Speaker 1: This week on a Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 2: Dave is a very workmanlike kind of coach. And I
Speaker 2: think because people only see that veneer, they only see that,
Speaker 2: you know, front facing part of Dave Canalis clapping and
Speaker 2: being positive and all that kind of stuff. It's like
Speaker 2: this dude's a grinder.
Speaker 1: Touch the cow. It's time for the Happy Half Hour,
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Speaker 1: Here are your hosts, Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill.
Speaker 2: Hello friends, and welcome to another very special edition of
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Speaker 3: We're all special.
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Speaker 2: I don't know where we get to talk about a wine,
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Speaker 3: Who would you want to deliver your eulogy?
Speaker 2: I don't even know, but Podcast Matt will make it
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Speaker 2: which is always is brought to us by our friends.
Speaker 2: It's Southern Star, an official bourbon partner of the Carolina Panthers,
Speaker 2: celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas. With the hurricane rolling in,
Speaker 2: it might be time for a little Southern Star and
Speaker 2: eggnog or something. I don't know. It might be early
Speaker 2: for eggnog season, but I could make an exception for her.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't really you know, I know
Speaker 2: I don't celebrate the pumpkin festivities, but I am not
Speaker 2: going to stand in the way of people who do
Speaker 2: enjoy it because I want everybody to be happy and
Speaker 2: this week everybody's happy.
Speaker 3: Everybody's happy. Happen well, they won a game. That goes
Speaker 3: a long way towards making everybody happy.
Speaker 2: It really does, and it is alarming. I mean, I
Speaker 2: try to be a balanced human being, be the same
Speaker 2: guy every day and that kind of stuff. But just
Speaker 2: when you move through the building, if you're in the
Speaker 2: ticket office, if you're in the marketing department, if you're
Speaker 2: anywhere in the building, the mood is just better. And
Speaker 2: that's just human nature. I think everybody's excited about the
Speaker 2: way last thing last week went. You know this just
Speaker 2: in people like touchdowns and points and stuff, and then
Speaker 2: when you can win, it's better still. So it's all
Speaker 2: good things for the Carolina Panthers right now after a
Speaker 2: week that they talked about being heavy. Yeah, because again
Speaker 2: last week when we did this, we were talking about
Speaker 2: making a change at quarterback, and obviously it was something
Speaker 2: nobody ever wanted to do, nobody anticipated doing three weeks
Speaker 2: into the season. But the Andy Dalton era got off
Speaker 2: to quite a start.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's funny we say everybody's happy. The
Speaker 3: one person who doesn't isn't necessarily balancing with happiness maybe
Speaker 3: Dave Canalis, Yeah, which is a little surprising considering how
Speaker 3: energetic he normally is. But like you said, he said
Speaker 3: after that game, after his first win as a head coach,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm happy on the inside, but it's been
Speaker 3: a heavy week. Yeah, And I thought that spoke volumes
Speaker 3: just about the fact that this wasn't an easy decision
Speaker 3: and it did carry a lot of weight.
Speaker 2: And here's the other thing. I think, as people get
Speaker 2: wrapped up in the results of ballgames and their fantasy
Speaker 2: football team and stuff like that, we've commodified sports. This
Speaker 2: is a business full of human beings and Dave Canalis
Speaker 2: knows that because, as you know, much as they needed
Speaker 2: the result to change offensively and make the change, and
Speaker 2: Andy created what they were hoping to see, you know,
Speaker 2: there's still a dude on the other end of that
Speaker 2: transaction who they value and want to protect. So I
Speaker 2: thought one of the biggest upshots of last week was
Speaker 2: seeing how engaged Bryce was through the week and on
Speaker 2: game day, I mean there was. It would have been
Speaker 2: the easy thing for Bryce Young to do, or the
Speaker 2: easy thing for Bryce Young to do, would have been
Speaker 2: to hide and to withdraw and let Andy have his
Speaker 2: moment and go ahead. But Bryce was in all the places.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can tell you anybody who's gone through
Speaker 2: any kind of trauma, lose a job, getting divorced, any
Speaker 2: of that kind of stuff, what do you do. You withdraw,
Speaker 2: You don't call your friends, you don't go out that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. You just kind of hide in your
Speaker 2: hole and wait for it to subside a little bit
Speaker 2: before you re enter society. But Bryce was out there
Speaker 2: for the coin toss. I mean, he's standing right next
Speaker 2: to Shack Thompson, still a captain, still a captain, still
Speaker 2: doing his thing, had the headset in the entire game,
Speaker 2: you know, contributing and one of my favorite pictures of
Speaker 2: the aftermath there was a celebration shot from the locker
Speaker 2: room and like Jamie Robinson is dancing in the foreground,
Speaker 2: but if you look in the background to the picture,
Speaker 2: Andy's walking into the locker room and Bryce is the
Speaker 2: first one standing there hugging him.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, I mean that kind of to me, spoke to
Speaker 2: what was going on last week that you know, yes,
Speaker 2: everybody's happy, but there was still this subtext that people
Speaker 2: were trying to take care of their own and.
