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Saints Recap, Browns Preview · Steelers Country Weekly

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  Speaker 1: Today on Steelers Country Weekly, we break down the Steelers'
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  Speaker 1: big win against the Saints in Paris, preview their grudge
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  Speaker 1: match against the Cleveland Browns back in Pittsburgh, and talk
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  Speaker 1: about how we spend our own bye weeks. I'm Nick DiTullio,
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  Speaker 1: and as always, I'm joined by the world-famous accountant Eric Vamenschoten. Eric,
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  Speaker 1: how are you tonight?
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  Speaker 2: I'm all right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just excited to talk to my friend about football.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Amen. And we, as we talked a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about when we started recording, the Steelers are exceeding expectations presently.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to put the cart before the horse,
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  Speaker 1: but we've got a win to talk about. And that's
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  Speaker 1: always better than the alternative, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's always better to win than lose. It's always better
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  Speaker 3: to put more points on the scoreboard than the other team.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the kind of insight you won't get from
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  Speaker 1: any other podcast out on the internet.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about it, though. The Steelers had to
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  Speaker 1: play the international game. There's all the headaches that always
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  Speaker 1: go into international games. This one was in France. It
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  Speaker 1: was the first ever regular season game in France. You
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  Speaker 1: and I talked very briefly that there's little bit of
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  Speaker 1: unrest going on right now in France. So there certainly
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  Speaker 1: was a safety issue. The Steelers had actually canceled a,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a fans event while they were there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but the game went on and despite some hiccups with
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  Speaker 1: the stadium that we can talk about too, that I
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  Speaker 1: thought were kind of funny. Um, the Steelers were pretty
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  Speaker 1: much in control of this game. It certainly wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: blowout by any stretch of the imagination. It was only
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  Speaker 1: 16 to 10. And it would have been 19-10 if
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  Speaker 1: a field goal at the end there didn't get taken
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  Speaker 1: off the board. But defensively, the Steelers were very stout
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  Speaker 1: and I think only gave up 18 rushing yards. Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers had more rushing yards than any of the Saints
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  Speaker 1: players from one run alone. And we had Peyton Wilson
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  Speaker 1: getting an interception to stop a red zone drive for
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  Speaker 1: the Saints. So while I think you and I would
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  Speaker 1: agree that it would have been nice to see the offense...
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  Speaker 1: do a little bit better defensively we're happy and like
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  Speaker 1: we said a win is a win and uh overall
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  Speaker 1: i'm pretty impressed or pretty happy overall with with what
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  Speaker 1: we walked away with as we look back to this
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  Speaker 1: sunday though what are some of the things that that
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  Speaker 1: you took away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah i i i think you have to be uh.
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  Speaker 3: Of course you have to be happy for a win
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  Speaker 3: i mean that's hard circumstances international.
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  Speaker 2: Game um You know, anything can really happen there.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, so I am happy that they were
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  Speaker 3: able to pull out the win. Yeah, defense, best performance
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  Speaker 3: that they've had all year. Hands down, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't feel like it was, like, as flashy. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when we played the Colts last year, we finally broke open.
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  Speaker 3: We had six turnovers, you know, like, it wasn't a
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  Speaker 3: game like that, but I thought, you know, in terms
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  Speaker 3: of what's a sustainable defensive plan, like, yeah, I thought.
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  Speaker 2: They, that they played fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: They made, you know, splash plays when they needed to
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  Speaker 3: mention Wilson's interception, interception.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, but yeah, I, I was happy about that part.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Obviously love to kind of convert some of those drives.
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  Speaker 2: Um, You know, I think that.
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  Speaker 4: They definitely could have, like, there wasn't anything that I
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  Speaker 4: blatantly remember being like, oh, that was a drop pass,
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  Speaker 4: or that was a big penalty that ruined that drive.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can correct me on that, but they kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of just felt like natural faults, you know, like.
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  Speaker 2: Oops, didn't get 10 on three points.
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  Speaker 3: You know, three down.
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  Speaker 1: So the, the biggest one I would say would be the, um,
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  Speaker 1: the end of the first half with, uh, Rogers getting
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  Speaker 1: sacked and, uh, them having to run the run Boswell
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  Speaker 1: and the kicking team on the field to make that
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  Speaker 1: field goal at the end, uh, which Boswell, I.
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  Speaker 2: Was, I was impressed by how quickly they got out there.
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  Speaker 3: I was watching it and I was like, oh man,
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  Speaker 3: this is going to really suck if we can't get
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  Speaker 3: this field goal off.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, so yeah, you're, you're totally right.
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  Speaker 3: That, that was one where it was promised, but you know, they,
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  Speaker 3: they redeemed themselves, I guess you could say.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Boswell took care of business. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that they redeemed themselves. Um, um, so yeah, obviously I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad Boswell made it, but I feel like this year
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  Speaker 1: they have just not done that man any favors with
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  Speaker 1: getting him set up for kicks. Um, It feels like
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  Speaker 1: we're getting sacked on third down, making these long field goals.
