Speaker 1: This week on a Happy half Hour.
Speaker 2: The last two home finales were presided over by two
Speaker 2: different interim coaches. That's not normal, Gang, So now it
Speaker 2: feels like they established something last week against the Cardinals
Speaker 2: that's going to carry over regardless what happens in Tampa Atlanta.
Speaker 3: What's the cow?
Speaker 4: 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 2: Hello, friends, and welcome to a post Christmas, post Cardinals,
Speaker 2: post apocalyptic, post holiday, all of the things Happy half Hour.
Speaker 5: I don't even know, don't I think they make a
Speaker 5: carol for that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they should. We'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 2: There are no good songs for this time of year.
Speaker 5: Well, we'll try to say one, and I don't even
Speaker 5: know what it means.
Speaker 3: We'll try to struggle through that.
Speaker 2: But right now, the important thing is we're struggling together
Speaker 2: and we're pushing through all of all of the stuff.
Speaker 3: And you know what.
Speaker 2: Helps this time of year, maybe something from our friends
Speaker 2: at Southern Star. Because, as always, the Happy Half Hours
Speaker 2: presented by a Southern Star, an official bourbon partner of
Speaker 2: the Carolina Panthers celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas. I
Speaker 2: just I just gave that car to flick like David
Speaker 2: Letterman back in the day and left a mess for
Speaker 2: Matt to clean up.
Speaker 3: I'll get that, Matt. Don't worry, he.
Speaker 5: Already got it.
Speaker 4: I bet Southern Star does all kinds of business this
Speaker 4: time of year for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 2: You should because it's a wonderful product, and we appreciate
Speaker 2: their sponsorship of the Happy Half Hour as always. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's that time of year. I think my bloodstreams like
Speaker 2: twelve percent.
Speaker 3: Nog right now.
Speaker 2: It's I'm feeling a little thick right now, feeling kind
Speaker 2: of laden.
Speaker 3: It's the holidays.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: We've done all the eating, all the celebrating with friends
Speaker 2: that I think I can stand. And it's Friday. So
Speaker 2: according to that holiday, our schedule was just all off,
Speaker 2: you know, silly major religions and commercialism having their holidays
Speaker 2: in the middle of the football week.
Speaker 5: But here being on a Wednesday was so weird.
Speaker 3: I just everything.
Speaker 2: One of the things my wife giggles about about the
Speaker 2: football industrial content complex is the way we just change
Speaker 2: calendars to suit ourselves and like the whole Yeah, Tuesdays
Speaker 2: and Wednesday this week, right, And the first time I
Speaker 2: hit her with a Tuesdays and Wednesday or Wednesdays and Thursdays,
Speaker 2: she was.
Speaker 3: Like, what does that even mean?
Speaker 5: I know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, especially if you have like a Thursday
Speaker 4: night game and all of a sudden you say things
Speaker 4: like Monday is Wednesday, and Tuesday is Friday, and then
Speaker 4: Wednesday Saturday, and.
Speaker 2: All the people around you look at you with their
Speaker 2: head cocked the way the dog looks at the door.
Speaker 3: The doorbell rings.
Speaker 2: So anyway, we are here, and hey, the football. We
Speaker 2: can talk about the holiday in a second. The football
Speaker 2: was good this week.
Speaker 5: It was good.
Speaker 3: I feel like the guy on the dog rates on Twitter.
Speaker 2: We dogs.
Speaker 5: I'm very familiar.
Speaker 2: The dogs were good again this week. The football was
Speaker 2: good again this week, so that was good news.
Speaker 4: It was and I sadly have not even sat down
Speaker 4: and been able to watch the full game.
Speaker 5: I've been having trouble finding it.
Speaker 4: Darren was was very very kind to let me spend
Speaker 4: the game day with my family. I had a cousin
Speaker 4: get married, so that was nice to go see that.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I was following along with the game with
Speaker 4: your Twitter updates, and I could tell at what point
Speaker 4: you went downstairs, because the Twitter updates.
Speaker 3: Stopped, right it's time to go to work.
