Happy Half Hour Episode 36: Hey Darnold! (ft. Jake Delhomme)

we'd do, and an off season update. You know, how is your holiday weekend? Pretty quiet? Right? Yeah? Very quiet? I was reading about the NFL rule changes, like That's what I've been doing for the past month. I'm really excited about this new onsete kick format and we're gonna spend thirty minutes talking about that today. We thought it'd be a good a good focus. Really, you know, not a lot going on in the Carolinas, not at all, certainly,

not quarterback wise. But yes, as every Panthers fans certainly knows, certainly everyone who's listening to this podcast, is that the Panthers traded for Sam Donald on Monday, which was a company holiday which was fun. Where were you when you found out? I was when when when you when you got a push on your phone? Found out before the

bush Will? But yeah, if you ever get a push notification from the Panthers, just know that it is at Panthers stats guy Will Brian on the ones and twos pushing through time there's a there's an apostrophe error, or there's a misspelling, you know where it came from. I still think it's cool though. We were talking about this the other day when I get a push notification like

that's Will, that's that's Will. Um. I was at home, which was odd because I'm always here, you know, I'm always at the stadium, And because it was a holiday, I said, you know what, I'm gonna hang out. It doesn't seem like anything's happening, and um, it kind of gave me so Actually, April six was my one year anniversary and it kind of reminded me of being starting

work at home. You know, it's been a while since I've been at home and some big news broke Panthers wise, because I worked in the stadium, is very lucky to be able to come in and be part of the testing. Um since training camp. So it's really the first time in eight or nine months where I had been at home working on this big thing for the Panthers, and it felt it felt odd. Where were you tell me

your story driving Range. I had spent the entire weekend just kind of chilling, being at home, you know, doing some odds and ends work. And then Monday I was like, you know what, it's a beautiful day. I'm gonna get up a beautiful day. I'm gonna go. You know, I'm not gonna play eighteen, not gonna play nine, just gonna go, you know, get some swings in. And you know, I was told get back to your computer immediately. Yes, First of all, well why would you ever not have your

computer on you? Honestly, almost everything you do. I almost did bring it with Is it not handcuffed to you at all times? It's right here? But no, I almost did bring it. But then I was like, you know what, I'm only like ten minutes away, five minutes away. I can get back if nothing happens, and I didn't need it to. We're gonna get into all of that, and we've got an incredible guest coming up. If you want to end depth analysis on Sam Donald and this trade.

I mean, who better to talk to than Jake tooloone. We're gonna talk to him in just a little bit and we'll Brian pantherstan I obviously on Twitter. I think I think you were looking at me, and I think you might have thought I was gonna say you, and then I said Jake, and you kind of just like no. I was like, okay, it's the real quarterback. Um. So

you know, really really big news. We're going to break all of that down, but first, and we got to talk about you know, even bigger than the same Donald trade in Panther's news is the fact that our very own producer, Matt Hogan got married. And this is the first time we're getting a chance to see you after after the big event honeymoon. How was everything? It was,

Thank you will, it was it was great. Um. I came back today and you handed me a gift from the Panthers digital team, so that was a nice little I don't know. I was telling my friends and like, how does it feel to be married? And I just said that I feel less important now because the week in two weeks a month before I was the guests, you know, the guest of honor and everything, and now I'm just like a regular working guy. Now it is funny. I'm I'm married as well, and there is this like

V I P thing that comes along with it. And now you walk in back to work and you're like, you know, does anyone want to get me anything? Like, does anyone want to you know, take my jacket from me? And make sure I don't need anything? Photographer following me, my egos shrinking. But it's nice to be back. Welcome back, congratulation you we are. We are so happy and happy to see you. But but back to the Donald news,

the second biggest news of course. So well we gotta do you know, like I said, gonna talk to Jake in just a minute, but we got to bring back will Staut of the week. What is your Donald's statist of the week. Well, there's a lot of Donald stats, so I'm gonna go with this one. Um. The Panthers have not been known as a team that's been a trader or very big in the trade market over their last twenty six years. Donald's only the third quarterback they've

ever traded for. Really yep, and the other two weren't you know, big names. It was Jeff Lewis four from Denver for a couple of late round picks, and then Josh McCown. Okay, Josh McCown's a big name. Don't disrespect Josh McCown is a big name, because that was we traded for Josh McCown in two thousand eight, thinking, you know, here's this you know, veteran, you know, kind of you know, second half of his career. No, he was just beginning

