Speaker 1: This week on a Happy half Hour.
Speaker 2: I love many of the things you do. Your cars amazing,
Speaker 2: your Schnitzel terrific. It's a really short step from Schnitzel
Speaker 2: to Bojangles beer. Yes, your work with non potato and
Speaker 2: cabbage vegetables. No but coffee, definitely.
Speaker 1: No totsop cow. It's time for the Happy Half Hour,
Speaker 1: presented by Southern Star, an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1: Here are your hosts, Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill.
Speaker 2: Hello friends, and welcome to the Happy Half Hour. We're
Speaker 2: coming to you live from Charlotte somewhere some day, yeah sometime.
Speaker 3: I'm still kind of sorting all that out. We have
Speaker 3: seen some things, you and I.
Speaker 4: Cassidy melt some things, heard some things.
Speaker 2: It's been a lot in the last little bit, jamming
Speaker 2: an eighty one hour dashed back and forth to Munich
Speaker 2: for a little football game, gave us a lot to
Speaker 2: talk about, and we're gonna get to it all in
Speaker 2: this episode of the Happy Half Hour, which as always
Speaker 2: is brought to you by our friends at Southern Star,
Speaker 2: an official bourbon partner of the Carolina Panthers. Celebrate the
Speaker 2: spirit of the Carolinas and we have.
Speaker 5: You did that off script, and we have plenty.
Speaker 2: To celebrate since we're back home in our own place
Speaker 2: where we know the things.
Speaker 4: Back home offul win, back to back wins going into
Speaker 4: the bye week. That's about as good of a feeling
Speaker 4: as you can ask for this time of year.
Speaker 2: It really is, And I mean it's a nice break.
Speaker 2: It's a good time for everybody.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 2: I don't think and I'm in the middle of writing
Speaker 2: a mail bag which will be on the website later
Speaker 2: on today.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's appropriate to think, oh God, they've
Speaker 3: figured it out or anything like that. But there are little.
Speaker 2: Things you're seeing that suggest an identity the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2: Right now, Chuba Hubbard gets an extension and continues to
Speaker 2: run like he was broke. They step up and play
Speaker 2: good defense at the time they need it with some
Speaker 2: of those guys. I mean, you think about Dan Morgan's
Speaker 2: first off season. He signs Derek Brown, who unfortunately is injured,
Speaker 2: but he goes out and he signs a bunch of
Speaker 2: these old heads on defense because they needed to stabilize
Speaker 2: that thing. And then all of a sudden, you see
Speaker 2: Josie Jewell make him plays, Ayshawn Robinson, make him plays.
Speaker 2: You see DJ Wantam getting in there for the first time,
Speaker 2: so you can certainly see the path for the Carolina
Speaker 2: Panthers at this moment.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: The Vegas game, they played well. They also got some
Speaker 4: help by Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 3: Do you need to call for mat? Can you cut
Speaker 3: this out?
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I'll.
Speaker 2: Just keep talking. Do you are we okay? Did you
Speaker 2: bring something back from Germany?
Speaker 4: Didn't you do the math the other day? That like
Speaker 4: of the eighty one hours like nineteen he.
Speaker 2: Spent eighty one hours going back and forth with Munich
Speaker 2: nineteen them more on airplanes.
Speaker 4: Somebody I got the airplane crud.
Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody took a picture of me.
Speaker 2: Somebody who works with me took a picture of me
Speaker 2: sleeping like a dead man on the plane, wearing the eyemask,
Speaker 2: bundled up in the comfort.
Speaker 4: I passed by you at one point and didn't realize
Speaker 4: it was you until the last second.
Speaker 3: Yeah I was. I was just trying to cover myself up.
Speaker 4: But anyways, what I was gonna say was Vegas, they
Speaker 4: made the plays they needed to make to win, got
Speaker 4: a lot of help by the offense, jumping out ahead
Speaker 4: so much. And then the Saints sort of the same thing,
Speaker 4: you know, made the plays when they needed to make them.
