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Mac & Bone Hour 4: Can the ACC Get Two Teams in the CFP? · Mac & Bone Podcast

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Speaker 1: It's been really cool to be honest with you of
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Speaker 1: just all the the messages i've gotten former players obviously
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Speaker 1: all of our supporters um it means a lot to
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Speaker 1: them it means a lot to them like we're we're
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Speaker 1: mighty by many right you know and you know hopefully
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Speaker 1: the community at large like to be proud of wake
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Speaker 1: forest i've tried to you know, blend Wake Forest and
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Speaker 1: Winston-Salem ever since I've gotten here. And what an exciting opportunity.
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Speaker 1: I know we've got to play this game by week,
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Speaker 1: but October 31st, to be back here to show your
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Speaker 1: support and the product of the people and be proud
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Speaker 1: of Winston-Salem. Because I'm proud to be here. I'm proud
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Speaker 1: to live here. I'm proud to be here at Wake Forest.
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Speaker 1: So hopefully everyone's, you know, in Raleigh at the water
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Speaker 1: cooler today, you know, wearing the Wake Forest stuff, like
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Speaker 1: being pretty proud of what they're doing and what we're
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Speaker 1: doing and proud to be a Demon Deacon.
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Speaker 2: Jake Dicker talking about the reaction of Deke Nation to
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Speaker 2: the Dekes being ranked 21st in the AP poll, 23rd
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Speaker 2: in the coaches poll. It is a beautiful thing. It's
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Speaker 2: a group of fans that I think most people can
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Speaker 2: be happy for. Philly tried to come in here yesterday
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Speaker 2: with some sort of anti-Deke energy. some sort of their bandwagon,
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Speaker 2: whatever he was trying to come with. I believe, as
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Speaker 2: Mark Packer used to say in calling them Switzerland bone,
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Speaker 2: I believe most people, you know, can sit there and
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Speaker 2: applaud Wake and say, hey, good for y'all. Good for
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Speaker 2: little old Wake, man. Can I say something about their
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Speaker 2: fight song? that just played right there while jay digger
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Speaker 2: was talking one of the most underrated fight songs oh
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Speaker 2: you like oh it's catchy you like it is a
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Speaker 2: good i also grew up with that being from theirs
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Speaker 2: and we had season tickets for basketball and football so
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Speaker 2: it does it does remind me of me growing up
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Speaker 2: a little bit like that that is a very catchy
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Speaker 2: fight i like it it's a good it is catchy
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Speaker 2: it'll be my name but people won't say if they
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Speaker 2: list off fight songs but that one to me that
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Speaker 2: That's always a good one.
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Speaker 3: You know what we've never done?
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Speaker 2: All the things in the Carolinas we ranked in order to,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, just get fans arguing with each other
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Speaker 2: on the text line.
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Speaker 3: All the things we've ranked. We've never really ranked the
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Speaker 3: Carolinas fight songs.
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Speaker 4: We have not.
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Speaker 3: That's something that's interesting. I like the Carolina one a lot.
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Speaker 4: Of course you would. I like the Duke one and
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Speaker 4: the South Carolina one. Now you go again.
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Speaker 2: Of course you would. Yeah, we might need to jam
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Speaker 2: out to them maybe tomorrow. Wake might have the best one.
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Speaker 2: It's probably up there pretty high, though.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, yeah.
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Speaker 4: App State's pretty good, too. We've got to jam out.
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Speaker 4: I'm a fight song guy, though.
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Speaker 2: You say App State's is good? No, I didn't hear
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Speaker 2: it this weekend. I'm sorry, App fans. I'm just kidding.
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Speaker 2: You also didn't hear NC State's too much.
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Speaker 3: I know this.
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Speaker 2: You don't hear them in the second half, do you?
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Speaker 2: Holy crap, NC State. Can't be adjustments, though, Dave Dorn.
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Speaker 2: Couldn't possibly be adjustments the other team is making. Maybe
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Speaker 2: I'm completely over. When did NC State fans start doing
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Speaker 2: that arm movement thing they do in the crowd? It
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Speaker 2: feels fairly new, doesn't it? I don't remember that long-term.
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Speaker 2: It feels in the last couple years. You know what
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about? Oh, I definitely know. I don't know
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Speaker 2: where that came from. Because I was ready to do it.
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Speaker 2: We didn't go to the game because of the weather.
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Speaker 2: That looks like a move that you— Scared off the McClain.
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Speaker 2: That looks like a Mack move. I was ready to
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Speaker 2: do that, baby. Irish fighting style move. I was ready
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Speaker 2: to do that. All right, yeah, you can't blame me
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Speaker 2: for that state loss. Blame Dave. We ended up not going.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about Wake. I mean, it's kind
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Speaker 2: of an ACC playoff scenario question, but I do believe
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Speaker 2: Wake are the stars of this conversation. Because I think
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Speaker 2: everybody and their brother believes Miami will be in. But
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Speaker 2: it's that question that we're always asking about the ACC.
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Speaker 2: Can they get a second one? Can they get a
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Speaker 2: second playoff team? To me, that's the way the Big
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Speaker 2: 12 and the ACC in this playoff era, at least
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Speaker 2: with 12 teams, be different. Feels like they're going to
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Speaker 2: go to 24 and that'll change. But with 12 teams,
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Speaker 2: it feels like the Big 12 and the ACC should
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Speaker 2: both be, you know, aiming for multiple playoff teams.
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Speaker 3: I was reading Tom Fornelli's Peacebone.
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Speaker 5: Yep.
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Speaker 2: In CBS, kind of going through the playoff stuff, he
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Speaker 2: says Wake has now replaced SMU as the second best
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Speaker 2: playoff odds. They're 12.7% according to the FPI formula that
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Speaker 2: he was going off of for this.
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Speaker 4: I have the Allstate playoff predictor right now on ESPN.com.
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Speaker 4: Wake is 12th right now at 29%. Wow, 29.
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Speaker 2: So that's way higher than this 12. That's above Tennessee, Kentucky, UCLA,
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Speaker 2: Southern Cal, Ole Miss, LSU.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So what is Miami's percent chance?
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Speaker 4: 95.
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Speaker 3: Okay, 95.
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Speaker 2: So they seem to give a decent chance that Wake
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Speaker 2: could be a second ACC team. What do you think, Bone,
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Speaker 2: about Wake's chances of making the college football playoff?
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Speaker 4: Well, it's going to have to be a certain formula.
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Speaker 4: They can't lose any other games. Unless it's Miami and
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Speaker 4: it would have to be one of those... really close
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Speaker 4: losses in the ACC. If they were to play Miami,
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Speaker 4: if they have one loss and it's Miami and they
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Speaker 4: play Miami... close again and Miami continues to be dominant
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Speaker 4: I think they may have a chance based off the
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Speaker 4: amount of losses these other teams around them in this
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Speaker 4: formula will have but they cannot in the ACC there's
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Speaker 4: not a lot of room to slip up they cannot
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Speaker 4: even SMU loss they cannot slip up to anybody but
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Speaker 4: Miami in the ACC championship game I'm not saying it's
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Speaker 4: impossible but they can't two loss wake they're not going
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Speaker 4: to get in there I wouldn't think Unless it's Miami twice.
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Speaker 2: I don't even, I know Goldie said he's going to
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Speaker 2: be screaming mad if Wake has only two losses and
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Speaker 2: they're both to Miami and they don't get in the playoff.