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  Speaker 1: This one, it was a sack, and because there was
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  Speaker 1: no timeouts, they had to run onto the field. Again,
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  Speaker 1: he made it, but it was just like, could we
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  Speaker 1: not hold our blocks for just like two seconds longer
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  Speaker 1: so Rodgers can at.
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  Speaker 2: Least dump the ball? Two seconds in the NFL?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's all I'm asking for, two seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Nick.
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  Speaker 3: You try blocking a 300-pound man.
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  Speaker 1: Will do. He will.
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  Speaker 5: I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, you could say two-tenths of a second, half a second.
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  Speaker 3: You're asking for.
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  Speaker 2: Two full seconds.
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  Speaker 1: He will trip over me when he knocks me over
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  Speaker 1: by just breathing on me. He will be so taken aback.
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  Speaker 1: And then I will have upheld my end of the bargain.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: That's the tactical intro.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps I should say, can we just hold our blocks
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  Speaker 1: for A fractional amount longer.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Just to give our 42-year-old quarterback time to at least
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  Speaker 1: throw the ball away.
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  Speaker 3: Old man could have claimed AARP if he wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: He's out there on his own accord.
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  Speaker 3: Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: I will say, I'm looking at the stats here, and
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  Speaker 1: it is pretty interesting. You look at Roger's stat line,
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  Speaker 1: and it's kind of a ho-hum day. I mean, he was...
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  Speaker 1: 19 of 30 for 212 yards, um, with one touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: So the important thing there is no turnovers. Um, and
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  Speaker 1: the touchdown, I want to give Darnell Washington credit for
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  Speaker 1: that was his only catch. And if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: make only one catch, it might as well be a touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: but that was a contested catch at the, um, at
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  Speaker 1: the sideline in the end zone. So he got his
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  Speaker 1: feet down, he held onto the ball. I thought they
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  Speaker 1: were going to overturn it at first, but when they
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  Speaker 1: showed the replay, it looked like he definitely had possession. Um,
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  Speaker 1: tucked it under and as much as we love Darnell
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  Speaker 1: Washington I don't think we've complimented him on his catching
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  Speaker 1: ability yet it's been his trucking ability so good you.
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  Speaker 3: Did remind me I the one thing I probably I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to come away from this game and talk to
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  Speaker 3: you about that TJ Watt strip sack that they reversed
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  Speaker 3: what did they see.
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  Speaker 1: I was very confused on that I I try not
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  Speaker 1: to complain about the refs. Uh, but that one, I
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  Speaker 1: was just left scratching my head because it's not like they,
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  Speaker 1: they called it a fumble on the field too, which
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  Speaker 1: was the part that really confused concern.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Confusing evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Like, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Go around the jury. 12 people said that they did it.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: There's no way that ball in that ball was moving.
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  Speaker 1: That, That was the one that really confused me, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if we'll ever get a better explanation.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL doesn't... I wish the NFL would open things
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  Speaker 1: up and be a little more transparent about that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. I don't think they will. But in college,
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  Speaker 1: some of the conferences, you can hear what the refs
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  Speaker 1: are saying in a challenge and what the booth is
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  Speaker 1: saying back to them. I would love to hear the
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  Speaker 1: rationale behind that call. But yeah, I just... I don't...
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand. And that was one that I think
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  Speaker 1: they said it was the expedited review. So someone in
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  Speaker 1: New York called Paris and said, hey, that is not
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  Speaker 1: a fumble. Give them back the ball.
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  Speaker 2: We gave some intern that's never reffed a.
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  Speaker 3: Live game an inclusive vote on what could have been
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  Speaker 3: a material point in the game.
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  Speaker 4: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: The funniest conspiracy theory that I saw was someone was
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  Speaker 1: claiming the game was rigged because the NFL wanted the
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  Speaker 1: Saints to win so they could really develop that, that, um, France.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The Florida, the, the France crowd so that they could
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  Speaker 1: start to, you know, start to grow that fan base.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I look, I hear all these NFL
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  Speaker 1: was rigged things all the time, but I just, I
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  Speaker 1: have a hard time believing that they want the Saints
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  Speaker 1: to be the team of France. And that's why they
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  Speaker 1: were going to give, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If the connection's there, it's.
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  Speaker 3: There, right?
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  Speaker 2: I believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: You got your head in the.
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  Speaker 3: Sand, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know. I'm just an ostrich over here.
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  Speaker 1: I was looking at the stat line, and I remember
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  Speaker 1: watching this game, I don't remember being super impressed with
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Shaw, but I'm just laughing because his stat line,
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  Speaker 1: he was 30-38 with one TD and that one interception.
