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Offseason Updates · Steelers Country Weekly

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Speaker 1: Today on Steelers Country Weekly. It's the middle of July.
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Speaker 1: We don't know what we're going to talk about, but
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Speaker 1: we'll think of something we always do. I'm Nick Detulio
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Speaker 1: and as always I'm joined by the world famous accountant,
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Speaker 1: Eric vammen Schowtin. Eric, how's it going tonight? I can't complain,
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Speaker 1: can't complain. Indeed, like we said, middle middle of July,
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Speaker 1: this is i'd say the slowest time for football. There's
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Speaker 1: no draft, not really any free agency. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: the mini camps have already happened. We're just waiting for
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Speaker 1: training camps now in the preseason, and uh, it's kind
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Speaker 1: of slow. But I do have big news that I
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Speaker 1: have not shared on the podcast yet. Oh nice, I
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Speaker 1: have shared it with you offline. I have a direct
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Speaker 1: guarantee that the Steelers will win a Super Bowl within
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Speaker 1: the next five years. So we will get to that later.
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Speaker 1: We've got to put that out there and let everyone.
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Speaker 2: On the seat of their pants with that.
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Speaker 1: That's how we keep the listeners engaged the entire time.
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Speaker 1: You got to tease them a little bit, hook them,
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Speaker 1: and then reel them in later. So stick around. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about that. But no, it's been a while since
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Speaker 1: we recorded. The way we do the off season recordings
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Speaker 1: is we do one a month, just because if we
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Speaker 1: tried to talk every week in the off season, we'd
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Speaker 1: be really stretching ourselves thin and probably talking about mostly
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Speaker 1: things that aren't football. And when we met last time,
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we recorded one at the very end
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Speaker 1: of May, and then we recorded another one at the
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Speaker 1: very beginning of June, and now we are here in
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Speaker 1: mid July, end of July. So a lot has happened
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Speaker 1: since we talked again, not in the football world, but
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Speaker 1: just in the regular, regular planet Earth, so.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know it's in the worldview of football, A
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Speaker 3: lot has happened.
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Speaker 1: Sure doesn't matter for us, though, you know, here's what
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I recently purchased the new College Football
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Speaker 1: game for the PlayStation as a thirty four year old man,
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Speaker 1: so I could play an online dynasty with my friends.
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Speaker 1: And I remember I turned it on.
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Speaker 2: Did you elbow a twelve year old in the face
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Speaker 2: for it?
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Speaker 1: It's tough to do that when it's a digital purchase.
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Speaker 1: It's not even a disc anymore than I had to buy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I could have gone out and found a twelve year
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Speaker 1: old given him the elbow and then gone home. No,
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Speaker 1: it's actually pretty funny. I was pretty good at the
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Speaker 1: other game, or the last games on the last generation
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Speaker 1: of consoles before they came out. And then this is
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Speaker 1: the first year I've had a PlayStation five since they've
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Speaker 1: re released these college football games. I think this is
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Speaker 1: the third year they've done it. And I said, you
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Speaker 1: know what, we're going to play online. I've got to
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Speaker 1: get good. So I'm going to do some practice games
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to put it on the hardest difficulty
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Speaker 1: because that's what we used to play on in the
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Speaker 1: last game. So I started a dynasty with our alma mater, Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: I was prepared to lead us back to glory. This
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Speaker 1: game is so hard, man. I was losing like thirty
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Speaker 1: eight to nothing to Miami Ohio in the third quarter.
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Speaker 4: I rage quit.
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Speaker 1: I went to play now, and I played several exhibition
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Speaker 1: games against teams that were about on par with Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: or worse.
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Speaker 2: What's hard about it?
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Speaker 1: So in an effort to challenge to make the game challenging,
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Speaker 1: it's little thing like even if you have a better
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Speaker 1: team than the other team, your offensive line is not
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Speaker 1: going to hold a block and by the same token,
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Speaker 1: you're not going to get any pressure on the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: It almost like it buffs up the computer as opposed
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Speaker 1: to just making it a smarter like play caller, if
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Speaker 1: that makes sense. So I've heard stories online of people
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Speaker 1: you know and sharing replays of like playing as Georgia
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Speaker 1: and then playing a small school and just getting trounced.
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Speaker 1: It's just kind of nuts. So I promise you I've
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Speaker 1: lost track of how many games I've played because as
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Speaker 1: soon as things get out of hand, I just restart
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Speaker 1: and start over.
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Speaker 2: Quitter.
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Speaker 1: No, absolutely, I'm like, I want to practice, but I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to sit here while my team's down fifty
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Speaker 1: six to nothing to Louisiana Monroe loser. I know it
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Speaker 1: to be like a cumulative score of like over five
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Speaker 1: hundred to forty something, and I am not exaggerating. I
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Speaker 1: won one game on Heisman one, so that's what I've
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Speaker 1: been doing. Football wise, we did tone it down to
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Speaker 1: All American and that is a little more manageable. But
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Speaker 1: I am still struggling even though I'm Notre Dame and
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Speaker 1: playing an admitted cupcake schedule, because I was afraid of
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Speaker 1: my inability to win.
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Speaker 2: Why are you, why are you notre ding?
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Speaker 4: We picked four star schools. I also got to get
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Speaker 4: out of five or six.
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Speaker 1: I guess I think it's out of five and there's
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Speaker 1: only a handful of five star schools. It's like Ohio State,
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Speaker 1: and who's the other five star? It might be Georgia,
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Speaker 1: but it was mostly mostly these high eschelon schools. We
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Speaker 1: figured it'd be a good one once we're if we
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Speaker 1: ever get good, we'll probably do somewhere. You started a
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Speaker 1: smaller school and work your way up. But I also
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Speaker 1: got to pick last, and they were still on the board,
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Speaker 1: and our unpaid student intern actually told me. He texted
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Speaker 1: me because he he picked right before me, and he said,
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Speaker 1: do you want Notre Dame? If not, I will If
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Speaker 1: you do, I'll let you take them and I'll take
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Speaker 1: someone else. And I said, yes, I do want Notre Dame.
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Speaker 1: And again it was literally just so I could pick
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Speaker 1: the easiest schedule possible. I was like, I don't care
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Speaker 1: about rivalries. I don't care about and I just want
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Speaker 1: to win. I am not going to be fired for
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Speaker 1: losing by triple digits at Notre Dame.
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Speaker 3: I like being an independent in the games because you
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Speaker 3: can pick your whole entire schedule, So it can be
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Speaker 3: like incredibly hard, or it could just be like, oh
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Speaker 3: yeah it's weant's kind of see what was going on here? Yeah,
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Speaker 3: we'll play East Carolina State.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I used to do that too, just because I always
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Speaker 1: I always thought making the schedule and sometimes even the
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Speaker 1: off season stuff was more fun than playing the game itself,
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Speaker 1: kind of like doing a coaching mode or a general
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Speaker 1: manager kind of mode. I also have a very poor
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Speaker 1: grasp of the nil setup in the current game too,
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Speaker 1: which is obviously different from the last game that I played,
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Speaker 1: which came out in twenty thirteen when that wasn't a thing.
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Speaker 1: But hey, you know what it is. What it is,
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Speaker 1: so we'll get better at it, and I hope to
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Speaker 1: bring a national title back to Notre Dame here in
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Speaker 1: the near future. But speaking of Champel.
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Speaker 2: Their last Super when was their last national.
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Speaker 4: Title nineteen eighty eight with Lou Holtz.
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Speaker 2: Wow, our lives they have never wont I know? They've
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Speaker 2: been in it.
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Speaker 1: They've been in it a few times.
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Speaker 2: And they when Brady Quinn was there, I.
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Speaker 1: Don't believe, so I think that was I think Brian
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Speaker 1: Kelly took them to the championship after he was gone.
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Speaker 1: It was twenty twelve was the year they went with
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Speaker 1: like man Titeo against Alaman.
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Speaker 2: Did Marcus Freeman take them?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they were there, not this past year, but the
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Speaker 1: year before and lost to Ohio State.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The I believe sometimes when I have a lot of
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Speaker 1: free time, I go down the Wikipedia rabbit hole.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if you do that sometimes too, But.
