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HR2: Live from Training Camp 2026 Day 5 · In the Locker Room presented by Neighborhood Ford Store (Pittsburgh Steelers)

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  Speaker 2: And welcome back in the locker room from Saint Vincent College.
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  Speaker 2: And the trope went a little long in that first hour,
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  Speaker 2: so thanks for being with us through the break and
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  Speaker 2: into the second hour of the show. Looking up on
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  Speaker 2: the field, see those people up there there gathering for
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  Speaker 2: the Pat McAfee show. Yes, I didn't even know that.
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  Speaker 2: How long is he on there? How long is he
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  Speaker 2: on today?
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  Speaker 1: For?
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  Speaker 3: I think shows from twelve to three I think are
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  Speaker 3: the three hour show. I don't know. I think there
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  Speaker 3: are three hours, or there are a two hour show
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  Speaker 3: live on ESPN, and they do another hour on the streamings.
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  Speaker 3: Gotcha think that's what I think. That's how it's twelve
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  Speaker 3: to two ESPN. Then the extra hour, the Power Hour
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  Speaker 3: they call.
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  Speaker 2: It, and you and Missy Matthews who completes us, who
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  Speaker 2: completes the broadcast team. Yeah, I'm now making a circle
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  Speaker 2: with my hands for those of you listening on radio
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  Speaker 2: can't actually see us, I'm making the complete circle sign.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys interviewed Pat this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we interviewed Pat because Missy went to high school
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  Speaker 3: with Pat and all those guys up there, Oh show
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  Speaker 3: Diggs as well. Diggs was that plumb sign all plum
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  Speaker 3: plumb Borough guys. So so yeah, those are all her
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  Speaker 3: buddies from high school.
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  Speaker 2: So I was telling you during the break, uh, Wolfe
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  Speaker 2: and I went to I think I think Wolf was
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  Speaker 2: doing the games and he might That might have been
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  Speaker 2: before he was the regular guy we started doing. We
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  Speaker 2: started doing the high school broadcast for a year or
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  Speaker 2: two with Kevin Gorman did a bunch of games. Mike
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  Speaker 2: White from the Post Gazette would do some games for
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  Speaker 2: us in the booth is the color guy, and then
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  Speaker 2: we settled on, you know it. It started with us
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  Speaker 2: as a celebration of communities and that sort of thing,
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  Speaker 2: and then it quickly, well within a couple of years, morphed.
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  Speaker 3: Into just let's do the football part of it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And so we went from showing off communities and and
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  Speaker 2: the high school bands and all the other stuff to
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  Speaker 2: hey man, football of its own is of its own
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  Speaker 2: merit on the high school level to draw attention in
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  Speaker 2: in for viewers. So let's just concentrate on trying to
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  Speaker 2: get the best games. So it wasn't the best games.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why I wonder if it was maybe before
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  Speaker 2: Wolfe was there in our booth those first.
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  Speaker 3: Couple of years. I'd forgotten he wasn't there the first
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  Speaker 3: couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, So we we picked Plumb and they were playing
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  Speaker 2: Franklin Regional, and I wonder if Missy was on the cheer.
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  Speaker 3: Squad for that. I have to ask her that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I have to ask Missy if she was on the question?
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  Speaker 2: Was Missy on the on the cheer squad for the
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  Speaker 2: Plumb team when we came they played Franklin Regional, who
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  Speaker 2: was really good. Even though Franklin Regional was a smaller classification.
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  Speaker 2: Franklin Regional totally worked him. But I was going out
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  Speaker 2: in the field as I always did, and talked to
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  Speaker 2: the coaches before the game. I never talked to the players, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, forty five minutes before kickoff, I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to talk to them. To the players, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: obviously then can you imagine me. You imagine me rolling
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  Speaker 2: down on on Accrescher Stadium forty five minutes before a
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  Speaker 2: game and strolling up to Mike Tom, Hey, Mike, how's
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  Speaker 2: it going?
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  Speaker 3: Everybody? Everybody healthy? What you do it out here? Is
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  Speaker 3: this the actual roster? Yes? Exactly, kids, pronunciation correct.
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  Speaker 2: So but the high school coaches were all great, you
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  Speaker 2: go down there and talk to him before the before
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  Speaker 2: the game started.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Franklin Regional just crushed plumb.
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  Speaker 2: But remember and you know, I was familiar with the roster,
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  Speaker 2: so I knew who was who. But when I saw
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  Speaker 2: Pat Mack if he kick a ball, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: whoa man? I mean, you know, like I said before,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you go to some of these high schools
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  Speaker 2: and the punters number sixty seven, and then the halftime show.
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  Speaker 2: He's taking off his helmet and he's playing the trombone,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with the rest of it. He's out there
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  Speaker 2: in his uniform and the marching band, the little marching
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  Speaker 2: man moving around, you know, and those punts are coming
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  Speaker 2: out end over end. But he's got he's the kid
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  Speaker 2: with the strongest leg and he boots a twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: yarder and then you're watching Pat mc if you're like,
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  Speaker 2: holy mackerel. And then I called a few of his
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  Speaker 2: a few of his games when he was at West Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah too.
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  Speaker 2: So we would always do one or two West Virginia
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  Speaker 2: football games a year on sports Net Pittsburgh. Then it
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  Speaker 2: was then Roots Sports. So but I've never met Pat,
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  Speaker 2: so wow, yeah, call some of his games.
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  Speaker 3: We never met him. Awesome guy. So what did you guys?
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  Speaker 3: What did you guys chat about? We just got of
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  Speaker 3: chatted about just just them coming back for another year.
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  Speaker 3: This is year two that the show has been back here.