Speaker 4: The Giants game again got some help by Daniel Jones, absolutely,
Speaker 4: and the run defense still has some holes that need
Speaker 4: to be addressed. A lot of that probably could be
Speaker 4: addressed next year by Derek Brown just being back on
Speaker 4: the field and healthy again. But you started to see
Speaker 4: what this defense is supposed to look like and what
Speaker 4: they had in mind with you know, with DJ Wantam
Speaker 4: on one side and Clowney on the other.
Speaker 5: You know, one of.
Speaker 4: Them was able to get the pressure and the other
Speaker 4: one the sack or vice versa. And I think one
Speaker 4: of them is actually the only one who got the
Speaker 4: sack between the two of those, but still you saw
Speaker 4: them both. You saw Clowny play a little freer by
Speaker 4: having DJ Wanham on the other side. And then you
Speaker 4: saw Josie Jewels start to just kind of become that
Speaker 4: outlaw taking things from people that he was previously in Denver.
Speaker 5: You there, you go, do we have to pay for
Speaker 5: the copyright of that?
Speaker 3: I hope not.
Speaker 4: And then with a Shawn Robinson in the middle, and
Speaker 4: again you know, Shy Tuttle all the credit to him
Speaker 4: for stepping up, and Derek browns apsis and kind of
Speaker 4: taking that over as well. But you're starting to see
Speaker 4: what this defense is supposed to look like. And I
Speaker 4: think you could probably foresee the rest of this season
Speaker 4: them taking those steps and putting it together. And if
Speaker 4: a lot of these people return next year, I think
Speaker 4: you can really see what Dan Morgan had in mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you And that's the thing you're seeing.
Speaker 2: You're seeing the things coming into play. I mean, you
Speaker 2: see what the plan was supposed to look like. Now again,
Speaker 2: you saw it for the first time in week ten, right,
Speaker 2: and that's not ideal, and you're already missing a couple
Speaker 2: of really key pieces.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, you're getting there.
Speaker 2: You're getting there, and I think that's okay. I think
Speaker 2: progress is okay. That's Dave Canal just keeps talking about that,
Speaker 2: building off progress, building off you know, little things you're
Speaker 2: doing well, and that's how you build something that's valuable
Speaker 2: and lasting.
Speaker 3: So it was a good it was a great week.
Speaker 4: And credit to j want them yep Man for stepping
Speaker 4: out there in his first game. Usually in your first
Speaker 4: game back, you got to shake the rust off. He
Speaker 4: came out like a missile ready to go. I think
Speaker 4: he had six tackles, a sack, two tackles for lost,
Speaker 4: two quarterback curries. I don't even know how many pressures
Speaker 4: he had.
Speaker 3: He was all over the place.
Speaker 2: The amazing thing to me was that he played fifty
Speaker 2: snaps period, because the dude who hadn't played football in
Speaker 2: almost eleven months to come in. Usually you want to
Speaker 2: pitch count those guys and keep them in some kind
Speaker 2: of with some kind of restraint, but there was not
Speaker 2: really a lot of that, and and he just he
Speaker 2: was out there balling, and that that makes a huge
Speaker 2: difference for those guys.
Speaker 3: The thing in Avero talks about this all the time.
Speaker 2: To play the defense the way they want to play it,
Speaker 2: you've got to have a guy outside, and it gets
Speaker 2: even better if you've got two guys, right, And now
Speaker 2: they finally got the two guys they were counting on
Speaker 2: on the field together. And I don't think it's an
Speaker 2: accident that that's when you saw that step up in
Speaker 2: the entire defensive level, because you know, no disrespect to
Speaker 2: Charles Harris, DJ Johnson, any of the other dudes who've
Speaker 2: been out there on the other side, but it's just different.
