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Mac & Bone Hour 4: Willie P & Danielle Stein · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Allow me to reintroduce myself.
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  Speaker 2: My name is... I'm Will Pelagic.
• 0:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, jeez.
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  Speaker 4: We're having fun off the air, too. Slightly different discussion,
• 0:21
  Speaker 4: but having fun off the air. We're going to have
• 0:23
  Speaker 4: fun on the air right now. The P-Man is in
• 0:26
  Speaker 4: the house. He is in the building, literally.
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  Speaker 3: In the building.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to fill in again for Colin. Are you
• 0:31
  Speaker 4: doing Charlotte sports today, every day, the rest of the week?
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  Speaker 2: Just tomorrow. I think he's back Friday. Okay, so today
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  Speaker 2: and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: All right, sweet, man. That is cool. I tried to compliment.
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: Did you hear when I tried to compliment you earlier?
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  Speaker 2: Which time?
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  Speaker 3: And it backfired. I was saying, basically, we're stalling because
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: Westy was late. His alarm clock had a problem with
• 0:50
  Speaker 3: his alarm clock in Columbus.
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  Speaker 2: You know what that means? Westy's going to score tonight
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  Speaker 2: because he was late for y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Got a little extra rest. I like that.
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  Speaker 4: But I brought up your comment. You said people say,
• 0:59
  Speaker 4: And those boys are giving you a hard time. They
• 1:01
  Speaker 4: must not like you. And I was explaining it's the
• 1:02
  Speaker 4: complete opposite. We can have fun with you, even though
• 1:05
  Speaker 4: we get mad at each other. We can have fun
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  Speaker 4: on the air. And I like that. And then I started...
• 1:10
  Speaker 4: How did I get into this? Somehow, it led to Bone...
• 1:14
  Speaker 4: Me and Fitty are tied as his number one co-workers.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I still said my guys are my two favorite co-workers.
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  Speaker 4: And Bone was upset he didn't rank number one. I
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  Speaker 4: just thought after two decades, I'd have a... solidified number
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  Speaker 4: one ranking no offense to finney i just thought just
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  Speaker 4: based off all we've done.
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  Speaker 1: Together in this two decades in max attempt for diplomacy
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  Speaker 1: he has now caused consternation i know that's.
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  Speaker 4: What i'm saying i tried to be switzerland on it
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  Speaker 4: man it backfired on.
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  Speaker 3: Me i respect the effort but i thought even finney
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  Speaker 3: would say bones probably number one he did said he
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  Speaker 3: didn't want.
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  Speaker 1: That this is this is not knowing your personnel mac
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  Speaker 1: you have to know your personnel you have to know
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  Speaker 1: that that One of them is very sensitive.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: He needs adulation. And you know that 50 probably just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't care. He doesn't have to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, wait, wait.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the sensitive one? I just want, I just, I
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  Speaker 2: thought I earned that ranking. You've looked yourself in the mirror. Yes, Bone.
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: I earned that ranking.
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  Speaker 3: And then Bone spits out that Willie ranks sixth on
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  Speaker 3: his co-worker rankings.
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  Speaker 2: Or fifth?
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  Speaker 3: Where did you rank Willie? No, he's top five. You're
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  Speaker 3: not top five. I have you as co-number one. I
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  Speaker 3: never said you were my top five. I can't even
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  Speaker 3: be in the top five.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 3: All right, P-Man.
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  Speaker 2: I've got Mark with a C, James, number three.
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  Speaker 3: Before we get into Charlotte FC.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the only one there.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there are so many questions about where Mark James
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  Speaker 4: ranked among our co-workers all time.
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  Speaker 3: That list is sponsored by Orange Julius.
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  Speaker 4: All right, before we get into Charlotte FC, because it
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  Speaker 4: is a match day today against Columbus, I do want
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  Speaker 4: to ask you about something we talked about last hour.
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  Speaker 3: The panther fan kind of paranoia about.
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  Speaker 4: This game and i do get it it's like when
• 2:45
  Speaker 4: you look at a matchup and say like they're wounded
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  Speaker 4: we're starting to get some guys back we're the better
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  Speaker 4: team we should win it's going to lead to some
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  Speaker 4: panther fans feeling like oh no we're going to mess
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  Speaker 4: this up how do you do you feel that kind
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  Speaker 4: of worry about the eagles could rise up in this
• 3:00
  Speaker 4: game well.
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  Speaker 1: Last time i was confident about a game going uh
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  Speaker 1: into the panthers and the eagles it was lock city
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  Speaker 1: and uh I don't want to relive what happened when
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  Speaker 1: I did that.
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  Speaker 2: So much for.
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  Speaker 3: That 3-0 start that year, bro.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime I see the.
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  Speaker 2: Eagles, I.
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  Speaker 1: I get a little scar tissue there. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same point in time, I do think there's reason to
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  Speaker 1: have optimism. I'm not very in love with their skill
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  Speaker 1: position talent right now because of all the injuries. You know,
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  Speaker 1: not having Bigsby, not having Shipley. Their wide receiver room
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  Speaker 1: is also depleted a little bit as well. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they still have Dallas Gardner, which is somebody who can
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  Speaker 1: really punish the Panther defense, although... You think about what
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd has done. He's really changed the way that
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  Speaker 1: they play defense at the linebacker position. That could help
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  Speaker 1: the Panthers as well, along with Bobby Okereke. And I
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  Speaker 1: think they'll be able to score a little bit. I
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  Speaker 1: know that Pavel won't score as much as they did
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  Speaker 1: say against the Lions or even the Bears, but I
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  Speaker 1: do think there's a situation where you have to at
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  Speaker 1: least like the Panthers a lot more going into this
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  Speaker 1: game than I think you would have thought going into
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  Speaker 1: the year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's an automatic winnable.