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Speaker 1: My understand my understanding is they almost wanted again in
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Speaker 1: ninety two with or ninety one or ninety two with
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Speaker 1: Lou Holtz. I think they had one loss and they
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Speaker 1: got upset by like a point at Boston College.
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Speaker 4: And that was back in the days.
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Speaker 1: We're losing by a poor could keep you out of
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Speaker 1: the championship, or before the championship game was even a thing,
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Speaker 1: could absolutely just cost you being awarded the championship. So
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Speaker 1: different times, for sure. Now we've got the twelve team playoff,
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Speaker 1: we've got the SEC talking about seceding from the NC
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Speaker 1: Double A and doing their own thing. But yeah, there
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Speaker 1: are discussions about that, and they're claiming that it's because
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Speaker 1: the NC Double A is unable to enforce any of
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Speaker 1: their rules, which I will admit is true. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you look at the Brandon you look at like and
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Speaker 1: the Brendan Soresby issue down at Texas Tech and from
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Speaker 1: again from ural Modern Cincinnati was I think the clearest
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Speaker 1: example of that where the guy literally bet on games
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Speaker 1: while he was a part of certain teams admitted to it.
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Speaker 1: It's clear violation of the rules. And then you get
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Speaker 1: some local tech or local tech, local judge in Lubbock,
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Speaker 1: Texas who puts an injunction out there and says he
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Speaker 1: can play.
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Speaker 4: It's like, what are we doing?
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Speaker 1: But all that being said, I don't know that that's
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Speaker 1: a good reason to threaten secession. But again, the South
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Speaker 1: has you were going where I was going right, just
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Speaker 1: in the form of college athletics now. But yeah, that
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Speaker 1: was that was one of the things that was being
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Speaker 1: discussed during the team meetings at the SEC media days,
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Speaker 1: and ESPN was reporting.
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Speaker 4: On it too, So.
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Speaker 1: I hope it doesn't happen. But I mean the SEC
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Speaker 1: has been kind of operating however they want to for
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Speaker 1: a long time now. Yeah, But speaking, I was going
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Speaker 1: to go on championship runs too. I was going to
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Speaker 1: talk about the Super Bowl guarantee here. I thought that
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Speaker 1: our listeners would appreciate the story and my commitment to
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Speaker 1: bringing the.
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Speaker 4: Stealers a Super Bowl ring.
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Speaker 1: So I went on vacation with my family to Myrtle
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Speaker 1: Beach last month and we were walking on huh as
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Speaker 1: one does, as one does, and we were walking around
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Speaker 1: the main entertainment one of the main entertainment centers in
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Speaker 1: Myrtle Beach called Broadway on the Beach, and I walked
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Speaker 1: into a sports memorabilia store and I was looking around
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Speaker 1: and it was a lot of like, you know, statues,
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Speaker 1: There was some cards. There was a bunch of different
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Speaker 1: pictures and plaques and stuff merchandise, you know, and nothing
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Speaker 1: like super high collectible or rare or anything like that,
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Speaker 1: but there was some nice stuff that you can get
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Speaker 1: for just your casual you know, fan cave that kind
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Speaker 1: of thing. And I walked in and I'm looking around
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Speaker 1: and one of the guys approached me and they all
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Speaker 1: had accents, I think they were like Russian accents, and
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Speaker 1: he was he was like, who's your favorite dem and
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Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, it's the Steelers and he's like,
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Speaker 1: you like the Steelers, I have something I need to
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Speaker 1: show you.
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Speaker 4: I've got Super Bowl ring.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, authentic and he's this was my first
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Speaker 1: I guess where I let my guard down because he
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Speaker 1: was honest with me. He said, no, they're not authentic.
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Speaker 1: If they were authentic, I would take them in a leave,
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Speaker 1: but I did not, like, oh okay. So he goes behind
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Speaker 1: the counter and he pulls out these replica Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: rings and I'm like, okay, cool.
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Speaker 4: And the thing you need to know about me is
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Speaker 4: I do not do.
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Speaker 1: Well in high pressure sales situations where I'm the customer.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because I used to do
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Speaker 1: like door to door sales and you know, had to
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Speaker 1: do like cold calls for some of my sales, but
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Speaker 1: I guess I have a soft spot for that. And
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Speaker 1: so they were talking and they were like, you look
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Speaker 1: around the we're going to find the sixth ring because
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Speaker 1: we only have five right now, but I know there's six.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I was hoping you'd have seven in there,
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Speaker 1: making a really bad dad joke, and the guy laughed
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Speaker 1: and he looked at me and he said, if you
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Speaker 1: purchase all six rings, I guarantee next I guarantee Steelers
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Speaker 1: win another Super Bowl in the next five years. And
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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, alrighty, then I can't argue with that canda.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, they did. They found the six rings and
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Speaker 1: they were like, how much do you think these are?
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh shit, Like what if I say
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Speaker 1: something too high? Like I haven't watched enough pond Stars
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Speaker 1: to like get good at this yet. And I, you know,
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Speaker 1: being funny, I said ten dollars and they laughed at
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Speaker 1: me and they're like, no, not ten dollars. I said, well,
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna go out guaranteeing wins, I'm gonna throw
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Speaker 1: out a low price.
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Speaker 4: Why not?
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Speaker 1: And he said, if you buy all six, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to drop the accent. Now, if you buy all six,
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Speaker 1: I you know, we'll do it for one hundred and fifty.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, I was actually surprised. I thought it
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Speaker 1: was going to be a lot more like, I know
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Speaker 1: they're not authentic rings. I know they're not really worth
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Speaker 1: any money, but I was like, okay, I'm not a
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Speaker 1: mathematician here, but six rings for one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: dollars is not that bad, right, what's that's uh, let's
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Speaker 1: see thirty dollars a piece, right, So there you.
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Speaker 4: See, maybe I can be a mathematician.
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Speaker 1: I was like, thirty dollars, isn't that bad? So I'm like, sure,
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Speaker 1: I'll buy it, and uh, they came with a case.
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Speaker 4: The case.
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Speaker 1: I need to get a new case though, because they
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Speaker 1: only had a and this is a good problem to have.
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Speaker 1: The case they had did not have enough slots for
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Speaker 1: all of the Super Bowl rings that the Steelers have,
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Speaker 1: so I do.
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Speaker 2: Need to get I know, right.
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Speaker 1: And it was funny because there was a Ravens fan
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Speaker 1: next to me who is buying his and they only
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Speaker 1: had two super Bowl rings. So I was able to
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Speaker 1: make fun of him and tell him that my box
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Speaker 1: was bigger than his, so that was that was kind
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Speaker 1: of nice. So yeah, there you go. I I walked
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Speaker 1: away with six Super Bowl Rings replicas and it actually
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Speaker 1: I have another World I have a World Series replica
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Speaker 1: ring too, so that's kind of interesting as well.
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Speaker 4: They go together.
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Speaker 1: And my my daughter got me a Father's Day president
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Speaker 1: was a grilling set, so like a pair of tongs
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Speaker 1: and a like a grilling fork that's got the Steeler
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Speaker 1: stuff on it. I don't know if I can actually
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Speaker 1: use it for the grill. I don't know if it
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Speaker 1: would hold up next to the heat. It's but it
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Speaker 1: was a very nice thought. So yeah, that's the story
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Speaker 1: of how Nick Detulio got a Super Bowl win for the.
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Speaker 4: Steelers within the next five years. So there you have it.
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Speaker 3: See, I mean, you got to go back there in
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Speaker 3: five years or so. If it's not true.
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Speaker 4: I'm absolutely right.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that'll be totally legit and actually happened.
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Speaker 2: It's called a warranty, right right.
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Speaker 1: But no, I mean I used to not be a
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Speaker 1: pack rat of any kind, but now that I work
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Speaker 1: from home, I've got my own, my own home that
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Speaker 1: I think is my forever home. I've got my own office.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I kind of want to put some
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Speaker 1: decorations up, have some things put up. So I that's
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Speaker 1: kind of why I I ended up getting the rings.
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Speaker 1: I was actually looking for some like a picture something
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Speaker 1: to hang up, and there were some cool ones.
