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Speaker 1: It is on Monday night for Steelers against Houston. He

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Speaker 1: is Rocks number one frint Man. He puts the classic

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Speaker 1: in classic rock from Butler Pa. He is vocalist Brett Michaels. Brett,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be pumped. What's more exciting a Steelers playoff

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Speaker 1: game or a Brett Michael's concert.

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Speaker 2: That's a pretty tight call.

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Speaker 3: For me, Mark, my brother.

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Speaker 4: Let me just tell you right now, I'm still flying high.

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Speaker 4: And I literally mean that when that first of all,

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Speaker 4: my brother, happy New Year's hat to you and to

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Speaker 4: you and the gift given upon us by a slight

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Speaker 4: slip and a shanked kick is I'm telling you now,

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Speaker 4: I am so fired up. We're going to the playoffs

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Speaker 4: watching Mike Tomlin pound in his chest and it was

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Speaker 4: a I don't know about you, but I jumped off

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Speaker 4: my couch. I was, you know, I'm uberstitious, it's beyond superstitious.

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Speaker 4: I was making the sauce we're cooking up the spaghetti saw.

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Speaker 4: I had a beer in one hand, standing on one leg,

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Speaker 4: the hat backwards and upside down. It you have no

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Speaker 4: idea for the end. When that kick went, when it

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Speaker 4: when it shanked, I was like, oh my God, you

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Speaker 4: the scream. I lost my voice. I just put it

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Speaker 4: that one.

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Speaker 1: I don't say that, Brett Michaels can't lose his voice.

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Speaker 1: I just obviously not permanent. But yeah, the kick. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you though, Brett, I said, I was

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Speaker 1: doing an appearance having a watch party at a place

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Speaker 1: and I yelled out loud, He's gonna miss it. It just

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Speaker 1: felt preordained, didn't it it.

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Speaker 4: I don't whatever you did, I'm gonna go with you

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Speaker 4: because I get to tell you something. I when it

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Speaker 4: started pulling right you, I don't even I don't even

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Speaker 4: have words. I was like, I literally jumped off that

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Speaker 4: couch and I saw Pyro that wasn't actually happening in

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Speaker 4: my house, Like there was Pyro going off fireworks.

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Speaker 3: It was a good day.

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Speaker 1: Now, you're a big fan and friend of Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 1: Did that win provide a redemption for him? Or did

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Speaker 4: Mike doesn't need redemption. Now, remember full disclosure. I'm an

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Speaker 4: absolute friend and believer. I know we've had this conversation

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Speaker 4: a couple of times. One of the winningest coaches ever

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Speaker 4: you know, And I just got to say this, watching

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Speaker 4: how fired I've watched the whole game, not just what's

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Speaker 4: happened on the field. I'm looking at the sidelines, the

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Speaker 4: looks on our players' faces. He was so fired up,

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Speaker 4: you know, pushing herbig around there, watching him just get

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Speaker 3: Just fired up.

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Speaker 4: And I'm telling you I live by that, as you know,

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Speaker 4: when we're together at shows, right when you're at that

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Speaker 4: Brett Michaels or poison show. I'm a grateful guy and

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Speaker 4: I'm fired up. But that will power, I can't explain.

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Speaker 4: It gives you that one extra one extra power that

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Speaker 4: you need to win. And whatever you did at the

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Speaker 4: sports bar, you said all show down South, whatever you

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Speaker 4: did and everyone did there, it worked.

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Speaker 1: I just yelled something out, Brett. But the result is

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Speaker 1: what it is. What's your take on Aaron Rodgers, because

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Speaker 1: he might be the Brett Michaels a quarterback And I

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Speaker 1: don't say that lightly.

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Speaker 2: Still getting it done.

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Speaker 3: He is still getting it done.

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Speaker 4: Listen, I'm a guy again, knowing my age.

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Speaker 3: I laugh about this. I've said it before.

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Speaker 4: I'm like a classic muscle car, right, still fast, still

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Speaker 4: as I go. Right, that's it, and I think Aaron's incredible.

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Speaker 4: I've spoke to Mike and my buddy.

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Speaker 3: Jay Glazer about it. He's listen.

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Speaker 4: The guy's a Hall of Fame quarterback, right, and there's

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Speaker 4: a certain ability he has when it comes like they say,

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Speaker 4: when it comes time that you got to step up

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Speaker 3: We got it done. We got it done.

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Speaker 2: Now what do they got to do to be Houston?