in two thousand eight. You're kidding me. Um, So Josh McCown obviously, like he knows Sam Donald, he's the Jets like a couple of years ago. I mean, Josh McCown has been playing football for forty five years. So but yeah, the pant has traded a seventh round picked for him back in two thousand eight. So Josh McCown, Josh mcown, Pa the Lowe. You gotta ask you gotta, we gotta ask Jake about that. Yeah, that's awesome. You're gonna blow his mind with that. Dad. I love that. You're you're

laughing so hard at your own discovery. Right, that's going to make a great tweet later on Panthers At Panthers, dat I gotta I gotta figure out whether McCown was still in New York or if he had just left when they drafted Donald. I mean, he was close, he was there. It feels like he was there. But what do I don't have I don't played there in the year before they drafted Donald. I'll check, I'll check the math there, all right, So let's go back to to

what Monday looked like. I love doing these behind the scenes kind of um look into what your job looks like or what my job looks like, our mats when something like this happens, because of course, when the news is announced, there's articles, tweets, gifts, memes, um coming out at a rapid pace once it's announced, and it's really

incredible to see. And you know, I was helping a little bit in terms of some production stuff and and organizing, but but really, because Sam was not available for interviews, my role on Monday was was much less than yours. And you are right in the thick of everything, as uh, someone who's controlling the website and and push notifications and editing and all sorts of different stuff. So what does

that look like? You're at the driving range. You get the call that says like, how dare you leave your computer for less than three minutes? It should be you know, attached your to your hands at all times. I'm just kidding that would never happen. But what happens after that? So thankfully for most of us, we've we've been through things like this before. You know that this kind of

the vets of this group. You know, you've gone through so many breaking news events that you kind of know what what the elements are, what the buttons to push, you know, kind of the order of things, how it all works, and knowing that when it happens, it's going to be a fog. Like I think part of the things that I think some some people when they come in there, like what's the you know, what's the process? You know how what's the you know, who has to

approve what? It's just kind of like you do your best, but it's a fog. Like you're just you're you're gonna double check things as much as you can, but quick, quick has to happen. It's got to be quick. So um, you know when you know, when when I got back, you know, you're working on building photo galleries. Looking at it highlights one of the things that you know, there's this whole kind of back end of NFL highlights that

I was trying to find. You know, Donald's career long pass was a yard to Robbie Anderson in two thousand nineteen. But the problem was it wasn't still on the NFL's back end. So it was like, well, I really want to have this video published as soon as we go live with this, but I don't want to alert anybody because the NFL, they would have found it and put it in our back can immediately, but it's like, I don't want to tell them yet. So I mean, and this is you know, this is when we're we're just

finding out. You know, it could happen any minute, you know, so we're just trying to go as quickly as we can to get all this uh this content and uh so you know I'm waiting on that and just trying

to get everything in places. Bio gotta write a bio, gotta photoshop his his jet's head shot into a panther's jersey, you know, working on all that, um, you know, knowing that there's a whole other crew in some other space doing all the things for social and getting all those things ready and um you know, videos all that stuff, and then just kind of you know, having a couple of calls with hey, we're gonna do this, We're gonna do this, all right, We're good the story, gonna get

the story, okay, and then it's like boom, it's happening. You just get the text is happening in five minutes like that, that's what you get. Um, and and then you just kind of go to work. It's it's push unifications to the web, to the app. Um, it's bio published, it's putting breaking news alert all across the website. It's uh photo gallery. It's then getting the videos from the NFL. It's looking for more ones. It's fighting a tweet for Panther stats guy, which um, I wish there was a

Twitter edit button. I'll just say that for all of my my great followers that pointed some things out to me, it was passerrating and not completion percentage. For those that know, um oh that that would be a big difference. I did not get to see that in the midst of It happened very quickly, and by the time that I really break, you're doing eight thousand things. So that's what it was, guys. It was eight eight point five passerrating. Um. But yeah, so you and then you're looking for stuff

like that, you're completion need. Yeah, it's I mean, we need to edit button on Twitter, right, I think that could lead to that's a whole different rabbit hole. But for but for honest, hard working people like you, Yes, like you could have one, but not everyone. You can have the you can have the first and only. By the time I saw it, it was like we're already way down this road. I wasn't going to delete it at that point. I just can't. So um. But yeah,

