November 21, 2024 • 26 mins
This week on the Happy Half Hour, Darin and Kassidy discuss the Panthers run game, preview this week's game against the Kansas City Chiefs, recap the Panthers bye week, talk special teams and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This week on a Happy half Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
A run game is a quarterback's best friend. And so
now that you have a little bit more stability at
that position and you have already established the run game,
I think that's why you're seeing Bryce. You know, I
know he hasn't put up huge numbers in these two lens,
but he's taken care of the ball and that's been important.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
What's cow whoa?
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 4 (00:43):
Hello, friends, and welcome to the Happy Half Hour. It's
the post by week refreshed, relaxed, and ready for the
back half of the season edition, and it's presented by
a Southern Star and official bourbon partner of the Carolina Panthers.
Celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas. And you know what,
maybe it's just because I had a bye week, but
(01:03):
I'm feeling celebratory.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I was about to ask, did Southern Star also sponsor
your bye week?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You know they could have. They did not. There was
no Southern Star in southwestern Colorado, where I managed to
sneak away for a couple of days or Southeastern Utah.
But nevertheless, we're feeling celebratory because we made it. We
got to that point. It always feels like a whole
nother season when you get to bye week.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, especially when this bye week was really kind of
situated right smack dab in the middle, and so it
does feel like a second half of the season. Now
home stretch here mathematically still in things in this division,
you just you never know. Crazier things have happened.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah, And people always forget when they start doing bye
week calculations though when you say right in the middle.
There was also training camp on the front end of
this thing too in the preseason, so there was like
seven weeks of that before love to all the other stuff,
so you know when the bye week's late. We've had
week thirteen byes pretty frequently around here in the last
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couple of years, and it always just feels like you're
knee walking.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Week fourteen buys kill you all.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Oh, just just the worst. But listen to us complaining
about having to work seventeen weeks out of eighteen, so
there was a locket. There are a lot of people
who've got it a lot worse than us, and let's
be mindful of that good, right. It's almost like we
should be thankful for certain things.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Ah, look at what you did.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I know, right.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I do want you, while we're sitting here talking about
the bye week, I do want you to tell the
people your impression of Arches National Park.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Oh my god, it's the most amazing place I've ever
seen in my life. I mean, we were out there
seeing the in laws, and everybody's doing great out there,
but we had a little time to kill and it's like, well,
let's slide across to the border. And we were about
two hours away from Arches, and just driving to southern
Utah is amazing because you know, Colorado kind of mountains,
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high desert plains, et cetera, et cetera. You it's almost
like as soon as you cross the state line into Utah,
everything turns wiley coyote, everything is what desert is supposed
to look like. It's these red rocks, it's cliffs everywhere.
I truly I looked at my wife at one point
and I said, if you would have told ten year
old Darren Gant this is Mars and dropped him here,
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he'd have been like yeah, that's right. Sure, that's what
it's supposed to look like. But just an amazing place.
And Arches is beyond belief. I mean it truly. You know,
you see balancing rock and then there's another one laying
on the ground near it, and that's the artist formerly
known as Balancing you know, and delicate. Arch is truly
one of the wonders of the world. It's it's one
of those things when you when you climb the mountain,
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you're sweating, you're out of breath. You turn the corner
around this cliff and it's like, oh, there's that thing
I've seen all my life on pictures. Take your breath away,
literally and figuratively.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It is pretty incredible. I was blessed to go out
there when I was younger. My uncle lived in Wyoming,
so we would go out there a few high and
you're right Arches is and I think I was probably
twelve when I was there, and it was unlike anything
I'd ever seen. One of my favorite travel stories. So
when we went to Arches, and we drove up and
(04:14):
we went to Four Corners, which is where Utah, Colorado, Arizona,
and New Mexico come together. So I guess we went
down to go to Four Corners. Yeah, And I don't
know if you've ever been to Four Corners, but there
is nothing there. And you drive up on this plateau.
It's a pretty it's not steep, but it's high. You
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go up on this plateau and that's where they have
the Four Corners monument set up, and it is pretty cool.
They have this concrete and it's like laid out and
there's a star in the middle to show you exactly
where you're standing in all four states. And some of
the reservations out there have booths up there and they're
selling bibbles and things. Well, the only place you use
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the restroom is a border body, and of course I
had to go and so, and it's really really windy
because you're on top of a plateau in the middle
of the desert, and I go on the porter potty.
The wind's blowing and all of a sudden, this porter
potty just starts shaking and it's going crazy, and I
hear my mom going.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Cassidy, Cassidy, Oh my god, Cassidy.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And I come stumbling out of that thing. My dad
and brother had been shaking it to make me think
I was falling down the side of the cliffs.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Excellent. Yeah, that's excellent family values right there. I love
everything about that story. And as much as we could
talk about Southern Utah and Porta Potty high jinks all
day long, I assume people want us to get the
football at a certain point. Crazy, I know, right, It's
like that's what we do in exchange for my Although
I did run into one of my favorite Utahs you tights.
(05:44):
What do you call people from Utah?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
We'll have to paulians I don't know, Robert Riffords.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
No, it was Brady christians I was like, what are
you people doing? You've been holding out on us all
this time? And he's like, yeah, man, Utah is pretty cool.
