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Speaker 1: bottom of the hour. You know, looking at the conference

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Speaker 1: and you know, it didn't look like Seattle misses DK metcalf.

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Speaker 1: Seattle's real good. But they almost blew it that dB Woolan.

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Speaker 1: He took a towning penalty that extended a RAMS drive.

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Speaker 1: Then Woolan got burned by Nikua for a touchdown on

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Speaker 1: and they never cut up it. Still, that could have

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Speaker 2: Why do so.

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Speaker 1: Many idiots in in football think swag is more important

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Speaker 1: A right, whether it's juju to dance on TikTok or

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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with Wooland did, and that's even knowing that

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Speaker 1: Among the weird footnotes from the McCarthy higher is that

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Speaker 1: Arthur Smith, the offensive coordinator for the Steelers this past season.

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Speaker 1: the quarterback at Ohio State won't hijack the offense like

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Speaker 1: Rogers did here with Smith at Pittsburgh. I don't blame

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Speaker 1: I can assure you of that. Like I keep saying,

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Speaker 1: Hiry McCarthy, it's running it back. This is about trying

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Speaker 1: foreign thirteen hold that'd be welcome. It's more like super

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Speaker 1: glowing yourself in the mushy mid And now all the

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Speaker 1: Foster and Willy Cologne are like, y'all gonna be sorry,

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Speaker 1: y'all got rid of coach t Okay, but nobody got

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Speaker 1: rid of coach t He quits, and you guys know why,

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Speaker 1: just like everybody knows why, because it's not all about

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Speaker 1: it was no fun. It was a grind being the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: not supposed to be a grind. The Steelers have been

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Speaker 1: no fun, my babe, no fun for a long time.

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Speaker 1: How about that sound bite from coach Carr the value

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Speaker 1: and I admire that. In Bill's case. Anyway, eight three

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Speaker 1: I need comfort food. I was talking about that earlier

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Speaker 1: with tom My. Comfort food was soup by Awaken one

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Speaker 1: Mark Madden, Hey, Mark, great show is when you got

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Speaker 1: a young trophy white Oh's money that I can't even

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Speaker 1: quote the big o'bowski right, goodbye.

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Speaker 3: DX at one fine.

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Speaker 1: Recalls on the fifteens. We didn't get any last hour.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna lose listeners in callers if you talk about

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Speaker 1: the Gestapo shooting people in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: Well, to be fair, I.

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Speaker 1: Only said that because the Gestapo are shooting people in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: And if I.

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Speaker 1: for pointing that out, that'd be a career well ended.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, they wouldn't fire me anyway, because

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Speaker 1: that's what's happening. The Gestapo are shooting people in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: There's no other way to define it. It's finally come

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Speaker 1: just takes sides. For example, I don't believe that biological

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Speaker 2: I just look at what makes the most sense and

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Speaker 1: And giving trans women a genetic advantage in women's sports

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Speaker 1: makes no sense to me. Nor does the Gestapo shooting

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Speaker 1: people in Minnesota. But if it's for you, well that's

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Speaker 1: I didn't get to this yet. Andrew McCutcheon, Couch is

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Speaker 1: It's time to move on. And Cutch got all in

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Speaker 1: dging it on Twitter. It was one hundred percent cringe,

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Speaker 1: hundred percent cringe. I should have been there, hug the fans,

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Speaker 1: burning desire. I work every day so hard, blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: And Cutch concludes with, and I quote, rip the jersey

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Speaker 1: off me. You don't get to write my future. God

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Speaker 1: does unquote No, God doesn't, not unless he owns a

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Speaker 2: Because if the Pirates.

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Speaker 1: Don't want cuts back to be a mascot, he's efficiently done.

