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The Stro Show: Panthers, Hornets & Booing · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: That is Stroh's music, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for the Stroh Show right now on.
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  Speaker 1: The Mac and Bone Show.
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  Speaker 2: Ashley Strohlein.
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  Speaker 1: I heard her and Fitty.
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  Speaker 2: Talking to us through the traumatic double booing here in
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  Speaker 2: Charlotte over the sports weekend. Like the fit dog, Ashley
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  Speaker 2: Strohlein at both those games, the Hornets on Friday night,
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  Speaker 2: which they have since rebounded nicely from with two wins.
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  Speaker 2: And of course the Panther game on Sunday, which we
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  Speaker 2: are begging them for a rebound on Thursday night. Ashley
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  Speaker 2: Strohlein is with us here on the Mac and Bone show.
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  Speaker 1: Stroh, how are you doing this week?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. I'm good. How are you guys? What's happening?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're doing good. It's been a rough couple of days, Stro.
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  Speaker 2: A rough couple of days in Panther Nation. What did
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  Speaker 2: you think of that display, Stro? Could you believe what
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  Speaker 2: you were seeing?
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  Speaker 3: No. It was... It was rough just because I feel like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's kind of like Coach came in and
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  Speaker 3: said after, he's like, I don't know, the last time
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  Speaker 3: I was a part of a, you know, a first
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  Speaker 3: half of football that was just that rough. Like nothing,
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  Speaker 3: nothing worked right on any phase. And so I don't
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  Speaker 3: mean sometimes you have days like that and anything right,
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  Speaker 3: you think, okay, one thing goes wrong, everything else will
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  Speaker 3: go right. And it was just a case of quite
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  Speaker 3: literally nothing except maybe Bryce's one touchdown pass incident. looked
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  Speaker 3: okay you know and then.
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  Speaker 2: We met and then we messed that up stro 15
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  Speaker 2: seconds later by allowing them to score two points on
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  Speaker 2: our extra.
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  Speaker 3: Point yeah that's my point i mean right literally you
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  Speaker 3: couldn't even celebrate the touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: That you got seriously beautiful pass but damn what's your
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  Speaker 2: overall take on fans booing because we saw it twice
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  Speaker 2: in a couple days here in charlotte.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's been an interesting topic, I think, on
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  Speaker 3: social media in the last week, just in general, be it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, teams getting booed here or elsewhere. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's like Coach Lee kind of said at the Hornets,
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  Speaker 3: he's like, yeah, that's good for us. Go ahead and
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  Speaker 3: boo us. Like, we needed to hear that. And then
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  Speaker 3: you have, you know, some other players throughout the league say, well,
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  Speaker 3: if you are booing us, Don't come back because when
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  Speaker 3: have we ever given up on a game and that
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  Speaker 3: kind of thing? I'm talking about out in Denver, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: with the Joker kind of voicing his opinions when they
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  Speaker 3: got booed. So I think it made me kind of
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  Speaker 3: sit back and think like, hmm, okay, what do I
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  Speaker 3: feel about the booing? But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: I do feel like I just think about what it
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  Speaker 3: costs for someone to come to a game. and I
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  Speaker 3: think in the city of Charlotte specifically, the fans have
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  Speaker 3: been waiting for winning sports for a really long time,
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  Speaker 3: and you get a glimpse of that, and you get excited,
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  Speaker 3: and so you're hyped for the game, and you spend
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  Speaker 3: all the money to come to the game, and you're
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  Speaker 3: just kind of wasting your frustrations. I hate it. I
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  Speaker 3: feel bad for the players any time it's a home game,
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  Speaker 3: and I would like to see the fans kind of
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  Speaker 3: support the guys to the very end, but at the
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  Speaker 3: same time, I get that sometimes it's really frustrating and disappointing.
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  Speaker 3: So I try to see both sides of it, but
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  Speaker 3: I like it when times are happy and we can
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  Speaker 3: just cheer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you too.
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  Speaker 2: I want happy sports times in Charlotte, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if everybody's noticed, y'all. It doesn't always happen that way.