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Speaker 1: Because that's a great defense with a very good head

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Speaker 1: It shapes up as a rock fight. To me, Brett

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Speaker 1: low scoring, but Mike Tomlin, the Steelers, they're pretty good.

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Speaker 3: At that kind of game, absolutely all out brawl.

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Speaker 4: And I'm gonna say this, I never underestimate your opponent.

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Speaker 4: Go in there and everything you're gonna do kick double ass.

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Speaker 3: In other words, you've.

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Speaker 4: Got to have fun, you gotta be dumb, but you

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Speaker 4: but as a diabetic, right, you're never you got.

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Speaker 3: To believe you're never out of the fight. And that's

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Speaker 4: Even you know when Likely went up and caught that

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, you got it.

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Speaker 4: I said that that couldn't have just happened, and I

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Speaker 4: we're not out of the fight.

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Speaker 3: We're not out of the fight.

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Speaker 4: Took it down to two seconds, and good lord man,

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Speaker 4: I'm telling you right now, I've been doing vocal warm

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Speaker 3: I blew it out. I blew it out yelling.

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Speaker 1: Now you're you're gonna be at the game Monday night

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Speaker 1: against Houston when you go to akrosshoor where do you

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Speaker 1: watch the game from? Because I've seen you on the field.

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Speaker 1: I've seen you do the terrible towel thing. What's your

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Speaker 3: An acrossor everywhere?

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Speaker 4: I first of all, I love hanging with the fans

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Speaker 4: when me and you and all of us and Big

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Speaker 4: Joe and Johnny Waterick right right, I call him John

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Speaker 4: Waterick from Stillers right, and all of us were down

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying it.

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Speaker 4: I'm all over the place, hanging with the fans, having

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Speaker 4: a great time. If I could sneak in, I told Mike,

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Speaker 3: I'll do it. I'll sacrifice, right.

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Speaker 4: But uh, And then sometimes we go up and I

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Speaker 4: and the Steelers suite and hang out a little bit

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Speaker 4: with the Rooneys and we raise a lot of money

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Speaker 4: for the obviously for diabetes. And it's just a when

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Speaker 4: I'm there, I'm in Mike glory. It's like bucket list

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Speaker 1: Now, not only are you coming to Monday Night's game,

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Speaker 2: What's going on there? What's planned?

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Speaker 3: So the word is, I'm going to the draft no

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna be a part of whatever the city the

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Speaker 4: a good time draft party ever.

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Speaker 2: That's what I want, That's what we all want, buddy.

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Speaker 4: So that's what we're gonna make happen. We're just gonna

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Speaker 4: We're gonna will it to happen. The Ruoneys have been

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Speaker 4: But we're gonna throw a party of biblical proportions. And

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Speaker 4: I'm praying My bucket list is to obviously be able

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Speaker 4: be up there. Maybe me and Rocky Blier just thrown

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Speaker 3: To honor the city and listen whatever leeway they give me.

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Speaker 4: I say this in a big interview I did with

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Speaker 4: the Steelers. I said, I'm going to get Sincere. Its

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Speaker 4: The vibe brought the spirits up of all of us.

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Speaker 4: Obviously we feel it when we have a loss and

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Speaker 4: we celebrate it when we win, and not just football

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Speaker 1: Now I plan my summer and have done for years

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Speaker 1: around your conscience, Spraat, What doest Michael's that plan for

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Speaker 4: Besides the draft, same thing we're coming back with it.

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Speaker 4: It's called live and Amplified. Then, nothing but a good

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Speaker 4: time party, Graw. I'm bringing all of our friends. We're

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Speaker 4: gonna go out there and kick ass at the Amphitheater

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Speaker 4: and just have a great time. That's that's what we're

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Speaker 4: and we're just going.

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Speaker 3: To continue to do that. It's again comes from my

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Speaker 4: But for that draft, I hope that I can be

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Speaker 2: No, it'll be great. And there's no date for you

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Speaker 2: coming to the amphitheter yet, right, that's yet to be announced.

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Speaker 3: We have, Yeah, that's going to be announced. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now, now what about like you've brought Lou Graham, You've

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Speaker 1: your party Gras, It's like a cavalcade to start. It's

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Speaker 1: like the old Alan Freed thing from before even you

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and you want to know the best part, I

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Speaker 4: like to think I set the tone.

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Speaker 3: There's no egos.

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Speaker 4: Everyone is having the time of their life. I don't

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Speaker 4: party and singing with the fans. And that's what the

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Speaker 4: I'll get to be able to do with the draft.

