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Speaker 2: That will do it.

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Speaker 4: The Steelers come to M and T Bank Stadium and

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Speaker 1: Rob King for a power hour of Steeler Talk. This

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Speaker 1: of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Kinger. Who what a classic

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Pittsburgh matchup that was yesterday. It had all of

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Speaker 1: It ain't over till it's over. It goes down to

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Speaker 1: Mark Andrews screws up on fourth down. But yeah, he

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Speaker 1: It didn't look like it against the Chargers, and it

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Speaker 5: Yes, just be quiet and enjoy the tears of those

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's really the lesson here. That's the holiday spirit. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And you know, the Ravens and I believe the Bills

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Speaker 5: We could use a bye week? Yeah, well another bye week.

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Speaker 2: And we're we were talking about Stevie rayvaugh What were

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Speaker 5: Were basically saying, have you ever seen a band that

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Speaker 2: I saw Bonjovie open for Rat and nobody knew who Bunjo. Really,

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Speaker 1: And as far as a concert T shirt, I saw

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Speaker 2: Real good And I wish that was Like I have

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Speaker 1: Well, Mike Isaiah likely was loose loosely with Tuck yesterday

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Speaker 2: And he Bang Bang Bank Bank Bank tells you why,

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Speaker 1: He's good for one of those games he had. He

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Speaker 2: We were two for four in the red zone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to remember the two times that we

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Speaker 1: So let me ask you this, Kinger yesterday the defensive effort,

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Speaker 2: It actually or two hundred twenty years.

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Speaker 2: So I'm sorry, let me say it again.

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Speaker 1: Last nine times the Steelers have not turned the ball over,

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Speaker 1: mean you should just kneel down three times and punt

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Speaker 1: it away, by the way.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't.

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Speaker 7: But there are times when you put the ball at

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Speaker 7: risk and there are times when you do not. And hey,

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Speaker 7: I would have played that last series differently. When you're

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Speaker 7: on the eight yard line, I would have thrown based

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Speaker 7: on what the defense was showing and the success they

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Speaker 7: had had through the game.

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Speaker 1: But they got scared straight from the Aaron Rodgers almost intercense.

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Speaker 2: I think that's what happened.

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Speaker 7: But he played it according to the percentages, you know,

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Speaker 7: playing a percentage. I don't know if that's living in

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Speaker 7: your fears. Sometimes being smart is being smart, and they

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Speaker 7: got away with it. So it was the right decision.

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Speaker 7: If the Ravens had gone down and scored, then it

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Speaker 7: would have been a stupid decision because they would have lost.

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Speaker 7: But they didn't go out and score. They won the game,

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Speaker 7: so it was the right decision.

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Speaker 2: Nice game for Corless weightman too, by the way, bounce

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Speaker 2: back game.

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Speaker 1: He had a couple of badmans and them, And to

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Speaker 1: your point, I mean they held them. They held Derrek

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Speaker 1: Henry to eleven carries for thirty four yards. That's what

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Speaker 1: made it feel like. They played the run in the

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Speaker 1: first half. In the first half, it made it feel

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Speaker 1: like they were playing to run better than of course

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Speaker 1: the long run, but those do count, just like your

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Speaker 1: long passes count.

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Speaker 2: Long run out.

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Speaker 7: But they didn't let the Ravens dictate with the run,

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Speaker 7: and it didn't affect the way they called their defense.

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Speaker 7: Whereas the Buffalo game, it was pretty paired.

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Speaker 2: Even in the.

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Speaker 7: First half, they were running the ball right, Like, did

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Speaker 7: anybody feel good?

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Speaker 2: Was it seven to three or yes it was seven.

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Speaker 7: Sixth Did anybody feel great about that.

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Speaker 1: No, so I mentioned all those games that the Steelers

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Speaker 1: had led at halftime and got the ball to begin

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Speaker 1: the second half. That was one of them. Of those

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Speaker 1: four games, that was the one that felt the worst.

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Speaker 1: There was actually five of them that they that they led,

483
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Speaker 1: led in the second going into the second half and

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Speaker 1: got got the ball first and lost the game Seattle.

