Hi, this is Dewey Jenkins. When the team that manages our Morris Jenkins website told me the most often asked question is who is Mr Jenkins married too? You could have knocked me over with a feather. I went home and told my wife that I was so surprised that I didn't know what to say. She laughed and said, honey, my name is Renee. So now you know the team at Morris Jenkins and I are here for the Panthers, and we're here for you too, whenever you need us.
It's time for a Happy half Hour with your friends Kristin Balboni, Miles Simmons, and Will Bryan. That's right, it's that time of the week. It's the Happy half Hour podcast presented by Morris Jenkins. And Mr Jenkins told me that he loves football and he looks forward to this show a week. When you're plumbing or air conditioning is acting up, called Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot
com and uh Will. Normally we call this the Happy half Hour, and that is the name of the podcast, but this week's edition we're going to call it the Sad Half Hour because Miles is not joining us. He announced that he is moving on from the Panthers. He made that announcement on Twitter yesterday, and we are very excited for him, but sad that we won't have him
here here anymore. And uh, you know, sad to get to hear um that we won't get to hear all the things that Mr Jenkins told him going forward, but very excited for him in his next steps exactly. And I don't know if we ever became official friends. Remember that that's been going on for six seven months now. I don't know how that ended. Were we friends? Well, if you don't know how it ended, I hate to say, Oh it is the sad half hour producer, Matt, what
do you think did they become friends? We didn't hear it from Miles, and Miles usually would go the other way. When Will or you would have an opinion, he would like to go the other way. So if one thinks that they're friends, and they're probably not, do you think that you had something to do with it? Maybe the fact that you weren't friends. Know, maybe I need to I need to do some some inner thing reflection. Um. No, Miles, Miles is a great friend to us all and we're
excited for him. We're certainly going to miss him. Um, But you know, we do the segment on the Happy half Hour called Overheard where we would take the best soundbites from the week from whether it's Coach Rule or some of the players, and we thought, in honor of Miles departure from the Happy Half Hour podcast, we would give him his own special segment of Overheard. So, Matt, roll it you hear something overheard? Christ And do you ever watch Rick and Morty? No, I've never seen it.
It's on my list, it's on my list. All right. Well, there's basically a plot point in the show where there's basically infinite dimensions, infinite realities, and so basically in another reality.
I have already seen this game, and so essentially I could be from another reality and like saying, it's reality four four six, right, and now this is reality three three four Now four four six Miles could come in and replace three three four miles and you would never know, but you could maybe figure it out because four four six Miles has seen this game. We'll see if we've got four four six miles and will Um, I think I just completely derailed this podcast. I would just start
by saying this. I mean, do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind when Katie? Of course, um, you know, do you ever feel already buried deep six ft under? No one seems to hear a thing. Um. I don't even remember what the question was. I just that we started talking about fireworks and the song came into my head. Are you a Katy Perry fan? Oh? Heck yeah's got bangers? Man? There's this busting dynamic stuff. Do you know what the things that these people are
doing with these robots? These a little dog, you know air quote, these dog robots that can walk around and open doors and then they sense where these other things are. The robots are going to take over things. Okay, have you guys are seeing artificial intelligence? See these movies? I am robots. No, I don't want anything. I don't want any part of that. I want no part of that. I you know, I do not want anybody to use
their job. But I think that the people who in Boston Dynamics could be working on some other things that could improve our lives more than little robot dogs. I don't want those robot dogs. Let's refocus what they can be doing all right, because I know I'm I'm not into the robot stuff. I don't want to robot butler. I don't want the robots that I don't have an Alexa or anything in my house either, because I don't
want them listening to my conversations. Because I know that whenever I searched something, I was talking to somebody about Outback Steakhouse on on Instagram and a d M or something together day or maybe it was in a text, I don't know. But next thing I know, I've got out Back advertising itself to me on Instagram. The robots have enough. Oh and that conversation has fris went on for longer and longer. We just had to fade it out.
