October 30, 2025 • 43 mins
Billy Gardell joins us live in-studio to recap a hectic past week for him including five shows in Erie and going to the Steelers/Packers game this past Sunday night.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:17):
Well, we're going to go in and uh, and I
got those two auditions today and then I'll report back
next Tuesday if I got it or if I ate it.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (00:25):
No, I love that, so what I would suggest?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And uh, I feel like I have a pretty good.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Sense about these kind of things, you know. Yeah, please man,
let me know what I should shot, the.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Way you need to approach this.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
No, if I understand correctly, you are a ship's captain
who is going to loan him some supplies and you've
already been through the hell that he's about to jump into.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
And I'm and I'm giving him. I'm giving him the
four one one on what he all right?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, Bill, you just straight out of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 7 (00:56):
This up.
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This has got to.
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Be the insercap.
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Can't park it. There's a floating parking share in that fort.
Can't park air. You see that floating that's my spot,
all right. I like you cleared all the rubber shot
it at yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I give you pass one time. Billy Gardell live.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
When I say live, you ain't lying.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Brother in studio that has a special meeting this week. Yesterday, Well,
we knew Billy was in town for the game on
Sunday night, and we texted a little bit during the game,
and you.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Were not feeling great.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
You had told me the days before when you were
doing stand up up in ear you weren't feeling great.
And you text me yesterday and say, Cuz, can I
come in tomorrow. I'm just getting out of the hospital
right now.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, okay, fill in thefing blanks there.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
So uh, well, the devil's mad. This is about the
fourth time he's missed me. So I got to Eriie
last Wednesday, and then Thursdays started feeling weird, and I thought,
maybe I'm catching a cold or somehow, I don't know,
you know, down But all right, I'll get some day
quill and some vitamins and we'll go after it.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
You know, you're on the road as a performer. You
do thing.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
The first show Thursday was okay. Thursday night I was shaking.
I'm surprised my teeth didn't.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Come out of my head.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
And then uh it just got worse. Friday, sick all
day but not like no coffin, no running nose, no,
So I come figure out, like what is wrong with me?
But I just kept telling myself it's a cold.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
It's a cold.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You know the denial Pittsburgh work ethic. You know, I
still go out of work bleeding out of my eyes.
That's all right, my shift starts, I'll be in worry
about it?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Do you think about it? You got it?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
And so kept grinding, did UH five shows and then
UH this and and what had happened before that? Was Wednesday.
I had to land in Buffalo to get to UH
to Pittsburgh. But as I was running from the gate
in Dallas from twenty to thirty seven because I was
going to be at the late window, there was like
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ten minutes to get to the flight, my uh ID
and my credit card fell out of my pocket. So
now I'm in Dallas. Now I can't rent a car.
I got no ID, and you know you know in
today's world, you're out of business. You don't have to
You're done. So I got eight minutes to call Patty
and have her get me U my passport sent with
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a a couple hundred bucks and AMX.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
That was cool. That was like getting a James bond envelow.
It was done. It was.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
It was just chaotic, but I kept I had this
weird feeling in the back of my head. It's heavier
and heavier and heavier. So worked through five shows due
to Steelers game, and then by Monday morning, I get
up and I could barely walk to the elevator and uh.
And then we went to Eaton Park to get some
breakfast for We went out to the airport and Patty said, look,
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we're not She goes, let me put this heart monitor
thing on your.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
She has like an apple watched apple.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Thing, so she puts it on my wrist and that
thing started smoking. It blew up, that little round thing
just blew right out the side of it.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
My heart.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
My heart rate wouldn't do any kg and it was
at one hundred and seventy five.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
But a hologram of Steve Jobs came out of that
and was like.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Go to the lot. Yeah, I was like, dude, so.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's what it read.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
So we went.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
We were in Cranberry and you know, visiting cram In
all my life in Pittsburgh, I've never been to Cranbury.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
I said that the billy one time, he goes, why
would you? We don't leave our live.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
In wests in game, we don't go there.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
You go from Swissville to Cranberry.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
That's like visiting Europe, like I'm abroad.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
So but I got to give so much love to
the people at UPMC and uh, you know I got
into the e.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Which one were you in? Well?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
The first one I was in was the smaller one
in Cranberry, and they were so amazing. And you know, man,
I'm a big believer and I have been my whole life.
You know that God just kind of puts you right
where you're supposed to be when things happen. I don't
know if that works for everybody, but it certainly does
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for me. Maybe that's the way I just lived my life.
I don't know, don't know, but I do believe that.
And man, I just I should have been more scared,
but I was with my wife. I'm in my hometown,
and I saw the good and bad of the Pittsburgh
work ethic because after I got in there, they put
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me you know, they gave me four bags of fluids,
four ivs, four full bags and I didn't go to
the bathroom till the third one, so it's fully dehydrated.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
So I'm like, I'm having an outer body experience and
for some weird reason, the whole time, this is going
on in my head.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I'm hearing the song Big Country and.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
It won't go away, and I have been yeah, yeah,
you wake up, wake up screaming or whatever.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
It won't leave me alone. I'm like, wall am, I
just stroking out right now. So yeah, that's going on
in my head the whole and I don't know why,
but whatever, it's get me through it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
So they get me in there, and uh, you know
they the doctor came in and after and me hooked
up on the wire, she saw you know, monitors your heartbeat,
and she saw mine go from eighty to one hundred
and sixty and like, I don't know three seconds, like
I had a HEMI in there, you know what I mean,
we were full open with the nitrous Yeah, and she goes, oh,
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that's not good.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Let's uh, let's take a chess chest xtray. So they did.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
When they say stuff like that, when something super serious happens,
they're like, what's the problem, and you like open your
jacket and there's a knife in your heart.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They go, oh, well.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
That's not that's not that you know, to keep you calm.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, they well, well that's.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Probably not right.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
So they get the chest extray back and she says, okay.
She goes it's either a blood clot in your left.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Lung or it's like a pulmonary embolism. That scary.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
It's a severe pneumonia. And I'm like, all right, you know,
I go right to the horse check. Come on, pneumonia,
yeah right, yeah, exactly, pneumonia, buy a nose.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Yeah, and so yeah, those pulmonary embolism can take you
right down right.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
So they take me down to get a cat and
then I see the beauty of the Pitts, the bad
part of the Pittsburgh work ethic. Finding out that you're
working five shows in a Steelers game while you have pneumonia, Like,
we just do that up here, we don't.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
That's fine. I don't worry about no, I'm fine I
don't worry.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I'm fine having orange juice. You'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
He needed ginger ol, so it comes back, but I
got it. I love the little technician in there, Bob.
He must have been doing this on a forty years
and he had that Pittsburgh tone. I'm really filled with
gratitude forget me, ah, but he had that tone about him.
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He's the guys. He's the good teacher in elementary school.
He's the guy that runs the dangerous ride at Kenny Wood.
He's the guy that operates something at the bank and
just does that thing perfectly every day. Because what they
do is they tell you the information they need you
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to have, and no matter what you say back to them,
they redirect you back to the information they want you
to have.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
But it was so great.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
He's like, Okay, Bill, this is gonna go in and
it's gonna get hot in your neck. You're gonna feel
like you're peeing your pants, but you're not keep your
arms crossed.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
I go, okay, Bob, I appreciate that. You go.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Where are you from? Bobby goes Manessa, Listen, this is
gonna feel hot. It's gonna make you feel like you're
peeing your pants. You're not keep your arms crossed.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
That's good. I'm from Swissfeld. That's good.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Okay, listen, it is gonna feel hot. And then I
got him because then I did it to him on purpose.
I go, I go, uh, I got boy. The weather's
nice back here. And then he started, I go, you
got to go. It's gonna feel hot. I gotta keep
my arms crossed. It's very good, very good. And so
they get to de and me and everything, and then
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we go back up and then they come in. They say, okay,
it's pneumonia. And the pneumonia the problem is it's taking
your heart into what they call a fib, a butterfly
a fib.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Jim Henson died.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah, And then they come in and they give you
the They try to give you the bad news, real, real,
calmly like they're like, okay, so here's what's happening. The
infection is causing your heart to go over drive. But
there's two chambers of your heart. The top one pumps blood,
the bottom one pumps blood. The top one isn't pumping,
it's quivering. And the problem with that is sometimes it
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can stir blood around and cause stir up a clot
and if it pumps when there's a clot, well that
can shoot out and send a aneurysm to your brain
and kill you.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Well, what are we doing about that? What you got next?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
She goes, Okay, well, I'm gonna get you on some
beta blockers so we could get your numbers down to
a manageable number.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And then we got to fight this infection. So I said,
all right, So they start me on antibiotics. And then
they got to take me to the bigger hospital, which
was Inn where mccanlean's, which again mcnless, uh mickay I
land I have never visited, so uh. But then we
get down there and those folks were unbelievable, man. And
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uh they got me in there and the young staff
down there, that's where I saw the beauty of the
Pittsburgh work there. I think these people when you hear okay, han,
let me tell you what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Mm hm.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
And you grew up here, you got I'll be all right, yeah,
one way or the other, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And uh and man, they just started putting stuff in
me and then they got the numbers to go. What
was your fear level? At this point, Randy, this is
the weirdest part. I didn't have any fear for me
at all. My fear is always leaving my wife and kids.
