Good evening everybody, and welcome to Fire Up. Are we excited or what?
Yes, I'm fired out to be on with two of my favorite people.
We have a special guest, Miss Jen, is here in the broadcast
with us. She is Mike, one of my girls from Tuesday Nights from
Chicks and Salsa. Welcome Jen. I'm happy to have two of my glots
with me. Now, if we could just get Megan and Carry on board,
it would be a full score. It's been hard to get all four
of us on one show on our time. It's not much less any other
time slot lately. Well, my co hosts Smoking Jeremy B. How you
doing any day I wake up is good despite how I feel, I hear
you especially lately. Yes, it has been quite the week. You know.
Whenever we have a Monday off Memorial Day, we just shoot five days
of work and a four day work week, and so it makes it just
that much more. And I'm going to do my midiar review because tomorrow morning,
because it's due by end of day tomorrow. Wow. Wow, So
we already. I just want to get like two things completed before I submit.
So, so we do have some people in the chat room already James
Burgess's through five innings for the Tigers today. No, Joshua, door smoking,
Jay, Good to see you back on SFT. And then of course
asking if there's to be any hockey on the show today. I haven't figured
out how to scream it into the split screen on the corner, so I
don't. I'll say this boo Rangers. And then question for Jen did you
get a new computer? No, sir, but I let it completely die,
so I went and fade out. Do you need to get more memory?
Though? Hey JB finally able to watch a show live. Much love,
Thanks Jay r X Jay, and congratulations to you. I'm being a
part of Detroit Fan Report talking about the Lions. Congratulations sir, Joshua.
Hello is this thing? Yes, Joshua, we are here. We are
here, Candy and the MotorCity mad Mo spot. You recognized I moved into
the studio tonight. You got it? Yep, Joshua, I know you're
watching hockey right now. I actually have it on in the background. Yes,
the Panthers are tied zero zero in the first so and look who joined
us? Hello William son of Ralph William. Can I answer a question?
Address a question Rocket Scientist asked show Rocket Scientists, believe you asked me what
I thought of neuralink honestly with a I and with like Google Voice and Alexa.
No, there's no need for neuralink because they already know everything we're freaking
thinking anyway. So so Rocket Scientists thinks I should be in the studio and
Scott out on the A from now on. I don't think that's gonna happen,
but you know. And then well, my three favorite people, oh,
thanks, will thanks get We like you too, we do. And
then he says, Jenny will keep promising that and never text me anymore.
I'm going to start singing, well, well, lonely hearts do oh oh
oh no, okay, well, you know what, We're going to start
the show out, and I'm going to let Jeremy start because he has a
topic that he wants to talk about. Tuesday night, while I was bored
and after inside the Pig Skin, I saw Ian Rapaport go live on threads
and Instagram and he started talking about the upcoming CBA for twenty twenty six that's
coming up because you know, they start working that stuff out between the NFLPA
and the NFL headquarters now instead of waiting for the last minute. That way
the owners can get their say and make their changes and everything can get right
by twenty twenty six, so we don't end up with a strike issue like
you had back in what was that the late eighties early nineties. So on
the slate, they're talking about doing away with OTAs completely and just doing a
ramp up of training camp from June to the start of preseason in the second
or third week of August, because there's only going to be two preseason games
that then they're going to have eighteen games instead of seventeen games, which I
like and I don't like at the same time. But there's another reason for
that. But with the preseason games costing just as much as your regular season
games, it really doesn't matter how many you have when it comes to the
cost of going to see What it does matter is the TV money and the
viewer and the Nelson ratings for the games, because the Nelson ratings are way
lower for the preseason games than they are for any regular season game on the
market. So that's going to be more revenue, which could equal to more
caps. But they said the reason why they want to do is do away
with the OTAs, is to produce injuries in the off season. And I'm
sitting there, I'm going, okay, so wait a minute. They took
away two A days, they took away this, they took away that already,
they shortened the off season already, and they shortened the preseason. And
ever since they did that back in twenty nineteen, we have seen thirty three
percent increase in regular season games of top fifty injuries. Yeah, so I
