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Catching up with Calvin Austin! · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Everybody, Welcome into the Irish Cities Podcast as we get
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Speaker 1: started for Week seven of the NFL season. Michael mcquian
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Speaker 1: delighted to be here actually sitting in the middle of
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Speaker 1: nowhere in trun as Jimmy English and Donald McKee are
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Speaker 1: sitting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. So I'm just going to put
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Speaker 1: it right over to you boys, lads, how he's getting
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Speaker 1: almost the.
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Speaker 2: Crack Yeah, great, make It's been a crazy couple of days.
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Speaker 2: We haven't even here, been here twenty four hours yet,
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Speaker 2: I don't think, and it's been very eventful, from landing
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Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh seeing the statue of Franco Harris, to just
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Speaker 2: getting downtown, downtown around the city, and then of course
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Speaker 2: we had a fantastic experience in the stadium this afternoon
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Speaker 2: in this morning, so it's been absolutely incredible so far.
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Speaker 2: And just before we get into it, just a massive
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Speaker 2: word of appreciation to the Steelers for their hospitality so far.
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Speaker 2: It's been look just you couldn't have asked for a
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Speaker 2: better experience, and is a good chance myself and David
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Speaker 2: Dean will be moving here in the near future because
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Speaker 2: it's just it's just incredible.
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Speaker 1: I woke up this morning and I see the picture
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Speaker 1: of the laws of the airport and I was lying
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Speaker 1: in bed smiling, so like, obviously with you laws are
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Speaker 1: very very bast this weekend and have a great one
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Speaker 1: boy's dialogue. You must be like a child at Christmas
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Speaker 1: getting over to Pittsburgh and seeing all the crack.
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Speaker 3: It feels like every ten minutes, Mike, we're sort of
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Speaker 3: pinching ourselves, like how many times in the past twenty
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Speaker 3: four hours We'll say, it still doesn't feel real that
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Speaker 3: we're here in Pittsburgh. But I'm gonna do what always,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna echo every single thing that Jimmy has just said,
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Speaker 3: because the hospitality from the Steelers, everyone within the organization
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Speaker 3: has been ten out of ten. I mean, we couldn't
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Speaker 3: have asked for a better, you know, city to come to,
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Speaker 3: people to come to as well, and you know, the
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Speaker 3: whole hospitality, it's been fantastic. We're standing on a nice
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Speaker 3: BnB as well, and we're counting down the minutes in
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Speaker 3: the hours to kick off here. And someday we haven't
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Speaker 3: seen the stadium in person. Now that place is going
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Speaker 3: to be rocking someday. It's got that fit of it,
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Speaker 3: you know, that sort of feel that's no matter how
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Speaker 3: many people do in there, it's gonna be absolutely boun
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Speaker 3: and so I'm really looking forward this.
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Speaker 1: The one thing that I've seen so far, and I'd
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Speaker 1: recommend everybody check out the Theaters Ireland social channels on
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Speaker 1: x and on Instagram is a video from the lads.
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Speaker 1: But I've seen Jimmy a picture of you lads in
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Speaker 1: the locker room. You've got like a private locker room
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Speaker 1: tour this morning. What was that like? And Like, obviously
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Speaker 1: we see locker rooms over here and change rooms, they're
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Speaker 1: maybe not that big. Like how big is the locker
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Speaker 1: room for the staters?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely massive?
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Speaker 2: And just a shout out to Travis Baker, the head
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Speaker 2: of hospitality for the Pittsburgh Staters.
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Speaker 4: He he came in early.
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Speaker 2: He took his in behind the scenes, through through various
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Speaker 2: back doors and secret tunnels into the depths of Akrochure
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Speaker 2: Stadium and into the locker room and honestly, make as
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Speaker 2: soon as we walked in, it was just there was
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Speaker 2: it was.
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Speaker 4: It's just so big. I don't know how to describe it.
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Speaker 4: It's absolutely massive. Of the the walls a.
