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Did you know that, Kristen? Well, I didn't because I can't see you. You know we're being safe? Can you guess? I'm gonna say? Jeremy Chin maybe you get a new one or something. Oh, I like that. The I think that Jeremy Chiners might have sold out. We got to find like a secret stash. What if everyone's made a run on Chin jerseys? What about Matt if it's his own custom Panthers stats guy on the back absolutely double zero or something like that. How about that? Guess? That's
a really good guess. And it would need to be like tats guy because in my Twitter handle there weren't enough characters to have two s's, so it's like technically Panthers Tats guy. Like, I think that would be a great jersey. That would be a good jersey. Which one is it? Kelvin Benjamin blast from the past there I
heard there's a story behind that. Yeah, actually, but that happened to be the only one because we were we were we were cleaning out some some things after we were moving out for the COVID office swap stuff, and that was available to take home. So I took home with Calvin Benjamin jersey. Is that the most random jersey you have? Oh? Absolutely, I'm not a jersey guy. I don't necessarily have a lot of jerseys, So yeah, it
was just kind of available, so I took it. I don't either, but I have a JaMarcus Russell Raiders jersey in my closet and really good. I like that that one. I am incredible. Now did you get that at the time, Like he's like first overall pick. You're like, this guy is going to be the best to ever do it. Yes. I was a diehard LSU fan, so are I still am. So when he was drafting, we had never had anything like that until I guess him and Joe Burrow, So
that was like a big deal. And I got a jersey and I got a shirt that didn't work out. Great jersey to have some now, I don't know. It just feels cool. No, it is awesome. I enjoy having it. One of the coolest things was definitely in London last year seeing all of the most random NFL I mean even random Panthers jerseys that like you don't usually see. Give me an example, everyone had on a jersey. I think I saw a Panthers Brad Hoover next to a
Oakland Raiders Jerry Rice. That's pretty cool. It's just like, how is how is that? In London in two thousand nineteen, it was it was incredible. Me and my friends have a theory that every single football game, no matter what it is, College of Pro, there's always a Pittsburgh Steelers jersey. There's always a guy wearing a Steelers jersey. I love a theory like that. That is the theory of ours. Every single sports game there's a big Ben jersey. I will look on Sunday. You know, we have a limited
capacity in the stadium. I always love trying to find the most um just I don't want to say random, because if you're wearing a Panther jersey to a Panthers game, I was just like to find, like which number. I'm like, uh, I didn't see that coming. You know, good for you, whether it's uh, you know, for example, Will or someone having the Kelvin Benjamin or someone from a long time ago.
Always like to see kind of know, you get you plenty of your Luke Kikles, you get plenty of your Jeremy Chins, and yeah, like I love to see that. So now I'm going to keep a special eye out for the Pittsburgh Steelers jersey and I will report back on next Wednesday. That's I love that theory. I'd be interested to see how that theory holds up in the limited capacity. But I bet you there's still on Steeler fans. They're everywhere. So speaking of Sunday, we got the Broncos
coming into town to take on the Panthers. Bye week. They all had a nice, nice little time off. The players hopefully are are getting healthier on the whole, although uh, the Panthers did have to place quite a few guys on the COVID reserve list. And and will you know, it's full disclosure. It's it's Wednesday morning. We don't know exactly how this is gonna play out, how many actually tested positive for the virus, and and how many are
close contact. Of course, the team cannot release that information, but we're monitoring it every day, and and and first and foremost, hope you know, anyone who is affected is healthy and doing okay right, And you know, obviously we we want, you know, everyone to be doing better, to be you know, hopefully getting better. Um potentially hopefully all
available on Sunday. You know, obviously we'll see. UM. I mean, I think one good thing is you know that the Panthers in the facility, you know, all year, you know, Matt Rule has said this, you know, since April, literally they've they've done the best they can to to make the facility as as um socially distant, as spread out as possible. They've used every inch of the stadium to get players as far away from each other as possible so that there isn't as much potential for the close
contact kind of stuff. So hopefully, you know, all those things will will have an impact and kind of lessen the blow of this UM. But also it's you know, it's Wednesday, and as of this morning as we're taping, the plan is to practice today. The plan is for guys to come in and practice. There haven't been UM any news reports as of right now of continuing to keep the facility closed as it was on Monday and Tuesday confirm that as we yeah, they are in the building.
