Latest / Mac & Bone Podcast / The Stro Show: Hornets Vibes, Panthers Bye Week & More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Sunshine.
- 0:02Speaker 2: So good.
- 0:02Speaker 1: You can throw it in the air, but I couldn't
- 0:06Speaker 1: help but stab it.
- 0:08Speaker 3: I let you love me blind.
- 0:09Speaker 4: Sunshine.
- 0:20Speaker 3: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. We're playing Stroh's music. It's Stroh
- 0:25Speaker 3: Show time, everybody. I just want to mention, remember the podcast.
- 0:30Speaker 3: Think of the podcast, kids. Later on today, if you realize, man,
- 0:33Speaker 3: I only listen to Mac and Bone for an hour,
- 0:35Speaker 3: two hours. We're here for four hours, y'all, all right?
- 0:38Speaker 3: And you can listen to the hours you miss, the
- 0:40Speaker 3: segments you miss in podcast form at your leisure, WFNZ.com, Apple, Spotify.
- 0:45Speaker 3: So go listen to Mac and Bone. Spread us around
- 0:49Speaker 3: throughout your day. You don't just need Mac and Bone
- 0:52Speaker 3: in the morning. Yeah, we're great around lunchtime, dinnertime. Late
- 0:55Speaker 3: night snack. Yeah, whenever you need us, we're there. We're
- 0:58Speaker 3: here for you, man.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Mac will be loud no matter what time of the
- 1:01Speaker 1: day it is.
- 1:03Speaker 3: That is fair. Stroh is here for us right now,
- 1:07Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen. We got so much talk about a
- 1:10Speaker 3: Panthers-Eagles game that is fascinating. Panthers get full first place, Bone,
- 1:15Speaker 3: by not even doing anything. And I know Stro just
- 1:19Speaker 3: did over on Satellite Radio side. I know she just
- 1:21Speaker 3: did a big Hornets season preview show that aired last night.
- 1:24Speaker 3: So we got to talk to Hornets eight days away
- 1:27Speaker 3: from the regular season opener. Ashley Strohlein is with us.
- 1:29Speaker 3: What's up, Stro? How you doing?
- 1:32Speaker 2: Good morning, guys. Well, I was just telling City in
- 1:34Speaker 2: the break that somehow I agreed to a 7.30 doctor appointment.
- 1:40Speaker 2: And I know you guys get up early every morning,
- 1:42Speaker 2: but when my alarm went off at like 6.30, I
- 1:45Speaker 2: was like, who even offers an appointment at 7.30 in
- 1:48Speaker 2: the morning? So I've been at it for a while
- 1:50Speaker 2: this morning, guys. I'm up.
- 1:51Speaker 3: I'm ready. I didn't know that's even possible to do that.
- 1:53Speaker 3: That is– it's got to be like the first appointment
- 1:56Speaker 3: of the dang day, I'm thinking. It has to be.
- 1:58Speaker 1: I overslept today because I thought– I convinced myself it
- 2:00Speaker 1: was Saturday, and I rolled back over today.
- 2:02Speaker 3: And it turns out it's Tuesday.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Oops, oops.
- 2:05Speaker 3: My bad. Oh, man. Stroh, you did the– you did
- 2:08Speaker 3: your Hornets– you hosted the Hornets season preview show. You
- 2:12Speaker 3: are a basketball gal. Like, that's the sports you played.
- 2:17Speaker 3: You have this affinity, you know, for hoops, the Hornets.
- 2:21Speaker 3: Are you feeling like this, even without LaMelo, are you
- 2:25Speaker 3: feeling like this can be an exciting Hornets team?
- 2:30Speaker 2: You know, I was excited about all the conversations that
- 2:32Speaker 2: I had with the guys, and I think just the
- 2:35Speaker 2: mindset of where they're all at, right? We all know
- 2:39Speaker 2: it's a new chapter. It's a lot of new change.