think this is going to come back to bite the whole NFL right in the
butt doing that, and they'll bring back OTAs on the next CBA or some
type of early workouts, because Number one, the vet OTA that they do
prior to the draft is just so the players can get comfortable with each other,
reconnect, have their moment, and it's more about working out than it
actually is practice. It's just a little four day mini camp. Then you
got the draft, and then after that you usually have the second year guys
and all of your udfas and rookies you drafted meet up see who's gonna make
that cut for the ninety man roster for going into training camps, and the
OTA is coming up that way, you got your roster set, you know
who you have and all of that. There is really not a lot of
playbook time right there for these rookies. It's just the sophomore guys come in
and say, Hey, this is how we do it here. This is
what you're gonna do. This is how we work out. That's what that
little four day camp is. I don't understand getting away from doing some of
these these preseason things, ways to gel and ways to get your body into
the right frame of mind and gear. Like you said, injuries are up
thirty three percent, and this is partly why. And it does not surprise
me. I mean, you're talking there's more obliques, there's more torn packs,
torn biceps. That's all soft tissue injuries. That's muscular. That's not
because they were hit, that's not because of contact ACL, PCL, MCLs
lcl's, achilles tendons, calf strains, ham strings. All these things are
happening in the regular season more than they are in the off season. It
in the rare instance that somebody has a bad type of hit. You may
hear about an injury in the off season, but there's no compact until like
the last two weeks of training camp. Anyways, you hardly ever hear of
it anymore. And what about the practices, Now, that's what they were
talking about doing. Instead of doing the two or three three season games,
you're gonna have your two preseason games, but you're also gonna have two joint
practices during the training camp. And I like that idea because that's gonna be
the equivalent of like having four preseason games, and that might get the guys
a little more game ready for the start of the season than the way they
got it now just doing joint practices during the preseason. But they're gonna do
two prior and one during. But I think, well, I think one
thing they should address is getting order to turf. Oh, they have to
address that. If you do have turf, you have to address the fact
you've got to have proper drainage because the problem is moisture and humidity causes moisture.
And as long as you're outdoors and you have turf in a southern market
with humidity, that means that stuff is a nice skating rink. Ding ding
ding ding, ding ding ding ding ding and more injuries and and then up
north like at MetLife stadium. You're getting more injuries, especially in the winner,
but you also get a little more you know, moisture too because you're
on the Atlantic Ocean. Frolling tins and purposes. Yeah, you're gonna have
you, right, And I don't know what their turf is, like,
I know when I've seen our turf, it's like I've seen better turf in
backyards. Well glad yet And there's one other team that has one of the
worst fields in the league, and nobody talks about it because they say,
oh, they got grass, it's great, But they forkicked Arizona because of
how hot it is outside and the air conditioning is running all the time.
The cement sweats underneath that grass, and that's why it looks like they've been
playing in mud mid game sometimes because that's immense sweating and that makes that rolled
up grass that they put outside water and grow it and everything else, and
then they bring it back in. That doesn't work either. I think they
need to do. If they're going to have the cement, they have to
do a layer of soil on top of it. Cushion, yeah, to
let the let that soil actually absorb that moisture rather than it going up and
becoming mud because I didn't know they didn't. I don't know. I know
that, but all the grounds out right on top of the cement. I
mean, and I'm with you, Patty, I saw it too, But
I mean because it looked pretty well, at least it looks really pretty for
Super Bowl. But they spent a lot of money to make sure it looked
pretty for Super Bowl, right, and I think they need either that or
they got to use some type of an absorbent carpet matting, you know,
like carpet padding underneath it to help absorb that moisture. Arizona and then New
Mexico More College from New Mexico. I under stand a very high level turf,
but maybe it's time to come up with a new type of grass for
your arid and mountainous desert regions because you're getting a lot of injuries there.