Speaker 3: There's something to be said for taking the weight of
Speaker 3: a franchise off a very young player shoulders and how
Speaker 3: that can maybe give him a chance to breathe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've used the phrase get him in out of
Speaker 2: the rain, which would be helpful today, but it's it's true.
Speaker 2: I mean, and I think as you look across the league,
Speaker 2: it may be time for us to talk differently about quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: I mean, we might have to think differently about the
Speaker 2: entire profession based on what we've seen so far this year.
Speaker 2: The fact that Andy Dalton, that closing in on thirty
Speaker 2: seven years old, is the only quarterback in the entire NFL.
Speaker 2: To throw for three hundred yards and three touchdowns in
Speaker 2: a game this year should tell you something that it
Speaker 2: is hard for these guys. You see Caleb Williams struggling
Speaker 2: a little bit with Chicago. You see poor old Trevor
Speaker 2: Lawrence right, bless his heart, Remember when all the way,
Speaker 2: remember when he was good.
Speaker 3: At football once upon a time.
Speaker 2: That was a thing one time, and they gave him
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of money because they believed he was
Speaker 2: going to continue to be and not. So watch right now,
Speaker 2: and you know Joe Burrow is still good at football,
Speaker 2: but his team's zero and three. So I mean the
Speaker 2: struggles of these number one picks, you know, from this
Speaker 2: year to the last several I think it's instructive because
Speaker 2: this thing is hard and this thing is complicated. And
Speaker 2: I go back to one of the things Canal has
Speaker 2: kept talking about last week. You do this for the
Speaker 2: whole team. You're building a whole team all off season.
Speaker 2: Dave Canalis Dan Morgan got asked versions of the question
Speaker 2: about building this thing around Bryce, and it's like, we're
Speaker 2: trying to build a whole roster here, and it's not
Speaker 2: just about Bryce. It's about building the entire team the
Speaker 2: way you want to build it. And I think, you know,
Speaker 2: if you take the face and the glorious mane of
Speaker 2: red hair off of the top line and think about
Speaker 2: just the other twenty one guys that were out there
Speaker 2: on the field on both sides of the ball, you
Speaker 2: realize the floor is definitely higher on this Carolina Panthers
Speaker 2: team than it was a year ago. They wanted to
Speaker 2: fix the offensive line when I spent a much money
Speaker 2: fix the offensive line. They wanted to bring in a
Speaker 2: bunch of old heads on defense to David Clowney's over there,
Speaker 2: you know, with seven or eight pressures whatever it was
Speaker 2: during that Gameka. Yeah, So you can see the level
Speaker 2: being raised as this thing goes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And because of all of that, just to kind
Speaker 3: of build on the Dave Canalis happy skill, he's been
Speaker 3: very steady this week, and the guys were really steady
Speaker 3: after the win. You know, they were excited. But I'm
Speaker 3: trying to figure out the way to word this good thing.