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Speaker 4: And you know, we had to think about this. We

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Speaker 4: we're gonna we are going to celebrate that on the

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Speaker 5: Brut.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait one last thing. Give me a prediction

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Speaker 1: Monday night, Give me a prediction.

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Speaker 4: Kick Texan ass I listen. I have such mass respect,

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Speaker 4: obviously for the Houston Texans and their and their coaching

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Speaker 4: all of our opponents, but obviously, I'm I am.

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Speaker 3: Black and yellow, black and gold from birth.

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Speaker 4: Uh, and it's it's just I'm predicting that we just

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Speaker 4: go out there and bring every bit, bring the hammer.

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Speaker 3: That's what we got to do.

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Speaker 2: Brett, you are the best. You're my brother.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me, and we'll see you real soon.

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Speaker 1: Have fun Monday night. Maybe I'll see it between now

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Speaker 1: and then.

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Speaker 3: I hope. So, my friend, love you, Happy New Year.

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Speaker 1: Love you man. Good stuff. That's Brett Michaels, nothing but

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Speaker 1: a good time. Gonna be at the game Monday night,

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Speaker 1: and boy, I think it'd be terrific.

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Speaker 2: I mean, let's be honest.

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Speaker 2: going to be a quickie because we had so much

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Speaker 1: Nine, Big matchup Monday night playoff game at two the

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Speaker 1: From the Post Gazette, it's columnist Paul Zeiss. Paul, I've

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think that the thing about it

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, Houston does not have a very good

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Speaker 2: You've got Anderson matched.

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Speaker 5: Well? I mean, I think one of the things that

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Speaker 5: I think I think, you know, the Texans front seven

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Speaker 2: Why do you think that is?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think they literally have like they've fumbled

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Speaker 1: You know, what's a weird dynamic of this game, Paul,

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Speaker 1: He's misskicks in each of his last three games, a

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Speaker 5: non factor and and and major factors. It's it's somewhere

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Speaker 5: on that scale, because it used to be, you know,

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Speaker 5: he it was a total non factor him missing kicks,

439
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Speaker 5: but now you know, it's it's somewhere north of that.

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Speaker 5: And that's a little concerning when you want to try

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Speaker 5: and play, you know, defensive minded one score games.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Paul Zeiss of The Post Gazette here

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Speaker 1: on the Mark Madden Show. Paul, what do you expect

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Speaker 1: from Aaron Rodgers Because he was great against Baltimore, but

445
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Speaker 1: Baltimore got very little pressure. Cleveland got a lot of pressure,

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Speaker 1: and Rodgers looked like he didn't even want to be

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Speaker 1: out there. I mean, which Rogers is going to show

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Speaker 1: up for this game, especially given the rush that that

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Speaker 1: Houston is gonna put together.

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Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I mean, I think you know, that's the

451
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Speaker 5: one thing we've seen with Rogers is if you can

452
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Speaker 5: get to him and hit him a few times, he

453
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Speaker 5: doesn't seem like he's having a whole lot of fun

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Speaker 5: out there. He's like a guy who's maybe looking ahead

455
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Speaker 5: the retirement. But this is a playoff game, you know,

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Speaker 5: I expect him to play well just because it is

457
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Speaker 5: a playoff game. Is a good chance it could be

458
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Speaker 5: his last game. It feels like the passing game is

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Speaker 5: getting better and more versatile, so there's a lot to

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Speaker 5: really like about it. I just think it's now important

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Speaker 5: for him to go out there and and and make

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Speaker 5: sure that he moves around in the pocket and doesn't

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Speaker 5: get himself in a position where he's gonna take a

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Speaker 5: bunch of big hits.

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Speaker 1: What do you think is gonna happen with him next year?

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Speaker 1: Do you think he's gonna come back? And if he

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Speaker 1: comes back, will it necessarily be to Pittsburgh. He talked

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Speaker 1: to the meeting the other day about you know, options,

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Speaker 1: which sounded kind of weird coming out of his mouth

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Speaker 1: while he's still here, Because I think he's a true mercenary.

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Speaker 1: There are those who romanticize the Steelers, you know, the

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Speaker 1: suspects Paul who.

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Speaker 2: Oh him and Tomlin are a great pair. He loves

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Speaker 2: playing for him.

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Speaker 1: I think of a better team that offers him a

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Speaker 1: legitimate chance to win comes Colling like a Minnesota I think.

