October 10, 2024 • 29 mins
This week on the Happy Half Hour, Darin and Kassidy outline a small way in which you can help your neighbors, highlight Chuba Hubbard's development as a NFL running back, react to the newest batch of injured Panthers, and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This week on a Happy half Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We know that Cuba works hard. The stories of him
and the Jugs Machine have now become legend.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
All the time he and Tommy Tremble spend after practice
working to improve their game has now become part of
his bio. Also, he is developing as a running back.
He's learned how to set up runs Tots Doll.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Row.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's time for the Happy Half Hour, presented by Southern Star,
an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. Here are your hosts,
Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Hello, friends, and welcome to the Happy Half Hour. And
it is happy right, It's fall.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
You know what. It's always a happy day when I'm
with you, Darren, And you are right. It was like
fifty nine degrees when I was walking in today, a
nice fallbreeze. I wore us. There you go go into
a pumpkin patch on Saturday. I mean, this is this
is a white girl's time to shine.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
There you go, you know what, you know what's perfect
for fall, for sweater weather in pumpkins football at Southern Star.
Because Happy Half Hour is presented by a Southern Star,
an official bourbon partner of the Carolina Panthers celebrate the
Spirit of the Carolina Panthers. What is the spirit of
the Carolinas?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
That's what we should Spirit.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Of the Carolinas. Did I screw up that?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Read?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Even after you handed me the card? Podcast Matt, I'm
just the worst. I'm so glad at this. Who thought
it was a good idea to give me a microphone
in live airtime?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Thank goodness, we're not live.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
This was terrible at any rate.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Speaking of the Spirit of the Carolinas, that's a good
little plug real quick.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah hit me.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
There are going to be shirts for sealing the team
store on Sunday, proceeds going to Hurricane relief that say
keep pounding for the Carolinas. They are a beautiful shirt.
Go grab you one on your way to the game.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, absolutely, Hurricane Relase and we're gonna have more about
those available on Panthers dot com later today. You can
see the pictures the guys were wearing it as they
participated in some relief efforts earlier this week. And anytime
something like that gets out there in the world, people
are like, how can I get one of those? And
the answer is right now at the Carolina Panthers Team
store starting today on Thursday, one hundred percent of the
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net proceeds of these shirts is going to hurricane relief.
We've got so many of our neighbors here in the
Carolinas in a bad spot right now, given the what
happened with Hurricane Helene in the aftermath and the terrible
flooding in the mountains and so many areas around. This
is going to that and we're gonna stand up. We're
gonna help our neighbors because that's what neighbors do. And
there's all kind of stuff between the shirts that are
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available so many people. I've just talked to so many
people in the community in the last couple of days,
and it's amazing that every church in town is doing
something for real efforts. Every group you know is is
doing something to help their neighbors. And you know all
by the way, the weekend the Panthers are in Bronco
are in Denver to play the Broncos. Uh, there's gonna
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be a little concert here at Bank of America Stadium.
Maybe you've heard something about that too, So you know,
hats off the guys like Luke Colm's and Eric.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Church, Sheryl Crowe, James Taylor.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, those two in particular, I mean, because they are
what I like to say, they are from and of
they are us, and they are stepping up for their people,
and that's what you love to see. So it's just
this morning. I could just went on sale this morning
and they're going fast and there are going to be
a lot of them. From what I understand of the
stage set up it's being it's being put together here
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in the building to maximize the crowd available. So a
lot of details to come, stay tuned for that on
how you can see it live and maybe otherwise. Uh,
details to come, so stay tuned for all that. But
at some point in this podcast about football, I guess
we got to talk about football, And as far as
I'm concerned, the less time we spend talking about Chicago,
(04:06):
the better. That was not a memorable trip for any
good reason for a lot of people, So it got
away from them early and it didn't turn around. I
think from a football standpoint, Dave Canalis is always talking
about third down percentage, and when you go zero for
six on third downs in the first half of a
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ballgame against the team that can move the ball a
little bit, that's not going well for you, and it
did not, and boom before you look up your down
three scores at halftime, and then it's kind of everything's
out of phase. So all the things they want to
be about or are kind of not on the menu anymore.
You want to be stubborn, you want to run, You
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want to keep giving it to Chuba Hubbard because he's
killing it lately. But it's kind of hard to justify
that when you're down three scores. So it's one of
those one problem feeds the next three. And it just
got downhill on them the other day and they're moving on.
So now we talk about Atlanta, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I did want to add one thing. The Bears had
a twenty point second quarter. That's gonna change a lot
of games, so we can talk in and out about
the defensive side of things. I will say that offense
didn't necessarily hold up their end of the which is
hard to do when you're down three scores. But I
think you might have even said this in your mailbag,
(05:29):
and if you didn't, I'm just quoting you in my
mind because it sounds like something you would say. This
sounds weird to say only five games in and given
what happened the first two weeks, but what we've seen
of the offense the past few weeks, Sunday felt more
like the anomaly, not the Raiders game.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, it really did. And you can tell based on
what they're trying to do offensively. I mean, Andy Dalton's
brought a sense of stability to this thing. You know
what he's good at, you know the kind of quarterback
he is, because you've got fourteen years of evidence to
base it on. Cuba Hubbard is on a heater.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Right right, just an absolute tear.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Three yard short of three straight hundred yard games. He
is catching the ball well, he is doing all those
Tuba things that were used to CHEWBA Hubbard doing. I mean,
one of the things that's interesting to me, and I
wrote about him last night at Panthers dot com. Cuba
has always been a guy with straight lenspeed. You know,
the old Canadian high school track star thing was part
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of his bio early on, even when he went to
Oklahoma State. We know that Cuba works hard. The stories
of him and the Jugs machine have now become legend now.
All the time he and Tommy Tremble spend after practice
working to improve their game has now become part of
his bio. Also, the thing that's impressive to me about
Chewba Hubbard right now is he is developing as a
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running back. He's learned how to set up runs, I
think with any with any back, And Dave Canal has
talked about this a little bit yesterday. There is a
temptation when you're a young back to if a hole
is closed off, to stop and pop it the other direction.