Speaker 2: You know, DJ Wantam was the guy they went out
Speaker 2: and got in March, you know, weeks weeks before Clowney
Speaker 2: was even an opportunity, So to get him on the
Speaker 2: field was a huge step.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was fun to watch, and like we said,
Speaker 4: there's still things to fix, but they're always a little
Speaker 4: bit more fun to fix after a win than a lost.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we'll get to that.
Speaker 2: I mean, we'll have time when we get back next week,
Speaker 2: we'll talk more. Next week will be more footballie. I
Speaker 2: think it's worth visiting for a moment here on the podcast,
Speaker 2: just with the fact that we were just in Germany.
Speaker 3: That was wild.
Speaker 2: I mean, the the atmosphere. We were joking about it.
Speaker 2: It's a completely different vibe. For one thing for us,
Speaker 2: because I know we are the most important part of
Speaker 2: this production. It's an open air press box in Germany.
Speaker 2: That's kind of the European standard. This closed in glass
Speaker 2: press seeding area is not something they do in big
Speaker 2: European soccer stadium.
Speaker 5: Deal with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so we were dressed for the elements and
Speaker 2: we were out there in them. But being in that,
Speaker 2: being in that vibe was just a really neat thing
Speaker 2: because the German fans are super into it. Hey, it's
Speaker 2: not just a curiosity. There are a lot of people
Speaker 2: who really dig on football and are super into it.
Speaker 2: So they're all into the rhythms of the game at
Speaker 2: the right time.
Speaker 3: Sprice talked about that.
Speaker 2: He so like they were being loud, you know, when
Speaker 2: the other team had the ball on third down, so
Speaker 2: in their job, it was like a home field advantage
Speaker 2: for us, even though we were you know however many
Speaker 2: miles away from that only.
Speaker 5: Tried to do the wave once.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's good.
Speaker 2: And maybe my favorite thing about the German fans is
Speaker 2: they love to sing. Oh my god, even when the
Speaker 2: music goes off, they continued to sing. And I just
Speaker 2: find this charming and adorable.
Speaker 4: It was so cool when they played Country Roads, something
Speaker 4: that the German fans apparently have latched onto from the
Speaker 4: NFL being there. It was very much like that soccer
Speaker 4: atmosphere where they just keep going and it's sort of
Speaker 4: a sing along. When they played Country Roads and the
Speaker 4: music cut out because the Giants went back over offense,
Speaker 4: went back on offense, and the Giants were running a
Speaker 4: play and the crowd kept singing. That may have been
Speaker 4: one of the top five coolest sports moments I've ever
Speaker 4: experienced life. It gave me chills in the moment. It
Speaker 4: gives me chills thinking about it. It gives me chills when
Speaker 4: I go back and watch the video. You know, I
Speaker 4: wanted to be in the moment, but I'm so glad
Speaker 4: I ended up taking a video of that because it's
Speaker 4: something to go back and listen to it and realize
Speaker 4: just how special it was to be there in that moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really was a super cool thing for me.
Speaker 2: And I was sitting there even before the game when
Speaker 2: they pull out the big flags start doing two national
Speaker 2: anthems and stuff, and I just kind of caught myself.
Speaker 2: I'm old and jaded and cynical and all that, and
Speaker 2: I've been doing this for a million years, but I
Speaker 2: was sitting there thinking, man, the first thing you ever
Speaker 2: covered in exchange for money was in East Burke McDowell
Speaker 2: girls high school basketball. And now you're sitting in Munich, Germany,
Speaker 2: where Harry Kane plays his professional football and you're watching
Speaker 2: this unfolding. So it was really a neat moment. But
Speaker 2: I was utterly charmed by the entire experience.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know what, the most charming moment of
Speaker 4: the game was I'm surprised you haven't brought this up
Speaker 4: yet because you loved it.
Speaker 5: When it happened.
Speaker 3: What's that?
Speaker 4: So they gave all the fans like placards to hold
Speaker 4: up so that they could make the German and American
Speaker 4: flags in the NFL symbols. They then took those those
Speaker 4: pieces of what I assuming are glossy cardboard, yep or
Speaker 4: something of the sort, like strong card stock, and turn
Speaker 4: them into paper airplanes.
