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Mac & Bone Hour 1: BONE IS BACK & SEC Media Days Begin · Mac & Bone Podcast

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Speaker 1: Man, when I'll come on sty Oh it is Mike
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Speaker 1: and bo.
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Speaker 2: You guys are the most entertaining sports program in the world.
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Speaker 3: Bone go, no, no, stop talking. You and I are
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Speaker 3: a couple eating like Lady in the tramp. You're the
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Speaker 3: lady on the tree. Yeah, come on, come on, baby.
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Speaker 3: I wish I was Boopy Boopy MacLean man. It's a
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Speaker 3: great name. Oh the Bond. Good morning, Charlotte, Welcome board.
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Speaker 3: It is Mac and Bone Radio showtime. As we get
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Speaker 3: ready to do this thing. Baby the Bone Man is back.
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Speaker 3: We're at full strength. Panthers rookies report to camp today,
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Speaker 3: full team tomorrow. We got things happening and we got
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Speaker 3: to talk all about it. He's media days, a lot
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Speaker 3: of yap and a lot of hot air down there
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Speaker 3: that must be discussed, and some interesting Charlotte Hornet's content
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Speaker 3: hit Hour one here as well, and of course, what
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Speaker 3: the bleep on a Tuesday. It is Mac and Bone time.
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Speaker 3: Bone Man, welcome back to the show. My check one two,
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Speaker 3: My check one two. This is Bone coming back from Nashville.
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Speaker 3: This is Bone here coming back from Nashville. Just take
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Speaker 3: it for my mind. Are you a trucker now, Bone,
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Speaker 3: what happened to you? That was my uh my country
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Speaker 3: music voice. When the guys are doing the mic chacks
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Speaker 3: making sure they're good to perform on stage, did they
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Speaker 3: come across as a truck driver? I breaker one nine,
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Speaker 3: breaker one nine? Why is my country music guy on
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Speaker 3: truck try? It's been no sets break or breaker one nine?
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Speaker 3: Bone here, breaker breaker one nine, looking for candy gate. Yeah. No,
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Speaker 3: great to be back, man, hopefully. Uh you guys held
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Speaker 3: it down. I'm sure you did. You guys seem like
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Speaker 3: you're getting along well, which is always a concern after
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Speaker 3: multiple Fitty days. But uh no, great to be back.
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Speaker 3: Nashville is a lot of fun, really loud, uh a
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Speaker 3: lot of music of bachelorette screaming off the top of buses.
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Speaker 3: It was a good time. It was a good to
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Speaker 3: experience Nashville a live. It was just cool. Sounds like
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Speaker 3: a regular day in the life of Fitty here in Charlotte.
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Speaker 3: You had to go to Nashville for all that. That's
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Speaker 3: called Fitty's day to day life. All right. Well, it's
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Speaker 3: got a lot of bachelorettes and a lot of hot chicken.
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Speaker 3: That's their thing down there. Hot Did you get the
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Speaker 3: Nashville hot chicken. I got hot chicken, but it wasn't
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Speaker 3: I didn't for some reason. The one that I got
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Speaker 3: it wasn't all that hot. It was delicious, but I
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Speaker 3: didn't get like the really really hot chicken. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: the one I got was just kind of just chicken.
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Speaker 3: I haven't dabbled in Nashville hot chicken. Really. It's everywhere, man,
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Speaker 3: it is everywhere on the menus down there. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I'm kind of curious. I haven't really had it that.
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Speaker 3: What is the place I think we're supposed to be
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Speaker 3: get in one of those places here? Is it Dave's. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I've been to Daves that I've had that before here
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Speaker 3: and it's like real hot. It's like, oh it, it
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Speaker 3: invests with your sensus hot. The chicken sandwich that I
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Speaker 3: had mine was not like that you got the I
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Speaker 3: was on to actme feet and seed bar you go,
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Speaker 3: hey there, just just d there's a million bars down
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Speaker 3: there Nashville. Bone May you were partying, baby, you were
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Speaker 3: part You're gonna have to rest for about two weeks
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Speaker 3: after this one. Probably, Oh my great. Well, hey man,
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Speaker 3: it is good to have you back. And we are
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Speaker 3: also here and Bone's very modest about this, but we
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Speaker 3: are here to celebrate bones continued resume as one of
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Speaker 3: the grittiest drivers to ever hit the American roads. Bone
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Speaker 3: your drive back from Nashville without any relief from any
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Speaker 3: other driver is one of the most remarkable feats since
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Speaker 3: you drove to Raleigh and back in the same day. Well,
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Speaker 3: this must be celebrated. Please everyone just sit down. I
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Speaker 3: don't need please stand back up again. Actually, if you
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Speaker 3: don't mind. Look, I'm a humble guy, but it was
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Speaker 3: one of the most impressive things I've ever been a
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Speaker 3: part of that I've done on my own. Uh seven
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Speaker 3: hours total back because of traffic. We got detoured on
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Speaker 3: the way back. Because I don't know exactly what was
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Speaker 3: going on. It may still have to do with Hurricane Oleen,
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Speaker 3: so I'm trying not to complain too much. I'm not
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Speaker 3: sure exactly why we got detoured on the way back.
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Speaker 3: I had to drive through some rather mountainous terrains, monsoons,
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Speaker 3: rickety old bridges that the common folk would not dare
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Speaker 3: to drive over. The bridge apparently only had a few
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Speaker 3: rides left until it collapses. I don't know if that's true,
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Speaker 3: but that's what I'm in my head what I'm thinking there,
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Speaker 3: But seven hours, stretched the old legs one time and
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Speaker 3: made it back without any incident. There you go, baby,
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Speaker 3: There you go. Man. I'm telling you we need a medal.
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Speaker 3: There needs to be a medal that is given to
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Speaker 3: you at some point on the ceremonial. The way there,
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Speaker 3: I started the drive and then Tara did about three
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Speaker 3: hours in the middle there, and then I finished the
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Speaker 3: drive and everything went smooth mac until I hit the
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Speaker 3: curb in the hotel parking lot. I got all the
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Speaker 3: way there, and I thought I messed up the car
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Speaker 3: in the hotel part. I hit the curb on the
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Speaker 3: way in, and she said she did not get scared
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Speaker 3: until we landed our destination, and I nearly ended the
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Speaker 3: whole thing for us. There you go, Ay, all good man,
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Speaker 3: little Robbins Racing. You know what I mean. I don't
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Speaker 3: know if that really applies here, but work with me. Bone.
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Speaker 3: It is you have come back at a good time,
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Speaker 3: cause it is a business is about to pick all
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Speaker 3: around here, kids, business is about to pick up Carolina
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Speaker 3: Panthers full squad. We'll report for training camp tomorrow, rookies.
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Speaker 3: Today it is here. We have made it here. Bone,
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Speaker 3: I would like to thank the World Cup for occupying
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Speaker 3: us and actually getting some people that normally don't watch
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Speaker 3: soccer in this country to watch. Wait till it's sixty
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Speaker 3: four teams, and it takes us into basketball season. And
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Speaker 3: I know that the MLS says we got it. Their
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Speaker 3: whole saying is we'll take it from here. And I
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Speaker 3: can't wait for Charlotte FC to play Atlanta tomorrow night.
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Speaker 3: But you get the feeling. Now, it's go time, baby,
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Speaker 3: it is go time. Training camp practice will begin on Thursday.
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Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to talking about this camp, Bony, because
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Speaker 3: I can't remember the last time that we were collectively
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Speaker 3: as a fan base this pumped up for the start
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Speaker 3: of the season, right, I mean, it's you got to
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Speaker 3: go back a long freaking way one. Yeah, that's right right.
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Speaker 4: Year one, well, because of all the all the talking,
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Speaker 4: what they did in the ping together, the All Star coaching.
