Latest / Mac & Bone Podcast / Willie's World: Charlotte FC, Panthers Season Opener & Chick-fil-a Fries
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- 0:07Speaker 1: Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is.
- 0:10Speaker 2: I'm Will Palagic.
- 0:14Speaker 3: I was frustrated throughout the game. Listen, I usually don't
- 0:19Speaker 3: overstep the mark. And I don't think I did on Saturday,
- 0:22Speaker 3: which was frustrating. I think it started from when he
- 0:27Speaker 3: disrespected Tim.
- 0:28Speaker 4: He was....
- 0:30Speaker 3: Listen, I don't mind bad referees, but the arrogance is
- 0:33Speaker 3: what really frustrates me. But these things happen. I'm usually good,
- 0:38Speaker 3: like I said, but I need to learn how to
- 0:40Speaker 3: do it in a different way. I've let the team down.
- 0:43Speaker 3: I think it's a game we could have probably won
- 0:45Speaker 3: if we'd have had 11 men on the pitch. But
- 0:48Speaker 3: the boys did unbelievable to see the game out. It's
- 0:51Speaker 3: going to be a tough test in Montreal. I think
- 0:53Speaker 3: it might be two games, so hopefully it's one.
- 0:55Speaker 5: And Westy knew. Westy knew because we have since heard, Bone,
- 0:58Speaker 5: it is. That's Ashley Westwood, captain of your Charlotte FC squad.
- 1:02Speaker 5: Big game tonight for them in Montreal. And then a
- 1:05Speaker 5: real big one against Cincinnati on the road on Saturday.
- 1:09Speaker 5: And it is now known, Bone, that Westy will not
- 1:11Speaker 5: be able to play in either game. It was a
- 1:13Speaker 5: double whammy situation. When he gets the red card for
- 1:16Speaker 5: the two yellows, the red card, that means you're going
- 1:19Speaker 5: to miss the next match. And it also, Bone, was
- 1:21Speaker 5: yellow card accumulation, too, where you got enough yellow cards
- 1:25Speaker 5: to miss a match. So it's a two-match ban. The
- 1:27Speaker 5: good news, though, Bone, is this man is not suspended.
- 1:31Speaker 5: This man will be on the call for both those matches.
- 1:35Speaker 5: Willie P., voice of Charlotte FC, and all-around weapon for
- 1:40Speaker 5: the Mac and, not the Mac and Bone show, for WFNZ.
- 1:44Speaker 5: He is Willie P., Will Pelagic. P-Man, what's going on?
- 1:49Speaker 4: I'm surprised I didn't get a yellow the way Guido
- 1:51Speaker 4: Gonzalez was handing them out. He was like Oprah and
- 1:54Speaker 4: Cars the other night.
- 1:55Speaker 1: Oh, that's well played.
- 1:59Speaker 2: What did you think?
- 2:00Speaker 6: We have the Missouri fight song playing for you right
- 2:02Speaker 6: here as a sign of respect for Missouri-Kansas week.
- 2:05Speaker 1: That's pretty nice of you. That's all we can do
- 2:07Speaker 1: for you here.
- 2:07Speaker 4: On the show. Now you're playing the Kansas fight song
- 2:11Speaker 4: is what you're playing.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Ah! You dirty dog.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Oh, no, Finny.
- 2:16Speaker 1: What did we do?
- 2:17Speaker 2: You dirty dog.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
- 2:19Speaker 5: All I typed in was Missouri's Daddy's Music, and this
- 2:23Speaker 5: is what they gave me was the Kansas Fight Song.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Not during hate week. You can't do this.
- 2:28Speaker 5: Oh, my God. P, I want you to know there's
- 2:30Speaker 5: one person not involved in this right now, and it
- 2:33Speaker 5: is me.
- 2:34Speaker 2: I just want you to want you to know that.
- 2:36Speaker 2: Did we, did.
- 2:38Speaker 4: We, did we do a full hour on Shelton Alcaraz
- 2:40Speaker 4: last night or did we limit it to an hour?
- 2:42Speaker 4: I mean, how long, how long did we talk about that?
- 2:44Speaker 4: US open match that started at 11 o'clock.