And when you do that, you're taking a chance at
making a big play, but you're also throwing away the
design of the play. Here's what Canal has had to
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say about that.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Some guys are naturally that way. Some guys naturally are
looking for the home run. And based on their lifetime experience,
a lot of these guys were talking about thousands of
kerries dating back to when they're ten years old, you know,
some of them even younger. And so they've found ways
to find success, to find holes in the defense, you know,
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and sometimes it was cutting way back against the grain,
you know. And unfortunately in this league that doesn't work
a lot because everybody's fast and everybody's big. And so
while you become a professional running back, you learn the
value of just that patience of knowing where to hit it,
what's the front, how are the linebackers playing it, where's
my leverage at, you know, and then making sure that
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you can set run up as the game goes on.
And that certainly is a skill that's developed over time,
and that's something that Cuba has shown a knack for.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's really about discipline, it's really about patience. Because I
had a coach explain it to me the other day.
What Cuba is doing right now is kind of staying
on the path that the play was called on. So
rather than making that big adjustment if he runs into trouble,
it's a subtle one. It's one step rather than popping
it the other way and back the way the play
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was designed to go. And you saw on that thirty
eight yard touchdown run, I mean, Austin Corbett and Robert
Hunt get out there and there is a hole I
could have runty eight yards through and I am not
particularly fast. So I just think that by developing that discipline,
developing that patience is a running back, you're starting to
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see all those other cool things that Cuba's been doing,
like being fast and working hard, show more and more
the patience.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
It's letting the play set up the way it was
supposed to. And then it also is a little bit
of that speed. I think you and I could have
run maybe twelve yards through that whole.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I was taken that one to the house.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
But then from there Tuba did hit the fastest speed
of his career on the back end of that run.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I've never gone twenty miles an hour outside of a
car in my life. Well that's not true.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You prius go twenty miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, Will, It's got all the speed I need. That's
not true. I have done over twenty miles an hour
on my bicycle going downhill, so and always wear a helmet.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I did that one time too, which is why I
have half an eyebrow missing from the stitches.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's quite a story that might be its own podcast.
So surgery Stories with Cassidy Hill. What do you think,
Matt is Is there a future for that? Can we
get that sponsored by Adrian? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, you see what I'm doing there, energy all our
friends in the medical profession. We don't do this on
purpose or without professional guidance. So anyway back to Cuba
and the offense, I mean, I mentioned Austin Corbett and
Rob Hunt created that giant hole. Obviously, things are going
to be different this week with Austin Corbett out for
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the season. It's one of those injuries torn biceps and
speaking of advice from medical professionals, biceps are both singular and.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Plural, a lesson I learned this week.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Always put an S on the end of that one. Kids,
it's both singular and plural. They is our singular and
they is our plural biceps.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
So that's not confusing at all.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's English one oh one. We do it for the
people here at the Happy half Hour, kids. But seriously,
Austin's loss is going to be a huge one, not
just because he had settled into that position and made
it its own. We spent a lot of time this
offseason talking about could Austin Corbett police Center. The answer
was a resounding yes. He was part of what had
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become a really good offensive line. And it's tough not
just to replace a guy, but to replace a guy
who was part of that personality that they had built.
I mean, Damian Lewis talked about mean, tough and nasty,
and him and Rob and Austin had been that through
five games. I mean they were leaning on people, creating
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a lot of holes for Chewba Hubbard and protecting well.
And that's what you want an offensive line to do.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I guess now we need to figure out which one
is Brady Christensen. Does he mean tough for nasty.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Or maybe he's something else here?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Let him be his own person. I guess you know,
they have a chance this week to set up this
offensive line they wait they wanted to for the rest
of the season, or to get some good reps under
their belt, because you look at that Thursday night game
between the Falcons and the Bucks last week. The first half,
the Falcons didn't have a single pressure on Baker Mayfield
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that entire first half. Now they got after and more
in the second half just as things wore on. But
if you can hold up like that in the first
half against the line that I mean, you've got Matthew
Judin back there. But you know, if you can do
what the Bucks did, the Bucks proved it's possible and
it's very capable to protect your quarterback against this Falcons
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defensive front. If you can do that in the first
half and build up a little bit of a lead,
and get a couple of stops on defense. That's getting
into the whole game plan. But from the offensive line
of it all, this is this is not a horrible
matchup to kind of get your new offensive line set well, and.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It's a familiar challenge. Much like the Carolina Panthers, the
Falcons are not overburdened with multiple pass rush weapons. I mean,
they went out and got an old head like Matthew
Judon for a reason, much the same way the Panthers
did with Davian Clowney. And other than that, they're still
very much looking for answers. But here's what we know
absolutely about the Falcons defense. Jesse Bates a problem.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Jesse Bates is a guy you've got.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
To you can play center field almost better than anything.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, you've got to know where he is on every play.
And Andy talked about that the other day as a
guy that you know, he knows from his years in Cincinnati.
So they do have to be careful about that.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I think for them it's the players that they have.
They're aggressive, they're smart, they understand the game really well.
I was with Jesse Bates for a couple of years
and since he so I know the type of player
that he is. Their fronts of very veteran group, guys
that have played a ton of ball, And so you
go it into just what that style of defense that
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they're bringing. I mean, they're aggressive, they're smart, they they're
running to the ball. I mean they've played really well
this year.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
But I think more than anything, I mean going back
to I'm going to do, like Dave Canalis, let's make
this about us. I want to talk about what the
Panthers are. This is us, which I'm still not convinced
as a television show is something I'm ever going to partake.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Whatever you think it is. It's not though everything you've
said about this show has been wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well maybe so, but I don't watch a lot of
TV to begin with, so I don't know that I'm
That's one I'm going to add. But back to the
Panthers and what they want to do. You mentioned Christian
in a second ago. I think Brady kind of profiles
a lot like Austin. When you're an offensive lineman, whether
it's in high school, middle school, college, if you're the
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best offensive lineman on your team, you're a left tackle,
whether you're a left tackle or not. I mean, Austin
Corbett's college coach at Nevada told him, Son, you're playing
left tackle right now, but you're a center, whether you
know it or not. It just took him eight years
to get there. Brady has a lot of those same traits.