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Speaker 1: And God ain't got nothing to do with it unless

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Speaker 1: Cuch hooks on with the Savannah Banana has been Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's entertaining enough. Cuch talked about how

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals treated Pooholes, but pooh Holes won. Couch talked

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Speaker 1: about how the Dodgers treated Kershaw, but Kershaw won, and

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Speaker 1: Kershaw not only one, but he never left. Kuch went

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Speaker 1: elsewhere for more money and a better chance to win.

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Speaker 1: And now he's back and he acts like the pirates

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Speaker 1: never did nothing for him, not compared to what he

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Speaker 2: My god, I do have vocal fry. Let's go to Chris. Chris,

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Speaker 2: you're on the air.

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Speaker 5: What the hey, Mark two things?

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Speaker 3: One?

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Speaker 6: You know about the Gestapo? You're just calling it like

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Speaker 6: it is, so no arguments here. But turning to the

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Speaker 6: Penguins for a second. You know, I think Stewart Skinner

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Speaker 6: Stanley Cup. But you got to remember in Game seven,

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Speaker 6: right if the two to one score, it's not his fault.

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Speaker 6: The team couldn't score.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, and McDavid got no points in that game.

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Speaker 1: David the Eerie won the con Smythe, which was two

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Speaker 1: seasons ago, got zero points in Game six and zero

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Speaker 1: points in Game seven, which made it just a ridiculous

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Speaker 1: con Smythe, I mean his point totals duly noted he

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Speaker 1: didn't come through in the clutch, which is what I

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Speaker 1: thought being most valuable is all about. But no, but

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Speaker 1: like Pierre Maguire said on this show, it was easier

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Speaker 1: for the oilers to blame Skinner or their fans to

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Speaker 1: blame Skinner than for their stars to look in the mirror. Amen,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. Yeah, I'm a big Skinner guy.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to get him on the show. Plus, he

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Speaker 2: Sid's always Sid, Tanger's always Tanger.

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Speaker 1: Who else could talk that we had on We've had

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Speaker 1: We've had eleven guests this year. Manton was okay. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's fun to talk to penguins. I'm a Penguins fan.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, your voice, it's like actor to my ear.

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Speaker 2: The last thing we need is a lot of loose

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Speaker 11: I like it.

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Speaker 1: Penguins with a four game sweep of their trip out

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Speaker 1: west joining me not to talk about it. The longtime

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Speaker 1: He is Paul Steigerwaldstigy. What were the biggest factors on

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Speaker 5: Goals, structure, catching some teams that are not playing that great,

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Speaker 1: Will you bring up a real good point about personality Stiggy,

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Speaker 1: Well, Sully was wrong, and he's been wrong about a

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Speaker 1: I think that depends how far he figures the Penguins

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Speaker 1: I normally don't think fourth lines matter. I think they

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's a really good combination. They're the best

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Speaker 5: It's about how the pieces fit together, and not so

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Speaker 4: So well, we're.

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Speaker 1: Penguins one oh five nine, the ex Stagger. Would you

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Speaker 5: I would, And I'll tell you why I don't.

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Speaker 5: I felt like if before when you were asked that question,

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Speaker 5: I'm good. I take him for it at his word.

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Speaker 5: really encouraging.

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Speaker 2: I think Staggy.

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Speaker 1: Now, the Penguins return home three games starting with Chicago

438
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Speaker 1: on Thursday. I don't often do hype on anybody's behalf yeah,

439
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Speaker 1: but the seeds better be full because this team might

440
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Speaker 1: be arriving early, especially after that trip Hockin fans not turn.

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Speaker 5: Up, well, you'd like to see them come out, you know.

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Speaker 5: I think the big thing is now what the Penguins

443
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Speaker 5: is that Steeler season is over. Still a lot of

444
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Speaker 5: Steeler talk because of the coaching situation, but the fact

445
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Speaker 5: is they're not playing anymore. The Super Bowls coming up.

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Speaker 11: You know.

447
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Speaker 5: I think that people he generally are in Pittsburgh don't

448
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Speaker 5: really take to hockey really on a mass scale until

449
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Speaker 5: the football season ends. So this is the timing of it.

