Speaker 1: Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 2: Hello friends, it's time for yet another edition of the
Speaker 2: Happy half Hour. It feels like it's been a million years.
Speaker 3: Since we happy give or take.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the last time we actually sat in
Speaker 2: the same place at the same time.
Speaker 1: Was it even before the draft?
Speaker 3: It was before the draft. It was I think it
Speaker 3: was between free agency and the draft. It's been a minute.
Speaker 1: It's been the week before the draft.
Speaker 2: And that's because somebody as soon as the draft was over,
Speaker 2: decided to go on vacation and leave somebody else here
Speaker 2: by herself at the control of the switches for a minute.
Speaker 3: But peace, have fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, here you go, we'll see you
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: Well deserved vacation though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a good time. But the work keeps happening.
Speaker 2: And where the Carolina Panthers stop, I know, it really doesn't.
Speaker 2: And where the Carolina Panthers are right now where it's
Speaker 2: kind of that transition point.
Speaker 1: It's like, this is the team. You now know what
Speaker 1: it looks like.
Speaker 2: We've seen the ninety people who were out there on
Speaker 2: the field every day. Next week they'll start in with OTAs.
Speaker 2: Get everybody out there at the same time doing their thing.
Speaker 2: But just now that it's all collected and you can
Speaker 2: kind of get a picture of what's going on, you
Speaker 2: really do get a sense of what's being built here
Speaker 2: over the last couple of weeks. I mean, you were
Speaker 2: boots on the ground for Rookie Minni Camp and that's
Speaker 2: kind of where it started. And as you go through
Speaker 2: that with Tetre McMillan and I still I'm not ready
Speaker 2: to commit to t mac yet. I may be too
Speaker 2: old of the humans.
Speaker 3: Really want to ask him if he knows who Tracy
Speaker 3: McGrady is, you or Tim mckayre. I don't know who
Speaker 3: that is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was the original the met in Panther's history.
Speaker 3: My generation is Tracy McGrady.
Speaker 1: Will Well, we'll go through that later. We'll do the
Speaker 1: history moment later.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean you were out to Rookie Minnie
Speaker 2: Camp and seeing McMillan out here, seeing Jimmy Horn out
Speaker 2: there on the field and the rest of the draft class.
Speaker 2: What was kind of the vibe that first weekend when
Speaker 2: you saw him all together.
Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun. And you know, as
Speaker 3: in to just to talk to to t mac about
Speaker 3: everything because he's coming in as a top ten pick.
Speaker 3: I arguably the face of this rookie class for the Panthers.
Speaker 3: And you know, is there any sort of pressure with that?
Speaker 3: And he said, you know, honestly, not really, Like this
Speaker 3: is what I'm here to do. This is what I'm
Speaker 3: supposed to do. And I think you see very very
Speaker 3: little like actual football during rookie minicamp. It's more drills
Speaker 3: with a loose football like structure. And so that was it.
Speaker 3: But you you can't hide speed, and that's what Jimmy
Speaker 3: Horn Junior showed during that Rookie Minnie camp. Like you
Speaker 3: could you could feel the speed coming off of him.
Speaker 3: That cats just fast and he can hit a different gear. Yeah,
Speaker 3: now I can be really exciting.
Speaker 2: I could throw a lot of Panthers history at you,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Horn Junior. I'm just gonna go ahead and call
Speaker 2: my shot now. He is going to be the fan
Speaker 2: favorite through Rookie Minnie OTAs and training camp in the
Speaker 2: same way guys like Jim Turner, guys like David get
Speaker 2: Us were the fan favorites in the day. Those were
Speaker 2: big guys who could run. He's a little guy who
Speaker 2: could run. But he's captured a lot of people's imagination already,
Speaker 2: and you know, he's kind of When I got back
Speaker 2: from vacation, I stood out there and watched Ota practice
Speaker 2: a little bit the last couple of days, and just
Speaker 2: watching those guys on the field. One of the things
Speaker 2: you realize, and one of the things that's really stood
Speaker 2: out to me is, oh my god, there are so
Speaker 2: many wide receivers.
Speaker 3: I think there's twelve.