I mean, Brady Christiansen is athletic, Brady Christiansen is smart,
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and Brady Christiansen is aware and those are kind of
the things that you need your center to be in
the modern NFL. And I think he has those traits
to be able to pull that off. Now, he's got
to like Austin. You know, at least Austin had the
benefit of always being the emergency center. This is still
kind of a new job for Brady's. He's learning as
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he goes and things have smoothed out, but he got
a lot of reps at it through OTAs, through training camp,
through the preseason, and you know, he is a guy
that they know. You know. I think somebody said the
other day, what I know Brady is is a good
offensive lineman. Yeah, And I think having him in between
Robin Damian Lewis kind of gives him an opportunity to
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settle in same way it did with Austin.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And you know something else that I honestly didn't think
about until this exact moment. This is just off the
top of the dome.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Brady Christensen was the backup center, that's correct, which means
he spent a lot of the off season with Andy Dalton.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Hey. That is right. That kind of works out, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Right? Look how look at how it all came together.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
All comes together full circle here and our old friend
Kid Mays is back in the building. Cade's another guy
who's got experience playing both guard spots and center in
his career. So that was a nice little piece of
depth to get back in after Caid had spent a
couple of weeks on the Giant's practice squad in his
time away from us here and Charlotte. But they're gonna
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have to get back to that personality. I mean, that's
just it. Whether they're playing the Falcons, whether it's Denver
in a couple of weeks, whether it's Washington. The plan's
not really gonna change because I mean they want to
do very basic things and do them well and then
build on this thing. Dave Canalis's whole plan for this
offense is lay in the foundation right now and continue
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to add, continue to adapt. I mean, he talks about
his dream scenario is being able to run plays out
of five different personnel groups. And it's gonna take some
time for the Carolina Panthers to get to that point.
But what we know they can do right now is run,
let Andy do smart Andy Dalton things, and get some
play action off of that and move the ball down
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the field from time to time. It's very simple. It's
not easy, but it is simple, and that's what they're
trying to do at the moment.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I kind of love that this week gives us an
Andy Dalton versus Kirk Cousins matchup. I don't know, I
just feel like it's so almost ironic considering how young
the NFL went over the past few years, to now
see these guys that have been able to stick around
and stick it out and really develop the mental side
of their game kind of step back in and prove
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what can be how you can last as a quarterback
in this league for a really long time.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Dad Ball is real, gang, it is. Let these old
guys cook, is the answer.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Of course, what did you call this yesterday? One for
the aged?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, one for the aged it's and listen, man, these
guys are in their mid thirties, then old, come on.
But these two are, you know, examples of and I
say this all the time about young quarterbacks. Playing quarterback
in the NFL is really hard gage and it takes
some time for some people to learn how to do it.
And fortunately Kirk and Andy have had that time and
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the experience. And you know, I think everybody's always looking
to that next thing and the younger thing. And in
an ideal world, if you drafted one and he was
ready to go right out of the chute, cool, But
it's hard to pull that off. So guys like Andy
and Kirk are gonna hang around for a long long
time because they're smart, and they're accurate, and they're good
at the footballs, so they're gonna keep on getting chances.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Yeah, and that's on the defensive side of things. Like
you said, kirkis kirkus so accurate, He's so smart, And
I think he currently is tied for a league lead
eight comebacks or something like that he has. I looked
it up. At one point. I think he has like
twenty something odd fourth quarter comebacks and a few more
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than that game winning drives. So this is a guy
that if you get into a battle with, you've got
to get a couple of scores on because otherwise he
can push you right there at the end of the game.
So it's gonna be a lot about making stops. It's
gonna be tough with the pass rush where it is currently,
so you've got to depend on that back end, you
know what, can Exavier Woods and Nick Scott and Mike
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Jackson and j C. Horn Like, It's gonna be a
lot on them this week, especially with guys like Drake
London out there. And then oh, by the way, you've
also got Bjon Robinson, one of the best running backs
in the league, who can also flex out and catch
some passes on will routes out of the backfield, even
like little intermediate screens.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
The Falcons are an intriguing team to try to gain
plan against because they're capable of doing so much different stuff, right,
I mean, Kyle Pitts has been billed as this multi
purpose threat for a long long time, and everybody wondered
how they were going to match up on Kyle. And
as a guy who may or may not have Kyle
Pitts on my fantasy football team, which does not include
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money as a prize. It's only for funsie so it's
completely legal for me.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Good disclaimer, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I mean the production hasn't always matched the potential, but
the potential is there. Yeah, I mean, you know, to
look at him, you know, from the time he was
going up against Stefon Gilmour a few years ago, it's like,
this guy can do a lot of different things. And
you can say that about a lot of guys on
that Falcons offense. So if you needed any more information,
that game they played Thursday a week ago should tell
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you everything you need to know about what they're capable of.
They can score points and they can scom in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Let me ask you this. Falcons and now Kirk have
the whole swag surf thing. What should the Panthers and
Andy do? Like, what should their dance be?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I don't know what swagsurfing is. Can you help me
with that?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
It goes and I swag and swag. You've seen people
do it, you just didn't know that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Mat Are we violating copyright music laws? Here? Are we
walking right up to.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
The I can guarantee you I did not sing it
the way it actually sounds.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Okay, it sounds good, but uh yeah, I don't know.
We'll have to work on that. I think Andy is
a man of many talents, but I don't necessarily see
him as a dancer, do you.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I didn't see Kirk Cousins as a dancer either.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's fair.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
He started to do.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It, that is fair. I didn't necessarily see Kirk Cousins
with his shirt off and a gold chain around his
neck either. He continues to defy expectations. So at any
rate we're moving, it should be interesting to see. And
you know what, Panthers are wearing black helmets this week,
in case you didn't notice yesterday during practice when they
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were playing a CDC's back in black. Yeah, that's how
that goes. In fact, and so the Atlanta Falcons are
coming here to Bank of America Stadium. They're wearing the
black helmets. You know what that means. I know the record,
good things happened for the good guys, so and and
and even I've looked at there there's no rain in
the forecast. I don't know how I'm gonna act with
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the Falcons in here in black helmets and adults. So yeah, well,
you know what could possibly go wrong? Nothing, It's just
football at any rate. So we've talked about the football,
We've talked about the relief efforts coming up here in
the area, with the T shirts, with the concerts, all
that cool stuff. We got to go to the jukebox.