I mean, so there's a lot going on. And then it's like, okay, now you're you're trying to look at you know, now we have Scott Fitterers press conference, and you're really trying to think, Okay, what's the analysis here, Like, what's the you know, what are the because I'm also I'm writing copy for everything that's going on the website, headlines, you know, byline, subheads, you know, for all these videos, and you're trying to figure out, Okay, you know, what's

the you know, what is really the tone? You know, how are we projecting this? What's the uh, the way that we're analyzing this, and I think that was such an interesting part of the afternoon, was you know, going through Okay, you know, it's it's this sixth round pick this year, which is really just a gift because that was a cop pick, so we weren't even expecting that anyway, and then you have a second and forth next year.

But then when you hear Scott Fitter talk about it, you know, now I'm started going into a little analysis of it. But you know, you talked about the optionality of you know, now you're at eight with with all these different options, including getting a quarterback, trading back, you know, getting you know, defensive offensive line, cornerback, all that kind

of things. So then you're trying to integrate all that into the tone and kind of the perception of the things you're publishing, you know, because then you have you know, six, seven, eight, nine, NFL Network videos coming through with Kurt Warner and Jerdy Batista and all these people analyzing the stuff, and you're really trying to make sure that that's, um, you know, that that's going out at the right rate and all

that stuff. So, yeah, it was it's just in a whole afternoon, the whole day, and then you get all these people that are texting you like and I'm like, hold on, hold on sending out the push notification. That is a really interesting What you just said is something that I went through on Monday night as well. And this might be just specific to the people in this room,

but the fact that you said it. I don't know if you know anyone listening also understands this, but when you're so in it, and that's not to say we have any type of of knowledge, but we're you know, you're in the you are in the mix with with putting all of this stuff out and and writing and making sure you know it's going out concurrently with with what the social media team is doing, and you're pulling all these clips that I found myself on Monday going Okay,

what's the what's the hundred foot view of this from everyone else? Because we are so embedded in panther Land? You know, did you find that as well? It seems like that's what you're saying, which is like, I'm making sure when I'm writing copy on everything that I not only have all the facts, I'm seeing what other people are saying and and getting a sense of kind of

the overall view from everyone else to that. I think I think it certainly helped that, you know, that Scott Fitter of the GM, you know, spoke to kind of set that on on Monday, so that there were, um, maybe not answers, but at least you know, an approach

to context. Context. I mean, the context of this year's draft, the context of next year's season, the context of the QBS on the roster, you know, all of those things that, um that you you kind of need that guidance from because I think you know, certainly, yeah, within our bubble, we certainly know um in general. You know, we saw the trade rumors. We know all the rumors that are getting tweeted at us every day. We've got these, we've

got the Google alerts and trater alerts on. You know, we certainly know all the things that are out there. And you know, honestly, like I thought, this month could go any number of ways, and there's it still can there's still a number of other ways it can now go. But you know, you kind of prepare your mind a little bit too. Okay, So what is this month with

this this trade or this trade not happening? Or this draft pick happening, and then this trade happening after that, you kind of look through all these scenarios that you know that you try to prepare for. Okay, what does this mean? And then what does this mean going forward? And I think all of a sudden, it just kind of hits you on Monday. It's like, Oh, this is it, this is this is the scenario. And then you're kind

of working back from there. Do you ever get a little do you ever get butterflies in your stomach when you press send on a notification? Oh my gosh, yes, like I because I feel like you're so calm and collected, and I would be nervous to do that. Oh you haven't seen me on days like that. Then I closed I'm upstairs. I closed the door, I put my phone, I put all my notifications on mute, because I know that not only because you get Yeah, you gotta focus

in on the thing that you're doing. Getting it with texts, I'm getting it with like Bleacher Report, ESPN, Like every single push that you're getting from everyone else that's all happening, you know, knowing that you're just gonna get flooded, and so it's yeah, it's having to kind of be calm. Like there is a time when I used to like wear my Apple Watch during these things, and I my blood pressure was so high because I kept getting I just took it and through it against the wall because

