November 12, 2025 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
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Pittsburgh.
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and everything like that, So it's always a.
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Fight between us whenever we're doing anything like this.
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Are a pair of glasses you can buy to to
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I can tell Abby's hats blue, but like that's that's
about the extent of it.
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are you even asked? I'd like, why show me? Why
show me? How many fingers do I have? In your way?
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I have a disability?
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What you sound like you're talking to your wife right now?
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I am.
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Bellman and the DV Morning Show.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Six forty five. Today, Merril Hodge Dang seven forty five.
Mark Madden will be on with this in the nine
o'clock hour as well. I went to see Paul McCartney
at PPG Paints Arena last night.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
The videos looked awesome, Sir Paul. He was really really good.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
It's crazy to me that at that age he's singing,
playing bass, playing guitar, playing piano on every song. He's
singing and playing on every song.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And at that age is eighty three.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
I thought it was, but it's eighty three. Yeah, someone's
almost eighty four. It's eighty three. He did songs that
I wouldn't have thought he would have even tried at
this age, like Helter Skelter.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And he did.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
He did Blackbird. And when he did Blackbird and I
think we.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Posted that on the DV socials.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
He he kind of showed his age a little bit there.
He sounded like an old man singing Blackbird to me,
but plenty of other stuff like baby, you can drive
my car and stuff like that. You know what's interesting
too that they did, which was really effective, is one
of his guitar players and I can't remember those guys' names,
but they've been in his band for a long time.
The drummer and the two guitar players have been with
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him forever. And the one guy has the identical vocal
tone to Paul McCartney singing harmony, like high harmony, so
like on Baby you Can Drive My Car, Well, it's
the exact same on So it enables Paul to sing
all the low parts. Okay, so and it still sounds
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like Paul McCartney is singing the high parts because that
guy sounds identical to him, and he's just a ripping
guitar player. But you know, there's no complaints with the
set list, that's for sure. I mean he starts with
help you know, oh man, it has to.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Just be a bop. The whole time it was.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I mean there was like three or four songs where
he like was like, you're not going to know this one,
but you know what, I'm gonna do it anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
He was like kind of funny with the crowd like
that all night.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
And the crowd age it was definitely median age was
above sixty, I would say, yeah. And it was most
notable when we were trying to get into the arena
and people who are not used to using digital ticketing,
and the fact that he can't have a bag the
size of you know, Jack Kerouax on the road like.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You You couldn't unlock his android.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
All of that.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
So the line to get in was forty minutes on
the bottom part. It was quicker if you went up top,
but that it's just insane, like a lot of.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Time waiting to get in, big line for the elevator.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Oh, the escalator, you know when on the bottom part escalator, Yeah,
nobody was walking up those steps, dude.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
It was a big.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Center, AB Center ab in Yeah, fifth coming down. Yeah,
So that and understanding they were standing almost the entire time.
The crowd stood for most of the show. On the floor.
On the sides, they stood for half the show, which
I was also surprised at.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
But I think people were just in such awe.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Anytime you get to see Paul McCartney and it's like,
oh my god, I'm seeing a real Beatle. And he
did that one song and I can't remember the name
of it that they put out not long ago that
John had written a long time ago. They never released it,
and he and Ringo went in and punched it up
and they used like some AI on it.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
I remember what song you're talking about. I couldn't tell
you the title.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
This video playing behind them, and I don't know if
it was released at the time, and I feel like
I had seen it before, but it was definitely augmented
with a whole bunch of new graphics that accompanied it.
And it's like the old John Like era Magical Mystery Tour,
the old George Harrison, same digitally restored. It looks like
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it was filmed yesterday with old Ringo and old Paul
McCartney in the video, like playing with.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Them in a band.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
And as he sang the song and it synced up
perfectly to them playing it live.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
And I was just the entire time, I was nerded
it out.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Thinking how did they They must have clicked that in
in their ears and then fired the video at the
exact same time, and they must have like the drummer
must be playing on a click. Something's got because it
was right in time with the video. It's like you're
watching them perform at live and everyone on the screen
is singing it exactly back to you. And it had
a lot of weird AI stuff in that video, like
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it reanimated John and George a bunch of.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Times and stuff like that, which I didn't love.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
It probably feels weird and also amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
That's exactly what it was. It was like, I don't
want to like this slop, but.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Like Prince with a selfie stick, you know whatever, that
Rod Stewart thing.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Was forever with Jupac.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
It was not that, but that in two other songs
he played that I didn't know really really well. Otherwise,
I can't believe how many Wings fans I saw. There
was tons of people wearing Wings shirts and Wings hats
and stuff.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Non ironically, no, they like I mean, I don't dislike wings.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's just.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Paul McCartney.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You're thinking Beatles, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
And he did Jet and he did Band on the
Run and he did what's the one.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Someone's knocking do?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
But don't you think there's a lot of Wings fans
because the Wings were a thing for longer than the
Beatles were, like, because I look at it, like, were
my mom, Well, I don't know how long were we I.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Don't think they were wings together.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I thought they were like the Beatles were only together
for eight years.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
No.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Nineteen uh, sixty four or like sixty three until nineteen.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Well no, yeah was ten years.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Okay, yeah they were.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Because I think of it because my mom is a
Wings fan, right, and I think of it as Joe
Iello started at Mineo's and then walked up the street
and started Iellos, and we grew up on Iellos because
that's just we were following Joe. And my mom loved
Paul McCartney and then he moved on from the Beatles
and started Wings and it's like, all right, now we
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like Wings.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
And she loved Iellows Wings and Iellow did they have
They didn't have wings in Iellows.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I don't they miss an opportunity, it really did. Their
mom would loaded up.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Oh my god. They weren't wing Dings though, And that's
really her.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
At this point, I don't know mylar to comprement comprehend
Wing Dings is still it's a personal fault.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I have the best.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
But at any rate, the show was amazing the entire time.
