Speaker 1: All right, everybody, welcome to this week's Happy half Hour.
Speaker 1: It's like Christmas and Stuff podcast. Matt's got the tree
Speaker 1: up over here behind the boards. I'm feeling very festive,
Speaker 1: and I am promising you this podcast is now seventy
Speaker 1: six point four percent happier because I have a co host. Finally,
Speaker 1: you no longer have to listen to me yell at
Speaker 1: the sky for thirty minutes at a time, and that
Speaker 1: will make everyone who listens to this podcast happier. Welcome
Speaker 1: new Carolina Panthers dot com staff writer Cassidy Hill to
Speaker 1: the podcast. Everybody.
Speaker 2: Hey, yay, I'm gonna cheer myself. Thanks so much for
Speaker 2: having me. I am very curious. How do you mathematically
Speaker 2: figure that out that it's seventy six point four percent happier.
Speaker 1: It's just statistics. I've calculated it all I got I've
Speaker 1: got it on a spreadsheet with JJ Jansen downstairs. We
Speaker 1: have done all the calculations. It's a confirmed fact.
Speaker 2: See I was told it would be no math.
Speaker 1: It's just science and it's just math and there's no
Speaker 1: arguing with it. But no, we are happy to have
Speaker 1: you here. This is an unusual podcast because Cassidy didn't
Speaker 1: even know she was going to be on a podcast today.
Speaker 1: This is her first official day of employment with the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers, and she's already written for the website because
Speaker 1: we do know your foe this week. And she knows
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers pretty much better than anybody in
Speaker 1: the building other than maybe the coaches downstairs who've been
Speaker 1: breaking down tape all week. Cassidy, tell these fine people
Speaker 1: why you know so much about the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2: I got access to their black book, and I bought
Speaker 2: it on the black market. No, I have spent the
Speaker 2: past two years and one month in Green Bay, Wisconsin,
Speaker 2: covering the Packers all the ins and outs, the end
Speaker 2: of the Aaron Rodgers era, the beginning of the Jordan
Speaker 2: Love era, or the Lover Era as a swifty fans
Speaker 2: call it, and yeah, getting to know that team pretty
Speaker 2: well the past two years and a month. The guys
Speaker 2: knew that the guys in the packer's locker room knew
Speaker 2: this is where I was coming, that this was my
Speaker 2: new job and I would be here this particular week,
Speaker 2: and they did not let me forget it. In the
Speaker 2: locker room the past week. They every time I would
Speaker 2: walk by and they like to say, nope, nope, you're
Speaker 2: an op. Now I'm not talking to you. But then
Speaker 2: they were, of course still very gracious with their time.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they they let me hear it that they
Speaker 2: knew this is where I was coming this particular week.
Speaker 1: That's great. They're freezing you out. Yeah on the way here.
Speaker 1: You know. Here's the thing, it's all, it's all just football.
Speaker 1: We'll be okay at the end of this. So if
Speaker 1: we're human beings to each other, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of that stuff will sort itself out. So anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about give us the two
Speaker 1: minute elevator pitch of who Cassidy Hill is and what
Speaker 1: we can expect here on our channels for the next
Speaker 1: many many years.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can fit myself in two minutes,
Speaker 2: but let's try. So. I was born and raised in Alabama,
Speaker 2: down in Sweet Home, Alabama. That is where all of
Speaker 2: my family still. I was telling y'all this morning. My
Speaker 2: family runs a one hundred and fifty acre cow and
Speaker 2: hay farm. And I went the complete opposite way and
Speaker 2: I worked in football. I went to University of Alabama.
Speaker 2: Was a disappointment to my entire family of Auburn fans
Speaker 2: by going there, got to cover a national championship or
Speaker 2: two while I was there as a student reporter, and
Speaker 2: then spent ten years in Florida covering the Florida Gators
Speaker 2: and the Jacksonville Jaguars, so I actually am very familiar
Speaker 2: with the next two opponents for the Carolina Panthers, and
Speaker 2: then from Florida went to Green Bay, where I've been
Speaker 2: for the past two years. And Yeah, this is what
Speaker 2: I always wanted to do. This is what I love
Speaker 2: to do more than anything, is just kind of helping
Speaker 2: people tell their stories. Everybody in that locker room has
Speaker 2: a story to tell, Everybody all around this building and
Speaker 2: this city has a story to tell. What can I
Speaker 2: do to help you tell it? That's what I'm here for.
