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Mac & Bone Hour 4: Brian Dunseth & Rod Boone · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Marisa Putchattino has grown into the American culture and I
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  Speaker 1: think we have embraced him, but I think he is
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  Speaker 1: equally embraced up and maybe even more so, and he
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  Speaker 1: has immersed himself and tried to understand it. I think
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  Speaker 1: he has gained a tremendous amount of respect for what
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  Speaker 1: we are, and I think he a tremendous amount of
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  Speaker 1: knowledge for what we aren't as a soccer playing nation.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he has kind of harnessed all of
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  Speaker 1: that to try to get the best out of it,
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  Speaker 1: but to see where he came from and to see
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  Speaker 1: the pride that he feels. This is anything but a mercenary.
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  Speaker 1: Even if he were to leave after this World Cup,
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  Speaker 1: which is a likely thing, I think he is going
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  Speaker 1: to take a piece of America with him, not just
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  Speaker 1: but what happened on the field, but by this whole experience.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: That's Alexi Lallis on a State of the Union podcast.
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  Speaker 4: He did that after he got done on TV afterwards
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  Speaker 4: last night, talking about Pachettino and he has, Man, you
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  Speaker 4: saw him belting out country roads.
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  Speaker 3: What's more American from the Argentinian manager than that?
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  Speaker 4: So I love it, man, I love it. You can
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  Speaker 4: see the bond between him and his players. It's just
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  Speaker 4: the vibes with this team right now are so much
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  Speaker 4: fun and so freaking awesome. And I know our next
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  Speaker 4: guest is someone that fully appreciates it. That appreciates it,
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  Speaker 4: there's no doubt about it. A guy who has experience
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  Speaker 4: as a member of the US men's national team, a
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  Speaker 4: guy that is out there covering all forms of soccer,
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  Speaker 4: including US men's national teams games you'll see on Turner.
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  Speaker 4: He's with the MLS on Apple crew as well, and
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  Speaker 4: he's nice enough to join us to talk about this
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  Speaker 4: team that has captivated the nation. He is Brian Dunsith
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  Speaker 4: and he joins us here on the Mac and Bone Show. Brian,
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  Speaker 4: appreciate you man, How you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm fantastic gentlemen. Appreciate the time and always good to
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  Speaker 2: join you guys.
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  Speaker 3: How can you not be fantastic? Man? What's okay? So
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  Speaker 3: let's talk.
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  Speaker 4: Let's just start with the game yesterday itself. What did
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  Speaker 4: you think like because they showed different facets of them right,
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  Speaker 4: I thought they were dominating the ball when they were
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  Speaker 4: eleven on eleven, playing some you know, some pretty soccer,
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  Speaker 4: and then they had to roll their sleeves up after
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  Speaker 4: the balligin red card like they I just didn't they
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  Speaker 4: impress in multiple ways last night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I think the reality is that there's just
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  Speaker 2: this sense of urgency that we've seen from day one,
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  Speaker 2: from that game when it kicked off, it's so far
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  Speaker 2: against Paraguay. In credit to US Soccer, they had created
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  Speaker 2: a schedule whereas the US had already played Turkey A,
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  Speaker 2: they had played Paraguay, they'd played Australia. They were kind
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  Speaker 2: of understanding of what the potential of this World Cup
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  Speaker 2: draw would kind of look like, and they did a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic job kind of predicting. But I've been around this
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  Speaker 2: team for a long time and I saw kind of
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  Speaker 2: the highs and lows of the departure of Greg Burholter,
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  Speaker 2: the hiring of Marisa Pochettino, and I can promise you
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  Speaker 2: from day one, what we're seeing right now is all
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  Speaker 2: of the elements of accountability that we saw from the
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  Speaker 2: first moment that he stepped foot down in Austin, Texas
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  Speaker 2: for that first friendly against Panama. You know, oftentimes we
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  Speaker 2: kind of weaponize the word vibes because you know, we
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  Speaker 2: forget that these group of guys have been together for
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  Speaker 2: the better part of their entire adulthood. You know, they've
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  Speaker 2: been together since they're through their teen years. So there's
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  Speaker 2: a brotherhood, there's a camaraderie, but there also needed to
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  Speaker 2: be a certain amount accountability. And I think that Marisa Pochettino,
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  Speaker 2: with kind of that Argentinian national team background and participating
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  Speaker 2: in a World Cup, he reset I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: say the standards, but the growth pattern, the accountability, and
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  Speaker 2: through some traction with injury and for whatever reason, players
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  Speaker 2: not being available, we saw multiplication and the leadership of
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  Speaker 2: Chris Richards, of Tim Reim, of guys like Tyler Adams,
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  Speaker 2: of Wester McKinney, even the growth of guys like Alex Freeman.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a feel good time and I think these
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  Speaker 2: guys are recognizing much like you know, Tony Meola, Lexi Lalas,
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  Speaker 2: Marcelo ba Boa, John Harks, Eric when all the Tabramos,
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  Speaker 2: that this is their opportunity to etch their name in
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  Speaker 2: Stone in terms of legends of US soccer.
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  Speaker 3: What'd you think of the flow call last night, both
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  Speaker 3: the call and then the lasting impact of that to
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  Speaker 3: the next game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I'm actually surprised you didn't start with that,
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  Speaker 2: because I know that's the big top but topick here,
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  Speaker 2: here's a couple of things. I think, first and foremost,
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  Speaker 2: we're still looking for a certain amount of clarity when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to the intervention of VAR. The technology is perfect,
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  Speaker 2: but the human application becomes a different conversation, and I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of people, rightfully so are using the
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  Speaker 2: Lino Messi challenge and the game against Algeri, where no
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  Speaker 2: review was was sent, no referee wasn't set sent to
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  Speaker 2: the monitor, there was no yellow card, so Var the
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  Speaker 2: Venezuela mon Soto decided that through the reaching of the
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  Speaker 2: ball at the same time with Muharremvich the Bosnia and
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  Speaker 2: Herzegovina descender that there was enough there for a VR
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  Speaker 2: recommendation for a potential red card for serious self play.
