Speaker 1: This week on a Happy half Hour.
Speaker 2: A run game is a quarterback's best friend. And so
Speaker 2: now that you have a little bit more stability at
Speaker 2: that position and you have already established the run game,
Speaker 2: I think that's why you're seeing Bryce. You know, I
Speaker 2: know he hasn't put up huge numbers in these two lens,
Speaker 2: but he's taken care of the ball and that's been important.
Speaker 3: What's cow whoa?
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 4: Hello, friends, and welcome to the Happy Half Hour. It's
Speaker 4: the post by week refreshed, relaxed, and ready for the
Speaker 4: back half of the season edition, and it's presented by
Speaker 4: a Southern Star and official bourbon partner of the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 4: Celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas. And you know what,
Speaker 4: maybe it's just because I had a bye week, but
Speaker 4: I'm feeling celebratory.
Speaker 2: I was about to ask, did Southern Star also sponsor
Speaker 2: your bye week?
Speaker 4: You know they could have. They did not. There was
Speaker 4: no Southern Star in southwestern Colorado, where I managed to
Speaker 4: sneak away for a couple of days or Southeastern Utah.
Speaker 4: But nevertheless, we're feeling celebratory because we made it. We
Speaker 4: got to that point. It always feels like a whole
Speaker 4: nother season when you get to bye week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially when this bye week was really kind of
Speaker 2: situated right smack dab in the middle, and so it
Speaker 2: does feel like a second half of the season. Now
Speaker 2: home stretch here mathematically still in things in this division,
Speaker 2: you just you never know. Crazier things have happened.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And people always forget when they start doing bye
Speaker 4: week calculations though when you say right in the middle.
Speaker 4: There was also training camp on the front end of
Speaker 4: this thing too in the preseason, so there was like
Speaker 4: seven weeks of that before love to all the other stuff,
Speaker 4: so you know when the bye week's late. We've had
Speaker 4: week thirteen byes pretty frequently around here in the last
Speaker 4: couple of years, and it always just feels like you're
Speaker 4: knee walking.
Speaker 2: Week fourteen buys kill you all.
Speaker 4: Oh, just just the worst. But listen to us complaining
Speaker 4: about having to work seventeen weeks out of eighteen, so
Speaker 4: there was a locket. There are a lot of people
Speaker 4: who've got it a lot worse than us, and let's
Speaker 4: be mindful of that good, right. It's almost like we
Speaker 4: should be thankful for certain things.
Speaker 2: Ah, look at what you did.
Speaker 4: I know, right.
Speaker 2: I do want you, while we're sitting here talking about
Speaker 2: the bye week, I do want you to tell the
Speaker 2: people your impression of Arches National Park.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, it's the most amazing place I've ever
Speaker 4: seen in my life. I mean, we were out there
Speaker 4: seeing the in laws, and everybody's doing great out there,
Speaker 4: but we had a little time to kill and it's like, well,
Speaker 4: let's slide across to the border. And we were about
Speaker 4: two hours away from Arches, and just driving to southern
Speaker 4: Utah is amazing because you know, Colorado kind of mountains,
Speaker 4: high desert plains, et cetera, et cetera. You it's almost
Speaker 4: like as soon as you cross the state line into Utah,
Speaker 4: everything turns wiley coyote, everything is what desert is supposed
Speaker 4: to look like. It's these red rocks, it's cliffs everywhere.
Speaker 4: I truly I looked at my wife at one point
Speaker 4: and I said, if you would have told ten year
Speaker 4: old Darren Gant this is Mars and dropped him here,
Speaker 4: he'd have been like yeah, that's right. Sure, that's what
Speaker 4: it's supposed to look like. But just an amazing place.