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Speaker 3: He goes.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, uh well, I think if Tomlin's here, you know

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Speaker 5: he's gonna come here. I do think that. I think

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Speaker 5: I do think that's a factor. Yes, but if Tom's

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Speaker 5: not here, he there's no chance he's coming back here.

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Speaker 5: And I think that if Tomlin's not here and you know,

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Speaker 5: there's very little chance that he's coming back here, I

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Speaker 5: would put the fact that he's playing at all at

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Speaker 5: maybe about fifty to fifty to be honest.

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Speaker 1: Now, a guy who has to have a good game,

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Speaker 1: and I pick on him, And in this case, I'm justified.

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Speaker 5: TJ.

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Speaker 1: Watt got the big contract. He's had very few big TJ.

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Speaker 1: Watt level games since he got it. I think he

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Speaker 1: has to come up with one of those Monday Night.

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Speaker 1: And I know he got the deflected interception against the

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Speaker 1: but he didn't have a lot to do with that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean again, Yeah, exactly. Have all bounced up

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Speaker 5: off about seven guys and it hit him? Yeah? Absolutely,

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Speaker 5: You know, I don't know what he's got Mark, because again,

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Speaker 5: that injury is a weird injury, and you know, even

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Speaker 5: though he's able to play and he's recovered from it,

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Speaker 5: you don't know how that's affecting his wind and how

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Speaker 5: it's affecting his ability to you know, even even like

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Speaker 5: absorb some hits.

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Speaker 2: That's fair, you know.

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Speaker 5: To me, I look at him, and I don't know

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Speaker 5: He's He's been a bit of a non factor this

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Speaker 5: entire season, hasn't he? And so the Steerers, I'm proven,

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Speaker 5: you know, if they got the other guy's healthy, they

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Speaker 5: can overcome it. And so I don't necessarily know that

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Speaker 5: they need him to have a big game. But between

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Speaker 5: high Smith and and her Big and and and him, yeah,

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Speaker 5: two of those three need to have a big game.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: Cam's been great all season, though, you think, and I

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Speaker 1: thought he was exceptional against UH Baltimore on Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: I think he might be first team All Pro again.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean I would I would agree with that.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think Cam Hayward has had a great season.

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Speaker 5: I think Heisman has had a great season, right. I mean,

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Speaker 5: those those two probably have been the you know too

519
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Speaker 5: and sneaky, But you know, I think Joey Porter has

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Speaker 5: been probably better than people have given the credit because

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Speaker 5: of all the penalties. He's had a pretty good season too.

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Speaker 5: So you know, they've had a couple of guys that

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Speaker 5: have gone out and got it done week after week

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Speaker 5: after week after week. And you know what, if you

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Speaker 5: do that, you have a chance to you know, advance

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Speaker 5: in the playoffs, especially again, like I said, in a

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Speaker 5: game where I only think maybe seventeen points, sixteen points

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Speaker 5: is gonna be enough to win it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree that Porter has been real good, and

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Speaker 1: I also agree with with with that notion about how

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Speaker 1: many points it will take to win it. I think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a close game. I think the score

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Speaker 1: might be deceptively higher. It might be a relatively high

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Speaker 1: scoring rock fight, which sounds funny. Now Metcalf back, what

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Speaker 1: are expectations for him? Because we talked earlier with Mike

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Speaker 1: the course of the Sporting News and we were wondering

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Speaker 1: will he make a bunch of catches and score a

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Speaker 1: touchdown or will he get heavily blanketed but open things

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Speaker 1: up for the other receivers and maybe even the running

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Speaker 1: game a bit.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think that's the That's the thing

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Speaker 5: with Metcalf. M Kenny hasn't played in two weeks. What

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Speaker 5: it's his timing gonna be like with Aaron Rodgers. You know,

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Speaker 5: if they can't get the running game going, are they

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Speaker 5: gonna be able you know, to you know, get the

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Speaker 5: ball to him and and and all the other stuff.

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Speaker 2: When I look at the.

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Speaker 5: DK Metcalf, I mean, okay, so subtract two games. So

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Speaker 5: he played what fifteen fourteen to fifteen games? I mean

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Speaker 5: I could probably point the two right maybe right that

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Speaker 5: he was that he was a thirty million dollar player.

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Speaker 5: That's concerning. And I know too, you know, both of

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Speaker 5: them are probably later in the season. But still, you know,

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Speaker 5: he's got to be good. He's got to be not

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Speaker 5: just good, he's got to be great and they need

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Speaker 5: him to do that. But again, after sitting out for

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Speaker 5: two whole for sitting up, sitting out for two whole weeks,

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Speaker 5: I don't know what you can expect from him.