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  Speaker 2: Now I didn't see it. I know the conversation always
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  Speaker 2: surrounds the word intent, and you've got to take intent
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  Speaker 2: out of it. But what I don't like is that
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  Speaker 2: there was an instinctual movement for both players to challenge
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  Speaker 2: for the ball, and I'm not really sure where flow
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  Speaker 2: Balligan's foot is supposed to land in a moment like that.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm coming from a former center backs perspective, so
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  Speaker 2: if I get caught, yeah, it hurts. But here's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like the heavy reliance on slow motion replays
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  Speaker 2: versus real time speed. And what concerns me, and this
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  Speaker 2: is LAT twelve endangering the safety of an opponent using
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  Speaker 2: accessive force. Just to be clear in the in the bylines,
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  Speaker 2: Muharevitch finishes the game. So when you're looking at the
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  Speaker 2: heavy reliance on flow motion replays, of course it's always
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  Speaker 2: going to look horrible. Of course, it's always going to
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  Speaker 2: look worse. But I don't think there is ever instinct,
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  Speaker 2: in any type of instinct in the incident in itself
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  Speaker 2: that would lead to kind of the idea of intent injured.
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  Speaker 2: And you could see the look of Bewill Toment from
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  Speaker 2: flow Balligant afterwards. It sucks because he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: out of the next game against Belgium. You know, Ricardo
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  Speaker 2: Peppian company are going to have to soldier on. But
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  Speaker 2: I love the response from the gutsiness of this group
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  Speaker 2: to deal with adversity in the moment.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely I did too, man, that was beautiful, But Dan,
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  Speaker 4: that call pissed me. Off and by the way, the
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  Speaker 4: way the game hell the tournament in general, it feels
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  Speaker 4: like they have aired on not calling stuff and then
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  Speaker 4: the game in general too dunny like the game in general.
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  Speaker 4: How many yellow.
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  Speaker 3: Cards should Bosni have had at that point, grabbing jerseys,
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  Speaker 3: pulling guys back when we get past them. It just
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  Speaker 3: it didn't even It was like contradiction from the way
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  Speaker 3: the game had been called. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Listen, I think the hardest part for all of us,
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  Speaker 2: especially here in the US, is that we wake up
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  Speaker 2: in the morning and we watched the Premier League and
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  Speaker 2: we watched the line of intervention and the referees involvement
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  Speaker 2: look different than what we see in Major League Soccer.
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  Speaker 2: Then we compare and contrast Tuesday and Wednesday nights and
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  Speaker 2: Champions League and seeing the different styles of refereeing in
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  Speaker 2: terms of the and listen, Pierre Luigia Karina has made
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  Speaker 2: it very clear he wants that bar of intervention extremely high.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I was surprising to all of us involved.
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  Speaker 2: And this isn't just like a home or American take.
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  Speaker 2: I think you saw the real big voices with in
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  Speaker 2: terms of the laws of the game and the experts
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  Speaker 2: and max. Referees really all were surprised that this crossed
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  Speaker 2: that threshold for var to suggest the referee head over
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  Speaker 2: to the monitor.
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  Speaker 4: I know every ref whether it was Klattenberg on the broadcast,
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  Speaker 4: Christine Uncle on CBS, like every ref expert I heard
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  Speaker 4: was you know at ESPN dot COM's they all said
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  Speaker 4: the same thing. So yeah, I don we sound like Homer's,
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  Speaker 4: but those experts we're saying it too. All right, Brian
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  Speaker 4: Done said this with us. You can watch him MLS
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  Speaker 4: on Apple covers. They will be back. FC's back with
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  Speaker 4: a rivalry game on July twenty second against Atlanta with
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  Speaker 4: Tim Riem by the way, the captain of this US team.
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  Speaker 4: So Bone was touching on this earlier and brought this up, like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: so we have to get past the flow ball again.
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  Speaker 4: Will not be with us for the Belgium game. So
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  Speaker 4: now I need you to tell me, like how much
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  Speaker 4: of a problem that is, because he just looks amazing
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  Speaker 4: right now, Like is it as simple? Do you think
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  Speaker 4: they plugged pepi in? And how worried should we be
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  Speaker 4: about playing them without flow?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Listen, I think the reason why we were all
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  Speaker 2: as Americans, we were all hopeful if that flow would
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  Speaker 2: make that one time switch a few years ago down
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  Speaker 2: in Orlando was because his player profile is so distinctly
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  Speaker 2: different than everybody else. There was another guy that I
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  Speaker 2: think would have been would have alleviated a lot of fears,
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  Speaker 2: and that would have been Patrick Agimont had he not
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  Speaker 2: done his achilles right before the World Cup roster was announced.
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  Speaker 2: And I say that it's not because I'm playing to
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  Speaker 2: the pulpit, but more importantly, I just think his player
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  Speaker 2: profile is different. And so all credits to Ricardo Pepe listen.