Speaker 4: And I started following somebody else's and but that was
Speaker 4: that was definitely exciting, and being able to go back
Speaker 4: and watch the highlights, the rewind the rewind that our
Speaker 4: our great video crew does on Panthers dot com and
Speaker 4: kind of see all of the big moments and some
Speaker 4: of the low moments that set that up to be
Speaker 4: such an exciting finish. This is the third overtime game
Speaker 4: that they have had this year. They've now won two
Speaker 4: of their three overtime games, and as Robert Hunt said yesterday,
Speaker 4: we should have won the other like we won the
Speaker 4: other one until we lost it, which I guess is
Speaker 4: kind of just the point of football, but its scores, right,
Speaker 4: it factors into all of the things Dave Canalis has preached.
Speaker 4: Finish and he's he's been throwing a new one at
Speaker 4: us the past couple of weeks that I really like,
Speaker 4: do right longer, do write longer than the opponent, and
Speaker 4: that's what they did this past week. Thought it was
Speaker 4: really cool a shot that Another one of our video
Speaker 4: guys got coming off the field was when everyone went
Speaker 4: down to the end zone to celebrate with Cuba, and
Speaker 4: Dave Canalis was kind of in that scrum celebrating. When
Speaker 4: Shuba turned around and realized that he was hugging Dave,
Speaker 4: he said, Hey, I owed you one talking about from Tampa.
Speaker 4: And so you know, it's also just a reminder that
Speaker 4: is for as much as these guys say we got
Speaker 4: to flush that twenty four hour rule and they do, Yeah,
Speaker 4: they are still human.
Speaker 5: And that was in the back of his mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's the thing.
Speaker 2: And I think when we look back over this season
Speaker 2: as a whole, it's almost as if you could draw
Speaker 2: a line at this week and just call it, because
Speaker 2: I think the lessons of this year were kind of
Speaker 2: encapsulated in that game the other day. Dave Canalis knew
Speaker 2: this year was going to be a slog. He knew
Speaker 2: that they weren't necessarily blessed with great and deep personnel
Speaker 2: on defense to make this the kind of unit every
Speaker 2: coach wants to be a part of. And then Derreck
Speaker 2: Brown got hurt, and then Shack Thompson got hurt, and
Speaker 2: the run defense became ridiculous. They knew this year was
Speaker 2: going to be this kind of head down, slog, get
Speaker 2: through it, push daily work kind of season, and to
Speaker 2: see that payoff with I swear I think Chuba Hubbard
Speaker 2: is like the patron saint of work ethic at this
Speaker 2: point career. I mean, this is a guy I've watched
Speaker 2: him since day walked in the door as a fourth
Speaker 2: round pick, who was kind of known at Oklahoma State
Speaker 2: for being that home run back, that big play. You know,
Speaker 2: somebody who is going to pop sixty yard home runs.
Speaker 2: And now he's become the guy you trust to get four,
Speaker 2: to get three, to get four, to get five too,
Speaker 2: then twelve, and then four again, and then five and
Speaker 2: then seven and then eighteen. I mean, that's the guy
Speaker 2: Chuba Hubbard has made himself into. We've talked about it
Speaker 2: a lot. He used to be an unreliable catcher of
Speaker 2: the football and then he and Tommy Trimble dedicated themselves
Speaker 2: to forty five minutes a day after practice on a
Speaker 2: jugs machine. And by the way, we got a story
Speaker 2: coming out the day at Panthers dot Com about a
Speaker 2: new friend they've got in that habit who you know
Speaker 2: has a listen to learn himself about it.
Speaker 5: He needed to be there.
Speaker 3: There's a certain.
Speaker 2: Young Xavier Legett who has joined them from time to
Speaker 2: time in.
Speaker 3: The habit and that can only be a good thing.
Speaker 3: But that's kind of the lesson.
Speaker 2: That's the arc of the story of the Carolina Panthers
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four is Dave Canalis was trying to
Speaker 2: establish a daily grinder of a team, so he invested
Speaker 2: the personality and they invested their cash in mid season
Speaker 2: in Chewba Hubbard, and he paid that trust back with
Speaker 2: the dramatic game winner in overtime.
