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Welcome to the Inside Carolina podcast.

John Siegley here with Taylor Vipolis, E.J. Wilson, Mike Ingersoll.

Going to be discussing the Western Carolina game, getting into a little bit of NC State since it is next week's game.

But we will save most of that for next week, aka hate week.

So, guys, how are y'all doing Carolina one win on the season? You know, how's the spirits right now? Taylor,

since you're the first one I see on my screen here, let's start with you and then go down the

line. I'm personally doing well. You know, one of the things that I had to do when I signed up for this job at Inside Carolina is when I was talking about Buck is kind of tuck away the fandom and be this subjective reporter.

So I've tried to kind of distance myself from the team.

But even saying that, it's kind of hard to do just because of

how close I am with some of the coaches and some of the players still on this team. So I definitely

feel for them. I love North Carolina. I obviously wish they were doing a lot better. But

personally, I'm doing pretty well.

Good to hear, man. Look, there's got to be some positivity right now. E.J., your next one up,

man. How about you? The only positivity I have is that we have Westing Carolina, then NC State, and then this nightmare of a season will be over. I honestly, personally, it affected me a little bit personally at the end of the year,

but I mean, when you get kicked in the teeth so much,

at some point you got to just turn the other cheek, I guess I was saying,

just focus on some of the other things, the fact that we didn't turn the ball over last game,

so I can feel pretty good about that.

Small victories, but unfortunately, I mean, Carolina's got to put something up on the scoreboard,

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