- 2:47Speaker 5: Luckily zero seconds until you start. Actually, I think I
- 2:50Speaker 5: did mention it in the open. Damn thing ended at
- 2:52Speaker 5: three 30 in the morning. All right, P man. Um, uh,
- 2:55Speaker 5: Fitty bringing it for my friend here. Fitty bringing the
- 2:57Speaker 5: bad vibes bone acting like he's shocked. It was the
- 2:59Speaker 5: Kansas fight song with some really bad acting.
- 3:01Speaker 4: Um, Um, sorry, my head coach dates, eight appropriate women.
- 3:05Speaker 4: That's okay. Sorry that our defensive coordinator is not handing
- 3:11Speaker 4: out cocaine to his players.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Hold on now.
- 3:14Speaker 1: That is slander.
- 3:15Speaker 2: All of that is alleged to be investigated.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Can your head coach beat TCU?
- 3:20Speaker 5: Because mine can.
- 3:23Speaker 4: My recruiting staff is not sleeping with players either.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Hold on.
- 3:26Speaker 5: It is being investigated. We are being investigated right now. Oh,
- 3:30Speaker 5: my goodness. All right, Pete. Oh, my gosh. Now we're
- 3:34Speaker 5: showing him a yellow card. Yellow card to the P-man.
- 3:38Speaker 5: Are you going to yell out for the music?
- 3:39Speaker 4: Are you going to be in that.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Three or four win category? Oh, my God.
- 3:44Speaker 4: Mack, if you picked us to win the ACC, did
- 3:46Speaker 4: you not watch college game day on Saturday?
- 3:48Speaker 1: We're going to the playoff. Oh, man.
- 3:50Speaker 5: Holy crap. All right, P-Man, let's talk about the Westie situation. Like,
- 3:56Speaker 5: I mean, that is a fast game. double yellow. I mean,
- 4:00Speaker 5: you know, for descent, it's ridiculously fast. Did he say
- 4:04Speaker 5: something that he shouldn't have? Like, what, what do you
- 4:06Speaker 5: think of, of him getting two yellows there and the
- 4:09Speaker 5: red and you know, how badly do they miss them? What's,
- 4:13Speaker 5: what's the solution without him?
- 4:16Speaker 4: Well, he told me what he said. I'm not going
- 4:18Speaker 4: to repeat it because I want to, you know, don't
- 4:20Speaker 4: want to trade with his confidence there, but I can
- 4:23Speaker 4: tell you right now, What he told me he said,
- 4:26Speaker 4: or at least what it was written in the report
- 4:27Speaker 4: is what he said. It was a very quick trigger
- 4:30Speaker 4: for a second yellow card. And I think, again, multiple
- 4:34Speaker 4: things can be true at the same time. It was
- 4:36Speaker 4: a quick trigger for a yellow. Westy had every right
- 4:38Speaker 4: to be angry because he got forearm shivered by Ibrahim Alehu.
- 4:43Speaker 4: And anytime there's a shot to the face, usually they
- 4:45Speaker 4: stop the contest. But I also think, too, when he
- 4:48Speaker 4: knows that the referee's got a short fuse, he probably
- 4:51Speaker 4: would have been better served at the step-off. He knew
- 4:53Speaker 4: that he was already going to miss the next game
- 4:55Speaker 4: because of yellow card accumulation. But missing the second game,
- 4:57Speaker 4: I think, is where it's most punitive because it's not
- 5:00Speaker 4: a game, it's a big contest. a game that is
- 5:03Speaker 4: going to be right up against a team that is
- 5:04Speaker 4: right near you with a table could be a six pointer,
- 5:07Speaker 4: as they say in the, in the soccer final. And
- 5:09Speaker 4: so it is one of those things where it's a
- 5:12Speaker 4: very punitive loss for Charlotte FC. I don't think, I
- 5:16Speaker 4: don't think they need Ashley Westwood to beat CF Montreal,
- 5:19Speaker 4: who was very bad. I mean, very bad, even though
- 5:22Speaker 4: we've had our problems with Montreal in the past, but,
- 5:24Speaker 4: but basically for that Saturday game is, is very, is very,
- 5:28Speaker 4: very difficult, but you know, judging by the way we
- 5:30Speaker 4: talked to him on Monday, He seemed equal parts contrite,
- 5:34Speaker 4: but also equal parts self-assured. And I think it's everybody's
- 5:37Speaker 4: opinion that the referee was very much out of line
- 5:39Speaker 4: on Saturday night.