Speaker 4: And Arches is beyond belief. I mean it truly. You know,
Speaker 4: you see balancing rock and then there's another one laying
Speaker 4: on the ground near it, and that's the artist formerly
Speaker 4: known as Balancing you know, and delicate. Arch is truly
Speaker 4: one of the wonders of the world. It's it's one
Speaker 4: of those things when you when you climb the mountain,
Speaker 4: you're sweating, you're out of breath. You turn the corner
Speaker 4: around this cliff and it's like, oh, there's that thing
Speaker 4: I've seen all my life on pictures. Take your breath away,
Speaker 4: literally and figuratively.
Speaker 2: It is pretty incredible. I was blessed to go out
Speaker 2: there when I was younger. My uncle lived in Wyoming,
Speaker 2: so we would go out there a few high and
Speaker 2: you're right Arches is and I think I was probably
Speaker 2: twelve when I was there, and it was unlike anything
Speaker 2: I'd ever seen. One of my favorite travel stories. So
Speaker 2: when we went to Arches, and we drove up and
Speaker 2: we went to Four Corners, which is where Utah, Colorado, Arizona,
Speaker 2: and New Mexico come together. So I guess we went
Speaker 2: down to go to Four Corners. Yeah, And I don't
Speaker 2: know if you've ever been to Four Corners, but there
Speaker 2: is nothing there. And you drive up on this plateau.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty it's not steep, but it's high. You
Speaker 2: go up on this plateau and that's where they have
Speaker 2: the Four Corners monument set up, and it is pretty cool.
Speaker 2: They have this concrete and it's like laid out and
Speaker 2: there's a star in the middle to show you exactly
Speaker 2: where you're standing in all four states. And some of
Speaker 2: the reservations out there have booths up there and they're
Speaker 2: selling bibbles and things. Well, the only place you use
Speaker 2: the restroom is a border body, and of course I
Speaker 2: had to go and so, and it's really really windy
Speaker 2: because you're on top of a plateau in the middle
Speaker 2: of the desert, and I go on the porter potty.
Speaker 2: The wind's blowing and all of a sudden, this porter
Speaker 2: potty just starts shaking and it's going crazy, and I
Speaker 2: hear my mom going.
Speaker 3: Cassidy, Cassidy, Oh my god, Cassidy.
Speaker 2: And I come stumbling out of that thing. My dad
Speaker 2: and brother had been shaking it to make me think
Speaker 2: I was falling down the side of the cliffs.
Speaker 4: Excellent. Yeah, that's excellent family values right there. I love
Speaker 4: everything about that story. And as much as we could
Speaker 4: talk about Southern Utah and Porta Potty high jinks all
Speaker 4: day long, I assume people want us to get the
Speaker 4: football at a certain point. Crazy, I know, right, It's
Speaker 4: like that's what we do in exchange for my Although
Speaker 4: I did run into one of my favorite Utahs you tights.
Speaker 4: What do you call people from Utah?
Speaker 3: We'll have to paulians I don't know, Robert Riffords.
Speaker 4: No, it was Brady christians I was like, what are
Speaker 4: you people doing? You've been holding out on us all
Speaker 4: this time? And he's like, yeah, man, Utah is pretty cool.
Speaker 4: I know. So anyway, speaking of Brady Christiansen, he plays
Speaker 4: into what I believe to be one of the kind
Speaker 4: of themes and this is what I want to do
Speaker 4: with this episode. We could get in the weeds and
Speaker 4: talk about the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes, but why would
Speaker 4: you do that? What I want to do is kind
Speaker 4: of just look back over the first ten because after
Speaker 4: you've had a chance to take a breath and sort
Speaker 4: of process what's going on here, to me, as big
Speaker 4: as anything that the Carolina Panthers have done over the
Speaker 4: first ten to eleven weeks of the season is they've
Speaker 4: kind of created a little bit of a personality. I mean,
Speaker 4: and Brady Christiansen and that offensive line has been the
Speaker 4: I mean to me that and Tuba Hubbard running the
Speaker 4: ball and becoming kind of the drumbeat of this offense
Speaker 4: that keeps everything in rhythm. That's the thing you take
Speaker 4: away to me. I mean, it'll last beyond this year,
Speaker 4: will come and go from memory. But the fact that, oh,
Speaker 4: they realize they can run and they got a bunch
Speaker 4: of big boys who can lean on people. That's kind
Speaker 4: of the less and for me in this part of
Speaker 4: the season.