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Speaker 3: All Star coaching staff said that can't compare it to
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Speaker 3: coming Matt rule. Year two. We were kind of hyped
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Speaker 3: up because we thought that they may progress a year
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Speaker 3: one and in completely y'all think that I think you
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Speaker 3: got to go back to Ron River and Camp Newton.
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Speaker 3: I'm just trying to think of I'm trying to think
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Speaker 3: of times there was a memory when there was hope
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Speaker 3: in some ways and it got taken away. I don't
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Speaker 3: feel like this hope here is going to be taken away.
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Speaker 3: The structures in place. I think they're moving in the
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Speaker 3: right direction. I think that's a difference between those times
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Speaker 3: and this time. Now that going backwards down and wasn't
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Speaker 3: or not progressing forward wasn't a shock at all. This team,
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Speaker 3: all the hope is still in the future and it
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Speaker 3: would be a complete stunner if they reverted back to
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Speaker 3: what they were. They could still wet to bed. This
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Speaker 3: is Charlotte Sports. But like my point is, like they
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Speaker 3: are coming off a division title. They are coming off
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Speaker 3: pushing one of the best teams in the National Football
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Speaker 3: League down to the wire in a playoff game where
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Speaker 3: this city was going bonker, so that stadium was freaking
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Speaker 3: electric like the old days, Like you guys can bring
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Speaker 3: up like, yeah, I think we had a little bit,
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Speaker 3: but like of course on this show, there's always positivity,
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Speaker 3: like we could start Bone at quarterback and Fitty at
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Speaker 3: middle linebacker, and somehow on this show, Bone and.
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Speaker 4: I did play linebacker.
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Speaker 3: Seventh grade. Of course it was like Christian Rose boom
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Speaker 3: and coverage. I can't quite get that pass, damn. But anyway,
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Speaker 3: you see what I'm saying. But like that, that's one thing. Okay,
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Speaker 3: we had a little bit of optimism. Well so and
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Speaker 3: so on the show thought we'd win ten games like
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Speaker 3: a moron, like, yeah, that stuff existed, But like we
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Speaker 3: were just in the guy offs last year and added
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Speaker 3: a thirty million dollar edge and added an all pro
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Speaker 3: middle linebacker. I would just I would like to say,
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Speaker 3: I am not sure bone since raverin cam has there
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Speaker 3: been this sort of collective optimism. And a big part
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Speaker 3: of that also is the division back then. Think about
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Speaker 3: the quarterbacks back of those years we're talking about, when
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Speaker 3: it was Ryan, it was Breeze, it was Brady, The
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Speaker 3: Bucks were Super Bowl contenders. There was always the thought of, yeah,
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Speaker 3: the Panthers might end up being more competitive, but how
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Speaker 3: are they going to compete with those guys in the
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Speaker 3: league Right now? They just won the NFC South. The
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Speaker 3: Bucks are not trending upwards. They're you know, coming back
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Speaker 3: to the pack they did last year, and the other
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Speaker 3: two teams are trying to figure things out. So the
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Speaker 3: NFC South. I do believe also here plays a big part.
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Speaker 3: Panthers won it, and they conceivably very well could do
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Speaker 3: it again at least bone. And I'm not talking about
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Speaker 3: just win P twelve win wagons, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 3: That doesn't count. I'm talking about the vast majority of
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Speaker 3: the fan base feeling this sort of way. I'm very
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Speaker 3: much looking forward to not sharing that enthusiasm with everybody.
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Speaker 3: I have not been on the air since the last Wednesday,
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Speaker 3: and Willy was still mad at me over the weekend.
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Speaker 3: What'd you do over the weekend? He was, he asked
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Speaker 3: me repeatedly. Ignored the first one because I knew what
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Speaker 3: was going to happen. He was very consumed with my
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Speaker 3: opinion on BUCkies because we did stop at BUCkies on
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Speaker 3: the way down. Oh okay, and he texted me and
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Speaker 3: I said, I can't get into this right now. And
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Speaker 3: then he did it again and he said, please don't
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Speaker 3: tell me you share Max's opinion, and I said, very
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Speaker 3: much so, and then he got very mad. And I've
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Speaker 3: not heard from Willie since then. Oh my god, that's okay.
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Speaker 4: I heard from him about your trip to BUCkies.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so now he goes to other pits just willy.
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Speaker 3: Willy needs a hobby. I think he's got investment steak
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Speaker 3: in BUCkies. Can he get a pet or something? Do
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Speaker 3: they not have a family pet? Like I feel like
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Speaker 3: they need a pet, like you know what? He what
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Speaker 3: he needs? Asked Murphy. Over to this dude and let
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Speaker 3: him Will will let him wear Willy out so that
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Speaker 3: he has no energy to constantly message. Everybody really needs
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Speaker 3: to go to Murphy did for a night. They can't
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Speaker 3: know he's got an even bigger project on his hands.
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Speaker 4: What's that they're building the Pelagic palace, and this is
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Speaker 4: what he's consumed by.
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Speaker 3: The palace they're building. They're building a house. Oh nice,
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Speaker 3: but damn building a house is not an easy thing.
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Speaker 3: That's some of the word of construction. I know what
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Speaker 3: it does. But he's not out there. Just for the record,
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Speaker 3: he's not out there, so he's not building. But they're
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Speaker 3: going to and he's I mean, he texted me.
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Speaker 4: He texted me all bone got it, BUCkies was the
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Speaker 4: beaver nuggets.
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Speaker 3: He literally said, bleep your two cohorts. Man, It's an experience.
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Speaker 3: It's not a convenience. If you have a ton of
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Speaker 3: time and you haven't eaten and you plant it out. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I would eat, but I did not. I already ate,
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Speaker 3: and I was eating again in Nashville the entire weekend.
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Speaker 3: So you had a similar experience. Yeah, I wasn't going
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Speaker 3: to get go ahead food on the way in terms
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Speaker 3: of like meals in Nashville, I was gonna eat. I
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Speaker 3: already ate lunch. I wasn't gonna consume my brisket sandwich there.
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Speaker 3: So I yes, it is. It's a NASCAR race environment
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Speaker 3: in Walmart had a baby and that baby's a beautiful beaver.
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Speaker 3: It is sense It is sensory overload. Sensory overloaded. BUCkies. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: My whole thing about BUCkies is if I had one
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Speaker 3: down the streets, I would go there. I get the brill,
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Speaker 3: you know, I get the brisket. I tried to like
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Speaker 3: it would be a little more leisurely for us in
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Speaker 3: these parts. BUCkies is a place on a highway when
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Speaker 3: we are traveling, probably, and I just don't think it
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Speaker 3: is convenient for those purposes. Right, you want to build
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Speaker 3: me a BUCkies a mile from my house, Let's go. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: let's go, baby, You know what I mean. You want
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Speaker 3: to go in and out? Yeah, you're not getting that's
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Speaker 3: kind of the problem. Also, Fiddy also gets very offend.
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Speaker 3: You get very offended by this thing.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I'm not as consumed by it as
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Speaker 4: Eugene is, but I I mean, but I know you
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Speaker 4: two guys, like I expected nothing less than for y'all
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Speaker 4: to find it, dude, to find it overrated, like I
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Speaker 4: enjoyed it.
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Speaker 3: Bro, You going a ten hour ride with two teenagers
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Speaker 3: and tell me you want to go in the BUCkies
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Speaker 3: and that chaos and then you want to you want
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Speaker 3: to take a stop at the last thirty five minutes,
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Speaker 3: I will seriously.
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Speaker 4: I went with my dad and my dad wasn't knowing
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Speaker 4: how excited I was. Like, now, my dad took me
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Speaker 4: like he had he's been, he's done it. But he
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Speaker 4: was a pall that I wanted to take a picture
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Speaker 4: with a beaver. Start couldn't get over it. I mean,
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Speaker 4: he told me to grow up that beaver. That beaver
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Speaker 4: will go. It is everywhere. Also, I was surrounded by
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Speaker 4: beaver in that in that How much money you think
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Speaker 4: that little Bucky beaver's making? They are printing money? Was
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Speaker 4: yours packed?
