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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. All right,

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson, penn ultimate segment here of this Friday, this

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl seaview.

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Speaker 2: Of the official season. Yeah, good call. You're right.

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Speaker 1: When we are back next week, it'll fully be.

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Speaker 2: Off season mode.

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Speaker 1: Chapter closed, book closed, and off season mode. Wow, that

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Speaker 1: happens quick, Matt, You and I hey listen, full transparency

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Speaker 1: for the audience. We still have a little fun now,

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Speaker 1: but we both had a lot of fun when we

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Speaker 1: were growing up in college.

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Speaker 2: Agent.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, did you ever play a game called would

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Speaker 1: you Rather?

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Speaker 2: I'm familiar, but probably not.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's a popular game. It's really simple. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you just you know, would you rather? And you kind

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Speaker 1: of have a topic and two options and you pick one.

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Speaker 1: And you know, some college kids around the country over

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Speaker 1: the years may or may not have turned it into

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a party game. But I digress understood.

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Speaker 1: I have Super Bowl sixty would you rather? For you?

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Speaker 1: A lot of most of these are on field related,

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Speaker 1: but one or two that are you like it? Fluff?

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl?

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Speaker 2: Still right?

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Speaker 1: The first one. Matt Williamson on Super Bowl Sunday. Who

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Speaker 1: would you rather have as your starting quarterback? Sam Donald

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Speaker 1: or Drake May. I'm not talking going forward. I'm not talking.

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Speaker 2: For a game, right right, right, right right May. Everyone

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Speaker 2: knows I've been a big fan since he came out,

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Speaker 2: and that's not a knock on Donald. Donald played really

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Speaker 2: really well against the Rams, and I'm a believer, you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Donald's a good player. May is a little

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Speaker 2: special though, Yeah, I mean this could be. He's a

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Speaker 2: little more mobile, which I think is particularly important in

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Speaker 2: this matchup for both teams. I think the quarterbacks should

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Speaker 2: be under a lot of pressure. He's a great processor.

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Speaker 2: Just a note, he destroyed man coverage and was good,

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Speaker 2: not great against zone. You have an MVP type of year.

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Speaker 2: I would expect Seattle to go heavy heavy zone. Okay,

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Speaker 2: you know, just something to keep an eye on for

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Speaker 2: to keep eyes on him, Yeah yeah, yeah, keep eyes

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Speaker 2: on him too. And they mix it. They move their

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Speaker 2: safeties around a lot and and Maware's a chess piece

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Speaker 2: and zone as well, So just keep an eye on that.

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Speaker 2: I bet they don't play a lot of man.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. Drake May would be my answer, but

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Speaker 1: I think it's a testament to Sam Donald at this

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Speaker 1: point that we're asking this question right, because if you

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Speaker 1: would have asked me before the playoffs started, Sam Donald

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Speaker 1: Ordrake may out have been like, like, what kind of question?

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Speaker 1: What kind of question is that.

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Speaker 2: I might be voting that guy is the best quarterback

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Speaker 2: in league? Right?

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Speaker 1: Exactly right now?

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Speaker 2: I assume you agree. Even though may is runner up

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Speaker 2: for MVP and had as good a year as any

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Speaker 2: quarterback in the league, I would still pick like Lamar

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Speaker 2: and Allen and Burrow for one game today, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: So he wouldn't be my pick of all the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: This is specific for Sunday at well, I guess local

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Speaker 1: time it'll be like three thirty they're in California, but

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Speaker 1: six thirty our time. For those three and a half

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Speaker 1: hours that the Super Bowl is going to be contested,

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Speaker 1: same line of parameters, Matt Williamson for your three and

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Speaker 1: a half hours Super Bowl sixty life, would you rather

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Speaker 1: have Mike Rabel or Mike McDonald is Which Mike do

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Speaker 1: you want is your head coach for sixty minutes of

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Speaker 2: They're both really high on my list. That's I got

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Speaker 2: you with this one. Yeah, I thought, I don't like

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Speaker 2: this one. I think McDonald's such a good schemer.

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Speaker 1: I think he's maybe the most underrated head coach in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Yeah, everyone rightfully so talks about Vrabel and

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Speaker 2: So we do a Twitter Thursday and I was asked,

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Speaker 2: really good question. Good question, and I'm like McDonald will

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Speaker 2: be pretty high on my draft pick list. Of those

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Speaker 1: But that's a close one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're both would be maybe top six or seven

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson, would you rather the Patriots running back tandem

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Speaker 1: of Henderson and Stevenson or the Seahawks running back tandem

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Speaker 1: of Walker and Charbonay.

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Speaker 2: So are we counting him or not?

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Speaker 1: is Henderson too. I know it's only a rookie season.

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Speaker 1: That's what makes it difficult.

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Speaker 2: Is like Stevenson was really good this year though.

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Speaker 1: I mean all four of these guys were really good

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they were.

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Speaker 2: Seattle's the choice if Charbona is in the mix without them,

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Speaker 2: New England's without Yeah, for this particular game.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, maybe for the sake of this conversation,

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Speaker 1: it's better if you don't include Sharbonay.

