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Speaker 2: I just started ripping out the vanity and tearing drywall out,

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Speaker 2: and my wife came home. It was like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

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Speaker 2: Like what are you doing? I was like, well, you're

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Speaker 2: always complaining about the bathroom and everything.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I'll just start.

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Speaker 2: She's like, plumbers are like six weeks out. You know,

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Speaker 2: if you order something, you're not getting it the next day. Like,

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Speaker 2: what's the plan here? I was like, I don't have one.

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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna tear it up and swear a lot

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Speaker 2: and we'll see what happens. So how'd the first one go?

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Speaker 2: First one was a slog, but it turned out good.

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Speaker 2: But I also have a neighbor that does drywall, so

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Speaker 2: that was a absolute saver. So I don't do any

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Speaker 2: plumbing or electrical work myself, like that I'll do, but

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Speaker 2: this one I don't have to do any of that.

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Speaker 1: I just like ripping stuff up.

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Speaker 2: I could do a little bit of tie work and

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Speaker 2: and so that's we're just gonna see that. The kids

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Speaker 2: are now having to take showers and like they're taking

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Speaker 2: like a horse bath.

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Speaker 1: And the stationary top and the w you know they're

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Speaker 1: just doing their pits and and their taints PTNA. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's all you need. The middle school boys. They smell

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Speaker 1: bad anyway. Randy Bellman and the DVE Morning Show.

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Speaker 3: Mister Wensey, Jeff Konvo with us in the studio and Abby,

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Speaker 3: how about that. We're talking to Noahhile no Hiles and

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Speaker 3: the pg about Connor Griffin and his contract extension.

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Speaker 1: And Mike Persuda back in the studio. Now, lo and behold.

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Speaker 3: As we hang up with Noah, the Pirates announce they

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Speaker 3: have signed Connor Griffin to a nine year contract extension

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Speaker 3: that runs through the twenty thirty four season. Mike, I

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Speaker 3: had to check three or four times to make sure

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Speaker 3: I wasn't getting butt cracked on this.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I got the official I just checked my email

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Speaker 4: and I got the official release from the Pirates. According

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Speaker 4: to Bob Nutting, quote, signing Connor is a meaningful commitment

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Speaker 4: to this team, this city, and our fans. It reflects

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Speaker 4: our belief in Connor, in this season's club and in

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Speaker 4: the future of our organization. Bench Herrington, the general manager,

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Speaker 4: says quote. Since joining the organization, Connor has consistently demonstrated

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Speaker 4: the traits we want in a Pirate, a daily commitment

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Speaker 4: to improvement, a team first mindset, and a strong desire

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Speaker 4: to win. He has met every challenge in front of him,

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Speaker 4: and we're excited to watch him continue that growth alongside

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Speaker 4: his teammates in Pittsburgh. We are thrilled he will be

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Speaker 4: with the Pirates for a long time. No numbers though, no,

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Speaker 4: not according to the Pirates. I'm sure they will surface

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Speaker 4: sooner rather than later. But this is.

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Speaker 1: Not something I ever thought would be a possibility.

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Speaker 3: Me either, me either, never even considered it great news.

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Speaker 3: That extension is a pointer departure, hopefully for the organization.

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Speaker 3: As we spoke about with Noah, though, the future of

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Speaker 3: Paul Skiings seems to be a little out of reach

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Speaker 3: for the Buckos. I mean that we kind of understand

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Speaker 3: it all. Yeah right, but I'll tell you what, I'll

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Speaker 3: take it every day. Who has this much impact? And

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Speaker 3: they do have other pictures who are pretty good. They

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Speaker 3: don't have Paul Skiens, they have pul Skins. They're not

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Speaker 3: going to have another one of those, but pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Is it now time to say officially thank you to

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Speaker 2: all the fans that put pressure on Nutting to the

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Speaker 2: to the single prop engine pilot that flew over the stadium. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: people photo bombing interviews like are we saying that this worked.

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Speaker 3: To the renegades of the rotunda who heckled Bob Nutting

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Speaker 3: and made him do a shame walk as he walked

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Speaker 4: You know that's still the unreported or unknown. What was

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Speaker 4: the catalyst to this really? Was it that there's an

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Speaker 4: impending lockout? Was it the pressure that Jeff just referenced.

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Speaker 4: Why was Bob Nutting who he was for so many years?

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Speaker 4: And then why did it change this year?

