Speaker 1: This week on a Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 2: They've gotten good volume out of that draft class already.
Speaker 2: When you look at what league gets done. Jonathan Brooks
Speaker 2: is going to be a big topic of conversation for
Speaker 2: the weeks to come. He's still in that window where
Speaker 2: he's practicing. You know. JT. Sanders has produced, Trevn Wallace
Speaker 2: has been a contributor.
Speaker 3: Touchdown Cow.
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 happy Halloween, and welcome to a very
Speaker 2: spooky edition of the Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 3: Have you seen the video of the Charlotte Hornets scaring
Speaker 3: Lamar Ball?
Speaker 2: No? I have not.
Speaker 3: It is hilarious, Like at one point ball is it? Wait?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 2: Lamar Lamellomelo Lara is the father who was a former
Speaker 2: Panthers practice squad.
Speaker 3: Okay, Lamello. It was from this morning. At one point
Speaker 3: he is laying on the stairs going I can feel
Speaker 3: my heart all right, it's so funny.
Speaker 2: So there you go. That's what we're off to. And
Speaker 2: I got to tell you while we're on the Halloween tip.
Speaker 2: And by the way, this edition, this very spooky edition
Speaker 2: of the Happy Half Hours brought to you by our
Speaker 2: friends at Southern Star, an official bourbon partner of the
Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers, celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas.
Speaker 3: Do you think they have a pumpkin spice flavor?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I think you can make it
Speaker 2: that way, huh. I think you can add your own,
Speaker 2: maybe a little eggnog or something. We're pushing up on
Speaker 2: nog season. But in the spirit of Halloween, I do
Speaker 2: just need to share. We'll play some audio clips every
Speaker 2: now and and you guys have to hear Brad. Perhaps
Speaker 2: no one is as into Halloween as offensive coordinator Brad
Speaker 2: Izac is. And just listening to him talk about his
Speaker 2: Halloween costumes of his youth was the highlight of Thursday
Speaker 2: so far. Check this out.
Speaker 4: Okay, here's an underrated one, snow Caps. If you're ever
Speaker 4: in the movie theater, snow Caps. I was always a
Speaker 4: Skittles guy growing up, and then kit Kats, So the
Speaker 4: combination of the chocolate with a little bit of you know,
Speaker 4: crunch inside, I think those are my top three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, while we're on the conversation, with Brad Iazac, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and him just bringing a smile to our face today.
Speaker 3: This morning, I come in, I'm standing there fixing my coffee,
Speaker 3: and Brad walks up to me and he goes, you
Speaker 3: got any good questions for today? Are you brewing some up?
Speaker 3: And Adam Thielan and I both just kind of whipped
Speaker 3: around and looked at him with like a straight face,
Speaker 3: and I finally went, that was a really bad joke,
Speaker 3: and Brad goes, well, that's my thing. That's what they
Speaker 3: called me when I was in high school. They called
Speaker 3: me BJB brad joke bad, bad joke, bad joke, Brad.
Speaker 2: That's outstanding.
Speaker 3: As we're as he's telling me this, Jalen Coker walks
Speaker 3: up and I said to Jaylen, I said, did you
Speaker 3: know Brad Tell's bad jokes? And he kind of laught.
Speaker 3: He said, yes, that's all he does.
Speaker 2: That's amazing, that's great and bad joke, Brad. I'm here
Speaker 2: for bad joke, Brad, but I'm more here for Brad
Speaker 2: Idzac's tryhard grandpa who made that Halloween costume with squirrels
Speaker 2: in it. You know. I saw Brad in the hall
Speaker 2: and I said, I gotta see pictures of that when
Speaker 2: you when you find those, you have to produce. I mean,
Speaker 2: the man built a table to put his head on
Speaker 2: a plate through and the man turned him into his
Speaker 2: grandson into a tree complete with paper machet squirrels. That's
Speaker 2: amazing and that is probably as fun as anything else
Speaker 2: we could talk about today.
