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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Don's Appliance in Studios where Pittsburgh shops for appliances.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
This is w DDE Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Alec Baldwin says that he and his young brother Stephen
are fine. After Alec crashed his wife's Range Rover head
on into a tree. Alex says he feels bad he
crushed his wife's car. Alec Baldwin said he was in
the area for the Hampton's International Film Festival that wrapped up.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
That's getting ruined the tour. He loved smashing his wife's car.
Have you heard the way that she talked to him
in public?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You know what it was actually on the heels of
She just had a story that was circulating yesterday where
she was opening up about her elimination from Dancing with
the Stars, and she was saying that she.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Was bullied off the show and that.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
She was saying, you know how it's a rampant behavior
of people who harass the famous. But I in what
I think her accent is, and I actually don't even
know what it sounds like.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
What she talks, but I was going, I did get
Moolyodolf the show.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I did. That's for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
That is for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show. Yeah she is.
Her fake accent is awesome, although you know you should
be able to if you can pull off an accent,
you should be able to just decide to have one
one day. Some people change their names, why not change
your accent code switching?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Is it doing black voice?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Accent?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Doing? Yeah? Doing a Latino voice. But you know, if
you're like a white dude just picking up like uh,
if you don't have the heritage, yeah, then you shouldn't
be able to do it. But she's legitimately she's Spanish?
Is she really show me the results? She she is?
Show me the twenty three and me her name is Hilaria,
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which is hilarious? Is it though? Or is it Hilary?
Who knows? I guarantee you in she was known as
Hillary and she had no problem remembering how to say onions.
Just a guess. It's unbelievable. I'll tell you what we
were talking about. How about Alec Baldwin looks Stephen Baldwin
doesn't look a whole lot better. I don't know what
those dudes are doing. Sorry out here for a bald one.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Are there any Baldwins that are like.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
William William Is that the one from Sliver Yes, married
China Phillips is uh wait, China Phillips. Her name, yeah,
Michelle Phillips daughter China Phillips from Wilson Phillips. He looks okay,
the blonde one from Wilson.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Oh wow, yeah, no she was. Yeah, that was the
right one to marry.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Of the choices had she was the only Phillips, Yeah,
because the other ones were the Wilson Wilson and then
she was the Phillips.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So yeah, she was the Phillips head. What are you
go going on over there?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
It's this hour.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It is brought to you by wind Downation, Sunshine today
and a high of seventy. A popular burger chain is
opening another location in the Pittsburgh region couple of months
after Shake Shack announced it was opening in Ross Park
Mall's food Court. There's another one that's coming to Cranberry.
So that's gonna be Streets of Cranberry. It's the former
site of Hula.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Hans and that is now the fifth Shake Shack.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, you know, I'm glad because Cranberry needed this.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I really was worried about them.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, I have any chains up there, no options at
all up there. What are they going to do? I
don't know, but this will certainly help things for them.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
But don't you think that like the shake Shacks, the
Chick fil A's, like these are the new UNO's and
Hole of Hands, and you know, there's no more restaurant
like I guess TJ Fridays is still.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Up and well and kicking. I mean I've seen a
few of them. I don't know. Yeah, I think those
older chains have kind of died off mostly what is
I mean other than McDonald's like the big you know McDonald's, Wendy's,
Burger King franchises, the ones that are the of the
newer ilk seem to have all gone by the wayside.
Like the more sit down, fast casual wheels on the
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chairs places, those seem to all have died off gone. Yeah,
it's all Chick fil a and cans and and people
dying to get in and out. On this side of
the Mississippi River.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
The chipotles have have come in and taken some of
that money.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I do like Shakeshack, and I also think it's overrated.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I still have not shake Shacks.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh really, it's pretty good. You'd like it. I mean
it fries, yeah, good burger, fries, good shakes. You know
it's in the shack. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I feel like everybody's doing smash burgers now though.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It's a thing.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
The diner A big fan of the Shakeshack smash Burger,
big fan before it came here.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I mean I've had it maybe once or twice here.