I know. So anyway, speaking of Brady Christiansen, he plays
into what I believe to be one of the kind
of themes and this is what I want to do
with this episode. We could get in the weeds and
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talk about the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes, but why would
you do that? What I want to do is kind
of just look back over the first ten because after
you've had a chance to take a breath and sort
of process what's going on here, to me, as big
as anything that the Carolina Panthers have done over the
first ten to eleven weeks of the season is they've
kind of created a little bit of a personality. I mean,
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and Brady Christiansen and that offensive line has been the
I mean to me that and Tuba Hubbard running the
ball and becoming kind of the drumbeat of this offense
that keeps everything in rhythm. That's the thing you take
away to me. I mean, it'll last beyond this year,
will come and go from memory. But the fact that, oh,
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they realize they can run and they got a bunch
of big boys who can lean on people. That's kind
of the less and for me in this part of
the season.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And you know, Dave Canalis, to his credit, told us
before the season even began that that was going to
be the case, and he said, I'm gonna be stubborn
about it until we break through. It was what he
did in Tampa last year. You know, Tampa was bottom
of the league and rushing for the first half of
the season and they just stuck with it, stuck with it,
stuck with it and finally broke through. And that's what
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helped them go on their stretch run the second half
of the season to get into the playoffs. It is
leaning on that run game just to open things up,
and so Dave Canalis has told us for months, this
is what we're gonna do, and people are gonna want
to bang their heads against the walls at times, but
we're going to be stubborn about it. And they have
found the identity that they wanted to find. Now it's
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just about creating everything else that goes around it. They're
a little bit what I would call frisky in how
they approached the game in this offense, but it's working
for them because you know, I would also say, it's
not what you would call your true additional run game.
And let me explain. It's not pounding, pounding, pounding, four
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yards and a cloud of dust and you get three
of those and you move the first down. Cuba Can
can kind of cut, he can get outside. He likes
to work in space, and he can also, you know,
go between the tack He's got the offensive line to
run behind the tackles as well, and so it's not
necessarily like a Derrick Henry bruising. But that's okay. It's
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it's still a run game that works for what they have,
and it's they have figured out a way to make
it work.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Well yeah, I mean and Cuba talked earlier this year,
and listen, I think that a lot of this comes
from the fact that in March Dan Morgan spent one
hundred and fifty million dollars of Dave Tepper's money on
two big guards and that helped trp other people's money,
no doubt, and especially when it's on pieces as productive
as rob hunting. Damian lewis right, but Cuba has done
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his part in this too, and that's part of the
reason he got part of that money too. He has
become a more patient runner. I mean, he's not ever
going to be that Le'Veon bell wait wait wait, wait, wait, go,
but he's figured out how to adjust on the fly,
adjust subtly, you know, and stay in the lanes they're
creating for him. And he's always been willing to be
that ugly run guy, that two, three, four yard at
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a time guy. But what you've seen lately is more
of those fours turn into fifteens, more of those threes
turn into twenties. And as he's been able to do that,
that buys time for everything else in the offense. And listen,
things changed over the first half of the season. The
quarterbacks obviously won by deliberate decision, won by car wreck
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on Sardis Road and never go to South Charlotte. But
while all that stuff's been happening, and all, you know,
the quarterback stuff tends to get draw out of the oxygen,
they've actually been pretty consistently productive in the run game
throughout regardless. I think that's been a testament to those
guys up front.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
And a run game is a quarterback's best friend. And
so now that you have a little bit more stability
at that position and you have already established the run game,
I think that's why you're seeing Bryce. You know, I
know he hasn't put up huge numbers in these two wins,
but he's taken care of the ball and that's been important.
And his kind of game managed their way to these wins.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
And that's not a bad thing, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And he's and he's been able to do that because
they can lean on the run game so much. I
think at one point versus the Giants, you've had like
three runs of twenty five plus yards, right, And so
when you're doing that, you can just pound and ground
all day.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, and then you can get away with your quarterback
throwing for one hundred and twenty six yards, right exactly.
Bryce has done well. Bryce has gotten steadily, if not
in small increments, better each of these weeks he's been
on the field. But if one two in a row,
they're sitting here three and seven. And you know, I
was telling some friends last night, and I may have
written this in mail bag. I write so many things
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in the mail bag. I tend to lose track. The
Panthers have kind of escaped at three and seven? Is
it great?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Is it going to get you the playoffs? Only in
the NFC South and only if you catch a really
ridiculous hot streak in the second half of the season.
But they've kind of escaped that. Oh god, is it
over portion of the NFL?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Right?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I mean, Dallas would push the button to be done
right now, and they would they would just be willing
to call it the rest of the season. Take the
ticket money you've already banked. Keep at what I'm you
just don't have to play any of those And they've
kind of pushed through that, and now they're in that
great middle area of the league where nobody knows if
anybody's any good or not, or what you're gonna get
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week in, week out, And that's where most of the
NFL lives. I mean, we watch KC and Buffalo last week,
you know, and those are the good teams, and there's
a lot fewer of those than there are terrible teams.
And there's certainly a lot few are those than there
are the ones in that great middle I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, the great Hey, the great middle, that's where the
color is. Let's have some fun in there. Would you call?
Who would you put up there with KSE and Buffalo?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
You know, I obviously Detroit. You know, I think Philadelphia
is still pretty good. You know, those guys are you know,
they always tend to find a way, and they are
a well constructed team. They're put together, right, I'm I
am going to put you know, honestly, I'm gonna put
Pittsburgh in there.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Ever since Russell Wilson and I've never been the biggest
RUSS advocate. I think he was. I don't want to
say he was a passenger in Seattle because he was
an active participant in that deal, but he was more
of the guy who lived on great defense, great run game,
well protected and that allowed them to do the things
that Russ was really good at. You know, I'm putting
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them in that mix too, so it's it's a small group,
but there are a couple of people sneaking in there.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
So I was hoping you would say Detroit and Pittsburgh.
