October 31, 2025 • 44 mins
Yesterday Billy Gardell joined us in-studio to share with us his scary experience this past week with his trip to the hospital.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If I ate how about that?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
No, I love that, so what I would suggest? And uh,
I feel like I have a pretty good sense about
these kind of things, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Yeah, please man, let me know what I should shot the.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Way you need to approach this.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
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 1 (00:24):
And I'm and I'm giving him. I'm giving him the
four one one on what he all right?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, Bill, you just straight out of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
This up.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
This has got to be.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
The most absolutely you.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Ain't gonna believe how many bombs.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
From one Gray High captain to another. Your ships, your Gray.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
High Brandy Bellmen and the d V Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Can't park it. There's a float and parking share and
can you park air?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
You see that floaty? It's my spot, all right? I
like you cleared all the rubbershot of that yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Give you pass one time. Billy Gardell live.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And when I say live, you ain't lying.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
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 were not feeling great. 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.
(01:42):
I'm just getting out of the hospital right now. Yeah, okay,
fill in the f and blanks there. Okay, So well,
the devil's mad. This is about the fourth time he's
missed me. So I got to Erie 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
(02:04):
some vitamins and we'll go after it, you know, on
the road.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
As a performer, you do thing. The first show Thursday,
it was okay. Thursday night, I was shaking. I'm surprised
my teeth didn't come out of my head.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And then uh, it.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
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 1 (02:28):
It's a cold.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
You know the denial Pittsburgh work ethic. You know, I'm
still go out of work and bleeding out of my eyes.
That's all right, My shift starts at five.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I'll be in. Don't worry about it. Do you think
about it? You got it, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
And so kept grinding, did UH five shows and then
UH this, and and what had happened before that?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Was Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
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's like ten
minutes to get to the flight, my 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
(03:12):
no I d and you know, you know in today's world,
you're out of business.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You don't you're done.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
So I got eight minutes to call Patty and have
her get me my passport sent with a couple of
hundred bucks and an AMX.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That was cool. That was like getting a James Bond envelope.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Was done.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
It was 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, we're not She goes, let
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me put this heart monitor thing on your.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
She has like an apple watched apple.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
So so she puts it on my wrist and that
thing started smoking.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It blew that little round thing just blew right out
the side of it. My heart.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
My heart rate wouldn't do any kg and it was
at one hundred and seventy five.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
But the hologram of Steve Jobs came out of that
and was.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Like, go to the Yeah, it was like, dude, so
that's what it read.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
So we went.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
We were in Cranberry, and you know, visiting cram In
all my life in Pittsburgh, I've never been to Cranberry.
I said that the billy one time, he goes, why
would you We don't leave leaving wests in Game of
thro we don't go there. You go from Swissvelt to
Cranberry that's like visiting Europe.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Like I'm abroad, you know, so I have a house.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, so, but I got to give so much love
to the people at UPMC. And you know, I got
into the e Which one were you in? Well, the
first one I was in was the smaller one in Cranberry, Okay,
And they were so amazing. And you know, man, I'm
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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
for me. Maybe that's the way I just lived my life.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I don't know. I don't know, but I do believe that.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
And man, I just I should have been more scared,
but I was with my wife.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I'm in my hometown, and I.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Saw the good and bad of the Pittsburgh work ethic
because after I got in there, they put me.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You know, they gave me.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Four bags of fluids, four ivs, four full bags and
I didn't go to the bathroom till the third ones.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So it's fully dehydrated.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
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. I'm hearing the song Big Country
and it won't go away.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And I have been.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah, yeah you wake up, wake up screaming or whatever.
It won't leave me alone. I'm like, well, am I
just stroking out right now? So yeah, that's going on
in my head the whole I don't know why, but whatever,
it's getting me through it. So they get me in
there and uh, you know, they the doctor came in
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and after they had me hooked up on the wires,
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.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
In there, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
We were full open with the nitros just yeah, and
she goes, oh, that's not good.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Let's uh, let's take a chest X strike.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So they did love when they say stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
When something super serious happens, They're like, what's the problem
And you open your jacket and there's a knife in
your heart.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
They go, oh, well that's not that.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You know to keep you calm, Well, well that's probably
not right.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
So so they get the chest actually back, and she says, okay,
she goes it's either a blood clot in your left
lung or it's like a pulmonary embolism. It's a severe pneumonia.
And I'm like, all right, you know, I go right
to the horse track. Come on, pneumonia, Yeah right, yeah, exactly, pneumonia,
buy a nose and so yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That pulmonary embolism can take you right down.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Right, So they take me down to get a cat skin.
And then I see the beauty of the picture, 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 1 (07:49):
That's fine. I don't worry about No, I'm fine. I
don't worry.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I'm fine having orange juice. You'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You needed ginger ol, so it comes back.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
But I yeah, I love the little technician. And 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.
He's the guy, he's the good teacher in elementary school.
(08:22):
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
to have, and no matter what you say back to them,
they redirect you back to the information they want you
to have.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
That he was so great.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
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 1 (08:53):
I go, okay, Bob, I appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
You go.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Where are you from, Bob? He goes, Manessa, listen, this
is gonna feel hot. It's gonna make you feel like
you're peeing your bench. You're not keep your arms crossed.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That's good. I'm from Swiss Flood. That's good.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Okay, listen, it's 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 go, I go,
it's gonna feel hard. I gotta keep my arms crossed.
It's very good, very good. And so they get to
dye and me and everything, and then we go back
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up and then they come in they say, okay, it's pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And then pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
The problem is it's taking your heart into what they
call a fib, a butterfly a fib.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So Jim Henson died.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
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 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 1 (10:09):
Well, what are we doing about that? What you got next?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
She goes, Okay, well, I'm gonna get you on some
beta blockers so we could get your numbers down to
a manageable number. Uh, 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 in where mccanlan's.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Which again mcnless. Uh kay I Land, I have never visited.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
So but then we get down there and those folks
were unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Man.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
And uh they got me in there and the young
staff down there. That's where I saw the beauty of
the Pittsburgh work there.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I think these people when you hear okayhn, let me
tell you what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Mh.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
And you grew up here, you got I'll be all right, yeah,
one way or the other, you know, and h and man,
they just started putting stuff in me and then they
got the numbers to go.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
What was your fear level at this point.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
No fear.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
But because I've lived a charm life. And 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 them. 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.
(11:45):
And uh, 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 around
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and then I had the midnight pulmonary guy.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Scared me a little bit.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
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 something?
Speaker 9 (12:20):
He looked like.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That, dude? What was the movie? Remember Phantasm?
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yeah, I got him coming at me now talking about embolisms,
and I'm like, yeah, okay, man, Like I was like,
you know, it was just me and him in the
room too.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I was like, are you going to put a spell
on me or something?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
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, now we're gonna We're
gonna really.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Attack this pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
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 and the nurses are
checking on me every four hours and and and they
weren't treating me like Billy Gardell from Pisley gim kids.
Didn't know who I was. They had no idea who
I was. And they were just this young, beautiful staff.
(13:14):
And when I say beautiful, I mean and the way
they did their job, and the way they were so
proficient and caring, and uh and and uh. The next morning,
the cardiologist came in. I think his name is Bob
Luffer's real nice guy. Now he is older, he knew,
he knew who I was. He come in, he goes, well,
he goes, is this going to be funny? I said, well,
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I'll let you know when I get out of here.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
If there's a bit in this kid. Let's get down
to business.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
But he started getting 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 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 him and he goes,
we have three ways to do that. He goes, Okay,
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you're the diseases are the infection is gonna go away,
and your heart will slip back naturally into that rhythm.
