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Brett Keisel on his time in Ireland, hopes for 2025 · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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  Speaker 4: we're joined by a man who was in Dublin a
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  Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago, two time Super Bowl champion, a
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  Speaker 4: guy that enjoys the fish, and a guy that, frankly
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  Speaker 4: from seeing first hand folks, loves the Island of Ireland.
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  Speaker 4: Defensive end for the Pittsburgh Steeters. Let's welcome Brett Keesl
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  Speaker 4: to the Irish Theaters Podcast. Irish Theaters Podcast, presented by Erling,
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  Speaker 4: is a guy that knows the Emerald Isle very well.
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  Speaker 4: Nigh after being here a couple of weeks ago, two
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  Speaker 4: time Super Bowl champion, buzzin' to have the chance to
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  Speaker 4: shout to Brett Casele again, Brad Falca did the champion again?
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  Speaker 5: Howiding? What's the crack my friend? What's going on down there? Story?
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  Speaker 4: Horse, Brad, story horse, story Horse. I feel there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot we can talk about. There's obviously a lot of
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  Speaker 4: excitement with steel Anish at the moment. Their game is
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  Speaker 4: going to be announced steady opponent for the theaters, and
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  Speaker 4: the date is going to be Annoyce early next week officially,
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  Speaker 4: everyone's very excited. You had a chance to come over
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  Speaker 4: here a few weeks ago, you said, story horse there.
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  Speaker 4: You seem to pick up the lingo very easily anyway,
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  Speaker 4: the language.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I have an amazing time over there. It's one
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  Speaker 5: of my favorite trips I've ever taken in my life.
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  Speaker 5: It was great to go out and fish at Laos
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  Speaker 5: Angling Center and obviously getting to hang out at Dublin
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  Speaker 5: and go to Croke Park and have the draft party
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  Speaker 5: and get to meet kind of Steeler Nation Ireland and
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  Speaker 5: feel their passion and energy for the game. Really looking
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  Speaker 5: forward to the matchup. You know, everyone's kind of wondering
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  Speaker 5: who it's going to be.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see, we will see. That's gonna be announced
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  Speaker 3: in a few days.
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  Speaker 4: And Jill, I'm glad you mentioned that I'll come back
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  Speaker 4: to the fishing in the second and we had the
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  Speaker 4: chance that people would text us and maybe feedback to us.
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  Speaker 4: And that couple of people at the Calm Heyward events
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  Speaker 4: and the one thing they said about you was you
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  Speaker 4: looked like you had You know, if you looked like
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  Speaker 4: you you wanted to be there, you had to read
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  Speaker 4: a really good time. But like, let's just jump to
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  Speaker 4: that moment when we drafted Will hired Irish guy Tom
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  Speaker 4: McCormick on screen, Like for people listening, this guy here
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  Speaker 4: was standing hanging every word like a fan pumped And
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  Speaker 4: I think what people were saying was they just enjoyed
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  Speaker 4: the fact that Bret I seen the first hand you
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  Speaker 4: had time for everybody there that they and I think
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  Speaker 4: it meant an awful lot to a lot of people.
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  Speaker 4: So thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: The draft party. How did you find that?
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  Speaker 5: It was wonderful? You know, get you did a great job,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, hosting the event. It's not easy to
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  Speaker 5: kind of roll through that. As the draft goes on,
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  Speaker 5: you never know what's going to happen or just like
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  Speaker 5: my pick, I mean I was supposed to pick. I'm
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  Speaker 5: standing out there in Throve Park, the lights are on,
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  Speaker 5: the camera's on, and they're like we're trading the pick.
