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Running 26.2 Miles Cannot Be Good For You

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A Jets fan's 0-and-4 nightmare centers on Aaron Rodgers and Hard Knocks.

1. Untitled Pittsburgh Sports Comedy Podcast opens in Leibberg Studios in Glenshaw with a half-marathon story and a warning that 26.2 miles "cannot be good for you." 2. The hosts are John and Tad, with producer Ben Stonium present on site, and their roles are to trade sports jokes, local references, and long riffs. 3. The episode asks what happens when Pittsburgh sports, running, and pop-culture comparisons collide in the same conversation. 4. John describes running 13.1 miles, says he wore a 13.1 rear-window decal, and contrasts that with the full 26.2-mile marathon. 5. Tad says marathon runners must be "f***ing crazy" and jokes that a race can be about "50% crazy" and "50%" needing a new personality. 6. The hosts discuss goo packets at mile 10, shirtless runners, and the idea that distance runners should wear shirts at organized events. 7. John recalls a high school cross country coach who confiscated Walkmans and mocked kids for listening to Radiohead and Third Eye Blind. 8. Le'Veon Bell apologizes to Steeler Nation and says he should have stayed in Pittsburgh, which the hosts treat as a late text from an ex. 9. The running back discussion expands into the idea that the position is devalued and compared to a depreciating asset on sports talk radio. 10. Bell's A Bug's Life tweets become the centerpiece, with his claim that running backs are ants, owners are grasshoppers, and he is Flick. 11. The hosts argue that Bell seems to think he is the first player to ever hold out for a contract. 12. Tad says "Flick never turned his back on his ants" and then jokes about the movie's cast, including Kevin Spacey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. 13. Wiz Khalifa throwing out the first pitch at a Pirates game while high and on mushrooms becomes a separate target for jokes. 14. The hosts say the Pirates wanted a cool, trite stunt and compare it to the team acting like a parent offering "a couple course lights in the basement." 15. HBO's Hard Knocks on the New York Jets leads to a long Aaron Rodgers debate and a fan-fueled 0-and-4 nightmare scenario. 16. John’s Jets-fan friend imagines Rodgers blaming toxic fans, escaping to an affluent cave, and ghosting the team for three games. 17. The tone is loose, combative, and joke-dense, with sports talk constantly interrupted by pop-culture callbacks and mock indignation. 18. The format is a conversational banter segment with frequent punch-ins, side jokes, and abrupt topic pivots from one Steelers-adjacent subject to another. 19. Fans who like Pittsburgh sports comedy and pop-culture riffs will probably like this. 20. Listeners wanting straight analysis without digressions will probably skip it.

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A Pittsburgh sports comedy episode that turns a bathroom prank into a fast-moving riff on football and baseball.

The episode opens with a bathroom bit at a new job, then slides into football, absurdity, and Pittsburgh sports talk. It keeps moving through a fake Bugs Life-as-football pitch, Le'Veon Bell, Wiz Khalifa's Pirates first pitch, and a Doc Ellis comparison, all tied together by the…

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