Paul Pabst is feeling the intensity of the Pittsburgh football scene

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes were joined by Dan Patrick Show executive producer Paul Pabst live from Pittsburgh to set the scene of the NFL Draft and to share his takeaways from the first round.

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0:00.0	We did it. We made it to Pittsburgh.
0:07.0	We're in the shadows of downtown Pittsburgh.
0:11.0	Everybody's here. This might be the best studio audience we've had this week.
0:16.0	I'm going to guess.
0:17.0	Wow, already?
0:18.0	Go out on a limb and say might be the best studio audience here.
0:21.4	Pauli's here.
0:22.4	Marvin's here.
0:35.2	Fritzy wearing the same thing he wore last night to dinner. We weren't going to do that. Yes, Paulie. This is one of the top five backdrops for this show that we may have ever had. We could see the whole skyline of Pittsburgh. I didn't know it's so expansive. and the river is right behind us.
0:38.7	There's actually guys doing gravel and trucking behind us.
0:41.0	Trains going by on the bridges, this is awesome.
0:38.3	I mean, there's construction going on. I mean, this is Pittsburgh.
0:43.6	They're working here. I like that. Trains, trains going by. Beautiful backdrop here. Weather's supposed to be
0:49.9	great if you're coming to the draft, of course, which will be outside. I don't know what the
0:54.6	numbers are of how many people they expected, but it's probably a half a million that you would
0:59.3	have coming in for the draft. A little less than that DP, 320,000 last night, but over the
1:06.4	weekend, yeah, it's going to go over that number. Top five backdrops in the history of the
1:10.7	Dan Patrick show.
1:11.7	Sounds like a category. Let me tell you something. Go ahead. Pittsburgh is one of the most slept-on easy trips that a Chicagoan can make. I got to make it this summer. Go to a ball game in the Warhol Museum. Wait, wait. You've never been there? I mean, I drove through it and visited a friend, but I've never been there to hang out and go to the ballpark.
1:31.2	It's a damn shame. Speaks. I know. There's a lot for you to do. I know. You got to watch Predator. Back off. And then you go to Pittsburgh and remember, you had, what, three Negro League teams there too? Right now, I don't have time because we have to talk to Paulie Papps
1:47.9	who join And remember, you had, what, three Negro League teams there, too? Right now, I don't have time because we have to talk to Paulie Papps, who joins us on
1:49.2	the score hotline, which is brought to you by Potawatomi Casino and Hotel.
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