Speaker 5: Let me ask you a question, yeap.
Speaker 4: Dave talked to us at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 4: so I'm about, you know, pointing to a game in
Speaker 4: Tampa where it was a loss, but he said that
Speaker 4: was the game where we figured it out and we
Speaker 4: figured out who we were going to be. What do
Speaker 4: you think that game was for the Panthers? And obviously
Speaker 4: they didn't go on the run like Tampa did last
Speaker 4: year and make the playoffs, but I think you could
Speaker 4: argue they set some foundational pieces for next year.
Speaker 5: When do you think that game was?
Speaker 2: I think it could have been Philadelphia, I think and
Speaker 2: again with xavierly Get dropped that ball late, which could
Speaker 2: have been decisive. I mean that one stuck with a
Speaker 2: lot of people. I mean that was a tough one
Speaker 2: to swallow because they felt like that day they had
Speaker 2: gone on the road to one of those places that
Speaker 2: you just don't go get a cheap win in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I mean, Philly's a tough crowd, as has been established.
Speaker 2: I think between that game, between the Bucks game here
Speaker 2: the way it unfolded with Tuba fumbling in overtime, which
Speaker 2: is a thing he just doesn't do, and him being
Speaker 2: so central to the personality, and then the Chiefs game
Speaker 2: before that, I think that little three week stretch where
Speaker 2: you lose three games by twelve points for very specific reasons,
Speaker 2: and that's the thing Dave likes.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's one thing if your.
Speaker 2: Team is just overwhelmed and can't compete and you get
Speaker 2: swamped by people week after week.
Speaker 3: We've seen that.
Speaker 2: But to be in those three games and to say, okay,
Speaker 2: that play, that play. When you lose by twenty points,
Speaker 2: it's hard to point to really specific things. But when
Speaker 2: you lose by three points and.
Speaker 5: You can see three place right.
Speaker 2: Then you can say Okay, once we fix that, we've
Speaker 2: established that we can compete with Pat Mahomes. We've established
Speaker 2: we can go on road to Philadelphia and compete with
Speaker 2: one of the best teams in the NFC. And I
Speaker 2: think that is where that meaning kind of established itself
Speaker 2: for this team in the long haul. And then last
Speaker 2: week in your last home game of the year, I mean,
Speaker 2: the Panthers fans have not had a good time of
Speaker 2: it in the last little bit, just because you know,
Speaker 2: when you stop and think about the last two home
Speaker 2: finales were presided over by two different interim coaches. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's not normal, gang, that's not long term sustainable. So
Speaker 2: now it feels like they established something last week against
Speaker 2: the Cardinals that's going to carry over regards word was
Speaker 2: what happens in Tampa Atlanta.
Speaker 4: And last year saw finale you were beat by your
Speaker 4: current head coach. Time is the flat circle?
Speaker 5: I agree.
Speaker 4: I would have said Kansas City. Part of me wants
Speaker 4: to say the Giants just because that was a win
Speaker 4: and how that game ended by making the play that
Speaker 4: needed to be played, that needed to be made in overtime,
Speaker 4: and really earlier than that that, you know, you could
Speaker 4: argue a lot of that game, swung on Josie Jewels
Speaker 4: interception down in the red zone. That was a game
Speaker 4: where they made the plays that had to be made
Speaker 4: and made them a little bit longer. The Saints game,
Speaker 4: I mean, you kind of got the gift that the
Speaker 4: Saints are going to give in a game like that.
Speaker 4: But then that Kansas City game, like you said, they
Speaker 4: can look back intangibly point to right there, that's where.
Speaker 3: We messed up that one.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I think that's when they started to realize.
Speaker 4: And then, like you said, part and parcel that with
Speaker 4: the next two games and realizing we won these games
Speaker 4: until we lost it Robert Hunts and you.
Speaker 3: Know what, there are two more and there are things
Speaker 3: to gather.
Speaker 2: From the next couple of weeks. It's not that these
Speaker 2: are unimportant. I mean Jadavian Clowney kind of laughed yesterday
Speaker 2: and he's like, we figured out a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: ago we weren't going to the playoffs, which was true,
Speaker 2: but he said, we're trying to see who's gonna fight.