If it doesn't, we have two options. We're going to
either thank.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You baby finger in the butt.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
No, no, I asked for that.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
He's like, that doesn't help.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But offer it's not covered, but I would have paid.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Sorry, it's like that pocket right there. Yeah, coming does
that help? Not really, but some people like it.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
All I'm asking is you kiss my neck. That's gonna
feel hot crossed.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
But then he says this, he goes, you know, he goes, uh,
he goes to get it back.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
He goes, we can.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
We're either do an ablazion or they go in and
they if there's no cloud in the heart, then they
try to find the nerve that's missfiring and they cauterize it.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
He goes.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
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 like you know, I'm like
the turn, You're.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Going to reboot me.
Speaker 10 (15:28):
You know.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I'm in Pittsburgh something and there's a there's a guy
named Augie with a die Harden to jump or.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Him.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, it's connected to the Mega Touch machine on the bar.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
They start playing run again, all that take off.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
They tell their dynasty and let me get boom.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
All I want to.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
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, Wednesday morning, at
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twelve fifty two am, I was up because I couldn't sleep.
I'm watching I looked over at the numbers and the
numbers said eighty eight, and I said, all right, all right, that's.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
A good number.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
And then I looked back twenty minutes later and it
was like ninety. I was like, okay, that's good. Twenty
minutes ago, I looked back and it was eighty seven,
and again I go, I think I might have slipped
into Bruner.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I might exactly.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Eighty eight was my graduating class and Bruner, 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 so the
doctor can come take credit with that, but she came in.
She goes, I just want you to know that your heart,
(17:03):
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.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Now.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
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.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Then I get doogie howser.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
The next morning, he must have been like the good brother,
you know, as he's working day shifting, he's like, yeah,
you're doing great, 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 1 (17:37):
I don't want you to be. But it's really weird that.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
This you have a propensity to weave.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Pneumonia is so concentrated. We can't understand why you're not weezing.
Wild Doc. It's probably thirty thousand packs of Marlboroughs. I've
been training for. I've been training for this moment my
whole life.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, and he goes, that's not funny. I go, it
will be.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Yeah.
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And Marcus Cox and Billy Guardell and his wife Patty
are here after Billy experienced a harrowing event after contracting pneumonia,
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doing five comedy shows with pneumonia up in Erie, driving
down for the Steelers game Sunday night, going to the
Steelers game with pneumonia, waking up the next morning in
full on a fame and had to check in the
hospital for a couple of days, and they stopped you
from dying.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
And today we're going to, uh, you know, go get
a hog. Yeah, I'm hoping Mary has some pound cake.
But yeah, I just want to say one more time
about up MC.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I love you, Thank you for taking care of me.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, and uh, I'm just
so grateful. 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 1 (19:29):
You know, you guys share it morning out there.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
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.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
You're wrapping up, all right, But but if you want
to talk to her, she's here.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
If you want to ask her any.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Question, Patty, what is the best thing about being married
to a comedian? Like of the uh level that Billy
Gardell has achieved?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
The best thing?
Speaker 8 (19:53):
The best thing, well, the best thing is how he
loves me. But the greatest, I guess the thing is
your 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 3 (20:15):
You're from Georgia originally. How much Pittsburgh appreciation do you
have right now? Which is to say, like if you
had one foot in Pittsburgh, Like how assimilated to.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Being a Pittsburgh do you feel like you are? You know,
I think a lot.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
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 he's done. We
go down town and you know, we were driving by
and there's a store that's called a R H A U.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
S R.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
And I was like, I'm like, that must be the
Pittsburgh pronunciation of our house right like ah, And I
was like, I didn't make me smile this week.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So my place's got some ritzy furniture.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
And don't.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You know her favorite comedians Joey O'Connell.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Oh, well, Joeyo konn.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Nobody makes her laugh like Joey ocon.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Well, there's nobody as committed to the dead pan quite
as much.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
As Joey o konn.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Like I always know he's kidding. I don't always know
when Billy's kidding because he gets it like it flies
right over my head. But like with Joe, like I
know he's kidding.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, looks the.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Jostle factor on this round took him.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
To Disney and every every coaster we got up to
he asked the tour Hey, what's the Jostle Factory to show?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
That's an actual metric joy, Well, it's a nine point
seven on the Rakowski. Yeah, Billy Gardell with his wife Patty,
and Joe Bartnick is here too.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Well, that's a scary week, man.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I'm really glad that for both of your sakes that
you listen to Patty yes instead of it?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Why are guys meatheads?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Why not?
Speaker 11 (21:59):
Like?
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Well, I've gotten I've gotten better at listening to her.
You're coachable, Yeah, I'm coachable.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Now let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Did you know, like when you found out your heartbeat
was once seventy eight, you still wanted to get on
the plane.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
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 1 (22:25):
And how did you guys find out? You put your
watch on him?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
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.
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And so I put my watch on him and.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Checked his heart. It said, dude, and.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
The hospital now sickly what it said? And I said, yeah,
we're going, Joe B.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
You had heart issues, you know what it's like.
Speaker 13 (23:05):
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 them. Luckily, I went 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 (23:26):
Doctor diagnosed you. Yes, they're not.
Speaker 13 (23:29):
I know that's how sick I was, but like I
can't turn down work.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's that's that's exactly right, That's exactly And they knew.
Speaker 13 (23:39):
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
it's just sleep. Like That's when they knew Bartnick is sick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but yeah, I mean I walked off my heart attack.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That's that building.
Speaker 13 (24:00):
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. Yeah, you've always been mister Pittsburgh.
But that really is the most Pittsburgh thing you could
have ever done.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
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.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
It's what you do.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
And it's part of a pride 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
being deliberate, that's the thing that there's a pride in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
But you can you can you can hit.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
The gas on that little hard you know, you can
push it a little far.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
You got to tell Chuck Laurie about this, because you've
outdone yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
They had to shut down production.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Yeah, we shut down Michael molly one way because I
did the terrible toal twirl. Somebody said, you know what,
I think it was a Joe that said it to me.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I think I think that was right.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
You know, the offensive line. They ain't got no coach on.
You should do the toe with out your coat. Back
on the stage Monday, anyway, Molly.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Bill, what is happening?
Speaker 5 (25:12):
He had the greatest line though that week, because he
shut production down that week. Chuck lor Yeah, and he goes,
he just walked up and he went, no more playoff games.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Just the same thing. But you're getting older, you September games.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, I got to come in the early days. That's right.
I need to be in the early part of the season.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
So my brother went and saw your early show on
appre it.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Did your mom? Did they straighten that out with your
mom too? Yeah? I shoot that guy out so bad.
You have no idea.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
My mom she took three or her eighty year old
friends to see Billy on Friday, and her name wasn't.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
At the after I had put it in.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And yeah, they messed it up. So she's calling me
and I'm like, uh, just.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Let him in. They did?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
They did?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Okay, Yeah, dude, I would.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I chewed him out so bad for her. I said
this that that will not stand. He was bragging to
her friends Billy's taking care of I said, don aggression
will not stand. Tell her that I did chew that
guy out.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I will still appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
But and that was nice, your brother said.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I texted my brother and I was like, cause I
when you.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Called, I talked to you Saturday and I said, hey, coom,
you look for something to do today. Head out to Prescottland,
go for a walk. It's gonna be a beautiful day.
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 vader, you got the flu. You can't do shows tonight.