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Speaker 2: Line with the lockers that has the Steelers logo in
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Speaker 2: the middle, and there was just this kind of hush
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Speaker 2: when we walked in. Obviously it was still early in
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Speaker 2: the morning relatively speaking, and it was just it took
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Speaker 2: my breath away personally, just something that you see online
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Speaker 2: the whole time or on television perhaps, just to be
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Speaker 2: in the presence of where all those great players are
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Speaker 2: every Sunday.
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Speaker 4: It was Frankly, it was it was incredible. It was
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Speaker 4: just there's no words to describe.
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Speaker 2: And then of course we had to get to the
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Speaker 2: obligatory selfie in front of TJ's.
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Speaker 4: Locker room locker as well.
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Speaker 2: So just an incredible, incredible experience, a really humbling experience
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Speaker 2: to be standing where so many fantastic players are still previously,
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Speaker 2: you know.
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Speaker 5: Just to jump in here becaus as He's imagined it did.
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Speaker 3: It was sort of when you walked in, you sort
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Speaker 3: of felt like you couldn't really say much because of
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Speaker 3: the amount of like historical teams and stuff that have
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Speaker 3: been in that in that locker room, and it did
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Speaker 3: sort of feel like sort of even speaking was sort
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Speaker 3: of doing it out of respect, if you like. But
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Speaker 3: we all got photos in front of TJ's locker. It
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Speaker 3: was just sort of again gonna back up everything he said,
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Speaker 3: it's really even going out under the end of the
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Speaker 3: field as well.
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Speaker 1: It was.
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Speaker 3: It was just just to think of the night of player,
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Speaker 3: like historical figures, great players came tunnels incredible, so pinch
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Speaker 3: me moment.
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Speaker 2: We also got to see the famous Man of Steel
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Speaker 2: sign that players tap for good luck in the way
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Speaker 2: to the tunnel.
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Speaker 1: That was.
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Speaker 4: That was very special to be able to see that.
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Speaker 2: And again it's just all these things that you know
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Speaker 2: fans might have the opportunity to do, we got to do,
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Speaker 2: so that in itself was incredibly I'm so grateful for
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Speaker 2: that opportunity. And like Dave said, walking down the tunnel,
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Speaker 2: seeing the lights all set up for the intros and
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Speaker 2: Sunday night and just just picturing just coming down that
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Speaker 2: tunnel into the field and it was truly all inspiring.
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Speaker 4: It really was.
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Speaker 1: Did you run out like a player?
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Speaker 4: No, no, we didn't. Didn't have any nerves to do.
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Speaker 2: We were too busy, too busy taking it all in
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Speaker 2: and getting videos and stuff. But just to have, you know,
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Speaker 2: to have the chance to do that, like it's like
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Speaker 2: it's it really is at once in a lifetime opportunity.
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Speaker 2: So and look, we're not We're only we're only really
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Speaker 2: revving up. It's the weekend is only getting started still.
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Speaker 2: Those of fantastic things to look forward to, including of
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Speaker 2: course the main event on Sunday night in acter sure
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Speaker 2: under nights, so it's going to be absolutely rocking.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I'll probably ask each of you guys
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Speaker 1: maybe one element, which is to come even before the game,
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Speaker 1: and then we'll have a quick little review of the
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Speaker 1: game that will pro shop and doing the ultrature to
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Speaker 1: talk to us around that. There have you picked up
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Speaker 1: and have you have you contacted the credit Union over
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Speaker 1: here for the crack in terms of that, And then
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Speaker 1: what was the tur like generally?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, the tur was great.
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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously we had our private term where we
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Speaker 3: got to see the locker room, but even the the
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Speaker 3: original tour like where other people were there. We got
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Speaker 3: to see in behind the scoreboard, we got to see
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Speaker 3: a beautiful view of the city and the stadium as
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Speaker 3: a whole.
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Speaker 5: They were getting the stadium ready, of course, getting it
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Speaker 5: laid out ready for something football.
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Speaker 3: We got to see the NBC trucks, the Hinds logos,
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Speaker 3: the big bottle catchup, the thing the sort of levels
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Speaker 3: we got to see, and I would say because all
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Speaker 3: because of you know, the Steelers organization was was incredible.