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  Speaker 2: He's been outstanding for both club and country, but he's
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  Speaker 2: a different type of player. He scores a ton of
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  Speaker 2: goals for psd Over in Hollands and then in the
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  Speaker 2: Champions League as well, so he's the guy that can
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  Speaker 2: score Hajji writes and other options. But I would also
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  Speaker 2: suggest that we saw a little bit of what we
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  Speaker 2: saw against Portugal in March, where Marisa Poctino is thinking
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  Speaker 2: about playing Christian in that hybrid of a number nine position.
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  Speaker 2: So he's going to have options. And here's the one
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  Speaker 2: thing guys that I learned, no matter how hard you
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  Speaker 2: try to predict and analyze, what do you think Marisa
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  Speaker 2: Pochtino is going to do. There's always going to be
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  Speaker 2: a wrinkle because he and his coaching staff are constantly
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  Speaker 2: thinking about what they need to do. So take away
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  Speaker 2: the disappointment of losing that game against Belgium in Atlanta
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  Speaker 2: and the friendly. I thought they were solid, but they
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  Speaker 2: weren't great. They gave up too many, the margins were
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  Speaker 2: too small, and a team that can punish you when
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  Speaker 2: you turn the ball over, so they have a they
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  Speaker 2: have a familiarity with Belgium. The question is can they
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  Speaker 2: capitalize without a guy like Globaligan, who's just a difference
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  Speaker 2: maker on all levels?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think there? I'll ask you to put a
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  Speaker 3: percentage on it.
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  Speaker 4: What percent chance is it that Pachettino signs that contract
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  Speaker 4: he's been offered or signs a new contract with the
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  Speaker 4: US men's national team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty slim when I like to see him stay absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: But you have to understand that we're dealing with it
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  Speaker 2: with a different animal when it comes to Marisa Puchetino.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's unlike the Jurgen Klinsman timeline because
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  Speaker 2: Marisa has been so successful with domestic football. You know
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  Speaker 2: where he talked about Espaniel Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur. I know
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  Speaker 2: people kind of use the reference point of PSC even
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  Speaker 2: the departure of Chelsea, but he and his staff are
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  Speaker 2: absolutely fantastic and there's a reason why his name is
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  Speaker 2: always linked to the big jobs. So I wasn't surprised
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  Speaker 2: when the story came out in the Athletic. Those whispers
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  Speaker 2: have been around even previously. I believe JK. Batson had
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  Speaker 2: kind of like publicly talked about it, but it was
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  Speaker 2: more like the English press getting their fingers in it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there has to have been a conversation in
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  Speaker 2: a feeling out process, but I believe it would be
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  Speaker 2: naive to think that the United States in the national
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  Speaker 2: team in this next cycle is the only option that
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  Speaker 2: he and his coaching staff are going to have.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I kind of felt I was afraid
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  Speaker 4: to ask the question, but I needed here. I needed
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  Speaker 4: to hear the truth, Dunny, and you gave it to us. Hey, Man,
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  Speaker 4: enjoy it. Looking forward to getting you and all the
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  Speaker 4: MLS Apple folks back together too when the season gets
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  Speaker 4: going again. Thanks for spending some time with us, Man,
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  Speaker 4: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for having Meg you buddy.
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  Speaker 4: That's Brian done Sit, affectionately known as dunny Bone. And
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  Speaker 4: I did not ask. Somebody said, Mac is acting like
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  Speaker 4: he knows this guy. I didn't ask for permission. I
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  Speaker 4: just started going Dunny.
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  Speaker 3: I just on his bio it says Brian Dunny dune Sit.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody that like hosts with him on TV or radio
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  Speaker 3: calls in that. Yeah, I mean, so I didn't I did.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have for permission. I just me with Guess.
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  Speaker 3: I just act like I'm buddies with them all. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that was I think that wasn't like Mac
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  Speaker 3: Jeff that was his already nickname. I don't think it is.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't like you going bony or something. That was
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  Speaker 3: why his nickname I.
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  Speaker 2: Do I have.
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  Speaker 3: It's a pattern, man, I try to you want to
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  Speaker 3: make the guests a comfort book. I'm your friend, Guess
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  Speaker 3: you're like a baseball manager. It adds wise to nicknames.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's the best way. That's the best way to
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  Speaker 3: hockey nickname too. Just add the y on there. A
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  Speaker 3: couple of people have brought this up, peppil Stan. I
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  Speaker 3: forget who the original person to bring this up is,
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  Speaker 3: but it is just a point being here in Charlotte
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  Speaker 3: that we should mention when Patrick Azimon got injured bone,
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  Speaker 3: severe injury put him out for you know, nine ten
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  Speaker 3: months or whatever right toward the knee up. When he
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  Speaker 3: had that injury over in England, playing in the championship
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  Speaker 3: over there. I hated it for him because he was
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  Speaker 3: in line to be on this team, and multiple people
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  Speaker 3: bring up a hell of a point this could this
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  Speaker 3: could have been a spot for him. Oh yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean, because Pepe is good.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't feel like, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 4: Like I do think there's a legit chance that Azimond
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  Speaker 4: could have been on this team and next man up
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  Speaker 4: if he was healthy. So again, it sucks for him, man,
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, I still I'm with you, Bone. I think
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  Speaker 4: these boys will do it even without Flow.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just it sounds like no one thinks the experts
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  Speaker 3: don't think there's any way that Flow gets an extra
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  Speaker 3: game added on, which FIFA has a right to do.
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  Speaker 3: We can't appeal it to reduce it, but they can
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  Speaker 3: add it on if they view it as serious, you know, misconduct.
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  Speaker 3: But it seems like most of the experts don't think
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna happen. How was he doing over there? Like,
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  Speaker 3: how was he He was doing great?
