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Willie's World: Charlotte FC, Panthers Injuries & DMVs · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is- I'm Will Pelagic.
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, this could be a humdinger of a segment. Sources
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: say our next guest, the P-Man, the man that runs
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: the show- on Willie's World on the Mac and Bone
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: Show every Wednesday, 9 o'clock, or slightly thereafter, Bone. The
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: word is, from our sources, he is grouchy and irritable today.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: This could be a hell of a segment, Bone. He's
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: about to go on vacation, though. Yeah, I don't know what—
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: That's a time for joy. I thought this dude would
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: be on the beach by now. I don't know what's
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: going on. P-Man! Putting his piggies in the sand there.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: That's what I thought. P-Man, what's happening, dude? What's going on?
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: You thought I'd be on the beach by now? Yeah.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: When's your vacation?
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: So, so, so did I?
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: I'm, I'm, I'm currently in a bit of a holding
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: pattern because the state of South Carolina and its infinite
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: wisdom has yet to send my wife, her registration sticker.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: You know, I saw a news story the other day that,
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: that North Carolina is doing away with all registration stickers
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: and and registration part. Everything's going digital. You don't, it
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: will not send you a darn thing. You just pay
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: your tax bill and that's it. You don't have to
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: worry about a sticker or nothing.
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: But she's worried.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: And I think this is a valid worry. I'm not
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: mad at her. I'm more mad at the state because
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: she literally paid her tax bill on the 17th of
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: September and the sticker has not come yet. So it's
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: just like, what are we doing here, guys?
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: What are we doing here? So y'all are just sitting
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: there waiting to go.
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: It says after you pay the sticker, it takes them
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: 12 to 24 days to process this.
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's a lot. No kidding. No kidding. You can't
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: take your car?
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: No, it's not about taking my car.
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: It's about when we get back.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: The DMV is going to be closed and she's got
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: to go to work on Monday. So she doesn't want
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: to take the chance that the sticker won't be here
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  Speaker 1: by the time that she has to go to work
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: on Monday. The last thing she wants to, the last
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: thing she wants to do is meet a South Carolina
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: state trooper at five o'clock in the morning, which is
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: got to go drive down to Columbia.
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: I drove with mine expired for like six months. Once
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: I never get you. I'm good now. I'm clear now,
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: by the way. P-Man, why don't you go solo?
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: By the way, these are all valid concerns. I'm not
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: saying that there's nothing wrong with my wife. I'm more
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: mad at the state than I am at anything.
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: No, yeah, you don't want to get in trouble with Mrs.
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: P there. Why don't you have Finney bring you guys
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: to the beach? How about solo? What about a solo vacay, P-Man?
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: That ain't going to be a vacation.
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: Vacation bank canceled. No wonder you're grumpy. Look out. Oh, damn.
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: Everybody in P's path on this segment right now. Look out.
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: JJ says nothing to worry about.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: You thought Chris Penso got it bad.
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: JJ says, Willie, you're good to go. It's updated in
• 2:59
  Speaker 3: the system, even if you haven't got the sticker yet.
• 3:01
  Speaker 3: So you're good to go.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you just don't want to meet anybody. That's all.
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: All right. Okay.
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: That's all right. What if she got put over and said,
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: I know the guys on a Mac and Bone show? Yeah,
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: tell her that. Tell her that.
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys have much currency in Chester,
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: South Carolina.
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know if we have much currency in Charlotte,
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: North Carolina, to be honest. All right, P.A., you said it.
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: I'm more saying, Willie, stand up to the cops.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You can affect results in football games, so you
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: have some.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got it. It's not the kind we want,
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: but apparently we have some. You opened it up. We'll
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: get to the Panthers here in a minute. But you
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: said it about Chris Penso, the referee. I was so
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: glad to hear you screaming about this dude because it
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: was infuriating. Multiple calls. Is that... At the risk of
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: you getting fined by the league, Pete, I feel like
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: that might be the worst.
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  Speaker 1: I don't worry about them anymore.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: I really don't worry about them anymore. Pete, that might
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: be the worst I've seen yet against Charlotte FC.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: I thought I had seen the worst from the one.
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: I couldn't even remember who it was earlier. I couldn't
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: remember who the guy was earlier who I verbally undressed.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: But that one was absolutely awful. And like, you know,
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: I don't understand how you can have a couple with
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: one referee who gets picked for world cups, who gets
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: picked for international tournaments all over the time. And then
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: the husband is blind as a fricking bat. I don't
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: understand it. It was the most shambolic officiating half I
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: have ever watched in football. The most shambolic half I've
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: ever watched. He did not call a single thing right
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: except for the one decision that cost Charlotte FC the goal.
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: It was the only thing he got right the entire half.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else, he was blowing whistles. He was letting other
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: things go. Pep Biel gets taken out in the box.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: A stonewall penalty. He gets ripped. legitimately two minutes later,
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: nothing called. And then he throws out to him, Raymond again,
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: that he didn't say anything to him. He's clapping his hands.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: He's backing away and he gets a yellow first.
