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Mac & Bone Hour 2: One Game You'd Want to Win the Most · Mac & Bone Podcast

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Speaker 1: We really love Shane's on this show and in this conference,
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Speaker 1: but if Shane Biemer gonna make it, Shane, look at
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Speaker 1: this schedule up Carolina at Bama at Florida with you
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Speaker 1: got some wrong who fight Shane stabbing in the back.
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Speaker 2: I still like you.
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Speaker 1: John Tennessee at Oklahoma Texas.
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Speaker 2: A m Georgia. Oh my goodness, he goes six and six.
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Speaker 2: He may not be around.
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Speaker 1: Shane Baemer will not be back under his current contract.
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Speaker 1: He's getting a contract extention in shape. South Carolina's gonna
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Speaker 1: do so well this year that they're gonna lock him
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Speaker 1: up to a contract extension. They fired his asses at
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Speaker 1: His contract runs through twenty thirty, so twenty seven, you
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Speaker 1: know that. I think even though he's got a little
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Speaker 1: bit of time on that deal, he's got a new ad.
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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna lock his ass up to an extension.
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Speaker 1: How about that?
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Speaker 2: All right? SEC Mike from that SEC podcast with a
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Speaker 2: man that may resemble kind of fitty Marlwow cousin Shane
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Speaker 2: there talking about Shane Beemer in his future with the game.
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Speaker 2: Cox some positivity there, and that leads us here into
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Speaker 2: our football discussion about the wins that you most want
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Speaker 2: one win, only one. Don't send it into you get
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Speaker 2: one choice for your pro team or your college team teams.
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Speaker 2: If you have more than one for me, all start
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Speaker 2: us off, fitty and I'll go South Carolina because I
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Speaker 2: think this one is simpler for me. The panther side
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Speaker 2: of this thing. Man oh man, there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: choices there we got to kind of work through. But
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Speaker 2: the South Carolina angle here, I know that the game
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Speaker 2: cop fans might get worked up with me because I'm
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Speaker 2: not gonna pick Clemson. Not that that game doesn't matter,
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Speaker 2: not that I don't want the game, not that I
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Speaker 2: don't want the game. Cox to beat clem but they
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Speaker 2: have done that twice under Beamer, and it hasn't really
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Speaker 2: sustained the momentum that this program needs. Beemer still finds
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Speaker 2: himself under a lot of pressures. So it's great to
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Speaker 2: beat your rival and it matters. Don't get me wrong,
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Speaker 2: but I'm looking at the game right before Clemson. It's
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Speaker 2: Georgia at home, and Shane Beemer I think at some
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Speaker 2: point needs to knock off. They were closed a couple
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Speaker 2: of years ago. One of these SEC big dogs. If
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Speaker 2: they can get Georgia and you hope that momentum carries
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Speaker 2: over to the Clemson after that. But to me, I'm
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Speaker 2: going big game hunting. If I could have one win
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Speaker 2: for South Carolina, I want them to beat a potential
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Speaker 2: national title contender in the Georgia Bulldogs the second to
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Speaker 2: last game of the season.
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Speaker 3: It makes a lot of sense just because of the
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Speaker 3: recent success y'all have experienced against Clemson, or that rivalry
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Speaker 3: has been a lot more even you mentioned that you know,
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Speaker 3: y'all were close to beating Georgia a few years ago,
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Speaker 3: but really since for year left town, or if we
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Speaker 3: want to be correct, quit town and quit during the
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Speaker 3: middle of the season in his final year in Columbia,
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Speaker 3: that rivalry, which I thought when I was first getting
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Speaker 3: into college football, more of an one of the more
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Speaker 3: underrated rivalries in the SEC. It hasn't been all that close,
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Speaker 3: and Beamer has been closed. You mentioned the Georgia upset
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Speaker 3: that nearly happened. You almost beat Bama a few years ago.
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Speaker 3: In Bama, You've got some marquee wins over like an
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Speaker 3: A and M at different points in time.
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Speaker 4: But if you were to beat Georgia.
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Speaker 3: In what feels like a team that's destined to probably
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Speaker 3: get back to the SEC title game and go back
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Speaker 3: to the playoff. That would be I think another sign
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Speaker 3: of growth and progress, and I think it would be
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Speaker 3: one that your fan base would really rally behind those
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Speaker 3: that are in the keep Beamer canon.
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Speaker 2: If they're gonna beat Georgia. To me, that the where
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Speaker 2: that game is in November, end of the season. If
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Speaker 2: you beat Georgia, that probably means you beat some other
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Speaker 2: teams along the way and you had a good season.
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Speaker 2: Now they you know, have three wins and beat Georgia.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it doesn't matter, but I'm banking on good part
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Speaker 2: of the schedule early rack up, some wins, have a
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Speaker 2: few wins along the way against some good SEC opponents,
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Speaker 2: and then that Georgia game will really matter at the
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Speaker 2: end of the season for Duke. For me, real quick,
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Speaker 2: I want Miami. I know that's dangerous. I know that
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Speaker 2: could end poorly, and most likely it will. But how
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Speaker 2: do I not say Miami when they took Mensa and
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Speaker 2: bark like that? To me, boy, that could end. That
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Speaker 2: could end with a forty point loss. I don't care.
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Speaker 2: But if Duke were to beat Miami, I would I
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Speaker 2: would sell Organs for on the black market. On Facebook marketplace.
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Speaker 4: Someone's already got that market corner.
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Speaker 2: I would sell. I would sell my organs for Duke
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Speaker 2: to beat Miami this year. Honestly, if someone needs one,
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Speaker 2: let me know, I'll sell it to you.
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Speaker 4: What's odd about that?
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Speaker 2: And this shows you dangerous? I know, but that's I'm
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Speaker 2: just saying. If I had one there, that's it.
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Speaker 3: This shows you how far Duke football has come. You've
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Speaker 3: got recent wins over Klebson to where you don't even
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Speaker 3: necessarily want you You wouldn't want to beat Clemson.
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Speaker 4: Where you look at Miami now, they are the premier
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Speaker 4: program in the content.
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Speaker 3: Because they took your quarterback and your and your wide receiver.
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Speaker 3: But it would also be just another sign that Manny
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Speaker 3: Diaz has maybe maximized his potential with that program there
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Speaker 3: in Durham.
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Speaker 4: I think mine is very very simple.
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Speaker 3: Mine's very very easy as a Carolina football fan that
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Speaker 3: hasn't beaten n C State since I got into the station.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry you said that kind of quiet. Can you
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Speaker 2: maybe say that a little bit louder? I didn't quite.
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Speaker 3: We have not beaten the wolf Pack since I've gotten
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Speaker 3: to the station.
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Speaker 4: Five years.
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Speaker 3: In September for me, it's I want I want the
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Speaker 3: NC State win. Like, don't get it twisted. Losing to
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Speaker 3: Duke hurts in its own unique way because how competitive
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Speaker 3: that rivalry has been in my lifetime. I don't like
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Speaker 3: when the victory bell is not in Chapel Hill. I'd
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Speaker 3: like to maybe beat Clemson and just what that would
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Speaker 3: represent for Bill Belichick and his program. But the State thing, like,
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Speaker 3: there's there's not a worst taste in my mouth than
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Speaker 3: we lose to them. And I ate my mom's cooking
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Speaker 3: for eighteen years.
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Speaker 2: Oh is that astray at your mother?
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Speaker 4: Oh my mom can't cook. Oh my gosh, she one
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Speaker 4: time burned water.