Speaker 2: Things to know about me as you get to know
Speaker 2: me on this podcast. As Darren said, I am a
Speaker 2: huge Tailor Swiss fan, so I'll probably make many many
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to slide a Taylor Swift reference into
Speaker 2: every episode, at least one to see if people can
Speaker 2: find it and notice it. Let's see what else. I
Speaker 2: think The Replacements is the greatest football movie ever made,
Speaker 2: and I'll die on that hill. I know no one
Speaker 2: else will agree with me, So I like to throw
Speaker 2: that in there, and I'm trying to think of what else.
Speaker 2: By off time, you're probably gonna find me reading that's
Speaker 2: the easiest way to wind down. Or hopping on a plane.
Speaker 2: My dad says, if I've got twelve dollars in my
Speaker 2: passport in my pocket, I'll hop on a plane to anywhere.
Speaker 2: And that's pretty true. So either reading or traveling, that's
Speaker 2: those are two vastly different downtimes. That's what I like
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can promise you when you make Taylor Swift references,
Speaker 1: I am probably not going to get them. When we
Speaker 1: told people on the Twitter machine that you were coming,
Speaker 1: somebody said, oh no, Cassiy's not going to be able
Speaker 1: to hang out with the Grouchy old men on their
Speaker 1: podcast up there, and I was like, oh, yes, she will.
Speaker 1: We are well stocked and grouchy old here at the
Speaker 1: Happy half Hour.
Speaker 2: Well that's partner because I'm well versed in grumpy old Man.
Speaker 1: So it's uh, it's just part of what we offer
Speaker 1: the people here. So anyway, Yeah, it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: be cool. Cassidy is. She is bright and creative, and
Speaker 1: she works hard, and she stood out in a process
Speaker 1: where we talked to a lot of people to fill
Speaker 1: this job in the middle of the season, and she
Speaker 1: was good enough to come in the middle of the
Speaker 1: season and help us out coming down the stretch, because basically,
Speaker 1: I wanted to get her in here so she could
Speaker 1: meet a lot of these people before he scattered for
Speaker 1: the off season, because it you know, and in the interim,
Speaker 1: in the time when this job opened up and before
Speaker 1: we located her and secured her services, there was a
Speaker 1: coaching change. So there's going to be a lot of
Speaker 1: change around this place in the next little bit. So
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're here, boots on the ground, able to
Speaker 1: help us document it.
Speaker 2: So's to be a part.
Speaker 1: Of Yeah, Cassy is going to get a chance to
Speaker 1: learn all about Charlotte from grumpy old man who lived
Speaker 1: here all his life. She's gonna get a chance to
Speaker 1: learn about the Carolina Panthers. We're gonna get a chance
Speaker 1: to learn about her. If you are a regular listener
Speaker 1: to this podcast, you will know that the last time
Speaker 1: we convened, we were talking about Ah, we don't know
Speaker 1: what's coming, but it could be a mess, and it
Speaker 1: was a mess. And if you stood out in the
Speaker 1: rain for three hours and watch the Carolina Panthers beat
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons nine to seven on Sunday, then you
Speaker 1: are officially my people. Because there is nothing I like
Speaker 1: more than the people who show up when times are
Speaker 1: good when times are bad. And I can promise you
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers understand, know and believe that if you
Speaker 1: were out there in it with them on Sunday, you
Speaker 1: are in it with them, period. And I have all
Speaker 1: the respect in the world. From our vantage point in
Speaker 1: the press box, there were a couple of fans sitting
Speaker 1: up in section five nineteen in their signed seats in
Speaker 1: the about fourth from top row, and they were there
Speaker 1: the entire game. I have nothing but respect for those people.
Speaker 1: Those might not be Green Bay conditions, but is a
Speaker 1: mess out there Sunday. And you know, the game itself
Speaker 1: was a little bit of a mess too. It took,
Speaker 1: as with many Carolina Panthers games this year, it took
Speaker 1: all day to get the offense rolling, and it rolled
Speaker 1: in that last seven and a half minutes in a
Speaker 1: way that we hadn't seen in a long time. Bryce
Speaker 1: Young has struggled to throw the ball a lot this season.
Speaker 1: I think there's been a lot of struggles well documented
Speaker 1: with the passing offense. But something clicked with seven and
Speaker 1: a half minutes left in that game and Bryce was dealing.