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Speaker 3: Yes? Like was it like the parking lot? Oh yeah, Thursday,
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Speaker 3: a Thursday afternoon and at Crossfield Bone. Yeah, and noticed
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Speaker 3: too a lot of the people parked A's one hundred
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Speaker 3: and twenty guys pumps, but a lot of people because
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Speaker 3: I had to get gas while we were there. That's
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Speaker 3: kind of the reason we just stopped there. All those pumps.
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Speaker 3: Though a lot of people will park their cars at
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Speaker 3: the pumps. They won't go find their parking spots and
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Speaker 3: then they'll go, so they're using the park. They're using
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Speaker 3: a lot of the pumps for their parking spots. Do
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Speaker 3: you do do you not do that?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 3: I didn't do it at the buckets at BUCkies. You
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Speaker 3: might not want to do that because there's literally four
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Speaker 3: trillion people in every Bucky's parking now regular gas station.
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Speaker 3: If I'm going quick but out of BUCkies, I wouldn't.
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that. No, because again the amount of
13:33
Speaker 3: again I said, you could not get off the exit.
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Speaker 3: The exit was at a standstill in Brunswick, Georgia just
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Speaker 3: because of BUCkies. But anyway, I digress. All right, so
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Speaker 3: let's we we could talk about nonsense for four hours, because.
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Speaker 4: We've only got a seven four number complaining about it.
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Speaker 3: What are they saying you're talking long. Okay, well yeah
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Speaker 3: I felt it too, sir. You know, I'm trying to
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Speaker 3: move the show along. Thank you for that. Thank you
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Speaker 3: for that. Maybe that guy should come in here and produce.
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Speaker 3: Uh hey, I want my job. Let's talk about I
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Speaker 3: mentioned the World Cup, I mentioned the World Cup bone,
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Speaker 3: and now now it's it's time for training camp to
14:05
Speaker 3: start with the Carolina Panthers and across the NFL, the
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Speaker 3: NFL players continue to try and this is not I
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Speaker 3: don't believe this works at all unless in the next
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Speaker 3: collective bargaining agreement bone they're willing to concede some things
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Speaker 3: on their own end. But the NFLPA used the World
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Speaker 3: Cup final as their kind of reason to do the
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Speaker 3: pr push for grass fields. You know, it has bothered
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Speaker 3: the hell out of these players to see in these
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Speaker 3: NFL stadiums the grass fields laid down, the temporary grass
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Speaker 3: fields laid down. When they don't get it, and when
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Speaker 3: every study under the sun has revealed that it is
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Speaker 3: safer for players and they're you know, especially the lower
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Speaker 3: extremities when they play on a grass field, and it applies.
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Speaker 3: This hits home right here in Carolina and Devin Lloyd
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Speaker 3: New Carolina Panther was one of the players bone over
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Speaker 3: the weekend that was tweeting out It's just it felt
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Speaker 3: like basically an organized movement, you know, among the NFLPA
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Speaker 3: and a lot of its members to push for grass.
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Speaker 3: Do you feel like, I mean, is there any hope? Again?
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Speaker 3: It doesn't it have to come down to CBA negotiations.
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Speaker 3: Could they get it in exchange for playing the eighteenth game?
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Speaker 3: Because you know the owners are determined to push that
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Speaker 3: eighteenth game through at some point, could that be the trade? See?
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Speaker 3: The thing is, though, I don't know are they willing
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Speaker 3: to trade that offer today? Want something from a monetary
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Speaker 3: standpoint as a trade off, Yeah, that's that's the question.
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Speaker 3: When you want something in this league and in sports,
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Speaker 3: you have to sacrifice something to get what you want.
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Speaker 3: So it's not gonna be as simple as you know,
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Speaker 3: a campaign star I wish it was that a campaign
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Speaker 3: starts all of a sudden, the owners can see the
15:47
Speaker 3: way we go, it's over. It's gonna be negotiation, it's
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Speaker 3: gonna be the CBA's matc You We've probably said this before,
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Speaker 3: but I forgot the answer. How many stadiums currently are
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Speaker 3: natural grass what is the league number right now? Do
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Speaker 3: we know? I believe it's I'll have to look it up.
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Speaker 3: Is it half? Is it close to half and a
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Speaker 3: half or around half an hour? I think it's I
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Speaker 3: think it's something like that. Exactly half of the thirty
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Speaker 3: NFL stadium future natural or hybrid surfaces, while the other
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Speaker 3: fifteen used artificial. There, Okay, there, that's what I thought
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Speaker 3: it was. I mean again, it comes down to it.
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Speaker 3: It's it comes down to money, and this league, especially
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Speaker 3: Bone when something comes down the money, it's very easy
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Speaker 3: for us to point out to them you are printing
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Speaker 3: money in this league. I mean the media rights fees.
16:35
Speaker 3: I mean, how about the just look at just look
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Speaker 3: at what happened with the Seattle Seahawks sale. That team
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Speaker 3: was sold for almost ten billion dollars. David Temper bought
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Speaker 3: the Panthers for two billion plus. So that's the thing too.
16:48
Speaker 3: We know that your investment is growing, you know what
16:54
Speaker 3: I mean? By the second ye, it's just and then
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Speaker 3: the money you're raking in it's and I know in
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Speaker 3: this market, I understand the the you know, we talk
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Speaker 3: about this all the time. You know, David Tepper wants
17:06
Speaker 3: to do the concerts. I think I don't want to.
17:09
Speaker 3: I don't want people to be hypocritical that go to
17:11
Speaker 3: some of the concerts. You know, I've been to a
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Speaker 3: concert and Joe, well what I remember. I enjoyed it,
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Speaker 3: that metallic concert. But like, I don't, I don't want
17:18
Speaker 3: we have to state here. You can't say, man, I
17:21
Speaker 3: love these concerts and not mention that when discussing this
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Speaker 3: whole conversation locally, you know what I mean? Yeah, Like,
17:29
Speaker 3: so I guess it comes down I don't know, man,
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Speaker 3: Like I guess it comes down to can you do
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Speaker 3: those events? Have the soccer in football games? And can
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Speaker 3: the grass hold up? And then you have this part
17:44
Speaker 3: of the country as compared to other parts of the country.
17:46
Speaker 3: So it is a nuanced conversation, but it does suck
17:51
Speaker 3: to see the side. I understand. I understand why they
17:54
Speaker 3: get pissed off seeing the soccer players taken care of
17:57
Speaker 3: and they are not taken care of from a health standpoint,
18:00
Speaker 3: you know, because that there's you can't you can't spot
18:03
Speaker 3: a study for me, Bone that doesn't say that the
18:06
Speaker 3: grass is healthier. Man. I quote Mac, the Wu Tang
18:08
Speaker 3: clan cash rules everything around me. Look at Bone baby
18:13
Speaker 3: Bone came back from Nashville. That's what the owner's mind
18:16
Speaker 3: set has a changed. Man. They are ruled by straight
18:19
Speaker 3: cash homie, hip hop bone, hip hop bone can Now
18:22
Speaker 3: you're supposed to come back as country Bone, you came
18:24
Speaker 3: back as hip hop multiculture. I'm all over the place,
18:27
Speaker 3: Oh Man, sec media days. We're gonna talk a bunch
18:29
Speaker 3: about it here in the next few minutes. Shane Beemer,
18:31
Speaker 3: though we'll speak today. South Carolina featured among the four
18:35
Speaker 3: teams today. The Braves win, Braves win. The Braves win
18:38
Speaker 3: last night three to two. Got a pretty good alling
18:41
Speaker 3: from Bryce Elder. More of that. They need more of
18:44
Speaker 3: that from Bryce, who has not necessarily had a great summer.