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Speaker 4: There, but they weren't.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was like, depending on the ones you
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Speaker 1: could get, it was like three to four hundred dollars,
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Speaker 1: and like the pictures would be blurry, and even the autographs,
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Speaker 1: which again weren't legit, and they I mean it's not
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Speaker 1: like they tried to pass them off as legitimate or anything.
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Speaker 1: Like the autographs themselves were like lasered on blurry too.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I don't. I don't want to do
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Speaker 1: any of that. The rings are at least cool, They're
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Speaker 1: not as expensive, and like I said, I've already got
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Speaker 1: a Braves replica World Series ring as well that I
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Speaker 1: keep in the office as well.
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Speaker 2: So is your big Brave span?
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Speaker 4: Yes?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I moved down here. They won the World Series.
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Speaker 1: What can I say?
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Speaker 4: But no? Then I also.
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Speaker 2: Will never happen for our our squad.
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Speaker 1: What moving to moving to Pittsburgh and getting a win.
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Speaker 2: No, I was saying that, Oh yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: I mean.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I gave up on the Reds a long time ago,
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Speaker 1: but especially when when the owner was like, well, where
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Speaker 1: are you going to go? When people complained about stuff?
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Speaker 4: So I'll tell you where I went. I went to Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: But while we were up in Cincinnati, I did this
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Speaker 1: was pretty funny. I usually do all my shopping at
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Speaker 1: Sam's Club, and so I actually have a lot of
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Speaker 1: like Georgia and Kennesaw State t shirts because they always
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Speaker 1: have They usually have like local team merchandise and stuff
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Speaker 1: at Sam's. So I said, you know what, while we're here,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna drive thirty minutes out of the way because
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Speaker 1: we were staying in northern Kentucky to go to the
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Speaker 1: Sam's Club in White Oak, Ohio and get some Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: merchandise because I need some new Cincinnati shirts. I drive
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Speaker 1: up there and they didn't have any, so I'm like, well, shoot,
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Speaker 1: so I drive. I'm driving home and I'm going down
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Speaker 1: seventy five and I'm like, you know, Clifton's just right
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Speaker 1: off Hopple Street exit. So I drove up there and
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Speaker 1: I parked, and I went into the boys for the
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Speaker 1: first time in several years, and I did manage to
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Speaker 1: get a bunch of T shirts and I got a
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Speaker 1: like a distressed wood sign that had the old bear
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Speaker 1: Cat logo on it, So I've got I did get
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Speaker 1: some Cincinnati merchandise while I was up there, too, to
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Speaker 1: hang in my office.
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Speaker 4: So I'm happy with that. The distress sign, huh.
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Speaker 2: You called it a distress sign.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to make a pun. It's it's one
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Speaker 1: of those is that not what it's called though, where
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Speaker 1: it's got like.
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Speaker 2: No, it's called it's just it's under stress, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, exactly, Thanks Dad, So yeah, I was pretty happy
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Speaker 1: with that, And I think I told you this at
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Speaker 1: my daughter's birthday party.
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Speaker 4: We were there.
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Speaker 1: I saw a polo for one hundred and fifty dollars,
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Speaker 1: so ye did not buy it. But if that doesn't
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Speaker 1: tell you where things are right now, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what does.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, are you are you signing? Are you
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Speaker 3: are you hitting a seventy two on the golf course
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Speaker 3: in that pole?
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Speaker 4: I did hit a seventy golfer?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: No, you know what I think you asked me at
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Speaker 1: the party, like, what does it do for one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty dollars?
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Speaker 4: Right? And I don't know. It was a nice polo,
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Speaker 4: but I'm not buying a one hundred and fifty Do
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Speaker 4: make me laugh? Right?
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Speaker 2: It doesn't. It doesn't make me laugh. What are you doing?
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Speaker 2: I know? I know.
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Speaker 1: Do you think we should actually talk about the Steelers
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Speaker 1: at some point today?
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Speaker 3: Well maybe there were Maybe a Steelers polo is one
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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty dollars.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure I could find one, just not
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Speaker 1: at the University of Cincinnati bookstore.
20:52
Speaker 2: Well go search it, right, And what would your other have?
20:59
Speaker 3: Would your other have six Super Bowl rings with better
21:03
Speaker 3: hope of getting a seventh or a polo.
21:09
Speaker 1: I mean the rings in that scenario if you were
21:15
Speaker 1: asking me, But if you were asking me which which
21:24
Speaker 1: school I'd rather or team i'd rather have a championship
21:27
Speaker 1: right now, I would probably say University of Cincinnati before
21:31
Speaker 1: the Steelers, if nothing else, just because we've already seen
21:34
Speaker 1: two Super Bowls in our lifetime. We haven't seen we
21:37
Speaker 1: got a we got a college football Playoff appearance where
21:40
Speaker 1: we got smoked, and we've seen I think only two
21:44
Speaker 1: Sweet Sixteen appearances since you and me have been aware
21:50
Speaker 1: of college basketball, right Yeah. So anyway, I was gonna
22:00
Speaker 1: pull up the Steelers schedule here just because I wanted
22:07
Speaker 1: to look at it, and we'll do the game by
22:09
Speaker 1: game predictions later, but I wanted to see if there
22:17
Speaker 1: were any opportunities for a road trip for me. You're
22:21
Speaker 1: more than welcome to join me.
22:23
Speaker 5: If you want. I all uh with a child on
22:30
Speaker 5: the way. So September ish, it's gonna be difficult.
22:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I understand that they are. They're hosting the Falcons.
22:42
Speaker 1: Too bad, they're not going to be on the road again.
22:44
Speaker 1: That was a I do like the Falcon Stadium and
22:46
Speaker 1: that was a cool a cool game to get to
22:49
Speaker 1: see not going to Boston. They'll be in Cincinnati on
22:54
Speaker 1: September twenty seventh.
22:56
Speaker 2: So I'd love to go to Boston. Do you just
22:58
Speaker 2: not want to? Why do you not want to?
23:01
Speaker 6: Give a box?
23:02
Speaker 1: It's just too far away for the travel for the
23:04
Speaker 1: sake of traveling. I'd love to actually go to Boston.
23:07
Speaker 1: Just I'm not gonna go out of my way for
23:09
Speaker 1: a football game in the middle of the school year
23:11
Speaker 1: and the work year.
23:13
Speaker 3: That's fair because I like as much as I know
23:18
Speaker 3: about Boston, I like Boston.
23:22
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
23:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm a big history buff. I know
23:27
Speaker 1: you are too. So you got all the Civil or
23:28
Speaker 1: Civil War, you got all the Revolutionary War stuff, Boston
23:32
Speaker 1: tea party, you got John Adams and John Quincy Adams
23:36
Speaker 1: up there.
23:38
Speaker 2: And then I tell you, what.
23:41
Speaker 3: Did I tell you last time? When I was thinking
23:43
Speaker 3: for my son's middle name, you did not thinking about Roosevelt.
23:51
Speaker 4: Henry.
23:53
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I guess I just said it out loud.
23:55
Speaker 1: Roosevelt is Roosevelt is a middle name.
23:59
Speaker 3: Interesting, So I mean, how often do you use your
24:06
Speaker 3: middle name? But two, could you think of worse things
24:10
Speaker 3: to be named after?
24:13
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you know, if that's the bar then,
24:18
Speaker 1: But no, that's interesting. What does what does what does
24:22
Speaker 1: your significant other think of that?
24:24
Speaker 4: He's a little hesitant, I would imagine.
24:26
Speaker 2: So actually the first question she said was is he
24:31
Speaker 2: a racist? I said, back, what.
24:36
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know that this is the time
24:38
Speaker 1: and place to get into it on this podcast, but yes,
24:44
Speaker 1: there might be some there might be a few issues
24:47
Speaker 1: there by today's standards.
24:50
Speaker 3: I said, he was. They're both presidents in the early
24:55
Speaker 3: nineteen hundred, so it was like it could be a
24:58
Speaker 3: little spotty.
25:02
Speaker 1: Again, not sure this is the time, replace or the
25:04
Speaker 1: podcast to get into it, but yeah, it could be
25:06
Speaker 1: pretty spotty.
25:09
Speaker 4: Well, we'll talk.