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Speaker 3: So you know, when you have to say that into account,
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Speaker 3: there's there's not.
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Speaker 4: There aren't many days that bone.
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Speaker 3: I want to miss Mondays Like Mondays in this industry
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Speaker 3: are they're like they're like Fridays.
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Speaker 2: It's not like Mondays back in school, back in the
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Speaker 2: day where they were the worst.
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Speaker 3: Right the Mondays after State is beating us, I have
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Speaker 3: no desire to be here, Like I usually wish that
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Speaker 3: I was sick, that I was injured, that something would
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Speaker 3: keep me from being off the air injured. Yes, cause
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Speaker 3: it's it's it's the longest. It's the longest four hours
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Speaker 3: of my life, and I need more than a doctor
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Speaker 3: when I get done doing that show.
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Speaker 2: If that pain lasts more than four hours, you might
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Speaker 2: want to see Somebody said in your guaranteed wins that
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Speaker 2: you want for your pro college team seven oh four
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Speaker 2: five seven zero nine six Ted Norman Raley says facing Bone,
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Speaker 2: South Carolina is just the NC state of the SEC.
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Speaker 4: Could it be further from the truth?
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Speaker 2: Hold on, you got the mop over there, Fitty clean
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Speaker 2: us up a little bit. I would say that's not
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Speaker 2: true because South Carolina, although not recently, has been to
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Speaker 2: championship games in their conference. When's the last time state's
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Speaker 2: been to the AEC championship game?
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Speaker 4: Never?
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Speaker 2: There? You go so norm step off normally.
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Speaker 3: Also you mentioned yes and twenty ten South Carolina went
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Speaker 3: to the SEC championship game. You know what they did
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Speaker 3: in the three years after that, Bone They won eleven
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Speaker 3: games three straight years. Yeah, Like, and they were that
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Speaker 3: program that everyone thought was on the doorstep to maybe,
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Speaker 3: you know, getting over the hump and maybe just maybe
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Speaker 3: winning a national chief championship. Maybe now in the expanded SEC,
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Speaker 3: those things are no longer possible for a program of
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Speaker 3: South Carolina stature, but we're not two years removed from
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Speaker 3: them having a legitimate argument for being in the playoff
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Speaker 3: as a nine and three football team.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, things were moving in the right direction. Went
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Speaker 2: backwards last year as far as the Panthers go. Before
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Speaker 2: we read off some of the answers on the tax line,
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Speaker 2: this is a tough one because there are so many
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Speaker 2: games that you could make a case for as why
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Speaker 2: you would want that one. So I think it might
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Speaker 2: be subjective to each person. I don't know if there's
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Speaker 2: a right or wrong answer. It's just what you think
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Speaker 2: matters the most to you. What There are games like
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Speaker 2: Denver along the way, beating Sean Payton is always fun.
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Speaker 2: There's Division games, there's games at Philadelphia. Am I. I'm
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Speaker 2: going to ask you if I'm a big old weenie
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Speaker 2: or not here on this one, right, am I? Is
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Speaker 2: this WEENI bone here? I was going to say Chicago
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Speaker 2: because of the trade. The little bit of rivalry between
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Speaker 2: the fan base is also. I think for those games
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Speaker 2: down the line to really matter fully, whether that's Baltimore,
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Speaker 2: Tampa Bay at the end, all the ones down the line,
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Speaker 2: they have to get off to a good start, that's Chicago,
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Speaker 2: that's Detroit, that's the two between there. If they don't
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Speaker 2: show up and they lose to Chicago, we don't want
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Speaker 2: this scene the spiral and it to go bad. I
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Speaker 2: think for this particular year, this team, I think getting
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Speaker 2: off to a good start against a good Bears team
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Speaker 2: would go a long way into how important those other
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Speaker 2: games are down the line. I can't say Seattle. That's
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Speaker 2: way too far down the line. They have to get
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Speaker 2: there for that to matter. And I think Chicago to me,
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Speaker 2: am I a WEENI, is that an easy route or
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Speaker 2: does that make sense?
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Speaker 3: No, we've already gotten a bunch of those listed here
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Speaker 3: on the text line seven oh four five, seven oh
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Speaker 3: ninety sixteen for what that game just represents on the field,
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Speaker 3: all the conversations that we've had off the field around
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Speaker 3: the trade because you went to go get Bryce Young,
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Speaker 3: where maybe if you wait a year, you could have
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Speaker 3: been in a position to make that same trade get Caleb Williams.
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Speaker 3: We can and that'll be a storyline that we'll talk
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Speaker 3: about at nauseum the week of the game.
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Speaker 4: My answer for this for this bone was Detroit. Okay.
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Speaker 3: I went to Week four at home Sunday Night Football
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Speaker 3: against the Lions, just because I can't only imagine even
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Speaker 3: if the Panthers starts slow, even if they're one and
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Speaker 3: two going into that game, the height that will exist
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Speaker 3: around that game, that that football Friday going into playing
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Speaker 3: on Tonight Football, what that pregame show will feel like
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Speaker 3: with Mac and KB at the doghouse, with the energy
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Speaker 3: that will exist leading into that game. And then could
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Speaker 3: you just imagine when the entire football world is watching
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Speaker 3: our team play, and let's say they put on one
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Speaker 3: of those performances where they look the part Bryce Young
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Speaker 3: is brilliant, they win the game convincingly that you could
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Speaker 3: tell they're the better football team. Like, do you imagine
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Speaker 3: what that Panther Monday would be like? We wouldn't be exhausted,
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Speaker 3: despite probably coming in on less than three hours of sleep,
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Speaker 3: because we'd be so damn fired up. Because we also
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Speaker 3: know the next morning, when the get ups and the
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Speaker 3: first takes and all the national shows are talking about
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Speaker 3: the previous Sunday and football what the.
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Speaker 2: Cowboys did, probably they're gonna.
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Speaker 3: Have to talk about the Carolina Panthers winning a game
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Speaker 3: in primetime.
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Speaker 4: So I think that's the one for me.
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Speaker 3: If there's only one win I could get next year
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Speaker 3: for the Panthers, and then there's the one guaranteed give
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Speaker 3: me that Sunday night home game against the Lions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. You've also got Tampa Bay
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Speaker 2: Monday night down the line. But again, that is down
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Speaker 2: the line. So I tried to go earlier for the Panthers,
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Speaker 2: just so you know. It may change along the way.
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Speaker 2: We may get those wins early, fitty, as you know.
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Speaker 2: And then of course, you know, games may matter more
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Speaker 2: than we thought they were initially. Here any tech standout
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Speaker 2: the year fit. I'm trying to get my text line
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Speaker 2: back up again here, had able problem over here? Any
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Speaker 2: texts there on the Affordable Siding and Windows text line?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, salesman writes in he normally does not care about
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Speaker 3: the Chicago Bears, they are totally irrelevant, but wants to
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Speaker 3: beat them because their fans are absolute morons. Penn State
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Speaker 3: Steven writes in he wants to beat Seattle this year.
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Speaker 3: We're getting a lot of saints on the text line
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Speaker 3: that would probably be outside of like the obvious ones,
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Speaker 3: like what I'd love to beat Lamar Jackson. Sure, when
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Speaker 3: I love to beat Joe Burrow absolutely, Sean Payton.
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Speaker 4: These Saints losses, they they feel different.
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Speaker 2: Because they don't feel like last year.
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Speaker 4: They because we know they were the better football team
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Speaker 4: and we lost both times.
