Roundtable Time!!!

Hi, what's going on fellas? Let's start with, uh, you guys can have the floor to, I'm not going to pretend you were listening to me earlier, but usually if you were, you have something that I said wrong that you like to correct me on. So feel free to do that at this time.

What's going on Josh Goodson? Um, not having listened a ton to be honest with you. Thanks. I've been doing a lot of family stuff today, um, but always good to be on. I'm excited to talk about these things and I have a lot of takes today too. I'm ready to get them off my chest. You sound excited and you didn't text me the takes that you had, so way to keep me prepared there.

Ben Swain, what's going on with you my man? Honestly, I have no takes, but I just came on to give your mom a shout out. So, uh, what's up Mrs. Perm? Happy, uh, early 4th of July.

I'd have to say hey to mom. Did we have to, did we tell people happy 4th of July? Uh, yeah.

Uh, I think so. Mary 4th of July? Wait, what, like did you even acknowledge the 4th of July? We didn't do, we didn't do anything. We weren't there in 1776.

We weren't alive then. Why are we telling people happy? It's just a holiday.

You don't say that. I do feel like it's something where you shouldn't greet people with happy 4th of July, right? Like that feels a little awkward, but it does feel like you should be able to post it because posting in general is just sort of like a I'm joining in the celebration type thing, right? Sure. I don't know.

What are you concerned about with like if they're British, is that the concern? No, like birthday, if you're wishing somebody happy birthday, that's like obvious. It's like their day to celebrate.

Merry Christmas. I don't know. I guess maybe that's not theirs to celebrate.

I don't know why it feels different from like Christmas or Thanksgiving. You know what? I'm going to make this a thing. I mean everybody I see between now and the 4th, I'm going to start off the conversation by wishing them a fun and happy 4th of July.

Swain is mad that Starbucks isn't celebrating 4th of July as much as they used to. All right. Do you guys want to talk some sports or would you rather just review the new season of Righteous Gemstones? Well, can we get waffles after we review it?

Can we get waffles? Why? You're a bad guy. You haven't even watched it or you wouldn't know exactly what I'm talking about. How are you going to ask us our opinion on something and not have actually watched it yourself? Are you as excited about the ACC SEC Challenge as you were about the ACC Big Ten Challenge, Swain?

Not at all. I mean, it's honestly like better basketball games and I probably care more about regional rivalries with SEC teams than I do Big Ten. But it was just something about like the old challenge.

It was the only time throughout the entire year that I cared about the Big Ten at all. Maybe that's what it is. But no, it just seems like the old challenge just kind of died and this was fabricated to make up for it.

And it doesn't seem to have anything behind it other than that. Andy, SPM. Goodson, do you like any matchups or have you even perused the matchups? Where do you stand on ACC SEC?

I've perused them. It's the Leval Watkins homecoming for NC State. He's going back to where he was the coach.

That's right. He was the assistant coach at Ole Miss. You know what I actually like about it, at least this year's iteration, is it looks like the matchups were not necessarily like, hey Duke, hey UNC, you have to play Kentucky every year. And I understand that they probably play each other like enough in other champions classics or tournaments and such. But it didn't feel like they tried to just stuff that down our throat where you're only going to get the good, the best of the best each year.

It seems like they tried to have some variety, which is, I don't know, which is kind of interesting. I don't, like I don't use Florida maybe necessarily as like the biggest basketball blue blood, but like they're playing Wake Forest. That's kind of a cool matchup I think for Wake Forest instead of them playing like Missouri or something like that. It's weird because like Kentucky is not even the, like you're talking about the best of the best in the SEC. They're like the fifth best team right now. It's that. And so it's, it's even weird again, not like having paid too much attention to the status of the SEC. Obviously you think Kentucky first, but if you're actually ranking the way the teams are, they're, you know, fourth or fifth at best. Swain, true or false, when Goodson tells his wife on Monday before the Wednesday NC State Ole Miss game that he's flying to the game, it's the reason will be because it's the Levi Watkins homecoming game.

Oh, absolutely. I thought you were going to go to a really, take me to a really dark place. I'm mentioning Scotty Thurman with the Duke Arkansas game. That is, you know how like conversations always pop up about like, what's the one play in whatever team you follow, their history that you could go back in time and change. That's the one for me was that 1994 national championship game where Scotty Thurman is a three.