Speaker 2: And they were.
Speaker 4: Throwing them on the field and throwing them around. I
Speaker 4: think at one point it hit Johnny Hecker.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was Tommy Tremble at Tommy Tremble, Yeah, Tommy
Speaker 2: was standing over there next to I in Thomas and
Speaker 2: the guys the rest of the tight ends, and one
Speaker 2: of them pegged him in the head. So it was great.
Speaker 2: I'm all for German engineering, but it's cool. I those
Speaker 2: guys had it figured out. And every time the paper
Speaker 2: airplane would get near the field, you'd hear the crowd
Speaker 2: start to lean into it.
Speaker 3: They'd be like, come on, one landed.
Speaker 2: In the end zone, and every bay start they say
Speaker 2: come on in German, Yeah, said you know. The one
Speaker 2: thing I figured out is that there's certain things that
Speaker 2: transcend the barriers of language.
Speaker 3: We're all one people.
Speaker 2: I walked whatever day of the week it was when
Speaker 2: we got there. I just needed a little refreshment. So
Speaker 2: I wandered down the street from our hotel found a
Speaker 2: little neighborhood pub and I walked in and looked. The
Speaker 2: guy looked at me, and I said, pilsner. Sure, And
Speaker 2: so he said words that I assume indicated the amount
Speaker 2: of money he wanted his exchange for the pilsner. So
Speaker 2: I just held up my credit card and handed it
Speaker 2: to him and he went, no card, minimum twenty.
Speaker 5: Get another pills there.
Speaker 2: I said, two pilsners, and he just kind of looked
Speaker 2: at me and he went three.
Speaker 3: And I said, okay, fine, three.
Speaker 2: So I stood there in this little bar as the
Speaker 2: only English speaker in the place, and it was amazing
Speaker 2: because it was a very small.
Speaker 3: Space ab outside of this podcast studio.
Speaker 2: They had a little train going around the top of
Speaker 2: the bar that delivered shots of schnops to people, and
Speaker 2: the jukebox was just full of eighties classic rock. I
Speaker 2: mean it was it was Rick Springfield, it was Toto,
Speaker 2: it was Journey, it was def Leppard and I was like,
Speaker 2: this is amazing. This must be what Reagan felt like
Speaker 2: in eighty nine.
Speaker 3: I have breached the cultural gap. Here we are one
Speaker 3: people finally.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, this was a good This was a good thing.
Speaker 2: But I put a picture the coasters. I put a
Speaker 2: picture of it on Twitter the other day and it's
Speaker 2: written in German and it's got a man just kind
Speaker 2: of collapsed with his head down on the bar, and
Speaker 2: I said, I don't really know what this says, but
Speaker 2: I feel this right now because it was It was
Speaker 2: a good time, but it was a it was a
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 4: It was something else just wanted to point out too,
Speaker 4: because it was a lot of fun. It is The
Speaker 4: Panther's put on a lot of different events around Old
Speaker 4: Town Munich and got to go hang out at some
Speaker 4: of those on Friday and Saturdayay.
Speaker 3: You saw Steve Smith almost create an international.
Speaker 4: I did see Germany is going to put out a
Speaker 4: travel warning next time Steve Smith crosses into the country lines.
Speaker 4: But that was a lot of fun. I think I
Speaker 4: texted you at one point because I was in the
Speaker 4: van with Steve Smith, Julius Peppers, Luke Keigley and John
Speaker 4: Beeson and we were driving down to Old Towns, a
Speaker 4: twenty minute ride, and just in that twenty minutes to
Speaker 4: kind of hear some of the stories they were telling,
Speaker 4: and you know, just it was a bunch of old
Speaker 4: friends back together again in a car. The first time
Speaker 4: I got to meet Pep. So that was that was
Speaker 4: really cool. And I got to hang out with him
Speaker 4: a little bit. He's you have said this in everything
Speaker 4: you have written. He is very quiet, but once he
Speaker 4: does kind of open up a little bit, he's he's
Speaker 4: such an interesting guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So it was a lot of fun just to hang
Speaker 4: out with those legends for two days and kind of
Speaker 4: hear their stories and and really understand why they are
Speaker 4: so special to the Panthers fan base. Yeah, and get
Speaker 4: that experience firsthand.