Oh that was great that Uh little did we know at that point all of the strong opinions that Myles held about mustard Mustard was the worst Disney. We love you, Miles, but the mustard on the hot dogs vests best. You had some strong opinion about vest. Uh yeah, pretty much everything. I mean, you just said something, you would just say something in a word let him. We are going to miss that, Miles. We wish you the best. We're going to miss those incredible takes on literally everything from from
robots to hot dogs, kept it interesting coasters. I hope that in his his new venture that he doesn't have to worry about too many robots or electronic things listening to him, but butlers the womb speech from SpongeBob that he seemed he quoted that like two tons yea. Hopefully lots of karaoke in his future. Yeah he's got Oh Miles, we love you. We are so happy for you, but
for us. This is the Happy Half Hour podcast presented by Morris Jenkins and Mr Jenkins told me his plumbers an A. C Tex, secretly wear Panthers jerseys under their uniforms. When you're plumbing or air conditioning is acting up? Call Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. All right, we got a game courtesy of Will Brian. No surprise there. You always have the best, most creative games, and I really like this one. It's called the what If Game.
It's been a weird season. It's you know, starting with covid um and having that trickle down to to everything else. And so I thought i'd let you explain what this is. I mean, I guess it's self explained or what you know, And we're not we're not trying to to rewrite things. But I do think it's interesting when you have all of these close games, when you have just stuff that just feels everything feels a little weird, a little bit
off to to. Like I always used to love reading kind of historical fiction of what if Kennedy hadn't been shot? You know, what if someone else was elected president or you know, what if this event didn't happen or did happen um and how things would change like a butterfly effect, one little tiny thing exactly, you know, And and I think it's a cool creative exercise of like, alright, so then what are the next equivalent steps of something else happening?
So I don't know. Okay, so we each have what if questions for each other and we don't know what they are. Now. I didn't go all past I just took it as what if, and then I started I started brainstorming. So we'll see you. I have no idea what you're gonna say, and you have no idea what
I'm gonna say. Do you want to start off first? Okay, what if COVID and all the things involved with COVID had happened ten years ago, before video conferencing, before all the technology that we used over the summer for virtual training camps, for all the things that you do that we did this year that you know, bugs apping machinery, these you know air zapp germs apping machines that we had, Like, what if that had happened ten years ago? So ten
years ago, two thousand and ten. It's not that I was gonna say something about fax machines, but it's not We're not that far back. There was still I'm was doing some form of video conferencing, right, and we still had high speed internet ten years ago. Yeah, I guess Skype had just started, but you know Twitter was only a year old. Do you think they would have played a football season if it had happened? I I really
don't know. I mean, obviously that the next year was the um you know, was kind of the the off season strike in two thousand eleven, But you know, I I wonder it certainly would have been you know, what do you do as a coaching staff, what do you do as an organization if everyone has to be home, you know, in a time before you can really be connected the way that we are now. It's a great point.
And you know, we were talking Matt and I were talking with David Linton, our executive producer last week of just you know, how much work from home has changed,
you know, for all of us. And that doesn't affect the football season, but we feel like we've all been able to because we were forced to, um, those of us who are lucky enough to to be employed, and UM right now that we've been able to make that work, especially over the off season when everyone was at home, and you know, I broadcasted in a lot of different ways that I didn't think I was going to. UM,
people just really changed. So I imagine there would be that same innovation ten years ago, because it's not twenty years ago or thirty years ago. But I mean I didn't know what a zoom was until March. Have you said the word zoom to me? Like? Is that like the skype? Like? You know, So it's just we're very lucky, UM, lucky the wrong word. But we have the technology now to mitigate or help along UM, a lot of the
things that we need to get done. And you know, as as tough as all of this has been from a football perspective or just from a working perspective in general. It's it's been really neat to see the way that that things have still been able to get done, um, even without always getting to be in person. So uh, here's mine, Um, maybe not as as um as all
encompassing as yours. What if Joey Slis kick in the New Orleans game had gone let's say, one two yards farther and he said an NFL record And I'm not I'm not saying that at all about Joey's I thought that kick was incredible and it was it was so close to setting an NFL record, and and you know, I don't think anyone wanted him to be out there having to do that in that situation. Um, But I just think the team would be talked about differently right now.
You know, it's a it's a game of inches, and that kick was so close, and he was so close to doing something that no one had ever done before. And I think that that's an accomplishment in itself, that it went that long and that's straight um, and he was this close. But I think that changes the narrative around this team. And in reality, it's just one play that was a couple of yards short, and I think people would be talking about this team differently, you know.