Speaker 3: I don't work in words. The locker room after the
Speaker 3: win was excited as if it was a normal win.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense? Not then not only the third
Speaker 3: win in twenty games, but just a normal win. And
Speaker 3: that was what Dave Canalis said afterwards after the game,
Speaker 3: and then he said it again earlier this week, was
Speaker 3: this is what we expect to do. I liked how
Speaker 3: focused the guys came in. You know, he kind of
Speaker 3: admitted he wasn't sure what he was gonna be walking
Speaker 3: into on Wednesday's meeting. Would guys be still so excited
Speaker 3: that they weren't focused? And that wasn't the case. As
Speaker 3: cliche as it sounds. You know, it's on every high
Speaker 3: school football's workout shirts that expect to win. It kind
Speaker 3: of helps it. That is what has shaped the mindset
Speaker 3: of this team this week, like, Okay, we won, as
Speaker 3: Dave Canal says, that validated the process of everything they've
Speaker 3: done to get to this point. Now continue on and
Speaker 3: make that the standard.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And here's the thing. And I've mentioned this before,
Speaker 2: probably on this podcast and another outlets, and I know
Speaker 2: I've written it. Here's the thing I'm starting to figure
Speaker 2: out about Dave Canalis. He's young, he's handsome, he's in
Speaker 2: great shape, he works out every day before practice.
Speaker 3: Here's this going.
Speaker 2: But he I mean, there is this slick veneer of
Speaker 2: what Dave Canalis appears to be. What Dave Canalis is
Speaker 2: is grinder. Yeah, when you listen to the words he says,
Speaker 2: when you watch what he does on a daily basis,
Speaker 2: I guarantee you he's gonna be out there in practice
Speaker 2: field today wearing the same long sleeve dry fit and
Speaker 2: the same pair of shorts he wears every other day.
Speaker 3: Think hat on.
Speaker 2: He might put a hat on. I've seen him in
Speaker 2: a hat, it exists. That is a thing that occurs
Speaker 2: from time to time. And maybe even a rain jacket
Speaker 2: because we're, you know, in the midst of a hurricane,
Speaker 2: rolling in and hope everybody's safe, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: But Dave is a very workman like kind of coach.
Speaker 2: And I think because people only see that veneer, they
Speaker 2: only see that, you know, front facing part of Dave Canalis,
Speaker 2: clapping and being positive and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: It's like, this dude's a grinder. He works. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's pack mule and show pony clothing. He's he is
Speaker 2: that guy. And I think, you know the other thing
Speaker 2: that I keep coming back to on him when he's
Speaker 2: talking in that postgame locker room. I mean, and you've
Speaker 2: heard the clip we had the video of the postgame celebration.
Speaker 2: I mean, just listen to this from Dave Canalis's Football Football.
Speaker 2: That's our football. Run the ball. When you want to
Speaker 2: stop the.
Speaker 4: Run, throw it over their heads, keep it from doing it.
Speaker 4: We got some guys we got to talk about.
Speaker 5: Mike Jack got a pick, We got you.
Speaker 2: Got some sacks here, Okay, give me hey, here we go.
Speaker 5: Peete got one, Cloudy got one. Andy Andy Don first
Speaker 5: quarterback this season in the NFL with three hundred plus yards.
Speaker 2: And three touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Career high for Deontae eight for one, twenty.
Speaker 2: Oh mine, I love it.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: The last time we had a hundred yard receiver and
Speaker 5: one hundred yard rusher was Week twelve of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4: Shuba got one hundred. Listen, it's the process. We had
Speaker 4: a great week. What'd you expect was gonna happen on Sunday?
Speaker 4: We had a great day. Okay, you guys battled the
Speaker 4: whole time.
Speaker 5: I know they got some stuff there on us at
Speaker 5: the end, guys, but it's about appreciating each other, playing
Speaker 5: for each other, and trusting this process. What's our standard.
Speaker 5: Maintain the standard. We don't change. We don't change that
Speaker 5: at all.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was coming out of forty something year
Speaker 2: old Dave Canalis's mouth. I would have expected that out
Speaker 2: of eighty four year old Dan Hennick.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: That is an old school way to football.