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Speaker 2: Is there some tax code thing that we don't know

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Speaker 2: about that this is Connor Griffin.

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Speaker 1: Is a full write off now? I don't know.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 3: I think it is as simple as what we were

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Speaker 3: he had to do something to get people's butts in

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Speaker 3: the seats this year by season ticket packages.

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Speaker 1: Et cetera, and cashing as much as possible.

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Speaker 3: If they didn't actually have hope for the long term,

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Speaker 3: I don't know that people would be invested the way

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Speaker 3: they needed to. To me, this is you get a

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Speaker 3: couple of advisors financial advisors in the room and they go, well,

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Speaker 3: this is just the smart thing to do.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's always been hard for us to

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Speaker 4: You're going to go crazy. You're going to make so

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Speaker 4: much more in the long run.

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Speaker 2: But to Jeff's point, he might have been broken last year,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe that fan it was pretty hot.

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Speaker 2: I mean it was pretty intense last year's to say.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's always been a little simmering going on,

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Speaker 2: but I felt like last year it boiled over a

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Speaker 4: And I think Comma that it wasn't just the losing

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Speaker 4: and the not signing players. It was the taking down

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Speaker 4: the Clementy, oh, you screwing up the bricks. Screwing up

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Speaker 4: the bricks, having one of your employees beat a fan.

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Speaker 1: Well, I was in favor of that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it was some stuff that was like even

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Speaker 4: for the pirates, it was like, what are they took

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Speaker 4: that all happened in relative rapid Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It was like the most terrible pr Mond.

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Speaker 4: It was like, what could they possibly screw up worse next?

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Speaker 4: And they would find a way to find something.

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Speaker 1: Can I go a little deeper?

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Speaker 2: Because the new the new mayor has successfully squeezed a

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Speaker 2: couple owners that haven't been paying maybe their fair share

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Speaker 2: of taxes? Did did maybe have factor into the whole thing,

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Speaker 2: be like hey, Bobby, we're giving you some nice tax

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Speaker 2: breaks here, and you got eighteen hundred people every night,

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Speaker 2: Like it's time to start generating the tax code. Maybe

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Speaker 2: there's some things that could go on, like levers that

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think that if anything that was one

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Speaker 3: more like layer to it, I don't know that it

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Speaker 1: Do very much. That was part of the pressure from

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, you know, but more corporate wise, you know,

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Speaker 3: if there was some sort of corporate allegiance like hey,

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Speaker 3: but if Surf Side Vodka say hey, get your act together, pal, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: more like if US Steel and UPOC are like, hey,

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Speaker 3: we're given money that we don't have to Yeah about one, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: how about we make sure this city doesn't collapse so.

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Speaker 1: We can say now with certainty they're actually trying. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you got to give him credit for this.

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Speaker 3: It's hard to look at this and have any negative bend.

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Speaker 1: If there's a DV sangle to this, I can't figure

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Speaker 2: Is, only that here it is with Bob Nutting.

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Speaker 1: There's got to be a TV.

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Speaker 3: You just know that he's like, all right, this one time,

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Speaker 3: I'll do it, and then it'll never happen again. It

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Speaker 3: needs to be followed up by similar moves. Now they've

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Speaker 3: made great baseball moves in fortifying the offense and the

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Speaker 3: and the rotation, right, I mean.

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Speaker 4: This kid's an outlaw. You're not gonna sign every first

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Speaker 4: round to a deal like this.

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Speaker 2: Bob Notting's like, hey, everybody, we signed Connor Griffin.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations. Hey look over there for a minute.

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Speaker 2: Also in a press release, we are gonna be burying

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Speaker 2: uranium under seven springs. So anyway, Connor Griffin, everybody know

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Speaker 2: he sold that to Veil Resorts. I think it'll be

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Speaker 2: more like you like, I'll have a bud light and

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Speaker 2: then they're like, that'll be seventy eight dollars with a

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Speaker 2: Connor Griffin tax underneath, yes, passed on. Pirate fans would

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Speaker 2: pay the KG tax. They would have no problem with that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if that's sort of beer cost, that's sort

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Speaker 1: of beer cost. They cost a lot.

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Speaker 3: Apparently, there was some review of average beer prices per

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Speaker 1: I got to be honest with you. I don't know

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Speaker 1: where you find a place. There's no way.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's the average after you sneak too into your

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Speaker 2: cargo pockets. Yeah, and you buy one, it's at least

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Speaker 2: twelve bucks as you get the uh, the mortar shells more.