I've not even had it here. Last time I had
it was in Vegas with you and Joe.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
It's tremendous. Yeah, we're real good out in Vegas. They
also have the In and Out Burger too. It's all
so tremendous.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
In and Out's better than Jzack. I like the toasted bun.
They're all just burgers, all right.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
There are sure to be more people saying I want
my MTV in the near future. The world's first twenty
four hour music broadcaster is set to shut down five
of its channels, including MTV Music, MTV Eighties, MTV Nineties Club,
MTV and MTV Live starting December thirty first of this year.
The outlet notes that the flagship channel MTVHD is going
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to remain on the air.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
MTV hasn't commented on this yet.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
But MTV first launched in the US in nineteen eighty
one with a focus on showing the most popular music videos,
and the first one to air was do you remember.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Very good.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
MTV Europe launched six years later in nineteen eighty seven,
and by nineteen ninety seven the UK officially got their
own channel as well.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Trevor Horn I think was the name of the guy
who's in that band who went on to become a
big music producer. Yes, very good.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Yeah, I mean the VJs used to be a big deal.
They used to be famous, exactly. I couldn't tell you
who is on MTV anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Mark Goodman, he went to pitt Mark good still like no,
I mean he's still on MTV. I don't think most
of the ones that are still alive went to serious radio.
You can like hear them on the classic Rewine type
channels and stuff, you know. Yeah, Nina Blackwood, jj U. J. J.
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Johnson was Scout Johnson, Downtown, Julie Brown, Adam Curry. Yeah,
I feel like he was waived number two. Alan Alan
was the darky one, Alan whatever the hell? Yeah, But
then there and then it was like the second wave
of MTV when Kurt Loader came in, who is like
apparently made a deal with the devil because he's ageless.
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Do you know how old Kurt Loader is. He's like
eighty five right now, that's crazy. He's he's definitely up there. Yeah,
hold on a second. He just had a birthday. And
I remember we were talking about this.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
We were like, he's old, but he's like the walzer
crung Kite eighty eight year old.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh, I'm so sorry. He looks better than both bud
One brothers for what it's worth. Well, another ageless wonder
on MTV. Bill Bellamy. Oh yeah, Bill Bellamy always an
outstanding morning show guest every time. He's great. He's the best,
nice and he's not aged at all. Hillary Her Hilary
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of Baldwin by the way, Yeah, born Hillary Lynn of course,
Hayward Shocker, Shocker. Her name has an accent ilaria. She
is of English, French, Canadian, German, Irish and Slovak exactly
on on. Here's the thing. If she steers into the
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skin and goes like super Spanish, I'm all right with it.
Like she needs to have like Flamenco dancers, Walker onto
the you know, Dancing with the Stars or whatever show
she's on next after she got booted from that. Gee,
I wonder why she was bullied out of Dancing with
the Stars.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I can't imagine the earth.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
She probably wanted to do, like a big Spanish thing.
They're like, you're from Connecticut, you're Polish.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
I mean, now, I do love it when Chad Hanks
does it and he affects a Jamaican accent.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I mean, that's some of my favorite stuff.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
I like.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It's also kind of not acceptable anymore. I don't know.
I feel like he's been welcomed into the like what's
the word for Jamaican patois Like he's been welcomed into
that community. He's been invited to the cookout. I believe so, really,
I think so.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
I mean he's definitely working now, like he's he's in stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
He was in a movie recently. Yeah, I can't he
was on a show too for a second.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
Chet.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You know, I like how Tom Hanks is like that,
Chet's the best. Yeah, he's crazy. Why though, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I think that after a while, you're just like.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That, it's just jet yeah. Chat. We tried to get
him to stop and he has been talking like that
since he was seven, so there's nothing we can do.