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  Speaker 3: There's kind of the thoughts behind then also the pride
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  Speaker 3: that you have with coming home, right, This is homecoming
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  Speaker 3: for Pat McAfee, right, every time he comes here, because
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  Speaker 3: he was a kid that unlike Eli Heydenreich, who always
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  Speaker 3: had camp and everything. He was a kid that came
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  Speaker 3: and watched games on the hill here and watched those legends.
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  Speaker 3: He talked about his first picture. He thinks he was
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  Speaker 3: trying to get autographs. He got a picture with Kevin
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  Speaker 3: Green KG. Wow, you know, and so he has like
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  Speaker 3: these fond memories. So kind of talking about that, then
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  Speaker 3: we kind of talked about you know, so one of
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  Speaker 3: the former guys you employed is now the head coach here.
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  Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy was on your staff. You hired him a
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  Speaker 3: year ago, was working on your show. So it's like,
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  Speaker 3: so you come here and and even when we went
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  Speaker 3: up there to go talk to Pat ahead of time
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  Speaker 3: to figure out the timing, you know, Mike McCarty and
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  Speaker 3: him are sitting in there. They're going through the script
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  Speaker 3: and everything, and they're just busting each other's chops in there,
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  Speaker 3: and it's all this just yinser accent in this room, right, oh,
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  Speaker 3: which I'm sure unlike anywhere else in America, like to
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  Speaker 3: have those to up here in La Trove and sounding
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  Speaker 3: like locals who just happened to have like broken to
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  Speaker 3: an office somewhere. Yeah. Uh, And these are professionals at
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  Speaker 3: the tops of their game. One's the head coach of
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  Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh Steels, the other one has one of the
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  Speaker 3: top shows on all of sports. And they're both Burger boys,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. They're both from the burg area,
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  Speaker 3: and so it's just it was really cool to kind
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  Speaker 3: of see that. So we kind of talked about that,
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  Speaker 3: highlighted that the passion of the town. And then this
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  Speaker 3: is kind of what his expectations where he's looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to with practice, coming back here another year, and you
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  Speaker 3: know how it feels about the quote unquote pilgrimage. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: what did he say? All Right, just I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to give it all away because we don't want to
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  Speaker 3: get away. It's going to be on all the Steelers
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  Speaker 3: socials and we posted a little bit later today, but
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  Speaker 3: it was just it was pride and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: and only how Pat can do it. So, you know
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  Speaker 3: how normally when you set up for a remote shoot,
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  Speaker 3: you have your microphone and you plug it into your shirt,
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  Speaker 3: you put it on a lapel pin or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: what is pack up? No, I'm gonna hold it, he
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  Speaker 3: goes tiny microphone series.
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  Speaker 5: Really he's holding the He's why because that's Pat, right,
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  Speaker 5: this is the most Pat McAfee thing to do, right,
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  Speaker 5: because he has a black T shirt and it looks
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  Speaker 5: weird with the black microphone up there and having to
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  Speaker 5: run it up his shirt.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna hold it and there just kind
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  Speaker 3: of just kind of tuck the uh, the the mic
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  Speaker 3: pack on the side and he's just holding it, talking
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  Speaker 3: as though it's like a stick mic.
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  Speaker 2: It is hilarious. That is hilarious. So that's uh. I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have expected anybody to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but especially with Pat mckett. Right, Yeah, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good goal. So yeah. So but but it
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  Speaker 3: was a great and we had about five to seven
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  Speaker 3: minutes with him and just amazing guy. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: love Pat. I've known Pat, I mean played against him,
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  Speaker 3: and just just an awesome guy. So good to have
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  Speaker 3: him up here. And like you said, him and the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the crew, they're all up on set there
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  Speaker 3: behind that tree that you so expertly pointed out that
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  Speaker 3: I did not know until you said it. They're there
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  Speaker 3: on the baseball field this year, whereas they were in
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  Speaker 3: the crowd over here over the remember that year ago.
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  Speaker 3: But because of the way it was situated, because it
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  Speaker 3: set so large the you know, there was a fear
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  Speaker 3: for fans and safety because it's like the sheer drop
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  Speaker 3: off down the hill, and then you got the fencing
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  Speaker 3: there and so people were kind of like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: corraling a little bit too much, whereas here on the
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  Speaker 3: field you have a lot more space you can kind
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  Speaker 3: of fence off what you want. And also a year
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  Speaker 3: ago they couldn't get the same amount of power to
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  Speaker 3: the field because the show takes the set takes a
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  Speaker 3: lot of a lot of electricity interesting to run it,
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  Speaker 3: so they couldn't get it. But now they have it.
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  Speaker 3: This year, they actually got a cart over there on
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  Speaker 3: the far side where they have the big generator portables
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  Speaker 3: and it looks I mean, it looks like a game
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  Speaker 3: day setup, like underneath the stadium where you have like
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  Speaker 3: all the trucks lined up and you have all these
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  Speaker 3: kind of trailer r V style semi truck rigs. They
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  Speaker 3: got one over there to run the power. So better
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  Speaker 3: set up this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they knew, they knew, they knew a guy, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: namely the head coach.
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  Speaker 3: That would help.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a much better location. Although they can't see.
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  Speaker 3: The practice as yeah, because you're kind of looking at
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  Speaker 3: field three, right, But they were able to also put
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  Speaker 3: their cameras down on the field. I was amazed at
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  Speaker 3: how big the set was, the traveling set that sets
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  Speaker 3: as humongous. Yeah, that sets humongous. I went on it
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  Speaker 3: last year and I was like, man, I mean they
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  Speaker 3: literally have you know, about the size of a very
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  Speaker 3: nice studio apartment, I would say, on that set. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, because I think they have what six guys
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  Speaker 3: that rotate that are on that are on the show
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  Speaker 3: together that they kind of go back and forth with
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  Speaker 3: I think three or four inside the main studio part
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  Speaker 3: and then usually the guys who are in the booth
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  Speaker 3: or production room they have their own camera, but on
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  Speaker 3: a remote sets, they're actually on the set too with them.