Speaker 2: And you know, Dave Canalis, to his credit, told us
Speaker 2: before the season even began that that was going to
Speaker 2: be the case, and he said, I'm gonna be stubborn
Speaker 2: about it until we break through. It was what he
Speaker 2: did in Tampa last year. You know, Tampa was bottom
Speaker 2: of the league and rushing for the first half of
Speaker 2: the season and they just stuck with it, stuck with it,
Speaker 2: stuck with it and finally broke through. And that's what
Speaker 2: helped them go on their stretch run the second half
Speaker 2: of the season to get into the playoffs. It is
Speaker 2: leaning on that run game just to open things up,
Speaker 2: and so Dave Canalis has told us for months, this
Speaker 2: is what we're gonna do, and people are gonna want
Speaker 2: to bang their heads against the walls at times, but
Speaker 2: we're going to be stubborn about it. And they have
Speaker 2: found the identity that they wanted to find. Now it's
Speaker 2: just about creating everything else that goes around it. They're
Speaker 2: a little bit what I would call frisky in how
Speaker 2: they approached the game in this offense, but it's working
Speaker 2: for them because you know, I would also say, it's
Speaker 2: not what you would call your true additional run game.
Speaker 2: And let me explain. It's not pounding, pounding, pounding, four
Speaker 2: yards and a cloud of dust and you get three
Speaker 2: of those and you move the first down. Cuba Can
Speaker 2: can kind of cut, he can get outside. He likes
Speaker 2: to work in space, and he can also, you know,
Speaker 2: go between the tack He's got the offensive line to
Speaker 2: run behind the tackles as well, and so it's not
Speaker 2: necessarily like a Derrick Henry bruising. But that's okay. It's
Speaker 2: it's still a run game that works for what they have,
Speaker 2: and it's they have figured out a way to make
Speaker 2: it work.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, I mean and Cuba talked earlier this year,
Speaker 4: and listen, I think that a lot of this comes
Speaker 4: from the fact that in March Dan Morgan spent one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty million dollars of Dave Tepper's money on
Speaker 4: two big guards and that helped trp other people's money,
Speaker 4: no doubt, and especially when it's on pieces as productive
Speaker 4: as rob hunting. Damian lewis right, but Cuba has done
Speaker 4: his part in this too, and that's part of the
Speaker 4: reason he got part of that money too. He has
Speaker 4: become a more patient runner. I mean, he's not ever
Speaker 4: going to be that Le'Veon bell wait wait wait, wait, wait, go,
Speaker 4: but he's figured out how to adjust on the fly,
Speaker 4: adjust subtly, you know, and stay in the lanes they're
Speaker 4: creating for him. And he's always been willing to be
Speaker 4: that ugly run guy, that two, three, four yard at
Speaker 4: a time guy. But what you've seen lately is more
Speaker 4: of those fours turn into fifteens, more of those threes
Speaker 4: turn into twenties. And as he's been able to do that,
Speaker 4: that buys time for everything else in the offense. And listen,
Speaker 4: things changed over the first half of the season. The
Speaker 4: quarterbacks obviously won by deliberate decision, won by car wreck
Speaker 4: on Sardis Road and never go to South Charlotte. But
Speaker 4: while all that stuff's been happening, and all, you know,
Speaker 4: the quarterback stuff tends to get draw out of the oxygen,
Speaker 4: they've actually been pretty consistently productive in the run game
Speaker 4: throughout regardless. I think that's been a testament to those
Speaker 4: guys up front.
