WF preview, FB Portal, Michael Busch joins
Carolina Insider
The Varsity Podcast Network
5 • 881 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
After no game in the midweek, Carolina is back in action on Saturday evening against Wake Forest...we preview the match-up with the Demon Deacons (4:52)
The FB Transfer Portal window is open and, as expected, Carolina is active (19:20)
Former Tar Heel and current Chicago Cubs first baseman Michael Busch joins (27:16)
Plus: first 5SecondChallenge of 2026 (55:52), the ACC Network's doc on the 1993 Heels debuts this weekend (1:09:02), we have a giant Rameses bobblehead in Pod World HQ (1:15:55) and a callback to Texas Ping Pong (1:26:17)
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| 0:00.0 | From Pod World Headquarters. This is the Carolina Insider from Learfield. |
| 0:07.6 | We're back. It's time for another edition of the Carolina Insider, Jones and Adam here with you. |
| 0:15.1 | And if I'm not mistaken, and I know I'm not, this is the first show of the calendar year of 2026 to fall on a Friday. |
| 0:28.7 | It's Friday, Friday. |
| 0:33.8 | Everybody's looking forward to the weekend weekend. |
| 0:41.7 | Party and party and party and yeah. |
| 0:46.4 | Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, looking forward to the weekend. |
| 0:48.8 | And we have a really good show upcoming. |
| 0:55.8 | Of course, Taurioles have not played in the midweek so we don't have a game to look back on necessarily, but we do have a game upcoming, and that is Carolina Wake Forest in the Smith Center, |
| 1:02.1 | 6 o'clock start. Is that right, Adam, 6 o'clock start? Yes. |
| 1:06.5 | On Saturday evening, Heels and the Deeks. |
| 1:16.6 | As Carolina continues ACC play and gets one more home game in before the week-long trip to California. |
| 1:17.5 | So we'll talk about the upcoming game with Wake Forest. |
| 1:21.6 | We'll kind of take, we'll just kind of take inventory here of football. |
| 1:26.3 | There's so many moving parts right now |
| 1:28.5 | with the roster because of we are dead smack in the middle, the transfer portal window. Remember, |
| 1:35.7 | it's one window, two weeks this year. If you don't go in in those two weeks, you're not going in. |
| 1:42.1 | And so a lot happening there with the roster movement. |
| 1:47.3 | So we'll kind of, we'll take a, this will be a more detailed discussion in the future. |
| 1:51.8 | We'll take a high level look at it here in just a little bit. |
| 1:56.6 | We have the return of the five second challenge. |
| 1:59.5 | It's back for 2026. |
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