Speaker 2: You wrote about this this week and the competition for
Speaker 2: the job. But I mean, Adam Feelen remarked on it.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was the old guy who came back
Speaker 2: for a year with a young group, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden they kept adding to it during the draft,
Speaker 2: and I mean to bring a mc millan, to bring
Speaker 2: a Jimmy Horn into that group. I mean, Adam was
Speaker 2: you know, I thought it was interesting the way he
Speaker 2: told you. You know, this is what we needed, This
Speaker 2: is what we lacked.
Speaker 3: Because I mean no disrespect to anyone who has been
Speaker 3: here in the past, because you NFL players are still
Speaker 3: have made it a lot farther than a lot of athletes.
Speaker 3: But there were times, you know, the past year or
Speaker 3: two where you're kind of conjecturing on who will make
Speaker 3: the final fifty three, and when you get to the
Speaker 3: wide receiver unit, it was kind of like, okay, well
Speaker 3: here's three. I guess this guy could be a four
Speaker 3: and this guy could be a five. It was a
Speaker 3: little bit of that. Now you're going, oh gosh, we've
Speaker 3: already got six or seven on this list, like who
Speaker 3: are we cutting? And you know, even guys that were
Speaker 3: UDF that came in as udfa's still kind of stood out.
Speaker 3: In Rookie Mini Caamp can Aws mentioned jacolby George Kobe
Speaker 3: Hudson as two guys that he really really liked. One
Speaker 3: of them I think actually is not a rookie. I
Speaker 3: want to say it's somebody that Canals knew from the past.
Speaker 3: He came in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Bryce and Tremain's THEFA and he's here,
Speaker 2: you know, along with TJ.
Speaker 1: Luthor. You know, it was kind of the end of the.
Speaker 2: Depth chart that people don't know as much about.
Speaker 3: And Hunter Renfrow was still added in free agency too.
Speaker 2: And I think, to me, that's one of the big lessons.
Speaker 2: And that's one of the things is I stood out
Speaker 2: there on the practice field this week watching it kind
Speaker 2: of comes in stark relief.
Speaker 1: You know, you see all these.
Speaker 2: Dudes out here, and you're like, that's the competition Dan
Speaker 2: Morgan's talking about, that's what they want to build toward
Speaker 2: with this roster, because all of a sudden, I mean,
Speaker 2: you look at this thing and you go, Okay, there's XL,
Speaker 2: there's McMillan, there's Adam Thielen. All right, check check check.
Speaker 2: Jalen Coker with Jalen Cocker played a lot of ball
Speaker 2: for this time last year, and you like him. David Moore,
Speaker 2: mister dependable, you know who's been with Dave Canalis in
Speaker 2: multiple stops. He knows based on having seen it in
Speaker 2: three different cities, that David Moore can step in, play
Speaker 2: any position and make a play for you in December
Speaker 2: when it counts. You know Dan Chisenna, who's a speed
Speaker 2: guy who came in and made some plays on special teams,
Speaker 2: caught a couple passes last year.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Now you add two draft picks to that. Now you
Speaker 2: add a couple of undrafted guys who they like, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you're talking about WHOA there's nine
Speaker 2: or ten dudes whose names we just said. There ain't
Speaker 2: a six jobs, right, And that's the competition that Dan
Speaker 2: keeps talking about, is he builds his roster out not
Speaker 2: just for this year, not for last year, not for
Speaker 2: this year, but to become a sustainable hole.
Speaker 1: That's where they want to be. They've found that with
Speaker 1: wide receiver.
Speaker 2: Now, now you've the job you've got to do over
Speaker 2: the next couple of years is just expand that to
Speaker 2: the rest of the roster.
Speaker 3: And you know what I think is interesting too when
Speaker 3: you look at this particular wide receiver group and I
Speaker 3: know you've got it pulled up over there is there
Speaker 3: were times last year where it was kind of like, okay, well,
Speaker 3: we want our guys to be versatile, and that was
Speaker 3: something that Dave talked about a lot, and they were,
Speaker 3: you know, like you said, David Morgan, play any position
Speaker 3: you need him to. They moved the land around, they
Speaker 3: moved to excel around, and you want guys that can
Speaker 3: do that. But you've also got guys now that do
Speaker 3: very specific things.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: And because of that, you can kind of game plan
Speaker 3: I would imagine a little bit easier because you know,
Speaker 3: Jimmy Horn and t mac are two completely different receivers, yes,
Speaker 3: so what do you do with them? And those guys
Speaker 3: are different than excel and so it's like you can
Speaker 3: play around, I think with your chess like you always say,
Speaker 3: you want a chess piece that you can move around anywhere.