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Speaker 5: This seems to be the time when people would be interested.

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Speaker 5: And the way the Penguins are playing, they've got to

452
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Speaker 5: come out. And by the way, there's a really high

453
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Speaker 5: entertainment value there. I mean, Penguins are as entertaining as

454
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Speaker 5: they've ever been right now. They're really entertaining team. They

455
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Speaker 5: were already entertaining. But the best part is that Gorky

456
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Speaker 5: said this on the radio yesterday, they're also winning, which

457
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Speaker 5: makes them doubly entertaining for the fans who are coming out,

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Speaker 5: so you know, I hope that they do, but it's

459
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Speaker 5: only a couple of games, and then you know you're

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Speaker 5: going into the Olympic break, and I'm sure when you

461
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Speaker 5: get back from the Olympic break, the games are all

462
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Speaker 5: jammed up and people will buy tickets. The toughest thing

463
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Speaker 5: about selling tickets this year for the Penguins that I

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Speaker 5: feel for the people who have to do it, is

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Speaker 5: the number of home games that are jammed into a week.

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Speaker 5: You have three home games in a week, or back

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Speaker 5: to back games on a weekend at home. That's a

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Speaker 5: tough sell man. When you're not sold out already with

469
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Speaker 5: season tickets, you're trying to get walk ups on that basis.

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Speaker 5: It's really hard to do. So I give them credit

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Speaker 5: for fill in the building as much as they have

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Speaker 5: this year, and I would expect that you'll see a

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Speaker 5: lot of people coming out the rest of the year.

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Speaker 1: There's talk of trading for Jason robertson the winger for Dallas,

475
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Speaker 1: who scores a lot, because the Stars can't afford to

476
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Speaker 1: reup him under their cap. Would you look into getting him.

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Speaker 1: He's twenty six and the legit star. It would take

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Speaker 1: a lot to get him and keep them.

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Speaker 5: Though, well, you'd probably have to trade a guy like Rust.

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Speaker 5: You would have to trade a player to Dallas sees

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Speaker 5: as someone who could bring that winning credibility into their

482
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Speaker 5: locker room because they want to win a Cup.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of right, right, They're not dumping guys. They

484
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Speaker 1: want to win right now. It's just that the reality

485
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Speaker 1: of the cap might make them deal Robertson exactly.

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Speaker 5: And they also might like the idea of getting a

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Speaker 5: player who has won Cups and brings that leadership quality

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Speaker 5: to the room, which of course Brian Rust does. But man,

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Speaker 5: that's a big subtraction from the Penguins too. But you're

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Speaker 5: thinking down range. You get a guy like Roberts who's

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Speaker 5: only twenty six years old, he's going to score you

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Speaker 5: thirty thirty five goals a year, you know, for the

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Speaker 5: next several years. That's pretty good too. So you know,

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Speaker 5: that's where why Kyle Duvis makes the big bucks. I mean,

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Speaker 5: he's got good problems to have, if you will, because

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Speaker 5: he has players that other teams might want. He still

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Speaker 5: has that idea that he'd like to, you know, build

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Speaker 5: a contender again. But his top older players are still

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Speaker 5: playing at a high level, so he's got a little

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Speaker 5: bit of wiggle room there. But it's not easy. That's

501
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Speaker 5: a tough decision they'd have to make based I think

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Speaker 5: as much on the future as the present, and the

503
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Speaker 5: future is looming. I mean, you can't ignore the fact

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Speaker 5: that it's not going to be too long before Sid

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Speaker 5: and Gino and Chrys Latang, you know, reached that point

506
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Speaker 5: where you really are hoping for that next wave of really,

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Speaker 5: really great players.