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Speaker 2: I have a very bad feeling, Bone, that Wake can
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Speaker 2: win all their games, lose close to Miami in the playoff,
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Speaker 2: be 11-2 with only two respectable losses to Miami and
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Speaker 2: not get in. I just, I think that the committee
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Speaker 2: will say, well, where are their ranked wins? Where are
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Speaker 2: their wins that compare to the wins in the SEC?
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Speaker 2: Because we keep coming back to the way the committee
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Speaker 2: looks at SEC teams, Bone. They get all the credit
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Speaker 2: in the world when they beat each other up and
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Speaker 2: they win ranked games against each other and they always
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Speaker 2: stay in the rankings, right? but they don't get penalized
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Speaker 2: for any losses whatsoever. I just wonder, Bone, if the
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Speaker 2: ACC will have enough games that Wake could win on
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Speaker 2: their way to 11-2 that it's possible none of them
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Speaker 2: are ranked. I mean, SMU could be in there. Louisville's
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Speaker 2: already got three losses. That Duke loss the other day
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Speaker 2: is going to hurt Wake potentially. That doesn't help. Virginia
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Speaker 2: Tech's now lost two. Pitt's now lost one, and they've
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Speaker 2: lost their quarterback.
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Speaker 4: Wake's got six games left. They should, I say should,
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Speaker 4: win them all. It's Cal, Virginia, Merrimack, that's in there, SMU,
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Speaker 4: which is maybe their toughest one.
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Speaker 3: Definitely their toughest.
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Speaker 4: At Georgia Tech, Duke will not be easy also, but
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Speaker 4: they could have used Duke to be ranked there. I
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Speaker 4: think it should be Wake Miami for the ACC title,
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Speaker 4: but This is the ACC. They'd have to avoid the
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Speaker 4: banana peel on the road here, but I think that
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Speaker 4: this team has shown me so far that this is
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Speaker 4: a really, really good weight team, and they're focused.
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Speaker 2: They are really good. The offense, first of all, is explosive.
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Speaker 2: Now that Foley's coming along, they've got two legit wide receivers.
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Speaker 4: They're lowest point total on the season. Well, Miami's are
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Speaker 4: lowest point total, but even in the wins, they've been
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Speaker 4: 30 or more in every win.
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Speaker 3: How many points they give up to Miami?
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Speaker 4: Thirty-three.
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Speaker 2: Dare I say that's a pretty good performance against Miami?
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Speaker 2: I know Mensah hit 24 straight, but they were making
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Speaker 2: Mensah throw the short stuff. They pressured them a lot.
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Speaker 2: They did, and they got after them. Their defensive front
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Speaker 2: gets after everybody. Their defensive front is damn good against
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Speaker 2: the run. I think they can definitely run the table,
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Speaker 2: although we got somebody saying they will go to Dallas
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Speaker 2: and get smoked. Brian says, Mac, they're an ACC team.
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Speaker 2: Just when you think they're great, they will slip up
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Speaker 2: and lose to somebody. Could happen at Cal this weekend.
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Speaker 2: I keep waiting for Cal to knock somebody off, and
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Speaker 2: it's just... They just did. It'd be Virginia Tech with
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Speaker 2: a backup QB in there.
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Speaker 4: That is right. That is right. They did, but I
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Speaker 4: don't think Cal's going to do... I buy into Cal
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Speaker 4: a lot, and I probably should have last weekend. I just...
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I think Wake is....
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Speaker 3: Wake is superior to Cal this year, and Cal's not
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Speaker 3: going to win two in a.
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Speaker 4: Row like that.
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Speaker 2: Cal is 2-1 in the ACC, I will say right now, Boney.
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're going to stay there, but I
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Speaker 2: thought that was a pretty notable win over the Hokies.
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Speaker 2: This dude says, Mac just nailed it. There is no
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Speaker 2: way in hell if you don't beat a legitimate top
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Speaker 2: 15 team that you're going to get the benefit of
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Speaker 2: the doubt coming out of the ACC. against the cartel
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Speaker 2: teams in the Big Ten and the SEC. That's the thing.
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Speaker 2: Who are the teams that could be ranked wins? This
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Speaker 2: guy says Mac is selling teams like SMU, Pitt, and
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Speaker 2: Duke short. There will be ranked wins for Wake.
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Speaker 6: Pitt's done. Take them out of the equation.
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Speaker 2: Pitt always does this thing, Fitty, where they start fast
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Speaker 2: and finish with a thud. Now you throw in no
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Speaker 2: Mason Heinschel.
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Speaker 4: There's more losses there. You don't have a lot of
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Speaker 4: room for error as a ranked ACC team. You get
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Speaker 4: a loss.
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Speaker 3: Good luck getting back in there any time soon. And
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Speaker 3: how are they going to— Pitt' s going to run the table
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Speaker 3: without Heinschel?
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Speaker 6: Absolutely not.
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Speaker 3: Their passing game's terrible.
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Speaker 7: And after what's about to happen Saturday in Durham, Duke's
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Speaker 7: not going to play themselves back into ranked contention either.
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Speaker 1: Oh, man.
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I was looking up to see if you
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Speaker 4: care about football this year. Turns out it's a you
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Speaker 4: care year.
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Speaker 3: He spun the wheel.
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Speaker 2: He spun the wheel of UNC football.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I care now.
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Speaker 4: Interesting scenario back on Saturday because Wake Forest could really
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Speaker 4: use SMU to be good. But at the same time,
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Speaker 4: they also could use Virginia to need some wins as
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Speaker 4: well because they played them along the way. They're 4-2 overall,
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Speaker 4: but they play each other this weekend. So I guess you'd...
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Speaker 4: If you're a Wake fan, you just want SMU to
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Speaker 4: keep on winning.
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Speaker 3: You do.
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Speaker 2: Hell, you want SMU to beat Notre Dame after you play.
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Speaker 2: You want to beat them and then they go beat
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Speaker 2: Notre Dame.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, good luck on that.
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Speaker 2: Didn't say it was going to happen, but that's the
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Speaker 2: best case scenario there for that and for the ACC.
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Speaker 2: This dude says, I'm a diehard Deke fan. Mac is annoying. Um, uh,
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Speaker 2: he's being too downtrodden about our chances. I just am
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Speaker 2: trying to be realistic at the way the committee bone
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Speaker 2: views SEC, um, versus ACC teams and Connor O'Neill covers
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Speaker 2: wake every day. And he brought it up earlier, says
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Speaker 2: the dreamer in me would like to think that even
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Speaker 2: with two losses, they're both to Miami.
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Speaker 3: They would get in.
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Speaker 2: He says the pragmatist in him looks at it and
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Speaker 2: says nine and three SEC team over.
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Speaker 4: 11-2.
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Speaker 3: The what? The pragmatist. That's a doctor, right? Like the
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Speaker 3: thoughtful part of him.
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Speaker 4: I thought that was a doctor that looks after your
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Speaker 4: high parts.
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Speaker 6: How much are, like, style points?
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Speaker 3: Proctologist.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 6: Oh, dude.
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Speaker 4: Speaking of that, Finney, say something.
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Speaker 6: How much are style points going to matter?
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Speaker 7: Like, Wake Forest is probably going to be put in
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Speaker 7: that uncomfortable situation, Mac, where they're going to have to,
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Speaker 7: if they jump on an opponent.
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Speaker 6: run the score.
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Speaker 3: And that is the good thing right now.
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Speaker 7: And make it like, if it's 38 to 14, can
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Speaker 7: you make it 52, 14?