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  Speaker 4: Man, he was doing great and he was doing good
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  Speaker 4: with the US men's national team. He played in a
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  Speaker 4: lot of those tournaments last summer, remember Gold Cup and
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  Speaker 4: those tournaments. Yeah, he was playing well. So it does suck. Man,
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  Speaker 4: this could have been his moment.
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  Speaker 3: But I just I hope he's got a moment in
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  Speaker 3: four years, maybe you know, with us, but our boy
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  Speaker 3: Reem is representing Charlotte. Man, he played real good last night.
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  Speaker 3: This time, it's amazing he has won Fitty over. What
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  Speaker 3: do you think he's a bigger honor to Tim Mareen
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  Speaker 3: Bone when he was made US men's national team captain
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  Speaker 3: or when he heard this morning through the grapevine that
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  Speaker 3: off Tim Reem. Critic Fitty has now said, this dude
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  Speaker 3: is bond. This guy had to go captain the US
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  Speaker 3: team for Fiddy to be a fan of his. All right,
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  Speaker 3: we come back. Rod Boone talked to Charlotte Hornets. Does
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  Speaker 3: he see a plan? We'll ask him. Sports Radio ninety seven, Sports.
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  Speaker 4: Radio ninety two seven, wfn Z Mack and Bone with
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  Speaker 4: you coming up on the show. Bone is just digging
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  Speaker 4: up so many gems over there for us during the show. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 4: all I do is keep going back to that box
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  Speaker 4: of donuts the Knight sent to us. By the way,
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  Speaker 4: Charlotte Knights go to Charlotte Knights games. They just brought
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  Speaker 4: us to greatest donuts. Please buy their tickets.
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  Speaker 3: Fiddy was hesitant to go get the donuts now, and
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  Speaker 3: now he's been back there three times since they brought
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  Speaker 3: the good good too. Man, Like these things are big
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  Speaker 3: and all different flavors. Oh man.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, while we were Fitty and I were eating
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  Speaker 4: those donuts, the bone man has found a couple of nuggets.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to hear before we get out of here,
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  Speaker 4: a story where I think it might be the most
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  Speaker 4: selfish moment in athletes ever had. I gotta be honest
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  Speaker 4: with you, this is amazing to me. And you're going
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  Speaker 4: to hear Kyle Pitt's response when asked about what kind
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: of fantasy season he's gonna have. This has to be
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  Speaker 4: the least confident answer I have ever heard. But anyway,
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  Speaker 4: all right, so we got stuff that will amuse you
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the way. If we can't do that ourselves,
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  Speaker 4: these headlines, these sound bites will do just that. But
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  Speaker 4: right now, let's bring in a man who's going to
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  Speaker 4: help us entertain you, because we want some information and
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  Speaker 4: some opinions from a guy that covers the Hornet's day
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  Speaker 4: in and day out on the active week. Last week
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  Speaker 4: with the trades, they kind of quiet, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: couple of days with free agency. This week he is
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  Speaker 4: Rod Boone every day covering the Charlotte Hornets for you
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  Speaker 4: for the Paper Record and Charlotte to Charlotte Observer. And
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  Speaker 4: Rod joins us here on the Mac and Bone Show.
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  Speaker 4: Hey Rod, thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing doing?
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  Speaker 5: How you doing today?
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  Speaker 3: Hub?
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Rod?
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Doing good?
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: We got so much to talk about, obviously when it
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: comes to the team that you cover and that we
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: root for. Let's just start with the LaMelo trade itself, Like,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: how shocked were you that that they that they did that?
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: And do you how do you kind of feel about it?
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Do you understand it? Do you think they made a mistake,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: good move? How do you kind of evaluate that move?
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: That's a load of question, man, A lot going on.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: There was a lot going on. Well, first of all,
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: I was kind of shocked for a couple of reasons.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: But let me just set the steam up a little
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: before you guys. After the trade deadline in February, I
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: remember asking Jeff Peterson, there's availability about just hey, like,
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: did you have any more potential, you know, trades out there?
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: And you mentioned how he got calls pretty much when
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: everybody's starting five for the owners, but he wanted to
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: kind of see how the team fared the rest of
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: the season. So in that context, I guess I kind
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: of get it, but it still kind of took me
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: for a loop a little bit because I thought that
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: they would give LaMelo maybe one more season so that
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: maybe if they didn't have a great year this year,
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: trade dinline comes up in February or maybe next summer,
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: you say, okay, you know what, it's not working out
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: here the way we thought to. Lets go ahead and
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: just change course. But for them to do it at
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: this particular point, I was surprised. But I also understand
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: because right now, LaMelo had his best season in terms
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: of playing games in basicy three or four seasons, so
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: when you factor in his trade value, too figured this
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: particular juncture to probably go out there and get what
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: they could for him because they didn't think he was
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: probably they want to lead them to the promised land
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: long term, so that being the case, you make it
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: makes sense to go out there and trade him now.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: But I still I'm kind of, you know, trying to
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: figure out, as most people are, what the next move
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: is here, because when you get rid of your superstar player,
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: who is a guy who brings tickets for you and
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: put seats in and puts fans in their seats for you,
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: it's kind of hard to sell them on what's next
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: when they haven't seen a move made for a week
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: or so. Here.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Rod, When you look at the timing of the Wamelo trade,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: when you see all the movement this week and Jalen
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Brown and all that's going on, why do you think
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: and does it surprise you that the Hornets moved Wamelo
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: so fast instead of waiting to maybe see what could
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: play out into this week.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's true. But I think people really put
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: tunes together and thought that, hey, when Melo was traded,
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: maybe Jalen Brown's coming here to the Hornets. But what
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: I was told from the get go, even back to
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: like last Friday, like that was not the case. He
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: was not coming here. Jaylen Brown so even though they
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: have the assets, they have the you know, trade exception,
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: they have these different things to be able to take
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: on Jalen Brown his salary. It wasn't going to happen
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: here right now. So I'm definitely surprised that they didn't
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: maybe wait a little bit longer. But it also tells
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: you right there that that was most likely the best
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: deal they can get Philamelo, and they figured, let's go
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: for the Gusto now, then wait and get cold feet,
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: and you know, cheams change our minds, you know, in
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: a week or so.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Why do you think Jalen Brown was not in play here?
