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October 30, 2025 • 43 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Live from the Don's Appliances Studios where Pittsburgh shops for appliances.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
This is WTVEE, Pittsburgh.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
I remember at some point, like I even knew, uh
some point in my like pregnancy too, I knew I
had to stop going to concerts. And it wasn't because
I didn't think I could handle going to a concert.
It was that I recognized my pregnancy was a burden
to everyone else going to the concert. Is that I

(00:43):
had to make them concerned with my well being by
being there.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
See what you're doing there is being a member of society.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
We used to be a society.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
To be a.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
Society, yes, but because that would be first of all,
i'd be nervous about people bumping into you because the
rock at a concert. Unless there is like a way
to do like a pregnant woman only section, there's not.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Ken Bone is the usher right here.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
You're putting those ladies at risk, human submarines, make off.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Shoes, Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 6 (01:19):
So there's no transition out of ken Bone.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
That's to transition out of that one. No, like without
being weird, I don't mean even in like a sexual way.
Why to me pregnant women are the most beautiful women.
I mean, like it's incredible with their hair and skin.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's every good. It's just like, oh my God.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Like like God's wonder all encompass in this human submarine.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Dude the way like because it's sell replication, not to
take the magic out of it, but man, my hair,
my nails, my skin, my boot.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Everything was on lock.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
It was so great and it was so nice too
because again my neck listen, it was all hitt and
I loved it so much.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
But it was also like the first time in my life.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
As much as like women in so many phases of
their life, even when you're a teenager, like you never
appreciate what your body looks like.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Even when you're hot, you never appreciate.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
It right you're uncomfortable.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
But when I was pregnant and like that belly was
all the way out like Turkey's done, belly buttons popping out,
I never wanted to go to the beach more.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, I was so like.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
This is awesome, this is awesome.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
I am ready to put on a bikini and be
like taking it.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
I felt so good that way.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
And it's a fair trade off given that you physically
feel like ass for so much of the.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Time, and you're actually wrecking your body right now.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
That being said, six months after the baby, my hair
fell out.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
I looked like Fortu and you never get it back.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Well, yeah, who is it, Jennifer Hudson. You know she
gave that recent interview.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Not Hudson, that's from Jennifer Lawrence.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yes, Jennifer Lawrence gave an interview with The New Yorker
his kids just two, which I was news to me too. Yeah,
she had kids, and she said she's getting a boob
job now because the second kid took her boobs. She's like,
first one, I got to keep them. She's like, second
one took them, took them. A friend of mine had kids.
One kid took her boobs, and she's like, She's like,

(04:00):
I got I had great boobs.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
She's like, I don't get me wrong on fair trade off.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
She's like, but it's just sometimes you get to keep
your boobs and sometimes you don't.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
I don't know how that works.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
I don't know either.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
I never had boobs, and then I had boobs when
I got pregnant, and then they were gone again.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
I'm like, ah, there's.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Some like most pregnant women.

Speaker 7 (04:21):
Most all pregnant women have the glow that we're talking about,
the hair, everything. But there's a couple out there where
you see them pregnant and the pregnancy is whooping their ass.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Their whole nose changes. Oh yeah, like they get that
fat nose. They look like Tipil w. C.

Speaker 7 (04:39):
Fields all of a sudden, like they get a bulbous nose,
and they're just like, damn, you're going through it. I mean,
you know you put on some weight too, It's like
fifty pounds.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
I've seen they always look like they're carrying a bag
of garbage that's too heavy.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
That's that's the look on their face, like h oh,
they have to carry it in this weird way.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
There's a woman right now who as just dational diabetes,
who wants to kill us for being like pregnancy is
so beautiful.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Yeah, yeah, now I know how how difficult it is.
I wasn't trying to make it seem like it's just like, oh,
you guys are so lucky. You get to be so pretty.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
There are moments of it that are awesome, I'm sure
for sure.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
And then there are moments where you're like, I can't
do this anymore.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, I mean I would imagine to be pretty frustrated.

Speaker 7 (05:24):
It's uncomfortable, especially if you're pregnant in the summer.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah. Yeah. Do you get the bed rest for the
last two months or something like? Yeah? What's that? Is that?
Like pre clampsia or something clampsia?

Speaker 7 (05:39):
Like you have something where you have to be in
bed Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, like it's a there are issues with your blood
pressure and things like that.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
You know, you just have to be super super safe.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
First and third trimester, like gas you two, Like you
are so unbelievably tired, Like it's the at tired you've
never felt before.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
I don't envy women most of the time. I remember
when I was a little kid, my sister would fight,
like we were a little kids.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
She would fight with me.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
Women have it worse because we have all of this
biological stuff that you don't have.