18:48
Speaker 3: Bone six innings, two runs allowed last night. They continue
18:53
Speaker 3: to hit home runs at a rapid rate. I think Albie's,
18:57
Speaker 3: Harris Alby's and Harris solo home last night and the
19:01
Speaker 3: Braves win three to two last night. Bo Man Mac,
19:05
Speaker 3: will we come back? I've been holding off on this
19:07
Speaker 3: for one segment. I can't do it too much longer.
19:10
Speaker 3: We have some breaking McDonald's breakfast news this morning. Alert
19:13
Speaker 3: that texter that was upset about the BUCkies talk. Oh
19:16
Speaker 3: wait till Mac gets a hold of the new item
19:18
Speaker 3: that drops overnight there today, it's big for you when
19:23
Speaker 3: we come back though the late this news and sounds
19:25
Speaker 3: or MESSC media days, including how much clout does the
19:29
Speaker 3: conference have? In DC Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ,
19:53
Speaker 3: I certainly hope.
19:53
Speaker 6: Our fan base hasn't cooled off, so you know, whether
19:58
Speaker 6: it's the grocery stores being fully stocked with mustard or
20:03
Speaker 6: you know, our sports stores making sure that they got
20:05
Speaker 6: reinforcements on the golf balls. Hopefully Knoxville is ready for
20:10
Speaker 6: his arrival.
20:15
Speaker 3: Go Josh Hipel making us laugh. I think he was joking.
20:18
Speaker 3: I think he was joking. Maybe not Lane Kiffin going
20:21
Speaker 3: back to Knoxville and Josh Hipel, Tennessee head coach, wants
20:26
Speaker 3: everybody to know, I don't want you to lose your intensity.
20:29
Speaker 3: I know he has made a whole new fan He's
20:31
Speaker 3: left another school in the SEC and made their fans mad.
20:35
Speaker 4: Now.
20:35
Speaker 3: So now everybody's focused on LSU and Mississippi and September,
20:39
Speaker 3: but Josh Hypel wants to make sure bone keep that
20:42
Speaker 3: same intensity at last time when you threw golf balls
20:45
Speaker 3: at him on the field. I think he's joking, but
20:47
Speaker 3: I'm also not completely short bone. It just means more
20:51
Speaker 3: in the SEC. I'm gonna go ahead and say there
20:53
Speaker 3: might not be too many stadiums outside of Baton Rouge
20:56
Speaker 3: where away keiff It has liked. Either it's the past
21:01
Speaker 3: or the current whatever, it's all coming together now where
21:04
Speaker 3: Lane might not be like very much. Would you just
21:06
Speaker 3: suggest that every road destination in the SEC stock up
21:11
Speaker 3: on golf balls pretty much like every place Mustard's going.
21:14
Speaker 3: Just get the golf balls. And now I never heard
21:16
Speaker 3: about the mustard. What was happening with the mustard? They
21:18
Speaker 3: were spritzing mustard, mustard and golf balls, right, Weren't they
21:21
Speaker 3: throwing mustard and like mustard bottles or packets? What were they?
21:24
Speaker 3: What were they doing for it? Didn't know about the
21:25
Speaker 3: mustard part. I certainly watched the game live and saw
21:28
Speaker 3: the golf balls flying over his head. But the mustard,
21:31
Speaker 3: I don't know what they were doing their fit. He
21:33
Speaker 3: was he like running into the tunnel and they're spritzing
21:35
Speaker 3: mustard on them.
21:35
Speaker 4: I think they were throwing like mustard packs from a
21:38
Speaker 4: drive through at him.
21:40
Speaker 3: How far is that the fans threw must some fan
21:43
Speaker 3: through golf balls and others threw a mustard bottle at him, Okay,
21:46
Speaker 3: right next to him on the sidelines. They threw the
21:48
Speaker 3: whole bottle at the whole bottle.
21:50
Speaker 4: If you're gonna throw a condiment, throw manise, but also
21:52
Speaker 4: a useful cotton.
21:53
Speaker 3: That's what useful's condiment. To match point, though, this wasn't
21:56
Speaker 3: like a a whole packet of mayonnaise being tossed. Some
22:00
Speaker 3: one had a whole bottle with them. How do you
22:01
Speaker 3: get that into a stadium? And no one asked questions?
22:06
Speaker 3: Do you see the way Fiddy tries to abate rage
22:08
Speaker 3: bait by slander and may as It's not gonna happen,
22:10
Speaker 3: not gonna happen at all, Fitty, We are stay in
22:12
Speaker 3: the course right now. I do want to make an
22:14
Speaker 3: announcement before we get into more of the sounds from
22:17
Speaker 3: SEC media day's Day one, including this big story bone
22:22
Speaker 3: from multiple reporters about the back and forth between the
22:25
Speaker 3: SEC and the Big Ten and the politicians behind the
22:28
Speaker 3: Protect College Sports Act. There's a compromise going on here
22:33
Speaker 3: and we need to talk about that because it's very
22:35
Speaker 3: interesting what is being discussed. But I do want to
22:38
Speaker 3: point out to a Texter that got very upset when
22:42
Speaker 3: we started the show by saluting Bone for driving seven
22:45
Speaker 3: hours straight back. That was sarcasm. That was definite sarcasm, sir.
22:52
Speaker 3: I didn't mean to trigger you. Bone seems to Bones.
22:57
Speaker 3: Ever since Bone seemed to celebrate his driving to and
23:01
Speaker 3: from Raleigh back and forth, the rest of us are
23:04
Speaker 3: now on board by sarcastically saluting these Yeah, very minor
23:09
Speaker 3: achiece Bone. It's a Texter named Toasted quiz Nose, which
23:12
Speaker 3: congrats on having three left in America. Uh, slow down,
23:16
Speaker 3: jack wagons driving seven hours in a day, ain't bleep?
23:20
Speaker 3: Try sixteen multiple times. And I'm not a truck driver.
23:25
Speaker 3: I said, seven's never been done. Prove it. He's sick.
23:28
Speaker 3: Congratulations on becoming a man. And he knew though, you
23:32
Speaker 3: want to let me know that he knew we were
23:35
Speaker 3: being sarcastic the entire time, right, one of those routines.
23:38
Speaker 3: I knew the whole time. Oh man, if we're celebrating
23:42
Speaker 3: toasted Quinnos got his buns, Bart, there didn't he buns
23:45
Speaker 3: Bart quiz Nos. If we're celebrating Bone for being a badass,
23:49
Speaker 3: it's sarcasm, sir. All right, that's the rule that we
23:51
Speaker 3: have here really celebrating any of us for being a badass.
23:54
Speaker 3: It's probably sarcasm. Sir, you have not driven the rickety
23:56
Speaker 3: bridge that I drove. Let's move along here. Eli Drewitz
24:00
Speaker 3: was not going to be out done though bone He
24:02
Speaker 3: was not going to be out zingered. Josh Heipel was
24:05
Speaker 3: not going to be the only guy to make people laugh.
24:07
Speaker 3: Among Eli Drinkowitz's Drinkwitz's jokes was a joke about because
24:12
Speaker 3: Kansas and Missou that rivalry has been back on these
24:15
Speaker 3: last couple of years. A joke about if you see
24:18
Speaker 3: a good looking woman in Kansas, you know she's a tourist.
24:20
Speaker 3: That was actually said by Eli Drinkwitz, but also Eli
24:25
Speaker 3: Jerry C. Spurrier, Wway, getn't he a little bit some
24:27
Speaker 3: of those things he is entertaining his hell, he pissed
24:29
Speaker 3: off the entire Big Ten. We're going to talk about
24:30
Speaker 3: that later. But Eli Drinkwitz was asked about some of
24:34
Speaker 3: his players talking about playing pickleball, and this is Eli
24:37
Speaker 3: Drinkwitz's response on pickleball. The Missouri head coach. Pickleball is
24:42
Speaker 3: a very dangerous game for UH.
24:45
Speaker 6: It was a game invented by orthopedic surgeons to create
24:48
Speaker 6: revenue generation and if they would just use that money
24:52
Speaker 6: in third party in IL, I could really get behind it.