Speaker 1: It was wet, it was cold, the wind was blowing,
Speaker 1: and he was dropping dimes all over the field. I mean,
Speaker 1: Bryce was a different quarterback that last position and kind
Speaker 1: of pointed to some of the stuff they talked about
Speaker 1: going through the draft process, about the way he sees
Speaker 1: the field, the way he puts the balls into tight windows.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was that was as good in a
Speaker 1: and a half minute stretches we've seen him throw the
Speaker 1: ball all season, and to do it in those conditions,
Speaker 1: you just respect the fact that he was able to
Speaker 1: pull that together. So Hey, instead of standing out in
Speaker 1: the rain for three hours and being miserable, they stood
Speaker 1: out in the rain for three hours and got to
Speaker 1: enjoy a win. And it was quite a win. Those
Speaker 1: guys they needed that. Chris Tabor needed it his first
Speaker 1: win as an interim head coach. He lost his only
Speaker 1: game as an interim head coach with the Bears a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago when Covid forced him to take
Speaker 1: over for a week. So good for Tabes to get
Speaker 1: a win, Good for Bryce Young to actually have that drive.
Speaker 1: He's got two game winning drives now this season, which
Speaker 1: is exactly as many as Dak Prescott and a lot
Speaker 1: of other people who are associated with being very good
Speaker 1: at throwing the football. I think Patrick Mahomes has two
Speaker 1: of those this year and Bryce has two. Now is
Speaker 1: it everything? It is not. It is a very small thing.
Speaker 1: They remained two and twelve. This has been a frustrating
Speaker 1: season four a lot of people. But as I pointed
Speaker 1: out in the mailbag the other day, it beats the
Speaker 1: alternative because if you stand out and rain for three
Speaker 1: hours and end up one and thirteen at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, then all you can think about is
Speaker 1: how wet and cold, miserable you are and how much
Speaker 1: longer do we have to do this? So it lightened
Speaker 1: the mood considerably, and now it actually makes it a
Speaker 1: little more interesting. The Packers are rolling in here this
Speaker 1: week and they've got some issues, don't they. You know
Speaker 1: this what happened to the Green Bay Packers, especially on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball in the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks.
Speaker 2: You know, Darren. That defense is so many, full of
Speaker 2: so many question marks, full of so many holes. It's
Speaker 2: Swiss cheese, which is fitting for cheeseheads.
Speaker 1: I see what you did there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And when you've got a quarterback like Bryce that
Speaker 2: can deal because you can build off drives like that.
Speaker 2: You can, especially for a rookie quarterback, if you've got
Speaker 2: a seven and a half minute drive where you're doing
Speaker 2: exactly what you want to do. That's something you can
Speaker 2: build off of and you can come in when you've
Speaker 2: got a defense like the Packers that nat notoriously plays
Speaker 2: so far off the line, you know, And that's sort
Speaker 2: of the issue there is you've got a defense that
Speaker 2: will play scared at times, and it's got eight first
Speaker 2: rounders on that defense, there shouldn't be that many issues.
Speaker 2: But they will play six seven yards off the line
Speaker 2: of scrimmage, especially the corners, and play a soft zone.
Speaker 2: But the issue when you play soft zone is that
Speaker 2: it's really dependent on turnovers, and they're not getting the turnovers.
Speaker 2: And they have the talent to play man, but they're
Speaker 2: not playing man because they have a play caller that's
Speaker 2: almost scared to play man. And so when you do
Speaker 2: that and you've got man corners and man safety or
Speaker 2: man corners playing a soft zone. A quarterback can stand
Speaker 2: back there and pick them apart all day long. And
Speaker 2: that's exactly what's been happening. People are going to look
Speaker 2: at this last game that the Packers lost this past
Speaker 2: week and against Tampa Bay, and you know, Baker Mayfield
Speaker 2: left Lambeoufield as the first opposing quarterback in history to
Speaker 2: leave Lambofield with a perfect passer rating. And they're going
Speaker 2: to look at that game and go, that was a really,
Speaker 2: really bad game. That's probably the worst game that defense
Speaker 2: could play. But that game was not an anomaly. That
Speaker 2: game was a manifestation of everything that's been going wrong
Speaker 2: with this defense for the past two years, and all
Speaker 2: of the issues came to light at once. You know,
Speaker 2: they couldn't get home with their pass rush. They sacked
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield five times, but that's because Baker Mayfield likes
Speaker 2: to dance in the pocket. He's not as much of
Speaker 2: a scrambler as people.