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  Speaker 1: Game, but I don't think it's one where you look
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  Speaker 1: at it and say the Panthers don't have an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to come and upset the apple cart here.
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  Speaker 3: How sustainable do you think the offensive start is with
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  Speaker 3: Bryce and the fellas?
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  Speaker 1: I think because of so much that so much has
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  Speaker 1: happened against Bryce. has given them the ability to have
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  Speaker 1: it be sustainable. The fact that he is completing all
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  Speaker 1: these passes against a significant amount of pressure, the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line not being as stout as you would have liked
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  Speaker 1: it to be, and also just having the wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: unit also be a little bit depleted. Schrappe and I
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: were talking about this yesterday, and he says part of
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  Speaker 1: the reason he thinks that Bryce, number one, deserves the
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  Speaker 1: money and it can be sustainable is that you're going
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: to have to make cuts somewhere, and you know you
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  Speaker 1: have high-priced guards. You have high-priced pieces across the offensive
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  Speaker 1: part of it. They're probably going to have to take
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  Speaker 1: the hit somewhere in order to pay Bryce. As a
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  Speaker 1: result of that, you know that Bryce, because of what
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  Speaker 1: he's done over the first four weeks with a deficient
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: offensive line, And with really two of his three wide receivers,
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: top wide receivers out of the lineup, he's still doing
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  Speaker 1: this and putting up these kind of numbers. That, I think,
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  Speaker 1: is the most encouraging part of what Bryce has done
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  Speaker 1: and part of the reason why I think the offensive
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  Speaker 1: numbers can be sustainable. Think about also the fact that
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  Speaker 1: outside of two halves, we really haven't seen a sustained
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  Speaker 1: running game either.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of reason to think that this can not only
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  Speaker 1: sustain where it's been, but even also improve once they
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: get pieces back.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 3: I like it, P-Man.
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  Speaker 2: Well said.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we ought to move him up in the rankings, Bo. Four.
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  Speaker 3: He's on the four now. Someone asked a great question
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  Speaker 3: for P-Man.
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  Speaker 2: Great question.
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  Speaker 3: No one has asked P-Man this. Who is his favorite co-worker?
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  Speaker 3: I answered it for you.
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  Speaker 2: Anna Witte.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And I would, I mean, obviously Fitty, Fitty's my dude,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm a shamby pal. Always seems like it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my God. Yeah. That's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Fitty's my shamby pal.
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  Speaker 3: So what is, okay.
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  Speaker 2: How is that possible?
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  Speaker 3: So y'all are kind of like that couple that is
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  Speaker 3: love or hate.
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  Speaker 2: Like what? Cause when you guys have fallouts, it gets ugly.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we have our disagreements. We have our consternation.
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  Speaker 2: But I think at the end of the day, we
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  Speaker 2: hug it out and we're happy with each other.
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  Speaker 3: Can I tell you what it is? Fitty's got an
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  Speaker 3: ability to bother and pester and annoy. But Fitty also
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  Speaker 3: has the ability to also suck up like no other also.
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  Speaker 3: He's got this dual threat ability. He will get in
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  Speaker 3: the muck with you and annoy you. But then when
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  Speaker 3: he comes in in the morning, hey, Travis, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: What's going on, man? You see it downstairs when he
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: comes in.
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  Speaker 2: Fitty's greatest.
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  Speaker 1: if I can call it a deficiency, is that he
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: feels the need to know everything. And he needs to
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: make you know that he knows everything. And sometimes the
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  Speaker 1: things that he knows come out in inopportune times.
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  Speaker 2: That's all it is. And they come out of his backside.
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  Speaker 4: I love the way we're talking about Finney like he's
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  Speaker 4: not in the room right now.
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  Speaker 2: I always pretend like he's not.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, guys. Fit does have a heart of gold. He
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  Speaker 3: just doesn't show it all the time. You know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean? Sometimes he shows his ass.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: Other times he shows his heart.
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  Speaker 2: I think Matty Patty has softened him a little bit.
• 7:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, how about that? It might be happening. It might
• 7:04
  Speaker 3: be happening. All right.
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: Let's see. Where were we? Anna probably has to be
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  Speaker 2: first just because I work on her on the most
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  Speaker 2: close-up issues.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, plus she is 50 times more likable than all
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  Speaker 3: of us. You know what I mean? Let's call it
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  Speaker 3: what it is.
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  Speaker 2: She was number one on our list.
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  Speaker 4: I got no problem with that. All right, so let's
• 7:18
  Speaker 4: talk about FC. Tonight they got Columbus. There are some permutations, right,
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  Speaker 4: where they win and they get a couple results and
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  Speaker 4: they get into playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: There's like three different things that have to happen. It's
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  Speaker 1: always the first time it comes up. It's usually one
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  Speaker 1: of those things where it's like, You got to have 50,000.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a matter of time, but we need seating.
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  Speaker 1: We need a, we need home playoff advantage. Again, we
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: need to advance.
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  Speaker 3: Like, let's start there.
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  Speaker 4: I said this to Westy and Westy said, I agree
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  Speaker 4: with you, but he also said, you know, I want
• 7:48
  Speaker 4: a trophy. He says, I'm not really happy until I
• 7:50
  Speaker 4: get the, get a trophy. So I will ask you like,
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  Speaker 4: to me as an FC fan, win a round in
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs like i'm not even asking for anything huge
• 8:01
  Speaker 4: it's just they can't it's going to be seen as
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  Speaker 4: an astronomical disappointment if they bow out in round one.