Speaker 3: But at the same time too, I don't even know chess.
Speaker 3: This is all based off a movie. Like you also,
Speaker 3: you want to have your king, you want to have
Speaker 3: your queen, you want to have your rook. Does that
Speaker 3: sound right? That sounds like a chess word. You've still
Speaker 3: got certain pieces that you need to have in certain
Speaker 3: places and that can do certain things.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, And that's what's interesting to me about Horn is
Speaker 2: it gives them a chance to expand the playbook a
Speaker 2: little bit because there was a moment Devin Tompkins was
Speaker 2: in here a little bit the end of last year
Speaker 2: and had been with you know, Canalis and Idzi and
Speaker 2: those guys in Tampa previously. The Jimmy Horn edition gives
Speaker 2: them an opportunity to take all the stuff they were
Speaker 2: thinking about doing with him and kind of build on
Speaker 2: it a lioudle bit.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that's gonna I can tell that's going.
Speaker 2: To be the word we use the most this year
Speaker 2: is build, because they're going to build on that playbook.
Speaker 2: They're going to add to the stuff they're doing because
Speaker 2: he does give you a different dimension. I mean, you
Speaker 2: can look at Hunter Renfro and say, Okay, well he's
Speaker 2: like Adam Thielen, except you know, you know, Jimmy Horn's
Speaker 2: a guy who's completely different from everybody else on this roster,
Speaker 2: different skill set. So if you can draw some stuff
Speaker 2: up in the dirt for him, I think it's going
Speaker 2: to be an interesting addition the for the offense as
Speaker 2: the hole and give Bryce more stuff to think.
Speaker 3: About on that note too, just like talking about things
Speaker 3: they can build off of with their previous playbook. Talk
Speaker 3: to Timac about like, you know, obviously, because of the
Speaker 3: stature and what you do, a lot of people are
Speaker 3: going to compare you to Mike Evans and what especially
Speaker 3: what Canalisson is it did with him in Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: He is about fifteen pounds lighter than Mike Evans, but
Speaker 3: they're about the same height. He's obviously still a bigger receiver.
Speaker 3: And I said, have you watched a lot of Mike
Speaker 3: Evans to kind of get yourself ready for this offense?
Speaker 3: And he goes, I'm sick of watching Mike Evans. That's
Speaker 3: all I've done and so I think that's something that
Speaker 3: I'm not saying T's going to come in as a
Speaker 3: rookie and immediately, you know, post a thousand yards in
Speaker 3: his first year, and what's Mike Evans going into Like
Speaker 3: he's trying to get your twelve straight of one thousand yards.
Speaker 2: I think JJ Janssen says he's seen that Mike win
Speaker 2: K logo on the board and Tampa about eight times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not saying that's gonna happen, but I think
Speaker 3: it is something that they have at least told t
Speaker 3: back like, look at this, this is some this is
Speaker 3: the way we can use you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's the thing he's got. The
Speaker 2: other thing that's cool that's happening now is you're starting
Speaker 2: to get a sense of these guys and Tetero's got
Speaker 2: a little personality about it.
Speaker 1: It's a different dude.
Speaker 2: I mean, you've already got Excel in there, and in
Speaker 2: case you people haven't noticed, Xavier league, it's got a
Speaker 2: little personality of his own.
Speaker 3: He's out there and they're two completely different personality.
Speaker 2: They are here and here, But it's going to be
Speaker 2: interesting to see those two kids kind of grow together.
Speaker 1: See what this thing looks like here's to come down
Speaker 1: the road.
Speaker 2: But it's uh, it has been fascinating. I mean, I
Speaker 2: in being out there again. I hesitate having done this
Speaker 2: as long as I have. I don't want to make
Speaker 2: global declarations in May and June when guys aren't wearing pads.
Speaker 2: But that same level of competition that you talk we
Speaker 2: talked about at wide receiver, you're starting to see at
Speaker 2: other places.
Speaker 1: On the roster too.
Speaker 3: I mean defensive line.
Speaker 1: Those defensive linemen.
Speaker 2: I mean, all of a sudden, you see Dereck Brown
Speaker 2: out there, and that's the big ad. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: you get to add one hundred million dollar free agent
Speaker 2: d tackle, a guy who just went to the Pro
Speaker 2: Bowl set a league record for tackles in a season. Cool,
Speaker 2: you get to add a Bobby Brown, a Turk Wharton.
