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October 7, 2025 • 46 mins
Gene Steratore joins the show to review some of the more controversial calls around the NFL from Week 5.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Live from the Don's Appliance Studios, where Pittsburgh shops for appliances.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is WDVD Pittsburgh.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
But my buddy said, what's your favorite meal at PF Chang's?
And I was like, dude, I'm a willing and before
I swear to God, that's got to be one of
the best dinners I've ever had.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
He goes, you know why you like it so much.
I'm like why.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
He's like, it's like eighty grams of sugar in it.
I'm like what he said, there's sugar in everything they
make there. So then it's like so it's like the Donald's.
You go and you're just like, oh my god, everything
tastes amazing.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
He's like, because it's full of sugar, tons of sugar.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Think about it. Everything you need. Believe me, the taste.
Nothing tastes that good.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Nothing.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
I remember it the first time. It was like doing drugs.
The lettuce rat.

Speaker 5 (00:45):
You guys want to do some kumpow, do some kumpop, seriously,
get you know the rap, dude, get know the rap.
Rash with the table, rash with the table. I'm doing
gummies yeah, with the rice.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh, I can't make my nose fall up.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show always.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Thought it was like a foreboding thing to see a
horse outside of a restaurant too.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
It's kind of like, should.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
I be questioning what we're about to eat? It's a
war horse too, so you know it's serious.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
They ain't messing around. It's about a minute since I
PF changed.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I might have to.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
I don't know, I haven't changed in a minute.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I wonder what that South Park episode did to their
bottom line?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Do you remember that one?

Speaker 3 (01:39):
No, there was like this episode where like Randy marsh
would go there. I'm misremembering, but it caused some internal distress.
Oh really, but they kept going, you know, because they
were kind of addicted to it or something like that.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
Anyways, the whole bit you Mark Davis still goes there,
dude every single day.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Now in Vegas, living it, living it up out there,
sitting at the bar by himself.

Speaker 6 (02:07):
I wonder if that's where he gets his haircut, Like
they just put a lettuce wrap on his head and
cut around it there.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
I mean it is kind of an Asian haircut, like
an old school one.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
I think you know who was that comedian who's like
cut it like mo remember.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
That that was like his old bit back in the day.
We'll be talking NFL with Jean's territor coming up our
Mistackle segment two later this morning.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
There are so.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Many things we haven't got to that happened in the
last forty eight hours.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I did not see Jerry Jones flipping off the fans.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh yeah, that is you know what, like, screw that
guy forever.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
I mean, what, just what a disgrace.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
He's hearing it more than he's ever heard it.

Speaker 6 (02:47):
Probably good in his career as an owner doing this season.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
What would this town do if our Rooney did that?
He would never, My god, he would never. What an
absolute class.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Just comeback Jerry Jones is debo went off on him
on the podcast too. We'll play that for you later
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Speaker 7 (03:09):
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Speaker 3 (03:18):
And do you want to.

Speaker 7 (03:19):
Start with one local note and a sad one at that?
Gil Snyder, longtime piano player for a band bred right
out of Pittsburgh, The Iron City House Rockers has passed
a well man Houserockers singer and songwriter Joe Gusheky announced
Snyder's death Sunday on social media, saying that Gil's sense
of style, his love of the blues and rock and roll,
and unique style of playing were major factors in the sound,

(03:42):
feel and look of the Iron City House Rockers. He
was truly one of a kind. Our deepest sympathies go
out to his family.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
God bless you do.

Speaker 7 (03:50):
We'll see you again at that old man's bar. Funeral
arrangements were not immediately available on Monday, and we certainly
send out our love to the family as well. Here
from Dve, no no question, all right, So I wanted
to get to all of this Mark Sanchez stuff. So
Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is now facing a felony

(04:11):
battery charge stemming from an altercation with a sixty nine
year old truck driver early Saturday in Indianapolis. Marion County
Prosecutor Ryan Meers announced the charge, upgrading to a level
five felony Monday morning, stating it involves serious bodily injury.
If convicted, Sanchez could face a sentence ranging from one

(04:34):
to six years in prison. Mears noted that the investigation
is ongoing and Sanchez may face further charges. But additionally,
Sanchez is now facing a lawsuit stemming from Saturday's incident
with the alleged victim, targeting both the former quarterback and
his employer. So these documents were filed on Monday, with

(04:54):
delivery driver Perry Tole suing Sanchez for assault, battery and
Fox for negligent hiring, retention, and supervision. So in the suit,
Toll states that Sanchez appeared intoxicated and instigated in altercation
the night of the alleged attack, and claims that he

(05:17):
suffered severe permanent disfigurement YEA loss of function, other physical injuries,
emotional distress, and other damages in the violent incident, and
specifically told claims that he has significant injuries to his head,
his jaw, and his neck. Mattol also has his sights
on Fox, saying that the company should have known that

(05:38):
Sanchez was a bad fit as an employee due to
his propensity for drinking and harmful conduct.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Well, first thing I want to know is how long
was the line of lawyers outside of this guy's hotel
because they filed suit the next day, he'd already retained counsel.