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: Again they have to get beyond the first round i
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  Speaker 1: think but i also believe that when you get past
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: the first round it becomes a singular knockout tournament then
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: i think everything's on the table i mean i i
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: wouldn't Maybe this is me sounding selfish. I want to
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: win two rounds. I want to get to a conference final.
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: I want to get deep in this postseason because I
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: think the biggest part of this, from my perspective, is
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  Speaker 1: that Charlotte FC has got a lot of guys who
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: are on expiring contracts right now. This core, I'm not
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: going to sit here and say it's going to get
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: broken up, but this core is probably playing one of
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: its last rounds together. when you think about a lot
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: of these guys who are aging and those kinds of things,
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: they're going to have to make some tough decisions on
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: some guys. And you might have to take a step
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: back in order to replenish a lot of those assets
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: in the sprint season and even beyond. So my whole
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: thing is this, the reason they go out and get
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: a guy like an Abdullahi Decore is because they think
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: they can win now. And while we've talked about Nashville
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: being kind of far and away the best team in
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: the East, I don't think they're unbeatable. I don't think
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: any team, in the path of Charlotte FC is unbeatable.
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  Speaker 1: So I think they feel like they can have a
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: genuine opportunity to go and do something special with this team.
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: And I think also they've proven since the World Cup
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  Speaker 1: break they've beaten everybody except Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Who I don't want to play in the playoffs.
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not as scared of Chicago as I normally would
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: be in a situation where Charlotte's lost to them twice
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  Speaker 1: because I.
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  Speaker 2: Think that last game is very much an outlier. Even
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: though they were missing more players, we were missing more
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: attacking threats. And that's a hard, hard thing to not
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: have with you when you're not– When you're playing short
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: and deficient, all those guys. So you saw how important
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: Aloka was off the bench. He was missing in that contest.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a start tonight, doesn't he? He deserves a
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  Speaker 2: start after that. I don't know if you take him
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  Speaker 2: out of the bench role, though.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he is a super sub.
• 9:55
  Speaker 2: That's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Dean Smith has put forth a team now that can change. teams,
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: that can change games from the bench. I don't know
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: if you want to mess that up. And I think
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: that's something that they did not have last year. Him
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  Speaker 1: against tired defenders. They didn't have that last year. They
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: didn't have it the first year because of the depth.
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  Speaker 1: They missed Pep Biel as well. So I think this
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  Speaker 1: is one of the things where you look at it
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  Speaker 1: and you say, This is a team that's perfectly positioned
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  Speaker 1: to do something special.
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  Speaker 3: Hell of a point.
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  Speaker 2: Hell of a point.
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  Speaker 3: Brilliant. That's just brilliant. Hey, did I move up the rankings?
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: I didn't rank you yet.
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  Speaker 7: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even think I appeared on the rankings, Bone,
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: for Willie's favorite co-workers.
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: Still receiving votes. Ishmael from the text line says... It's
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: not a heart of gold for Fitty. It's a heart
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  Speaker 2: full of plaque.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: Plaque.
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, that is lovely.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: That's not nice. That is lovely.
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: That's not right. Oh, my God.
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: Big Pain says Fitty's quads are undeniable. I agree. Quads
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: fueled by Jersey Mike's. There you go, baby.
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  Speaker 3: We named him yesterday, Quadsworth Shortfellow. Henry Quadsworth Shortfellow.
• 10:59
  Speaker 4: That's his poetry writing name.
• 11:02
  Speaker 7: Quadsworth.
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: All right, so we wanted to ask you about this
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: Wegmans thing. Sure. There's a big to-do in Ballantyne. This Wegmans—
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  Speaker 2: I'm familiar.
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  Speaker 4: is opening up, and, I mean, people are losing their minds,
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  Speaker 4: and it definitely seems like it's a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: from upstate New York, which we have many of here.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Going crazy, probably in their Bill Zubaz pants over there
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  Speaker 4: right now.
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  Speaker 2: They're wearing giant buffalo heads.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. You have been to Wegmans. Is it
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: all that?
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: A lot of people on the text line are saying, Mac,
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  Speaker 4: you can poo-poo it, but it's just amazing.
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  Speaker 3: What is it all about?
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: I think the hype for Wegmans is similar for the
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: hype around something like Buc-ee's, where They take something that
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: appears ordinary, like a gas station or a grocery store,
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  Speaker 1: and they elevate it. Now, the thing about Wegmans, the
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  Speaker 1: footprint is larger than any grocery store you've ever been in,
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  Speaker 1: maybe short of a Costco, so to speak.
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  Speaker 2: The outer edges of the restaurant or the– grocery store
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  Speaker 2: is basically like a restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a buffet there, right? Not quite a buffet,
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  Speaker 1: but they have very prepared meals and those kind of things.
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  Speaker 1: So you can sit and eat in the Wegmans. It's
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: almost one of those things. So that's, I think, the
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  Speaker 1: big attraction. And the other part of it is the
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  Speaker 1: prepared meals, like the gold plate meals they have. It's
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: what they call it, or a gold pan, whatever it's called.
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  Speaker 1: That's the real, I think, differentiator. Now, every grocery store
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  Speaker 1: does this now, but they do it to a level
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  Speaker 1: and a breadth of options that I don't think many
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  Speaker 1: other grocery stores have. So I think those are the
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  Speaker 1: big attractions that differentiate it from another grocery store. Is
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: it going to keep me from going to Teeter or Publix? No,
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  Speaker 1: because those things are more convenient for me where I live.
