Speaker 1: This week on a Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 2: Brice said, you know, hey, it's great to be able
Speaker 2: to work with the same set of people, but we
Speaker 2: also know we don't get to start from there. We've
Speaker 2: got to continue the work, continue to be able to
Speaker 2: continue to grow. But Dave talk about with Rice having
Speaker 2: that kind of attitude, they're able to open things up
Speaker 2: in the opposites.
Speaker 3: Tot's down, cow.
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Speaker 2: Hello friends, and welcome back to the Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 2: Of course it's Masters week, so am I supposed to
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Speaker 3: I've been talking about the wrong thing this whole time.
Speaker 2: I know what we're we are going to do the
Speaker 2: footballs here on the Happy Half Hour. And you know
Speaker 2: we hadn't done this in a couple of weeks. I
Speaker 2: feel like I feel like we've let our sponsor down
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Speaker 2: celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas. And while they're doing
Speaker 2: their little golf thing with the azaleas and whatever they
Speaker 2: have there, I think I could sit on the porch
Speaker 2: this afternoon with a glass of Southern Star and just unwine.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, we might not have done
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Speaker 3: letting them down as a consumer.
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Speaker 2: fan of the Southern Star where they are a friend
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Speaker 2: so we celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas together. So anyway, anyway,
Speaker 2: it is draft time.
Speaker 3: It is draft time. We are knocking on the door.
Speaker 3: I think we're let's see today we're recording on a Thursday.
Speaker 2: We are Armani Edwards days away from the NFL Draft,
Speaker 2: fourteen fourteen days away, so it's.
Speaker 3: Uh coming on down the pipe.
Speaker 2: We were Marvin McNutt days away yesterday. Today we are
Speaker 2: Armani Edwards. I don't want to give it all away,
Speaker 2: but I do believe tomorrow we are going to be
Speaker 2: Ken Walter days.
Speaker 3: I wonder every day I do, is that your list
Speaker 3: right there. I have a list of I won't spoil
Speaker 3: it for the listeners.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: I am peeping at your list.
Speaker 2: That's right, no peaking. It's just like draft boards. Don't
Speaker 2: peek at my don't peek at my draft board of
Speaker 2: days until the draft ideas. But yeah, it's that time,
Speaker 2: two weeks from the draft, and it's gonna be it's
Speaker 2: gonna be an exciting time for starters. We can reveal
Speaker 2: this is a Panthers dot Com exclusive. You cassieg Hill
Speaker 2: will be on the scene in Green Bay for this draft.
Speaker 2: That's that's kind of a home game for you.
Speaker 3: It is. I get to a friend texted me and
Speaker 3: then he was like, can we go get dinner? And
Speaker 3: I was like, I just want to go get coffee
Speaker 3: from this one place. That's that's my highest on my priority,
Speaker 3: behind of course talking to our new draft pick. But
Speaker 3: very excited we'll get to be there with the first
Speaker 3: round pick, whoever it may be, wherever they may be picked,
Speaker 3: get to talk to them right after they hear their
Speaker 3: name called by the commissioner. That's always an exciting moment
Speaker 3: for a guy, you know, It's like, that's the moment
Speaker 3: I think when they walk out on stage and the
Speaker 3: commissioner holds up the jersey with their name on it,
Speaker 3: which I watched a little vignette yesterday. Did you know
Speaker 3: they have that done in less than ninety seconds. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's impressive. They're a well well oiled machine back there
Speaker 3: with those jerseys and hats. I think when they finally
Speaker 3: see their name on the jersey, that's when everything hits them.
Speaker 3: So to be able to talk to them right there
Speaker 3: in that moment afterwards is going to be special. To
Speaker 3: be a part of something, to be there when they
Speaker 3: realize their lifelong dreams. And we're gonna have a lot
Speaker 3: of content for you on Panthers dot com coming from
Speaker 3: Green Bay, and I believe some people stick around for
Speaker 3: the second and third days as well, because you know,
Speaker 3: the NFL always tries to make those special to keep
Speaker 3: people watching.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: So got some play former players, fans announce and picks,
Speaker 3: and so we're gonna have all the coverage for.