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Speaker 1: Paul, what's your call? Who's gonna win by how much?

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Speaker 1: What kind of aim do you expect?

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Speaker 5: I kind of think, you know, it'll be something to

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Speaker 5: the effect of I actually kind of feel like the

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Speaker 5: Steelers will win because Tomlin wins these games. So I mean,

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Speaker 5: I could see it being something like sixteen thirteen.

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Speaker 1: I kind of feel like they're gonna win two. I

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Speaker 1: have trouble coming up with the storyline thereon. But let's

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Speaker 1: say they do lose, Paul, is it a call for

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Speaker 1: you know, major change, and you think they'll just want

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Speaker 1: it back?

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Speaker 2: What would you do? What will they do?

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Speaker 5: They'll just run it back, you know that, you know

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Speaker 5: what I mean, Yeah, they'll just run it back, because

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Speaker 5: that's what they do. But to me, I mean, I think,

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Speaker 5: you know, they probably should consider something else for sure.

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Speaker 1: Paul, Paul very sorry to hear the news at the

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Speaker 1: Post because that's closed down to may any reaction to that.

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Speaker 2: I guess it's kind of something you got to process yet.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, uh, you know, but for someone like me,

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Speaker 5: nineteen ninety eight is when I started there, you know,

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Speaker 5: it's kind of like been you know, a big part

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Speaker 5: of my life. It's just sort of the business. You know,

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Speaker 5: let's let's let's face it. The newspaper business really marked.

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Speaker 5: The newspaper business probably lost when in the nineties when

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Speaker 5: the Internet was becoming a thing and the you know,

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Speaker 5: the publishers and the editors and all them, they just

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Speaker 5: sort of thumbed their noses at it and baw, this

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Speaker 5: is just kind of a fat as opposed to embracing. Okay,

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Speaker 5: this is where we're going. So we've got to figure

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Speaker 5: out how to make money out of this. And they

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Speaker 5: never did. And they gave away all this stuff for free,

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Speaker 5: and then they try to put the you know, put

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Speaker 5: it back into the bag and and and you know,

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Speaker 5: a couple of newspapers are you know, paid subscriptions, but

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Speaker 5: they're not newly enough to sustain know what they used

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Speaker 5: to get back in the day with print ads and

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Speaker 5: all that other stuff. So, I mean, it's one of

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Speaker 5: those one of those industries that you know, has sort

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Speaker 5: of been on life support for a long time. There's

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Speaker 5: still some places where they figured out how to make

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Speaker 5: it work, just the same, you know, for this region

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Speaker 5: that there's not going to be a post gazette for

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Speaker 5: them to read every day, you know, after May whatever

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Speaker 5: May whatever it is.

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Speaker 1: Paul, again, my condolences, but you'll move forward to media

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Speaker 1: your talent and thanks for coming on we'll do it

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Speaker 1: again next week.

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Speaker 5: All right, mamaha. Thanks, we'll talk to you soon.

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Speaker 1: That's Paul's ice the Post Gazette if you're just tuning in,

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Speaker 1: by the way, that is the big news.

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Speaker 2: The Post Caazette shutting down.

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Speaker 1: In May after ninety nine years of operation as the

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Speaker 1: Post Gazette, but the paper that was the precursor and

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Speaker 1: went through a bunch of name changes. The Post Caausette

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Speaker 1: really started in seventeen eighty six. It became the Post

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Speaker 1: Gazette in ten twenty seven. The weird part is, and

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Speaker 1: he's retired now, but Ron Cook worked every day for

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Speaker 1: the paper since seventeen eighty six.

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Speaker 2: One O five ninety X Tomorrow nights the Pens take

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Speaker 2: on the Devils.

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Speaker 8: Game time is seven, Our coverage starts at six here

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Speaker 8: every game and the best coverage right here on your

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Speaker 8: home of the Pens.

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Speaker 9: One five nine the X.

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Speaker 2: This songer the Mark Vanden Show forgot the plug before

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Speaker 2: the segment. It's time to ask Mark anything.

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Speaker 1: Brought list by People's Natural Gas as People's typhengas dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Paul for joining me, by the way, tough

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Speaker 1: day for him and everybody at the Post Gazette. Very

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Speaker 1: sorry to hear that the post Caasette will be shutting

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Speaker 1: down in May. After well, depending on what founding date

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Speaker 1: you go by, at least ninety nine years of operation.