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: But if I'm riding home from Matthews and I'm passing Ballantyne,
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: I need something, a little quick dinner on the way home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll probably stop at Wegmans. Or if I need
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: a little lunch key, I'll go and stop at Wegmans.
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  Speaker 3: So you're saying it is worth the hype, though.
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  Speaker 4: Because a lot of people are kind of rolling their
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: eyes at the hype today.
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: Again, it's kind of how you rolled your eyes at
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: the hype for Buc-ee's. It's not for everybody, apparently.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: What's been your favorite Joe Bruno tweet today about the
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: people tailgating, the people chanting, the cheering for the produce,
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: or the running to the meat counter?
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  Speaker 1: The... People getting all up in their arms about the
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  Speaker 1: Taste of Buffalo counter thing, they have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: those things at Teeter and Publix. Like, they have the
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  Speaker 1: Hoffman hot dogs and the Salem hot dogs at Teeter.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know there's, like, some buffalo dip. Somebody
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: was tweeting me about this boss sauce or whatever. I've
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: never heard of that before. That's weird.
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: You're the sauce boss, and you don't know about the
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: boss sauce.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: Apparently, we have a rivalry now between me and somebody
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: in upstate New York. But again, all it is is
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: personifying how many upstate New Yorkers we have here, which
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: is a lot.
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. I mean, it seems like every one
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: of them is in Ballantyne. Joe tweeted out 600.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: If you wanted to kind of round them all up
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: and deport them back to Buffalo.
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: Is that the plan here? Maybe that's a sting operation.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: Could be a bait and switch scenario.
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: Bone, I think it's a salesman sting operation to gather
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: all the Buffalonians together and then just get them out.
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: All at the same time.
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: Are the Buffalonians worse than the Ohioans?
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: Bruno tweeted out 684 parking spots all filled in 20
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: minutes today.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: I don't find the Buffalonians that annoying until we play
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: the Bills.
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: I'm not bothered by Bills fans. I know some people
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: on the text line are going to get mad at me.
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: I think the Bills fans are a fun group. I
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: think they're regular Joes, regular people. The Ohio thing, I'm
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: not even saying y'all are bad people. It's the Buckeye
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: thing for me. I just can't stand your football team.
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: And man, when you talk about your football team, holy obnoxiousness.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: You see a car on the side of the road
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: in 77, it's Better than even odds that it's an
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Ohio plate.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: There is a pipeline. No doubt about it.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: Will you have a swine today?
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: I'm angry at the L.A.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Rams for cutting my guy Muddy Mevis.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: I know he missed one kick during the game on
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: Monday Night Football, but when the game was blocked.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: How is that his fault? Didn't get it up enough.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: Didn't get enough elevation on it.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: The guy came through the line. Questions on his focus
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: are also there. Oh, stop.
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: Was he focused on the buffet instead or something? A
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: lot of ladies on Instagram, they've been looking at all
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: his likes.
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: I'm surprised he wasn't liking all the restaurant Instagram accounts.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: He's in Los Angeles.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: He's not allowed to window shop. He's not a married man.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: He's fine.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: He's not the person that Trump called fat, right, the
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: other day. That's someone different. I don't think that's correct.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm angry at the Rams. I like my guy,
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: Money Mivas. Yeah, I figured that would hurt you, man.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: I think maybe he's the fall guy just for special
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: teams that is horrible. Just in general, right?
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: It's okay. Sean McPhail will find something else. That's all right.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: Your Mizzou Tigers are flying high, baby. They're flying. Now,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: here's the thing.
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: I have done a mea culpa. I have said that
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: I underestimated Mizzou. I am humbly asking for your forgiveness.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: We're going to lose to Ole Miss now this week.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: That's what I was going to say, though.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: This is what's happening.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Do you fear that now that everybody has finally said, okay,
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: we're off your back, you guys are legit, do you
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: fear that this is where you trip up?
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: They're no shame if they do.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: They've got like four tough games left. This is probably
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: the fourth toughest. They have to host Oklahoma. They've got
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: to play Texas and Georgia still as well, so It's
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: going to end at some point.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: I hope it doesn't end in Oxford.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Mississippi, amongst the Grove and all the scenery there. But
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: outside of that, I don't fear this game as much
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: as I feared others on their schedule. But at the
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: same point in time, there's still a lot to fear
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: for me, and I still have to get proven that
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: they can be more consistent than they've been over the
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: course of this season. And also the Florida victory is
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: looking less and less impressive by the week because even
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: South Carolina can beat Florida.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. Move him down to about 10th, bone
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: on the rankings. I was going to ask you what's
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: coming up at 10 today, but I no longer care.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Coming up next, Danielle Stein. NBC Charlotte joins us. Top
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Panther Sports Radio.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: 92.7 WFNZ.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Remember, we got podcasts out there, y'all.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: I understand you can't listen every minute of the Mac
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: and Bone Show. I won't hold it against you as
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: long as you hit up those podcasts, the hours you miss. WFNZ.com, Apple, Spotify,
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: wherever you get your podcasts. So the Panthers aren't practicing today.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Dave Canales is. change things up. That joke has been
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: used today. Gave the guys off to go to Wegmans
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: because it's a big old deal. Dave said he has
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: talked to other coaches around the league about how they
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: do bi-weeks and some of them will do it this
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: way where they will work practice Tuesday. which is normally
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: their off day, takeoff Wednesday, which is normally kind of
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: the install the game plan day. So I like the
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: fact after losing his first two after the bye week games,
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: he's changing things a little bit. It will be kind
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: of weird today when the injury report comes out and
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: they're like estimating. Like if we would have practiced, this
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: dude would have been limited or this dude would have practiced.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: So we'll get that later on today. Right now we
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: get some Panthers talk with the one and only Danielle Stein.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: She is busy day to day just carrying Nick Carboni
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: at WCNC in the sports department. And she is nice
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: enough to join us here to probably carry the segment
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: and carry us for a segment.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: What's up, Danielle? How you doing?