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Speaker 3: It's it's something that we're going to look back on
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Speaker 3: and in many, many years we're gonna we're gonna be
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Speaker 3: able to take and say we can't probab believe with the.
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Speaker 5: Pro Shop did sort of sat me down in a bit.
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Speaker 5: It'll be worth it. So I'm very happy with how
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Speaker 5: I things.
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Speaker 2: I think we are mostly buying stuff for people back home,
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Speaker 2: maker running ourselves. I had a people people caught win
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Speaker 2: that we were in the Pro Shop in my Instagram
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Speaker 2: and WhatsApp started blowing up, going on, I'll reveluge you
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Speaker 2: if you if you get me this and that. So
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Speaker 2: those those people know who they are and their their
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Speaker 2: stuff is safe and it's coming home. But I'm collecting
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Speaker 2: receipts and I will be looking for your.
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Speaker 1: Money, talking about looking for Toby, looking for something or
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Speaker 1: or or looking forward to something. I have win that
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Speaker 1: you lads are going to a special celebration of the
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Speaker 1: is the nineteen seventy four team tomorrow night, a big
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Speaker 1: dinner and I don't think we'll confirm on the podcast
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Speaker 1: who is going to be there with many legends people
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Speaker 1: associated with the team and obviously the team generally. That's
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Speaker 1: that's a pretty cool dinner to go to, Jimmy. And
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Speaker 1: also they're going to wear the throwback jerseys with the
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Speaker 1: past on Sunday night. That dinner's gonna be a crack.
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Speaker 1: I wonder what they have, like, you know, shoe, soda, bread,
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Speaker 1: all the Irish symbols for starters.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I'm sure we won't be disappointed with the
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Speaker 2: fair that's an offer. But again, this is just an
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Speaker 2: incredible opportunity and massive shoutout to the Steelers organization for
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Speaker 2: again this opportunity to get to be part of the
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Speaker 2: celebration and part of such a special anniversary with the
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy four team and definitely going to be some
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Speaker 2: legend legendary players, top tier legendary players as celebrating as
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Speaker 2: part of the occasion. So I know one or two
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Speaker 2: who I have met previously, year have talked to previously,
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Speaker 2: are going to be there, So it would be great
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Speaker 2: connecting with them, but also just so excited to see
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Speaker 2: who else is in attendance and then look, just soak
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Speaker 2: it all in. Nick And like David says, this is
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Speaker 2: this is something we look back on in years and
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Speaker 2: years and say, wow, we were there.
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Speaker 3: That's one of them things. I mean we did do
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Speaker 3: obviously as part of the stadium tour. We did we
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Speaker 3: got this obviously watch you know a highlighted rate of
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Speaker 3: the seventies and the sixties, you know, the Steelers throughout
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Speaker 3: the years, and we've got to see great names, me
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Speaker 3: and Joe Green and stuff. And to think that we're possibly,
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Speaker 3: you know, possibly going to share a room with them
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Speaker 3: tomorrow and with all those legends, it's it's really something
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Speaker 3: we're a year ago. If you look back, it's just
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Speaker 3: not something I would ever have imagined I doing it,
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Speaker 3: of doing so it is really just another massive shout
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Speaker 3: out to the Steelers organization for shutting us out with this,
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Speaker 3: because it's making two odds from Ireland's dreams come through.
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Speaker 5: Let me tell you.