I I can't handle it. I do that sometimes I don't think it quite compares because there have been a few times where I've been on the air, not in this job where breaking news has happened, but if I'm doing if we're doing a show or whatnot, Like I can't even try not even look at my phone in a commercial break because but sometimes we're getting like so

say we're doing the Panthers pregames or the draft. There are things that that maybe you would say to me or or Amy or social media manager that are important to getting on the air. This person has won a prize or whatnot. But you really have to separate those things where unless it's something like that, I really try not to look at my phone and distract myself, even though even when the cameras are off, because it does

take you out of that mindset. And so I can't imagine trying to press send on something and having seven notifications on my wrist. As I'm trying to make sure that I, like you said, put the apostrophe in the right place. I mean, you you kind of get used to knowing what's coming, and I think that that's been helpful. I think the first couple of times that I did it, I was, you know, with Luke, I was unprepared for well, everyone was just just in that. I remember where I was.

You talked about where we were for this. I remember as a fan, I was not. There was no inkling that I would ever work for the Panthers. I remember where I was sitting on my couch in Chicago with my husband and and seeing that video. So I can't imagine what it was like to be a part of that. And how could you be prepared? Right? I mean, and they're and they're not here today, but like you know,

we've had Amy and Angela on this podcast before. Are amazing social media team, and I think it's such a credit for them to be able to, you know, to pull these ideas together and to be able to execute them so well, knowing that you know, hey, there's there's a lot of ways you can go with this, but let's be bold, let's really lean into it and let's let's figure out ways that, um, you know, this content exists on its own, and I think that they did that on Twitter, so I mean and and Instagram and

like all the different platforms. They did it so well that there was like the secondary story behind the story of like, oh, did you see the way the Panthers did this on social media? It was incredible, It was awesome. As I said, I've been here for a year. It's almost my one year anniversary a couple of days after,

and I still I'm my gosh. I know those people like the creativity comes out of their brains, and of course we you know, we have to include Daniel and Brandon and everyone who works to make that's those social media posts so incredible. Um, it's it's really cool to see in action. And I didn't get to see it as much in action this time because we were all at home, which was, like I said, it that's a that's bringing full circle back to me as I always like to do. It was it was a different experience.

But like you said, there's so many times we're certainly in your career here at the Panthers that these things are, that these things happen, and you have to be prepared for them. And then of course you have the added experience of of the last year having to work primarily from home. And so even though it's new and different every single time, based on the situation, based on the trade, based on the player, at least none of that stuff was like in your way, like you're just getting out

all the things you have to do. It's not the fact that, I mean, you know how to communicate from home. We're all on slack. Things are happening, and I just thought it was without having as much to do because we weren't doing interviews. It's it's so cool to see the way that you guys seemlessly work together and get all this stuff out as soon as it's ready to be announced. It's really cool. It's organized chaos, but there's

also kind of the there's like a shared heartbeat. I think even when like you're not in the same room, when you're not right next to each other, you just you know what everyone else is doing, so that you know what you're doing how that fits into what everyone else is doing. So I think that's that's such a cool, uh kind of learned organism. You know, it's not something that's natural, but you know, over over time, Yeah, you build it with people, and I think that's a really

special thing. Well, congrats to to Sam Donald and the Panthers front office and Will great job. Like honestly, it was. It was really cool to see all of you guys work together in concert to get all that stuff out. How quickly did you leave the golf course? Oh, so I was did you break into a run? I didn't break into a run. So I was working my way up from my nine iron and I was on my seven, so I still had, you know what, maybe maybe so I just give them to somebody. Yeah, I got the

and I pulled out my driver. I'm like, let me just whack a couple adrenaline. Yeah, And they were horrible, Like I can't hit my driver anyway. But and then I'm just like, all right, not for that, And then yelled to the guy over there, I'm like, these are all yours, man, I gotta go, and he kind of looked at me. I'm like, I'm serious, I gotta go take them. He's like, what's just happen? Who leaves the driver? Oh that's awesome. All right, let's take a quick break

and when we come back. We have got Jake alone joining us to break down the Sam Donald trade. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkis told me to always make it easy for the customer. That's you. A lave person, will always be here to answer the phone. We're here till midnight, seven days a week, so you never have to take off work. And it's the same prices in the daytime. We're the ones you want to call. We're the ones you want to call. We're the ones

you want to call. You're gonna love these people. I guarantee got a Morrish Jenkins dot com. Jake Dilone. This is a this is an honor because well, Jake and I have have done a lot of stuff together. And will you worked with Jake back when you were an intern. We've never had him on the Happy Half Hour podcast. I mean usually, you know, it's only big time stuff Jake and Jordan's, so this is this is exciting. Jake,

Thanks for doing this absolutely. I um, you know, my agent had to pull some strains I didn't want I didn't want to do. You were trying to get out of it. Yeah, yeah, listen, the quality that Jordan and I bring week in and week out is second to none. That's why we're you know, award winning. So I will try to do my best today. Well if I can keep that up, well, appreciate you gracing us with your presence.