So yeah, so as of this morning, yeah, and will as as you mentioned and certainly is as you keep abs on with the website. The transaction wire came out last night and no new cases were added as of Tuesday night from from the Panthers side, So that's a good sign. Yeah, So hopefully you know, as of you know, we're playing Tuesday night football. We're playing Friday. I mean, it seems like eventually they're going to play a Friday game.
But hopefully this came will kick off at one o'clock on Sunday as scheduled, and hopefully there will be as many of these guys um from this list, um, you know, like I mean, obviously it's it's been out there, d J. Moore, Curtis, Samuel, Derrick Brown, Zat Kerk, Jack Thompson, Greg Little, you know, all of these guys that are you know, e tour grosmatos that have been put on the COVID list, and hopefully as many as possible um of those guys will
be activated back off before Sunday. Yeah, let's let's talk about this game. Um. The Broncos have very notably had their their own issues with UM with the COVID reserve list. Didn't have a quarterback a couple of weeks ago. Although Drew Luck is back now for the Panthers, they're hopeful that Christian McCaffrey Andante Jackson will be among those who are now healthy enough to play after some extended rest. For both of them, Dante Jackson's been dealing with that
turf toe all season long. And just really needed a several weeks to just be off of his foot and let that heal a little bit. And then Christian McCaffrey, Um, he said he felt he feels great, and so it certainly seems like he might be taking the field for the Panthers on Sunday after dealing with that shoulder. What do you make of the Broncos. Well, I mean, they're a they're a tough team. I mean I haven't gotten to see much of them until this past week when
they played the Chiefs on Sunday Night Football. And man, that that defense. You think about the Chiefs in the red zone and all of the things that Andy Reid dials up, um, all of the things that Patrick Mahomes can do, and they didn't score a red zone touchdown in four trips against this Broncos defense. Well, there was the one that everyone said, everyone said, you could he could have challenged it right right exactly. I mean, yeah, there was that one that they should have scored a
touchdown that they didn't. But unfortunately the statute at the end of the day said over four on red zone opportunities. Um. Of course, the Chiefs one with you know, a kind of a late fourth quarter score. But this is the Broncos team that you know went into Kansas City and hung really tough with them. Um gave him a really good game. And that defense doesn't have Von Miller, um you know there there, They don't have a ton of
names that maybe everyone would recognize nationally. Um, but Bradley Chubb, you know Nst State guy is there. Uh. He leaves the team with seven and a half sacks. They kind of have that, uh you know Ben, but then really don't break in the red zone their second in the NFL in red zone defense. UM. So I think that's gonna be a big challenge. But you know, if if he does play on Sunday, Christian McCaffrey is a great red zone weapon. UM, So we'll be interesting to see
how that kind of matches up. Yeah. I I talked to to Matt Rule earlier this week and he used the word suffocating to describe that defense. And the Panthers know, I mean, everyone knows just how hard it is to stop the Chiefs offense. Anyone who's who's watched them play, um even a little bit, just knows how prolific that offense is. And and the Panthers did a pretty decent job of it earlier this year. Um, And I just thought the Broncos defense looked great um against the Chiefs
on Sunday, So that will certainly be a challenge. UM. But I was just I was just looking back at the quarterbacks that the Panthers have faced lately. You know, they went through that that stretch of just former Super Bowl m v p s and league MVPs. But do you look at you know, last games they faced Kirk Cousins and then Matthew Stafford, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes. I'm just going back through the schedule, Matt Ryan, Drew Brees, Um,
Nick Foles played in the Bears game. Sorry, I'm just I'm going through this in real time, guys, very exciting stuff.
