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Mac & Bone Show- Monroe Freeling · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody. It is the Mac m Bone Show,
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ lea FNZ we That's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say. Are live from Panther training camp.
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasters need training camp too, all right, I got to
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  Speaker 1: learn how to speak. Apparently before the season. Our next
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  Speaker 1: guest man, we have been talking about him. He's been
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  Speaker 1: a story this training camp. Starting on the right side
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  Speaker 1: with Taylor moten out. He is Monroe Freeling first round
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  Speaker 1: draft Bick Monroe. Welcome to the show. How you doing, man?
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  Speaker 2: Going pretty good?
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  Speaker 1: How's the NFL life?
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Is it stressful? Is it?
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  Speaker 1: How different is it from being the student athlete to Georgia.
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  Speaker 4: No, I think it's easier having no Classay, it's definitely
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  Speaker 4: the intensity he's picked up. So it's been good and
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  Speaker 4: it's been fun to really just focus on football and
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  Speaker 4: that's it.
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  Speaker 3: How does playing at a high level in the SEC
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  Speaker 3: at Georgia help you immediately come in and help out
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  Speaker 3: like you are going to do.
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  Speaker 2: I really think it's the way we practice.
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  Speaker 4: Like comparing in like the fall camps, I mean the
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  Speaker 4: training camps, I'd say that this one is relatively easier
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  Speaker 4: compared to schedule, and I have a lot more time
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  Speaker 4: to know, get my body right and kind of focus
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  Speaker 4: on football, look at my plays. And so coming from
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  Speaker 4: Georgia's such an intense schedule. Not to mention like how
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  Speaker 4: we practice the tempo, it's pretty similar to that we
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  Speaker 4: practice here with the Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: So you are a coach says hey, I had a
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  Speaker 1: plan where he's battling on the left side with Rashid Walker.
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  Speaker 1: We get the unfortunate news with Timo and man, I
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  Speaker 1: hope he gets well. But there you already says hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's go time. Now, we got to put you on
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  Speaker 1: the right side. What has it been like over there
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  Speaker 1: early on? And are you are you feeling like, oh
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  Speaker 1: crap or are you feeling like, hell, yeah, I got
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  Speaker 1: I got this. How are you feeling about it?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I enjoy being thrust in the fire like this.
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  Speaker 4: I think it forces me to get better faster. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, having this opportunity, you know, you know, God
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  Speaker 4: forbidd you know, team out right, but you know, being
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  Speaker 4: this position and being able to you know, get better
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  Speaker 4: so fast, and you know, it is definitely a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of a learning curve just from you know, a
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  Speaker 4: flexibility standpoint, like the plays are the same, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: your hips and your ankles are a little more flexible
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  Speaker 4: on the other side. And so for at least his
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  Speaker 4: first practice, I think it was just kind of getting
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  Speaker 4: used to the flexibility point and kind of redefining my set.
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  Speaker 4: Going back to the basics.
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  Speaker 3: What's it been like to play with Rob Hunts so far?
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  Speaker 3: We always laugh and marvel at his quotes and everything
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  Speaker 3: he's about. What's it been like to play next to
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  Speaker 3: Big Rob?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's super helpful, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I think one of the first things he says is like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you let me know what you need, and
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  Speaker 4: I let you know what I need and we'll communicate.
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  Speaker 4: So he's been super helpful just you know, being communicated,
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  Speaker 4: and especially the run game.
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  Speaker 2: He says, you know, we don't get being the run game,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, coming from.
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  Speaker 4: Georgia, no Ode, he was also due so same thing
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  Speaker 4: that the Panthers has just carried on.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking, we're talking about Roe Freely. He is
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  Speaker 1: now right tackle as of right now for the Carolina Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to coach Canalys about this. So many
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  Speaker 1: of the scattered reports that I read on you either
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  Speaker 1: before the draft or once you got drafted, and we're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is our guy. They the physical stuff, they you know,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, the upside of him, the length and
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  Speaker 1: all that.