No fear, but because I've lived a charm life. And
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I'm not saying that to be brave or like I'm
some badass. I just I have led my life with love.
I have lived well for the most part. I've left
places better than I came into him. And so there's
I didn't I have any fear about me. My fear
is won't Patty. I don't want to leave him alone,
you know.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
And uh uh.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
They they started like they need to get my numbers.
They were my heart was jumping from one hundred to
one hundred and seventy, so they wanted to get it
to eighty between eighty and one hundred. So they got
that there and I got down there about midnight, I
guess on Monday, and so they started rolling me around
and then I had the midnight pulmonary guy.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Scared me a little bit.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
He come in because he's like real thin and kind
of gray. I'm like, you're the lung guy. When's the
last time you saw somebody?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
He looked like I was.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
In the lab.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yeah, he looked like that dude. What was the movie
remember Phantasm?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, I got him coming at me now talking about embolisms,
and I'm like, yeah, okay, man. Like I was like,
I was just me and him in the room too.
I was like, are you going to put a spell
on me or something? So uh, but he they got
the the beta blockers going and they got it down
to between eighty and one hundred, and he goes, Okay,
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now we're gonna we're gonna really attack this pneumonia. And
then they put an IVY in my left arm for
antibiotics and ivy in my right arm for fluids, and
I'm taking physical medicine and the nurses are checking on
me every four hours and and and they weren't treating
me like Billy Gardell from Pisoley Jim kids didn't know
who I was. They had no idea who I was.
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And they were just this young, beautiful staff. And when
I say beautiful, I mean and the way they did
their job, and the way they were so proficient and caring. Yeah,
and uh and and uh. The next morning, Uh, the
cardiologist came in. I think his name is Bob Luffer's
real nice guy. Now he is older, he knew, he
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knew who I was. He come in and he goes, well,
he goes, is this going to be funny? I said, well,
I'll let you know when I get out here if
there's a bit in this. Let's get down to business.
But he he started getting me on on on the
right the track and uh and he says this. He goes,
all right, so he goes, here's the deal. We're going
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to fight this infection back. He goes, but now, since
you put your heart in aphib he goes, we have
to get it back into what they call sinus rhythm.
And he goes, we have three ways to do that.
He goes, okay, you're the diseases are. The infection is
going to go away, and your heart will slip back
naturally into that rhythm. If it doesn't, we have two options.
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We're going to either thank.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You baby finger in the butt. No.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
No.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I asked that.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
He's like, that doesn't help, but it's not covered, but
I would have paid. It's like.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
Coming that.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Help, not really, but some.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
People like it.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
All I'm asking is you kiss my neck's hot.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Crossed.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
But then he says this he goes, you know, he goes, uh,
he goes to get it back. He goes, we can
We're either do an ablazion or they go in and
they if there's no clod in the heart, then they
try to find the nerve that's missfiring and they cauterize it.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
He goes.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Or he goes, and I suggest this is the one
we'll probably do with you. We'll put you on the table,
we'll stop your heart, and then we'll hit you with
the paddles and restart you.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Like yeah, I'm like, you're going to reboot me literally,
you know.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
I'm in Pittsburgh something and there's a there's a guy
named Augie.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Would die hard to jump or table just hit him.
Speaker 12 (15:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It's connected to the megatouch machine on the bar.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, they started playing ruin a good all night to take.
Speaker 12 (16:06):
Off and call the Dynasty and let me get I
needed them later, I believe me.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
All I want to hear is boom. So I go,
all right, Doc, well we'll do you know whatever we
got to do. So now I'm alone in the room
and I'm looking at the machine and I'm watching my
numbers go from eighty to one hundred eighty to one hundred.
Nothing's changing. So all I'm thinking about is this die
hard moment I'm gonna have. And then uh, Tuesday, Tuesday,
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Wednesday morning, at twelve fifty two am, I was up
because I couldn't sleep. I'm watching I looked over at
the numbers and the number said eighty eight, and I said,
all right, all right, that's a good number. And then
I looked back twenty minutes later and it was like ninety.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I was like, okay, that's good. Twenty minutes later I
look back and it was a eighty seven, and again
I go, I think I might have slipped into I might.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Exactly eighty eight was my graduating class, and yeah, exactly,
And I thought, okay, maybe I slipped back in. And
then the nurse at four am was so cool because
she came in and let me know that's what happened.
You know, usually they'll wait in the morning sort of
the doctor can come take credit with that.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
But she came in.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
She goes, I just want you to know that your heart,
your heart broke the right way, and it's uh, it's
it is indeed back in sinus, she goes, the cardiologist
will be in to talk to you now. The weird
thing through this pneumonia is I don't have a stuff.
He knows I'm not weezing, and every point, you know,
if the phantasm pulling up, pulling up, pullminologist and then
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I get doogie howser. The next morning he must have
been like the good brother, you know, as he's working
day shifting.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
He's like, yeah, you're doing great.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
But they keep listening to my lungs and they're going,
we don't understand why you're not wheezing like I'm not.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I don't want you to be, but it's really weird.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
That this you'd have a propensity to weave.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
The moment is so concentrate, we can't understand why you're
not weezing. I said, well, Doc, it's probably thirty thousand
packs of Marlboroughs I've been training for. I've been training
for this moment my whole life. He goes, that's not funny.
I go ahead, will be yeah, Billy, let.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Me do this.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Yeah, I mean, thank god, everything's okay. Let me let
me do a break and we'll come back. And I
want to hear the end of this all right. Check
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Speaker 5 (19:10):
Yep.
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Speaker 2 (19:19):
Oh yeah, dude, that's the endorsement from Billy Gardell.
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live and studio with us if you're just joining us.
He told us the harrowing story of having done five
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stand up shows in Eerie with pneumonia, then deciding to
cap it off by going to the Steelers game Sunday
night and ending up in the hospital for three days,
nearly dying.
Speaker 13 (19:59):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
If not for his wife not allowing him to get
on the plane, you would not have arrived in Los
Angeles a week.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
No, it would have been sir, we've landed, sir, sir, yeah, sir,
you know no, the doctor said, he goes, I'm not
sure you'd have made that ride home.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Thank God for Patty. Well, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
And I was and I was still trying to Pittsburgh
at Monday morning, like I will go through the plane.
And I called a doctor when I get home and
then tell him how you got me on a plane.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Well, I said to him, if this were happening to me,
would you put me on a plane? And he could
not answer us. So to the hospital we went.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
So she crushed you with the first question. It's like that.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
It's like that scene in one of them m A
fighters were like one guy does all the dancing around stuff,
and the other guy's just quiet, and then the crazy
guy runs towards him and then just gets.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Knocked out with one shot. There's nothing I could do.
I couldn't argue that. So I don't know where we were.
So I'm sorry. My brain ain't still ain't working.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
So at this point, uh oh, he said, funny the
cigarettes joking.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
It was the numbers thing. So I looked at the numbers.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
It's the middle of the night and they're holding to
the woman said you your your heart did slip back
in as okay, that's great. So the cardiologist comes in
the next morning and he goes, Okay, guys, it's uh,
it's it's slipped into the right They call it sinus rhythm.
So your heart's beating the right way. Now we're going
to fight disinfection. Don he goes, but uh, here's the deal.
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You're probably going to be on beta blockers and blood
thinners for the foreseeable future, and you need to get
a cardiologist when you go back home.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Uh, but we're going to keep you one more.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Day today just to get you filled with fluids and medicine.
Then you can take some stuff with you. And then
they had originally told us, look, don't go home till
Saturday in case we have to do a procedure. So
we we thought, you know what, man, we canceled everything
at home. Let's just let's stay in Pittsburgh and get
strong and uh, and we're gonna go home Saturday. So
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so when day was actually a nice day at the hospital,
can Acy come out and visited me. And then uh,
and then God bless him, Jim Rooney came out to
visit me, and uh, yeah, because we were with him
at the game Sunday and he uh, he came in
and that made everybody freak out because they're young kids
and they don't know sitcoms and watch TV, right, so
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they can't figure out why Jim Rooney's in my room.
And so one of the little young girls goes, are
you like an old player or something?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
As a kicker?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
A kicker?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
So Jack cam nice to meet.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I honestly think that Jim got the Chief's heart. I
think of the Rooney's Jim as the chief's heart. So
we got to do all that and he really is
salt of the earth. And then uh, and then I
texted our boy Joey O'Connell from Penn Hills and this
is the thing that made me laugh so hard that
I had tears in my eyes. Uh. I'm not knocking
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hospital food, but it's not you know, it's traditionally so
uh so I got this. I think, what is meat loaf?