25:10
Speaker 1: We'll talk offline after we're done recording. All right, Back
25:15
Speaker 1: to the Steelers. We got in Boston in Cincinnati. I
25:19
Speaker 1: if that game was a week earlier, then I would
25:21
Speaker 1: probably come up and entertain the idea of going. But
25:26
Speaker 1: that's at the end of my kids fall break, so
25:29
Speaker 1: we'd be back home by the twenty seventh, not going
25:33
Speaker 1: to Cleveland. They're going to host the Colts. So we
25:39
Speaker 1: know better than anyone the fun that it is traveling
25:42
Speaker 1: to Indy if they had been going there.
25:48
Speaker 4: Honestly, well, there you go. We do, but.
25:55
Speaker 1: We do play at the Titans. But that on unfortunately,
26:00
Speaker 1: is on January third, Which why unfortunately because that is
26:08
Speaker 1: at the tail end of all of the PTO that
26:11
Speaker 1: I'm using, So I I would have to use unless
26:17
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be really tired on Monday morning,
26:19
Speaker 1: I would have to use PTO on the literal first day.
26:21
Speaker 4: Of the year.
26:24
Speaker 3: Are you saying that you don't like the Steelers enough
26:30
Speaker 3: to sacrifice your PTO for it?
26:33
Speaker 4: That's absolutely true.
26:37
Speaker 1: I became the grumpy old man who's like, when I'm
26:39
Speaker 1: off the clock, I'm off the clock and all that.
26:44
Speaker 1: But no, no, I would consider it. I think jackson
26:48
Speaker 1: Jacksonville is a.
26:49
Speaker 4: Little far of a drive, so is Tampa Bay.
26:51
Speaker 2: But is it really Jacksonville is that far?
26:55
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess it's.
26:59
Speaker 4: Six to eight ish hours. Let's see. Let's see.
27:05
Speaker 1: Oh wait, are they going to be in Jacksonville Orlando?
27:07
Speaker 1: I mean Orlando is still eight hours though, because aren't
27:12
Speaker 1: they're they're playing Jaguars are playing in Orlando while they're
27:18
Speaker 1: renovating their stadium.
27:21
Speaker 2: Oh really, I didn't know about that.
27:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me see say that. So Jacksonville is going
27:31
Speaker 1: with the route of they're going to upgrade their existing
27:35
Speaker 1: stadium instead.
27:35
Speaker 4: Of build a new one.
27:37
Speaker 1: And it doesn't say where it's at.
27:43
Speaker 4: No, it says EverBank.
27:45
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is. I like, I like
27:48
Speaker 3: that owner from from Jacksonville. Con Yeah, it just strikes me.
27:56
Speaker 1: Well, he is interesting because there's no team that's had
28:01
Speaker 1: more relocation rumors, I think than the Jaguars. There was, oh,
28:06
Speaker 1: they're going to move to England because they're always playing
28:10
Speaker 1: over there. I think he's from England, the owner, I'm
28:12
Speaker 1: not sure. But and then there was all these rumors
28:14
Speaker 1: that they're going to go to Chicago and be the
28:16
Speaker 1: second team in Chicago.
28:18
Speaker 2: But no, really, I didn't hear that one.
28:21
Speaker 1: The London one was much more popular than Chicago. But yes,
28:26
Speaker 1: there was talk for a while that they were considering
28:29
Speaker 1: leaving Jacksonville for one of those two destinations.
28:34
Speaker 2: I think it's funny.
28:35
Speaker 3: Is there a rule that like, we we can't be
28:40
Speaker 3: in Canada or something like that. I feel like they
28:43
Speaker 3: don't even entertain the idea of like a Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary,
28:52
Speaker 3: none in these cities.
28:53
Speaker 2: I feel like they're never.
28:57
Speaker 3: Like you hear about the Bills maybe playing in Toronto
29:00
Speaker 3: so occasionally, but.
29:05
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything that prohibits it.
29:10
Speaker 2: Did they just feel like they already got it, like
29:12
Speaker 2: like close enough?
29:14
Speaker 1: I mean for the bills, Yeah, it would. I mean
29:18
Speaker 1: I would imagine that Toronto is pretty relatively close to Buffalo,
29:23
Speaker 1: so you'd have two teams and the same market or
29:26
Speaker 1: a similar market. Doesn't mean you couldn't go to another
29:28
Speaker 1: part of Canada though, or maybe the seat. This is
29:33
Speaker 1: just me speculating because I've got no idea about the
29:36
Speaker 1: life of a Canadian, but maybe the CFL is big
29:40
Speaker 1: enough there that it's just not worth it to even
29:43
Speaker 1: try if you're the NFL, if they're already watching your team.
29:46
Speaker 3: Anyway, did you know that like one of their biggest
29:50
Speaker 3: stars was Zach Klaros from UC.
29:54
Speaker 4: I did know about that.
29:55
Speaker 1: Yes, he's been doing pretty well over there, And didn't
29:58
Speaker 1: he Wasn't he the one who had to turn down
30:01
Speaker 1: the invitation to Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift's wedding because
30:04
Speaker 1: they were the seasons going on right now?
30:07
Speaker 3: No, I thought I heard it was like I he
30:13
Speaker 3: expected an invitation being get one, But.
30:15
Speaker 1: Now I thought he actually did because I've heard that
30:17
Speaker 1: they're still pretty close friends, and he was joking with
30:22
Speaker 1: them like, couldn't you guys have done this some other time? Yeah,
30:25
Speaker 1: well good for him either way.
30:28
Speaker 2: I'm I'm sorry, I'm skipping that game.
30:35
Speaker 1: It's not even real football, it's Canadian football.
30:38
Speaker 2: Well, I just I mean, it's like, are you gonna remember.
30:43
Speaker 3: One game at the tail end of your college your
30:46
Speaker 3: Canadian football career? Are you gonna remember going to Travis
30:50
Speaker 3: Kelsey's wedding.
30:51
Speaker 2: It's I.
30:55
Speaker 1: Don't know, man, He's getting paid to do a job
30:58
Speaker 1: and you did it, so good for him. If you
31:01
Speaker 1: were curious, Jacksonville.
31:05
Speaker 2: What do you think a salary is?
31:08
Speaker 3: I don't know.
31:08
Speaker 1: I can't convert Canadian dollars to American dollars.
31:13
Speaker 2: I thought you were good with the math earlier in
31:16
Speaker 2: this segment.
31:16
Speaker 1: That was just dividing by five at one hundred and
31:21
Speaker 1: fifty or six.
31:22
Speaker 2: Rather didn't even get the number.
31:26
Speaker 4: Nope.
31:27
Speaker 1: Jacksonville, by the way, is five and a half hours
31:31
Speaker 1: the stadium.
31:31
Speaker 4: At least, so I mean it's doable.
31:38
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'm going to do that by myself,
31:41
Speaker 1: so I might have to find a listener down in Jacksonville.
31:45
Speaker 4: Wants to meet up at the game.
31:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have any friends that like moved to
31:51
Speaker 2: like Florida.
31:52
Speaker 1: Or something, not Jacksonville and not really.
31:57
Speaker 2: So Fred He's still friends. But he when he was in.
32:04
Speaker 3: College, all he talked about was like how he can't
32:07
Speaker 3: wait to move to Florida.
32:09
Speaker 2: And then he he did it.
32:12
Speaker 3: And then I was just talking to him recently and
32:15
Speaker 3: he went vacation and came back home and he's like, man,
32:19
Speaker 3: I just I couldn't wait to get back to Florida.
32:22
Speaker 3: He didn't say home, wait to get back to Florida.
32:27
Speaker 4: I was like, that's what's the obsession.
32:30
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I'm happy for him, right,
32:39
Speaker 2: he really likes Florida.
32:41
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, good, good for him.
32:44
Speaker 2: Just it could be worst place to love.
32:48
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like you though, like, oh, that's nice.
32:51
Speaker 1: I guess usually it's the retirees, right.
32:57
Speaker 3: I don't think he recognized, like the how intense, like
33:02
Speaker 3: the oh, I can't wait to get back to Florida.