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Speaker 1: I hate them. Yeah, and they're fifteen bucks or what?

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Speaker 1: I hate them?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Why because you have to drink them so fast in

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Speaker 2: six beers by the end of the second innings. Well,

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Speaker 2: I you know, sometimes I don't want to have that

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Speaker 2: But there's something about a pounder.

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Speaker 1: No pounder's fine. Twenty four ounces. Well, yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 1: That's true. It's like a pounder I'm all in for.

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Speaker 2: But the twenty four ounces come on, that's true.

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Speaker 1: It's just like spit. I don't know. I think that

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Speaker 3: I hate that last those last three swigs out of

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Speaker 3: that are that are always nasty unless you're really getting

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Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying, Mike. I'm like, it's a marathon,

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Speaker 1: not a sprint. It's all I'm saying. He's a sprinting

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Speaker 1: coast kind of guy. It's a game. Yeah, yeah, all right. Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to have six beers and.

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Speaker 2: Two innings sometimes, but sometimes I like to have one

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Speaker 4: I like having it available to me. I don't say

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Speaker 4: I don't mind so much when it gets warm. Well,

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Speaker 4: here's the good news today. Your beer will stay cold.

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Speaker 2: A twelve thirty five stars, and it's only going to be.

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Speaker 4: In the I still can't believe they did this. I'm

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Speaker 3: I was actually thinking as we were talking to Know

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Speaker 3: and he said that he thought it was gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that I was surprised that that was his information,

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Speaker 3: because that skeptic in me thought, like, you know, that

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Speaker 3: create some subterfuse, because that is totally a Bob Nutting move,

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Speaker 4: Trying to pressure the team, Like if people expect it's

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Speaker 4: gonna happen, then you have to make it even more pressure.

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Speaker 3: Pressure happens, or it gets thrown on top of Bob

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Speaker 3: Nutting and company.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that.

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Speaker 2: Pressure makes diamonds and they play on a diamond and

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Speaker 2: that might have been what happened there. I don't know,

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Speaker 2: but I'm however, I'm shocked.

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Speaker 1: This is a revelation.

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Speaker 3: The kid is amazing. He's fun to watch, and you

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Speaker 3: get to watch him every day.

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Speaker 1: It seems like a guy that would be easy to

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Speaker 1: root for.

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Speaker 2: A nice young man married at nineteen, has a Christian

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Speaker 2: rock band walk up music you know every night. The

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Speaker 2: guy is tasteful, mustache and go tea combo.

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Speaker 1: Now that's fine. Do you have it? Yeah? One hundred

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I I think it's a smart business move

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Speaker 3: I don't care. I want to be happy about it.

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Speaker 4: And you know the reaction now, I mean, people know

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Speaker 4: It's one of the biggest drawbacks to being a Pirate

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Speaker 2: Then he's gone, let me tell you I I sort

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Speaker 3: To get Yeah, and exactly because you're gonna want to

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Speaker 2: And then the crowds are crazy and they actually are

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Speaker 3: And now, God, it would just be so fun if

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is a landmark deal. But the off

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Speaker 1: And be like what are we doing here? Like, no,

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Speaker 2: Like you got to get your act together, and it

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Speaker 1: I saw Brandon Low.

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Speaker 2: There was a piece of trash like a popcorn bag

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Speaker 2: I kid, I kid one of our best hitters.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: here proofs in the putting, let's do a quick break,

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Speaker 3: over the place.

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Speaker 1: Now, this is such a fun development. So psyched.

440
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Speaker 2: Also, hey, not for nothing, Pittsburgh Penguins our playoff bound.

441
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Speaker 2: We're going to talk to Phil Bork, the old two niner,

442
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Speaker 2: when we come back from the break.

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Speaker 1: Abby, you'll have your news at the top of the hour.

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Speaker 6: The hoisting of the cone phenomenon has reached its next

445
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Speaker 6: logical step, and now people are stealing traffic.

446
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Speaker 1: Codes PFD comment.

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Speaker 3: In the nine o'clock hour, we'll ask him about his friend, uh,

448
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Speaker 3: Diana Rossini and the big scandal that's brewing between her

449
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Speaker 3: and Patriots head coach Mike Rabel, and what kind of

450
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Speaker 3: standards of journalistic integrity does this breach?

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Speaker 1: Ready, Willing and Rabel, we get it.