Speaker 2: And a run game is a quarterback's best friend. And
Speaker 2: so now that you have a little bit more stability
Speaker 2: at that position and you have already established the run game,
Speaker 2: I think that's why you're seeing Bryce. You know, I
Speaker 2: know he hasn't put up huge numbers in these two wins,
Speaker 2: but he's taken care of the ball and that's been important.
Speaker 2: And his kind of game managed their way to these wins.
Speaker 3: And that's not a bad thing, no doubt.
Speaker 2: And he's and he's been able to do that because
Speaker 2: they can lean on the run game so much. I
Speaker 2: think at one point versus the Giants, you've had like
Speaker 2: three runs of twenty five plus yards, right, And so
Speaker 2: when you're doing that, you can just pound and ground
Speaker 2: all day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you can get away with your quarterback
Speaker 4: throwing for one hundred and twenty six yards, right exactly.
Speaker 4: Bryce has done well. Bryce has gotten steadily, if not
Speaker 4: in small increments, better each of these weeks he's been
Speaker 4: on the field. But if one two in a row,
Speaker 4: they're sitting here three and seven. And you know, I
Speaker 4: was telling some friends last night, and I may have
Speaker 4: written this in mail bag. I write so many things
Speaker 4: in the mail bag. I tend to lose track. The
Speaker 4: Panthers have kind of escaped at three and seven? Is
Speaker 4: it great?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: Is it going to get you the playoffs? Only in
Speaker 4: the NFC South and only if you catch a really
Speaker 4: ridiculous hot streak in the second half of the season.
Speaker 4: But they've kind of escaped that. Oh god, is it
Speaker 4: over portion of the NFL?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: I mean, Dallas would push the button to be done
Speaker 4: right now, and they would they would just be willing
Speaker 4: to call it the rest of the season. Take the
Speaker 4: ticket money you've already banked. Keep at what I'm you
Speaker 4: just don't have to play any of those And they've
Speaker 4: kind of pushed through that, and now they're in that
Speaker 4: great middle area of the league where nobody knows if
Speaker 4: anybody's any good or not, or what you're gonna get
Speaker 4: week in, week out, And that's where most of the
Speaker 4: NFL lives. I mean, we watch KC and Buffalo last week,
Speaker 4: you know, and those are the good teams, and there's
Speaker 4: a lot fewer of those than there are terrible teams.
Speaker 4: And there's certainly a lot few are those than there
Speaker 4: are the ones in that great middle I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the great Hey, the great middle, that's where the
Speaker 2: color is. Let's have some fun in there. Would you call?
Speaker 2: Who would you put up there with KSE and Buffalo?
Speaker 4: You know, I obviously Detroit. You know, I think Philadelphia
Speaker 4: is still pretty good. You know, those guys are you know,
Speaker 4: they always tend to find a way, and they are
Speaker 4: a well constructed team. They're put together, right, I'm I
Speaker 4: am going to put you know, honestly, I'm gonna put
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Ever since Russell Wilson and I've never been the biggest
Speaker 4: RUSS advocate. I think he was. I don't want to
Speaker 4: say he was a passenger in Seattle because he was
Speaker 4: an active participant in that deal, but he was more
Speaker 4: of the guy who lived on great defense, great run game,
Speaker 4: well protected and that allowed them to do the things
Speaker 4: that Russ was really good at. You know, I'm putting
Speaker 4: them in that mix too, so it's it's a small group,
Speaker 4: but there are a couple of people sneaking in there.
Speaker 2: So I was hoping you would say Detroit and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: So thank you for that because they both kind of
Speaker 2: represent what I think if you're a Panthers fan, you
Speaker 2: can you can look forward to of what they did
Speaker 2: to get to where they're at no doubt, and how
Speaker 2: they got there and the identity that they failed to
Speaker 2: get there. Pittsburgh beat the Ravens the other night with
Speaker 2: six field goals. They didn't even throw a touchdown, and
Speaker 2: so I'm not saying that that's ideal, but the point being,
Speaker 2: like you can you can find a way to kind
Speaker 2: of break through and to chip at that wall until
Speaker 2: it falls over and establish yourself with the identity that
Speaker 2: you want and find a way to win games doing that,
Speaker 2: even if it doesn't necessarily look like the Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: or Josh Allen of it all.