Speaker 2: And I think our new friends in Germany are picking
Speaker 2: up on that too. I mean they're kind of you know,
Speaker 2: we got a product to sell. They you know, people
Speaker 2: were digging on Luke Keekley tapping the keg.
Speaker 5: Was lots of beers flooding.
Speaker 3: There were there were beers. There were At one.
Speaker 4: Point I walked into the Panthers Pub, like the Panthers
Speaker 4: had an official pub set up, and that's where they
Speaker 4: were handing out the beers every day, and I walked
Speaker 4: in with them and they kind of like created a
Speaker 4: path for him because we had to go through to
Speaker 4: the back. Felt a little like walking in with the
Speaker 4: Beatles to their concert. Sure, and people were going crazy.
Speaker 4: And I walked past one guy and I heard him
Speaker 4: say to his wife, Oh my god, that was Steve Smith,
Speaker 4: like just like shocked, like, oh my god, look at
Speaker 4: these people walking through here. So that was really really
Speaker 4: cool just to kind of be a part of that
Speaker 4: and experience that too.
Speaker 3: It definitely was.
Speaker 2: It was an experience to remember, to be sure, it
Speaker 2: is also an experience to be endured.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still catching.
Speaker 5: We all came back sick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're all still a little dragging. I love our
Speaker 2: German friends. They're great at so many things. Coffees not
Speaker 2: one of them.
Speaker 4: No, Oh my gosh, Darren. Everybody on our team made
Speaker 4: fun of me because I was like, get thee to
Speaker 4: a Starbucks. And I found a Starbucks finally, after we
Speaker 4: had been there for about thirty six hours. It was
Speaker 4: like it was like somebody crawling through a desert looking
Speaker 4: for water. I was just like vanilla latte.
Speaker 2: See, and I have remarkably low standards for coffee.
Speaker 3: I usually I don't.
Speaker 4: Even need the coffee to taste good. I just need
Speaker 4: it to like have something to it.
Speaker 2: I usually begin the day with a starter cup of
Speaker 2: whatever's left over in the pot from the previous day,
Speaker 2: and I just warm it up, because it takes less
Speaker 2: time to nuke that one cup of coffee than it
Speaker 2: does to make an entire pot. So I come in
Speaker 2: Monday when I finally woke up at like, you know,
Speaker 2: we get in at three ish. You know, it was
Speaker 2: like eight forty five when I woke up ish, and
Speaker 2: I just poured whatever was in the pot and drank,
Speaker 2: warmed it up and drank it. And daughter walks through
Speaker 2: and I said, hey, I appreciate you making a pot
Speaker 2: of coffee earlier.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 2: I didn't make a coffee while I was here, and
Speaker 2: I was like, so that's the coffee I left here
Speaker 2: on Thursday. And I guess that cup of coffee was
Speaker 2: better than any coffee I had in the entire country
Speaker 2: of Germany. So I love many of the things you do.
Speaker 2: Your car's amazing, Your schnitzel terrific. It's a really short
Speaker 2: step from schnitzel to bojangle beer.
Speaker 3: Yes, engineering, of course, small talk.
Speaker 2: No coffee, your work with non potato and cabbage vegetables, No,
Speaker 2: but coffee definitely.
Speaker 4: Know, you know, everybody knows what they do well and
Speaker 4: knows what they don't do well. And Germany knows they
Speaker 4: don't do coffee well.
Speaker 3: If they don't care, yeah, I guess so. But cool experience.