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  Speaker 2: But they bring up the word role.
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  Speaker 1: You've probably heard this.
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  Speaker 2: Does this bother you?
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  Speaker 1: Do you kind of feel like that's BS or do
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  Speaker 1: you kind of view it like, yeah, there's there's there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of technique I can improve, Like how do
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  Speaker 1: you view that?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's like, Okay, I'm raw because
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  Speaker 4: I don't have a lot of games with my belt,
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  Speaker 4: but I came from a program that went and developed tackles,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, I think that I would have gotten
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  Speaker 4: to this point if I didn't have no upside to
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  Speaker 4: me and also at least some technical aspects, and so
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  Speaker 4: I can always improve.
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  Speaker 2: On my game.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not saying I'm a perfect player, but to
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  Speaker 4: say I'm raw, well, I mean I got to this
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  Speaker 4: point and I'm gonna continue to get better. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna put my head and I'm gonna be competitive and
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna enjoy playing football.
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  Speaker 3: Monroe, that I love you moment after you got drafted
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  Speaker 3: that now, no, you're in a safe space and I
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  Speaker 3: love you guy myself? Is that something natural where you said,
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  Speaker 3: did you just like kind of lose yourself in a moment?
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  Speaker 4: I mean I was definitely trying not to cry first.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, it's one thing I always say that,
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  Speaker 4: like even my friends and my family always say love
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  Speaker 4: you because you know, you never know when.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, last time to be able to say that.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean it's slipped out, But I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 4: it was like unnatural for me to be saying that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if someone just made me a first round, pat
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  Speaker 1: probably tell him I love him too.
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  Speaker 2: I'm out with you on that, but that was funny.
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  Speaker 3: We talked a lot of guests, and You're right. Sometimes naturally,
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  Speaker 3: when you take it by you'll say, well, I do
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  Speaker 3: have to guess once in a while, man, I love you,
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  Speaker 3: And then I'm like, oh, are.
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  Speaker 1: You hoping you get and I love you from the
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  Speaker 1: road At the end, I don't know if we're tired enough,
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  Speaker 1: maybe take a few interview. Oh my goodness, all right,
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  Speaker 1: so let's talk about playing football at Georgia. You've already
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  Speaker 1: done it. I could tell, like you have pride that
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  Speaker 1: that was the program that I you know, this is
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  Speaker 1: this is where I learned and stuff. Kirby smart man,
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  Speaker 1: what a badass coach he is? How how you just
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  Speaker 1: said it? Like he not only do you win a
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  Speaker 1: ton of games there, but it feels like, man, he
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  Speaker 1: gets guys ready and the whole program and staff gets
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  Speaker 1: guys ready to play in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: What was it like playing for him?
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  Speaker 4: It was it was a lot of fun. I mean
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  Speaker 4: it was also a lot of not fun. Sometimes I
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  Speaker 4: will say one thing I don't miss. I mean I
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  Speaker 4: think I got clicked one time saying I don't miss
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  Speaker 4: the microphone. But it is not good knowing that, Like
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  Speaker 4: I'm not hearing him speak on the mic all the time.