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Speaker 7: Some of you tune in at one o two point

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Speaker 7: five and others listen through their smart device. No matter

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Speaker 7: how you listen, Pittsburgh's rocker is w DV.

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Speaker 1: Is always rocked and always well rocked.

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Speaker 2: D V bring savings are here at Kenny Rossford. Lisa

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Speaker 2: Mustang Machi Premium for just five fifty a month for

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Speaker 2: thirty nine month with twenty five hundred do it, sign

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Speaker 2: it or I have a Broncos gold astor.

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Speaker 8: Listen up.

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Speaker 2: Dol to.

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Speaker 1: Belt N zero. Yeah, two Niner ladies and gentlemen, Phil

463
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Speaker 1: bar joining us.

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Speaker 5: Poorky top of the morning.

465
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Speaker 1: You know we don't have a game for coming, and

466
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Speaker 1: we wanted to save a little energy.

467
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well done. No, that's okay, save it, save it

468
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,680
Speaker 5: because the good stuff is around the corner. Knock, knock, knock.

469
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Speaker 5: It's that time of year, Randy, you know, with the

470
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Speaker 5: dogwood flowers are blooming. You know, we have a little

471
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Speaker 5: bit of bite in the air in the morning, but

472
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Speaker 5: then it gets warm and fuzzy in the afternoon. And

473
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Speaker 5: you know what that means. Playoffs.

474
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Speaker 1: Playoffs are around the corner.

475
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Speaker 5: It's okay, it's okay now to talk about it. Okay,

476
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 5: it's okay to talk about it. You know, a week

477
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Speaker 5: ten days ago, two weeks ago, I was saying, hold on,

478
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 5: you know, no premature celebration if you know what I mean, Randy, Okay,

479
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:52,120
Speaker 5: I'm talking about you. Yeah right, keep it where it belongs. Now,

480
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,200
Speaker 5: you should feel good about this team. It's okay to

481
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 5: jump on the bandwagon. It's okay to yell from the rooftops.

482
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Speaker 1: Let's f and go. So it has been a surprising

483
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks here.

484
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Speaker 3: I thought that they were going to have a tougher

485
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 3: time starting that road trip without Sidney Crosby, without of

486
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 3: Guinny Malkin. I thought, boy, this is this is some

487
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,200
Speaker 3: tough sledding here. The fact that they got through that,

488
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 3: you know, fairly unscathed, and then it seemingly only got better.

489
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 3: They got sid back, who seems to slowly be getting

490
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 3: back to for him, Geno having a monster day last Saturday.

491
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Speaker 3: Which part of this team right now are you most

492
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Speaker 3: surprised by?

493
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Speaker 1: Borky surprised by? I would just go with.

494
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Speaker 3: Depth because the yeah, the people they're getting scoring from.

495
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Speaker 3: I didn't anticipate, you know, the Anthony Mantha thirty goal season.

496
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Speaker 5: Yeah, in the consistency of it. That was my knee

497
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Speaker 5: jerk reaction. I was going to say that before you

498
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Speaker 5: jumped in and took my answer away from me, I'm kidding.

499
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Speaker 5: I'm kidding, but you know what, because I did, I

500
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Speaker 5: hesitated because I was leaning more towards what the thirty eight,

501
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Speaker 5: thirty nine, thirty five year old players have done on

502
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Speaker 5: a consistent basis. Yeah, you need that part. I mean,

503
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 5: that is the important part. And I talked about this

504
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Speaker 5: before on this great show. That doesn't matter if we're

505
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Speaker 5: talking about twenty twenty six, so we're talking about nineteen

506
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Speaker 5: ninety one. The equations, the same star players playing at

507
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Speaker 5: their best, goalpenders that are just rock solid, and a

508
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 5: bunch of third and fourth line Jabroni's that having career years.

509
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Speaker 5: And so the third part is the hardest part. It's

510
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Speaker 5: why a lot of teams can't get over the hump

511
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Speaker 5: is they can't get that consistent scoring from guys like

512
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 5: Manta and Brazo and Kindle and Doer and Lozotte when

513
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 5: he was in the lineup and now El Marsoda Bloom

514
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 5: bumping pucks into the net. I mean, that's that's the

515
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Speaker 5: recipe for success. That's what gets you over the top.