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Speaker 1: Here, me and Joe Green will be awesome, look enjoyed
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Speaker 1: tomorrow night, and I'm sure we'll catch up on both
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Speaker 1: chatting the hes and also seeing the stuff on social
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Speaker 1: media just before we go. I didn't do with Calvin
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Speaker 1: also coming up looking ahead to this game this weekend, Look,
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Speaker 1: if we go outside of the quarterback conversation, lads. Obviously
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Speaker 1: the game that you lads are going to be at
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Speaker 1: on Sunday night. It feels Jimmy likes it's a must
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Speaker 1: win game for the Jets, like they really need to
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Speaker 1: get a win on the board here. But for the Steelers,
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Speaker 1: you sort of set it yourself, the expectation. The stadium
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Speaker 1: is ready, the fans are going to be pumping on
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Speaker 1: a primetime game. Two big games coming up obviously the
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Speaker 1: Jets this week Monday Night Football coming up as well
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Speaker 1: next week against the Giants. I believe, what do you
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Speaker 1: want to see from this team this week, regardless who's
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Speaker 1: starting a quarterback at the time of recording. What do
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Speaker 1: you want to see from this offense? What do you
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Speaker 1: want to see from this defense? I feel like this
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Speaker 1: defense can get at Aran Rodgers. We've seen it ourselves
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Speaker 1: in personal a few weeks ago. That Jets offense is
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Speaker 1: not jellings as much as you would have expected. It
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Speaker 1: to be a big opportunity for the Steelers here. And
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Speaker 1: what's your thoughts ahead of this game? And I'm presuming
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Speaker 1: you're expanding a Steelers victory.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I found out this morning on our stadium
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Speaker 2: tour at the Steel are two point underdogs, which is
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Speaker 2: confusing to me considering the state of the Jets recently.
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Speaker 2: But I think Alex Heismith has been a full participate
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Speaker 2: in the practice over the past couple of days. I
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Speaker 2: would hope he starts his rifle placed opposite TJ. Wadd
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Speaker 2: as an edge rusher, and I think having those two
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Speaker 2: at full speed and full steam is going to cause
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Speaker 2: a lot of problems for Ian Rodgers, is going to
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Speaker 2: throw them off rhythm, and hopefully we can kind of
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Speaker 2: do what the what the Vikings did in London a
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Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago and just get after him harassment
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Speaker 2: and batter them.
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Speaker 4: Sorry, sorry, Aaron.
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Speaker 2: I don't don't take that personally.
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Speaker 1: He's in a hard few weeks.
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Speaker 4: He's really been beat Honestly.
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Speaker 2: If we can disrupt his rhythm, I don't think DeVante
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Speaker 2: Adams is going to be that much of a of
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Speaker 2: a threat Personally. I'm confident are between our rush and
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Speaker 2: our cornerbacks, on our on our secondary in general, we
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Speaker 2: should be more than capable of handling them. And then
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Speaker 2: in terms of offense, just continuing to build consistency, more points,
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Speaker 2: more rushing touch stands and please God, George Pickens finally
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Speaker 2: gets a touchdown in where are we now?
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Speaker 4: Week seven? Week six six? Yeah, so we seven Week seven,
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Speaker 4: Week seven, Well, there you go.
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Speaker 1: It's flying in like it's it's actually a bit scary
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Speaker 1: how fast it's flying in. Almost getting to the halfway
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Speaker 1: point of the regular season. I'd be great to see
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Speaker 1: Pickings get his first Touchut I'm going to take seters
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Speaker 1: in the game. Dog, what do you want to say?
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Speaker 1: And where are you guys going to be out so
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Speaker 1: I can look out for you guys?
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Speaker 5: And well, I think we're in the north I think
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Speaker 5: I believe we're in the north down. I need a
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Speaker 5: double jack dot in the clouds, up in the clouds.
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Speaker 3: But you know what, there's probably no better place to
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Speaker 3: watch the game from because we'll be able to get
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Speaker 3: to see first hand.
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Speaker 5: You know how we're going to start.
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Speaker 1: Up seventy touchdown passes.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, perfectly, we're.
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Speaker 3: Going to get the best view of it, you know,
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Speaker 3: despite we'll get the best view of the ball sparring
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Speaker 3: through the air hopefully. But no, that just to sort
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Speaker 3: of touch on what Jimmy said about, you know, the offense.
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Speaker 3: Of course, we need to see fluid a day, but
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Speaker 3: this is hopefully something we're going to be able to see,
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Speaker 3: you know, going going forward. Nage Horse, of course, had
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Speaker 3: a good week last week. I want to see him
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Speaker 3: build on that. I've had a look at the injury
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Speaker 3: report he goes down as full practice of believe today
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Speaker 3: and as well as as Jimmy's touch on Artie Smith
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Speaker 3: is a massive edition as well, because we are common
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Speaker 3: sender that outside linebacker positions.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, if we can put it on raders under pressure.