Speaker 6 (05:59):
Think think you know the the permanent disfigure, disfigurement. It
makes sense because if you see that guy's slice to
his jaw, like that's but it seems a little early
for the other stuff like loss of function and stuff.
It's like, how do you know what? Yeah, lost function
of it's the next day.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Also, like his permanent disfigure meant like pro rated because
he's seventy. It's like my dad used to give lifetime
warranties to the eighty year old guy from him.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
You know, it's like for you, it'll just look like
another wrinkle on your cheek.

Speaker 8 (06:33):
Yeah, but no, I mean he like no, no joking,
Like I don't want to joke about that no guy,
because he like he got that guy didn't deserve mangled,
Like I don't mean to make light of that, because
if you see those pictures, it will astound you.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
What Mark Sanchez did to.

Speaker 8 (06:49):
That guyable, like what could have precipitated that that that
was a necessary response.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
And it it it.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
Only makes sense that he was the instigator, saying allegedly.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah, why would the guy makes more.

Speaker 6 (07:04):
Sense than anything else that he's the intoxicated one, that
he is forcing himself into a situation like what the
hell are you doing on the loading dock of a
hotel playing citizens on patrol.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
To I always know there's certain situations where I know
Bill is obsessed with it and he will get to
the bottom of it. And I feel like we have
our investigator on the case, so I'm like, he'll get this.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
Because it doesn't make any sense to me, because I'm
just like, you know, what are you doing?

Speaker 4 (07:35):
You're a successful guy. I mean, he's he's a clean
cut guy.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
It looks from the outside like he's got his whole
life together.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, one explanation might just be CTE. Guy played football,
change all that sugar. Yeah, some guy.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
I mean, look, man, he might have some head trauma.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Look, there's been plenty of former NFL players who acted
out like this and then you later found out. Chris
Henry's one that comes to mind that their brain was
riddled with ct Yeah.

Speaker 9 (08:12):
Or that's going to be the defense.

Speaker 7 (08:14):
I mean, you know, the cynic in me always says
that you know, people who tend to be in the
NFL or any kind of sport that is super high
risk and super high adrenaline, live on the razor's.

Speaker 9 (08:30):
Edge for their whole life.

Speaker 7 (08:32):
Right, You're kind of constantly positively reinforced for living a
lifestyle that rewards you for being dangerous.

Speaker 9 (08:40):
So the same kind of high for the rest of
us doesn't work for you.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
She's always looking to get the juice you always get.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
Broadcasting make my nose fall off, man.

Speaker 7 (08:52):
You know, it's just like that same kind of like,
let's have beers at the bar doesn't work for me.
I need to go to the extreme because my rain
doesn't light up the same way that yours does.

Speaker 6 (09:02):
Right, But if you're Fox like you, how do you
you can't know that as an employer, I mean, I
know you're liable for your employees, but it's not like
they're sending out the Fox robot to supervise their their.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Employees owners a shot. But there there is past behavior
that you come out. He's been an employee there for
a little while, so if he has been getting banged
up all over, if it's the worst kept secret and broadcasting,
then that dude's a drunk.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Then they've got a real case, but we've known I mean,
certainly it's never been public.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Doesn't matter that it's not public.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
I mean, we know lots of things about people in
media that are not public that we can't just say
because they're not public.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
Yeah, but we don't know monsters. No.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
But the point is there are things you don't know
about it. Like it wasn't like necessarily that he was
going to un.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
He's not stabbing people in every city.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
But if he was a complete mess everywhere he went,
they might have some ground to stand on. I think
that the pictures of that guy in the hospital bed
are going to put Mark Sanchez in jail. I don't
think they're gonna let him walk for that. No way,
you can't. You can't just do that to somebody.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
I mean, why why did they set his bail at
three hundred dollars then, Like I mean, they're kind of
going soft on them right out of the gates.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Judge.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, the USC grad or something.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
A fan of the Pats violence. I saw somebody somebody
said yesterday about it.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
Sanchez has been sentenced to playing for the Jets for
five more seasons.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
It was not a banner day for the Jets. Organization
in any way, shape or form. He's like, I'll take
jail time.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah, I don't want to go back there.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
I don't remember hearing him talk like, I don't know
if he was good at his job or not.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
He was, Yeah, yeah, I think he was really good
at his job.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
That's why he was such a shock to me, because
he's just he looks like such a a clean cut,
put together guy.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Hey man, you know that doesn't matter. We all know
that doesn't matter. Some of the biggest psychos I've known
have been like clean cut guys.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah. I mean, now, look, he looks like American psycho.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Well the footage that TMZ had of him stumbling around
the corner with stab wounds in his chest. Oh my god,
so he's the terminator. Oh yeah, like he's just leaking.