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Speaker 2: When we went through the schedule last year, they didn't
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Speaker 2: feel like when we were going like win loss, win loss,
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Speaker 2: we didn't anticipate them being a problem. And there are
12:52
Speaker 2: teams on here that are so when you lose to
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Speaker 2: the Saints, then you have to make up for that
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Speaker 2: against say Philadelphia or some of these other games. You
12:59
Speaker 2: have to make up for that. If you lose to
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Speaker 2: the Saints, it just causes so many problems. You get
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Speaker 2: those wins so you don't have to make up for
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Speaker 2: because those become not bad losses. But at least last
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Speaker 2: year they were unexpected that we didn't see coming because
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Speaker 2: we thought the Saints were going under last year, and
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Speaker 2: to their credit, they weren't great, but they didn't really
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Speaker 2: they didn't go under. They were still a problem.
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Speaker 3: And how much fuel did we add to the fire
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Speaker 3: by losing both games to them For that dumbass podcast
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Speaker 3: that we were mocking last year that we're talking about
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Speaker 3: how bad we were going to be and how we
13:33
Speaker 3: had one of the worst rosters in football, and then
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Speaker 3: we all made fun of them, we were laughing at them,
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Speaker 3: and then we go out and get swept by them.
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Speaker 3: Like that was the other thing too, was we allowed
13:42
Speaker 3: those four clowns to be able to be right about
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Speaker 3: who they thought.
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Speaker 4: We were going to be.
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Speaker 3: And it really made Mac look back, because Mac took
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Speaker 3: a lot of shots at that podcast. But Lou, if
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Speaker 3: you split like I was, go into a season expecting
13:58
Speaker 3: to split the division games, right, like you win the
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Speaker 3: games at home, you can probably expect to lose the
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Speaker 3: games on the.
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Speaker 2: Rest, especially in the South, when it's really jammed up
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Speaker 2: a lot, but like morely jammed up than you after
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Speaker 2: three days of fast food or or.
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Speaker 4: Four years without a certain kind of exercise that.
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Speaker 2: Was going the other way. But there you go, have
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Speaker 2: at it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you were at the Saints game at home
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Speaker 3: last year where you talked about the environment, the build up,
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Speaker 3: the excitement, and then it was a deflated, dead building
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Speaker 3: by the fourth quarter because the team just didn't show
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Speaker 3: up that day. They had absolutely nothing. It's different when
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Speaker 3: those games happens to the seattles of the world, the
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Speaker 3: elites of the elites. It's different when it happens to
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Speaker 3: a team like New Orleans, who you thought going into
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Speaker 3: last year you were clearly better than on paper.
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Speaker 2: Hot Dog Condiment is a Lions fan here in Charlotte.
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Speaker 2: He's laughing at you, fitty. Now you think the Lions
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Speaker 2: are going to lose to the Panthers. What happened last
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Speaker 2: time the Lions came here? Wasn't it like five degrees outside?
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Speaker 2: And Mac and Willie were in the stands and the
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Speaker 2: Panthers ran for nine thousand yards in that game. I
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Speaker 2: do believe it's not impossible year, hot Dog.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that is that is correct.
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Speaker 2: You're not you're you're You're one of those teams that
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Speaker 2: we don't exactly know who the Lions are this year.
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Speaker 2: Are you great like you were? Or are you coming
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Speaker 2: back to earth like you were a wild We don't
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Speaker 2: know who you are, Detroit.
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Speaker 3: I often question what I did in life to lead
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Speaker 3: me down a path where I'm arguing with the guy
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Speaker 3: on a text line named hot Dog Condiment at seven
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Speaker 3: fifteen in the morning on a on a Thursday in July.
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Speaker 3: He's he has the Panthers winning ten games, but doesn't
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Speaker 3: think Detroit is one of those, and maybe he ends
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Speaker 3: up being he ends up being right. But I just
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Speaker 3: don't get the overconfidence that the Panthers aren't capable of
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Speaker 3: beating the Lions, Like I think they're kind of even
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Speaker 3: though the Panthers made the playoffs last year, they're kind
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Speaker 3: of on the same like, kind of the similar in
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Speaker 3: the same spot right now where the Lions are trying
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Speaker 3: to get back to where they were a few years ago.
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Speaker 3: Best team in the NFC, number one seed. They've got
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Speaker 3: some answers they've got to get, they got to figure
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Speaker 3: out on their roster. I don't think anyone would be
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Speaker 3: surprised if if the Panthers were to win that game
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Speaker 3: at home on Sunday and against against Detroit.
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Speaker 2: I said Chicago, You said Detroit. Are you surprised that
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Speaker 2: not one person has said at Philadelphia yet?
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Speaker 4: It was?
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Speaker 3: It was on there, I guess because I just don't
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Speaker 3: think that one's gonna happen.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there are a lot of fun games, aren't there.
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Speaker 2: Because we haven't even said Baltimore at all yet either.
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Speaker 2: I mean there are so many.
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Speaker 3: But like, what if Baltimore doesn't hit, like you've got
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Speaker 3: a rookie head coach. Yeah, if Lamar isn't healthy, and
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Speaker 3: that's a four or five win football team in mid
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Speaker 3: to late December, like we we would probably be in
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Speaker 3: a position bone where we expect to win the game.
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Speaker 3: I guess from a name perspective, Bryce beating Lamar Jackson
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Speaker 3: would resonate with like the national media. But there's a
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Speaker 3: good chance where Baltimore isn't what we expect them to be.
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Speaker 3: Same thing with Cincinnati.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 3: I think the thing with Cincinnati is if they don't
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Speaker 3: capitalize on that schedule, you know what, what does that
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Speaker 3: look like? That whole thing could get blown up because
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Speaker 3: they got the easiest schedule in the National Football League.
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Speaker 3: But if Joe Burrow's injured, there'd be an expectation for
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Speaker 3: us to beat the Bengals. I was surprised we haven't
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Speaker 3: seen a Pittsburgh. I thought we'd maybe get a Pittsburgh
17:23
Speaker 3: with the whole connection to the Watt.
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Speaker 2: Is it so late in the year that if it
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Speaker 2: was earlier in the season in that Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland,
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Speaker 2: Atlanta range, maybe they would Is it just so far
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Speaker 2: down the line that we don't know exactly what that
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Speaker 2: game may mean overall? But you're right though from a
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Speaker 2: fan base perspective, from a organizational. I don't like that
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Speaker 2: team thing. Pittsburgh's definitely won that. I don't want to
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Speaker 2: lose to them because their fans, they they're yappy appers,
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Speaker 2: and I don't they bothered me a little bit.
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Speaker 3: And Mac was having fantasies back when we went through
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Speaker 3: the schedule when you know you you know took I'm
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Speaker 3: all during schedule release week about like that game being
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Speaker 3: so late in the year where maybe a Panther win
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Speaker 3: on the road knocks Aaron Rodgers out of the playoffs,
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Speaker 3: knocks Michael McCarthy out of the playoffs, and they're in
18:12
Speaker 3: their reunion, which is going to be a fun storyline
18:14
Speaker 3: to monitor this year for Pittsburgh. So without late that
18:20
Speaker 3: game is maybe it's too late for fans to want
18:22
Speaker 3: to guarantee that win. But I do wonder if you
18:25
Speaker 3: can have a perfect world where Pittsburgh's having to win
18:28
Speaker 3: out to make the postseason, If the scrappy underdog Carolina
18:32
Speaker 3: Panthers travel to Pittsburgh and that game could be a
18:35
Speaker 3: Saturday night game when they knock Rodgers out of the playoffs,
18:38
Speaker 3: that'd be sweet revenge against the franchise that has owned
18:40
Speaker 3: the Panthers since the Panthers joined the National Football League.