- 2:41Speaker 2: And one of the things I kind of talked to
- 2:45Speaker 2: Coach about was, okay, you found this success. with the
- 2:49Speaker 2: group that you had last year, but now as a
- 2:51Speaker 2: head coach, you've got to build on that with some
- 2:54Speaker 2: new pieces and losing some key pieces that helps you
- 2:57Speaker 2: find that. And, you know, the, the phrase he keeps
- 3:00Speaker 2: using is we're going to do it by committee. And
- 3:02Speaker 2: I'm like, well, what does that look like for the Hornets?
- 3:04Speaker 2: And he's like, well, what word is in committee? It's committed.
- 3:07Speaker 2: We're committing to the daily habits, supporting each other, doing
- 3:10Speaker 2: all the things that we need to do. So When
- 3:12Speaker 2: it comes to game time, we're going to hopefully find
- 3:14Speaker 2: that success. And so I think that they all have
- 3:17Speaker 2: the right mindset and approach for this season. And I
- 3:20Speaker 2: think more than anything, like I always tell people in
- 3:22Speaker 2: the beginning of any season in any sport, you got
- 3:25Speaker 2: to be a little bit patient to let the guys
- 3:28Speaker 2: get out there and get real game reps. Not preseason,
- 3:32Speaker 2: because you guys know how I feel about preseason and anything.
- 3:34Speaker 2: So I'm excited to get to the opener on the
- 3:38Speaker 2: 21st and then see how these guys go from there.
- 3:40Speaker 2: But I'm excited for them. Obviously, it's new. It's a
- 3:44Speaker 2: new chapter. But I think they've got some key pieces.
- 3:47Speaker 2: And folks like Brandon Miller are ready to step up.
- 3:50Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, in my fourth year and somehow I'm
- 3:53Speaker 2: the vet. But he was excited and great to talk
- 3:56Speaker 2: to and brought so much energy just to that interview alone.
- 4:00Speaker 1: There goes my question if Stroh's enjoying the preseason pregame
- 4:04Speaker 1: show with myself and Bailey. She hasn't been locked in.
- 4:06Speaker 1: Apparently not. Not everyone can be Mack just locked in
- 4:10Speaker 1: all day long.
- 4:10Speaker 3: I know. I don't miss a Bone-Bailey pregame extravaganza, man.
- 4:14Speaker 1: Stroh, the latest Vegas over-under win total projection for the
- 4:18Speaker 1: Hornets right now sits at 39.5. Does that number feel right?
- 4:23Speaker 1: What do you think about that being the number for
- 4:25Speaker 1: this team?
- 4:27Speaker 3: Hmm.
- 4:28Speaker 2: Well, what did we get? 44 wins last season?
- 4:30Speaker 3: Is that right?
- 4:31Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's not too far off of what the
- 4:34Speaker 2: guys were able to accomplish last year. I just think, like,
- 4:38Speaker 2: I'm curious to see how does the first month go, right? Like,
- 4:41Speaker 2: what does it really look like when Coach has his
- 4:44Speaker 2: starters out there together and how are they competing? I'm terrible.
- 4:48Speaker 2: You guys know I'm terrible at this kind of stuff. Like,
- 4:50Speaker 2: guessing wins to start a season, I hate to ever say.
- 4:54Speaker 2: But I don't think that's, like, a terrible thing, but
- 4:56Speaker 2: I hope the guys can accomplish more. I hope that
- 4:58Speaker 2: they can– They can surprise everybody. Because I don't think anyone...
- 5:03Speaker 2: You guys tell me. I don't know that people are expecting...
- 5:06Speaker 2: them to be able to pick up where they left
- 5:08Speaker 2: off last season. And my hope is that they do
- 5:11Speaker 2: find that. And now you've got these veterans in there
- 5:13Speaker 2: and you've got someone like Nas who's been to the
- 5:15Speaker 2: Western Conference Finals two years and gets to step into
- 5:18Speaker 2: a starting role and bring that kind of leadership. And
- 5:22Speaker 2: something he talked to me about was just like how
- 5:24Speaker 2: much he's loving the young guys and the energy and
- 5:27Speaker 2: mentoring them and how it's reminding him, okay, this is
- 5:30Speaker 2: how I was when I came in or when I
- 5:32Speaker 2: was that age and I can help this guy survive.