Speaker 6 (11:24):
I saw footage yesterday on the internet of just somebody
walking around the sidewalk in Indianapolis where this occurred.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Just there's just a trail of blood on the sidewalk. Yeah,
both these guys needed to go to the hospital.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
It was kind of interesting to hear how Fox handled
it on the Sunday broadcast too. They were like, last
night there was an incident we hope everybody's cool, and
that's someone gonna say about that, and kittnsing be done.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, it's a big game today. I know that there's
so much more information out there.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
And apparently these two both were filming the incident on
their phones, which seems implausible to me, especially from Sanchez's standpoint.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Like that with one hand, yeah, filming with the other.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
I mean, ambidextrous.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
Yeah sure, But it's just crazy to me because I
know that there's more, Like every team has a fixer,
you know, a wolf where they're quick to the scene,
they have all the information, somebody who's been in law enforcement,
somebody who has the pipeline of information, where like the
actual story is known by somebody, just not us.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah, I'm sure Fox Sports has their fixer. You get
in trouble, you call this guy.

Speaker 9 (12:43):
There are cameras every.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
That's the problem, cameras.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
We are in a surveillance state now, you can't do
anything without their being footage of it. So I'm sure
the truth will come out. To what degree he gets punished,
I don't know, but it is a crazy story.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Crazy.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Tom Brady's like.

Speaker 7 (13:01):
I'm not so bad now, right, See, because of my
son on the lips isn't so bad.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
I mean, that's sexual assault.

Speaker 9 (13:09):
Possibly.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
I still think that Brady's the least comfortable broadcaster of
any of the former athletes right now, and he's getting
paid the most.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
I haven't heard him this season on it.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Well, even the clip you sent yesterday with him talking
about Aaron Rodgers, he doesn't even look comfortable in his
own skin talking about other qbs.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
Well, it's not his skin, that's yeah, that's wearing somebody
else's face.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Right now, twelve year old Malaysian boy that I've hadn't
shipped over harvesting his epidermis.

Speaker 7 (13:38):
Let's do something a little lighter, maybe talking a little Halloween.
We'll do some favorite pop culture Halloween costumes suggested for
this year. I'm sure you could be a pirate or
a mummy, but if you want to have your finger
on the pulse of what's happening right now, Variety put
together this list of the best pop culture Halloween costumes,

(13:59):
So some of the high for you. A little boo boo,
which sounds like that would be incredibly hard to do.
My daughter did suggest this first, and I'm glad that
she moved off of it because I would have done
it for her, but I have no idea how. Like
homemade style, I've done homemade stuff for her almost every
single year, and I'm glad. I know this is my purpose,

(14:21):
but I'm glad she moved off of it because I
have no idea how I was going to pull that off.

Speaker 9 (14:26):
I like this one oasist.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Like a slicker.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Oh come on, you need the haircut.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
Though, definitely need the haircut.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
You have to have the coinciding haircut.

Speaker 7 (14:40):
Yes, Taylor Swift in her Life of a Showgirl era,
it's a little complicated.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's a little floy Well, Taylor.

Speaker 9 (14:50):
Is a little floody now because she's it.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
Did you hear what she said said about that song.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
She made And she said, I think Taylor thinks that
songs about something else. And I can't remember what she
said it was. She was being serious. She's like, I
think she thinks that songs about I'm sorry, I might.

Speaker 7 (15:16):
The song it's about Travis's She said, she thinks that
that that Taylor thought she was writing about something else
and it's being misperceived.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
As it would it's really about like the strength of
their relationship or something.

Speaker 9 (15:32):
Oh okay, So mom, Mom's dumb.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
No, she's just making excuses that are not working. Like
Taylor doesn't need all the haters to like the album.
It doesn't matter. She's laughing alle fan. But I wonder
how many she loses because of this one. None to
me like her singing that song as Jerry Jones flipping

(15:58):
the bird. It's like, what's the have we are? We
crumbling against a society?

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Yeah? But are there no boundaries for these kinds of people?

Speaker 6 (16:06):
Just use that analogy like, Okay, we all hate Jerry Jones.
We've all hated Jerry Jones. We've never been a fan
of the Cowboys. What Cowboys fan is watching him do
that and go I'm out?

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Like, no, No, I disagree.