So like just Duke Arkansas, I know they played a couple of years ago to get to the final four, but just seeing that matchup triggers me thinking about that. So I'm glad you did not go there cause I was fully prepared to rescind my shout out to your mom. My mom's enjoying the shout out. I'm glad you don't take it back. All right.

Swain stick with you. Look, I trust the, in the Dundon era, the smart betting move would be trust that the canes made the right decision, right? So far, a lot of their moves work out, you know, a, a Stanley cup title would sort of make everything look like an incredible run, but short of a stay on the cup title, basically everything has gone pretty much as you would want it to go. If you were starting a new regime, my only question is, will, will drafting only dudes who are five eight ever catch up to us? In 17, right? Every single person they drafted was 17, which is a, it's a bulk strategy that actually every team in the NHL does.

I don't, I don't get it at all. No, we're, if you don't know, we're joking here. Everybody in the NHL draft is 17 years old. It's like the Kentucky Derby in that sense. No, they did. I did see that they, but no one died. Hopefully they're in the draft. It's not like the Kentucky Derby in that sense.

Yeah. Nobody, nobody had to get put down because they hurt their leg on the way to the stage. No, they, they do draft a lot of like undersized skilled players from what I was reading about the draft. And again, like nobody knows, like if anybody tells you they know about these drafts, they're either incredibly immersed in hockey or they're lying, right? Like these are guys that we're not going to see for, for three or four years. It's not like there was a stretch out there. It's not like we were getting Connor Bedard with the first day. Um, so these guys are not going to be in Carolina for, you know, two, three years.

Uh, so it's hard to say, but no, don't grow man. Like your kids. Right. And so like, I don't see freaking out overdrafting of a five, eight, 17 year old. That's going to be, you know, six, three, by the time he gets to the NHL, it's just, these kids are growing.

They're like, they're like actual legit kids that they drafted. So I'm not too concerned about it. Um, good. I thought you'd be proud. Did you hear me telling, uh, first round pig Bradley Nadeau that he should be an NC state fan? No, I didn't have that. They eat me.

He's a pack pro right now already. I basically was just running through the checklist of things, you know, uh, you know, what kind of barbecue I told him about barbecue. That's not a sauce. I said, just tell people you like Eastern South barbecue. I said, they're going to make you pick a college team. Uh, and don't say you like them all.

It's probably easier just to go with state cause they're red and you share a building with them. And then I said, you need to learn the word y'all. And he goes, y'all. And I was like, yeah, like what are y'all doing after practice? And then the end when we reviewed him, he nailed it. He was like, what are y'all doing later? I was like, yes. Um, but yeah, I told him he should be a state fan. Uh, all right. I think you gave us tour de France favorites, uh, yesterday.

Good sin is the tour de France better to like most sporting events you want to see the end of, but I feel like tour de France would be better to watch the beginning of before there's much separation. Am I crazy? Um, a little bit. I mean, are you, in terms of like, do you want to feel like a crash or something like that?

Well, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I don't not want to see a crash. Well, for me, the way I like to do it honestly is the mountain stages are the ones that like actually matter at the end of the, at the end of the whole thing, whoever basically wins the mountain stages ends up having so much of a time advantage over like other people that that's usually who ends up winning. And I'm not trying to make this up.

I'm not trying to embellish it or anything like that. Tomorrow is when it starts. And it's the hardest first stage ever in the history of the tour. Come on.

They say that every year. No, they usually the first stage is like a, kind of like a, a little like drop right in your bike through your neighborhood. It's flat. No one really is like trying to like raise.

It's just, you're working up a sweat. It's, it's more built on the pageantry of it starting tomorrow there's Hills. There's a not Hill Hills. There's also a mountain little piece that they have to go over.

It's going to separate. People are going to actually be ready to race tomorrow. I'm excited about it. We're going to already be in the Pyrenees on Wednesday.

Many say the Pyrenees is like great smoky mountains of Europe. So I'm excited about the tour. The question for Sway, Sway, did you know, or did you think that the tour de France used the same, uh, course every year? Yeah. Yeah.

I a hundred percent did. Why is it? Why is it, why is it changed? I feel like it should be the same every year. It's the tour de France.

It should be like the Boston marathon. I'll get the, what if I told you some years it doesn't even start in France? That's ridiculous. I think last year it started in like Denmark. That's the tour de Europe then.

That's ridiculous. I'll get, I'll get the street names wrong and my wife will get mad at me. But like at the Boston marathon, you're able to say like, Oh, you go, well you left on Boylston, right on Newton. And they, and like, you could say that because it's the same every year. The tour de France is not the same course every year. This is a fraud.