- 5:34Speaker 2: see this or do this. So I'm terrible at the
- 5:37Speaker 2: prediction type thing, but I look for these guys.
- 5:40Speaker 1: I think they could be equal in terms of what
- 5:42Speaker 1: they are, but less wins because of the depth of
- 5:44Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference.
- 5:45Speaker 3: That's my assessment of it. But, Stro, you look at it.
- 5:48Speaker 3: The Vegas number is right at basically 40, right? A
- 5:51Speaker 3: half win lower than 40. That's four wins lower than
- 5:54Speaker 3: last year. Vegas expects them not to be that far
- 5:57Speaker 3: off last year's pace. They've got to get off to
- 6:00Speaker 3: a better start. They've got to have Kobe and Khan healthy.
- 6:04Speaker 3: And I'm worried about the Kobe. I feel like Con
- 6:06Speaker 3: will be back. So here we are. They're a deep team,
- 6:08Speaker 3: there's no doubt. And also I think Charles Wastrow trying
- 6:12Speaker 3: to figure out the rotation. Because this isn't college. Not everyone,
- 6:17Speaker 3: you don't run 12 guys out there in hockey line style.
- 6:19Speaker 3: So they're going to have to try to figure out
- 6:21Speaker 3: who's not playing and what the rotation is. That'll be
- 6:24Speaker 3: Charles Wastrow's, I think, biggest challenge to start the season with. Stroh,
- 6:26Speaker 3: we've got a texter asking you a question, all right?
- 6:29Speaker 3: Are you up for a text question today from the listeners?
- 6:32Speaker 3: A little Astro, if y'all want to send them in?
- 6:34Speaker 2: Your tone is scaring me a little bit. Oh, really?
- 6:36Speaker 2: I didn't mean to. You never ask. You usually just
- 6:39Speaker 2: throw the questions at me.
- 6:40Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sorry. Astro is on right now. 704-5709-610. I'm terrified.
- 6:45Speaker 3: Go ahead. Texter says, I've heard Stroh over the years.
- 6:49Speaker 3: She definitely doesn't like giving the sports predictions. But do
- 6:53Speaker 3: you have a prediction on possible wedding bells? in Fitty's future.
- 6:59Speaker 3: Fitty is angry.
- 7:00Speaker 2: Fitty is so mad. Did I hear him sigh in
- 7:02Speaker 2: the background? What just happened there?
- 7:04Speaker 3: He just punched himself. He just banged the table over there.
- 7:07Speaker 3: He does not like this.
- 7:10Speaker 2: Wait, well, I don't even have my weekly update. Like,
- 7:12Speaker 2: because I brought up a proposal the last time and
- 7:15Speaker 2: how we could orchestrate that at Bank of America, and
- 7:18Speaker 2: I got silenced. So I don't even, I don't know.
- 7:20Speaker 1: He doesn't really say as much as he used to.
- 7:23Speaker 3: He's been... You know what they're doing, Stroll? We were
- 7:26Speaker 3: talking about this earlier. He's falling in love. He is.
- 7:29Speaker 3: He's like a married couple already. He tells me the
- 7:31Speaker 3: stuff he did, and I'm just, like, hanging out with
- 7:33Speaker 3: her family, his family. I'm like, man, you could do
- 7:36Speaker 3: this when you're a boring married couple like me.
- 7:38Speaker 1: The real thing we're questioning, he comes in and tells
- 7:41Speaker 1: us how much the family loves him and enjoys him.
- 7:44Speaker 1: And we need to see that for ourselves. We need
- 7:47Speaker 1: to talk to some people with that family. Are they
- 7:48Speaker 1: really enjoying your presence, Finney?
- 7:50Speaker 4: Well, one of the aunts just sent me a friend
- 7:52Speaker 4: request on Facebook. And when I showed up at church
- 7:56Speaker 4: on Sunday, they were glad that Fitty was back.
- 7:59Speaker 2: In the house.