Speaker 6 (16:24):
No, I think they have a way bigger problem with
him not signing Derrick Henry last year, or you know,
letting the best, yeah, the best pass rusher and the generations.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
All put the door, all part and parcel independ If
he was running a first class organization and he.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Did that, nobody would be okay with it.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
Well, think about how many fathums fans have with the
way that the team is being run or Mike Tomlin.
Nobody's out right nobody's out. Everybody's like, I'm not watching,
they're watching.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
No, they're not out. It's not a matter. They don't.
Just stop being a fan. You can't. That's like I'm
gonna stop being German like, you can't. It's your heritage,
it's it's what you are. But I would have a
hard time believing that the vast majority of Cowboys fans
aren't totally pissed at him for acting like a crazy,

(17:15):
reckless old man in every aspect of his life right now.
Doing that, that is, that is such an embarrassment to
the league to have an owner flipping off fans. Are
you kidding me? And it's Jerry Jones, Like that's just
such a low class move. They're supposed to be above
all that stuff, and I think it's more like emblematic

(17:36):
of everything else that's going on.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yeah, right there you go. Actually, yeah, corrected brand. Yeah,
he's an man.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, I don't know, man.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
I mean, it's what they're far from the gloryhole.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
You're supposed to be above the fray. You're supposed to be.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
He's never been, though, has he.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
I mean, he has always been definitely outside the norm.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
But there's just.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Ways you're supposed to conduct yourself. I don't know, it's
taking a few money to another level.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, no, that's going around.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
But like Taylor doing that, I just think it's like
you see all those young girls at those shows, and
it's like, I'm no prude, I don't care, Like I
just think it's a bad move.

Speaker 9 (18:22):
Yeah yeah. Bill said that she won't lose one fan.

Speaker 7 (18:26):
I think that it just might be certain fans will
have decided they aged out.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
That is I mean that happens all the time, right, Yeah,
I mean this just might be that signal. How many
girl how many forty year old women went and saw
the Backstreet Boys because they were trying to remember, you know,
relive their teenage years, And like she might be entering
into that phase where these women are like eh, or
these girls who are becoming older and more mature a

(18:53):
like yeh me, this is not as cool as I
thought it was when I was yeah, thirteen, But.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
I would imagine there's a lot of more not cool
with it.

Speaker 6 (19:01):
Well that's that's the difference, because I think, like the
the reality is so fragmented now, Like I have two
teenage daughters. They're not talking about can you believe this album, boy, Taylor.
Taylor has really underwhelmed us with this one.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
Like they're just aware that an album came out, you
know what.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
I mean, because their algorithm is not feeding them any
critique about anything with Taylor. Yeah, it's just it's it's
not in their awareness yet.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
But the fact that I did, I have a clip
for you. I'll play for you when we do art
rating the algorithm, this guy was like, just if you
don't like Taylor Swiss lyrics like read them like your
MF Doom and he doesn't like as like the rapper
and he doesn't and that the fodther figure lyrics that
she added to the song.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Oh yeah, what why saying your dong's bigger than the devil?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, yeah, that's not necessary.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
I would be I.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Do feel like I'm sounding like the like crotchety old man,
like I can't.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Believe these girls are talking about beats.

Speaker 9 (20:14):
But no, it's it's Taylor.

Speaker 7 (20:16):
It is it's Taylor, because there are If it was
Cardi B Yeah, I'd be like, that's fine.

Speaker 9 (20:21):
Yeah, it's it's her.

Speaker 7 (20:23):
It doesn't it's something that does not fit her, that
does not suit her. I think I saw a take
yesterday where something somebody said Taylor is trying to grow
out of being a white girl. Yeah, and I was
kind of like, oh, I think that's right, because certain
artists have done that.

Speaker 9 (20:43):
Ariana Grande is one of them. At one point she
was like, I don't.

Speaker 7 (20:47):
Want to be a white girl anymore, and then like
did that for a little bit, and then she was like,
never mind, I'll go back.

Speaker 10 (20:52):
And then now she's glen.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, she's maybe too white Latino. No, I don't know
why I thought that. Maybe she's I guess that's Italian.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
I don't know why I.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
Thought that was a size at Starbucks. Justin Timberlake, did it?
You know, he graduated from being white?

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Dude. When Britney Spears wrote in her book that justin
Timberlake saw I can't remember which rapper on the street
and he was like.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yo, what's up? My dog for shizzled and did all
that like that, that made me laugh so hard, because
you know he did that stuff. He definitely did total
door and then he became an actor and he's all serious.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Good to see you, nas.