24:54
Speaker 3: He is part goofball, part like hot taker, you know
25:00
Speaker 3: what I mean. Yeah, like what he said about the
25:02
Speaker 3: Big Ten schedules being the reason why the Big Ten's
25:06
Speaker 3: non conference schedules being why they've won three straight national titles,
25:09
Speaker 3: which of course pissed off all the Big ten country.
25:12
Speaker 3: You know, this stuff about the playoff last year. He
25:15
Speaker 3: was saluted for this yesterday, the fact that he was
25:19
Speaker 3: in early on the way expanded playoff, like he was
25:22
Speaker 3: bringing up you know, twenty four to thirty teams last year,
25:26
Speaker 3: and he acknowledged that he doesn't want Sankee to get
25:30
Speaker 3: mad at him because that is not the way the
25:31
Speaker 3: SEC now views the playoff. That is, the Big Ten
25:34
Speaker 3: has taking that row with it. He's opinionated, I gause
25:36
Speaker 3: what I'm trying to say. Opinionated and funny man like
25:39
Speaker 3: he is. He is a Media Day All star. He's
25:42
Speaker 3: he's perfect because a sport bill on characters, he's currently
25:47
Speaker 3: one of them. I said, Steve Spurry or a moment ago.
25:49
Speaker 3: There's also a little Mike leitchin there too, where you
25:52
Speaker 3: could ask him about anything, and he's got a take
25:54
Speaker 3: on it or an opinion or Mike Leach was a
25:56
Speaker 3: little extreme because I was sort of his whole deal.
25:58
Speaker 3: But there's a little hybrid there of some of the
26:01
Speaker 3: great characters of the conference. When when Eli's talking, I
26:04
Speaker 3: think Eli gets to his punchline quicker. I think Mike Leech,
26:07
Speaker 3: God Rest his soul was a rambling man. Now I
26:10
Speaker 3: say this as a fellow rambling man, you know what
26:12
Speaker 3: I mean? Who am I to call somebody a rambler?
26:15
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to the biggest story yesterday at
26:20
Speaker 3: involving the SEC. Ross Dellinger wrote this on Yahoo. Brandon
26:25
Speaker 3: Marcelo wrote this for CBS. The fact that behind the
26:30
Speaker 3: scenes right now, and they have a small window, it
26:32
Speaker 3: sounds like bone to get this thing passed. The cruise
26:36
Speaker 3: can'twell Act to Protect College Sports Act. And of course
26:39
Speaker 3: the Big Ten in the SEC have been the two
26:41
Speaker 3: conferences that have been holding out. Everybody else has been
26:43
Speaker 3: all about this, and so there's been talks behind the
26:48
Speaker 3: scenes because you know, because I think there's a thought
26:52
Speaker 3: that without the support of these two conferences, you might
26:55
Speaker 3: not be able to get senators completely on board an
26:59
Speaker 3: SEC in Big Ten to vote yes for it and
27:03
Speaker 3: congressmen and women, So I think they feel like they
27:06
Speaker 3: need these entities on board. So there's a compromise effort
27:10
Speaker 3: here between the big ten SEC and the politicians. How
27:16
Speaker 3: about the there's an anti expansion thing in there where
27:20
Speaker 3: literally the original bill wants to freeze the colleges college
27:25
Speaker 3: conferences where they are literally no expansion whatsoever. So now
27:32
Speaker 3: you have bone the talks that are including potentially capping
27:37
Speaker 3: conferences at nineteen or twenty teams, and then there's a
27:42
Speaker 3: grace period essentially of five years where you would become
27:46
Speaker 3: you'd have to be an independent for five years. Well,
27:50
Speaker 3: you're transitioning essentially from one conference to the next. Only
27:55
Speaker 3: the only mach entities that stay independent that long are
27:58
Speaker 3: Notre Dame, men Fitty, Notre Dame, and Yukon. No Dame
28:02
Speaker 3: in Yukon could immediately go to a conference. Spoiler alert,
28:06
Speaker 3: No Dame may go into a conference in football. So anyway,
28:09
Speaker 3: this this is this is pretty n radical. Man. There's
28:15
Speaker 3: also a provision in a gree group of six schools
28:18
Speaker 3: could move to the P four so that that could happen.
28:22
Speaker 3: But what they're trying to do with this bill you know,
28:24
Speaker 3: they have the anti Super League language in there too.
28:27
Speaker 3: They're trying to stop the Big ten in SEC from
28:31
Speaker 3: being able to gobble gobble gobble up basically the ACC
28:34
Speaker 3: in the Big twelve. Yeah, how big would that be
28:36
Speaker 3: for the ACC if the conference has got frozen though,
28:39
Speaker 3: we're worried about twenty thirty. Now, that seems like that's
28:43
Speaker 3: a no go with the SEC in the Big ten. Yeah.
28:45
Speaker 3: But even these other provisions like is Florida State or
28:48
Speaker 3: Clemson gonna leave the ACC if they have to be
28:50
Speaker 3: an independent for five years? No? Absolutely not. Not missing
28:54
Speaker 3: out on the conference TV money. Like, I know there's
28:56
Speaker 3: more money at the end right when you get to
28:58
Speaker 3: the SEC or your destiny nation, but that five years
29:01
Speaker 3: is an independent as wonky. Yeah, that's rights. That's gonna
29:06
Speaker 3: be a no go for those schools. There's no way
29:08
Speaker 3: five years. The amount of money lost. Yeah, they're gonna
29:11
Speaker 3: get a lot at the end, but the amount of
29:12
Speaker 3: money lost, they're not gonna view that as worth it.
29:15
Speaker 3: So this way, this is fascinating to me, man, is
29:18
Speaker 3: this is this is very interesting. There's also meteor rights
29:21
Speaker 3: involved in some of this stuff as well. Right, Yeah,
29:23
Speaker 3: the SEC obviously in a Big ten don't want to
29:26
Speaker 3: do the pulling of the media rights. Now, the language
29:31
Speaker 3: basically says it's voluntary the pulling of the media rights
29:34
Speaker 3: or conferences can get all the media rights together. But
29:36
Speaker 3: the SEC definitely wants. They wanted in writing that you
29:39
Speaker 3: cannot make us have to pull our METEA rights because
29:43
Speaker 3: of course it would be like sharing salaries, you know
29:46
Speaker 3: what I mean, Like a guy average that gets five
29:48
Speaker 3: million a year, Why do I want to pull my
29:50
Speaker 3: stuff together with guys making one hundred thousand a year whatever? Right,
29:54
Speaker 3: So I don't know, we'll see. I mean, I know
29:56
Speaker 3: some fans might be turned off by this whole thing.
29:58
Speaker 3: We got politicians in, we got the SEC and the
30:01
Speaker 3: Big ten throwing their weight around. But the ACC doesn't
30:05
Speaker 3: want to share their ad revenue from foot creams in
30:09
Speaker 3: pots and pans that they have on a network. I
30:12
Speaker 3: think they should be very protective of that. How many
30:14
Speaker 3: ads that come up on Not that we're always watching
30:16
Speaker 3: the ads, but how many ads during football time? Does
30:19
Speaker 3: something pop up where you say, I don't I don't
30:21
Speaker 3: need to see this person peeling their feet on my
30:23
Speaker 3: football games. You could always tell when it's an ACC
30:27
Speaker 3: add on if you're watching multiple games at once, you
30:30
Speaker 3: can always tell when it's the ACC with some like
30:33
Speaker 3: rash cream or pots and pants come up. Oh that's
30:36
Speaker 3: the AEC network over there. Hashtag go ACC baby. But
30:40
Speaker 3: there's also a cap being discussed bone with the Protect
30:43
Speaker 3: College Sports Act of an extra twenty million dollars for
30:47
Speaker 3: schools to retain athletes in addition to the current twenty
30:50
Speaker 3: one million dollar cap on revenue sharing. But here's my
30:53
Speaker 3: thing though, right like the a lot of the a
30:55
Speaker 3: lot of the conferences in schools say we want a
30:58
Speaker 3: cat for spending. Do you you because I guarantee many
31:03
Speaker 3: of you will cheat and go over the cat, right Like,
31:06
Speaker 3: many of you will still do. We'd be upset if
31:09
Speaker 3: you didn't. That's the funny thing about it. It's like
31:11
Speaker 3: we want regulation, we want regulation, but then you get
31:15
Speaker 3: regulation right after the House settlement and you get this
31:19
Speaker 3: revenue share limit, but here you are still doing the
31:22
Speaker 3: third party nil deals that the College Sports Commission has
31:25
Speaker 3: to approve or shoot down. Like it's I don't know,
31:28
Speaker 3: the whole thing is fascinating to me. They want regulation
31:31
Speaker 3: for everybody else with it, but the schools will then
31:34
Speaker 3: figure out how do they get around what they've asked for.