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: How are we doing? I'm doing great. You spoke to
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: my northern heart also by talking about the Wegmans opening,
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: and I might be making an appearance later today as well.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Okay, so I need to ask you, first of all,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: where are you from in the north? And then secondly,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: explain to us what makes Wegmans so special, because some
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: people get it and some people, like some of us,
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: just don't get it.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: You know? Yeah.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, it's a grocery store, but it's really good.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, they have really good prepared food. Their pizza
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: is really good. Their hot bar is really good. Their
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: fresh sushi actually is the best grocery store sushi, I
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: would say. They just have a lot of good stuff.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: Really crazy fonts all around the store, though. Signage is
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: kind of weird, but it's a fun time. And I'm
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: from Boston, so we had one around me growing up.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: I also lived in Virginia for a couple of years.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Then we had one in Charlottesville where I live there, too.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: So I've been a Wegmans loyalist for some time.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: The reports coming in that we see are unreal. Someone
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: says people have brought their own chairs and they're sitting around.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Cheese Island right now.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw that. That's pretty crazy.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: This is an event. They may not leave. This is
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: a resort for some of these folks. It's a freaking event, man.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Well, I am very intrigued. I'm very intrigued.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: It's worth the trip to Valentine's Day.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: I like that idea. I'm going to let everybody chill
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: out a little bit. I'll stick to my local Costco
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: and I'll like it for now.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: There you go. All right.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: So, Daniel, I want to ask you about Taylor Moten's return.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Listen to him talk. First of all, he's such a
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: likable dude as it is. But when you listen to
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: him talk about the blood clots and him coughing up
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: blood and just how how scary this must have been
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: for him and that there is some risk of him
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: coming back and playing football, but he thinks it's it's
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: not great. But and he loves the game. Listen to
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: him talk yesterday is a reminder, man. We can't just
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: treat him like some dude we desperately want back to
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: help protect Bryce. This is bigger than football. What did
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: you think about hearing about his story?
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's where the difference between being on the IR
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: versus the non-injured list come into play, too, where you realize, hey,
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: this is obviously bigger than football. This is someone taking
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: care of their own well-being, and that should be what
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: everyone does prioritize. You always need to listen to your body.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: You always need to make sure you're taking care of
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: yourself in those ways. But, I mean, Timo's amazing, like
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: you said. He's been around this team for so long.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: He is so well-liked. Dave was telling us a fun
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: anecdote how, like, everyone has a running joke that everyone
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: just says happy birthday, Timo, whenever they see him, just
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: like whatever it's on his birthday. And he's kind of
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: like the fun uncle was what they described. And I
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: totally see that because he's, he's just such a good guy.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: I remember the last year when we were talking to
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: him at the beginning of, before the season started and
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: he hadn't had that next option picked up and he
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: wasn't sure exactly what his situation was going to be
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: here in Carolina, long-term or anything like that. And he
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: cried at the podium talking about, what this city, what
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: this team means to him. And that's the kind of
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: leader you need. Obviously, the field says one thing, but
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: the kind of person that they have in this locker
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: room who we've been seeing out at practice pretty much
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: every single day. He's always taking laps around the field pregame.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: I always say hey to him whenever we have the
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: past two home games and he's doing his laps around
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: the field. He's someone who's been around. So to be
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: obviously so candid about his own health scares and, you know, graphic,
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: but it was pretty, pretty detailed. And being as open
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: with us as he was, I think that says so
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: much about the kind of guy he is and what
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: kind of player the Panthers will be getting back for
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: this next part of their season.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Danielle opinions vary on this, but the Eagles are an
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: injured mess coming off a, a terrible way to lose
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: for themselves in London. Would you rather them come in
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: feeling this down, or would you rather them be on
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: a high than we thought they were almost at against Jacksonville?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: What's your opinion on that? Do you like the Eagles
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: being down, or would you rather them feeling good about themselves?
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: I mean, a win's a win, however way you get it.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: If they're feeling good, if they're not feeling good, it
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: doesn't matter as long as the Panthers are feeling good. That's,
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: I guess, how it should play out.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: Obviously.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Good games for viewers come when both teams are looking
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: some of their sharpest, whether that be Saquon, if he's
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: going to be available or not. But, I mean, I
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: think they would rather just get the win no matter
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: whichever way it spins out.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: All right. You got a wind gust there, Danielle? What's
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: going on there? Yeah, my bad. Okay.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Is it really loud?
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: That one was.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: That one got. I thought you were in a wind tunnel.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: It was kind of soothing because it stopped Mac from
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: talking for a second. I couldn't say anything, but I
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: loved it.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: It was a rail trail. That's so my fault. Yeah,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: I'm outside.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's all good.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Old rail trail.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: I thought Danielle Stein was reporting live from the NASCAR
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: wind tunnel. That's what I thought was going on there.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: All right, Daniel Stein, WCNC, is with us. How do
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: you feel about Bryce? We talked about this earlier. And
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: I'll throw the offense in, too. Do you expect Bryce
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: and the offense to do this for the full season?
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: I know there's some people that are afraid it's going
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: to drop off. Bone and I feel like this is
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: going to be a pretty damn good offense for 17 games.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: How do you feel about that?