And then I hear back from you, And then I
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texted my brother and told him like.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I don't think Billy's doing that show tonight.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
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.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
And then you texted me later and said you were
doing it.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
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 yes
to day when I found out what happened to you,
Like texting Michael was like yo, I'm like, dude, Cardell
had pneumonia when he was doing that show.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
And then he came down and did the Steelers game
after that, and then like you know, ended up in
the hospital.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Day Fan, I go.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
You almost saw his second to last Carmony show, and
he texted, still is till he does another one. That's
true as we stand, you might need to get out
to bartonk Show.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Billy. You would have made that flight.
Speaker 13 (27:38):
You would have walked off Alix, because there's no way
that Steeler game would have been your last one.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Oh, I don't know that one almost put the nail
on my coffin. That was hard to watch. That was
really hard.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
I'm surprised you didn't hear about it from you know,
any of the doctors at U p.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
M C actually worked.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
These blockers were actually you're actually gonna help your heart.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
False starts.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Do you guys remember when the guy had a heart
attack at Chips When Bettas fumbled the game against the Colts.
Speaker 14 (28:18):
In his favorite stool, and this play nearly killed him.
Jerome Bettis fumble at the goal line. Bettis is his hero.
It hurt me more to see him fumble the.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
Ball and to perhaps and his Pittsburgh career that way than.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Us losing the game.
Speaker 10 (28:45):
It was it was just I more than my heart
could bear.
Speaker 14 (28:49):
The fumble is the last they know. Neil remembers his
heart stopped. Fortunately for him, two Pittsburgh firefighters were at
the bar. They performed and they say.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
You know, I was in here and I regained consciousness
and I asked the doctor did we win?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And it was the first words out.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Of my mouth.
Speaker 11 (29:10):
I don't even know now interviews and said ESPN an HBO.
Speaker 14 (29:17):
His phone won't stop ringing, and there's no way he's
going to miss the a f C Championship game on Sunday.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
I'm not gonna change it. I'm not gonna quit quit
living because of this and win the super Bowl. This
is our year.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I mean, you know what're right about that.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
There's not a Pittsburgh that wasn't There's not a Pittsburgh
that wasn't not in their head in agreement, who understood?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
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.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
And then like someone in his family off camera goes
literally he repeated, he goes literal.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
I don't I never would want to be from anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Ever, No, Well said, we gotta get your star on
that Walk of fame next year.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
That maybe you know, No, it denied me. Once they came.
I was in the uh the running, the preliminary in
the finals. Oh, let me give you the audition updates.
Oh yeah, yeah, let's hear that the.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Principal one I got knocked out of that. What was
that one?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
The principal some uh some series about a crazy school
or something.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yea, yeah, what they're talking about.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Back in the early days, I would tell them when
I was getting auditions for like yogurt commercials, and that
I call back and I didn't get it, So we
keep score. 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.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
We're still in the mix.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Did you go Pittsburgh in your audition, like we coached you,
Naval captain.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
That'd be great, man, they'd be yeah, terrific.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
If I get on screen and we can, I'll slip
an on or a auncher maybe something.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
If if the word iron is in there, maybe I
can iron.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Well.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Hanks is a great Lakes region guy. Yes, you you
would appreciate it. So we'll see, we'll see it. Oppen
from my days on USS Gateway Clipper, I can tell
you this is going to be up on Ride.
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There was a dark and stormy day on the morn.
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Speaker 3 (31:53):
Rebella and I give you five games to choose from
this weekend that we think are absolutely definitely maybe gonna win.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
And let's start it with the Ravens at the Dolphin.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
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Hunter Gambler. Start with the Bears at the Bengals plus two.
How are things going for the Bears. Well, they're less
than a field goal favorite over an under five hundred team.
That's starting a forty year old quarterback who eats at
Applebee's by himself, and they're fresh off a home defeat
to the previously zero.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
To seven New York Jets.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Safe to say, Ben Johnson is still always away from
restoring their Monsters of the Midway reputation more like the
Mama Lukes so to Midway. At this point, Caleb Williams
has struggled with more than just what nail polish to
wear to lou Malinatis, he doesn't have exactly a deep
dish of receivers to choose from.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
This weekend.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Two of his top wideouts have been ruled out loser Burden,
the third in Alamedae Zakias.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
God bless you.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
It makes you wonder Without those guys, who's Caleb gonna
wildly overthrow.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
To this weekend? They did sign safety CJ.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Gardner Johnson yesterday to trap shorp the defensive backfield and
reunite him with former decoordinator Dennis Allen in Chicago, So
now he's a Bear.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
But the last time CJ.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Gardner Johnson played on Soldier Field with the Saints Bears,
wide receiver Javon Whims tried to rip CJ's gold chain
off from around his neck and then punched him in
the head.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Thankfully.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Now, the only way you get treated like that in
Chicago is if an Ice agent thinks you look awfully
tanned for this time of year, and acquiring Gardner Johnson obviously,
Ben Johnson and Ryan Poles think there's nothing wrong with
the Bears that a few unsportsmanlike conduct penalties can't fix.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
This is, of course, if a big if.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
If Flacco's good to go this weekend, which it's looking
like it might not be good for Joe Flacco. He's
officially got an ac joint sprain, which incidentally, that was
my cousin's rapper name. But for Flacco it means he
might not be able to go on Sunday, which leaves
the Bengals in the incapable hands of Jake Browning, which
on Halloween weekend is the scariest ordeal.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Conceivable this weekend in the Queen's City. Prepare for the
horror of the most to nip quarterbacking you've ever seen
this Sunday, Prepare for the Browning. On November second, prepant
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to ride the Escualoonza straight into the Browning.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Hey, but who knows. I mean, look, Joe is an
old guy.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I mean Flacco's old guy's joints are always hurting with
changes in baretch of pressure. Maybe his sore shoulder is
just a sign it it's gonna rain on Sunday and
maybe he'll play. But one thing's for sure. If Caleb
can't get it together against this sloppy d, the Windy
City is gonna let him know just how much he
blows when he gets on.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Flaco's arms gonna fall off.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Take the Bears next, Hot Panthers at the Packers minus
thirteen and a half.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
Jordan Love came into Pittsburgh last week and cucked our QB.
I haven't seen that many Love completions since Caligula. And
now the Packers get the Carolina Panthers, who just shot
their eye out last week with the red rifle. Andy
Dalton took more sacks than a sauna bench at La Fitness.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
They scored zero touchdowns.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
The only consistent thing in Carolina this year has been
the punters Cardio. Meanwhile, Jordan Love already looks like Bart
Starr dippting Aaron Rodgers and maybe it was just the
Steelers defense making him look like Farv in The Wrangler
Jean's prime, just picking apart soft zones in a local park.
Either way, he's throwing with confidence, and when you're facing
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the Panthers, that confidence usually turns into forty burgers. If
he throws for less than three hundred yards and three
touchdowns this week, it's only because he feels bad for
them and his arm gets sore. The Panthers defense isn't bad.
It's just tired and they're not great, but they're relatable.
They don't lay down, but you can tell they want to.
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They show more fight after the game because it's over.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Don't snooze. Take the Packers.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Next Niners at the Giants plus two and a half
forty nine Ers make the cross country track to Medley Stadium,
where they take on the New York Giants, who are
without superstar running back Cam.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Scattaboo Scatta boo. Can you do the fund angle?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
No, he cannot because his angle is mangled worse than
free Mercury mangled his mouth retainer, Sure did.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Dable ran into the blue tent and raised Holy hell.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Last month, when Dart was concussed after watching Russ play
only one down an understandable reaction. Quite honestly, imagine how
that fell for Russell Wilson, the head coach, completely willing
to take a one hundred thousand dollars fine to rush
his concussed quarterback out on the field screaming, and anybody
whould listen to get that incompetently positive half leet off
the field. Kind of hard to post go Big Blue
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on Instagram after the game which everyone saw your coach
flip over a tent leg he was a female worker
after a hurricane, trying to get you out of there.