Because and then when you're talking about the concrete under when these guys fall or
get tackled, they're being tackled on concrete. Right. It's no different than
being in any other dome stadium. You can say what you want and it
looks prettier, but at the end of the game, it doesn't look as
pretty as that slit turf does. Yeah, I mean, but if you
notice, and here's the thing, something must be done, right because Detroit
has actually got large bodies of water around it too. You can say what
you want. There's a lot of humidity because we're a peninsula just like Florida.
It gets just as hot and humid here. You're not hearing about a
lot of those soft tissue reason Detroit anymore. And they do use the slit
turf, so it must have something to do with the amount of padding that
they have underneath it to avoid those injuries. Right, That's all I'm saying.
If the other teams that have the domes and use the slit turf could
model it maybe off of whatever the depth of padding they have underneath that slit
trt you might see less injuries across the league over yeah, because yeah,
the injuries are serious. Because I remember and I was actually I think I
think my panther skies are actually happy when the Lions played on December twenty fourth,
two years ago, and sorry, we took away your playoffs stage chances.
We're fighting for our own then, but we Hey Mike email David's tapper
for me, okay, because we need save turf because like here, like
it gets it gets as swampy as it does in Florida, because at least
where you guys are Candy, at least you get enoce breeze. Charlotte,
there ain't no breeze, no no, in the middle of the summer.
And it's just like Orlando if you think about it. They get all the
humidity from both oceans there, but they don't have the coastal breezes in the
center of the state. It's the same thing in Orlando. Yeah, right,
it's swampy right like well, and the one thing you guys forget is
that the ground down here is always hot. Like you know, up in
Detroit, it gets colder in the winter, so there's a timeframe for that,
you know, the concrete and all that to get colder down here.
I mean, people think it's cold if it's sixty degrees down here, which
is not cold, but that's what people think. But when you're inland,
like near that Zephyr Hills Lakeland, Orlando area, where they actually do get
a mild cold spell in February late January through early March, where they might
see frost in the morning and the orange growers all go nothing about it.
I know I lived down there. That's why I can talk about it.
It's crazy. It's such a different dynamic for the weather than anybody here in
Michigan has ever experienced. Patty Grimes was going to Arizona. He has seen
it. Mm hmm. Thank god, James, because we do have mixed
company on the show tonight and he was talking about why he stayed, why
he stayed as oc when everyone was like, Oh, what head coaching job
is he gonna get, Where's he gonna go, What's he gonna do?
And he described it today in a in a way that I hadn't heard somebody,
but very intelligently said, I'm not looking just for one contract. If
I'm going to make the leap, I want to make sure there's going to
be a second contract, which means I'm going to be there more than three
or four years. Because let's face it, these NFL owners, they if
you don't produce, now you're gone, and they move on from you because
they have to because it's such a big money. And he's got a family
and he loves it in Detroit, he loves the people. He's working with.
He loves his family, loves the whole thing. Kudos to him because
he probably could have made more money going to a head coaching job, but
it's not always about the job. It's about liking what you do and the
people that you're working with. It is an amazing thing to have Ben Jonson
still here. And if you think about it, if you look across the
league, how many leagues have all three head coach, offensive coordinator and defensive
coordinators still together this year? How many teams? There isn't many? Yep.
I mean Kyle scam a hand through Steve Wilkes under the bus after the
Super Bowl when I I where I still think to this day he was a
scapegoat. Yeah, I mean face of Jeremy. Steve Wilkes is the reason
why they the forty nine ers ended up beating the Detroit Lions and the Kyles.
And I call him Kyle Scamahan for a reason. Both times I agree,
and in the Super Bowl they did the exact same thing that he did
when he was the OC of the bail Cants. And yes I call him
the bail Cants because of that game versus the Patriots. I call him that
for a lot of other reasons, like I'll say, our our first matchup
with Falcons, chances are they're going to win, but they always day off
halfway through. And when they and honestly, Sheenahan was and when they were
talking about him coming to Carolina, I think actually read the room. I
think he actually read the room. Because they're like, no, I agree,
going to do that and require that there's two training camps between different franchises
doing the joint practices. There should be reps or some type of NFL official
on sight. Yeah, I mean, because we saw what happened when it's
not monitored, and we saw those joint practices where he saw skirmishes that broke
out into bull on brawls between the two teams, and that's not a good
look for the NFL. No, not when you got guys like Rashid Rice
causing accidents, and you got a few years back Henry Ruggs being drunk and
causing a girl to die in an accident. And now you've got guys like
Isaiah Bugs not care of having anybody take care of his dogs while he's out
of down. One of them had to be put down, and he has
an arrest want for him. So there's all sorts of crazy things going on.
