WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 103: Clean Your Yard 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.400 This week on the Happy Half Hour, Augusta and I 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:06.880 can create a good podcast, we can write a good story, 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.360 we can keep up to date information on the website. 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:11.320 I can't fix oh in five, So I'm gonna clean 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:13.800 up my yard. And I think that's what everybody downstairs 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.040 is trying to do, is filter out some of that 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.599 noise and some of that fake problems and keep the 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:25.799 focus on the real stuff instead. It's time for the 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:29.639 Happy half Hour with your friends Kristin Balboni, Augusta Stone, 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:37.519 and Darren Gannon. Welcome for the Happy half Hour. And 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.479 it's still called the Happy half Hour even though the 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:42.880 football team's ZHO and five, because we have no control 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.120 of that and we already felt that Happy half Hour 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:46.919 was a good name for a podcast and it took 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:48.080 too much time to change it. 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.479 We can be happy about some things, you can. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.160 I was gonna, you know, you always like go back 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.440 to the weather, but it is raining today in Charlotte, 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.800 So it's kind of like, dang, I got. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.920 Football team Zone five. It's raining outside in Charlotte. 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:05.959 You know, Yeah, it's it's tough. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.560 I mean, you know, maybe you have a nice cup 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.399 of coffee or you know, a diet coke. I'm a 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.080 big diet coke girl. Get yourself a nice little drink 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.000 or a snack. Find joy in the what you're consuming. 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.080 I always like to lean into food of things that 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:19.840 make me happy. 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:21.640 TV shows What is. 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.240 The food that makes AUGUSTA Stone happy? Oh, my gosh's 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.199 on a rainy day in October? 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:26.960 There's so many. 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:32.360 Probably my favorite is So I grew up rural northwest Georgia. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.600 My mama is what I call my grandmother on my 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:35.319 dad's side. 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.200 She no woman from the city has ever been known 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:38.720 as Mama. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:39.840 Yeah, she's Mama. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.600 And she has this beautiful vegetable garden every summer and 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.480 she cans her own vegetable soup. 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:47.680 It is delicious. 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.560 I have tons of it because she has so much, 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.120 and every time I get to go visit her, she 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:52.120 like leaves me. 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:53.760 It's so funny trying to get back up because I. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.640 Have all these jars, so I probably have about five 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.040 or six and I've been eaten all the time. But 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.120 anytime it's a cold day, I try to heat that up. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.320 You know, you throw some vegetablele in it and maybe 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.360 have a side of a sandwich of some sort. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.000 But that is my favorite comfort food. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:08.560 I have it when I'm sick, when it's rainy, when 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.960 it's cold, and it reminds me of home. So I 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.080 will probably do that when I get home later, get some. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.280 We call it Mama soup. It's literally just tomato based 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:16.960 vegetable soup and it is amazing. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:21.000 That does sound pretty good. And the traditional sandwich that 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.360 would go with Mama's vegetable soup I would think for 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.280 a lot of people would be a grilled cheese. You, however, 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.520 being a vegan, as we may have mentioned a time 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.760 or two, are not eating a grilled cheese on the 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.560 side with Mama's vegetable soup. What is the sandwich of 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:35.440 preference there? 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.760 Hey, I make a vegan grilled cheese. I can't lie. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:38.239 I love. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.720 There's specific brands that I like that I won't shout 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.560 out because I've seen our cart talks long enough to 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.840 know that certain brands will get axed. So but I 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:47.640 like my vegan cheese. Some of it melt, some of 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.400 it doesn't. It all tastes good enough to me. I 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.000 have had cheese in like three years, so I've kind 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:52.239 of forgotten what it's supposed to taste like. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:53.359 Anyway, so I will. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.000 I'll make my own little phony grilled cheese and I 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:57.080 will add hot sauce to it. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:57.880 That usually helps. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:02.040 All Right, Mimo to the Mark and Sponsorship department, get 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:07.880 on the official vegan cheese substitute product of the Carolina Panthers. Absolutely, 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.840 people have spoken, this is the thing we need, and 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.080 people want to know what. 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:14.000 Yeah, I have suggestions. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.520 People want to know what brand they should be consuming. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.800 I think we're in a safe space here in terms 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:23.080 of vegan you know, vegan food substitute products. I don't 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.120 think you're going to be competing with anybody in this place. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.960 So is what's the thing is is a vegan grilled 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.359 cheese sandwich supposed to be like, is it supposed to 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.360 taste like cheese or just have the consistency of cheese. 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:35.360 It's always the taste. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.200 The consistency is where cheese is lacking in vegan circles. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.120 Melting. Some brands do it, most of them don't. So 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:42.760 you're really. 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.960 Looking for that kind of flavor profile, and most of 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.720 them do do a decent job. I would say there's 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:50.880 some if you get like specific like if you're looking 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:52.200 for like American cheese, you're not gonna get it. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.520 But maybe you know a smoked gooda. 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.640 Comp I think you can. You can get that smoky 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.720 flavor pretty easily without it being meat, because you can. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.080 I have liquid smoke like in my cabinet. I use 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.920 it all the time for things I'm trying to make 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.080 taste like smoky bacon or smoky this. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:06.560 So I don't know. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.360 Technology science has really come a long way, even in 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.400 the past like five years, with like this vegan cheese situation, 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:14.720 but no consistency. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:16.320 I would say that with most vegan foods. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.320 If you're looking, if you're a textures person, don't don't 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:19.680 be vegan, just don't. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.279 All right, See when it's raining and I'm going soup, 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:27.920 I go pretty much the opposite of vegan. My kids 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.560 know that after cooking, you know, I have a problem 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.640 cooking for one person or two people. I tend to 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.360 cook for eight, whether there's three people in my house 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:40.239 or two or four or twelve a lot of times. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.839 So I will make a pot roast or something on 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.279 a Monday, and then by Thursday that becomes vegetable soup. 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.280 So you don't waste anything. You use the whole buffalo. 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.160 That's the way I was raised and you know, when 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:58.400 you're dealing with vegetable soup like that, you know, to me, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:03.240 the counterpart, I'll go grin cheese, sometimes grilled pimento cheese. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.159 It is the move. And I don't even want to 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.640 think about what vegan pimeno cheese might be like. It 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:13.000 just feels like lump of oil that has been turned 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.480 orange or something. So that's fun. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.040 I didn't know that about you, about your cooking. 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.159 I love finding out things that like maybe you wouldn't 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:20.839 know about your coworker. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.960 Yeah, I have problems with portion control. I mean, or 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:25.919 I think really what I want when I cook for 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.720 eight to twelve people, or if I make two pans 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.040 of zed at the same time. My wife's like, who 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.040 did you think was coming over? Well? I was hoping 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.520 people would just drop by when I was when I 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.440 was growing up, my grandmother, who's the God rest her soul, 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:42.360 whose name was Willy Gant, she always had food going 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.640 on the stove. So, I mean, the running joke would 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.839 be if escape convicts came to Willie Gant's house at 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.080 four in the morning, she'd be standing there cooking, say 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.680 sit down and eat, you know, And so I keep 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.599 waiting whether it's the escape convicts, or for my kids 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.080 to come home from college, or or for friends to 0:05:58.160 --> 0:05:59.839 just show up on the porch. I keep waiting for 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:01.920 people to just show up so I can feed them. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.440 That's the thing I would love to pull out. Maybe 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.080 you can make me a vegan mill sometimes. I love that, 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.039 though it's also another mama thing. She would always feed 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:10.359 a lot or make a lot of food, and she 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.400 was feeding four to six miles on a good day. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:18.800 Yeah, you can always freeze it, you can always repurpose it, 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.400 you can always you can always do more. But you 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.400 can't get by with less unless you're working some kind 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.200 of miracle or something. I don't know. And we'll get 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.640 into we'll get into fishes and loaves in another episode 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.720 of The Happy Half Hour. But I think we've killed 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.599 enough time. And we are contractually obligated, even though we 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.120 don't have a vegan cheese substitute sponsor here at the 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.960 Carolina Panthers, we are contractually obligated to talk about Carolina 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.080 Panthers football from time to time. And hey, here's what's 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.560 going on that football team zero and five right now? 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:53.680 Not great, Bob. It was a trip to Detroit that 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.120 reminded me an awful lot of the trip to Atlanta. 