Speaker 2: You go in and bring in Cam Jackson in the
Speaker 2: fifth round of the draft, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: you see that entire group and it's like, okay, there's one, two, okay,
Speaker 2: six jobs, yeah, pick six. And you know last year,
Speaker 2: I mean you know last year they were bringing guys.
Speaker 1: In late in the year just because they were available.
Speaker 1: It was hard.
Speaker 2: It was a bad situation as people got hurt and
Speaker 2: they were turning guys over left and right. The results
Speaker 2: were what the results were. But now when you see
Speaker 2: the fact that you can platoon out almost Ashawn Robinson
Speaker 2: and Turk Wharton, the fact that you've got Bobby Brown
Speaker 2: and Dereck Brown, the fact that you've got a young
Speaker 2: guy in Cam Jackson who's competing for job with Lebrian Ray,
Speaker 2: with some of the other guys who were here in
Speaker 2: the past, shy tuttle, you know, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: that room that was not a strength last year. It's
Speaker 2: too soon to say it's a strength because these guys
Speaker 2: hadn't been in PAD yet. We hadn't seen what it
Speaker 2: looks like on the field. But Josie Joe and Trevin
Speaker 2: Wallace's life's got easier, Yeah, because they got more qualified,
Speaker 2: large people in front of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And Cam Jackson certainly is large. You and I
Speaker 3: joked the other day that people didn't realize how big
Speaker 3: he was because he spent most of his college career
Speaker 3: lined up next to Desmond Watson.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then you.
Speaker 3: See Cam Jackson by his own and you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: he's still a pretty big guy too. Yeah, so that'd
Speaker 3: be something that again that's a tough spot for a rookie.
Speaker 3: That's a bigger upward, that's a bigger learning curve. Then
Speaker 3: people realize going from college to the NFL in that
Speaker 3: position or anywhere along the front seven, but especially on
Speaker 3: the line. So having a little bit of depth there
Speaker 3: will help him. But excited to see him on the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2: And we're gonna see a lot more of all these
Speaker 2: guys over the next couple of weeks, about three more
Speaker 2: weeks of OTAs and mandatory mini camp to close it
Speaker 2: out middle of June.
Speaker 1: You know, So I don't want to get to FOOTBALLI here.
Speaker 1: We're just you know, we're easing into the summer.
Speaker 2: We've got about three or four more weeks before we
Speaker 2: get into that break before training camp and then it
Speaker 2: becomes real. So's it's definitely going to be interesting to
Speaker 2: see those guys out there on the field the next
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, just as they continue to kind of
Speaker 2: add and grow and get used to each other.
Speaker 3: Speaking of it becoming real, you were not in the
Speaker 3: country when the schedule came out. Have you gotten a
Speaker 3: chance to look it over and kind of gather your takeaways.
Speaker 1: I have gathered my thoughts about.
Speaker 3: I would love to hear Darren Gant's thoughts on your schedule.
Speaker 1: Here's how players look at schedules. Players want to know.
Speaker 3: I just tell you what Derek Brown told me about
Speaker 3: the schedule.
Speaker 1: All right, go ahead.
Speaker 3: So before it comes out, we were filming the schedule release.
Speaker 3: Derek Brown and Robert Hunt were both sitting there and
Speaker 3: I asked him. I was like, what do y'all care
Speaker 3: about when it comes out? And they both said, like,
Speaker 3: almost simultaneously, I just want to know when Green Bay is.
Speaker 3: They were like, that's the only thing I'll gonna look at.
Speaker 1: Yep. Weather is one of the first things.
Speaker 2: I mean, players will players will look at when is
Speaker 2: there Thursday night game? And if so, when when's the
Speaker 2: bye week? This year it's late, but we've gotten used
Speaker 2: to late buys around here for the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: so that's not necessarily a big change. But I think
Speaker 2: the other thing people look at is where do you start,
Speaker 2: where do you finish both on the road this year?
Speaker 1: Where are you at over the holidays?
Speaker 2: And you know you got that Monday night game the
Speaker 2: Monday before Thanksgiving, so that's gonna be a little bit
Speaker 2: of a weird week. You'll you know, you're flying across
Speaker 2: country to play San Francisco on Monday night football.