Speaker 8 (06:09):
And I would go, we have to go to war. Yeah,
that was my We get drafted and we have to
go to war. All you have to do is have
a baby. She's like, there's a baby, there's a lot more.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
There's a war inside me. What are you're talking about?

Speaker 4 (06:24):
But now it's like I am flood feet and if
he's a puffer.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah. I was talking to a woman.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
Uh, I was talking to a woman this past weekend
who was saying that after every one of her kids,
her feet got bigger.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Oh I think that is real.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, real.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
And she's like, I'm a size ten now and that
is She's like, that's kind of embarrassing to say. I'm like, well,
it's lovely if you think of it in terms of
your children. Your enormous clown feet our proof of your love.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Hey, clown shoes, get over here, give me a foot job. Yeah,
it looks so small.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
It looks like it looks like you have like like
a pelican foot.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Flapper. Things you should be standing atop a telephone pole.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
The show is two packed today. We put too much
stuff in it. We might have to it's gonna overflow
and we might have to put some.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Time with a lot of in studio guests.

Speaker 5 (07:20):
We have two big ones, that's for sure, literally and figuratively.
Joe Bartneck will be stopped by six forty five this morning.
Billy Gardell in the nine hour Live in Studio. Why
is Billy Gardell live in studio here? At nine am
on a Thursday? He will tell you he hasn't left
town since the game on Sunday. Only we didn't know

(07:42):
until he texted yesterday and we found out the real
reason and that reason. He will fill you in on
after nine o'clock. But suffice at to say, thank god,
Billy will be here today. Yeah right, Merril Hodge our
pick six big at more. Abby's got a news update
for you.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
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Speaker 4 (08:06):
H I have fifty two.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Two suspects who were arrested in connection with the brazen
jewel highest at the Louver have reportedly confessed to their involvement.
Prosecutors say two men in their thirties, who were picked
up a week after the robbery and may have been
planning to leave the country, admitted to be part of
the group that broke into the Apollo Gallery on the
museum's second floor, smashed display cases and made off with

(08:30):
eight pieces of royal jewelry worth about one hundred and
two million, all of which are still missing. So far,
investigators have found no evidence that it was an inside job.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
What's interesting about this and we.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Talked about it, how they were dressed up basically as
construction workers.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
And this was kind of in plain sight.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
There was a story I just picked up this morning
where at least three men dressed up as construction workers
stole more than three million dollars worth of jewelry in Queens,
New York, doing the exact same thing. So this is
the new normal, I guess is how you do a
heist is just act like you're not doing anything wrong.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Act like you work here, Act like you work here.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
So this is the new Ocean's eleven.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
This is the new Ocean's eleven. So what was the
one in Queen's In Queens? It was three men dressed
up as construction workers stole more than three million dollars
worth of jewelry and a safe from a home in Queens,
New York. And this happened in the Jamaica Hills neighborhood.
They forced open a door, got inside the house and

(09:36):
took a safe along with the jewelry. Security cameras caught
them leaving. Let me see if I'm gonna I'm gonna
jump ahead here.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
So it was a private residence.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
It was a private residence, but they just dressed up
like construction workers. And kind of looked like they were
kind of working on the building, like you know they
so they.

Speaker 7 (09:51):
Weren't construction workers, because not, man, that's that's a lazy thief,
Like you didn't even change out of your outfit changed.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
But I started seeing people on TikTok like showing off
like they're like couples costumes this year, and it's just
them dressed up like the highst like people doing the
heightst from the louver and it is They're just wearing
like construction vests and being like I'm done holding jewelry.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
I like that. That's a pretty good one.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Pretty good and pretty quick.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Anytime there's an easy one like that.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
Yeah, that show I was telling you about not to
watch on HBO, the Mark Ruffalo show called Task because
I don't watch the first episode. But the thieves tactics
in that one was they were actual garbage men and
then at the stops of drug dealers, they would take
their garbage and pretend to throw it in the truck

(10:40):
and then take it up into the cab and they'd
go through it to monitor how many drugs were in
their house at any time, so they would know like
when they threw out the scales and stuff that that's
when all they had cashed out, and that then all
their cash was there because like, hey, they threw out
the scales, that means they sold everything and then they

(11:00):
go back and rob them. But they wouldn't wear their
their garbage men's suit to rob them. That's the one difference. Yeah,
they were actually garbage men.

Speaker 7 (11:10):
And so when they dressed up in suits, yes they
rob them in tuxedos.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Excuse me, sir, yes, can they interest you in a
bank load?