Speaker 6 (21:40):
I just I wonder like about this turn for Taylor
if she doesn't also make that part of her story,
Like if she doesn't go. You know a lot of
people out there are trying to put me in a box.
But you know, I'm a I'm a woman, and.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
I'll tell you about it. Taylor stops at the box.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
But maybe it's just like it's the end result of
being like a Disney kid, Like you're rebelling against your
squeaky clean image. You don't want to be that, so
you you're trying to actively destroy it.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
That's what you do when you have absolutely nothing to say. Yeah,
she's done, she won, she's a billionaire. It's over. Congratulations,
you won the game. You don't have to keep doing it.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
She will, She'll keep doing it. She's never gonna stop.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
I just imagined Travis Kelsey reading the lyrics to Wood
and laughing like cow or it's Kevin Gordon's here, serrator.

(22:47):
Also with some of the hey did that really happen?
Calls from this past weekend, Charlie Badge miss tackleson more
coming up on dv.

Speaker 10 (22:56):
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Speaker 11 (23:24):
Lebron James sent the NBA into a frenzy yesterday with
a post about on social media about the second decision
and James is forty years old entering his NBA record
twenty third season, hinted that there's a big decision coming.
I guess it's going to be announced today nine am
Tocific time. Replacement like he's getting. Brody told him about

(23:47):
the greatest comeback was his hairline. Oh he had a
picture of his old you know hairline in the new one.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
But taking my talents to Turkey Bosley.

Speaker 11 (24:00):
At NBA Media Days, he said, I'm excited about the
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I'm super invested because I don't know what when the
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Tickets for the Lakers twenty twenty five twenty twenty six
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(24:22):
the least expensive ticket went from eighty two dollars to
five hundred eighty dollars.

Speaker 10 (24:27):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (24:28):
And for a pair of tickets, the expensive tickets you
could find is seven hundred and sixty dollars. So that's
how much Lebron has changed the market. There people expecting
this to be his final season, and that to be
his final regular season game, and you know, there's no
guarantee that these Lakers are going to be playoff bounds.
So it's kind of like that Kobe. You want to

(24:51):
see if Kobe, you know, he scored sixty in his
final game for the Lakers. I think people want to
be there for that moment, given that Lebron's in the
conversation as a kids player at NBA history I love.

Speaker 6 (25:02):
I saw an interview the other day with JJ Reddick
where he basically said, I reflected a lot over the
off season, and I just came to understand that everybody's
not Kobe, Like, not everybody that I'm going to coach
has the Mamba mentality where you kind of have to
meet players.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Where they are.

Speaker 6 (25:21):
You can't just expect that everybody's going to show up
seven hours before practice and shoot a thousand shots before
the team shows up.

Speaker 11 (25:30):
That's why I was watching a clip of Kobe talking
about how his teammates wanted to go out and party
and he said, Okay, I'll go out and party with you.
And he went out and he said, but I'm knocking
on doors at four o'clock in the morning and like,
now it's your time to come play with me, you know.
And he partied all night with them, and then two
hours later he's still getting up and doing his four
am workout.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Well, Jordan was famous for that. Yeah, Jordan would party play.
There's that one story of him playing thirty six holes
and then going and dropping fifty likes. It's he's like
gambling and having beers on the course. Yeah, Jordan, Jordan

(26:09):
is that dude was built different. You can see why
him and Mario were good friends. Yeah, and Jordan, I
mean I heard a lot of stories about Jordan and
Barkley when they were here for Mario's golf invitation, Oh
Celebrity Golf Invitational. Shutting down don Zi's and oh yeah,
I remember that. I remember being in a bar and
it was across from where Donzie's was. It was that

(26:30):
place called Touch in existence for a very short.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
Amount of time.

Speaker 6 (26:36):
But me and my buddies used to go and we
used to say, like, let's go down a touch and
get not a creepy dame at all. Yeah, no, no,
I mean it's just you're you're inviting people, uh to
assault you welcome to touch. But those guys were all
behind like a velvet roped area and it was just
a sea of people gawking at them.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
So I used to do stuff for like I was
announced a couple holes for that tournament back in the day,
you know. And at the after party the one time
I go to the bathroom and all of a sudden,
like the Secret Service comes in and I'm like at
the urinal, like what the hell's going on?

Speaker 4 (27:15):
And it was Jordan and he had to.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Pee, and so he peased like two yearals down next
to me, but there was like five security guys around
him while he's peeing.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
I was like, man, that's gotta be a lot of pressure.
He was peeing from the foul right here. What a reach.

Speaker 11 (27:35):
Yeah, yeah, like Adam saying the story about meeting Shack's bodyguard,
if you ever heard that one, but yeah, it was
it was not his bodyguard, it was yeah, it was
I met your bald headed Bodyguardard.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
It was really he was laying on the floor.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
Jordan kept wanting to bet me through the whole time,
so that was kind of weird. I remember Pursuita was
wearing it.