Speaker 1: You Dave Canal has got his respect.
Speaker 2: They you know, the Carolina Panthers are out of witness protection.
Speaker 2: They actually have primetime game this year and people are
Speaker 2: going to get.
Speaker 1: A chance to see them.
Speaker 2: To me, the big red light item when I looked
Speaker 2: to schedule once I returned to the country, believe it
Speaker 2: or not, in Iceland, no one asked me about the
Speaker 2: NFL schedule.
Speaker 3: That's crazy about the NFL is.
Speaker 2: A global They didn't they didn't know when the Panthers
Speaker 2: were playing the Bucks, And I was like, they play
Speaker 2: the Bucks in week sixteen and eighteen.
Speaker 3: They didn't put it on the side of a sheet
Speaker 3: and let it marks down the road.
Speaker 2: To me, seeing those two Bucks games in the last three,
Speaker 2: that's like that little secret signal from the league. That's
Speaker 2: like the Bats signal going up saying we think you're
Speaker 2: gonna be okay.
Speaker 3: And that that could be the NFC South right.
Speaker 2: There, because the Bucks are the establishment team in this division.
Speaker 2: The Bucks are the team that's won it four years
Speaker 2: and four or five years in a row, and They're
Speaker 2: the standard that everybody in this division is chasing. So
Speaker 2: if the league is putting you against them coming down
Speaker 2: the stretch, they think that might be for a reason.
Speaker 1: So I think it's gonna be curious to see how
Speaker 1: that goes.
Speaker 2: Having a Seahawks game sandwiched in the middle there, you know,
Speaker 2: obviously with the Ties, so many people here and there
Speaker 2: is going to be interesting. But yeah, the end of
Speaker 2: that schedule is one of the first things I look at.
Speaker 2: It's like, when am I going to be cold? What's
Speaker 2: it look like around the holidays?
Speaker 1: That kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't think you're going to be cold really much
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you say that you lucked out.
Speaker 2: You say that, I mean we'll be cold when we
Speaker 2: go to New Orleans regardless.
Speaker 3: Because it's always sixty five degrees in that building.
Speaker 2: Sitting up at the top of the dome under the
Speaker 2: ac events. But yeah, you know, you open with the Jaguars,
Speaker 2: and opening with the Jaguars is a good omen for
Speaker 2: the Carolina Panthers always.
Speaker 3: Paid off well. Darin tell the people. The last two
Speaker 3: times that Panthers opened against Jacksonville, yeah road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be two thousand and three, in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3: Those nose numbers are significant.
Speaker 2: Well, what else happened in those years? Oh, that's right,
Speaker 2: they went to Super Bowls. I mean, I can't believe
Speaker 2: you and Jake didn't talk about this.
Speaker 3: I'm actually shocked we didn't either.
Speaker 2: Jake like has It's almost like the toy story Woody
Speaker 2: Doll to pull his string and he says a certain
Speaker 2: set of phrases.
Speaker 1: Jake's probably got a string that you can pull and.
Speaker 2: Say, you know, I came in at halftime against the
Speaker 2: Jaguars and the three opener and let it come back
Speaker 2: through that game, win and touchdown to Ricky prol and
Speaker 2: set us on the course of Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I figured Jake tells that story all the time.
Speaker 2: No, I mean Rodney Pete was the starting quarterback for
Speaker 2: the two thousand and three opener, Jake comes in at halftime,
Speaker 2: leads to come back. The rest is history. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean that one stood out to me too. It's like, okay,
Speaker 2: I see you. And then obviously twenty fifteen team started
Speaker 2: with the Jags as well.
Speaker 3: So you know what I think is interesting and this
Speaker 3: is probably goes back to your point about like the
Speaker 3: league thinking okay, that this could be a race for
Speaker 3: the division. There is a division game week three, there's
Speaker 3: not another division game until week ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and division games later kind of standard. They want,
Speaker 2: you know, the league wants these games to mean something
Speaker 2: in week sixteen, seventeen eighteen, you know, for television purposes.
Speaker 2: So they're trying to keep things as competitive as they can.
Speaker 2: But I do I look at the Bucks games two
Speaker 2: out of the last three and say, somebody's trying to
Speaker 2: tell us something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agree, that'll that'll probably be where it's
Speaker 3: decided that we hope that's where it's decided.