31:36
Speaker 3: Andy Staples, longtime college football reporter from On three, says
31:41
Speaker 3: his feeling is they all get together, the presidents all
31:44
Speaker 3: get together, right, and they want regulation. We want to
31:46
Speaker 3: do the right thing, and then all of a sudden
31:49
Speaker 3: you're trying to win the battles when it comes to Cruton,
31:53
Speaker 3: and like the coaches and everybody that's you know, on
31:57
Speaker 3: that side of things is like, yeah, can't you on me.
32:00
Speaker 3: We can't compete a list. We do this and we
32:03
Speaker 3: do that anyway. Yeah, sense. Greg sank has uh sense
32:09
Speaker 3: a list of ten suggestions, ten common sense suggestions, he says,
32:13
Speaker 3: bone for the bill. Greg Sankei yesterday talked about his
32:20
Speaker 3: suggestions to the or to the folks in DC.
32:24
Speaker 2: The areas of concern that we've identified, and every time
32:29
Speaker 2: I write a memo on this, I find it posted
32:31
Speaker 2: soon on social media. So we offered ten common sense
32:34
Speaker 2: suggestions the track on those four principles. Those ten concepts
32:40
Speaker 2: are not sec issues. Those are changes that we believe
32:46
Speaker 2: benefit benefit all of.
32:47
Speaker 3: College athletics, about everybody.
32:49
Speaker 2: Providing a national solution. Our recommendations are intended to help
32:55
Speaker 2: Congress Congress achieve what are student athletes are universities. Our
33:00
Speaker 2: fan desire that one national framework with meaningful protections for
33:04
Speaker 2: student athletes and forcible rules, fair competition, and providing long
33:09
Speaker 2: term stability. If Congress is going to act, and again
33:14
Speaker 2: I believe it should for the reasons identified, we have
33:18
Speaker 2: one opportunity to get this legislation right.
33:24
Speaker 3: All right, there you go. That is Greg Sankie, SEC Commissioner.
33:27
Speaker 3: So the ten common sense bullet points have been sent
33:30
Speaker 3: to d C Bone also for the good of the
33:34
Speaker 3: sport from the SEC. Did you see that one in there?
33:36
Speaker 3: It's not just about the SEC. We're trying to help that. Yeah,
33:39
Speaker 3: none of y'all are helping everybody. Mike Elco said it
33:41
Speaker 3: didn't he at the SEC meetings at Destin, Florida. So
33:45
Speaker 3: let's be honest. We all when we talk about this
33:47
Speaker 3: are talking about what we want for oursel our best
33:50
Speaker 3: and at least he said it out loud. Oh, by
33:53
Speaker 3: the way, I may have buried the lead here. If
33:56
Speaker 3: the SEC isn't happy with what they get, Greg Sankey yesterday,
34:01
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about this later on the show. Greg
34:03
Speaker 3: Sankee did say the talk of going out on our
34:06
Speaker 3: own is one hundred percent legit. So we'll talk about
34:08
Speaker 3: this later on the show, but like that became the
34:11
Speaker 3: big headline by the end of the day. Is Greg
34:14
Speaker 3: Sankee says, Yeah, we're really talking about going out on
34:17
Speaker 3: our own if we don't like the way things play
34:19
Speaker 3: out here. Very fascinating. I can't even imagine a sports
34:22
Speaker 3: world where that works. By the way, mac I did
34:26
Speaker 3: tease some McDonald's breakfast news for you this morning dropped
34:31
Speaker 3: overnight for a womited time only, so they're there right now.
34:34
Speaker 3: McDonald's has launched two new womened time breakfast sandwiches. The
34:38
Speaker 3: honey brown butter bacon, egg and cheese biscuit and the
34:41
Speaker 3: honey brown butter chicken biscuit are now at McDonald's this morning.
34:45
Speaker 3: There we go, There we go, honey brown butter, bacon,
34:48
Speaker 3: egg and cheese and chicken biscuit. Honey brown butter and
34:52
Speaker 3: the bacon, egg and cheese. That is combining two amazing things.
34:56
Speaker 3: But are they amazing together? Though? I don't know. Do
34:58
Speaker 3: you think that's a good combat the honey brown butter
35:01
Speaker 3: and the chicken biscuit, Like a lot of people are
35:03
Speaker 3: doing that. That's that sounds to me. The bacon egg
35:06
Speaker 3: and cheese, honey butter that honey brown butter. Would that's different,
35:10
Speaker 3: that's that's not normally the combo. Do you think they
35:13
Speaker 3: mix well together? You think they mixed like that Panthers
35:15
Speaker 3: All Star staff we mentioned earlier in the show Under
35:17
Speaker 3: Frank right, Mac, I'm intrigued, No bone, I'm intrigued, mag
35:21
Speaker 3: what's it also to say? When I see that news,
35:23
Speaker 3: when I woke up at four am and thought I
35:24
Speaker 3: gotta get to Mac, I know are intrigued by that.
35:27
Speaker 3: I like the experimentation, though McDonald's all right like it.
35:30
Speaker 3: You'll try anything once, you want to try something once.
35:39
Speaker 3: Fitny is begging for the chance. Sorry, Fiddy. When we
35:42
Speaker 3: come back, a Hornets legend reacts to the LaMelo ball
35:46
Speaker 3: trade and an NBA insider thinks the Hornets roster not
35:50
Speaker 3: done yet. Sports Radio ninety two seven. It's a gamble,
36:19
Speaker 3: of course.
36:21
Speaker 1: Well it's a gambling since where Mellow had just grown
36:24
Speaker 1: up and he had him at a level where he
36:29
Speaker 1: never had those pieces around and well he wasn't healthy though,
36:34
Speaker 1: he wasn't healthy, but he never had those pieces around him.
36:38
Speaker 3: So when you had finally got those pieces around them.
36:41
Speaker 1: And they all got healthy, you saw exactly the results
36:46
Speaker 1: of where that came from. And Mellow took so much
36:49
Speaker 1: pressure offer these guys because all the attention came in
36:54
Speaker 1: and they can play that game the way their strength
36:57
Speaker 1: is uh is.
36:58
Speaker 5: Supposed to be.
36:59
Speaker 3: So, you know, like I said, it's a way to
37:01
Speaker 3: see for me, it's a way to see for me.
37:04
Speaker 5: I love Kobe.
37:05
Speaker 1: Kobe. You know, he's a steady point guard. He can
37:09
Speaker 1: hit the shot, but he don't pass here like the
37:11
Speaker 1: vision like Mellow.
37:13
Speaker 3: That is Hornet's legend. Muggsy Bugs says, basically he's torn.
37:18
Speaker 3: The jury's still out on the trade from a Hornets standpoint,
37:23
Speaker 3: and I think that's fair of LaMelo Ball to the
37:26
Speaker 3: Minnesota Timberwolves. That's from the TCO podcast. Very interesting to
37:30
Speaker 3: get a legendary Hornets point guard weighing in on this move.