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  Speaker 2: You know. And let me also say one thing that
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  Speaker 2: and again I've never met Pat, even though I've called
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  Speaker 2: some of his games, but I was really blown away
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  Speaker 2: by the story. Got the massive contract and he gave
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  Speaker 2: his core staff members backpacks, and into backpacks were two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand dollars cash. That is taking care
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  Speaker 2: of your people, Hey, keep the main thing, the main thing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean and he knows that he didn't get there
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  Speaker 3: by himself. He comes from team sport backgrounds, so he
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  Speaker 3: understands what a team is and everybody. There's no greater
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  Speaker 3: person than the team. There's always a leader, but there's
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  Speaker 3: no greater person in a team when you have to
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  Speaker 3: depend on everybody. Everybody's depend upon each other's success. So yeah, hey, hey,
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  Speaker 3: help the boys out. Listen, I get a raised, We
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: all get a raised. I was thinking of buying your sandwich, MA,
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, listen, but you know you could give me
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: one of those sticken wings you have sitting over here,
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: all your sharing his caringreak during.
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  Speaker 2: Your break, it's all yours, which we're running up to
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: closely a break as we're continuing to look at this
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Seithers team and a few more questions about about
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: where the team sits now x amount of days in
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: when you start turning the corner from individual drills to
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: game preparation. The first game coming up is against the
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  Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers, and of course for Aaron Rodgers, I
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  Speaker 2: doubty steps on the field. Didn't step on the field
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  Speaker 2: in preseason camp last year. Not going to be an
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  Speaker 2: important day probably for TJ. Watter or Cameron.
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  Speaker 3: Right now. He's now assended as well.
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  Speaker 2: It is going to be a hugely important day for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys, So we're gonna talk a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about that and where the team sits in camp
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  Speaker 2: as we continue on in the locker room from Saint
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  Speaker 2: Vincent College here on the Steelers Audio Network.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and welcome back in the locker room here at
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  Speaker 2: Saint Vincent College in Latrobe. And we're talking about so
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  Speaker 2: when do you I'm sure you're driving in here? Are
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  Speaker 2: you excited when you're driving in here? Are you a
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: little bit like, oh man, the family's leaving and are
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: you Are you excited? Kind of from the jump when
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: you get into camp. I ease into the excitement level.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of ease in because I think for me,
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  Speaker 3: it's more than just the drive, right, I got a
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: fly crail across country, So it's not like like yesterday
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: was an off day, right, and you get to you know,
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  Speaker 3: you got to spend time at home right with your wife, yes,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and kind of clean up around the house.
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  Speaker 3: You know, luckily I drove five and a half. Oh yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: no date. But I'm just saying, like it it's something
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  Speaker 3: that you have to ease into it, even when you're
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  Speaker 3: an older guy, because you got kids, you got other responsibilities.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder about your wife.
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  Speaker 3: You know, your wife is still going to call you
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  Speaker 3: about stuff, and you kind of have to be like, hun,
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  Speaker 3: I can't worry about, you know, a leaky faucet, like
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  Speaker 3: you got to call the repair guy, Like I can't
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  Speaker 3: call him. I'm at camp and I got meetings type
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  Speaker 3: of deal. But life still goes on around you even
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  Speaker 3: though while you're up here, and your family does a
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  Speaker 3: really good job of kind of mitigating that because they
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  Speaker 3: know what the priority is. But there is a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: especially when you're older and you have kids, because you
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  Speaker 3: want to spend that time with your little ones. And
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  Speaker 3: you see the guys after practice that are in the
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  Speaker 3: far ends and they and they and they're holding their kids,
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  Speaker 3: they're bringing them on the I mean, heck, we saw
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  Speaker 3: the Brisker family reunion. Yes, you know last time we
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  Speaker 3: were out here there. Yeah, exactly, ye A bit more,
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  Speaker 3: yeah exactly, but but yeah, because you know, we are
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  Speaker 3: we are pack animals, right, And when you have your
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  Speaker 3: pack and you have your group, it's tough to leave
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  Speaker 3: that group. And even though you have another group that
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: you're going to join up here, your teammates, it's still
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  Speaker 3: a little different and you still kind of have to
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  Speaker 3: ease yourself into it because you're separating from what you've
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: known for the last three months to now going into
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  Speaker 3: your season mode or you know, in this preparation mode
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  Speaker 3: for what the season is going to entail.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody, I'm sure is different. You know, some people
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  Speaker 2: some if you're a youngster, you're probably you just can't
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  Speaker 2: wait to get there. You can't wait for that first
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  Speaker 2: twenty three year old Max was on pins and needles
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  Speaker 2: and couldn't wait to be here.
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  Speaker 3: I was here. I was staying in Greensburg at my
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: aunt's house three days before I had to report to camp. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because I couldn't wait to get here, right, you're pawing
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  Speaker 3: at the ground. Yeah, but year eight, Max, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when my youngest child is born and I got a
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  Speaker 3: little baby at home, You're like, man, I'd love to
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  Speaker 3: be home. But then, of course you also don't want
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  Speaker 3: to wake up in the middle of the night and
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  Speaker 3: have to change a diaper.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like one in the morning with one eye open.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, babies are a little bit babies change things, right,
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  Speaker 2: and and and a lot of the players have young kids.
