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Audacy Pittsburgh’ Regional Vice President Michael Spacciapolli talks with Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O’Connor about his father, the late Mayor Bob O’Connor and what made him so relatable to Pittsburgh.

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00:00Your father was beloved in the city. What was it about him that you think resonated so well
00:05with the Pittsburghers? I think he was just a full-blown Pittsburgh. You know, like I always
00:10tell the stories that, you know, and it's rare, but I'll flip on the City Channel. And we just
00:18happened to turn it on maybe a couple weeks ago, and it was his inaugural. And it was amazing
00:23how the yinzer would come out in him almost every sentence. And I think by doing that,
00:30you were just, you're the local Pittsburgher that's trying his best. And I think taking
00:35that mindset into this job is very helpful for me. But I also think there were everywhere
00:40I go, you still hear a Bob story. Like, oh, you know, my kids were getting ice cream and
00:45your dad was in line and he bought him an ice cream cone. Like, I think those stories, you
00:50know, to me mean the most. It's either that while he was mayor or on council or the old
00:56Roy Rogers days when he managed Roy Rogers. I will, at least once a week, I find somebody
01:01that was like, your dad hired me at the Green Tree Roy Rogers when I was in high school.
01:06So I think that was something that was very special.
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