18:43
Speaker 2: Georgia Ken wants to be Florida, South Carolina and Texas Ken.
18:48
Speaker 2: Back to the beginning of this topic, I said one Ken,
18:51
Speaker 2: I said one win. Ken's the one guy that picked
18:55
Speaker 2: three Ken. You are now banned from future. I guaranteed
18:58
Speaker 2: win topics. When we came back here on the Mac
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Speaker 2: and Bone Show, one place that the Panthers are going
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Speaker 2: to this year is lambeau Field, and it got me
19:08
Speaker 2: thinking about sports venues, bucketless, places you want to go
19:13
Speaker 2: or you've been that you loved and some that disappointed. Also,
19:17
Speaker 2: it's a sports venues discussion. Next on Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 2: two seven WFNZ, Welcome back in seven o'clock ers, Mac
19:43
Speaker 2: and Bone. Well, no not Mac, it is the Mac
19:45
Speaker 2: and Bone Shoe, Fiddy and Bone taking up to ten
19:48
Speaker 2: o'clock until Colin takes over with Charlotte Sports Today. Fiddy.
19:53
Speaker 2: I was having a discussion this weekend while I was
19:57
Speaker 2: in the golf cart parade at a neighborhood at High
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Speaker 2: Rock Lake in Lexington, North Carolina, as the grand Marshall
20:05
Speaker 2: of the golf cart parade. You may have questions about
20:08
Speaker 2: where I was and why I was there, But don't
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Speaker 2: question my social life and my star lik ability to
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Speaker 2: the people of High Rock Lake, all right. I just
20:18
Speaker 2: I was in a golf card they parade around the neighborhood.
20:20
Speaker 2: I was a grand marshall, throwing out things and candy
20:23
Speaker 2: to children and beads to the neighbors, like I'm a
20:27
Speaker 2: big deal in the villages of Lexington, North Carolina.
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Speaker 3: Did you give the command to start the golf cart engines?
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Speaker 2: No, I asked, But apparently I was the fourth and line,
20:39
Speaker 2: so I didn't get a chance to do that. Though. Yeah,
20:41
Speaker 2: it was quite a time. But when I was out there,
20:44
Speaker 2: I met a woman named Packer Ann, who's a diehard
20:47
Speaker 2: Packer fan, and we started talking about lambeau Field, and
20:50
Speaker 2: I said, that's on my bucket list, and she was
20:53
Speaker 2: explaining how great it is. We know it's in a neighborhood,
20:56
Speaker 2: but the people there apparently are great as well. And
20:58
Speaker 2: I started thinking about bucket list places that I haven't
21:02
Speaker 2: been before, and I think lambeau is near the top
21:06
Speaker 2: of my list as something just to experience, whether it's
21:10
Speaker 2: you know, maybe not the coldest of days, but just
21:13
Speaker 2: what it looks like. It's in a neighborhood and the people.
21:16
Speaker 2: Lambo's always been near the top of my list, as
21:20
Speaker 2: well as Wrigly Field for some of the similar stuff
21:23
Speaker 2: there in the environment that you hear about, So Wriggly
21:27
Speaker 2: and Lambeau and I think Notre Dame Stadium also just
21:30
Speaker 2: to see it in person is up there on my list.
21:33
Speaker 2: So we're gonna do a topic here seven oh four, five,
21:36
Speaker 2: seven oh nine, six tenths of places that you want
21:39
Speaker 2: to experience. Also, what have you experienced that lived up
21:44
Speaker 2: to the hype and what do you think a place
21:46
Speaker 2: you've been that maybe wasn't as great as you thought.
21:50
Speaker 2: So it's a full encompassing sports venue topic. Where do
21:53
Speaker 2: you want to go? Where have you been? Fitty? What's
21:56
Speaker 2: on your list of places that you most want to go?
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Speaker 3: I have a big board. I can almost go sport
22:01
Speaker 3: by sport of all the different venues, bringing on big
22:04
Speaker 3: Boy that I'd love to start traveling. To give me
22:08
Speaker 3: one second, as I blocked the phone line here, someone's
22:11
Speaker 3: calling us. Yeah, there was someone trying to get through,
22:14
Speaker 3: but now they have been denied.
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Speaker 2: Is that DVR Dave?
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Speaker 4: Oh they're still getting through. Hang on boats for a second.
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Speaker 2: No, So yeah, those are the places on my list Lambeau, Wrigley,
22:26
Speaker 2: and in Notre Dame Steam Not that I'm a fan
22:29
Speaker 2: of well I get accused of being a Notre Dame fan,
22:32
Speaker 2: but not that I'm a fan of the Cubs or
22:34
Speaker 2: the Packers. And it's not about the fandom for that,
22:37
Speaker 2: it's just about, uh, the experience as a sports fan.
22:41
Speaker 2: So uh, those are some places I want to see. Yeah,
22:46
Speaker 2: those are my places. What we're you gonna say, Fitty Bright,
22:48
Speaker 2: we got interrupted?
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Speaker 4: He I got the phone line taken care of.
22:51
Speaker 2: What if that was a female though, saying, you know,
22:54
Speaker 2: confirming a date or something there.
22:55
Speaker 3: Well, if that's the case, they can reach me on
22:58
Speaker 3: many either dating apps which I I reconnected one last night,
23:03
Speaker 3: or maybe just on social media.
23:06
Speaker 2: What if that was the mayor of High Rock Lake
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Speaker 2: looking for me.
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Speaker 4: I don't think that was it.
23:10
Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead.
23:14
Speaker 3: So for football, I think Lambeau is definitely the easiest.
23:19
Speaker 3: I think Soldier Field would maybe be higher now because
23:22
Speaker 3: we know that the Bears, the Bears are set are
23:26
Speaker 3: set to leave there. They're gonna go play football in
23:29
Speaker 3: in Indiana. From from a college football perspective, Notre Dame
23:33
Speaker 3: stadiums up on that list. I'd love to go to
23:36
Speaker 3: the Big House. I'd love to go to LSU's version
23:39
Speaker 3: of Death Valley. I've been the Clemson's version. Clemson's is
23:42
Speaker 3: off the charts. Those are places that stand down. I'm
23:46
Speaker 3: going to North Wolksborough next Sunday night for the race,
23:50
Speaker 3: and I'm really excited about that because I can.
23:53
Speaker 4: I grew up hearing stores from my dad about North
23:55
Speaker 4: wolks Borough.
23:56
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get to experience that with NASCAR historian Evans
24:00
Speaker 3: loved One's going to be a lot of fun. The
24:03
Speaker 3: Baseball Havens Wrigley Ben Wigh Dog.
24:07
Speaker 2: Stadium, then to fend Way numerous times. Let me tell you,
24:10
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't. I don't really, I've seen it,
24:13
Speaker 2: I've experienced it. I just I get to I'm a
24:16
Speaker 2: Yankee fan. I don't. I don't need to. I don't
24:18
Speaker 2: need to be there. Yeah, there's just something very It's
24:21
Speaker 2: cool though, like all phantom aside, like it's something you
24:25
Speaker 2: need to experience because it's one of those like we
24:27
Speaker 2: talked about, you have to see the Green Monster, and
24:30
Speaker 2: probably you have to see it in person. You've seen
24:33
Speaker 2: it so many times, so no, I understand it, But
24:35
Speaker 2: me personally, I just I can't. I can't. I just
24:39
Speaker 2: can't go back there again.
24:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, college basketball is one that is really high up
24:43
Speaker 3: on my list.
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Speaker 4: Obviously.
24:44
Speaker 3: I've been to the Dean Dome numerous numerous times, Allen
24:49
Speaker 3: Field House, the Polestra Hinkle.
24:56
Speaker 2: There's another one that's not far from here that you
24:59
Speaker 2: could in a like a gentleman walk in.
25:02
Speaker 3: And I'd love to experience Cameron, But I don't think
25:07
Speaker 3: i'd want to go to Cameron for a Duke Carolina game.
25:10
Speaker 2: What are you gonna go a volleyball match?
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Speaker 5: Oh?
25:12
Speaker 2: Are you talking about just Duke playing somebody else?
25:14
Speaker 3: Yes, Like, I think I'd like to just go as
25:17
Speaker 3: a credentialed member of the media because I can't. I
25:21
Speaker 3: would never want to give Duke my money to go
25:23
Speaker 3: pay to watch them play. But just try to take
25:27
Speaker 3: it in from that from that perspective of cause, like
25:31
Speaker 3: with you with the with finway, you're you're a diehard
25:33
Speaker 3: Yankee fan, it probably made you feel different about your experience.
25:37
Speaker 2: You're in awe of what you've seen on TV a
25:39
Speaker 2: million times that you're there and you're seeing the surroundings
25:43
Speaker 2: that you can't always see fully on TV Joey from
25:46
Speaker 2: Denver says he went to Lambeau last year lived up
25:49
Speaker 2: to the hype both the people uh and uh and
25:53
Speaker 2: the environment. So that's a that's a good thing there,
25:56
Speaker 2: uh hearing about green Bay. We're getting a lot of
25:59
Speaker 2: Augusta getting a lot of Augusta National. Now that's not
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Speaker 2: on my list because I don't know the whole the
26:06
Speaker 2: whole band cell phone thing throws me off a little bit.
26:08
Speaker 2: I know, that's a ridiculous reason not to want to go.
26:10
Speaker 2: I would want to go see it maybe once, but
26:13
Speaker 2: I don't know if I would. I don't know if
26:16
Speaker 2: I would. I don't know how much I would like
26:18
Speaker 2: Augusta honestly, really yeah, I'm just not sure. I don't know.
26:22
Speaker 2: Maybe I would. I thought maybe it's a lot of
26:25
Speaker 2: it's a lot of walk in stuff.
26:26
Speaker 4: I thought maybe it was.
26:27
Speaker 3: A running allowed on the on the on the course
26:29
Speaker 3: when it was something that was going to hold you back.
26:32
Speaker 4: Augusta National is very very high up on the list.
26:35
Speaker 2: Would I either go to Daytona or Augusta, Yeah, one choice.
26:43
Speaker 2: I would rather go to Daytona five hundred than Augusta.
26:46
Speaker 3: I think, I think, I lean, I think I leaned
26:50
Speaker 3: Daytona now. But if you told me I had a
26:54
Speaker 3: chance to be at Augusta National on a Sunday with
26:59
Speaker 3: Tiger Woods.
27:00
Speaker 4: Leading and being.
27:02
Speaker 3: Able to be there to watch that, I don't know
27:05
Speaker 3: if I'd be able to turn down like Tiger Woods
27:08
Speaker 3: at his heights at that golf course. I love the
27:11
Speaker 3: whole no phones thing there because you're there to experience
27:16
Speaker 3: the golf. You're there to like that's the thing. You
27:20
Speaker 3: shouldn't need your phone. You shouldn't need to be on
27:23
Speaker 3: Twitter or Facebook or ordering door dash like. You're there
27:27
Speaker 3: to just experience what makes Augusta Augusta. And there's a
27:35
Speaker 3: lot of conversation coming out about the way that the
27:38
Speaker 3: fans behaved up at Shinnacock. You could sell me on
27:44
Speaker 3: sporting events being better in person if cell phones weren't allowed.
27:49
Speaker 3: I don't know how you regulate that. I don't know
27:51
Speaker 3: how Augusta quite does it. But if you're telling me
27:55
Speaker 3: that the fans had to go in there and didn't
27:57
Speaker 3: have access to their phones, I think you'd see better
28:00
Speaker 3: sporting environments. It's emming better, uh, because you're there for
28:04
Speaker 3: the sport. You shouldn't need that distraction of your cell phone.
28:07
Speaker 3: I look forward to the rare moments in my life
28:10
Speaker 3: when I can put the phone.
28:11
Speaker 2: Away at oh three number on the affordable side of
28:13
Speaker 2: the windows. Text line stays, he's been to Augusta and
28:16
Speaker 2: it wasn't really all that great. So that's one experience
28:20
Speaker 2: and that that's what we're looking for there. We're throwing
28:22
Speaker 2: out some venues that we want to go to and
28:24
Speaker 2: people are responding if they've been there. So we've got
28:27
Speaker 2: a back and forth here, Carolina Reaper, how about the
28:31
Speaker 2: Indy five hundred weekend?
28:34
Speaker 3: No, it's it's the only thing that would suck about
28:38
Speaker 3: attending the Indy five hundred is I don't know if
28:42
Speaker 3: I could do the double and make it back to
28:43
Speaker 3: Charlotte to watch the Coca Cola six hundred.
28:47
Speaker 2: They're not going to put you in a chopper and
28:48
Speaker 2: bring you back, are they.
28:49
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
28:50
Speaker 3: If someone's willing to do it and fly me to Indy,
28:53
Speaker 3: fly me back to Charlotte, and I promise I won't
28:55
Speaker 3: puke on myself in the middle of the grand stands.
28:58
Speaker 3: But that is something there that I'm not a big
29:02
Speaker 3: IndyCar fan like. I only tell you the only day
29:04
Speaker 3: I'll watch IndyCar racing is literally the day of the
29:06
Speaker 3: Indy five hundred. But I don't get goosebumps watching NASCAR
29:11
Speaker 3: racing there. Like I think the Brickyard, I don't consider
29:14
Speaker 3: it a crown jewel race. I don't think I don't
29:16
Speaker 3: think NASCAR should even race there. There's something special about
29:19
Speaker 3: that track and with the Indy Car and what people
29:23
Speaker 3: have told me they have experienced it. Like I think
29:25
Speaker 3: Willie's Been is as big as you think it is.
29:29
Speaker 3: It's even like it's even more massive in person. So
29:32
Speaker 3: I'd really like to go and be a part, to
29:34
Speaker 3: be a part to experience that.
29:36
Speaker 2: Any interest in you may shoot this one down right away,
29:40
Speaker 2: but any interest in, as a Texter points out the
29:44
Speaker 2: Kentucky Derby Churchill Downs, absolutely that's that's up there.
29:48
Speaker 5: For me.
29:48
Speaker 2: Now that might be a little bit. I may have
29:51
Speaker 2: to try to find a nice suit and a hat
29:53
Speaker 2: to wear. Or is that the ladies that wear the hats?
29:55
Speaker 3: I think the ladies were the hats, But you could
29:58
Speaker 3: you could sell me on getting up.
30:01
Speaker 2: The spectacle of that I need. I kind of want
30:04
Speaker 2: to see what that's.
30:04
Speaker 4: It's the best two minutes in sports.
30:08
Speaker 2: Like besides Rick Patino's dates.