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  Speaker 2: Your Christian Koons has got a it's a one year
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  Speaker 2: old or a very young one. So you know there
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  Speaker 2: are other players have these have the young kid. If
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  Speaker 2: you see like you said, you see the players and
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  Speaker 2: you're walking on the field and they got their kids
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  Speaker 2: or their wives bring the kids out on the on
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  Speaker 2: the field to them, you know, I would say like
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: for me personally, I can just say, like when I'm
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: with my wife hanging out in the morning, when I
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: have in coffee, I'm like, this is the greatest. And
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: then I'll hop in the car and I'll go play golf.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: And I'm playing golf and I'm like, this is the greatest,
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: you know, yeah, and then I'll go into work that
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: and night I'm like, this is the greatest. But it
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: takes a little you know, you don't want to leave
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: your wife to go play golf. You don't want to
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: leave your the golf course to go to go to work.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: But they're all good things, right, They're all good. They're
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: all great things. You leave your family, that's a great thing.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: You come out here, you hang out with your teammates,
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: that's a great thing too.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're gonna miss something, right, you can't have
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: it all. And so you know, like I said, there's
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: a little slow play process, a slow build, a slow
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: rise into it. But once you're in it, you're like, man,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: this is awesome. Yeah. Yeah, it's like it's like it's
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: almost like, you know, you have to be you have
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: to be in the moment to appreciate it versus the anticipation.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Whereas young and you have less responsibilities or less commitments,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: it's you can anticipate a lot more about what you're
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: looking forward.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: To, you know, and I think the human condition can't
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: be ignored in all this. So for years I wondered,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: So you go on vacation, and I would go on,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Let's say I went on a ten day vacation in
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: the summer, right the first that for me for the
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: last twenty six years of my life has been pirate season, right, yeah,
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: And it's also vacation season. That's when you go on vacation.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: So you go on vacation, and the first few days
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: you're like, what's going on in the prit You still
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: want to know, it's hard to unplug.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: And then it's really a seven day vacation, right it is.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: And then at the end of.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: That vacation you start thinking about getting back. I got
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: to mow the lawn, and I got And I always wondered,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: does that mean ten days is the natural course of things?
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: And how long I should be taking on vacation or
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: if I had a month long vacation, would those last
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: few days be consumed with those same thoughts. I gotta
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: get back, I got to mow the lawn, I gotta
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: you know, I gotta b reinstitute my mail delivery, whatever
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: you have to do. So I think it's more the
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: latter than the former, which makes me wonder is camp
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: timed perfectly so that by the end of I think
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: everybody agrees, by the end of camp, you cannot wait
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: to get out of camp? Right, yes, Now, would you
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: still feel that way if camp was a week longer
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: or a week shorter, I think you probably would. You're
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: just conditioned to know it's time to go. Or is
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: it a more natural thing like spring and summer and
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: the camp should be three weeks.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: And that's it. I think this is the perfect amount
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: of camp, Okay, right, I think that's what it is,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: because it's just enough to where you're not thinking about
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: the family. And then when you start to think about
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: the family, they have family Day, right, yeah, here at camp,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: right yep? And then yeah, and then you do have
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: the opportunities where after practice you get about a twenty
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: minute window to see them as long as they're here locally, right.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: I Mean that's the other thing because a lot of guys,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: you know, they might live elsewhere, the guys who are
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: free agents, right, you know, outside of Jakuan Brisker who's
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: from here.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: But if you are a Ray Shawn Jenkins and you
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: have kids, right, and you just got signed by saying
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: your family doesn't live here, like they're gonna come here
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: at some point because you think you're gonna make it.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: And there is that day on the schedule where you
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: want to have them there, but they don't live here.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: They can't come to practice every day, right, So there's
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: a little bit like you're gonna be missing them, right
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: and you're gonna wonder what are they doing and when
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: are they gonna come? And I think that's what I
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: would say that it's it's just enough of camp that
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: you don't feel too much to where you forget about it,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: but you also know there's a necessity to it. You
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: have to be able to get away. You have to
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: be vulnerable to your teammates and open to them to
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: create bonds. So there's a certain process that that has
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: to be. I have to be away at sleep away
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: camp so many days, so I'm not missing my parents
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: right right. Yes, as a young person and as and
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: as a football player, I have to be able to
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: detach from my other titles, which is dad, husband, son, brother,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: whatever that is, and become football player, become the number
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: that's on the jersey I represent, right, and then focus
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: on the name played afterwards, and that's where this process,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: that's why you see no names on the back of
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: these jerseys, right because you're a number right now and
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: you're getting to that plaqua. You're getting to putting a
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: single Steeler's logo on the side of your helmet because
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: at the preseason you don't get it all the time, right.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: You have to earn those things, and so this is
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: a certain process where you have to detach yourself in
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: order to get into that process. And so this camp,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: you know, is twenty one practices up here, twenty one days.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Twenty one days of practice. I think it's like twenty
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: five days when it's all said and done, because there's
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: that every seventh off day, whatever the type of deal.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: So it ends up becoming like twenty five days. But
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: those twenty one practices done up here is a way
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: to separate, and a lot of teams don't do that.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: The other think. A lot of teams go to the
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: training facility and then they go back home and then
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: they come back to practice the next day, so it
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: feels like in season in the preseason, but you lose
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: opportunities to grow as a team because there's not the
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: forced dorm rooms where you're sharing a bathroom with another
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: person or three other people, depending on if you're in
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: a two by two situation or a one by one
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: or two by one. So you know, that forces friendships,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: that forces a chemistry and a bond good, better and different.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: It forces that. It accelerates that process that would normally
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: take months. You're getting in a matter of weeks because
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: you're around each other twenty four to seven. You're bored
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: in your dorm rooms. Okay, well, I know such and
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: such as an Xbox. I feel like play an Xbox. Right,
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: we go in there and just you start gathering a man, Hey,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: these guys play cars, these guys play Uno. These guys
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: play board games. Right, they have the board game sitting
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: under the ten outside of there for guys to commune
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: with each other, play some connect for play, some chess,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: play some monopoly because there's nothing else to do up here, right, right,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: and so, which is why you're here, Which is why
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: you're here, Like, I need to get to know these guys. Listen,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: if I'm if I'm a bleed and sweat, cry and
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: laugh on the field of battle with you, man, I
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: better know something about you. I better at least know
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: your mom's first name or your dad's first name and
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: how many kids you got, right, right, No, I don't
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: need to know your favorite color or you know or
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: you know what's your what's your what's your what your
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: zodiac sign is. But I need to know some other
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: pertinent stuff so it becomes personal and I'm not just
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: calling you by your first name. Like when I first
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: walked in the locker room my rookie year after I
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: got drafted for mini camps, I'm trying to find my
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: locker and I literally ran into Jerome Bettis. I said, oh, sorry,
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: mister Bettis. He's like, it's like, mister Bettis is my father,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: call me jb call me Bussy whatever, just don't call
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: me mister, right, and you figure that out. And then
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: by the end of training camp, Bussy, what's up? Man?