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.839 I've told Augusta before and probably said on this podcast, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:04.000 sometimes explaining the results of ballgames is complicated. Some days, 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.640 it's real easy. In Atlanta. You turn it two times, 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.560 turn it over two times on the road in the 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.000 opener with a brand new coach and a brand new quarterback, 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.880 You're probably gonna lose. You go to Detroit, a team 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.160 that's probably better than you by every empirical measure, and 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.160 turn it over three times in the first half, and 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.000 they turn it into three touchdowns. Guess what's gonna happen. 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:27.640 You are going to lose. So I think you can't 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.280 you can't dismiss that kind of stuff. I mean, we 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.600 can call it happy half hour. I don't feel compelled 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.880 to be happy about everything that's happening around me all 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:39.560 the time anyway. But I think when you and admittedly 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.240 this is a very other than that Missus Lincoln kind 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.920 of perspective, but I think you can dwell on those 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.080 three turnovers, you can dwell on the lost young dwell 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.680 all on nine five. I think if you're trying to 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.880 look at what this season's actually about, it's deciding what 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.160 you've got in quarterback and figuring out what Bryce is 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.360 good at, what Bryce is able to do. And I 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.920 think if you, if you really wanted to just kind 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.480 of isolate on that second half of football and watch 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.160 the way Bryce was moving the ball around. You know, 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.800 they get three touchdown passes out of the deal. There 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.480 were some things. You know, again, I understand nobody wants 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.960 to hear about progress and individual scores, and listen, I 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.240 am not naive. The Detroit Lions were not playing for 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.120 blood in the fourth quarter of that game. When Bryce 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.440 was moving the ball around and doing some things, they 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.600 were playing at a different pitch than they had been 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.520 earlier in the game. I get that. But you know, 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.840 I think when you think about the things that are 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.800 going on, Bryce in his progress remains the most important 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:39.439 thing about this football season. 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.480 Exactly, and the game of Detroit also. He wrote about 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.680 it a lot postgame. Thankfully it hasn't become more of 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.440 a story because he's doing all right, but Chandlers of all, 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.280 his injury was extremely jarring. At least you could tell 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.240 from the field in the press box, a lot of 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.199 you know, confusion, just wanting to make sure he was 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.160 all right. A lot of people were talking about it 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.880 on Monday in the locker room, and I mean, he's 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.240 come out really really like, you know, he's able to 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:07.200 fly back on the plane and moving around. 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.720 Seeing his teammates, and I think that's a good thing. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.640 It's a good sign. And I mean for those seven 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.800 minutes that we wrote about and Darren wrote a really 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.559 good quick kind of update letting everybody know what happened 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.440 that was posted to the website very quickly, which was 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.439 awesome information for our readers. But I mean those seven 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.360 minutes were tough. We didn't know what was going on up. 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.480 They didn't know what was going on down, and that 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.199 was a lot to come back and you know, kind 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.000 of refocus, and I thought you did a really cool 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.440 job after the game kind of talking about how well, 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.400 the only thing they can do is keep playing, but 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.000 you know, you have that in the back of your 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:38.960 mind through all of it. 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:40.920 And again, thankfully he's all right. 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.640 But I think even postgame, it almost felt like, you know, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.080 the game happened, it was important. It's very important now, 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.080 but at that moment you were focused on Chandler making 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:50.920 sure he was all right. And then thankfully he was 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.719 able to come home with us in Charlotte. 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:54.839 And I think there was a lot of doubt. I mean, 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.040 when I was talking to Icky, who is as close 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.480 to Chandler as anybody on this roster because he started 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.840 next to him, dn'ca state. Those two are old friends 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.200 and have a lot of background together, and even standing 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.120 in the locker room talking to Icky about it, he 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.480 hadn't heard from They had a general sense. At halftime, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.840 players got an update. Okay, he's got movement in all 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.520 his extremities, he's awake, he's alert, all that kind of stuff, 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:19.640 But they didn't know what that meant until really until 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.840 they get to the airport. Unfortunately, Chandler was able to 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.560 catch a ride to the airport that got him to 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.440 Detroit Wayne International and met us and he was able 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.839 to come home with the team, And just seeing him 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.160 there on the tarmac I think was that moment of 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.400 relief for a lot of guys. So one of the 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:40.400 