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Mac & Bone Hour 3: Local College Football Success · Mac & Bone Podcast

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Speaker 1: Oh, owen's Mack and Bow on your radio, BAF.
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Speaker 2: You listen to my freem Mack.
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Speaker 3: Posh, come on, posh, listen ma freem team Bone.
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Speaker 2: What's the fun? I can't go to work without listening
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Speaker 2: as to Mac and Bone do a lot.
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Speaker 3: Ah, Yes, it continued, Good morning to the Mac and
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Speaker 3: Bone audience. T Bone and Fiddy along for today and
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Speaker 3: all week as Mac and the family uh on a
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Speaker 3: well deserved cruise. We understand that Fiddy the family has
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Speaker 3: not thrown Mac overboard yet, although we are very early
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Speaker 3: into this journey, right, Yeah, they're.
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Speaker 4: Just boarding today and then they make their grand return
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Speaker 4: on Thursday before they drive back on on Friday.
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Speaker 3: You think Mac great cruise partner or questionable?
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Speaker 4: I think it's washing Hill at best, like his partnering
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Speaker 4: abilities and other areas of his life, like radio show partner.
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Speaker 2: I would like this.
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Speaker 3: Well, there's a chance if you don't keep your eye
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Speaker 3: on him, he he might tumble over the side of
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Speaker 3: this of this thing, right, this could be a dateline
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Speaker 3: mystery and I don't but I don't.
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Speaker 4: Even know if it'd be a mystery, Like I don't
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Speaker 4: even know if missus Mack would be all that bothered,
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Speaker 4: be like, well, one less headache I have to worry
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Speaker 4: about an every day basis.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no more having to plan meals around this guy.
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Speaker 3: Uh so we all canting gets out. We hope Mac
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Speaker 3: has a great time. He'll be back, uh next week.
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Speaker 3: He'll probably be when he comes back, he'll be uh
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Speaker 3: rested in uh wow.
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Speaker 2: I guess no, he's gonna be loud rested.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, Fidi. Our friend Brad Crawford of CBS
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Speaker 3: has done his uh game by game team by team
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Speaker 3: predictions for the ACC and SEC, and it got me thinking,
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Speaker 3: if this is what your team season is for the
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Speaker 3: local teams, would you be happy? And a couple really
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Speaker 3: stood out. And I'll go through these to start with,
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Speaker 3: and I'll give you the two that I wanted to
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Speaker 3: ask the fan base, Well, a couple of them, maybe
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Speaker 3: three here I'll ask those fan base, is are you
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Speaker 3: good with that? He has the game Cock seven and five,
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Speaker 3: four and five in the SEC, he's got Wake four
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Speaker 3: and eight, Clemson eight and four, State six and six,
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Speaker 3: Duke six and six in the tar Heels six and six.
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Speaker 3: So three of the four teams on quote Tobacco Road
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Speaker 3: are six and six, Wake four and eight, Clemson eight
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Speaker 3: and four, game Cock seven and five, also sending yours
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Speaker 3: on Charlotte Appycu as well. I don't have those that
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Speaker 3: he did, but give us what you would think is
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Speaker 3: a good season fitty as far as the tar Heels go.
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Speaker 3: And then Clemson fans, I have a question for you,
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Speaker 3: but six and six would you sign up for that?
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Speaker 3: All things considered? Year two under Belichick reset the meter.
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Speaker 3: If we would have told you that a year ago,
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Speaker 3: you would have said, what six? But right now, based
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Speaker 3: off how bad this could be, do you accept that
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Speaker 3: if that's your final record this year?
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Speaker 4: In a heartbeat, I would be over the moon ecstatic
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Speaker 4: about going six and six. McK and I would recreate
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Speaker 4: the famous Belichick Hudson on the beach photo. No, but
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Speaker 4: I might not have any clothes on whenever we would
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Speaker 4: recreate this, because bone the message inside the Keenan Football
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Speaker 4: Center is twenty twenty seven is the year. Everything that
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Speaker 4: they're doing is building towards next year being the year
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Speaker 4: where they're hoping to really compete at a high level
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Speaker 4: within the ACC. I don't necessarily agree with that. With
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Speaker 4: how you've seen other programs and the nil portal era
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Speaker 4: kind of rebuild overnight. But if they go six and six,
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Speaker 4: with how difficult the schedule is on paper, that would
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Speaker 4: suggest to me that they beat or at least a
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Speaker 4: handful of good football teams, maybe even they finally in
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Speaker 4: the losing streak to State.
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Speaker 3: He does go game by games, so he's got the
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Speaker 3: Heels wins East Tennessee at Duke, which by the way,
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Speaker 3: is not but easy for the Hills either Syracuse at Yukon,
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Speaker 3: at Virginia in NC State. Then loss is to TCU
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Speaker 3: at Clemson, Notre Dame at Pittsburgh, Miami and Louis which
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Speaker 3: all makes sense.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I would take So you're telling me, I get
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Speaker 4: wins at Duke, at against in.
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Speaker 2: CEA State, in at Virginia at.
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Speaker 4: Virginia, so our three biggest rivalry games and we're going to.
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Speaker 2: A bowl game. Yeah, I would be really I'd be
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Speaker 2: really excited about.
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Speaker 3: That, especially considering the over unders four and a half,
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Speaker 3: which that seems like that would be a step in
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Speaker 3: the right direction. Now, this is one I can't answer.
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Speaker 3: I can answer for the game Cocks and Duke. I
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Speaker 3: think Duke at six and six with all they lost,
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Speaker 3: I think a third bowl game in a row for
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Speaker 3: many d as I go. I would want maybe to
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Speaker 3: get to seven, maybe they win the bullet I think
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Speaker 3: I would take six and six for dude, Not that
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Speaker 3: that should be the standard anymore, but they did lose
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Speaker 3: Mensa and the lost Barky. If they had those guys
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Speaker 3: coming back, it would be a They might be right
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Speaker 3: up there as the second best team in the ACC.
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Speaker 3: So I would take that game Cock seven and five,
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Speaker 3: I think as a South Carolina fan, Yeah, I man,
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Speaker 3: I don't know the schedules whiter at the top, with
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Speaker 3: sellers in Heart and in Harbor and Stuart would I
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Speaker 3: am I wrong to say I'd be disappointed in seven
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Speaker 3: that I would think that eight or nine should be
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Speaker 3: where they're at for this year.
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Speaker 4: How much does the fact that he has you seven
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Speaker 4: and five with a win over Clemson change your out
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Speaker 4: look on the season, Cause if you go seven and
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Speaker 4: five and you meet the Clemson, okay, But if you're
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Speaker 4: seven and five with the win over your arch rival,
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Speaker 4: I think that's an easier pill to stomach.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, it's hard to say because seven is
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Speaker 3: a lot better than South Carolina often does. But is
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Speaker 3: that do you think seven saves Beamer or does it
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Speaker 3: depend on who they beat along the way.