Seeing as though he has Tyrone Tracy and Devin Singletary
still to tote the rock, he probably Dable probably refrained
from barging into the o R when Scataboo's Boo Boo
was being fixed. Of course, that probably didn't stop Jackson
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Dart from headbutting the surgeon for good luck.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
What's up with these idiots in the head budding? I mean,
Dart's not as bad with it as Scataboo, but like
by the time that guy's forty, Scataboo's.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Gonna have a smaller vocabulary than Coco the Gorilla. Brian
Dable's hilarious, though I like when he gets all mad
and red faced on the sidelines. He looks like an
infected big toe wearing a Giants hoodie. See, injuries are
piling up for New York because the Giants are already
living on a deserted island.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
They got no neighbors, Malite, the unique.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Freak is out along with Skataboo, And it won't matter
that San Francisco hasn't seen this many injuries on their
side since the earthquake of nineteen oh six. Then Niners
are without their own injury issues because aren't without their
own injury issues, rather because brock Purdy is limited in practice.
So you might see the return of the behind center
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for forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Hey mac Jones is four and two as a starter.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
And with all those people hurt that the g Man have,
all they gotta do is hand it to McCaffrey and
let Christiania's time his cub and it's time for this
Christian to perform some conversions of the first down variety.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
This one's a layup.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Don't sweat the one pm East Coast kickoff with the
cross country travel from San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
The Niners ain't leaving their heart there.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Take the Niners next, Cardinals at the Cowboys minus two
and a half.
Speaker 7 (38:30):
The over might hit during the corn flip on this game.
These teams are both sloppier than Honey Boo boo eating
a man witch on the shaky floor on Noah's Ark.
Jonathan Jamons decided as presser this week that the Cardinals
just need to execute better. That's a fun word choice
for a guy that assaults his players. He added, we
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just need to make sure we're taking a stab in
the dark and not giving ourselves a puncher's chance. And
then he broke one of the reporter's fingers and a baby.
But the coach can't hit what he can't reach, and
Kyler Murray would just start biting his ankles. Anyways, the
QB in the cupboard is back this week and looking
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to fly around out there like a dingleberry on a dune.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Buggy Dak was whack in Denver last week.
Speaker 7 (39:17):
And the defense looked like it smoked crack and sat
on its nutsack. George Pickens said the goal this season
was to go undefeated. He said that last week they're
three four and one.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
They lost the first.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
Game of the season being bad at math actually does
add up for George. I could see him quitting on
equations and fistfighting his teacher down the hallway during the
SATs and jump punching the blackboard. Don't worry about the
math in this one. Just take the over and the
cards with the points next the main event.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Colts at the Steelers Steelers plus three Halloween Weekend. Nothing
scary to me at the moment than contemplating what my
it happened with Daniel Indiana Jones in the Temple of Rooney.
Danny Dimes is on a roll of quarters, and after
thirty two of them so far this year, the Colts
are seven and one and Jones has the third most
passing yards in the league. The only person that moving
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to Indianapolis has worked out better for is Pat McAfee
and the person that sells tanktoks to Pat McAfee. The
Colts Horseshoe finally stopped letting all the luck run out
for the first time since well the luck ran out
Andrew luckyby precisely, and fans are now actually going to
the games at Lucas Oil Stadium dressed as Indiana Jones.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Contribute to Daniel's.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Success at quarterback I'd suggest trying to counter it by
dressing up as Indiana Jones's nemesis this weekend from Raiders
of the Lost Ark Quest. We don't need any more
nazis running around these days, and it's not just Danny
that the Steelers have to make room for. That's a
nineteen fifty three reference out there for all of the
grandfathers who are listening.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
To and the kids who love the nick at night.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
I'm not sure our secondary can keep up with the Jones' petses.
But also, Jonathan Taylor is running his way to the
league MVP status. He's got fourteen touchdowns this year, and
with the Steelers run defense being more unpredictable than Kanye
West after shotgunning a Celsius, he could run for a
dozen more at.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Acroture on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
That is, if the shoddy field literally isn't turned to
quicksand by now, seriously, the farman An Hills out there
fix the field.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
It's an embarrassment.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
And what's the first thing Mike Tomlin complains about in
his weekly pressed slot feeding on Tuesday after Jordan ludd
Love torches them for three hundred and sixty yards.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
What's his beef. The offense kicked too many field goals.
You're the one that wanted to kick out position. Heal
thyself fourth to three from the thirty two.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Jalen Warren's averaging seven a carry, and you trot bas
out there to take his chances on that cow pasture
with a fading pit logo that got airbrushed over with
a Steeler's logo like it's one of Graham Plattner's accidental
Nazi tattoos.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Oops, now it's a Calvin Hobbs. Sorry, you could have
gone for a dair.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
Coach blaming the offense for the loss of the Packers,
like Sidney Sweeney blaming her bad reviews on her enormous cans.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
That's the only thing making people think it might be
worth watching.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
And how does Tarrell Austin still have a job after
the way last season ended? Simply bringing him back at
all for the season is like trusting Chauncey Billups to
run your poker game fairly.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
You're guaranteed not to go home a winner.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Steelers are home dogs for the second week in a row,
and you guys, now people want to get rid of renegade.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Trell Austin made people hate renegade? How could you do
that to Dennis de Young Tarrell. That being said, I
really like us on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
I mean I do. The Cults are due for a loss,
and the Steelers are annoying and win the games they
have no business winning, and lose the games. They should
get people fired for losing, but nobody gets fired, and
the vicious cycle goes on and on, and we'll probably
go into Week fourteen and have to beat the Dolphins
to get into the postseason and we'll lose that one by.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Thirty because the standard is substandard.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
But it is predictable, which is why I don't just
like the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
I love the black and gold on Sunday. Baby, take
the money line and turn Rowan Wilson into Jerry Rice.
Take the blacking gold.
Speaker 15 (43:06):
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Speaker 1 (43:17):
Here's Tom Opperman.
Speaker 12 (43:18):
The Steelers Welcome to the Indianapolis coltson their NFL best seven
to one record to Akroshore Stadium Sunday afternoon. As the
Steelers hope to rebound from back to back losses with
a statement victory over one of the AFC's elites. Jonathan
Taylor's prowess as a running back is obviously the main
threat this number one Colts offense possesses, but the Steelers
can't sleep on quarterback Daniel Jones in that indie passing game,
either first and foremost because the Steelers themselves rank dead
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last in passing defense, allowing an average of two hundred
and seventy three yards per game to their opponents through
the air, but also because the Colts owned the league's
sixth best passing attack, and Daniel Jones has compiled the
fourth most passing yards in the NFL this season with
twenty sixty two, and he's tossed thirteen touchdown passes. On
top of that, Jones has a strong trio of wide
receivers to throw to, led by Michael Pittman, but the
greatest receiving threat that Colts possesses tight end Tyler Warren,
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the rookie out of Penn State, leads all tight ends
with four hundred and ninety two receiving yards, which is
also the fifteenth most overall in the League. Matching up
with Warren and the Colts receivers is going to be
a challenge in itself for the Steelers secondary and the
Steelers defense. But then there's that NFL leading rusher you
have to deal with as well. Kickoff is at one
pm between the Steelers and the Colts on Sunday. I'm
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Tom Upframan with your Steelers report.