Speaker 7 (11:18):
But there was some other I can't remember what documentary
it was, but the mob was involved and they owned
a bunch of garbage trucks, and the way that they
were doing it involved something where it was either like
the drug drop was a garbage bag in the garbage truck.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Sopranos was Is that what it was?

Speaker 5 (11:36):
Yeah, there's a whole Sopranos storyline in season two or
three where they keep their dealing coke from the trucks.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Oh my god, why did I think this is a documentary.

Speaker 7 (11:47):
It might be so they probably did take it from
a real thing.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
They took a lot of the stuff on the Sopranos
from a real thing, so it might be real.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, but yeah they were.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
They were dealing coke on the trucks and then abody
like messed around or tried to snitch them out for
doing it. They would dump all the garbage in their
parking lots.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's what it was.

Speaker 7 (12:08):
Yes, I'm kind of digging right now, like just the
old timey crimes we have going on because this whole
NBA scam, the mafia is involved four of the five families,
Like they're they're they're approaching people to start shaving points
and they're doing it all with unders like bets inside
the game. And I don't know, I didn't know the

(12:31):
mob was still operating like that.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Why was it the fifth family not involved? Was it too
much integrity? Now what we're out, we don't like the NBA.
We don't.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yeah, we're more of a w NBA. When you want
to ride the w NBA, let us know, everyone looks
at the boss. One dude just makes the throat slit sign.
You should have that veto. Yeah, I like, uh, you know,
Sheryl Swoops was favorite. She's been retired for so long.

(13:00):
I grew up with it though, Alright when it comes
I like Paige Bukers ship sue me.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Now we're talking boss. No, nobody messed with Caitlin Clark.
Tell you who. We can't approach that Angel Reese. She
talks too much and she can't do a layup. Just
bet her unders. We don't even have to try.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
She uh posed in Victoria's Secret She ran the runway,
and now Paige Bukers wants.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
To do it.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
Oh, let them like the I I like these girls.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
I did too.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Her walk on the runway to Angel.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, did she dunk at the end?

Speaker 7 (13:47):
She did?

Speaker 4 (13:49):
And then she got into a fight with somebody. It
was amazing.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
She fucked. Uh what's her name? Carry Gerber?

Speaker 5 (13:56):
I was gonna say, I don't know any of the
new Mode and I just know Sidney Crosby, Sidney Crosby.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
She bought Sidney Crossby, Sidney Crosby cross checkers. Yeah, at
the end they both for the ice big as. That's true.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
Nobody's a big grass and said, but Ciddy Crawford's daughter
is what I was trying to say.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Karen Gerber, I think it's her name.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
I literally would not know the name of a current
Victoria's Secret model.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
I could give you all.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Of them from nineteen ninety to about two thousand and
Kathy Ireland. Oh my god, dude, yeah, El McPherson, Kathy Ireland, Yeah,
that's oh.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Adriana Lima. Adriana met married.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
She married Ronnie Cyclely, who was like he looked like
the chunk from the Goonies, like the UK.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
What was the sloth chunk? Yeah, I mean it's on
the palette, I guess.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, h Adriana Lima, Alessandria Ambrosia, Yes.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
Alessandria Ambrosio. Good lord, tiny glume of course. Who is
the black supermodel that had.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Her mom, Tyra Banks with the five head?

Speaker 7 (15:11):
Yeah, but she was in that you know, Sports Illustrated
Swimsuit Edition a bunch many times. And who was the
the other model that was like a clean freak before
anybody else was like a germophobe that would wipe down
her entire Nikki airplane.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh man, Nikki Something. I'm blanking on it.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
There was a blonde chick named Nikki Something that I know,
and her sister died from an asthma attack. Knew so
much about the supermodels back then, those Sports Illustrated, those
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issues, though they were like it was
crazy how big those were. The Internet kind of wiped
it out, but pre Internet that was like softcore. Yeah,

(15:57):
you know, it's like that joke that you like from
that guy about Sears dot com. Oh yeah, when we
were growing up, we didn't have the Internet. You had
to go on you know, to look at the Sears catalog,
you know, and go to the BRA the BRA pages.
But now just go on Sears dot com.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
It's such a good joke. I butchered it. But yeah, twenty.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Anyhow, all right, what were we talking about that about us? Oh,
the Angel Reese thing. Yeah, yeah, before that, we're talking
about w NBA because we were talking about channels.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, we were talking about point shaving and all that
kind of stuff. And that's the when that unfolds.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
Like we've heard some details in the first charges that
have been released, but like I can't wait to hear
more about this because there's.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Going to be separate thing that's happening too with the
poker game and those are old timey, Like that's like
a soprano fix, right, I mean, is they're wearing like glasses.
They have X ray glasses. There's X ray tables.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
They had glasses that could read the backs of the cards,
so they would wear these glasses at the poker game
and they could see what everyone had in their hand.
They had two way mirrors, They had videos like cameras
popping up from the table that were videoing guy's hands
and stuff like I.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Only saw the New York Post photo that like had
just like basically a contraption underneath the table.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, how the hell? I don't know?