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  Speaker 3: The reason why they kept in this game, they converted
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  Speaker 3: their third down. They didn't turn their drives into points.
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  Speaker 3: But if you go back and look at the team stats, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't have it right in front of me. At one point,
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  Speaker 2: I remember.
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  Speaker 3: Both teams were 66% on third down conversions. each like
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  Speaker 3: we were both six of nine and i was like
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  Speaker 3: come on man that especially the game that ended up
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  Speaker 3: with 26 total points that sounds pathetic right my goodness
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  Speaker 3: um go ahead no i was just gonna say any
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  Speaker 3: other game that that would have been a you know
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  Speaker 3: race to 30 but yeah so.
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  Speaker 1: That also highlights why that Peyton Wilson interception was huge,
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  Speaker 1: especially after he had gotten burned previously. And Patrick Queen
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  Speaker 1: also could have had one of those incompletions turned into
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  Speaker 1: an INT as well. But yeah, the other thing I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned was this game could have been 19-10. The Steelers
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  Speaker 1: did kick a field goal at the end, but New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans was offside. So they declined the penalty, took the
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  Speaker 1: points off the board, and then the Steelers were able
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  Speaker 1: to run out the clock there for the last... play
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  Speaker 1: or two.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, did you see I think it was
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  Speaker 2: Lions Packers. I heard.
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  Speaker 3: I guess the Packers jumped off sides and then the
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  Speaker 3: Lions did some dancing and someone actually did an Instagram
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  Speaker 3: post comparing it to a Charlie Brown celebration.
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  Speaker 2: Type of dance.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't the best compared to that i've never seen
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  Speaker 3: in the world but it did show me the clip
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  Speaker 3: of all the different people dancing and i was i
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  Speaker 3: was thinking it looked a.
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  Speaker 2: Little little giants to me you know little giants there
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  Speaker 2: you go yeah we get like oh we got our
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  Speaker 2: first first yard.
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  Speaker 3: You know and then they start doing their little dance
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  Speaker 3: like on the field.
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  Speaker 1: My goodness well i will say this coming back to
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  Speaker 1: uh Paris I thought it was interesting I read that
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  Speaker 1: the the stadium the stadium ran out of food like
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  Speaker 1: in the first half at some point and I guess
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  Speaker 1: they didn't really advertise that very well to fans because
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  Speaker 1: the lines were really long and they'd get to the
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  Speaker 1: front of the line and it's like oh we have
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  Speaker 1: no food you can order drinks though so that was.
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  Speaker 2: Not how do people run out of food.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's where I was going next with this So
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  Speaker 1: this is another conspiracy theory. Um, the word around the
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  Speaker 1: water cooler is that the stadium was very unprepared because
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  Speaker 1: as we just said, they don't do American football games.
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  Speaker 1: They're mostly soccer. And in soccer, the average European fan
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  Speaker 1: stays glued to their seat. There's not stoppages other than
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  Speaker 1: halftime or do they even call it halftime? I don't know. Intermission. Um,
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  Speaker 1: stop stoppage yeah i don't know um anyway there's less
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  Speaker 1: incentive to go and get food and stuff and eat
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  Speaker 1: during the game because you're supposed to stay in your
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  Speaker 1: seat and watch the game it doesn't stop uh yeah
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  Speaker 1: so basically they did not realize how big the food
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  Speaker 1: culture is at an american football game they did not
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  Speaker 1: prepare or have enough food for said game they ran
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  Speaker 1: out And I think the evidence of this points to
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they did not run out of drinks.
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  Speaker 1: It was just the food they ran out of. So
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  Speaker 1: they expect you as a European fan to drink a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It's quicker to get drinks than to get food, right?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I guess that's the idea of a beer fest, right?
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  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's not French people, it's Germans. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: those Europeans, they like them some beverages.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking of that meme, and it would be like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the one about the European mind cannot comprehend. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the European mind could not comprehend that American fans wanted
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  Speaker 1: to eat at a football game. All right. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers leave France with a win. Was there anything else
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to touch on from this game before we
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  Speaker 1: move on to the next one?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think we got it. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, The Steelers do not get a bye yet. They
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  Speaker 1: have to come back to Pittsburgh, and they have to
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  Speaker 1: play the surging Cleveland Browns. We know the Steelers lost
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  Speaker 1: to the Browns in a close one several weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: in Cleveland on Thursday night. And we were very unhappy
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  Speaker 1: at the time. It was a game that we thought
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers probably could have won, and they just did
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  Speaker 1: not play up to their standard. The Browns, conversely, despite
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  Speaker 1: starting off pretty rocky, picked things up, and really didn't
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  Speaker 1: miss a beat from the second quarter on. Coming back now,
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  Speaker 1: both teams are sitting at 5-2, with Cleveland technically holding
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  Speaker 1: the tie and in first place. Whoever wins this game
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  Speaker 1: will be in first place in the division. And I
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  Speaker 1: would say that the Browns really haven't missed a beat
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  Speaker 1: since they played the Steelers. They actually beat the Ravens.