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Speaker 4: Seven, with the winover Dabbo, I would I would imagine
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Speaker 4: that he's he's safe.
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Speaker 2: I think so.
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Speaker 3: He's also recruiting. Well, he just run in a five
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Speaker 3: star last week, so seven probably probably does it.
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Speaker 4: And I think South Carolina fans really got to look
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Speaker 4: at the what he and look, I know it hasn't
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Speaker 4: been consistent. It's not to the same extreme and what
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Speaker 4: we saw with Hubert Davis in North Carolina basketball. I
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Speaker 4: know you he had you on the precipice of the
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Speaker 4: playoff two years ago. But that's that's not reality for
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Speaker 4: that program. That shouldn't be the expectation for that program.
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Speaker 4: This is a perennial seven to eight win program on
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Speaker 4: a year in, year out basis, they catch lightning in
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Speaker 4: the bottle, they get the right guys. He saw under
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Speaker 4: Spire they could win eleven games three straight years under Beam,
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Speaker 4: where they got to the precipice of getting to an
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Speaker 4: expanded playoff. If they're going seven and five and they're
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Speaker 4: competing with the big boys in the SEC and you're
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Speaker 4: being more competitive against Dabela Clemson on a year and
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Speaker 4: year out basis, I think that's a lot more acceptable
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Speaker 4: than maybe South Carolina fans are willing to accept.
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Speaker 3: Now here's the tricky one, based off their standard in
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Speaker 3: where they were and where they are now. Fitty, that's
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Speaker 3: Clemson eight and four, six and two in the conference,
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Speaker 3: wins over Georgia, Southern, UNC, CAL, Charleston, Southern FSU, q S,
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Speaker 3: Georgia Tech, ad Duke, losses at LSU, Miami, Virginia Tech,
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Speaker 3: and South Carolina. Is that good? Is eight wins? Are
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Speaker 3: Clepton fans good with that?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 3: Are they saying, all right, you know it's not where
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Speaker 3: we were, but it's still not the worst. I can't
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Speaker 3: answer that question. Only Clepton fans can. I don't know
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Speaker 3: how they feel about that.
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Speaker 2: That answer should be no.
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Speaker 4: Like if Clemson's goes eight and for multiple losses in
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Speaker 4: acc play.
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Speaker 3: Well, based off where they're projected to be this year,
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Speaker 3: is that not? I don't know. It's hard for me
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Speaker 3: to answer that question.
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Speaker 4: I understand what the projections are, but you're your two
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Speaker 4: years removed from your last playoff appearance. This would be
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Speaker 4: another year where you're not competing for a spot in
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Speaker 4: an expanded twelve team CFP field. That would be another
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Speaker 4: sign of the regression we've seen from dabos program since
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Speaker 4: they've reached the height of the mint to eate twenty tens.
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Speaker 2: So no, they shouldn't be satisfied.
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Speaker 3: But the teams that they would lose to at LSU,
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Speaker 3: they're not favored in that game. They'd lose to Miami
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Speaker 3: at home, they won't probably be favored in that game.
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Speaker 3: Virginia Tech is they should be favored over that, but
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Speaker 3: I don't know that. And then South Carolina would be
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Speaker 3: the problem, right, that would be the issue, right.
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Speaker 4: I think on this on the surface, anything Wortonton and
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Speaker 4: two is a disappointment, like and maybe I've got to
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Speaker 4: adjust what I expect out of a Clemson team. But
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Speaker 4: the only two games that I think they should realistically
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Speaker 4: lose this year, I'm not gonna expect them to go
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Speaker 4: to Baton Rouge and beat and beat LSU, and I'm
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Speaker 4: not gonna expect them to beat Miami because the Notre
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Speaker 4: Dame thing doesn't start this year. Outside of that, I
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Speaker 4: would expect them to win every single.
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Speaker 3: Crawford does have them losing three of their four games
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Speaker 3: at home also, which is interesting, right, Yeah, like that,
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Speaker 3: although they haven't really that death Valley has not really
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Speaker 3: been what it was the last couple of years. I
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Speaker 3: guess this goes in to them not being what they
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Speaker 3: are at C State fans. He's also got you at
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Speaker 3: six and six. I would guess with CJ. Bailey, that's
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Speaker 3: going to be a fan base that wouldn't tolerate six
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Speaker 3: and six, right. I think for this year UNC and
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Speaker 3: Duke would NC State. I can't see if they didn't
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Speaker 3: have CJ. Bailey coming back, like Duke doesn't have meant
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Speaker 3: to coming back. You know, that's kind of tough, But
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Speaker 3: I don't think State fans are going to be happy
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Speaker 3: with the six and six this year. Now.
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Speaker 4: I think we're gonna find out over the course of
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Speaker 4: this season Dave Dorn's long term commitment in future with
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Speaker 4: that football program. You know, we've heard the retirement stuff
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Speaker 4: here the last couple of years. I wonder how much,
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Speaker 4: with the changes of the basketball side and just how
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Speaker 4: much money's been thrown that way, has maybe kind of
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Speaker 4: extended his stay here. But I mean, six and six
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Speaker 4: gets you back to a Bowl game. But that's a
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Speaker 4: fan base in a program that, when he's had them right,
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Speaker 4: is winning eight to nine games on a year end
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Speaker 4: year basis. You've got a great quarterback in Bailey, you
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Speaker 4: expect the defense to take a step forward after you know,
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Speaker 4: a disastrous season on the field and then what that
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Speaker 4: DC endured off the field.
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Speaker 3: But tricky, kind of a tricky schedule to start out
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Speaker 3: with out Virginia now in Charlottesville at Vanderbilt. You know,
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Speaker 3: when you sign up for that game, it's one thing,
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Speaker 3: but now Clark LED's got them going in the right
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Speaker 3: to actually and then you know, app States on their schedule.
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Speaker 3: We don't really fully know what that means right now.
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Speaker 3: I would assume that State can roll this version of that,
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Speaker 3: but I don't know. They've also got Duke on there
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Speaker 3: at home, but Duke has taking care of business against
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Speaker 3: them the last handful of times. They got Louisville on
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Speaker 3: there at the Heels, which they've at some point the
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Speaker 3: laws of odds are going to favor the tar Heels
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Speaker 3: at some point in one of those games. So interesting
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Speaker 3: to see. If stake gets off to a good start,
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Speaker 3: could be Virginia b. Vanderbilt, they can go from there,
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Speaker 3: but I don't know's that's not an easy start to
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Speaker 3: their schedule. Virginia and improved football team last year and
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Speaker 3: so was Vanderbilt, and they play both those teams on
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Speaker 3: the road there at the start of the football season,
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Speaker 3: said in your thoughts on your team and what would
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Speaker 3: be a good season seven oh four, five, seven oh nine,
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Speaker 3: six ten. When we come back, we are going to
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Speaker 3: do weekend conclusions, conclusions in sports and in wife. I
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Speaker 3: have to explain a restaurant situation I was involved in
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Speaker 3: the other night, and certainly we have to unfortunately say
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Speaker 3: goodbye to another one of our favorite listeners. We'll pay
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Speaker 3: tribute to her as well. Sports Radio ninety two seven
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Speaker 3: w FINT Weekend Conclusions here on the macam Bone Show.