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  Speaker 5: So there's lots of ebbs and flows that happened with
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  Speaker 5: the draft. But to me and hang out with other
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  Speaker 5: nation Ireland. I never lose sight that our game is
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  Speaker 5: fueled by the fans, and we're so fortunate with Steelers
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  Speaker 5: to have Steeler Nation support us the way they do.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter if we're in Oakland, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 5: if we're in Dallas. It doesn't matter if we're in
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  Speaker 5: Tampa Bay, it doesn't matter if we're in Dublin. Like,
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  Speaker 5: they show up in droves and are passionate about the team,
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  Speaker 5: and so it's fun to, you know, hang out with
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  Speaker 5: everybody and get them going.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned various places you had the chance to play
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  Speaker 4: in between two and fourteen. Look, I know it's not
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  Speaker 4: a stupid question, but you obviously expect the Funds to
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  Speaker 4: be there, But were you surprised by the amount of
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  Speaker 4: people there that we're Steeters Funds and Morsel as well
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  Speaker 4: the knowledge that they have in terms of it's April,
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  Speaker 4: it's been fleet two three months, it's the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 4: and there's guy who's just sitting and watching college guys
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  Speaker 4: get picked.
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  Speaker 5: It's impressive, it really is, especially that the game is
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  Speaker 5: so far away, you know, so it was really impressive
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  Speaker 5: to talk to people. I had the opportunity to sign
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  Speaker 5: some autographs and that's kind of where I could chat
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  Speaker 5: with people and get gained a little bit of their
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  Speaker 5: knowledge and love for the game. And yeah, they know
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  Speaker 5: all about Steelers, they know all about Pittsburgh, they know
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  Speaker 5: all about the draft. They knew where I was from,
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  Speaker 5: they knew I grew up in Wyoming, went to college
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  Speaker 5: at BYU. They're very knowledgeable and in the best kind
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  Speaker 5: of friends, Like they're so kind and generous. So that's
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  Speaker 5: what I loved about the people over there in Dublin.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of guys that came over I'll not starting Naven.
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  Speaker 4: There's been not Mammy, which is great. A few guys
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  Speaker 4: that came over stears legends. Actually missed a chance to
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  Speaker 4: play in twenty thirteen, by you know, six seven months
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  Speaker 4: or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of years.
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  Speaker 4: You had the chance to play at Wembley. Ironically, in
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  Speaker 4: the last game to this point that the Steelers have
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  Speaker 4: played internationally. That game was against the Minnesota Vikings. And
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  Speaker 4: as a player, I know, I feel like a lot
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  Speaker 4: of teams players and more used to it, not because
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  Speaker 4: it seems to happen every other year, but what was
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  Speaker 4: that like.
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  Speaker 3: Going over there?
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  Speaker 4: And actually, you know, really transition into that because back
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  Speaker 4: in those days, you were sort of guaranteed to buy week.
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  Speaker 4: You knew that you were going to get a better rest.
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  Speaker 4: How did you find that experience?
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  Speaker 5: I found it great. London was incredible. It was my
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  Speaker 5: first time in London. Amazing to see, you know, the
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  Speaker 5: fans that really were for all kinds of teams. When
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  Speaker 5: you were on the bus to the stadium, there wasn't
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  Speaker 5: like there. It was a huge like it is in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 5: You go down to the stadium and it's all Steeler jerseys,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and people grilling out and tailgating and drinking
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  Speaker 5: beer there. It's like you see teams and jerseys from
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  Speaker 5: every team in the NFL, all thirty two teams. So
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  Speaker 5: it was really cool to see their passion. Obviously, they
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  Speaker 5: know how to go to a game and celebrate the game,
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  Speaker 5: so the cheering was fantastic, and you know, I was
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  Speaker 5: disappointed with how our team played over there. I felt like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we were kind kind of our backs were
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  Speaker 5: against the wall a little bit when we go there.