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  Speaker 1: They just came back from a win against... or they
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  Speaker 1: just beat the Titans... in a game that they probably
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  Speaker 1: should have won, but I think the big advantage here
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  Speaker 1: is the Browns aren't dealing with international travel back home,
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  Speaker 1: and for what it's worth, Deshaun Watson is playing good
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  Speaker 1: enough for them to win, and they still have a
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  Speaker 1: great defense. So, all of this in mind, as the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers return from France to play Cleveland, Eric, what are
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  Speaker 1: some of the things that you're looking for in this
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  Speaker 1: matchup against the Browns?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I, I think back to the last game, right.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about how they were able to convert drives
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  Speaker 3: into touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: Um, you know, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Just being able to kind of find the way off
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  Speaker 3: of the field. So I am, I'm nervous after a
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  Speaker 3: good defense performance. The one thing I would say last
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  Speaker 3: time was that our third down defense was not good.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's going to be a key in this game. Um,
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  Speaker 3: because we don't want them to extend drives.
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  Speaker 2: But, yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Browns are better, and I think my
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  Speaker 3: confidence in the Steelers is better.
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  Speaker 2: So it is difficult to kind of assess right now.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that....
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  Speaker 3: This is weird to say, but I think if we
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  Speaker 3: get into a defensive battle, it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: negative to us.
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  Speaker 2: Just because I feel like that is how.
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  Speaker 3: The Browns are going to win their games. Ugly, last
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  Speaker 3: possession kind of thing. So, I guess I would look
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  Speaker 3: to our offense to continue to surprise me. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's times where Jalen Warren, he steps up. I mean, he's, like,
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  Speaker 3: top five in scrimmage yards in the league. Aaron Rodgers is, like,
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  Speaker 3: first quarterback of ours to throw.
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  Speaker 2: Three touchdowns in consecutive games since, like, Big Ben in
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  Speaker 2: his prime or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, I think the offense will be key to
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  Speaker 3: this game, whoever is the one that does it. I
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  Speaker 3: would prefer to see Jalen Warren. I think we're at
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  Speaker 3: our best when Jalen Warren is, is at his best.
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  Speaker 3: So that would be my X factor.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Warren is the X factor. I agree. Um, really,
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  Speaker 1: I think the big thing for me is just not
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  Speaker 1: making big mistakes. So there was a couple of turnovers
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  Speaker 1: in the first game against Cleveland and, uh, they converted
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  Speaker 1: quite a few, uh, third downs from what I recall
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  Speaker 1: that I was just kind of scratching my head. Like,
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  Speaker 1: how is this even possible? Um, and the other thing
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  Speaker 1: I remember from this game too, was I think the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers started the game with an opening drive touchdown, a
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  Speaker 1: long one. The Browns just really looked awful. And then
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  Speaker 1: we just fell off the wheel after that and kind
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  Speaker 1: of dug ourself in too big of a hole to
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  Speaker 1: catch up to, um, or to get out of, I
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  Speaker 1: should say. So, I agree with you. Jalen Warren has
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  Speaker 1: got to be the key here. I think Aaron Rodgers just,
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  Speaker 1: if he has another game like he did against the
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  Speaker 1: Saints where he just doesn't turn the ball over, we
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: keep the sacks minimal. I don't think we're going to
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: get rid of them entirely, but we got to do
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: what we can to minimize them. I think we should
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: be okay. And again, this is against, this is at home.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: It's not in Cleveland. It's not on a Thursday night.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: There is a long trip back from France, but they're
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: already back now. So they've, They should have had all
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: week to get reacclimated and get caught up on their sleep.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: All wee week.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Huh? All wee week.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: All wee week, yes. Nice one. And look, the only
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: thing that concerns me about the Steelers is wide receiver
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: right now because we have DK.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: He has.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: He's been hot and cold. He's been playing better lately.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: And it's been good to see him getting involved. On
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: blocking and stuff too.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: But.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Is Jeremy Bernard our number two now? I guess just because.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Literally everyone in front of him keeps going down. He's
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: been playing pretty well. Which is great.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: But.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: We just need to see a little bit more consistency
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: out of him. So, wide receiver is pretty thin right now. So,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I think that... So, you said it would be beneficial
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: to us to get into a defensive struggle. I would like.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: No, I'm saying it would be better if we did it.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Because I think that.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's right. Sorry.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: I think the Browns defense... You know, they showed that
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: like a slugfest with Baltimore. I think that game was
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: like 13-10. That's like my nightmare right there is like
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: it being like that because that's like a fluky play
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: kind of game.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: You know, you get a bad penalty, miscoverage, stuff like that.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: I think we are the better team and if they
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: keep us honest like that, our offense honest, then unfortunately
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I just feel like those type of games go to
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: the Browns.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Well, the Browns have, I think, um, they've got more
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: momentum going for them than we do right now. The, however, uh,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling a little bit better now than I, than
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I have been, uh, for the Steelers in a while.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I know at the start of the year, we were