So I take a picture of this, and I send
it to Joey O'Connell from Penn Hills. I go, Joe,
I just ate this, and he looked at me and
he goes, oh my god, that won't stand.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I'm sending the Catholics and his family come over me.
So but then then they found out I was going
to get released that day. So I called, We're going
to go actually visit his mom after we leave here,
and I said, now, Mayor, don't come up, and uh,
I go, We're gonna come out and see you.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
I'm coming home and uh.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
And then last night I went to Kenesy's house and
Holly made some pasta with boloonnaise and nice. You know, man,
there's something very therapeutic about a Pittsburgh kitchen table and
the pulls that love you. That's medicine you can't buy.
And so and now I'm here with you guys, and
I get the extra extra special bonus with partner over there.
(24:08):
I ignorantly called, damn, sorry, but do it again. I
don't even know where I'm at.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
You know, I'm lucky. I wasn't waking up going do
you serve Marshmallo body for three.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
So do the cardiologists recommend bolonaise right after the aphib
is that because is that the first I had?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I just had hospital that way, I highly recommend bolon
As and Mancini's bread.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That's what I'm a lot that talk.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
So I'm just and and then I just you know,
I realized, you know, look, you know what, what grace
for this weird thing to happen to me and to
be in one of the weeks where I was on
the road with my wife who saved my life again,
and to be in my hometown when this happens. You know,
I'm I'm blessed. I'm just truly blessed. And then you know,
(24:58):
we're just we're just going to spend next couple of
days in Pittsburgh, being in Pittsburgh. Well, and I'm just
very grateful to be here with you guys.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
You know, you've done so much good for so many others.
People love when they finally have an opportunity to do
something for you, all those ones in your life, you know, really.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
Felt seven shows at the Improv this week, That's right,
Bartnik show.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Oh that was the one other funny thing is they
have to ask you these questions when you're in there,
they're like, well, what was the question to asked me. Yeah,
they go, if your heart stops, do you want to
be resuscitated? And I couldn't. You know, we're comics. We
can't help but take the laugh. Instead of saying something,
I just looked at Patty like, well, yes, I'm.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Glad you're feeling better, And mostly I'm glad you didn't
check out at my house up in Erie, because that
would have been there's already one. There's already one ghost
up there. We didn't need another one. My dad, my
dad in Guardell haunting that place would have been actually
going to charge admission.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Hilarious. That's the best part is we get to hang
with we very rarely get to see her.
Speaker 12 (26:18):
Well.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
I mean, that is a harrowing tail there, Bill. You
had one hell of a stressful week. H I just
couldn't believe when I got that text yesterday. Can I
come in tomorrow. I'm just getting out of hospital. It's fine,
it's fine, I'm okay, I'm not contagious.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Well, it's like Bartnick said to man, you have one
of the great gifts of the comic brain is as
you're going through that one. You can diffuse a little
bit with humor and then you start thinking, you know,
if I get through, this is gonna be a great bit.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
Yeah, start chunking it.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
All right, let me do one more quick break and
then we'll be back with Billy Gardell and Joe Bartnick
live in studio. Reminded the Smalls Waltz is coming up
on October twenty second, and yeah, November, what did I say, September?
Speaker 5 (27:05):
October Jesus, last month.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Guys, it was eight days ago. But here's an advertisement
for it.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
No, seriously, it's headed towards a sellout once again, so
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Speaker 1 (27:16):
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(27:40):
Don't miss this Thanksgiving tradition as Randy Bauman's Ramble band
performs the full soundtrack of the band's film.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
The Last Waltz.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
A portion of the proceeds benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community
Food Band. Tickets for The Smalls Waltz available at the
Mister Small's box office or at DVE dot com.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
It's Football Sell, It's a d D morning show.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Randy Bauman with Bill Crawford, Abby Krisner and Live and studio.
We have our friend Joe Bartnick who's performing at the.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Tonight. Also two for talking with Josh Yeo.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Of course tonight at the Improv Joe Bartnick and friends
with Jeff Conkle and Mike Stell and Marcus Cox and
Billy Gardell and his wife Patty are here after Billy
experienced a harrowing event after contracting pneumonia, doing five comedy
shows with pneumonia up in Erie, driving down for the
Steelers game Sunday night, going to the Steelers game with pneumonia,
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waking up the next morning in full on a fib
and had to check in the hospital for a couple
of days and they stopped you from dying.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
And today we're going to uh, you know, go get
a hog. Yeah, I'm hoping Mayor has some pome k.
But I just want to say one more time about
up MC. Thank you, I love you, thank you for
taking care of me, thank you, thank you, thank you,
and uh, I'm.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Just so grateful.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
One of the reasons I came in here with Patty
was for you to talk to her finally, because she's
starting to seem like Norm's wife.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
You know, you guys share it morning out there.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Well, every once in a while I'll get Patty in
the car and then she and I start talking right politics,
and you're like, all right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
You're wrapping up, all right, But if you want to
talk to her, she's here if you want to ask
her any.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Question, Patty, what is the best thing about being married
to a comedian, like of the level that Billy Gardell
has achieved, the best thing, the best thing.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Well, the best thing is how he loves me. But
the greatest, I guess the thing is that you're always
surrounded by people who laugh. And you know, I'm quite
a serious person, and so it's a good balance for
me because I'm the I'm the house vulcan, you know,
and so, you know, surrounded by people who don't take
themselves too seriously is good medicine for me.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
You're from Georgia originally.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
How much Pittsburgh appreciation do you have right now, which
is to say, like if you had one foot in Pittsburgh,
How like how assimilated.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
To being a Pittsburgh do you feel like you are?
Speaker 7 (30:08):
You know, I think a lot. We've been together twenty
six years, almost twenty seven, and you know, I feel
like a little resident Pittsburgh when I'm here and I
get my Pittsburgh e's done and we go down Tom.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
You know, I was driving, we were driving by.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
And there's a store that's called a R H A
U S R. And I was like, I'm like, that
must be the Pittsburgh pronunciation of our house, right like ahra.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
And I was like, I didn't make me smile this week.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
So my place has got some ritzy furniture.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
You know her favorite comedians Joey O Konn.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Oh, well, Joeyo konn.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Nobody makes her laugh like Joey O kon Well, there's.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Nobody as committed to the dead pan quite as much
as Joey O Kann. Like I always know he's kidding.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
I don't always know when Billy's kidding because he gets
it like it flies right over my head.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
But like Joe, like I know he's kidding.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
Yeah, what's the jostle factor on this round Disney World?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I took him to Disney and every coaster we got
up to he asked the tour Hey, what's the jostle
factor on this sh how much they're gonna shop?
Speaker 6 (31:16):
That's an actual metric, Jocely, Well, it's a nine point
seven on the Rakowski. Yeah, Billy got dealt with his
wife Patty, and Joe Bartnick is here too.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Well, that's a scary week.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
Man.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
I'm really glad that for both of your sakes that
you listen to Patty yes, instead of it.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Why are guys meatheads? Why not?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Like, well, I've gotten better. I've gotten better listening to her.
You're coachable, Yeah, I'm coachable.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Now let me ask you this.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Did you know, like when you found out your heartbeat
was once seventy eight, you still wanted to get on
the plane.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
I did at first, just because I had some stuff
at home and I thought like, well, we can get home,
I'll call the doctor and then I will deal with this.
So that part of me I'm growing like I will
go deal with this. You know, but apparently it wasn't
time for it.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
And how did you guys find out? You put your
watch on him?
Speaker 7 (32:07):
Yeah, I wear an Apple watch for a similar reason.
And you know, I have a heart rhythm issue myself,
and so my doctor had me wear one. And I said,
you know, I don't think this is a cold, you know,
just with the fuzziness in his head, the shaking and things,
and I just said, you know, I don't see cold.
I don't see runny nose. I don't hear a cough.
I said, you know, please let me check your heart.
(32:30):
And so I put my watch on him and checked.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
His heart and it said due.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
To the hospital now is basically what it said. And
I said, yeah, we're going Joe b.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You had heart issues, you know what it's like.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, I mean I and I had pneumonia and I
did did shows because I had the Russian horse pill
antibiotics to get me through. Luckily, I actually went to
go get my weed prescription, you know, a shady Hollywood
Russian doctor, and she's like, you're coughing blood and you
have pneumonia, and she was, let me get.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Doctor diagnosed you. They're not, I know. That's how sick.
I was, but like, I can't turn down work.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
That's that's good, that's exactly right, that's exactly And they.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Knew in Vegas because I always my not my my
rider was always a bottle of Crown Royal, And when
I gave it to the stage hand, like you're not
going to drink that, I'm like, I gotta go back
and just sleep. Like that's when they knew Bartnik is sick.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Yeah, but yeah, I mean I walked off my heart attack.