Speaker 2: Our international fans of the year who we talked our
Speaker 2: last episode. They were Ki and Martz are gonna be
Speaker 2: on the scene. You'll have to connect with those guys
Speaker 2: while you're up there. Now, have you been on site
Speaker 2: for a draft previously.
Speaker 3: You've never been on site for a draft? You know,
Speaker 3: we were. We had Trevor Sickaman this week to do
Speaker 3: some draft coverage and I asked him that too, because
Speaker 3: he's been doing draft stuff a lot longer than I have,
Speaker 3: and he said, no, I've never been, never been on site.
Speaker 3: Because here's what I think a lot of people don't realize.
Speaker 3: The site of the draft is where the attention goes
Speaker 3: for the media for the length of a pick, and
Speaker 3: then everything else happens in a stadium, right, And so
Speaker 3: you know, whoever is picked in that first round Thursday night,
Speaker 3: they'll be here in Bank of America Stadium by late
Speaker 3: Friday morning, and from there every everyone that's picked day two,
Speaker 3: day three. You know, usually Day two people are guys
Speaker 3: that could have been first round kind of were friends
Speaker 3: and they're still around people that are on site, meaning
Speaker 3: for Day two, and so everything really kind of happens
Speaker 3: here at the stadium, right.
Speaker 2: That's why I tell people, and people are always amazed.
Speaker 2: In thirty years of doing this, I've never once been
Speaker 2: to where the draft is. And I don't know that
Speaker 2: I want to because they're cool as a fan. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure it's an incredible event, but in
Speaker 2: terms of the work, I'm just kind of conditioned to
Speaker 2: somewhere about middle of the day Thursday, after I've got
Speaker 2: up early done my morning stuff, taking a nap sometime
Speaker 2: middle of the day Thursday, coming into a windowless room,
Speaker 2: and then leaving on Saturday, Saturday night exactly just kind
Speaker 2: of never seeing the sun for a couple of days
Speaker 2: and immersing yourself in what's going on there. And that's
Speaker 2: just kind of been my experience about this thing. So
Speaker 2: it is, it's gonna be a wild time. I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to. Hopefully the Carolina Panthers selection is among those players.
Speaker 2: We're anticipating that announcement from the league any day now.
Speaker 2: This is kind of the when that usually comes out,
Speaker 2: but I'm hoping our guy is there in Green Bay,
Speaker 2: so you'll be there and be among the first to
Speaker 2: greet them, because you are, of course, one of our
Speaker 2: great ambassadors here of the brand.
Speaker 3: I have a T shirt that says that the brand
Speaker 3: no great ambassador.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I actually don't.
Speaker 3: I feel like I should though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's okay, but it is. It's going to be
Speaker 2: a fascinating weekend because it's going to be a busy weekend.
Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers have, of course, as you know, nine picks
Speaker 2: in this draft, eight in the first five rounds. And
Speaker 2: if we learned anything from Dan Morgan and Brandt Tillis's
Speaker 2: first draft together last year, is that those nine picks
Speaker 2: might not be the same nine or amount they execute.
Speaker 3: What are the chances I'm gonna give it like a
Speaker 3: one and one thousand odds that they stick with all
Speaker 3: nine exactly where they're at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems like the least likely scenario. Of course,
Speaker 2: there's no gambling here at bush Wood, and I never slice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they just they are going to move around the board.
Speaker 2: I you know, I think, uh, the one thing I've
Speaker 2: picked up in the you know, having known Dan Morgan
Speaker 2: from the time he was drafted, I mean basically twenty
Speaker 2: five years ago almost. It feels like, god, it has
Speaker 2: been twenty five years. How old am I? The answer
Speaker 2: is one million. Dan is very direct into the.
Speaker 3: You've known Dan Morgan longer than you've known your children.