It's actually our fault. We named him Chet.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
He's appropriately named.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
That's the first time that, like they knew right away
he was supposed to be named Chet.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I the doctor came out and I'm really sorry you
have a bouncing baby. Chet.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Rush fans lost their minds in a good way when
they heard their favorite band was getting back together for
some reunion shows. It sounds like some of them are
losing their minds in a bad way now that they
know how much tickets cost. According to Alternative Nation, nosebleed
seats are going for more than three hundred dollars, while
mid level seats cost somewhere around three fifty to four
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hundred dollars. They're also selling premium packages that range from
six to fifty to two five hundred dollars, and those
packages aren't offering much beyond a laminate and other trinkets
plus early access to the merch.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Boost Steady Lee will yell at you, are those face
value tickets or are those secondary market?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
You know, it doesn't say in this article.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Well, it's if they're selling packages that would indicate to
me those are face value those are from. Yeah, that
is I mean, it's crazy they would do a money grab.
They're not taking a symphony on the road with them,
which is something we talked about. We thought maybe they
would augment Neil not being there with a bunch of
different musicians, but they're just using the one drummer Anika.
Is that her name Monica?
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, So I'm not sure why they're going to gouge
their fans like this other than they can.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
It's unfortunate, and we have talked about the woes of
the music industry, but Rush is not a band that's
in that position. This is not an up and coming
band that is not making their money off of streams
and therefore has to supplement it with touring and all
that kind of stuff. This would this would be a
little more predatory ticketing.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Well did you see the rant that Shirley Manson went
on from Garbage the other night on stage? I didn't
know she I posted it to my instant stories. She said, Hey,
this is the last tour we're doing in America, and
it's not because we don't love the American audiences or
that we can't draw big crowds like the audience she
was performing for when she was talking like this, and
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she just said, it's untenable. It is impossible to do
anything but toward the big cities and make any money.
And you can't. There aren't enough big cities to make
enough money because the entire infrastructure of the music industry
is completely eft, and the rich are getting richer and
the artists are getting nothing, and we have to do
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something about it. And when I hear those prices from Rush,
I always wonder how much does Live Nation have to
do with those price as being where they are probably
the majority of it. That's all I thought about, is it.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
How are you even making money now touring unless you
goug right?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, And that's why you see all of these like
VIP experiences being sold in all of those packages, which
the artists don't want to do. I mean they it's
not that they dislike their fans, but they want to
concentraint on the day of show, like it's it's hard
to do all that. It might seem like, oh digging ditches.
It hard is hard, no doubt, but also traveling and
touring sucks. Nobody likes that. It's really hard lifestyle. And
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then to put on a face and hang out with
people for an hour and a half before show and
then an hour and a half after a show. I mean,
it's it's it's difficult. They don't want to do it.