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Speaker 3: We've concluded that we may have quite a developing situation here.
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Speaker 3: The New York Post has put out photos of Diana Russini.
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Speaker 3: I know you don't want to hear fiddy, but she's
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Speaker 3: on a luxury cruise with her husband, trying to reconcile
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Speaker 3: her marriage. Apparently, so she's on a cruise, right, Where's Mac.
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Speaker 2: On a cruise?
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Speaker 3: Is there a chance that they're on the same cruise? Chip?
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Speaker 2: I would love that to be the case.
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Speaker 4: I love that to happen because you know, Mack would
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Speaker 4: not be able to help himself if he saw Diana
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Speaker 4: REI Yeah, with her or without her husband, He would
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Speaker 4: have to go up, introduce himself and then ask, then
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Speaker 4: ask all the questions that we want to answer to.
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Speaker 3: What if you know he's excited to watch this the
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Speaker 3: tonight's soccer match on the cruise. What if he's going
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Speaker 3: to watch it with Diana and her and her husband
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Speaker 3: would be experience ultimate distraction. Weekend conclusions here and before
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Speaker 3: we get awfully silly like we normally do, and we
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Speaker 3: will hear it's with tremendous sadness that we woke up
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Speaker 3: yesterday to find out that we lost a dear friend
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Speaker 3: of the show in her battle with cancer. That is
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Speaker 3: a story that happens far too much in life. On
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Speaker 3: this show, we seem to lose a lot of people
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Speaker 3: to that. Meghan Lee Duke Meghan a fixture on social media.
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Speaker 3: She's been on the show a number of times. She
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Speaker 3: competed against me in various trivia contests a couple of
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Speaker 3: years ago. A one of one character that lived with
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Speaker 3: a passion for sports and a fierce royalty to her
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Speaker 3: friends and her teams. I was in a group chat
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Speaker 3: at one point with her and Mark from Gastonia and
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Speaker 3: it's kind of sad to think that they're both gone now.
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Speaker 3: When Mabel died in February, I got a package in
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Speaker 3: the mail and it was a giant blanket photo of
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Speaker 3: Mabel that she sent to me. That's kind of the
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Speaker 3: kind of friend that she was. She was the kind
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Speaker 3: of fan that like as a Duke fan like me,
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Speaker 3: a lot of times you don't want to talk to people,
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Speaker 3: even in your own fan base when things go wrong.
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Speaker 3: But when she would text you or call you whatever,
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Speaker 3: you would go through the misery together. She's one of
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Speaker 3: those people that however miserable you were, fitty about your team, Panthers,
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Speaker 3: Game Cocks, Duke, whatever team she had, she would make
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Speaker 3: it fifty times worse because she'd be going through with
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Speaker 3: worse than you were. Just one of those type of
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Speaker 3: friends you knew her. She was just a light in
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Speaker 3: this world that we walst way too soon.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, dare I say bo my my outside of you,
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Speaker 4: I guess my favorite Duke fan that I've I've built
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Speaker 4: a relationship or had a friendship with. And look, we
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Speaker 4: we There'd be times that her and I would mix
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Speaker 4: it up, but at the end of the day we
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Speaker 4: were just like you know, it was we understood it
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Speaker 4: was rivalry banter.
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Speaker 3: That's who she was. Though she would fight anybody to
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Speaker 3: defend either herself or her team. That's just the way
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Speaker 3: she was wired, exactly.
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Speaker 4: And I can remember, you know, because as you mentioned
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Speaker 4: a big time presence on the show as when I
15:44
Speaker 4: was a listener to the show, I remember those phone calls.
15:47
Speaker 4: I remember the trivia is that that y'all would do.
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Speaker 4: And so, you know, I think when I first got
15:53
Speaker 4: hired here, she was one of the very first few
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Speaker 4: people that like reached out and congratulated me, and you
15:59
Speaker 4: would kind of keep up with me on all my journeys.
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Speaker 4: I've made my way now to producing the morning show
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Speaker 4: here at w f n Z. So it was it
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Speaker 4: was heartbreaking.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 4: She sent out a litany of tweets about I guess
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Speaker 4: ten days ago or so, updating her her progress and
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Speaker 4: her battle, and she made it known that she wasn't
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Speaker 4: gonna quit, that she was gonna fight. And you know,
16:23
Speaker 4: when Stuart Scott got got his his award at the
16:27
Speaker 4: SP's that one year, he talked about how you beat
16:29
Speaker 4: cancer by the way in when you.
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Speaker 2: Live, Yeah, and and and.
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Speaker 4: She fought a battle as courageous as as we've seen,
16:38
Speaker 4: and it was definitely a somber a somber news or
16:43
Speaker 4: a somber part of what was a weekend full of
16:46
Speaker 4: celebration for the Twitter pigieth anniversary of our country. But
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Speaker 4: woke up to that news yesterday and was pretty sad
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Speaker 4: for most of the day.
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Speaker 3: And I hope she's surrounded. I'm looking at a wall
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Speaker 3: to my left and my right. Over Here to my left,
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Speaker 3: there's Jerry V's photo. There's multiple photos of Mark from Gastonia.
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Speaker 3: And over here is our dear friend, my former high
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Speaker 3: school classmate and co worker. Here, Mark Sidel And those
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Speaker 3: are just a few to name there that that people
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Speaker 3: may remember. We We have had far too many awasses
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Speaker 3: here for people. Unexpectedly, even Jerry Ve happened very quickly.
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Speaker 3: So she's in that pantheon to me of friendship of characters.
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Speaker 3: And we dedicate not only today, but the show's going
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Speaker 3: forward to the memory of Meghan Lee. So just wanted
17:35
Speaker 3: to say that before we get silly fitty. I watched
17:39
Speaker 3: a movie this weekend that has made over three hundred
17:43
Speaker 3: million dollars in the box office, but you can now
17:46
Speaker 3: rent it on Amazon, and I thought, boy, this, this
17:50
Speaker 3: is an idea for Fiddy until I saw the movie,
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Speaker 3: and I need you not to do this. Have you
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Speaker 3: heard about the movie Obsession?
