point of another roller coaster that I will not get on. I
would rather get on a pure drop. Then. You know, the only ones that really kind of freaked me out are the ones that gets set up in a day at like a county fair, you know where you're like, oh man, yeah, those are That's like the one rollers are I will I'll knock get on. I'm sure they're fine. But if I if I drive past the parking lot and it's not there, and then the next daid's there, I'm like, I don't know if I like that. Like the chair swings, yeah, I just picture myself just lying
on flanging around. There is nothing holding you in a tiny little metal bar oh my god. Oh yeah. And I'm sure I mean regulations and all that, but that's the one I'd rather get on the giga coaster five times than than the one that comes in a bag and you pop up and all right, that's gonna do it for us. On this week's Happy Half Hour podcast, We'll see you next week.