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: I just think it's the timeline. I mean, if you
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: think about it, you just got rid of essentially your
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: star player who's in his mid twenties. You got rid
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: of his best friend and you know, his Allue Buddy
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: and Miles Bridges. You have all these young players in
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: here now with you know, Calm being a second year player,
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: you brought in Christian Anderson, you draft to Hanes Steinback.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: It's like he doesn't fit the timeline. All the guys
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: around him would be young players. So even though you
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: can sell tickets with Jaylen Brown and get fans excited.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: I'm just not sure if it would work in terms
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: of putting a winning and product that's going to sustain
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: itself for two or three years long term. So Jlen Brown,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: he's a big name, but the Hornets are trying to
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: do the short game here, even though fans don't like it,
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: it's what they're trying to do.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: We're talking to Rod Boone Charlotte Observer check out all
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: his Hornets coverage and the Charlotte Observer Charlotte Observer dot com.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: As far as what's next, that's the question right that
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: we keep asking ourselves and we've covered it that Jalen
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Brown wasn't you know the move that was next? What
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: do you think, like do you think it'll be a
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: quiet rest of the off season, and what do you like?
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: What do you think might happen with the trade exception
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: as well? When? When do you think and how do
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: you think that could be used?
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Well, if you think about it, look at the free
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: agent list for the most part right now is not
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: a great list. All the top guys that you may
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: have wanted to bring in here potentially already off the board.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: And even then on top of that, timeline wise how
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: they fit what you're doing this season. So from my perspective,
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: they do something the Hornets the summer, Yes, they could,
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: but it depends again who becomes available. From my perspective,
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: I believe the Hornets will just set themselves up portray
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: deadline in February and for next summer, even though fans
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: probably don't want to hear that they're playing again the
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: long game. That makes sure they are in place to
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: be able to go out there and get this corminal
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: superstar or somebody who doesn't want to player where they're
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: currently playing and bring them more on board here and
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: build a round said player. So I believe that's how
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: they've used the trade sception is to get a potentially
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: big name player in here that isn't working out simwhere,
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: and usually those things will happen until again, once the
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: team figures out how they're going where the season is,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: they have injuries to kind of figure out. So from
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: my perspective, I don't believe it's gonna happen this summer,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: because it ask will we But I think the Horns
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: are trying to play a long game here and have
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: the worth all stuff in place to be able to
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: make a big deal when the time is ready come
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: February or next summer potentially Rod.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: When it comes to the return player wise, for Miles Bridges,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Grayson Allen, Royce O'Neill, are you expecting those guys to
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: be a part of this organization? Will they will they
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: flip those guys? What do you think about those two
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: guys as being depth pieces here?
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: I mean they're better than players from from my perspective, Yeah,
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: they can be here for a while. But like anything else, again,
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: timeline wise, if you aren't having a great season, if
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: you are going to make the playoffs once again this
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: year for some reason, it's not going to direction that
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: you wanted to. Those guys could be value with pieces
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: to flip and get more trade asked that some more
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: draft picks. So while they're here now, I'm not sure
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: they're going to be here long term. Now again, what
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: long term is I don't know. But the wholenus right
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: now just trying to again acquire pieces to be able
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: to make themselves better in the marketplace. So while Grayson
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Allen and Worsill Neil are better than pieces, I don't
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: believe they'll be around here long term.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I got to ask you this question, Rod, because we're
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: getting it all the time, and you know, I don't
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: know someone who covers this team day in and day out.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: I want to get your opinion on it.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: A lot of fans are asking, hey, if they you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: kind of knew all along in their minds, Hey, you know,
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: we're not totally sold on the Mellow. You know, why
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: did they not look to make the Mellow move or
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: the Miles move at the trade deadline last year and
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: try to get picks that could be in on last
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: year's great draft. That's I'm sure you're getting it from
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: readers too. What do you think is the answer to
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: their thinking on that?