Speaker 2: It's true. It's true. My children didn't start showing up
Speaker 2: till O two. Dan Morgan showed up for my life
Speaker 2: and oh one and uh, you know when he met
Speaker 2: his wife, Ashley. I remember Dan's dad telling me, uh,
Speaker 2: Dan's wife is from you know, the North Carolina Mountains,
Speaker 2: a high country up there. And I remember Dan's dad
Speaker 2: telling me one day in Spartanburg. He said, you get
Speaker 2: a kick out, Ashley. She sounds like you, you know,
Speaker 2: and Dan's dad's got a great Philly accident. But uh yeah,
Speaker 2: Dan is very direct and to the point. So when
Speaker 2: he tells you, oh yeah, we could trade back, I
Speaker 2: mean Dan is prepared for all these scenarios, because, hey,
Speaker 2: nobody like disappearing into that film room and watching tape
Speaker 2: of prospects quite like Dan Morgan does. But He's worked
Speaker 2: this in his head to the point where he knows
Speaker 2: what he would want to do at eight pending what
Speaker 2: happens in front of him. He knows what he would
Speaker 2: do at hypothetically fifteen twenty five, at all these different
Speaker 2: points through the draft, because he's kind of worked through
Speaker 2: the values of these things. And I think that, you know,
Speaker 2: in a perfect world, would they have something between eight
Speaker 2: and fifty seven? They would you know, they're without their
Speaker 2: on second rounder, but they do have the rams. Would
Speaker 2: they like to find something between point A and point
Speaker 2: B maybe.
Speaker 3: So, but I kind of capital there to play with.
Speaker 2: I think there's a world of opportunities. But the one
Speaker 2: thing I think people anticipate out of this thing is
Speaker 2: this is going to be a defense heavy draft for sure.
Speaker 2: Maybe not all defense, because if they don't come out
Speaker 2: of this weekend with a wide receiver, probably somebody who
Speaker 2: is fast, that would be a little bit of a
Speaker 2: surprise to me. But this, I think it's reasonable to
Speaker 2: suggest it's gonna lean heavily defense because you know, they
Speaker 2: were last in the league and and Dan has told
Speaker 2: us that, I think, and he's been very upfront about
Speaker 2: saying that. He's so direct, and that's, like I said,
Speaker 2: that's the thing you know about Dan when he tells you, yeah,
Speaker 2: we got to fix this defense, believe him because he's
Speaker 2: not a bs or. He is very direct and to
Speaker 2: the point.
Speaker 3: So and it works in his favor that this is
Speaker 3: such a defensive heavy draft, Like so many of the
Speaker 3: defensive units are deep. I mean, gosh, that edge, that
Speaker 3: edge unit is deeper than we've seen in ten years.
Speaker 2: Right, no no doubt, And and you know it hits
Speaker 2: at a lot of the positions they need, you know,
Speaker 2: if they come out of this thing with multiple pass rushers,
Speaker 2: with another defensive lineman, with another safety. You know, these
Speaker 2: are all things that aren't going to surprise anybody. I
Speaker 2: think there are needs across the board that they're gonna
Speaker 2: look at a couple of different areas, but that's obviously
Speaker 2: the priority. And you know, this week one of the things,
Speaker 2: it's been reported. You know a lot of places, this
Speaker 2: is the week they knocked out all their visits.
Speaker 3: Right, all their thirty visits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and somewhere along the way, I don't know how
Speaker 2: this happened, but somewhere along the way these started getting
Speaker 2: called top thirty visits. I think people were getting nostalgic
Speaker 2: for Casey Kasum or something, or it's.
Speaker 3: You know what it sounds like is in college recruiting,
Speaker 3: you have top five visits and those are your officials,
Speaker 3: and then you can take an unofficial, which is a
Speaker 3: kind of I guess the equivalent of the zoom calls,
Speaker 3: and with an official was so a top visit, the
Speaker 3: school completely pays for you to come visit. An unofficial
Speaker 3: you have to pay to go visit, but you're welcome
Speaker 3: to come visit. So I think people when people say
Speaker 3: top thirty. In my head, I'm hearing top five right,
Speaker 3: And I think people got it confused with college recruiting visits.
Speaker 3: But it is a little different.
Speaker 2: As someone who has actively avoided all high school recruiting
Speaker 2: coverage in my life.
Speaker 3: That's smart. Don't put that juju.