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Speaker 2: I think I've heard about the movie.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, It's where a guy has a crush on
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Speaker 3: its coworker and he gets to make one wish with
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Speaker 3: this thing that he bought and he wishes that the
18:10
Speaker 3: girl would like him, and then she ends up stalking
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Speaker 3: him and it's pretty gruesome. So I need you. I
18:18
Speaker 3: know that might be a wish you would make. If
18:20
Speaker 3: you get this chance to make a wish, send it
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Speaker 3: to like the Mets or something. Don't do this. This
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Speaker 3: is not good, man. What the Streak's not worth it fitting?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: When you've been four years, two months, twenty seven days,
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Speaker 4: ten hours, four minutes and fifteen seconds, I'd sign up
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Speaker 4: for a stalker.
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Speaker 3: Have you ever thought about ending the streak?
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Speaker 2: It enters my mind every day when I wake.
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Speaker 3: Up, because this is like, this is becoming like Kyle
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Speaker 3: Ripken Streak here. Yeah, but he played the game.
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Speaker 4: I'm the lu Garig. I'm the iron Man of not
18:51
Speaker 4: having relations. It's not something I'm very proud of, but
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Speaker 4: we all have to wear our badges.
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Speaker 2: Mine's just a different badge.
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Speaker 3: Hey, I'm sure. At some point, Travis Kell, he thought
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Speaker 3: to himself, I'm never gonna end my streak and look ahead.
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Speaker 3: He ended up at a small ceremony. Do you have
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Speaker 3: any conclusions there, fiddie.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Saturday was obviously the fourth of July, and I
19:10
Speaker 4: did what a lot of people did to celebrate the occasion,
19:13
Speaker 4: had a cookout, got into the pool and invited Flounder
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Speaker 4: over to said pool. Flounder texted me at two thirty
19:23
Speaker 4: in the afternoon, Hey, I'm ready to hang out if
19:26
Speaker 4: you still want to hang two thirty. Was wanting to
19:29
Speaker 4: make sure it was still okay to hang out, and
19:32
Speaker 4: I texted him back and said, hey, man, we're eating
19:34
Speaker 4: at four o'clock, but whenever you want to come over,
19:37
Speaker 4: come over.
19:38
Speaker 2: He shows up.
19:39
Speaker 4: At four o'clock, right as we're getting ready to make
19:41
Speaker 4: our way to the pool, get into the pool, wait
19:43
Speaker 4: for the burgers and the hot dogs, all the food
19:45
Speaker 4: to be ready. He shows up without a bathing suit.
19:49
Speaker 4: He shows up just not in the water, right, you mean,
19:52
Speaker 4: just to your house. Yeah, shows up and well I
19:54
Speaker 4: thought you just went all natural. No, he shows up
19:56
Speaker 4: and you can pouch out.
19:57
Speaker 2: He's just in a.
19:58
Speaker 4: Pair of khakis and a night actually dressed pole. He
20:01
Speaker 4: was dressed better for the cookout than how he shows
20:03
Speaker 4: up to work most days here at wfn Z. But
20:06
Speaker 4: we walked to the pool and I said, did you
20:07
Speaker 4: bring your bathing suit? And he said no? And I
20:10
Speaker 4: was like, why not? Well, I figured, oh, you were
20:12
Speaker 4: done swimming for the day at four o'clock. At four
20:16
Speaker 4: o'clock on the fourth of July, where people shoot fireworks
20:19
Speaker 4: off way into the night, you're maybe just getting ready
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Speaker 4: for your local cookout, barbeque, whatever does you're doing.
20:25
Speaker 2: I can tell my guys never been to a pool.
20:27
Speaker 3: You're not I presoaked yet yourself, and you're just getting going.
20:29
Speaker 4: I had actually gotten to the pool that morning after
20:32
Speaker 4: I got done cutting a little bit of grass, got
20:33
Speaker 4: in the pool for about forty forty five minutes. But
20:36
Speaker 4: I was reminded once again how little of lives we
20:39
Speaker 4: live when my best friend thought at four o'clock I
20:43
Speaker 4: was done swimming for the day, and luckily we had
20:45
Speaker 4: some extra bathing suits for him to change into, but
20:48
Speaker 4: he was not going to get in the water. And
20:50
Speaker 4: I was like, I know what to tell you, dude,
20:51
Speaker 4: because I'm not gonna not go swimming since you thought
20:54
Speaker 4: I was done swimming at four pm.
20:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a lot of people, believe it or not.
20:59
Speaker 3: People think I go to bed at four pm? Fitty.
21:00
Speaker 3: Can you believe that.
21:02
Speaker 2: Some days I wish they were gonna have been at
21:03
Speaker 2: four point?
21:04
Speaker 3: I have before? Maybe maybe that's uh, maybe that's why
21:10
Speaker 3: got myself in a little bit of a restaurant situation, Fitty.
21:15
Speaker 3: And I need to ask you, am I either am
21:17
Speaker 3: I wrong to be upset? Or do you think that
21:21
Speaker 3: I'm on the right side here? So I took the
21:25
Speaker 3: Lovely tear out the other night for Fourth of July dinner.
21:28
Speaker 3: Had a reservation for about a week or so with
21:33
Speaker 3: the I'm not gonna I'm not gonna name the place
21:35
Speaker 3: for good or for bad. I'm not gonna I'm not
21:37
Speaker 3: gonna name the place. But I went to a restaurant
21:39
Speaker 3: not far from me and that gets good reviews. And
21:44
Speaker 3: they reminded me about the reservation via whatever their their
21:48
Speaker 3: texting system, over and over again every day. Hey, you're
21:52
Speaker 3: your dinner for six confirment Saturday. Confirm it. Hey, you've
21:56
Speaker 3: got an hour to get here, confirm it. So we
21:59
Speaker 3: do all that. We get there at six and the
22:02
Speaker 3: hostess I kind of walked to the front. There's a
22:04
Speaker 3: gathering of people and I move around them a hat,
22:07
Speaker 3: a bit of an attitude about hang on, I'll get
22:10
Speaker 3: to you. When again put the hand up like hang on,
22:12
Speaker 3: I'll get to you. All I said was we have
22:14
Speaker 3: a reservation. And then here comes what I assumed was
22:18
Speaker 3: maybe the owner. I don't know. She says, well, we
22:22
Speaker 3: have two options right now. You can sit outside we
22:27
Speaker 3: had a reservation and trust me, one hundred and two
22:29
Speaker 3: degrees out there, or you can wait forty five minutes.
22:34
Speaker 3: I said, well, we had a reservation, and she said, well,
22:36
Speaker 3: those are the options that we have right now. My
22:39
Speaker 3: question is, if you have a reservation and you remind
22:43
Speaker 3: me repeatedly, why is it still a forty five minute wait?
22:47
Speaker 3: Does that make sense to you at all?
22:48
Speaker 2: No, it does not.
22:50
Speaker 3: I understand you're busy, and I'm not a complainer, but
22:52
Speaker 3: if you're going to remind me over and over again,
22:55
Speaker 3: six o'clock, six o'clock, six o'clock, we get there on time,
22:58
Speaker 3: and your options are outside or I'll probably die, or
23:02
Speaker 3: wait forty five minutes, or I'll probably die waiting outside.
