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