Speaker 7 (17:26):
Like who, Well, there are now a lot of like
professional poker players coming out and being like, yeah, no,
everybody knew that that game was rigged, but they were
just drawing in unsuspecting people, big time card players, using
athletes like come play poker with Chauncey.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
Billups, Yeah, or Durant did a bunch of them and
he got lit up for it and they're all in
on it, Like, but he just went like he's not
accused of of having organized He's he is a victim.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Basically he went and got robbed, did he really?

Speaker 7 (18:03):
That's that's hard to believe because it's it seems like
now I'm seeing nothing but videos NonStop of games where
like things are happening to affect the spread, not the
ultimate outcome, just the under yeah, like either a player
just inexplicably gets taken out of a game that's kind
of close.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
So there's a science to it.

Speaker 5 (18:24):
Apparently this I like I saw reel with a Monster
talking about it that, like if they want an under
to hit and they have somebody who's a ball carrier,
they tell that guy, you have to turn the ball
over three times in the first first half and they
know that, Like the equation is if he does that, yeah,

(18:48):
the underhits.

Speaker 7 (18:49):
And they they also have said in different interviews that
we're trying to approach a referee because a referee is
really influential and creating an under because I just get
this guy on two or three fouls in the first half,
put him on the bench. All the time that he
spends out of the game is time he can't score.

(19:10):
And so it's just wild, Like and now, how do
you bet on the NBA? How do you how do
you gamble without thinking it isn't being screwed with.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
I would never bet on the NBA. No, I mean
I bet on baseball and football. Stick with that, like's
trying to get me into hockey and I'm not doing it. Like,
and when I say trying to get me. I mean
I bet on hockey, of course, you know, like once
you get in the playoffs, especially, it's fun to bet
on series and stuff. But like, I'm not doing night
to night betting on hockey. That's just not happening. I

(19:43):
like to bet like having a beer, you know what
I mean. It's it's the weekend.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Oh make some bets, you know what I mean, not
like it's Tuesday. What am I gonna bet?

Speaker 9 (19:51):
You know?

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, that's a lot. I mean, although sometimes I do,
like no, but if the World Series on a Tuesday,
I might put a bet on the World Series. Did
you go over for Yasavich? For you said? What an
absolute gem of a performance last night?

Speaker 8 (20:09):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (20:09):
From Savage? Who did you end up with? Eleven twelve?
Oh my god?

Speaker 5 (20:15):
The Dodgers are having their ass handed to them right
now in Toronto, and Game five went to the Blue Jays. Michael,
have a full report for you coming up here in
just a little bit, plus more on the Steelers and
the Colt Systics. Boy, I don't love this game. I
do not love this game at all. Danny Dimes, well

(20:35):
he's no longer Dandy Dives now he's Indiana Jones and
he's coming into town with the best tailback tailback? Did
you played for Oklahoma? The best running back in the NFL?
Fifteen touchdowns for Jonathan Taylor. It's crazy and I mean,
who would have thought when he was a little kid
on home improvement?

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Did he have grown up? Michael have for you when
we come back? What do you want to hear?

Speaker 10 (20:59):
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Speaker 2 (21:05):
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Speaker 6 (21:14):
Kind Of a dreary day with rain on and off
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of rain continuing tonight dropping to forty one. Party cloudy
to mostly cloudy with a chance of rain tomorrow. Look
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Speaker 4 (21:26):
Victims of drunk and drudge sports.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Right first, we want to welcome our friend Joe Bartnick
live in studio. Ladies and gentlemen, Joey b. How are
about here? What's up everybody? What's going on about? Everything's fantastic.

Speaker 5 (21:37):
Yeah, now you're in time, you're doing shows at the
Thunderbor at Improv tonight.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, tonight is a like a showcase. We're kind of
start doing some Joey B and Friends coming up nice.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
So you just gott to pop into town on Thursdays
and do these shows or well, you know, I'm kind
of like half living here, half not living here.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's still in my same suitcase from eight months ago,
a big suitcase. Or you just don't have a lot
of clothes. I did have a couple of places around
the country that have a couple of things in and
I just float around into comedy and you know, drink
and watch sports. It's my normal life. I just don't
have my dogs anymore. Yeah, I volunteered every time. How's

(22:19):
the hip do you need? Both of them are great, fantastic.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
Yeah, just you know, every once in a while and
inexplicably do the inexplicably do the Charleston. I don't know
why where other than that. It's great Joey B at
the Improv tonight. Mike pursued it with your sports Now.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Sports is brought to you by Bridgeville Clients.