Matt Ryan again, Kyler Murray. So I just you know, Drew luck Is is young, and so I'm excited to see what the opportunities that the Panthers defense gets against a young quarterback, because they did well against Kyler Murray, and they did well against Justin Herbert earlier in the season, and and the Panthers have actually been a defense that's been really really good at forcing fumbles They're one of the top defenses in the NFL in terms of force fumbles,
but they're not necessarily up there in terms of interceptions. UM. And that's something that Denver has struggled with UM, both Drew Lock and you know at times obviously Kendall Hinton when he had to come in. UM. But Lock is one of these guys that if you contain him in the pocket and you keep him in the pocket, he's
he doesn't feel comfortable. UM. Like check out Like this stat he's completed eight of his passes for a one six rating on rollouts and boot plays, while just fifty seven completion rate while he's in the pocket for a sixty three point eight rating, thirteen thirteen interceptions while he's in the pocket, no interceptions when he's rolling out. So I think that will be something to watch if Denver
tries to get him out on the edge. UM. You know how it's Caroline I do and kind of rolling a defense with him versus being able to use that he used that pass rush UM to kind of contain him, you know, maybe not over pursuing to let him, you know, kind of escape out the pocket. But he's gonna want to try to get outside. He feels better when he doesn't have to, you know, maybe survey the entire field.
You know, he kind of sees the field in front of him, um, you know, on one side or another and and maybe you know, maybe there's something to like him feeling like he can run and throw at the same time and feels comfortable in that motion versus h kind of being in the pocket. But yeah, that'll be really interesting to see. Um, if the Panthers can kind of keep him there and then be able to create
some turnovers. Um. That's been something that Denver has has struggled with the times, Like the running game has controlled the ball a lot, but if um, if he's not rolling out, they turn the ball over. Yeah, I'm I'm looking forward to see. I mean, the last time we saw Jeremy Chin out on the field, the two fum overcovery touchdowns. Of course, you know the ending of that game is is still a tough one for Panthers fans, But you know, he's gonna have that extra little swagger,
that extra confidence. As you said, there's gonna be plenty of Chin jerseys in the stands along with that one Steelers jersey. So I'm excited to see that matchup the Panthers defense versus um the Broncos offense and see if if this Panthers defense can can really take advantage there. And since it is a home game, 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 Morris Jenkins
Protect and Check sweepstakes. If the Panther's got a fourth down stop in the fourth quarter, that same fan will also be going home with a fifteen hundred dollar gift card. To be sure to check out contest dot Panthers dot com or more details on how you can enter. Well, you've already hit us with like several stats, but none of those are the the official Panthers Stats Guy stat of the week. So what do you got at the
time it picks of the week. So the last time we saw the Panthers Week twelve at Minnesota, that first half was really tight, really close, but Carolina was playing well, um and then Minnesota got this field goal like right before half, and you know the halftime score was ten seven, you know, hardly something that's just oh my god, we're in trouble, We're down ten seven, you're only down, You're down three points, and it's just a field goal right
before half. But how about this stat? So since two thousand eighteen when Carolina came back from down seventeen nothing to be Philly UM in that game up in Philadelphia against the Eagles, really dramatic fourth quarter comeback. Since that time, the Panthers are owen twenty two when trailing or tied at halftime. OENO, that is that is quite the stat It's it, and it kind of defies, it defies some sort of real trend. I think you. I mean Carolina
obviously they retook the lead in the third quarter. They weren't, you know, down big at Minnesota. This is you know, different coaching staffs, different offensive systems, different defenses. You know, this isn't just the same group over and over again that has this thing stuck in their head. You know, this thing is is really weird. UM. And every time we get close to half of them, I'm like, oh,
please have a lead, Please have a lead. Because the other side, that is the Panthers are fifteen and four when holding the lead. UM. So they've done a good job even if they have just a small lead of being able to hold onto it throughout the second half. They haven't blown a lot of leads, so I mean, really, you know, the second quarter can say a lot about how the rest of the game's gonna go well, and it's pertinent this season because they had well documented struggles
in the third quarter. As you said, it's it's not a stat that you can pinpoint over the last three seasons because there's been so much turnover um, but it is a good indicator considering that the third quarter has been their worst order statistically really, with the exception of of the Lions game, which they were just they were just phenomenal, but that has been something that they have said that they want to work on. So hopefully there's the lead at the half and and we can just
throw will stat out the window. But I also think those stats are good for at some point. Uh, that's gonna change. At some point very soon, that's going to change. Of course, you hope that they have the lead at the half in every game, but it's going to change, and at that point there will be panther stats guy will tweet that out and it's kind of like the thing of you know, the first shutout in five years.