Speaker 2: We're trying to see who's going to put in that time.
Speaker 2: And there are guys, you know you wrote about Demoni
Speaker 2: richardson the other day and that he's a perfect example
Speaker 2: of what can be gained from this time of year.
Speaker 2: I mean, he is a guy, undrafted rookie. He was
Speaker 2: the ball magnet of training camp when he was just
Speaker 2: some undrafted guy that you never really thought was going
Speaker 2: to end up even making the team because of how
Speaker 2: deep they were at that position, and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, he's got a starting job for the last
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, and you know, he is probably the
Speaker 2: next sort of poster boy for what happens in December,
Speaker 2: because that's he's got an opportunity to create a job
Speaker 2: for himself into the future.
Speaker 3: And he's made plays.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you said, he was one of those guys
Speaker 4: in training camp that made you learn his name and
Speaker 4: and that's all you can ask to be at that
Speaker 4: time of year, especially as an undrafted guy. He has
Speaker 4: He's had three starts now, he's played one hundred percent
Speaker 4: of the defensive snaps and all three of those starts,
Speaker 4: and so they trust him to be on the field again.
Speaker 4: Back to our point though about you know, Dave Lake's
Speaker 4: specific things that he can point to. He talked this
Speaker 4: week and he's like, you know, Demani's done really well
Speaker 4: we like this, We like that here are the things
Speaker 4: Demani needs to do better. And I think what was
Speaker 4: encouraging about that if you're Demani Richardson, is that they
Speaker 4: are tangible things and and it's like, Okay, coach says,
Speaker 4: I need to work on this, this, this, this, this.
Speaker 4: They already trust you enough to be out there to
Speaker 4: start and to play the full game. Now here's how
Speaker 4: they now's here. Here is how you become a long
Speaker 4: time starter in this league. They've kind of done that
Speaker 4: with this whole rookie class. And and not just I mean,
Speaker 4: I mean obviously not just the drafted guys. You've got Demani,
Speaker 4: You've got Jaalen Cocher, and then every single one of
Speaker 4: their draft picks, at least at this point, looks like
Speaker 4: they've panned out, because I'm counting Mike Jackson kind of
Speaker 4: as one of those.
Speaker 2: Sure when you trade a seventh round pick for a
Speaker 2: guy who plays ninety nine point nine percent of your
Speaker 2: defensive snaps on the season and plays it at a
Speaker 2: decent level, yeah, that's a win.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And so again we're kind of just saying the same
Speaker 4: thing over and over in different ways. But you know,
Speaker 4: we're writers that's what we do. Why say one Why
Speaker 4: say it one time when I can say it's seven different.
Speaker 2: Ways exactly I mean and and again, this year was
Speaker 2: going to be a process. So what do you want
Speaker 2: to see? Do you want to see it? You want
Speaker 2: to see a personality developed? Check it has You want
Speaker 2: to give young players opportunities to play? Yep, did that already.
Speaker 2: And with Jayden crummeny getting on the field, you've basically
Speaker 2: seen the entire draft class out there. Over the course
Speaker 2: of the season. You found out, Okay, maybe Shaw Smith
Speaker 2: Wade can be a nickel for this team moving forward.
Speaker 3: He's got a little something about him.
Speaker 2: You know, you saw Travel Wallace play some pretty good
Speaker 2: football up until he got it shoulder injury late and
Speaker 2: he shut down for the rest.
Speaker 3: Of the year.
Speaker 2: So you know you're seeing these guys, with the exception
Speaker 2: of Jonathan Brooks and the unfortunate knee injury. Again, you
Speaker 2: know you've seen what you wanted to see out of
Speaker 2: most of these guys. So I think the stage is
Speaker 2: set for the future.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: You kind of got to get through these next two
Speaker 2: weeks and once you get on the other side of
Speaker 2: these games, then you're going to know your schedule.
Speaker 3: Then you're going to know where.