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Speaker 1: But it's time to ask Mark anything dial a three

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Speaker 1: three four one two w xdx. That's a three three

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Speaker 1: four one two wxdx. Well, we wait for the calls

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Speaker 1: and talk thanks to come in. Well, no, I got

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Speaker 1: a call. I gotta call in a talkback. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: I forgot the plut. What a great show today though.

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Speaker 1: Eric Carlson, who's just a fantastic interview. We're going to

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Speaker 1: replay him at about five point thirty if you missed it.

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Speaker 1: Brett Michaels, who's up coming to Ton for the Steeler

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Speaker 1: game Monday night, and uh is going to be here

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Speaker 1: for the draft, and I think the Steeler should get

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Speaker 1: him involved the NFL have a concert, have a party

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Speaker 1: grap for the draft.

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Speaker 2: That'd be incredible. And Uh, well, let's go to Jay Jay,

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Speaker 2: ask Mark anything.

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Speaker 3: Utter Nicole Scherzinger or Jennifer Lopez.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a Nicole Scherzinger fan. You've called about her before.

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Speaker 2: I think you're obsessed with Nicole Scherzinger, Hello.

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Speaker 3: I don't recall.

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Speaker 10: Yes, Hello, I'm here.

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Speaker 1: You're a liar, Buddy Rogers, thanks for the call. I'd

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Speaker 1: go with Jennifer Lopez. She still looks really attract now

654
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Speaker 1: eight three three four one two wxdx. Or call this

655
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Speaker 1: secret number four one two three three three wxdx. You

656
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Speaker 1: get on faster if you call that one. Let's go

657
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Speaker 1: to a talkback. If you were to rewatch the Breaking

658
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: Bad universe, would you start with Better Call sauw Uh.

659
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: That's a really good question because ordinarily you would say

660
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: that you would watch the original show first. But if

661
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, Better Call Saul a lot of it

662
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: takes place first in the Breaking Bad chronology.

663
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 2: I'm not sure it just crosses over. So I actually

664
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Speaker 2: this is blasphemous to say.

665
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Speaker 1: I think Better Call Saw was slightly the better show,

666
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: slightly more intriguing. The characters had more shades of gray

667
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: in Better Call Saul, whereas in Breaking Bad.

668
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 2: I'm not complaining.

669
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Speaker 1: I think I think the Breaking Bad and Better Call

670
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: Saul combination because I see that as one series is

671
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: one of the two best TV shows of all time,

672
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Speaker 1: along with The Sopranos, and I would give the slight

673
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: edge to Breaking Bad a better call Saul, but the

674
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: charactersn't Breaking Bad were absolute evil. Kim Wexler, she went

675
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 1: a little dark and better call Saw.

676
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 2: But you felt for even slipping Jimmy how he became

677
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 2: Saul Goodman.

678
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: You kind of felt for the path that put him there,

679
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: in the way his brother Michael McKean in just a

680
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: brilliant turn as Chuck McGill. You felt a little bit

681
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: bad for how Jimmy McGill got steered into what was

682
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Speaker 1: his fate, and you kind of felt happy for him

683
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: at the end that he was gonna do okay in prison,

684
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 1: not be sodomized anyway. Didn't look like, let's go to Jerry, Jerry,

685
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:55,240
Speaker 1: ask Mark anything?

686
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 11: Hey, Mark, I want wanted to ask you about Crosby,

687
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 11: but the season he's having, don't.

688
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone is shock he's having that season.

689
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 8: But do you think it's a little bit of motivation.

690
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 10: That everyone picked the Penguins to finish low?

691
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 6: And to that point, do you even think.

692
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 4: Like a player like Crosby or superstars in general need

693
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 4: any type of motivation to play their best.

694
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 2: I think that no two people are alike. Let alone

695
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 2: two superstars, and I think everybody needs different motivation to

696
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 2: do different things. I don't think SID pays attention to

697
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 2: what's predicted as a team. I think he just wants

698
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 2: to win, period. If they were picked to win the

699
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 2: Stanley Cup and want to do that, they were picked

700
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 2: to finish last. Did want to win the Stanley Cup.

701
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 5: So Sid.