That's the most Pittsburgh thing you did. Was Yeah, I'm
doing all my shows and I'm going to Steeler game.
I'm not really that sick. You've always been, mister Pittsburgh.
But that really is the most Pittsburgh thing you could
have ever done.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I think it's what we saw our fathers go to
work under any condition, because that's what you do, that's
what you do for your family, it's what you do,
and it's part of a pro in us that they
can be very dangerous, Like I said, that's that's that's
the downside of it. But then when you see people
doing doing things the right way, with precision and with
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being deliberate, that's the thing that there's a pride in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
But you can you can you can hit.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
The gas on that a little hard, you know, you
can push it a little far.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
You got to tell Chuck Laurie about this, because you've
outdone yourself. They had to shut down production.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Well, yeah, we shut down Michael Molly one week because
I did the terrible toal towirl. Somebody said, you know what,
I think it was a Joe that said it to me.
I think, yeah, I think because that was, you know,
the offensive line. They ain't got no coachs on. You
should do the toll without your coat back on the
stage Monday anyway, Molly.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
No, what is happening?
Speaker 4 (34:50):
He had the greatest line though that week because he
shut production down that way. Chuck, Yeah, and he goes,
he just walked up and he went, no more playoff games, akay.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Just same thing. But you're getting older September games.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Yeah, I got to come in the early days, that's right.
I need to be at the early part of the season.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
So my brother went and saw your early show on
sad it.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
Did your mom? Did they straighten that out with your
mom too? Yeah? I choot that guy out, So bad.
You have no idea.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
My mom. She took three or her eighty year old
friends to see Billy on Friday, and her name wasn't
at the after I had put it in and yeah,
they messed it up.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
She's calling me and I'm like, uh.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Just let him in.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
They did. They did, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Dude, I would.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
I chewed him out so bad for it. I said
this that that will not stay.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Was bragg into her friends Billy's taking care of.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
I said that aggression will not stand. Tell her that
I did chew.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
That guy out.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I was still appreciated, but and that was nice, your
brother said. I texted my brother and I was like,
because I when you called.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
I talked to you Saturday and I said, hey, coom,
you look for something to do today.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Head out to Prescottle and go for a walk.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
It's gonna be a beautiful day.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
You can walk to the bay or you can walk
the beaches. And you're like, guys, I'm under the blankets
right now, shivering like crazy. I'm like, oh, you got
the fit or you got the flu. You can't do
shows tonight. And then I hear back from you. And
then I texted my brother and told him like, I
don't think Billy's doing that show tonight. Just FYI, if
you got a babysitter, you might not need one or
make other plans because I'm expecting he's not doing it.
(36:29):
And then you texted me later and said you were
doing it. Yeah, I'm like, well, he's doing it, and
then he went to the show instead it was great
and said you would have never known you were sick.
And so yesterday when I found out what happened to you,
I texted him. Michael was like, yo, I'm like, dude,
Cardell had pneumonia.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
When he was doing that show, and.
Speaker 11 (36:47):
Then he came down and did the Steelers game after that,
and then like you know, I ended up in the
hospital day fan, I go, you almost saw his second
to last Carbon show, and he texted, still, is he
does another one? It's true as we stand, you might
(37:10):
need to get out to Bartnek show.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
I'll tell you this, Billy, you would have made that flight.
You would have walked off Alix because there's no way
that Steeler game would have been your last one.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Oh I don't know that one almost put the nail
on my top.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
And that was hard to watch. That was really hard.
Speaker 9 (37:28):
I'm surprised you didn't hear about it from you know
any of the doctors at.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
U p MCNs actually work.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
No, these blockers are actually you're actually gonna help your heart.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
False starts.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Do you guys remember when the guy had a heart
attack at Chips When Betts fumbled in the game against
the Colts.
Speaker 14 (37:55):
This in his favorite stool, and this play nearly killed him.
A Jerome Bettis fumble at the goal line. Bettis is
his hero.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
It hurt me more to see him fumble the ball
and to perhaps and his Pittsburgh career that way, than
us losing the game.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
It was it was just I more than my heart
could bear.
Speaker 14 (38:27):
The fumble is the last thing know. Neil remembers his
heart stopped. Fortunately for him. Two Pittsburgh firefighters were at
the bar. They performed and they say.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
Know I was in here and I regained consciousness and
I asked the doctor did we win? And it was
the first worse out of my mouth. I didn't even
know about that.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
Now we're interviews and said ESPN an Hbo.
Speaker 14 (38:56):
His phone won't stop ringing and there's no way he's
going to the a f C Championship game on Sunday.
Speaker 8 (39:02):
I'm not gonna change. I'm not gonna quit quit living
because of this and win the super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
This is our I mean, you know what's right about that?
Speaker 4 (39:13):
There's not a Pittsburgh that wasn't There's not a Pittsburgh
that wasn't.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Not in their head in the agreement. Who understood? Oh
my god?
Speaker 6 (39:19):
You know the funny thing about that is, I remember
another interview he did and they got and he goes,
when the bus fumbled that ball, it broke my heart,
and then like someone in his family off camera, goes.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Literally and then he repeated, he goes, literally.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
I don't I never would want to be from anywhere else.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
Ever, No, well said, we gotta get your star on
that Walk of Fame next year.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Maybe you know, No, it denied me once they came.
I was in there in the running, the preliminary.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
You're in the finals.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Oh, let me give you the audition updates.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeh.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Let's hear that the principal one. I got knocked thought
of that?
Speaker 10 (40:01):
That?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
What was that one?
Speaker 4 (40:02):
The principal some uh some series about a crazy school
or something.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
I hope it.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Yeah, yeah, Joe, what they're talking about back in early days,
I would tell them when I was getting auditions for
like yogurt commercials, and that I called back. I didn't
get it. So we keep scoring. So that'd be fun
to start doing that again since I'm unemployed again. So
but I am still in the running for the Greyhound
movie with Tom Hanks, so we're still in the mix.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Did you go Pittsburgh in your audition? Like we coached
you naval captain. That'd be great, man, they'd be yeah, terrific.
If I get on screen, maybe we can slip I'll
slip an iron or answer maybe something.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
If the if the word iron is in there, maybe
I can iron. Well.
Speaker 6 (40:43):
Hanks is a great Lakes region guy. You know you
would appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
So we'll see. We'll see what happened From.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
My days on the USS Gateway Clipper, I can tell
you this is going to be up.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
It was a dark and stormy day on the morn.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
I was taking well to.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
A Zach Brown concert at the Station Square over to
the stadium. Sees we're angry that day, my friend, thanks
to Merrill Hodge and a big cat from pardon my take. Also,
of course, Joe Bartneck tonight, buddy, have a great time.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Is he gonna be awesome?
Speaker 6 (41:19):
Go see these guys the Improv Joe Bartnick and Friends
with Jeff Conkle, mike's Idel and Marcus Cox. Tickets at
improv dot com four once two four sixty two, five
two three three, And of course, Patty Gardell, thank you
for being in here this morning.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
Life, you for making him go to the hos.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Want to give me live and Billy uh.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
Fooled him again? You dodged him again.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Devil's mad because he's taking about four shots. He ain't
hit me in Somebody said I said that to a
doctor and he he goes, He goes, that's pretty funny,
he goes, He goes, he's been looking for you.
Speaker 5 (41:48):
Yeah, but I grew up in Swissfel playing hide and seek,
so he really got a shot.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Michell's out next with the Electric Lunch at noon. Have
a great day. Finish you stay classy. It's don't touch
your face.
Speaker 9 (42:01):
I got him type pace for day Berby For now,
you guys call me Ronald?
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Would you not eat my pants?
Speaker 5 (42:07):
Ronald oh Man?
Speaker 1 (42:12):
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Speaker 5 (42:29):
Here's tom Oproman.
Speaker 13 (42:31):
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 let's averages thirty three point
eight points per game and the 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 of eight hundred
and fifty rushing touchdowns with twelve, and with his two
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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 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.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
The rest of the NFL has just eight of those
performances combined.
Speaker 13 (43:13):
Furthermore, Taylor has scored ten touchdowns 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 (43:32):
Their losing streak. Tom Opferman with the Steelers Report, you
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
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Speaker 4 (00:17):
Well, we're going to go in and uh, and I
got those two auditions today and then I'll report back
next Tuesday if I got it or if I ate it.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (00:25):
No, I love that, so what I would suggest?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And uh, I feel like I have a pretty good.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Sense about these kind of things, you know. Yeah, please man,
let me know what I should shot, the.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Way you need to approach this.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
No, if I understand correctly, you are a ship's captain
who is going to loan him some supplies and you've
already been through the hell that he's about to jump into.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
And I'm and I'm giving him. I'm giving him the
four one one on what he all right?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, Bill, you just straight out of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 7 (00:56):
This up.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
This has got to.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Be the insercap.
Speaker 8 (01:00):
Absolutely, you ain't gonna believe how many bombs they go.