516
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Speaker 5: And you're that's it is the hardest part. And so yeah,

517
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 5: they have a bunch of guys that were kind of

518
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Speaker 5: cast offs. Throw Tina Kopff in there too, if you're

519
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 5: going to talk about that, right, cast offs from other organizations,

520
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 5: whether it's Boston or Dallas or Columbus or wherever, Detroit,

521
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 5: wherever they came from, they weren't plug and play players

522
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Speaker 5: for those teams, but they come here and they're like, WHOA,

523
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 5: this is fun. I like this group, I like this coach,

524
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Speaker 5: I like this city. I want to really play and

525
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Speaker 5: be part of something special.

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Speaker 1: Forty.

527
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Speaker 4: Speaking of plug and play, not too many guys that

528
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Speaker 4: are first round picks become that immediately anymore kindall has.

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Speaker 1: How do you account for that? I mean just the

530
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Speaker 1: numbers aside.

531
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Speaker 4: I watched the way he plays, and I think, oh,

532
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Speaker 4: this guy's been doing this at a high level for

533
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Speaker 4: ten years.

534
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Speaker 5: He just would I think he knows what to do.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I think of so many times over the years where

537
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Speaker 5: we've seen players like Ben in other organizations and.

538
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Speaker 1: We're like, why didn't we get that guy?

539
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 5: You know, right, why why do they have that guy?

540
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Speaker 5: And we didn't get that guy because because we have

541
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Speaker 5: a general manager and a general manager that has built

542
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 5: out his staff that have done their homework. That's that's

543
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,479
Speaker 5: the answer I have for you is we did our

544
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 5: homework on him, where a lot of people were saying,

545
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Speaker 5: you know, either he's a late first rounder or an

546
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Speaker 5: early second rounder, and you know what, we got him

547
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Speaker 5: in the draft. Everybody was throwing their arms up in

548
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 5: there and go what the heck and do what's doing?

549
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 5: And that's fine. But now he's saying, this is what

550
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Speaker 5: I was doing.

551
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Speaker 1: I did my homework on this guy.

552
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Speaker 5: And I knew just because he wasn't six four two twenty. Uh.

553
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 5: There's a lot of other intangibles in this game. The

554
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 5: two things that jump out to me, Mikey are his

555
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 5: I mean it's easy. I mean, you know, Joe Blow

556
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 5: eating scrambled eggs right now, can tell you this that

557
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 5: you know his hockey IQ is hockey smart, is off

558
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 5: the charts right number one, Number two. He's a tough

559
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 5: sun the son of a gun. But he's taken some

560
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 5: licks and he bounces up and not only gets right

561
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 5: back in the fight, he's undeterred. It doesn't save him.

562
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Speaker 5: And that's the part that's got me right from day

563
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 5: one in Madison Square Garden where he plays the first

564
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 5: National Hockey League game, He's not overwhelmed by the venue,

565
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 5: by the opponent, by the you know the circumstance. He's

566
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 5: not overwhelmed. What just happened to him? The next shift,

567
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 5: he goes, rolls his sleeves up and goes right back

568
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 5: to work. He's Pittsburgh, right, And that's what's so cool

569
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 5: about this kid, you know, from Western Canada. He's come

570
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 5: to the full one two seven, two four and he's

571
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 5: kind of us right. He's not pretty, right, he's not perfect,

572
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 5: but he's but he's at one hell of a worker.

573
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 5: That's got to set a kahuns on him that he's

574
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 5: not afraid at all of all the fireballs that the

575
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 5: NHL can throw at you. He just beeps and dives

576
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 5: and just keeps on keeping on.

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Speaker 4: You know what I love about that answer is just

578
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 4: spent a lot of time talking about him. And you

579
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 4: didn't mention seventeen goals, No, like I didn't.

580
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 5: Because that's the bipop.

581
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's just the way he does it which

582
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 4: leads you to believe it's not only sustainable, it's going

583
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 4: to keep getting better.

584
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I don't know, the biggest goal that he

585
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 5: has scored this year wasn't even in regulation or overtime. Right.

586
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 5: It was that shootout goal in Ottawa, a place that

587
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 5: is just given the Penguins fits. But I think that goal,

588
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 5: by him scoring it in that building against that opponent,

589
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 5: those things and unless you've been there before. I'm not

590
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 5: trying to big league anybody, Mikey, including you, unless you've

591
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 5: been there before. It's unbelievable how things like that from

592
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 5: guys like that can galvanize a team. It really brings

593
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 5: a team.