Speaker 3: Exactly, are you a big Halloween person, cash Listen. I
Speaker 3: grew up Southern Baptist, so I went to the Hallelujah
Speaker 3: House and the Trunk Retreat my costume, yes, and the
Speaker 3: Trunker Treat was always a Bible story. But one year
Speaker 3: my mom did a trunk at the Trunker Treat that
Speaker 3: was shadrag meshack and a bandigo and we got dry
Speaker 3: ice man. Then people in Woodstock, Alabama ain't ever seen
Speaker 3: anything like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, I this will get to football. I swear to
Speaker 2: God at some point in this episode. But I have
Speaker 2: to know what's a Hallelujah house in relation to Halloween
Speaker 2: and the Alabama Southern Baptist context.
Speaker 3: So a Hallelujah house is instead of going to a
Speaker 3: haunted house, which is scary and full of scary scary things,
Speaker 3: a Hallelujah house is what you go to instead, and
Speaker 3: there's like bounce houses and cakewalks. It's like a festival,
Speaker 3: like a fall festival, but it takes place on Halloween
Speaker 3: night and you can dress up, but also your church
Speaker 3: so you can't dress up as anything scary. So I
Speaker 3: went as a sock coop girl for a lot of years.
Speaker 2: Okay, but yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: It's cakewalks, it's face painting, it's the trunk of treat
Speaker 3: in the parking lot. At the same time, it's uh,
Speaker 3: you know, full festival things.
Speaker 2: So where's the line on scary costume? What would classify it?
Speaker 2: Like if I walked in in a gorilla suit, would
Speaker 2: that be okay?
Speaker 3: You can't be like a demon. You can be like
Speaker 3: a Casper, the friendly ghost, but you can't be like
Speaker 3: Devil Horns or you know, like a monster.
Speaker 2: What about like the classic scream mask.
Speaker 3: I think that one was okay because it was just
Speaker 3: part of pop culture and you could be like Frankenstein.
Speaker 3: But you couldn't be like.
Speaker 2: You know, anything devil.
Speaker 3: You couldn't be like the Grim Reaper.
Speaker 2: There is so so much to unpack here. I almost
Speaker 2: want to do the entire episode about this.
Speaker 3: I truly you never went to a hallelliyah. How's growing up?
Speaker 2: No, that wasn't. I mean, I grew up Lutheran. We
Speaker 2: believed in everything in moderation, including moderation. But I just yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, Halloween's not really my deal. But I am
Speaker 2: now suddenly fascinated by this. I don't and I'll be honest,
Speaker 2: complete transparency. There's a non zero chance when I leave
Speaker 2: here tonight, it'll be dark and I'm going to go
Speaker 2: straight into the back of my house and leave all
Speaker 2: the lights off.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna come ring the doorbell at your house.
Speaker 1: I'm not at home.
Speaker 2: Don't get no, There's nothing I love more than little
Speaker 2: kids dressed up in adorable costumes and enjoining the Halloween.
Speaker 2: I feel like the cutoff for Halloween is like ten.
Speaker 2: Once you're on the other side of ten years old,
Speaker 2: then you're just harvesting candy and that's not okay.
Speaker 3: Well, I can't weigh in because I never went your
Speaker 3: or treating. I was always at the Halloweja house.
Speaker 2: Because you were afraid you were going to go to
Speaker 2: Hellated here's what's funny, and this is just a great
Speaker 2: point of like how parents change when they become grandparents.
Speaker 3: My nieces and nephew my parents. My parents take their
Speaker 3: grandkids trick or treating because they think it's cute and fun.
Speaker 2: Well, my parents had to take me trick or treating
Speaker 2: also because there was no neighborhood to walk around. You're
Speaker 2: near when your nearest neighbor is a quarter mile away.