I know, it's like you should be glad you have
fans and all of that other stuff, But like they
don't do that because they're like, we love our They're
doing because they have to make money.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I think that's part of your you know, the again,
the premium packages thing is probably where the band is
making its money. And I wish I had the article
in front of me because there was like a while
back and it was like some kind of emo, you know,
punk band that's like mid level that went through ticketing
prices and basically broke it down to what actually they
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make and it was a very insignificant amount with the
ticket price.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
So to Bill's.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Point, you know, with Live Nation, especially because I imagine with
the size of venue that Rush is able to pull,
they own those venues, so they're setting that price with garbage.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I always go back to like.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
What the all American rejects are doing, where they are
going into this. We'll just cut out any kind of
promoter and we're just going to book our own tours
college style, where we'll just show up and we're going
to do this ourselves. And again, they're probably not making
the money that they would make if they had the
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high capacity venue, but at the same time they get
to keep more of the take.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
So there's like a part of me that I always.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Have these maybe naive and idealistic daydreams of these bands going,
We'll go to a bunch of smaller venues and do
tiny tours and not do these big venues, and we're
just going to do smaller runs more often instead of
doing the big runs and doing big cities, and like,
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if you got.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
A ticket, you got a ticket, Like that's what we're
doing now.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I mean, Rage against the Machine did a Live Nation tour. Yeesh,
it's over. Yeah right.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Yeah, Rage did a tour for the Machine, right, Rage
and the Machine.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
But maybe, I mean the American rejects were just fed
up with the sheets and they were like, let's just
do this ourselves, because when with those big tours, the
amount of people, the amount of hands in that cook
jar is insane.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
They take their merch try me crazy.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
That's like it makes it makes my soul hurt. And
then just as an artist, like I remember opening for
comedians like Guardelle was always a guy who would stand
out front and shake everybody's hand. But there was also
something that was like kind of demoralizing for the comedian
or the artists to sell merch. It's like, dude, they
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paid to come see you. Now you're hitting them before
they leave. Like and I get it, like you're trying
to make the extra money and and and I did
it at one point too, but there was always something
that was it made me feel.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Icky about it. Sure, I think if you're a performer
like Bruce Springsteen or somebody like that, where you are
known for like you leave it all on the stage,
I think it's reasonable to expect that it's hard for
them to do VIP things, you know what I mean.
Like definitely, they're really giving you everything they have on
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ze stage, yeap, and that leaves you kind of an
empty vessel.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Listen again, it's fourth wall ish, but there's been times
where I'm leaving a venue after a show and I
will tell like my bandmates saying, hey, I have to
Irish goodbye.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I'm out of personality.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, exactly, Like I ran out of personality, and if
I have to go back in and tell everybody goodbye,
They're not going to get the best.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Version of me.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And I would rather leave and then be like, where'd
she go? Then go she's a bitch.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well that's what I was getting at with they don't
want to need to be at p's. I understand why
bands don't want to do that, and now they have to.
Now they have to. Now they have to because they
have to make money. So with Rush, I would imagine
that what Rush wants to make on this tour is
less than half of what these ticket prices are at.
I bet Rush is like, hey, it's gonna cost us
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X amount and that ends up being about thirty eight
percent of what the ticket price is and the rest
is all Live Nation. Yeah, that would be my guess.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I remember that Live Nation guys said that they're not
expensive enough.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
That's right, that's right. The Live Nation guy said, we're
we're paying too little for concerts. I just don't know
what people do, Like, what do you do? How do
you get everybody to stop doing what they're so comfortable doing,
which is going on Spotify, which is just paying too
much for the concerts, Like.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Well, yeah, now we're we created the mess that we
complain about.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Well, it's it has to be a political thing. It
has to be an antitrust lobbying enacted. Yeah, which, I
you know, I don't think that's think that's going to
happen anytime soon.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Well, even just like beyond music, just the big box
stores that we go to, the targets and the walmarts,
put all the mom and pop shops, that's parting, yeah,
you know, And it's that convenience and the cheaper prices
that we love put out the families that we care about.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Like, did you have a store when you were growing
up where it was like a mom and pop thing
and you knew Yeah, yeah, all the people inside. Yes,
Go tell mister Keller, your dad wants a pack of
merrit one hundreds. Yeah exactly, Okay, run down this pack
of smokes with a note from your mom. Hey, mister Keller,
my dad wants back one hundreds. Actually, don't think. I
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don't know if there were hundreds, it might have been
one hundred. My mom smokes.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Yeah, there's always crazy to me, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Cigarettes, Yeah, not enough, make him make them taste worse.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
I want the ash to really hang out there and
draw the attention of anyone I'm talking to. When am
I gonna ash it?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You'll never know all anyone can concentrate on. Where is
that ash gonna fuck?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
God?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Look at that ash? Merrill Hodge eight forty five, Billy
Gardell in the nine o'clock hour Cousins Dune smoking right,
he quit, he kicked it. I think, I think so.