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: I feel pretty similar. I think that what we're seeing
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: is kind of what we're getting. Of course, there's going
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: to be some uncontrollables, whether people are injured or things
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: like that. But one thing about Bryce is I do
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: feel like he's pretty consistent in how he answers questions,
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: how he does his workouts, how he does just his
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: whole life. So once Bryce seems like he's doing something
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: a certain way, it feels like this could be what
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: we would expect to see, especially now that we have
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: four games of a sample size, and his numbers have
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: been excellent. It's not like they've had real drop-offs. Even
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: that Cleveland game that they say wasn't maybe their strongest offensive,
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: he still had 291, I believe, for passing yards. So
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: Bryce looks sharp. He's, like I said, we talked to
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: him after this bye week, and we just saw this
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: whole media tour that he just did between going on
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: game day and going on Monday night football with Manning cash,
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: things like that. And he's like, yeah, it's good experiences,
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: but like just really happy to be back in this
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: building and getting to work with my guys.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: What do you think of the job that Brad has
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: done so far as a play caller?
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: I think it's great. I think, I think what's great
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: is it seems like Bryce and TMAC and all of
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: the other offensive weapons seem to be happy about it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: And I think that's obviously what's the most important. clear
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: that they're really opening up Bryce's game. He's looking to
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: a lot of different targets as well. Of course, this
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: last one was big on TMAC, but the fact that
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: they're incorporating as many of the tight ends as regularly
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: as they are right now, I think is really great.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: And it's allowing Bryce, it looks like, to play a
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: lot more freely.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: No doubt. No doubt about it. All right, Danielle. Well, Hey,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: it's good. Good to talk to you. Good to catch
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: up with you.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: And it's certainly fun talking about this Panther team. Hopefully
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: that'll be the same after Sunday. Thanks for coming on.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Anything specifically you and Carboni are cooking up on WCNC?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Anything you want to promote specifically?
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, let's see. I did my one-on-one. I do typically
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: a weekly one-on-one with a player. This week I got
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: undrafted rookie Aaron Hall, who is first of all, such
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: a nice guy and such a good interview. But what
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: a cool story. One of three players on this team
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: to get on that 53 after being undrafted, not an
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: easy thing, but he's played in all four games. He
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: had a start. He's looked really sharp and there's some
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: changes to that room. We know that cam Jackson is
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: now going to be out for the season. So he
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: very well could be sticking around in this lineup, even
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: if Turk Wharton is back in it. So there's a
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: little bit of change coming in that room. Um, and
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: then I guess on the side, something fun I've been doing,
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys have been seeing this,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: but whenever I chat with any of the athletes, I
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: like to talk about food quite a bit by the
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Wegman stuff. Um, So I've been doing a little social series,
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: which has been really fun, called Taste of the Pros.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: And I ask guys, like, all right, you're around Charlotte.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: You want a bite to eat. Where are you going?
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: And what are you ordering? And then I go and
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: try what they're doing. So people have been awesome about it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: Let me think. Like, Devin Lloyd sent me to Del Frisco.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: So open my wallet up there big time. But, like,
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Jimmy Horn Jr. loved Nana Morrison's soul food. Before he
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: had left, I had asked him that one. So it's
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: just been cool to know what people's favorite bites are
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: around the city.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: That's a cool idea.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: People like it. And what person in general doesn't like
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: to answer what their favorite foods are to eat?
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. You are speaking our language now. That's what most
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: of our segments turn into, to be honest with you.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. So that's very cool.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: All right, Danielle.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Well, hey, good to catch up with you. And thanks
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: for coming on. Keep up the good work.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Appreciate you guys. Have a good one.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: There you go, Danielle Stein. Yeah, I got to check
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: that segment. I had kind of seen it in passing
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: on social media, but I didn't know what her Taste
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: of the Pros segment is.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: That's a cool freaking idea.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. That is a very cool idea.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: We should do Taste of the P-Man, where we go
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: to the bougie restaurants that P-Man recommends, Boney.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: That could be our segment. Does he go to bougie restaurants,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: or does he just have knowledge of them? Are you
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: saying his bougie eating is overrated?
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: No, I just don't. I don't know. I don't know
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: where he, I guess he goes to the pool.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: But like, I don't know.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Does he? You think he's a fraud?
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: You think he's a bougie food fraud? I just need
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: to know more of where he's going so I have
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: a better understanding. He talks the game. You know what
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: you do? You put a GPS tracker underneath that car.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: And then you know exactly where he's at. Because what
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: if he's just getting like hot dogs at the QT,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: but he's acting like he's out at some bougie joint.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: On a Friday night? Yeah, he's doing the same as me.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: That would be a scandal right there. We have a
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: conference realignment piece up this morning from Brett McMurphy, a
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: source piece on what could happen next with James Madison
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: going to the American. And it starts out with how
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: will the Sunbelt counter that move? Because they're going to
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: need somebody now. He says, what's next for the Sun Belt?
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: A source said there's a 50-50 chance the league replaces
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: James Madison. If so, the most likely candidates in alphabetical
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: order are Charlotte, Delaware, East Carolina, Middle Tennessee, and Western Kentucky.
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  Speaker 3: So Charlotte and ECU being linked to the Sun Belt.
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  Speaker 4: That's a downgrade. Why would they– they wouldn't want to
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: go there, would they? I just, we just read an
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: article the other day, Bone, that the average media revenue
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: in the American is 10 million per year and it's
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: 2 million per year in the Sunbelt.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, doesn't say why. So like that's- Now Charlotte and
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: ECU would be with App though. That would be at
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: least a cool part of that. But do you want
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: to decrease your revenue by that much?