702
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Speaker 1: A lot of guys talk about how they're motivated solely

703
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: by winning. Sid's one of the few people I've ever

704
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,439
Speaker 1: met who lives up to that, who is one hundred

705
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: percent totally and solely motivated by winning. Mario Mario really

706
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: wanted to win, but he cared about stats too. If

707
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 1: you told Sid he could finish the season with like,

708
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: I don't know, nine points and win the Stanley Cup,

709
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,399
Speaker 1: it'd be frustrated. But he wants to win the Stanley Cup.

710
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: Then again, nine points, that's not free many Let's say

711
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: sixty points.

712
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 2: Thank you for the call. Let's go to Nick. Nick,

713
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Speaker 2: you're on with double m hi Mark.

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Speaker 8: Uh So, My question to you is, so the way

715
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Speaker 8: they do the play your regular season games, if you

716
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 8: make it the overtime, you get you know, each team

717
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 8: at least gets a point. What do you think for

718
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 8: like maybe like splitting up the standings, maybe a little

719
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 8: bit further at the end of the year, like well,

720
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Speaker 8: or even in the whole season, like if in conference games,

721
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 8: like there's no there's no one point awarded.

722
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,879
Speaker 2: That's done. Thank you for the call. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The only change they should make with the standings I

724
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: would make it is three points for a regulation win,

725
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,919
Speaker 1: two points for an overtime or shootout win, one point

726
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: for an overtime or shootout loss.

727
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,320
Speaker 2: Make all the games have the same value.

728
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: But if you did that, the playoff phrases wouldn't be

729
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: a tight More gms would get fired and the gms

730
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: determined the method of play. It's the only league in

731
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 1: sports where the gms determine the method of play. Let's

732
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: go to Ben benyonl with double M. Ben, you're on

733
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Speaker 1: the air. I'm sorry, I can't I can't read anymore. Ron,

734
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Speaker 1: you're on the air.

735
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Speaker 5: I was just wondering if you ever been to Erwin

736
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,240
Speaker 5: and what do you like to do in Ierwin?

737
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: If you have, I've been to Erwin frequently to go

738
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Speaker 1: to the Lamp Theater. I love to go to the

739
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 1: Lamp Theater. It's a great concert venue. They've had a

740
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: lot of great acts. Planning to go see an Ozzie

741
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: tribute band there. I think that's later this month. So

742
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: I really do like the Lamp Theater.

743
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Speaker 5: I like.

744
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 2: I don't know the names, so you can tell me

745
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 2: if you do.

746
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: But there's a bar to the right of the Lamp Theater,

747
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: like down the hill to the right looking at the

748
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: Lamp Theater I like. And there's a Mexican restaurant across

749
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:55,879
Speaker 1: the street from the Lamp Theater that I like as well.

750
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Speaker 10: Awesome, Hey, thanks for answering my question.

751
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: Thank you, and everybody go to Irwin. We're all going

752
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: to Irwin. Let's go to Conrad. Conrad Asmark anything?

753
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 10: Hey, Mark Good just wanted to know, uh, not specifically

754
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 10: based on the extra point, it looked like it was

755
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 10: kind of weird that Boswell mess. Do you think that

756
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 10: he is beginning to deteriorate similar to Justin Tucker after

757
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 10: eleven or twelve seasons and the Steelers might be in

758
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 10: some pretty bad shape.

759
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 1: Well, well, I mean, well you could know. I mean,

760
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 1: if he starts to fade, they should cut him. Okay,

761
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: there's no room for sentiment. If he starts to fade,

762
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: cut him and get the next guy, bring back better

763
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: call sauls from Pitt. I think he's kicking somewhere now, actually,

764
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: but yeah, no, you can't.

765
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 2: You can't. Well the Steelers do.

766
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: They probably will look look at me, contradicting what I

767
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: know to be the case. With the Steelers, they'll keep

768
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,919
Speaker 1: him on forever. But yeah, I am working a point

769
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: where I am worried he's fading, aren't you?

770
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 5: Yeah?

771
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 10: Absolutely.

772
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: I mean he's missed the kick in each of the

773
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: last three games, and I don't want to hear that

774
00:38:58,760 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: block stuff.

775
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 2: It's missing a kick. He missed a kick. Thank you

776
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 2: for the call. Let's go to Nolan. Nolan asks Mark

777
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 2: anything what I mean?

778
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 3: What?

779
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 5: I man?

780
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 9: Hey, I was just wondering. Uh, my friends, I had

781
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 9: this conversation earlier this week. But Warren war in the past,

782
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 9: it's really season carries.

783
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 3: The ball around.

784
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 2: I was like, does he carry the ball.