There's gonna be a point where they're gonna make that big comeback, whether it's whether it is this season, whether it's next season, and they're going to show that they have that now in the arsenal, the ability to come back. And so it's a good stat to have for context about how long it's been since that has happened. Right. They need to they need to have a game like that.
And I think, you know, not harping on what we talked about the past several weeks about December and the importance of of getting a guilt and caffree back, the importance of going out there and competing and winning. You know, those are the types of things where, hey, you maybe you trail to the Broncos or maybe you trail to the Packards and you come back and win in December and fans like, oh no, but we're not gonna go to the playoffs anyway. Those are the types of things
that that really do carry over. And it's not just winning, it's how you win. It's uh, you know, how you play, it's how you All of these things stick with guys um and they stick with the team and they stick with the coaching staff and they stick with the way you do things, UM, and those can carry over. So you know, you want to see some second half, fourth quarter finishes, you know, like just some real things to kind of give them confidence that they do kind of
have that that winning ability. Yeah, you want to see the team win, be able to win in a variety of ways. You want to see any team be able to win in a variety of ways. You don't want to look at something and go, Okay, it's half time. This is what the trend has been. We know what the outcome is going to be, UM, and they're working
towards that. So I like this. I mean, I don't like the stat because it's it's a tough stat for the for the franchise right now, but I think it's gonna be great context for for some just epic back when in the future was gonna be like I got this one ready to go, I got it in the drafts. We'll have we'll have a big two weeks or a big game two weeks ago. With all the Jeremy Chin stats, I mean, he was just getting like retweets in the thousands.
It was his time to shine. And since that time, I don't know if this is a coincidence or not. You have started your own official Panther's Stats Guy i G account to oh yeah, you gotta follow me, match that match that follow button on the Instagram it does say it's the official Instagram account of Panther Stats Guy, the official Instagram account. It is the official Instagram account.
Because there are a lot of Instagram accounts out there that I'll post something on Twitter or I'll say something on the podcast in Boom, here's some Instagram account that is posting that same stat with fifty thousand likes. I'm like, wait a minute, I want the light. I want someone to boost my ego. This was my stat. That's a good point. So I'm trying. I'm trying to claim that territory with my own official i G. That's a good point.
You know how the NFL insiders have to work now, as first reported by you know, if someone has signs a new contract or whatever, you'll see what them as first reported by Adam Schefter or as first reported by uh, you know, Tom pel Sorrow. And so maybe we need to go this way for stats. Well, I don't think that I'm gonna claim that much intellectual property over it, you know, but it would. It is nice every once in a while when you get that and you get
that hat tip. But yeah, no. So if you're if you're on the i G and uh and you don't like Twitter and you'd rather get get all your information on i G, it's still panther stats guy on on the Instagram and feel free to give me a follow. I'm a little embarrassed how long it took me to realize what you guys are talking about with I G. I was like, what, you're young? What do you call it? Just like Instagram? I don't use that one very much. But I'm just dumb. I should have known that that
was obviously what you guys were talking about. Do I need to do a stack guy TikTok and then I just TikTok all the stats and some sort of weird dance. I would love to see that. The people are calling for it, absolutely and I don't. I don't like social media anymore, Oh I do. I can't wait. If you've put it out there now, it's it's what it's what the fans need. They need to get their stats on TikTok with a weird dance. All right, Mr Jenkins told me that he loves football and he looks forward to
the show all week. When you're plumbing her air conditioning is acting up, called Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. We are going to take a quick break and when we come back on the Happy half Hour Podcast presented by Morris Jenkins is going to do a TikTok dance. Hi, this is Dewey Jenkins. When the Navy sent me to Jacksonville, Florida, I sold Salad Master cookwear door to door during my free time. One evening, I knocked on the door and met the woman I wouldn't marry.