23:05
Speaker 3: To me, why even do reservations on that day? Then
23:09
Speaker 3: that makes no sense to me.
23:11
Speaker 4: Or you know, with the fact that you made a reservation,
23:15
Speaker 4: maybe update your reservation. Just say hey, big we're busy.
23:18
Speaker 4: We're gonna move you back six fifteen.
23:20
Speaker 2: Six thirty. Whatever it is.
23:22
Speaker 4: You experienced a Seinfeld bit when he goes to get
23:25
Speaker 4: his rental car and then they did not have the reservation.
23:28
Speaker 4: There After he made the reservation for the mid sized car,
23:31
Speaker 4: they did not have the mid sized car reserved for him.
23:35
Speaker 3: I'm sure all the people that were there that you
23:37
Speaker 3: were sitting in front of us didn't have reservations. Like,
23:39
Speaker 3: God bless them, but don't take reservations if you can't
23:44
Speaker 3: keep my reservation. So pointed that this is very side
23:47
Speaker 3: felt like, I agree to one thousand percent, but it
23:50
Speaker 3: makes sense. Why would I make a reservation and then
23:53
Speaker 3: you made me wait forty five minutes? Forty five minutes
23:56
Speaker 3: ordinarily say it's not a big deal, but it's also
24:00
Speaker 3: a place where you don't want to stand too close
24:02
Speaker 3: to the front. You'd have to go wait outside. So
24:05
Speaker 3: I'm either going to die eating out the in the outside,
24:08
Speaker 3: or I'm going to wait outside either way, I'd be
24:10
Speaker 3: dying in forty five minutes.
24:11
Speaker 4: Ishmael wants to know Bone, when did Chile start accepting
24:15
Speaker 4: online reservations.
24:16
Speaker 3: Hey, you settle down if you know the right people.
24:19
Speaker 3: Ishmael also said right before that about the movie obsession
24:24
Speaker 3: and the wish that Fitty already used that and got flounder.
24:27
Speaker 3: That's why he stuck with them, all right, Yeah, the
24:35
Speaker 3: restaurant hose you Bone. Yeah, everyone said. Everyone's saying I'm right,
24:39
Speaker 3: I'm right, And I did send an email. I didn't
24:43
Speaker 3: go full care, but I tried to say why. I
24:46
Speaker 3: tried to ask them why, explain to me the system
24:50
Speaker 3: how it works here, like I wanted to. I'm not
24:52
Speaker 3: ripping your food, I'm not. I just want to know
24:55
Speaker 3: what's the point of having the reservation if there's no
24:59
Speaker 3: point to that.
24:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't gotten to that part in life where
25:03
Speaker 4: I've been so annoyed to send an email. I've never
25:06
Speaker 4: gotten to the point where I've been so annoyed that
25:08
Speaker 4: I've had to make a phone call. Had to call
25:10
Speaker 4: the KFC the other night for my mama because they
25:13
Speaker 4: got her order wrong and she was not and she
25:15
Speaker 4: was not very happy about it.
25:17
Speaker 2: But I have not gotten to that point just yet.
25:20
Speaker 2: But we watched it.
25:21
Speaker 3: I went through a stage where I I got free
25:24
Speaker 3: pop tarts once, free deodorant, once I could send it
25:27
Speaker 3: good email here and there.
25:28
Speaker 2: Why were you getting free pop tarts into theodorant?
25:30
Speaker 3: Because I didn't feel like they put They sent me
25:32
Speaker 3: a pop tart with no frosting on it, and I
25:35
Speaker 3: thought this.
25:36
Speaker 2: It was they did you buy a non frosted pop tart?
25:39
Speaker 3: Well, no, no, it was a box of frosted pop
25:41
Speaker 3: tarts and it came with a non frosted one in there.
25:44
Speaker 3: And I said, I can't. I can't. I can't live
25:46
Speaker 3: this life.
25:47
Speaker 2: And the deodorant episode.
25:49
Speaker 3: I forget what it was. I think it fell off
25:51
Speaker 3: right away. It wasn't like I could get some free now.
25:55
Speaker 3: I haven't done it lately, but I can get some
25:56
Speaker 3: free stuff now, I can get some free stuff.
25:59
Speaker 4: There's there's nothing wrong with it. I just I don't
26:02
Speaker 4: know if it's always been worth it. I guess for me,
26:04
Speaker 4: it's never been worth the hass all the time.
26:06
Speaker 3: Oh, people are asking if I say if we stayed
26:08
Speaker 3: or laught. We laughed because I wasn't. Again, I'm not
26:11
Speaker 3: built for waiting outside in that one hundred degree weather
26:14
Speaker 3: for forty five I didn't have to stand outside, but
26:18
Speaker 3: I also had the girlfriend terror there, She's not gonna
26:21
Speaker 3: want to wait forty five minutes. Now. We weren't going
26:23
Speaker 3: to like there wasn't a five star restaurant here. Any
26:28
Speaker 3: other conclusions there.
26:28
Speaker 2: For Yeah, I was I was going to conclusion or yea.
26:31
Speaker 4: My back though I appreciate it watch The Patriot on
26:35
Speaker 4: Saturday night, was wanting to watch Tombstone, the greatest American
26:39
Speaker 4: film of all time. It's nowhere for free on all
26:43
Speaker 4: the different streaming platforms we have. Tombstone, you have to
26:47
Speaker 4: pay to watch it. I'm a big fan of Pith
26:50
Speaker 4: Ledger's Joker. I think it's one of the greatest, like
26:54
Speaker 4: individual performances of all time.
26:56
Speaker 3: Even I've seen that one.
26:57
Speaker 2: And I'm not going to say that.
26:58
Speaker 4: I've never like appreciated Mel Gibson, because I do like him.
27:04
Speaker 4: I think his role in The Patriot is a very
27:08
Speaker 4: underrated role. It's a long movie and if you watch
27:12
Speaker 4: you with ads, it was about three and a half
27:13
Speaker 4: fouls for us to get through.
27:14
Speaker 2: It on Saturday night.
27:17
Speaker 4: But I don't know if mel Gibson's role in The Patriot,
27:19
Speaker 4: I think gets the love that maybe it should. I
27:22
Speaker 4: think the story itself gets a lot of claim, and
27:25
Speaker 4: there's some acting star power in there with the very
27:27
Speaker 4: young Heath Ledger.
27:28
Speaker 2: But as someone that likes.
27:31
Speaker 4: To critique the acting job of others, I was, I
27:35
Speaker 4: came away really impressed with mel Gibson's role in The Patriot.
27:40
Speaker 3: Obviously a guy whose career took a little bit of
27:43
Speaker 3: a turn on the way, Mel Gibson in the eighties
27:46
Speaker 3: and nineties was one of the biggest stars in the world.