Speaker 3: Did you notice if you watch that clip, there are
Speaker 3: several points of that when whenever what he says, the
Speaker 3: players say it with him, which tells me they've heard
Speaker 3: that a hundred times before.
Speaker 2: This stuff's getting ingrained. I was going to teasing Andy
Speaker 2: the other day, I said, you're starting to pick up
Speaker 2: on some of his mannerisms, and you're saying some of
Speaker 2: his things back. I mean, and it just kind of
Speaker 2: when those things fall into someone's vernacular, that's when you
Speaker 2: know they've heard it a lot and they're internalizing it
Speaker 2: and they're starting to live it a little bit.
Speaker 3: And that's not to say, let's just you know, tempers
Speaker 3: some expectations here. That's not to say they're about to
Speaker 3: go on like a fifteen game winning streak.
Speaker 2: Crew now fifteen and two the hard way.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll take it, but it you know, they could
Speaker 3: come out on Sunday and the Bengles get their first win,
Speaker 3: you know. But the point being laying the foundation of
Speaker 3: what it can become. And that's what weeks like this
Speaker 3: past week has done, and that's you know, finding the
Speaker 3: lesson even in the losses. I think that's what they're
Speaker 3: kind of preaching right now.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. And Andy Dalton as excited as
Speaker 2: he was, and I mean he was grinning last week
Speaker 2: from the time he got the call because it's a
Speaker 2: chance for him to play, and that's what these guys
Speaker 2: want to do. And Andy was obviously, you know, helpful
Speaker 2: to Bryce along the way, put an arm around Bryce.
Speaker 2: He was always very sensitive to his feelings while enjoying
Speaker 2: his own moment. But as soon as that game was over,
Speaker 2: Andy's like, listen, it ain't always going to be like this.
Speaker 2: I think there was a recognition immediately that even though
Speaker 2: they had kind of plugged into the formula of what
Speaker 2: they want to be, that that's not promised. I mean
Speaker 2: I think that you know, as you look at football
Speaker 2: over the years, Cincinnati rolling in Hero and three, you
Speaker 2: know they're thinking about this the same way the Panthers
Speaker 2: were thinking about the Raiders last week. It's like a desperation,
Speaker 2: here's our chance to get one kind of thing. And
Speaker 2: I think the Bengals will be looking at it the
Speaker 2: same way, but Andy's recognizing that, hey, it might not
Speaker 2: would always be like this. They knew that that was
Speaker 2: about as well as it could have gone.
Speaker 3: Everything went perfect, they really did. I'm looking to see
Speaker 3: because I'm trying to remember last year, and I believe.
Speaker 2: Okay, does it say stand back everybody cast he's doing
Speaker 2: math on the fly?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that is that is everyone.
Speaker 2: It's fixing to get dangerous.
Speaker 6: Hat.
Speaker 3: Okay, it doesn't say it on this Wikipedia age, but
Speaker 3: that doesn't mean it didn't happen. I'm almost positive and
Speaker 3: correct me if I'm wrong, and someone tweet me if
Speaker 3: I'm wrong. I'm almost positive. Baker Mayfield was a nominee
Speaker 3: for Comeback Player of the Year last year.
Speaker 2: Seems right.
Speaker 3: He didn't win, but he was a nominee. I'm pretty
Speaker 3: sure Gino Smith did win it in spirit. In spirit,
Speaker 3: my point being, do you think Canalis could go three
Speaker 3: for three on getting a guy nominated for Comeback Player
Speaker 3: of the Year because Andy Dalton's odds did go up
Speaker 3: after that game.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean the thing it speaks to is know
Speaker 2: that's coaching. That is, you know, taking a thing that
Speaker 2: was there and improving it. That is ultimately the job
Speaker 2: description of being a ball coach.
Speaker 3: So I think Demore Hamlin won it last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. I don't know, but I don't recall.