She didn't buy any cookwear, but I got her phone number. That's how we train at Morris Jenkins. Don't try to make a sale. Try to make a friend. Everyone needs a friend who knows how to fix air conditioning and plumbing. I love this podcast, don't you. This is a I love this because this is like a a Will heavy episode, like a Panther stats guy heavy episode. Um but but well, the thing is you do so much in terms of stats and the website and the app. I mean, you
were involved in it all. And one of the things you do is you edit. And we were just talking the other day about you really have to your that last line of defense. You've got to be the guy that catches anything that comes up before it gets published. And I imagine that there's got to be a sense of like how often do you hit the published button and go like, oh God, like I hope I caught everything?
Does that happen? Because sometimes I'll press send on a tweet and I'm like I'm good with that, right, you know, just like no typos, know anything. Sometimes the longer the post, the longer you kind of feel like, oh well, there's just there's so much stuff in there, like it's okay, you know. But if it's a shorter post and you can kind of see the whole thing on once on one screen without scrolling, and you just think like, man, is there something in you know on that first line
or that second line is the headline? Right? Uh? You know? Am I in the right week? You know? Sometimes it's like it's week is it week twelve? Week thirty? What week is it? Week fourteen? So yeah, so yeah, every every once in a while, some stuff steps by. It's the beauty of the internet, though, is that you can quickly edit and quickly repost and change something. Uh, and it doesn't have to be in in print forever and
forever unless someone screenshots. I've had that happen. You know, I haven't said anything terrible like on Twitter or anything like that, but I've definitely had times where I've like you said, like missed a week or um, I just you know, said something like oh that's uh, that's so and so and it's not or you know what I mean, and someone's like, I got that screenshot? Does that make sense? Like nothing really bad, but I've just had things that
I'm like, oh, gosh, I misspelled something. I'm like, let me delete that. So I's like, oh, got just got that screenshot, Like alright, awesome. I want to know the people who are out there like waiting to get all these people, like a lot of people wait and different sports reporters or whatever, and it's like they're so eager to take a screenshot of it. It's like some tweets will get taken down within a minute, but for some reason,
there's a hundred screenshots of it somewhere. I just don't know who's all collecting these and and keeping these around for everybody to throw in their face. And it's like old takes exposed. I guess that's like a just like a bat. That's like you buying a Jamacus Russell jersey. That's more old takes. Um. Have you guys ever had any like embarrassing bad work moments? Because I was just
thinking about Twitter. I've been pretty lucky in terms of, you know, everyone's generally pretty nice, and I think I've ever said anything too too bad, I like a hot mic or anything. But you always hear these stories about just just bad moments. What's your most embarrassing work story, mat um? So most embarrassing is probably it's one of two things, one that I've told on this podcast before
and another one that I haven't. But the one that you weren't here for was last year, I got to travel to the Falcons game, which actually was this past weekend a year ago, so I, uh, it was my first game with a road game with the team, and went and we went to the stadium on Sunday, obviously, but I was supposed to have brought my bags from the hotel to the game in order to take them immediately onto the bus to take the flight home. I
did not know that. So we were on the bus after the game, headed towards the airport, and we pull into like, this isn't like a normal flight. Obviously you've been on a game, so you're like, you pull into like a separate part of almost like a private section of the airport. And by the time we got through the gates, I realized that we were about to fly and I didn't bring my bags. I had left them at the hotel. So luckily we had one of our engineers, uh,
who was staying behind to gather equipment and whatever. He was able to bring that back on his own personal car and everything, So I got lucky there. But I almost just left my bags in Atlanta. Didn't. Wasn't the line that you like? Turned around and asked someone like, wait, aren't we going to the hotel? And then everyone just kind of looks at you with this like, oh, mad, Yes.
I was in the back of the bus with Nick uh, Caroline, and David, my boss executive producer, and he uh, like I said, I kind of gathered that we weren't heading back to the hotel, so I somewhat under my breath but definitely out loud, was like, are we going to the hotel? And I think it was Caroline who was like just immediately started laughing, and David, who I'm pretty sure I was directing my who I was talking to.