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Speaker 2: Probably not, because even though Walker won last year, it's

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Speaker 2: a distant fourth. Though for the other guys, I can't

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Speaker 2: remember who even they are. But Stevenson is a really,

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Speaker 2: really good player. And the problem with Henderson, which nobody

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Speaker 2: he hasn't been good in that it's it's a different

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Speaker 2: it's a different world. So that's a big reason why

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Speaker 2: Stevenson's gotten so many more touches. But since they're by,

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Speaker 2: So keep an eye on that too.

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Speaker 1: Whose defensive front would you rather have, Matt Williamson, Seattles

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Speaker 2: If it was the conversation was just defensive tackles, then

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Speaker 2: it's about a tie. I mean Barmore and Williams versus

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Speaker 2: But the Edge dudes, not the New England's are bad.

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Speaker 2: They've got a lot out of Landry and Chase on.

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Speaker 2: There's so many guys whose career they've rejuvenated. But it's

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Speaker 2: not like the Seattle guys.

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Speaker 1: Whose offensive line would you rather have, Seattle's or New England's.

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Speaker 2: Seattle's. New England doesn't have a a great player on

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Speaker 2: their line, neither one does.

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Speaker 1: Actually Cross and Zabel or go though. Yeah, they're not

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're good. I mean they're well well, well above average.

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Speaker 2: They may have the weakest link at right guard in Bradford,

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Speaker 2: but I think collectively the Patriots O line might be

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Speaker 2: I still think it's a fair amount of work. The

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Speaker 2: the dudes are young, are not quite there yet, or

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Speaker 2: you know, they may. I bet they add another O

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Speaker 1: I would certainly think that that's New England's early offseason priority.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're so strong, they're so much strong, they

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Speaker 2: Defense is pretty well set.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, secondary, they've got some nice young pieces. Yeah, certainly,

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Speaker 1: offensive line though, would feel like the if you're if

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Speaker 1: you're listing a priority for the team that's going to

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, but offensive lines it was a priority this year.

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Speaker 2: I mean they draft to tackle Hi. They signed Moses

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Speaker 1: All right, Matt, You ready for some off the field

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Speaker 1: ones here? Salmon or lobster?

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Speaker 2: Lobster?

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Speaker 1: I think so too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do like salmon. I like salmon.

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Speaker 1: Can I say something might be a little controversial. I

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Speaker 1: They cost thirty dollars and there's just something about the

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Speaker 1: But I do love just cracking lobster fresh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's tough to beat. Or you're at a

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Speaker 2: nice restaurant and they bring it out presented and yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big salmon fan. We do salmon like probably

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Speaker 2: So a little history lesson for you. Like back in

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Speaker 2: New England and you know the country was new, they

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Speaker 2: would feed the prisoners lobster.

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Speaker 1: Oh it was. It was garbage, garbage on the bottom

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean it was everywhere too. Yeah, lobster.

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Speaker 1: Lobster's reputation has done a one to eighty.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not a long way.

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Speaker 1: It's a long way. It's like chicken wings man, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Now it's like you can't get six wings for cheaper

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Speaker 1: than pen bucks.

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Speaker 1: Back in the day, it was like six dollars all

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Speaker 1: you could eat.

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Speaker 2: Oh dude. When I was in even I mean there

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Speaker 2: was a day that they threw them away before, like

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Speaker 2: they put hot sauce on them. Yeah, and they were

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Speaker 2: like what am I do with these little things? Right?

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Speaker 2: When I was in college, eight ten cent wing night,

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Speaker 2: my whole fraternity would go to Ohio Street Bar and

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Speaker 2: I eight hundred pitchers of beer and never leave.

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Speaker 1: Every every Friday, me and our buddy Adam Crowley. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there was a there was a place in Morgantown that

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Speaker 1: had a Friday hat. It was from like five o'clock

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Speaker 1: to eight o'clock. I think it was five bucks got

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Speaker 1: you all you could eat wings, and there were like

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Speaker 1: seventy five cent domestic beers, so you could go. You

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Speaker 1: It was the best.

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Speaker 2: Someone I'm sure will tweet me this, but this was

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Speaker 1: It was like Quaker Stak and Lube and Buffalo Wild wings.

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Speaker 2: I didn't deliver them with pizza. All right?

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Speaker 1: You ready for this one, Matt. I'd like to have

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Speaker 1: Dale in here for this conversation too. Would you rather Aerosmith,

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Speaker 1: Boston's is Aerosmith, James Taylor and drop Kick Murphy's. I

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Speaker 1: Are they are?

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Speaker 1: But as you know this, I've said this to you

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Speaker 1: You throw on a Hendrix record now and it sounds

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Speaker 2: And like I even asked him, I'm like, what was

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, it'd be like here in Aussie and Sabbath

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Speaker 1: real quick to close this thing down. I should have

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Speaker 1: asked you this first. But New England or the Pacific Northwest.

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Speaker 2: I have a good buddy that they two of my buddies.

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Speaker 1: For me, Matt. Tier one, and I am talking just landscapes, geography, topography,

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Speaker 1: them all, Matt, Starbucks are dunkin Baby.

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Speaker 2: Starbucks. But I'm not a coffee expert. I drink a

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Speaker 1: About once a month, I jones for a Starbucks latte.

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Speaker 1: The week that we're in Indianapolis. I buy coffee as

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Speaker 1: It's one of the most bass awkwards things. Maybe the

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Speaker 2: Now you can't get any of that stuff. You should

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Speaker 1: Okay, we're all sitting here talking for eight nine hours

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