Speaker 1: Friends, have you ever woken up in the morning and
Speaker 1: thought to yourselfself, I've got a really bad name for
Speaker 1: a podcast this week. We call this thing the Happy
Speaker 1: half Hour, but there is nothing necessarily happy about what's
Speaker 1: going on in Bank of America Stadium this week. If
Speaker 1: you are listening to this podcast and are part of
Speaker 1: the Happy half Hour family, you are obviously aware of
Speaker 1: what's going on. The Panthers have changed coaches in Week
Speaker 1: thirteen of the NFL season. Frank Reich is no longer
Speaker 1: among us here with the Panthers, and Chris Haber is
Speaker 1: taking over as the interim head coach. One of the
Speaker 1: things I always it's almost like a preamble I have
Speaker 1: to use every year in print when stuff like this happens.
Speaker 1: This is not a thing to celebrate, because no matter
Speaker 1: how you felt about Frank Reich, the Carolina Panthers, or
Speaker 1: the fate of the ballgames you've watched this year, there
Speaker 1: are actual people on the other side of this transaction.
Speaker 1: And Frank didn't just bring himself and his family back
Speaker 1: to Charlotte. He brought a lot of other people who
Speaker 1: packed up and moved families across the country, and there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people with uncertain futures now as
Speaker 1: a result of this, So I will this is my
Speaker 1: annual or semi annual plea for decency and decorum from
Speaker 1: the fan base when we consider this. But it's obviously
Speaker 1: been a tough week and there's no getting around that.
Speaker 1: You know, the Monday news was not anything anyone was expecting.
Speaker 1: I mean, as players heard the word from Dave Tepper
Speaker 1: around ten o'clock and then they're sort of looking around like,
Speaker 1: all right, what do we do now? And Chris Taber
Speaker 1: basically send everybody home Monday afternoon, and players were walking
Speaker 1: out the door like not really sure what's going to
Speaker 1: happen next. So it's been an unusual time for them
Speaker 1: as it pertains to Tabor and moving forward, it's a
Speaker 1: miracle of compartmentalization. The work is going on. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, he's talked about trying to keep things as
Speaker 1: normal as he could. The normals kind of a tough
Speaker 1: thing to sell when you're one to ten and fire
Speaker 1: ahead coach after eleven games in the NFL. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I think a lot of guys were
Speaker 1: cognizant that the change came because things were not working
Speaker 1: and if There's been a consistent theme throughout the Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers season. It has been that a defense has played
Speaker 1: well enough to give them a chance and the offense
Speaker 1: hasn't done enough to make it count. And it happened
Speaker 1: ten times over the course of the season. And I
Speaker 1: think when you saw the last two weeks, the way
Speaker 1: they unfolded, you know, Frank came in and took play
Speaker 1: calling back from Thomas Brown, which was a thing not
Speaker 1: a lot of people suspected, but I sort of from
Speaker 1: watching Frank and hear every day, it felt like at
Speaker 1: the time that was Frank's way of saying, if there
Speaker 1: is going to be pressure, put it on me, because
Speaker 1: the pressure is implicit. The pressure exists in the NFL,
Speaker 1: whether you care for it or not. And I think
Speaker 1: Frank realized that things were not working out and this
Speaker 1: was kind of his last chance. And when you do
Speaker 1: that and you come back with ten points against Allas
Speaker 1: and ten points on the road against the Titans and
Speaker 1: two more losses, I think a lot of people, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say expected it, but understood the reasons for.