So thank you for that because they both kind of
represent what I think if you're a Panthers fan, you
can you can look forward to of what they did
to get to where they're at no doubt, and how
they got there and the identity that they failed to
get there. Pittsburgh beat the Ravens the other night with
six field goals. They didn't even throw a touchdown, and
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so I'm not saying that that's ideal, but the point being,
like you can you can find a way to kind
of break through and to chip at that wall until
it falls over and establish yourself with the identity that
you want and find a way to win games doing that,
even if it doesn't necessarily look like the Patrick Mahomes
or Josh Allen of it all.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Seriously, the Chiefs may have ruined football for a lot
of people because you know, it doesn't have to be
thirty five forty points a game to be really good,
so it's possible to win games a lot of different ways. Hey,
you mentioned field goals. Speaking of things that happened over
the bye week, the Carolina Panthers suddenly have an all
time leader in NFL.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
History, Edie credit to Tracy Smith.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Yeah, Eddie Pinero was sitting on his couch visiting with
his dad, who were glad Eddie Senior's doing well. Best
of best wishes to the Pinero's. Eddie Senior recently had
a heart attack and is recovering well. So Eddie Junior
went as a good son, went to see his dad
during the bye week, and while he was sitting on
the couch at his dad's house, became the league's all
time most accurate kicker thanks to Justin Tuster missing a
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couple of field goals the other day. So Eddie is
now number one all time. And I love so much
about this story, beginning with the fact that Eddie was
sitting on his dad's couch when this happened. But b
Tracy Smith rolls out today and Tracy Smith the new
special teams coordinator. He believes, and you just have to
hear this. Tracy Smith was the key to this.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
I noticed immediately that I wasn't getting enough credit for it.
I thought, the things that I've changed and Eddie have
been innumerable, heart so hard to say when I when
I spoke to him first in the spring and I
suggested that he uses right leg this year. I thought
that was a real turning point for him to get
him from two to one.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
And there you go. It's as simple as that. I mean,
why didn't somebody else try said he to kick with
his right leg in the past.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
He said it so deadpan that there was a ten
second period where I was sitting there going wait, did
he used to kick with his left leg? Did I
miss that?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Like?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I was?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
So I covered Eddy in college yet.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Know what Eddie since he was a high school player,
and I know what he looks like when he kicks,
and I legit sat there and went, is he what leg? Like?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Did I miss?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Was that?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Am I?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
No? And that's the beauty. And I've committed a journalism
since then and talked to some of my sources in
the special Teams room, and it's possible that Tracy has
used that line before and it's possible he's used it
on other people before. You know, the special teams community's
kind of tightened it anyway across the league, partially because
those guys move around a lot, and you know, it's
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possible that Tracy may have walked up to other people
after games and said, have you ever considered using your
own left lig?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I like that he workshopped his jokes before he brought
them to ice. Yeah, Tracy Smith may be one of
the funnier coaches I've ever covered.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
He's right up there. It's very dry, it's very deadpan.
It's almost Stephen Right esque. Yeah, but if you're old
enough and inclined to that kind of stuff. But it's
he is abute. But yeah, Eddie is the league's most
accurate kicker of all time. Of course, he's hit you know,
one hundred and some field goals compared to Justin Tucker's
four hundred and some field goals. So the opportunity for
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fluctuation in those numbers is certainly. We'll enjoy it for
this week exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I mean, take it while it lasts, you know.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
It's uh, well, we'll see how that goes. But so
much to look forward to this week. Yeah, there is
a Mahomesky. Yeah, he is coming in. I talked to
some dudes about him the other day. Josie Jewel, he
kind of shrugged a little bit. I mean, as a
former Bronco, he's seen him a bunch ten times to
be specific, so he knows the experience as well as anybody.
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And he talked about kind of all the obvious stuff
about you've got to be buttoned up, you've got to
play it all the way to the whistle, because if
you let up in that last second of the route,
that's where he side arms one and squeezes it in.
But even though he hasn't had much team success, Josie
Jewel has picked off Pat mahomes a couple of times.
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And that's okay. I went back and looked at the
YouTube clips of that. He's made some pretty athletic plays
and coming on the heels of an athletic interception in Germany,
you know, maybe he's out there sharing his secret, so
to speak.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You know, Jerald Everro talked about those turnovers today and
how in that game, you know they were able to
pick him off a few times. But you know what
hej remembers about that game, the explosive plays. Patrick Mahomes
also got on them, no question, and of course that's
the coach thing to do, and that's what they're going
to be thinking of too as they game plan this week. However,
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you know they've wanted all season to up their turnovers
and to get three in the Giants game. Turnovers can
be contagious, so we'll see if that rolls over to
this week or if you know, the bye week sort
of mess it up. But it is something that Patrick
Mahomes is gonna take his shots. So if you're disciplined
with where you're at and they play that zone defense
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where they can get those turnovers, if you're disciplined where
you're at, the opportunity is there. He's also incredibly incredibly accurate,
so he's gonna put that. You're gonna have to take
the ball away. He's not gonna just throw you up
a floater like that. Daniel Jones deflected off of j
David Clowney one.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
But if you're Clowney, skull off of his head.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It was a header.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Hey, we were in a soccer arena. It was just
a header, sure.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
And name one Bayern Munich soccer player Harry Kane. There
you go. That's my girl. I knew, I knew you
were listening.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
That was the only one. Don't ask me to name
a second, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
The point being, he's he's one of the best quarterbacks
of all time for a reason. He's gonna make his throws,
he's gonna be clinical, he's gonna have the highlight stuff too.
But you know, can you put yourself in position to
take advantage of athletic moments? I guess is what I'm
trying to say, And I know I'm not saying it right.