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This up.
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Speaker 6 (00:51):
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Speaker 2 (00:57):
Can't park it. There's a float and parking share and
can you park air?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
You see that floaty? It's my spot, all right? I
like you cleared all the rubbershot of that yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Give you pass one time. Billy Gardell live.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And when I say live, you ain't lying.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
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 were not feeling great. 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.
(01:42):
I'm just getting out of the hospital right now. Yeah, okay,
fill in the f and blanks there. Okay, So well,
the devil's mad. This is about the fourth time he's
missed me. So I got to Erie 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
(02:04):
some vitamins and we'll go after it, you know, on
the road.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
As a performer, you do thing. The first show Thursday,
it was okay. Thursday night, I was shaking. I'm surprised
my teeth didn't come out of my head.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And then uh, it.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
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 1 (02:28):
It's a cold.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
You know the denial Pittsburgh work ethic. You know, I'm
still go out of work and bleeding out of my eyes.
That's all right, My shift starts at five.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I'll be in. Don't worry about it. Do you think
about it? You got it, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
And so kept grinding, did UH five shows and then
UH this, and and what had happened before that?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Was Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
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's like ten
minutes to get to the flight, my 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
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no I d and you know, you know in today's world,
you're out of business.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You don't you're done.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
So I got eight minutes to call Patty and have
her get me my passport sent with a couple of
hundred bucks and an AMX.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That was cool. That was like getting a James Bond envelope.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Was done.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
It was 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, we're not She goes, let
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me put this heart monitor thing on your.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
She has like an apple watched apple.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
So so she puts it on my wrist and that
thing started smoking.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It blew that little round thing just blew right out
the side of it. My heart.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
My heart rate wouldn't do any kg and it was
at one hundred and seventy five.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
But the hologram of Steve Jobs came out of that
and was.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Like, go to the Yeah, it was like, dude, so
that's what it read.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
So we went.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
We were in Cranberry, and you know, visiting cram In
all my life in Pittsburgh, I've never been to Cranberry.
I said that the billy one time, he goes, why
would you We don't leave leaving wests in Game of
thro we don't go there. You go from Swissvelt to
Cranberry that's like visiting Europe.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Like I'm abroad, you know, so I have a house.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, so, but I got to give so much love
to the people at UPMC. And you know, I got
into the e Which one were you in? Well, the
first one I was in was the smaller one in Cranberry, Okay,
And they were so amazing. And you know, man, I'm
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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
for me. Maybe that's the way I just lived my life.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I don't know. I don't know, but I do believe that.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
And man, I just I should have been more scared,
but I was with my wife.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I'm in my hometown, and I.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Saw the good and bad of the Pittsburgh work ethic
because after I got in there, they put me.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You know, they gave me.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Four bags of fluids, four ivs, four full bags and
I didn't go to the bathroom till the third ones.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So it's fully dehydrated.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
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. I'm hearing the song Big Country
and it won't go away.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And I have been.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah, yeah you wake up, wake up screaming or whatever.
It won't leave me alone. I'm like, well, am I
just stroking out right now? So yeah, that's going on
in my head the whole I don't know why, but whatever,
it's getting me through it. So they get me in
there and uh, you know, they the doctor came in
(06:35):
and after they had me hooked up on the wires,
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.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
In there, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
We were full open with the nitros just yeah, and
she goes, oh, that's not good.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Let's uh, let's take a chest X strike.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So they did love when they say stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
When something super serious happens, They're like, what's the problem
And you open your jacket and there's a knife in
your heart.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
They go, oh, well that's not that.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You know to keep you calm, Well, well that's probably
not right.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
So so they get the chest actually back, and she says, okay,
she goes it's either a blood clot in your left
lung or it's like a pulmonary embolism. It's a severe pneumonia.
And I'm like, all right, you know, I go right
to the horse track. Come on, pneumonia, Yeah right, yeah, exactly, pneumonia,
buy a nose and so yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That pulmonary embolism can take you right down.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Right, So they take me down to get a cat skin.
And then I see the beauty of the picture, 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 1 (07:49):
That's fine. I don't worry about No, I'm fine. I
don't worry.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I'm fine having orange juice. You'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You needed ginger ol, so it comes back.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
But I yeah, I love the little technician. And 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.
He's the guy, he's the good teacher in elementary school.
(08:22):
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
to have, and no matter what you say back to them,
they redirect you back to the information they want you
to have.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
That he was so great.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
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 1 (08:53):
I go, okay, Bob, I appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
You go.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Where are you from, Bob? He goes, Manessa, listen, this
is gonna feel hot. It's gonna make you feel like
you're peeing your bench. You're not keep your arms crossed.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That's good. I'm from Swiss Flood. That's good.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Okay, listen, it's 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 go, I go,
it's gonna feel hard. I gotta keep my arms crossed.
It's very good, very good. And so they get to
dye and me and everything, and then we go back
(09:26):
up and then they come in they say, okay, it's pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And then pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
The problem is it's taking your heart into what they
call a fib, a butterfly a fib.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So Jim Henson died.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
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
(09:58):
can stir blood around and 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 1 (10:09):
Well, what are we doing about that? What you got next?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
She goes, Okay, well, I'm gonna get you on some
beta blockers so we could get your numbers down to
a manageable number. Uh, 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 in where mccanlan's.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Which again mcnless. Uh kay I Land, I have never visited.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
So but then we get down there and those folks
were unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Man.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
And uh they got me in there and the young
staff down there. That's where I saw the beauty of
the Pittsburgh work there.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I think these people when you hear okayhn, let me
tell you what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Mh.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
And you grew up here, you got I'll be all right, yeah,
one way or the other, you know, and h and man,
they just started putting stuff in me and then they
got the numbers to go.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
What was your fear level at this point.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
No fear.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
But because I've lived a charm life. And 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 them. 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.
(11:45):
And uh, 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 around
(12:06):
and then I had the midnight pulmonary guy.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Scared me a little bit.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
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 something?
Speaker 9 (12:20):
He looked like.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That, dude? What was the movie? Remember Phantasm?
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yeah, I got him coming at me now talking about embolisms,
and I'm like, yeah, okay, man, Like I was like,
you know, it was just me and him in the
room too.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I was like, are you going to put a spell
on me or something?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
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, now we're gonna We're
gonna really.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Attack this pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
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 and the nurses are
checking on me every four hours and and and they
weren't treating me like Billy Gardell from Pisley gim kids.
Didn't know who I was. They had no idea who
I was. And they were just this young, beautiful staff.
(13:14):
And when I say beautiful, I mean and the way
they did their job, and the way they were so
proficient and caring, and uh and and uh. The next morning,
the cardiologist came in. I think his name is Bob
Luffer's real nice guy. Now he is older, he knew,
he knew who I was. He come in, he goes, well,
he goes, is this going to be funny? I said, well,
(13:36):
I'll let you know when I get out of here.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
If there's a bit in this kid. Let's get down
to business.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
But he started getting 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 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 him and he goes,
we have three ways to do that. He goes, Okay,
(14:05):
you're the diseases are the infection is gonna go away,
and your heart will slip back naturally into that rhythm.
If it doesn't, we have two options. We're going to
either thank.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You baby finger in the butt.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
No, no, I asked for that.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
He's like, that doesn't help.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But offer it's not covered, but I would have paid.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Sorry, it's like that pocket right there. Yeah, coming does
that help? Not really, but some people like it.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
All I'm asking is you kiss my neck. That's gonna
feel hot crossed.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
But then he says this, he goes, you know, he goes, uh,
he goes to get it back.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
He goes, we can.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
We're either do an ablazion or they go in and
they if there's no cloud in the heart, then they
try to find the nerve that's missfiring and they cauterize it.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
He goes.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
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 like you know, I'm like
the turn, You're.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Going to reboot me.