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  Speaker 2: I'm beginning to notice. Stro, I thought you were going
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  Speaker 2: to be very against booing. I don't mean to judge you, Stro,
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  Speaker 2: but based off of your kindness, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: and you not liking meanness, I kind of thought you'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, that's too mean, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I thought.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I do. I don't like it. And it does
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  Speaker 3: not make me happy. But I had someone say to me, well,
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  Speaker 3: think about what it costs to... This was in the press.
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  Speaker 1: Box on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: And they're like, yeah, but think about what it costs
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  Speaker 3: for a family to come to a game by the
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  Speaker 3: time you probably drive. You pay for parking. You pay
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  Speaker 3: for the tickets. You obviously want to have a good
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  Speaker 3: time if it's the one game you're coming to. So
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  Speaker 3: maybe you visit... You know, the merch store, maybe you
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  Speaker 3: get concession. You've spent a lot of money, right? And
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  Speaker 3: so you hope to see a good product. And that's
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  Speaker 3: the risk that you take also when you decide to
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  Speaker 3: go to a game. It could go well. It could
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  Speaker 3: go bad. Your favorite player could be out. You just
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  Speaker 3: never know what you're going to get. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: like the booing, but someone did kind of find a
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  Speaker 3: way to lay it out and justify it to me.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, okay, I'll see that side of it too.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: All right. What do you think, Stroh?
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  Speaker 2: Here's another one, Stroh, where I think I know what
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  Speaker 2: side you'll be on. We were a little bothered by
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  Speaker 2: the tone after the game. Now, granted, we were just
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  Speaker 2: so grumpy after the game itself, right? The way they lost.
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  Speaker 2: I think everything was going to bother us. But we
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  Speaker 2: were a little bothered by Coach Canales and the players'
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  Speaker 2: flush-it message after the game. Like, even Derrick Brown, who
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  Speaker 2: usually is the type of leader that's just like, oh, that's– like,
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  Speaker 2: I thought he'd hit us with an unacceptable, embarrassing, we
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  Speaker 2: will never let that happen again. And even Derrick Brown
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  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I can't think about that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what happened to us in the run game. We just
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  Speaker 2: got to move on and flush it. Do you want
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  Speaker 2: a little fire and brimstone from Canales and the players,
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  Speaker 2: or do you not mind if after that game they
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  Speaker 2: just say, we got to flush it, we can't be
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  Speaker 2: worried about it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we don't know what was said– you know, behind
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  Speaker 3: closed doors to each other or what the, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what the message was internally. We know what they say
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  Speaker 3: to us, but honestly, I feel like if I played
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  Speaker 3: in that game, I'd be so disappointed. I'd be like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I need to turn the page like two seconds after
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  Speaker 3: I walked back in the locker room, right? So I
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  Speaker 3: get it, right? People, I think this day and age,
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  Speaker 3: get really frustrated when it's a bad loss or something
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  Speaker 3: bad happens. And, and you're not getting that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: crazy fiery message because you think people like, Oh, that
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  Speaker 3: means they don't care. They didn't take it seriously or dah, dah, dah, dah, dah.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't think one bad game in, in any sport, uh,
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  Speaker 3: takes away from, uh, what you've accomplished, right? And so
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  Speaker 3: up until that point, everybody felt great about the Panthers.
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  Speaker 3: One week, it's MVP chance. The next week, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's booze.
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  Speaker 1: So it does swing quickly. I'm not mad about that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it sure does because you also have a game.
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  Speaker 3: you know, on Thursday that you got to get ready for.
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  Speaker 3: And so you can sit there and be mad about it,
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  Speaker 3: but you, you've got to quickly get back to work
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  Speaker 3: and figure out what the heck went wrong before you,
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  Speaker 3: you go play again. That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night, Amazon, they can be hard games to predict.
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  Speaker 1: What do you feel about this game and what Panther
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  Speaker 1: team may show up this week?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. We've had, we, you know, how
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  Speaker 3: do you, how, how do you bounce back? And so,
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  Speaker 3: So I just think it's one of those things where
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  Speaker 3: we felt so good, and you know how it happens.