30:13
Speaker 3: Like as a kid, I always thought it was over
30:17
Speaker 3: like overblown. And the coverage where they come on the
30:20
Speaker 3: year at one thirty for a seventh you know, for
30:22
Speaker 3: a seven to fifteen race, that last two minutes might
30:25
Speaker 3: be a little much in the Year of Our Lord
30:27
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six. But you want me to dress up,
30:30
Speaker 3: drink some brown liquor all day and bet on some horses.
30:34
Speaker 4: Oh, you could sell me on that being a fun time.
30:36
Speaker 2: No, that's up there. No, that is maybe not maybe,
30:40
Speaker 2: maybe not more than once. I think that's one that
30:42
Speaker 2: I just want to experience, maybe one time and not
30:46
Speaker 2: over and over again. There. I just saw one come
30:49
Speaker 2: up here on the text line where oh tennis fans
30:52
Speaker 2: are mad at Fitty, would Wimbledon or Flushing for the
30:58
Speaker 2: US Open not be on your list?
31:00
Speaker 3: Wimbledon is very I have a fear of flying over water.
31:07
Speaker 3: If I were able to conquer that fear, like it's
31:11
Speaker 3: something I've talked to my mom all about, like if
31:14
Speaker 3: she would be serious with us committing like a savings
31:17
Speaker 3: fund and us going for two weeks to go to
31:20
Speaker 3: go to the All England Club and experience a tournament, Like, yes,
31:25
Speaker 3: it's I value Wimbledon. It's my it's my favorite major.
31:31
Speaker 3: Like I know, the US Open is our major, and
31:33
Speaker 3: I do enjoy watching the US Open there in Queens.
31:37
Speaker 3: But I get into the history, the tradition, the simplicity
31:42
Speaker 3: of what the championships have to offer.
31:45
Speaker 2: So people are saying Open championship venues like Saint Andrews.
31:48
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't. I don't really, I don't know
31:50
Speaker 2: if that, I don't know. If I don't know that,
31:52
Speaker 2: to me, you have.
31:53
Speaker 4: No interest going to the birthplace of golf.
31:56
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
31:59
Speaker 4: There I do.
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Speaker 3: I do want to go there and walk across that bridge.
32:02
Speaker 3: One of my favorite photos is I think it was
32:04
Speaker 3: the two thousand and nine Open at Saint Andrews when
32:07
Speaker 3: Tom Watson, you know it was, you know, stopped on
32:10
Speaker 3: eighteen took that picture.
32:13
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know. There aren't many other courses overseas.
32:19
Speaker 3: I don't want to go see if I if I
32:21
Speaker 3: could go see Saint Andrews, I don't even want to
32:24
Speaker 3: play it.
32:25
Speaker 4: I'm not. I'd be a disgrace to walk to to
32:28
Speaker 4: play it.
32:28
Speaker 2: Oh with pull gonna wear jeans out there Saint Andrews.
32:32
Speaker 2: But he's gonna wear jeans. Shut up? Uh? Any interest
32:37
Speaker 2: in running with the bulls like our guy Dominate says
32:39
Speaker 2: on that, I gotta tell you, I have no interest
32:43
Speaker 2: in getting Gordon the rumpets by a bull. Are you
32:45
Speaker 2: talking about watching it or being in it?
32:47
Speaker 4: Yeah?
32:48
Speaker 2: Can you spectate that? Or are you just? Are you free?
32:50
Speaker 2: Do you walk up there in the book? Is there
32:52
Speaker 2: a safe seating place?
32:54
Speaker 4: No interest whatsoever?
32:56
Speaker 2: I don't quite understand what what the point of that is.
32:59
Speaker 2: Like the rodeo, I saw Robert Barone get gored by
33:02
Speaker 2: a bull, and everybody loves Raymond and I've got no
33:04
Speaker 2: interest in this.
33:05
Speaker 4: I want to go to a rodeo and experience a rodeo.
33:10
Speaker 3: But the running with the bulls, it's not on the
33:14
Speaker 3: same level of idiot of stupidness as people that watch
33:18
Speaker 3: people eat hot dogs. But I just could not imagine
33:22
Speaker 3: going overseas to watch people run with animals. Doesn't doesn't
33:27
Speaker 3: do anything for me outside the time Wrex Ryan did it,
33:31
Speaker 3: that was that was very impressive to see that large
33:34
Speaker 3: mass of a human move as swiftly as he did.
33:37
Speaker 2: Army Navy getting some again some votes here. Certainly that
33:40
Speaker 2: would be a very cool thing to experience in person
33:43
Speaker 2: at school when uh Kyle goes up there every year
33:46
Speaker 2: and they do the shows up there, So that definitely
33:48
Speaker 2: would be uh to one to watch. How about Rev
33:52
Speaker 2: Rodd a couple of summers ago, he and his son
33:55
Speaker 2: went and saw the gym and were on the court
33:58
Speaker 2: where Hoosiers was filmed. You can shoot hoops and go
34:00
Speaker 2: down in the locker room. That's a pretty cool experience there.
34:04
Speaker 2: That that's one where Yeah, sign me up for that.
34:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm kind of jelly of that, to be honest.
34:09
Speaker 2: That's a cool one. I like that one.
34:11
Speaker 4: So yeah, I wish I wish I had a son
34:16
Speaker 4: to make memories like that with.
34:17
Speaker 2: This person wants to see Joey Chestnut eat his wieners
34:20
Speaker 2: in person. So I don't know if they just wanted
34:22
Speaker 2: me to say the word wieners or if that's really one,
34:24
Speaker 2: but it's right there on the text line, Fitty, we're
34:27
Speaker 2: gonna do an update here. You got something going on,
34:29
Speaker 2: we are, let's do it.
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35:28
Speaker 3: really quickly into the actual baseball results last night bone
35:32
Speaker 3: you mentioned it in the first segment. The Braves were
35:35
Speaker 3: three three nothing winners over the Pirates. After the Pirates
35:40
Speaker 3: had a perfect game through the first six innings. The
35:44
Speaker 3: two teams chasing them, the Marlin stay hot. They beat
35:47
Speaker 3: the Mariners last night to nothing. The Phillies lost last
35:50
Speaker 3: night to the Reds eleven to five, and the New
35:54
Speaker 3: York Mets last place in the National League East. They
35:58
Speaker 3: beat the Kansas City Royal six to two, and your
36:02
Speaker 3: Yankees lost last night to the Tampa Bay Rays three
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Speaker 3: to nothing. Did they strike out seventeen times for a
36:09
Speaker 3: third straight game.
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Speaker 2: No, I was monitoring that. I think it was like,
36:13
Speaker 2: I have to go with good. The number was it
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Speaker 2: ten or eleven? It's not, well, it's not I think
36:18
Speaker 2: the Yankees need to have Aaron Boone manage in April
36:21
Speaker 2: and May and then come back in August and let
36:23
Speaker 2: someone else manage in June and July, cause I need
36:27
Speaker 2: to go look up his record in those two months
36:30
Speaker 2: since he's been here. Every year it's a complete disaster.
36:33
Speaker 2: And I don't know why. Every year they start out well,
36:36
Speaker 2: they get to June or July, and sometimes they coincide
36:39
Speaker 2: with Aaron Judge getting hurt, to be honest, but every
36:41
Speaker 2: single year, Aaron Boone completely falls apart in June July
36:45
Speaker 2: every year. So he needs to go on vacation and
36:47
Speaker 2: come back and finish the season. I think he's a
36:49
Speaker 2: good manager to start the year. End of the year,
36:51
Speaker 2: he has his moments where he's okay, but it's June
36:53
Speaker 2: and July where it's just absolute be down your life situation.