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Speaker 2: They look like they're doing all these game metrics. And
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Speaker 2: they look like they're doing that right now. They hung
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Speaker 2: 58 on Stanford one by 55 points.
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Speaker 6: Dude, Sanford sucks, by the way.
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Speaker 2: They blew State the heck out. They blew State the
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Speaker 2: hell out. So I do think, Phinney, to your point,
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Speaker 2: they do look like a team that can keep blowing
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Speaker 2: some folks out. Maybe not everybody, but they do look
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Speaker 2: like that sort of team. They are explosive. Geo is
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Speaker 2: on fire right now.
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Speaker 4: The way doubters are now emerging on the text line.
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Speaker 4: They would finish. 10th in the SEC. Someone says, why
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Speaker 4: does that matter though? Steven says they have two or
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Speaker 4: three losses on the way. Picante says there's more of
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Speaker 4: a chance he loses weight than weight makes the playoffs.
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Speaker 4: It's a personal shot at himself there. Finney, you are
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Speaker 4: right about Stanford. How did they beat Georgia tech? They
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Speaker 4: beat Georgia tech and Georgia tech freaking beat Duke, but
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Speaker 4: that's hashtag go ACC stuff, man.
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Speaker 7: We're down 37 to nothing in the first half on
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Speaker 7: Saturday against Notre Dame.
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Speaker 4: 37.
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Speaker 3: And no one was the slightest bit surprised.
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Speaker 2: Like, I mean, like seriously, there should, nothing should surprise
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Speaker 2: you right now about them getting obliterated when they play
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Speaker 2: a good team.
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Speaker 7: This whole idea that wake would finish 10th in the sec.
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Speaker 7: If you put Gio Lopez in the sec, how's he
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Speaker 7: stack up against the other quarterbacks in that conference?
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Speaker 4: The Wake Forest version of Gio.
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Speaker 3: In this offense.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Not in the offense. He was completely misused.
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Speaker 7: I think he's playing at a level that they would
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Speaker 7: finish 10th in the SEC. You're telling me they can't
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Speaker 7: beat the middle-of-the-road teams that the conference has to offer?
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Speaker 7: Like South Carolina, Vanderbilt, those types of schools? I think
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Speaker 7: they'd fare just fine with this version of Gio.
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Speaker 4: Their Purdue win also doesn't look terrible right now either.
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Speaker 6: That was a road win.
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Speaker 4: Yep, Smitty from the City, who's a Louisville fan, right?
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Speaker 4: He says, Wake isn't winning 11 games. Get out of here. Well,
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Speaker 4: either is your team, Smitty. Oh, already been mathematically eliminated.
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Speaker 4: That team lost to NC State. We're having a playoff discussion.
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Speaker 4: See your way out of this thing. Matt, do you
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Speaker 4: want me to read this poem there? Oh, so we've
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Speaker 4: got poetry. What's the 239 area code? It says Florida
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Speaker 4: on the thing. A Florida man poem? Roses are red.
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Speaker 3: I can't say it with a straight face.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't even rhyme.
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Speaker 3: Roses are red.
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Speaker 4: Mac is annoying. ACC championship. The Deacs are going. He
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Speaker 4: tried to rhyme annoying and going. I give you credit
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Speaker 4: for that one. That's not Wongfellow. That's Shortfellow.
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Speaker 3: Shortfellow. I thought that was Finney's nickname. Shortfellow. Love you, Finn.
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Speaker 6: Love you, baby. You're lucky we have visitors outside the window.
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Speaker 4: You've got to behave yourself, Finn. Henry Quadsworth Shortfellow. Quadsworth. Quadsworth.
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Speaker 2: 704 number says, I'm a Deke fan, and I appreciate
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Speaker 2: Mac being realistic.
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Speaker 4: How about this, though? Smitty from the city wants to clarify,
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Speaker 4: he's a state fan. Oh, that makes it a lot better.
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Speaker 3: Oh, there you go. So still, see your way out.
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Speaker 4: How are you down in weight now after they just
14:28
Speaker 4: put a foot to your backside?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's rich. That's rich, man. I like your wolf pack,
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Speaker 2: but that's rich. Where was this text I was reading, though? Mac,
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Speaker 2: I'm a Deke fan and I appreciate your realism. Am
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Speaker 2: I crazy, though, to think we could beat Miami in
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Speaker 2: an ACC title game? First of all, I just want
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Speaker 2: to say this. For the entire ACC, it's not just
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Speaker 2: about Wake. Wake just happens to look like the second
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Speaker 2: best team now. I think, sadly, for the entire ACC, Bone,
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Speaker 2: I think the only way to get two teams is
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Speaker 2: somebody beats Miami in the ACC title game. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I guess you could argue SMU wins out and beats
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Speaker 2: Notre Dame, loses close to Miami in the ACC. You
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Speaker 2: could probably argue that, but I don't know if anybody's noticed.
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Speaker 2: I don't think SMU looks great. I don't think they
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Speaker 2: look great. Does Miami need to be undefeated when they
15:12
Speaker 2: get to Charlotte? Because what if they somehow become a
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Speaker 2: two-loss team, a loss.
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Speaker 3: To Notre Dame?
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Speaker 2: Miami's got to probably beat Notre Dame, you think, to
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Speaker 2: be able to still go?
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Speaker 6: I don't want to chance it. As someone that wants
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Speaker 6: to put two teams in the playoff.
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Speaker 2: Miami can lose to Notre Dame and still get in, though, right?
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Speaker 2: But what if they lose the ACC title game and
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Speaker 2: lose to Notre Dame?
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Speaker 7: Because then the at-large becomes, are they going to put
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Speaker 7: a 9-3 SEC team over.
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Speaker 3: A two-loss ACC team? You don't even have to ask
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Speaker 3: the second part.
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Speaker 4: Yes is the answer. What if Miami loses to UNC, Finney?
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Speaker 4: That ain't happening.
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Speaker 2: Brian says, give the Big 12 some love, Mac. We
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Speaker 2: have like six playoff contenders, unlike the ACC. But will
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Speaker 2: they all cannibalize each other? Are there two great teams
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Speaker 2: in there? I personally think BYU is about ready to
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Speaker 2: get boat raced by Notre Dame, but I've been wrong
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Speaker 2: many a time. I think Texas Tech clearly doesn't look
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Speaker 2: like the same team they were last year. I question
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Speaker 2: the quarterback position, Bone. and their defense doesn't seem to
16:18
Speaker 2: be the lights-out unit it was last year. And then
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Speaker 2: you go down, who are.
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Speaker 3: The other teams?
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Speaker 2: Now, Utah looks great. Utah looks great, but they're very
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Speaker 2: lightly tested. And then you have Oklahoma State and Houston
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Speaker 2: will play each other. I mean, they do have a
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Speaker 2: lot of teams in that playoff mix. Like, they have
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Speaker 2: five teams ranked higher than the second ACC team in
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Speaker 2: the rankings. But do you think any of those, like,
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Speaker 2: do they have two that are just going to like,
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Speaker 2: win their way through? Or do you think there's a
16:44
Speaker 2: lot of cannibalizing that's going to go on in that
16:47
Speaker 2: conference once they all start playing each other?
16:49
Speaker 3: A lot of.
16:49
Speaker 4: Cannibalizing, I would assume. There's going to be a lot
16:53
Speaker 4: of losses piling up here, which is the good thing
16:57
Speaker 4: about the 12-team playoff. It's no longer one loss and
17:01
Speaker 4: you're pretty much done. You can slip up and still...