Speaker 1: Like to say he is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, that's right. He was here. You know, people
Speaker 2: call Baker a scrambler, but he's not. He's a dancer.
Speaker 2: He'll stay in the pocket. So five sacks is really
Speaker 2: sort of low for what they should have been able
Speaker 2: to do. And that's because again that pass rush can
Speaker 2: get home with four against certain quarterbacks, and so they
Speaker 2: only ever send four. I don't think there was but
Speaker 2: one blitz that entire game. So if you've got a
Speaker 2: quarterback like Bryce, that is, if he's comfortable moving the pocket,
Speaker 2: and this is something I want to learn more about him,
Speaker 2: you know, because I mainly just watched him in college.
Speaker 2: If he's comfortable moving, if he's comfortable on boots, if
Speaker 2: he's comfortable especially on neckd boot, he can get out
Speaker 2: there and really kind of take advantage of some holes
Speaker 2: in that secondary.
Speaker 1: She's from Alabama, folks. She just said nicked boot, not
Speaker 1: naked nicked. That's any kkid nicked.
Speaker 2: There are seven different versions of that word, and that
Speaker 2: is one of them, and they all mean something different.
Speaker 1: Yeah it does. Oh man, that's great. So the other
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to ask you about with your experience
Speaker 1: with the Packers, and you mentioned kind of being there
Speaker 1: as they bridged from Aaron Rodgers to the not Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: I believe in my heart that Packers fans, by and
Speaker 1: large are spoiled, yes, because for the last thirty five
Speaker 1: years they've always had an all pro level quarterback to
Speaker 1: deal with, whether it's Brett Farv, whether it's Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: And as we know here in Carolina, I tried to
Speaker 1: remind people as often as I could during the Cam
Speaker 1: Newton era, it ain't always like this gang. And we've
Speaker 1: seen that firsthand over the last five years, where you
Speaker 1: go from Teddy Bridgewater to Sam Darnold to Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: back to Sam Darry with a little bit of PJ.
Speaker 1: Walker mixed in there every now and then too, And
Speaker 1: it's just it's never easy when you don't have that guy.
Speaker 1: And how has the response been in Green Bay to
Speaker 1: Jordan Love because they drafted him to kind of be
Speaker 1: that understudy, you know, and to be that eventual replacement
Speaker 1: for Aaron. But now that it's all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: not Farver, Aaron Rodgers, how's he doing well?
Speaker 2: This is something that the rest of the NFC North
Speaker 2: doesn't want to hear. But he can be that guy,
Speaker 2: and I think he will be because it's a tactic
Speaker 2: that the Packers have had since they drafted Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: to replace Brett Farv. And they've done it again with
Speaker 2: Jordan Love is let him wait two three years in
Speaker 2: waiting and learn from the guy in front of him.
Speaker 2: And you know the first half of the season when
Speaker 2: Jordan Love in this offense was struggling, Packers fans were
Speaker 2: very frustrated, and you had thirty I said this many
Speaker 2: many times. You've got thirty one other teams that don't
Speaker 2: feel sorry for you, and they're like, welcome to the
Speaker 2: real world. This is what it's like in a quarterback change.
Speaker 2: But then you see Jordan Love, you have to remember
Speaker 2: he's surrounded by guys that are first and second year guys.
Speaker 2: All of his in fact, all of his past catchers
Speaker 2: are first and second year guys. The oldest guy in
Speaker 2: that room is twenty five years old and has only
Speaker 2: actually played three games this season. His main guys are rookies,
Speaker 2: His leading tight end is leading receiver, they're all rookies.
Speaker 2: His only veteran offensive weapons are the two running backs,
Speaker 2: Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon, And so there were going
Speaker 2: to be a lot of growing pains. Aaron Rodgers first year,
Speaker 2: he had guys like Jordi Nelson and he had the
Speaker 2: tight end. I'm trying to remember now I'm blinking, but
Speaker 2: he had veteran.
Speaker 1: Pass catchers, stadies, so many veteran guys around right for
Speaker 1: so long, and.