Speaker 10 (15:28):
You know.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I'm in Pittsburgh something and there's a there's a guy
named Augie with a die Harden to jump or.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Him.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, it's connected to the Mega Touch machine on the bar.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
They start playing run again, all that take off.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
They tell their dynasty and let me get boom.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
All I want to.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
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, Wednesday morning, at
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twelve fifty two am, I was up because I couldn't sleep.
I'm watching I looked over at the numbers and the
numbers said eighty eight, and I said, all right, all right, that's.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
A good number.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
And then I looked back twenty minutes later and it
was like ninety. I was like, okay, that's good. Twenty
minutes ago, I looked back and it was eighty seven,
and again I go, I think I might have slipped
into Bruner.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I might exactly.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Eighty eight was my graduating class and Bruner, 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 so the
doctor can come take credit with that, but she came in.
She goes, I just want you to know that your heart,
(17:03):
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.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Now.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
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.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Then I get doogie howser.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
The next morning, he must have been like the good brother,
you know, as he's working day shifting, he's like, yeah,
you're doing great, 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 1 (17:37):
I don't want you to be. But it's really weird that.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
This you have a propensity to weave.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Pneumonia is so concentrated. We can't understand why you're not weezing.
Wild Doc. It's probably thirty thousand packs of Marlboroughs. I've
been training for. I've been training for this moment my
whole life.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, and he goes, that's not funny. I go, it
will be.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Yeah.
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Speaker 6 (18:18):
Gotta Be the Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It's a d D morning show Randy Bahman with Bill Crawford,
Abby Chrisner and live studio. We have our friend Joe
Bartnick who's performing at the tonight. Also two for talking
with Josh ye Oey. Of course tonight at the Improv
Joe Bartneck and Friends with Jeff Conkoleo and Mike Sadell.
And Marcus Cox and Billy Guardell and his wife Patty
are here after Billy experienced a harrowing event after contracting pneumonia,
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doing five comedy shows with pneumonia up in Erie, driving
down for the Steelers game Sunday night, going to the
Steelers game with pneumonia, waking up the next morning in
full on a fame and had to check in the
hospital for a couple of days, and they stopped you
from dying.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
And today we're going to, uh, you know, go get
a hog. Yeah, I'm hoping Mary has some pound cake.
But yeah, I just want to say one more time
about up MC.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I love you, Thank you for taking care of me.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, and uh, I'm just
so grateful. 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 1 (19:29):
You know, you guys share it morning out there.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
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.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
You're wrapping up, all right, But but if you want
to talk to her, she's here.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
If you want to ask her any.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Question, Patty, what is the best thing about being married
to a comedian? Like of the uh level that Billy
Gardell has achieved?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
The best thing?
Speaker 8 (19:53):
The best thing, well, the best thing is how he
loves me. But the greatest, I guess the thing is
your 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 3 (20:15):
You're from Georgia originally. How much Pittsburgh appreciation do you
have right now? Which is to say, like if you
had one foot in Pittsburgh, Like how assimilated to.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Being a Pittsburgh do you feel like you are? You know,
I think a lot.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
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 he's done. We
go down town and you know, we were driving by
and there's a store that's called a R H A U.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
S R.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
And I was like, I'm like, that must be the
Pittsburgh pronunciation of our house right like ah, And I
was like, I didn't make me smile this week.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So my place's got some ritzy furniture.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
And don't.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You know her favorite comedians Joey O'Connell.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Oh, well, Joeyo konn.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Nobody makes her laugh like Joey ocon.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Well, there's nobody as committed to the dead pan quite
as much.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
As Joey o konn.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Like I always know he's kidding. I don't always know
when Billy's kidding because he gets it like it flies
right over my head. But like with Joe, like I
know he's kidding.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, looks the.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Jostle factor on this round took him.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
To Disney and every every coaster we got up to
he asked the tour Hey, what's the Jostle Factory to show?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
That's an actual metric joy, Well, it's a nine point
seven on the Rakowski. Yeah, Billy Gardell with his wife Patty,
and Joe Bartnick is here too.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Well, that's a scary week, man.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I'm really glad that for both of your sakes that
you listen to Patty yes instead of it?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Why are guys meatheads?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Why not?
Speaker 11 (21:59):
Like?
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Well, I've gotten I've gotten better at listening to her.
You're coachable, Yeah, I'm coachable.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Now let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Did you know, like when you found out your heartbeat
was once seventy eight, you still wanted to get on
the plane.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
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 1 (22:25):
And how did you guys find out? You put your
watch on him?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
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.
(22:52):
And so I put my watch on him and.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Checked his heart. It said, dude, and.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
The hospital now sickly what it said? And I said, yeah,
we're going, Joe B.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
You had heart issues, you know what it's like.
Speaker 13 (23:05):
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 them. Luckily, I went 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 (23:26):
Doctor diagnosed you. Yes, they're not.
Speaker 13 (23:29):
I know that's how sick I was, but like I
can't turn down work.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's that's that's exactly right, That's exactly And they knew.
Speaker 13 (23:39):
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
it's just sleep. Like That's when they knew Bartnick is sick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but yeah, I mean I walked off my heart attack.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That's that building.
Speaker 13 (24:00):
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. Yeah, you've always been mister Pittsburgh.
But that really is the most Pittsburgh thing you could
have ever done.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
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.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
It's what you do.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
And it's part of a pride 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
being deliberate, that's the thing that there's a pride in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
But you can you can you can hit.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
The gas on that little hard you know, you can
push it a little far.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
You got to tell Chuck Laurie about this, because you've
outdone yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
They had to shut down production.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Yeah, we shut down Michael molly one way because I
did the terrible toal twirl. Somebody said, you know what,
I think it was a Joe that said it to me.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I think I think that was right.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
You know, the offensive line. They ain't got no coach on.
You should do the toe with out your coat. Back
on the stage Monday, anyway, Molly.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Bill, what is happening?
Speaker 5 (25:12):
He had the greatest line though that week, because he
shut production down that week. Chuck lor Yeah, and he goes,
he just walked up and he went, no more playoff games.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Just the same thing. But you're getting older, you September games.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, I got to come in the early days. That's right.
I need to be in the early part of the season.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
So my brother went and saw your early show on
appre it.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Did your mom? Did they straighten that out with your
mom too? Yeah? I shoot that guy out so bad.
You have no idea.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
My mom she took three or her eighty year old
friends to see Billy on Friday, and her name wasn't.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
At the after I had put it in.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And yeah, they messed it up. So she's calling me
and I'm like, uh, just.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Let him in. They did?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
They did?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Okay, Yeah, dude, I would.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I chewed him out so bad for her. I said
this that that will not stand. He was bragging to
her friends Billy's taking care of I said, don aggression
will not stand. Tell her that I did chew that
guy out.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I will still appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
But and that was nice, your brother said.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I texted my brother and I was like, cause I
when you.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Called, I talked to you Saturday and I said, hey, coom,
you look for something to do today. Head out to Prescottland,
go for a walk. It's gonna be a beautiful day.
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 vader, you got the flu. You can't do shows tonight.