Speaker 3: I say that my parents drive them to my cousin's
Speaker 3: neighborhood and park there. But it's like they're like, this
Speaker 3: is so fun, We're gonna take them trick or treating.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, you never took chance of me trick
Speaker 3: or treating.
Speaker 2: But whatever, new rules grandparents grandparent mode for Halloween. I'm
Speaker 2: so looking forward to that. I'm gonna I'm.
Speaker 3: Just that seems right up your outlet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, being Halloween Grandpa is right, I'll turn it. You
Speaker 2: know what I'll do, I'll turn into brad Idex Grandpa.
Speaker 2: Exactly what's gonna happen? I can see my own future.
Speaker 2: I finally found the crystal ball. It was in Ben
Speaker 2: mcadoo's other pants.
Speaker 3: You're going to explain that joke to me one.
Speaker 2: Day, one of these days. I will. Until then, I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna keep telling it all right. I think we're
Speaker 2: contractually bound to talk about some football because uh, much
Speaker 2: like putting a Alabama Baptist child in a non secular
Speaker 2: Halloween outfit, this Carolina Panthers team looks different all of
Speaker 2: a sudden than it did a week ago. With the
Speaker 2: big news of this week, obviously, it's been the trade
Speaker 2: of Deontay Johnson and how that changes things for a
Speaker 2: lot of people. I mean, I don't think it was
Speaker 2: any secret necessarily. I mean, Deontay was a rental when
Speaker 2: he was acquired in March. He had one year on
Speaker 2: his contract, and guys like that are looking to, you know,
Speaker 2: get some sales paid and see what's out there in
Speaker 2: the world. Deontay. I don't think it's really anything against Deontay,
Speaker 2: but I never got the sense he was looking at
Speaker 2: real estate here in Charlotte, so you.
Speaker 3: Know, it wasn't anything wrong. It was just kind of
Speaker 3: square peg, roundhole.
Speaker 2: Well, and when it's a young wide receiver group on
Speaker 2: a one in seventeen, I think at that point you
Speaker 2: start looking to, you know, what you can get in
Speaker 2: the future, and Deyontay Johnson, if he was not going
Speaker 2: to be part of the future here, they upgraded some
Speaker 2: draft picks. I mean We've got the full chart on
Speaker 2: Panthers dot Com. You can check it out. But they've
Speaker 2: right now got nine total picks in the two five draft,
Speaker 2: including seven in the first five rounds, which you.
Speaker 3: Do some stuff with that.
Speaker 2: You know what, what they got for Deonte the other day
Speaker 2: was not a lot, but it's also not nothing. And
Speaker 2: you know, seven picks in the first five rounds is
Speaker 2: kind of where they need to be thinking at this point,
Speaker 2: you know, in the construction of this team in the
Speaker 2: Dave Canalis Dan Morgan regime.
Speaker 3: And let's be honest, when you're at this point of
Speaker 3: the season and the record is what it is, you're
Speaker 3: starting to look towards the future. And I think they're
Speaker 3: really excited with what they have out of Xavier Leaguet
Speaker 3: and now Jalen Cocher. I mean, what an ironic duo.
Speaker 3: Here's your first rounder and you're undrafted free agent. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, Xavier is I think tied for
Speaker 3: third in the league and rookie touchdowns. Cocher is one
Speaker 3: of PFF's highest graded rookie receivers weekend and week out
Speaker 3: that he plays, and so there's a lot that you
Speaker 3: can build around in your passing game with those two,
Speaker 3: and this will inevitably get them more stabs, more production targets,
Speaker 3: not that they had really even been lacking for the
Speaker 3: past couple of weeks with Deontay not on the field
Speaker 3: in Denver and not getting as many in the weeks before.
Speaker 3: Deonta provided a lot in the passing game. Let's not
Speaker 3: try to cross over that at all. But I think
Speaker 3: what they have still there in the receiver room they're
Speaker 3: excited about, and they're looking towards the future of what
Speaker 3: they can do with those guys.