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Hey?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: When we going bowling, We've gone bowling together and done
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: all these other type of events. And I think that's
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: what matters in this process. You have to get personable
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: with these guys, yes, and you have to create the
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: relationships because for the next four months, it's every day.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, my wife would my wife would often joke
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: like man, I was like, you spend more time with
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: the guys that you do with me, and I'm your wife.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: What kind of has to be for this profession? You know,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: we're gonna been eight plus hours at the facility together
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: and you know, I'm only coming home for dinner and
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: then we're sleeping next to each other. But that's about it. Yes,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: you know, for the next couple of months, and yes
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I'll get a day a Tuesday off here, or you know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: a bye week here. But for the most part, yeah,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: I've got to be closer to these guys then you.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: And then in the spring and in the early summer,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: that's when we get to reconnect and that's where we
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: get to really be a couple. Right But for the
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: rest of it, my new family, my extended family, is
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: the priority right now in this.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: In this profession, Well, people don't realize the hours that
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: players put in and how long those days are. So
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I just know that in the in the occasions that
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: I've you know, moved to a new city and started
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: a new job, and you know, and probably the first
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: three months you might as well live by yourself because
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: you're spending all your time at work and you're figuring
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: out you know, what is human resources want out here?
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: You got to navigate your job, but it's so much
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: more than that, and there's so much stuff going around it,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: and you're putting in longer hours to speed up the
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: act of process. But for football players, that's the entire
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: season never slows down.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Twelve hours a day, every day, it feels like. And
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: then on your off days you're still getting together, you're
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: still doing rehab, you're still getting your lifts in, you're
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: watching film or you're getting your film. Now now it's
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: a lot easier to get those things. You don't physically
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: have to be at the facility as much. I'd say
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: you could cut off maybe four hours out of that
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: work week because now everything gets pushed to your iPad
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: or your device. Right. But back when I first came,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: it was VHS tapes and you had to go into
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: the video department and ask them specifically. Then they had
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: to dub it for you and then give it to you.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: You know. So that's just a process in and of itself,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: and so by the end of it, you're like, man,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I might as well just stay here and watch this
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: extra film. So you're getting the facility around six am
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: in the morning, you know, six thirty in the morning,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: and you're not leaving till five thirty six, sometimes seven o'clock,
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, heck at one point and going to eat.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Then then you got to go to bed and go
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: to bed and then sometimes I mean we were so
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: close as a team. We we played cards and we
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: would designate a wife or a significant other to bring
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: food dinner to the facility because we were playing cards
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: in the in the in the lounge.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's that closeness. And you know, people
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: forget when when you know, say and Aaron Rodgers, I
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: think was gathering people over this house on Thursday night
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: or whatever last year. Yeah, and that's a great, wonderful
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: team bonding thing. But that comes with the sacrifice of Okay, honey,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I'm off on Thursday night. Wait what you know, Yeah,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: another night, another night, you're not gonna be home.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Well, And Thursday night was was our was our massage
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: night where we had the massuses come in. And so
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Thursday night, my wife knew I was going to James
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Ferrier's house because we had a massouse coming in from
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: New York that did that did acupunctures from New York, Yeah,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: because because she was a different world. Yeah, she was
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: with him at the jets and he was like, no,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I gotta have and then it was like, hey, well
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: you know I'm going to do this. Do you guys
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: want to come? So they would come too, and all
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: of a sudden we got twenty guys sitting at Potzy's house.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: And that was just the Thursday night. You sat, you
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: wait your turn to go see the massuse. And then
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: after that I would then drive to Charlie Batch's house.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: So I drive from a waterfront where Potsy lived, all
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: the way up to Wexford where Charlie lived, and then
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: he had his mesuse from the Detroit Lions, who was
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: more Thai physical manipulation stretching with the massage. So I
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: would go get both sessions done on Thursday.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: And macaroni cheese, well I mean mac and cheese, listen.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: And her colla greens are just as delicious. So yeah,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: so you know, so Tash would be there and she'd
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: have food there because you have about ten guys that
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: would go up there to see Sandy, and then you
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: know we'd see Lisa over over at Potse's house. And
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: that was my rotation for nine years, and it was
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: crazy because one year, so actually I take the back
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Lisa was eight years and Sandy was nine years because
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: one year Lisa got pulled from us for you know,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: we obviously weren't as cool as Mariah Carey. She went
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: on tour with Maria Carrey, so Mariah Carey took her
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: from us. But that was that was one year. That
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: was one year, and then she came back around and
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: realized that this was this was the more fun and
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: it was more lucrative. But I mean, you get to
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: go into it. Maria Carrey, you're gonna go ma, You're
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: not gonna sit around a bunch of lugheads like us,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: you know, every Thursday night. But but yeah, but that
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: was like the routine. And so and then that Thursday
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: before I got to those, it was O line film
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: watching night, So we designated teammates house. We'd rather be
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: at Chris's house, Hartwig's house, and I would rent the
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: projector and we would go through all the situations. We
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: have running backs come over, we have tight ends come over,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden it became everybody else
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: because our offensive line was was a pretty fun.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Crew that's fun, guys.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, But I mean it was literally like Thursday nights