Speaker 3: I'm ready to go back. I want to go somewhere
Speaker 3: else cool. Where can we go?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, where would you like? Where else would
Speaker 4: you like to see an international NFL game?
Speaker 3: I would?
Speaker 2: I would get down in South America. I kind of
Speaker 2: envy those guys who got to go to Brazil this year.
Speaker 2: That's a new experience, and I just want to go
Speaker 2: see more stuff.
Speaker 3: One of the things and I didn't even I got
Speaker 3: to do something with this.
Speaker 2: At some point I talked to a bunch of guys
Speaker 2: leading into the trip about the theory of travel, and
Speaker 2: one of the things I believe is once you've done
Speaker 2: it once, you just want to do it over and
Speaker 2: over and over again. Like I left the country for
Speaker 2: the first time about a year and a half ago.
Speaker 2: Oh really, wife and I took an extended you know,
Speaker 2: delayed honeymoon. We did Paris, Amsterdam, London and it was amazing.
Speaker 2: And now I'm like, I want to go somewhere else.
Speaker 2: I want to get on a train, I want to
Speaker 2: go to a different country. Let's go see some more stuff.
Speaker 4: There's nothing quite like the rush of walking up to
Speaker 4: a counter with your passport and being like, I'm going somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, and I just like, you know, there's a
Speaker 2: curiosity of I wonder what we're going to see here,
Speaker 2: and you're going to see something you've never experienced before.
Speaker 2: That's the way it was for me in Munich. I mean,
Speaker 2: Munich is a very old center city. You know, it's
Speaker 2: very historic. It's got a lot of stuff that's been
Speaker 2: there for centuries. And despite the fact that wars have
Speaker 2: happened and knocked a lot of it down, but it's
Speaker 2: just such a cool cultural experience. And I think once
Speaker 2: you see a different part of the world. And again,
Speaker 2: I am extremely fortunate to be able to do that.
Speaker 2: I acknowledge my privilege in being able to say that.
Speaker 2: I know not everybody can, but I think if you've
Speaker 2: got the opportun t unity to see stuff outside your borders,
Speaker 2: it just opens your eyes to what the rest of
Speaker 2: the people are doing.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, that was something that I was very very fortunate
Speaker 4: to be kind of raised with that mindset too, and
Speaker 4: fortunate to get to do it my first out of
Speaker 4: the country trip. I was eleven years old and we
Speaker 4: went to the Philippines that at one point meant twenty
Speaker 4: two hours straight on a plane that was the Detroit
Speaker 4: to Tokyo Hall.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so after that, any flight seems doable.
Speaker 2: And there was probably no Wi Fi or n seat
Speaker 2: entertainment on that one either were there.
Speaker 5: It was a lot of like playing tic tac toe
Speaker 5: with my memo. But that was.
Speaker 4: A big trip at a young age that you know,
Speaker 4: had some culture shocked to it, but also kind of
Speaker 4: sparked that love of traveling, like you said, and going
Speaker 4: to see what you can see in other parts of
Speaker 4: the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2: And now that we're spreading the message of the Carolina Panthers,
Speaker 2: I would be remiss if I did not say there
Speaker 2: are some real heroes on this trip besides Juba Hubbard
Speaker 2: and dj Wanam and Ashawn Robinson and Josie Jewel, all
Speaker 2: of our folks in marketing who've been making this trip
Speaker 2: for the last year and a half to kind of
Speaker 2: set the stage for this trip or one thing. But
Speaker 2: the the ops people in this building, the people who
Speaker 2: do logistics, you know. And I don't want to start
Speaker 2: saying names because I will inevitably leave some out.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Dave kind of did this a little bit during his
Speaker 2: press conference the other day. But the people who pack
Speaker 2: the bus, the people who arrange the bus, the people
Speaker 2: who arrange you know, international transport, and how to get
Speaker 2: a football team through customs, how to feed a football
Speaker 2: team when they're over there, how to secure a hotel
Speaker 2: that a football state team is staying in in a
Speaker 2: different country.