Speaker 2: I think it was even before the guy before Mercedes, like,
Speaker 2: he had so many veteran guys, and he still struggled
Speaker 2: his first six games as well. In fact, through the
Speaker 2: first half of this season, Love and Rogers' numbers from
Speaker 2: Rogers first season are almost identical, and so I think
Speaker 2: that you know, hindsight, you look back with rose colored
Speaker 2: glasses and you only remember the four MVPs, and people
Speaker 2: forgot that that first year with Aaron Rodgers was a
Speaker 2: little rough going to get started to Jordan Love was
Speaker 2: gonna have to go through some of those growing pains.
Speaker 2: You really saw it start versus the Rams, but then
Speaker 2: especially versus the Steelers. Things even though that was a loss,
Speaker 2: things started to click for that offense. And they've even
Speaker 2: had a couple of bad games the past two weeks
Speaker 2: and still been in it with a chance to win,
Speaker 2: which is something you couldn't say the first half of
Speaker 2: the season. And so it was frustrating for the first
Speaker 2: half of the season, but you also saw a fan
Speaker 2: base go have to constantly remind themselves, Okay, we're upset. Well,
Speaker 2: we have to be patient. We have to be patient.
Speaker 2: We have to be patient, and I think it's going
Speaker 2: to pay off, because I think the Packers might have
Speaker 2: done it again and drafted a third straight incredible quarterback.
Speaker 1: We will see, as fans here know, having a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback start from day one isn't always the ideal situation either.
Speaker 1: But we'll see how these two guys grow and develop.
Speaker 1: And that's what's going to be one of the curious
Speaker 1: things to me. You mentioned those guys teasing you once
Speaker 1: they realized you were coming this way, beyond giving you
Speaker 1: a hard time. What are they saying in Green Bay
Speaker 1: about when they see the Carolina Panthers, you know, on tape,
Speaker 1: obviously struggling this year. What are they mentioning when they
Speaker 1: talk about this football team.
Speaker 2: It's actually interesting because of when I did leave, I
Speaker 2: don't think I was really in a locker room and
Speaker 2: they were talking about the Panthers that much. It was
Speaker 2: more so looking ahead to the Bucks. But just from
Speaker 2: what I know of that team and then Lessie, today
Speaker 2: is Thursday, right, So yeah, the quarterback talked yesterday. I know,
Speaker 2: especially on defense, there's a lot of internal looks right now,
Speaker 2: a lot of internal debate, what are we doing wrong?
Speaker 2: And they know that. You've got a lot of these
Speaker 2: guys too, that played against Bryce Young in college, because
Speaker 2: especially in the secondary, they're young enough that they've played
Speaker 2: against Bryce Young before, so they know what he can do.
Speaker 2: Some of them have been beaten by Bryce Young in college,
Speaker 2: so they know what he can do. They know what
Speaker 2: he's capable of. And it's, you know, a matter of
Speaker 2: what can we do with ourselves, especially after the past
Speaker 2: couple of weeks. And I know that's going to be
Speaker 2: the case on offense as well, because as anybody knows,
Speaker 2: any given Sunday, that's why you play the game. That's
Speaker 2: why it's on the field any given Sunday, any team
Speaker 2: can win.
Speaker 1: No doubt about that. And we will stay caught up
Speaker 1: with all the football stuff later. But yeah, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to take this week's podcast, give everybody a chance
Speaker 1: to get to know Cassidy a little bit. She's gonna
Speaker 1: follow right in. She is, as people used to say
Speaker 1: around here, one of us. And I am going to
Speaker 1: tell you, folks, Carolina Panthers fans might not know who
Speaker 1: Zane Anderson is. But Zane Anderson.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of Packers fans that don't know who
Speaker 2: Jane Anderson is either.
Speaker 1: But Zane Anderson is a big part of the reason
Speaker 1: Cassidy Hill is sitting here in this room right now,
Speaker 1: because I can give you my version of the backstory.
Speaker 1: This was a guy they claimed off waivers and immediately
Speaker 1: got hurt, and nobody knew who he was, and on
Speaker 1: social media in Green Bay, it kind of became a
Speaker 1: thing like is Zane Anderson even real? Rather than just
Speaker 1: sit back and observe this happening, young Cassidy here grabbed
Speaker 1: a hold of it and created content, and she talked
Speaker 1: to guys and said, hey, are you Sane Anderson? Is
Speaker 1: Sane Anderson even a real person? Can you confirm me exist?