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Speaker 3: I was just watching the interview on the Pac Macabre
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Speaker 3: Show this earlier in the week. He did say Pittsburgh
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Speaker 3: is one of his favorite plays to play, and he
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Speaker 3: did mention it was because of you know, the whole
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Speaker 3: the crowd noise, and you know that the whole atmosphere
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Speaker 3: around us. Hopefully it's not because of how well he
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Speaker 3: plays and and hopefully we're gonna be able to shrupt
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Speaker 3: them and put another l on the board. Just I
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Speaker 3: touched on it as well before it. I did mention
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Speaker 3: it earlier in the week as well. Strange for them
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Speaker 3: to fire solid because the defense is playing well but
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Speaker 3: offensively and you know they haven't been going. But hopefully
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Speaker 3: if DeVante Adams does sit up we'll be able to
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Speaker 3: close him down and I think that will hopefully result
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Speaker 3: must getting the win.
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Speaker 1: I love it. Boys, go enjoy the silly. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to think up too much of your time going
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Speaker 1: joy this. I'll be looking like to see all the
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Speaker 1: content both in your own personal channels on the staters channels.
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Speaker 1: Have a ball, Jimmy Hube, your bag turns up and yeah,
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Speaker 1: we will see the crack.
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Speaker 4: Oh we got, we got sort of make we got.
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Speaker 2: We were getting a bit worried because our former way
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Speaker 2: for tomorrow night is in there, so we were trying
13:18
Speaker 2: to figure out how we were going to source jackets
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Speaker 2: and the like.
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Speaker 4: But we got sorted. So Jeff Blue didn't completely let
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Speaker 4: us down.
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Speaker 2: But got a bit of a scare in Pittsburgh Airport
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Speaker 2: when our bikes didn't appear and we had to go
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Speaker 2: chasing people down.
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Speaker 4: But we're all. We're all sorted now.
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Speaker 2: So thank you for everyone expressing their concern on Twitter
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Speaker 2: and Instagram.
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Speaker 4: Your kindness is appreciated. We're all. We're all good.
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Speaker 3: Also, shout out to the staff at Pittsburgh A Report
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Speaker 3: because they were most helpful and helping us retrieve the
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Speaker 3: bags as well.
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Speaker 5: So shout out to them as well.
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Speaker 3: It just seems like from we've London and Pittsburgh, everybody's
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Speaker 3: been trying to help us out.
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Speaker 5: So really really uh really shout out to them folks
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Speaker 5: as well.
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Speaker 1: That will get the Troon jersey out for Saturday at
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Speaker 1: some point and get a picture with a terrible title
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Speaker 1: if you can all not note I just look just
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Speaker 1: have a good weekend. We're gonna hear from Calvin Austin
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Speaker 1: the third here now and we will check back in
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Speaker 1: after the game of some point. Lad's regardless, enjoyed, have
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Speaker 1: a ball and we will chat to Austin. Here is
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Speaker 1: Calvin Austin, delighted to have a quick little chat Web
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Speaker 1: Steers wide receiver Calvin Austin. Calvin, I think you may
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Speaker 1: have set the record in a good way for the
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Speaker 1: amount of time somebody's been on a podcast. On this podcast,
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Speaker 1: I think you've broke the record in a good way.
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Speaker 1: So good to see him. Man. How are you doing?
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Speaker 6: Thank you? I'm doing great.
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Speaker 7: You know, Like like you said, the season feel like
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Speaker 7: it's like just going in a blur.
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Speaker 6: But everything's good.
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Speaker 7: You know, got a big, big game game this week,
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Speaker 7: so I'm looking forward to you guys.
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Speaker 1: Obviously come off a big win in Las Vegas last week.
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Speaker 1: How did you find the amount of black and goal there?
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Speaker 1: And then also to sort of pick up a win
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Speaker 1: after losing the Dallas in that sort of situation the
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Speaker 1: week before. It's a big win and it's almost like
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Speaker 1: a regroup restep as we go forward in these next
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Speaker 1: few weeks.