36:58
Speaker 3: Need to check the accuracy of this, But Michael Kay
37:01
Speaker 3: claims he has a better winning percentage in June as
37:04
Speaker 3: the Yankee manager than he does in September. Really that's
37:08
Speaker 3: been one of his defenses. Well, I listened to his radio.
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Speaker 2: She must have had some good guy. He must have
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Speaker 2: had some good Junes early on, because the last few,
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Speaker 2: it's the June July swoon is unreal and it never ends. Yes, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's it's never ending. There, there's fitty with the that
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Speaker 2: we come back. The captain of Charlotte FC, Ashley Westwood,
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Speaker 2: tries to explain to us maybe what happened to the
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Speaker 2: US in the World Cup any upsets along the way
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Speaker 2: in the in the the Elite eight. We don't call
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Speaker 2: it the elite eight soccer do we? What do we
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Speaker 2: call it there? Soccer man?
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Speaker 4: Quarterfinal?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, quarterfinals? Then he upsets there the captain himself, Actually
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Speaker 2: west would have of FC. Next Sports Radio ninety two seven
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Speaker 2: w FNZ Welcome back in Mac and Bone Show, another
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Speaker 2: mackless addition of the radio program. But just because we
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Speaker 2: don't have macall week he's on his cruise doesn't mean
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Speaker 2: we don't need a captain to lead us, and not
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Speaker 2: only a captain, but an all star at that, and
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Speaker 2: that is Ashley Westwood. Offc Ashley, congratulations man, I'm being
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Speaker 2: named an MLS All Star yesterday.
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Speaker 5: Thank you very much mate, Good morning, good.
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Speaker 2: Morning, good morning to you. How much does that mean
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Speaker 2: to not only be an All Star, but the fact
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Speaker 2: that it's going to be here in front of your
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Speaker 2: home fans.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, it's different for an Englishman for the Ald Star,
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Speaker 5: but it's a privilege and the fact that it's in
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Speaker 5: Charlotte just makes it even better. I mean, hopefully the time,
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Speaker 5: hopefully the fans can turn out for it and it
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Speaker 5: should be a good night. It should be a good night.
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Speaker 2: We're looking forward to that coming up here in a
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Speaker 2: couple of weeks. What we did not like was the
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Speaker 2: US performance against Belgium on Monday. How surprised were you
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Speaker 2: by the result and where do you think it went
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Speaker 2: most wrong for the US and really getting dominated by Belgium.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, they take nothing away from Belgium. They're a
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Speaker 5: good side. They're a real good side on the top side.
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Speaker 5: But I think the way obviously, the way the first
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Speaker 5: few games went, it's it was disappointing. I thought the
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Speaker 5: Yeah it was, it was hard to watch. Uh yeah,
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Speaker 5: it was. To go out like that was It's disappointing.
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Speaker 5: But I think they've what the lads have done, they've
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Speaker 5: shown everyone what soccer can bring to the to the US.
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Speaker 5: So I still think they've done an.
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Speaker 2: Incredible job tactically. What do you think Belgium did to
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Speaker 2: sort of throw the US off their game, especially early
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Speaker 2: when you could kind of tell right away, oh this
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Speaker 2: this might not be going well for the US side.
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Speaker 5: I think it's the first time someone's come out and
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Speaker 5: gone heads ahead with the U. I mean, the first
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Speaker 5: few games were listen, they were, they were, they were,
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Speaker 5: they were the better team. So they've come up against
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Speaker 5: a nation that's probably on paper better than him, and
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Speaker 5: I think that's what there's the team come out and
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Speaker 5: pressed them and listen, belgiuma belgiuma top team, So it's
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Speaker 5: they shouldn't be too down on themselves, but it's it
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Speaker 5: was disappointed about with the four one loss, that's for sure.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure as you've seen, Christian Polistic is getting a
40:26
Speaker 2: ton of heat came out of the game, but not
40:29
Speaker 2: only from fans, but Landon Donovan just uhuh tore him
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Speaker 2: apart yesterday. Carly Woite on TV and on social media
40:37
Speaker 2: has gone after him. How do you look at that
40:40
Speaker 2: situation with Pelissa? Do you think that it just comes
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Speaker 2: with the territory is it Is it too harsh? What
40:46
Speaker 2: do you make of all that's gone on surrounding the
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Speaker 2: US's best player.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and listen, this is if you're if you're the
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Speaker 5: main guy for for your team, you sort of expected.
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Speaker 5: I do think it's a bit harsh. Listen. He can't
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Speaker 5: he can't change the result of the whole of the
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Speaker 5: whole team. But I know, I know London. I've met London,
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Speaker 5: and I think if if he was getting the same
41:12
Speaker 5: same stick, he wouldn't like Listen, it's it's hard for
41:15
Speaker 5: it's hard for these ex players to come out and
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Speaker 5: and it's it's it's hard. It's I feel for Stick,
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Speaker 5: he's he's a top player. But and then but this
41:27
Speaker 5: is this is what happens when you're when you're the
41:29
Speaker 5: main boy, you you you you expect the criticism. But
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Speaker 5: it's not just down to him.
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Speaker 2: We're talking to Charlotte FC captain Ashley Westwood here on
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Speaker 2: the MAC and bone Joe FC gets going again. I
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Speaker 2: know you guys are training a couple of weeks from now,
41:44
Speaker 2: less than two weeks in the season restart. As far
41:48
Speaker 2: as I want to ask you about your perspective not
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Speaker 2: being from here about the US soccer as a whole,
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Speaker 2: do you do you think there's a ceiling really in
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Speaker 2: in how or they can always go or do you
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Speaker 2: think they can eventually break through? And how do they
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Speaker 2: get to that next level of not just getting to
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Speaker 2: the knockout stage but going on consistently cup in cup out. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I mean, listen, my boys, My boys grew up here
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Speaker 5: in the I would class when I was American and
42:19
Speaker 5: he grew up in the in the in the soccer system,
42:22
Speaker 5: I think there's a there's a lot that needs to change.
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Speaker 5: It needs to be more accessible. That is my biggest
42:28
Speaker 5: That is my biggest problem here how expensive soccer is,
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Speaker 5: whereas in England it's or the rest of Europe. It's
42:33
Speaker 5: so it's so cheap for anyone to play, so that
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Speaker 5: I think, but I think it comes from the top.
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Speaker 5: I think the US soccer should look down. I know
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Speaker 5: there's been a lot of talk about it, but people
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Speaker 5: need to start taking actions now because it's listen to
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Speaker 5: what the US has done in the World Cup has
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Speaker 5: shown that it can. It can rather the rest of
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Speaker 5: the world, but it needs to be more accessible for
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Speaker 5: young kids and parents, and that that's the only way,
42:58
Speaker 5: it's going to get bigger and you're going to get
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Speaker 5: better players.
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Speaker 2: Maybe having the World Cup here this year will maybe
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Speaker 2: open up some doors that weren't open before, because certainly
43:08
Speaker 2: this has been an all time event. It feels like
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Speaker 2: every day there's a great game that surpasses what we
43:14
Speaker 2: thought was the game with the tournament previously. One of
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Speaker 2: those games that we just couldn't stop talking about was
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Speaker 2: England Mexico last weekend. How impressed were you with with
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Speaker 2: the resolve of the England side to have to go
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Speaker 2: in that environment down a man and come away with
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Speaker 2: a win against that team and that heated environment. That's
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Speaker 2: got to be one of the more oppressive results that
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Speaker 2: we've seen so far, right in this whole thing.