Speaker 11 (22:39):
Another Wednesday, another really interesting twelve minutes from Aaron Rodgers yesterday,
Who's U trying to steward the Steelers through a stretch
that has seemingly seen them arrive at the precipice of
the Abyss. They are playing poorly, to be kind, and
here come to Indianapolis Colts, the best team in the
NFL at best off it's in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Doesn't look like a good matchup on paper, sure doesn't.
But Rogers, you.

Speaker 11 (23:06):
Might recall after the Cincinnati game he wasn't gonna ride
the roller coaster. Yesterday he said, it's not yet time
to circle the wagons.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
I don't know if we need to do that.

Speaker 12 (23:18):
I think you got to stay in the course. You know,
we lost a tough one in Sinci on a short week,
and we played a good football team and had many
chances to, you know, to get things going.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
We're up sixteen to seven and a half. Our defensive
playing well.

Speaker 12 (23:32):
Offensively, we've done a good job I think ending some
hals and points, but we haven't not sure. We scored
on the first possession of the second half, and when
you defern and you're expecting to have a chance to
double up, so to speak, that's what changes the game.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
In the middle eight of the game. We haven't played
well in the second fourth. Yeah, the amazing thing. And
even I think I've lost sight of this.

Speaker 11 (23:56):
They have looked horrific at times the last couple of weeks,
particularly on def that's the last couple of weeks. They
were winning the Bengals game with two minutes and thirty
one seconds left, and they were winning the Packers game
going into the fourth quarter.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's crazy because those games didn't feel like that. No,
not at all.

Speaker 11 (24:13):
But I mean, I don't know what to make of that.
But other than they had a chance to win both
of those games, the.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
Crazy thing is that Packers game them leading going into
the fourth. Looking back on it now, it's inconceivable. It's
inconceivable in your mind's eye looking back at that game,
would you have thought like, oh yeah, and of course
we were in the lead going into the fourth.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
You just looked at the statue and they saw the highlights.
They put up twenty one points. We couldn't do anything.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
Also, that was like Arthur Smith has gotten off Scott
free this week when we've criticized the second half, getting
away from the run.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Makes no sense to me.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
This has supposed to be have been our identity and
it was working and you've seen that you have you
can wear teams down with this. He and Gainwell right now,
Jalen Warren and Gainwell are a pretty good one too.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah, lines playing well. When did say Malu go out?

Speaker 7 (25:09):
Because that I'm thinking that's the only thing that could
have affected their strategy at that point.

Speaker 11 (25:13):
We went out late second quarter and then tried to
come back in the third quarter and wasn't able to continue.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Fair point, But like anders should be able to get
in there if you.

Speaker 11 (25:25):
Get the penalty on the off side, do you get
that first down and then you run the ball there?
I mean they came out first play the third quarter
was a pass. I mean, that's not the most egregious mistake,
but then it was incomplete. Then they tried another one
and didn't get very far thereby scored on the ensuing drive.
Yeah right, Yeah, that was the crazy Tucker thing. Fifty

(25:46):
nine yard or to Tucker ninety yards after the miss penalty, Yeah, okay,
because they plotted him then down to.

Speaker 5 (25:53):
The ten, they still could have stuck with the run there. Yeah,
you're still and they went down and got a field goal,
but just couldn't get back to the run for whatever reason.
Offensive shortcomings aside, Rogers maintains it's not the play calling,
it's the players.

Speaker 12 (26:12):
Execution for sure. I mean, we heard ourselves with penalties.
We had opportunities to put ourselves in better situations, and
it's just execution. I've have Heart's done a great job
calling plays. We had a couple of bus we had
a couple opportunities we did come up with. I missed
the throw. We can't expect bos to Bill and so

(26:34):
I like that every single week night.

Speaker 11 (26:37):
So he's not panicking. He's been down this road before,
I assume in twenty one years. But boy, again this
I'm scratching my head trying to recall a game in
recent memory where I thought this is not going to
go well, and you know, not not seeing an avenue
where it might.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Here, here's what it might, there's where might.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
Yeah, if they actually can slow down Jonathan Taylor, they're
not gonna stop them from scoring. If you can slow
him down a little bit massively, that's the problem. They've
got a chance to outshoot them because defensively they have
some vulnerable Yeah, that would be vulnerabilities, right, Aaron Rodgers

(27:23):
would have to have a monster game. Dk Metcalf would
have to step up. And remember John new Smith, I
do remember him, Remember that guy or somebody. I mean,
it doesn't need to be this guy to that guy.
But it's got to be a couple guys, you know
what I mean. They're supposed to have an offense that's
built on that, on that kind of diversity. If Cincinnati
offers opportunity for Friar Muth, he's got he's got to

(27:46):
rise up. If another matchup means they run the ball
out of somebody's throat, they do that.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
But the way they get there, Mike is running the ball.
Because who's more effective at a play action than Aaron Rodgers? Nobody? Well,
right now, yeah, Daniel.