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The opportunity is there.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Yeh, what I'm saying, Yeah, no doubt so. All right,
So there you go. The Carolina Panthers. They're three and
seven coming out of the by. They've established a couple
of things, They've steal a lot to play for. I mean,
the one thing, the one thing I think we can't
lose sight of is you know, I don't want to
minimize the record. The games are important, obviously, but as
you go into the second half of the season, you've
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got to go in with the knowledge that the second
half's a lot tougher than the first half. Was the
combined record of the first ten games, forty six and
sixty the last seven forty and thirty one. So you've
got the Chiefs in there, you've got the Eagles, you
got the Bucks twice, and I think that Bucks team
is a lot better than their four and six records.
And these surprising Arizona Cardinals who are rolling in here
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for a holiday weekend. So there's tougher football in front
of you. But the Carolina Panthers are playing a better
brand of football now than they were six seven, eight
weeks ago, for sure too.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So that's all you can ask for.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Upper trajectory, Dave Canalis keep saying it progress, building on
each day, So building on each day. You know what
we forgot to build on last week when we recorded
our post Germany episode.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I didn't forget.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah, yeah, what we forgot. We forgot to do the
jukebox last week because I forgot to listen. Do your
research and listen to the latest Taylor Swift song about
a really complicated broad.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Miscedena Sackville.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Miscedena Sackville. Yeah, she lived a life, she did what
was it, divorced.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Five times something like that.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Maybe a couple of them ended up mysteriously dead.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yes, one of them ended up mysteriously dead after he
cheated on her with a younger woman and that woman's
husband found out.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
It's funny how that stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Happened, and it works out. In fact, they called they
moved a bunch of their friends and then moved to Africa.
Calls such a ruckus that they got a nickname, and
it has been made into movies.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
It's uh yeah, And people wonder about Taylor and and
why she's ran through so many singers and songwriters and
football players, and you know, she's had a string of
relationships of her own this one so but she.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Hasn't been married and cheated on people with affairs.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
So far, nobody's end up dead as far as we know.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Travis Kelse, Kat Kennedy.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
It's been worn. So yeah, that was sure was something.
And I mean it's like, I mean, she's a little
fun one. Yeah, it's certainly a fun one. She's she's
got that's complicated. It may be best that she's not
coming to join us here this weekend. So although I
did see somebody our our friends at deal with Neighborhood,
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Grill did memorial ass her on the sign this something
along the lines of don't shake this one off. The
Chiefs might lose something down that road. Like everybody is looking,
I'm glad we're not going for the cheap thrills of journalism.
There's so many people out there in the world of
quote unquote journalism these days will put out a headline,
is Taylor Swift coming to Charlotte this week? Question mark No.
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If the headline ever contains a question mark, you can
usually answer that question with no. But anyway, we're not
here for cheap that's just sensationalism, and I won't be
a party to it. We're not here for that. But
if she wants to show up, I'm sure you'll show
her around.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Right right now, you can talk to her about the
Bolter exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
So the Bolter. I think I scared you pre Germany,
didn't I by making you listen to the Scorpions and listen.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I listened to it on the drive then one day,
and it was way too early in the morning for that.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
The Scorpions being the finest heavy metal band of Germany.
You know, Rudolph Schenker and the boys will sting you
with their rock and roll.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah, I had to and I had to listen to
it a couple of times to hear all the words,
but that one, Uh, don't listen to that before you
have your caffeine.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, you won't need it after that. The Scorpions blackout
will get you in some kind of mood. So anyway,
since it's we're heading into Thanksgiving week, there's really only
one song I can recommend to you. Cassidy who And
I don't know if you've ever heard this song. You
may be aware of it, but I don't know that
you've ever committed to sitting down and listening to it,
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much less multiple times. One of my ten favorite songs
ever in all of the history of music. Rlow guthriees
Alice's restaurant. Okay nothing you got nothing?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Never heard of it?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Noah, Oh, you are in for white a treat. And
those of you who are old enough to know about
our Loow Guthrie and why we always listen to it
on Thanksgiving, you'll appreciate her reactions to this one. Remember
you got to listen to it three times through? All right?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Okay, that's what I usually give it.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
All right, three times, three times from start to finish?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
How long is this song?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
She don't know yet?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Gang, Oh my gosh, let me look at this. Let
me look this up real quick. What am I getting
myself into?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Yeah? I mean it's only nineteen and a half minutes
or nineteen and.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
A half minutes?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
What kind of time do you think I have?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You know, I know what you're putting out in terms
of work products. You can you can squeeze that one
in there. All right, what do you got for me?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It is eighteen and a half minutes.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, details, It depends on which version.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Oh my goodness. Okay, well let me block off a
couple hours. There you go in honor of the stage
musical Wicked coming to the big screen tonight, which I'm very,
very excited about.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Have my tickets.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'm trying to decide I'm on a dress up or
not to go. You have you ever seen Wicked?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I have not seen Wicked. I've heard that. I've heard
the soundtrack.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Okay, so you do know the songs.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I'm familiar enough with the song. Okay, Well that I
was not a super fan the way you are.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I was going to give you a Wicked song. But
if you are, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I mean I'm not as into the cold as you are.
Or so deeply enmeshed in it.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Okay, Well, we were gonna go with Defying Gravity. However,
if you know that one, I actually have a different song,
all right, tell me, okay, just because Wicked makes me
think of Christi sheenow with Kristi Shenoweth has this excellent
song that actually somebody else wrote, but she sings it
called Taylor the Latte Boy. It's so funny and I
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sing it to myself every time I go to a Starbucks,
which is a lot very good.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Well, I will listen to Kristin Shehennow you will listen
to a lot of our load Guthrie, and we will
see what happens Sunday when your Carolina Panthers face the
Kansas City Chiefs. And we'll come back and talk about
it next week. We'll jam it in. We're we are
thankful for this opportunity and for all you good people
who listen. So we're coming in next week to record
another happy half out. We do it for the people.