33:05
Speaker 3: Like I, you know, I don't know about you. I
33:08
Speaker 3: don't say I can't wait to get back to Ohio. Yes,
33:12
Speaker 3: maybe I do say Cincinnati. Well, he didn't say his talent.
33:16
Speaker 2: He just said.
33:16
Speaker 1: Florida, he claims the entire stick in there. No, I'm
33:21
Speaker 1: the same as you. I don't I can't wait to
33:23
Speaker 1: get back to Georgia. Or occasionally I'll say Woodstock, but
33:28
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
33:31
Speaker 2: Woodstock, uh sixty nine or Woodstock too that.
33:40
Speaker 1: If it were me personally, I would probably do the
33:43
Speaker 1: ninety nine one, although I honestly couldn't tell you which
33:46
Speaker 1: bands were.
33:47
Speaker 2: What did you watch that documentary?
33:51
Speaker 4: I did not, And.
33:54
Speaker 3: They like they try to like redo it obviously right,
33:58
Speaker 3: it didn't go well. It was like a did you
34:01
Speaker 3: hear about that firefest?
34:04
Speaker 1: Where like the guy ended up getting arrested and it
34:08
Speaker 1: like just fell off the wheels.
34:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, like he kind of like promised all these things
34:14
Speaker 3: and yeah, obviously they weren't true, but.
34:19
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it was kind of like that, but like.
34:25
Speaker 3: It probably wasn't as bad, but I don't know, because
34:29
Speaker 3: also if you're in the States, I've actually had this
34:33
Speaker 3: feeling before. We were talking about Canada. So I went
34:37
Speaker 3: to travel internationally and I was having connecting flight in
34:43
Speaker 3: Canada and my flight got canceled and well the next
34:49
Speaker 3: one wasn't until three days later, and all I thought
34:53
Speaker 3: my mind was I would need to get back into America.
34:58
Speaker 3: Not like I need to get home. I just was like,
35:01
Speaker 3: I can get back into America and I can figure
35:03
Speaker 3: this out.
35:05
Speaker 2: I was more.
35:06
Speaker 3: I felt more stuck because it's like I had to
35:09
Speaker 3: worry about you know, customs and all that stuff. I
35:14
Speaker 3: wasn't doing anything the farious, But at the same time,
35:18
Speaker 3: I was just like, I just want to rent a
35:22
Speaker 3: car and drive home.
35:23
Speaker 2: Was in Toronto.
35:27
Speaker 1: I You're just a strange man and a foreign land.
35:30
Speaker 7: That's all it is, like the guy from the terminal,
35:37
Speaker 7: Oh my goodness, let us see here.
35:43
Speaker 1: I thought I had something I was going to talk
35:45
Speaker 1: about before you took us into Canada.
35:46
Speaker 4: There, but that's okay.
35:49
Speaker 2: Where you run out of the material, you want.
35:51
Speaker 4: Me to go running out of material?
35:54
Speaker 1: No, never running out of material. It was just a
35:58
Speaker 1: really good topic. You're gonna be sorry that we forgot
36:00
Speaker 1: it here. So I'll give you a funny story though,
36:05
Speaker 1: since all we're doing is making this up as we
36:07
Speaker 1: go today. As you know, I love to cook. I've
36:12
Speaker 1: got a couple smokers.
36:14
Speaker 2: Now, but to wait, did you get a new one?
36:18
Speaker 4: Yeah?
36:18
Speaker 1: I bought an electric one. And this is very important
36:24
Speaker 1: because when you're smoking a brisket, you've got to wrap it,
36:26
Speaker 1: and then you've got to do a hold where you
36:28
Speaker 1: hold it at like one hundred and forty degrees, and
36:31
Speaker 1: a lot of the best barbecue places will do that
36:33
Speaker 1: hold overnight and then start serving them at lunch the
36:36
Speaker 1: next day after they've already smoked them. The problem that
36:40
Speaker 1: I have, though, is my smoker only goes down to
36:43
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty. Most ovens mine included, only go
36:47
Speaker 1: down to one seventy. And there's a couple other things
36:49
Speaker 1: you can do, like souvd or put it in a cooler,
36:53
Speaker 1: and I just didn't think any of that was practical.
36:55
Speaker 1: So I bought an electric smoker. It was actually on
36:58
Speaker 1: sale for like two hundred and seventy dollars, and that
37:02
Speaker 1: does go all the way down to one hundred degrees.
37:04
Speaker 3: So you like just like, hey, give me a medium
37:10
Speaker 3: size investment of something I'm very interested in, and you're like,
37:14
Speaker 3: why not swipe it?
37:16
Speaker 1: My goal is to try to not have to go
37:19
Speaker 1: out at all either to eat. So I also got
37:23
Speaker 1: a pizza oven as well. I just haven't even had
37:25
Speaker 1: a chance to take it out of the box, because again,
37:28
Speaker 1: you have to do it outside, and it's just the
37:31
Speaker 1: weather's been really crappy, and with our traveling and stuff, I.
37:36
Speaker 3: Think I understand that. Well, I definitely understand it. The
37:40
Speaker 3: smoker a pizza oven, Nick, just just get you a
37:45
Speaker 3: frozen pizza.
37:46
Speaker 1: All right, mister all right, mister accountant. Let me tell
37:50
Speaker 1: you this. Every time I have people over and we
37:53
Speaker 1: entertain and we order pizza, unless we're going from like
37:57
Speaker 1: the super cheap chain restaurants, it's like over one hundred
38:01
Speaker 1: dollars just by the time you get all the different pizzas,
38:06
Speaker 1: some cheesy bread and whatnot.
38:09
Speaker 2: The pizzas like four or five bucks.
38:14
Speaker 4: Let me finish. So I got this.
38:20
Speaker 1: I got this pizza oven on sale for five hundred dollars.
38:25
Speaker 1: So my logic was, okay, well, if I make my
38:30
Speaker 1: own pizzas five times, then I'm already in the green. Right,
38:35
Speaker 1: So again that was my logic. Now what you're saying
38:39
Speaker 1: about frozen pizzas, I'm actually laughing at because my kids
38:43
Speaker 1: have really weird taste. Frozen pizzas might be like their
38:47
Speaker 1: favorite kind of pizza, including like all the restaurants. When
38:52
Speaker 1: you get like the fancy stuffed cross too.
38:56
Speaker 2: Sounds like a really good investment.
38:59
Speaker 1: It is for me. And all the adults in the room.
39:01
Speaker 1: But my kids go to the Chinese buffet because of
39:04
Speaker 1: the frozen pizza.
39:08
Speaker 4: Anyway, side note on that.
39:11
Speaker 3: So on on Instagram, I follow this guy called mullet RuView.
39:18
Speaker 4: He goes to I think.
39:22
Speaker 3: Dive Bari type of food places in Cincinnati, and so
39:28
Speaker 3: his segment in June was that he wanted to go
39:32
Speaker 3: to a different Chinese buffet until they got food poisoning.
39:36
Speaker 4: I think I saw that, did he?
39:41
Speaker 2: I don't think he did. I think he's your vibe.
39:43
Speaker 3: The quest continues that he had some like particularly unique
39:50
Speaker 3: items on his plate, but he always had pizza.
39:53
Speaker 2: I swear he always had pizza.
39:55
Speaker 4: It's weird. Well, I never.
39:58
Speaker 2: Put the pizza on the china.
40:00
Speaker 1: It's like it's just frozen pizza. Like Anyway, to get
40:05
Speaker 1: back to where I started, before we went down the
40:07
Speaker 1: path of smokers and pizza ovens. I don't have like
40:12
Speaker 1: an outdoor kitchen setup, so if it rains, I really
40:15
Speaker 1: can't do any of the cooking outside. So I have
40:19
Speaker 1: a deck And what I did was I bought a
40:24
Speaker 1: pretty big, heavy duty weather tarp and I set it
40:27
Speaker 1: up on top of the deck and I have it
40:29
Speaker 1: at an angle, so the water's not going to like
40:31
Speaker 1: pool in it and weigh everything down and my plan
40:35
Speaker 1: is to smoke. Put the smoker underneath the deck on
40:40
Speaker 1: the patio, and that will be all the cover I need.