Speaker 11 (27:57):
You guys had like a badge to where to get
the access, you know, and with the media was only
allowed in certain places, but you guys had all access.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
And somebody asked him if he was a Marshall for
the event and he.

Speaker 11 (28:07):
Said, they said Marshall and he's like, yeah, you out
one of those signs tell everybody to be quiet, you know,
husha And he says, yeah, mine, shut the f up.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Well, yeah, it wasn't quite that page black out there,
but it was. There was some rowdy fans. Those were
Those were super fun days. It was crazy the celebrities
he used to get at that, oh Man, and we
would do our show and they would bring them all
over to us.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
It was amazing. Leslie Nielsen sat down with us with
the fart machine. The one time.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
I remember Joe Peshi being there.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Joe Pesci was there, although he was not you couldn't
really talk to Joe Peshi.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
No, he did not want to. He did not.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
He did not think it was funny to bring up that.
You think, you know, I think you're a funny guy. Anything, Yeah, don't.

Speaker 10 (28:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
He was kind of one of those don't talk to
me about any of this, not even home alone, nothing.
So you want to talk golf, that's fine, cigars, sure,
that's it.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
That's yeah. Yeah, he was not never want to meet him.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
He was the one guy that was not super easy
to be around, and everybody, all the other guys were
super cool. I mean, Jordan and Barkley didn't give you
a ton of access or anything, but they when they
did meet people, they were cool. To him.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
Joe, there was no great like I met Joe Pesci,
he was awesome.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Stories.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
You know, is this still was Mario still planned? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Two thousand and one. Yeah, that was always a cool
event that coming.

Speaker 11 (29:21):
And then you know, I got like Barkley would come
in and entertain us for fifteen minutes and you're like,
well we have a story today.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
You know, as simple as that. That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Those were, and the like they would have after parties
like huge one like the Sibrik Arena, they would have
like a big dinner at night because there's that many
celebrities there.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
It was a big deal. Man. It was cool.

Speaker 6 (29:43):
I mean when I when I first started doing it, Uh,
there were still huge stars like I remember Tony Kukach
was there, and Bettis and Ben and Rick Flair the one. Yeah,
but it wasn't as significant because he wasn't playing like
if he you know, when he was active and all
those guys were also active or just had retired.

Speaker 4 (30:04):
I can't even imagine. It would have been nuts.

Speaker 11 (30:06):
It was after he came back, right yeah, playing with
I remember, it was like even yeah, I remember it
was like Barkley, Jordan, Mario and someone else were like
the foursome the one day and it was like that's
where there's a power for them right there.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Good times uh.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Anyway, Speaking of hockey, Pens are back at it tonight
against the Rangers, their season opener against former head coach
Mike Sullivan.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Thanks for an interesting matchup eight pm. You also have
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Speaker 11 (30:35):
Sidney Crosby of Guinea Melkin Chrysala Tang, the first Tree
to play twenty seasons together in the opener, and then
you have five rookies on the roster, including Harrison Brunck
and first round pick Ben Kendall, both teenagers, only the
third teenagers to potentially make their debut together. The last
two were Crystal Tang and Jordan Stall in two thousand

(30:55):
and six. Prior to that, it was Mary Lemieux and
Doug Bodger in nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 10 (34:00):
What's happening man? Welcome home?

Speaker 3 (34:02):
Oh buddy, it was so fun. I gotta tell you
that trip was such a blast. But the Steeler experience
of it all. I mean, it's one thing to go
to Dublin and have a good time, and that's always
going to be fun. But being surrounded by the international
it's not Steelers Nation, it's Steelers Nations coming together, it's

(34:26):
the United Nations. Yes, that was just just an overpowering experience,
unbelievable fun.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah, it looked like it.

Speaker 10 (34:36):
I mean even the clips, you know, I was watching
from us from the distance, pregame and everything. It looks
like Ireland is definitely a Steeler country, you know, and
it seems to have fit appropriately right.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (34:50):
Remember traveling overseas, you know, we did NFL Europe for
all of those years, so we got to spend you know,
two or three weeks the summer or spring summer in
Europe and a ton of time through Germany it was
like a go to McDonald's and order a number one
and you know they.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
Had beer on the menu.

Speaker 10 (35:05):
Yeah, yeah, the big mac value mail and yeah, give
me the big stygn of the of the beer. We'll
start it off ress this morning, you know beautiful. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
I don't think there were too many times where we
did not have a beer in our hands in Dublin.
I mean, they're not shy about making them available for
you there. But you bring up something that's an interesting point.
I've been harping on the fact that the NFL keeps
talking about expanding in this idea that one day there's
going to be the NFL in Europe, and I keep
making the point we can barely field enough players to have,

(35:36):
you know, thirty two decent NFL teams right now in
the States.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
What about refereeing.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
How would we dispense refs around the world and expect
them to not be terrible?