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H to close this episode out, you had me listening
to Noah Khan Uh. Noah con is one of those dudes.
I think that in twenty years, I'm curious to know
whether his music is still known because it feels so
specific to a time and a place.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I think. I mentioned that last week he puts time
stamps on his songs, and I don't love that.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I mean, twenty years from now is a pandemic song
about loneliness and somebody leaving him gonna hold up. I
don't know. The context is so central to what that
song is all about that I wonder about. But it's
a catchy song, and it's you know, like a lot
of the songs that you and I end up picking.
It is well written, it is tight, it is catchy,
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and everybody enjoys it. I do kind of wonder though,
And as I was scanning the lyrics, a lot of times.
I'm a super nerd. Sometimes I've sat and watched movies
with a copy of the script open beside me, so
I can read dialogue long yep, super nerd. But scanning
those lyrics, why you listen to that song you realize,
you know, it is artistically performed. I will give him that.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Wait, what is artistically performed?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I mean he's just got a there is a it
is bouncy in a way that it's hard to make
scripted words feel that way. Yes, but he's got a
certain syncopation about the way he sings. I enjoy it.
It is catchy. Here's a fun fact about Noah Khan. Okay,
Noah Khan was the nephew of a former doctor who
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is a medical fellow here with the Carolina Panthers. Used
to be down in the training room with our friend
Kevin King and Katie and Karen and all our friends
down there, and Kevin said, yeah, he was talking to
us the other week. He's like, yeah, my nephew sings. Really,
it's your nephew. It's got no coln. Maybe you've heard
of him. And then a couple of years down the line,
it's like, oh, you mean that guy. He was huge.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Kevin is an avid listener of the Happy half Hour podcast,
and he stopped me in the hallway last a few
days ago and said, that song you made Darren listen to,
and he's like, guess who his relative is?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
So yeah, it is something else. So I sentenced you
to another, another one of my upbeat numbers. Did I
make you listen to so often? Didn't? I?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
You did? And I will say this is probably my
favorite one you've given me yet. I really really enjoyed it.
It's so funny too, considering how much Highwayman I listened
to growing up just because of my dad, that Chris
Christopherson as a musician is sort of a blind spot
for me. I know him more as Jennifer Aniston's dad
from the movie. He's just not that into you. But
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I did look him up on Wikipedia. I just wanted to.
I was curious about a couple of things, and I
realized how many songs he wrote that he didn't sing
that are so popular me and Bobby McGhee Sunday Morning
coming Down. I thinks I know there's a couple of others,
But that being said, really really enjoyed this one from
the first notes, I could tell I was gonna love
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it before he even He didn't even start by singing.
He started with spoken word like. From the first notes
of the song, I could tell, Oh, this is my jam.
And I've gone back and listened to it quite a
few times. I'm definitely going to add Chris Christopherson to
my need to listen to now. I was talking to
my dad about it too, because he's gotten very interested
in what songs were assigning each other each week. And
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I said, yeah, this week, I'm listening to a Chris
Christofferson song. And he went on a full diatribe about
Chris Christopherson. It was it boiled down to the man
as a genius. He was a Rhodes scholar. Didn't know
that and according to my dad, one of the best
songwriters of the American generation.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
No question about it. The day he died, I sent
you this and I was sitting around the house listening
and one of the lines, it's kind of the chorus
of the Pilgrim Chapter thirty three. He's a poet, he's
a picker, he's a prophet, he's a pusher. He's a
pilgrim and a preacher and a problem when he stoned.
He's a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction, taking
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every wrong direction on his lonely walk back. Yeah, if
I ever write a paragraph that good in my entire life,
I quit. I'm done. That's just gonna be Mike Drop.
It's been good, but I never will because things I
am not Rhodes scholar, former Army helicopter pilot. Legend of
the game. That's now.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Let me ask you real quick, did you figure out
which line from Stick Season that I said is one
of I just think it's such a good, well written line.
No tell me, it's so simple. It's like such a
small line, so simple you almost miss it. But there's
a line in the second verse that says you once
called me forever and now you still can't call me back.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah. I just think it's HiT's hard.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah, when it's a little dichotomy.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And when I saw no Kan at the festival here
back in the spring, he h he kind of dark.
He his his music comes from a dark place. So
that's why going into this week, I'm gonna cheer it
up a little bit. I have held I have held
off thus far. On the Happy Half Hour Jukebox uh,
probably for too long. My favorite live act that I've
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ever seen, and I've probably only seen him about nine
or ten times now, is Frank Turner. You've heard me
talk about him, You've heard our friend Rob Demofsky talk
about him a lot. Frank Turner is one of the
best live acts. You are never going to get cheated
out of your money when you go to a Frank show.
You're going to sing, You're going to dance and have
a big old time you Cassiy Hill. This week, listen
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to Frank Turner's I Still believe. It is an anthem
about the power of music and what it can do
for people in communities. So go listen to that and
be happy.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I'm all about being happy. So funny that that's the
direction you went, because I went with a happier song
this week too, So Tocado. We're actually going to go
back to my girl Tay. We've gone away from her
for a few weeks here. I think you'll appreciate this
one because it is She has an album called Folklore
that's a lot less autobiography autobiographical, and it's more storytelling
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a song that is actually a true story. You can
go look up the people involved. Anyways, it's called the
last Great American Dynasty.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I asked, Great American dynasty, and that's not about Appalachian
State football.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Well, I guess it could be applied in many ways,
but yeah, it's it's a like I said, it's based
on a true story, based on real people, relevance. Everything
in the song was based on real evans. And she
uses a little an old country songwriting tactic. She kind
of pulled it out for this song that gives it
(28:34):
a nice little fun twist.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So it is biographical.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
It's biographical, but not autobiographical. But actually this one kind
of is too, but I don't want to give it away.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I guess they're all biographical about somebody. That's true unless
you just made up.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Well, and now that I say that too, I guess
this one is also kind of autobiographical. But again, I
don't go listen to it. I'm not saying too much.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
We'll listen to the songs. We'll be happy, We'll help
our neighbors out because that's what you do. And we
will see you next week on the Happy half Hour
This week on a Happy half Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We know that Cuba works hard. The stories of him
and the Jugs Machine have now become legend.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
All the time he and Tommy Tremble spend after practice
working to improve their game has now become part of
his bio. Also, he is developing as a running back.