Speaker 2: We we shall see, we shall see. One of the
Speaker 2: one thing I know for sure about schedules is all
Speaker 2: the things we think we know in May we know nothing,
Speaker 2: turn out to be silly. You know, you look at
Speaker 2: him in December. Uh, because the first time somebody gets hurt,
Speaker 2: somebody gets on a heater, somebody surprises.
Speaker 1: Yet you never know how these things are gonna go.
Speaker 3: So do you ever watch Faulty Towers?
Speaker 2: I did not watch Faulty Towers. That's an English TV show.
Speaker 3: It is there's a character on there that's always like,
Speaker 3: I know nothing, I know nothing.
Speaker 2: I could I could go Hogan's Heroes with You in
Speaker 2: honor of podcast Matt over Here Matt Hogan, our loyal producer.
Speaker 1: Hogan's Heroes had and I know nothing.
Speaker 2: I know nothing. It's a different Yeah, it's a different
Speaker 2: time period. So anyway, that's your h that's your obscure
Speaker 2: pop culture reference for this week's episode. We should get
Speaker 2: that segment sponsored. Uh but yeah, it's uh, it's that
Speaker 2: time of year. It's summer, all right, aland tell us
Speaker 2: about Iceland. I could I could do, Matt and I
Speaker 2: could do an entire episode of this Matt Today. Yeah,
Speaker 2: podcast Matt very into Iceland. After my first trip to Iceland,
Speaker 2: I am now also very into Iceland. I thought I
Speaker 2: got on a seven sixty seven. It might have been
Speaker 2: a spaceship because when I landed, when I landed at Keflovic,
Speaker 2: I was not sure what planet I was on.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: It's green in places you don't expect. There are rocks
Speaker 2: everywhere from the volcanoes that just went off. And I
Speaker 2: drove through a town that had been evacuated and has
Speaker 2: not been repopulated.
Speaker 3: Yet since when was it evacuated?
Speaker 1: April?
Speaker 3: Oh that's a little scary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Iceland is a beautiful country. If you're into nature,
Speaker 2: if you're into camping, hiking, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I highly recommend it.
Speaker 2: But that that country, I started to say, that planet,
Speaker 2: that country is active, trying to murder you every second
Speaker 2: of every day.
Speaker 1: I was almost blown off to protect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've almost gotten blown off a cliff by seventy
Speaker 2: mile an hour wind gust while looking for puffin.
Speaker 1: I saw no.
Speaker 2: Puffin that day, but took the ferry down to the
Speaker 2: Westman Islands, which were lovely, and saw many many puffin.
Speaker 3: Which I thought was a cartoon character until you's in
Speaker 3: a video. No, I didn't think they were real.
Speaker 2: Not a cartoon character. I've seen actual puffin.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The other crazy thing about Iceland is I I was
Speaker 2: driving around for the first couple of days in a
Speaker 2: campra van.
Speaker 1: Wife and I did nine nights.
Speaker 3: I was actually van.
Speaker 1: It was outstanding.
Speaker 2: I again, I highly recommend it, and want to buy
Speaker 2: a van just to claim my American I think we.
Speaker 3: Have two different ideas of what out standing.
Speaker 2: It was tremendous because you can go wherever you want
Speaker 2: to go, see whatever you want to see. Yeah, But
Speaker 2: as I'm driving around Iceland, I keep noticing all these
Speaker 2: tire tracks.
Speaker 1: Going off the side of the road.
Speaker 2: Huh, And I thought, is this just American tourist jack assery,
Speaker 2: people out here doing to nuts in the parking lot
Speaker 2: like it's a Walmart in Arkansas. No, it's because there's
Speaker 2: a thirty story waterfall on the other side of the road,
Speaker 2: and as you're driving down the road just kind of looking,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, look at that. You know, the next
Speaker 2: thing you know, you're in an Icelandic ditch. So it was.
Speaker 2: It was amazing. It was beautiful. The people were good.
Speaker 2: The people were a little flinty. I think when you
Speaker 2: live in conditions that are designed to murder you around
Speaker 2: the clocks, it makes you hard as a human being.
Speaker 2: But you know, it was great. The people were fantastic.
Speaker 2: Here's the other thing.
Speaker 3: Okay, hot springs really.
Speaker 2: Sit in a thermal pool of forty degrees celsius water
Speaker 2: for a little bit and go jump in the lake.
Speaker 1: It's like double it in ad thirty.