He was like, you, no, that's not happening, and he just kind of looked away and it was like, not my problem. And so I didn't get my bag. Two questions. Yeah, and I know, like you said, you've already told the story before, but this is the first time I'm hearing it. Um number one. Before you worked out that one of the engineers could bring it back and they got all that worked out. Were you just like, did you just make the mental decision to like say goodbye to everything
in that bag? Was that what was going to happen? Like, well, I guess I'll never see that stuff again. Yeah. I just bought like a bunch of new hoodies because L s U was doing so well. So I was buying like, you know, gear from because I went to the SEC Championship in Atlanta the day before the game, so I had like a hoodie from that, and so I was like, well, man, that one. I'd rather have just ordered that online. I'm
going to lose that money. So you're like, well, it was nice to have those things for all of twelve hours, so that was good. What's your other one? My other one was easily the most embarrassing because I wrecked a company car. What yeah, not, did you? No? I didn't know about the car? Was that here? No? It was
at my other job back in Greenville, South Carolina. Went from I worked at a radio station, and uh, it's the only car accident I've ever been in actually, Um, but yeah, I was driving the one oh six three w O r D. It's like a news talk station van, and they had a bunch offorldable chairs and tables and they kept sliding around and I turned around to like I kept getting hit by one of the chairs. I turned around to move it, and when I looked up, I was going forty into the back of somebody. But
luckily I was able to avoid total total. Uh yeah, it wasn't that bad. So but thankfully I didn't die or anything. But the guy was so nice to me. He thought that the one of six three the word he thought it was like a Christian radio stations. Correct him, You're like, correct him at all? I was like, please don't sue. I'm I'm with the Lord, don't mess with me. Well, I don't know. I mean, I guess it was a mistake to start with Matt because I don't know if
we can top that. Well you got anything to top either of those. Well, so here's part of the thing with Matt's is or on both of them, is that it wasn't like a until he told it, you know, on on the podcast. It wasn't something that like everybody in the whole organization knew about, at least with like the bag stuff. Um so mine probably, I mean, there's been a number that I probably I am not going to share on the podcast, But the one that stands out to me that I still always tell was back
my intern year. And I feel like in your intern year, just a lot of bad things happened to someone. Um but I was in charge of the like lunchtime radio interviews, so we'd get requests all week to set up you know, this guy on this radio, this guy on this and we would have to schedule them during their lunch break, which was always and which always ended, uh promptly with meetings. So you were like kind of always up against the
clock to get a guy off of the radio. By the time that meetings started, you know, one forty or whatever it was. So there was like a bank of phones that we would like get guys on, and all of them were taken. Uh. And so I had Jeff King, who was just like the nicest guy ever. He was like the tight end, more like a blocking tight end and that O a team and he's like, finally we'll
just we'll go and we'll go in another room. Wait, is it relevant that he was a blocking tight end or is he about to block for you or just get some context to the what you said? He said follow me, So I just was like, is he about to sho I just say things like that. Yeah, so Jeff King. So I'm following him down the hall um and you know, again, he's nicest guy ever, completely willing to do the interview. You know. It wasn't just like no,
I'm not going to do it. So we've got maybe like five minutes, so I'm like telling the station people, we gotta be quick. But of course he goes into the quarterbacks meeting room and just picks up the phone and it's like, what's the number? And I'm looking around, and at this point, I'm like, oh no, this isn't gonna be good. All right, we gotta be real quick. And but who I'm not gonna tell him, you know, Jeff, we can't be in here, get out like he was
the one that went in whatever. Yeah, you're just like praying it all works out, yeah, exactly. So I tell the producer like, we got four minutes. I gotta get him in and out, you know, I'm sorry, and oh yeah, share, share, share, and then so they do the thing, and after about like three and a half minutes, they they're like, oh, so, Jeff, tell me about this story from Virginia Tech back when you were there. And I'm like, oh my god, oh
my god, oh my god. And of course, as soon as that happens, you just hear like the knob on the knob on the door, and I'm like, oh no, oh no. And of course who walks in but Jake alone. And Jake just looks around and he's ready to sit down and start his film study and start work. And here's Jeff King on his phone at his desk in the quarterbacks meeting room, and he just goes nuts, and like the quarterback room is right was right near kind
of like the dining room at that point. So Jake closes the ord, goes back out and you could hear him screaming just about how the intern had taken over the quarterbacks room and what what's going on? Like screaming for my boss like it was. It was incredible. So from that standpoint, like the entire team knew about this one. Um, it wasn't just it wasn't just just me. So yeah,
that was that was rough. And then like when I we when we finally finished, Jeff walked out like nothing had happened, he didn't care, and I walked out behind him. In my face, I'm sure I was just like, you know, pale as a sheet. It was. It was bad. What was the aftermath about, Like have you and Jake talked about that? I'm I don't remember. I'm sure he was.