Speaker 4: Seriously, the Chiefs may have ruined football for a lot
Speaker 4: of people because you know, it doesn't have to be
Speaker 4: thirty five forty points a game to be really good,
Speaker 4: so it's possible to win games a lot of different ways. Hey,
Speaker 4: you mentioned field goals. Speaking of things that happened over
Speaker 4: the bye week, the Carolina Panthers suddenly have an all
Speaker 4: time leader in NFL.
Speaker 2: History, Edie credit to Tracy Smith.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Eddie Pinero was sitting on his couch visiting with
Speaker 4: his dad, who were glad Eddie Senior's doing well. Best
Speaker 4: of best wishes to the Pinero's. Eddie Senior recently had
Speaker 4: a heart attack and is recovering well. So Eddie Junior
Speaker 4: went as a good son, went to see his dad
Speaker 4: during the bye week, and while he was sitting on
Speaker 4: the couch at his dad's house, became the league's all
Speaker 4: time most accurate kicker thanks to Justin Tuster missing a
Speaker 4: couple of field goals the other day. So Eddie is
Speaker 4: now number one all time. And I love so much
Speaker 4: about this story, beginning with the fact that Eddie was
Speaker 4: sitting on his dad's couch when this happened. But b
Speaker 4: Tracy Smith rolls out today and Tracy Smith the new
Speaker 4: special teams coordinator. He believes, and you just have to
Speaker 4: hear this. Tracy Smith was the key to this.
Speaker 5: I noticed immediately that I wasn't getting enough credit for it.
Speaker 5: I thought, the things that I've changed and Eddie have
Speaker 5: been innumerable, heart so hard to say when I when
Speaker 5: I spoke to him first in the spring and I
Speaker 5: suggested that he uses right leg this year. I thought
Speaker 5: that was a real turning point for him to get
Speaker 5: him from two to one.
Speaker 4: And there you go. It's as simple as that. I mean,
Speaker 4: why didn't somebody else try said he to kick with
Speaker 4: his right leg in the past.
Speaker 2: He said it so deadpan that there was a ten
Speaker 2: second period where I was sitting there going wait, did
Speaker 2: he used to kick with his left leg? Did I
Speaker 2: miss that?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: I was?
Speaker 4: So I covered Eddy in college yet.
Speaker 2: Know what Eddie since he was a high school player,
Speaker 2: and I know what he looks like when he kicks,
Speaker 2: and I legit sat there and went, is he what leg? Like?
Speaker 4: Did I miss?
Speaker 3: Was that?
Speaker 4: Am I?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No? And that's the beauty. And I've committed a journalism
Speaker 4: since then and talked to some of my sources in
Speaker 4: the special Teams room, and it's possible that Tracy has
Speaker 4: used that line before and it's possible he's used it
Speaker 4: on other people before. You know, the special teams community's
Speaker 4: kind of tightened it anyway across the league, partially because
Speaker 4: those guys move around a lot, and you know, it's
Speaker 4: possible that Tracy may have walked up to other people
Speaker 4: after games and said, have you ever considered using your
Speaker 4: own left lig?
Speaker 2: I like that he workshopped his jokes before he brought
Speaker 2: them to ice. Yeah, Tracy Smith may be one of
Speaker 2: the funnier coaches I've ever covered.
Speaker 4: He's right up there. It's very dry, it's very deadpan.
Speaker 4: It's almost Stephen Right esque. Yeah, but if you're old
Speaker 4: enough and inclined to that kind of stuff. But it's
Speaker 4: he is abute. But yeah, Eddie is the league's most
Speaker 4: accurate kicker of all time. Of course, he's hit you know,
Speaker 4: one hundred and some field goals compared to Justin Tucker's
Speaker 4: four hundred and some field goals. So the opportunity for
Speaker 4: fluctuation in those numbers is certainly. We'll enjoy it for
Speaker 4: this week exactly.