I think so. We'll talk to him. He's gonna be
up and eerie, by the way, forming against that comedy
club up there. I can't remember the name of it.
Not this coming weekend, but the following weekend. The Magic
Club used to be called Juniors. Yeah, magic club sounds right.
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So he'll join us at nine am here on the
show for an hour. This week's WDV. BUTD like game
Day bar the week Ricky D's in South Park this
NFL season, stopping Ricky D's and enjoy three fifty butt
light bottles during all Steelers games. But Light, easy to drink,
easy to enjoy.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
And you play the greatest song in the world for me.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Only if you can pick it.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
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Speaker 2 (19:39):
This report is sponsored by all State. It's gotta be
a nice day, partly cloudy with pizza, sunshine high of
seventy one, clear with just a few clouds tonight dropping
down to an opening was the sixty fifth anniversary of
Mas's home run in the nineteen sixty World Series Game
seven made Mickey mantlecry. And every year Pirates fans gather
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at the site of where Forbes Field used to be
to listen to a radio broadcast. So cool rebroadcast of
that Game seven right in front of that part of
the wall, yep. And it's still there, which is still there,
And I mean they had several hundred people show up
for that yesterday, which is pretty damn cool. There's a
bit of a sad element to me in that it
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seems like, well, that's all you have to celebrate is
the past with this organization right now. But that doesn't
discount how cool of an event I still think that is.
Speaker 10 (20:28):
I still think Joe Carter was in Game six right
for Toronto. Yeah, Yeah, that's the only walk off Game
seven home run in World series history.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
That sounds right, Is that correct? I mean, yeah, Game
six in nineteen ninety three, they won eight to six
over the Phillies.
Speaker 10 (20:49):
I think that's the only other home run that actually
won a World Series right right then and there.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, there's been alcs's and nlcs is won by home runs,
but not more.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
It would be similar to celebrating the Maac reception. I mean,
it's something to Bill.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Too.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
It's not just we won, it's how they did it
and who they did it against. And they'll never do
it again, just like I know they did it in
seventy one and seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Those Yeah, every game they lost, they got their asses
kicked in that series. Oh yeah, every game they won
was barely barely never should have happened, but it did.
Made Mickey mintlecrash sports.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
I mean, if you look at the joy on the
people's faces as they rushed the field.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
That that kind of joy.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Because it's like the first championship here in the city
in the modern era. I know the Pirates won at
the turn of the century, but that was really the
first major championship with the teams like we know them now.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Well.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Also, it inspired one of the coolest sports photographs of
all time, which is the fans watching from the Tower
of Learning, the Cathedral Learning. Yeah, like over their shoulders
looking down onto the field. Love that shot. Yeah, it's
pretty bad.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Yeah, they closed all that up, Like there's no balcony
on the Cathedral Learning anymore? Did they that you can
access I don't think you can walk outside up there.
Speaker 10 (22:09):
I been there in a long time. We used to
always go. My mom always used to take us to
those international rooms because they were the coolest. Yeah, educational
and entertaining and interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, and now there's just people waiting around you up
when you go in there.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
Been there forever. First there one time of a buddy
of mine from out of town. This was a long
time ago, and the guy said, hey, how do you
get to the basement? And I said, trade John Tudor
from George. You always had it in you, I did.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Mike pursuit a getting ready for Steelers Bengals on Thursday night,
Thursday Night football in Cincinnati. It was early eighties, quick
turnaround for Mike Tomlin and company. And he was pretty
honery yesterday that he was.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
And uh, it might not all have to do with
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Speaker 5 (23:14):
Absolutely, you better have some corners taller than me if
you're dealing with delights of T Higgins and people like that,
and so certainly, and that's something that we talk about
as a collective of the intimacy of divisional relationships. It's
just it's just a component of the game. You you
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you better stack up good against those that you compete
against uh in a lot of ways, and so I'm
sure people acquire secondary people to match up with that collective.