- 7:59Speaker 3: He's at church chanting ovation. He's at church with her family, like, Stroh.
- 8:03Speaker 3: I don't know. It's like it seems so serious that it's,
- 8:06Speaker 3: I don't know, it's almost boring. Like my relationship. Also,
- 8:11Speaker 3: now my relationship bores you?
- 8:13Speaker 2: This isn't fun anymore. I know.
- 8:16Speaker 3: I think I just realized, Fitty, that I'm happy for you.
- 8:19Speaker 3: It's awesome. But I've just realized on the radio... It's
- 8:23Speaker 3: not the same as when we're trying to find you
- 8:25Speaker 3: a lady.
- 8:26Speaker 1: Mac will root for love until you find it, and
- 8:28Speaker 1: then he'll root against you because it ruins his plan.
- 8:30Speaker 3: I just realized. Do y'all agree or am I being
- 8:33Speaker 3: a jerk? Look, you never ask me questions anymore about
- 8:35Speaker 3: my life. I know Bone's kind of in that period
- 8:38Speaker 3: where it's, I don't know, it doesn't seem that exciting.
- 8:40Speaker 3: We watch documentaries and cuddle. Last night, Mac, we went
- 8:45Speaker 3: to Target. Oh, my God. Seriously. She had to get
- 8:49Speaker 3: her a bag.
- 8:50Speaker 4: She's going to the Jonas Brothers concert tonight. So she
- 8:53Speaker 4: had to get her a little bag so she could
- 8:55Speaker 4: take her stuff into the Spectrum Center. And then we
- 8:58Speaker 4: sat in my truck and talked for an hour and
- 8:59Speaker 4: a half.
- 9:00Speaker 3: That's what we did. Talked. This is cute. It is cute.
- 9:05Speaker 3: You two are a cute couple. I mean, this is
- 9:07Speaker 3: damn love, man. I showed you pictures the other day. No,
- 9:10Speaker 3: I like it. I like it for you. I just
- 9:12Speaker 3: don't like it for the radio show. Now we got
- 9:14Speaker 3: to get flounder woman. That needs to be the next one.
- 9:16Speaker 3: You know?
- 9:19Speaker 2: Well, I like that you went to church together. You
- 9:22Speaker 2: can sit in the truck and talk for over an hour.
- 9:25Speaker 2: I think that's very, very endearing and very sweet. So
- 9:29Speaker 2: we'll take it. Well, you mentioned Flounder. You guys were
- 9:33Speaker 2: supposed to be looking for like a friend of hers
- 9:35Speaker 2: for Flounder.
- 9:36Speaker 3: How's that working?
- 9:36Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't you have lunch with like five of her friends?
- 9:38Speaker 1: You didn't mention that maybe Flounder should go to that?
- 9:41Speaker 1: The Fab Five.
- 9:42Speaker 4: Yeah, one of them is her sister married. The other
- 9:45Speaker 4: one that's Flounder's age, she's married.
- 9:48Speaker 3: But we're on the hunt. Okay. It's one of our.
- 9:52Speaker 4: Goals is to help Flounder find himself a woman.
- 9:56Speaker 3: Our guy Fuddrucken in Gastonia cannot believe Fitty went to church.
- 10:00Speaker 3: on the morning of a race day before he went
- 10:01Speaker 3: to the NASCAR race. I had to go and pray
- 10:03Speaker 3: for forgiveness. The way I acted the last time I
- 10:06Speaker 3: was on the track. Do you want another?
- 10:09Speaker 2: Oh, go ahead. No, no. Sorry.
- 10:10Speaker 3: Go ahead. Go ahead.
- 10:12Speaker 2: I was just going to say the last time I
- 10:14Speaker 2: think we were talking is Spitty was worried. We were
- 10:16Speaker 2: a little bit worried about, you know, the game schedule
- 10:19Speaker 2: and happened to put a, you know, I can't see
- 10:21Speaker 2: you on XYZ days because I got these games, but
- 10:24Speaker 2: it seems like everything's fine.