Jake has this thing where he kind of like half is always like half kidding and half serious at all times, so you can never quite under like tell how mad he ever really was at any point. He was just always you know, he always kind of had the Jake history onyx um, you know, as as it were, So I don't know, like I mean, by the next day he was fine. Um, but in the moment he certainly decided to make it known to everyone within earshot what was going on. I'm absolutely going to ask him. Oh yeah,
we gotta ask him about this at some point. This is amazing. Yeah, So I don't have my mine is going to be a letdown. I don't have. I've been very fortunate, like I was saying earlier, to not have a bad Twitter moment or a or a hot mic situation. With as much as I've worn a microphone, either with you know, studio shows or doing sideline, I've been I've been very lucky. Um. And and try to be smart about it, of course, But um, I don't know. So I'm trying to think of like embarrassing stories. I do
have an intern story. So I was an intern for ESPN. This one is not nearly as good as as either of you guys, but I just remember being like, oh man, so is an intern for ESPN, And it's just a you know, huge privilege. A lot of people applied, got very lucky to to secure that internship and then eventually go on to work there. My first job out of college, and so the first day of the internship. They have um students from from all over and they really try to make it a big day where they take you
around the campus. At least this is what they did when I was there, and um, you know, really show you everything and and make it fun. And then you get to work the next day and then you have a big last day as well. And so we're all young, you know, between junior and senior and college, and we've just never seen anything like this before, and so it's almost like camp or something is before we get into
actually the actual work part of it. And so we're walking around and everywhere you walk it's just you know, this person from this show and this person from that show. And so we're all like this huge group walking into the cafeteria at ESPN and at the time, Colin Calherd and Michelle Beatle we're doing Sports Nation. That's how long
ago this was. But they were like the biggest, the biggest deal, right, like the coolest, and so we come almost face to face with them outside there walking out, and we're all walking in and I'm just like talking to my friends and we look up and I'm like, oh my god, that's called Cowherd and Michelle Beatle why wow, And they're standing like right in front of me, and
you could just see them going. Now, since I have had uh, wonderful relationships with with both of them, they're they're wonderful people, but they just like both look like what's going on over here? And then pretty soon immediately a feel like we're just like these obnoxious kids just like, oh my god, can you believe what's going on here? And um, this is so cool and just being way
too loud. I'm sure there's like fifty of us, I guess, and um, like pretty quickly after that, they had us all together and they were like, hey, look guys, it's like the number one rule of ESPN. They're like, hey, look guys, just don't like like goggle at people like they're just here doing their jobs. So just you know, like act like you've been here before. Yeah, And that was I think I learned that like my second day. It's just like very obviously you would never do that.
And I just I'm pretty sure that that speech happened because of me, because it was like standing in the pointing as I was walking by, like, oh my gosh, can you believe it? It's like when you get the company email about like hey, don't do X, Y and Z, and it's like, you know it's because of you. Well, that's never happened to me, Matt, But I'm alright, like, hey, remever to pack your bags because they're not going back to back everybody exactly. It would be like getting one
of those emails. All right, this is a good place to leave it. Thank you for listening to the Happy Half Hour podcast, listening to us bear our souls about our most embarrassing or stories. Um, we will see you next week.