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it was deaf a big win. You know,
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Speaker 6: anytime you come after a loss, that next.
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Speaker 7: Game is very important, just to get back on the
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Speaker 7: right side of things, get back in the win column,
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Speaker 7: and you know, to see the crowd out out in
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Speaker 7: Vegas since this was our second year playing them, you know,
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Speaker 7: I was telling some of the guys.
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Speaker 6: Like you know, Rome and some of the other guys
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Speaker 6: who ain't played there.
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Speaker 7: I was like, this is going to be a home game,
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Speaker 7: you know, because seeing it how it was last year
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Speaker 7: was just like truly like crazy to me because I'm
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Speaker 7: thinking that, you know, I would think it would have
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Speaker 7: a good a good turnout, but not be like the
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Speaker 7: majority almost, you know, you can. I saw one copy
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Speaker 7: from this past weekend and it was them in the
15:36
Speaker 7: huddle like they were like screaming at each other, yelling
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Speaker 7: to try to get the playoffs, so it's not surprising
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Speaker 7: to see how well our supporters you know, travel and stuff,
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Speaker 7: so but it definitely gives us that advantage because you know,
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Speaker 7: when you think of role games, you think of the
15:50
Speaker 7: home team having the advantage, but in that situation, it
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Speaker 7: was flipped.
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Speaker 1: It's really impressive to see even over here in Europe,
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Speaker 1: it's very impressive to see people travel so far and
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Speaker 1: just coming from all these different spots. So it's really
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Speaker 1: really cool to see. Going into week seven, you've had
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Speaker 1: to really impress the show and especially in certain games
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Speaker 1: in the early stretch of this season. How do you feel,
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Speaker 1: I know we're in the first half of the season,
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Speaker 1: but how do you feel that you've grown as a
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Speaker 1: player from last year than now so far?
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Speaker 7: I would just say being more more detailed and just
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Speaker 7: just playing more, you know, just like free, loose and
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Speaker 7: open and just getting back to getting back to my game.
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Speaker 7: And that's probably one of the biggest things I would say.
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Speaker 7: It's just especially going into this is year three, my
16:35
Speaker 7: second year playing because my first year I got hurt,
16:37
Speaker 7: so you know, having a season where I could you know,
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Speaker 7: play and get a feel for everything made it to
16:44
Speaker 7: where coming into this season. You know, I wasn't thinking
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Speaker 7: or you know, stadiums that I'm going to. Obviously we're
16:52
Speaker 7: going into new some new stadiums, but we're going to
16:53
Speaker 7: some stadiums that I've already been in played in. So
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Speaker 7: it's definitely extra level of you know for there in terms,
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Speaker 7: I think that's just like kind of translated over into
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Speaker 7: my play and so I just want to, you know,
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Speaker 7: just continue to stack and build on that and to
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Speaker 7: just really just just improve each day, each practice, each game.
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Speaker 1: Did you get a chance to see eight hundred plus
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Speaker 1: staters funds at the party in Ireland for the Cold Scheme?
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Speaker 1: Any pictures?
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Speaker 7: Oh, I don't know if I was able to see any,
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Speaker 7: but I'm sure I'm sure it was.
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Speaker 6: I'm sure it was very lively though.
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Speaker 1: It was like a little bit of Pittsburgh and Ireland,
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Speaker 1: and it sort of goes in from going the last
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Speaker 1: few months you guys were in Ireland with we had
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Speaker 1: a couple of legends at the tennents eat hundred staters funds?
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Speaker 1: Does that shock you to hear such a big number
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Speaker 1: in such a far far away place? And that suff.
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Speaker 7: Somewhat, But but when we went over there to see
17:50
Speaker 7: to see the love and just to talk to just
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Speaker 7: the the kids and everything. It was honestly not It's
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Speaker 7: not honestly not surprise in hearing it because for it's
17:59
Speaker 7: just when I was over there, for like anybody to
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Speaker 7: like even know who I was was kind of crazy
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Speaker 7: to me.