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: kind of up and down and up and down. The
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: last time we played the Browns, we were at a
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: high point because we just beat the Bengals, a fully
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: healthy Bengals, no less. Um, In Pittsburgh, and then we
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: saw what happened on that short week against Cleveland. Here,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I think the defense is finding its own rhythm. The offense,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: like I said, they're a little thin right now. Maybe
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: they'll get some help. Maybe we'll get some guys off
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the IR soon-ish, but not going to help us this week.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to trust Aaron Rodgers, and I'm also
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: going to trust that, like you said, the Steelers are
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: going to utilize Jalen Warren. the guy had another 100-yard
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: game against the Saints, so he has done nothing but
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: step up each and every week that he's been given
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the opportunity.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: That's crazy because I didn't think he had a quiet game,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: but I don't remember him having as good of a
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: game that we've seen this year, and so for him
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: to have 100 yards, that's incredible.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it just wasn't... 50 or an 80 yard single
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: run this time that got him over the hump. So yeah,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, I don't want to beat a dead
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: horse here, but I think this is a game the
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Steelers should win. I think it's a game the Steelers
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: need to win. I don't think you can get swept
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: by Cleveland. I think that at some point Cleveland is
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: going to come back down to earth. So you've got
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to get the wins against them now so that they don't,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: put you in too deep of a hole, kind of
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: like they did in the single game we played last time.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: The thing you've got to think about this way is
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: this division is very.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Competitive. Everyone's winning.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: This could be a division that sends all the wild
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: cards from our divisions. So with that, the division, it's like.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I could see this being a year.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: That the 4-2 out of 5-1 gets the job done
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: in the division, but that means that we already dropped
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: one against the Browns, so there's not much wiggle room there.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: No, you're exactly right. I'm with you. That's why you've
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: got to take care of business while you can. The
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: other thing to keep in mind, too, is... After the bye,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the Steelers are going to play the Bengals again, and
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: then they're done for several weeks, and then they'll play
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the Ravens twice in the last four weeks of the year,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: or five weeks, or something like that. And by then,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the Ravens, you would think, might have a healthy Lamar
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Jackson back. He could be hurt again, too. But those
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: are things you have to think about. I would say
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: for this, though, I'm going to trust that the Steelers
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: know that they're playing the Browns and that they need
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to win this game. They have to take care of business.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: They talked about this against the Buccaneers. They're like, we
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: need to beat the teams that we're supposed to beat. Well,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: this is a team you're supposed to beat. I don't
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: care that they're in first place and that they beat
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: you once already. This is still the Cleveland Browns. You
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: need to bring them back down to earth. So I
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: am going to give the Steelers a win here, and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I'm fully prepared to be disappointed on Sunday. Um, but
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I will give them the win. I'll give them the win.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: And I think it's going to be a, uh, 27
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to 21 victory for the Steelers.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: No, I, I, I agree.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: And even score wise, I think that that's pretty sufficient. Um, you.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Know, just for the sake of being a little different,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: we'll go with.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Uh, 30 to 24. But, no, I agree.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I think that they will win.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: You know, I mentioned that I would like the pace
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: of the game to not be the slugfest. So, you know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: we'll see what happens. But I do think this will
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: go our way.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, there you go. We've both got the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Steelers in the win column, I hope. that we're not
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: eating crow again next week. So, we were talking about
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: a fun topic, and Eric and I are both working
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: suburban dads here, and with the Steelers coming up on by,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I thought it might be kind of interesting to say,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: or to discuss, what we would do on a by day.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: So in this scenario, the situation is, our wives wake
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: up one, let's call it Saturday morning, we have no obligations,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: no plans, no nothing, and they say something to the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: effect of, hey, I'm taking the kids out for the
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: entire day. We'll be back tonight. You do whatever you
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: want to do. So, in this.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: I didn't know the kids had no kids. Or, and
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: no wife.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I thought it was just no kids, but okay.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, your wife is telling the kids that they have
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: to go into the backyard and they are not allowed
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to come in for the rest of the day under
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: any circumstances.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm thinking like Grandma and Grandpa came over, you know?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: No, I like my scenario better. They're in the backyard.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Whatever the scenario is, whatever you want to do. This
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: is our fun topic. There's no rules here at Steelers
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Country Weekly. So let's just position it this way then.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Your wife wakes up and says, this is your bye day.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: You get to do whatever you want. I'll send the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: kids to the grandparents. I'll go with them. Whatever you want, Eric,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: it's up to you. So I'll ask you, in this
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: dream day scenario, how are you spending your time?