- 5:40Speaker 6: Willie, is it a proof of how quickly that happened?
- 5:42Speaker 6: Because Westie got those so quickly that even the teammates
- 5:46Speaker 6: couldn't get him away after the first one, right? Usually
- 5:49Speaker 6: teammates will come in and try to get him away,
- 5:51Speaker 6: and this time they didn't have time to react to it.
- 5:54Speaker 4: I think basically after the second one, it's almost like
- 5:57Speaker 4: a manager getting tossed in a baseball game. You want
- 5:59Speaker 4: to feel like you got your money's worth. But I'll
- 6:01Speaker 4: go back to what Dean and Tim Rehm both said
- 6:03Speaker 4: after the game. The referee showed himself when he didn't
- 6:06Speaker 4: even shake the hand of the referee or the captain
- 6:08Speaker 4: after the game. And that's something that's Pretty much a
- 6:12Speaker 4: common courtesy, even after games that don't end your way
- 6:15Speaker 4: or don't end where you have certain discussions and whatnot.
- 6:19Speaker 4: That's something that was pretty evident in terms of how
- 6:22Speaker 4: he acted after the game. And he's a referee that,
- 6:24Speaker 4: quite frankly, has seen really no ire when it comes
- 6:29Speaker 4: to Charlotte FC. It's a referee we've had the most.
- 6:31Speaker 4: Guido Gonzalez Jr., we've gotten eight victories when he's been
- 6:34Speaker 4: our referee. And yet now it seems like Charlotte FC
- 6:37Speaker 4: fans have every reason to dislike him now.
- 6:40Speaker 5: It's it's unheard of for a ref not to be like,
- 6:43Speaker 5: you'll see some, some nasty situations with refs and players
- 6:47Speaker 5: during games, but to not, you know, shake the hand afterwards,
- 6:52Speaker 5: be professional enough to do that of the coach and
- 6:53Speaker 5: the captain.
- 6:54Speaker 1: That's, that's absurd. It really is, man.
- 6:57Speaker 5: And by the way, how about the, how about MLS
- 7:00Speaker 5: actually discipline a guy?
- 7:02Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like, that's unprofessional. Do they
- 7:04Speaker 2: ever discipline refs?
- 7:05Speaker 5: I feel like all sports leagues, P, are very slow
- 7:08Speaker 5: to discipline their officials when they don't do the right thing.
- 7:13Speaker 4: You really, really don't want to hear my opinion about
- 7:16Speaker 4: MLS officiating today.
- 7:17Speaker 1: You really, really don't.
- 7:19Speaker 4: No, no.
- 7:19Speaker 1: P going to get fined. I like my money, guys.
- 7:22Speaker 1: I like my money.
- 7:24Speaker 2: P's here so he don't get fined, Bo.
- 7:27Speaker 4: Oh man i will i will say i uh i
- 7:31Speaker 4: very much agree with the way that you uh assessed
- 7:33Speaker 4: it okay okay we'll.
- 7:34Speaker 1: Take that we'll take that we just got coached me
- 7:36Speaker 1: from willie.
- 7:37Speaker 5: A texter wants to know willie can you tell us
- 7:40Speaker 5: if what westy said to the ref is something you
- 7:42Speaker 5: could get away with saying on the radio or not
- 7:45Speaker 5: no oh you couldn't.
- 7:48Speaker 6: Okay okay did it involve a mother by any chance.
- 7:53Speaker 4: No.
- 7:55Speaker 5: Can we play 20 questions and see if we've come
- 7:57Speaker 5: up with it at the end? All right, anyway, let's
- 7:59Speaker 5: move along. Let's leave it alone. Leave it alone, Westy.
- 8:01Speaker 5: Westy's going to be drinking a couple of cold ones
- 8:04Speaker 5: watching these next two games, unfortunately. P-Man, what's your feeling
- 8:08Speaker 5: about the Panthers-Bears opener? What's your gut feeling about this?