Baltimore took a first round corner and Nate Wiggins the
other year. I'm sure with that group in mind, the
Bengals have taken right tackles in recent years. I'm sure
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to minimize TJ's impact in that relationship. That's divisional play.
That's what makes it so challenging and so so exciting.
Speaker 10 (24:07):
Jamart Chase pretty good too, suppars T Higgins is the
taller of the two, but Joe Flacco figured out pretty
quickly upon his arrival in Cincinnati. He just throw those
guys general direction and they got a chance at making
a play. But there was also some timing stuff and
some anticipation stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
That's uh, that's going to be a handful.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (24:29):
Tomlin respects Flacco's talent. What he can't wrap his head
around is what the hell is Flacco doing in Cincinnati
and not Cleveland in the first place.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You know, to be honest, it was shocking to me.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Andrew Berry must be a lot smarter than me or us,
because it doesn't make sense to me to trade a
quarterback that you think enough of to make your opening
day starter to a division opponent that's hurting in that area.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
But that's just my personal feelings. I mean, we've gone
over it this morning. You guys liked it. Abby, you
and Bill both. You like that he teed off on.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Andrew Berry in the same way that Like, there's just
things about Mike Tomlin being a little more fiery that
have always resonated with me. So I guess that, like
anytime that maybe we get outside of a tomlinism, Yeah,
I'm like yes, show me that.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Yeah, it resonated on an authenticity level. I don't know
if it was a great look for him as a
coach to be calling out another organization like that, but
since when have we cared about the Brons?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah? I feel that as well, But it did seem
to be like a window into his frustration and consternation
that has been kicked up due to him having to
deal with Joe Flacco on Thursday night.
Speaker 10 (25:42):
Now, Mike, and you know, in the wake of his
comments about I told the guys when we played the
Colts last year, keep Anthony Richardson in the game because
I don't want to play veteran savvy Joe Flacco.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Because we know how much Tomlin loves a veteran quarterback.
He's got the veteran. Yeah, seriously, you love the old.
Guys looked good in.
Speaker 10 (26:05):
That second half, but the problem was to Bill's boil
last hour. Every time the Bengals scored to get back
in the game, that gave up a score so the
Packers could retake control. And then they got it down
to six with just over two minutes left, that had
chance to get the ball back and they couldn't stop
third and nine.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, that's kind of what I'm resting on here and
relying on banking that Mike Tomlin knows that even if
he can find Jamar Chase and T Higgins a couple
of times, Joe Flacco isn't gonna work quick enough that
you can't. It's like guys that steal your jokes, Bill.
You can just write them quicker than they can steal them. Right,
score more often than they are going to score, and
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you win the game. They should not be able to
stop the Steelers, who should be able to go on long,
prolonged drives, running the ball and eating up the clock,
win the time of possession. Tomlin loves a one score game.
We all know that, but maybe this is one where
you try to knock it in the end zone a
few more more times than the other guy.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
And don't forget last year, this was the zenith of
our excitement with the Russell Wilson experiment. I mean, they
scored what thirty seven points? It's true they went off.
They went in the forties and didn't they Yeah, thirty
they scored a ton yeah, and then and then they
and then the game here in Pittsburgh was off ugly disgusting,
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but hey, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
What was the next four Yeah, Flacco did have.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
One of the touchdown drives was seventeen plays seventy eight
yards in ten minutes and fourteen seconds. Speaking to hold
the ball, they're probably they're probably going to try to
hold it a little bit too, because they probably know
their defense stakes.
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going on?
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Well, the sun is up and it's a beautiful day.
And your Pittsburgh Stellers are getting better.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yes, indeed they are, you know. And it was a
real treat to see you on the field as part
of the Crucial Catch promotion this past weekend. And I
love seeing you run out there with your find Away hat,
and that had to be pretty special for you. As
many times as you've been on that field, it probably
never gets old. Run out after they say your name
and hear the ovation of sixty five thousand Steeler fans.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Can I tell you something like, I've done that before
and I've never had an experience like that. Honestly, when
I got out there, I was like, oh my gosh.