I'm very disappointed by this. But cycling is a real sport and my running not so like they actually push it up a little bit. Uh, I got a, would you rather for you, would you rather bike the mountain, the mountain stages in the tour de France or try the car on the blue Ridge Parkway?

Oh, bike 100%. The blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina is the scariest road in all roads. There's no, no one's ever survived driving it. It's safe. It's safe right now cause there's no ice. The only threat on the blue Ridge Parkway right now is a bear just jumping out and just flipping your car over. Uh, but uh, did he got a switchback that has absolutely no guard rail whatsoever? Just go a little bit over the other lane.

You're going off the side of the mountain. It is a, it is a dumbest road in America. It's one of the coolest things about North Carolina.

But yeah, sometimes it can seem a little unsafe. All right. Uh, uh, good to, and I understand you want to move the 4th of July. Um, I just think it needs to be the first Saturday of July a matter like here cause I'm actually kind of either two things that either like something needs to happen either all these, uh, cities and towns that are moving their like official town that have their official town fireworks this weekend, like on July the 1st or July the 2nd because they don't want to deal with the infrastructure, you know, the infrastructure possibly doing during a work week. Like get out of here with that or just move the actual, like we celebrate the 4th of July, the first Saturday of July, but you can't do it both ways.

Cause now next Tuesday we're going to have the actual 4th of July and it's going to be a weird day of like, I think a lot of places are, they're not doing the fireworks big extravaganzas because they will have already done them. I just, we need to do one or the other. The following is a message from the future sent by Jamie from progressive. Back in 2023 you could get help from progressive online through our mobile app or over the phone. But here in the future we can communicate with you through telepathy. Now I don't think anyone in 2023 is master telepathy yet, but if you have, then you can totally read my thoughts right now. And yes, I did leave the oven on. Wow.

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You smell smoke. I really should go progressive casualty insurance company, affiliates and other insurers. Uh, I mean, I'm, I'm pretty much pro holiday on weekends all the time because they like, you know, it's day you're going to get off at work and it's not like you got to get to work on a Monday and then get a Tuesday off and then you come back Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. That just seems off, right? Like just go and make it Saturday, make the holiday on Monday so that you can, you know, sleep off the long weekend. Uh, I think we should just do all holidays that way, right?

Like there's really no reason not to just go ahead and commercialize everything and put it on the weekend. I'm with good to, we did have a, a listener chime in and say, yeah, like who are the ad wizards that let the, uh, holiday be called, be known as 4th of July instead of sticking with what it should be, independence day. If it's independence day, we can celebrate whatever darn day we want. It's like president's day. We don't have to honor the actual date, right? If it's 4th of July, then it feels a little silly to like then do it on the 1st of July. But if you call it independence day, then it's like, ah, independence day observed 1st of July this year.

Problem solved. That's the way we need to be doing it. And even like, like birth, like if your birthday falls on a Tuesday, you're probably going out to like a birthday dinner on Saturday. Yes. Like you're not, yeah.

So like I'm sure Jesus is the same way. Like we could do the same thing with Christmas and celebrate on the weekend and he wouldn't care. All right. It is another Friday and it is, we've got the round table together. We finish off with a new tradition that we've done the two weeks in a row now with another round of you good. That's when we survey headlines and ask each other, uh, how hurt or shook or shattered are you by a particular headline?

It is you good. Uh, I'll start here. First up, Duke University is providing full tuition for families at certain levels in the regional area. That means like at a certain level they'll, they'll cover your tuition or at a certain level if your family's below a certain level, they'll cover your tuition, your housing costs, everything. However, this is not just for North Carolina. This is for South Carolina as well.

Swain, you good? I don't know why they're including South Carolina. The only thing I can think of is, uh, like Zion was from South Carolina.

So like when he used a basketball scholarship on, on him. Um, but no, I'm, uh, I, I am, I'm not good, uh, with, with South Carolina. I'm not good with South Carolina in general.

I think we've all established that historically. I need, I need an answer. No, I'm not good.

I'm not good at all. I need an answer for why they included South Carolina. There seems to be no good reason to, right? Like why not North Carolina and Tennessee? Like other than it's, I mean, it's close, right?