Speaker 2: And you're like, yeah, I did not know that, So
Speaker 2: I've learned a new thing here today. But no, this
Speaker 2: is if you look at and a lot of the
Speaker 2: names have been reported, many of them have not. But
Speaker 2: if you looked across the board at the guys who
Speaker 2: were here in the building, it's all over the board.
Speaker 2: It's first round guys, it's second round guys, third round guys,
Speaker 2: and on deeper end of day three of the draft
Speaker 2: because a lot of what they're doing, I mean, yes,
Speaker 2: you want to find out if it's somebody you're curious
Speaker 2: about with the number eight pick, you want to know
Speaker 2: more about that guy. You want to get them on
Speaker 2: the board, see how they learn, see how they retain information.
Speaker 2: You know, teams will do things like introduce material to
Speaker 2: a guy at the combine and then when they come
Speaker 2: in for a visit, say hey, remember when we call
Speaker 2: it Jen Indianapolis were talking about this, this, and this
Speaker 2: part of it is just seeing how people retain information
Speaker 2: and they want to see what makes a guys tick
Speaker 2: a lot. I mean, this is a very important interview
Speaker 2: opportunity in terms of the you know, they had their
Speaker 2: local pro day this week as well, and there wasn't
Speaker 2: a lot of on field stuff other than some punters
Speaker 2: and you you caught up with one of those guys,
Speaker 2: and we'll have more on that later, but mostly this
Speaker 2: was an interview opportunity, a chance to get to know
Speaker 2: some of these guys better and figure out what makes
Speaker 2: them tick.
Speaker 3: Because at this point you pretty much know everything you
Speaker 3: need to know about this guy from from film. What
Speaker 3: is I mean, that's football player's favorite saying, turn on
Speaker 3: the film, turn on the game tape. And so it's
Speaker 3: it's more about how do they jive with our coaching system,
Speaker 3: how do they jive with how we like to to
Speaker 3: coach guys. You know, this is a chance. A lot
Speaker 3: of times, I don't know if people realize how much
Speaker 3: the players are in the building this time of year too,
Speaker 3: So this is a chance to see them walking down
Speaker 3: the hall and run into Derek Brown and you know,
Speaker 3: do they listen to him?
Speaker 2: Do they do.
Speaker 3: They understand, you know, the respect he garners as a
Speaker 3: locker room leader. It's a chance to see all of
Speaker 3: those little things that you're never gonna see on film.
Speaker 2: No doubt, no doubt. And and you know we're having
Speaker 2: an opportunity. We're going to get deeper into that as
Speaker 2: we get through into next week. I mean, the other
Speaker 2: thing that's going to happen coming up soon is start
Speaker 2: of the off season program. There are, first, there are
Speaker 2: some guys knocking around the building. You mentioned Derek, he's
Speaker 2: here practically every day working out coming back from last
Speaker 2: year's knee injury. But on the twenty first is when
Speaker 2: the off season program begins. In earnest guys will be
Speaker 2: back in here working out and stuff. You know. That's uh,
Speaker 2: it's why day.
Speaker 3: After my birthday, if anybody wants to bring me a
Speaker 3: cupcake and we'll celebrate accordingly.
Speaker 2: There you go, happy, happy start of the new league year,
Speaker 2: new off season program. Cassidy.