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Okay. let's see sounds weird but I always feel better
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: when I get like a little workout in start of
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: the day so I want to feel fulfilled so either like.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: A workout or if I.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Played like pickleball in the morning just something to get
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: the juices going doesn't have to be anything intense um come.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Back I'd have.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I'd do a bath. No, no, no. Actually.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Take a bath?
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Before....
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Is that what you said?
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go walk the dog. Relax for just a second.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: And then I'm gonna come back, take a bath. I'll
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: eat lunch.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I think a burger sounds good on my driveway.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: No, actually, I changed that. A wing place. Because my
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: wife likes burgers. And she likes wings. But she won't
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: go to a wing restaurant with me.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: You know. Okay.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: So.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: So then I.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: And we're going to say this is like a summer day.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I got a lot of take time. So I come
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: back home. I watch. One of my like.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Favorites not like a brand new movie just like you
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: scrolled on it and wow that like that takes me
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: back i want to watch that for like the 13th
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: time uh type of movie then i'm gonna go to
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: disc golf i'm gonna get around in nice beautiful scenery
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: it's like a 76 degrees um.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Semi-sunny, semi-cloudy. And then, let's see, what am I going
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: to do for the finish?
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Uh you know what I'm going to come back home
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: I'm going to make some sheet nachos.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: And then I'm going to relax with some you know
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: like Having some drinks. And then.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: You know what.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: I'll come back after dinner. I'm going to have a cigar.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Over a whiskey. And then I'm going to.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: After I'm done with that. I got to take a shower.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Can't fall asleep. Smelling like a cigar. It smells gross.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: And then. And then I'm going to.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Throw on King of the Hill. And then watch one
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: or two of them. To a bush light.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Before I go through my day, you mentioned King of
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the Hill. Have you seen all of the revival seasons yet?
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I'm glad we get two more coming as well. I
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: thought the ending of the last season was perfect, though.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Completely perfect.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: King of the Hill, as you get older, it's the
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: perfect show for you.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I would agree with that. You really start, in my opinion,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: for me, and I'm guessing it's the same for you,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: you really start to identify with Hank Hill more and
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: more the older you get.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Well, my son's name is not far off from it.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: The truth comes out. He's named after Hank Hill. I
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: also noticed that you insisted that your wife be included
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: in this hypothetical, and then you didn't even mention her
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: at all when you were running down everything you were
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: going to do.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, no, I was going with the original prompt.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: You know, of course, let's say at the beginning of
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: my day starts off like it did, but then, you know.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: I love, like, a nice actual date, you know.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: There's this place, actually, in Cincinnati, I think you would
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: have liked it, Nick, is, so they do, like, tapas,
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: but not, like, you know, two-bite type of tapas. So
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: it's called Abigail Street. And they had all kinds of
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: different type of cuisine, too, that they would have into
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: the tapas. So I really liked it. It was a
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: nice restaurant. Honestly, any restaurant where you don't have your, like.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Kids just.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Absolutely mauling each other, mauling you, throwing things on the ground,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: that's a win.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Alright, I'm with you.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: In my hypothetical, I will... I'm going to be kind
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: of similar to you to start with. I'm going to
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: wake up and work out. Right now I'm lifting weights
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: more so than doing cardio, but hopefully I'll get a
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: treadmill or a walking pad so that I can at
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: least do Like some sort of walking or something after
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: I lift some weights for maybe a half hour or so.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Wake up and do the weight lifting. Mostly because I
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: need to offset all the food I'm about to eat
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: for the day. But when I do lunch, I'm probably
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: going to do chicken wings for lunch. And I am
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: trying to experiment with a few different methods now for
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: making chicken wings. Are you going to make them yourself?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I will, because I'm going to be saving the money.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I'll use the smoker or a fryer.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Money is not an object in this one either.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: In this hypothetical, I'm going for complete peace of mind.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: So saving money gives me that peace of mind. But really,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I do want... I'm trying to find... The perfect at-home
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: chicken wing. That's my impossible dream, my impossible quest right now.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: I think that getting the crispiness is really difficult.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm struggling with right now because I can
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: get a crispy wing, but that sacrifices some of the
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: juiciness from the wing too. So it's about finding, not
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: to use a workplace cliche, but it's about finding that balance.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: So I've got a good marinade that I like now
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: that gives it a good flavor, but I just cannot
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: get that crispiness. Anyway, regardless of how I go about it,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I would be making chicken wings. And I actually make
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: my own blue cheese dressing at home now, too. It's
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: pretty quick and easy to make.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I've become a blue cheese guy with my wings instead
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: of ranch. So, yeah.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Like, what....