Speaker 2: No question, and it is interesting. And we got to
Speaker 2: this in the mailbag a good bit the other day too.
Speaker 2: I mean, knowing where they're at, a lot of the
Speaker 2: focus is going to be on the draft class, and amazingly,
Speaker 2: I mean, I shouldn't say amazingly enough, they've gotten good
Speaker 2: volume out of that draft class already when you look
Speaker 2: at what league gets done. Jonathan Brooks is going to
Speaker 2: be a big topic of conversation for the weeks to come.
Speaker 2: He's still in that window where he's practicing, preparing to
Speaker 2: come back from last year's ACL. But JT said, you know,
Speaker 2: j T Sanders has produced Trevn Wallace has been a contributor.
Speaker 2: He's interesting to me because trev is a guy. He
Speaker 2: was calling defensive signals while Josie Jewel was out after
Speaker 2: Shack Thompson's injury. He took that green dot off the
Speaker 2: other day and when Josie was back in the lineup.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if these two things are connected
Speaker 2: or whether it's just increasing comfort in the defense, but
Speaker 2: Trevin looked more comfortable. He was playing faster, you know,
Speaker 2: he comes up, he makes a play, creates a turnover
Speaker 2: late in the game. But I think when you see
Speaker 2: league it Brooks, Sanders, Wallace Shaw, you know, and the
Speaker 2: contributions you're getting, you know, from Jalen Coker, it's like,
Speaker 2: okay the money. Yeah. And Demani Richardson started last week
Speaker 2: and played really well. So it's it's promising to be
Speaker 2: getting that much contribution from a rookie Glass and that's
Speaker 2: kind of what you're going to look at this time
Speaker 2: of year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll only help them moving forward. Of course, you
Speaker 3: know that the counter argument to that is do you
Speaker 3: do the same with Bryce? And I think we're going
Speaker 3: to see again this week what kind of steps forward
Speaker 3: Bryce can take. Having two weeks in a row after
Speaker 3: having that time off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question. And again, if you've been under a
Speaker 2: rock and not staying tuned to Panthers dot Com for
Speaker 2: all the latest, Yeah, really, what's wrong with you? What
Speaker 2: are you at the Hallelujah House dying Halloween's existence?
Speaker 3: To deny its existence? You just don't celebrate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is going to demand some high level debriefing.
Speaker 2: There's in possibly some therapy because there's a lot going
Speaker 2: on there that I need to know more about. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, with Andy Dalton a week removed from the
Speaker 2: car accident, I mean, Dave Canalis said it yesterday. He
Speaker 2: wanted to give Andy a chance, and I thought it
Speaker 2: was kind of interesting the way he phrased it when
Speaker 2: he talked about the decision to let Bryce play this week.
Speaker 5: It really was me taking the decision out of Andy's hands.
Speaker 5: If you were to, you know, ask Andy like are
Speaker 5: you can you go? He would tell you yes. And
Speaker 5: for me, it's like he's a week removed, you know,
Speaker 5: from a thumb injury, and I just wanted to make
Speaker 5: sure that we're putting him back out there in the
Speaker 5: right state, in the right framework. And I'm excited for Bryce,
Speaker 5: you know, to have another opportunity to build on the
Speaker 5: things that we've talked about to you know, continue to
Speaker 5: just grow and get that experience that we talked about
Speaker 5: is invaluable to be on the field, to be calling
Speaker 5: the plays and doing it.
Speaker 2: What you didn't hear Dave Canalis say is that this
Speaker 2: is any kind of mandate or this is going to
Speaker 2: last for a long time. I mean, he was very
Speaker 2: careful to say, this is a decision for this week.
Speaker 2: We'll make next week's decision next week, and we'll kind
Speaker 2: of do that over the course of the season.