He's learned how to set up runs Tots Doll.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Row.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's time for the Happy Half Hour, presented by Southern Star,
an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. Here are your hosts,
Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Hello, friends, and welcome to the Happy Half Hour. And
it is happy right, It's fall.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
You know what. It's always a happy day when I'm
with you, Darren, And you are right. It was like
fifty nine degrees when I was walking in today, a
nice fallbreeze. I wore us. There you go go into
a pumpkin patch on Saturday. I mean, this is this
is a white girl's time to shine.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
There you go, you know what, you know what's perfect
for fall, for sweater weather in pumpkins football at Southern Star.
Because Happy Half Hour is presented by a Southern Star,
an official bourbon partner of the Carolina Panthers celebrate the
Spirit of the Carolina Panthers. What is the spirit of
the Carolinas?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
That's what we should Spirit.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Of the Carolinas. Did I screw up that?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Read?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Even after you handed me the card? Podcast Matt, I'm
just the worst. I'm so glad at this. Who thought
it was a good idea to give me a microphone
in live airtime?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Thank goodness, we're not live.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
This was terrible at any rate.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Speaking of the Spirit of the Carolinas, that's a good
little plug real quick.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah hit me.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
There are going to be shirts for sealing the team
store on Sunday, proceeds going to Hurricane relief that say
keep pounding for the Carolinas. They are a beautiful shirt.
Go grab you one on your way to the game.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, absolutely, Hurricane Relase and we're gonna have more about
those available on Panthers dot com later today. You can
see the pictures the guys were wearing it as they
participated in some relief efforts earlier this week. And anytime
something like that gets out there in the world, people
are like, how can I get one of those? And
the answer is right now at the Carolina Panthers Team
store starting today on Thursday, one hundred percent of the
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net proceeds of these shirts is going to hurricane relief.
We've got so many of our neighbors here in the
Carolinas in a bad spot right now, given the what
happened with Hurricane Helene in the aftermath and the terrible
flooding in the mountains and so many areas around. This
is going to that and we're gonna stand up. We're
gonna help our neighbors because that's what neighbors do. And
there's all kind of stuff between the shirts that are
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available so many people. I've just talked to so many
people in the community in the last couple of days,
and it's amazing that every church in town is doing
something for real efforts. Every group you know is is
doing something to help their neighbors. And you know all
by the way, the weekend the Panthers are in Bronco
are in Denver to play the Broncos. Uh, there's gonna
(03:11):
be a little concert here at Bank of America Stadium.
Maybe you've heard something about that too, So you know,
hats off the guys like Luke Colm's and Eric.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Church, Sheryl Crowe, James Taylor.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, those two in particular, I mean, because they are
what I like to say, they are from and of
they are us, and they are stepping up for their people,
and that's what you love to see. So it's just
this morning. I could just went on sale this morning
and they're going fast and there are going to be
a lot of them. From what I understand of the
stage set up it's being it's being put together here
(03:44):
in the building to maximize the crowd available. So a
lot of details to come, stay tuned for that on
how you can see it live and maybe otherwise. Uh,
details to come, so stay tuned for all that. But
at some point in this podcast about football, I guess
we got to talk about football, And as far as
I'm concerned, the less time we spend talking about Chicago,
(04:06):
the better. That was not a memorable trip for any
good reason for a lot of people, So it got
away from them early and it didn't turn around. I
think from a football standpoint, Dave Canalis is always talking
about third down percentage, and when you go zero for
six on third downs in the first half of a
(04:27):
ballgame against the team that can move the ball a
little bit, that's not going well for you, and it
did not, and boom before you look up your down
three scores at halftime, and then it's kind of everything's
out of phase. So all the things they want to
be about or are kind of not on the menu anymore.
You want to be stubborn, you want to run, You
(04:49):
want to keep giving it to Chuba Hubbard because he's
killing it lately. But it's kind of hard to justify
that when you're down three scores. So it's one of
those one problem feeds the next three. And it just
got downhill on them the other day and they're moving on.
So now we talk about Atlanta, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I did want to add one thing. The Bears had
a twenty point second quarter. That's gonna change a lot
of games, so we can talk in and out about
the defensive side of things. I will say that offense
didn't necessarily hold up their end of the which is
hard to do when you're down three scores. But I
think you might have even said this in your mailbag,
(05:29):
and if you didn't, I'm just quoting you in my
mind because it sounds like something you would say. This
sounds weird to say only five games in and given
what happened the first two weeks, but what we've seen
of the offense the past few weeks, Sunday felt more
like the anomaly, not the Raiders game.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, it really did. And you can tell based on
what they're trying to do offensively. I mean, Andy Dalton's
brought a sense of stability to this thing. You know
what he's good at, you know the kind of quarterback
he is, because you've got fourteen years of evidence to
base it on. Cuba Hubbard is on a heater.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Right right, just an absolute tear.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Three yard short of three straight hundred yard games. He
is catching the ball well, he is doing all those
Tuba things that were used to CHEWBA Hubbard doing. I mean,
one of the things that's interesting to me, and I
wrote about him last night at Panthers dot com. Cuba
has always been a guy with straight lenspeed. You know,
the old Canadian high school track star thing was part
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of his bio early on, even when he went to
Oklahoma State. We know that Cuba works hard. The stories
of him and the Jugs machine have now become legend now.
All the time he and Tommy Tremble spend after practice
working to improve their game has now become part of
his bio. Also, the thing that's impressive to me about
Chewba Hubbard right now is he is developing as a
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running back. He's learned how to set up runs, I
think with any with any back, And Dave Canal has
talked about this a little bit yesterday. There is a
temptation when you're a young back to if a hole
is closed off, to stop and pop it the other direction.