I mean, I think the obvious question is just what do you think of the trade for for Sam Donald? What was your first reaction when you saw the news?

You know, I always thought in my mind, um, because of where we were picking at and kind of it was evident we were in the market for for a quarterback, and you know, speculation about Matt Stafford and you know, uh you hear some things about the Shawn Watson and then with that situation, you knew that was kind of an untouchable situation, um, right now, So you just kind of wondered what was gonna happen there? Um, And uh, listen,

I like it, I really and truly do. I think this is an uber talented kid that just a few years ago. Um, you know he's he was a top three pick, and uh he's so young. Um. I just think a change of scene where he can do wonders. Um. And I do like what we can put around him talent wise. Um. And then yet we we have a draft where we pick eight. Um, we have second third round pick, so who knows what other pieces we can add. But uh, I think this is a I think this

is a win win honestly for both organizations. Um. And if it works out for us, it's it's it's a home run. It truly it truly is. You're getting someone like I keep saying, so young, so talented, was very that was an awkward situation he was in in New York, so a breath of fresh air for him. I think he'll embrace it. It certainly looks that way a little video that I saw of him, I guess in his home or whatnot, with the panther hat and the panther balloons and things like that. So, um, I think you're

gonna get someone who extremely hungry. Um. It's not not to say that he was never hungry, because the word is this kid was beloved, and he worked his tail off, he fought through injuries. Um and and really it was not a good situation in New York the whole way around. So fresh start and and very excited about it. Jake, I promise I'm gonna let we'll speak at some point. But I do want to ask this question because it's it's something I've been wanting to ask someone who would

know and who better than you. When you are a quarterback going to a new team and you're coming in with new coaches, what's that like? Well, listen, my first six years in New Orleans, UM, you know, undrafted, so really had you know? Um uh, there wasn't much expectation, I know for me. And then we had two coaching staffs, one of New Orleans the first three years, and then Jim Hasler came in and Mike McCarthy was the offensive coordinator. UM. And that's when, really and truly my eyes opened up.

Two NFL play how to prepare um and and and a true offseason, a quarterback school offseason that Mike something that the West Coast offenses used to do way back when, and something Mike used to expand on. And that was huge for me. And it was great. And then I leave there come to Carolina, run a completely different system than what we ran UH in New Orleans, and you're

around you get to learn more. You got to be around new coaches, uh, a new staff and new players and it just it was a great fit for me. I know it was awesome for me to be able to do that. Um. I don't want to use the word breath of fresh air because I really I enjoy on my time in New Orleans and I learned a great deal. But I was able to come into a place and get a new mindset. I guess you could say with the head coach like John Fox Um and then Dan Henning, you know, someone who has multiple Super

Bowl rings, Um, and just Dan's mindset. And then Mike McCoy and the quarterback coach was very young at the time, only a couple of years older than me. Mike kind a West Coast background and then changed um when he was in Carolina with Dan, and it just it all worked, and I know it was it was, it was, it was great. It was fantastic for me, And I'm hoping

the same for Sam. Yeah, Jake, I mean with with Joe Brady being so young, I mean, I think there's there's some comparisons there with you know, coming to coming to this place. You know obviously, um, you know you have Teddy Bridgewiter still in the roster right now, but you know, with with Sam coming in, you know, going from a New York market. People talk about that as if you know, like New York is really kind of

this pressure cooker. You know, obviously you played in Houston and Cleveland as but do you really do you still feel like that's the case in terms of the difference between playing in Charlotte or playing in New York. Yeah, I really and truly believe that. And listen, that is just you know, it's the same thing with the Philadelphia type of situation, in any New York situation, even Dallas.