Speaker 9 (01:07):
Listen from one Grayhan captain to another, your ships, your
gray Han.
Speaker 10 (01:15):
Ha Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Can't park it. There's a floating parking share in that fort.
Can't park air. You see that floating that's my spot,
all right. I like you cleared all the rubber shot
it at yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I give you pass one time. Billy Gardell live.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
When I say live, you ain't lying.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Brother in studio that has a special meeting this week. Yesterday, Well,
we knew Billy was in town for the game on
Sunday night, and we texted a little bit during the game,
and you.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Were not feeling great.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
You had told me the days before when you were
doing stand up up in ear you weren't feeling great.
And you text me yesterday and say, Cuz, can I
come in tomorrow. I'm just getting out of the hospital
right now.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, okay, fill in thefing blanks there.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
So uh, well, the devil's mad. This is about the
fourth time he's missed me. So I got to Eriie
last Wednesday, and then Thursdays started feeling weird, and I thought,
maybe I'm catching a cold or somehow, I don't know,
you know, down But all right, I'll get some day
quill and some vitamins and we'll go after it.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
You know, you're on the road as a performer. You
do thing.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
The first show Thursday was okay. Thursday night I was shaking.
I'm surprised my teeth didn't.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Come out of my head.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
And then uh it just got worse. Friday, sick all
day but not like no coffin, no running nose, no,
So I come figure out, like what is wrong with me?
But I just kept telling myself it's a cold.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
It's a cold.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You know the denial Pittsburgh work ethic. You know, I
still go out of work bleeding out of my eyes.
That's all right, my shift starts, I'll be in worry
about it?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Do you think about it? You got it?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
And so kept grinding, did UH five shows and then
UH this and and what had happened before that? Was Wednesday.
I had to land in Buffalo to get to UH
to Pittsburgh. But as I was running from the gate
in Dallas from twenty to thirty seven because I was
going to be at the late window, there was like
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ten minutes to get to the flight, my uh ID
and my credit card fell out of my pocket. So
now I'm in Dallas. Now I can't rent a car.
I got no ID, and you know you know in
today's world, you're out of business. You don't have to
You're done. So I got eight minutes to call Patty
and have her get me U my passport sent with
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a a couple hundred bucks and AMX.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
That was cool. That was like getting a James bond envelow.
It was done. It was.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
It was just chaotic, but I kept I had this
weird feeling in the back of my head. It's heavier
and heavier and heavier. So worked through five shows due
to Steelers game, and then by Monday morning, I get
up and I could barely walk to the elevator and uh.
And then we went to Eaton Park to get some
breakfast for We went out to the airport and Patty said, look,
(04:22):
we're not She goes, let me put this heart monitor
thing on your.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
She has like an apple watched apple.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Thing, so she puts it on my wrist and that
thing started smoking. It blew up, that little round thing
just blew right out the side of it.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
My heart.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
My heart rate wouldn't do any kg and it was
at one hundred and seventy five.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
But a hologram of Steve Jobs came out of that
and was like.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Go to the lot. Yeah, I was like, dude, so.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's what it read.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
So we went.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
We were in Cranberry and you know, visiting cram In
all my life in Pittsburgh, I've never been to Cranbury.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
I said that the billy one time, he goes, why
would you? We don't leave our live.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
In wests in game, we don't go there.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
You go from Swissville to Cranberry.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
That's like visiting Europe, like I'm abroad.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
So but I got to give so much love to
the people at UPMC and uh, you know I got
into the e.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Which one were you in? Well?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
The first one I was in was the smaller one
in Cranberry, and they were so amazing. And you know, man,
I'm a big believer and I have been my whole life.
You know that God just kind of puts you right
where you're supposed to be when things happen. I don't
know if that works for everybody, but it certainly does
(05:56):
for me. Maybe that's the way I just lived my life.
I don't know, don't know, but I do believe that.
And man, I just I should have been more scared,
but I was with my wife. I'm in my hometown,
and I saw the good and bad of the Pittsburgh
work ethic because after I got in there, they put
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me you know, they gave me four bags of fluids,
four ivs, four full bags and I didn't go to
the bathroom till the third one, so it's fully dehydrated.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
So I'm like, I'm having an outer body experience and
for some weird reason, the whole time, this is going
on in my head.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I'm hearing the song Big Country and.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
It won't go away, and I have been yeah, yeah,
you wake up, wake up screaming or whatever.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
It won't leave me alone. I'm like, wall am, I
just stroking out right now. So yeah, that's going on
in my head the whole and I don't know why,
but whatever, it's get me through it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
So they get me in there, and uh, you know
they the doctor came in and after and me hooked
up on the wire, she saw you know, monitors your heartbeat,
and she saw mine go from eighty to one hundred
and sixty and like, I don't know three seconds, like
I had a HEMI in there, you know what I mean,
we were full open with the nitrous Yeah, and she goes, oh,
(07:14):
that's not good.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Let's uh, let's take a chess chest xtray. So they did.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
When they say stuff like that, when something super serious happens,
they're like, what's the problem, and you like open your
jacket and there's a knife in your heart.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They go, oh, well.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
That's not that's not that you know, to keep you calm.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, they well, well that's.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Probably not right.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
So they get the chest extray back and she says, okay.
She goes it's either a blood clot in your left.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Lung or it's like a pulmonary embolism. That scary.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
It's a severe pneumonia. And I'm like, all right, you know,
I go right to the horse check. Come on, pneumonia,
yeah right, yeah, exactly, pneumonia, buy a nose.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Yeah, and so yeah, those pulmonary embolism can take you
right down right.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
So they take me down to get a cat and
then I see the beauty of the Pitts, the bad
part of the Pittsburgh work ethic. Finding out that you're
working five shows in a Steelers game while you have pneumonia, Like,
we just do that up here, we don't.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
That's fine. I don't worry about no, I'm fine I
don't worry.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I'm fine having orange juice. You'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
He needed ginger ol, so it comes back, but I
got it. I love the little technician in there, Bob.
He must have been doing this on a forty years
and he had that Pittsburgh tone. I'm really filled with
gratitude forget me, ah, but he had that tone about him.
(08:41):
He's the guys. He's the good teacher in elementary school.
He's the guy that runs the dangerous ride at Kenny Wood.
He's the guy that operates something at the bank and
just does that thing perfectly every day. Because what they
do is they tell you the information they need you
(09:01):
to have, and no matter what you say back to them,
they redirect you back to the information they want you
to have.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
But it was so great.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
He's like, Okay, Bill, this is gonna go in and
it's gonna get hot in your neck. You're gonna feel
like you're peeing your pants, but you're not keep your
arms crossed.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
I go, okay, Bob, I appreciate that. You go.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Where are you from? Bobby goes Manessa, Listen, this is
gonna feel hot. It's gonna make you feel like you're
peeing your pants. You're not keep your arms crossed.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
That's good. I'm from Swissfeld. That's good.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Okay, listen, it is gonna feel hot. And then I
got him because then I did it to him on purpose.
I go, I go, uh, I got boy. The weather's
nice back here. And then he started, I go, you
got to go. It's gonna feel hot. I gotta keep
my arms crossed. It's very good, very good. And so
they get to de and me and everything, and then
(09:49):
we go back up and then they come in. They say, okay,
it's pneumonia. And the pneumonia the problem is it's taking
your heart into what they call a fib, a butterfly
a fib.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Jim Henson died.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah, And then they come in and they give you
the They try to give you the bad news, real, real,
calmly like they're like, okay, so here's what's happening. The
infection is causing your heart to go over drive. But
there's two chambers of your heart. The top one pumps blood,
the bottom one pumps blood. The top one isn't pumping,
it's quivering. And the problem with that is sometimes it
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can stir blood around and cause stir up a clot
and if it pumps when there's a clot, well that
can shoot out and send a aneurysm to your brain
and kill you.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Well, what are we doing about that? What you got next?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
She goes, Okay, well, I'm gonna get you on some
beta blockers so we could get your numbers down to
a manageable number.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And then we got to fight this infection. So I said,
all right, So they start me on antibiotics. And then
they got to take me to the bigger hospital, which
was Inn where mccanlean's, which again mcnless, uh mickay I
land I have never visited, so uh. But then we
get down there and those folks were unbelievable, man. And
(11:05):
uh they got me in there and the young staff
down there, that's where I saw the beauty of the
Pittsburgh work there. I think these people when you hear okay, han,
let me tell you what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Mm hm.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
And you grew up here, you got I'll be all right, yeah,
one way or the other, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And uh and man, they just started putting stuff in
me and then they got the numbers to go. What
was your fear level? At this point, Randy, this is
the weirdest part. I didn't have any fear for me
at all. My fear is always leaving my wife and kids.
No fear, but because I've lived a charm life. And
(11:51):
I'm not saying that to be brave or like I'm
some badass. I just I have led my life with love.