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Speaker 6: And you know, something was like, oh yeah, I play.
18:06
Speaker 6: He was like I'll play with you and Madden and.
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Speaker 7: I'm just like, you know, that's that's kind of cool
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Speaker 7: because obviously we're all the way in Ireland, like I
18:12
Speaker 7: wasn't this wouldn't be something coming to the NFL that
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Speaker 7: I would be thinking about. So honestly, you know people
18:20
Speaker 7: that are still their fans, Honestly, nothing surprises me. Now
18:23
Speaker 7: I can tell that we have some of the most
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Speaker 7: passionate and you know, avid supporters out there.
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Speaker 6: So it's very cool to see.
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Speaker 1: It's awesome on at big game Sunday night as something
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Speaker 1: night football early in Monday morning for us over here,
18:37
Speaker 1: it's definitely worth staying up, folks if you are listening.
18:41
Speaker 1: The NFL never ceases to me as Calvin, I mean,
18:44
Speaker 1: Devontae Adams, the Jats, the jack like, the Jats need
18:46
Speaker 1: a massive winning this game, and obviously we all know
18:49
Speaker 1: the throbot units. Regardless of who's playing ETCA, this is
18:53
Speaker 1: a big game. You guys must be pumped.
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Speaker 7: Oh yes, most definitely, And as coach t says, you
18:58
Speaker 7: know it's a big game because it's still is in it, you.
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Speaker 4: Know, so.
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Speaker 7: It's always going to be, you know, a prime time
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Speaker 7: type type matchup, especially with the people and with the
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Speaker 7: people involved. But in the big scheme of things, we
19:14
Speaker 7: just got to continue to just do what do what
19:16
Speaker 7: we do, not make it, you know, bigger than what
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Speaker 7: it is, Appreciate it, but then you know, really just
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Speaker 7: continue back to work.
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Speaker 6: How we do, continue to like push our push our.
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Speaker 7: Details, assignments and stuff, and so at the at the
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Speaker 7: at the end of the day, it's it's football and
19:32
Speaker 7: when we're expected to go out there and execute and win.
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Speaker 1: Always always exciting to see the city's player, especially in
19:39
Speaker 1: a prime time again comet wait to see what the
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Speaker 1: funds are gonna be like in Sunday night at Achroestira
19:42
Speaker 1: Stadium and six weeks in. Do you have like a
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Speaker 1: favorite play or favorite moments so far? Or are you
19:48
Speaker 1: this sort of guy that looks back at the end
19:50
Speaker 1: of the year and sort of pups those moments together.
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Speaker 1: Has it been a moment where you've thought that was
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Speaker 1: awesome this year so far.
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Speaker 6: You know, there's been any moments, but you know.
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Speaker 7: I kind of do like to just know, wait to
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Speaker 7: the end because it's sometimes it's easy to get you know,
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Speaker 7: stuck in one moment and you know we've got plenty
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Speaker 7: more big ones coming up. But honestly, you know, last
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Speaker 7: week seeing Moon block that punt was pretty big. Just
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Speaker 7: the just the momentum of it, the feeling and everything
20:18
Speaker 7: is especially with me back there, like I'm back there
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Speaker 7: expecting to you know, track the ball down, catch a
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Speaker 7: punt and then you know when you hear that sound,
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Speaker 7: that boom, you.
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Speaker 6: Know it's a block. That's always a great.
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Speaker 7: Feeling, like of course I want to return it and stuff,
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Speaker 7: but that block changes game.
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Speaker 6: So that would probably one of the top ones.
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Speaker 1: Wass it like stanning on the sideline and knowing you've
20:40
Speaker 1: got a defense with guys like TJ at Watt are
20:42
Speaker 1: just going to keep you guys going. Because the TJ
20:45
Speaker 1: has some starts of the season onth so far.