17:06
Speaker 4: Still get in there. By the way, Mac, a Mary
17:07
Speaker 4: Mac fan is coming after Wake Forest.
17:10
Speaker 3: Ooh, man.
17:11
Speaker 4: They said Mary Mac, Mary Mac, Mary Mac, go Warriors.
17:14
Speaker 4: Where is Mary Mac located? That's one. It's somewhere. Is
17:19
Speaker 4: it in New York? Let me double check here.
17:20
Speaker 3: Mary Mac. That's what they call me at Christmas time, Bo.
17:22
Speaker 3: That's my nickname during Christmas.
17:24
Speaker 4: North Andover, Mac.
17:26
Speaker 3: There you go.
17:27
Speaker 4: There you go, baby. Let's see what else. Most humans
17:31
Speaker 4: would say North Andover, but not in that area. Okay,
17:33
Speaker 4: there you go.
17:34
Speaker 3: There you go. All right, well, this is good. I mean,
17:36
Speaker 3: I just love the fact.
17:37
Speaker 4: I think they're a big hockey program, if I'm not mistaken.
17:39
Speaker 3: Got to be up there. Yeah, I think they are.
17:41
Speaker 2: I just want to say, Boney, I'm not trying to
17:44
Speaker 2: be a killjoy to Deke fans. I— It annoys me,
17:48
Speaker 2: the whole SEC thing, but I just kind of feel
17:50
Speaker 2: like Bone. I feel like it's going to be a
17:52
Speaker 2: big SEC playoff year. I even think the Big Ten
17:54
Speaker 2: playoff situation is way more tenuous than the SEC because
17:58
Speaker 2: the Big Ten had a lot of teams like Oregon Bone,
18:01
Speaker 2: Penn State, that they were counting on being up there, Michigan,
18:04
Speaker 2: and they're not in the fight. Although we'll see what
18:07
Speaker 2: UCLA does moving forward. They're not going to have Nico.
18:10
Speaker 2: We'll see what USC does. I just think the SEC
18:13
Speaker 2: is going to have five. I think it's going to
18:15
Speaker 2: annoy the.
18:16
Speaker 4: Crap out of them. Yeah, Kentucky is very much in
18:17
Speaker 4: the mix right now, too, for right now.
18:19
Speaker 3: Big time. Missouri's in the mix, dude. The SEC changes
18:23
Speaker 3: often week to week depending on the.
18:25
Speaker 4: Game, but Kentucky right now is probably right there on
18:29
Speaker 4: the edge of that.
18:29
Speaker 2: And the SEC is the one conference we can fight
18:32
Speaker 2: about it, whether it's justified. They're the one conference bone
18:35
Speaker 2: that can cannibalize each other and still get a bunch
18:38
Speaker 2: of bids.
18:39
Speaker 4: We're going to go to break now because Husker Mike
18:42
Speaker 4: is trying to get Nebraska involved in the playoff discussion.
18:44
Speaker 3: Oh my God, seriously. Finish a game, bro.
18:46
Speaker 4: Let me check my notes here on Nebraska. That would
18:48
Speaker 4: involve beating a ranked team probably somewhere along the way.
18:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, the ranked team will even spot you 11 points
18:54
Speaker 2: and start the fourth quarter, bro.
18:56
Speaker 3: Seriously, man. How the heck's he talking junk?
18:59
Speaker 4: When we come back, it's the Stro Show. Ashley Strohwein
19:02
Speaker 4: joins us for her weekly segment. How worried is she
19:06
Speaker 4: about this Eagles team coming up? Sports Radio. 92.7 WFMZ.
19:30
Speaker 2: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. We're playing Stroh's music. It's Stroh
19:35
Speaker 2: Show time, everybody.
19:37
Speaker 3: I just want to mention, remember the podcast. Think of
19:40
Speaker 3: the podcast, kids.
19:41
Speaker 2: Later on today, if you realize, man, I only listen
19:44
Speaker 2: to Mac and Bone for an hour, two hours.
19:46
Speaker 3: We're here for four hours, y'all.
19:47
Speaker 6: All right.
19:48
Speaker 2: And you can listen to the hours. you miss, the
19:50
Speaker 2: segments you miss in podcast form at your leisure. WFNZ.com, Apple, Spotify.
19:55
Speaker 2: So go listen to Mac and Bone. Spread us around
19:59
Speaker 2: throughout your day. You don't just need Mac and Bone
20:02
Speaker 2: in the morning. Yeah, we're great around lunchtime, dinnertime. Late
20:05
Speaker 2: night snack. Yeah, whenever you need us, we're there. We're
20:08
Speaker 2: here for you, man.
20:09
Speaker 4: That will be loud no matter what time of the
20:11
Speaker 4: day it is.
20:12
Speaker 3: That is fair.
20:14
Speaker 2: Stroh is here for us right now, ladies and gentlemen.
20:18
Speaker 2: We got so much talk about a Panthers-Eagles game that
20:21
Speaker 2: is fascinating. Panthers get full first place bone by not
20:26
Speaker 2: even doing anything. And I know Stroh just did over
20:29
Speaker 2: on Satellite Radio side. I know she just did a
20:31
Speaker 2: big Hornets season preview show yesterday. that aired last night.
20:34
Speaker 2: So we got to talk the Hornets eight days away
20:37
Speaker 2: from the regular season opener.
20:38
Speaker 3: Ashley Strohlein is with us. What's up, Stroh? How you doing?
20:42
Speaker 8: Good morning, guys. Well, I was just telling City in
20:44
Speaker 8: the break that somehow I agreed to a 7.30 doctor appointment.
20:50
Speaker 8: And I know you guys get up early every morning,
20:52
Speaker 8: but when my alarm went off at like 6.30, I
20:55
Speaker 8: was like, who.
20:56
Speaker 5: Even offers an appointment at 7.30 in the morning? So
20:58
Speaker 5: I've been at it for a while this morning, guys.
21:01
Speaker 5: I'm up.
21:01
Speaker 4: I'm ready. I didn't know that's even possible to do that.
21:03
Speaker 2: That is– it's got to be like the first appointment
21:06
Speaker 2: of the dang day, I'm thinking.
21:07
Speaker 4: It has to be. I overslept today because I thought–
21:09
Speaker 4: I convinced myself it was Saturday, and I rolled back
21:12
Speaker 4: over today, and it turns out it's Tuesday.
21:14
Speaker 6: Oops, oops.
21:15
Speaker 3: My bad. Oh, man.
21:16
Speaker 2: Stroh, you did the– you did your Hornets– you hosted
21:20
Speaker 2: the Hornets season preview show. You are a basketball gal. Like,
21:24
Speaker 2: that's the sports you played. You have this affinity, you know,
21:28
Speaker 2: for hoops, the Hornets. Are you feeling like this, even
21:34
Speaker 2: without LaMelo, are you feeling like this can be an
21:37
Speaker 2: exciting Hornets team?
21:40
Speaker 8: You know, I was excited about all the conversations that
21:42
Speaker 8: I had with the guys, and I think just the
21:45
Speaker 8: mindset of where they're all at, right?
21:48
Speaker 5: We all know it's.
21:50
Speaker 8: A new chapter.
21:50
Speaker 5: It's a lot of new change.