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  Speaker 5: We flew all night, landed, got on the train, went
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  Speaker 5: to some place, had practice, you know, and we were
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  Speaker 5: all kind of in the twilight zone, but all blaming
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  Speaker 5: on that little reason we didn't end up winning that game.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure it was a great experience regardless of a
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  Speaker 4: result in terms of getting to see a different country
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  Speaker 4: as well. And you mentioned you went to leash fishing,
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  Speaker 4: like I sort of said this Stey on stage during
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  Speaker 4: the draft party. For people listening, check out the theaters
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  Speaker 4: tech talk channel Steters Ireland for a few more interests
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  Speaker 4: and tidbits in this It's just been something that you've
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  Speaker 4: enjoyed throughout your life because you seem to have a
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  Speaker 4: great time and it's just funny because you see all
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  Speaker 4: these different players, different teams over you just got a
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  Speaker 4: chance to go fishing, which is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. One of my favorite things about fishing is I've
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  Speaker 5: been doing it all my life. I mean from the
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  Speaker 5: second I could walk. My dad took me and parents
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  Speaker 5: both my parents took me and taught me out of
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  Speaker 5: being the outdoors and catch a fish and if we
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  Speaker 5: wanted to eat it, we could, you know, if we
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  Speaker 5: want to throw it back so somebody else could catch
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  Speaker 5: it later. Great, But that time spent on the water
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  Speaker 5: is so therapeutic for me. I love it because it
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  Speaker 5: doesn't matter that I'm forty six and I still get
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  Speaker 5: the same exhilaration when I get hooked up and a
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  Speaker 5: big fish is tugging at the end of my line
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  Speaker 5: that I did when I was five years old. And
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  Speaker 5: I love sharing that with people. I love, you know,
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  Speaker 5: hooting and hollering and yelling when I got a fish
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  Speaker 5: on it, be it excited because That's what I'm feeling.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, it was great to be out there
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  Speaker 5: that day. The people that own that place are a
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  Speaker 5: lovely couple, and anyone out there that wants a great experience,
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  Speaker 5: I would definitely recommend going there because they have enormous trout.
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  Speaker 4: There, enormous enormous probably for the draft party here, I
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  Speaker 4: know here, And you've had the like unlike a lot
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  Speaker 4: of Staters legends because some of them played just under
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  Speaker 4: coach Tomlin. For example, you played under both a coach
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  Speaker 4: Kaire and coach Tomlin. What was it like to play
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  Speaker 4: under both coaches? And like the thing that the Staters
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  Speaker 4: have done so well throughout the years is a transition
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  Speaker 4: to a different coach on the continuity, I guess Brett
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  Speaker 4: in terms of the tradition continues. What was like playing
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  Speaker 4: under Booth? And have you any interesting or funny stories
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  Speaker 4: about ever coach.
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  Speaker 5: Well, color scared the heck out everybody. You know, he
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  Speaker 5: was never afraid to let you know that he's the
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  Speaker 5: top dog and he's the head coach, and you better
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  Speaker 5: not mess with him. You better do exactly as he says.
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  Speaker 5: It came. You know, it kind of made everybody a
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  Speaker 5: little bit nervous, especially if you're a young guy. My
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  Speaker 5: rookie year, I was coming around the edge on a
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  Speaker 5: rush and my cleat slipped out from underneath me, and
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  Speaker 5: this offensive line speared me, which means I'm on the ground.
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  Speaker 5: He dives at me into my back with the shoulder
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  Speaker 5: plays and puts his shoulder plage with all of his
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  Speaker 5: bodyweight riding to my ribs, and as it would any person,
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  Speaker 5: that upset me slightly. And so I got up and
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  Speaker 5: I was kneeing him in the head and trying to
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  Speaker 5: put my my foot kind of on his throat, and
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  Speaker 5: I got a personal foul on the planet on the play,
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  Speaker 5: and I came to the sidelines. That cower like grabs
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  Speaker 5: me because it put whoever we were playing in the
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  Speaker 5: red zone, you know, in the scoring position. So he's like,
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  Speaker 5: how could you do that? You got to know the situation,
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  Speaker 5: you got to know that you just put them in
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  Speaker 5: the red zone. And he said, next time, I love
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  Speaker 5: your fight, I love what you're doing. Don't do it
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  Speaker 5: right in front of the official.