- 8:16Speaker 4: I I'm cautiously optimistic because I think the Panthers will
- 8:20Speaker 4: be able to move the football, the bears defense. You know,
- 8:23Speaker 4: my question is whether or not the defense will look
- 8:25Speaker 4: like it had taken the step that we think.
- 8:27Speaker 1: That they had.
- 8:28Speaker 4: And I think that's kind of the, the situation with the,
- 8:31Speaker 4: you know, the new linebacker O'Kara keep being brought in,
- 8:34Speaker 4: whether or not the punitive losses, it feels on the
- 8:37Speaker 4: interior defensive line for the Panthers and, and whether or
- 8:41Speaker 4: not this, this offense is, has a better start than
- 8:45Speaker 4: really we've seen over the course of the last two
- 8:47Speaker 4: or three years. I think that there are a lot
- 8:49Speaker 4: of things to at least look at and say that
- 8:52Speaker 4: discouraged us during the Panther preseason, but I think there
- 8:55Speaker 4: were also moments that they showed, and I think the
- 8:58Speaker 4: receiver group is better. I think they'll be able to
- 9:01Speaker 4: run the football, provided that everybody's healthy and able to
- 9:03Speaker 4: be on there, and I think we're hoping the best
- 9:05Speaker 4: for Jonathan Brooks and hoping that he's able to at
- 9:07Speaker 4: least get himself 100% healthy. But I think it's one
- 9:11Speaker 4: of those things where if you are looking at this
- 9:13Speaker 4: from the standpoint of where Carolina is, I think you'd
- 9:16Speaker 4: say it's probably about even. I think that there are
- 9:18Speaker 4: advantages that the Bears have in the contest. There are
- 9:20Speaker 4: advantages the Panthers have in the contest. Hopefully it comes
- 9:22Speaker 4: down to home field and the Panthers win. But we
- 9:24Speaker 4: know that unfortunately their ability to start seasons has not
- 9:27Speaker 4: necessarily been the best over the course of the last
- 9:29Speaker 4: couple of years.
- 9:30Speaker 6: Willie, do you think that the negativity is warranted that
- 9:33Speaker 6: a lot of Panther fans have that we interact with?
- 9:36Speaker 6: Or do you think it's a little over the top
- 9:38Speaker 6: at times?
- 9:39Speaker 4: I think that having a longer preseason has made us
- 9:44Speaker 4: open and prone to, you know, more data points and
- 9:47Speaker 4: the appeal and the potential for more negativity. I just
- 9:50Speaker 4: think that the thing that I come back to is
- 9:52Speaker 4: that Panther fans want to see their team look like
- 9:55Speaker 4: the rest of the league or look like the teams
- 9:57Speaker 4: that are in the top X line. They don't want qualifiers.
- 10:01Speaker 4: They don't want, oh, well, what about the quarterback? Or
- 10:03Speaker 4: they don't want, oh, well, what about the defense that
- 10:05Speaker 4: gives up 400 yards a game? It's kind of like
- 10:07Speaker 4: one of those things where it's like, why can't we
- 10:10Speaker 4: just be like everybody else? Or why do we have
- 10:12Speaker 4: to be in a division that's universally panned? It almost
- 10:15Speaker 4: kind of feels like they have finally punched back and
- 10:18Speaker 4: felt like, okay, we've gotten to a level where we
- 10:20Speaker 4: feel like we're pretty good. And yet it seems like
- 10:23Speaker 4: there's always this kind of like, what if, or a, but,
- 10:27Speaker 4: or there's an injury or there's a rash of injuries
- 10:29Speaker 4: or this particular position that's, you know, Taylor Bowden has
- 10:32Speaker 4: an off the field injury, you know, those kinds of things.
- 10:34Speaker 4: It's like they want so badly to take that next step.
- 10:38Speaker 4: I think that's the one thing that I think the
- 10:40Speaker 4: fans want. And I'm not saying that, that the negativity
- 10:43Speaker 4: is unwarranted or warranted, but I see where they're coming from.