Speaker 3: There are so many people.
Speaker 2: It's a small circus moving to town to town, and
Speaker 2: it's complicated enough when we're going to Atlanta and Philadelphia
Speaker 2: and Tampa Bay, as we'll be doing in the back
Speaker 2: half of the season, but to do it overseas just
Speaker 2: adds a layer. And so many many people in this
Speaker 2: building did such an incredible job making that all come together.
Speaker 4: Everything went off flawlessly, and that's not something you can
Speaker 4: usually say. And to your point, to do it in
Speaker 4: another country was impressive. From the pub keg taps to
Speaker 4: the pep rallies they had at the FanFest. Simply getting
Speaker 4: from the hotel to practice on Friday. Everything went flawlessly
Speaker 4: and so yes, and like you said, Dave mentioned a
Speaker 4: few names, but credit to everyone that was a part
Speaker 4: of that. I think the only thing was is Tuba
Speaker 4: would say where was my drugs machine? But other than that,
Speaker 4: it was it was just as smooth as if we
Speaker 4: were here in Charlotte.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I got to the bottom of that one too.
Speaker 3: It was wild.
Speaker 2: I mean, Tuba is such a creature of habit. He
Speaker 2: has to catch balls from the jugs machine three hours
Speaker 2: before kickoff every single week, and his jugs machine wasn't
Speaker 2: there on Sunday morning, so he was looking around. Thankfully,
Speaker 2: Mac Whitehurst and Greg Almond from the equipment staff were
Speaker 2: able to.
Speaker 3: Keep him hooking.
Speaker 5: His name is Greg Almond.
Speaker 3: Yeah, his name is Greg. That's awesome, like the nut,
Speaker 3: not like the.
Speaker 5: Oh, not like the Brothers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not like no, but he they were able to
Speaker 2: get him taken care of. Tuba had a career high game,
Speaker 2: so obviously everything went well.
Speaker 5: He may never use the jugs machine again.
Speaker 2: I suspect Tube is going to be right back on
Speaker 2: that jugs machine as soon as he can. It was
Speaker 2: actually at practice on Friday at the Bayron, Munich facility.
Speaker 2: It just never made the trip across town to the stadium.
Speaker 2: So that was an NFL provided jugs machine. They told
Speaker 2: us we didn't have to bring our own, and so
Speaker 2: we relied on them and it got almost there, but
Speaker 2: not all the way to.
Speaker 3: The Staateum, so Cuba had improvise.
Speaker 2: But again, as I wrote on Panthers dot com, it
Speaker 2: worked out right, and everything.
Speaker 3: Worked out that entire trip. I mean, it was just
Speaker 3: it was fantastic.
Speaker 2: I mean, the team won, everybody's feeling good, fans are
Speaker 2: singing the songs despite a little hypothermia.
Speaker 3: I was able to make it.
Speaker 4: Through hypothermia in forty seven degrees.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know, I told you while we were sitting
Speaker 2: in the breast box, I'm a delicate flower. I need
Speaker 2: to be preserved from the element. So at any rate, listen,
Speaker 2: it's the bye week. We've all got a chance to
Speaker 2: take a breath, and I intend to do it. We'll
Speaker 2: get back to our normal high jinks. We'll get back
Speaker 2: to the jukebox next week.
Speaker 4: Well, we have to wait till next week because someone
Speaker 4: didn't do their homework.
Speaker 3: No he didn't. I was.
Speaker 2: I was too busy listening to eighties classic rock with
Speaker 2: my new German friends. Yeah, so we'll get we'll get
Speaker 2: back to all that normal stuff next week.
Speaker 3: We'll get back to football next week.
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, some cat named Patrick Mahomes is
Speaker 2: on his way here, so we'll get to all that
Speaker 2: when we check in with you again on the Happy
Speaker 2: half Hour.
Speaker 4: Bye.