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  Speaker 3: I can literally picture him saying that right now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I real. He grabbed me right around the neck,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and was just like and if you didn't
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  Speaker 5: know coach Kawer, like when he got in your face,
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  Speaker 5: he used to spit, you know, spit would fly all
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  Speaker 5: over the place, and so it's like, man, I'm getting
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  Speaker 5: hose down here. Well he's chewing me out. But he
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  Speaker 5: likes people to show fight, and I think he liked
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  Speaker 5: that for me on that play. And you know, coach
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  Speaker 5: Tomlin came in, uh what two thousand and ten nine.
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  Speaker 3: No, I want to say, I want to say seven seven.
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  Speaker 5: So I got hit in the head a few times.
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  Speaker 5: Try and keep my numbers together. But yeah, it was
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  Speaker 5: different cale. You know, Caller was a coach that had
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  Speaker 5: a great resume. He'd been to the Super Bowl before.
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  Speaker 5: He always had tough teams. He was from Pittsburgh. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we didn't know a ton about coach Tomlin except that
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  Speaker 5: he had coached in a Super Bowl with Tampa and
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  Speaker 5: was up in Minnesota as their defensive coordinator. So he
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  Speaker 5: was a defensive guy. But coach came in and he
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  Speaker 5: let everybody know too who was boss. We had one
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  Speaker 5: of the toughest training camps that year of my life.
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  Speaker 5: You know. He wanted everybody to know that he meant
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  Speaker 5: business and wanted to get back to the super Bowl
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  Speaker 5: and not just get there, but and win. Ended up
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  Speaker 5: doing it the next year, which is pretty incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Some great memories.
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  Speaker 4: And it's funny because I feel like, even though we've
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  Speaker 4: got about fifteen minutes of this podcast, but I feel
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  Speaker 4: like when you look at your CV and you look
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  Speaker 4: at what you've done, we could probably sit for a
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  Speaker 4: full couple of days in a fishing center and leisure
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  Speaker 4: in the pub in Dublin and talk through this. I
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  Speaker 4: do want to talk about the obvious one. It's funny
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  Speaker 4: because we sort of spoke off camera with this. Cam
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  Speaker 4: Heyward came over not unannounced. It was planned for a
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  Speaker 4: few months, but I didn't realize it was going to
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  Speaker 4: be a few days after you left the island. But
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  Speaker 4: we've seen the video last week, Cam walking onto the
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  Speaker 4: field and seeing Cook Park. As somebody that's played in
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  Speaker 4: so many different stadiums around the world. What did you
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  Speaker 4: make of Krook Park And can you imagine what's going
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  Speaker 4: to be like later this year?
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  Speaker 5: It was really quiet in there, you know. That's what
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  Speaker 5: was amazing to me when I got to be in there,
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  Speaker 5: just how quiet the inside of the stadium was. In fact,
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  Speaker 5: when I got back to the States after announcing pick,
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  Speaker 5: everyone was like, you weren't over there. That was a
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  Speaker 5: green screen, like, be real, that never even happened. I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 5: I was there. That was pro park, Like. It was
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  Speaker 5: just quiet.
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  Speaker 4: In the sad time at the night. It was bad time,
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  Speaker 4: and people people replied to me, and I was like, like, no,
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  Speaker 4: he's here. It was like a selfie of me and
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  Speaker 4: I can guarantee he's here. But like, honestly, from watching
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  Speaker 4: that back, it just looked really cool. And I remember
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  Speaker 4: like you sort of kneeled the pick, and when you've
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  Speaker 4: got the gods of one hundred players that you could pick,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's not easy to do that. They're
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  Speaker 4: under pressure and people wondering, Brad, that is live. You
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  Speaker 4: do record another one just in case after, but that
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  Speaker 4: that is live as well. And the thing that I
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  Speaker 4: find I to hope you have stated with this. When
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  Speaker 4: I went to Akroascher at Christmas time for the Chiefs game,
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  Speaker 4: I remember looking to my left from the fifty yard
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  Speaker 4: line and just seeing the hills of Pittsburgh and I
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  Speaker 4: look at the hill at Core Park and I think,
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  Speaker 4: I know it's different, but it's it's so sort of similar,
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  Speaker 4: like to an extent, and there's going to be so
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  Speaker 4: much black and black and yellow there, black and gold there,
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  Speaker 4: and you can just sort of imagine that the ta
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  Speaker 4: is a gonna fly him on here.