37:34
Speaker 3: And those are a lot of the same things Bone,
37:36
Speaker 3: I think I've been saying. I think a lot of
37:38
Speaker 3: people have been saying that you lose with LaMelo Ball.
37:43
Speaker 3: You know, like Kobe's a hell of a player. You
37:45
Speaker 3: can't duplicate those skills that LaMelo has. But again, you're
37:50
Speaker 3: paying them a lot of money you were able to get,
37:53
Speaker 3: you know, some draft assets, and ultimately we've talked about
37:58
Speaker 3: a bone we don't know. It doesn't seem like they
38:02
Speaker 3: viewed him as the building block to a championship team.
38:07
Speaker 3: And make no bones about it. This team is aiming high.
38:11
Speaker 3: They are trying to build a championship contender. They could
38:15
Speaker 3: have easily done what most of us wanted them to do, Bone,
38:18
Speaker 3: which is, hey, go try to win fifty games this year.
38:21
Speaker 3: Try to make a couple additions to what you had
38:23
Speaker 3: last year. We all would have loved it. They are
38:27
Speaker 3: swinging for the damn fensis. You know, ultimately, Jeff Peterson
38:31
Speaker 3: and the crew viewed last year as fool's goal, that
38:34
Speaker 3: they were ahead of where they wanted to be, that
38:36
Speaker 3: had not to tear them from what they wanted to do.
38:40
Speaker 3: Fascinating to see how this trade plays out long term.
38:43
Speaker 3: Who wins the trade? Is it one where that boat
38:47
Speaker 3: teams end up benefiting, which can happen at times we
38:49
Speaker 3: shall see a lot of it depends on the health
38:53
Speaker 3: of Melo. If Melo stays healthy, him and Anthony Edwards
38:57
Speaker 3: will be successful. But I think a huge reason why
39:00
Speaker 3: he's gone is the trust level there of Mellow staying healthy,
39:05
Speaker 3: especially for the grind he's gonna go through in Minnesota
39:10
Speaker 3: where they're they're thinking, you know, second round conference finals,
39:14
Speaker 3: that's the goals that they have with Edwards in Gobert
39:17
Speaker 3: and McDaniels. Can he stay healthy for that? I don't
39:20
Speaker 3: think the Hornets were sure. So who wins this trade baggage?
39:23
Speaker 3: And people will say, oh, he's he's gone. Stop talking. Well,
39:26
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk a lot about him because it's a
39:29
Speaker 3: huge deal on not only what the Hornets do here,
39:33
Speaker 3: but we're gonna monitor for sure what he does there.
39:36
Speaker 3: Much like with cam went to the Patriots. We're very
39:38
Speaker 3: curious on how it went. It's one of the biggest
39:40
Speaker 3: trades in Charlotte sports history. How it plays out, How
39:44
Speaker 3: LaMelo does there, as you're saying, is part of the story.
39:46
Speaker 3: How do we do without him moving forward? And how
39:49
Speaker 3: does the rebuild work? But how LaMelo does there? Like
39:52
Speaker 3: we don't on sudden just I guess, I guess he
39:55
Speaker 3: you're speaking two bone is straight Pepper Diet the Texter
39:57
Speaker 3: who is tired of LaMelo ball talk, and I just
40:00
Speaker 3: don't know how to break it to him, Like we
40:02
Speaker 3: will monitor him throughout the season. He is one of
40:05
Speaker 3: the biggest stars we've ever had in Charlotte, and he
40:08
Speaker 3: got traded after a year in which the Hornets played
40:11
Speaker 3: their best basketball. I don't know if anybody heard about
40:13
Speaker 3: that number one that efficiency ratings like. So, I just
40:18
Speaker 3: I don't understand how we can't monitor him moving forward.
40:24
Speaker 3: Straight pepper diet, im possible not to stray pepper die
40:27
Speaker 3: if I's something new for the diet. Man, I don't
40:29
Speaker 3: think straight pepper is working for you. You're a little,
40:30
Speaker 3: a little angry, little bitter. You should be straight honey butter.
40:34
Speaker 3: Interesting he doesn't like honey butter. Straight honey butter diet
40:38
Speaker 3: I'd be a good way to live, well until you
40:40
Speaker 3: die abruptly, but it'd be a fun way to live.
40:43
Speaker 3: A couple of things about some of the comments that
40:46
Speaker 3: are coming out of Minnesota. Anthony Edwards talked very candidly
40:51
Speaker 3: and basically said, uh, there's gonna be some ups and
40:54
Speaker 3: downs with me and Mellow together. And he said, uh,
40:58
Speaker 3: you know, and maybe the first year's all. Maybe the
41:00
Speaker 3: first year or downs, maybe we don't get to the
41:02
Speaker 3: yumps still after the first year. I thought it was
41:03
Speaker 3: a very honest comment. Also, I love these I love
41:07
Speaker 3: the report. I read over the weekend that Anthony Edwards
41:11
Speaker 3: and LaMelo have talked privately about how they both need
41:15
Speaker 3: to clean up their language in postgame interviews and they're
41:18
Speaker 3: gonna work together bone to keep each other honest and
41:21
Speaker 3: to not cuss on postgame interview. How many games they
41:24
Speaker 3: get into the season before one of those guys has
41:26
Speaker 3: a setback. They've been practicing the preseason opener, maybe game
41:31
Speaker 3: three of the preseason Strow and I predict Strow will
41:34
Speaker 3: be doing the postgame interview. That's my prediction. Bone. You know,
41:36
Speaker 3: stro double dips covers the Hornets here and Charlotte, but
41:39
Speaker 3: also does a bunch of games on TV in Minnesota.
41:42
Speaker 3: I predicted it'll be very early in the season and
41:44
Speaker 3: one of those two boys would cuss to an interview
41:46
Speaker 3: with Ashley Stroline doing the interview, because it's gonna be
41:48
Speaker 3: hard for them to talk to each other without cussing,
41:52
Speaker 3: and then for them back to pull that off, I
41:55
Speaker 3: think they would have to not cuss to each other
41:57
Speaker 3: and then go to the TV interviews. I think it's
42:00
Speaker 3: hard to go from that to that and then all
42:03
Speaker 3: of a sudden remember that they can't cuss. You got
42:05
Speaker 3: to do what we do here we separate the cussing
42:08
Speaker 3: from the radio time. Yes, most of the time. I
42:11
Speaker 3: have had a few dump Mutton incidents, but it's two decades.
42:14
Speaker 3: Maybe you got to give me a few, you know.
42:17
Speaker 3: Let's see here what else to do. Why. I try
42:18
Speaker 3: not to cuss off the air too much because if
42:20
Speaker 3: I do, it'll become natural on the I'm talking about
42:23
Speaker 3: like in the studio. If I start dropping F bombs
42:26
Speaker 3: during the break, I may just sometimes forget we're on
42:29
Speaker 3: the air and just start talking to Mac like we're,
42:31
Speaker 3: you know, two regular too regular job. Have I have
42:34
Speaker 3: I tried to drop the F bomps off the air?
42:36
Speaker 3: We'll bet sometimes they're directed, sometimes they're directed towards fitting
42:41
Speaker 3: the I have a very foul mouth in the company
42:44
Speaker 3: that I feel like it's okay, like we're the fellows
42:46
Speaker 3: or whatever. Anyway, let's move along to the current straight
42:50
Speaker 3: pepper diet. I'll be excited about this, our Texter. Let's
42:53
Speaker 3: move to the current Charlotte Hornet's roster and situation. They
42:57
Speaker 3: have sixteen guys right now on this roster, so you know,
43:02
Speaker 3: there's something's probably got to give here. And Sam Vassini,
43:06
Speaker 3: NBA Insider on his Game Theory podcast, talked about that
43:10
Speaker 3: dilemma that the Hornets have. He doesn't think they're done
43:13
Speaker 3: here this offseason.
43:14
Speaker 5: Charlotte as well, This is another team with sixteen guaranteed contracts.