I mean the media, and I say the word pressures. Listen, there's pressures when you play any professional sport because you're getting paid. So the media deserves the right to be objective and critical of you. Um, because you're getting paid handsome, handsomely and and this is a business. Um. But I just think that whole situation and a lot had to do with the head coach with Adam. That was a I don't even want to say I love hate relationship with the media there. It was a hate hate relationship

with the New York media and Adam. And I just think that played into everything with Sam um and so you're gonna come to Charlotte. Um, I truly believe this community will embrace him. This team will embrace him. Uh. The talent on the roster is probably the most talent he would have ever had around him. Uh. And a fresh approach, you know, Matt Rule came in and UH really kind of change things up. And you know there's a singular voice to me from the outside looking in

that Hey, Matt's in charge. Um, and he has a way of building a team. And you saw a team in Carolina that I don't know how um overly talented we were last year, but a team that just played in every game and went down to the wire and every game and just fought and scratch and claude and UM, I think you'll see a big jump with the youth on this team. And it's it's it's the perfect marriage it would seem with a young kid. And contractually when you look at it, gosh, it's it's pretty darn good.

If it's got hits, you know, it's it's it's it's very rewarding, right. You know they talk about the rookie contracts. You know, Donald's gonna be in his his fourth year and then the potential for you know that fifth year options. So yeah, you have that that that QB on the rookie contract and then you know you're looking at at what you can do from there. One of the things that we're gonna be talking about this week is the

kind of Kevin Bacon of the NFL. Do you do you know that you shared a teammate with Sam Donald? I do, and I shared. I shared a couple of teammates with Sam Donald. Um, let's see how good you are. So I was going with Josh McCown and there was also a guy who was pretty darn good in Carolina that was in New York for a little bit. Oh,

Ryan Khalil, Ryan Khalil, Right, hello, usc Alume. So yeah, I did share a couple and a matter of fact, I did speak with Josh about Sam not long after this trade occurred, and that was glowing remarks from Josh because I believe uh Sam was a rookie when Josh

was with him, if I remember correctly. So, um, yeah, so a couple of teammates, and I do know Ryan thinks very highly of Sam, and I think uh Ryan understood the whole dynamic with the media and with the head coach and that that kind of situation that was going on in New York. So one thing before I let you go, and this is kind of a wider view of the NFL right now. So I saw a stat out there that this is the first time that there's five quarterbacks who were all drafted in the top three.

They're gonna be with different teams this year. Jared Goff, Carson Wentz, Mitchell Drobiski, Matt Stafford, and now Sam Donald. What do you think about the way that the NFL has kind of changed in terms of the the way that quarterbacks kind of are moving around now, Well, I think there's a couple of things wanted goes to show you. Uh, we're picking eight, and we're not so sure if one of these quarterbacks would be available to us at eight.

So because it's a quarterbacks league, and I think, you know, maybe some of these quarterbacks ten years ago they would be first round picks, but they some would be number ten, some could be number twelve, some could be number thirty in the first round. Whereas now if a team doesn't can if they don't think they have one, it's it's a free for all that I mean, they're trying to get these kids in a top five. Just take the quarterbacks off the board and and hopefully one of them,

one of them work. So it just goes to show you it's an inexact science to picking a quarterback. And I think a foundation around a young quarterback, a good football team, a solid head coach, and uh just maybe more so kind of chemistry positivity, Uh plays a huge factor in that because all these young kids, they're so young, and and they're being traded to other teams, and certain teams have given up on them, and we're we're seeing

these quarterbacks can play for ages. Uh. You know, Matt Stafford gets traded and he's you know, thirty three or thirty four, that's still young. That's still extremely young in quarterback in quarterback year. So to get a twenty three year old, um, really it's a you just you're looking for sunny, sunny days ahead, and I think that's kind of where the Carolina Panthers are at in in regards to this trade. Awesome, Well, Jake, thanks for taking your

time and hopping on our podcast today. We're very happy that we can now compete with Jordan and Jake. Well, I I appreciate it, hopefully. I uh, you know, I brought that same level of quality to this podcast, um, that that Jordan and I bring each and every week. So no, it was a pleasure to be on. I I appreciate it. Thanks man. It is always so great to talk to our buddy Jake. We are right here on the Happy Half Hour Podcast presented by Morris Jenkins

and Will. Mr Jenkins told me that the Panthers make him proud and he is honored to support the team. When you're plumbing her air conditioning is acting up, Colmorse Jenckens or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. All right, we gotta end with the weird question of the week, but before that, you have a very important update from the beginning of the show. So yeah, from the beginning show, I was talking about Josh McCown. The Panthers traded for him in two thousand eight Um, you know, as we