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We'll see y'all new
This week on a Happy half Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
A run game is a quarterback's best friend. And so
now that you have a little bit more stability at
that position and you have already established the run game,
I think that's why you're seeing Bryce. You know, I
know he hasn't put up huge numbers in these two lens,
but he's taken care of the ball and that's been important.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
What's cow whoa?
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 4 (00:43):
Hello, friends, and welcome to the Happy Half Hour. It's
the post by week refreshed, relaxed, and ready for the
back half of the season edition, and it's presented by
a Southern Star and official bourbon partner of the Carolina Panthers.
Celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas. And you know what,
maybe it's just because I had a bye week, but
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I'm feeling celebratory.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I was about to ask, did Southern Star also sponsor
your bye week?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You know they could have. They did not. There was
no Southern Star in southwestern Colorado, where I managed to
sneak away for a couple of days or Southeastern Utah.
But nevertheless, we're feeling celebratory because we made it. We
got to that point. It always feels like a whole
nother season when you get to bye week.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, especially when this bye week was really kind of
situated right smack dab in the middle, and so it
does feel like a second half of the season. Now
home stretch here mathematically still in things in this division,
you just you never know. Crazier things have happened.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah, And people always forget when they start doing bye
week calculations though when you say right in the middle.
There was also training camp on the front end of
this thing too in the preseason, so there was like
seven weeks of that before love to all the other stuff,
so you know when the bye week's late. We've had
week thirteen byes pretty frequently around here in the last
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couple of years, and it always just feels like you're
knee walking.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Week fourteen buys kill you all.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Oh, just just the worst. But listen to us complaining
about having to work seventeen weeks out of eighteen, so
there was a locket. There are a lot of people
who've got it a lot worse than us, and let's
be mindful of that good, right. It's almost like we
should be thankful for certain things.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Ah, look at what you did.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I know, right.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I do want you, while we're sitting here talking about
the bye week, I do want you to tell the
people your impression of Arches National Park.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Oh my god, it's the most amazing place I've ever
seen in my life. I mean, we were out there
seeing the in laws, and everybody's doing great out there,
but we had a little time to kill and it's like, well,
let's slide across to the border. And we were about
two hours away from Arches, and just driving to southern
Utah is amazing because you know, Colorado kind of mountains,
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high desert plains, et cetera, et cetera. You it's almost
like as soon as you cross the state line into Utah,
everything turns wiley coyote, everything is what desert is supposed
to look like. It's these red rocks, it's cliffs everywhere.
I truly I looked at my wife at one point
and I said, if you would have told ten year
old Darren Gant this is Mars and dropped him here,
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he'd have been like yeah, that's right. Sure, that's what
it's supposed to look like. But just an amazing place.
And Arches is beyond belief. I mean it truly. You know,
you see balancing rock and then there's another one laying
on the ground near it, and that's the artist formerly
known as Balancing you know, and delicate. Arch is truly
one of the wonders of the world. It's it's one
of those things when you when you climb the mountain,
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you're sweating, you're out of breath. You turn the corner
around this cliff and it's like, oh, there's that thing
I've seen all my life on pictures. Take your breath away,
literally and figuratively.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It is pretty incredible. I was blessed to go out
there when I was younger. My uncle lived in Wyoming,
so we would go out there a few high and
you're right Arches is and I think I was probably
twelve when I was there, and it was unlike anything
I'd ever seen. One of my favorite travel stories. So
when we went to Arches, and we drove up and
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we went to Four Corners, which is where Utah, Colorado, Arizona,
and New Mexico come together. So I guess we went
down to go to Four Corners. Yeah, And I don't
know if you've ever been to Four Corners, but there
is nothing there. And you drive up on this plateau.
It's a pretty it's not steep, but it's high. You
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go up on this plateau and that's where they have
the Four Corners monument set up, and it is pretty cool.
They have this concrete and it's like laid out and
there's a star in the middle to show you exactly
where you're standing in all four states. And some of
the reservations out there have booths up there and they're
selling bibbles and things. Well, the only place you use
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the restroom is a border body, and of course I
had to go and so, and it's really really windy
because you're on top of a plateau in the middle
of the desert, and I go on the porter potty.
The wind's blowing and all of a sudden, this porter
potty just starts shaking and it's going crazy, and I
hear my mom going.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Cassidy, Cassidy, Oh my god, Cassidy.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And I come stumbling out of that thing. My dad
and brother had been shaking it to make me think
I was falling down the side of the cliffs.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Excellent. Yeah, that's excellent family values right there. I love
everything about that story. And as much as we could
talk about Southern Utah and Porta Potty high jinks all
day long, I assume people want us to get the
football at a certain point. Crazy, I know, right, It's
like that's what we do in exchange for my Although
I did run into one of my favorite Utahs you tights.
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What do you call people from Utah?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
We'll have to paulians I don't know, Robert Riffords.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
No, it was Brady christians I was like, what are
you people doing? You've been holding out on us all
this time? And he's like, yeah, man, Utah is pretty cool.