594
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Speaker 2: Together, and I think it has Porky walk us through

595
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 2: the resurrection of Eric Carlson. He was about to be

596
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 2: probably considered one of the worst signings in Penguin's history

597
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 2: outside of a Romaginla or something like that. And now

598
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 2: he's team MVP. What has happened with him? Why does

599
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 2: he turned the corner?

600
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Speaker 5: Well, I mean the easy answer again would be Mike

601
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 5: Sullivan's not here. Dan Muse is here. Yeah, right, And

602
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 5: I'll be honest with you. Here we are in April.

603
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 5: I stopped doing the double shoulder check when I talk

604
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 5: about Mike Sullivan. Okay, I'm not gonna do that anymore. Okay,

605
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 5: it didn't work out for Sally. We love Sally. He

606
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 5: brought us two cups here, right, But with that being said,

607
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,719
Speaker 5: it wasn't working. Okay, that's okay to say that, right.

608
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 5: It was just time to move on, and thank god

609
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 5: we did, because not only has Dan Mues been the

610
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 5: right guy for this team and for the city, he

611
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 5: seems to be the right guy for Eric Carlton. And

612
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 5: I'll tell Mike Stuthers in there too, because Mike Stuthers

613
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 5: runs of the defense, right, and really the whole coaching

614
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 5: staff have just I think struck a chord with this

615
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 5: guy and allowed him to just play free. Number one

616
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 5: and number two. I think, Okay, listen, I'm just gonna

617
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 5: kind of rip the band aid off here. I think

618
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 5: he got tired of sucking, right, I think he got

619
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 5: tired of sucking and realized realize, I'm way better than this.

620
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 5: I'm tired of this. I'm tired of bad pinches. I'm

621
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 5: tired of turnovers. I'm tired of people you know, you know,

622
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 5: saying this, that and the other thing about me. I'm

623
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 5: just gonna play. And now I've got a fresheet of ice,

624
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 5: I got a new coach that I like. But we're

625
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 5: not in the good the guy business. We're in the

626
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 5: win hockey games.

627
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: Business.

628
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 5: And so this guy has struck that core, that fine

629
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 5: line you have to walk, right, Randy, to be not

630
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 5: their buddy, but they have to like you, but also

631
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 5: to be their hockey coach to get them to play

632
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 5: up to their potential. I think Dann Muse has walked

633
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 5: that type rope.

634
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: In his first year. That amazing in this first year.

635
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is an amazing It really is a.

636
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 4: Head coach dealing with the player who is clearly had

637
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 4: an elite reputation.

638
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: It's not elite results, you know what I mean, like it.

639
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 5: Never it never played the game. That's the other part too.

640
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 5: It's not like he, you know, played the game for

641
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 5: eighteen years and played twelve hundred games in the league.

642
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 5: You know, this is the guy and this is not

643
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 5: This is not my words either his words, Mikey and Randy,

644
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 5: you know this is I was a borderline Division III

645
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 5: hockey player, you know. And to walk into that room

646
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 5: with future Hall of Famers and Stanley Cups galore. To

647
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 5: walk in that room and to number one get their attention,

648
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 5: Number two get their respect and in such a short

649
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 5: time pretty incredible when you really talk about it.

650
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Speaker 3: It's one of the most undersold stories. Of the season

651
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 3: in the NHL. As far as I'm concerned, I would

652
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 3: agree nobody talks about dan Use outside of Pittsburgh. Well,

653
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 3: it doesn't seem like it, I should say, other than

654
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 3: you know, the casual reverence when they're playing. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: they have to start to Now do you do the

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Speaker 3: flyers on the come up scary at all?

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Speaker 5: Oh? Please please, Randy, what do you say scare me?

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Speaker 1: Well, that was the wrong word.

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Speaker 2: I realize in retrospect me, this is not this is

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Speaker 2: not nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 5: Okay, this is not the broad Street Bullies anymore. And

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Speaker 5: I like that Rick Hocketts a head coach, and I listen,

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Speaker 5: I'm not being arrogant, I'm not being cocky, but I

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Speaker 5: think it would be a fantastic first round matchup. That's

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Speaker 5: the way it's gonna go. Let's bring them on. Let's

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Speaker 5: bring them on. Number one eighty seven would be like

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Speaker 5: a bulldog on a pork chop, all right, he'd be

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Speaker 5: salivating to play that hockey team. You know what, you know,

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Speaker 5: when he sees that color orange, you know what happens like, yeah,

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Speaker 5: fireworks go off? Right, So I just think, listen, they're hot,

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Speaker 5: they're playing well. Any team he gets into the playoffs

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Speaker 5: is gonna have assets. But you look at any team,

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Speaker 5: and I mean any team East or West, They've got warps,

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Speaker 5: they got cracks, they got problems. Their fan base is going,

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Speaker 5: oh boy, what about this? And what about that? And

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Speaker 5: what about this? I'm worried about this, So everybody has that.