Speaker 2: We'll look that up, but I just you know, it
Speaker 2: has been kind of a I hate using words like
Speaker 2: this because it sounds like I'm in a meeting, But
Speaker 2: there was kind of that paradigm shift last week where
Speaker 2: the Carolina Panthers could look at themselves differently because all
Speaker 2: the stuff they talked about doing and wanting to do
Speaker 2: all off season happened. They ran, they stopped the run,
Speaker 2: and they ran it physically. I think my favorite part
Speaker 2: of the week was watching Rob Hunt, Nikki Ikwanhu throw
Speaker 2: guys through the air. Now, I am an I am
Speaker 2: an adherent to the ways of old man football. Run,
Speaker 2: stop the run, throw it over their heads when you
Speaker 2: throw it is kind of what I grew up on watching.
Speaker 2: So that is that appeals to me. Seeing big three
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty pound dudes fleeing smaller people through the air.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's kind of what I dig on seeing.
Speaker 2: So those guys were all into it. We were talking
Speaker 2: to them yesterday and we've got sound from Robert Hunt
Speaker 2: talking about kind of being able to set the tone offensively.
Speaker 6: That sounds good man. So he wanted to run the football.
Speaker 6: He wants to depend on the run game to try
Speaker 6: to get everything open. And I think he showed a
Speaker 6: little bit of that last game. I think he ran away.
Speaker 6: I don't know how many times, maybe thirty eighth any
Speaker 6: one times. So it's a good amount of time to
Speaker 6: throw about thirty seven. So it was a good split.
Speaker 6: I think the run game opens up everything and it
Speaker 6: was a it was a good little mix that he
Speaker 6: had going on that game, you know too.
Speaker 3: On that note, Darren dave Canalis was asked yesterday about
Speaker 3: the run game in the NFL becoming more prominent, and
Speaker 3: he gave an answer about, you know, we want whatever
Speaker 3: other teams are doing, we want to run the ball.
Speaker 3: Da da da. I think this is just a theory
Speaker 3: of mine, but I think I'm right that the NFL
Speaker 3: football in general is very Oh do you hear my
Speaker 3: phone ringing? Are we gonna get in.
Speaker 2: Trouble for the broadcast?
Speaker 3: It's on silent too, But I guess it's apparently anyways,
Speaker 3: football is and I can never say this word right,
Speaker 3: don't laugh at me. It's cyclical, right, cyclical, That's almost
Speaker 3: what I said, and I changed my mind. Second, football
Speaker 3: is cyclical. You had a bunch of years where throwing
Speaker 3: it became the focus and getting seven on seven players,
Speaker 3: you know, and drafting guys like Justin Jefferson very high,
Speaker 3: which makes sense. I mean, Justin Jefferson is a game changer.
Speaker 3: But you had every team trying to follow that formula
Speaker 3: because passing the ball was the the future, and then
Speaker 3: you had defenses adjust to counter that, and so it
Speaker 3: became all about getting fast dbs and and putting your
Speaker 3: focus there. Well guess what that does. That opens up
Speaker 3: the middle of the field. So now if a defense
Speaker 3: is set up to stop the past, what do you do?
Speaker 2: You run?
Speaker 3: And so I think that's why we're seeing more and
Speaker 3: more teams this season run.
Speaker 2: When you say it like that, it's almost like football
Speaker 2: doesn't have to be that hard.
Speaker 3: Right, you know, if they got it and do the opposite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if they got a bunch of little ins, let's
Speaker 2: get biggins. Yeah, you know, if they've got all biggins,
Speaker 2: let's get little on INDs and run past them. So
Speaker 2: it's it is definitely a way of doing business that
Speaker 2: they are getting a kick out of I mean when
Speaker 2: I went through the locker room yesterday talking to Icky,
Speaker 2: talking to Rob Hunting and guys on the offensive line
Speaker 2: about it, and you just see their eyes light up.
Speaker 2: Who's like, yeah, this is what we enjoyed doing. Austin
Speaker 2: korb But you know, Korbes sounds like he's narrating NFL
Speaker 2: films when he starts talking about the run game. It's nasty,
Speaker 2: it's dirty, like you know, they they get a kick
Speaker 2: out of this, and I think people get a kick
Speaker 2: out of seeing it. But because one thing, you know,
Speaker 2: people respond in a very visceral way when their team
Speaker 2: plays that kind of tough football. If you you know,
Speaker 2: you weren't around, you weren't even born in the mid
Speaker 2: nineties when Dom Capers was playing that kind of style.