Speaker 3: I mean, take it while it lasts, you know.
Speaker 4: It's uh, well, we'll see how that goes. But so
Speaker 4: much to look forward to this week. Yeah, there is
Speaker 4: a Mahomesky. Yeah, he is coming in. I talked to
Speaker 4: some dudes about him the other day. Josie Jewel, he
Speaker 4: kind of shrugged a little bit. I mean, as a
Speaker 4: former Bronco, he's seen him a bunch ten times to
Speaker 4: be specific, so he knows the experience as well as anybody.
Speaker 4: And he talked about kind of all the obvious stuff
Speaker 4: about you've got to be buttoned up, you've got to
Speaker 4: play it all the way to the whistle, because if
Speaker 4: you let up in that last second of the route,
Speaker 4: that's where he side arms one and squeezes it in.
Speaker 4: But even though he hasn't had much team success, Josie
Speaker 4: Jewel has picked off Pat mahomes a couple of times.
Speaker 4: And that's okay. I went back and looked at the
Speaker 4: YouTube clips of that. He's made some pretty athletic plays
Speaker 4: and coming on the heels of an athletic interception in Germany,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe he's out there sharing his secret, so
Speaker 4: to speak.
Speaker 2: You know, Jerald Everro talked about those turnovers today and
Speaker 2: how in that game, you know they were able to
Speaker 2: pick him off a few times. But you know what
Speaker 2: hej remembers about that game, the explosive plays. Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: also got on them, no question, and of course that's
Speaker 2: the coach thing to do, and that's what they're going
Speaker 2: to be thinking of too as they game plan this week. However,
Speaker 2: you know they've wanted all season to up their turnovers
Speaker 2: and to get three in the Giants game. Turnovers can
Speaker 2: be contagious, so we'll see if that rolls over to
Speaker 2: this week or if you know, the bye week sort
Speaker 2: of mess it up. But it is something that Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes is gonna take his shots. So if you're disciplined
Speaker 2: with where you're at and they play that zone defense
Speaker 2: where they can get those turnovers, if you're disciplined where
Speaker 2: you're at, the opportunity is there. He's also incredibly incredibly accurate,
Speaker 2: so he's gonna put that. You're gonna have to take
Speaker 2: the ball away. He's not gonna just throw you up
Speaker 2: a floater like that. Daniel Jones deflected off of j
Speaker 2: David Clowney one.
Speaker 4: But if you're Clowney, skull off of his head.
Speaker 3: It was a header.
Speaker 2: Hey, we were in a soccer arena. It was just
Speaker 2: a header, sure.
Speaker 4: And name one Bayern Munich soccer player Harry Kane. There
Speaker 4: you go. That's my girl. I knew, I knew you
Speaker 4: were listening.
Speaker 3: That was the only one. Don't ask me to name
Speaker 3: a second, fair enough.
Speaker 2: The point being, he's he's one of the best quarterbacks
Speaker 2: of all time for a reason. He's gonna make his throws,
Speaker 2: he's gonna be clinical, he's gonna have the highlight stuff too.
Speaker 2: But you know, can you put yourself in position to
Speaker 2: take advantage of athletic moments? I guess is what I'm
Speaker 2: trying to say, And I know I'm not saying it right.
Speaker 2: The opportunity is there.