But it's funny how the Kansas City Chiefs are slowly turning into the old
Oakland Raiders. Who would have thought that? I mean, they have bug
plays for is the reason why I said it. That's two people with major
problems. Well, and here's the thing. Part of preseason is just show
off the players you already know you're gonna cut so they can get a shot
with one of the other thirty one teams out there. That's a big part
of why we have that, and that's important. It's also important to get
the guys the Brookies used to playing in front of a crowd. And yeah,
the preseason tickets are less expensive, no doubt about it. But honestly,
like sometimes I'll gladly give my dad, will gladly give a family preseason
tickets if they can't afford to go to a regular season game, because,
honestly, and Charlotte in August, it's too hot to sit up there.
It's just too hot. It is preseason, So I'm sorry, I would
rather sit in my conditioned house and watch it. And I know that makes
me a fan, but you know what, it also makes me aware of
my health because mama ain't getting dehydrated for a damn preseason game. Give me
Sunday night, Sunday and I'm right there, and I'll get dehydrated for regular
season game. But no, at least any that do have season tickets,
they don't usually miss games. I'm kind of ashamed of the casual panther fans.
And I'm not saying the bad on the bandwagon ones. I'm talking about
the casual fans that say they're die hard than everything else. Because your guys'
attendance was so low that one game, you guys had seats offered at for
eight cents a piece, and still people didn't buy them. That's atrocious.
That does not look good. You wouldn't see that in Green Bay. I
don't think if any way, you're gonna see that in probably thirty of the
markets right in the NFL. Now I will I will say about Green Bay.
The interesting thing with them is they used to play part of their season
down in Milwaukee, so they still have season ticket holders that were Milwaukee holders,
and so they have three to four games each season that are still the
Milwaukee Package or the Gold package for season tickets. And always one or two
of those are a preseason game, so you have different and it's the same
fan base, but it's different season ticket holders holding some of those. So
you don't see you see the crowds, I mean, no matter what.
But yeah, part of it is because a season ticket to hold for all
of the home games. There are some Milwaukee package So if you ask me
about what Ben Johnson's saying, he wants to go to a team that's more
established, that's getting ready to lose a coach that's had long tenure. That
way, it's like a moderation of success. He can come in and he
knows that that Dean stands behind him, and the only one coming up possibly
is the guy that's talked about retirement the last two years, Mike Donlin.
M h. Yeah, that would be the only team. But don't you
think there's a succession plan already in place? There may be, you don't
know, but the succession pan plan that we thought was in place ended last
year because he went to become the defensive coordinator for Minnesota. That was Brian
Flores. Yeah, m but I don't know, I don't know that that
was ever gonna actually be a succession planing personally, and it sucks for him
based on the loss of which he rightfully you know, needed to pursue.
But well, the fact that he won that case, if you remember,
that's one of the reasons why that owner got packed and why they didn't have
first round picked the one year and everything else. On top of all that,
Brian Flores should get another head coaching job. Steve Wilkes, right,
both of them should. Steve Wilks did a great job in the interim with
the Panthers that year when met Yeah, and he was left out, hung
out to Giant Arizona, like he was a Rooney higher and it was obvious
because he was picked up out. He was picked. He was hired after
the draft, after a free agency. He didn't get a pick his own
coaching staff, like I mean, he was. I feel so bad for
a coach Wills because he is a phenomenal stands up man. And I actually
think because Tepper didn't hire Wilkes as the head coach, that's why he went
for Frank Reich because Frank was our first quarterback. But Frank only played two
games, yes, starting at QB And yeah, I mean, and I
can understand why no one would want to come to the Carolina Panthers after last
year. I mean, hey, there are people calling Ben Johnson up and
saying, don't take this job. It's I mean, they were legit people.