Speaker 2: You were alive. You just weren't here yet in twenty
Speaker 2: two when they you know, hung five hundred and some
Speaker 2: yards on Detroit out here into degree weather by running
Speaker 2: for a million yards. So people like that, People respond
Speaker 2: to it, and people in the Carolinas have become conditioned
Speaker 2: to seeing it over the years.
Speaker 3: I really really appreciate you thinking I wasn't alive in
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety five. That may be the best part of
Speaker 3: my day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I do it for the people.
Speaker 3: So but yeah, I mean, you hear people say all
Speaker 3: the time the most disrespectful thing you can do on
Speaker 3: the football field is run the ball straight down their
Speaker 3: throat and do it over and over where they know
Speaker 3: what's coming, and you do it anyways. And so it's personality,
Speaker 3: and I think there's a not to get too far
Speaker 3: ahead of ourselves, but there's a chance to do that
Speaker 3: again on Sunday. This Bengals team, their defense is balanced
Speaker 3: in the fact that they're not letting one side of
Speaker 3: the game get them more than the other. But there
Speaker 3: is definitely an opportunity there to brun We saw Washington
Speaker 3: do it the other night, and so I think that
Speaker 3: again that's gonna, of course be what the Panthers come
Speaker 3: out and do because Dave Canls wants that to be
Speaker 3: their identity. And I think there's a chance to set
Speaker 3: the tone early again.
Speaker 2: Yep, no doubt, no doubt. And it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 2: And it's so fun watching Andy kind of go through
Speaker 2: this moment in time because yes, since his first start
Speaker 2: in a minute, you know, he got the one start
Speaker 2: last year. But you know, it was it was a
Speaker 2: chance in a good situation last week, and he made
Speaker 2: the most of it. You know, he has been center stage.
Speaker 2: He's getting a lot of attention, a lot of callback
Speaker 2: for the haircut. He's he's probably working on on some
Speaker 2: endorsement deals. He shared with us. It's American Crew fiber.
Speaker 2: It's a grooming pace to use it. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 2: pomode to you know, that's how he gets that glorious
Speaker 2: mane of hair looking the way it looks, and so
Speaker 2: he could probably he could probably sell that for a
Speaker 2: lot of money right now, he could. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: sure they're going to be fans spray painting their hair
Speaker 2: orange on their way into the game.
Speaker 3: But gosh, we should give out wigs.
Speaker 2: That would be That would be amazing.
Speaker 3: Bracketing on the phone.
Speaker 2: I just think if we all show up with Andy
Speaker 2: Dalton hair next week, how great would that be? But
Speaker 2: maybe it.
Speaker 3: Works better to see you with Andy Dalton here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we should photo shop that put Andy hare
Speaker 2: on my head.
Speaker 3: That will be done by the end of the day.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, great, tremendous. What could possibly go wrong? So
Speaker 2: so anyway, Andy Cincinnati this week, he talked about it
Speaker 2: being fun. That seems to be the word of the week,
Speaker 2: didn't it fun and normal? Fun and normal? So Andy Yes,
Speaker 2: was in Cincinnati for nine years. He I asked him
Speaker 2: the important question skyline Chili, yes or no? He said,
Speaker 2: he said gold Star, which was because gold Star Chili,
Speaker 2: which is another Cincinnati chili franchise, was on his board
Speaker 2: of his foundation up in Cincinnati. So good for him
Speaker 2: to shout out his sponsors Cincinnati Chili.
Speaker 3: No for you, no, and listen. I like all of
Speaker 3: the things that are a part of it. I like
Speaker 3: the spaghetti, I like chili. I like all of those things.
Speaker 3: But for some reason, it just doesn't work when it's
Speaker 3: all together the way they do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't mind it. I kind of like it.
Speaker 2: I'll go five Way beans, onions, cheese, chili. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I will say there is a restaurant in Cincinnati that
Speaker 3: is some of the best food I've ever had. What's
Speaker 3: that called The Eagle.