43:19
Speaker 5: So even removing Pat Connaton and Mohammadu Gay from there,
43:26
Speaker 5: you know, roster, because those are two not totally non
43:29
Speaker 5: guaranteed deals, they still have sixteen guys, right, So I
43:33
Speaker 5: would imagine that this roster is not done yet. Like
43:37
Speaker 5: I would bet you that there's some sort of deal
43:39
Speaker 5: that Jeff Peterson comes up with at some point just
43:42
Speaker 5: in order to you know, kind of even out the roster.
43:45
Speaker 5: B it a you know, can you move a Royce
43:48
Speaker 5: O'Neill for a couple of second round picks? Or you know,
43:53
Speaker 5: Grayson Allen, does he get moved if you feel like
43:55
Speaker 5: Liam McNeely might be able to step into like that
43:58
Speaker 5: floor spacer shooter role, right, or maybe it's Trey Man
44:02
Speaker 5: because you just drafted Christian Anderson. This feels like an
44:05
Speaker 5: incomplete offseason to me right now, even after the Lamello
44:10
Speaker 5: trade and after all of the deals that they've made.
44:13
Speaker 3: So I'm sorry, Trey Man's got an uphill battle for sure.
44:15
Speaker 3: I think that's one guy definitely that Yeah, yeah, he's
44:19
Speaker 3: gonna he's got a tough time with these roster spots
44:21
Speaker 3: and he's gone, yeah, that's gonna be a tough one there.
44:23
Speaker 3: Trade man what Vassini's talking about there, But he also
44:26
Speaker 3: mentioned some guys I don't think we really want to
44:28
Speaker 3: trade Grayson Allen, Royce O'Neil. Sam Vessini is mentioning Jeff Peterson,
44:34
Speaker 3: pulling another Jeff Peterson, which means, go, it's acquired with
44:37
Speaker 3: draft assets. I see two second round picks bone in
44:41
Speaker 3: his future. If he makes a deal like that, who
44:44
Speaker 3: are you willing to do that with? Because Trey Man's
44:47
Speaker 3: value is not gonna be what Grayson Allen or Royce
44:49
Speaker 3: O'Neil's value is. But I don't want to see Grayson
44:54
Speaker 3: Allen or Royce O'Neil traded, do you for the sake
44:56
Speaker 3: of adding to now having seventy nine second round Well,
44:59
Speaker 3: we've talked to about their complimentary shooting in their roles.
45:02
Speaker 3: I mean, if you believe in McNeely, I mean, Grayson
45:05
Speaker 3: Allen maybe would be a February trade if McNeely carries
45:09
Speaker 3: over what he did in the Summer League of the
45:12
Speaker 3: regular season and then maybe you feel, all right, mcneelly
45:14
Speaker 3: can carry that that bench scoring role. I wonder if
45:18
Speaker 3: I wonder if T John gets traded for some second
45:21
Speaker 3: round picks at some point. I know that doesn't seem
45:23
Speaker 3: like a lot, Mad, but look, the first pick Reesauchet
45:28
Speaker 3: already traded, and that draft already traded out of Atlanta,
45:32
Speaker 3: so they've already said, yeah, we didn't get that one
45:34
Speaker 3: right there, We've changed our team. I don't think. I
45:36
Speaker 3: don't know when you factor in Royce O'Neil and Grant
45:39
Speaker 3: Williams and all these forwards, I don't know where T.
45:43
Speaker 3: John fits in. And I think right now, Mad, they
45:45
Speaker 3: would just take second rounders for T. John. That is
45:48
Speaker 3: an interesting thought. Would they be ready that, would they
45:50
Speaker 3: be ready to tap out? He's certainly way down the
45:53
Speaker 3: line right, you know, at the four spot, probably when
45:55
Speaker 3: it comes to depth. But injuries do happen, you know,
46:00
Speaker 3: as far as Dorian Finney Smith is the one. To me,
46:03
Speaker 3: it's like go ahead and flip that, you know, but
46:06
Speaker 3: it's only one year guaranteed, so they could get out
46:08
Speaker 3: of it next year if they have to. As far
46:12
Speaker 3: as and there also is this too, Grayson Allen and
46:17
Speaker 3: Royce O'Neil. You trade one of those, it hurts your
46:19
Speaker 3: team in the here and now. How much do they
46:22
Speaker 3: care about the team in the here and now versus
46:25
Speaker 3: the future? Because they're not totally tanking despite what some
46:29
Speaker 3: Texters have accused them of Bony or Hornet's Twitter has
46:33
Speaker 3: accused it, they're not totally tanking, right, Yeah, like they're
46:36
Speaker 3: gonna feel a competitive roster, but they're also bone. It's
46:41
Speaker 3: far from priority number one squeezing every possible win out
46:43
Speaker 3: of the here and now. So I don't know, man.
46:46
Speaker 3: I also say this a guy that he mentioned there
46:49
Speaker 3: that's on our roster that I'm not even suore Bone.
46:52
Speaker 3: Ninety eight percent of the Hornets fans know he's on
46:53
Speaker 3: the roster. Mohammeddu Gay was part of that LaMelo trade
46:57
Speaker 3: because it had to turn into a four team trade
46:59
Speaker 3: to make at work, and we had to take mohammadu
47:02
Speaker 3: Gay back on, like that's a non guaranteed contract, Like
47:07
Speaker 3: he just like cut him at some point to get
47:09
Speaker 3: down to fifteen. I think PJ. Hallstill on the roster also, right,
47:13
Speaker 3: al he's on the ESPN roster here, he's still on there?
47:16
Speaker 2: Is he?
47:16
Speaker 3: Yeah? It seems like an updated roster. He had the
47:19
Speaker 3: broken ankle and that's why he wasn't around during the
47:22
Speaker 3: summer league. That steinbog By the way, I'm not being
47:24
Speaker 3: able to mention it. I leave for Nashville and Steinblock
47:28
Speaker 3: puts up Charles Barkley like numbers in the summer League. Huh.
47:31
Speaker 5: He was.
47:31
Speaker 3: What a monster this guy is? He was balling many.
47:34
Speaker 3: Once the Vets got out of the lineup, they they
47:38
Speaker 3: featured him more. He got more of a chance to
47:41
Speaker 3: be in offensive force and show his offensive game. And again,
47:44
Speaker 3: I know it's only summer League, but that was freaking
47:47
Speaker 3: exciting as hell to see. This text says Mac, you
47:51
Speaker 3: got my hopes up. I thought you were talking about
47:53
Speaker 3: a big trade using the forty one million dollar trade
47:56
Speaker 3: e set. No, no, Sam Facine's just talking about can
48:00
Speaker 3: we acquire two more second round picks by flipping a
48:03
Speaker 3: veteran player. It's a couple of weeks since we got
48:06
Speaker 3: a couple second rounders. Yeah, I think that you talk
48:09
Speaker 3: about getting the itch. It's like it's like Fitty and
48:12
Speaker 3: fast food. If Fitny goes one meal two meals without
48:15
Speaker 3: eating fast food, he's got the if. Jeff Peterson goes
48:18
Speaker 3: a week Bone without acquiring a new second round pick.
48:20
Speaker 3: You think he starts to get the shakes. Oh, at
48:24
Speaker 3: some point, y'all, At some point he's going to go
48:28
Speaker 3: big game hunting. At some point Bone, the assets will
48:32
Speaker 3: be used in a bold move. I firmly believe that.
48:35
Speaker 3: With that said, Uh, don't hold your breath, right, They're
48:39
Speaker 3: not rushing this. It's gonna go full Elmer Fudd on us, right,
48:42
Speaker 3: Elmer Fudd, very very quiet, well hunting. Remember he's one
48:46
Speaker 3: of the great hundreds of all time. Elmer Fudg hunting wabbits. Yeah,
48:49
Speaker 3: there you go. When we come back. What are the
48:52
Speaker 3: most interesting positional battles about to play out at Panther's camp.
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