I have lived well for the most part. I've left
places better than I came into him. And so there's
I didn't I have any fear about me. My fear
is won't Patty. I don't want to leave him alone,
you know.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
And uh uh.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
They they started like they need to get my numbers.
They were my heart was jumping from one hundred to
one hundred and seventy, so they wanted to get it
to eighty between eighty and one hundred. So they got
that there and I got down there about midnight, I
guess on Monday, and so they started rolling me around
and then I had the midnight pulmonary guy.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Scared me a little bit.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
He come in because he's like real thin and kind
of gray. I'm like, you're the lung guy. When's the
last time you saw somebody?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
He looked like I was.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
In the lab.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yeah, he looked like that dude. What was the movie
remember Phantasm?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, I got him coming at me now talking about embolisms,
and I'm like, yeah, okay, man. Like I was like,
I was just me and him in the room too.
I was like, are you going to put a spell
on me or something? So uh, but he they got
the the beta blockers going and they got it down
to between eighty and one hundred, and he goes, Okay,
(13:12):
now we're gonna we're gonna really attack this pneumonia. And
then they put an IVY in my left arm for
antibiotics and ivy in my right arm for fluids, and
I'm taking physical medicine and the nurses are checking on
me every four hours and and and they weren't treating
me like Billy Gardell from Pisoley Jim kids didn't know
who I was. They had no idea who I was.
(13:34):
And they were just this young, beautiful staff. And when
I say beautiful, I mean and the way they did
their job, and the way they were so proficient and caring. Yeah,
and uh and and uh. The next morning, Uh, the
cardiologist came in. I think his name is Bob Luffer's
real nice guy. Now he is older, he knew, he
(13:54):
knew who I was. He come in and he goes, well,
he goes, is this going to be funny? I said, well,
I'll let you know when I get out here if
there's a bit in this. Let's get down to business.
But he he started getting me on on on the
right the track and uh and he says this. He goes,
all right, so he goes, here's the deal. We're going
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to fight this infection back. He goes, but now, since
you put your heart in aphib he goes, we have
to get it back into what they call sinus rhythm.
And he goes, we have three ways to do that.
He goes, okay, you're the diseases are. The infection is
going to go away, and your heart will slip back
naturally into that rhythm. If it doesn't, we have two options.
(14:39):
We're going to either thank.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You baby finger in the butt. No.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
No.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I asked that.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
He's like, that doesn't help, but it's not covered, but
I would have paid. It's like.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
Coming that.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Help, not really, but some.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
People like it.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
All I'm asking is you kiss my neck's hot.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Crossed.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
But then he says this he goes, you know, he goes, uh,
he goes to get it back. He goes, we can
We're either do an ablazion or they go in and
they if there's no clod in the heart, then they
try to find the nerve that's missfiring and they cauterize it.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
He goes.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Or he goes, and I suggest this is the one
we'll probably do with you. We'll put you on the table,
we'll stop your heart, and then we'll hit you with
the paddles and restart you.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Like yeah, I'm like, you're going to reboot me literally,
you know.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
I'm in Pittsburgh something and there's a there's a guy
named Augie.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Would die hard to jump or table just hit him.
Speaker 12 (15:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It's connected to the megatouch machine on the bar.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, they started playing ruin a good all night to take.
Speaker 12 (16:06):
Off and call the Dynasty and let me get I
needed them later, I believe me.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
All I want to hear is boom. So I go,
all right, Doc, well we'll do you know whatever we
got to do. So now I'm alone in the room
and I'm looking at the machine and I'm watching my
numbers go from eighty to one hundred eighty to one hundred.
Nothing's changing. So all I'm thinking about is this die
hard moment I'm gonna have. And then uh, Tuesday, Tuesday,
(16:40):
Wednesday morning, at twelve fifty two am, I was up
because I couldn't sleep. I'm watching I looked over at
the numbers and the number said eighty eight, and I said,
all right, all right, that's a good number. And then
I looked back twenty minutes later and it was like ninety.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I was like, okay, that's good. Twenty minutes later I
look back and it was a eighty seven, and again
I go, I think I might have slipped into I might.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Exactly eighty eight was my graduating class, and yeah, exactly,
And I thought, okay, maybe I slipped back in. And
then the nurse at four am was so cool because
she came in and let me know that's what happened.
You know, usually they'll wait in the morning sort of
the doctor can come take credit with that.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
But she came in.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
She goes, I just want you to know that your heart,
your heart broke the right way, and it's uh, it's
it is indeed back in sinus, she goes, the cardiologist
will be in to talk to you now. The weird
thing through this pneumonia is I don't have a stuff.
He knows I'm not weezing, and every point, you know,
if the phantasm pulling up, pulling up, pullminologist and then
(17:46):
I get doogie howser. The next morning he must have
been like the good brother, you know, as he's working
day shifting.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
He's like, yeah, you're doing great.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
But they keep listening to my lungs and they're going,
we don't understand why you're not wheezing like I'm not.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I don't want you to be, but it's really weird.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
That this you'd have a propensity to weave.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
The moment is so concentrate, we can't understand why you're
not weezing. I said, well, Doc, it's probably thirty thousand
packs of Marlboroughs I've been training for. I've been training
for this moment my whole life. He goes, that's not funny.
I go ahead, will be yeah, Billy, let.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Me do this.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Yeah, I mean, thank god, everything's okay. Let me let
me do a break and we'll come back. And I
want to hear the end of this all right. Check
around more with Billy Gardellens.
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Speaker 2 (19:04):
All right, people were on the air. Everyone Dan, sit down.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Bill likes the Soft Dump. Yeah yeah, that's an ultimate
uh recommendation.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Oh yeah, dude, that's the endorsement from Billy Gardell.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
The Soft Dump being, of course, Joe Bartneck's hockey segment
that he does during.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Talking about the morning Soft Dump.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
I love it, joey Uh, Joe Bartnick Tonight at the
Improv Joe Bartnic and friends including Jeff Conkle and Mike
and Mark Marcus Cox. So guys tonight and Billy Gardell's
live and studio with us if you're just joining us.
He told us the harrowing story of having done five
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stand up shows in Eerie with pneumonia, then deciding to
cap it off by going to the Steelers game Sunday
night and ending up in the hospital for three days,
nearly dying.
Speaker 13 (19:59):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
If not for his wife not allowing him to get
on the plane, you would not have arrived in Los
Angeles a week.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
No, it would have been sir, we've landed, sir, sir, yeah, sir,
you know no, the doctor said, he goes, I'm not
sure you'd have made that ride home.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Thank God for Patty. Well, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
And I was and I was still trying to Pittsburgh
at Monday morning, like I will go through the plane.
And I called a doctor when I get home and
then tell him how you got me on a plane.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Well, I said to him, if this were happening to me,
would you put me on a plane? And he could
not answer us. So to the hospital we went.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
So she crushed you with the first question. It's like that.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
It's like that scene in one of them m A
fighters were like one guy does all the dancing around stuff,
and the other guy's just quiet, and then the crazy
guy runs towards him and then just gets.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Knocked out with one shot. There's nothing I could do.
I couldn't argue that. So I don't know where we were.
So I'm sorry. My brain ain't still ain't working.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
So at this point, uh oh, he said, funny the
cigarettes joking.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
It was the numbers thing. So I looked at the numbers.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
It's the middle of the night and they're holding to
the woman said you your your heart did slip back
in as okay, that's great. So the cardiologist comes in
the next morning and he goes, Okay, guys, it's uh,
it's it's slipped into the right They call it sinus rhythm.
So your heart's beating the right way. Now we're going
to fight disinfection. Don he goes, but uh, here's the deal.
(21:29):
You're probably going to be on beta blockers and blood
thinners for the foreseeable future, and you need to get
a cardiologist when you go back home.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Uh, but we're going to keep you one more.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Day today just to get you filled with fluids and medicine.
Then you can take some stuff with you. And then
they had originally told us, look, don't go home till
Saturday in case we have to do a procedure. So
we we thought, you know what, man, we canceled everything
at home. Let's just let's stay in Pittsburgh and get
strong and uh, and we're gonna go home Saturday. So
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so when day was actually a nice day at the hospital,
can Acy come out and visited me. And then uh,
and then God bless him, Jim Rooney came out to
visit me, and uh, yeah, because we were with him
at the game Sunday and he uh, he came in
and that made everybody freak out because they're young kids
and they don't know sitcoms and watch TV, right, so
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they can't figure out why Jim Rooney's in my room.
And so one of the little young girls goes, are
you like an old player or something?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
As a kicker?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
A kicker?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
So Jack cam nice to meet.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I honestly think that Jim got the Chief's heart. I
think of the Rooney's Jim as the chief's heart. So
we got to do all that and he really is
salt of the earth. And then uh, and then I
texted our boy Joey O'Connell from Penn Hills and this
is the thing that made me laugh so hard that
I had tears in my eyes. Uh. I'm not knocking
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hospital food, but it's not you know, it's traditionally so
uh so I got this. I think, what is meat loaf?