Speaker 2: You draft and all these other things that you've been
Speaker 2: working on or thinking about over the course of the season,
Speaker 2: then you can start working on intently. Listen, the Carolina
Speaker 2: Panthers are not good at run defense. They're last in
Speaker 2: the league, and they're last in the league by a
Speaker 2: wide margin. I think the Giants are thirty first, and
Speaker 2: the Panthers are about four hundred and ninety some rushing
Speaker 2: yards behind them in terms of rushing yards allowed. And
Speaker 2: it's you know, and it's largely because you lost to
Speaker 2: Derek Brown in Week one, and having a big three
Speaker 2: or andre and forty pound anchor in the middle of
Speaker 2: your line who you can count on for one hundred
Speaker 2: tackles a year, apparently that makes a difference. And losing
Speaker 2: your signal caller in Week four, that apparently makes a difference.
Speaker 2: And so they're gonna have opportunities and intent to fix that.
Speaker 2: I mean, no matter what else happens. I would imagine
Speaker 2: Dan Morgan and Brandt Tillis's priority is fixing that defensive
Speaker 2: front seven this year because the secondary has largely been
Speaker 2: pretty good and it's largely been present.
Speaker 3: I mean J C.
Speaker 2: Horn Also, you know, I think he's been identified as
Speaker 2: one of those core pieces that this team wants to
Speaker 2: build around, and he's been available all year as and
Speaker 2: has played at a high level. So I think the
Speaker 2: focus is going to be on fixing that front seven.
Speaker 3: I think they've got other work to do on offense.
Speaker 2: Sure would be nice if there was a wide receiver
Speaker 2: other than x L who had actually been drafted. That
Speaker 2: would be fun. You know, undrafted rookies are good, but
Speaker 2: they're reaching that point where you to add talent to
Speaker 2: this thing. So there's a lot to be done, but
Speaker 2: two more games to get through, beginning with this week's
Speaker 2: trip to Tampa.
Speaker 5: Two things.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 4: Adam Thielen made an interesting point yesterday because he was
Speaker 4: asked about do you do you not like Kevin to
Speaker 4: go on you would you rather be at home for
Speaker 4: the final two games? Does it kind of stuck having
Speaker 4: to go on the road, And he said, actually, it's
Speaker 4: kind of nice because when you're on the road, you
Speaker 4: only have each other.
Speaker 5: And you know this is this is by the time.
Speaker 4: We get to Atlanta and then you come back for
Speaker 4: locker clean out day. You know, we say it every year,
Speaker 4: this is the last time the twenty twenty four of
Speaker 4: Carolina Panthers will be together. Every team goes through changes,
Speaker 4: Inevitably during an off season, it's going to look different,
Speaker 4: and so.
Speaker 5: It's the last time for them to be together. But
Speaker 5: those that will be back next.
Speaker 4: Year, that's another chance for them to kind of come
Speaker 4: together and say, this is what we've done this year,
Speaker 4: this is who we've become, this is who we want
Speaker 4: to be moving forward. Second thing, you mentioned losing your
Speaker 4: signal caller, and that reminded me. I don't think i've
Speaker 4: shared this story yet. You probably know this, but I
Speaker 4: thought it was interesting. I was talking to Josie a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago, and I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 5: It was the.
Speaker 4: What game was before the Cardinals Cowboys, and he had
Speaker 4: gotten hurt and he came out at one point.
Speaker 2: Right the lean called down for him to get a
Speaker 2: concussion chick. Yes, he fell on his elbow and his
Speaker 2: arm kind of went out the angle and the concussion
Speaker 2: spot or is conditioned to say. Bensinger response, make sure
Speaker 2: that guy goes get checked. Josie was not happy about that.
Speaker 4: By the way, appreciate the guy doing his job, but yeah,
Speaker 4: Josie had to come off, and I believe John Radigan
Speaker 4: went on as the Green dot, so it was John
Speaker 4: Radagan and Jacobe win Men out there. So I was
Speaker 4: asking Josie what do they do when you come off?
Speaker 4: Because you could tell he was itching to get back
Speaker 4: out there as soon as they let him go. I
Speaker 4: was like, what do they do when you come off?