27:50
Speaker 3: I would say my favorite Mel Gibson movies probably the
27:56
Speaker 3: Lethal Weapons series. I love the Lethal Weapon movies when
27:59
Speaker 3: I was younger, so I would go Lethal Weapons as
28:01
Speaker 3: my favorite mel Gibson movies.
28:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are good.
28:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've actually seen those. Haven't seen alf haven't seen
28:07
Speaker 4: Gilligan's Island. I've seen the Lethal Weapons.
28:09
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's very good. There. Did you get into
28:11
Speaker 3: the what did you have more interest in this weekend? Fiddy?
28:14
Speaker 3: When you were watching social media the Taylor Swift wedding
28:18
Speaker 3: or Joey Chestnuts continued dominance of Coney Island.
28:21
Speaker 4: I purposely avoided both, and we get for New York
28:26
Speaker 4: events though ignored both bone. I do not get the
28:29
Speaker 4: obsession with watching people eat hot dogs, like I don't
28:33
Speaker 4: look at what he's done, and I'm not impressed by it.
28:36
Speaker 2: I don't go to the extremes that I'm grossed out
28:38
Speaker 2: by it.
28:39
Speaker 4: But I've never unders I've never understood why people attend
28:44
Speaker 4: this event. I've never understood why people watch this event
28:47
Speaker 4: on television. It's not something that interested me, and I
28:52
Speaker 4: would think that at some point this thing would just
28:54
Speaker 4: go away, it would fade off into the ether and
28:57
Speaker 4: we just forget about it. But every year at the
29:00
Speaker 4: fourth of July, there it is, what noon, one o'clock
29:03
Speaker 4: on the holiday, We're watching a bunch of grown adults.
29:07
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of it, but I do think
29:11
Speaker 3: we we're getting to the point where it's the same
29:14
Speaker 3: thing every year. What chess nuts amazing to watch, but
29:18
Speaker 3: we need some we need some parody in that sport.
29:20
Speaker 3: We need someone again to step up. I suggested, maybe
29:24
Speaker 3: you need to be making any chili dogs, maybe make
29:27
Speaker 3: two people scores count against his what We need something
29:30
Speaker 3: here for interest because right now it's just Joey Chestnut
29:34
Speaker 3: verse his own records. We need someone either he retires.
29:39
Speaker 3: This sport desperately needs more parody in it.
29:42
Speaker 2: And it's not a sport.
29:43
Speaker 3: Oh, it's very much a sport.
29:44
Speaker 2: It's a it's a it's a hobby.
29:48
Speaker 3: Well, have you seen bad Lands Booker drink lemonade? That's
29:52
Speaker 3: not an athlete, unfortunately I have, But any he can
30:00
Speaker 3: become a competitive eater. Not everyone can play football, basketball,
30:05
Speaker 3: baseball or soccer.
30:07
Speaker 2: It's not a sport. It's a hobby.
30:12
Speaker 4: And I think that's my problem with it is it
30:14
Speaker 4: gets billed as this great achievement. If I practiced hard
30:21
Speaker 4: enough and long enough, I could eat hot dogs out
30:24
Speaker 4: of competitive rate.
30:26
Speaker 3: No, I don't think. I don't think you. I don't
30:28
Speaker 3: think he could. You couldn't do what these people do.
30:30
Speaker 4: You don't think if I spent the time expanding my
30:35
Speaker 4: stomach and stretching my stomach, I could eat competitive competitive.
30:40
Speaker 3: That not to this level. How do you think you
30:42
Speaker 3: could eat?
30:44
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean I once e six at
30:45
Speaker 2: Flounder's birthday party.
30:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, you ate six, Now go eat sixty one more.
30:52
Speaker 2: I just I don't think it's a sport.
30:53
Speaker 3: You've also you also helped Kyle Bailey move and you
30:56
Speaker 3: threw up in his yard after like eight minutes.
30:58
Speaker 4: Look and a lot of people, you know, bring that
31:01
Speaker 4: that up, but that add it was like one hundred
31:03
Speaker 4: and fifteen degrees.
31:04
Speaker 3: What are you think it is that Cody island out there?
31:06
Speaker 2: Fifteen? It's hot there, like and and somehow.
31:11
Speaker 4: As as being the helper, I carried more of Kyle
31:14
Speaker 4: Bailey's moving stuff than he did. Like it was a
31:19
Speaker 4: smart It was a smart play by Kyle.
31:21
Speaker 3: Kyle as much as I moved Kyle.
31:25
Speaker 2: No, I am not saying that I'm more man.
31:27
Speaker 4: It was just a smart move by him to I'll
31:29
Speaker 4: exhaust himself because that he moved as much as I
31:32
Speaker 4: moved for him, he would have gotten sick, point blank.
31:35
Speaker 2: Period.
31:37
Speaker 4: I was just willing to go help him because that's
31:39
Speaker 4: the kind of coworker that I am.
31:42
Speaker 3: How many hot dogs do you think you could eat
31:44
Speaker 3: in a segment here?
31:46
Speaker 2: In a segment?
31:47
Speaker 4: Which segment we go in, you know, the Mac opening
31:50
Speaker 4: twenty segment, because you know there's gonna be some strategy
31:54
Speaker 4: has to be played in here. If it's the eight
31:56
Speaker 4: minute segment, probably not gonna be a lot competitive.
31:58
Speaker 3: A forty five segment because that's equal to what they
32:01
Speaker 3: have on the clock or you know, ten to fifteen minutes.
32:04
Speaker 3: We try to do this once back in the day
32:08
Speaker 3: and we ate like eight hot dogs as a team,
32:10
Speaker 3: so it's not as easy as think it is. The buns.
32:13
Speaker 3: The buns are heavy. What is that it you got?
32:19
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Speaker 3: When we come back. And a whitty of the Charlotte
33:07
Speaker 3: FC Radio Network on the decision to allow Flow to play,
33:13
Speaker 3: what it means for tonight and just the overall matchup
33:16
Speaker 3: with Belgium Sports Radio ninety two seven WFZ. Welcome back
33:27
Speaker 3: in Mack and Bone Joe Fitty doing a great job
33:30
Speaker 3: running the show over there today. Mac on a cruise
33:34
Speaker 3: right now. He'll be back next week and you know
33:38
Speaker 3: he wishes he was here to talk about what is
33:41
Speaker 3: the biggest story in sports, and that is Flow Balligan
33:44
Speaker 3: and the decision to suspend the suspension and allow him
33:50
Speaker 3: to play tonight. We're gonna talk about that and more
33:52
Speaker 3: of tonight's matchup and the matchup yesterday, and a whitty
33:55
Speaker 3: of the Charlotte FC radio network kind enough to join
33:58
Speaker 3: us here on the Mac and Bone Joe Anna. First
34:01
Speaker 3: of all, congrats on the new addition to the family.