I know. So anyway, speaking of Brady Christiansen, he plays
into what I believe to be one of the kind
of themes and this is what I want to do
with this episode. We could get in the weeds and
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talk about the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes, but why would
you do that? What I want to do is kind
of just look back over the first ten because after
you've had a chance to take a breath and sort
of process what's going on here, to me, as big
as anything that the Carolina Panthers have done over the
first ten to eleven weeks of the season is they've
kind of created a little bit of a personality. I mean,
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and Brady Christiansen and that offensive line has been the
I mean to me that and Tuba Hubbard running the
ball and becoming kind of the drumbeat of this offense
that keeps everything in rhythm. That's the thing you take
away to me. I mean, it'll last beyond this year,
will come and go from memory. But the fact that, oh,
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they realize they can run and they got a bunch
of big boys who can lean on people. That's kind
of the less and for me in this part of
the season.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And you know, Dave Canalis, to his credit, told us
before the season even began that that was going to
be the case, and he said, I'm gonna be stubborn
about it until we break through. It was what he
did in Tampa last year. You know, Tampa was bottom
of the league and rushing for the first half of
the season and they just stuck with it, stuck with it,
stuck with it and finally broke through. And that's what
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helped them go on their stretch run the second half
of the season to get into the playoffs. It is
leaning on that run game just to open things up,
and so Dave Canalis has told us for months, this
is what we're gonna do, and people are gonna want
to bang their heads against the walls at times, but
we're going to be stubborn about it. And they have
found the identity that they wanted to find. Now it's
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just about creating everything else that goes around it. They're
a little bit what I would call frisky in how
they approached the game in this offense, but it's working
for them because you know, I would also say, it's
not what you would call your true additional run game.
And let me explain. It's not pounding, pounding, pounding, four
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yards and a cloud of dust and you get three
of those and you move the first down. Cuba Can
can kind of cut, he can get outside. He likes
to work in space, and he can also, you know,
go between the tack He's got the offensive line to
run behind the tackles as well, and so it's not
necessarily like a Derrick Henry bruising. But that's okay. It's
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it's still a run game that works for what they have,
and it's they have figured out a way to make
it work.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Well yeah, I mean and Cuba talked earlier this year,
and listen, I think that a lot of this comes
from the fact that in March Dan Morgan spent one
hundred and fifty million dollars of Dave Tepper's money on
two big guards and that helped trp other people's money,
no doubt, and especially when it's on pieces as productive
as rob hunting. Damian lewis right, but Cuba has done
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his part in this too, and that's part of the
reason he got part of that money too. He has
become a more patient runner. I mean, he's not ever
going to be that Le'Veon bell wait wait wait, wait, wait, go,
but he's figured out how to adjust on the fly,
adjust subtly, you know, and stay in the lanes they're
creating for him. And he's always been willing to be
that ugly run guy, that two, three, four yard at
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a time guy. But what you've seen lately is more
of those fours turn into fifteens, more of those threes
turn into twenties. And as he's been able to do that,
that buys time for everything else in the offense. And listen,
things changed over the first half of the season. The
quarterbacks obviously won by deliberate decision, won by car wreck
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on Sardis Road and never go to South Charlotte. But
while all that stuff's been happening, and all, you know,
the quarterback stuff tends to get draw out of the oxygen,
they've actually been pretty consistently productive in the run game
throughout regardless. I think that's been a testament to those
guys up front.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
And a run game is a quarterback's best friend. And
so now that you have a little bit more stability
at that position and you have already established the run game,
I think that's why you're seeing Bryce. You know, I
know he hasn't put up huge numbers in these two wins,
but he's taken care of the ball and that's been important.
And his kind of game managed their way to these wins.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
And that's not a bad thing, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And he's and he's been able to do that because
they can lean on the run game so much. I
think at one point versus the Giants, you've had like
three runs of twenty five plus yards, right, And so
when you're doing that, you can just pound and ground
all day.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, and then you can get away with your quarterback
throwing for one hundred and twenty six yards, right exactly.
Bryce has done well. Bryce has gotten steadily, if not
in small increments, better each of these weeks he's been
on the field. But if one two in a row,
they're sitting here three and seven. And you know, I
was telling some friends last night, and I may have
written this in mail bag. I write so many things
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in the mail bag. I tend to lose track. The
Panthers have kind of escaped at three and seven? Is
it great?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Is it going to get you the playoffs? Only in
the NFC South and only if you catch a really
ridiculous hot streak in the second half of the season.
But they've kind of escaped that. Oh god, is it
over portion of the NFL?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Right?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I mean, Dallas would push the button to be done
right now, and they would they would just be willing
to call it the rest of the season. Take the
ticket money you've already banked. Keep at what I'm you
just don't have to play any of those And they've
kind of pushed through that, and now they're in that
great middle area of the league where nobody knows if
anybody's any good or not, or what you're gonna get
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week in, week out, And that's where most of the
NFL lives. I mean, we watch KC and Buffalo last week,
you know, and those are the good teams, and there's
a lot fewer of those than there are terrible teams.
And there's certainly a lot few are those than there
are the ones in that great middle I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, the great Hey, the great middle, that's where the
color is. Let's have some fun in there. Would you call?
Who would you put up there with KSE and Buffalo?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
You know, I obviously Detroit. You know, I think Philadelphia
is still pretty good. You know, those guys are you know,
they always tend to find a way, and they are
a well constructed team. They're put together, right, I'm I
am going to put you know, honestly, I'm gonna put
Pittsburgh in there.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Ever since Russell Wilson and I've never been the biggest
RUSS advocate. I think he was. I don't want to
say he was a passenger in Seattle because he was
an active participant in that deal, but he was more
of the guy who lived on great defense, great run game,
well protected and that allowed them to do the things
that Russ was really good at. You know, I'm putting
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them in that mix too, so it's it's a small group,
but there are a couple of people sneaking in there.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
So I was hoping you would say Detroit and Pittsburgh.