21:51
Speaker 8: And one of the things I kind of talked to
21:54
Speaker 8: Coach about was, okay, you found this success. with the
21:59
Speaker 8: group that you had last year, but now as a
22:01
Speaker 8: head coach, you've got to build on that with some
22:04
Speaker 8: new pieces and losing some key pieces that helps you
22:07
Speaker 8: find that. And, you know, the, the phrase he keeps
22:10
Speaker 8: using is we're going to do it by committee. And
22:12
Speaker 8: I'm like, well, what does that look like for the Hornets?
22:14
Speaker 8: And he's like, well, what word.
22:15
Speaker 5: Is in committee?
22:16
Speaker 8: It's committed. We're committing to the daily habits, supporting each other,
22:19
Speaker 8: doing all the things.
22:20
Speaker 5: That we need to do. So When it comes to
22:22
Speaker 5: game time, we're going.
22:23
Speaker 8: To hopefully find that success. And so I think that
22:26
Speaker 8: they all have the right mindset and approach for this season.
22:29
Speaker 8: And I think more than anything, like I always tell
22:32
Speaker 8: people in the beginning of any season in any sport,
22:35
Speaker 8: you got to be a little bit patient to let
22:37
Speaker 8: the guys get out.
22:38
Speaker 5: There and get real game reps. Not preseason, because you
22:42
Speaker 5: guys know how I feel about preseason and anything.
22:44
Speaker 8: So I'm excited to get to the opener on the 21st.
22:49
Speaker 5: And then see how these guys go from there. But
22:51
Speaker 5: I'm excited for them. Obviously, it's new. It's a new chapter.
22:55
Speaker 8: But I think they've got some key pieces. And folks
22:57
Speaker 8: like Brandon Miller are ready to step up. He's like, yeah,
23:01
Speaker 8: in my fourth year and somehow.
23:02
Speaker 5: I'm the vet.
23:03
Speaker 8: But he was excited and great to talk to and brought.
23:07
Speaker 5: So much energy just to that interview alone.
23:10
Speaker 4: There goes my question if Stroh's enjoying the preseason pregame
23:14
Speaker 4: show with myself and Bailey. She hasn't been locked in.
23:16
Speaker 4: Apparently not. Not everyone can be Mac just locked in
23:20
Speaker 4: all day long.
23:20
Speaker 6: I know.
23:21
Speaker 3: I don't miss a Bone-Bailey pregame extravaganza, man.
23:24
Speaker 4: Stroh, the latest Vegas over-under win total projection for the
23:28
Speaker 4: Hornets right now sits at 39.5. Does that number feel right?
23:33
Speaker 4: What do you think about that being the number for
23:35
Speaker 4: this team?
23:37
Speaker 3: Hmm.
23:38
Speaker 5: Well, what did we get?
23:39
Speaker 8: 44 wins last season?
23:40
Speaker 6: Is that right?
23:41
Speaker 5: Yeah.
23:43
Speaker 8: So it's not too far off of what the guys
23:45
Speaker 8: were able to accomplish last year. I just think, like,
23:48
Speaker 8: I'm curious to see how does the first.
23:50
Speaker 5: Month go, right?
23:51
Speaker 8: Like, what does it really look like when Coach has
23:54
Speaker 8: his starters out there together and how are they competing?
23:58
Speaker 8: I'm terrible. You guys know I'm terrible at this kind
24:00
Speaker 8: of stuff. Like, guessing wins to start a season, I
24:03
Speaker 8: hate to ever say. But I don't think that's, like,
24:05
Speaker 8: a terrible thing, but I hope the guys can accomplish more.
24:08
Speaker 8: I hope that they can– They can surprise everybody.
24:11
Speaker 5: Because I don't think anyone... You guys tell me.
24:14
Speaker 8: I don't know that people are expecting... them to be
24:17
Speaker 8: able to pick up where they left off last season.
24:19
Speaker 5: And my hope is.
24:20
Speaker 8: That they do find that. And now you've got these
24:22
Speaker 8: veterans in there and you've got someone like Nas who's
24:25
Speaker 8: been to the Western Conference Finals two years and gets
24:27
Speaker 8: to step into a starting role and bring that kind
24:31
Speaker 8: of leadership. And something he talked to me about was
24:33
Speaker 8: just like how much he's loving the young guys and
24:35
Speaker 8: the energy and mentoring them and how it's reminding him, okay,
24:39
Speaker 8: this is how I was when I came in or
24:42
Speaker 8: when I was that age and I can help.
24:43
Speaker 5: This guy survive. see this or do this.
24:45
Speaker 8: So I'm terrible at the prediction type thing, but I look.
24:49
Speaker 5: For these guys.
24:50
Speaker 4: I think they could be equal in terms of what
24:52
Speaker 4: they are, but less wins because of the depth of
24:54
Speaker 4: the Eastern Conference.
24:56
Speaker 2: That's my assessment of it. But, Stro, you look at it.
24:58
Speaker 2: The Vegas number is right at basically 40, right? A
25:01
Speaker 2: half win lower than 40. That's four wins lower than
25:04
Speaker 2: last year. Vegas expects them not to be that far
25:07
Speaker 2: off last year's pace. They've got to get off to
25:10
Speaker 2: a better start. They've got to have Kobe and Khan healthy.
25:14
Speaker 2: And I'm worried about the Kobe. I feel like Khan
25:16
Speaker 2: will be back.
25:17
Speaker 3: So here we are.
25:18
Speaker 4: They're a deep team, there's no doubt. And also, I
25:19
Speaker 4: think Charles Wastrow trying to figure out the rotation. Because
25:24
Speaker 4: this isn't college. Not everyone, you don't run 12 guys
25:28
Speaker 4: out there in hockey line style. So they're going to
25:30
Speaker 4: have to try to figure out who's not playing and
25:32
Speaker 4: what the rotation is. That'll be Charles Wastrow's, I think,
25:35
Speaker 4: biggest challenge to start the season. Stroh, we've got a
25:37
Speaker 4: texter asking you a question, all right? Are you up
25:40
Speaker 4: for a text question today from the listeners? A little Astro,
25:43
Speaker 4: if y'all want to send them in?
25:44
Speaker 8: Your tone is scaring me a little bit.
25:46
Speaker 5: Oh, really? I didn't mean to.
25:47
Speaker 9: You never ask.
25:48
Speaker 8: You usually just throw the questions at me.
25:50
Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
25:51
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
25:52
Speaker 3: Astro is on right now.
25:54
Speaker 5: 704-5709-610.
25:54
Speaker 3: I'm terrified.
25:55
Speaker 2: Go ahead. Texter says, I've heard Stroh over the years.
25:59
Speaker 2: She definitely doesn't like giving the sports predictions. But do
26:03
Speaker 2: you have a prediction on possible wedding bells? in Fitty's future.
26:09
Speaker 2: Fitty is angry.
26:10
Speaker 3: Did I hear a sigh in the background?
26:13
Speaker 5: What just happened there?
26:14
Speaker 3: He just punched himself. He just banged the table over there.
26:18
Speaker 3: He does not like this.
26:20
Speaker 8: Wait, well, I don't even have my weekly update. Like,
26:22
Speaker 8: because I brought up her proposal the last time and
26:25
Speaker 8: how we could orchestrate that at Bank of America, and
26:28
Speaker 8: I got silenced.
26:29
Speaker 5: So I don't even, I don't know.
26:30
Speaker 4: He doesn't really say as much as he used to.
26:33
Speaker 4: He's been.
26:34
Speaker 3: You know what they're doing, Stroll? We were talking about
26:37
Speaker 3: this earlier.
26:37
Speaker 4: He's falling in love. He is.
26:39
Speaker 3: He's like a married couple already.