Speaker 11 (28:00):
When they when he does, he looks at Jonathan Taylor
and nine guys for the defense go flying.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Okay, there's number eleven, here you go, there's number one.

Speaker 8 (28:08):
Here you go.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
There's a tight end from Penn State that it's your turn.
And these guys like you never say his name.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
Well, it's just because kind of how I watch I
write down numbers, right, I mean, I know who they are,
I know, no, but he in particular, everyone just goes
tight end for Penn's State.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, which is like his name is Tyler Warren.

Speaker 11 (28:27):
I did find something about the Colts. I did a
deep film dive, as I always do, and they're they
have an achilles heel. It's when they're up twenty one
points in the fourth quarter and they put all their
backups in. Their backups are really slappy and they give
up a lot of yard.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Right, so you know, switch heads down rock you know, right,
I don't know, got got outscore him? I mean it's
got to start there.

Speaker 7 (28:55):
Well, I mean, you say, every week the league reshuffles,
and every time that we've completely counted the Steelers out,
they somehow pull a win out of their rs or
pull out a performance that looks like what it should
have looked like from the beginning.

Speaker 11 (29:09):
And it happens in the NFL every Sunday. Right, But
it's just not a lot to hang your hat on.
You say, well, the league's goofy, it might be our
turn to be goofy.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
No, you're not hanging your hat on anything tangible. Yeah,
it's just you know, a lot of they're played at home,
and it's a non division. Colts do for an a.

Speaker 11 (29:23):
Colts are seven and one, they're probably not going sixteen
and one.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
So somebody's gonna beat them, right, Yeah, I don't know
it just the they look good.

Speaker 11 (29:33):
And the thing I'm having a hard time wrapping my
head around is the defense was playing well for the
first half and it was the same Packers off and
they went from playing well to being a complete inept
across the board outfit.

Speaker 7 (29:53):
Well, a lot of it was that it was a
fluky play that hurt one of their key players, and
they never bounce back.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
From never bounce back if they stop in there, if
Deshaun Elliott plays that better, or they call for pushing off.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
If he plays it better he's not injured.

Speaker 11 (30:06):
Or they get to smack or I mean I if
nobody cares. And if my aunt had nuts, we all
have a Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Nuts.

Speaker 11 (30:19):
Rayven's at the Dolphins tonight. That's another one of those games.
We'll test that Thursday night road teams theory.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
We'd all have a Merry Christmas is such a funny
way to end that. If my an had nuts, we
all have him Merry Christmas.

Speaker 11 (30:31):
Blue Jayson one went away from winning the World Series.
Toronto's not gonna Christmas.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
I watched three pitches of baseball and they were two
home runs.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (30:45):
Yeah, David Schneider and Guerrero took Blake's spell out. Uh
Trey Ysevach seven innings, three hits, one run, no walks,
twelve strikeouts. He threw one hundred and four pitches seventy
one for strikes.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Unbelievable. But I don't know if they win pick one.
This kid, Ya Savitch was in low A ball at
the start of the year. Yeah, he climbed four rungs.
He has more postseason starts than he does in the
regular season.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
The two craziest ascensions in sports over the last couple
of years place kickers and pictures. The velocity the pitchers
are getting and the distance the place kickers.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
It's like the atmosphere changed or something. And I know
that part of.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
The increased mph you're seeing and the velocity for pictures
has to do with how they're measuring it now, but
it's inarguable it's still all of these guys are throwing rockets.

Speaker 7 (31:46):
Well, they're also starting earlier, that's why, and that's why
their arms are falling apart because they're throwing that gas.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
But they don't care because they just have another one, right, Well,
they have another picture. But also those people now they
blow up their arms early. They get up by on
a arm that comes back two and a half years later,
and then that thing grows like the as good as
the first one.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
We're all like Henry Rowan Gardner. They are, dude, it's
crazy from it.

Speaker 11 (32:08):
You and I aren't ancient, but world enough to remember
when hitting a hundred was special. Dude, there was only
a couple guys that could do that. Now and you'd
be like, oh my god, you see three numbers? Yeah, yeah,
I mean people bring guys out of the bullpen and
they're throwing high nineties.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Like, by the way, do you see Shelter got hired
by your twinkies? Take the under mic.