Speaker 1: You know, this offense is in the bottom five of
Speaker 1: the league, and most of your major statistical categories, and
Speaker 1: the short version of it is nothing worked and it
Speaker 1: didn't change and adapt and from changing play callers once twice,
Speaker 1: moving personnel around, you know, trying this, trying that, there
Speaker 1: was just never a coherent hole with that offense. And
Speaker 1: that's the part that surprised so many people, because you know,
Speaker 1: Frank Wright came in this offseason and hired that staff
Speaker 1: to great fanfare, and everybody imagined, you know, there were
Speaker 1: going to be brighter days ahead. Number one overall pit
Speaker 1: quarterback and Bryce Young that the entire league wanted six
Speaker 1: months ago. Let's not get that twisted now, just because CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud's playing good football down in Houston, probably twenty eight
Speaker 1: to twenty nine teams of the thirty two would have
Speaker 1: made the same selection the Carolina Panthers made, if not
Speaker 1: more honestly, because the consensus was there all throughout the
Speaker 1: offseason on Bryce Hung and when the results became what
Speaker 1: they became. This is what happens in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: Dave Tepper has addressed it, Chris Taber has addressed it,
Speaker 1: and at this point, the Panthers are left with six
Speaker 1: weeks of season to try to put things back together
Speaker 1: as best they can I mean, while there is a
Speaker 1: mathematical chance at the playoffs and podcast Matt can cueue
Speaker 1: up the Jim Carey SoundBite of you saying there's a chance. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess if you're into that kind of thing,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's useful to think of it
Speaker 1: in those terms. I think mainly what the Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: have to do for the next six weeks is put
Speaker 1: together some solid football guys who are going to be
Speaker 1: free agents, are playing for the next contract. It would
Speaker 1: be helpful, even though no one knows what the next
Speaker 1: full time head coach is going to want to do offense,
Speaker 1: for Bryce to play some coherent football, for the passing
Speaker 1: game to look a little more polished as you try
Speaker 1: to develop not just Bryce Young, but a Jonathan Mingo
Speaker 1: outside at wide receiver. I mean, Mingo actually probably had
Speaker 1: one of his better games of the season last week
Speaker 1: in Tennessee, So you want to see more from him.
Speaker 1: You want to see more from Bryce. I think more
Speaker 1: than anything else, there'll be that moment where the Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers kind of get back to a little bit of
Speaker 1: last year's identity where they want to be more physical.
Speaker 1: They want to run the ball, and some of that
Speaker 1: was absent. I think some of the things that Frank
Speaker 1: and his staff tried to put in offensively were at
Speaker 1: cross currents with the personnel. I think they had a
Speaker 1: power blocking offensive line and tried to move them around
Speaker 1: in different ways that weren't natural fits for those guys.
Speaker 1: And that's why things That's part of the reason things
Speaker 1: look so disjointed. But it's not just you know again,
Speaker 1: I've made the point in the mail bag a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago. Ikiakwan, who didn't just forget how to
Speaker 1: pound block. He went ten games last year without giving
Speaker 1: up a sack after giving up three in the first
Speaker 1: two of his NFL career. And I think getting back
Speaker 1: on a more stable footing and doing things they may
Speaker 1: be a little more comfortable with is probably going to
Speaker 1: put the offensive line in better stead. If the offensive
Speaker 1: line looks better, they'll run better. If they run better,
Speaker 1: Bryce will have a little more time, And I think
Speaker 1: that's helpful for Bryce too. But at this point, because
Speaker 1: we don't know what Thomas Brown wants to call offensively
Speaker 1: with the assistance of Jim callwell, we don't know what
Speaker 1: Chris Taber wants to do philosophically. A lot of it's
Speaker 1: kind of guesswork, and in a twisted way that works
Speaker 1: out okay against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday because
Speaker 1: the Bucks have certainly had their own struggles defensively of late.
Speaker 1: They are not good. They are like the Panthers offensive
Speaker 1: stats in reverse down there. So that's an opportunity, I
Speaker 1: guess for all this new stuff to colls something. But
Speaker 1: we just got to see how how things come together.
Speaker 1: Right now, Chris Taber is doing his dead level best
Speaker 1: to try to make things normal again, to use his
Speaker 1: word from Wednesday, and it's never going to be normal
Speaker 1: in week thirteen when you change coaches of an eighteen
Speaker 1: game season. But you know, Chris has got the personality
Speaker 1: at least to try to keep things afloat. And with
Speaker 1: that said, it's probably time to go to our special
Speaker 1: guest Happy Half Hour interview. If you were around for
Speaker 1: last week's edition, the Thanksgiving edition of The Happy Half Hour,
Speaker 1: we talked to Director of Performance Nutrition Kate Callaway, and
Speaker 1: I said last week, I want to go around the
Speaker 1: building and talk to the people who are bringing positive
Speaker 1: energy to the process, and this guy was on my
Speaker 1: list even before, even before any of this stuff happened,
Speaker 1: with coaching changing, Chris Taber becoming the guy, Assistant Special
Speaker 1: Teams coach Devin Fitzsimmons is one of those people. He
Speaker 1: is an energy guy, and in Special Teams that's an
Speaker 1: energy field. Fitz is one of those energy guys.