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  Speaker 2: He even thought about me.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, just the intensity playing there, I think
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  Speaker 4: every single practice, everything Tuesday Monday, even our walkthroughs, we're
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  Speaker 4: all super intentative, and I think just the intensity and
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  Speaker 4: the mindset carries over the next level. So whenever we're
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  Speaker 4: doing you know, walkthroughs, and they alway stressed about how
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  Speaker 4: important to walk the reps. And I'll probably tell some
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  Speaker 4: of my young guys that like are still at Georgia,
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  Speaker 4: They're like, it's the same thing here, Like sometimes those
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  Speaker 4: walk the reps are all gonna get and so you
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  Speaker 4: got to take every single chance, and you know those
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  Speaker 4: are the best reps.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, when you hear people talk about the SEC
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  Speaker 3: being down, do you say, hold on, I played in
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  Speaker 3: this league weekend week out. It may not be winning
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  Speaker 3: the championship, but it's still a gaunewin.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think that the argument that we're down is kind
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  Speaker 4: of crazy, just considering that we all beat up on
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  Speaker 4: each other. And you know I started on that argument
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  Speaker 4: because I've definitely had it. But I'd say that the
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  Speaker 4: top half of the SEC or the bottom half of
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  Speaker 4: the SEC is much better than the bottom half of
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  Speaker 4: the Big ten or other conferences. And I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: can clip me on that, but the numbers don't lie.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if we put them against each other, we'll
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  Speaker 4: see the results.
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  Speaker 1: We got to talk golf now, man, because you had
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  Speaker 1: you had a great line about, you know, golf being
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  Speaker 1: one of your hobbies, but you phrase it as I
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  Speaker 1: like to get together my buddies and we donate a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of golf balls to local ponds. So how's it
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  Speaker 1: going here in Charlotte, Like, do you have a favorite
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  Speaker 1: course you've played here? And are you staying dry? Are
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  Speaker 1: you keeping the ball dry a little better lately or no.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it really just depends on the day.
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  Speaker 4: I say, if I don't get food in that front nine,
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  Speaker 4: then I promise you I'm tone ins and balld and
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  Speaker 4: I might go in the anti social I won't talk
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  Speaker 4: to anybody. But if I get food in that back nine,
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  Speaker 4: then we might be talking a different question.
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  Speaker 2: So food's the key to the golf.
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  Speaker 4: I think food is kind of all athletics. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you gotta feel yourself, and there's definitely I think I
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  Speaker 4: had one really good round at the Carolina Lace Course,
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  Speaker 4: not even the front nine, but I got food in
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  Speaker 4: that back nine, and I think I played Billie Golf,
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, man, if I just would have
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  Speaker 4: done that the front nine.
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  Speaker 1: I got to have that food with you.
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  Speaker 2: Man, eat.
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  Speaker 1: I'm that way with beers. If I can get like food,
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  Speaker 1: I think my game improves.
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  Speaker 2: But after that it's swing juice. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I never thought that. I like the umble start
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  Speaker 3: using that one. You grew went to high school in
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  Speaker 3: the Carolina's right South Carolina. Did you we were trying
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  Speaker 3: to figure out before the show, did you grow up
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  Speaker 3: a Panther fanner? What team did you pull for a
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  Speaker 3: growing up.
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  Speaker 2: Really I didn't because crazy thing.
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  Speaker 4: I spent half my life on the West Coast and Bend,
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  Speaker 4: Oregon actually, and you know, they didn't have an NFL team.
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  Speaker 4: The other year came to South Carolina also didn't really
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  Speaker 4: have an NFL team, So it's kind of been back
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  Speaker 4: and forth. I definitely probably hopped in the bandwagon a
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  Speaker 4: couple of times just forever. It was good that year,
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  Speaker 4: But besides that, I don't really have I wasn't really
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  Speaker 4: a fan of that.
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  Speaker 1: So you grew how long were you in Oregon until
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  Speaker 1: you were what age like an eleven? And then you
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  Speaker 1: moved to Charleston. What are what are your things? If
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  Speaker 1: you were like, if you have teammates that come here
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  Speaker 1: to the South for the first time, what do you
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  Speaker 1: tell them, like, what are the best things about Southern living?
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  Speaker 4: The food, in the hospitality, and then also tell them
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  Speaker 4: about the community.
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  Speaker 1: So not everything's good?
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  Speaker 2: That committed he's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Hey, thanks for coming on with us and we're
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  Speaker 1: rooting for you at that right tackle spot.
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  Speaker 2: Best of luck to you and thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: That was good. Appreciate y'all.