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Speaker 1: Now, I believe it's part of Kyle's plan that you

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Speaker 1: got it at some point, be a restricted free agency

510
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Speaker 1: or a trade like we're talking about. Get a young,

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Speaker 1: established star and the opportunity comes up so rarely, and

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Speaker 1: I speculate it might take Rust, somebody like McGroarty and

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Speaker 1: maybe a first round pick and a second round pick

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Speaker 1: to get Robertson.

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Speaker 2: Would you make that deal?

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Speaker 5: It sounds a little rich to me, Like I think

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Speaker 5: Rust and McGroarty would probably in a second round pick

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Speaker 5: would be okay, I wouldn't trade a first.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but we've already I mean, they had three first

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Speaker 1: round picks last year.

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Speaker 2: They have enough of those.

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I guess, I mean I might go with that.

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Speaker 5: I'd have to think about it. You'd probably have to

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Speaker 5: get another player from them, I don't know what, but

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Speaker 5: something else.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, so listen, that would be a blockbuster

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Speaker 5: trade if the bank was.

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Speaker 4: Pulled it off.

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Speaker 5: There's no doubt about that. I mean, I was just

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Speaker 5: looking at a video about Craig Patrick's career and thinking

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Speaker 5: back to when Mark Reky was traded. I mean, that

533
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Speaker 5: was a huge, huge deal for Craig Patrick to do that,

534
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Speaker 5: to take him out of that mix, knowing how close

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Speaker 5: he was to Kevin Stevens at that time. That was

536
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Speaker 5: a major major move by Craig Patrick.

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Speaker 2: Rick Talckett, you.

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Speaker 5: Know, came in and immediately just gained instant respect from

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Speaker 5: his teammates and of course played a major role and

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Speaker 5: then win in another Cup. But that's a really delicate thing.

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Speaker 5: When you start removing guys that are a part of

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Speaker 5: the fabric of your team of one you cups and

543
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Speaker 5: are good buddies with the guys that are at the

544
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Speaker 5: very top of your team, like your captain.

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Speaker 4: You have to be very careful.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, But you also can't split hairs. I mean,

547
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Speaker 1: you can't have your cake and eat it too. So

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Speaker 1: I would make the deal and not lose a second

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Speaker 1: sleep for it, although it sounds like Robertson really wants

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Speaker 1: to stay in Dallas to the point where he'd take

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Speaker 1: less money, which of course would be his decision. Staggy,

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Speaker 1: I think it's too early to say this team's for real.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's too early to say that we

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Speaker 1: like what we see. And here's my minimum level of

555
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 1: accomplishment for them. You got to finish second or third

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Speaker 1: in the Metro. If you do that, you're gonna get

557
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Speaker 1: a winnable first round series. Second or third in the

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Speaker 1: Metro is my target.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and that's been my target for a while because

560
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Speaker 5: the teams of the Atlantic are pretty good and I

561
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Speaker 5: don't want to get in that mix with those other teams.

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Speaker 1: If you get the wild cards, you're gonna play Carolina

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Speaker 1: or probably Tampa, and that's a death sentence.

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Speaker 2: The Penguins aren't there yet.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, But I mean, and getting the wild card might

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Speaker 5: be harder than getting one of those positions at the top.

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Speaker 5: I don't know. It depends on how those other teams

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Speaker 5: in the Atlantic go.

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Speaker 2: But oh, that's you. You don't want to be.

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Speaker 5: You don't want to be.

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Speaker 1: Probably both wildcards, Yeah, you're right, Stagging, good point. Probably

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Speaker 1: both wild cards come from the Atlantic.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be tough to you know, you don't

574
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Speaker 5: want to get in that mix where you got like

575
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Speaker 5: five t battling for two spots when you can sit

576
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Speaker 5: there up at the top in the Metropolitan Division and

577
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Speaker 5: watch them slug it out, you know, until the end

578
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Speaker 5: of the year. I just like where the Penguins are

579
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Speaker 5: right now, and I'd love to see them sustain it.

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Speaker 5: I hope they can do it.