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Speaker 2: Oh, and lost the game, lost the game, lost the game.

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Speaker 2: There was four. Yeah, that's what four going in and

487
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Speaker 2: then yesterday New England they also screwed it up. But

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Speaker 2: they won the game.

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Speaker 1: Right, yeah, so so right, but they won the game.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the losses. They could have been victories,

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Speaker 1: but Buffalo. Of those games, Buffalo felt the least likely

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Speaker 1: to win.

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Speaker 2: All right, did you pull a call from the post

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Speaker 2: game for us? Did Max from Houston? We'll do that next.

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Speaker 2: Tried to suck the joy out of two.

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Speaker 1: Power hour of Steeler Talk with Rob King, Voice of

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Speaker 1: the Steelers here on your radio, Home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold one a two point five dve on a

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Speaker 1: two point five dve, Rob King with us for a

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Speaker 1: power hour of Steeler Talk. Pretty interesting that DK Metcalf

501
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Speaker 1: took a rep on that last punt Corlis weightman thankfully

502
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Speaker 1: gets off just a bomb, which they needed from him

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Speaker 1: there and he's been due for that. But DK went

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Speaker 1: in because he thought Schronic's finger was messed up.

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Speaker 2: Was it scron Ors, Well, it.

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Speaker 1: Was Scronic and then Scronic said I'm not not taking

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Speaker 1: this rep and he kicked Eckles.

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Speaker 2: Off and so the two them go down. DK draws

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Speaker 2: two guys.

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Speaker 1: That play results in a holding call that backs them

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Speaker 1: up ten yards, which really put the Ravens behind a ball,

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Speaker 1: and then they take i think illegal formation penalty immediately

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Speaker 1: backs them up again.

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Speaker 2: They're first and twenty.

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Speaker 1: That kind of was the uh, you know, the writ

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Speaker 1: and really help on the wall.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they still almost pulled it off, but it wasn't

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Speaker 2: reading any writing on the wall then, but it helped. Well.

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Speaker 1: The point I wanted to make is this is like

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Speaker 1: the polar opposite of what I thought this team was

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Speaker 1: doing the week before, weeks before, which is like they

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Speaker 1: weren't buying into the team game plan. It didn't seem

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Speaker 1: like and there was not like a unity that we're

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Speaker 1: used to seeing, and we kept hearing that the locker

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Speaker 1: room was a bunch of single guys. It's like backstage

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Speaker 1: at an Eagles concerts, you know, exparate dressing the exactly.

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Speaker 1: But when DK metcalf is going in and covering punts

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Speaker 1: and scronic.

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Speaker 2: Also his effort on that one play.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys saw that where he

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Speaker 1: just got double team and knocked out a bounce and

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Speaker 1: kept fight. He kept running back to people with He

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Speaker 1: got knocked down a bunch of times, and he kept

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Speaker 1: getting back up and trying to cover the punt. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Danny Smith really had those guys dialed in yesterday.

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Speaker 7: Well, I think the whole team was styled. And I

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Speaker 7: mean Queen Eccles and betten all came back from injury.

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Speaker 2: And Queen's injury looked like he was gonna need a wheelchair.

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Speaker 2: And imagine they didn't have Betton Harmon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh why he black made a big play when

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Speaker 1: he was in for him. He almost brought down Lamar.

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Speaker 1: That guy whoever that right guard is, That guy got

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Speaker 1: crushed yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I believe that was the great Daniel. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 2: him and Lamar had some words. He's like Jojo the Whale.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you don't walk with Daniel, you walk among him.

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Speaker 2: So he's a mass. I think he's pushing four bills

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Speaker 2: Kinger back in the day, you did the postgame show. Yes,

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Speaker 2: there's a network.

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Speaker 1: Mike is currently at the helm there and I always

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Speaker 1: asked Mike to pull one call out from the post

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Speaker 1: game because I like to just to know the tenor

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Speaker 1: of Steeler nageist, Like, what are you guys feeling? Because

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Speaker 1: to me, I was elited. I was just so glad

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Speaker 1: we beat the Ravens. I don't get by hook or

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Speaker 1: by crook. I don't care. Let's get the w and uh.