So thank you for that because they both kind of
represent what I think if you're a Panthers fan, you
can you can look forward to of what they did
to get to where they're at no doubt, and how
they got there and the identity that they failed to
get there. Pittsburgh beat the Ravens the other night with
six field goals. They didn't even throw a touchdown, and
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so I'm not saying that that's ideal, but the point being,
like you can you can find a way to kind
of break through and to chip at that wall until
it falls over and establish yourself with the identity that
you want and find a way to win games doing that,
even if it doesn't necessarily look like the Patrick Mahomes
or Josh Allen of it all.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Seriously, the Chiefs may have ruined football for a lot
of people because you know, it doesn't have to be
thirty five forty points a game to be really good,
so it's possible to win games a lot of different ways. Hey,
you mentioned field goals. Speaking of things that happened over
the bye week, the Carolina Panthers suddenly have an all
time leader in NFL.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
History, Edie credit to Tracy Smith.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Yeah, Eddie Pinero was sitting on his couch visiting with
his dad, who were glad Eddie Senior's doing well. Best
of best wishes to the Pinero's. Eddie Senior recently had
a heart attack and is recovering well. So Eddie Junior
went as a good son, went to see his dad
during the bye week, and while he was sitting on
the couch at his dad's house, became the league's all
time most accurate kicker thanks to Justin Tuster missing a
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couple of field goals the other day. So Eddie is
now number one all time. And I love so much
about this story, beginning with the fact that Eddie was
sitting on his dad's couch when this happened. But b
Tracy Smith rolls out today and Tracy Smith the new
special teams coordinator. He believes, and you just have to
hear this. Tracy Smith was the key to this.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
I noticed immediately that I wasn't getting enough credit for it.
I thought, the things that I've changed and Eddie have
been innumerable, heart so hard to say when I when
I spoke to him first in the spring and I
suggested that he uses right leg this year. I thought
that was a real turning point for him to get
him from two to one.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
And there you go. It's as simple as that. I mean,
why didn't somebody else try said he to kick with
his right leg in the past.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
He said it so deadpan that there was a ten
second period where I was sitting there going wait, did
he used to kick with his left leg? Did I
miss that?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Like?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I was?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
So I covered Eddy in college yet.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Know what Eddie since he was a high school player,
and I know what he looks like when he kicks,
and I legit sat there and went, is he what leg? Like?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Did I miss?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Was that?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Am I?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
No? And that's the beauty. And I've committed a journalism
since then and talked to some of my sources in
the special Teams room, and it's possible that Tracy has
used that line before and it's possible he's used it
on other people before. You know, the special teams community's
kind of tightened it anyway across the league, partially because
those guys move around a lot, and you know, it's
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possible that Tracy may have walked up to other people
after games and said, have you ever considered using your
own left lig?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I like that he workshopped his jokes before he brought
them to ice. Yeah, Tracy Smith may be one of
the funnier coaches I've ever covered.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
He's right up there. It's very dry, it's very deadpan.
It's almost Stephen Right esque. Yeah, but if you're old
enough and inclined to that kind of stuff. But it's
he is abute. But yeah, Eddie is the league's most
accurate kicker of all time. Of course, he's hit you know,
one hundred and some field goals compared to Justin Tucker's
four hundred and some field goals. So the opportunity for
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fluctuation in those numbers is certainly. We'll enjoy it for
this week exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I mean, take it while it lasts, you know.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
It's uh, well, we'll see how that goes. But so
much to look forward to this week. Yeah, there is
a Mahomesky. Yeah, he is coming in. I talked to
some dudes about him the other day. Josie Jewel, he
kind of shrugged a little bit. I mean, as a
former Bronco, he's seen him a bunch ten times to
be specific, so he knows the experience as well as anybody.
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And he talked about kind of all the obvious stuff
about you've got to be buttoned up, you've got to
play it all the way to the whistle, because if
you let up in that last second of the route,
that's where he side arms one and squeezes it in.
But even though he hasn't had much team success, Josie
Jewel has picked off Pat mahomes a couple of times.
(17:30):
And that's okay. I went back and looked at the
YouTube clips of that. He's made some pretty athletic plays
and coming on the heels of an athletic interception in Germany,
you know, maybe he's out there sharing his secret, so
to speak.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You know, Jerald Everro talked about those turnovers today and
how in that game, you know they were able to
pick him off a few times. But you know what
hej remembers about that game, the explosive plays. Patrick Mahomes
also got on them, no question, and of course that's
the coach thing to do, and that's what they're going
to be thinking of too as they game plan this week. However,
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you know they've wanted all season to up their turnovers
and to get three in the Giants game. Turnovers can
be contagious, so we'll see if that rolls over to
this week or if you know, the bye week sort
of mess it up. But it is something that Patrick
Mahomes is gonna take his shots. So if you're disciplined
with where you're at and they play that zone defense
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where they can get those turnovers, if you're disciplined where
you're at, the opportunity is there. He's also incredibly incredibly accurate,
so he's gonna put that. You're gonna have to take
the ball away. He's not gonna just throw you up
a floater like that. Daniel Jones deflected off of j
David Clowney one.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
But if you're Clowney, skull off of his head.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It was a header.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Hey, we were in a soccer arena. It was just
a header, sure.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
And name one Bayern Munich soccer player Harry Kane. There
you go. That's my girl. I knew, I knew you
were listening.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
That was the only one. Don't ask me to name
a second, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
The point being, he's he's one of the best quarterbacks
of all time for a reason. He's gonna make his throws,
he's gonna be clinical, he's gonna have the highlight stuff too.
But you know, can you put yourself in position to
take advantage of athletic moments? I guess is what I'm
trying to say, And I know I'm not saying it right.
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The opportunity is there.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Yeh, what I'm saying, Yeah, no doubt so. All right,
So there you go. The Carolina Panthers. They're three and
seven coming out of the by. They've established a couple
of things, They've steal a lot to play for. I mean,
the one thing, the one thing I think we can't
lose sight of is you know, I don't want to
minimize the record. The games are important, obviously, but as
you go into the second half of the season, you've
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got to go in with the knowledge that the second
half's a lot tougher than the first half. Was the
combined record of the first ten games, forty six and
sixty the last seven forty and thirty one. So you've
got the Chiefs in there, you've got the Eagles, you
got the Bucks twice, and I think that Bucks team
is a lot better than their four and six records.