Speaker 3: We'll get new Cassidy, new panthers.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll get everybody to sing for you or something
Speaker 2: down now, Oh, don't do that. But it's wild because
Speaker 2: last year this started two weeks earlier. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 2: because Dave Canalis is a second year coach now, and
Speaker 2: only first year coaches get those bonus two weeks. That's
Speaker 2: been one of the things in the last little bit
Speaker 2: that's kind of it's almost dawning on you. You realize
Speaker 2: the passage of time. They're going into that second year
Speaker 2: and listening to Dave talk about that last week at
Speaker 2: the owners meeting down in Florida. You know, he talked
Speaker 2: about the lessons learned from year one to year two
Speaker 2: and how you carry over certain things. Bryce talked about
Speaker 2: it a little bit if you saw in Panthers dot
Speaker 2: com we had some comments from him out at his
Speaker 2: camp in Los Angeles. You know, Bryce said, you know, hey,
Speaker 2: it's great to be able to work with this same
Speaker 2: set of people, but we also know we don't get
Speaker 2: to start from there. We've got to continue the work,
Speaker 2: continue to build, continue to grow. But Dave talked about
Speaker 2: with Bryce having that kind of attitude, they're able to
Speaker 2: open things up in the offense, and if you look
Speaker 2: at it, Bryce is really working with the same set
Speaker 2: of people. I mean they brought the entire offensive line
Speaker 2: back intact, turnkey, same as last year. Receivers, Receivers check
Speaker 2: tight ends check. I mean Tommy Trimble's back to work
Speaker 2: with J. T. Sanders, our old friend I and Thomas
Speaker 2: is now a Raider. Best of luck to Ian. But
Speaker 2: other than that, all of those are the same. And
Speaker 2: you swapped out Miles Sanders for Rico Daldle and brought
Speaker 2: in one thousand yard back to pair what you be
Speaker 2: Hubbard in the backfield. So there is a consistency about
Speaker 2: this offense and gives you a place to build from,
Speaker 2: which kind of allows you to have that defensive draft
Speaker 2: like we talked about previously.
Speaker 3: I've always heard too with quarterbacks that the biggest jump
Speaker 3: quarterbacks take in college in the NFL is the summer
Speaker 3: between their second and their third year, because they've now
Speaker 3: had two off seasons under their belt. They've had a
Speaker 3: rookie season, which is usually wide eyed, a season where
Speaker 3: they see things actually start to come together. And so
Speaker 3: that summer between their second and third years when they
Speaker 3: can take the biggest jump. And then you also have
Speaker 3: the summer between your first and second year and this offense,
Speaker 3: coaches have had a year under their belt to see
Speaker 3: what works what doesn't. And so I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 3: not going to get out here and make any predictions,
Speaker 3: but I think it's going to be perhaps a noticeable
Speaker 3: difference in the comfort level of how this offense practices,
Speaker 3: maybe even as early as that Monday, the twenty first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can just tell, I mean, you can
Speaker 2: sense from Bryce there is a comfortability for lack of
Speaker 2: a better word, in him this offseason. I could see
Speaker 2: it at the Super Bowl when we were down in
Speaker 2: New Orleans and he was doing radio row. The simple
Speaker 2: fact that Bryce was doing radio road is step one,
Speaker 2: but just seeing how at ease he was and is
Speaker 2: comfortable in his own skin was kind of one of
Speaker 2: the eye openers. And that comfort with his surroundings, with
Speaker 2: the offense, with the things Dave Canalis was asking him
Speaker 2: to do, was evident his last year went along. So
Speaker 2: it's going to be interesting to see how they build
Speaker 2: and develop on that over the course of this season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're excited to see it. And then of course
Speaker 3: they'll they'll roll right from those off season workouts into draft. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So you know, things don't slow down.
Speaker 2: No, they do not. Now, of course we have not
Speaker 2: covered the biggest news of the week, of course, and
Speaker 2: that is the signing of one college ranger baby. He
Speaker 2: is America's tight end all of a sudden, former basketball
Speaker 2: player at Ohio.
Speaker 3: You Western basketball player a month ago.
Speaker 2: That's right, and you talked to him the other day.
Speaker 2: I think this story is so cool because this guy
Speaker 2: practically came out of nowhere and suddenly has an NFL contract.
Speaker 3: Yeah he does. George Fant, another friend of the programs,
Speaker 3: a guy that a lot of these Panthers offensive coaches
Speaker 3: general manager drafted or not drafted. I'm sorry they signed
Speaker 3: him as an undrafted free agent, but a guy a
Speaker 3: lot of these these coaches are familiar with. He also
Speaker 3: made that transition from basketball to football. He was at
Speaker 3: Western Kentucky, played there for four years for the Hilltoppers.
Speaker 3: The whole time he was there, football coaches asked him
Speaker 3: to join the football team. He never did, and he
Speaker 3: never did, and then realized he might have a little
Speaker 3: bit more of a steady future with football than he
Speaker 3: would play in Europe and basketball. By that point, he
Speaker 3: was married, he had a kid. So he played, you know,
Speaker 3: for five minutes in a bag of chips on the
Speaker 3: Hilltoppers football team with his fifth year of eligibility. Had
Speaker 3: such an impressive pro day there were a bunch of
Speaker 3: scouts there to see Tyler Higbee, and it was George
Speaker 3: Fan who ended up pulling a lot of their attention.