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Speaker 1: This is from that postgame show with Charlie Batch that

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Speaker 1: Mike pursuer runs.

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Speaker 2: Max in Houston. You're up next with Mike and Charlie.

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Speaker 6: Hey, guys, I'm going to agree with that guy. Just

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Speaker 6: from Boswell, Pa. There, I was calling to put a cold,

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Speaker 6: wet bucket of ice in the blanket on all this giddiness,

563
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Speaker 6: the Stiller defense, if you realistic play look at this

564
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Speaker 6: game was not good. During the week, I heard some

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Speaker 6: national announcement referred to it as the silk curtain no

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Speaker 6: longer than the still curtain, and I have to agree.

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Speaker 6: First drive, they went right down the silk, but we

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Speaker 6: did hold them to a silk golf after we up

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Speaker 6: the lead when Boswell picked it short, but the penalty

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Speaker 6: we gave him at the ball to forty end of

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Speaker 6: a half, it was very important. At the end of

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Speaker 6: the half, they went down and scored a touchdown. The

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Speaker 6: second half, the defense never really stopped them. It was

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Speaker 6: that one controversial play on the touchdown that stopped them.

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Speaker 6: If they didn't miss the extra point, they probably would

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Speaker 6: have kicked the fill goal then and then yes, Alex

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Speaker 6: tight Smith and the last play he miraculously got a

578
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Speaker 6: sack and that saved the day. But this defense, this

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Speaker 6: entire year is not championship worthy.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to stop it there because I'm guessing.

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Speaker 7: He went on to say that they're going to get

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Speaker 7: blown out in the first round again.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, all right, Well you know.

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Speaker 5: The silk kurt and he thought that was funny. Well

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Speaker 5: did you know that silk has a greater tensile strength

586
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Speaker 5: then steel?

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Speaker 2: But oh but it doesn't break. Wow, take that pipe

588
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Speaker 2: and smoke.

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Speaker 1: It's good now about that, you SLK fan.

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Speaker 5: I know that because I watched Spider Man two just yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I knew there was Spider Man.

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Speaker 7: I knew there was going to be at least one

593
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Speaker 7: of those I just because you told me to keep

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Speaker 7: an eye out for a good call.

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Speaker 2: That's it. I don't have to write any more down.

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Speaker 7: I read the comments the Calvin Austin clip that I

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Speaker 7: played today. Mike Defebo from The Athletic posted that on Twitter,

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Speaker 7: and I made the mistake of reading the comments underneath it.

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Speaker 1: And that's the clip where Calvin Austin said, you know,

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Speaker 1: you guys can care.

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Speaker 2: If the whole world booze.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, there's just some people who are going to refuse

603
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Speaker 7: to take any joy out of this season.

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Speaker 2: God bless you all. If that's the way you want

605
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Speaker 2: to go through life, have at it. Why are you watching?

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Speaker 1: I thought yesterday was one of the first times this

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Speaker 1: year I felt like it was the Steelers. They were

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Speaker 1: playing like this.

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Speaker 2: It was hard. Guys were getting knocked out of the

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Speaker 2: game left and right.

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Speaker 5: Know, the pent up frustration that got released and alleviated

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Speaker 5: with the first bomb to decay. Oh my god, that

613
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 5: was a soothing bomb on this entire season. A bomb ball,

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Speaker 5: a bomb bomb. It was a bomb bomb.

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Speaker 2: Who told you to put the bomb on? The bomb?

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Speaker 2: The bomb?

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Speaker 1: My dog was going crazy because that's I was screaming.

618
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Speaker 1: Anytime I screamed, the dog goes creaky.

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Speaker 2: So I'm like god.

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Speaker 1: A bunch of times during the game yesterday, and that's

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Speaker 1: kind of like the first time it felt like that

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Speaker 1: this year. I don't know, it felt to me like

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Speaker 1: it really got back to some stealer football.

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Speaker 2: I understand the concerns about the defense.