I kind of think I know one of the people calling him, but
they have never they have denied it bhemialy to me. But I'm like,
I still I think it was you. I still think it was you and
understand why. And I will never say that person's name. That person has
never been on our podcast. I will sometimes with this person, but not
often. So yeah, but I mean with the Athletic Rights an article calling
it the Hunger Games in Carolina, there's an issue. Question for smoking Jay
will both have over or under seventy five shows tomorrow. It's under his shows
last an hour. It's physically impossible have seventy five shows in a day.
And the question for me is where is Scott right now? Scott is relaxing,
He's he decided for the most well, I shouldn't say that he will
take off some Thursday nights. He is actually watching the Panthers Rangers game right
now, and I know it's intermission, but yeah, he's watching the game
thorough, it is still zero zero there is yeah. See we talked a
little bit of hockey. Okay, guys, I have a question. Have
you ever heard of a high school center fielder sprinting home to tag out a
runner until you told me no? Agreed with Jeremy, But I love that
drive, I love that dedication and some MLV team needs to be looking at
that person. So normally, when a centerfielder makes a play at the plate
and it involves nailing someone with the rocket of a throw. While one Ohio
high school centerfielder used his legs not his arm, to make a highlight reel
play. Last week Friday, in a varsity baseball game between Fort Recovery and
Mariam Local, Mason Local centerfielder for the Griffin Burns showed previously unseen levels of
a hustle on a baseball diamond. It all began when batter Caden Chris's hit
a blooper into the outfield. The ball dropped between the three Marion players,
and Burns eventually scooped it up. Normally, that would be a single,
but with a shortstop and second basement, both in shallow center field. After
unsuccessfully trying to catch the ball. Nobody was covering second base, so the
runner kept running. The bizarre play set off a chain reaction of uncovered bases.
The third baseman went to cover second, leaving third base open. Then
so the runner started running the third so the base runner kept running, kept
running. Finally, the center fielder took off because he's like, no one's
covering the bases, I'm gonna go towards the runner. He literally ran,
beat him home and tagged him out before he could score. Not only is
that amazing, but think about this, there's only probably three or four guys
in the history of Major League baseball that could probably pull that playoff Off the
top of my head, Ron Laflore, uh Ricky Henderson, And maybe there
there was a time when Jose Conseko wasn't that beult like when he became the
Bass Brothers and he was actually a thirty for thirty guy. That means thirty
stolen bases, thirty home runs, and thirty triples in the same season.
He's one of the one of four players to do that in major league history.
So maybe him at that time, before he got so big that he
couldn't get his legs to move without banging their knees into each other. Uh
yeah, he probably could have did it. And can you believe that tonight
d Backs Gallon exits with a hamstring strain after only throwing six pitches. That's
what other professional teams not have chiropractors because if you have your back end line,
that reduces the screen on your hamstrings. Now I know chiropracty. Chiropractors
have like a very mixed bag of chops, but it actually helps. I
mean, I'm gonna say something to rocket scientists and he's not gonna like it.
And it's because the old guys that watch hockey are very much fans of
the original six teams. You're talking about Boston, New York Rangers, Detroit
Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadians, and Toronto Maple LEAs. Was
that not the original six? I think so so, as much as I
hate to say it. The old guard, the guys that have been watching
hockey their entire lives, those were the six teams they watched the most.
So when they're in the playoffs, they have a tendency to root for those
teams. It's nothing against the Panthers, it's because it's an expansion team.