Speaker 2: The Eagle in Cincinnati. I don't know when next time
Speaker 2: we're there.
Speaker 3: We'll have to skyline chili.
Speaker 2: Go to the Eagle. You'll have to visit that. But
Speaker 2: he is a fan of Joey Vado, which makes him
Speaker 2: a good human being. My favorite baseball player of all
Speaker 2: time said he met Joey a time or two when
Speaker 2: he was up there, but he is all ours now.
Speaker 2: He belongs to the correct queen city at this moment.
Speaker 3: The only true queen city that's correct.
Speaker 2: We've got a better airport, we've got better.
Speaker 3: Food, and then we're named after an actual queen.
Speaker 2: That's right. So all all good things here, So all right.
Speaker 2: To wrap it up this week the Happy half Hour Jukebox,
Speaker 2: you actually finally gave me a Taylor Swift song that
Speaker 2: didn't make me want to drive into a bridge a
Speaker 2: buttonte That was that paper Ring song. That's a bop.
Speaker 2: That one is Bo's that's something you know what And
Speaker 2: again you may not have been alive to remember this,
Speaker 2: but that reminded me of a Blenda Carlisle and the
Speaker 2: Go Gos kind of song. I mean, that is just
Speaker 2: a perfect pop hook right there, is what that is.
Speaker 3: She's she's good at the bridges and when, especially when
Speaker 3: you give her a beat to put it to, you
Speaker 3: just walk around kind of singing it. That one is
Speaker 3: at the top of because when you asked for a
Speaker 3: happy song last week, I thought of that one, and
Speaker 3: then I was like, let me just see what Google
Speaker 3: says to so I googled it and that was the
Speaker 3: top of Google's list of Taylor Swift happy songs as well.
Speaker 2: So you googled happy Taylor Swift songs as opposed to all.
Speaker 3: The other all the other ones. That's also the top
Speaker 3: of my I call paper Rings a perfect wedding reception song.
Speaker 2: I can see that people are dancing, Yeah, people are happy.
Speaker 3: And it's talking about getting married. If Taylor Swift didn't exist,
Speaker 3: who would be your favorite artist? I think it would
Speaker 3: depend on where I'm at in life, the time of day,
Speaker 3: the weather today today with the rain and there today
Speaker 3: I drove in listening to the Lumineers. Oh yeah, but
Speaker 3: I'm also like this kind of weather this time of year,
Speaker 3: I could go for some Noah Khan Okay.
Speaker 2: So I was just curious. Sorry, I thought you were
Speaker 2: going to say Metallica listen.
Speaker 3: I listened to that song and at one point I
Speaker 3: texted Darren a screenshot the song, and I said, does
Speaker 3: this song ever end?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 3: It just kept going that's.
Speaker 2: The great thing about it. And I told you to
Speaker 2: listen to my favorite Metallica song, The Four Horsemen. It
Speaker 2: will be my walk up music when I become a
Speaker 2: Major League basedball relief pitcher.
Speaker 3: I think the reason it felt so long to me,
Speaker 3: and I can appreciate that it was good music and
Speaker 3: it takes a lot of talent. It just may not
Speaker 3: be my style of listening. But I think the reason
Speaker 3: it felt so long is because it was mostly instrumental.
Speaker 3: There were very few like lyrics. And if I'm listening
Speaker 3: to a six minute like Taylor's best song is ten
Speaker 3: minutes long, but I'm listening to that whole thing because
Speaker 3: it's like the whole thing is lyrics.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm gonna get that one soon as
Speaker 2: payback for making you listen.
Speaker 3: I seriously thought about it, but then I kill them
Speaker 3: all album. I can appreciate the musicality of it, and
Speaker 3: I did listen to it, and I listened to it
Speaker 3: more once for your request.
Speaker 2: That song is biblical.
Speaker 3: That song is apocalypse, and I like googled some of
Speaker 3: the words too to figure out what was going on afterwards.
