What are you looking for in the Wake Forest game? And then we'll get to your prediction.

Wake Forest is a great team.

This will set the tone for the entire ACC.

If we can go on the road and get a win in Wake Forest, then I'm really, really optimistic about the rest of the ACC because this is just a mano-a-mano team.

Bro, it's not a cakewalk, you know, and I'm hoping that our passing game just really dominates the night and we pull out a victory.

I know we're going to win.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Give

me your take.

My take was that I said as two folks, I put the shades on because we won and it wasn't necessarily a challenge.

I can take the shades off and say, I don't know in week one that we are a national title like we're about to win it because I'm sure people, if you're objective, you saw what I saw.

And there was some stuff that really need to be corrected against a very wounded team.

I was shocked that that the trench play was not impressive.

I mean, I was shocked.

Go ahead, Finesse.

how'd that happen finesse mitchell

well me and dave go way back bro we like 15 years of uh step brothers you know what i mean so uh that's pretty much how that happened he just hit me up and said this is the last one and you know i had some um I had some unfortunate events that happened in my family.

So I was just like, yo, I need to get away.

And he was like, if you're going to be depressed, come to Yellow Springs.

So I was like, all right.

And so, yeah, man.

And so it was a great weekend.

Yes, we do.

... would the entire universe found these guys on the same level that we found them? What do you think?

People like Prince, yeah.

People like Michael Jackson, yeah.

The record labels today, they invest way less, little to nothing, and they take more.

So they pay you less and invest less, and you do more to put yourself on.

They literally sit back and watch you create your own fan base, of course.

And, uh, and once you start moving tickets and/or getting a certain popularity in streams, they, then they come around with a check and put you in debt for the rest of your life, and you're paying back off a check that you'll never pay off.

You excited?

And what was that like being around so many damn legends, Finesse?

Nervous, bro.

Just nervous.

I, I didn't know if I was gonna go.

I was asking my wife, "Should I go to St. Louis and make this money, or should I go back to the reunion?" And she said, "You can always make money.

Go, go to the reunion.

And don't you got some people you wanna cuss out? Go cuss 'em out, man." [laughs] I was like, "Nah, man." I'm...

Yeah.

So there is, which I think is going to bode well for the younger players now.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, I like that rule.

I like the fact that, you know, I still think the Canes have a strong team.

I think the Canes have one of the better teams in college football and definitely in the ACC.

And I think that when I was thinking about our O-line, you know, I think people – one thing people fail to realize or remember Michael is that our old line outside of Jalen rivers, they had been playing together for three years, bro.

Yeah.

Would you like to say your thoughts about that right now? I want Justin Scott to play better.

I said,

well, what you want? What's going on? She said, where are you? What are you doing later today? I said, I'm doing a comedy show.

She said, I want to come.

How did you feel? How did you feel? So she asked me, where are you located? I said, I'm off of Wilshire.

She said, I'm off of Wilshire.

I said, wait, where? And she said, I'm off of 8th.

I said, I'm off of 8th.

Man, you are a beast on stage, and you at the City Winery win.

What's your take?

Well, we've always said, and I feel like sometimes people watch the show when we, when we, when we're on and we're talking about, you know, don't worry about Mario.

You know, I watch Grant, I watch, um, um, Locked On Canes.

I watch everybody now saying, "Trust in Mario." You know what I mean? And, um, but it's true, man.

Hats off to Mario Cristobal just, uh, killing it like his reputation has always preceded him, uh, when it comes to recruiting, and he's proving it here in Miami.

And as far as, uh, there was a ranking that said, you know, the level of, uh, ranking the coaches or whatever, and I think he was, like, number seven or something like-

... they'll be really good, but it's gonna be a while before they get it done, because it just seems like it's lined up perfectly, you know what I mean?

Right.

[laughs]

Oh, my goodness.

But, uh, I will say this, um, what we don't know behind the scenes, bro, is that you have so much money.

Unless we, unless we know that we got a blank check from Dana White or Dwayne The Rock Johnson or whoever these people are that's helping Miami with this NIL situation, we know we got a certain amount of money.

So you can't, if you miss out on Mason Cook and he go to Auburn, it's because Auburn was willing to pay a little bit more than what we was willing.

Yeah.

Right? And flip-flops.

Bro, we had a cutoff T-shirt, those shorts, and flip-flops walking around in the '90s.

Mm-mm.

I don't, I...

But I will say this, and I, you know, I have to give a honest take.

They definitely improved their squad through the transfer portal.

A lot of times, um, home field does matter, home field advantage.

And it's not like Notre Dame is a scrub program.

They just got beat for three and a half quarters and for some reason, uh, the game ended up looking closer than what it really was.

And Mala- That's where you're gonna eat so much, so much.

He said, so

you ever live in New York? I said, I used to go back and forth during the summer.

I had family in Mount Vernon.

He said, great, great.

Well, great job.

And he walked out and then somebody tapped on the petition.

And, you know, in these rooms, they slide the petitions together like in these hotel ballrooms.

Is getting that phone call from SNL, just to bring it back to the draft as we wrap things up, is getting that phone call the moment where you take stock of everything that you've done to get there and you say this phone call probably just changed my life trajectory

you ever

live in New York? I said, you should go back and forth during the summer.

I had family in Mount Vernon.

He said, great, great.

Well, great job.

And he walked out and then somebody tapped on the petition.

And, you know, in these rooms, they slide the petitions together like in these hotel ballrooms.

And you say this phone call probably just changed my life trajectory.

But is that where you're rooting for tonight as just like a passionate Canes fan for those two guys, Akeem Mesidor, all these guys that get taken in the first round?

Absolutely.

It's been a minute since the Hurricanes have had three of anything go anywhere.

So I'm very excited.

The entire alumni is excited.

And as far as my Falcons, you know, I don't know how y'all say it to us.

I don't know how we took the bait, but you know what? Right now, I just want everybody to stay out of South Florida.

And you say this phone call probably just changed my life trajectory.