That has a lot to do with it. It also has a lot to
do with sometimes as people are in the media and they deal with the PR
people from the different teams, they may have a little bias. Let's put
it that way, and I'm not gonna call any team out, but sometimes
different PR groups are easier to work with than others. So right, But
with that being said, we always have a segment on the show and it's
called My Town, and that's where you talk about either a town you're living
in now or a town you grew up in and something that's happening in the
sports world in that town. So, Jen, I know you, I'm
kind of putting you on the spot because you've done this once before, but
you haven't done it recently. Need a minute to prepare for that, or
actually I have one and I'm kind of something I'm really excited about. So
one thing that I love about Coach Canalis and Dan Morgan. What you two
may not know, and what a lot of listeners may not know, is
that Jerry Richardson did not come up with keep Pounding for our logo. Steve
Mill Sam Mills did. Steve Mills, Sam Mills did and a very impassionate
speech. When he finally joined the middle of a playoff game against the Cowboys,
he told the guys in the locker room, I mean I could quote
the entire speech, but sumthing enough time to keep pounding. That's when he
announced that he had cancer and that if he got up, went to treatment
every single day, then came to practice and he kept pounding. Then every
single one of those guys in that locker room should keep pounding. Dan Morgan,
Julius Pepper's, Kevin Green amongst we're all in there. By the way,
two out of three of those names already Hall of famers. Dan Morgan
should be just saying, but he Dane was in there. Keep pounding came
from the coaching staff. Keep pounding came from the locker room and the players.
That is what he marched into the second field second like after halftime.
They marched under the field and that was their call. Keep pounding. Keep
pounding is embedded in North and South Carolina and our communities. If you're going
to a tough time, you see keep pounding. If you see a friend
going through a tough time, if you see a stranger on the face who
just looks distressed. You just go up to him be like, hey,
keep pounding, keep pounding. And I agree with you, James. But
when our team was sold, and I understandably, you know, mister Tepper
wanted to bring in his own matto. He can't get away from it.
It's too embedded. It's Carolina. It's part of Georgia, it is part
of Virginia. It is part of California. I saw in California, and
I love that coach Canalis and Dan Morgan are bringing it back, and that
is so important to who our identity is. Like Jeremy, you saw when
now we're playing us and in the third quarter, that's the only time they've
done it for the last five years is the third quarter. They would do
keep pounding twice. And every single time they do keep pounding, they would
sorry, I'm tired. That's what the southerneast. Every time they would do
keep pounding, you would see whichever quarterback we had out of the nine we
had for during those past five years, you would see get energized and see
defense and offense. So I'm really glad my town and my GM and my
new head coach are bringing that back. Well, you know what I love
about Dan Morgan the fact that when he was hired, he looked at Dave
Tucker he goes, keep your hands out of my business. Mm hmmm yeah,
and you know what he has been. It made a huge difference in
your free agency and your draft in my opinion. And David Tepper looks a
little more relaxed right because he finally has somebody that had the stones to tell
him to shut that hell up, which is what he needed. And that's
actually why I went in Steve Wilkes. Also because coach Wilkes had the stones
to do it, but it was too late. Wow, until about ten
twelve years ago home break in synjury Ban, but also on day were rampants
that he stepped up patrols and got that under control. Really it's interesting.
But at the same time, do you want to go first or do you
want me to go first? Candy doesn't matter to me? Okay, I
kind of have a two part my Town. One has to do with the
Tigers, and I understand that every Tigers fan that's a loyal fan right now
loves to reach Schoogle, who's in the top five for current cy Young and
everything else because he's in the top five statistics across the league. But after
Scott Harris did the interview the other day saying it'll be he doesn't know when
they're gonna start actually spending to bring in big talent. The only way we're
gonna fix this roster and be ready within three years is gonna do something that's
gonna make the Tigers baseball upset, and that's trade to reach true right now
while his value is the highest before he gets into his second contract and get
a haul of young talent to come in here. Because our farm system,
while they say it's the top five, it's miles below the top three.
Yeah, our best is twenty fifth, our second best is fifty six,
and it goes excrementally down way below the top one hundred baseball prospects. So
if you think about that, if we're considered top five with only three guys
in the top one hundred, that's not that good of a farm system.