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Again, I just think they just figured this is the
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: right time to do it. If they believed that was
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: the right time to do it previously, then I guess
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: they would have done that move. And I agree with you.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: I understand people are coming from you want to be
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: able to kind of have the wherewithal to have stuff
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: in place for for the NBA Draft. That's why it
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: also kind of caught me off guard that it happened
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: the second day of the NBA Drive, essentially when the
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: travels are pretty much over. But again, that tells me
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: like anything else. Look at Jaylen Brown's trade, all right,
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: they got Paul George who's older than him, and a
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: first round ticking, a couple of draft pick swaps. If
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: you asked anybody a month ago if that trade probably
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: would have happened, he would have said not enough to
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: get Jayleen Brown. But the trade market is what it is,
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: So I really believe that deep down inside the Hornets
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: scoured the market. I mean, Jeff Peterson for the most
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: part before this last week or so, the fans loved
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: his moves, his trade, his acquisitions. So in a month,
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: the guy became dumb. I just kind of hard to
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: believe that, you know what I mean. I'm pretty sure
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: he knew he was doing in terms of trying to
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: get this trade done and find the best route, the
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: best accede to come back to his his way. So
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: even though it didn't happen, maybe in the time frame
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: fans wanted to. You gotta believe Jeff Pearson has been
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: working this deal, trying to figure out who can he
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: get flamelo ball for months now, and turns out the
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: best package was what he got from Minnesota.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Text Line says that Mac and Bone are interrogating Rod
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: like he made the moves. Sorry, they're not talking over there, Rod.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: So sorry if that's how and said we want the truth, Rod.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: It's okay, man, I mean that's that's how fans are
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: right now. God, fans want answers, and hey, I know
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: that they're trying to, you know, shake me down. But
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: at the at the end of the day, as you
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: mentioned this, Jeff Pearson, it's Rick Snall, it's gay plocking.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Those guys are in control, so they know what they're doing.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: And even though the fans again may not like what
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: they've done, you've got to believe that behind the scenes,
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: there's stuff that people don't know about, you know what
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: I mean, Like somebody see that people don't see that
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: goes on every day. Maybe if the owners didn't feel that,
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: those guys would the people to lead them to the
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: promised land. So even though again it doesn't make sense
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: to the average fan, I'm telling you, man, these guys
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: have played this for a long time. They just became
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: owners a few years ago, but they've known for a
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: while how this NBA landscape works. So even though fans
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: in a upset and I totally get it, A ten
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: year playoffs. Drought may not end again this year. So
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: do you have a reason to be upset if you're
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: paying exhorbited money for tickets to go to games? I
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: get that, But the Hornets got trust him right now,
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: even though it's hard to Jeff Puston and trust Rick
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Snall and gave pocket and figured that that's going to
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: actually turn itself around the way fans hope to even
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: great stuff.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Read Rod Boone's coverage of this team and feel free to, uh,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: you know, to tweet him or email him questions and
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: interrogate him as well. We don't want to be as arrogating, right,
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Peterson's being deceptive here. This is Rod Boone that he's
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: run the short observer. This is not Peterson. Oh my gosh,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: I rock you, rock man. I appreciate you. Listeners are
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: detecting deception. It's not Jeff Peters. That is hilarious. It
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: probably did sound like that because we just want answers,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: because your point earlier.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Can't talk yet. You did your stand up at one
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: point when you want answered, you stand up. You can't.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: You can't handle the truth, all right, couple, I feel
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: like I feel good there that we interrogated the wrong guy.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: A couple of things here real quick.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: I'll just say this, because this guy says, we got
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: to run Jeff Peterson out of town.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: I really, I haven't age said. You are trying to
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: shake me down. I have an angel and the devil
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: on each shoulder, all right. The Angel is saying to
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: me what Rod is saying. Jeff Peterson is smart.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: He is getting rave reviews around the league for people
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: to cover the league and know the league. He is
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: doing a very concocted build and there is a real
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: plan and that is a good thing. The devil is saying, Bro,
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: this team was so much fun last year and they're
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: taking a step back. And so but I can acknowledge
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: that I do not share the feeling that some of
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: y'all have, which is Jeff Peterson's at ignorant boob, which
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: is a text we.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Got earlier that was that was the quote this guy sounds.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I guarantee you Jeff Peterson's fired within two years. I
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: will bet you on that one. Yeah.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: By they are taking their time with this one. And
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: this is a plan that ownership is one hundred percent
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: on board with. Matter of fact, ownership started this plan
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: before Jeff Peterson was hired. I do want to mention
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: bone the couple of the teases we have we had here. Yep,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: the one is the most selfish thing I've ever seen
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: done in sports, potentially. Tim Hardaway's senior is a Miami
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Heat legend. His number ten is retired by the Miami Heat.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: He will not his son just signed with the Miami Heat.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Tim Hardaway Junior, he will not let his own son
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: get the number out of retirement and wear it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: He said, that's my number, that's my legacy. I've not
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: seen that before. Usually, by the way, it's own son.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: You're still honored. It's just it, you're still honored as
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: a legend. It's not like you're I mean, what are
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: you doing there? Man? He's like junior eight worth number ten. Bro,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: get the heck down and get you own number, junior.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Could you see dol Kurree Mack doing that for seth
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: what he played here? Oh that's my number. There's no way,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, that's amazing. All right, let's bring a
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: man dog, says did Mack say he's got a devil
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: with a doughnut on eachhoulder. As far as these donuts, go.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: It's all devils, all devils on each shoulder right now. Fitty,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: jump in here, Fitty, you would if you had offspring, Fitty,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: you would let them. When you're when your microphone's retired
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: at WFNZ, you will let Fiddy Junior use that microphone.
• 29:51
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• 29:55
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• 30:00
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• 30:04
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• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Here you go, Fitty, be well played by the way,
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: zacky baby, said Tim Hardaway Senior to Junior. You could
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: have my name, but not my number. Yeah, I gave
• 31:08
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• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Hell though, I like that, big pain, says Fitty Junior.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Will not have access to Mama's pool, I mean the
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: pool this weekend.
• 31:19
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• 31:22
  Speaker 6: straight days in the Hondos, triple freaking digits.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Dude, Fitty, now that you live with mama, that's your
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: pool though. And that's not just mama's pool. Oh that's
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: my pool. There you go, Baby man's got a pool
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: in his pad. Ladies, you're gonna bring the ladies over
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: fitting to the pool.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to find one.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Where's Willmington at and Wilmington flown gonna be over flown,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: gonna be over there doing cannonballs in his speedo this
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: weekend at mama's pool. Flound refuses to come swimming is
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: he allowed there at mamas?