26:40
Speaker 2: He tells me the stuff he did, and I'm just
26:42
Speaker 2: like hanging out with her family, his family.
26:45
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, you could do this when you're a
26:47
Speaker 3: boring married couple like me.
26:48
Speaker 4: The real thing we're questioning, he comes in and tells
26:51
Speaker 4: us how much the family loves him and enjoys him.
26:54
Speaker 4: And we need to see that for ourselves. We need
26:57
Speaker 4: to talk to some people with that family. Are they
26:58
Speaker 4: really enjoying your presence, Finney?
27:00
Speaker 6: Well, one of the aunts just sent me a friend
27:02
Speaker 6: request on Facebook.
27:04
Speaker 7: And when I showed up at church on Sunday, they
27:07
Speaker 7: were glad that Fitty was back.
27:09
Speaker 8: In the house.
27:09
Speaker 2: He's at church chanting ovation. He's at church with her family. Like, Stroh,
27:13
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's like it seems so serious that it's,
27:16
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's almost boring.
27:19
Speaker 3: Like my relationship.
27:20
Speaker 6: Also, now my relationship bores you?
27:23
Speaker 5: This isn't fun anymore. I know.
27:26
Speaker 3: I think I just realized, Fitty, that I'm happy for you.
27:29
Speaker 3: It's awesome. But I've just realized on the radio.
27:33
Speaker 2: It's not the same as like when we're trying to
27:35
Speaker 2: find you a lady.
27:36
Speaker 4: Mac will root for love until you find it and
27:38
Speaker 4: then he'll root against you because it ruins his plan.
27:40
Speaker 3: I just realized. Do y'all agree or am I being
27:43
Speaker 3: a jerk?
27:43
Speaker 4: Look, you never ask me questions anymore about my life.
27:46
Speaker 4: I know Bone's kind of in that, you know, period
27:48
Speaker 4: where it's, I don't know, it doesn't seem that exciting.
27:50
Speaker 4: We watch documentaries and cuddle.
27:52
Speaker 3: Ha ha.
27:54
Speaker 6: Last night, Mac, we went to Target.
27:56
Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
27:57
Speaker 6: Seriously. She had to get her a bag. She's going
28:01
Speaker 6: to the Jonas Brothers concert tonight.
28:03
Speaker 7: So she had to get her a little bag so
28:04
Speaker 7: she could take her stuff into the Spectrum Center.
28:07
Speaker 6: And then we sat in my truck and talked for
28:09
Speaker 6: an hour and a half. That's what we did.
28:11
Speaker 3: Talked. This is cute. It is cute. You two are
28:15
Speaker 3: a cute couple. I mean, this is damn love, man.
28:17
Speaker 3: I showed you pictures the other day. No, I like it.
28:21
Speaker 3: I like it for you.
28:22
Speaker 2: I just don't like it for the radio show. Now
28:24
Speaker 2: we got to get flounder woman. That needs to be
28:25
Speaker 2: the next one.
28:26
Speaker 4: You know?
28:29
Speaker 5: Well, I like that.
28:29
Speaker 8: You went to church together.
28:31
Speaker 5: You can sit in the truck and talk.
28:33
Speaker 8: For over an hour.
28:35
Speaker 5: I think that's very, very endearing and very sweet. So
28:39
Speaker 5: we'll take it.
28:41
Speaker 8: Well, you mentioned Flounder. You guys were supposed to be
28:43
Speaker 8: looking for like a friend of hers for Flounder.
28:46
Speaker 3: How's that working?
28:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, didn't you have lunch with like five of her friends?
28:48
Speaker 4: You didn't mention that maybe Flounder should go to that?
28:51
Speaker 4: The Fab Five.
28:52
Speaker 7: Yeah, one of them is her sister married. The other
28:55
Speaker 7: one that's Flounder's age, she's married.
28:58
Speaker 6: But we're on the hunt. Okay. It's one of our
29:02
Speaker 6: goals is to help Flounder find himself a woman.
29:06
Speaker 2: Our guy Fudrock in Gastonia cannot believe Fitty went to
29:09
Speaker 2: church on the morning of a race day before he
29:11
Speaker 2: went to the NASCAR race.
29:12
Speaker 6: I had to go and pray for forgiveness. The way
29:15
Speaker 6: I acted the last time I.
29:16
Speaker 3: Was on the track.
29:18
Speaker 4: Do you want another?
29:19
Speaker 5: Oh, go ahead.
29:20
Speaker 4: No, no. Sorry. Go ahead.
29:21
Speaker 5: Go ahead. I was just going to say the last
29:23
Speaker 5: time I think we were talking is, is Fitty was worried.
29:26
Speaker 5: We were a little bit worried about.
29:27
Speaker 8: You know, the game schedule and, and happened to put a,
29:31
Speaker 8: you know, I can't see you on X, Y, Z days.
29:33
Speaker 8: Cause I got these games, but it seems like everything's fine.
29:35
Speaker 5: Yeah.
29:35
Speaker 4: It does.
29:36
Speaker 6: Well, this is what happened, Stroh.
29:37
Speaker 7: I went to the game on Friday night, got back
29:40
Speaker 7: home at 1130, went and saw her.
29:41
Speaker 6: Those three days had been too much.
29:43
Speaker 3: And what did you tell her? What did you, when
29:44
Speaker 3: you called her up, what did you say?
29:45
Speaker 6: I don't know. What did I say?
29:47
Speaker 3: You said, I have to see you tonight. God, this
29:50
Speaker 3: is love. This is damn love, y'all. What a line.
29:53
Speaker 3: Part of me loves it. Part of me is like, man,
29:55
Speaker 3: where's the dang?
29:56
Speaker 2: Yeah.
29:57
Speaker 5: Yeah.
29:58
Speaker 3: Oh, where's the others? Where's the pursuit, the fun stuff,
30:01
Speaker 3: you know?
30:01
Speaker 4: Over time, though, Stroche will say, yeah, see you tomorrow.
30:08
Speaker 8: I mean, both, okay, did you, like, inspire this?
30:12
Speaker 5: Because you kind of got into a new relationship before this.
30:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, he does. I mean, let's be honest.
30:19
Speaker 4: Finney looks up to me as a mentor, as guidance,
30:22
Speaker 4: as a leader. So I like to think that Matt
30:24
Speaker 4: tried to lead him down the path of debauchery. I
30:27
Speaker 4: led him down the path of true love. Ashley Strohlein
30:32
Speaker 4: is with us here. Of course, we're talking about Fitty's relationship.
30:36
Speaker 4: How do you feel about the Panthers, Stroh? They were
30:41
Speaker 4: the absolute, Bryce and the Panthers were the bells of
30:44
Speaker 4: the ball for this past week. I mean, all the
30:46
Speaker 4: interviews that Bryce did, TMAC did, they're starting to get healthier.
30:52
Speaker 4: I know you always feel like you're going to, you
30:55
Speaker 4: don't want to get too optimistic, but how are you
30:58
Speaker 4: feeling about the Panthers right now?
31:02
Speaker 8: Well, you know, coming off of Sunday night football, we
31:04
Speaker 8: talked about it, what, last week. It was just so
31:06
Speaker 8: great to have that atmosphere, to see the game that
31:09
Speaker 8: they had. And I think, I mean, I know the
31:11
Speaker 8: bye week is early, but I feel like it was
31:13
Speaker 8: a good time for this team with the injuries that
31:16
Speaker 8: they were facing and all of those things. And then
31:19
Speaker 8: you kind of mentioned, like, the week that we saw
31:22
Speaker 8: Bryce have right from game day to appearances to last
31:27
Speaker 8: night being on, on what the Manning cast and all
31:30
Speaker 8: of that. And so I think it's been great to
31:32
Speaker 8: see him get this type of, of love during the bi-week.