Speaker 2: So here's our.
Speaker 1: Conversation with Devin Fitzsimmons in which we talk about his job,
Speaker 1: Chris Tabor and how he's well suited to this task
Speaker 1: at hand and many other things. Check it out all right,
Speaker 1: As promised, I told you all last week when I
Speaker 1: talked to Kate Colway, our director of Performance Nutrition, I
Speaker 1: wanted to wander around the building and bring a little
Speaker 1: insight from the people who bring joy to this place
Speaker 1: every now and then. And who better than Assistant Special
Speaker 1: Teams coach Devon fitz Jimmons. Yeah, I know, we very
Speaker 1: rarely address him that way. It's fits around here and
Speaker 1: we appreciate him taking all the time.
Speaker 2: Fits. How you doing friend?
Speaker 3: Better for you? Asking?
Speaker 1: See, this is one of my favorite parts about you.
Speaker 1: You got more one liners than anybody in this building.
Speaker 1: And I started springing out on people when I was
Speaker 1: working on elections the other week and you drop a
Speaker 1: better for you asking on somebody and they just don't
Speaker 1: know what to say half the time.
Speaker 2: Do they.
Speaker 4: You know, it's classic as you get the pause because
Speaker 4: there was expecting oh yeah, good, hell, but you drop
Speaker 4: that on them.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. Now you're gonna get some attention
Speaker 3: right there.
Speaker 2: There you go. And you've been doing this all summer.
Speaker 1: I remember in training camp one of the DB's was
Speaker 1: hot or something was going for a cold tale and
Speaker 1: you were checking on and see if he's alright.
Speaker 2: He said, no, coach, I'm good. I'm just about I'm
Speaker 2: sweating like.
Speaker 1: A dog over here, and you just looked at him, said, man,
Speaker 1: dogs don't sweat.
Speaker 4: So you just trying to provide a structure in a
Speaker 4: supervision all the time.
Speaker 3: You know, life lessons as well as cover and kicks.
Speaker 2: That's what it's all about.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, I wanted to check in with you for
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. A because you bring a little
Speaker 1: positivity to the place when it needs it, no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. But you work alongside Chris Taber as closely
Speaker 1: as anybody in this building as his assistant. Coming in
Speaker 1: You've known Chris for ten years, been working for him
Speaker 1: all this year after joining us from Arizona. I just wanted,
Speaker 1: as you work with him, what is it about him
Speaker 1: that kind of stands out as a coach that kind
Speaker 1: of helps him in a situation like this where he's
Speaker 1: kind of put in a weird situation being an interim
Speaker 1: head coach.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: I think also is that Taves is, first off, he's
Speaker 4: a tremendous human, Like he cares about people.
Speaker 3: He cares about your families, he cares.
Speaker 4: About the all around person, and I think that's what
Speaker 4: makes them separate from other people.
Speaker 3: And the other thing, like Taves is consistent as all
Speaker 3: get out, Like you know.
Speaker 4: Whether it's he's using humor to make a coaching point,
Speaker 4: he's getting on guys. I mean, he's the same guy
Speaker 4: every day, no matter what it is. I mean, he's
Speaker 4: as consistent as he's pretty much consistent as waffle.
Speaker 2: House waffle house. How's that?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you go to any waffle house
Speaker 4: anytime of day twenty four, seven, three sixty five or
Speaker 4: sixty six.
Speaker 3: In certain years, you know the smother, cover and chop
Speaker 3: is going to be the same no matter what.
Speaker 2: So what is your waffle house order? While we're on.
Speaker 4: That double waffle, christy bacon and of course smother covered chop.
Speaker 2: So you you sound like you've done that before due to.
Speaker 3: My curvency many many times. Hell, you should go there
Speaker 3: on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: I could do it and they're going to be open
Speaker 1: and you know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 2: But talking about tabs.