Speaker 3: To paraphrase Scarlett, let tomorrow, worry about tomorrow. That's that's
Speaker 3: tomorrow's problem. Yeah, And I think two, you have to
Speaker 3: wig if you do have a bunch of rookie receivers
Speaker 3: and a bunch of rookie pass catchers, and you're about
Speaker 3: to have a rookie running back possibly in there, having
Speaker 3: Andy in there divides a little bit of a stability
Speaker 3: and a balance to that, and that's why it could
Speaker 3: be crucial to have him back in there for the
Speaker 3: rest of the season. You have someone that has fourteen
Speaker 3: years of experience, that knows what these defenses are doing,
Speaker 3: that can put exaviorly get in the right place, that
Speaker 3: can get Jayleen Cocher in the right place, that can
Speaker 3: call the right protection and or play for Jonathan Brooks.
Speaker 3: That that's an interesting balance that could pay just as
Speaker 3: many dividends as anything else down the road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question, And this week's going to be interesting too,
Speaker 2: I mean, and again as we continue to talk about football. Oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, the Saints are rolling in here.
Speaker 3: This week, it was should have said marching.
Speaker 2: In, don't out this if you edit out this policy,
Speaker 2: this one hang there for a second.
Speaker 3: There has closed his eyes and its clutching his temple,
Speaker 3: just in incomplete regret.
Speaker 2: I don't at any rate the same Saints are coming
Speaker 2: and it's a very different Saints team. And frankly, I
Speaker 2: think that's a relief to everybody. Nobody wants to really
Speaker 2: re live Week one with the way that thing went down.
Speaker 2: But they, you know, looked like one of the greatest
Speaker 2: teams in the NFL the first two weeks of the season.
Speaker 2: The sixth since then, not so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they do look a lot different, But the
Speaker 3: more things change, the more they stay the same. The
Speaker 3: past few weeks for the Saints have been Spencer rattler
Speaker 3: for the Panthers have been Andy Dalton and now we've
Speaker 3: got Derek car Versus Verty Young again just like we
Speaker 3: did in week one. It is a flat circle. But
Speaker 3: I think you saw the pass rush take a decent
Speaker 3: step forward last week. So Ashan Robinson kind of get
Speaker 3: in there more as well. Jadavian Clowney spend a lot
Speaker 3: of time in the backfield. So what does that look
Speaker 3: like with Derek Carr coming back for the first time
Speaker 3: in a few weeks and off of an injury, and
Speaker 3: you know, if if he's not out there, you have
Speaker 3: another rookie quarterback. And so to your point, these are
Speaker 3: two completely different teams. Al Bryce kind of find a
Speaker 3: groove a little bit more with those rookie receivers towards
Speaker 3: it in the second half last week at Denver. And
Speaker 3: so this is an interesting game because I think you
Speaker 3: have to throw out a lot of what you saw
Speaker 3: in week one. Even a Giro Everet was talking today
Speaker 3: about the Saints' play caller.
Speaker 2: Kubiak, Clint Kubiak clue.
Speaker 3: I wanted to throw an l in there for some reason.
Speaker 2: That's Clint club Nick, Arcade club Nick, that's a college
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: I wanted to say, I wanted to say Kubiak. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but Kubiak, Clint Kubiak. He was talking today, or he
Speaker 3: was telling us today about how in Week one it
Speaker 3: had been a couple of years since Kubiak had been
Speaker 3: a play caller, so they weren't really sure what to expect.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of leaning on yourself and just kind
Speaker 3: of reacting. Whereas now they have eight weeks worth of
Speaker 3: tape of what he's like as a play caller, both
Speaker 3: with Carr and with Radler, and so it makes preparation
Speaker 3: a little bit different. We'll see if it makes it
Speaker 3: better on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I think more than anything, when I think
Speaker 2: about the defense in last week's game against Denver, you know,
Speaker 2: there was some sense of stabilization. I mean, obviously they lost,
Speaker 2: gave up twenty eight points. You know, Bonnicks looked really,
Speaker 2: really good in the first half of that game. It
Speaker 2: felt more stable, I mean, and Canalis has mentioned several
Speaker 2: times over the course of the last week that the
Speaker 2: run defense was a little more solid than it had been,
Speaker 2: and I think that's a direct correlation to getting A'shawn Robinson.