Speaker 4: Because you have the helmet? And he said, you know,
Speaker 4: they've got back up community communicative helmets. And he said,
Speaker 4: but I'll be honest. When something happens and I realize
Speaker 4: I'm about to have to come off, even for just
Speaker 4: a play, I lay there longer than necessary.
Speaker 5: To give them time to switch the helmets.
Speaker 3: Sh I'm not supposed to tell.
Speaker 5: People that I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 2: No, it's it's true. I mean, and Josie is a
Speaker 2: Josie's a smart guy. Josie has been through this. He
Speaker 2: knows how this worked. So it was, uh yeah, that
Speaker 2: sequence was kind of a scramble too. I mean because
Speaker 2: when you go the week after putting Trevin Wallace clued
Speaker 2: in Cherilis hall On injured reserve, and then boom, Josie
Speaker 2: has to go out for a play and.
Speaker 5: We're literally down to your fifth and sixth linebacker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was just good. It's like a
Speaker 2: metaphor or something. Sometimes these stories smack you in the face.
Speaker 2: So we will see what smacks us in the face
Speaker 2: in Tampa this week.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to get smacked in
Speaker 4: the face in Tampa. Have you ever been to a
Speaker 4: Gasparilla parade?
Speaker 2: I yes, I have enjoyed one year during the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl down there. Super Bowl Week coincided with Gasparilla.
Speaker 5: What a party.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a sight to see.
Speaker 2: I remember, Uh, yeah, I remember some things about that trip.
Speaker 3: It was, uh, it was quite the sight to see.
Speaker 3: You know. Gasparilla is kind.
Speaker 2: Of like Pirate Marty Gray basically is probably.
Speaker 3: The best way to put it.
Speaker 5: But uh, Martin girls starting up here soon.
Speaker 2: We'll go see our friends, the Pirates. I just love
Speaker 2: the fact that there's a boat with actual cannons and.
Speaker 3: It's, uh, it's cool.
Speaker 2: Maybe we won't see, uh, maybe we won't hear too
Speaker 2: many cannon shots this week.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But the Bucks got something to play for, the Falcons
Speaker 2: got stuff to play for the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: and we'll get to all that.
Speaker 4: But it is kind of funny that for as much
Speaker 4: as the Carolina Panthers quote unquote don't control their own
Speaker 4: fade and completely or out of the playoffs, they could
Speaker 4: have a big impact on what happens in the NFC
Speaker 4: South playoff picture.
Speaker 3: No next two.
Speaker 2: Weeks, no question, no question. And nobody likes being spoiler.
Speaker 2: But hey, this time of year, that's uh, that's about
Speaker 2: all you can think about. Just I mean, motivate yourself somehow. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because you're just trying to get of the stretch.
Speaker 4: Like Coney said, we know we're not in it, so
Speaker 4: who wants to be here?
Speaker 3: Speaking of getting to the stretch?
Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys have been keeping up
Speaker 2: with the injury report this week. God bless our friends
Speaker 2: Kevin King and the good folks in the athletic training department.
Speaker 2: They've been passing out masks again. It's almost like COVID time.
Speaker 2: This thing's going through the room. I have struggled with
Speaker 2: it for much of the last four or five weeks.
Speaker 3: Cassy's been looking at me like, God, Darren looks like he's.
Speaker 2: About to die. Cass comes in today. You know, listen,
Speaker 2: we're all trying to get to the end of the season. Okay,
Speaker 2: I've been operating at about seventy five percent for the
Speaker 2: last five weeks. My wife finally came down with she's
Speaker 2: coughing and hacking and keeping me up all night, which
Speaker 2: frankly is ruining.
Speaker 3: My good nights.
Speaker 5: That's true of her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it's highly inconsiderate of people to get sick.
Speaker 3: So here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Here's here's my last plead to you, are friends of
Speaker 2: the Happy half Hour family. Cover when you call, yes,
Speaker 2: do the vampire. As I used to tell my kids,
Speaker 2: put that elbow right over your mouth and cover that
Speaker 2: thing up.
Speaker 3: Wash your hand. These are things I shouldn't have to
Speaker 3: tell with a human beings.