And we we brought this up, I think a couple of weeks ago when we were talking about like game changing plays or you know, plays that really stood out to us. And um, I think Miles brought it up that you know, well New Orleans still had time left
acually come back. But that's still agree with that because I also think that hitting that field goal for that record, with the way that that momentum would have Like, I felt like there would have been a lot of momentum and a lot of juice on that sideline for hitting that field goal. And you know, you never know, like I think, you know, maybe that defense comes out there and they're they're really revved up. Maybe they get a turnover and go into take the lead, you know, go
into overtime, you really have some momentum. Like I I do think that there's something about playing in the Superdome, you know, playing at New Orleans the way New Orleans is playing right now, and to be able to take them to that, you know, I I really think it would have, um, it would have meant something in a lot of people's eyes, especially on put on that team as well, and I just think he was so close
to setting a record. And you know, if the field goal had been sixty three yards, you know, he would have done something incredible. And um, I wish he had gotten the chance to have that recognition because it was a great kick. I mean, you know, you talk about kicks, and you know I'm not going to hopefully not steal another one, but like if if the Kansas City kick had been inside, I mean, my goodness, he probably gonna hit that through seventy. I think I think something's coming. Yeah,
I think something's coming. And you know, Matt Role said, we don't, like I said a minute ago, we don't want to have to put him out there in those situations to attempt to a potential record breakers. But I think something's coming. Um, we'll see, all right, your your turn. What if Teddy Bridgewater hadn't been able to return to that Falcons game, I don't even know what to say. I mean, thank goodness he's he's healthy, but um, we would have learned a lot more about p J. Walker.
What do you think what happened? I think that I like the I mean, obviously they haven't won these games, these close games. But there's something about what Mike Davis said after that game against what guys said after the Kansas City game on that fourth and fourteen run. There's something about the way that this team is really rallying for Teddy even when they've lost four in a row. It's there are very few teams in the NFL that feel the same way I think this Panthers team does
after losing four in a row. Right now, they are not like they're that's not their personality at all, Like they're they should have won, should have won. They're angry, yes, um and and Matt Rule has said that's what he wants. He wants them to play with this edge exactly. So I think I think him coming back in, you know, obviously there's a whole narrative of what we would have seen, what could have happened with p J, good or bad.
But I think the fact that he, you know, when he did come back in that said a lot to his teammates, and that's continued a narrative I think larger than just the building of man Teddy is tough. Well, he was. His official status was questionable and and usually when you're questionable, and I thought, okay, well he's you know, clear concussion protocol. If he go back to it, we got the the statusy clear concussion protocol. But he's questionable with the neck injury. And so we we see p J.
Walker go out there for not neck injury. I don't say it. Sore neck is a better way to put it. Um got to hit there. Um, we see p J. Walker come out there, and then like three plays later, Teddy's like, no, I'm going in, like give me the gloves. It's it's awesome. Um, all right, what if the Panthers win their next three games? Because look, Tampa Bay at home, I'm that's gonna be I don't care what Tampa Bay looks like. Um against the Saints, that's going to be
a tough game, no doubt about it. But it could happen the way this team is playing. Look at what they did in Kansas City. Then you go versus the Lions were three and five, and at the Vikings, who were three and five. We've seen them win three games in a row earlier this season. What if they win their next three games, I mean six and six, and then you're looking around and you know, I don't know Tampa Bay schedule, but you know, obviously they would be
six and four if Carolina wins this week. You know, if they stumble a little bit more, all of a sudden, that's the bye two. If you get to that. If you if you get to the bye and all of a sudden, you start looking around and other teams start getting banged up or you know, for various reasons, drop a game here, drop a game there. You know, they're the Saints look very very good. But you look at the rest of the NFC. Everyone has some issues, you know,
Green Base, I mean, Seattle lost last week. I mean, there are a lot of teams that aren't you know, gettable in certain ways. I mean, and yeah, I think that's That's part of the whole thing with this is Matt Rule said coming into this year he wants to be the best twelve and four team we can be. I've said this, you know, he wants to be the best eight and eight team. We could be the best
three and thirteen team we could be. I mean, I think people, I mean literally NFL dot Com has said today that we're definitely the best three and six team out there, you know, And and that's I think that's saying something about this coaching staff, about the players they put together. But yeah, I mean six and six going to the buy, I'll take it. Well, it goes back to that UM playing with that edge and that this team being upset. They don't think they should be three
and six, So we'll see if that translates. I think they have I think they have um the potential to beat any team on their schedule on on any given Sunday or Thursday or whatever you wanna call it. So I'm I'm interested. I can't wait to watch these next three games. I think it's entirely possible. You're up next. So I mean, this one's almost People are probably surprised it took us this along for this one, But like, what if Christian McCaffrey had played all nine games so far.