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Speaker 5: I was worried, mate, I was, I was, I was
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Speaker 5: really worried.
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Speaker 2: I was really worried.
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Speaker 5: I was going to the Azteca at the altitude that
43:48
Speaker 5: there's a lot, there's a lot said about it, but
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Speaker 5: the way the way the lads performed, and I think
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Speaker 5: for me the whole time I've watched England, that was
43:57
Speaker 5: probably the best performance I've ever seen in an England team.
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Speaker 5: It was the way we went, we went head to
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Speaker 5: head with them, we matched them and then like you said,
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Speaker 5: we went down to went down to ten men. The
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Speaker 5: way they the way they fought for the the way
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Speaker 5: they fought for the win. It was honestly, that's probably
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Speaker 5: the biggest performance I've seen in England an England team
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Speaker 5: put on in years. And we talk about the Golden Generation.
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Speaker 5: I think this this performance was by father. It could
44:25
Speaker 5: be the catalyst of us winning the World Cup. That's
44:27
Speaker 5: that's that's how big it was.
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Speaker 2: In this next round, it's England and Norway this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Do you do you see any upsets here in this
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Speaker 2: round coming up?
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Speaker 5: You've got the big one up top, the big cowboy
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Speaker 5: up I'm so jealous of him, the way he's wearing
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Speaker 5: his hat and his cowboy boots.
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Speaker 2: Very American man. That's you. That's your that's your day.
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Speaker 5: And I'm glad people, I'm glad the rest of the
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Speaker 5: world have seen it.
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Speaker 1: That's that's how.
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Speaker 5: I That's how I feel when I've when I moved here.
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Speaker 5: But no, it's for him to for him to for
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Speaker 5: him to here and show the rest of the world
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Speaker 5: how good it is. But I think it's different in Miami.
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Speaker 5: I must admiss for me as in the MLS. I
45:08
Speaker 5: think that's the hardest place to play with the humidity
45:11
Speaker 5: that it just aptual legs. So luckily we're playing another
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Speaker 5: team from Europe, so it should giving them the advantage
45:17
Speaker 5: we have on paper we have better we have better players.
45:20
Speaker 5: But listen, you've when you've got when you've got a
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Speaker 5: goal scorer like him, up when you never know.
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Speaker 2: I know you were traveling yesterday and you're busy, uh training,
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Speaker 2: getting ready for your season. Got named an All Star yesterday?
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Speaker 2: Did you see our guy, the voice of the Voice
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Speaker 2: of sc Willie p and the Goaliewards competition.
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Speaker 5: Yesterday, So it flashed up on my Yeah, this slash
45:42
Speaker 5: up he got beat and he got beat?
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Speaker 2: Fitty What was the final record for will he beat?
45:47
Speaker 2: He beat? Uh? Danielle Stein from NBC start he was?
45:52
Speaker 2: Was he one, one and two?
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Speaker 4: I think that's correct.
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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, cav We thought he may not
45:56
Speaker 2: win any of them, so we were right.
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Speaker 5: He surprised me as well.
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Speaker 2: He surprised me, but describe him as as agile, but
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Speaker 2: I think he was a presence in the net. He
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Speaker 2: did his.
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Speaker 5: Thingten He's tall, he's a big lad, so I'm I'm
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Speaker 5: Willie pe I'm his biggest critics, so he should have
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Speaker 5: gone further.
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Speaker 2: No, he's got you have to get in line of
46:19
Speaker 2: his critics there. Actually, there are certainly plenty of those.
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Speaker 2: We're not a critic of yours. We appreciate you always
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Speaker 2: coming on uh Wednesdays with Westy as a staple now
46:29
Speaker 2: on the program. Can't wait to watch you get back
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Speaker 2: on the pitch and we'd have ce the victory. Thanks
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Speaker 2: so much for joining.
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Speaker 5: Us, man, Thank you, man. And I hope everyone's supporting them.
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Speaker 5: I hope everyone's supporting him.
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Speaker 2: We'll take a poll here and see what's going on
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Speaker 2: with that. Thank you. One of the true gentlemen of
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Speaker 2: the Charlottesspoorts scene. Actually, Westwood, dare I say, just just delightful,
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Speaker 2: just a delightful man. Fit He.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, he's also he's.
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Speaker 2: One of Willie's bigs, his critics, and that's gotta that's
47:02
Speaker 2: gotta be. There's gotta be a line to those, right, Yeah,
47:07
Speaker 2: because you're on that list, aren't you.
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Speaker 4: I'm the leader of the list, and I don't even
47:11
Speaker 4: recruit Ashley.
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Speaker 3: Like a lot of times, I'm like trying to recruit
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Speaker 3: people to get in on the on the bash, Willie Shenanigans.
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Speaker 4: Westy just does it. I'm prompted.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that'sought. Willy did fair the The videos are
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Speaker 2: up at on the w FNZ twitter feed and social
47:29
Speaker 2: media feeds. Uh, Willie and Goalie wards. Yesterday in the
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Speaker 2: media competition, Uh, he took on Mike Slarte to a draw.
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Speaker 2: Ashley Mahoney, Uh, I believe was a draw, right. He
47:43
Speaker 2: lost to Jorge Gonzalez top Ben ninety who's on our
47:47
Speaker 2: show Offense, and then he beat Danielle Stein. So he
47:50
Speaker 2: actually apparently from all those in attendance, Uh, they were,
47:55
Speaker 2: they were. They're calling him the Hawk. That's his going name,
47:58
Speaker 2: to Hawk. So it's prettyppressed.
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Speaker 3: I send him a text message yesterday morning wishing him
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Speaker 3: good luck by saying don't embarrass us today, and he
48:06
Speaker 3: was like, don't worry, I will. I don't think he
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Speaker 3: embarrassed himself. And by that I am very disappointed.
48:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm upset because you know, you send Willy out
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Speaker 2: there in public, you're expecting memes. Quite frankly, you're expecting.
48:20
Speaker 2: It's just why I thought disaster, and then I thought
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Speaker 2: it was the better choice. I really do for him
48:25
Speaker 2: to go out there and perform well. It's it's disappointing.
48:27
Speaker 2: It's sad really that we can't count on Willie to
48:32
Speaker 2: send us memes in various things.
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Speaker 3: For someone that always wants to be the topic of
48:36
Speaker 3: conversation and wants to, you know, be on the front
48:41
Speaker 3: of everyone's mind, the best way to do that would
48:43
Speaker 3: have been to mess up, have a Mac like moment
48:46
Speaker 3: at the schools, at the school bus race, or maybe
48:49
Speaker 3: even when KB had a bad bus. But he held
48:52
Speaker 3: his own out there, which is why we should have
48:54
Speaker 3: put Walker in goal, because Walker would have embarrassed himself
48:57
Speaker 3: and would have given us better content.
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Speaker 2: Fiddy. When we come back, we're going to talk some
49:02
Speaker 2: college football, multiple things going on here. I'm going to
49:05
Speaker 2: ask a question as it pertains to where the national
49:09
Speaker 2: champion might come from the Big Ten, the SEC or
49:15
Speaker 2: is this a year where other might be the best option,
49:18
Speaker 2: believe it or not. And on three ranks the ACC coaches,
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49:26
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