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Speaker 1: We said there was one big splash play on the

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Speaker 1: defense there and this was I think Queen was hurt

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Speaker 1: on that series.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure the one what hulkumb Hulk was in.

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Speaker 7: It was in they had a shot to get him

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Speaker 7: in the backfield and then he ran through Hulcomb about

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Speaker 7: four yards into it and then he was gone.

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Speaker 1: And I know you say those plays count, but like

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Speaker 1: they still looked a lot better than they did against

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Speaker 1: the Bills, And it was this is the description I

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Speaker 1: thought of during the commercial break. It looked hopeless versus

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Speaker 1: the Bills. It's like nothing is gonna work. They cannot

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Speaker 1: stop them. And I didn't think that at all yesterday.

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00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 2: I thought they could. There was times they didn't. They

639
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Speaker 2: looked coached up better. They looked like they.

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Speaker 1: Were a gap sound guys weren't way out of position.

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Speaker 2: That sounds let's.

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Speaker 1: Not never use that a deep scheming eschematics and gap

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Speaker 1: sound or every time something goes a while. We weren't guess,

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Speaker 1: but there is. There was a beat down element to

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00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: the Bills. They just kept getting seven yards, eight yards,

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Speaker 1: you know, second and two, second and three and yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers, Okay, Henry got a couple of big runs.

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Speaker 2: He's the greatest December running back in NFL history.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but then history and then ever you would look

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Speaker 1: up and then it would be third and six, right, yep,

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Speaker 1: and they won the game. They're in first place. It is,

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Speaker 1: it is, Yes, the.

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Speaker 7: One game you want to win above all the other

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Speaker 7: ones is Baltimore and BALI in Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: I understand.

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Speaker 1: We all see our own warts the clearest, right, That's

657
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Speaker 1: just the way it is. But look at the NFL.

658
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are six and seven. For some reason, Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay lost at home to New Orleans, New Orleans. I

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Speaker 1: have no I it is the strangest This is the

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Speaker 1: simple strangest season in the NFL I can ever remember.

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Speaker 1: And I and I talk about it with the other

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Speaker 1: play by play guys are going, hey, what's going on.

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Speaker 2: In the steam room, you guys? No, no, no, it's

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Speaker 2: it's a it's a it's a.

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Speaker 1: They're they're also doing play by play executive and we

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Speaker 1: were talking about yesterday like this is the weirdest year

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Speaker 1: I can ever remember.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of, which talk about looking up and seeing something.

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Speaker 5: The Texans, who I didn't even I thought they were

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Speaker 5: as bad as the Titans, all of a sudden might

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Speaker 5: actually be the leading best potential team in the AFC.

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Speaker 1: When you have a defense like that, and then and

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Speaker 1: you can run quarterbacks back C J. Stroud finally back, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, that was what the Steelers are supposed

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Speaker 1: to be this year. Historic defense and a running attack,

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Speaker 1: and then Aaron Rodgers steering the entire thing right, who.

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Speaker 2: Knows they ran yesterday?

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Speaker 1: Though, I meant, well, if they're going to win it,

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Speaker 1: it is apparently not on the ground.

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Speaker 2: What do you think is a bigger loss to them? Washington?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Washington over Andreo anybody else you were going to mention? Yeah,

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Speaker 7: they did?

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Speaker 5: He say after postgame, like, how I guess that he

685
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Speaker 5: never makes a comment how long anyone's gonna.

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Speaker 1: Be percussion guys, I still know what you saw when

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Speaker 1: he fell and his head kind of whacked off the ground.

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Speaker 5: There is kind of That's what I'm saying. His head

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Speaker 5: also weighs eighty five. That's very that's a lot of

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Speaker 5: force going down. Yeah, you could tell he was hurting,

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Speaker 5: But I don't know. I thought the Steelers played with

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Speaker 5: a lot of grit yesterday. I thought Deyla Cook did fine.

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Speaker 5: Then they even stopped helping him after a series. It

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Speaker 5: was only thirteen snaps. But this is a guy who

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Speaker 5: was on Tampa's undrafted out of Montana. He was on

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Speaker 5: Tampa's practice squad in twenty twenty two, didn't play. He

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Speaker 5: was on a Steelers in twenty twenty three, didn't play.