Speaker 4: But you would think we would have learned in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two. But I will say because I don't always
Speaker 4: like think about it as instinctly as I could. But
Speaker 4: this morning I was downstairs, I was getting coughing, I sneezed,
Speaker 4: and I did the vampire. And then I was talking
Speaker 4: to one of the fine ladies there in the calf downstairs,
Speaker 4: and I said, give me just a second, let me
Speaker 4: go wash my hands. And I turned around and washed
Speaker 4: my hands in the scene.
Speaker 3: There you go, There you go.
Speaker 2: What we can do it for other people, be considerate
Speaker 2: of those around you, try to be a good citizen
Speaker 2: of the earth. And isn't that kind of the lesson
Speaker 2: of the holidays anyway? And that what we're supposed to
Speaker 2: be doing, like that, looking out for other people, you know,
Speaker 2: trying to make it a better place for somebody else. Yeah,
Speaker 2: something like that. We'll go back to. It's it might
Speaker 2: be time for me to watch The Grinch, but I.
Speaker 4: Watched it the other day. It's been a while since
Speaker 4: I've watched it, and it's kind of surprising. And I
Speaker 4: know this is like Matt's favorite Christmas movie. He thinks
Speaker 4: it's Jim Carrey's best work.
Speaker 5: Whatever.
Speaker 4: It's almost like he's so good in that role that
Speaker 4: I would be scared to show it to a kid,
Speaker 4: because I feel like they would get scared.
Speaker 2: You catch him young enough, I can see that scarring someone.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's like.
Speaker 5: He had yellow eyes. He was scary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a simpler time when we, you know,
Speaker 2: just had the cartoon version voiced by Boris Karloff, an
Speaker 2: actual vampire who's not just doing the vampire.
Speaker 5: Was he Dracula?
Speaker 2: Yes, anyone? Yeah, we will go through all that. There's
Speaker 2: Christmas movies to discuss. Don't even get me started. We
Speaker 2: watched some of the worst during the holiday season.
Speaker 5: Please give people your review of Hot Frosty.
Speaker 2: My ForWord review of Hot Frosty, Hot Frosty, Hot garbage.
Speaker 3: That was terrible.
Speaker 2: The vet from Chit's Creek was a snowman come to life.
Speaker 4: I watched that Taylor three times before I realized it
Speaker 4: was the vet from Shit's Creek.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was awful. It was the worst thing I've
Speaker 2: ever seen in my life. I'm truly troubled that a
Speaker 2: it was made that b I watched it and see
Speaker 2: other people apparently did too. So we all need to decompress.
Speaker 2: I think you go home and get well.
Speaker 5: I will do that. Do you have a song for me?
Speaker 2: Uh? Oh man, I forgot songs this week? There are
Speaker 2: no New Year's songs.
Speaker 4: There is a New Year song and that's the one
Speaker 4: I was gonna sign.
Speaker 3: You all right, talk to me about new Year's.
Speaker 5: Song called New Year's Day. It is by one Taylor's fifth.
Speaker 3: Oh imagine that a Taylor Swift song.
Speaker 4: It's actually I will say this so mostly so that
Speaker 4: you don't come back and crap on it next week.
Speaker 4: It is my favorite love song of hers.
Speaker 2: Oh well, there you go, so you've set the stage.
Speaker 2: I can't criticize it. We'll get caught up.
Speaker 5: I actually do want You're real.
Speaker 2: I will give this a solid listen and report back
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 3: But man, I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 2: Too much Christmas, too much nog, too much football, too
Speaker 2: much respiratory virus, not enough sleep.
Speaker 5: There has been a lot of football this week.
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of football going on, and I'm
Speaker 2: not even participating in your trouble.
Speaker 3: Troubling amount of interest in ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Last night and I watched, not even the live version,
Speaker 4: the replay of the sixty eight Venturers Bowl between Arkansas
Speaker 4: State and Bowling Green.
Speaker 3: I don't even want to talk to you anymore.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna call it an episode at that point. Friends,
Speaker 2: that's been the happy half hour. We'll try better next time.