And then I hear back from you, And then I
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texted my brother and told him like.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I don't think Billy's doing that show tonight.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
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.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
And then you texted me later and said you were
doing it.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
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 yes
to day when I found out what happened to you,
Like texting Michael was like yo, I'm like, dude, Cardell
had pneumonia when he was doing that show.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
And then he came down and did the Steelers game
after that, and then like you know, ended up in
the hospital.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Day Fan, I go.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
You almost saw his second to last Carmony show, and
he texted, still is till he does another one. That's
true as we stand, you might need to get out
to bartonk Show.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Billy. You would have made that flight.
Speaker 13 (27:38):
You would have walked off Alix, because there's no way
that Steeler game would have been your last one.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Oh, I don't know that one almost put the nail
on my coffin. That was hard to watch. That was
really hard.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
I'm surprised you didn't hear about it from you know,
any of the doctors at U p.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
M C actually worked.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
These blockers were actually you're actually gonna help your heart.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
False starts.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Do you guys remember when the guy had a heart
attack at Chips When Bettas fumbled the game against the Colts.
Speaker 14 (28:18):
In his favorite stool, and this play nearly killed him.
Jerome Bettis fumble at the goal line. Bettis is his hero.
It hurt me more to see him fumble the.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
Ball and to perhaps and his Pittsburgh career that way than.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Us losing the game.
Speaker 10 (28:45):
It was it was just I more than my heart
could bear.
Speaker 14 (28:49):
The fumble is the last they know. Neil remembers his
heart stopped. Fortunately for him, two Pittsburgh firefighters were at
the bar. They performed and they say.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
You know, I was in here and I regained consciousness
and I asked the doctor did we win?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And it was the first words out.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Of my mouth.
Speaker 11 (29:10):
I don't even know now interviews and said ESPN an HBO.
Speaker 14 (29:17):
His phone won't stop ringing, and there's no way he's
going to miss the a f C Championship game on Sunday.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
I'm not gonna change it. I'm not gonna quit quit
living because of this and win the super Bowl. This
is our year.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I mean, you know what're right about that.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
There's not a Pittsburgh that wasn't There's not a Pittsburgh
that wasn't not in their head in agreement, who understood?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
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.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
And then like someone in his family off camera goes
literally he repeated, he goes literal.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
I don't I never would want to be from anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Ever, No, Well said, we gotta get your star on
that Walk of fame next year.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
That maybe you know, No, it denied me. Once they came.
I was in the uh the running, the preliminary in
the finals. Oh, let me give you the audition updates.
Oh yeah, yeah, let's hear that the.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Principal one I got knocked out of that. What was
that one?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
The principal some uh some series about a crazy school
or something.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yea, yeah, what they're talking about.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Back in the early days, I would tell them when
I was getting auditions for like yogurt commercials, and that
I call back and I didn't get it, So we
keep score. 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.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
We're still in the mix.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Did you go Pittsburgh in your audition, like we coached you,
Naval captain.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
That'd be great, man, they'd be yeah, terrific.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
If I get on screen and we can, I'll slip
an on or a auncher maybe something.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
If if the word iron is in there, maybe I
can iron.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Well.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Hanks is a great Lakes region guy. Yes, you you
would appreciate it. So we'll see, we'll see it. Oppen
from my days on USS Gateway Clipper, I can tell
you this is going to be up on Ride.
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Speaker 3 (31:53):
Rebella and I give you five games to choose from
this weekend that we think are absolutely definitely maybe gonna win.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
And let's start it with the Ravens at the Dolphin.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
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Hunter Gambler. Start with the Bears at the Bengals plus two.
How are things going for the Bears. Well, they're less
than a field goal favorite over an under five hundred team.
That's starting a forty year old quarterback who eats at
Applebee's by himself, and they're fresh off a home defeat
to the previously zero.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
To seven New York Jets.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Safe to say, Ben Johnson is still always away from
restoring their Monsters of the Midway reputation more like the
Mama Lukes so to Midway. At this point, Caleb Williams
has struggled with more than just what nail polish to
wear to lou Malinatis, he doesn't have exactly a deep
dish of receivers to choose from.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
This weekend.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Two of his top wideouts have been ruled out loser Burden,
the third in Alamedae Zakias.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
God bless you.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
It makes you wonder Without those guys, who's Caleb gonna
wildly overthrow.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
To this weekend? They did sign safety CJ.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Gardner Johnson yesterday to trap shorp the defensive backfield and
reunite him with former decoordinator Dennis Allen in Chicago, So
now he's a Bear.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
But the last time CJ.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Gardner Johnson played on Soldier Field with the Saints Bears,
wide receiver Javon Whims tried to rip CJ's gold chain
off from around his neck and then punched him in
the head.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Thankfully.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Now, the only way you get treated like that in
Chicago is if an Ice agent thinks you look awfully
tanned for this time of year, and acquiring Gardner Johnson obviously,
Ben Johnson and Ryan Poles think there's nothing wrong with
the Bears that a few unsportsmanlike conduct penalties can't fix.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
This is, of course, if a big if.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
If Flacco's good to go this weekend, which it's looking
like it might not be good for Joe Flacco. He's
officially got an ac joint sprain, which incidentally, that was
my cousin's rapper name. But for Flacco it means he
might not be able to go on Sunday, which leaves
the Bengals in the incapable hands of Jake Browning, which
on Halloween weekend is the scariest ordeal.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Conceivable this weekend in the Queen's City. Prepare for the
horror of the most to nip quarterbacking you've ever seen
this Sunday, Prepare for the Browning. On November second, prepant
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to ride the Escualoonza straight into the Browning.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Hey, but who knows. I mean, look, Joe is an
old guy.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I mean Flacco's old guy's joints are always hurting with
changes in baretch of pressure. Maybe his sore shoulder is
just a sign it it's gonna rain on Sunday and
maybe he'll play. But one thing's for sure. If Caleb
can't get it together against this sloppy d, the Windy
City is gonna let him know just how much he
blows when he gets on.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Flaco's arms gonna fall off.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Take the Bears next, Hot Panthers at the Packers minus
thirteen and a half.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
Jordan Love came into Pittsburgh last week and cucked our QB.
I haven't seen that many Love completions since Caligula. And
now the Packers get the Carolina Panthers, who just shot
their eye out last week with the red rifle. Andy
Dalton took more sacks than a sauna bench at La Fitness.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
They scored zero touchdowns.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
The only consistent thing in Carolina this year has been
the punters Cardio. Meanwhile, Jordan Love already looks like Bart
Starr dippting Aaron Rodgers and maybe it was just the
Steelers defense making him look like Farv in The Wrangler
Jean's prime, just picking apart soft zones in a local park.
Either way, he's throwing with confidence, and when you're facing
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the Panthers, that confidence usually turns into forty burgers. If
he throws for less than three hundred yards and three
touchdowns this week, it's only because he feels bad for
them and his arm gets sore. The Panthers defense isn't bad.
It's just tired and they're not great, but they're relatable.
They don't lay down, but you can tell they want to.
(35:56):
They show more fight after the game because it's over.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Don't snooze. Take the Packers.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Next Niners at the Giants plus two and a half
forty nine Ers make the cross country track to Medley Stadium,
where they take on the New York Giants, who are
without superstar running back Cam.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Scattaboo Scatta boo. Can you do the fund angle?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
No, he cannot because his angle is mangled worse than
free Mercury mangled his mouth retainer, Sure did.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Dable ran into the blue tent and raised Holy hell.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Last month, when Dart was concussed after watching Russ play
only one down an understandable reaction. Quite honestly, imagine how
that fell for Russell Wilson, the head coach, completely willing
to take a one hundred thousand dollars fine to rush
his concussed quarterback out on the field screaming, and anybody
whould listen to get that incompetently positive half leet off
the field. Kind of hard to post go Big Blue
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on Instagram after the game which everyone saw your coach
flip over a tent leg he was a female worker
after a hurricane, trying to get you out of there.