Speaker 2: Josie Jewel Todaviian Clowney back on the field first forced fumble, Right,
Speaker 2: You're not going to get back to that place personnel
Speaker 2: wise where you can bring a Derek Brown, a Shaq
Speaker 2: Thompson back into the mix. But they are getting closer
Speaker 2: to that. I think another part of that's dj Wanham.
Speaker 2: I mean, he talked a good bit last week about,
Speaker 2: you know, his medical struggle to get back on the field.
Speaker 2: He's another week into that window. I don't know that
Speaker 2: he's going to play this week, but he's certainly getting
Speaker 2: more and more acclimated to the point where back half
Speaker 2: of the year will have an opportunity to see what
Speaker 2: he's able to do. And he was, you know, obviously
Speaker 2: a key part of the offseason plan because before Jadavi
Speaker 2: and Clowney got here, it was about two weeks prior
Speaker 2: to that, when Wanham was signed. He was one of
Speaker 2: those first signings in free agencies. Guy with eight sacks
Speaker 2: last year, scored a touchdown here that a lot of
Speaker 2: Panthers fans remember. But you know, we'll see how that
Speaker 2: comes together. But as it pertains to this week, there
Speaker 2: is still an open question of which Saints team are
Speaker 2: we going to get? Even if Derek Carr comes back,
Speaker 2: Are you getting that team that struggled the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks? You know, and you know the Carolina Panthers
Speaker 2: aren't going to apologize to anybody, but they've had a
Speaker 2: lot of guys hurt and a lot of mixed bag
Speaker 2: of personnel themselves.
Speaker 3: Yeah. When you see DJ around the building the past
Speaker 3: couple of weeks, he practically bounces. He's you can tell
Speaker 3: he's so excited, he's so ready to kind of get
Speaker 3: back out there. And know, a couple of people on
Speaker 3: the vikings be and they cannot speak highly enough of him,
Speaker 3: both off the field and on the field. So what
Speaker 3: does that past rush look like when you get him
Speaker 3: out there with Clowney? That's that's gonna be exciting. But
Speaker 3: like you said, probably not this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and even if it's not this week for Germany, uh,
Speaker 2: it's getting close. But anyway, what else we got this week?
Speaker 3: What else do we have this week? I mean, you
Speaker 3: don't want to overlook the Saints, but there is a
Speaker 3: lot of attention already turned to Germany and that trip
Speaker 3: and and what that's going to be like in that game.
Speaker 3: Of course, you know, facing some former Panthers so that'll
Speaker 3: be interesting as well. But jac Horn was was very
Speaker 3: tight lipped yesterday about any conversation seem Brian Burns have
Speaker 3: had leading up to that game. Yeah, they like that's
Speaker 3: private to the group chat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that group chat is their own business. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know j C. You know, jc's not going to divulge
Speaker 2: a lot of Brian Burns stuff going into that game.
Speaker 2: But you know, having seen Jeremy Chen and Frankie Luvu
Speaker 2: the other week up in Washington, Sean Burns in a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, it's a little bit of a reunion.
Speaker 2: But those these guys are you know, those guys are
Speaker 2: always going to be close. That's the thing about football.
Speaker 2: Players change teams all the time, but that fraternity is
Speaker 2: kind of what's neat.
Speaker 3: So speaking of JC, he had a good answer yesterday.