Speaker 1: The other thing that to me stands out about him
Speaker 1: in this situation, coming in as an interim into a
Speaker 1: weird spot obviously, but he's got a way of making
Speaker 1: practice fun or making meetings fun. What is it about
Speaker 1: him when you get in that meeting that kind of
Speaker 1: helps him keep everybody's attention.
Speaker 4: You know what Taves does a great job of is
Speaker 4: mixing in humor and coaching point and reaching the guys
Speaker 4: and getting on them without getting on them. Now, it
Speaker 4: ain't no doubt he'll get on guys if it's warranted.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing. It's like he's not asking you to.
Speaker 4: Memorize the Bill of Rights or the Preamble to the Constitution.
Speaker 4: He's saying, do the right thing, be on time, you know,
Speaker 4: be a pro and all he jew is asking you
Speaker 4: to do the little things. He treats people like men.
Speaker 3: He's ultimately transparent and candid.
Speaker 4: But the thing about it is like, listen, I'm just
Speaker 4: asking you to be on time.
Speaker 3: I'm askining to do those things, not in sinuining like
Speaker 3: people aren't.
Speaker 4: But it's this little things that he's able to cultivate
Speaker 4: into the bigger picture, you know, and being a pro
Speaker 4: and doing the right thing. And I tell you, and
Speaker 4: then the amount of jokes and nicknames are in the
Speaker 4: Special Teams room is absolutely outstanding.
Speaker 1: Well, I know JJ Janssen's the old man of the
Speaker 1: sea around this place.
Speaker 2: He's probably just JJ isn'ety.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately it is just JJ, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: But he probably has been playing for the Panthers when
Speaker 4: Ernest Hemingway wrote.
Speaker 2: That that book.
Speaker 1: What's give me another example, what's a good tabe's nickname
Speaker 1: that he dropped on somebody that caught you by surprise.
Speaker 4: I will have the player remain anonymous.
Speaker 3: But Groot is a is a popular one in the room. Uh.
Speaker 3: He certainly acts and talks and moves like Groot.
Speaker 1: We're gonna leave that to some people's imaginations. But I
Speaker 1: got some suspicions that could be anyway.
Speaker 2: But he does.
Speaker 1: I mean I saw him today in the locker room
Speaker 1: as reporters were leaving and he was trying to get
Speaker 1: guys in for special teams. He's barking, all right, three minutes,
Speaker 1: this plane is about to depart for punt block.
Speaker 2: And it's not.
Speaker 1: Anything big, and it's not like, you know, a shaky
Speaker 1: green routine or anything, but I imagine that keeping it light
Speaker 1: helps in a situation like this, doesn't it.
Speaker 4: It does, but it goes back to that's who he is,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Again, he's the double wawful
Speaker 4: that's always delicious with butter and syrup. But like he
Speaker 4: starts meeting with that old school you know, probably when
Speaker 4: you and I were growing up, with the pencil sharpers
Speaker 4: were on the wall.
Speaker 3: That bell, you know what I mean, starts the meeting off.
Speaker 4: You know, somebody says, on whatever it is, the bell's
Speaker 4: getting tapped.
Speaker 3: But it's the level of consistency, the care.
Speaker 4: Obviously, he's an elite football coach, amazing football coach that
Speaker 4: can adjust in games faster than anyone I've ever been around,
Speaker 4: and he does an unbelievable job that and the way
Speaker 4: he reaches the players and calms players down, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, it's really an uncanny skill set that
Speaker 4: he has.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 1: And you guys job, I mean your job in particular
Speaker 1: is changing tires on a moving car. I mean special
Speaker 1: teams never know is from one week to the next,
Speaker 1: who you're going to have available, who's active, who's hurt.
Speaker 1: Somebody gets hurt in the middle of the game, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Sam Franklin's a safety on defense
Speaker 1: instead of a gunner on the punt team.
Speaker 2: That's just Jones life, isn't it.
Speaker 3: That's right? And it may not be of the same
Speaker 3: four tires on the car.
Speaker 4: So eventually we want to get that thing online out there,
Speaker 4: you know, the ten thousand miles or wherever you get
Speaker 4: them rotated.