I was like I was taken back. Actually it was.
I was almost honestly start crying. Be honest with you,
I was like, Holy Wow, this is unbelievable. I looked
up in those stands. I'm like, man, that's what makes
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sure the city is so great and these fans so great.
It's just all those cows going in Unison and I
went up to arts box after for a little bit
and I was just like, man, I almost forgot what
it's like to be on that field.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
I know, that was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, well you deserve it, you know you. I mean,
you embody the spirit of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh yeah,
and all the things we like about the organization, the
attitude and you know, find a way and everything you've
done in the wake of your cancer diagnosis then beating
it and helping other deal with it. I mean, that
is some exemplary stuff, man. And this town loves the
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people who live up to their billing as all time
great Pittsburgh Steelers. In Meryl, number thirty three, like I
always say, number thirty three in your program, number one
in your heart, Meryl holl I love.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
You, brother, Honestly. I'm just gonna close it with this.
It was I love.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
About this city, honestly, I and the fans and the
people are Oh tell my wife, I entelize, like you
know what I mean. I don't know why, but this
city like just embraced me, and I just and I'm
so good for that. I just the people there are
incredible and and I actually, you know, to add to that,
(30:46):
when I worked with all these other players that you know,
played for other organizations, they would always say this, and
I never say while I'm playing, but now I can.
Speaker 8 (30:53):
But then the seed of fans are they're different, man,
You know.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
What They're different then because you just said it, Randy,
Actually is they appreci They demand you give your very best. Yes,
they want to win a championship, but they at least
demand that. And if you at least do that, then
they're okay with that. It's when you don't give me
your very best and you're not doing everything you can
that they have a problem with it. And I go,
they know the difference that makes them special.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah, well you deserve it. And it was great. I
love seeing all those terrible towels flying for you. It
was really you know, they did it at the perfect
time and the crowd went nuts. That was great. Now,
there was plenty of go nuts about from on the
field play as well. Look like they are. They're getting
better in all the areas that they needed to. Now,
given that this was a Browns offense that wasn't exactly
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you know, Patrick Mahomes and his heyday or anything like that. Uh,
you know, you take it with a grain of salt.
But Meryl, the defensive line pressure, the edge rushing that
was going on there, and then you know the stuff
you were getting in the secondary. You had to be
pretty happy with the way the defense showed up on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
Well, you know, to say, you know, to have what
you just said there, and that's right what you should
have done. That's what you expect when they have a
guy that's limits to that quarterback. Their offense is really
not you know, explosive or dynamic.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
That's how you should handle an offense like that.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
So it's actually a real credit to them and how
they play. But their defensive line is like completely different
than it was week one, week two, week week three.
It is so much better up front. You know, now
they're healthy rotation on the outside. They just got relentless
pressure that they can bring, you know, and you know, schematically,
(32:30):
I think they they kind of were forced to do
some things schematically because they were struggling, but they do
them really well and it's a problem for the teams.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
And so now they're becoming a dad.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
So they got a bunch of phases that they can
add to an opponent that's going to be a problem.
You know, from protection aspect, it's not just lining up
and say, okay TJ.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
Watson.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
They're going to create the sackers and occupy three people
and then somebody else is gonna make sack. Now they
can do some things schematically to free him up, to
get other people matched up, and they're going in the
right direction. I will say this, they were absolutely dominant,
and they were supposed to be dominant because they were
better than those guys upfront in that area.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Well, how what makes her big so special in your estimation?