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Speaker 7: It's crazy, honestly, he he cold, like I don't know,
20:54
Speaker 7: like it's it's it's it's crazy watching it, because sometimes
20:57
Speaker 7: it's not because we've seen it so much that you
21:00
Speaker 7: almost like take it for granted, But at the end
21:02
Speaker 7: of the day, like you don't, because like the plays
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Speaker 7: he making are like unreal, but he make them look
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Speaker 7: like so routine. But for him it is routine. But
21:12
Speaker 7: you know, having a defense like that, you know it
21:15
Speaker 7: definitely makes it to where we can once we know
21:18
Speaker 7: that when we're clicking on offense and execute, we're putting
21:22
Speaker 7: a lot of pressure on the other team because of
21:24
Speaker 7: our defense.
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Speaker 1: I've seen a few Steters jerseys to said, at least
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Speaker 1: at the London games of the last few weeks. We've
21:32
Speaker 1: been over and back for the last two weeks and
21:34
Speaker 1: we've got one more this week and we've obviously got
21:36
Speaker 1: a late night ahead with Sunda Night football as well,
21:38
Speaker 1: so it's good to see so many fans. Look, I'm
21:40
Speaker 1: not going to talk about certain players on the offense,
21:43
Speaker 1: Calvin in terms of the quarterback room, in terms of
21:45
Speaker 1: who might play, who might not play, but just in
21:47
Speaker 1: terms of what you've seen since we last spoke. I
21:49
Speaker 1: think we spoke week zero of the college football season.
21:52
Speaker 1: So just going into this season, how impressed have you
21:55
Speaker 1: been with how Justin's played a quarterback and how he's
21:58
Speaker 1: commanded this team in terms of the offense. But then
22:00
Speaker 1: also as well, if you don't mind, we've seen Russell,
22:03
Speaker 1: even when he's being injured, doing so much to try
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Speaker 1: and help this team, try and manish this team. And
22:08
Speaker 1: he's a very giving person as well in the local community,
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Speaker 1: which is just it just seems like there's a real
22:13
Speaker 1: positive viber on this team at the moment.
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Speaker 7: Mon Yeah, most definitely. I mean at the end of
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Speaker 7: the day, like when you look from the outside, it
22:22
Speaker 7: does kind of seem bigger than what it is. But
22:25
Speaker 7: you know, like guys like me who like if you're
22:28
Speaker 7: not the one the quarterbacks, like, we're not making any decisions.
22:31
Speaker 6: We get so much stuff we.
22:32
Speaker 7: Have to worry about ourselves with plays, assignments and stuff
22:37
Speaker 7: like this. So you know, they've been doing what they've
22:40
Speaker 7: been doing since they first got here. I mean, both
22:42
Speaker 7: have been leading, both have been taking ownership, taking commands,
22:46
Speaker 7: So the vibes have always been high. And so you know,
22:49
Speaker 7: us players, we don't really honestly, we have no say,
22:53
Speaker 7: so we have no control.
22:54
Speaker 6: We just go out there in ball.
22:55
Speaker 7: With whoever's back there and whoever's back there is more
22:58
Speaker 7: than capable. Whether it is Russ, Justin or cal you know,
23:03
Speaker 7: all three are capable, and so we're very comfortable and
23:06
Speaker 7: just all of them bring that you know that Maxie
23:09
Speaker 7: about them to where when we go out there, we
23:12
Speaker 7: were very comfortable. They know we have everything we need
23:14
Speaker 7: to win.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome, man, and it's going to be great to
23:18
Speaker 1: see how you guys get on down the stretch. Obviously,
23:20
Speaker 1: it's one of the wish is the very right best
23:21
Speaker 1: to look. We've got a couple of guys from the
23:23
Speaker 1: podcast and that you and Belfast actually going to the
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Speaker 1: game this weekend, so I'm sure they will say hello
23:29
Speaker 1: pre game and folks, you can listen to that game
23:31
Speaker 1: OTB Sports Radio, Sky Sports and also NFL on the
23:35
Speaker 1: Zone this weekend if you want to watch Calvin and
23:37
Speaker 1: the guys Sunday Night Football Slash Monday morning. Calvin the
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Speaker 1: very very best look from us man and we will
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Speaker 1: chat to you so and thank
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Speaker 6: You, thank you, good to talk to you.