785
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 9: Around thirteen times per game? And it seems like he's

786
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 9: running the ball completely.

787
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 2: Fine, Yeah, I'm running the ball.

788
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: I don't think either Gainwell or Warren gets the ball

789
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: enough on running plays. They get those passes in the flat,

790
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 1: but Rogers wants to throw two thirds of the time,

791
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,280
Speaker 1: and I think that is his one negative but profoundly

792
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: negative impact on the on the game that he checks

793
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 1: out of runs and in the pass is way too

794
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: frequently because he just wants to throw.

795
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,399
Speaker 2: He did the same thing in New York.

796
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,919
Speaker 9: Of yep, exactly, I feel the same way. I feel

797
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 9: like we had run the Baaltimore and more.

798
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 11: But that is what it is.

799
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 2: Let's go to Tom in Greensburg. Tom ask mark anything.

800
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 3: Hey, double m hey. I was interested.

801
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 5: What do you think you've seen more in your life time?

802
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 5: The Immaculate Reception or the Pruder film?

803
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 2: Me personally, I've seen the Immaculate Reception more. How about you?

804
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 5: I probably have also living in Pittsburgh, but I bet

805
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 5: I'll bet it's close Nation.

806
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:14,800
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you?

807
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: Now do you think of the ball was trapped? I

808
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,879
Speaker 1: think the ball was trapped. I'm like I was a kid.

809
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: I was like eleven years old. I had a ticket.

810
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: I snuck on the field. I was standing at the

811
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,720
Speaker 1: fifty yard line. I saw the ball bounce. No, I'm serious,

812
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,839
Speaker 1: I saw the ball bounds. It might the bonds twice. Well,

813
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 1: it looked like Frank was feeling the ground ball to

814
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: short stuff. Let's go to Rick and Brighton Heights.

815
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 11: Hey, Mark, I just as a former employee to PG myself.

816
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 11: I just wanted to see what are your thoughts and

817
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 11: feelings about losing the voice of the Post, because that,

818
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 11: I mean, do you have any personal feelings besides they're

819
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 11: you know, taking this I.

820
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 2: Never I mean, the people who denied me aren't there anymore.

821
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: So I feel very bad for the people I know

822
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: that work there and they're out of jobs, very bad.

823
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: And I feel bad about the decline of the newspaper

824
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: industry and journalism in general, where now we look to

825
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: titillate instead of inform. And then there's logistics of going

826
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: from the print version to the digital version, which the

827
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 1: Post Casette did a really horrible job of and the

828
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: the Trib did a lot better of. And that's why

829
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: the Trib's around, Okay, and the postset with that strike.

830
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: I mean, those the union needed to read the room.

831
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: They never should have gone on strike. Okay, they won

832
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: the strike, They got the old contract in place, they

833
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: got I guess there's some kind of settlement in there too.

834
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: And now the blocks folded the paper out of revenge,

835
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: and they should have known that was coming. They were

836
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: working for petty people. They should never have gone on strike,

837
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: no matter how right they felt they are. So while

838
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: the Blocks are the number one villains in this I

839
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: thought the union was stupid, don't you I do.

840
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 11: I have feelings about the different unions.

841
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: And you know what, all the sports, all the sports

842
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: people felt the same way because they crossed the picket line.

843
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: The whole department crossed the picking line, except for one

844
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: or two guys.

845
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,760
Speaker 11: Yeah, I was in the advertising department.

846
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 2: But I want anybody who didn't see this coming again,

847
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 2: didn't read the room. When was your last year, Marek,

848
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 2: I want to say it was nineteen ninety hold On,

849
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 2: I covered nineteen ninety six.

850
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: I left the nineteen ninety six because my first season

851
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: with Penguin's Report was nineteen ninety six ninety seven, which

852
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 1: was the last season with Mario. So I left in

853
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, and I wished I would.

854
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 2: Have left earlier. I tried to leave earlier. I just

855
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 2: I got put.

856
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: I you know, I'm not glad the post because that

857
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: shut down at all because of the people. I know,

858
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: But I never got the opportunity there that my talent merited.

859
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:44,839
Speaker 1: And I saw a lot of people with far less

860
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: talent and far more opportunity and now I'm I'm ranting,

861
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 1: and that nothing to do with Now, let's go to James.

862
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 2: James, you're on the air.

863
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 3: Hey, Mark, you're on the here James.

864
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 2: Okay, we're just going to hang up on James because

865
00:42:59,120 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 2: he wasn't ready