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Speaker 1: Staggy, we didn't speak it about that win at Edmonton.

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Speaker 1: How about that? That seemed like a marker being set

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Speaker 1: down by the Penguins. It was like Christmas a month later,

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Speaker 1: almost the coming on party. That win, more than anyone

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Speaker 1: this year, makes me take what this team might do seriously.

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Speaker 5: I agree. You know one thing that has struck me

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Speaker 5: as a Kyle Dubis has been saying for a while

588
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Speaker 5: that he thinks his team can beat anybody in the league.

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Speaker 5: And what he means by that is there's there's nobody

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Speaker 5: who outclasses us that much. We can on a given night,

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Speaker 5: we can, we can play well, it's just about anyone.

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Speaker 5: And I you know, and I thought, well, that might

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Speaker 5: be true, but even play Colorado you might get them

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Speaker 5: barras Tampa Bay. You know, they have an edge on

595
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Speaker 5: the peng which there's no question about that. We saw

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Speaker 5: that one when the Penguins played them, but it wasn't

597
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Speaker 5: that extreme. But when that when they won that game

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Speaker 5: in evidence in the way they did, I thought that

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Speaker 5: validated that corroborated with what Kyle Dubis has been thinking

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Speaker 5: all along, that the Penguins are better than maybe people think,

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Speaker 5: and he has had a high opinion of his team

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Speaker 5: for a while and they're living up to it, which

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Speaker 5: is really cool.

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Speaker 2: Staggy is always great stuff. We'll see at the game.

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Speaker 5: All right, Mark, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Take care.

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Speaker 1: That's Staggy, always great stuff from him. Paul Steigerwell, Penguins

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Speaker 1: Radio Network.

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Speaker 2: How about this.

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Speaker 1: Shielhaus has been in a meeting in person interview with

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Brons for like three hours.

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Speaker 2: If I were there, I'd run in and grab him

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Speaker 2: and say, don't do it, don't do it.

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Speaker 1: Time not to as Mark anything a three three four

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Speaker 1: four one two three three three w xdx. It's The

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Speaker 1: Mark Madden Show one O five.

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Speaker 9: To nine Thursday Night, the Penn's face off against the Blackhawks.

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Speaker 9: Game time is seven. Our coverage starts at six here

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Speaker 7: Now that a new year is here, start twenty twenty

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Speaker 7: six by shelling.

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Speaker 1: Here, I am a lot smarter than you. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: maybe it's a spoken dynamic.

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Speaker 3: It's the X at one five nine.

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Speaker 1: ask Mark anything. We've had almost no calls all day

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Speaker 1: a couple of days after they hired McCarthy. Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: time to wrap this up. And I'm not kidding. I

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Speaker 1: thought about it for a while. Maybe it's time to

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Speaker 1: stop doing the show and days like today if you

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Speaker 1: don't appreciate the product I put forth, and I know

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Speaker 1: it's not all measured in calls, but I don't know,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's time to wrap it up. And again, I'm

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Speaker 1: not kidding, definitely not kidding. And I think some of

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Speaker 1: the opinions I have about life in general offend some

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Speaker 1: of you if they do you just let me say,

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Speaker 1: real slowly, go screw yourself, which probably won't help get callers,

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Speaker 1: I don't care about the McCarthy hier at all. I

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Speaker 1: don't care about the Steelers at all. I think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna go to exactly the same boring season they've had

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Speaker 1: for how long? And we will spend a million words

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Speaker 1: in one thousand hours and countless babble trying to come

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Speaker 1: up with ways that it's going to be better and

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Speaker 1: different and that they're moving forward, but they're not. They're

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Speaker 1: not moving forward. Penguins are moving forward, but they ate

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. Pirates ain't moving forward. And when they try

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Speaker 1: to by not bringing touchback, all you were going nuts,

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Speaker 1: like there's this, like this Twitter war, everybody wants touts back,

655
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: everybody wants touchback. Have him join the Savannah effing Bananas