Speaker 3: He's having a career year and he's on pace to
Speaker 3: granted three of those years of his career have been
Speaker 3: marred by different injuries, but he's on pace to kind
Speaker 3: of blow his total tackles out of the water. He's
Speaker 3: averaging I think I want to say four point three
Speaker 3: per game right now, and he's already surpassed his pastest
Speaker 3: defended number. He's having a good year individually, and he
Speaker 3: was asked about it yesterday and he basically said, who cares,
Speaker 3: you know, like, if we're not winning, none of that matters.
Speaker 3: And that's just it was. It was the right answer,
Speaker 3: but it was a good answer to and the kind
Speaker 3: of answer of the locker room needs to hear from
Speaker 3: one of their leaders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he is absolutely one of those leaders. I
Speaker 2: mean it helps in the case of guys like Derek Brown,
Speaker 2: Guys like JC and your young players are also the
Speaker 2: cats in that room that other guys listen to. I mean,
Speaker 2: they see what JC has put into this deal. Obviously,
Speaker 2: you know, any story about JC is going to circle
Speaker 2: back to the injury history and his poor luck. But
Speaker 2: the guy has been on the field and he's been
Speaker 2: making plays all season. So it's good to see j
Speaker 2: C Horn out there and it'll be you know, obviously
Speaker 2: he gets to see one of his father's old teams
Speaker 2: this week and hopefully he is able to continue building
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 3: Well, what song did I have you listened to this week?
Speaker 2: You had me listen to and this will give us
Speaker 2: a chance to circle back to you. You pointed me
Speaker 2: in Luke Colmbs's direct. That's right, and listen. One of
Speaker 2: the things I mean, I am very fortunate to be
Speaker 2: able to do what I do for a living. The
Speaker 2: one bad side of that job is I was not
Speaker 2: able to be here last week for the concert at Carolina's.
Speaker 2: All the reports I've heard from coworkers who were here
Speaker 2: and friends out in the neighborhood, you know, friends, Church,
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff was. It was an amazing night.
Speaker 2: And what an incredible job Lup Combs Eric Church did
Speaker 2: putting that bill together and getting a lot of people
Speaker 2: in that building. Raised over twenty four million dollars.
Speaker 3: That's incredible, just a mind blowing number.
Speaker 2: And it is amazing to see what a bunch of
Speaker 2: people can do in a hurry. The people in our
Speaker 2: building who work in ops and you know, event preparation,
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, I mean, they've just been standing
Speaker 2: on their heads for the last couple of weeks. Anyway,
Speaker 2: they to be able to pull this thing off in
Speaker 2: a short amount of time was nothing short of amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. This is the
Speaker 3: kind of concert that it usually takes a year to
Speaker 3: pull off. They did it in like three weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's cool because from the time,
Speaker 2: you know, Luke Combs. I love the fact that it
Speaker 2: was like a little rascals thing, Hey, let's do a show. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it kind of came together.
Speaker 3: God, they did a show.
Speaker 2: They did a show, and they did it upright.
Speaker 3: So really cool too to see how many places in
Speaker 3: western North Carolina set up community events to stream it,
Speaker 3: you know, in these communities that are still kind of
Speaker 3: decimated and just finding their footing so that they can rebuild.
Speaker 3: And this was a night for them to actually kind
Speaker 3: of take a load off and look ahead and have
Speaker 3: a little bit of a reprieve. And we saw so
Speaker 3: many of them come together in their community, set up
Speaker 3: you know, a bed sheet to stream it and did
Speaker 3: that together. That's what it was all about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cool, cool stuff all the way around. But you
Speaker 2: had me listening to Luke calms where the wild things are,
Speaker 2: and that was not a wild rumpus. You could see
Speaker 2: what was coming there the whole time. Yeah, as soon
Speaker 2: as he started singing about his brother living the big
Speaker 2: life out on the West coast, as they go on
Speaker 2: the motorcycle, sure enough, spoiler alert, it went to a
Speaker 2: dark place. So but I could imagine.
Speaker 3: It was it was still wild. He was still wild.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the wild things are going to be wild till
Speaker 2: the day they, you know, die apparently, so spoiler alert.