I don't want to say this because I don't think that it UM. I don't think there's a cause and a correlation to it. But how many what's the number of games? Um? The record of the Panthers in the last what is it eleven games that he's played. I think it's so in eleven. Yeah, I know there's a streak and that has nothing to do with him in
the end zone, giving it his all every game. But I think that it's tough to say for me personally that if he's there, uh, the outcome changes, because I think that's a narrative that people want to use to say that he should come back earlier than he's healthy. Right. But I also think the flip side of it is people are using that they're using that. I mean, as if the three games this year and obviously last year,
I think you can just throw out the window. But as if the three games this year are some sort of near, you know, uh, referendum on whether or not he's worth what he's worth, or he's worth investing in, or that he's not the best player, I mean, he absolutely is. I love Mike Davis. We need Mike Davis, We need Reggie Bonifon out there. We need all the people that we can have out on the field because that makes us better. And I think that obviously showed.
I mean, you have you have an opportunity to come down and potentially take the lead, and she was on the sideline because you know he gotten banged up again in the fourth quarter. Um, I just think that you want all of your best players out there, and he's one of the best players in the NFL. Oh absolutely, absolutely, I think that. Um. I I just think he's an incredible player and I feel for him. Whatever we hear about um you know, his shoulder and coming off of
that game, that's a tough one. Why are you throwing out these philosophical don't worry. My next one is my last one, and it's it's it's much better. Okay, Oh man, I have I have to that. I really want to get to do do both of yours. Okay, what do you if the NFL haok on the bubble route like that one? Just in general? I don't even just in general? How do you think that changes things? I mean, I know the reasons why they couldn't, just because of you know,
but that's not the game. I know it's not. You're asking me what do I partytive Christian McCaffrey is healthy. I know so. I I think that I think it would have been very interesting. You think we have different standings, different wins when losses. I can't tell what they would be, but obviously, I mean, you think about the Titans, you think about Cam Newton missing games with COVID. I mean you think about I think it's an obvious factor that
being in a bubble. The NBA showed being in a bubble means you don't get COVID almost you know, none of them did so, I you know, maybe it would have happened still, but it certainly would have been far less than what actually has happened. And you know, as much as injuries happened in the NFL, you just hate
it for teams that you know, like who's it? I mean Ben Roethlisberger this week, I mean just what like he was on the close contact right, but you know, potentially at least missing a day or two or whatever it might be that you know, he's not doing his usual routine, you know, I mean you think you think about how much that throws off NFL teams, But then you think about being in a bubble for four months. You know it's well, that's the thing. Would the season
structure be different? Would there be maybe a shorter regular season and a more expand maybe because I don't think you can change the weekly schedule. I just as a teach, just such a it's just such a physical game that you see that Thursday turnaround. I don't think you can shorten it. That's a good point, though maybe it's maybe it's different or something. All Right, my last one, because I know you've got a good one to end us on.
What if you didn't get your internship with the Panthers all those years ago, I wouldn't be here, You don't think so, I really don't you ever think about that? Not to get to I mean, we're definitely in the philosophical place you started this off with, like what if JFK hadn't been assassinated? But ever think about like one little thing that's led you to completely the point that
you are now. I don't know if I've ever shared it on this UM, but the several months after my internship UM, when I was looking for the next thing, I ended up going to New York for an interview. I feel like a grat assistant ship. I ended up at St. John's, but it was between me and somebody
else and that other person interviewed in the morning. I had a flight into LaGuardia to flight back out at like seven, you know, for an afternoon interview, and it is a huge storm rolled through and flight was delayed till the next day and I'm like, what do I do? And the person that was interviewing me was like, oh, just stay on my couch, let's go out. You ever been in Manhattan? And so he just took me out in Manhattan and was like, you're cool, You're hired, and
you know, it's kind of unfair. But it's also like you think of the things that that end up just being chance occurrences that you, you know, you try to take advantage of because you never know what what may or may not fall your direction and end up getting the position. Well, And that's that's the reality of it.