And when you do that, you're taking a chance at
making a big play, but you're also throwing away the
design of the play. Here's what Canal has had to
(07:14):
say about that.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Some guys are naturally that way. Some guys naturally are
looking for the home run. And based on their lifetime experience,
a lot of these guys were talking about thousands of
kerries dating back to when they're ten years old, you know,
some of them even younger. And so they've found ways
to find success, to find holes in the defense, you know,
(07:37):
and sometimes it was cutting way back against the grain,
you know. And unfortunately in this league that doesn't work
a lot because everybody's fast and everybody's big. And so
while you become a professional running back, you learn the
value of just that patience of knowing where to hit it,
what's the front, how are the linebackers playing it, where's
my leverage at, you know, and then making sure that
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you can set run up as the game goes on.
And that certainly is a skill that's developed over time,
and that's something that Cuba has shown a knack for.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's really about discipline, it's really about patience. Because I
had a coach explain it to me the other day.
What Cuba is doing right now is kind of staying
on the path that the play was called on. So
rather than making that big adjustment if he runs into trouble,
it's a subtle one. It's one step rather than popping
it the other way and back the way the play
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was designed to go. And you saw on that thirty
eight yard touchdown run, I mean, Austin Corbett and Robert
Hunt get out there and there is a hole I
could have runty eight yards through and I am not
particularly fast. So I just think that by developing that discipline,
developing that patience is a running back, you're starting to
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see all those other cool things that Cuba's been doing,
like being fast and working hard, show more and more
the patience.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
It's letting the play set up the way it was
supposed to. And then it also is a little bit
of that speed. I think you and I could have
run maybe twelve yards through that whole.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I was taken that one to the house.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
But then from there Tuba did hit the fastest speed
of his career on the back end of that run.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I've never gone twenty miles an hour outside of a
car in my life. Well that's not true.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You prius go twenty miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, Will, It's got all the speed I need. That's
not true. I have done over twenty miles an hour
on my bicycle going downhill, so and always wear a helmet.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I did that one time too, which is why I
have half an eyebrow missing from the stitches.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's quite a story that might be its own podcast.
So surgery Stories with Cassidy Hill. What do you think,
Matt is Is there a future for that? Can we
get that sponsored by Adrian? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, you see what I'm doing there, energy all our
friends in the medical profession. We don't do this on
purpose or without professional guidance. So anyway back to Cuba
and the offense, I mean, I mentioned Austin Corbett and
Rob Hunt created that giant hole. Obviously, things are going
to be different this week with Austin Corbett out for
(10:08):
the season. It's one of those injuries torn biceps and
speaking of advice from medical professionals, biceps are both singular and.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Plural, a lesson I learned this week.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Always put an S on the end of that one. Kids,
it's both singular and plural. They is our singular and
they is our plural biceps.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
So that's not confusing at all.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's English one oh one. We do it for the
people here at the Happy half Hour, kids. But seriously,
Austin's loss is going to be a huge one, not
just because he had settled into that position and made
it its own. We spent a lot of time this
offseason talking about could Austin Corbett police Center. The answer
was a resounding yes. He was part of what had
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become a really good offensive line. And it's tough not
just to replace a guy, but to replace a guy
who was part of that personality that they had built.
I mean, Damian Lewis talked about mean, tough and nasty,
and him and Rob and Austin had been that through
five games. I mean they were leaning on people, creating
(11:14):
a lot of holes for Chewba Hubbard and protecting well.
And that's what you want an offensive line to do.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I guess now we need to figure out which one
is Brady Christensen. Does he mean tough for nasty.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Or maybe he's something else here?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Let him be his own person. I guess you know,
they have a chance this week to set up this
offensive line they wait they wanted to for the rest
of the season, or to get some good reps under
their belt, because you look at that Thursday night game
between the Falcons and the Bucks last week. The first half,
the Falcons didn't have a single pressure on Baker Mayfield
(11:47):
that entire first half. Now they got after and more
in the second half just as things wore on. But
if you can hold up like that in the first
half against the line that I mean, you've got Matthew
Judin back there. But you know, if you can do
what the Bucks did, the Bucks proved it's possible and
it's very capable to protect your quarterback against this Falcons
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defensive front. If you can do that in the first
half and build up a little bit of a lead,
and get a couple of stops on defense. That's getting
into the whole game plan. But from the offensive line
of it all, this is this is not a horrible
matchup to kind of get your new offensive line set well, and.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It's a familiar challenge. Much like the Carolina Panthers, the
Falcons are not overburdened with multiple pass rush weapons. I mean,
they went out and got an old head like Matthew
Judon for a reason, much the same way the Panthers
did with Davian Clowney. And other than that, they're still
very much looking for answers. But here's what we know
absolutely about the Falcons defense. Jesse Bates a problem.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Jesse Bates is a guy you've got.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
To you can play center field almost better than anything.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, you've got to know where he is on every play.
And Andy talked about that the other day as a
guy that you know, he knows from his years in Cincinnati.
So they do have to be careful about that.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I think for them it's the players that they have.
They're aggressive, they're smart, they understand the game really well.
I was with Jesse Bates for a couple of years
and since he so I know the type of player
that he is. Their fronts of very veteran group, guys
that have played a ton of ball, And so you
go it into just what that style of defense that
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they're bringing. I mean, they're aggressive, they're smart, they they're
running to the ball. I mean they've played really well
this year.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
But I think more than anything, I mean going back
to I'm going to do, like Dave Canalis, let's make
this about us. I want to talk about what the
Panthers are. This is us, which I'm still not convinced
as a television show is something I'm ever going to partake.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Whatever you think it is. It's not though everything you've
said about this show has been wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well maybe so, but I don't watch a lot of
TV to begin with, so I don't know that I'm
That's one I'm going to add. But back to the
Panthers and what they want to do. You mentioned Christian
in a second ago. I think Brady kind of profiles
a lot like Austin. When you're an offensive lineman, whether
it's in high school, middle school, college, if you're the
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best offensive lineman on your team, you're a left tackle,
whether you're a left tackle or not. I mean, Austin
Corbett's college coach at Nevada told him, Son, you're playing
left tackle right now, but you're a center, whether you
know it or not. It just took him eight years
to get there. Brady has a lot of those same traits.