Speaker 3: But that's the thing, you know, no matter what it is,
Speaker 3: we have to.
Speaker 4: Make it work. And Taves this has a great ability.
Speaker 4: What does this player do well?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: And so he's going to put that player in position
Speaker 4: to do well and then so that it's not out
Speaker 4: of sorts. And he's always like, listen, just play fast,
Speaker 4: play tough, play hard.
Speaker 3: If you make a mistake, cool, get it fixed, don't
Speaker 3: do it again. Play fast, play hard.
Speaker 4: And I think one thing our special teams and our
Speaker 4: team does a great job, but we play hard and yeah,
Speaker 4: my mom used to say, I ain't coaching effort.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: And there have been times you talk about all four
Speaker 1: tires not necessarily the same.
Speaker 2: Y'all have had the doughnut on a time or two.
Speaker 3: This year, it's been a donut of VF.
Speaker 4: Goodridge, one of those fancy tires back in the day
Speaker 4: where it split.
Speaker 3: The water out on the rain. You know, it's been all.
Speaker 2: Kinds of stuff on there, no doubt.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, no training wheels though we ain't got no
Speaker 3: training wheels.
Speaker 2: We're rolling, Yeah, I hear that.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, I want to catch up with you too,
Speaker 1: because in addition to changing m tires on moving cars,
Speaker 1: in addition to having all this background with Chris Taber,
Speaker 1: you are also, without a doubt, the best dressed coach
Speaker 1: on this Panthers staff at the moment.
Speaker 2: That's not closed, is it.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Coach Cooley definitely has me crushed. So I mean he's
Speaker 3: the guru, trust.
Speaker 2: Me, listen. Cool, he's got style. I'm not gonna take
Speaker 2: that away from him.
Speaker 1: But I've seen you walk on planes and this is
Speaker 1: this is where you're in my kitchen here, you got
Speaker 1: seersucker suits plural, You're not just one seersucker.
Speaker 2: You get how many of those things do you have?
Speaker 4: Being from the walls, the home of a seersucker had
Speaker 4: no offense to anybody else.
Speaker 3: But I got three of them things.
Speaker 4: Now I've got the classic blue, I've got the traditional tan.
Speaker 3: Then I want a little crazy, all right, I got
Speaker 3: the cream seersucker. Yeah. Of course you got to have
Speaker 3: the saddle shoes to go with them.
Speaker 1: See now you go saddle shoes, and I respect it.
Speaker 1: I took pictures of it when I first saw you
Speaker 1: walk in with the saddle shoes and the seersucker earlier
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 2: But I got a pair of white Swedes I wear
Speaker 2: with mine.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, that's classic. Absolutely it's either Swede or
Speaker 4: saddle shoes. You know you're not wearing cole Hans with
Speaker 4: a seersucker.
Speaker 2: No, it's and it is a suit of gentlemen.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've sat in Baptist churches in August with
Speaker 1: the ac broken and not broken a sweat, and you
Speaker 1: can get away with it. And you know, again you're
Speaker 1: from Louisiana. You know a little bit about that.
Speaker 4: That's right, And unlike everybody else i'mant wear past Labor Day.
Speaker 4: I ain't scared to do that. Now I will bust
Speaker 4: a sear sucker out for a Christmas game.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's gonna be in the eighties in Tampa on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll let the suspense build coach.
Speaker 1: All right, Well we got something to look forward to
Speaker 1: now when we get on the plane.
Speaker 2: Well, while I got you another couple of minutes. I mean,
Speaker 2: you mentioned being from Louisia, and you're not from New
Speaker 2: Orleans proper, are you?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: So I got kin folk there.
Speaker 4: I'm from a small town Folst, Louisiana, about an hour
Speaker 4: north of the city. Grew up on a thumughbread breeding
Speaker 4: horse farm, and we used to board horses as well.
Speaker 4: So you know, I was out early mucket stalls before
Speaker 4: we opened Christmas, before we went the church. So everybody
Speaker 4: else told me about their Christmas presence. I told them
Speaker 4: how much crap I shove them? Am I allowed to
Speaker 4: say crab?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think you can say crap. This is a podcast.