656
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Speaker 1: or something. Then he's not a major league baseball player anymore. Well, yeah,

657
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: stats last year, YadA, YadA, Well, I stats last year

658
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,239
Speaker 1: were better than a bunch of guys who aren't major

659
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Speaker 1: league baseball players either, Not really so whatever whatever you

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Speaker 1: guys want is okay. Never cared less about this in

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Speaker 1: my life, never cared less. Looking forward so much to

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Speaker 1: like doing other things besides talking into a mic like

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Speaker 1: this Saturday, going to see the guests who Niagara Falls, Ontario.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be great. Going to Liverpool again. A bunch

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Speaker 1: of concience I got coming up. That's gonna be great.

666
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: Eating one meal a week off the awaken one ad

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Speaker 1: diet by way of maintaining for a little bit.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be great.

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Speaker 1: Having prime rib, although I had Prime Rib with Bob's

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Speaker 1: in Carnegie on Saturday, because you can eat that on

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Speaker 1: the awakened one ad.

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Speaker 3: Die.

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Speaker 1: You can eat a lot of stuff on the awaken

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Speaker 1: one ad he died, he said, suddenly lapsing into a commercial.

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Speaker 1: But it is great, and I have lost what is

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Speaker 1: it now? Carry the one forty eight pounds. I'm hoping

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00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: to lose as many pounds as the Pirates are likely

678
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: to win games this year. And I'm getting close already.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to a talk back You're all with Mark.

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Speaker 4: Mark, do you think if the Steelers had won a

681
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 4: playoff game that McCarthy would still be the higher and furthermore,

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Speaker 4: do you think McCarthy and Rogers want to be on

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Speaker 4: the same team again.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Rogers is coming back. I wouldn't count

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Speaker 1: it out. I just don't think he's coming back. And

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Speaker 1: if they let him take all summer to decide, then

687
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: they're stupid like they were last summer, except now with

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00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: a new coach and trying to put everything together.

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00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 2: It's something they can't do.

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00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: Last summer it was something they shouldn't have done waiting

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Speaker 1: that long for Rogers.

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Speaker 2: But now it's something to my mind they can't do

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00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 2: but might. Anyway, let's go to Bill, Bill, you're home

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00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 2: with Mark?

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Speaker 3: Hey, Mark, I see Tom Keefer's coming to the palace

696
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 3: with the La Guns as he was going to see.

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen them since his Cinderella.

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00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 2: Keifer's great. His songbook's really good.

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Speaker 1: And let me tell you, of all the heritage bands

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00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: out there, in particular the sun Set Strip bands, La

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00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 1: Guns is the best band going. They signed the part,

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00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: they look the part, they're brilliant, and their songbook is underrated.

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00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 3: It sounds like a great night. I can't wait to

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00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 3: get there.

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00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, make sure you go A few years back.

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00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 1: Last year, the best confidence though, was Robert Plant at

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00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: Wheeling the year before that twenty twenty four or it

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00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: was twenty twenty three. One of those years the best

710
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: concience I saw was Keifer La Guns and Faster Pussycat.

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00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: That might have been twenty two, because it wasn't that

712
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: long ago that Winger and Keifer were.

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00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 2: At Carnegie Music Hall a Homestead.

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00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 1: Let's go to Dick Dick, you're on with double M Mark.

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Speaker 10: Did you get for Medicare when you turn sixty five?

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Speaker 3: Already?

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00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 4: No?

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00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: No, I signed up for Part A, but I withdrew

719
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: my application for Part B because I'm still employed and

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00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 1: I would have had to pay eight thousand bucks a

721
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: year for health coverage I don't need.

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00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 10: So once you do pull the plug, you're gonna then

723
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 10: supplement it with just be or you thinking about getting

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00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 10: something else as well.

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00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 2: I don't know.