40:43
Speaker 1: I just once we're done recording, I need to go
40:45
Speaker 1: upstairs and see if my ingenious redneck engineering managed to
40:52
Speaker 1: withstand the five minutes of rain. If so, the smoke
40:55
Speaker 1: for tomorrow is on.
40:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, like as you said, it's pouring, it.
41:02
Speaker 1: Was for a short distance, but no, that's I don't
41:05
Speaker 1: know what the weather's been like up there, but it's
41:08
Speaker 1: been really difficult down here because like every day for
41:11
Speaker 1: the past week and a half, and then every day
41:14
Speaker 1: as far out as I can see on the weather
41:16
Speaker 1: app there's at least a chance that it will rain
41:19
Speaker 1: at some point, and it's just tough to plan to
41:21
Speaker 1: do anything when you've got kids, when you've got stuff
41:24
Speaker 1: to do at home around the house outside. Yeah, it's
41:28
Speaker 1: just been awful the last couple of weeks with the weather.
41:31
Speaker 2: So I don't mean to rub this in your face,
41:35
Speaker 2: but it was. It's been like seventy five to eighty
41:41
Speaker 2: mostly sunny, and even this morning it was a bit cold.
41:47
Speaker 3: I got a little pull over for my walk with
41:50
Speaker 3: the dog, so it doesn't that's like to me.
41:56
Speaker 1: Perfect I agree with you. I like the fall weather
41:59
Speaker 1: the best, when it's a little bit chillier and you
42:00
Speaker 1: have to put on the polo. But we've had some
42:04
Speaker 1: days like that down here too, where it ends up
42:06
Speaker 1: not raining, and that's almost more frustrating because I'll look
42:10
Speaker 1: outside and it'll be like it might rain within the
42:13
Speaker 1: next hour, and I'm like, I know the second that
42:16
Speaker 1: I turn on the lawnmower to go cut the grass,
42:20
Speaker 1: or like when I'm in the middle of it, it's
42:22
Speaker 1: gonna pour, and then nothing happens, and I'm like, well,
42:24
Speaker 1: we've wasted another day.
42:26
Speaker 4: But yeah, that's just my luck.
42:28
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm interested to see how this tarp held up.
42:33
Speaker 4: We will.
42:36
Speaker 1: Not keep everyone waiting on pins and needles. Actually, will
42:38
Speaker 1: you have to wait till next month to find out
42:40
Speaker 1: what happened because tomorrow, tomorrow is a tomorrow is a
42:46
Speaker 1: big day. We've got company coming down and we are
42:48
Speaker 1: smoking some Mexican pulled pork and some caeso on the smoker.
42:54
Speaker 2: Wait, you're making caso on the smoker.
42:58
Speaker 4: Yes, you can, don't work.
43:01
Speaker 1: You just put all the cheese in a pan and
43:04
Speaker 1: put it on the smoker and it melts.
43:10
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just.
43:13
Speaker 3: I in my limited brain, I was like, oh you.
43:18
Speaker 2: Just do meat.
43:21
Speaker 1: No, no, no, that in your limited brain. You can
43:24
Speaker 1: do everything on the smoker. You can do desert, you
43:28
Speaker 1: can do desserts. We've done deviled eggs on the smoker.
43:32
Speaker 2: Death old eggs. Interesting.
43:34
Speaker 1: You could do frozen pizza on the smoker too. That's
43:37
Speaker 1: been done before as well, not by me, but by others.
43:42
Speaker 4: So there you go.
43:44
Speaker 3: Uh side note, my daughter was allergic to eggs. Okay,
43:54
Speaker 3: now we just did a test and cheese not allergic
43:59
Speaker 3: to baked so big win zine win in the in
44:05
Speaker 3: the Van Shureton household.
44:06
Speaker 1: Specifically baked eggs, she's not allergic to anymore.
44:10
Speaker 3: So they will retest, and when they retest, they'll see
44:16
Speaker 3: if like she outgrew the allergy.
44:20
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's like it's super technical.
44:23
Speaker 3: It's like, hey, if it's been baked at three point
44:27
Speaker 3: fifty for thirty minutes, I'm like, yeah, baked is baked, right, it's.
44:35
Speaker 2: My child's safety.
44:37
Speaker 3: I will be more cognizant than that, but like, and
44:40
Speaker 3: they'll have very arbitrary rules.
44:43
Speaker 2: I thought this one was interesting.
44:47
Speaker 3: If it's the if it's less than the third, so
44:52
Speaker 3: it's fourth or further down on the ingredients list, it's cool.
44:58
Speaker 3: And I'm like, you know, there's not like equal parts.
45:03
Speaker 4: That was my question, right of.
45:05
Speaker 2: The ingredients, but then like the other.
45:09
Speaker 3: One's got like one hundred and seventy ingredients and it's like,
45:14
Speaker 3: really that you know, it's a lot more.
45:16
Speaker 4: I don't know.
45:20
Speaker 2: I thought that was a very weird arbitrary rule.
45:23
Speaker 3: But yeah, so if you if you have, if your
45:27
Speaker 3: children develops an egg allergy, I would say, don't go
45:33
Speaker 3: to the medical needs for it, just when, just when
45:38
Speaker 3: you feel like you're good enough, just give.
45:42
Speaker 2: Them like.
45:44
Speaker 3: A little bit of what they're allergic to, and then
45:47
Speaker 3: just keep going.
45:50
Speaker 2: And then if they.
45:52
Speaker 3: Have a reaction given by the trouble, if it doesn't work,
45:54
Speaker 3: you already had an EpiPen, give them the EpiPen that
45:57
Speaker 3: doesn't work. That was it's sixteen hundred dollars to watch
46:02
Speaker 3: your eat like a muffin every fifteen minutes.
46:05
Speaker 2: And they're like, you got hives now.
46:11
Speaker 1: So I'm serious, not that I'm giving you any credit
46:15
Speaker 1: as a medical expert of by any stretch of the imagination.
46:19
Speaker 1: But I have read that over the last several years,
46:25
Speaker 1: we've actually seen a rise in certain food allergies for
46:29
Speaker 1: things like peanuts, for example, because parents got so concerned
46:35
Speaker 1: about the possibility of having an allergic reaction that they
46:39
Speaker 1: wouldn't give their kids peanuts when they were babies or toddlers.
46:43
Speaker 1: So the body never i guess learned or you know,
46:48
Speaker 1: learned that it was an okay substance. Right, So that
46:53
Speaker 1: so then by the time they're eight, nine, ten or
46:55
Speaker 1: whatever and they have a reci cup, the body's like,
46:58
Speaker 1: what the heck is this? And that's when they have
47:00
Speaker 1: the reaction. So allegedly, And I am not a doctor.
47:04
Speaker 1: I am not claiming to be like Eric is. I
47:06
Speaker 1: am just saying that I have read that it's kind
47:09
Speaker 1: of like a building up your tolerance kind of thing.
47:12
Speaker 1: You're supposed to let your kids try as much different
47:15
Speaker 1: foods as you can while they're still young.
47:18
Speaker 2: Yeah.
47:19
Speaker 3: Anyway, Well, the reason why guys have false sense being
47:24
Speaker 3: a doctor is the reason why we don't go to
47:26
Speaker 3: the doctor, right or just like that's good, all good, dude.
47:31
Speaker 1: We're sharing a lot tonight. So I'll be honest with you.
47:34
Speaker 1: I've got no problem going to the doctor. What I
47:36
Speaker 1: do have a problem with is it felt like every
47:39
Speaker 1: time I had to go for a while, he was
47:41
Speaker 1: giving me shots and places I didn't want to get shots,
47:44
Speaker 1: and I was like, this doesn't seem right here.
47:48
Speaker 6: But anyway, I mean, I will say I'm the opposite end.
47:54
Speaker 6: I probably broke, if not just dislocated my finger. It's
48:01
Speaker 6: still very swollen, very misshaped, but I'm like it doesn't
48:06
Speaker 6: hurt anymore, so it's okay.
48:10
Speaker 1: You ever see some of those like offensive or defensive
48:12
Speaker 1: linemen though that are commentators and they hold a microphone.
48:15
Speaker 1: They did, and it's like all disconfigured. Yeah, that's there.
48:21
Speaker 1: You go.