When you're talking about triple A, double A, single A and there's high
single A and low single A, so that's four different teams. That is
your farm system. You could rebuild the whole farm system and be ready in
four years. With a core that can come up and be solid because I
like our coaching, our assistant coaching as far as hitting and pitching in every
thing else coming up out of the miners better than what we have with aj
HNT right now, I hear you. And the second part is former Pittsburgh
Steelers slash Detroit Lions now Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle. I mentioned it already
once, Isaiah Bugs, what are you thinking how with the money you have
because you've made millions now not have somebody taken care of your dogs while you're
traveling. Shame on you, sir. You are a pos just like Adam
Sandlers sang about his car. Yeah, you completely agree, because one of
your dogs had to be put down. He was so emaciated he couldn't stand
up and had to be hauled into the Tuscaloosa Animal Sheriff's Departments vehicle to be
taken back to the animal hospital at the at the Humane Society. And that's
a travesty. And there too, Yes, he was born and raised in
that county. Just said, just said, I I hope whatever book they
can throw at them, they throw it hard. Mm hmm. I guess
I agree. So I know that we uh had some hockey fans that were
on earlier and they were begging for hockey. And typically I don't do hockey
as my town. But the Milwaukee Admirals, after they shut out Grand Rapids
Griffins in Game five of the Central Division Finals on Sunday, they set the
stage for a Western Conference Finals showdown against the Coachiella Valley Firebirds. This is
the second year in a row that the National Predators AHL affiliate will face the
Firebirds in the semi final round of the Calder Cup playoffs. Milwaukee lost last
year and they have lost the first game of the five game battle so far.
But kudos to them for making it that far and doing it two years
in a row. That means they have consistent talent. They have a great
goaltender and I wish them nothing but the best good luck. My second parting
shot because I'm going to take a minute and I want to say May is
Mental Health Awareness Month, and I think we all need to focus more on
mental health because this last weekend we saw a golfer take his own life.
We had to read about a parent that came out and said, as much
as it hurts, they know their son is at peace. Now. We
need to do whatever we can to help anybody out there that is having mental
health issues. Reach out to any one of us, because any one of
us, whether we can help you or point you in the right direction,
we would be more than happy to. Yeah, please don't suffer in silence
and don't forget there. If you are a veteran, there is the Veteran
Suicide Hotline out there, and you don't have to be wanting to commit suicide
to call him. Call them. You can be just depressed and need someone
to talk to. And I know it's hard as a man, it's hard
for us to open up and actually tell our true feelings to somebody because we're
raised not to do it. Please reach out because every twenty two seconds of
that commit suicide, and that's travesty that happens in our nation. Yes,
I know that that's probably subject with you, but it needs to be taken
care of. I'm tired of hearing of guys that I was in with and
we were in peacetime and these guys are committing suicide. Yeah. I have
a friend who's active with the Lions, and I'm not going to say what
he does but he is has PTSD. He has tried to take his own
life several times before I knew him, and I'm pretty sure he did this
past Thanksgiving weekend too, right, he means a lot. So if he
happens to be watching, you know who I'm talking to, and you know
I love you and I think the wrong of you. But reach out to
any of one of us. And if you're not hearing from a friend that
you know has had depression, reach out to them. Be their voice of
reason. Just sometimes all they need is someone to reach out and say I
care. Mm hmm. The life you save may be better than what you
know. Dad here sir, Yeah, I'm just putting up these these last
little little but yeah. So with that, I think we're going to close
out the show. So I want you guys to tell everybody how they can
find you. And like we said, if anybody needs help, reach out
to one of us. Jen, how can people find you? Well,
you can find me with you on Tuesday nights and Ali eat tack a little
more if you want. But we have an amazing guest that Candy has procured
for us coming up this Tuesday. I'm super so so thank you Jeremy,
you better be watching your globs. Hear so many directions lately you don't even
understand. And Will Vogel you better be watching too. And I expect both
of you to watch our show from last week because it was pretty cool.