Speaker 3: So that's right. You know what I don't do math.
Speaker 2: You get in a hot tub, then you jump in
Speaker 2: a cold lake, and then you have a lovely beverage
Speaker 2: of your choosing. And that's a pretty good way to relax. Nice,
Speaker 2: that's a pretty good way to ret So it's uh,
Speaker 2: but it's Memorial Day weekend, it is.
Speaker 1: And you know what that means now that I'm just
Speaker 1: back from Iceland.
Speaker 3: That means you're going to campon.
Speaker 2: I'm going to the happiest place on Earth. Baby can'ton Ohio.
Speaker 3: Which is a not Iceland. Apparently it's uh.
Speaker 2: I think I'm going to get an award from Marriott
Speaker 2: because I may be the only person on Earth who
Speaker 2: in a ten day span stays at the Kethlovik Airport Marriott,
Speaker 2: the Canton, Ohio Courtyard.
Speaker 3: And you know some thing that you got like hijackedors.
Speaker 2: What you know, a credit card fraud alerts is going
Speaker 2: to pop up?
Speaker 1: Why are you? And Kenton?
Speaker 2: Now we're gonna We're gonna go visit with friend of
Speaker 2: the program Jared Allen, Panthers legend going into the Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame this year. Of course, Jared Allen played his
Speaker 2: last season with Carolina Panthers, or at least most off
Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen. He was not around for that opener
Speaker 2: against the Jaguars. Question, but yeah, Jared came in a
Speaker 2: trade midway through the season when Charles Johnson got hurt.
Speaker 2: They need a dip, so they just go trade for
Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer, because that's what that team did.
Speaker 2: And Jared has flat out said that twenty fifteen it
Speaker 2: was the last season of a decorated career. But he
Speaker 2: was like, that's when football became fun for me because
Speaker 2: he came in from a situation in Chicago not great,
Speaker 2: to a team that would go fifteen and one into
Speaker 2: the super Bowl. And so Jared was like, man, this
Speaker 2: is what it's supposed to feel like. And he's been
Speaker 2: very great. I can't wait for you guys to enjoy
Speaker 2: some of the stuff we collect from him up there,
Speaker 2: just because he loves talking about being a Carolina Panther,
Speaker 2: even though it was for just a short time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it made an impression when you know it was
Speaker 3: a good time.
Speaker 1: No doubt. What else you got? Where are you going
Speaker 1: for Memorial Day?
Speaker 3: I'm hitting the road this afternoon and heading to my
Speaker 3: yearly family reunion. We always get together on Memorial Day
Speaker 3: weekend and do a big reunion, So it's a lot
Speaker 3: of fun. It's a lot of like sitting around looking
Speaker 3: at pictures, telling stories. Sometimes we'll get on foll wheelers
Speaker 3: and go riding or something. I think somebody's going golfing
Speaker 3: with a group. I don't think I'll do that, but no,
Speaker 3: it's fun. I just get to sit around and hang
Speaker 3: out with my family.
Speaker 2: I want to see hill family on four wheelers in Alabama.
Speaker 3: You know what we do sometimes because we'll go out
Speaker 3: in the field and I'll send you a video if
Speaker 3: we do it this weekend is we do what we
Speaker 3: call redneck surfing. And it's when you take the mat
Speaker 3: out of a horse stall, because like you have to
Speaker 3: put mats in the bottom of a stall. So you
Speaker 3: take the mat out of the horse stall and you
Speaker 3: drill some holes in the front and you run a
Speaker 3: rope through it and you tie that to the back
Speaker 3: of the full wheeler and then you have another rope
Speaker 3: to hold on to and then the full wheeler pulls
Speaker 3: you around while you stand on the horse mat.
Speaker 2: Kids, don't try this at home. That's a terrible idea,
Speaker 2: and we at the Happy half Hour do not recommend it.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Also, like every year, every year, without fail, somebody goes
Speaker 3: to the emergency room.
Speaker 1: See that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: And it's never been from redneck sledding.
Speaker 1: No redneck surfing in Alabama. Please do not do that,
Speaker 1: but please have a.
Speaker 2: Safe, happy, enjoyable Memorial Day weekend. Please join up us
Speaker 2: on the other side. We'll talk to you after a
Speaker 2: couple of days of OTAs the next time we get
Speaker 2: together on the Happy half Hour