48:21
Speaker 4: You're just like them, just tape it up.
48:23
Speaker 3: Some dirt, Like I just don't sound as cool, you know, right,
48:31
Speaker 3: doesn't account.
48:33
Speaker 4: Broke this in the trenches?
48:34
Speaker 2: Boys? Oh too many right clicks?
48:43
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness.
48:45
Speaker 2: No.
48:45
Speaker 1: I I go to the doctor when I'm supposed to,
48:49
Speaker 1: and I use it as a challenge. I'm always like
48:52
Speaker 1: I gotta get in there and way less than I
48:54
Speaker 1: did last year.
48:55
Speaker 4: So that's the goal.
48:58
Speaker 3: It's just okay, it's just inconvenience. So like, all right,
49:02
Speaker 3: when I've got a primary care physician. They need to
49:06
Speaker 3: have online scheduling, and I can even do it for
49:11
Speaker 3: the first time. And the reason why I didn't even
49:15
Speaker 3: want one was because I called them one time. They're like, yeah,
49:19
Speaker 3: we need to do a meet and greet the first
49:20
Speaker 3: time that you like, come like, like, what are you
49:25
Speaker 3: gonna do in this meet and greet? They're like, We're
49:27
Speaker 3: gonna ask you a questions that you go out on
49:31
Speaker 3: your form. I'm like, well, I just filled it out,
49:33
Speaker 3: so like, why do you have to ask questions about it?
49:35
Speaker 1: It's like when you like, it's like when you apply
49:38
Speaker 1: for a job and you submit your resume and then
49:40
Speaker 1: you've got to fill out an application that asks you
49:42
Speaker 1: all the questions about what's on your resume exactly.
49:48
Speaker 4: Hmmm, all right, well.
49:50
Speaker 1: I think we've touched on everything except the Pittsburgh Steelers tonight, so.
49:54
Speaker 2: It feels like a July episode. What June and July?
50:00
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what to do for you.
50:03
Speaker 2: I mean.
50:05
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't either. Here I'll mention this.
50:09
Speaker 1: I don't know if you watched it or not, but
50:11
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go online and find it. Sec Storied,
50:16
Speaker 1: which is part of the SEC Network obviously part of ESPN,
50:22
Speaker 1: just released a I don't know if it's like a
50:25
Speaker 1: full documentary or maybe just like a half hour show,
50:27
Speaker 1: but they just did a special about heinz Ward, obviously
50:32
Speaker 1: being from being from Atlanta and going to Georgia for college.
50:36
Speaker 1: So there's your Steelers news for the week. There's a
50:40
Speaker 1: brand new Stealers episode about hines Ward that just drops,
50:43
Speaker 1: so go check it out. Jerome Bettis I saw Jerome
50:46
Speaker 1: Bettison the trailer is one of the guys they interviewed,
50:49
Speaker 1: So there you go.
50:51
Speaker 3: I went down a really weird rabbit hole recently someone
50:54
Speaker 3: post it. Yeah, it was like fifteen year and versary
51:00
Speaker 3: since oh Heinesfield fell into a hole. So yep, they're
51:07
Speaker 3: referencing The Dark Knight. If you're like, the greatest fable
51:14
Speaker 3: of this is not that the stadium got blown out.
51:17
Speaker 2: It was that heines Ward ran in for a kick
51:20
Speaker 2: return touchdown.
51:23
Speaker 3: Unbelievable run blocking check hands of God, check this and
51:29
Speaker 3: that check speed. Absolutely not right. So I was a
51:38
Speaker 3: funny take on already funny commentary.
51:42
Speaker 1: That was always I think the joke that happened after
51:45
Speaker 1: that movie came out and living in Cincinnati obviously we
51:49
Speaker 1: had to deal with all the jokes about you know,
51:52
Speaker 1: the only the worst part of that was when the
51:54
Speaker 1: stadium blew up and Hines Ward didn't fall in or whatever. Yeah,
51:59
Speaker 1: but yeah, there you go. Heinz Ward are Steelers news
52:02
Speaker 1: of the month.
52:03
Speaker 2: So did you know, uh Omar Khan was actually in
52:07
Speaker 2: the frame?
52:08
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, he was in I think was it when
52:11
Speaker 1: they panned over to the sideline during the anthem? Yeah, yes,
52:16
Speaker 1: they had him. They had Bill Cower. I think they
52:20
Speaker 1: filmed that like right after he stepped down uh as
52:23
Speaker 1: the coach or maybe it was or maybe he came
52:25
Speaker 1: back for it. I don't know, but I know Big
52:28
Speaker 1: Ben was in the frame. Yeah, the frame, probably a
52:31
Speaker 1: bunch of others, but yeah, Omar Khan's been with the
52:33
Speaker 1: Steelers for a long time, even though he has only
52:36
Speaker 1: been the general manager. Was this what you're four or five?
52:38
Speaker 1: Something like that?
52:39
Speaker 3: So yeah, I just it was so interesting because like,
52:43
Speaker 3: you know, that happened fifteen years ago, like would be
52:47
Speaker 3: that important. I think he was saying next to like
52:50
Speaker 3: big Ben, it's like he got in a long time.
52:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's not like you had a bad
52:56
Speaker 1: job though the whole time too.
52:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
53:02
Speaker 1: Was there anything else you wanted to talk about steelers
53:05
Speaker 1: or cooking or medical or mathematician or otherwise related.
53:14
Speaker 3: Well, we didn't hit on it. It's fine that we did.
53:19
Speaker 3: Bryan Clark, I always liked his stuff. I always liked
53:25
Speaker 3: his content. It was a little cookie. But if you're
53:30
Speaker 3: if your job was a two thousand safety then you
53:35
Speaker 3: know what, he had a few lifts of the head,
53:38
Speaker 3: so you're you're giving that allowance so you will be
53:43
Speaker 3: missed on ESPN.
53:45
Speaker 4: So I don't know.
53:49
Speaker 1: I used to like Ryan Clark a lot, and I
53:53
Speaker 1: think the part that kind of did it in for
53:57
Speaker 1: me was when he told Pete Treggor like, that's just
53:59
Speaker 1: the non play in you or something and anytime.
54:02
Speaker 2: Yah, wait, wait, the whole thing with him getting upset,
54:06
Speaker 2: you didn't that's what you didn't like.
54:10
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a lot of other stuff that
54:12
Speaker 1: I didn't agree with, but that's the one that personally
54:15
Speaker 1: rubs me the wrong way. Because not that I'm making
54:18
Speaker 1: any pretense that this podcast is any more important or
54:22
Speaker 1: bigger than it is. I know, we've got three people listening,
54:25
Speaker 1: and two of them probably fell asleep all they had
54:28
Speaker 1: Spotify on, and we just came on next. But that
54:33
Speaker 1: just always bugged me when a player acted like, just
54:36
Speaker 1: because you didn't play at the highest level, you can't
54:38
Speaker 1: have an opinion or your opinion is any less valuable.
54:46
Speaker 2: Sure, I.
54:48
Speaker 3: Well, I'm saying maybe it's like a respectfully declined I
54:52
Speaker 3: don't know, It's.
54:53
Speaker 2: Like I don't like it. So actually thought about this.
55:01
Speaker 2: I was mowing the lawn. Controversial, controversial opinions.
55:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, but waiting until high school to learn how to tackle,
55:12
Speaker 3: that's what people that never played football ever think about.
55:16
Speaker 2: Like that. It crossed my mind to day. I was like,
55:19
Speaker 2: you're a pta parent, like you're a mom. You never
55:24
Speaker 2: you never played football.
55:27
Speaker 3: Because the reason why I was thinking that is like,
55:30
Speaker 3: because what the earlier you are, the more foundational that
55:34
Speaker 3: you become based on your early teaching.
55:37
Speaker 2: So it happens that you create as soon as you play.
55:40
Speaker 3: If you don't learn how to tackle until you've been
55:43
Speaker 3: playing flag football for eight years, then you create bad
55:49
Speaker 3: habits because you didn't know how to do it that way.
55:53
Speaker 2: So what I'm tying this back to Ryan Clark is.