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, he's a he's a member of the family.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: Flounder thinks it's weird that I'll invite him over, like
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: to come out.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: I've got a big speaker, get some beers. Yeah I can't.
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: He thinks it's weird for guys to go swimming like
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: you just in the pool, drink a few beers, listen
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: to some music.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Not the game. I need to ask though, what what
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: are you wearing in the pool?
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Level?
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: This could be what do you have on in this thing?
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: I have a swimsuit, Max Sawid. When I went to
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: the Billy the neighborhood, I can see.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: You going on naturral in the backyard only when it's
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: dark outside. Don't make me kick my donuts up.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I just ate.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: All right, Matt, we come back. We're gonna tell you
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: what Kyle Pitts said. Right, That's what we're gonna do.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you gotta hear this. We got a lot
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: of World Cup going on, and wait till you hear
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Mac the surprise guests at the Taylor Travis Kelsey Wedding News,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Big News Shows, Sports Radio ninety two seven, w FNZ,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Fucking Fantasy owners expect for the year this year, I
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Fantasy is so up and there, I just wonder.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: I hope I get as many points as I can please,
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: oh Man Mac. That is Kyle Pittser out of camp
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: as a New York Butcher Shop Cut of the Day
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Instagram and why Butcher Wine bar back. How often do
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: you hear players say, yeah, I don't really know what
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: we're gonna do in fantasy this year. It's all up
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: in the air. I don't really know. That's not a
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: good sign for the quarterbacks in Atlanta, is it? No?
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: Or the Falcons who just paid him eighteen million a year.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: He's like, I got paid now, I really don't care
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: what my numbers are, so don't draft me, Fantasy owners.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: At least he was honest, just like Tim Hardaway Senior
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: was honest, No, you can't have my numbers.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Most of the time the guy would say, yeah, I'm
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: expecting a great year we got no matter who the
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: quarterback is. I mean, I'm happy, I'm settled in. He said,
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: I don't really know what we're gonna do. At least
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: he didn't say I'm not gonna do much. Did you
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: have you seen my scrubby quarterbacks. At least he didn't
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: go there.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Maybe that's what he was thinking, Bone is, I can't
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: do anything with these two throwing the ball to me.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: Probably were just thinking, oh man, all right, anyway, fun
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: show man. Hopefully y'all are enjoying this US men's national
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: team as much as we are.
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  Speaker 3: I can't imagine.
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait to see what the ratings were last night,
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: and can't imagine what the ratings will be for the
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: Round of sixteen on Monday night. We got three more
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: matches today, two more days, Bone of the round of
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: thirty two that includes Spain against Austria, Portugal, Croatia, and
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: then Switzerland against Algeria. We also have the Braves trying
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: to actually win a series for a change here if
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: they can beat the Cardinals tonight as well. We have
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: massive chaos in the group chat. That is me, you, Willie,
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Fiddy and Flounder. Alounder is livid. There you go through,
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: excuse me, let me go through this year. Flounder says,
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: Fitty is lying, have never been invited to the pool.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Fitty didn't respond, you are so full of bleep, and
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: he goes on to explain why Flounder says, not true.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: Make it up Bleep for radio. Fiddy says, you said it.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: It wasn't cool for guys to swim together. That keeps
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: going on and on.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Then Fiddy says fine, mother Bleeper comes swimming this weekend.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Fighter says, sounds good. Then Willie says, where's my invite?
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Now they're fighting over Oh my god, get the p
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: man involved at that pool party. Not them in a heartbeat, though,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: come on, mother Bleeper, all right? Sounds good.
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: They're like they are like a married couple. It is
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: crazy how much like an old mery couple of y'all
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: are fitty.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: It ended with them just hanging out Saturday. I'm not
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: gonna lie.
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  Speaker 6: There are sometimes I am bellish a thing or two
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: for radio. That's what a good producer does. I've been
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: going swimming at this pool for four years. I have
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: asked him for four years, hey man, he come over
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: and go swimming, and he has told me no. Like
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: I this is not one that I'm lying. I've lied
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: about a lot of other things. This is not one
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: of them.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: I don't want to get between the two of you
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: in this spat all right, Why sir Wine wants to
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: belly flopp in the pool and do his chunk dunk
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: chunky dunk? Is that chunky dunk?
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: I do it all the time in there.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: All right, let's get to some of these Let's get
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: to some of these texts here, Bone Man seven oh four, five,
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: seven oh nine, six ten, keep them coming. Amid shared
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: with us something bone that you saw. I have not
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: seen this that apparently people online are calling the three
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: Laker white dudes that are making all the money now Kessler, Luca,
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: and Austin Reeves snow Time.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: This the snow Time Lakers. That's pretty good.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: We also have a texture saying please tell me you
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: guys played to Stephen A. Smith audio and lit him up.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: Someone needs to stand up for white people. This is offensive.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Do we need to play this now? Do we do
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: we need to do? How do you not just laugh
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: at How do you not just say he's.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Not he's not He doesn't have a serious voice on
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: He's just messing around. Does he have a point though?
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Now I'm gonna be in trouble.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: All right, listen to this is Steven A's podcast talking
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: about what they bone snow Time, the Three, the Three
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: Pale dudes that are now making all the money for
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: the Lakers.
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: Where the hell the Los Angeles Lakers think they gone
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: with a bunch of white dudes. Somebody had to say, so,
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: I'm saying it, your three top players of white dudes. Really,
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: this ain't golf, this ain't baseball. Hell, it ain't even suck.
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: And we got a whole bunch of brothers on Team USA.