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: How was that? It's ridiculous. It's now the vacation rage
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: is coming out. I talked to some sources.
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  Speaker 3: They say that MLS is holding your wife's sticker until
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: you apologize to the referees.
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  Speaker 1: Speaker 4 0 5, their goal.
• 5:33
  Speaker 2: I thought the dude that got the assist credit with assist,
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: did it with his arm. I'm convinced that should have
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: been a handball.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: Like it was, it was, it was the, it was the.
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: Forum of God is what it was. It's annoying. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's.
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  Speaker 1: Not lost on me is you do know who's a,
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: you know, you didn't host their, their center striker, Robert Leventhal. thing.
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: You know, we, we need to get our stars in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs and get them, you know, a deep run
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: on the playoffs. So it's okay though. It's fine. It's okay.
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: Don't worry. Everything is fine, man. Oh God. And anyway, let's,
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: let's go to the Panthers where everything is not fine
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: there really either. It's injury.
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: You want to talk about something positive?
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: It's, it's, it's injuries.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: I might get injured on this phone call.
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: P like, how worried are you? Like we've gotten, there've been,
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: there's the worrying have been twofold. One is, oh, this
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: game is just too tall of a task with all
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: the injuries against the lions. But, and, but the other,
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: the other opinion that some people have is, they're starting
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: to say, is this just one of those lost injury seasons?
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: Are you letting any of those thoughts creep into your
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: brain right now?
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: Well, I was reading Joe Person's article before you guys
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: came on, and he talked about 24 where it seemed
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: like the injuries kind of spiraled and turned out, and
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: you saw the defense really take a downturn. I do
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: think there's more talent on this defense. Then there was
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: that year. I think getting Devin Lloyd back is going
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: to be great. I think Nick Scott, you know, if
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: it's 2025 Nick Scott that we get back, then I
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: think you're okay. And, and I understand, you know, being down, um,
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: two corners is going to be difficult. I understand, you know,
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: still having the interior line issues, um, is going to
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: be difficult, but you know, given what we saw on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: you know, aside from that last drive, they played pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that, you know, the first 10 points
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: were scored because our, our coach who, you know, doesn't
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: have a local house menu anymore, but still has the
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: authority to go forward on fourth down in his own territory,
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: went forward on fourth down in his own territory and
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: ended up putting the defense on the short field saying,
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: I trust the defense. You know where I trust the defense.
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: I trust the defense 80 yards down the field.
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I said the same thing. Let them get the
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  Speaker 2: ball back for you.
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  Speaker 1: If you trust the defense at the minus 40, I
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: think you trust them at the plus 20.
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: 100%. I'm with you on that. I'm definitely with you
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  Speaker 2: on that.
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  Speaker 1: So I think, again, I think, I think that the
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: head coach asked maybe adjust his expectations. I'm not saying
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: this in a critical aspect, but I'm saying this in
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: more of just, we're just talking guys. All we're doing
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: is talking ball. just, you know, maybe he has to
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: adjust expectations to hate.
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, you know what?
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: We don't have the 85 bears out there.
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: Maybe you pump the football.
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  Speaker 3: Speaker 0 7.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any fear of this being a lost season? Like,
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: like someone, the fan.
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: Base do Speaker 2 7, No, it's it's guys.
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: It's September, man.
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: It's too early to make those types of declarations. I
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: also think too, that A lot of this league is,
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: is kind of strangely mediocre right now. And then there
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: also are a lot of teams whose records are very much,
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: you know, not rooted in reality. Like, do we really
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: think the Las Vegas Raiders are going to be a 13,
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: one football team? Like seriously, like I think it's, it's
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: one of those things where we get, we get deceived
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  Speaker 1: a lot by what we see in the first month
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: of the season. It's still preseason light for a lot
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: of people when it comes to those things. So I
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: don't have any delusions that this is a lost season.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: I also know that the NFC South is really bad,
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: really bad, maybe even worse than we thought. So I
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: still think that there's everything still on the table for
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. And the thing that also encourages me
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: is that guy wearing number nine, Bryce Young wearing this,
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: this could be the guy that we've been promised. And
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: I think that's what the, if, if there's one thing
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: that has encouraged me about anything is that he looks different.
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: And I think that's encouraging. I do want to see
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: them on the football better. I do want to see
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: more to Ted or a McMillan. You know, the fact
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: that he's been on a milk carton to one of
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: the first three weeks is not exactly the most encouraging thing.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: and having the injuries to Coker, et cetera, have not
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: necessarily been, been most encouraging part of it. But if
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: they can get the run game straightened out, if the
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: offensive line can block, like they're paid to, and, and
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: Bryce young is not pressured on 70% of his throwback, 70%
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: of his dropbacks. I don't think we got something here.