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't say why. Like that doesn't make any sense.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Now I did see people joking around, Bone, on Twitter saying,
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: kick Charlotte out. We got JMU, kick Charlotte. I did
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: see some of that going on there. Very cruel towards
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: the 49er fans. But that doesn't make any sense that
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: anybody would willingly want to go from the American to
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: the Sun Belt.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: He's got more here.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: The SEC and Big Ten have repeatedly indicated expansion is
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: not on the radar, but the SEC at the top
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: of their wish list is North Carolina and Virginia. The SEC,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: per sources, has no interest in Clemson, FSU, or Miami.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: They're trying to get to states that they're not in already. Yeah,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: those states are already in the footprint. That's the latest
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: from Brett McMurphy as realignment is starting to rear its
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: head again.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: And I was reading Heather Dinich writing about the college
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: football playoff expansion. Everybody just kind of feels like it's inevitable.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: It's going to 24. But in her article on ESPN.com, Bone,
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: it says basically that– the people in the sport feel
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: like there's not a King's ransom to be made by
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: doing this because you double the teams. So you have
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: to split the shares up between more teeth. Like that
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: doesn't like, and then how much extra money does ESPN
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: pay to get worse games?
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Like worse playoff games. So it's like, if they're, if
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: you're not going to make this huge windfall is what
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: they used a financial windfall.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Is it worth doing it? Cause you're hurting the sport.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: I won't hear any arguments the other way, Bone, that
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: you are not hurting the regular season, that you are
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: not hurting the sport. But the whole reason for doing it,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: it appears to me, is we need revenue so badly
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: now because now we have to pay the players and
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: we have more expenses than we ever have. But if
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: you're not going to make significantly more, is it worth
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: harming the regular season the way you're going to?
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out. I would say no.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out why those schools would want
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: to go to the Sun.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're still working on that project. Yeah, it's not
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: over there.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: It's not the TV deal. Would it have something to
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: do with. Can you get to the playoffs in an
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: easier division and make a lot easier conference and make
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: a lot of money that way by being a playoff team?
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out what what the reasoning would be,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: why they would do that.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Well, the article said, didn't you say it said that
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: they're on the wish list for the Sun Belt?
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that's what it is. Yeah.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? That's like Flounder's got a
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: wish list of Instagram models.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Don't mean they're they're, you know, reciprocating.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Poor Flound, buddy. Sorry, Floundini. He's in a drive-thru somewhere,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: minding his own business, and he's getting astray. Flound's over
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: there at Wegmans right now, hanging out, Bo.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: The New York part of it.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he is. He's got Rangers fans out there right now.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Knicks and Mets fans. When we come back, it's the wrap-up.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Sports Radio 92.7. Thank you.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Sports radio 92.7 wfnz mac and bone show winding down
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: here it's time for the wrap up ladies and gents
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: hornets in action tonight preseason game three of four in
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: boston bone and kb got the pregame 6 30 for
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: a 7 30 tip here on wfnz that means the
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: charlotte fc match against columbus will be over on wbt
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: they now have an fm signal it's 107.9 to listen
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: to willie and anna they're on the air at 7
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: o'clock for a 7.30 start time there. So we got
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: some sports stuff happening. We got the Dodgers trying to
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: rise up after falling down 2-0 to Milwaukee. Game 3
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: tonight in the NLCS. So we got some sports stuff happening.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: We will get to the text line here in a second, Bone.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: But I want to present this clip. This clip's a trip.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: This is Wes Miller, Charlotte 49er head hoops coach. By
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: the way, they were picked 5th. In the preseason poll.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I saw that.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: In the American. That's some respect. That was something, man.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: How about that? That's some respect for Wes.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: So anyway, this is Wes Miller on with the field
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: of 64 guys from American Media Day. And he shares
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: some good Tyler Hansborough stories, Bone, from back at UNC.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: I've never seen a college athlete that had more self-discipline
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: day in, day out, on and off the court. So
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: there were very few nights that Tyler Hansbro burned the
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: midnight oil.
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: I mean, it really was very rare.
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: But when he did, he attacked the nightlife the same
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: way that he went after a rebound.
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: Think Will Ferrell.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: In old school, minus the streaking.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: And I'm saying that in jest, but no, it was
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: his recruiting trip. They put a lot of pressure on
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: Sean May and I to show him a good time,
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: and we were really struggling. God, I could get him
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: in a lot of trouble here. But it's so neat
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: to see him in media now because he was so
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: socially awkward as an 18-year-old. The first thing he did
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: when we met him, you know, we were trying to
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: show him a good time.
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: And he goes, hey, call me T-Bone. What? We called
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: him T-Bone for 48 hours on his visit.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: And he had the worst time until we walked into
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: this urban nightclub. They probably– Five percent of the people
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: there were were college students.
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: It was people from, you know, Raleigh and Durham. And
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: he walked up. He hadn't said a word for the
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: whole visit.
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: And we're at this balcony looking over and he just
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: turns around.
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: He's like, this is awesome. And he danced the whole night.