I mean, Brady Christiansen is athletic, Brady Christiansen is smart,
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and Brady Christiansen is aware and those are kind of
the things that you need your center to be in
the modern NFL. And I think he has those traits
to be able to pull that off. Now, he's got
to like Austin. You know, at least Austin had the
benefit of always being the emergency center. This is still
kind of a new job for Brady's. He's learning as
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he goes and things have smoothed out, but he got
a lot of reps at it through OTAs, through training camp,
through the preseason, and you know, he is a guy
that they know. You know. I think somebody said the
other day, what I know Brady is is a good
offensive lineman. Yeah, And I think having him in between
Robin Damian Lewis kind of gives him an opportunity to
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settle in same way it did with Austin.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And you know something else that I honestly didn't think
about until this exact moment. This is just off the
top of the dome.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Brady Christensen was the backup center, that's correct, which means
he spent a lot of the off season with Andy Dalton.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Hey. That is right. That kind of works out, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Right? Look how look at how it all came together.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
All comes together full circle here and our old friend
Kid Mays is back in the building. Cade's another guy
who's got experience playing both guard spots and center in
his career. So that was a nice little piece of
depth to get back in after Caid had spent a
couple of weeks on the Giant's practice squad in his
time away from us here and Charlotte. But they're gonna
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have to get back to that personality. I mean, that's
just it. Whether they're playing the Falcons, whether it's Denver
in a couple of weeks, whether it's Washington. The plan's
not really gonna change because I mean they want to
do very basic things and do them well and then
build on this thing. Dave Canalis's whole plan for this
offense is lay in the foundation right now and continue
(16:19):
to add, continue to adapt. I mean, he talks about
his dream scenario is being able to run plays out
of five different personnel groups. And it's gonna take some
time for the Carolina Panthers to get to that point.
But what we know they can do right now is run,
let Andy do smart Andy Dalton things, and get some
play action off of that and move the ball down
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the field from time to time. It's very simple. It's
not easy, but it is simple, and that's what they're
trying to do at the moment.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I kind of love that this week gives us an
Andy Dalton versus Kirk Cousins matchup. I don't know, I
just feel like it's so almost ironic considering how young
the NFL went over the past few years, to now
see these guys that have been able to stick around
and stick it out and really develop the mental side
of their game kind of step back in and prove
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what can be how you can last as a quarterback
in this league for a really long time.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Dad Ball is real, gang, it is. Let these old
guys cook, is the answer.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Of course, what did you call this yesterday? One for
the aged?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, one for the aged it's and listen, man, these
guys are in their mid thirties, then old, come on.
But these two are, you know, examples of and I
say this all the time about young quarterbacks. Playing quarterback
in the NFL is really hard gage and it takes
some time for some people to learn how to do it.
And fortunately Kirk and Andy have had that time and
(17:48):
the experience. And you know, I think everybody's always looking
to that next thing and the younger thing. And in
an ideal world, if you drafted one and he was
ready to go right out of the chute, cool, But
it's hard to pull that off. So guys like Andy
and Kirk are gonna hang around for a long long
time because they're smart, and they're accurate, and they're good
at the footballs, so they're gonna keep on getting chances.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Yeah, and that's on the defensive side of things. Like
you said, kirkis kirkus so accurate, He's so smart, And
I think he currently is tied for a league lead
eight comebacks or something like that he has. I looked
it up. At one point. I think he has like
twenty something odd fourth quarter comebacks and a few more
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than that game winning drives. So this is a guy
that if you get into a battle with, you've got
to get a couple of scores on because otherwise he
can push you right there at the end of the game.
So it's gonna be a lot about making stops. It's
gonna be tough with the pass rush where it is currently,
so you've got to depend on that back end, you
know what, can Exavier Woods and Nick Scott and Mike
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Jackson and j C. Horn Like, It's gonna be a
lot on them this week, especially with guys like Drake
London out there. And then oh, by the way, you've
also got Bjon Robinson, one of the best running backs
in the league, who can also flex out and catch
some passes on will routes out of the backfield, even
like little intermediate screens.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
The Falcons are an intriguing team to try to gain
plan against because they're capable of doing so much different stuff, right,
I mean, Kyle Pitts has been billed as this multi
purpose threat for a long long time, and everybody wondered
how they were going to match up on Kyle. And
as a guy who may or may not have Kyle
Pitts on my fantasy football team, which does not include
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money as a prize. It's only for funsie so it's
completely legal for me.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Good disclaimer, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I mean the production hasn't always matched the potential, but
the potential is there. Yeah, I mean, you know, to
look at him, you know, from the time he was
going up against Stefon Gilmour a few years ago, it's like,
this guy can do a lot of different things. And
you can say that about a lot of guys on
that Falcons offense. So if you needed any more information,
that game they played Thursday a week ago should tell
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you everything you need to know about what they're capable of.
They can score points and they can scom in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Let me ask you this. Falcons and now Kirk have
the whole swag surf thing. What should the Panthers and
Andy do? Like, what should their dance be?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I don't know what swagsurfing is. Can you help me
with that?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
It goes and I swag and swag. You've seen people
do it, you just didn't know that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Mat Are we violating copyright music laws? Here? Are we
walking right up to.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
The I can guarantee you I did not sing it
the way it actually sounds.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Okay, it sounds good, but uh yeah, I don't know.
We'll have to work on that. I think Andy is
a man of many talents, but I don't necessarily see
him as a dancer, do you.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I didn't see Kirk Cousins as a dancer either.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's fair.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
He started to do.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It, that is fair. I didn't necessarily see Kirk Cousins
with his shirt off and a gold chain around his
neck either. He continues to defy expectations. So at any
rate we're moving, it should be interesting to see. And
you know what, Panthers are wearing black helmets this week,
in case you didn't notice yesterday during practice when they
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were playing a CDC's back in black. Yeah, that's how
that goes. In fact, and so the Atlanta Falcons are
coming here to Bank of America Stadium. They're wearing the
black helmets. You know what that means. I know the record,
good things happened for the good guys, so and and
and even I've looked at there there's no rain in
the forecast. I don't know how I'm gonna act with
(21:32):
the Falcons in here in black helmets and adults. So yeah, well,
you know what could possibly go wrong? Nothing, It's just
football at any rate. So we've talked about the football,
We've talked about the relief efforts coming up here in
the area, with the T shirts, with the concerts, all
that cool stuff. We got to go to the jukebox.