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: was just that night that my wife knew she's not
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: gonna see me. She was like, okay, you're like, you'll
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: be bet at sometime like one in the morning. But
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: then you're getting up at sixty get to the facility
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: for fast Fridays Friday. That's being young. Yeah, but we
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: also got out early. We got out by one o'clock
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: on Friday, Okay, and the Hayes in the barn of
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: that point, I'm not staying after watching film on Friday
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: like I did that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday watching all
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: the film.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: I practice on Friday, the walk through on Saturday.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I could get on the plane or head
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: to the hotel that night, whichever one it was. So,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: you know, my wife just knew Thursday, I'm not going
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: to see him. Monday night, I'm not going to see
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: him Tuesday. He's home during the day somewhat, but my
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: wife worked, so it was like, okay, well he's gonna
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: be in charge of figuring out what we're gonna have
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: for dinner. So that was my one day a week
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: We're to figure it out and then you just rinse
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: and repeat until the season's over.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: So today was the first day that the players were
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: putting pads on and they were collisions right, Yes, So
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: I was fascinated to watch rookie right tackle Maxahona Chore
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: going against Jack Sawyer and going against t J.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Watt.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: So forgetting Jack Sawyer for a moment, you're Maxahonachard at
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: the beginning of your career.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: You're TJ.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Watt at a different point in your career.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: In years end.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: What are these guys after in training camp?
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Because I don't think.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: They're quite after the same thing. Luckily, I have somebody
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: sitting to my right who's been on both ends of
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: that spectrum, and he's going to answer that question for
• 29:17
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  Speaker 2: And welcome back in the locker room. And this, uh,
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  Speaker 2: this room, this h up in the press box felt
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: a little like the locker room. We had ed troop
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: rolled in here. Yeah, West U of the rolled in
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• 30:26
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• 30:43
  Speaker 3: she's saying Hi. She gonna come in and join us,
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: so real quick before Missy comes in here.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: You're a young player, right, uh, you're after one thing
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: in camp, right, I mean, and a veteran guys got
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: to be after something different. So what are guys are
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: the veteran guys just trying to get in shape and
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: hone themselves and look at after their skills. Are they
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: trying to test the younger guys? Are they the younger guys?
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Are everything's to test?
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Right? Yeah? Everything is a test for the end. They
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: are constantly consuming new information. And you know you talk
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: about a young guy has to create his encyclopedia or
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: his book of players. So for just for illustration purposes,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Maxionatre versus t J. Watt? Right, what is I'm sorry? Right? Yeah?
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: What is TJ. Watt learning? And what is Maxionatre learning?
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Maxianature is taking an information like this is what an
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: all pro pass rusher looks like? How does he line up?
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: What is like his what is his tendency? I'm taking
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: a snapshot of his stance, his hands. Okay, what does
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: he do? Is he a second step or third step guy?
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Before he initiates a move? What's the move that he's
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: going for? How do I counter it? What am I
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: going to do to dictate to force him to do
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: something that I want him to do versus what he
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: wants to do. All that's going through his head. Fast forward.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: I've now been in the league nine years. I'm going
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: into year ten. A'lla TJ. Watt. I've gone against hundreds
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: of tackles. At this point, I'm going which guy does
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: he remind me of that I already have in my rolodex, right,
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: because I have a deeper experience level, so I can
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: now put guys into styles. So now what style of
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: guy is he? And that's what I'm trying to figure out.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: If I'm TJ. Watt, whereas Maxianachure, I'm gathering brand new knowledge.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I don't have a rolodex of guys. I haven't gone
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: against Miles Garrett, I haven't gone against you know, a
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Cavon Thibodeaux. I haven't gone against a Brian Burns or
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: any of these other top pass rushers around the league.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: I'm getting my first shot at a top fight pass
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: rusher on my team. The first day of pads sos
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: a lot different. It's empty. He has a lot of
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: chapters to write versus a volume to pull from, so
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: it's a They're both very different, but it's all knowledge gathering.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: It's just how you collate and how you gather it.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: One's looking at styles and saying I have something for
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: that style, and the other one's saying, I don't know
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: what it is, but I got to write it.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: All down, so completely switching gears now because that's something
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I want to talk more about at length. You know,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: when they have Hall of Fame plaques, like the Hall
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: of Fame plaques in Cooperstown, which of course my hometown.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Babe Ruth right, so it's George Herman, Babe Ruth and
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Babe is in is in quotations. So when Melissa Matthews
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: gets her Hall of Fame plaque, it'll say Melissa, Missy
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: matt and the Missy you being quotes.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Don't you think that's the way it's gonna go. I
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: definitely think it's that. It'll go from eminem to eminem
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: plus m. Yes.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: So I had a question, Missy, thank you for being
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: with us, Thanks for jumping in this feel the whole
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: rock cast group, right He was like, right now, So
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: this is what it feels like, Missy, to be up
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: in the climate controlled. You know it's not raining up here.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: It's yeah, I need to have in your pockets because
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: you don't have access to it.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: We could open up this window. It could be one
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: hundred and ten, it could be thirty two. We don't know.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Because we're in a nice air condition, comfort to the
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: booth while Missy's out there trumping around rain. It's like
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: the like the US Postal Service. Missy will deliver in
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: whatever weather.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: And I'm still wearing a sweatshirt because I just can't
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: gay to it.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: And then one of the ladies at the cafteria was like,
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: did he get a cold outside?