Speaker 4 (35:51):
Well, I mean the bar is not that high.

Speaker 10 (35:57):
Let's start there. Let's just start there. I mean everybody
thinks they're just terrible anyway, So let's just grab you know,
a handful of guys from overseas. But you know, we'll
figure it out as.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
We go, just like we do every Sunday, the teacher
for the rules of football and throw them out there.

Speaker 10 (36:13):
Exactly.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Yeah, these guys they suck, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 10 (36:20):
They didn't make the referee position a little more challenging.
You know, you'd have to be multi lingualal there could
be new boxes to check, you know, like can you
announce a personal foul in German? You know, and things
like that. They never they might need a ref ambassador though,
to go overseas, maybe just for you know, a month
or two. They ran like every spring or summer to

(36:42):
train train the new refs, so you know, you never know.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
Yeah, you'd be the guy for that.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
I know you were on the Eagles Broncos game this weekend,
but did you see Monday Night Football last night?

Speaker 4 (36:54):
I did watch a good bit of it.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yes, So people are very upset about the touchdown to
Travis Kelcey in which a flag was thrown that appeared
to be a pick that they were going to call
on Juju and Mahomes talks the ref out of it.
It seemed like that's the perception as you know, we
always used to make fun of like you know, well,
if Tom Brady doesn't want you to call it, you

(37:17):
guys will do it. But in this case, what did
you see happen there? And was the right non call made?

Speaker 10 (37:23):
The dreaded Chiefs conspiracy rises again? You know. Yeah, Look,
it's an extremely well designed play. You were illegally allowed
to block one yard down the football field from where
the ball is snapped. That means that only one body
part needs to be within one yard if you look

(37:44):
back and look at statistics. I don't know how the
data would would show share up. But when you have
a penalty after a touchdown and you can move the
ball from the two yard line to the one, if
you enforce that file to the one, you'll see teams
go for two almost all the time in that situation.
Many times, I think the strategy is that if we
snap the ball from the one yard line, if we

(38:05):
leave our back foot at the goal line, we could
literally be blocking another.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Half yard into the end zone.

Speaker 10 (38:11):
To clear out a quick little slant route behind that
block and.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
Still be legal.

Speaker 10 (38:16):
So when you watch Juju, if you look he does turn,
he definitely sets a pick. But if that foot is
that one yard or any body part is within the
one yard where the ball snap contact is legal. So
it's a really well designed play into Patrick Mahomes's defense.
They know the rules in a lot of situations like that,

(38:38):
so he immediately was letting the officials know that look
at you need got need to talk because he's within
one yard. We run this play every day, so you know,
kind of like, you know, talk about it. I think
maybe he reacted a little quick, and I think that's
what they did. I watched the play over and over naturally,
because you know, whether I'm watching my favorite Netflix series

(38:59):
on Monday night and try to disengage with the wife
and not watch football, the texts kind of start blowing up.
The situations like that happen, you know, and can you
walk me through this please? I've got to go on
air here in about thirty minutes. Is this what it is? And? Uh?
But I thought it really well designed play.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
Oh that's so funny.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
So like other analysts are hitting you up, like, hey,
I want to make sure I got my p's and
key sorting. You like having a friend that's a doctor
every time something goes wrong them, Hey man, not for nothing,
but my elbows doing this.

Speaker 10 (39:31):
Can I send you quick steel shot not in the mole.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
I really don't want to see the mole this morning.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 10 (39:39):
Can you do me a favorite pluck the two airs
on of it?

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (39:46):
Can you doctor it up just a little? I mean,
I get the essence of it, but we got to
look at the mole from a close up here in
magnified or something. But yeah, exactly so.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
That the Eagles Broncos game, there were a few calls
that were interesting in that one. And there was the
non fumble forward pass from bone Knicks, and then there
was the bon Nicks.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
Intentional grounding that got picked up.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
And then the pass interference it wasn't called at the
end of the game that would have put the Eagles
at first in goal with like seven seconds left with
a chance to win the game that wasn't called. Did
the refs get all those right? Because it seemed to
me the first two they did, but that third one
they missed.

Speaker 10 (40:28):
Well, think you nailed it. That's really how I saw it.
I felt like the last pass there, the second to
the last play of the game or something felt like
a little bit like a back shoulder ball.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
You want to let some hand fighting go.