So much of my career and yours is you know, we try our hardest, we try to put ourselves in the best positions that we can, but a lot of it sometimes has happenstance and and luck and being in the right place at the right time, and that's that goes for everybody. I just thought, I thought I'd throw that one in for you. All right, what's what's your last one? What if it was all a dream? What? And I still read word up magazine with salt and pepper and heavy d in the limousine. Did myles come
back in? Usually it's miles about that I love it. I love it nothing like a little before we started, and I had no idea what he was talking about. So he just said that, and there was like an I continue, I didn't know what you think. You don't know, he doesn't know, juicy, I felt young something. All right, we're gonna leave that right there. Let's take a quick break and we will be back after this. Hi, this
is Dewey Jenkins. When the team that manages our Morris Jenkins website told me the most often asked question is who is Mr Jenkins married too, you could have knocked me over with a feather. I went home and told my wife that I was so surprised that I didn't know what to say. She laughed and said, honey, my name is Renee. So now you know the team at Morris Jenkins and I are here for the Panthers, and
we're here for you too, whenever you need us. All right, we're back on the Happy Half Hour podcast really quickly. Let's just take a quick look at this Sunday's game with Tampa Bay. Um. We saw the Bucks get embarrassed against the Saints. Will Matt, how angry do you think Tom Brady will be coming into this game, and how much does that really matter? Is that a media narrative like a mad Tom Brady. I mean, it's definitely a
median narrative. And as coach Role said, there's a mad Teddy Bridgewater on the other side too, there's a mad defense on this Panthers side. But you know, we saw this is the second time the Panthers have played Brady after losing to the Saints. It happened a week too. They played the Saints in Week one, and so this is the second time that's happened. The only other game that Tampa Bay lost this yere was to Chicago. Next
week they went out and destroyed Green Bay. So I mean, sure, there's some statistical correlations, if you want to call it. There's some narrative out there, but I'm less worried about that than I am about this Buck's defense. I mean, that defensive front. You know, they you know, obviously it might not be exactly the same look, the same stuff, the same people as as week two. But they sack Teddy bridge War five times four turnovers. For the Panthers,
they're very good. They lead the league in UM in defensive run allowed run you run your rush yards allowed, second in sacks. I can impressure's first in takeaways. I mean that, That's what I'm looking at. That's a great point. Um. This is a home game, and if the Panthers get a third down stop in the third quarter during a home game, one lucky fan will win a smart home smoke and carbon monoxide detector through the Morse Jenkins Protect
and Check sweepstakes. If the Panthers get a fourth down stop in the fourth quarter, that same fan will also be going home with a fifteen hundred dollar gift cards. So be sure to check out contest dot Panthers dot com for more details on how you can enter Weird Question of the Week. You're weird, You're weird guy. All Right, we're going to close it out with the weird question of the week. Yesterday was Teddy Bridgewater's birthday turned twenty, I believe, so in honor of that, what is the
best cake flavor you're gonna birthday cake? What do you want? I'm double vanilla somaill last weekend double vanilla this like yellow cake or like what are we talking about? Just vanilla cake, vanilla icing and just let me be let me and simple. Maybe chocolate icing if I mean I've had the it's like four or five layer chocolate cake where it's like the very very thin chocolate icing between the between the layers, and then obviously like chocolatesing on top.
I mean, just chocolate. Give me chocolate sounds delicious. I would go ice cream cake. Or I have someone in my family that makes this incredible homemade strawberry cake with strawberry I think. I know that sounds crazy, but it's no make It's like a sugar bomb and it's the best thing I've ever eaten. Yeah, it's good because then you don't want to eat all of it. You can say there's no way. Yeah, I always take some home, right, But sometimes there's that there's that level of it's not
so strong that you keep letting yourself eat it. This is like a three bite maximum. That's all. That's all you can handle. Birthday or not. Alright, Uh, this has been the Happy half hour podcast. Thank you so much for listening. Miles. We will miss you, your friend will will miss you, but we are so happy for you, and thanks everyone for listening. We'll see an sweet