Speaker 3: Yeah, whoops, that's a I like singing that one. I
Speaker 3: would love to see Luke Calms and concert to sing
Speaker 3: it with a bunch of other people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. And I mean, you know that story's
Speaker 2: got a personal hook for you and your family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, reminded us a lot of my uncle.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I listened to Be Good.
Speaker 2: Johnny, which is the opposite which.
Speaker 3: I realized ten seconds into it was not Johnny Be Good,
Speaker 3: which I legitimately thought it was going to be until
Speaker 3: I turned the song on and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is not what I thought it was.
Speaker 2: No, it was not.
Speaker 3: One of the more interesting ones you've had me listen to,
Speaker 3: just because it's a little different than some of the
Speaker 3: others you've had me listen to.
Speaker 2: I was I was in some kind of mood because
Speaker 2: Men at Work was playing here in Charlotte last week
Speaker 2: and I was not. I ultimately did not go to
Speaker 2: that concert, so I wanted to put that particular Australian
Speaker 2: ear worm on you and let you enjoy it.
Speaker 3: I can definitely see how that would be one that
Speaker 3: you'd be like sitting in a restaurant and you hear
Speaker 3: it over the sound system and you just find yourself
Speaker 3: singing along without realizing.
Speaker 2: It's like, hey, I remember hearing this for the first
Speaker 2: time thirty years ago. Yeah, So anyway, all right.
Speaker 3: Lay my next one on me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think you mentioned we're getting ready for Germany,
Speaker 2: and we are going to Germany in a week, so
Speaker 2: I think you know, having exposed you to Metallica's early
Speaker 2: work earlier this year when that concert was announced for
Speaker 2: next May, I think in honor of our trip to Germany,
Speaker 2: you should be listening to more Scorpions music and in
Speaker 2: preparation for this.
Speaker 3: I mean, everybody, I didn't know what that means, and
Speaker 3: I'm scared.
Speaker 2: Everybody's heard rock you like a Hurricane. That's a stadium
Speaker 2: rock staple. You've heard that one. But I think Blackout
Speaker 2: is a great, great example of their German work and
Speaker 2: definitely something you should do to get you in the
Speaker 2: mood for our trip to Munich.
Speaker 3: Okay looking forward to that. We'll report back. I don't
Speaker 3: know how we'll do the podcast next week since we'll
Speaker 3: be on a plane, but we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2: We'll figure that part out.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's mine. This is going to require a little
Speaker 3: bit of homework before you listen to the song. All right,
Speaker 3: fair enough, go take a trot through the Wikipedia page
Speaker 3: for Adena Sackville Lady, Adena Sackville. Okay, and then after
Speaker 3: learning a little bit about her life, you're gonna go
Speaker 3: listen to We're going back to Taylor this week, Sure
Speaker 3: we are. You're gonna go listen to the Bolter. The Bolter, Yes,
Speaker 3: it is from Taylor's fift's latest album, The Torture Post Apartment.
Speaker 3: Make sure you listen to the grown up version and
Speaker 3: not the clean version. It's a different song.
Speaker 2: See. That's the kind of stuff that'll get you thrown
Speaker 2: out of the Hallelujah House right there.
Speaker 3: I just can't take that particular. I bought to church.
Speaker 2: See now now I'm thinking back to the Hallelujah House.
Speaker 3: This is a clearly affected you, more than ever effected.
Speaker 2: This was for young Cassidy g Hill. So anyway, we'll
Speaker 2: get to bottom of all that. Hope you guys have
Speaker 2: a happy Halloween. Go see the Izicks. I think they've
Speaker 2: got a bowl out on the front porch. He doesn't
Speaker 2: know what's in it, uh, because he's a ball coach.
Speaker 2: But the rest of you enjoy your house Halloween and
Speaker 2: we will see you next week on the Happy half Hour.