Speaker 10 (40:39):
But I thought that one hand that was up in
the receivers. I believe his left shoulder as he turned
back stopped him from being able to open up and
make that back shoulder play. Not an easy play for
the ref there because he has to hold on to
the goal line. He doesn't leave the goal line in
that situation. And that play happens like right about the two.
So there's a little angle difference. That's not an excuse

(41:00):
for them. That's a file you've got to call. Huge
play in the game. I thought the intentional grounding. Look,
it's a very liberal We are always that way, and
I know we all watch a game enough to see
there's many times in the quarterback throws the ball eighteen
feet over receiver's head out of bounds and we're like, dude,
that's not catchable. But they lean that way, right, I mean,

(41:20):
that was normal. But no, I agree with you. And
the Bonnicks play is a classic forward movement. You know,
this thing's a fumble, but then TV great HD frame
by frame, his orange just starts moving forward by frame
or two forward pasts.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
Yeah, but no, I agree with you.

Speaker 10 (41:36):
The DPI that pass interference at the end, you've got
to make that call. And those are the things that
wake everybody up on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday now because they're
game impactful decisions, and that would be one of them.

Speaker 6 (41:49):
Jean, just a little bit of clarity on a play
that happened in the Steelers game in Dublin early scoop
and score by Jalen Ramsey on a fumble. I was
unaware of this rule, but just a little bit of explanation.
Any body part is out of bounds and you touch
a ball, it's immediately dead, even though it was still
live and in the field of play.

Speaker 10 (42:12):
Yeah, it's kind of like you know, you're you're electric,
right or you're hot, and anybody that's touching the white,
the chain continues to move right, So I'm out of bounds,
I touch you your inbounds, but the thing moves along, Yes,
and it's on a loose ball situation. So yeah, the
ball was loose at that time, and that's exactly what

(42:32):
they were looking at. And see that foot touch in
the white or whatever that body part would be. It
just kind of makes you hot right there, you know.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
What I mean?

Speaker 3 (42:39):
So yes, smart dot Com the Steelers in the Browns
this Sunday. I'm sure you've done a couple of those
games in your time.

Speaker 10 (42:48):
Yes, Yeah, I love the rivalry games and I always
felt like not because of from this area. AFC North
rivalries have this like more physical intensity, it felt throughout
my career, you know what I mean. When it's Steelers,
brown Steelers, Bengals, Steelers, Ravens.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
It's cracked up a notch, you know.

Speaker 10 (43:08):
And even when Cleveland isn't really like a winning team,
AFC North teams are, Hey, we're in the ice bath
until Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
Yeah, team, you know what I mean. Like, that's what
it always felt.

Speaker 10 (43:20):
Like to me, So that in preparation for those games,
you know, it's one thing to watch plays and see
matchups and things like that, but there's always that backlying
situation for officials, like we're walking into an extremely intense
environment a little different than most Sundays. Uh and AFC
North teams always carry that rivalry always, So.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
It'll be great this week. Again.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
I'm sure with the rookie quarterback from the Browns, is
there anything with a guy I mean, he's literally in
his second start. Is there something that you might as
a referee be prone to look for for a guy
that inexperience that he's likely to step, you know, over
the line on me.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (44:01):
Yeah, so many layers, Randy, really, because if the defensive
strategy is listen, he's not going to be able to
process very quickly. Then that can lead you to trying
to prepare your proof or I prepare for some blitzing, right,
I mean, I can prepare for some defensive backs maybe
being in press coverage right on top of receivers to

(44:21):
try to knock.

Speaker 4 (44:21):
Them off their route.

Speaker 10 (44:23):
Then you want to make sure that the offensive line
is not cheating because they know that the edge rushers
for Pittsburgh are very aggressive. So don't let that left
tack will be lined up halfway in the offensive backfield
right because he wants to win that half step. At
the same time, make sure TJ and whoever else is
on the other side on the edges their hand isn't
in the new tra zone trying to cheat that either.

(44:44):
But yeah, there's so many multiple layers that I think
you prepare for and not that you know they're going
to happen. But that's, in my opinion, that's what we
train the referees to do in the NFL is look
at the matchups, look at personnel, look at the potential
situations that would occur. You know what I mean, Because listen,
anytime you prepare for anything in life a day before

(45:06):
and then you're in the heat of the moment and
that intensity, and now what you prept for twenty four
hours before actually is happening in real time. The sense
of confidence or calmness or preparedness elevates on the field.
Right for this team too, And when you get into
that mental framework, you hope then that the tendency is

(45:28):
we know exactly what we're doing out here today. We
prepped for this, and damn it, it just happened, right.
So yeah, that's how I always prepped for every game.
And you're not right all the time, but I think
at least it puts the crew and the group that's
ready to work those games in a different mind perspective
as they prepare for it. And then when it does happen,

(45:49):
as I said, that's an elevated feeling out there, and
I think it's a good way to keep people prepared
and get them ready for a high level of intensity.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
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