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: I was like, no, I'm just committed at this point
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: and I just need to take a shower.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Missy. I have a question for you.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Were you on a dance tea because you were like
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: a professional dance team person.
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: Right, I was on the dance team at Page.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's to me, a professional dance team person today,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: in today's age, you would have gotten paid.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: For doing that, So you have a nil deal you ye?
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Were you at Plumb High School? Yes?
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, so we did a high school football game Franklin
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Regional at Plumb, So you were on. Do you remember
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: that game being on? Because because we were the first,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: we were the first station that actually started televising high
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: school football game, so when we would go they would
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: kind of blow it out and they'd be like marching
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: bands and all kinds of stuff, especially early. Well, I
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: know Pat McAfee was punting for the team. So were
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: you guys at Plumb at the same time.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, but I'm older than Pat, okay by a year.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: I'm older than Missy.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Back Well, I'm three years older than my brother and
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Pat's a year older than him.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: So it's okay, all right, So you might so if
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: it was his senior year, you would have been gone.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: That would have been very cool.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: If you've been on that, if you've been on the
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: dance smer something. So when we first started telling Max,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: when we first started doing high school football games, and
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: we didn't have Wolf on as a broadcaster yet, we'd
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: have Kevin Gorman would come on, Mike White, others would
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: come on and provide the color because it was more
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: about what do you know about the school and its
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: history and the marching band had come out, and you know,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: it was just like a it was almost like a
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: mini celebration. The outcome of the game wasn't important to
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: uh to really at the beginning, to the people that
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I think was then root sports. And we've been through
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: some name iterations over the years.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: It might you know, what a problem. Thank you.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I only worked there, Missy, but I'm sure you're right, No,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: I know, and I'm not trying to be facetious or sarcastic.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you're right.
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: I only because when I.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Okay, so I don't miss the entering there there. And
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: when I came on the Stan Safron Show as a rookie,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: it was f s.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Cent and I remember Max Way. I remember I remember
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Max coming into our UH into it. We had that story.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: We talked about that last year when he and Ben
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: came in to do the show with Stan. I remember
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: what I told him was Ben walked in and I'm like,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: that's a quarterback. I mean, you put that guy into
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: a weight program. He's two hundred and ninety pounds and
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: he's got his hand in the dirt, you know yet
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: and then Max walked in. I was like, WHOA, that's
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: most protecting me? Oh yeah, wow yeah.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: But yeah.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: So when I was calling UH hockey games HL hockey
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: games in Syracuse, I called them for two different companies.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Are company, which was WTVH and then they allowed me
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: to do them for the local cable company. And there
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: was a post to my left and the only thing
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: written on that post was which station I was on
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: that night.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: And I only called ten a year. I'd be like
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: you're watching Crunch Hockey on TVH.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: I'd looked if I left him whatever I had written there.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: So I don't remember when it was around teleprompter, FSN
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Net to Root Sports or what order
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: they were in, but you were an intern and it
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: was f s N.
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: But it was a Pittsburgh and St.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Louis that's right.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: Oh gosh, yes, do you know those games as well?
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: I remember doing both shows and that the names of
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: the shows were similar, and people said, you know, how
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: do you keep it straight? And I will admit that
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: I one time, so the Rams were still in Saint
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Louis at the time, I one time on the air
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: said Rams quarterback Cordell Stewart. Nope, no, that's not that's
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: not correct. That's the only one I ever remember before
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Adam Schefter. I'm sure I did other ones, but but
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: that is so missy missy intern for us. But I
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: thought that would have been another seven degrees of Kevin
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Bacon because I know you were over there. It's this
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: started with the conversation that you were over there talking
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: to Pat McAfee. I told Mac, I saw that would
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: have been cool if you've been on the the the
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: the performance squad is called dance squad. Cheer squad would
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: be called the high school dance teamer cheers dance steamer.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Okay because both of them marching mates. Yeah, you didn't
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: play an instrument.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: You were a yeah, you were an athletic.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: What are they cheer squad, cheer squad, dance squad, dance team,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: dance team okay, dance ta.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, dance team and cheer squad. Yeah, we're two different ones. Okay.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: One had pomp poms, the other ones didn't.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Right, so we had we had gold pomp poms. The
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: cheerleaders had blue pumps.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Ah, okay, you mixed up. It was the problem a lot.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there was a there was a was there
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: like a haughty relationship between the two.
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: It depended on the gear and the girls.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: But ironically enough, one of my friends that I danced
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: with since I was three at Abby Lee's, she's the crazy.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah from Dance Moms. Oh wow. Yeah.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: We danced together forever and we both did not make
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: it through our high school year before we were like,
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: we're out and we were roommates. Actually it pit for
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: our entire year, but we were first in towers where
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: it was just the two of us, but she tried
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: out for cheerleading.
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: I tried out for dance team. So we were never
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: you know, going back and forth. But you heard the drama.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: From our room.
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: Knew everything.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: So I remember you tell me this dance mom's is
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: a Is that like a show or something?