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00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 1: I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. But

727
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 1: my contract runs through August of next year, so I'll

728
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: be working at least through August of next year, so

729
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: I won't think about it probably for at least another year.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Brad Brad Drow with double M.

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Speaker 10: Hey, Mark, I've had a love hate relationship with you.

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00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:42,720
Speaker 10: Over the years.

733
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Speaker 11: But you had a couple of days earlier this follower,

734
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 11: you were sick, and I got to thinking that I

735
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 11: would really miss you, and I wanted to ask you

736
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Speaker 11: a serious question about your mortality, because at fifty eight

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00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 11: and once healthy, I'm not anymore. I'm sorry to hear

738
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 11: that I wanted to ask your thoughts on your own mortality.

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00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, the world little notes no longer remembers.

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00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: I've always considered what I do to be very disposable,

741
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: and even if it's not, as Charles de Gaull said,

742
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: the graveyards are full of disposable people. I'm sure when

743
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: the moment comes, I'll be kind of bothered. Maybe not,

744
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe I'll be begging for it by

745
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 1: the time the moment comes. But I'm not all all

746
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: that bothered by it. Honestly, I'm losing weight not to

747
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: prolong my life, but to get more comfortable in the

748
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: life I have left, however long that is.

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Speaker 11: I'm I have the opposite problem. You do it because

750
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 11: I'm like fifty eight six y two and I'm one

751
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 11: forty two pounds right now.

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00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 2: Oh well, if you don't mind me asking why.

753
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 11: Is that, I'll tell you it was a liver failure.

754
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 11: Did you drink a lot part of the Pittsburgh Yes,

755
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 11: I tried to drink myself to death. I was unhappy

756
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 11: with my life I had. Actually it was part of

757
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 11: the Pittsburgh comedy scene for eighteen years.

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Speaker 2: Are you doing better now?

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00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 10: Yeah?

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00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 2: You stop drinking? I take it.

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00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 11: Oh, absolutely absolutely. But I uh, you sounded pretty rough

762
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 11: a couple months ago around November.

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00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 5: Maybe, No, you had a couple of six days and.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I I I'm okay right now. I when I

765
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 1: was sick, when I had those when I had those

766
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: sick days, I had liked the flu or something like that.

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00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 1: Thank you for the call. Stir and take care of yourself.

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00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: I bet you have longer left than you think, so

769
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Speaker 1: please do your best to make the most of it.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Lance Lanceroll with the super genius.

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Speaker 10: Hey, Mark, how you doing? Man?

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Speaker 2: Good?

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00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 10: Hey?

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00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 6: I know when the Steelers were playing the Texans, you

775
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 6: you were going with the Texans, you know, right rpually so,

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00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 6: uh did you continue riding on the Texans or did

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00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 6: you pick anybody else?

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00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,439
Speaker 5: Since? Since the first round?

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00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: No, I didn't bet anybody of these whole playoffs. I

780
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: don't bet much anymore. When I do, it's on bet parks,

781
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: and I get the occasional parlay down just for fun

782
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: because there's total NonStop action on the bet park happen.

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00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,879
Speaker 2: But but no, it's it's you know, when I bet.

784
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 2: I tend to bet big and on.

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00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: Very few games a year, and honestly, none of the

786
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: games have appealed all that much to me. I think

787
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: Seattle's gonna blow out New England, but that might make

788
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: it a suckers bet.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to a Jimmy. Jimmy, you're on with Mark?

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Speaker 3: Hey, super g how you doing today?

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00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 2: Great?

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00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 3: Yeah? With four wheel drive vehicles you used to get

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Speaker 3: in today with.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure it has four wheel drive. I just

795
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: used the Nissan Morano. Is that four wheels?

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Speaker 3: I think that's all Will.

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00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 5: I'm not really sure they could.

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Speaker 3: They could be four wheel or all will.

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Speaker 2: Like bt O four wheel drive, four wheel drive? My,

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Speaker 2: oh my, four wheel drive