(21:53):
H to close this episode out, you had me listening
to Noah Khan Uh. Noah con is one of those dudes.
I think that in twenty years, I'm curious to know
whether his music is still known because it feels so
specific to a time and a place.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I think. I mentioned that last week he puts time
stamps on his songs, and I don't love that.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I mean, twenty years from now is a pandemic song
about loneliness and somebody leaving him gonna hold up. I
don't know. The context is so central to what that
song is all about that I wonder about. But it's
a catchy song, and it's you know, like a lot
of the songs that you and I end up picking.
It is well written, it is tight, it is catchy,
(22:35):
and everybody enjoys it. I do kind of wonder though,
And as I was scanning the lyrics, a lot of times.
I'm a super nerd. Sometimes I've sat and watched movies
with a copy of the script open beside me, so
I can read dialogue long yep, super nerd. But scanning
those lyrics, why you listen to that song you realize,
you know, it is artistically performed. I will give him that.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Wait, what is artistically performed?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I mean he's just got a there is a it
is bouncy in a way that it's hard to make
scripted words feel that way. Yes, but he's got a
certain syncopation about the way he sings. I enjoy it.
It is catchy. Here's a fun fact about Noah Khan. Okay,
Noah Khan was the nephew of a former doctor who
(23:23):
is a medical fellow here with the Carolina Panthers. Used
to be down in the training room with our friend
Kevin King and Katie and Karen and all our friends
down there, and Kevin said, yeah, he was talking to
us the other week. He's like, yeah, my nephew sings. Really,
it's your nephew. It's got no coln. Maybe you've heard
of him. And then a couple of years down the line,
it's like, oh, you mean that guy. He was huge.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Kevin is an avid listener of the Happy half Hour podcast,
and he stopped me in the hallway last a few
days ago and said, that song you made Darren listen to,
and he's like, guess who his relative is?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
So yeah, it is something else. So I sentenced you
to another, another one of my upbeat numbers. Did I
make you listen to so often? Didn't? I?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
You did? And I will say this is probably my
favorite one you've given me yet. I really really enjoyed it.
It's so funny too, considering how much Highwayman I listened
to growing up just because of my dad, that Chris
Christopherson as a musician is sort of a blind spot
for me. I know him more as Jennifer Aniston's dad
from the movie. He's just not that into you. But
(24:33):
I did look him up on Wikipedia. I just wanted to.
I was curious about a couple of things, and I
realized how many songs he wrote that he didn't sing
that are so popular me and Bobby McGhee Sunday Morning
coming Down. I thinks I know there's a couple of others,
But that being said, really really enjoyed this one from
the first notes, I could tell I was gonna love
(24:55):
it before he even He didn't even start by singing.
He started with spoken word like. From the first notes
of the song, I could tell, Oh, this is my jam.
And I've gone back and listened to it quite a
few times. I'm definitely going to add Chris Christopherson to
my need to listen to now. I was talking to
my dad about it too, because he's gotten very interested
in what songs were assigning each other each week. And
(25:17):
I said, yeah, this week, I'm listening to a Chris
Christofferson song. And he went on a full diatribe about
Chris Christopherson. It was it boiled down to the man
as a genius. He was a Rhodes scholar. Didn't know
that and according to my dad, one of the best
songwriters of the American generation.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
No question about it. The day he died, I sent
you this and I was sitting around the house listening
and one of the lines, it's kind of the chorus
of the Pilgrim Chapter thirty three. He's a poet, he's
a picker, he's a prophet, he's a pusher. He's a
pilgrim and a preacher and a problem when he stoned.
He's a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction, taking
(25:57):
every wrong direction on his lonely walk back. Yeah, if
I ever write a paragraph that good in my entire life,
I quit. I'm done. That's just gonna be Mike Drop.
It's been good, but I never will because things I
am not Rhodes scholar, former Army helicopter pilot. Legend of
the game. That's now.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Let me ask you real quick, did you figure out
which line from Stick Season that I said is one
of I just think it's such a good, well written line.
No tell me, it's so simple. It's like such a
small line, so simple you almost miss it. But there's
a line in the second verse that says you once
called me forever and now you still can't call me back.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah. I just think it's HiT's hard.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah, when it's a little dichotomy.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And when I saw no Kan at the festival here
back in the spring, he h he kind of dark.
He his his music comes from a dark place. So
that's why going into this week, I'm gonna cheer it
up a little bit. I have held I have held
off thus far. On the Happy Half Hour Jukebox uh,
probably for too long. My favorite live act that I've
(27:01):
ever seen, and I've probably only seen him about nine
or ten times now, is Frank Turner. You've heard me
talk about him, You've heard our friend Rob Demofsky talk
about him a lot. Frank Turner is one of the
best live acts. You are never going to get cheated
out of your money when you go to a Frank show.
You're going to sing, You're going to dance and have
a big old time you Cassiy Hill. This week, listen
(27:22):
to Frank Turner's I Still believe. It is an anthem
about the power of music and what it can do
for people in communities. So go listen to that and
be happy.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I'm all about being happy. So funny that that's the
direction you went, because I went with a happier song
this week too, So Tocado. We're actually going to go
back to my girl Tay. We've gone away from her
for a few weeks here. I think you'll appreciate this
one because it is She has an album called Folklore
that's a lot less autobiography autobiographical, and it's more storytelling
(28:00):
a song that is actually a true story. You can
go look up the people involved. Anyways, it's called the
last Great American Dynasty.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I asked, Great American dynasty, and that's not about Appalachian
State football.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Well, I guess it could be applied in many ways,
but yeah, it's it's a like I said, it's based
on a true story, based on real people, relevance. Everything
in the song was based on real evans. And she
uses a little an old country songwriting tactic. She kind
of pulled it out for this song that gives it
(28:34):
a nice little fun twist.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So it is biographical.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
It's biographical, but not autobiographical. But actually this one kind
of is too, but I don't want to give it away.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I guess they're all biographical about somebody. That's true unless
you just made up.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Well, and now that I say that too, I guess
this one is also kind of autobiographical. But again, I
don't go listen to it. I'm not saying too much.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
We'll listen to the songs. We'll be happy, We'll help
our neighbors out because that's what you do. And we
will see you next week on the Happy half Hour
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