Speaker 1: It's the Happy half Hour. I think we're working on
Speaker 1: a liquor sponsorship or something, so you can say.
Speaker 3: We're Genres half Hour.
Speaker 1: Happy Yeah, we're definitely moving down that path. Get the
Speaker 1: sponsorship department on the phone. We got business to do.
Speaker 1: So anyway, you grew up in fulsome no prison, but
Speaker 1: a lot of horses.
Speaker 2: You and Jake Delaw imagine got some shared experience there.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he grew up a hop skipping and jump
Speaker 4: away in southwest Louisiana.
Speaker 3: So we talk horses a good amount. You know, the fairgrounds.
Speaker 4: I used to go to the fairgrounds as a kid,
Speaker 4: and I was a runner for my grandpa and everybody
Speaker 4: you know during the racetracks, and you know, it was
Speaker 4: a great time.
Speaker 3: You certainly learned what chores and hard work were.
Speaker 4: In fact, speaking of hard chores as a kid, I
Speaker 4: need to get my seven year old limb my four
Speaker 4: year old nor they start putting them to work.
Speaker 1: That sounds good. Young people ought to work. That's I mean.
Speaker 1: Work ethic is a thing that's going to carry you
Speaker 1: through your whole life. And that's whether you're mucking out
Speaker 1: stalls or running down kicks on special teams or writing
Speaker 1: for a football team website.
Speaker 2: That's the truth.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just found out paper routes on around anymore, So
Speaker 4: lim can't do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are no papers anymore, that's breaking news. Well listen, man,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking a couple of minutes. I know
Speaker 1: it's a busy week, but I appreciate you sharing, sharing
Speaker 1: a little background on Chris Tabor, who we're all getting
Speaker 1: to know a little better this.
Speaker 2: Week now that he's the interim coach.
Speaker 1: But you know there it is Racontour, fashion plate, world
Speaker 1: renowned gentlemen of leisure. I won't bother using the government
Speaker 1: name again. It's Fitz Fitz.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Letters one syllable, easy to remain a man.
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate you Fitz all right, And that was
Speaker 1: Devin Fitzimmons. What did I tell you? Who's better than
Speaker 1: that guy? That guy is funny. I love talking to him.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got more one liners than certainly me,
Speaker 1: but anybody else on this roster. And the whole thing
Speaker 1: about better for you asking? I have stolen that in
Speaker 1: my day to day life now when people roll up
Speaker 1: on me, how you doing there? Better for you asking, and.
Speaker 2: It just catches them off guard.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows what to do with that kind of positive
Speaker 1: energy in the universe. Maybe we should become more accustomed
Speaker 1: to it. So I appreciate I appreciate Fits. I will
Speaker 1: not call him his government name, as he calls it
Speaker 1: too often. We do it out of formality here because
Speaker 1: this is a very appropriate podcast. But Fitz is one
Speaker 1: of the good people in the building and I've enjoyed
Speaker 1: getting to know him in his year here after coming
Speaker 1: to us from Arizona, and he's been a positive addition.
Speaker 1: And you know, again, with tabes out running a whole
Speaker 1: football team, he's effectively in a lot of ways a
Speaker 1: special teams coordinator now, so I think he's got a
Speaker 1: bright future in the business. And again, beyond that, I
Speaker 1: think when you try to focus on what matters at
Speaker 1: a time like this, he's good people. And the more
Speaker 1: good people you can have in operation like this at
Speaker 1: a time like this, the better off you are. All Right.
Speaker 1: That will cover us for another week of the Happy
Speaker 1: Half Hour. I know this one's running a little later
Speaker 1: than our normal Thursday morning deployment or whatever time podcast
Speaker 1: Matt gets it out, but we're doing the best we can.
Speaker 1: This has been a little bit of an unusual week,
Speaker 1: so I appreciate the grace for waiting a few hours
Speaker 1: extra then you normally would for the Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 1: But we appreciate you joining us, and tune in next
Speaker 1: week when I will wander around the building and find
Speaker 1: somebody else who's spreading a little joy around this place.
Speaker 1: And you never know, we may be talking about some
Speaker 1: different football stuff too. Until next week, friends, this is
Speaker 1: the Happy half hour.