Seeing as though he has Tyrone Tracy and Devin Singletary
still to tote the rock, he probably Dable probably refrained
from barging into the o R when Scataboo's Boo Boo
was being fixed. Of course, that probably didn't stop Jackson
(37:10):
Dart from headbutting the surgeon for good luck.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
What's up with these idiots in the head budding? I mean,
Dart's not as bad with it as Scataboo, but like
by the time that guy's forty, Scataboo's.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Gonna have a smaller vocabulary than Coco the Gorilla. Brian
Dable's hilarious, though I like when he gets all mad
and red faced on the sidelines. He looks like an
infected big toe wearing a Giants hoodie. See, injuries are
piling up for New York because the Giants are already
living on a deserted island.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
They got no neighbors, Malite, the unique.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Freak is out along with Skataboo, And it won't matter
that San Francisco hasn't seen this many injuries on their
side since the earthquake of nineteen oh six. Then Niners
are without their own injury issues because aren't without their
own injury issues, rather because brock Purdy is limited in practice.
So you might see the return of the behind center
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for forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Hey mac Jones is four and two as a starter.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
And with all those people hurt that the g Man have,
all they gotta do is hand it to McCaffrey and
let Christiania's time his cub and it's time for this
Christian to perform some conversions of the first down variety.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
This one's a layup.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Don't sweat the one pm East Coast kickoff with the
cross country travel from San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
The Niners ain't leaving their heart there.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Take the Niners next, Cardinals at the Cowboys minus two
and a half.
Speaker 7 (38:30):
The over might hit during the corn flip on this game.
These teams are both sloppier than Honey Boo boo eating
a man witch on the shaky floor on Noah's Ark.
Jonathan Jamons decided as presser this week that the Cardinals
just need to execute better. That's a fun word choice
for a guy that assaults his players. He added, we
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just need to make sure we're taking a stab in
the dark and not giving ourselves a puncher's chance. And
then he broke one of the reporter's fingers and a baby.
But the coach can't hit what he can't reach, and
Kyler Murray would just start biting his ankles. Anyways, the
QB in the cupboard is back this week and looking
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to fly around out there like a dingleberry on a dune.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Buggy Dak was whack in Denver last week.
Speaker 7 (39:17):
And the defense looked like it smoked crack and sat
on its nutsack. George Pickens said the goal this season
was to go undefeated. He said that last week they're
three four and one.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
They lost the first.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
Game of the season being bad at math actually does
add up for George. I could see him quitting on
equations and fistfighting his teacher down the hallway during the
SATs and jump punching the blackboard. Don't worry about the
math in this one. Just take the over and the
cards with the points next the main event.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Colts at the Steelers Steelers plus three Halloween Weekend. Nothing
scary to me at the moment than contemplating what my
it happened with Daniel Indiana Jones in the Temple of Rooney.
Danny Dimes is on a roll of quarters, and after
thirty two of them so far this year, the Colts
are seven and one and Jones has the third most
passing yards in the league. The only person that moving
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to Indianapolis has worked out better for is Pat McAfee
and the person that sells tanktoks to Pat McAfee. The
Colts Horseshoe finally stopped letting all the luck run out
for the first time since well the luck ran out
Andrew luckyby precisely, and fans are now actually going to
the games at Lucas Oil Stadium dressed as Indiana Jones.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Contribute to Daniel's.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Success at quarterback I'd suggest trying to counter it by
dressing up as Indiana Jones's nemesis this weekend from Raiders
of the Lost Ark Quest. We don't need any more
nazis running around these days, and it's not just Danny
that the Steelers have to make room for. That's a
nineteen fifty three reference out there for all of the
grandfathers who are listening.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
To and the kids who love the nick at night.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
I'm not sure our secondary can keep up with the Jones' petses.
But also, Jonathan Taylor is running his way to the
league MVP status. He's got fourteen touchdowns this year, and
with the Steelers run defense being more unpredictable than Kanye
West after shotgunning a Celsius, he could run for a
dozen more at.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Acroture on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
That is, if the shoddy field literally isn't turned to
quicksand by now, seriously, the farman An Hills out there
fix the field.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
It's an embarrassment.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
And what's the first thing Mike Tomlin complains about in
his weekly pressed slot feeding on Tuesday after Jordan ludd
Love torches them for three hundred and sixty yards.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
What's his beef. The offense kicked too many field goals.
You're the one that wanted to kick out position. Heal
thyself fourth to three from the thirty two.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Jalen Warren's averaging seven a carry, and you trot bas
out there to take his chances on that cow pasture
with a fading pit logo that got airbrushed over with
a Steeler's logo like it's one of Graham Plattner's accidental
Nazi tattoos.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Oops, now it's a Calvin Hobbs. Sorry, you could have
gone for a dair.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
Coach blaming the offense for the loss of the Packers,
like Sidney Sweeney blaming her bad reviews on her enormous cans.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
That's the only thing making people think it might be
worth watching.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
And how does Tarrell Austin still have a job after
the way last season ended? Simply bringing him back at
all for the season is like trusting Chauncey Billups to
run your poker game fairly.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
You're guaranteed not to go home a winner.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Steelers are home dogs for the second week in a row,
and you guys, now people want to get rid of renegade.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Trell Austin made people hate renegade? How could you do
that to Dennis de Young Tarrell. That being said, I
really like us on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
I mean I do. The Cults are due for a loss,
and the Steelers are annoying and win the games they
have no business winning, and lose the games. They should
get people fired for losing, but nobody gets fired, and
the vicious cycle goes on and on, and we'll probably
go into Week fourteen and have to beat the Dolphins
to get into the postseason and we'll lose that one by.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Thirty because the standard is substandard.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
But it is predictable, which is why I don't just
like the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
I love the black and gold on Sunday. Baby, take
the money line and turn Rowan Wilson into Jerry Rice.
Take the blacking gold.
Speaker 15 (43:06):
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Speaker 1 (43:17):
Here's Tom Opperman.
Speaker 12 (43:18):
The Steelers Welcome to the Indianapolis coltson their NFL best seven
to one record to Akroshore Stadium Sunday afternoon. As the
Steelers hope to rebound from back to back losses with
a statement victory over one of the AFC's elites. Jonathan
Taylor's prowess as a running back is obviously the main
threat this number one Colts offense possesses, but the Steelers
can't sleep on quarterback Daniel Jones in that indie passing game,
either first and foremost because the Steelers themselves rank dead
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last in passing defense, allowing an average of two hundred
and seventy three yards per game to their opponents through
the air, but also because the Colts owned the league's
sixth best passing attack, and Daniel Jones has compiled the
fourth most passing yards in the NFL this season with
twenty sixty two, and he's tossed thirteen touchdown passes. On
top of that, Jones has a strong trio of wide
receivers to throw to, led by Michael Pittman, but the
greatest receiving threat that Colts possesses tight end Tyler Warren,
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the rookie out of Penn State, leads all tight ends
with four hundred and ninety two receiving yards, which is
also the fifteenth most overall in the League. Matching up
with Warren and the Colts receivers is going to be
a challenge in itself for the Steelers secondary and the
Steelers defense. But then there's that NFL leading rusher you
have to deal with as well. Kickoff is at one
pm between the Steelers and the Colts on Sunday. I'm
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Tom Upframan with your Steelers report.
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