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Speaker 7: He was injured for most of twenty twenty four and

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Speaker 7: then brought back eventually to be on the practice squad.

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Speaker 7: That was his NFL debut yesterday. Yeah, but this is

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Speaker 7: a guy who has been practicing and prepping for a

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Speaker 7: long time. It wasn't too big for I mean, very

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Speaker 7: limited sample size. And then the other thing that is

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Speaker 7: potentially game changing in terms of what they're capable of.

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Speaker 7: Adam Steeling played forty eight percent of the snaps twenty five.

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Speaker 7: He was the second most used wide receiver. Oh wow,

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Speaker 7: he only got targeted once, but they clearly have plans

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Speaker 7: for this guy and Kiz Valdez Scantling played thirty one

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Speaker 7: percent of the snaps as many as Calvin Austin.

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Speaker 1: Just for funzies, I played them both for an any

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Speaker 1: time touchdown yesterday. They were plus nine hundred and plus

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Speaker 1: one thousand, respectively.

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Speaker 2: We got ten bucks. Never killed anybody. Who Let's see

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Speaker 2: what happens here.

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Speaker 7: You know, you know Valdess Scantling was not used for

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Speaker 7: four games. He should be up to speed by now.

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Speaker 7: And they did an unbelievable job with Feland just crash course,

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Speaker 7: you know, go back to stripes.

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Speaker 2: I learned two semesters of geology one night. You guys

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Speaker 2: ever crammed before? Yeah, I mean he crammed?

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: I think that guy at Scantling.

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Speaker 1: Said, is there any coincidence that those two guys are

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Speaker 1: running routes yesterday and playing that many downs and DK

725
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Speaker 1: has best game in Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 7: Doesn't believe in coincidences, as he told us Roma Wilson

727
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Speaker 7: got scratched, healthy scratch. I mean, it wasn't happening. It's

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Speaker 7: not all his fault. Rogers missed him in the last game.

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Speaker 7: He could have had a big play. Maybe Rogers doesn't

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Speaker 7: overthrow me. Still playing, but everybody, that's the lineup they

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Speaker 7: gotta go with.

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Speaker 5: I think everybody thought Rowan Wilson was gonna be the

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Speaker 5: next Time's ward and he's turned out to be a

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Speaker 5: tomato can.

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Speaker 2: All right, that was the last one I had had

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Speaker 2: that three hours. I just wanted to get that last

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Speaker 2: one in before I leave. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Rob kigs see a kinger and also thanks

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Speaker 1: yeah head headphones, that's some of them.

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Speaker 2: This is iHeartRadio. We don't have radio equipment everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Also thanks to Jeane's Territory for calling in on a

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Speaker 1: Monday today because you know, he was the guy we

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Speaker 1: all wanted to hear.

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Speaker 2: Yeah uh and of course next to Tim Bens.

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Speaker 1: As a result, tomorrow will have Jerry Dulac on the show,

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Speaker 1: Charlie Batch and Billy Gardelle. And a big thank you

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Speaker 1: to Jeff Conkle as always, you got anything coming up here?

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Speaker 2: Nothing holiday in the holidays.

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Speaker 5: Thankfully, silk is stronger than stuff like that today. I mean, Jeff,

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Speaker 5: I would probably check that to verify I am.

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Speaker 2: Oh don't. I'm prone to talking out of my silk glands.

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Speaker 1: If you quote a movie that is a fact as

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Speaker 1: far as I'm condy said it first.

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Speaker 2: Chris is in for Michelle with the Electric lunch at noon.

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Speaker 2: Have a great day, everybout it. I'm finished.

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Speaker 1: You say, classy Pittsburgh, don't touch your face.

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Speaker 2: I got him touch pets day, baby, But now you

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Speaker 2: gotta call me Ronald. Would you not eat my pants? Ronald? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Why google it?

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Speaker 5: At FNB, we rewrote the rules of banking and they're

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Speaker 5: getting everything you need a whole lot of