It's next to us, but there's, you could have just given like more aid to people in North Carolina, but uh, obviously I, I hate that I'm so soft. I think I've got the answer. Okay, go ahead. It goes along with my, one of my two good, uh, Dwayne Mariah mill. I know you're a big Mariah mills guy, um, posted about some more pregnancy twists with her Zion Williamson drama.

She actually got on Instagram and posted a pregnancy test and started asking people should they name the baby junior or Zoraya? Are you good with that? And which name would you choose? Uh, that's a little over the line. Um, it's a pretty sick name though. Like let's be honest, that's a good name.

What if they're doing the housing thing down in South Carolina for this? Cause they know what's going on. Are you good? I mean, are you good with all that happened specifically for the baby? Yeah.

I don't think God's got that kind of pulley. I do. No, I don't. I don't think so. Maybe they know he's getting traded to Charlotte.

They're preparing for him to be back in the South Carolina area. I like it. Um, all right, what you got Swain?

I'm going to go directly to terms that you guys through, through, uh, to do things with me and I need to know, are you good? Because a couple of weeks ago you brought up, Hey Swain, you've been watching a season two of the bears. It's a coach came mentioned in there.

So, you know, I was going to watch it anyway. I got into it and there's much more than a passing coach came mentioned. It's been like three or four episodes now, including the most recent one that I watched, which I had a clip of coach K giving an interview in the episode. I've not heard you mentioned it once since then. And I know that you liked the show. So I need to, I need to know, are you good?

Or did you like rage quit the bear? Because it's too much coach K you got me. I'm out.

I'm out. I can't, it's just back to every episode is about Duke. It's a, it's like a religion for like the guiding principle of the, of them running things is the coach K philosophy. They're reading his book. It's sickening. I like, is he an executive producer?

Like I want, I need an investigation into this. There's no reason that they have endured this storyline so long. I'm absolutely not good. And yes, I I'm over the bear.

It was okay, but season two stinks and I don't like it. Um, speaking of T he's going to mention every episode, sort of like, uh, Roy gets on camera every year, every home for Carolina. He's just trying to stay relevant and he knows he can't just try to stay relevant. Uh, speaking of TV Goodson, are you good? Party of five co-stars Lacey Chabert and Scott Wolf are reuniting after 23 years for a new hallmark Christmas movie. I know you're a big Lacey Chabert fan. Uh, are you, are you going to be okay with Scott Wolf, uh, horny back in there? A hundred percent more, more Lacey is never a problem. You can deal with what comes along with that. If it includes more Lacey Chabert on Hallmark, I am 100% good with that.

But you, you have to watch her be with yet another man. That's not you. I mean, Scott Wolf, and this is like, Oh God, this guy's back. It's like teenage dreams.

Scott Wolf, ruining your teenage dreams again as you watch them together. Are you sure you're good? I'm, I'm, I'm 100% good. All right. You got any more?

Yeah, I got one for you. Perm, um, Bobby Osborn. Are you familiar with Bobby Osborn? I don't think so.

Should I be? He was a, one of the brothers of the Osborn brothers. Uh, Bobby passed away, uh, this week. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude is saying Rocky top.

I'm not asking, I'm not asking, are you good with someone passing away? I'm not going to, I'm not being that guy, but, uh, Bobby Osborn and his brother, they did the first recording of Rocky top. Yeah. Are you good? That Rocky top actually is better being played by the university of Tennessee marching band than it actually is as a bluegrass song because it 100% is. Um, uh, yeah, I might be good with that. I might be good with a marching band Rocky top being better than actual, it's not, no bluegrass band I know gets up there and plays Rocky top.

So don't try and claim like it. If you go listen to like a classic bluegrass greatest hits Appalachian stomp album, like in constant sorrow from a brother of ours, that's the only real bluegrass song that actually exists. If it's a collection of the, like the classics of bluegrass, you're going to hear it on there. But like no bluegrass band performing now is going to be like, all right, y'all ready for it? It's Rocky top. Like, no, that doesn't happen.

They know they can't do it justice. Bluegrass bluegrass music is so overrated, but I'm, are you good? I just wanted to make sure you're good with that. I I'm good. Swain, you got any more? No, that's the only one I wanted to hit you with. All right. I appreciate it. Uh, but your mom's good cause she got her shout out.

Ben Swain and Josh Goodson. That is the round table. Shout out to my mom, uh, from, from, not from me, from Ben Swain. So, uh, you guys work your flat top grills this weekend and we'll, uh, we'll talk to you in the future. Fried rice on the 4th of July is a tradition like any other, for sure. See ya.