And these surprising Arizona Cardinals who are rolling in here
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for a holiday weekend. So there's tougher football in front
of you. But the Carolina Panthers are playing a better
brand of football now than they were six seven, eight
weeks ago, for sure too.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So that's all you can ask for.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Upper trajectory, Dave Canalis keep saying it progress, building on
each day, So building on each day. You know what
we forgot to build on last week when we recorded
our post Germany episode.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I didn't forget.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah, yeah, what we forgot. We forgot to do the
jukebox last week because I forgot to listen. Do your
research and listen to the latest Taylor Swift song about
a really complicated broad.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Miscedena Sackville.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Miscedena Sackville. Yeah, she lived a life, she did what
was it, divorced.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Five times something like that.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Maybe a couple of them ended up mysteriously dead.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yes, one of them ended up mysteriously dead after he
cheated on her with a younger woman and that woman's
husband found out.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
It's funny how that stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Happened, and it works out. In fact, they called they
moved a bunch of their friends and then moved to Africa.
Calls such a ruckus that they got a nickname, and
it has been made into movies.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
It's uh yeah, And people wonder about Taylor and and
why she's ran through so many singers and songwriters and
football players, and you know, she's had a string of
relationships of her own this one so but she.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Hasn't been married and cheated on people with affairs.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
So far, nobody's end up dead as far as we know.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Travis Kelse, Kat Kennedy.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
It's been worn. So yeah, that was sure was something.
And I mean it's like, I mean, she's a little
fun one. Yeah, it's certainly a fun one. She's she's
got that's complicated. It may be best that she's not
coming to join us here this weekend. So although I
did see somebody our our friends at deal with Neighborhood,
(22:06):
Grill did memorial ass her on the sign this something
along the lines of don't shake this one off. The
Chiefs might lose something down that road. Like everybody is looking,
I'm glad we're not going for the cheap thrills of journalism.
There's so many people out there in the world of
quote unquote journalism these days will put out a headline,
is Taylor Swift coming to Charlotte this week? Question mark No.
(22:32):
If the headline ever contains a question mark, you can
usually answer that question with no. But anyway, we're not
here for cheap that's just sensationalism, and I won't be
a party to it. We're not here for that. But
if she wants to show up, I'm sure you'll show
her around.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Right right now, you can talk to her about the
Bolter exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
So the Bolter. I think I scared you pre Germany,
didn't I by making you listen to the Scorpions and listen.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I listened to it on the drive then one day,
and it was way too early in the morning for that.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
The Scorpions being the finest heavy metal band of Germany.
You know, Rudolph Schenker and the boys will sting you
with their rock and roll.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah, I had to and I had to listen to
it a couple of times to hear all the words,
but that one, Uh, don't listen to that before you
have your caffeine.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, you won't need it after that. The Scorpions blackout
will get you in some kind of mood. So anyway,
since it's we're heading into Thanksgiving week, there's really only
one song I can recommend to you. Cassidy who And
I don't know if you've ever heard this song. You
may be aware of it, but I don't know that
you've ever committed to sitting down and listening to it,
(23:43):
much less multiple times. One of my ten favorite songs
ever in all of the history of music. Rlow guthriees
Alice's restaurant. Okay nothing you got nothing?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Never heard of it?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Noah, Oh, you are in for white a treat. And
those of you who are old enough to know about
our Loow Guthrie and why we always listen to it
on Thanksgiving, you'll appreciate her reactions to this one. Remember
you got to listen to it three times through? All right?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Okay, that's what I usually give it.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
All right, three times, three times from start to finish?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
How long is this song?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
She don't know yet?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Gang, Oh my gosh, let me look at this. Let
me look this up real quick. What am I getting
myself into?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Yeah? I mean it's only nineteen and a half minutes
or nineteen and.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
A half minutes?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
What kind of time do you think I have?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You know, I know what you're putting out in terms
of work products. You can you can squeeze that one
in there. All right, what do you got for me?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It is eighteen and a half minutes.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, details, It depends on which version.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Oh my goodness. Okay, well let me block off a
couple hours. There you go in honor of the stage
musical Wicked coming to the big screen tonight, which I'm very,
very excited about.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Have my tickets.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'm trying to decide I'm on a dress up or
not to go. You have you ever seen Wicked?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I have not seen Wicked. I've heard that. I've heard
the soundtrack.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Okay, so you do know the songs.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I'm familiar enough with the song. Okay, Well that I
was not a super fan the way you are.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I was going to give you a Wicked song. But
if you are, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I mean I'm not as into the cold as you are.
Or so deeply enmeshed in it.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Okay, Well, we were gonna go with Defying Gravity. However,
if you know that one, I actually have a different song,
all right, tell me, okay, just because Wicked makes me
think of Christi sheenow with Kristi Shenoweth has this excellent
song that actually somebody else wrote, but she sings it
called Taylor the Latte Boy. It's so funny and I
(25:44):
sing it to myself every time I go to a Starbucks,
which is a lot very good.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Well, I will listen to Kristin Shehennow you will listen
to a lot of our load Guthrie, and we will
see what happens Sunday when your Carolina Panthers face the
Kansas City Chiefs. And we'll come back and talk about
it next week. We'll jam it in. We're we are
thankful for this opportunity and for all you good people
who listen. So we're coming in next week to record
another happy half out. We do it for the people.
(26:11):
We'll see y'all new
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