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not worried. All right. I like it. I like Resolute.
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: P is staying Resolute. Willie P with us. It is
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: Willie's World. It was supposed to be the From the
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: Beach edition. I probably shouldn't have even said that. Actually,
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: now I think about it. I don't mean to rub
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: it in Pete. I was just updating the fans on
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: the situation. You are really, really, really trying this morning. No,
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: and I shouldn't mess with Pete. He's like an angry dog.
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: It's like messing with the dog.
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: Mac never capitalizes on your moods.
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: Trust me. It's like messing with the dog in Sandlot
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: right now. I don't want to do this. Hey, old Hercules,
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: I just ran over the fence trying to get the ball.
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: Someone said, Willie, there's Lake Wiley, Lake Normandy, go for
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: a day trip. P-Man, now how about this one? And again,
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know how this is going to hit you,
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: but I just read them. We have a text here
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: that says that, does P-Man know what Eric McLean said
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: on the Kyle Bailey show? That Mizzou is the biggest
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: fraud in D1. Are you at the risk of the
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: risk of getting Cujo angry? Do you know about that?
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: I did not know about that. Um, for some reason,
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: Mizzou just loves me. It's just this, this universal whipping
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: boy right now, when it comes to a world of
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: college football, I see 50,000 tweets about, Oh, they shouldn't
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: be in the top 25. It shouldn't be that top 25.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: Here's my question to you. Why are you so worried
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: about the 25th team in the league? Like, why are
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: you so worried? The committee hasn't even come out with
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: rankings yet. Like, like you think I'm proud that we're
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: the 25th best team.
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: In the country.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: We lose on the road at Mississippi state. Like, I'm sorry.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: Like I'm, I don't have any illusions that they're going
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: to be anything this year.
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: Why are you worried? We're going to lose it to Florida.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: And then you can bitch about somebody else.
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, now we're getting... Well, Missouri's 1-9 versus ranked teams
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: since 2024. That might be part of the problem. Yeah,
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: you know, who cares?
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: Who cares? Why are you worried about the 25th team
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: in the country? Worry about your own house.
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, hold on. They have not beat a right SEC
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: team in that time period. We're really messing with Cujo now.
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Is your coach still employed right now?
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: I hope not. Which one?
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: Because Manny Diaz is, but the other one might not be.
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: Please specify, sir. I got to tell you, can we
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: Uber this man to the beach?
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: Rod is explaining that McClain said it in context of
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: Missouri still ranked when Wake, Pitt, and Virginia Tech are not.
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: And Duke. I guess in one of the polls, Duke
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: is in. You know, the coaches, but not in the AP.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: All right, P-Man, I'm afraid to know now, with the
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: tone you're coming with, with the fire you got today,
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: I am afraid to know who your uncultured swine is
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: because they are going to get it good.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: But who is your– Who's the only person we haven't
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: talked about yet? I guess we've got to talk about
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: LaMelo's baby mama having, you know, stealing somebody's prescription pad
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: and writing out a prescription for Xanax and getting popped
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: for that.
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that ain't good.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: That's– I got a text from somebody. I won't reveal who,
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: but somebody who is a Hornets fan, very prominent Hornets fan, said,
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: you know what? I don't mind us not having LaMelo's
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: thing anymore because it does seem like a lot less
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: things are going to be on our plate. We might
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: not win as many games, but at least we don't
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: have to deal with that anymore.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: That is true. So is she in? Is that it?
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: Everybody else gets spared?
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: No, I think I've kind of done a pretty good
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: job on everybody else so far. Okay.
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: Well, if you check the text line right now, there's
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: 100 people.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: All you're trying to do is enrage me this morning.
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: It's okay, though.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: It's fine.
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: There's about 100 people right now with advice on the
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: text line on how to handle this sticker situation.
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: I know. But here's the thing, though. It's got to
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: be what Willie's wife is comfortable with.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: Like it's easy for texters to be like, tell her
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: to just have the receipt or tell her to do this.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: But like if she, you know what I mean? If
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: your wife's not comfortable with anything.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: It's not, it's, it's, it's, here's the thing, guys. It's
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: not about the, the legality part of it. I know
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: it's legal. She knows it's legal. She just does not
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: meet anybody. is the problem.
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: She doesn't want to be.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: Pulled over on the road when she's on her way
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: to work. She's got an hour and a half commute.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: The last thing she, and she's got patients.
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: At 7 00 AM.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: The last thing she wants to do is meet a
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: South Carolina state trooper. And I 100% am in concert
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: with that.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: Speaker 0 5th. That's when you go with her and
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: you tell the cop, do you know who I am?
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: That's all this.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: Trust me. I'm not worried about it.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: Not being legal.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Like I understand all of that. And I told her
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: to just keep the receipt, the car, whatever. It's fine.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: All right. My favorite one though, was lighthearted.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: She.