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: But y'all think this is basketball. This is basketball in
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: NBA history. When have you seen your three most prominent
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: players on a basketball team all be white? And that
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: takes you to the promised that somebody got to say
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: so I'm saying it.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess back three of the top four
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Celtics probably were. I don't know if oh yeah, eighty
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: six Celtics though that Wolden on the batch. I don't
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: think a.
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: Nineteen nineties duke would like a like to raise their
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: hands for this one.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Well, they had hurry and later, but three, I mean
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Grant Hill was there for them. I don't know if
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: they had three. I mean they had a.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: Bunch, but eight off Roup Kentucky, which yeah, well that's
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: a different that's a different era.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: We don't want to go back back back when there
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: was a biggot coach in Kentucky and they had they
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: had five best players. Are way back? Can we go
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: tow something now we can vote? Are you offended?
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: Do you want to The text wants us to stand
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: up for white people and fireback.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: I want to sense deep offense by you. Let me
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: stand up for white basketball players. I'm just saying, it's
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: just silliness. Man. We can we talk about something that
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: we all agree on, and that is that we can't
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: wait for the Taylor Swift Travis Kelsey wedding that takes
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: place in the wedding America's Royal Wedding tomorrow, y'all. And
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: the royal wedding involves royal guests. Mag Who were the
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: five people that got invited yesterday to the wedding? Mackers,
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: But the New York Knicks starting five has been invited
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: to the wedding. That would be Brunston Heart and Anobe
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Bridges a cat. There's apparently gonna be one thousand people
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: at this thing. If the Madison Square Garden thing is true.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Some people think it's it's it's a ruse or whatever.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Designed it's a decoy, you know, destination and all that stuff.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: They're just throwing.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: Taylor's like, yeah, I had fun at the next game.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: Those three, those five guys that are on the court
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: when it started. Let's get them there.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Travis, by the way, the hell Travis Kelsey a fan
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: of the team the Knicks.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Beat in the Eastern Conference finals, and Taylor was at
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: that game and wasn't cheering for the next.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: So Donovan's at there. Donovan Bichel can't get the invite.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Oh man, anyway, that's gonna be a circus. Where do
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: you think that Taylor's allowing Jason Kelsey to shit at
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: this wedding because he could go. He can go tarps
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: off of this thing. You see Jason Kelsey's tweet last
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: night that during the soccer game, ball don't lie b
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: when Tillman hit the freak kick, which was a banger,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: by the way, when he hit that freak kick after
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: the red card for flow, that's what he tweeted out.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: That is beautifully beautiful. We also knew to mention, well,
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Willie's here.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: I don't know if Willy heard earlier that we have
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: a spot I guess from your your club Charlotte f C.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: And the goalie wars thing the media goalie wars? Are
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: you already in this? I I knew that you guys
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: were auctioning off a spot. I don't believe I have
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: a spot. Could dedicate it to me?
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: Okay, because you and Walker are the two fan choices
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: and Murphy do you like?
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Do you want to? Why Shoppy not get he got
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: a little bit, but then we play it run. We're
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: not sure Spy can go out in the sun yet
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: he's still talking of there, George Hamilton, Shoppy Poppy want
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: to wear pads, probably why he can't cover a goal
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: that big man. He's got to cover that a little
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: small But you to be agile to be a goalie.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Do you do you want? And that's why I think
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: you are a choice, That's why I want to do this.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Or do you?
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: Are you deferring to Walker because this is your territory soccer?
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: I feel like for comedy's sake, I'd be the better choice.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Good because I already said that. But but I think
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: if you want to win, you go with Walker. Walker's
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: got a little bit better wingspan. Us be honest, we don't.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: We'd rather you in there and see what this dude said.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: You can't put Mickey Mouse in the goal. Get at sir, sir,
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: have some respect. That's not nice, dude, is a good
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Why are we doing that? I'm surprised that neither of
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: the two presumed soccer goalkeepers in this room didn't injury.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: I beg I don't know from injury. That is that
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: an injury caused by your new pup. No, it's been
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: flared up because I'm hav't to move more right, you
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: know it really is. I'll by the way back. Andy
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Staples leaves you guys with the soccer question. Love it
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: when the non soccer people like us jump into this thing.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Andy Staple says, why can't referees create a universal hand
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: signal that says I gave you the call stop rolling
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: on the ground. When they roll and just keep rolling
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: like that, that's beautiful. When they do like four, like
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: fourteen rolls, that is like, bro, yeah the call, The
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: teammates watch them roll, and the eventually are like, okay,
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: what's let's stop roll? How about the Senegal player literally
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: going down on the spot yesterday to the Belgian penalty
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: like I won't let you even take a penalty. I'm
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: gonna we're gonna have a situation like Afkhan back in
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: the winter. I think it was I think it was smart.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: I think he was trying to realize this game could
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: end right now if I roll around. Was part of
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: why the reason you know, the players will protect the spot.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Like if you get a penalty a player, guys, they'll go,
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: they'll try to go kick get a message that we'll go,
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: try to make a divot in there. So like you'll
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: see the team that's taking the penalty literally go and
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: stand on the spot and say, no, you're not gonna
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: come here, make me give you like two or three
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: minutes here or whatever I gotta do here. It's absurd.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: It is absurd, and that was the most absurd of
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: them all. I'm going to lay on your penalty spot.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Always it's always man. Senegal always brings the drama. I'm
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: telling you.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: The drama in this World Cup spent amazing, man, it has.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: Willy's going to talk about it and more coming up.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: I'm coming home, don't you deciding today? He's here on
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: all in sports today bones headed home to pop duty.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: We're out of here, y'all. We are here tomorrow, we
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: are here tomorrow. We'll talk to you on a Friday
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: back in Bone show.