Speaker 3: Such an impressive pro dace, Seattle signed him. Pat McPherson
Speaker 3: was the tight end coach of Seattle. He's, of course
Speaker 3: now the tight ends coach here. He called their GM.
Speaker 3: There's some of their other scouts. It was like, check
Speaker 3: this guy out. They signed him based purely off that
Speaker 3: pro day, and by the fifth game of his rookie season,
Speaker 3: he was They converted him to the offensive line. He
Speaker 3: was the starting left tackle for the Seattle Seahawks, a
Speaker 3: guy that ended up being a starter for a while,
Speaker 3: was used as a hybrid tight end. Dave Canalis was
Speaker 3: familiar with him. All of that to say, George knew
Speaker 3: it could be done. I mean, Jimmy Graham's done it.
Speaker 3: He's seen other people do it. And so he decided
Speaker 3: to start this program, and this was his first year
Speaker 3: where he finds these guys that have certain basket ball
Speaker 3: skills that might not be transferable to a long term
Speaker 3: basketball career, but have these certain skills that could be
Speaker 3: transferable to football. And he dug up Colin Granger out
Speaker 3: of Coastal Carolina. Yeah, and uh, Colin moved into George
Speaker 3: Fance House on Thing on March sixth, and by April
Speaker 3: seventh he had signed an NFL contract. They put together
Speaker 3: a workout with about five or sixteen showed up, including
Speaker 3: the Panthers. Again, a lot of trust in George and
Speaker 3: what he was, what he was preaching when that he's developing.
Speaker 3: Got down there and realized, I mean, this guy is
Speaker 3: six eight to forty. I think through thirty five to forty.
Speaker 2: He's a big boy.
Speaker 3: He is a big boy and he can move. I
Speaker 3: was standing in the hallway the other day talking to
Speaker 3: Pat McPherson and Colin was standing right there and Todd Wash.
Speaker 3: Todd Wash walked by and kind of just looked up
Speaker 3: because he had to look up at him, and kind
Speaker 3: of stopped and looked up, and Pat was like, you
Speaker 3: can't have him tied. You can't have him. He's mine.
Speaker 2: That's funny and it is a cool story. If you
Speaker 2: haven't read Cassidy's story about Colin Granger where she talked
Speaker 2: to Colin and George Fan about this, I highly recommend
Speaker 2: it Panthers dot com. Basically, George Fan slid up in
Speaker 2: this man's DMS and offered him a chance to work out,
Speaker 2: and Colin, once he googled George Fanton, realized that this
Speaker 2: may actually be Legit went along, but such a cool story,
Speaker 2: I think gets incumbent upon us to say Colin Granger
Speaker 2: is an extreme long shot to make this team. This
Speaker 2: is a let's see what we can do with a
Speaker 2: raw lump of clay. Can we mold this into something
Speaker 2: we can use? And I mean in a situation like that,
Speaker 2: it's you know, anything you get out of him coming
Speaker 2: down the road is a bonus. But you've seen stories
Speaker 2: like that before. I mean, Chris Manhert's former Panther was
Speaker 2: a college basketball player at Canisius. Had only the only
Speaker 2: football experience he had was playing Madden. He's now going
Speaker 2: into NFL season ten. So it can happen. It's not
Speaker 2: exceedingly likely, but that's the time of year.
Speaker 3: It requires a certain kind of athlete to make it happen.
Speaker 2: You're signing a prospect, you know, for a ninety man roster,
Speaker 2: and let's see what happens. It's no risk, potentially some
Speaker 2: degree of reward, but it's that time of year we
Speaker 2: are going to shift. I mean the next time we
Speaker 2: do this, this is going to be all draft all
Speaker 2: the time. But we got a little bit of time
Speaker 2: to mess around a little bit. It's Master's Week. I
Speaker 2: understand many people are excited about that. It's not really
Speaker 2: my deal.