- 10:25Speaker 3: Yeah, it does. Well, this is what happened, Stroh.
- 10:27Speaker 4: I went to the game on Friday night, got back
- 10:30Speaker 4: home at 1130, went and saw her.
- 10:31Speaker 3: Those three days had been too much. And what did
- 10:33Speaker 3: you tell her? What did you, when you called her up,
- 10:35Speaker 3: what did you say? I don't know. What did I say?
- 10:37Speaker 3: You said, I have to see you tonight. God, this
- 10:40Speaker 3: is love. This is damn love, y'all. What a line.
- 10:43Speaker 3: Part of me loves it.
- 10:44Speaker 4: Part of me is like, man, where's the dang?
- 10:47Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, where's the others? Where's the pursuit, the fun stuff,
- 10:51Speaker 3: you know? Over time, though, Stroche will say, yeah, see
- 10:53Speaker 3: you tomorrow.
- 10:57Speaker 2: Well, I mean, both. Okay. Did you, like, inspire this?
- 11:02Speaker 2: Because you kind of got into a new relationship before this.
- 11:06Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he does. I mean, let's be honest.
- 11:09Speaker 1: Finney looks up to me as a mentor, as guidance,
- 11:12Speaker 1: as a leader. So I like to think that Matt
- 11:14Speaker 1: tried to lead him down the path of debauchery. I
- 11:17Speaker 1: led him down the path of true love. Ashley Strohlein
- 11:22Speaker 1: is with us here. Of course, we're talking about Fitty's relationship.
- 11:26Speaker 1: How do you feel about the Panthers, Stroh? They were
- 11:31Speaker 1: the absolute Bryce and the Panthers were the bells of
- 11:34Speaker 1: the ball for this past week. I mean, all the
- 11:36Speaker 1: interviews that Bryce did, T-Mac did. Are you they're starting
- 11:40Speaker 1: to get healthier.
- 11:42Speaker 3: I know you always feel like you're going to you
- 11:45Speaker 3: don't want to get too like too optimistic. But how
- 11:48Speaker 3: are you feeling about the Panthers right now?
- 11:52Speaker 2: Well, you know, coming off of Sunday night football, we
- 11:54Speaker 2: talked about it, what, last week. It was just so
- 11:56Speaker 2: great to have that atmosphere, to see the game that
- 11:59Speaker 2: they had. And I think, I mean, I know the
- 12:01Speaker 2: bye week is early, but I feel like it was
- 12:03Speaker 2: a good time for this team with the injuries that
- 12:06Speaker 2: they were facing and all of those things. And then
- 12:09Speaker 2: you kind of mentioned, like, the week that we saw
- 12:12Speaker 2: Bryce have right from game day to appearances to last
- 12:17Speaker 2: night being on, on what the Manning cast and all
- 12:20Speaker 2: of that. And so I think it's been great to
- 12:22Speaker 2: see him get this type of, of love during the bi-week.
- 12:27Speaker 2: And now you just hope the guys pick it back up. And,
- 12:30Speaker 2: and I mean, Philly's kind of down and out right now.
- 12:33Speaker 2: So you hope you hope for the same this weekend
- 12:35Speaker 2: when the Panthers head up there.
- 12:37Speaker 3: Bagel Guy says, we need to start telling Stroh the
- 12:40Speaker 3: Granny Pat Freedom Park stories.
- 12:42Speaker 1: I don't think we can tell anybody that. Because we're
- 12:45Speaker 1: not sure how it ends yet. I know.
- 12:47Speaker 3: We're very intrigued. Yes, she is talking about a moment
- 12:50Speaker 3: when her and her now husband were single and dating.
- 12:53Speaker 3: And they were in a car at Freedom Park. And
- 12:55Speaker 3: Granny gives us like a different layer of the story
- 12:58Speaker 3: every time she's on. And I feel like, Bone, the wind—
- 13:02Speaker 3: Right now we're at— It's about to get juicy. We're
- 13:03Speaker 3: at steamed windows right now, Stroh. Yeah.