So I take a picture of this, and I send
it to Joey O'Connell from Penn Hills. I go, Joe,
I just ate this, and he looked at me and
he goes, oh my god, that won't stand.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I'm sending the Catholics and his family come over me.
So but then then they found out I was going
to get released that day. So I called, We're going
to go actually visit his mom after we leave here,
and I said, now, Mayor, don't come up, and uh,
I go, We're gonna come out and see you.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
I'm coming home and uh.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
And then last night I went to Kenesy's house and
Holly made some pasta with boloonnaise and nice. You know, man,
there's something very therapeutic about a Pittsburgh kitchen table and
the pulls that love you. That's medicine you can't buy.
And so and now I'm here with you guys, and
I get the extra extra special bonus with partner over there.
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I ignorantly called, damn, sorry, but do it again. I
don't even know where I'm at.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
You know, I'm lucky. I wasn't waking up going do
you serve Marshmallo body for three.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
So do the cardiologists recommend bolonaise right after the aphib
is that because is that the first I had?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I just had hospital that way, I highly recommend bolon
As and Mancini's bread.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That's what I'm a lot that talk.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
So I'm just and and then I just you know,
I realized, you know, look, you know what, what grace
for this weird thing to happen to me and to
be in one of the weeks where I was on
the road with my wife who saved my life again,
and to be in my hometown when this happens. You know,
I'm I'm blessed. I'm just truly blessed. And then you know,
(24:58):
we're just we're just going to spend next couple of
days in Pittsburgh, being in Pittsburgh. Well, and I'm just
very grateful to be here with you guys.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
You know, you've done so much good for so many others.
People love when they finally have an opportunity to do
something for you, all those ones in your life, you know, really.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
Felt seven shows at the Improv this week, That's right,
Bartnik show.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Oh that was the one other funny thing is they
have to ask you these questions when you're in there,
they're like, well, what was the question to asked me. Yeah,
they go, if your heart stops, do you want to
be resuscitated? And I couldn't. You know, we're comics. We
can't help but take the laugh. Instead of saying something,
I just looked at Patty like, well, yes, I'm.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Glad you're feeling better, And mostly I'm glad you didn't
check out at my house up in Erie, because that
would have been there's already one. There's already one ghost
up there. We didn't need another one. My dad, my
dad in Guardell haunting that place would have been actually
going to charge admission.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Hilarious. That's the best part is we get to hang
with we very rarely get to see her.
Speaker 12 (26:18):
Well.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
I mean, that is a harrowing tail there, Bill. You
had one hell of a stressful week. H I just
couldn't believe when I got that text yesterday. Can I
come in tomorrow. I'm just getting out of hospital. It's fine,
it's fine, I'm okay, I'm not contagious.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Well, it's like Bartnick said to man, you have one
of the great gifts of the comic brain is as
you're going through that one. You can diffuse a little
bit with humor and then you start thinking, you know,
if I get through, this is gonna be a great bit.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
Yeah, start chunking it.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
All right, let me do one more quick break and
then we'll be back with Billy Gardell and Joe Bartnick
live in studio. Reminded the Smalls Waltz is coming up
on October twenty second, and yeah, November, what did I say, September?
Speaker 5 (27:05):
October Jesus, last month.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Guys, it was eight days ago. But here's an advertisement
for it.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
No, seriously, it's headed towards a sellout once again, so
get your tickets.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
DVE presents The Smalls Waltz Saturday, November twenty second at
Mister Small's Theater at eight pm. Randy Bauman's Ramble Band
celebrates the music of the band's iconic concert film The
Last Waltz, featuring Joe Bershecky Clinton, Clay Mally, Alphabet, Paul Luke,
Jen Wurts, Phil Das, Liz Berlynn, John Binley, Bill Tom
Rob James, Mike Minde, the Full Ramble Horns, and more.
(27:40):
Don't miss this Thanksgiving tradition as Randy Bauman's Ramble band
performs the full soundtrack of the band's film.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
The Last Waltz.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
A portion of the proceeds benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community
Food Band. Tickets for The Smalls Waltz available at the
Mister Small's box office or at DVE dot com.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
It's Football Sell, It's a d D morning show.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Randy Bauman with Bill Crawford, Abby Krisner and Live and studio.
We have our friend Joe Bartnick who's performing at the.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Tonight. Also two for talking with Josh Yeo.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Of course tonight at the Improv Joe Bartnick and friends
with Jeff Conkle and Mike Stell and Marcus Cox and
Billy Gardell and his wife Patty are here after Billy
experienced a harrowing event after contracting pneumonia, doing five comedy
shows with pneumonia up in Erie, driving down for the
Steelers game Sunday night, going to the Steelers game with pneumonia,
(28:32):
waking up the next morning in full on a fib
and had to check in the hospital for a couple
of days and they stopped you from dying.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
And today we're going to uh, you know, go get
a hog. Yeah, I'm hoping Mayor has some pome k.
But I just want to say one more time about
up MC. Thank you, I love you, thank you for
taking care of me, thank you, thank you, thank you,
and uh, I'm.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Just so grateful.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
One of the reasons I came in here with Patty
was for you to talk to her finally, because she's
starting to seem like Norm's wife.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
You know, you guys share it morning out there.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Well, every once in a while I'll get Patty in
the car and then she and I start talking right politics,
and you're like, all right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
You're wrapping up, all right, But if you want to
talk to her, she's here if you want to ask
her any.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Question, Patty, what is the best thing about being married
to a comedian, like of the level that Billy Gardell
has achieved, the best thing, the best thing.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Well, the best thing is how he loves me. But
the greatest, I guess the thing is that you're always
surrounded by people who laugh. And you know, I'm quite
a serious person, and so it's a good balance for
me because I'm the I'm the house vulcan, you know,
and so, you know, surrounded by people who don't take
themselves too seriously is good medicine for me.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
You're from Georgia originally.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
How much Pittsburgh appreciation do you have right now, which
is to say, like if you had one foot in Pittsburgh,
How like how assimilated.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
To being a Pittsburgh do you feel like you are?
Speaker 7 (30:08):
You know, I think a lot. We've been together twenty
six years, almost twenty seven, and you know, I feel
like a little resident Pittsburgh when I'm here and I
get my Pittsburgh e's done and we go down Tom.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
You know, I was driving, we were driving by.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
And there's a store that's called a R H A
U S R. And I was like, I'm like, that
must be the Pittsburgh pronunciation of our house, right like ahra.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
And I was like, I didn't make me smile this week.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
So my place has got some ritzy furniture.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
You know her favorite comedians Joey O Konn.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Oh, well, Joeyo konn.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Nobody makes her laugh like Joey O kon Well, there's.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Nobody as committed to the dead pan quite as much
as Joey O Kann. Like I always know he's kidding.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
I don't always know when Billy's kidding because he gets
it like it flies right over my head.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
But like Joe, like I know he's kidding.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
Yeah, what's the jostle factor on this round Disney World?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I took him to Disney and every coaster we got
up to he asked the tour Hey, what's the jostle
factor on this sh how much they're gonna shop?
Speaker 6 (31:16):
That's an actual metric, Jocely, Well, it's a nine point
seven on the Rakowski. Yeah, Billy got dealt with his
wife Patty, and Joe Bartnick is here too.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Well, that's a scary week.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
Man.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
I'm really glad that for both of your sakes that
you listen to Patty yes, instead of it.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Why are guys meatheads? Why not?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Like, well, I've gotten better. I've gotten better listening to her.
You're coachable, Yeah, I'm coachable.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Now let me ask you this.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Did you know, like when you found out your heartbeat
was once seventy eight, you still wanted to get on
the plane.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
I did at first, just because I had some stuff
at home and I thought like, well, we can get home,
I'll call the doctor and then I will deal with this.
So that part of me I'm growing like I will
go deal with this. You know, but apparently it wasn't
time for it.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
And how did you guys find out? You put your
watch on him?
Speaker 7 (32:07):
Yeah, I wear an Apple watch for a similar reason.
And you know, I have a heart rhythm issue myself,
and so my doctor had me wear one. And I said,
you know, I don't think this is a cold, you know,
just with the fuzziness in his head, the shaking and things,
and I just said, you know, I don't see cold.
I don't see runny nose. I don't hear a cough.
I said, you know, please let me check your heart.
(32:30):
And so I put my watch on him and checked.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
His heart and it said due.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
To the hospital now is basically what it said. And
I said, yeah, we're going Joe b.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You had heart issues, you know what it's like.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, I mean I and I had pneumonia and I
did did shows because I had the Russian horse pill
antibiotics to get me through. Luckily, I actually went to
go get my weed prescription, you know, a shady Hollywood
Russian doctor, and she's like, you're coughing blood and you
have pneumonia, and she was, let me get.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Doctor diagnosed you. They're not, I know. That's how sick.