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  Speaker 3: You're riding high, and then next thing you know, it's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: we're back to reality. So I do think this is
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  Speaker 3: a game of how do you respond. And unfortunately, you've
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  Speaker 3: got injuries to deal with and moating out for the
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  Speaker 3: year and that kind of thing. So it's... It's always
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  Speaker 3: a tough go, but that's part of the game. And
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  Speaker 3: I think this is a how do you respond game?
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  Speaker 3: What do you change? What did you go back and fix?
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  Speaker 3: And how do you just, I mean, you have so
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  Speaker 3: many ways that you can improve. So hopefully you figured
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  Speaker 3: it out in all three phases before you go to
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  Speaker 3: Green Bay.
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  Speaker 2: Allow me, Stroh, I know you'll be in favor of this,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm talking to the Panther fans that are not
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  Speaker 2: ready for any positivity yet because they're so angry at
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  Speaker 2: the game. But this is the type of game, Bone,
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  Speaker 2: and you and I have been talking about it, in
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  Speaker 2: the last season and a half or season plus that
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  Speaker 2: Canales and the Panthers have won.
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  Speaker 1: They are 8-3, Stroh.
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  Speaker 2: After a loss since the beginning of last year. So
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  Speaker 2: this is the game bone that they usually respond in.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, Buffalo blew them out. They went into Green
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  Speaker 2: Bay and won. Last year, the Niners shut them down
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  Speaker 2: on Monday Night Football. They came home and beat the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: So history would show they can handle this sort of moment.
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  Speaker 2: But I would understand if people don't want to hear
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  Speaker 2: that because of how bad it was, you know, two
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  Speaker 2: days ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, this is a spot. Canalistro is 12-10 in
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  Speaker 1: his tenure here in games after a loss, over 500.
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  Speaker 1: And it's 8-3. Since the start of last year. Since
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  Speaker 1: they improved that roster. And it's 12-10 overall.
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  Speaker 2: 12-10 overall, a lot less impressive than 8-3. We're just
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  Speaker 2: throwing out the same stats over and over again. 8-3
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  Speaker 2: speaks volumes. That first year, Bone, was different. But the
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  Speaker 2: last two years, they have really rose up in these spots.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas Sunday's game, Stroh, as we just go total Elias
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  Speaker 2: Sports Bureau on you right now with stats. But Sunday's
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  Speaker 2: game was the sixth game out of six since the
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  Speaker 2: start of last year, or actually in the canal era
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  Speaker 2: where they played a game with a winning record going
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  Speaker 2: in and they have not won a game yet. So
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  Speaker 2: like they don't handle the prosperity bone, but when they,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when they have a rough result, they do
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  Speaker 2: seem to galvanize themselves and raise up, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Stro, our friends from NFL Films are here, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a boom mic right in front of Mac's face, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm hoping it hits him in the head here at
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  Speaker 1: some point during this segment.
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  Speaker 2: I thought there was a hamster above my head there,
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  Speaker 2: that little furry critter there.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway. This is what we do, Stro. We're TV,
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  Speaker 1: we're radio, we're anything you need.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, are we going to catch
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  Speaker 3: you on a Netflix or NFL Films TV debut coming
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  Speaker 3: up here?
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  Speaker 2: It's for the Amazon pregame, I guess, or start of
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  Speaker 2: the broadcast. I don't know if you watched the start
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  Speaker 2: of the game broadcast on Amazon Prime.
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  Speaker 1: They're getting all kind of love now.
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  Speaker 2: It's a new Amazon true crime documentary on the Bucks
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  Speaker 2: Panthers game the other day. So anyway, they always will
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: have a couple of quick clips when they count down
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  Speaker 2: like the 72 hours to the game. It'll often include
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  Speaker 2: sports radio clips from each town.
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  Speaker 1: Usually it's Mac Yelling, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: I'm disappointed they didn't get a victory dance because talk
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  Speaker 3: about a ratings boost.
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  Speaker 2: I know. I know, man.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to dance. I even had my pirate
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  Speaker 1: outfit arrive the other day. Amazon would have loved that.