- 13:07Speaker 1: I think this might be where her child was conceived. Anyway,
- 13:12Speaker 1: we'll let you know how that goes.
- 13:14Speaker 3: Stroh, serious question on the Astro. This texter says, Fitty
- 13:17Speaker 3: says his girl is going to the Jonas Brothers show. Stroh,
- 13:21Speaker 3: please tell me you don't like the Jonas Brothers. I
- 13:24Speaker 3: don't know what this guy's problem is with the JoBros.
- 13:27Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I don't have a problem with the Jonas Brothers.
- 13:30Speaker 2: You know, their grandma has, like, a restaurant out in Belmont,
- 13:33Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken. Really?
- 13:35Speaker 3: Look at that. Look at that knowledge. Look at that
- 13:38Speaker 3: knowledge right there.
- 13:39Speaker 2: I think it's still open. I haven't checked it out
- 13:41Speaker 2: in a while. But, yeah, I think, is it Nelly's
- 13:45Speaker 2: or something like that? I don't know. Google it.
- 13:47Speaker 3: Yeah, Nelly's. Nelly's Restaurant.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Is it?
- 13:49Speaker 3: That's a good pollster. Nelly's Southern Kitchen. I think that
- 13:51Speaker 3: would be a great trip for Fitty and his Jonas
- 13:54Speaker 3: Brothers love and girl to go on. Oh, my gosh. Wait,
- 13:57Speaker 3: that's so sweet.
- 13:57Speaker 2: Be like, I know you love the Jonas Brothers. Let
- 14:00Speaker 2: me take you to their grandma's restaurant.
- 14:03Speaker 3: Grandma Nelly's cooking. Oh, Fitty, that would be a good one.
- 14:05Speaker 3: And I think you should do that, Fitty, at 1
- 14:07Speaker 3: o'clock on Sunday, I think is when you should do that.
- 14:10Speaker 1: Oh, here's a nice heartwarming story. A woman accused of
- 14:13Speaker 1: embezzling $ 200, 000 from Nelly's Southern Kitchen in Belmont, North Carolina.
- 14:17Speaker 3: Oh, how dare she.
- 14:18Speaker 2: Oh, no.
- 14:19Speaker 3: Get her, Joe Bros. Get her.
- 14:21Speaker 1: All right.
- 14:21Speaker 3: Anyway, we are we are told due to time constraints,
- 14:24Speaker 3: we need to wrap up. I did want to tell
- 14:26Speaker 3: you a really fast thing, Stroh, about Sam Farber. We're
- 14:28Speaker 3: trying to it's about time for Sam to come back
- 14:31Speaker 3: on with his weekly segment. And Sam Farber texted me
- 14:34Speaker 3: and said, whatever I do, I cannot interrupt the Stroh
- 14:38Speaker 3: show with her relationship advice. It is too important to
- 14:42Speaker 3: the city. to, to, to, to infringe on your segment stroke. Yeah.
- 14:46Speaker 2: So there you go. And listen, I do want to say,
- 14:49Speaker 2: I did actually get a couple messages last week after
- 14:54Speaker 2: the segment. And, um, second here, hold on. I want
- 14:57Speaker 2: to pull one up for you and just let you
- 14:59Speaker 2: guys know that while I, you know, I appreciate anyone
- 15:03Speaker 2: who's interested in the, um, the dating advice, people really
- 15:07Speaker 2: do care about 50s love life. And then, um, the,
- 15:11Speaker 2: the text I got here was, um, Honestly, the expert
- 15:14Speaker 2: sports takes to female dating perspective shows you have range.
- 15:18Speaker 2: Some of us really need it.
- 15:20Speaker 3: How about that? How about that? Oh, how about that?
- 15:23Speaker 3: All right. And you knew all about Nellie's and Belmont
- 15:26Speaker 3: as well, Stro. Stro, we will talk to you next week, Stro.
- 15:31Speaker 3: Appreciate you.
- 15:32Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys.
- 15:33Speaker 3: You might take Fonda there in 20 minutes. There we go.
- 15:36Speaker 3: There we go. Ashley Strohlein joining us on the show.