I was, but like, I can't turn down work.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
That's that's good, that's exactly right, that's exactly And they.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Knew in Vegas because I always my not my my
rider was always a bottle of Crown Royal, And when
I gave it to the stage hand, like you're not
going to drink that, I'm like, I gotta go back
and just sleep. Like that's when they knew Bartnik is sick.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Yeah, but yeah, I mean I walked off my heart attack.
That's the most Pittsburgh thing you did. Was Yeah, I'm
doing all my shows and I'm going to Steeler game.
I'm not really that sick. You've always been, mister Pittsburgh.
But that really is the most Pittsburgh thing you could
have ever done.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I think it's what we saw our fathers go to
work under any condition, because that's what you do, that's
what you do for your family, it's what you do,
and it's part of a pro in us that they
can be very dangerous, Like I said, that's that's that's
the downside of it. But then when you see people
doing doing things the right way, with precision and with
(34:11):
being deliberate, that's the thing that there's a pride in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
But you can you can you can hit.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
The gas on that a little hard, you know, you
can push it a little far.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
You got to tell Chuck Laurie about this, because you've
outdone yourself. They had to shut down production.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Well, yeah, we shut down Michael Molly one week because
I did the terrible toal towirl. Somebody said, you know what,
I think it was a Joe that said it to me.
I think, yeah, I think because that was, you know,
the offensive line. They ain't got no coachs on. You
should do the toll without your coat back on the
stage Monday anyway, Molly.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
No, what is happening?
Speaker 4 (34:50):
He had the greatest line though that week because he
shut production down that way. Chuck, Yeah, and he goes,
he just walked up and he went, no more playoff games, akay.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Just same thing. But you're getting older September games.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Yeah, I got to come in the early days, that's right.
I need to be at the early part of the season.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
So my brother went and saw your early show on
sad it.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
Did your mom? Did they straighten that out with your
mom too? Yeah? I choot that guy out, So bad.
You have no idea.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
My mom. She took three or her eighty year old
friends to see Billy on Friday, and her name wasn't
at the after I had put it in and yeah,
they messed it up.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
She's calling me and I'm like, uh.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Just let him in.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
They did. They did, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Dude, I would.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
I chewed him out so bad for it. I said
this that that will not stay.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Was bragg into her friends Billy's taking care of.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
I said that aggression will not stand. Tell her that
I did chew.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
That guy out.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I was still appreciated, but and that was nice, your
brother said. I texted my brother and I was like,
because I when you called.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
I talked to you Saturday and I said, hey, coom,
you look for something to do today.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Head out to Prescottle and go for a walk.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
It's gonna be a beautiful day.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
You can walk to the bay or you can walk
the beaches. And you're like, guys, I'm under the blankets
right now, shivering like crazy. I'm like, oh, you got
the fit or you got the flu. You can't do
shows tonight. And then I hear back from you. And
then I texted my brother and told him like, I
don't think Billy's doing that show tonight. Just FYI, if
you got a babysitter, you might not need one or
make other plans because I'm expecting he's not doing it.
(36:29):
And then you texted me later and said you were
doing it. Yeah, I'm like, well, he's doing it, and
then he went to the show instead it was great
and said you would have never known you were sick.
And so yesterday when I found out what happened to you,
I texted him. Michael was like, yo, I'm like, dude,
Cardell had pneumonia.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
When he was doing that show, and.
Speaker 11 (36:47):
Then he came down and did the Steelers game after that,
and then like you know, I ended up in the
hospital day fan, I go, you almost saw his second
to last Carbon show, and he texted, still, is he
does another one? It's true as we stand, you might
(37:10):
need to get out to Bartnek show.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
I'll tell you this, Billy, you would have made that flight.
You would have walked off Alix because there's no way
that Steeler game would have been your last one.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Oh I don't know that one almost put the nail
on my top.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
And that was hard to watch. That was really hard.
Speaker 9 (37:28):
I'm surprised you didn't hear about it from you know
any of the doctors at.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
U p MCNs actually work.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
No, these blockers are actually you're actually gonna help your heart.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
False starts.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Do you guys remember when the guy had a heart
attack at Chips When Betts fumbled in the game against
the Colts.
Speaker 14 (37:55):
This in his favorite stool, and this play nearly killed him.
A Jerome Bettis fumble at the goal line. Bettis is
his hero.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
It hurt me more to see him fumble the ball
and to perhaps and his Pittsburgh career that way, than
us losing the game.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
It was it was just I more than my heart
could bear.
Speaker 14 (38:27):
The fumble is the last thing know. Neil remembers his
heart stopped. Fortunately for him. Two Pittsburgh firefighters were at
the bar. They performed and they say.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
Know I was in here and I regained consciousness and
I asked the doctor did we win? And it was
the first worse out of my mouth. I didn't even
know about that.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
Now we're interviews and said ESPN an Hbo.
Speaker 14 (38:56):
His phone won't stop ringing and there's no way he's
going to the a f C Championship game on Sunday.
Speaker 8 (39:02):
I'm not gonna change. I'm not gonna quit quit living
because of this and win the super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
This is our I mean, you know what's right about that?
Speaker 4 (39:13):
There's not a Pittsburgh that wasn't There's not a Pittsburgh
that wasn't.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Not in their head in the agreement. Who understood? Oh
my god?
Speaker 6 (39:19):
You know the funny thing about that is, I remember
another interview he did and they got and he goes,
when the bus fumbled that ball, it broke my heart,
and then like someone in his family off camera, goes.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Literally and then he repeated, he goes, literally.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
I don't I never would want to be from anywhere else.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
Ever, No, well said, we gotta get your star on
that Walk of Fame next year.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Maybe you know, No, it denied me once they came.
I was in there in the running, the preliminary.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
You're in the finals.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Oh, let me give you the audition updates.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeh.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Let's hear that the principal one. I got knocked thought
of that?
Speaker 10 (40:01):
That?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
What was that one?
Speaker 4 (40:02):
The principal some uh some series about a crazy school
or something.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
I hope it.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Yeah, yeah, Joe, what they're talking about back in early days,
I would tell them when I was getting auditions for
like yogurt commercials, and that I called back. I didn't
get it. So we keep scoring. So that'd be fun
to start doing that again since I'm unemployed again. So
but I am still in the running for the Greyhound
movie with Tom Hanks, so we're still in the mix.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Did you go Pittsburgh in your audition? Like we coached
you naval captain. That'd be great, man, they'd be yeah, terrific.
If I get on screen, maybe we can slip I'll
slip an iron or answer maybe something.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
If the if the word iron is in there, maybe
I can iron. Well.
Speaker 6 (40:43):
Hanks is a great Lakes region guy. You know you
would appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
So we'll see. We'll see what happened From.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
My days on the USS Gateway Clipper, I can tell
you this is going to be up.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
It was a dark and stormy day on the morn.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
I was taking well to.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
A Zach Brown concert at the Station Square over to
the stadium. Sees we're angry that day, my friend, thanks
to Merrill Hodge and a big cat from pardon my take. Also,
of course, Joe Bartneck tonight, buddy, have a great time.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Is he gonna be awesome?
Speaker 6 (41:19):
Go see these guys the Improv Joe Bartnick and Friends
with Jeff Conkle, mike's Idel and Marcus Cox. Tickets at
improv dot com four once two four sixty two, five
two three three, And of course, Patty Gardell, thank you
for being in here this morning.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
Life, you for making him go to the hos.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Want to give me live and Billy uh.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
Fooled him again? You dodged him again.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Devil's mad because he's taking about four shots. He ain't
hit me in Somebody said I said that to a
doctor and he he goes, He goes, that's pretty funny,
he goes, He goes, he's been looking for you.
Speaker 5 (41:48):
Yeah, but I grew up in Swissfel playing hide and seek,
so he really got a shot.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Michell's out next with the Electric Lunch at noon. Have
a great day. Finish you stay classy. It's don't touch
your face.
Speaker 9 (42:01):
I got him type pace for day Berby For now,
you guys call me Ronald?
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Would you not eat my pants?
Speaker 5 (42:07):
Ronald oh Man?
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Whay, goggle ahead, It's time for the Steelers Daily Report
on Dve brought to you by iron Workers Local Union
number three. They don't go to the office, they build it,
and Steelers Pro Shop get it direct from the team
at Shop dot Steelers dot com.
Speaker 5 (42:29):
Here's tom Oproman.
Speaker 13 (42:31):
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 let's averages thirty three point
eight points per game and the 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 of eight hundred
and fifty rushing touchdowns with twelve, and with his two
(42:53):
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 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.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
The rest of the NFL has just eight of those
performances combined.
Speaker 13 (43:13):
Furthermore, Taylor has scored ten touchdowns 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 (43:32):
Their losing streak. Tom Opferman with the Steelers Report, you
see the skyline, you drive over the bridges. We built
that Ironworkers Local Union number three. This isn't just a job,
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