Speaker 11 (32:31):
You get ready for I like him as a person.
I was texting with Ben's about this. They're the American
League pirates. They are knocking their payroll down every year
and all they talk about is how nice their park is.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Well, didn't their ownership just put out they were gonna
sell and be tried for year and a half nobody
wants to buy.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
They were gonna sell the team, and then they like
put out a statements They're like, you know what, we're
gonna take it off the market.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
We're actually gonna because nobody wants it. The Twins one
as i've been an adult, Yes, yes, okay, the more
exactly the Pirates.

Speaker 11 (33:05):
They get in the playoffs, and once every six times
they get in the playoffs they win a series or
a game. But uh, you know, all though I haven't
won the World Series is nineteen ninety one, okay, because
I remember, like Willie Stargo, I was like six years
I was seven years old.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Kirby Puckett, I think I was. I remember I was
a person.

Speaker 10 (33:22):
You know.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
That's what the.

Speaker 11 (33:25):
Swins fan watching those teams in eighty seven and ninety one. Pucket, Herbert,
Gary Guy, Edi, Burt Blylevel was on one of those teams.
Frank Yola, Jack Morris, Morris that I was going to say,
the ten incomplete game with one pitching performance we neglected
to mention in the World Series the other day was
Jack Morris.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Which we'll never see again. Of course, no, because nobody'd
be allowed. All right, Abby, you'll have your news coming
up at the top of the hour.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
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Speaker 2 (33:53):
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Speaker 1 (34:03):
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Speaker 5 (34:57):
Abbey Christner, Mike Pursued a Jacob Rex our producer and
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He's gonna be at the Improv tonight and there's gonna
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Speaker 1 (35:10):
Knockout with Tonight is a tight at the improv because
somebody dropped out quick. But we're gonna start doing these
next year, so I'm actually hosting and closing. That's awesome
the Triple Dude. But we got mister Wednesday's coming this Fox,
Mike Zidell, and a bunch of other special guests. Yeah,
I love the lineup. You gotta love it. I haven't
seen Zaidell in a while, so it's gonna be nuts.

Speaker 7 (35:32):
I always tell him, dude, nobody can steal your material.
This stuff doesn't work for anybody else.

Speaker 5 (35:40):
I mean, what would be hilarious is getting someone to try, yeah,
doing the cover, Having Jeff Cople go out and do
Mikeidel be hilarious.

Speaker 7 (35:51):
I think we tried that one time at an open
mic that I had on Monday nights at uh at
whatever the hell but the sports Bar. We used to
do like cover material, like you go up and do
somebody else's joke. Somebody did that in San Francisco. My
buddy sal Colony did a Halloween show like that. People, Yeah,
other people's material. This guy didn't know I was gonna

(36:11):
show up I showed up. He was doing my material.
I swear on my grandmother. The kid left town.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
We thought you probably thought you're gonn run him out.
Yeah he did. He was afraid, he was. He got
all upset.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
He left down thinking I was gonna tell the Book
of San Francisco punchline, and he thought his career was ruined.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
I saw him like fifteen years later at the stand.
I didn't know who he was. I forgot who he was.
He walked away, like, what did I do to my life?
I'm like, dude, I don't even know who you are.
So this wasn't like a comedy themed show. He was
just stealing your.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Everyone was doing to other Yeah, that's not everybody was
doing other people's material. I thoughtd be funny to show
up he was doing me and exactly you know he
was doing you before you went no. But I think
I think it's flattery when someone knows you're active. I mean,
you can I love it when people steal my act
in the sense of like they're paying attention, they like

(37:02):
me well. Dennis Miller, Pittsburgh.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
Dennis Miller always said you just got to write them
faster than they can steal him because he famously Yeah,
went to LA after doing Pittsburgh and you know the
regional circuit here, and then went to LA and found
all those comics doing his jokes.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Well, we would always say that before the Internet, when
we would do triple runs.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
It's like the local.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Trible run is for those who don't know, Yeah, it's
like the local, the little one nighters, all through the
upper name of the booker, right, the name of the booker.
So you do like Missoula, then Idaho falls all these
crap towns, so you have to drive nine nine hours
to and then you know, you'd you know, get like
three hundred bucks and all the beer you could drink.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
So they're perfect gigs for me. But you didn't know
from night to night the who the headliner was going to.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Be, and we headliner, you were the headliner, but or
the feature, which is where you learned how to do
a half, where.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
You learned to close.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
But there'd be a local webc in town to say
he was like the intern at the radio station and
he'd do ten minutes, and if he had a joke
that was so good, you'd see the calendar like, oh,
this guy's coming in October, don't do that joke in
front of him because he's.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Gonna take it. Oh wow, different times exactly.