talked to Jake, Jake played with McCown here. McCown played with Donald in New York. So I did confirm he was with Donald in two thousand eighteen. So Josh McCown

is the Kevin Bacon of the NFL six degrees. You know, it's funny because I think you mentioned this to me on this podcast if I'm not mistaken, or maybe if not on the podcast in one of our conversations were Thomas Davis, who recently retired, has that career spanning arc as well, where he was, you know, such a great player and had such a great career that he really played with some of the uh, the older guys, especially on the defense, and then you know guys like Shack

as well. So he's another one of those Josh McCown guys where really the career spans two real generations of footballs and hopefully with with Thomas retiring here in Charlotte, will be hearing a lot more from him in the last in the next couple of years, right, no, stay tuned, maybe potentially. Um, alright, it's time for the weird question

of the week. So as we were just bragging on our coworkers on the social team, they had this awesome picture of Sam Donald as Hey Arnold with it Hey Donald, Um, that's what it's said on the picture. They even had like the chin hair, it's a movid football head. It was incredible, It was absolutely amazing. So in honor of that, what are your top three cartoon shows of all time? Will go first. Uh, Doug. Dam'm not surprised at all, just just done Doug. I'm Doug and that's and there's

no others. I mean there are others, but Doug takes such a pantheon in my mind because it happened at this point in life where you're just so uh, you know, like when that age when just everything that happens in those ages just means everything for forever, and then you look at it now and it's kind of like, but you know, at that time, it just made such an impression, and so it is a great show. The one the Doug is on my list as well, Matt. I don't know if it's on yours, but I didn't enjoy it

too young. Um, why were there two Dugs? Do you remember Patty Man? Is that different hair? And like one was on one channel like Doug grows up or whatever? Was it? No? I think it was just regular Doug. But I think it was like it was the Disney one versus the Nick one. Yes, so yeah, it changed a little bit. I didn't really watch much of the second, which you did your Patty mane is have longer hair or like a like a very short short o g Doug. We were talking about the one with her hairs like this.

There's one where she has like like your hair cut right now, right? I think that was the second that was a Disney Doug. Yeah, O G Doug. Alright, dude, dude dail man, um, all right, so he's only got Doug. Matt. Where are you going for number three? I'll probably put SpongeBob. I watched that too much as a kid. Great, it's just wholesome, and my dad used to watch it with me, and I don't know, that's just a special place in my shot. I watched that for a long time ago.

That's great. You get me to go to the rest of them, Oh yeah, very different, But I'd probably say Rick and Morty up there. I've enjoyed that a lot these last few years. And then I don't know if this counts as a cartoon. It is a cartoon, but Dragon ball Z was like my life even now, I watched that every now and then. That's just like my favorite. That's really good, I am now that we're including adult cartoons. I did not. I should have put the Simpsons in

there somewhere. I love Simpsons Family Guy yeah and Archer. Yeah, but I grew up watching the Simpsons brother this is the Family Family Family Podcast. Um, but I'm gonna say Doug is definitely on my list. Hey, Arnold is my number one. I actually as an adult, I remember doing a tournament at Barclays for Thanksgiving and it was the like the Doug movie. I mean, excuse me, the Arnold

movie came out recently. This was like three years ago, and as soon as I got back from the tournament that I was working, I sat down and was like, all right, we're what you know is Nickelodeon in my Brooklyn hotel because I have to watch the hair on Old movie. I absolutely loved it. Um, I'm gonna just throw one more out quickly. It's number two on my list. Matt, you might be too young for this, so well, I don't know. Did you watch Recess like on one Saturday morning? Oh?

It was my favorite. I loved Recess. Towards the end of the show's run, which was probably my first exposure to it, I think I need to go. Yeah, it was like in theaters a lot. Yes, So I watched the movie and I was like, well, I gotta go watch this cartoon. They had like the tires remember the tire fort like under the playground. That was a good show. Alright, I digress, but that is the point of the weird question week. Well, I would suggest checking out It's It's

a cool recess, all right. That's gonna do it for us on the Happy Half Hour Podcast. Thank you, Jake, Thinking, Matt and we will. Thank you, Sam Donald, We'll see you next. Se Fa