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Mac & Bone Show - Matt Chazanow Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Their new play by play voice is matchas Now, and
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  Speaker 1: he joins us here to preview the NC State football season. Matt,
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  Speaker 1: welcome a board to Mac and Bone show.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, man doing awesome?
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, guys, good to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey, let's start with getting to know you. What
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  Speaker 1: is your background? You're the new voice of State athletics.
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  Speaker 1: What's your background?
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's see. I lived in Winston Salem ten years,
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  Speaker 3: and then I did a bunch of national broadcasts. I'll
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  Speaker 3: give you the succinct version. I don't think you've got
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  Speaker 3: eight hours for this interview, Okay, and then I moved out,
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  Speaker 3: moved out West, I did Wazoo for nine years, and
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  Speaker 3: now here I'm back in my third season now here
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  Speaker 3: with the pack.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. Okay, awesome, because we very much.
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  Speaker 4: We did talk to you since she got in common
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  Speaker 4: with me, Matt, I also was in Winston for almost
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  Speaker 4: ten years. I went to high school with Chris Paul
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  Speaker 4: back in the day. I don't talk about it often,
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  Speaker 4: but it's a it's a dear friend of mine, Chris Paul.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure he appreciates you coaching him up and making
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  Speaker 3: sure you can figure out how to play the game
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, right.
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  Speaker 1: So, Matt, I'm sure you hear this optimism out there
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  Speaker 1: as far as State goes this season, do you feel it, like,
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  Speaker 1: how optimistic are you about this season? How good can
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  Speaker 1: they be?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think? I mean, I think the ceilings as
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  Speaker 3: high as you can imagine. I mean, I think one
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  Speaker 3: of the things about this new era of the portal
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  Speaker 3: and roster turnover, there's a little bit of magic to
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  Speaker 3: it because everybody has more unknowns. And there are two
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  Speaker 3: elements to that. One of them is when everybody has
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  Speaker 3: new rosters, it's way harder to predict. So there's a
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  Speaker 3: wild card element because returners are less well known. Chemistry
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  Speaker 3: is totally unknown in some instances, and then it boils down.
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  Speaker 3: This is boring and true every year, portal or not,
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  Speaker 3: but it does boil down. The health. You got to
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  Speaker 3: stay healthy. They had a great end of the year
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  Speaker 3: last year. They got banged up in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: the year. They were going into Pittsburgh with guys playing
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  Speaker 3: fifty to sixty snaps who had really barely all and
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  Speaker 3: they're nice players, they just were inexperienced, you know. So
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  Speaker 3: you gotta stay healthy. And then there's a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of magic to you and the opposition like, how's it
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  Speaker 3: going to work out? You're kind of microwaving more than
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  Speaker 3: slow cooking now in this era, Maw.
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  Speaker 4: We know the headliner for the Pack.
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  Speaker 2: It's at the quarterback spot with CJ.
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  Speaker 4: Bailey. What makes him so special of a talent? And
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  Speaker 4: when you're analyzing acc quarterbacks, how high up the list
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  Speaker 4: do you put them?
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  Speaker 3: He's one of the best. Yeah, I think he's up there.
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  Speaker 3: You've got Mensa and Miami, you got Bailey, and the
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  Speaker 3: conversation Heinschel at Pittsburgh's really good. I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of them. He's one of them. I think the
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  Speaker 3: thing with CJ that really stands out as a third
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  Speaker 3: year starter, which is now an anomaly in all of this,
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  Speaker 3: is he's gonna go out in Charlottesville. He's going to
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  Speaker 3: get to the line after that first special team's play.
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  Speaker 3: However the Pack gets the ball, He's going to walk
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  Speaker 3: up to the line and it's going to be slow
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  Speaker 3: for him. He's done this before. This is his third
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  Speaker 3: year now, not only third year in college football starting,
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  Speaker 3: but same place, and he's doing it with guys in
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  Speaker 3: a really unique advantage for NC State he's doing it
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  Speaker 3: with guys that he played high school ball with. He's
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  Speaker 3: got three of his high school teammates that he's throwing
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  Speaker 3: the rock to running back and a couple of receivers,
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  Speaker 3: so the chemistry is banked in. They actually solved and
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  Speaker 3: increased their chemistry through the portal, which is the inverse
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  Speaker 3: of what most other teams do. Probably every other team.
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  Speaker 3: It's very rare. So I think he goes up to
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  Speaker 3: the line with confidence and calm, and you can't say
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  Speaker 3: that about most quarterbacks and other spots.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that's so true, very true.
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  Speaker 1: Having a third year guy in the system with the
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  Speaker 1: same school that's that good. It feels like a big
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  Speaker 1: deal in the current climate, There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Chasenhall, Voice of NC State with us here on
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  Speaker 1: the Mack and Bone Show. So, Matt, I was a
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  Speaker 1: huge fan of Tony Gibson and what he did with
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  Speaker 1: that defense. Last year was DJ Elliott's first year and there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there there was there were some bumps in
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  Speaker 1: the road, and you know, as far as football goes,
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  Speaker 1: and then the tragedy he to deal with personally. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really hoping that he has a better year this year.