Speaker 7 (38:14):
Now.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Now those kids, there's those kids are on the internet
with a five billion followers, and everybody.

Speaker 7 (38:19):
Kind of steals everybody else's stuff anyways on TikTok, Like
I don't know if the kids even care about it. Yeah,
I mean just like different tropes and memes and stuff
that they recreate, Like they'll take an audio and do
basically the same exact thing.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Oh, I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
I just when I see someone doing like, I see
more people sealing essences. Now it seems like it's come
around to now people can do Mitch like people forgot
He's there's a.

Speaker 7 (38:44):
Guy doing my God, there's a guy doing like a
really uncomfortable impression of Mitch.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
He's not doing jokes, but he is doing Mitch. I
saw a guy doing doing Norm McDonald. He goes I
open for Nor mc donald for years and was like
every one of his jokes was like Norm McDonald light
like it was everything that Norm did an open mic
and didn't more like, yeah, uh.

Speaker 5 (39:15):
What do you make of these penguins there? Joe host
a PuckOff podcast. I mean it has been remarkable this
start of the season. I didn't think i'd be paying
much attention to them, but it's hard not to right
now with the success they're having with the young guys,
because I equated it yesterday to buying a puppy for
the old dog, and you know, and the old dog starts.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Bouncing around again.

Speaker 5 (39:33):
Gino's leading the league in points where he was yesterday,
and uh, you know, Sid, it's just continuing to accumulate
accolades and they're they're racking up wins in October.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
It's just so much fun. I'm just enjoying it.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
And I give a big apology to Kala Duba because
I thought he had a horrible summer, even incredible summer.
Muse is a great coach, Kindles a great draft pick.
Everyone he's brought in, Brazoh Mantha Watherspoon, they're all played
in every Here's the thing. Every single Penguin is playing
better than expected. Every single one of them is playing

(40:07):
better than we thought they would, even like Okay Carlson
had one bad game. La Tang started out bad. Ten days,
He's had.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
A great week. Rusty was a little slow. For Rusty.
Now Rusty's on fire while this, I mean the defense
is playing about the sea loves what about the goalie?
What do you think she.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Loves to play great? He stood on his head to
get the loser point. You know, that's the sad thing
Bill I'd read. If we go like six, seven, six
and seventy five, I'd be happy as long as those
six wins are against Philly. Me and Josh too for
talking just marvel every week, like and Josh is kind
of like he slows me down in a little bit, like, oh,

(40:45):
we'll see because you know me, I'm on fire.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
I'm just so happy. I always say up podcast. But
I forget too for talking with Josh Yoe.

Speaker 5 (40:51):
If you want some great hockey for banter between Joe
Bartnick and Josh Yoe.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Thank you really.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
And it's like I get my own weekly dose of
the best Penguin hockey reporter.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
Yeah, that's pretty in my corner, Like Josh, we're talking
this right now. Joe's gonna hang out with us in
studio here for a while. Abby's got your news. When
we come back, we will talk.

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SeaWorld over a duck. But we'll also talk about whether
Halloween decorations are getting too scary?

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Speaker 13 (42:39):
The task for a struggling Steelers defense will not get
any easier on Sunday when the NFL's number one scoring
offense comes to town in the form of the Indianapolis Colts.
The colts prolific offensive attack what's averages thirty three point
eight points per game and a league best three hundred
and eighty five point three total yards per game, is
no doubt led by their superstar running back Jonathan Taylor.
Taylor leads the NFL and rushing yards with eight hundred
and fifty rushing touchdowns with twelve and with his two

(43:00):
receiving touchdowns, his fourteen total TDS leads the entire NFL.
He's also coming off of what might be his most
dominant performance of the season, rushing for one hundred and
fifty three yards on just twelve carries and finding the
end zone three total times. That marks the fourth time
this season Jonathan Taylor has achieved three touchdowns in a
single game. The rest of the NFL has just eight
of those performances combined. Furthermore, Taylor has scored ten touchdowns

(43:23):
over his past four games, the first time that has
been accomplished by anyone since the twenty fifteen season. The Steelers,
who have the NFL's eighteenth ranked run defense allowing one
hundred and twelve points seven yards per game on the ground.
Two opponents will have their work cut out for them
when it comes to stopping Taylor in the Colts rushing attack,
but doing so will be a major key in snapping.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Their losing streak. Tom Opferman with the Steelers Report
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