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: What do you put in the blue cheese? How does
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: it come together so well?
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: It's actually not that much. It's just obviously the blue
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: cheese crumbles and then usually, and I don't remember the
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: measurements exactly, but it's mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon juice, Worcester,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: and then I think some pepper and some garlic. And
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: that's pretty much it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I was watching a video about chicken wings with some
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: guy who's from Buffalo, and he went back to Buffalo
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: and talked with people, and he actually interviewed one of
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the Bills players. I can't remember who it was, but
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I guess it is a thing in Buffalo. You will
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: get made fun of if you order ranch with your wings.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: So that's what put me on that.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, really?
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Apparently, that's a no-no. So blue cheese is the traditional
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: dressing to choose with your buffalo wings.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, I can see that. I feel like, like,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I feel like ranch is just American. Is that true? Like,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: do you feel like that?
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: That it's just an American thing?
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like, I don't feel like that's, like, a normal
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: condiment in other places.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: No, I've read threads on, like, Reddit from people from
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: around the world who talk about how they miss having
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: not just ranch, but like selection, a wide selection of
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: ranch dressings. Like when they go to their grocery store,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: if you're lucky, you can maybe find an American section
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: that'll have one bottle.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Or one type.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Kind of the same way we have like international sections
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: in our grocery stores too, but it's probably nowhere near
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: as filled out.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you have a favorite ranch?
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Uh, no, I do not. Um, well, Wingstop Ranch is
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: always good if you're gonna go to a restaurant, but, like,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: in terms of, like, a brand that you can buy
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: a bottle of, no, I don't have a preferred one.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah. People used to, like, love Outback Ranch. We used
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: to actually make all of the, all of the stuff, uh, fresh. Yeah.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: With all the grass bones and all that. And croutons.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Food quality at Outback really slipped. I was deeply
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: depressed about how bad it went down.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Ever since you left.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: It was really good.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: You left and everything just tanked.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I used to eat a lot of it.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: If someone didn't like their blue onions too overdone, I'd
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: be like, I'm going to eat that.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: My favorite is when people bring like a kitchen scale
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: and away their steak just to make sure that they're
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: giving them, giving them the right side.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I've seen some people do that. And, um, I, it's
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: going to be a little bit different too, right? Because
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: they weigh it. It's weighed before it's put on the grill.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: So it's going to shrink and stuff on the grill,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: but yeah, some people are trying to pull one over
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: on the restaurants. Um, anyway, back to my buy day. Um,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: that's fine so I'm making chicken wings and when I'm
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: by myself which is rare I like to watch history
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: videos whether it's like a history series or like a
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: YouTube video because I try to watch that stuff with
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: my kids in the house and I can't hear anything
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: they're saying and then I get lost and It's just
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: not worth it for me to try to even watch
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: one of those.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Have you gone to Subtiles yet?
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: I have, but even then someone needs my attention and
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I've got to look away and figure out.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Break up a fight or see someone jump off our
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: fireplace for the 15th time that half hour. So yeah,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm doing. I'm eating chicken wings, watching history videos...
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of great channels out there on YouTube.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I love oversimplified. They haven't done a video in a
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: couple of years now, but they're due for one. There's
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  Speaker 1: another great channel called vlogging through history where he does
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  Speaker 1: reactions to like other videos and he'll add his own
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: context like, okay so what he's talking about here is
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: actually this and this and this and this reminds me
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: of something that happened like in the american civil war
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: he does a good job connecting the dots and explaining
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: things and adding some color to what's being presented um
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: and then i love documentaries too anything about the u.s
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: presidents i am all game for um I actually just
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: watched a Franklin Roosevelt miniseries not too long ago, and
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not even an FDR fan by any stretch of
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: the imagination, but I just found it so interesting that
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I had to keep finding time to sneak away from
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: the family to go finish watching it.
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  Speaker 2: Was it on, like, Netflix or something?
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: It is on, I think it's on Netflix now, but
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: it wasn't when I watched it, like, You know how
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: your TV has its own channels from the brand? It
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: was an LG TV, so it was on there. It
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: might have been produced by the History Channel originally. I
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: don't know. But yeah, I do think it is on Netflix.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: It might just be called FDR.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the one I watched.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: It's like three episodes. They're each like an hour, hour
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  Speaker 1: and a half. And it's a documentary, but they also
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: have actors reenacting certain scenes, too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah so which i i do think that i i
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: tend to favor like the more interviewee style with like
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: the slides but i understand the reenactment but if it's
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: just a reenactment i'm.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Out see i would do both if it was a
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: um i mean i like both because i like the
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: topic but um but yeah i would do a um
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Why can't I think of the word right now for
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: what that's called? I'm spacing. It's been a long day.
