Hey, Giant Fans. Welcome to The Giant Insider podcast. My name is Jerry Foley. I'm the senior editor of the Giant Insider newspaper. And with me, as always, is the beat writer of Heart of Giant Nation. Chris, Ms. McNato. Chris, it was quite an experience last night with Hot Mike and the app and how well that worked. And I love the technology.

We spoke about it.

Unfortunately, you know, the game didn't end the way we wanted.

Actually, it ended the way we all thought it would with a complete heartbreaker in Philly. But, man, that was a lot of great feedback on that.

It was a hell of a time.

It was a fun time.

We got to talk for pretty much three and a half straight hours about the game.

And it was a great experience.

And again, it's hot mic.

And we're going to, you know, the good news is they asked us to come back for the Washington game, which is awesome to do the Washington game.

But man, what a where are are we as a franchise, buddy?

What a disappointment last night.

Yeah.

Well, first off, like you was saying, Jared, Hot Mike experience was a lot of fun.

And we got great, great feedback on it.

A lot of people liked it.

A lot of people viewed it.

I guess the ultimate compromise is people telling us, you know, that, hey, we want you guys to do it every week.

Yeah, yeah, I couldn't believe it. Yeah. So, hey, listen, it was a lot of fun. Like you said,

the technology, the whole thing going on was good. And getting to the game, Jerry, it's pretty funny because I guess midway through the third quarter, we started looking at each other, right? Yeah. Like, oh, oh, oh, here it comes, right? Yeah. And that's where the franchise is, man. The franchise is, when you have a 17-3 lead, you look at each other saying, well, I guess we're going to blow this one somehow right

that's where we are at right now and it's a damn shame dude and I remember you looked at me when

it was 173 and and the third quarter had just started and and we both thought like it didn't have

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