Speaker 1: And it jumped out when I was going through a
Speaker 1: million resumes and a million you know, clips and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff that you see when you have
Speaker 1: a job like this open you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of the same kind of stuff, And I was like,
Speaker 1: this one right here, she thinks differently. She she is creative.
Speaker 1: So thank you to Zane Anderson, uh for your contributions
Speaker 1: to bringing Cassidy Hill here to the Carolina Panthers. We
Speaker 1: appreciate you for that. And I mean, how'd that go?
Speaker 1: I mean you had you had fun with that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean I kept seeing the joke on social media
Speaker 2: that you know, is Aan Anderson even a real person?
Speaker 2: Is Jane Anderson employee by Goody? That's the general manager there,
Speaker 2: Brian GOODI is San Anderson employeed by Goody to manipulate
Speaker 2: the salary cap? Like is he even? Is he bigfoot?
Speaker 2: People would share pictures of Bigfoot and be like, that's
Speaker 2: all San Andrews under practice today. And so we had
Speaker 2: some time to kill in the locker room, and so
Speaker 2: I was very blessed with a locker room that was
Speaker 2: willing to play along with me and have fun with me.
Speaker 2: Seems like that's going to be the case here at
Speaker 2: Carolina as well. And so I just went around to
Speaker 2: a couple of the guys and was like, are you
Speaker 2: Jane Anderson? And Aaron Jones said maybe, I think I'm
Speaker 2: actually Zane Anderson, And then went to Zane himself and
Speaker 2: I was like, are you a real person? Are you here?
Speaker 2: And he was like, I promise I'm me. I really
Speaker 2: am me. I'm not fake. I'm not a dream and
Speaker 2: it ended up being great and able to make that
Speaker 2: connection because then a couple of weeks later he had
Speaker 2: an incredible play on special teams that really kind of
Speaker 2: swung the game. It gave the offense back great position
Speaker 2: and was able to go back ain't and be like,
Speaker 2: you prove to everybody you were real. Now everybody knows
Speaker 2: for sure whose Aint Anderson is and so appreciate the
Speaker 2: guys having fun with me. Look forward to doing that
Speaker 2: here as well.
Speaker 1: And that's the kind of thing we've talked. I've talked
Speaker 1: to a lot of people as we went through the
Speaker 1: interview process of bringing somebody into this position, and the
Speaker 1: thing I've said over and over is, you know, what
Speaker 1: we want to do is make these people three dimensional
Speaker 1: human beings. We want to show them what show fans
Speaker 1: what these guys are like with the helmets off, and
Speaker 1: show them their personalities, let them tell their stories. And
Speaker 1: this young woman sitting here with me is exceptional at that.
Speaker 1: She is good at getting the stories out of people
Speaker 1: and sharing them with fans. And that's why we wanted
Speaker 1: to bring her here and make her a part of
Speaker 1: this team full of people who have the same goal.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's been tough. This year has not
Speaker 1: been ideal, as you might have noticed, but there's still
Speaker 1: the opportunity. I think we've done as good a job
Speaker 1: as possible in an unusual situation of a kind of
Speaker 1: being able to tell the story of these people. We've
Speaker 1: got a better sense of who Bryce Shung is now
Speaker 1: than we did a year ago. We've gotten to know
Speaker 1: a lot of new people. There's been a lot of
Speaker 1: new faces roll in and out of this place in
Speaker 1: the last little bit, and that's going to continue for
Speaker 1: the next few months. So we are grateful that Cassidy
Speaker 1: is here with us. I am grateful that she is
Speaker 1: going to teach me about Taylor Swift, whose catalog I
Speaker 1: am not as familiar with.
Speaker 2: Oh, we are going to have some fun with that.
Speaker 2: She has music across three different genres, Darren, and over
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty songs in her catalog. I am
Speaker 2: going to find something for you to like.
Speaker 1: I am here for the education. I am willing to
Speaker 1: become an adjunct Swifty perhaps if that's what it takes
Speaker 1: to keep this thing going. But we are grateful for
Speaker 1: all that, and we are grateful to you, the listeners,
Speaker 1: the people who tune into the Happy half Hour every week.
Speaker 1: We'll see what next week brings with the packers rolling
Speaker 1: in on Sunday. But the one thing you know for
Speaker 1: sure is from now on you don't have to listen
Speaker 1: to Darra and just yell at the sky by himself,
Speaker 1: because I got help now. A merry Christmas, indeed, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll see y'all next week on the Happy half Hour