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: He can't dance worth anything.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: So you and Tyler Hansborough both want to be called T-Bone.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: We are soulmates. I've got my psycho T-Bone tattoo. Now
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: it all makes sense.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: God, now it really fits that Hansborough tattoo you got.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: That is hilarious. We are wings for life, man. So
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: he usually didn't go out, but when he did, he
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: went hard. That's good stuff from Wes Miller. His will
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: outseeded his skill.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: On the dance floor. I'm guessing that was true, too,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: it sounds like. Doing his fist pump that he did
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: against Virginia Tech. You think he did that Virginia Tech
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: celebration on the dance floor? Oh, man. I got to say,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: this is coming from me, one of the most Caucasian
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: celebrations ever done. There are people at Wegmans right now
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: doing that.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: And this is a Duke fan saying this, y'all, so
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: it carries weight, man. He's seen a lot of Caucasian celebrations.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Anyway, let's get to some of these texts here. 704-570-9610
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: on the WFNZ text line. Let's see what we have
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: going on. Shaggy says, have these folks ever been to
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: an Ingalls grocery store? It sounds identical to Wegmans. I
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: have never had the pleasure of going to an Ingalls.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: It seems like they're all over the more western part
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: of the state than us, even.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's 72 in the state, but they're really not
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: near us directly here in Charlotte.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Lincolnton and Shelby and that area. So I didn't
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: really know.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: I know South Carolina, they're big in.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Isn't it the Ingalls pregame? Doesn't John Ellis host like
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: the Ingalls postgame show?
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: He does. Yeah. All right.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: So anyway. Who was your girl, Laura Ingalls? Laura Ingalls Wilder.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: That was Little House on the Prairie, baby. I thought
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: that was the political pundit. Laura Ingalls?
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Is that not a political?
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Laura Ingram.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: That's Ingram.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Ingram.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Squirrel Meat Henderson says, who says Yankees can't be hillbillies?
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Just build a Wegmans. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: I can tell you, Yankees can be, we can be hillbillies.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: I can tell you that right now. Now, this texter
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: said Wegmans is the college preppy with his Hugo Boss
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: shirt and slacks and sweater draped across his back of
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: grocery stores. He says he much prefers Harris Teeter, the
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: same as Wegmans at lower cost. If you can make
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Teeter seem cheap, my God, you must be expensive.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Seriously. There's an agreement for a second Wegmans in Cornelius
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: near me.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: There you go, baby. There you go. There you go.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: That's what we need.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: We need more people to come there. We need more
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: traffic over there. That's going to be awesome.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: This texter says, Wegmans is just obnoxious Yankees telling everybody
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: about some great thing from the great state they love
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: so much that they move from.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, you mean like beef on whack?
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: That is exactly it, though.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Their state, we hear that all the time living here
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: in the melting pot bone.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Someone says- But they're here in Charlotte. Someone says, great,
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: the people from Buffalo are never going to leave now.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: We're bringing them down here.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: I want the record to show I will never tell
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: you how great my home in York, Pennsylvania was. I
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: will take Charlotte over York, Pennsylvania every damn day.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Of the year.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: I'm not one of these people that moves to a
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: town and tells you how great the place I left is.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Definitely not one of those folks. Let's see what else
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: we have going on here on the text line. This
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: texter said Baywatch writers are about to get blasted on
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: the view for slow-mo running.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: I'm betting the over on Cal Sheik.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Slow-mo running not going to play the same way in
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: 2026 it did back when Pam was on the beach, Bo?
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: No, it's not.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: They're going to cover up now. This texter says, oh,
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: this Hugo. Strawberry Chex is awesome. Strawberry hot wings are fire,
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: no doubt. Sweet and hot bone is amazing. Oh, that's Hugo, huh?
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: It really is.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not he's uh i'm ignoring hugo why you
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: got a problem he's he's trying to call me a
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: chicken nugget guy.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Original father hugo yeah.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Where what's your do you like strawberry hot saucy nugs or.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: No no I like to punch you in your nugs.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: In my nugs.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: Somebody says mango habanero is his favorite wing flavor.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're kind of good, too.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: I haven't had as many of those, but it's the
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: sweet and then the hot combo.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: It's so awesome when it hits my lips, bone. You
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: know what I mean?
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: What are you, an old school? Yes, that's what I
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: was going for.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: A trophy husband says his wife's mammogram had to be rescheduled.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: I told her I was willing to take a look,
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: and they say chivalry is dead. What a husband, sir.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: What a sacrifice. What a sacrifice you're making. Let's see
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: what's going on.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Bebop. Bebop says Travis. Does he always call you Travis,
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: doesn't he? He calls me Travis, you Chris. He calls
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: me Mace.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he can't spell your name for some reason. Instead
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: of Mac, it's Mace. We call him by his government name, Bert.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: I'm like, what do you think, I'm Nancy Mace's brother
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: or something?
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Bert Bacharach. He says, Travis, you're making me hate Wegmans.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: So there you go.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Well, we hate you.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: Another texter, Mac, I like to call Atlanta's football stadium
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Bryce Christopher Young Stadium.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Ha ha! Oh, man.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: Anyway, we had ourselves a time today, y'all.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: We had ourselves a time.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: Tried to learn a little bit about this damn grocery
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: store some of y'all folks are loving on. I have
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: a feeling I will dabble at some point in time.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: I'm going to let everything die down a little bit.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: Sir Loina Beef says he's over there and having the
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: time of his life. Oh, he fits right in.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: But where does he not have....
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Wearing his sombrero, yelling. Where does he not have the
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: time of his.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: Life, Boat?
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Everywhere he goes. That's why we love him.
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: The one-man party, Sir Loin of Beef. All right, we're
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: out of here, y'all.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: I'm just worried that 77 traffic's going to have Wegmans traffic.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: I think you're safe going up that way. I know this.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: I ain't going 45. I ain't going through 45 through Ballantyne.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: I can tell you that. All right, I'm not just me.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: We're all out of here. We're all out of here
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Yep, we're all here.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Charlotte Sports Today, the P-Man is hosting today. Enjoy that,
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: and we'll talk to you tomorrow on the Mac and
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Bone Show. More Panthers-Eagles as we get closer to the
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: game coming up tomorrow on the show.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you.