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  Speaker 1: If it was like a... Not a biographic, but.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. If it was like a
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: dramatization of like the... Just a dramatization, a reenactment of
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: like the life of the president, I would still watch
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: that too. It's going to come to me as soon
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: as we hang up and I'm going to feel like
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: an idiot for not knowing the word here. But anyway...
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Don't be so hard on yourself, man.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: I just have high standards for us and our program here,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: and we're going to meet them, darn it, someday. It's
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: only been 11 years. For dinner, I'm doing steak. That's
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: what I'm doing. I like to do steaks on my
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: cast iron, finish them with compound butter, and I actually
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: like making baked potatoes with my steak, so I would
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: have steak and potatoes. um i'd continue just.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: The butter salt kind of guy or.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: For the potato that thing out for the.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Big chives and bacon it's it's.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Loaded up with everything if i have everything uh chives
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: is usually the only one i don't have but for
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: for this hypothetical sure we'll have chives we'll load it
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: up with sour cream bacon cheese um butter all that
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: good stuff so Finding a good baked potato recipe was
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: something I was happy I did. But again, that's something
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: that only me and my wife like. My kids won't
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: eat them. So this is what I'll share with you,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: and you'll laugh at this. In between all of my
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: eating and my history watching, in this day where I'm
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: left to my own devices, I'm going to be doing
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: one thing. And I'm going to be playing a new
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: video game that came out uh, on the first of
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: the month. So October 1st, the game is dynasty warriors
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: three remastered.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Oh my God. So, well, but I've got four, four
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: was your favorite.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Four was my favorite. I still loved three, four and
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: five and some of the other ones too, but, uh,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: they released, uh, three remastered this year cause this was
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: the 25th anniversary. Um, four's 25th anniversary is going to
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: be in 2028 so we're less than a year and
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: a half away from that if that doesn't make you
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: feel old um but now it's been it's been really
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: fun uh for me getting to to play that game
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: again on the ps5 no less with um with that
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: just awesome soundtrack um and it's just a game that
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but for me,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: it goes straight to that nostalgia vein in me. That's
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: how I'm literally spending all my time that day when
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not working out or eating or watching a history show.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: I loved it. Honestly, we played video games a lot,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: but it never followed me.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Know.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: I always thought that was a great video game because
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: it's it's like mortal combat but you have like a.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Mission yeah it's and we can have a whole episode
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: about dynasty warriors too but we um the the joke
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: is that it's not a joke i guess but but
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: the theme is it's like one versus a thousand so
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: you get plopped in this battlefield it's a historical fiction
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: thing and it's a highly fictionalized uh, version of these
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: battles that actually did happen. Um, but yeah, it's, here's
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: a battlefield you can run around and they might give
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: you some objectives that you can or can't do, but
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: really you can do whatever you want. You can run
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: straight for the commander. You can help your allies do
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: whatever you want and, uh, try to unify China while
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: avoiding Lu Bu. So I, I loved it. It got
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: me hooked on history and, uh, The book that it's
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: based off of is one of my favorite books as well,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: so I might have to get the audiobook or buy
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: a new version of the book and reread that. So
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: there you go. There's our fun day. Mine involves eating
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: and playing video games. Eric's involves working out, eating, bathing twice,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: and smoking a cigar.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Dude, I love... I tell Presley all the time.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: All the time like showers heal like i love taking
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: a bath taking.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: A shower it and.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: Honestly it's just like one of those things like not
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: even having to ask to take one i don't know.
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: Like that's something for me but you're you're just like
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: you know you got three kids going on down here
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: are you good you know it's it's difficult so.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: Not having to ask.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: There you go. I never thought of it like that.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I've never... I understand what you were saying. I was like,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Did his parents not let him shower
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: when he was a kid? What does he mean, not
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: having to ask? Now that he's an adult, he can
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: do it whenever he wants.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: I was like, I don't... No, I don't.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't think that was the environment
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: he was raised in. I was over there enough. I
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: think I would have noticed if he smelled. I get
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: it now. Having the freedom to be able to do
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: it and knowing that you're not leaving your wife high
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: and dry with three kids in the middle of a
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: temper tantrum or something like that.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: I try to take one in the middle of the
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: day and then I'll just be like, are you okay?
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: She's like, yeah.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: You get to the base of the stairs and then
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: the two kids are fighting and one's crying And it's like,
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: did I hear it?
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Right. And the answer is no, you did not.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Keep going. All right.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Well, we talked quite a bit about a wide variety
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: of topics tonight. Was there anything else you wanted to
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: touch on before we sign off for the evening and
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: hang out until next week?
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: No.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: All good. All right.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Well, that'll do it for us. For the world-famous accountants,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Eric Vamenschoten, I am Nick DiTullio, and this has been
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: another episode of TheGameHouse.com's Steelers Country Weekly.