Speaker 4: Yeh, what I'm saying, Yeah, no doubt so. All right,
Speaker 4: So there you go. The Carolina Panthers. They're three and
Speaker 4: seven coming out of the by. They've established a couple
Speaker 4: of things, They've steal a lot to play for. I mean,
Speaker 4: the one thing, the one thing I think we can't
Speaker 4: lose sight of is you know, I don't want to
Speaker 4: minimize the record. The games are important, obviously, but as
Speaker 4: you go into the second half of the season, you've
Speaker 4: got to go in with the knowledge that the second
Speaker 4: half's a lot tougher than the first half. Was the
Speaker 4: combined record of the first ten games, forty six and
Speaker 4: sixty the last seven forty and thirty one. So you've
Speaker 4: got the Chiefs in there, you've got the Eagles, you
Speaker 4: got the Bucks twice, and I think that Bucks team
Speaker 4: is a lot better than their four and six records.
Speaker 4: And these surprising Arizona Cardinals who are rolling in here
Speaker 4: for a holiday weekend. So there's tougher football in front
Speaker 4: of you. But the Carolina Panthers are playing a better
Speaker 4: brand of football now than they were six seven, eight
Speaker 4: weeks ago, for sure too.
Speaker 2: So that's all you can ask for.
Speaker 4: Upper trajectory, Dave Canalis keep saying it progress, building on
Speaker 4: each day, So building on each day. You know what
Speaker 4: we forgot to build on last week when we recorded
Speaker 4: our post Germany episode.
Speaker 3: I didn't forget.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, what we forgot. We forgot to do the
Speaker 4: jukebox last week because I forgot to listen. Do your
Speaker 4: research and listen to the latest Taylor Swift song about
Speaker 4: a really complicated broad.
Speaker 2: Miscedena Sackville.
Speaker 4: Miscedena Sackville. Yeah, she lived a life, she did what
Speaker 4: was it, divorced.
Speaker 3: Five times something like that.
Speaker 4: Maybe a couple of them ended up mysteriously dead.
Speaker 2: Yes, one of them ended up mysteriously dead after he
Speaker 2: cheated on her with a younger woman and that woman's
Speaker 2: husband found out.
Speaker 4: It's funny how that stuff.
Speaker 2: Happened, and it works out. In fact, they called they
Speaker 2: moved a bunch of their friends and then moved to Africa.
Speaker 2: Calls such a ruckus that they got a nickname, and
Speaker 2: it has been made into movies.
Speaker 4: It's uh yeah, And people wonder about Taylor and and
Speaker 4: why she's ran through so many singers and songwriters and
Speaker 4: football players, and you know, she's had a string of
Speaker 4: relationships of her own this one so but she.
Speaker 2: Hasn't been married and cheated on people with affairs.
Speaker 4: So far, nobody's end up dead as far as we know.
Speaker 3: Travis Kelse, Kat Kennedy.
Speaker 4: It's been worn. So yeah, that was sure was something.
Speaker 4: And I mean it's like, I mean, she's a little
Speaker 4: fun one. Yeah, it's certainly a fun one. She's she's
Speaker 4: got that's complicated. It may be best that she's not
Speaker 4: coming to join us here this weekend. So although I
Speaker 4: did see somebody our our friends at deal with Neighborhood,
Speaker 4: Grill did memorial ass her on the sign this something
Speaker 4: along the lines of don't shake this one off. The
Speaker 4: Chiefs might lose something down that road. Like everybody is looking,
Speaker 4: I'm glad we're not going for the cheap thrills of journalism.
Speaker 4: There's so many people out there in the world of
Speaker 4: quote unquote journalism these days will put out a headline,
Speaker 4: is Taylor Swift coming to Charlotte this week? Question mark No.
Speaker 4: If the headline ever contains a question mark, you can
Speaker 4: usually answer that question with no. But anyway, we're not
Speaker 4: here for cheap that's just sensationalism, and I won't be
Speaker 4: a party to it. We're not here for that. But
Speaker 4: if she wants to show up, I'm sure you'll show
Speaker 4: her around.
Speaker 2: Right right now, you can talk to her about the
Speaker 2: Bolter exactly.
Speaker 4: So the Bolter. I think I scared you pre Germany,
Speaker 4: didn't I by making you listen to the Scorpions and listen.