31:37
Speaker 8: And now you just hope the guys pick it back up. And,
31:40
Speaker 8: and I mean, Philly's kind of down and out right now.
31:43
Speaker 8: So you hope you hope for the same this weekend
31:45
Speaker 8: when the Panthers head up there.
31:47
Speaker 2: Bagel Guy says we need to start telling Stroh the
31:50
Speaker 2: Granny Pat Freedom Park stories.
31:52
Speaker 4: I don't think we can tell anybody that. Because we're
31:55
Speaker 4: not sure how it ends yet.
31:56
Speaker 3: I know. We're very intrigued.
31:58
Speaker 2: Yes, she is talking about a moment when her and
32:00
Speaker 2: her now husband were single and dating. And they were
32:04
Speaker 2: in a car at Freedom Park. And Granny gives us
32:06
Speaker 2: like a different layer of the story every time she's on.
32:10
Speaker 3: And I feel like, Bone, the.
32:11
Speaker 4: Way now we're at.
32:12
Speaker 3: It's about to get juicy.
32:13
Speaker 4: We're at steamed windows right now, Stroh. I think this
32:17
Speaker 4: may be where her child was conceived. Anyway, we'll let
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Speaker 4: you know how that goes.
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Speaker 2: Stroh, serious question on the Astro. This texter says, Fitty
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Speaker 2: says his girl is going to the Jonas Brothers show. Stroh,
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Speaker 2: please tell me you don't like the Jonas Brothers. I
32:34
Speaker 2: don't know what this guy's problem is with the JoBros.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, no, I don't have a problem with the Jonas Brothers.
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Speaker 5: You know, their grandma has, like, a restaurant out.
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Speaker 8: In Belmont, if I'm not mistaken. Really?
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Speaker 6: Look at that.
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Speaker 3: Look at that knowledge.
32:47
Speaker 2: Look at that knowledge right there.
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Speaker 8: I think it's still open.
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Speaker 5: I haven't checked it out in a while.
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Speaker 8: But, yeah, I think, is it Nelly's or something like that?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Google it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Nelly's.
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Speaker 4: Nelly's Restaurant.
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Speaker 5: Is it?
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Speaker 3: That's a good pollster. Nelly's Southern Kitchen.
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Speaker 2: I think that would be a great trip for Fitty
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Speaker 2: and his Jonas Brothers love and girl to go on.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
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Speaker 5: Wait, that's so sweet.
33:07
Speaker 8: Be like, I know you love the Jonas Brothers. Let
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Speaker 8: me take you to their grandma's restaurant.
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Speaker 3: Grandma Nelly's cooking. Oh, Fitty, that would be a good one.
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Speaker 2: And I think you should do that, Fitty, at 1
33:17
Speaker 2: o'clock on Sunday, I think is when you should do that.
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Speaker 4: Oh, here's a nice heartwarming story. A woman accused of
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Speaker 4: embezzling $ 200, 000 from Nelly's Southern Kitchen in Belmont, North Carolina.
33:27
Speaker 3: Oh, how dare she.
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Speaker 8: Oh, no.
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Speaker 3: Get her, Joe Bros.
33:30
Speaker 5: Get her.
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Speaker 2: All right. Anyway, we are we are told due to
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Speaker 2: time constraints, we need to wrap up. I did want
33:36
Speaker 2: to tell you a really fast thing, Stroh, about Sam Farber.
33:38
Speaker 2: We're trying to it's about time for Sam to come
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Speaker 2: back on with his weekly segment. And Sam Farber texted
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Speaker 2: me and said, whatever I do, I cannot interrupt the
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Speaker 2: Stroh show with her relationship advice. It is too important
33:52
Speaker 2: to the city. to, to, to, to infringe on your
33:55
Speaker 2: segment stroke.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: So there you go. And listen, I do want to say,
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Speaker 8: I did actually get a couple messages last week after
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Speaker 8: the segment. And, um, second here, hold on. I want
34:07
Speaker 8: to pull one up for you and just let you
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Speaker 8: guys know that while I, you know, I appreciate anyone
34:13
Speaker 8: who's interested in the, um, the dating advice, people really
34:17
Speaker 8: do care about.
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Speaker 5: 50s love life.
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Speaker 8: And then, um, the, the text I got here was, um, Honestly,
34:24
Speaker 8: the expert sports takes to female dating perspective shows you
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Speaker 8: have range. Some of us really need it.
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Speaker 3: How about that? How about that? Oh, how about that?
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 2: And you knew all about Nellie's and Belmont as well, Stroh.
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Speaker 3: Stroh, we will talk to you next week, Stroh. Appreciate you.
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Speaker 8: I appreciate you guys.
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Speaker 4: You might take Fonda there in 20 minutes.
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Speaker 3: There we go.
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Speaker 4: Ashley Strohlein joining us on the show. Coming back, it's
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Speaker 4: the wrap-up. Sports Radio 92.7.
35:07
Speaker 2: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Mack and Bone with you. Spirited Texters.
35:15
Speaker 2: The Texters happy for the Fit Daddy. This dude said
35:18
Speaker 2: Mack is shameless. Only wanted Fitty to date for radio material.
35:24
Speaker 2: Not only, but in part. What percentage part? Maybe 50-50, maybe.
35:31
Speaker 2: But I'm happy for him. I told him during the
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Speaker 2: break I'm happy for him. I told Bone I'm happy
35:36
Speaker 2: for his relationship as well. Very happy for y'all, man.
35:39
Speaker 2: You guys are nice guys, man. I had to get
35:41
Speaker 2: you to say that, though. I had to get you
35:43
Speaker 2: to say that.
35:43
Speaker 3: I know, but I am. I just didn't vocalize it
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Speaker 3: to you.
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Speaker 4: Well, you seem like it. You know what I'm saying?
35:47
Speaker 4: I seem like it. We're going to have to add
35:48
Speaker 4: another person to the show that's single.
35:50
Speaker 2: I will say that. I am looking for somebody else
35:52
Speaker 2: to try. Yeah, it's just kind of juicy.
35:54
Speaker 3: It's spicy. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 9: Yes.
35:57
Speaker 4: Anyway, tonight— I'll be at Harrah's with Tara on Thursday
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Speaker 4: and Friday.
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Speaker 3: That's awesome. Yeah, y'all stay in an extra night. I'll
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Speaker 3: be there.
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Speaker 2: We're hoping the Fit Dog's going to be there, but
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Speaker 2: we're not sure. But we're doing Friday's show.
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Speaker 4: And he's got to ask permission.
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Speaker 3: To his girl?
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Speaker 4: Oh, no, I meant like the bosses here.
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Speaker 3: Oh, okay, here, the bosses. All right, let's see.
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Speaker 2: We've got, thank you to Ashley Strohlein, Adam Gold, and
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Speaker 2: Connor O'Neill for joining us today. Go back, listen to
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Speaker 2: the podcast, Parts You Miss. Tonight in the world of sports, Boney,
36:28
Speaker 2: we've got.
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Speaker 3: American League Championship Series Game 2. Cleveland leads 1-0. That's
36:34
Speaker 3: the only one, right?