Speaker 3: I'm not lying. This is I swear to God. This
Speaker 3: is exactly what I did. After I listened to it.
Speaker 3: I turned on Billy Joel River of Dreams, just as
Speaker 3: a palette cleanser.
Speaker 2: And there you go. And this morning's big announcement Billy
Speaker 2: Billy Joeling Sting coming to Bank of America's.
Speaker 3: State, that was a completely natural next.
Speaker 2: May it totally works out. So uh we Yeah, we
Speaker 2: we both went to places we probably wouldn't ordinarily have
Speaker 2: gotten to. I probably enjoyed the Taylor Swift song more
Speaker 2: than you enjoyed the Metallica But that was also slightly
Speaker 2: predictable because you don't strike me as Metallica people. I
Speaker 2: very much am and won't be cutting my hair even
Speaker 2: if I even if I was offered, even if you
Speaker 2: gave me the opportunity to have Andy Dalton hair the
Speaker 2: rest of my life, I don't think I would accept
Speaker 2: that offer until after Metallica here on May Thury.
Speaker 3: Right, You've got to keep the hair for that for sure, for.
Speaker 2: Sure, no doubt.
Speaker 3: So you know, you go, you enjoy your life. I
Speaker 3: could be talking into that Billy Joe concert though.
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go. Well, here's what you
Speaker 2: can do this week. I will I will lighten the
Speaker 2: mood a little bit. I'll let you have one of
Speaker 2: my favorite songs of all time. Yeah, and if you
Speaker 2: find This song actually has one of my favorite lyrics
Speaker 2: that has ever been written. And you'll know it when
Speaker 2: you hear it. Don't tell me what it is, let
Speaker 2: me find you will get there. It is a song
Speaker 2: called Spanish Pipe Dream by John Prime.
Speaker 3: Oh. I love John Prime.
Speaker 2: John Prime is the best, and he is. He is
Speaker 2: one of the great songwriters of the American cannon. Yea,
Speaker 2: he is funny in a way that smart people aren't always.
Speaker 2: But Spanish pipe Dream by John Prime.
Speaker 3: I haven't heard that one this so I'm looking forward
Speaker 3: to it. Angel from Montgomery is another one of my
Speaker 3: palate cleanser songs.
Speaker 2: Question in all its forms.
Speaker 3: Bonnie Ray, Yeah, oh, I have a version on my phone.
Speaker 3: I'll let you listen to it, and it's it's John Prime,
Speaker 3: and I know it. I don't think it's Bonnie Ray,
Speaker 3: but it's somebody else with him.
Speaker 2: He is a great collaborator. He loved working with all
Speaker 2: kinds of artists in all kinds of genres. He's got
Speaker 2: duets with Iris Dement, who's got a very distinctive voice.
Speaker 2: Song called In Spite of Ourselves. It's another one of
Speaker 2: my favorites. But you know, he's also collaborated with people,
Speaker 2: including Kurt Vile. It's amazing. So former War on Drugs
Speaker 2: guitarist who's now a solo act I've seen many times.
Speaker 2: But good stuff. What do you got for me?
Speaker 3: Okay? I have a couple of different options.
Speaker 2: Well pick one, choose wisely.
Speaker 3: Have you heard the song? And I think I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go non Taylor.
Speaker 2: What have you heard?
Speaker 3: Because since I was listening to the Lumineers as came
Speaker 3: up in the discography, have you heard the Lumineer song
Speaker 3: with Zach Bryan called Spotless?
Speaker 2: I have not.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's the one.
Speaker 2: I want you to listen Spotless Zach Brian and the Lumineers.
Speaker 2: We'll check that out. We will, uh, we will get
Speaker 2: it all over us. We're gonna go out in the
Speaker 2: rain and watch some ball practice here in a minute
Speaker 2: and see what they've got in store for the Bengals Sunday,
Speaker 2: and we'll check that out, see what happens. Maybe people
Speaker 2: will still be happy come next week. But when you
Speaker 2: arrive back here next Thursday, you know what you're gonna
Speaker 2: get happy. It's the happy half out. Appreciate y'all joining
Speaker 2: us