Speaker 2: I listened to it on the drive then one day,
Speaker 2: and it was way too early in the morning for that.
Speaker 4: The Scorpions being the finest heavy metal band of Germany.
Speaker 4: You know, Rudolph Schenker and the boys will sting you
Speaker 4: with their rock and roll.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to and I had to listen to
Speaker 2: it a couple of times to hear all the words,
Speaker 2: but that one, Uh, don't listen to that before you
Speaker 2: have your caffeine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you won't need it after that. The Scorpions blackout
Speaker 4: will get you in some kind of mood. So anyway,
Speaker 4: since it's we're heading into Thanksgiving week, there's really only
Speaker 4: one song I can recommend to you. Cassidy who And
Speaker 4: I don't know if you've ever heard this song. You
Speaker 4: may be aware of it, but I don't know that
Speaker 4: you've ever committed to sitting down and listening to it,
Speaker 4: much less multiple times. One of my ten favorite songs
Speaker 4: ever in all of the history of music. Rlow guthriees
Speaker 4: Alice's restaurant. Okay nothing you got nothing?
Speaker 3: Never heard of it?
Speaker 4: Noah, Oh, you are in for white a treat. And
Speaker 4: those of you who are old enough to know about
Speaker 4: our Loow Guthrie and why we always listen to it
Speaker 4: on Thanksgiving, you'll appreciate her reactions to this one. Remember
Speaker 4: you got to listen to it three times through? All right?
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I usually give it.
Speaker 4: All right, three times, three times from start to finish?
Speaker 2: How long is this song?
Speaker 4: She don't know yet?
Speaker 2: Gang, Oh my gosh, let me look at this. Let
Speaker 2: me look this up real quick. What am I getting
Speaker 2: myself into?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean it's only nineteen and a half minutes
Speaker 4: or nineteen and.
Speaker 2: A half minutes?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: What kind of time do you think I have?
Speaker 4: You know, I know what you're putting out in terms
Speaker 4: of work products. You can you can squeeze that one
Speaker 4: in there. All right, what do you got for me?
Speaker 2: It is eighteen and a half minutes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, details, It depends on which version.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Okay, well let me block off a
Speaker 2: couple hours. There you go in honor of the stage
Speaker 2: musical Wicked coming to the big screen tonight, which I'm very,
Speaker 2: very excited about.
Speaker 3: Have my tickets.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to decide I'm on a dress up or
Speaker 2: not to go. You have you ever seen Wicked?
Speaker 4: I have not seen Wicked. I've heard that. I've heard
Speaker 4: the soundtrack.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you do know the songs.
Speaker 4: I'm familiar enough with the song. Okay, Well that I
Speaker 4: was not a super fan the way you are.
Speaker 3: I was going to give you a Wicked song. But
Speaker 3: if you are, that's fine.
Speaker 4: I mean I'm not as into the cold as you are.
Speaker 4: Or so deeply enmeshed in it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, we were gonna go with Defying Gravity. However,
Speaker 2: if you know that one, I actually have a different song,
Speaker 2: all right, tell me, okay, just because Wicked makes me
Speaker 2: think of Christi sheenow with Kristi Shenoweth has this excellent
Speaker 2: song that actually somebody else wrote, but she sings it
Speaker 2: called Taylor the Latte Boy. It's so funny and I
Speaker 2: sing it to myself every time I go to a Starbucks,
Speaker 2: which is a lot very good.
Speaker 4: Well, I will listen to Kristin Shehennow you will listen
Speaker 4: to a lot of our load Guthrie, and we will
Speaker 4: see what happens Sunday when your Carolina Panthers face the
Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs. And we'll come back and talk about
Speaker 4: it next week. We'll jam it in. We're we are
Speaker 4: thankful for this opportunity and for all you good people
Speaker 4: who listen. So we're coming in next week to record
Speaker 4: another happy half out. We do it for the people.
Speaker 4: We'll see y'all new