55:58
Speaker 3: Sometimes I just don't feel like people understand exactly what
56:04
Speaker 3: it is that like these players are seeing these coaches
56:06
Speaker 3: are saying because they truly didn't actually stand on the
56:11
Speaker 3: sidelines and do it.
56:12
Speaker 2: So like.
56:14
Speaker 3: I do put more credit in players, I do play
56:17
Speaker 3: put more credit and the coaches, particularly when they have
56:21
Speaker 3: a take on a player. I think the take was
56:24
Speaker 3: on like cde Lamb or something like that. Yes, and
56:28
Speaker 3: Ryan Clark is a safety who played against a lot
56:32
Speaker 3: of wide receivers. He probably hears a lot of people
56:35
Speaker 3: talk about gambling or fancy football, which is seventy five
56:40
Speaker 3: percent of the revenue for ESPN now.
56:44
Speaker 2: But like you probably got tired of it, and I
56:48
Speaker 2: liked it. I liked they stick to it. So that's
56:51
Speaker 2: my thing.
56:54
Speaker 4: Well, there you go.
56:54
Speaker 1: There's our there's our big disagreement of the night. That's
56:58
Speaker 1: how we rot in the views with our big controversial
57:02
Speaker 1: hot takes. There, Nick and heated no, but look, I
57:07
Speaker 1: always thought Ryan Clark was a was a super smart player.
57:10
Speaker 1: And look, I don't want anyone fired. I've been laid
57:13
Speaker 1: off before too. It sucks, especially when you've done I mean,
57:20
Speaker 1: I didn't agree with the guy's take, obviously, but he
57:23
Speaker 1: didn't do it like it wasn't like illegal or it
57:26
Speaker 1: wasn't a sign of poor performance.
57:27
Speaker 4: On his part.
57:28
Speaker 1: It's just a take I didn't agree with. As a player,
57:32
Speaker 1: he was super smart, he was very critical for the
57:35
Speaker 1: Super Bowl forty three team, and he was a big,
57:38
Speaker 1: a big component of the Steelers team. So for the sake,
57:44
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to see anyone fired. I
57:48
Speaker 1: shouldn't say that I'm happy he got fired. That's not
57:50
Speaker 1: what I'm saying at all.
57:50
Speaker 4: I just he lost.
57:53
Speaker 1: He lost a little bit with me after that. So yeah,
57:59
Speaker 1: well the rain is back at my house, so we'll
58:01
Speaker 1: see if the uh well, I didn't get the smoker
58:07
Speaker 1: out yet. It's it's still under its own covering. But
58:12
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that the tart holds up
58:15
Speaker 1: and at least the area underneath is dry so that
58:18
Speaker 1: I can I can smoke tomorrow. But eventually I'm gonna
58:23
Speaker 1: have to look into get.
58:24
Speaker 4: In a gazebo or something out here.
58:27
Speaker 2: But I also don't know.
58:32
Speaker 1: I also can barely put a hammer to a nail,
58:34
Speaker 1: so my if I build it myself, it's gonna be
58:37
Speaker 1: held up with duct tape.
58:39
Speaker 2: Dude, I put together a murphy bed recently.
58:44
Speaker 3: Yes, And you know it's frustrating about those like I
58:49
Speaker 3: k O Wayfair type of things is that like they
58:53
Speaker 3: have instructions, they give you all the hardware, they give
58:57
Speaker 3: you everything that you need to do to put together.
59:00
Speaker 3: So if you screw up on a step, you're like,
59:03
Speaker 3: I feel so stupid.
59:05
Speaker 2: You know.
59:06
Speaker 3: You're like like some people, they they're like I'm gonna
59:10
Speaker 3: make a shit in my backyard and they don't have
59:15
Speaker 3: a kit.
59:15
Speaker 2: They just go out and buy like the.
59:18
Speaker 3: Hardware for it, right and the tools.
59:22
Speaker 2: You can ship something from Amazon, and you're like, I
59:25
Speaker 2: can't put this together. Feel so stupid.
59:29
Speaker 1: You do sometimes though, the pictures that are Maybe this
59:33
Speaker 1: is me getting too far into my head, but sometimes
59:36
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want like some words to describe what
59:39
Speaker 1: you want me to do, because you put like a picture,
59:41
Speaker 1: a really small picture in there that's not well drawn,
59:44
Speaker 1: and You've got different parts that look similar to each other,
59:47
Speaker 1: and I'm like, wait a minute, what am I supposed
59:50
Speaker 1: to There have been several times where I've put something
59:52
Speaker 1: together and like a piece is on backwards or something,
59:54
Speaker 1: so but I'm able to catch it and fix it.
59:57
Speaker 4: So but now I'm with you.
1:00:00
Speaker 2: Have you ever.
1:00:03
Speaker 3: In the office, I think it's my Wiscott says, and like, okay,
1:00:08
Speaker 3: explain something to me like I'm five.
1:00:12
Speaker 4: Yes, the budget he.
1:00:14
Speaker 3: Doesn't get anything explain to like I'm four real for me, yes.
1:00:22
Speaker 1: I have been like that before too. Last funny story
1:00:27
Speaker 1: of the night. Just to give you an example, a
1:00:29
Speaker 1: personal example of something like that and in time, in
1:00:32
Speaker 1: tune with what we're talking about.
1:00:34
Speaker 4: For my kid's.
1:00:34
Speaker 1: Birthday this past year, I got them like one of
1:00:37
Speaker 1: those four and one air hockey, foosball, ping pong and
1:00:41
Speaker 1: Billiard's tables love And it was one that I had
1:00:45
Speaker 1: to put together and I was a little confused, and
1:00:53
Speaker 1: I was working with chat GPT to try to help
1:00:57
Speaker 1: me out again, like you said, to help me, help
1:00:59
Speaker 1: dumb it down for me. And there was a piece
1:01:04
Speaker 1: that like looked like it needed to be plugged in,
1:01:09
Speaker 1: like in the internal part of the whole thing, and
1:01:12
Speaker 1: I didn't plug it in, and I'm like, I think
1:01:15
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to plug that in, And so I had
1:01:17
Speaker 1: taken a picture and I showed it to chat GPT
1:01:20
Speaker 1: and it's like, no, you don't have to plug it in.
1:01:22
Speaker 1: That's for like LED lights on the thing, and you
1:01:26
Speaker 1: don't have LED lights. It's just that's how they mass
1:01:29
Speaker 1: manufacture that piece. So that it's compatible with both models,
1:01:34
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, that makes sense.
1:01:36
Speaker 4: I literally went So I went through and.
1:01:38
Speaker 1: I continued building everything. I built the entire thing.
1:01:42
Speaker 4: It was done.
1:01:43
Speaker 1: I went to plug in the air hockey like vibration thing.
1:01:47
Speaker 1: Did not didn't work. So guess what I was supposed
1:01:51
Speaker 1: to plug in from the beginning. The whole time that thing,
1:01:55
Speaker 1: and I promise you, I know that it doesn't do
1:01:58
Speaker 1: any good. I know it did nothing but piss off
1:02:01
Speaker 1: our future robot overlords. But I went back into chat
1:02:04
Speaker 1: GPT and I cussed that thing out.
1:02:08
Speaker 2: You idiot.
1:02:09
Speaker 1: I spent so much time and had to redo it
1:02:12
Speaker 1: started apologizing.
1:02:15
Speaker 2: I actually I had the experience like that at one time.
1:02:22
Speaker 2: I just said like, uh, that's me. Sometimes you need
1:02:28
Speaker 2: to shoot out to the void.
1:02:33
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we've been talking for over an hour
1:02:36
Speaker 1: again about everything except the Steelers for about ninety five
1:02:40
Speaker 1: percent of that so.
1:02:41
Speaker 3: I say maybe six minutes were related to the Steelers.
1:02:46
Speaker 1: But if anything, if anything else, or if nothing else, rather,
1:02:51
Speaker 1: we got the story. You got the scoop about how
1:02:53
Speaker 1: the Steelers are going to get a Super Bowl in
1:02:55
Speaker 1: the next five years. You heard it here first, So
1:02:58
Speaker 1: all right, that's gonna do it for us for the
1:03:01
Speaker 1: world famous accountant Eric vanmin showden I'm Nick de Tulio.
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