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Well, you know, I studied him in Wisconsin, and you know,
actually he was one of the guys that was on
my list of players to look at, and I was like,
you know, the first guy he kind of minded me
of was Chad Brown. Now, just because he played inside
linebacker sometimes too in college, and so I always like
a guy who has versatility because that's not easy, Like
people who play outside linebacker sometimes can't play inside and
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vice versa, and he could do both.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
But he has an awesome motor.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
He's got great motor, and then he's developing two as
a player. So now you know if it's if you've
watched him when he was a rookie versus where he
is now, just in his development. He's better with his hands.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
He's really quick to see.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
That's always if you have to stand in the line
of skill sets and what one is feed the other's quickness.
Always get in the quickness line, because that is a
superior skill set if you've had that in football than speed.
Now if well, if you get both, and you're really lucky.
But she has great quickness his hands, and he had
great instincts you know too.
Speaker 8 (34:16):
He just has a rootal knack.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
For high rushes the quarterback but and I love his mortar.
He is relentless, and you got to have.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
That type of guy. And when you do have that
type of guy, it's contagious.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Now Flacco at quarterback for the Bengals. Mike Tomlin expressed
his dismay over Cleveland jettising him down to the bottom
of the state there within the division, said, this is
a guy you invested in to become your starting quarterback
to kick off the season, and you trade him in
the division. Andrew Berry must be a lot smarter than
I am. Didn't make any sense to him. I think
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this is because they would much rather face Jake Browning.
But how much more of a threat is Joe Flacco?
Do you think at this point.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
Just a little bit, you know, based on what they
did in Green Bay. Well, here's I'm gonna back up.
You know, I don't know what Cincinnati's thinking. I'll be
honest with you. I understand where their their talent lies.
But there's still a way you have to win in
this league, you know, And if they actually call it
plays like Joe Burrow is still playing there, like I
honestly think that they think he's still on the hield
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because I'm like, honestly, when I'm watching them, like, okay,
they have not done anything different, They're like they think
he's still out there.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
That's terrible.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
I mean, she can't play like that, Joe Flacco can't
play like that. They needed to like button it down,
bring listen. I remember when the New England Patriots would
fall apart or they'd lose two.
Speaker 8 (35:42):
In a row. I mean they would go right back
into the state of recovery.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
And you know what they did with the greatest quarterback
ever two tight ends. I formation, run the football, run
the football, run the football, run action.
Speaker 8 (35:54):
Off of that run action. Off of that, they weren't
having five.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
Bide receivers, spread formation, throwing the ball all over the
face place. I just don't know what they're doing from
a play call perspective now. Instead, that's the favorite of
everybody who plays them.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
Joe Flackley.
Speaker 7 (36:09):
If you looking against Green Bay, it looked just like
Dylan Gabriel's game plan.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
You know, it's very limited. You know, they worked half
the field.
Speaker 7 (36:17):
They did, you know, max protection and try to get
two guys open.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
And you know they got dynamic players. Everybody knows that.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
But you know, when you're limited from the guy who
pulls the trigger, you know, I don't care much count
you have there. You know, it's irrelevant at that point.
They did run the ball a tad bit more and
better in the second half, and that's actually what kind
of got them back in the game. And I suppose
them to be a little better on Thursday, but not much.
There's only so much that you can ask him to do.
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From a player perspective that you're going to have a
chance at being successful.
Speaker 8 (36:53):
So they'll still be limited.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
And you know, they got problems with their tackles, got
a real problem with both tackles, and that's that's gonna
have to occupy people for our people more than they want.
Speaker 8 (37:03):
So if they're a bad spot.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Well, Steelers traditionally entered Mike Tomlin not so great on
Thursday night football. Maybe that'll bode well for Cincinnati. But
one team seems to be the trajectory's going one way
and the other one's looking over there saying what do
you want from me? The Bengals are dropping precipitously, I
think right now. Even you know there are only so
many jump balls you can throw up. That doesn't work
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all the time for you.
Speaker 8 (37:31):
You know you're completely right, You are completely right.
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Well, thank you, love the Steelers and love DV. I
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