- 10:47Speaker 5: I think concerns are warranted after the way the preseason
- 10:50Speaker 5: went with the injuries and some of the offensive stuff.
- 10:52Speaker 5: I think the freak out, like the vibe I get
- 10:55Speaker 5: from some PR, we will not win a football game
- 10:59Speaker 5: for the next three seasons.
- 11:00Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
- 11:01Speaker 4: That part is crazy. That part is 100% crazy.
- 11:05Speaker 2: Some go a little too far.
- 11:07Speaker 4: This is the first year, and I've not been here
- 11:10Speaker 4: as long as y'all, but this is the first year
- 11:13Speaker 4: where I think you have the widest variance on what
- 11:17Speaker 4: the Panthers can be. I could see it going extremely well.
- 11:22Speaker 4: I could see it going incredibly bad. I could see
- 11:25Speaker 4: it be right in the middle. I think that truly
- 11:28Speaker 4: we do not know. I think there are a lot
- 11:30Speaker 4: of factors in there. It's when guys come back. It's
- 11:33Speaker 4: how the schedule plays out. And the biggest factor of
- 11:36Speaker 4: them all is, Has Bryce taken that next step? That's
- 11:39Speaker 4: the biggest factor of them all.
- 11:41Speaker 5: P-Man, we can't have you on. You're the director of
- 11:45Speaker 5: culinary content. You always have been here. We can't have
- 11:48Speaker 5: you on without a food question. Husky Pants is preaching
- 11:52Speaker 5: the word of the Chick-fil-A chicken and waffle breakfast sandwich.
- 11:59Speaker 5: Do you know what else is on their bone? It's
- 12:01Speaker 5: the chicken sandwich, two waffles, syrup.
- 12:07Speaker 6: I think you get the syrup on the side per
- 12:10Speaker 6: what I saw on the TV commercial.
- 12:11Speaker 1: So you can pour the syrup on if you want to.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Bacon's on there. Bacon's optional, I believe, but bacon's always
- 12:16Speaker 1: good to put on there. Have you had this yet, Pete?
- 12:18Speaker 1: Because this sounds freaking amazing.
- 12:21Speaker 4: I have not. I thought it was a limited test run.
- 12:25Speaker 5: Is it now available in our area? Yeah, it is
- 12:27Speaker 5: available right now. I think Husky's chomping on one right now.
- 12:31Speaker 5: We got to do this, Bob.
- 12:32Speaker 1: I would. You got to try this. I'm ready.
- 12:33Speaker 2: I'm game.
- 12:34Speaker 4: I love chicken and waffles. I'm a big chicken and
- 12:36Speaker 4: waffles fan. Whenever I get chicken and waffles, I usually
- 12:39Speaker 4: like to go the sweet heat type route. So like
- 12:43Speaker 4: I'll put, you know, ketchup on or not ketchup, hot
- 12:45Speaker 4: sauce on the chicken and then syrup on the waffle
- 12:50Speaker 4: and get a little sweet heat thing going action. By
- 12:52Speaker 4: the way, do you guys hear that the baby's got
- 12:54Speaker 4: a new chicken and waffles joint? Yeah.
- 12:56Speaker 1: Yeah. You had like a three hour wait the other
- 12:58Speaker 1: day when it opened.
- 12:59Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 12:59Speaker 1: I saw that.
- 13:00Speaker 4: It's like, it's like, it's like $ 25 to get chicken
- 13:03Speaker 4: and waffles.
- 13:04Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't realize that.
- 13:05Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 13:06Speaker 1: I think I'll go for the sandwich. That's it.
- 13:07Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 13:07Speaker 2: That does seem a little expensive.
- 13:09Speaker 1: We forgot that. Yeah.
- 13:10Speaker 4: Go ahead.
- 13:11Speaker 1: Go ahead.
- 13:13Speaker 2: We'll see.
- 13:13Speaker 4: We'll see.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Honey butter spread's also on there. Honey butter spread on
- 13:17Speaker 1: the waffle.
- 13:17Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 13:18Speaker 1: You get spicy.
- 13:18Speaker 4: I do like honey butter.