34:05
Speaker 3: That is so awesome to hear.
34:07
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Yeah, it's been a fun now
34:09
Speaker 1: two months with her. We've really enjoyed this time. So yeah,
34:14
Speaker 1: thanks thanks for that.
34:15
Speaker 3: Well, I'm sure you're not getting a lot of sleep
34:17
Speaker 3: with that and the wor cup going on, so thank
34:19
Speaker 3: you for doing this. What's your reaction when we poked
34:23
Speaker 3: you on here, We didn't realize the biggest story in
34:26
Speaker 3: sports would be about a US player, But here we
34:29
Speaker 3: are your reaction to the decision to let Flow play
34:34
Speaker 3: and really how it all goes about from the red
34:38
Speaker 3: card until now your reaction all this.
34:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I was originally supposed to come on the
34:43
Speaker 1: show Friday morning, So I'm actually glad I'm here chatting
34:46
Speaker 1: now because this definitely changes what tonight is going to
34:49
Speaker 1: look like. Obviously, Balligan is going to start. He's scored
34:52
Speaker 1: in every single game so far as he has been
34:54
Speaker 1: the breakout star for the US men's national team, So
34:57
Speaker 1: the fact that he's able to be back in their
34:59
Speaker 1: line up their system definitely takes something off of puch
35:03
Speaker 1: Tino's shoulders in terms of who he's going to start.
35:05
Speaker 1: But overall, it's such a sticky situation, right, we all
35:09
Speaker 1: know FIFA is one of the most corrupt organizations in sport,
35:13
Speaker 1: and how it all went down seems very fishy. However, yes,
35:18
Speaker 1: in my opinion, it was a red card, even though
35:20
Speaker 1: it wasn't intentional. That is the rule of the sport.
35:24
Speaker 1: But the same thing has happened in previous games. Messi
35:28
Speaker 1: committed the same crime in this time with Argentina. In
35:31
Speaker 1: the past couple weeks and didn't even get a card
35:33
Speaker 1: for it. So if we're gonna if we're going to
35:35
Speaker 1: call things equally, if we're going to make this equal
35:38
Speaker 1: on every single game, let's make sure it's not fairly.
35:41
Speaker 1: So the callback I think is it's fair because it
35:44
Speaker 1: was committed in other games and those players were not punished. However,
35:49
Speaker 1: it's very strange how it all went down that they
35:52
Speaker 1: receded this red card, because that doesn't happen in FIFA.
35:55
Speaker 3: No, it doesn't. Do you do you think this is
35:58
Speaker 3: over or there's stuff going on this morning? UEFA's involved,
36:02
Speaker 3: now there's appeals going on. Do you do you say
36:05
Speaker 3: there's still a chance that something happens today or is
36:08
Speaker 3: it really the unknown? And because of how chaotic this is,
36:12
Speaker 3: I mean.
36:13
Speaker 1: What, we've got eleven hours until kick and I can't
36:17
Speaker 1: imagine anything is going to change. But I did see
36:20
Speaker 1: the appeals from Belgium, which rightfully, so right like, that's
36:23
Speaker 1: a rule you can't if you are shown a red card,
36:26
Speaker 1: that you can't change that that shouldn't be given freely
36:29
Speaker 1: to a certain player. However, this is FISA and they
36:33
Speaker 1: kind of play by their own rules. They do what
36:35
Speaker 1: they want to do. I don't necessarily see things changing
36:38
Speaker 1: because such a big decision was made twenty four hours
36:41
Speaker 1: ago or so. However, that's how FIFA kind of operates sometimes.
36:45
Speaker 1: But as a US fan and wanting to see them
36:48
Speaker 1: do well in their home country, I hope it doesn't change, right.
36:51
Speaker 1: Balligan is such a key integral part. Belgium has played
36:55
Speaker 1: a really good tournament so far, so hopefully it doesn't change.
36:58
Speaker 1: But with the way things have been kind of moving
37:00
Speaker 1: the past couple of days, I want to be shocked
37:02
Speaker 1: if we see something in the next few hours.
37:05
Speaker 3: Belgium the oldest team in the tournament. This US team
37:09
Speaker 3: was knocked out by at least three of these guys
37:12
Speaker 3: twelve years ago. It's crazy that they're still around. What's
37:17
Speaker 3: the biggest key in your mind to beating Belgium and
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Speaker 3: moving on tonight.
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, I think for the United States a big
37:25
Speaker 1: talking point for them is getting off on the right
37:27
Speaker 1: foot in the first ten minutes. They want to be
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Speaker 1: the most explosive team. They want to be the most
37:32
Speaker 1: dangerous team in the opening ten minutes and really get
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Speaker 1: the most opportunities on goal to put their opponents back
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Speaker 1: on their heels. A huge plus for the US in
37:40
Speaker 1: this tournament is obviously playing on home soil, and you
37:43
Speaker 1: kind of feel that energy in games that they get
37:45
Speaker 1: from the fans and that hype, but it's also coming
37:48
Speaker 1: from themselves. This is a US team that I've actually
37:52
Speaker 1: never seen before. I love how Pushatino has put this
37:55
Speaker 1: roster together. It's a mix of really high talent who
37:58
Speaker 1: can get the job done by them, but also players
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Speaker 1: who are really selfless and they understand the opportunities for
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Speaker 1: the key players to get forward. So for the United States,
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Speaker 1: I think they have to play with the confidence they've
38:09
Speaker 1: been playing all tournament long. This has been a US
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Speaker 1: team that a lot of people have been down on
38:14
Speaker 1: for the last few years, and they're proving a lot
38:16
Speaker 1: of the haters wrong. I'm loving the confidence that they
38:19
Speaker 1: kind of speak with. I love their confidence on the ball.
38:23
Speaker 1: Their ability to be clinical in front of goal is
38:25
Speaker 1: something I've never seen before. Tillman's goal was a great
38:28
Speaker 1: example of that, just outside the eighteen to hit that
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Speaker 1: one home. So I think for the US it's about
38:33
Speaker 1: confidence and getting off on the right foot, showing their
38:35
Speaker 1: athleticism early and A.
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Speaker 3: Witty of the Charlotte FC Radio Network with US on
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Speaker 3: the mack and bone Joe her and Willie b back
38:43
Speaker 3: at the end a couple of weeks now, once the
38:45
Speaker 3: MLS season gets rolling again, what have you thought of
38:49
Speaker 3: the performance of Tim Reims so far in this tournament.
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Speaker 1: Ramon's been awesome. I've really enjoyed his partnership next to
38:57
Speaker 1: center back Chris Richards. They have a really good partnership
39:00
Speaker 1: in some ways that I think Reem has with Morrison. Clearly,
39:04
Speaker 1: Reem he's the captain of the team, but he has
39:05
Speaker 1: more of that leadership rule on the back line for
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Speaker 1: the US inter national team, where Richards will get stuck
39:10
Speaker 1: in on certain tackles. I think Greem has been great.