36:35
Speaker 2: Yes, the non-Dodgers league plays tonight. It's true. I'm kind
36:39
Speaker 2: of more into the Dodgers, just kind of hate watching.
36:41
Speaker 2: I don't really care about the American League. The Canes
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Speaker 2: play tonight 645. Oh, tonight's the Frozen Frenzy.
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Speaker 3: Isn't it?
36:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the teams play tonight. And they stagger it.
36:54
Speaker 2: And ESPN will go from game to game. 645 caps
36:58
Speaker 2: at Canes tonight in Raleigh. All right, let's read some
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Speaker 2: of these texts. Weatherman Mark has gone negative again, Bone.
37:06
Speaker 2: And he'll probably deny it in 10 minutes. He says,
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Speaker 2: Jeff Peterson is a complete idiot trading away his star
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Speaker 2: point guard. What a complete dumbass thing to do.
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Speaker 4: This is where I get confused by Weatherman Mark, because
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Speaker 4: if I call him negative, he'll get mad and say
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Speaker 4: that he's not.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
37:21
Speaker 4: But then I'll point back to these things, and then I'll...
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Speaker 4: It's a whole thing. By the way, college football's on tonight, too,
37:26
Speaker 4: by the way.
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's right. You got Delaware, Middle Tennessee, and FIU
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Speaker 3: Jacksonville State tonight. There you go, baby. There you go.
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Speaker 3: Seems like two games Bone might bet on tonight. Do
37:34
Speaker 3: you bet on games like this or no? Or are you.
37:37
Speaker 2: If Picante has a lead, I will. Picante, you got
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Speaker 2: something tonight on Delaware, Middle Tennessee, baby.
37:42
Speaker 4: Jacksonville State's not bad.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, they're not. They're not. Let's see.
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Speaker 2: This texter says, Mac, that's why not ranking ACC teams
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Speaker 2: is BS. because it gets held against the ACC teams
37:56
Speaker 2: if they don't play ranked teams.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's the whole cartel.
37:59
Speaker 2: The whole SEC Big Ten cartel is that the committee's
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Speaker 2: in on it. They keep the ACC teams from being ranked.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if I want to go
38:05
Speaker 2: that conspiracy-oriented, but it's just yes. It does affect the
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Speaker 2: fact that they don't respect those teams. And then, you know,
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Speaker 2: when they beat each other, it's often not ranked. All right,
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Speaker 2: we do have to play this audio. I forgot about this.
38:17
Speaker 2: This is pretty funny. Ocho Cinco, Shannon Sharp, and Joe
38:21
Speaker 2: Johnson on Nightcap. They're talking about the fact that Justin
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Speaker 2: Herbert is struggling in their own five, the Chargers bone,
38:28
Speaker 2: and they're bringing up the fact that Herbert chose to
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Speaker 2: skip the last two weeks of voluntary OTAs to follow
38:36
Speaker 2: Madison Beer, his pop star girlfriend, on her tour in Europe,
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Speaker 2: and now they're saying it might have been a bad
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Speaker 2: decision until Ocho Googles Madison Beer and looks at her
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Speaker 2: for the first time.
38:47
Speaker 3: Listen to this.
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Speaker 9: Let me see who this chick is.
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Speaker 4: Let me see what she looks like.
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Speaker 6: Uh-oh.
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Speaker 4: I don't care what you look like.
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Speaker 9: I'm trying to understand.
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Speaker 4: What you trying to understand?
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Speaker 9: Like, the decision-making on knowing you have a new offense,
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Speaker 9: knowing you have a new coach, but you chose to
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Speaker 9: skip that. I know maybe sometimes, I know it's voluntary,
39:06
Speaker 9: but still, you're a starting quarterback.
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Speaker 4: I just told you what it was.
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Speaker 6: I ain't, ain't that, ain't that, ain't that much. Ain't
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Speaker 6: that much.
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Speaker 4: Oh, okay. Madison beer. You can see. Yeah.
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Speaker 9: I don't too much. I don't too much put my
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Speaker 9: cream in my coffee, but I get it.
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Speaker 3: Oh, God. Ocho is a piece of work, dude.
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Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh.
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Speaker 3: A piece of dang work, man.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm sure Charger fans, Bone, are not upset at
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Speaker 2: that at all now, in hindsight, that they're 0-5, he's
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Speaker 2: playing the way he is, he skipped OT.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure.
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Speaker 4: Harbaugh's got all the answers.
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Speaker 3: Oh, God. Our ball right now doesn't know what to say, man. God,
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Speaker 3: he's speechless. All right, y'all.
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Speaker 4: He's going to tell Herbert, he's so out of the loop.
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Speaker 4: What's this I hear about you and beer? Is everything okay?
40:06
Speaker 4: You've got a beer problem? What coach? They're talking about
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Speaker 4: you and beer. You're addicted to beer.
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Speaker 2: Bone, somebody said the reason why Adam Gold, a texter
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Speaker 2: said Adam Gold sounds like a bald guy is because
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Speaker 2: he sounds like George Costanza. I got texted. I never
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Speaker 2: thought about that at all. Somebody is shocked to hear
40:28
Speaker 2: Finney is bald. Somebody did not know that bone somehow.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know that was possible.
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Speaker 4: He went home.
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Speaker 3: Didn't know that was possible.
40:36
Speaker 2: This texter says, oh, we've got Shaggy who wants to
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Speaker 2: get a ballpark figure on how much it would cost
40:44
Speaker 2: to personally sponsor Fitty's update segment so that we get
40:48
Speaker 2: to hear two updates a day from Fitty.
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Speaker 4: We're up to $ 7. 41 for Fitty not to do it.
40:55
Speaker 4: Whatever makes us money.
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Speaker 3: I think this dude actually.
41:00
Speaker 2: We do reverse sponsorships. Maybe that would work for Mac
41:02
Speaker 2: and Bone, too, I'm starting to think.
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Speaker 4: Sponsor us not to. What if we don't mention your company?
41:07
Speaker 4: $ 10 not to say your company's name.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 2: This dude's offering me $ 50 not to tout Wake Forest
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Speaker 2: ever again.
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Speaker 3: I can't help it, man. You're a fun local story.
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Speaker 3: Apologies in advance. My God.
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Speaker 4: Shroppy left these cookies in here. Did Finney do some
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Speaker 4: damage on these bad boys?
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Speaker 3: Oh, he did.
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Speaker 2: We got two left. Bro, there was like 12 when
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Speaker 2: we got in here today. Finney went off.
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Speaker 6: I only had like eight.
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Speaker 4: That's it.
41:33
Speaker 3: It's an eight-cookie morning. We're only a four-hour show.
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Speaker 2: All right, we got to get out of here, y'all.
41:39
Speaker 2: Coming up next, is it you again.
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Speaker 3: Fit Daddy?
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Speaker 6: It is not.
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Speaker 4: It is.
41:44
Speaker 6: William, Eugene, Palachuk, the four.
41:47
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, P-Man. Tell them about that FC rally, Pete. Pete, Pete, Pete, Pete.
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Speaker 3: Tell them about 3-2 today, P-Man.
41:54
Speaker 4: P-Time.
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Speaker 3: All right.
41:56
Speaker 2: Anyway, all right, we got to get out of here.
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Speaker 2: P-Man coming up next. Mizzou is hot. Mizzou's a playoff team.
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Speaker 2: All right, we're out of here. Good work out of Bone.
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Speaker 2: Good work out of the Fit Dog. We'll talk to
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Speaker 2: you all tomorrow on this show.