It was pretty cool. But you can find us on YouTube at the Chicks
Podcast. You can and like you will see some other content that we like,
uploaded from different events we've covered. You also find me on Facebook as
Jennifer Matthews List. You can also find me on reridde it at Jenna Cheryl
on Exit Jenna Sharrel a professional fan and please do follow me because I need
more followers people. I promise I won't be too avasive. I know I
follow you too. I follow you too, Candy And then the way our
a travesty? You know, I don't or what conflict time whatever you were
in? Yeah what? I had a friend who was a v who committed
suicide, but it wasn't because of war his sister. His sister was accosted
ut Michigan and he was an protector, so he passed away. She did
too, actually because of what happened to her. So their mother lost two
children to suicide and she has one child left alive. So yeah, please
reach out. But yeah, you can find me everywhere. I don't do
TikTok. I'm sorry. I'm not that cool. One day it'll be as
cool as Jake the pundit, but you know, hey, I'm not there
yet. You can find me on Instagram at Jenna Cheryl the professional fan as
well smoking me be How can people find you? I'm everywhere. I'm on
Instagram, I'm on Bread, I'm are you on TikTok? No? I
refuse to get on TikTok. I don't like it. I do too.
I don't like how it said they sell our stuff to the Chinese, but
that's a whole other story. You know what, The Chinese owns it,
right, But I'm just saying they sell that information to the highest bidder is
what I'm getting at the Chinese doing. But anyways, I am on I
G I am on Facebook. Jeremy Ballrick you can find me, or you
can find me with my podcast page now, which is MeCAT Fighting with the
MotorCity Lions. You can also find me in my group for the Lions,
which is MotorCity MEECAP Fighters. You can find me on Roku, on the
Huddle Up Sports Network and also on Amazon fire Stake. You can find me
on YouTube at MeCAT fighting with the MotorCity Lions. You can find me on
Twitter it smoking Jeremy B. I'm Ken, and I'm sorry to cut you
off, Candy Ken. Try again, but try going to a different VA
because they're supposed to protect you and help you, especially if you have any
disability rating at all. But check them out again, even go to the
national website and call in. But they are supposed to help you one hundred
percent. I know this for a fact due to one of my previous roles,
but do it. Thank you for helping my dad. You're welcome.
I'll see if what I can find out. Also on personal note and let
you know, Jeremy and let's not forget, you can always find me on
the South Florid Attribute YouTube channel. You can find my writings at the South
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least, before we let Candy do everything in her sign off, which includes
the plethora of places that this broadcast is being aired. Dupe, try every
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I love you brother. Stop hurting me about the Griffin. Damn it,
I thought. I'm trying to think if there's anything else. And I
agree with the statement he made about Isaiah Bugs. I am one of those
people that have to change the channel when the asp and yes, my sentiments
exactly. I won't use the same word. But with the cactus yes,
quickly prickly, Yes, Yes, I'm talking about one of the quickly prickly
just hang out with She's in New Mexico. He did Nicie to show.
Yeah, but I love Kiggin's one of my guys that comes on my show
on a used to be a regular basis, but he's been working too much
lately, And I get it. If you have the chance to work and
make money, I'm happy for anybody that's doing that. I used to know
somebody with that exact same name. He connected me Ken Yeah, young guy,
uh huh, probably like his Daddy's to work with my husband, did
you? I don't know. We'll talk about okay. Well, I want
to thank everybody that's been in the chat room, from James to Joshua to
r x J to Rocket Scientists, to Will to Patty Grimes to Mike Fisher
to Ryan Joshua Dor Yeah, Ken, well yep, Ken, Let's see
anybody else that I missed, Yoli, we just had. I was trying
to make that, make her aware. Candy is a Packers fan too,
Yoli, you should watch the show every week. Oh yes, Jolie,
I am definitely a packerbacker. But that oh wait, okay, with that,
thank you everybody for joining us. Never know what will come up with
for next week. We'd love to hear all your comments though, and if
you have any ideas, let us know you guys all have a great weekend.
And one last reminder, if you know anybody that's depressed, or if
you are depressed, reach out to any one of us, no judgment.
We're here to help if I can't. If I can't help you with the
problem, I'll make you laugh until you forget it, because that's my go
to. If I can't fix it, I make people laugh. That's what
I am. Laughter is the best medicine. It is. That's what I
say too. Okay, guys, it's been a great show. Thank you
all for viewing. We'll see you next week. Thanks for having me on
of course, thanks John for being here.