Speaker 3: You don't sit down and watch the Masters now, I.
Speaker 2: Don't sit down and watch golf routine league. You know,
Speaker 2: golf on TV to me is kind of somewhat less
Speaker 2: exciting than watching paint dry or grass grow.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not usually a golfer. If usually if
Speaker 3: golf's on, that means I'm taking a good nap. But Masters,
Speaker 3: the moving day. Master Sunday, like Master Sunday, always delivers.
Speaker 3: There's always drama, there's always excitement. I'll never forget where
Speaker 3: I was watching Bubba like pop that little ball out
Speaker 3: of the woods in the pine straw. As someone who
Speaker 3: grew up in Central Alabama, I know how slick pine
Speaker 3: straw is. I still don't know how he got that
Speaker 3: ball out onto the green. I mean things like Tiger
Speaker 3: went coming back and winning a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: So there's so many I can't even think of them all.
Speaker 3: Master Sunday always delivers. My favorite part of watching it
Speaker 3: and This is something I feel like you, as as
Speaker 3: a proud curmudgeon, would appreciate. Ah is they're not allowed
Speaker 3: to have phones at Augusta. And so when you watch
Speaker 3: the Masters, especially on Master Sunday, when you know Rory
Speaker 3: hits a shot that actually keeps them in contention for
Speaker 3: a little while and everyone is completely in the moment. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and that's always fun to watch.
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. I remember the first time I ever
Speaker 2: experienced that. I took my son when NBA All Star
Speaker 2: Game was here this week and Chappelle came. I took
Speaker 2: my son to that concert. And that was the first
Speaker 2: time I went into an event where they said, put
Speaker 2: your phone in this locked bag, we'll unlock it for
Speaker 2: you later. And I would say, I love this. Y
Speaker 2: is like freedom for me next two hours without a
Speaker 2: cell phone. Tell me more. But no, it's you know.
Speaker 2: I'm pro azalea, I'm pro egg salad. I'm pro h.
Speaker 3: Most waffle losses per capita in the country.
Speaker 2: All good, all good things, all things I can get behind.
Speaker 2: I also like the idea of the Champions dinner. Whoever
Speaker 2: gets to uh, whoever wins the year before gets to
Speaker 2: pick them menu h. What would be your champions dinner meal.
Speaker 2: I brought this.
Speaker 3: Subject up thirty minutes ago, and now I haven't even
Speaker 3: thought about what it would be. I think I would
Speaker 3: go with a steak, some really really good like garlic,
Speaker 3: mashed potatoes, maybe sweet potato cast role, which I know
Speaker 3: doesn't necessarily go with those things, and as you've already
Speaker 3: got mashed potatoes, but I love sweet potato cast role,
Speaker 3: some really well done green beans, key lime pie, or
Speaker 3: maybe tear a sou I guess the world is my oyster,
Speaker 3: but we wouldn't have oysters.
Speaker 2: But no oysters, no oysters. You don't like oyster.
Speaker 3: I don't. And I grew up in the oyster capital
Speaker 3: of the world, which is Mobile, Alabama, which is strange.
Speaker 2: I grew up in North Carolina. I guess if I
Speaker 2: was gonna do this, I would serve barbecue, vinegar based sauce,
Speaker 2: Eastern North Carolina style.
Speaker 3: Of course, I think it'd be obligated.
Speaker 2: I think for appetizers, though, what I would serve, I
Speaker 2: would serve North Carolina hot dogs, really hot dogs with chili.
Speaker 2: You can see wall mustard onions for ingredients. That's it all.
Speaker 3: Makes it sound like Chicago dog coleslaw.
Speaker 2: Chili mustard onion. That's the that's the North Carolina style. Okay,
Speaker 2: you can't find it. There's a shrinking universe of places
Speaker 2: to find good dogs like that. Any anybody's got any recommendations,
Speaker 2: I will happily receive them. Uh. We will go through
Speaker 2: hot dog recommendations. We will get into the draft a
Speaker 2: little more heavily. We will talk about god knows what,
Speaker 2: maybe basketball again the next time we meet on the
Speaker 2: Happy half Hour