things I think I try to be cognizant of. We 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.679 say things casually, and I've done this series of stories 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.319 about Austin Corbett and you say, oh, he's got a 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:50.320 torn acl that's an a month's recovery without really experiencing 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.079 that nine months or knowing what that entails. I think 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:57.080 when people hear Frank say all really bad stinger, they're like, Okay, 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.880 I smashed my shin against the bed from this morning 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.320 or something, or I stubbed my toe, they don't really 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.520 I mean, what happened to Chandler's valla. The essence of 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.920 a stinger is it's like a nerve contusion almost, and 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.600 so you take a shot at a certain place, you know, 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.280 you get hit in a certain way or get turned 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.080 in a certain direction, and all of a sudden, there's 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.040 weakness on the side of your body. And so when 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.480 you see Zavalla on the ground, that's kind of what's 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.360 going on. I mean, he wasn't able because of that 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.680 nerve issue immediately to kind of move everything. He was 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.560 eventually able to move, So that's what That's what led 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:34.680 to a scary moment there on the field and everything. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.200 So I don't know. He did not practice yesterday. I'm 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.280 not necessarily expecting to see Chandler on the field this week, 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:42.959 but there you know, it's kind of a day to 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.720 day thing with that. But it's the good news is 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.000 Chandler's mostly okay and is walking around. He's in good 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.680 shape and just working on coming back from that. But 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.400 it's it's definitely when something like that happens, it makes 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.680 a Week five game against the Detroit line seem like 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.920 not the most important thing in the world, exactly. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.120 And not to get ahead of ourselves too much, because 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.360 we do have a trip to Miami this weekend and 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.640 that's a preview. But right after that we have the 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.440 bye week, which is good for a multitude of reasons, 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.040 and a lot of its health. I mean, we saw 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.720 the injury report yesterday. It was a little lengthy, nothing 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.920 too serious from all of them, but it wasn't you know, 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.079 the slimmest list in the world. And that's the kind 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.160 of thing that a week off would would help. I mean, 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.360 Corbett's you know, activated off, pupp cut back going, and 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:30.960 you know there's some other guys that you could potentially 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.240 see after the after goodbye JC. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.880 Yeah, I mean it's pretty good. It's not you know, 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.880 you don't want to create a situation where here comes 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.600 the Cavalry they are coming in and week week eight, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.679 but uh, exactly, you are looking at the possibility of 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.000 going into the Houston game and seeing Xavier Woods again 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.920 seeing JC Horn again, seeing Austin Corbett on the field 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.400 for the first time this season, and all that stuff 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.320 matters deeply and I and I think it's just at 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.320 the point now well, regardless how this game against Miami 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:07.320 goes this weekend, I think the culmination of everything that's 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.120 happened so far this season, you can kind of tell 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.120 when everybody around you just needs a minute, just needs 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.360 a break. I think, you know, it's obviously a tense 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.199 situation and hasn't gone the way everybody wants it to go, 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:23.520 But just the little little things that wouldn't be a 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.719 problem at all when you're five and zero, or even 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.439 if you were three and two or two and three 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.000 or whatever, become bigger deals. You Know, the food doesn't 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.000 taste as good. You know, the TV's turned up too loud, 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.480 and why doesn't some jerk hit mute before they leave 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.960 the room or something. You know, all those little things 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.319 that are inconsequential on a normal day get magnified in 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:46.160 the situation like this, And that's why I think it's 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.560 important to just stay normal and to keep focused on 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.679 the stuff that's actually real. You know, Augusta and I 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.280 can create a good podcast. We can write a good story, 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.439 we can keep up to date information on the website. 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.480 I can't fix oh in five, So I'm gonna clean 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.400 up my yard. I'm gonna do what I can do. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.520 And I think that's what everybody downstairs is trying to do, 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.240 is filter out some of that noise and some of 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.760 that fake, you know, fake problems, and keep the focus 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.000 on the real stuff instead. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.280 Exactly, And now that I've jumped too far ahead, I 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.320 want to jump kind of back a little bit because 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.000 you had a cool conversation yesterday in the locker room 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:22.560 with a guy that was brought up to the fifty 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.680 three help out in the secondary DiCaprio Boodle. He's been 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.480 elevated and doing a lot of special teams reps. Wondering 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.840 what it was like to get to know the DiCaprio Boodle. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.640 Tell me about that name, and I'm just it was it. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.840 It was fascinating. And I don't want to give away 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.960 too much stuff that'll appear later this week on Panthers 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:47.760 dot Com shameless tease read it please, uh, but DiCaprio 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.920 is an interesting cat, and I mean it's the one 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.600 thing I will share is that everybody gets a nickname 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:58.360 in this room when it comes to special Teams coach 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.200 Chris Taber, I mean he's going to call you something 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.840 one way or another, whether you like it or not. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:09.200 And DiCaprio, Boodle has become bottle Cap. It's real good 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:10.640 for reasons. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:10.520 You know. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.520 I mean, it's kind of it's ballpark. Yeah, I get it, 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:18.200 it's bootle bottle sure, but yeah, so it's Taber has 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.400 deemed him bottle Cap, and he's you know, this is 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.560 the kind of stuff you end up with at a 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.720 point in the season like this, when guys are hurt 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.000 and you're all of a sudden dragging people in. The 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.200 one thing I was talking to him about is he 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.920 basically comes here with very little stuff. He packed a 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.520 suitcase with about a week's worth of clothes in it 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.840 that he could wear. But a lot of times guys 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:41.880 and I'm just this is one of my pet things. 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.760 I'm fascinated by it. When guys come to town, they 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.480 don't really know anybody, they don't know where they're going, 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.520 They have no idea where the Midtown target is and 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.280 how to get there. They a lot of times don't 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:57.160 have their cars. Uh, so they're they're moving to a 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.840 new place on short notice, and it's like, Okay, figure 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.320 out a brand new job, figure out all new coworkers, 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.600 figure out where to secure food and shelter, and do 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:10.360 it fast because you've got an important job. And Boodle 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.120 was saying, I mean, he kind of laughed. He said, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.880 I knew a couple of guys just around the building, 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:16.600 he said, but I kind of came here with a 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.040 suitcase and what I had. And he keeps sending out 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.520 for more stuff. He's buying some new clothes, stuff like 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.320 that a little bit at a time. But yeah, it's 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.680 a thrown together lifestyle. When you're somebody who comes to 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.120 a team cold in the middle of the season exactly. 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.080 That's that's always interesting to me. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.880 I mean, there's been guys that I've talked to you 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.040 that have kind of come in they're not even coming from, 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.200 you know, where they live because they were on the 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.600 road and then they were signed, and the whole aspect 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.480 of the lifestyle and everything it can be over it 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.160 sounds a little overwhelming, but thankfully we do have a 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.240 good department for that here. Kevin Winston and Jay Kwanjeris 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:51.120 shout out. They do a great job and they help 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:51.520 them out. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.080 Don and Donnie Toner and the guys in the equipment 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.760 room or life savers a lot of times because they've 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.520 got what players need to survive. I mean, you can 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.720 you know, I've told the story before. Former offensive coordinator 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.920 Dan Henning lived in the residence ind near the stadium 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.040 for five years, not for a week at a time, 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.639 for five years. For five years, Dan Henning lived in 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.160 that hotel. I asked Dan once, how many Marriott points 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:20.200 do you have? He said, all of them. You can 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:22.880 live your life in a stadium if you need to. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.400 You can shower and change clothes because there's clothes here 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:31.200 for those guys. Donnie's got toothbrushes and toothpaste and shaving 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.960 equipment and all the toiletries that a man would need 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.679 to get by. They feed them here for you know. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.439 And there's usually a deal when a guy comes in 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.000 short time, there is a hotel for them in the 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.560 short term until they can find them a place here 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.960 in town. But yeah, it's there's a ton of people 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.520 trying to make sure these guys have everything they need 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.480 when they come to town. But right now, all those 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:58.760 extra defensive bodies are are in need because, as you mentioned, Hey, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.320 the Miami Dolphins are coming to town. Actually we're going 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:03.000 to their town. 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.520 We've been on the road so much it feels. 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.480 Yeah, it's I think when you get out there a 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.359 couple weeks at a time, it starts to feel like 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:15.159 what is home anymore? But yeah, Miami this week to 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.920 face the number one offense in the NFL and frankly, 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.840