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  Speaker 3: You have to get over for that. You have to
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  Speaker 3: find a way.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be there, I promise you. I actually talked to
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  Speaker 5: Omar Kahn today, the general manager, and uh, I said,
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  Speaker 5: you know I'm coming, so you better plan on it,
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  Speaker 5: and they can't keep me away. I'll swim over there
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  Speaker 5: if I if I have to, Michael, but Crunk Park
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  Speaker 5: was incredible. I mean, you know, to get to kind
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  Speaker 5: of see all the pictures of the athletes that have
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  Speaker 5: played there and the history that's there and the different
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  Speaker 5: things that have happened throughout the course of time, you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's incredible. So I know it's going to be electric
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  Speaker 5: with a regular season NFL game rock in that place
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  Speaker 5: you know later this year.
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  Speaker 4: I think as well, it's that can actually talked about
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  Speaker 4: what the team has, and I know you've seen it
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  Speaker 4: first time. Now it's unlike Ganahan and the our team
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  Speaker 4: has so for people that's there only a few days
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  Speaker 4: I from having the called Creek details, we're excited.
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  Speaker 3: I can see Brad's face lightened up.
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  Speaker 4: I think you saying that you'll see that, You'll swim,
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  Speaker 4: You'll swim over.
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  Speaker 3: There if you have to.
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  Speaker 4: That's probably a graphic for social media next week. Just
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  Speaker 4: just finally before we go, Brad, it's been great to
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: get to know you over the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 4: One thing we talked a little bit about, you've maybe
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: had a wee bit more time to sort of digest it,
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: even just as a fun now not just a player.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: Did you like the draft picks we hoppy, especially those
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: day free selections.
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  Speaker 5: I was very happy with our draft. Of course, I
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: believe that games are one and lost up front, so
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: I love seeing that we were, you know, going after
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: some really tough offensive linemen or defensive lineman early in
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: the draft that have a lot of upside and a
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: lot of grit. Uh, you know, I was great. I
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: think it's great that we got White or Hya. I'm
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: pretty sure that's how it is Ya black Ya to Pick.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: I mean, uh, you know, I saved the card and
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: wrote a little something on there. I'll give it to him.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna go down and see the rookies next week,
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: so I'll give that to him. His mom can put
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: it in the scrap book, or dad or someone can
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: have it for later. But and then will Howard. I mean,
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: we were all talking about him, hoping that you know
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: that that would fall to the Steelers and great to
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: be there with Steeler Nation Ireland and get a big
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: quarterback like that that has a lot of potential, has
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: been to the National Championship. I think there should be
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: a lot of excitement coming around this team this year.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: Exciting a few months, hopefully we get a chance to
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: see over here again. But Brad, I said it to
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: you last a few weeks ago. Sorry inkok Park, I'll
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: said to you now on record on this podcast. It's
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: one thing to come over and do something. It's an
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: our thing to take the time and to really make
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: a lot of fans days and to take time out
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: of your schedule to do this.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: So thank you very much for doing it.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: I could see how much you enjoyed it as well,
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: both before and after and throughout that weekend, So thank
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: you so much for doing that. And no matter who
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: the leaders play, we'll find out in a few days.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Hopefully we'll see you at some stage in the future
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: back over here on the m odal Germ Margat. Thank
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: you very very much, Brett Keesl for coming on. Appreciate
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: you man, Thank.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: You, Thank you so much, my friend. I can't wait
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: to see you again. Buddy, We'll have a pint.
• 18:16
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