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Yes? It is. Yeah, yeah, definitely watched that.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: So I don't know if we should add that to
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: the rob King Traveler.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm I'm very very slow to the party,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: as you guys know when it comes to cultural events.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Let's just say that I had to figure out something
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: technical this morning and Bob Labriola was helping me out,
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: and Matt Williamson said, wait a minute, Bob's helping you
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: thought you got You've got problems many technological stuff, you know,
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: the the latest trends and stuff. But dance Moms.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, so not for me.
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: No, okay, all right, google it and watch a quick trailer.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: All you need to do, ye is watch a clip.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: You're like, yep, this isn't so in case you're wondering,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: this is the two other members of our broadcast team
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: calling me old.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: So just just you know, that's that's the quick translation.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: What's going on? You're saving me? Okay, you're saving Okay,
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: yes it is not your cop. Okay, all right, all right, okay, yes,
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: I yes, I have my own cups of tea.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: But but when we were at when we were I
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: was telling Max that you know, when you go to
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: these high school games, we saw lots of great players.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, I saw Drell Reeves, many many I
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: called many games from uh oh my god, Penhills, Aaron Donald,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Aaron Donald, Wow, Rob Aaron Donald. You know all these
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: great players that I called, But I don't ever remember
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: we're seeing anybody close to kicking the ball the way
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: Pat When he and I was down in the field,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I was like whoa.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: And then I then I called some.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Of his games at I think maybe the last year
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: or two it West Virginia. We then we then picked
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: up some of the West Virginia broadcasts. I think, I
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: think I maybe got his junior and senior years, I think.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: But you know, he was just a.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: Soccer player who the high school city coach big to
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: only come to games.
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: Right, yeah, which is like the crazy part.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: So we had the story down and all that and
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: all the other stuff. But as I told Max, you know,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: we would never talk to the players. We would always
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: I would. My contact was always with the coaches, you know,
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Craig McConnell and other people who go out and talk
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: to the coaches, to the players.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: You know, because that was like it was like pit game.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: I mean it was Penguin's game, Penguins game, Penguins game,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: high school football.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Game, you know.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: So so you know, and I and you know, I
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: was getting ready for the play by play. So I
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: never talked to the players. So I've never actually met Pat,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: but I just remember seeing that the impression he made
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: the first time when he kicked the ball, I'm like,
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: whoa man, I've never seen a high school kid kick
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: a ball.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: Like that as it was professional as a professional level
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: future kicker.
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: I think Pat was on.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: At least one of the whippy Old championships for Plump
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Soccer too.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, I wouldn't doubt it.
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: I could be too. I can't.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: The years are all overlapping and you know, getting a
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: little fuzzy.
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: But oh they were. They were a bad you know
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: what team.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, they were phenomenal. Yeah, And I'm trying to think
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: how many guys on his on his crew were went
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: to school with him. I know, you said Diggs, right, Digs.
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: Anthony to Guilio, which I still call him Anthony because
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: his parents had called him his entire life.
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: I mayby sat him and his little brother Michael, which
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: we called him little Michael, and I was like, hey,
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: how's little Michael, Like, yeah, he's a grown adult.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but your big sister though, you know what I'm saying,
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: You're your big sister to all these guys. So yeah,
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: and like he had the.
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: Best house to his parents.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: We called it Paaradie Digs in their backyard, the coolest
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: cabana bar, tiki bar, pull like whole nine.
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: Yards and they were like, there's still some of my
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: favorite people.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: Like I was sad his mom couldn't come up today, yeah,
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: because she had to do some work.
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: But Nick Mouraldo, who he's more behind the scenes, but
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: he's on the show too.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, both were.
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: At Plumb at the same time. I don't know if
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Nick is Pat's age or Digs, but yeah, so those
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: two for sure.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah see so yeah, so when I said, I'm like,
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: was this is like a homecoming for the Pat McAfee show, Like,
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is that pilgrimage that they make back home,
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: because this is, like I said, they're they're yensers there,
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: they're from here. They grew up watching practice on this
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: set very hill. Yes, you know, as young kids. So
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, and it is. That's the coolest part about this,
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: right that you kind of have this full circle moment
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: where you know, he's doing punt passing kick in Hinsfield
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: and then you become the punter for the Cult and
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: you're punting in Heinsfield as a pro. Oh and now
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: you're able to bring your your highly successful television show
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: back here and have a set at Saint Vincent College's
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: pretty it's pretty dope.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm excited because I've missed a ton of it,
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: although they do kind of have like a PA system
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: over there so you can do some of it, and
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: the camp Off has had it on TV. But I
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: just want to go back and watch the interviews with
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: McCarthy and Aaron and I think DK was on with
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: Erin for a little bit.
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: I know, I think Cam and TJ and Omar.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: Were going on.
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: Heesel was on earlier.
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they just extract things from their guests that are just.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't get anywhere else.
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: Yes, and I love those nuggets.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: So, by the way, we are preposterously over.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: But we know I'm gonna make here. I am on
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: radio agains. I have to point these things, so Max
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: will occasionally gesture it. I have to have to point
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: out that people. For those of us who can't see
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: us on radio today, Max is now thrusting his arm
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: in the air.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Whatever. So I've been making this.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: I've been making the Missy completes this motion, this circle
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: with my hands. Missy has completed us. It's nice to
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: have you in here, miss.
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: Because we don't get Missy because she's fancy on television
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: in the preseason and so we don't get Missy till
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: the regular season. But we do get Missy on the show.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, and we'll only Missy will only be here for
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: another three weeks.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: So we'd love to see.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: If you gotta pop down and say hello, we are here.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: You know where to find us. Yeah, absolutely, a special.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Guest appearance from Missy Matthews for Max Starks. I'm rob
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: king the drive is coming up with west Euler Matt Williamson.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: We thank you for listening to us in the locker
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: room here on this two there's audio network,