39:14
Speaker 1: He wins most of his tackles that he gets to.
39:17
Speaker 1: I think he's done a great job of helping this
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Speaker 1: team and the build out and just being a support
39:22
Speaker 1: system on that back line, a confident player who's been
39:25
Speaker 1: in these positions before, since there are a lot of
39:27
Speaker 1: new players who haven't been in a World Cup before.
39:30
Speaker 1: I think Griem has been excellent in terms of his
39:32
Speaker 1: leadership and just doing what he needs to get the
39:35
Speaker 1: job done. And honestly, like if you're a center back,
39:37
Speaker 1: the role of a center back. You don't want to
39:39
Speaker 1: be talked about all of the time. You just want
39:41
Speaker 1: to be the steady person who gets their job done.
39:45
Speaker 1: They don't want to be flashy. And for Reem, the
39:47
Speaker 1: fact that we're not really talking about him a lot
39:49
Speaker 1: in those situations, I think is a good thing in
39:51
Speaker 1: this tournament.
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Speaker 3: It's kind of like offensive line in football, right, If
39:54
Speaker 3: you're talking a lot about the offensive line, it probably
39:57
Speaker 3: means that something's gone wrong there along the way. And
40:03
Speaker 3: it feels like every day there's a game, a moment
40:07
Speaker 3: in this World Cup, and every time we think, wow,
40:10
Speaker 3: how great is this? It goes up to another level
40:14
Speaker 3: every day. Last night it was England down a man
40:18
Speaker 3: at the Azteca, where they hardly ever lose two in
40:22
Speaker 3: ninety matches, and England pulls it off last night. What
40:25
Speaker 3: did you think of the three Lions and in what
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Speaker 3: they did last night?
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I mean, I feel like every single
40:32
Speaker 1: game since group stage play has been so exciting and
40:36
Speaker 1: what you don't expect, I mean, even France their ability
40:39
Speaker 1: to pull it off in the last few seconds against Paraguay.
40:42
Speaker 1: Who would have thought that France would have a hard
40:44
Speaker 1: time against Paraguay.
40:45
Speaker 3: But England.
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Speaker 1: I think they're a team who they can get things
40:48
Speaker 1: done in the last second. They're a team who is
40:51
Speaker 1: very strong in those moments. I think Mexico played them
40:55
Speaker 1: really hard. I think they had opportunities towards the end,
40:57
Speaker 1: but England defensively played a really strong games. So it's
41:01
Speaker 1: just been like such a fun tournament to watch every
41:04
Speaker 1: single game. The cape Verde story is one that I
41:07
Speaker 1: will never forget. Like you love to see these underdogs
41:10
Speaker 1: come into these tournaments and just do what no one
41:13
Speaker 1: expects them to do. Have you had a favorite story
41:16
Speaker 1: so far, a favorite game, favorite moment.
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Speaker 3: I mean, every time I think there's one, it just
41:20
Speaker 3: gets it just gets topp there. There are so many
41:23
Speaker 3: I think as it goes along. I think the Norway
41:27
Speaker 3: stories are pretty cool and the rowing and that's that's
41:30
Speaker 3: kind of interesting. Are you surprised that Brazil got knocked
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Speaker 3: out or they seem kind of voterable to.
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Speaker 1: You along the way, No, not necessarily surprised Brazil got
41:42
Speaker 1: knocked out. I didn't really think this was very year either.
41:45
Speaker 3: I think they've.
41:45
Speaker 1: Got some good talent, but I don't think they're up
41:48
Speaker 1: to the par where I thought they would make it
41:50
Speaker 1: much further. No, I was okay with that. I think
41:55
Speaker 1: with Norway advancing definitely made more since Earling Holland is
41:59
Speaker 1: so so I mean, he is gianenormous in size and
42:04
Speaker 1: it's so hard to slow down. I think he just
42:07
Speaker 1: breaks down defenses towards the end from not just like
42:10
Speaker 1: a physical standpoint, but in a mental standpoint. You're always
42:12
Speaker 1: trying to figure out where he is. But he can
42:15
Speaker 1: score in so many ways, and he's also been a
42:18
Speaker 1: fun story to watch as well. Just his personality kind
42:21
Speaker 1: of light up his time in Dallas. Like on social
42:23
Speaker 1: he's extremely fun to follow. So even just outside of
42:27
Speaker 1: the soccer standpoint and watching these games on the field,
42:30
Speaker 1: it's really been fun to watch the off the field
42:32
Speaker 1: stories evolved and people who aren't even soccer fans kind
42:35
Speaker 1: of buy into it and get to know these players
42:38
Speaker 1: that we watch and I watch on a weekly basis.
42:41
Speaker 1: So just the growth here in the States from not
42:43
Speaker 1: just the US team, but these international players coming in
42:46
Speaker 1: and really obsessing over American culture has been funny and
42:50
Speaker 1: really fun to watch.
42:51
Speaker 3: Should be another incredible doubleheader today Spain Portugal gets it started.
42:57
Speaker 3: Of course, US Belgium tonight and we can't wait for
43:00
Speaker 3: you and Willie pe back on the call a couple
43:02
Speaker 3: of weeks. Charlotte FC back in action. Thank you so
43:05
Speaker 3: much for taking the time today in your busy life
43:08
Speaker 3: right now.
43:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, thanks for having me back on. I
43:12
Speaker 1: haven't been listening as much to the show tea that
43:14
Speaker 1: I've been busy, But I hope you guys have chatted
43:16
Speaker 1: about the Summer House drama because that chops a lot
43:20
Speaker 1: of the reality TV recently.
43:22
Speaker 3: We haven't talked about it lately, but I do because
43:25
Speaker 3: normally in the summer that's when we can. But the
43:27
Speaker 3: World Cup has taken over most of the drama's World
43:29
Speaker 3: Cup related stuff right now.
43:31
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I get it. It stopped the
43:33
Speaker 1: moment for sure. I totally understand that.
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Speaker 3: But thanks so much.
43:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, I look forward to be back in on chatting
43:38
Speaker 1: some Charlotte FC here soon.
43:40
Speaker 3: You got it. We will talk soon. There. She is,
43:42
Speaker 3: Anna Whitty of Charlotte FC Radio Network. Willie p is
43:46
Speaker 3: going to actually join us tomorrow to recap the game,
43:49
Speaker 3: and then he'll join us later on in the week
43:51
Speaker 3: to hopefully preview the next US game. We come back
43:56
Speaker 3: a report on Friday, drop the details of what Boston
44:00
Speaker 3: wanted from the Hornets for Jalen Brown, and what the
44:04
Speaker 3: Hornets didn't want to do. We'll discuss that right call,
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