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Speaker 5: I just like the way the Penguins have kind of

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Speaker 5: buttoned things up. Do they need to be better defensively,

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Speaker 5: Hell yeah they do. They got to really tighten up

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Speaker 5: and start when games one nothing, two to one, to

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Speaker 5: three to two, which they haven't done much of all

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Speaker 5: year because those are playoff type of wins. But with

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Speaker 5: the Philadelphia Flyers, it's a young, fast, hungry team, a

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Speaker 5: lot of inexperienced. I don't even know if they have

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Speaker 5: a player on our team that's won the Stanley Cup

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Speaker 5: before besides their head coach, but that's neither.

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Speaker 1: Here nor there.

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Speaker 5: I just think it would be a great matchup. They're

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Speaker 5: playing some of their best hockey. The Penguins are back

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Speaker 5: playing some of their best hockey. We'll see which way

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Speaker 5: it goes, but that's the way it's looking right now.

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Speaker 1: Who's a playoff goalie? Game one.

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Speaker 5: To a Skinner.

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Speaker 1: All right, quick answer.

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Speaker 5: He's been to two Yeah, he's been too Stanley Cup

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Speaker 5: finals before. He's got the experience. That's nothing against she lost.

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Speaker 5: That's nothing against Sergei Miroshoff. If that's the trailer you're

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Speaker 5: trying to take me down.

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Speaker 1: No, No, I agree with you, and I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: answered it quickly.

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Speaker 4: I get the mirrorshoff is you know the long term

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Speaker 4: perceived answer, but it doesn't have.

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Speaker 1: To be that now.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you don't know. And that's and that's the

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Speaker 5: thing I caution people like I get it is if

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Speaker 5: you're sitting around eating your cereal and say, let's get

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Speaker 5: that Russian kid in here. He's been unbelievable in American

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Speaker 5: I get. I get all that, you know. I mean

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Speaker 5: as a part of me that would love to see

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Speaker 5: him play another game down the stretch here, if I'm

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Speaker 5: being real honest with you, guys. But with that being said,

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Speaker 5: be careful because these two other guys she lost in

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Speaker 5: Skinner had played their ass off all year. Okay, And

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Speaker 5: I know the numbers aren't getting you jumping up and down,

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Speaker 5: but these are competitors. These guys have track records of

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Speaker 5: winning before. Okay, and when they have the ability to

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Speaker 5: elevate their game at the most important time of the year,

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Speaker 5: whether it's in season, I think more importantly in the postseason.

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Speaker 5: They both have proven they can do that. She lost,

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Speaker 5: I know it's in the American League, but it was

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Speaker 5: just last year. And Skinner in the last two years

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Speaker 5: took a team that was leaky defensively, great offensively, and

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Speaker 5: the Edmontonolas took him to the Stanley Cup Final twice.

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Speaker 5: So I think you've got two guys that are chopping

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Speaker 5: at the bid to do it in the postseason. I

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Speaker 5: just think it's great to have that safety net of that.

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Speaker 5: The Russian kid Ameraschoff down in the American Hockey League,

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Speaker 5: that's knock knock, knocking on the door. I think those

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Speaker 5: are just all good things.

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Speaker 3: Penn's hosts The Devils Thursday night, or at the Devil's

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Speaker 3: rather Thursday night seven pm. The Old two nine er

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Speaker 3: Phil Bourke, you can see him on Sports Net Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: You're doing the TV on Thursday.

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Speaker 5: I am TV tomorrow and then radio the rest of

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Speaker 5: the way.

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Speaker 1: Okay, uh, the Old two niner this morning here on DVE.

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Speaker 5: Who's in the studio for sendoff.

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Speaker 1: Mister Conkle, Abby and Mike.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Brandy Conks, Abby and mikey enjoyed that time together.

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Speaker 5: This was.

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Speaker 1: Good hockey talk, all right.

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Speaker 6: Hey, it's Abby and real talk from one busy Pittsburgh

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Speaker 6: mom to another.

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