- 13:19Speaker 5: You can get the spicy or the regular filet if
- 13:21Speaker 5: you want to. Seth in Mount Pleasant says it's great. Yeah,
- 13:25Speaker 5: we got to do, we got to, maybe we should
- 13:26Speaker 5: make it a, we were talking about making it like
- 13:28Speaker 5: one of our taste test videos or something.
- 13:31Speaker 1: Yeah, snack and bone.
- 13:32Speaker 4: Yeah. May I be invited? Do I get to be invited?
- 13:35Speaker 4: Or are you guys going to, you know, dismean.
- 13:37Speaker 1: And buy Tro next time?
- 13:39Speaker 6: This is available till November 20, November 14th. So it's
- 13:44Speaker 6: out there for a little while.
- 13:46Speaker 4: Why is it making it a limited run?
- 13:47Speaker 5: That voice went up a couple of octaves.
- 13:53Speaker 1: I'm guessing if it, yeah.
- 13:56Speaker 4: Is it limited so they can keep shoveling out those
- 13:59Speaker 4: crappy fries that they have?
- 14:02Speaker 5: I knew, I knew, Bone, we could not get to
- 14:04Speaker 5: a Chick-fil-A segment without slander. I don't love their fries,
- 14:07Speaker 5: but it doesn't deserve this sort of angle.
- 14:10Speaker 2: Here's the thing about the Chick-fil-A fry.
- 14:12Speaker 1: It needs sauce.
- 14:13Speaker 5: It's the one fry that I need to have Chick-fil-A
- 14:15Speaker 5: sauce to dip it in.
- 14:17Speaker 1: I agree.
- 14:17Speaker 4: I agree.
- 14:19Speaker 1: The waffle fry in the Chick-fil-A sauce is tremendous, though.
- 14:22Speaker 4: You know what I think of when I'm eating a
- 14:23Speaker 4: Chick-fil-A waffle fry, the very rare time that I eat
- 14:25Speaker 4: a Chick-fil-A waffle fry? It has the consistency of, like,
- 14:28Speaker 4: one of those floaties you have in the pool. That's
- 14:31Speaker 4: what it feels like. I feel like I'm sitting on
- 14:33Speaker 4: one of those floaties in the pool. That's the consistency.
- 14:35Speaker 4: I don't need that in my French fry.
- 14:37Speaker 1: So do you get a fruit cup as a side
- 14:39Speaker 1: when you go to Chick-fil-A?
- 14:40Speaker 4: No, I get Mac and cheese like a real American, Vinny.
- 14:43Speaker 5: Oh my God.
- 14:48Speaker 1: How does a French fry taste like a pool noodle?
- 14:52Speaker 2: It does.
- 14:52Speaker 4: I have Chick-fil-A figured it out. My pleasure.
- 14:55Speaker 2: They figured it out. Unbelievable.
- 14:57Speaker 5: The headline from this interview is you should be deported
- 15:01Speaker 5: if you get fries and not Mac and cheese at Chick-fil-A.
- 15:04Speaker 5: You are not worthy of this great country.
- 15:07Speaker 1: Oh, man.
- 15:07Speaker 5: All right, P-Man. Montreal tonight, P-Man. Game is 7.30, if
- 15:13Speaker 5: I'm not mistaken. He's got a swine he's got to
- 15:15Speaker 5: give out. We're about 7.39. Pre-game at 7 right here
- 15:18Speaker 5: on WFNZ.
- 15:19Speaker 4: Swine's LSU. Move on. That's okay.
- 15:22Speaker 2: Swine's LSU.
- 15:24Speaker 5: Did you not unswine them now that they're apparently backing
- 15:26Speaker 5: off and not rostering those two players?
- 15:30Speaker 4: Lane is backpedaling like an SEC corner who doesn't turn
- 15:33Speaker 4: his head. It's okay.
- 15:34Speaker 1: It's fine, though.
- 15:35Speaker 5: He's backpedaling like those Missouri corners on Friday night. Now
- 15:40Speaker 5: I jumped in.
- 15:41Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Now I'm done.
- 15:42Speaker 5: All right, P-Man. Well, hey, have a good call tonight, brother.
- 15:46Speaker 5: I'll be listening. Appreciate you, man.
- 15:49Speaker 4: Y'all be sorry you treated me this way.