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  Speaker 2: Bone is being accused of cursing the team by a few,
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  Speaker 2: not many, but by a few listeners because he bought
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  Speaker 2: a pirate outfit so he could do a victory dance
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  Speaker 2: themed on beating the Bucs. Do you think that's a
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  Speaker 2: problem or no?
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  Speaker 3: No, I think that's, you know, since that's a division rival,
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  Speaker 3: that's just a costume that you can keep to use
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  Speaker 3: whenever wins happen over the Bucs. There you go. That's
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  Speaker 3: how I feel about that.
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  Speaker 1: That's the key bone, divisional game. I have a theory
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  Speaker 1: that the Panthers wouldn't have won if I didn't buy
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  Speaker 1: that costume.
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  Speaker 2: You don't think it would have helped the run defense
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  Speaker 2: at all?
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  Speaker 1: I really don't think I was helping out either way.
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  Speaker 2: That's actually a very valid, logical point as well. But
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  Speaker 2: at some point we'll beat the Bucs. Just don't ask
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  Speaker 2: me when. It's going to actually occur.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: So, Stroh, I feel like a texter is saying, can
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  Speaker 2: you give Stroh an update on Fitty's love life? Fitty,
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  Speaker 2: your love life becomes more like a married couple's love
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  Speaker 2: life every week. It's almost like there's not a, like,
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  Speaker 2: would you say there's an update for Strofitty or not really?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she met the family over the weekend. So
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  Speaker 1: she met my dad, stepmom, and my three siblings. That's big.
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  Speaker 1: I took her home for the first time. That's big
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  Speaker 1: right there, man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's an update. Went to... Halloween festival on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night with her. These are getting less exciting as
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  Speaker 1: we go along here. Last Tuesday was Dancing with the
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  Speaker 1: Stars night. It was a dedication night.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the club, man. What did Bone say? He's
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: now living Mac's life, and that was not meant as
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  Speaker 2: a compliment, Stro.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not. No, we're trending in the wrong direction here.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think, Stro?
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  Speaker 2: I just feel happiness for Fitty.
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  Speaker 1: It's not exciting, but it's happy.
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  Speaker 3: I know, right? But you know what? He's had to
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  Speaker 3: live through so many different crazy dating moments and the
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  Speaker 3: rollercoaster ride. And now we can let him be boring
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  Speaker 3: if that means it's happy, right? And so one, I
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  Speaker 3: need to know, did you get a follow-up from the family?
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  Speaker 3: And two, I love that you're having Dancing with the
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  Speaker 3: Stars night, and I need to see... That incorporated with
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  Speaker 3: Mac and Bone into the next Victory Monday dance. I'm
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  Speaker 3: just going to leave that there.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do a Foxtrot, Finny, for our next victory dance.
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  Speaker 3: I need like a lift. I need a, or you know,
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  Speaker 3: like a twirl lift, a whole, I'm going to send
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: you some clips in the group chat after this. I've
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  Speaker 3: got some ideas.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like none of us can be lifted though.
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: Are any of us thin enough to be lifted? Remember
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: last year I picked you up on my legs.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Maybe we're the ones to do it fit. I can,
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  Speaker 1: I got you. I'm not sure I can lift or twirl.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Stroh. Hey, we appreciate it. Interesting comments about
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  Speaker 2: the booing. We're probably going to have to have a conversation, Bone,
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow about just in general the fact that the Hornets
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  Speaker 2: in their home opener and the Panthers both got booed
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday and just kind of where everybody stands on
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  Speaker 2: booing in general, but Charlotte sports fans doing it in
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  Speaker 2: these instances. All right, Stroh, be good. Anything you need
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  Speaker 2: to share with us, Stroh?
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  Speaker 3: I was just going to say, you know, at least
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  Speaker 3: the booing means you care.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking for a positive.
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  Speaker 3: It means you got passion. And Fitty did say to
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  Speaker 3: me in the break that he was at both of
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  Speaker 3: those games in which fans were booing. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: We might need to look at that.
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  Speaker 1: Nonetheless, that's all guys. All right, Stro. Be good. We
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you as well.