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  Speaker 1: The team has a better year this year. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think about the defense? Will they will they? Will
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  Speaker 1: they be making a jump forward on defense this year.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, they didn't sack the quarterback enough last year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's the statistical the statistical outlier. They were
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  Speaker 3: tied for third fewest in acc sacks. I think that
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  Speaker 3: they'll be better. I really like the guys they brought in,
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  Speaker 3: I really do. And what coach Elliott had to deal
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  Speaker 3: with last year is just unimaginable. Anybody who's a parent
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  Speaker 3: or anybody even if you're not, you know, Coach Elliott
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  Speaker 3: lost the daughter to cancer and it just breaks your
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  Speaker 3: heart and going through a football season with that going on,
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  Speaker 3: it's really impossible. I mean, these guys are coaches, and
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  Speaker 3: they're well paid and they put the time into all
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  Speaker 3: this and all this, but at some point they're humans,
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  Speaker 3: just like me and you. You know, they're just regular
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  Speaker 3: They're just regular guys trying to have a family, and
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  Speaker 3: so it was heartbreaking. Is really hard hard to hear it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and hard to know that was going on
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  Speaker 3: on him. Everybody wish is in the best. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I do think that there are real bright spots to
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  Speaker 3: this defense on the field, you know, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that the secondary is of strength. I love a Guire
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  Speaker 3: he's a middle linebacker transfer from Miami. And the returners
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  Speaker 3: they've got on the defensive line. Isaiah Shirley at Joseph
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  Speaker 3: Datarey was a little bit banged up last year. He's
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  Speaker 3: full go. He's a kid from Texas Tech. Uh, transfer
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  Speaker 3: from Texas Tech as of you know, he's here last year,
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  Speaker 3: but didn't play quite as much as he wanted to.
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  Speaker 3: And they brought in Harvey Dyson, a kid from two lane.
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  Speaker 3: He was in the playoff last year with the Green Wave.
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  Speaker 3: He led them in TFLs and sacks, and so they've
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  Speaker 3: got really nice pieces. You know. I think that this
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  Speaker 3: defense should take a step forward and very well, very
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  Speaker 3: well could be you know, a plus piece, especially in
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  Speaker 3: the secondary. Brian Nelson looks great. They've got some really
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  Speaker 3: good players, all acc level players.
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  Speaker 4: Matt, how unique of a spot is this really for
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  Speaker 4: both sides to have a Week zero game? But in
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  Speaker 4: conference we know reasons why it's supposed to be in Brazil,
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  Speaker 4: but this feels like a very unique game for both
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  Speaker 4: Virginia and the packagear in Week zero.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big game. Boys, this is a big, big
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  Speaker 3: ball game. It's a really fun way to start the year.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, this game in Raleigh was actually a non
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  Speaker 3: conference game, and this was the return schedule that they
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  Speaker 3: had flipped to Rio, and when that kind of fell
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  Speaker 3: through and the ACC went to nine league games, they
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  Speaker 3: just soaked it up as a league game. So it
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  Speaker 3: was kind of scheduled as a non conference game in
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  Speaker 3: a bit of an oddity, you know, but it's a
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  Speaker 3: conference game to start the year. And now it's a
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  Speaker 3: true road game for the Pack and if you win it,
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  Speaker 3: year off and sprinting. It's a great way to start
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  Speaker 3: the year. If you lose it, you're still okay. Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to win league road games, any league road
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  Speaker 3: games tough, but it's a great opportunity. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: one of the headliner games of Week zero. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna set the table for one of these two
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  Speaker 3: squad because, let's not Virginia was supposed to be the
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  Speaker 3: playoff team last year. You know, it wasn't even supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be Miami, and Miami went all the way to
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  Speaker 3: the Natty. They was supposed to be Virginia and they
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  Speaker 3: got upset by Duke. Virginia had one of its best
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  Speaker 3: years ever last year. They were really good last year
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  Speaker 3: and it came down to the very final drive in
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  Speaker 3: Carter Finley. It's a massive game. They have a new quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: They've got a lot of new skill position guys. Their
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  Speaker 3: offensive line returns mostly intact. Virginia is gonna be good again.
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  Speaker 3: I'm super excited for it. I think that that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of the headliner on the schedule, is like, Hey, how's
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  Speaker 3: this going to start? You know, it's not often you
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  Speaker 3: can say that.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt, no doubt, I'm pulling. That's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: fun one. That is going to be a real fun one.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see it match as now. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to know, Matt, this should put a smile
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  Speaker 1: on your face. The optimistic stuff that you and we
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  Speaker 1: are saying about NC State football is bothering some of
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  Speaker 1: the tar Heel fans listening to the show. I just
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  Speaker 1: want you to know that feels like we're doing our job,
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of much. I feel like that's kind of
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  Speaker 3: my special.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you only headed into your third season.
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  Speaker 1: You got that down, Pat, You got that down Pat baby,
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  Speaker 1: all right?
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  Speaker 3: Man figured that out pretty quick.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, brother, Well, I feel like it could
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  Speaker 5: be a real fun season and I hope they deliver
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  Speaker 5: it and Matt will be calling it on the NC
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  Speaker 5: State We'll pack radio network.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Matt, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Love it. Thank you boys. I appreciate you.