You just kind of like, is that really Paul McCartney
still singing those songs? He kind of looks like my grandmother,
Like he's got that irish kind of look.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
To him. You know those Liverpudlians are all basically irish
and all.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Their aging spots start to merge. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I mean it's like a snow leopard, like his not child,
just his face. It just it looked like my grandmother.
It's hard to explain my grandmother also very talented singer songwriter.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Three hour concert for a guy in that age, it's
pretty remarkable, Pretty remarkable eighty three. Just the fact that
he was playing bass guitar and then playing guitar. He's soloing,
doing some ripping guitar solos eighty three.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
I don't think he gets thought of when you think
of somebody who can solo.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
No. He goes and I can't remember what song it was.
I think it might have been let me roll it
to you.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
He'd put like a little tag on it of Hendricks
Foxy Lady, and then soloed over it.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
And then at the end of it he's like, this
was Jimmy Hendricks. Yeah, you didn't know, And he was like,
very funny. He just told the story about the first
time he saw Hendrix and it's kind of a famous
story at this point, but he retold it.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
He did so.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
School, gymnasium or where where.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Well, it was in a club in London, and it
was like it was kind of like a vip room
and there was not anybody really, you know, it's like
the Stones hung out there, the Beatles hung out there,
and there was only like twenty people there. And then
Jimmy Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding set up
and they're all like, oh my, what is this And
he made that he made the sound of Jimmy plugging
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in his guitar. He's like, it is could be loud
because when he plugged in, it was like oh yeah,
like it just the sound of him plugging in was left.
And then he's like, oh cools. The next night, everybody
was the Pete Townshend. Jeff book was the Jimmy page,
you know, and he clept and he just goes through
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the list of all the people and everyone's.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Like the Queen, Oh my god, Benjamin Disraeli.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
So it was everything you'd expected a Paul McCartney performance.
The only thing I'll say is this is entirely too expensive.
It's so expensive to go to that show. It bums
me out.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
How much.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
Oh I mean, when we were looking at them. I
mean we had a story. I thought that it was
like three hundred bucks.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
You on a lower end.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Yeah, that was face value, secondary market, five hundred for nosebleeds.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
On the secondary mark.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
If you wanted to sit behind the stage and not
be able to you would be able to watch a
TV and be behind the stage. Basically, that was two
hundred dollars last night. That's just too much money that, yeah,
to be behind him. And the first time he played
here at PPG Pains Arena, which was the first concert
ever at PPG Paints Arena. He it was also stupid expensive,
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just crazy, and I.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
That made more sense right, new venue. He's however, many
years younger. When did that open PPG.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Like earlyteen years ago?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I think, oh, that's it.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I think, yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Was gonna guess twelve, but let's.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yeah, I think it was right around twenty ten. But
he was amazing. The setlist was great, the band is awesome.
It's weird seeing a beatle anytime you can still see
a beatle. I think that's the last time I'm paying
a lot of money to see a legend like that. Like,
I really didn't think i'd ever see him again, you
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know what I mean. So it's like, yeah, this is it.
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, how much more touring could he do? He's eighty three.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
He's running around the stage. He's singing Jet Jet.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Like all the like.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Oh when you say running, no, he's like like like
a Johnt like jaunting.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I have trouble with a jaunt.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Like.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
His cholesterol is lower than mine.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Oh, there's no question about that, no question about that.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
I mean, Bartneck's is lower than mine. For some reason, I.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Can't Yes, it is. Oh, he's been bragging about him.
He's lying.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
He's like Jo flying by the way Serena twenty ten.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Yeah, uh, packed house. Got to sit next to Kinger
and his family, which was great.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh awesome.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Uh, just an amazing show. They got to do something
about getting people in and out of there. That's the
only wild.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
But you're right, it's it's also probably the age of
the audience. Like when I went in for Sabrina, Carpenter
was like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It definitely is.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
But but you know what's interesting because you know we
have the draft coming up, and the last home game
I saw a bunch of people for NFL films and
just with the Steelers that I know, and I stopped
a couple of people and I'm like, what are you doing?
And they're like, Oh, we're working on traffic flow right now.
We're just mapping things out and trying to figure things out.
And it was for the Green Bay game, and it
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was an absolute disaster down there, and I was like,
what what are you guys gonna do when four hundred
thousand people show up? They're like, we have no idea
because to your point, just like old people going to
a Paul McCartney concert is a disaster. If there's ever
been a game at Akershore and PNC Park, it's.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
A total nightmare. Yes, now double it now double that?
Yeah right, And that's the draft.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
So I don't know how that we're going to do it,
or how they're going to support like a staye AE
like venue over there by PPG, because aren't they building
one of those.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
They're building another venue across the street.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Yeah, that's correct, you know what.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Honestly, I was downtown this past weekend just trying to
go to that Pittsburgh Vintage mixer.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I was.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
I picked up a friend and I was going to
that there was also a pet Expo at the same time.
I loved it.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
It was amazing. It was there was so much stuff.
I wanted to send you.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Guys pictures every five minutes.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
There was so much funny stuff we either like either
sports memorabilia, amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Concert t shirts, TV stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
There was.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
There was dve stuff, but I think we've all seen
it before. People send us stuff all the time, either
of old vinyl records, yeah, stuff like that, So it
wasn't anything that we haven't necessarily seen before.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
But I really did love it.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
And because it's at the Convention Center, it is ever too.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
They're really cool. The people who run that are great, amazing.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
But every parking garage that could be closed was closed,
every lot that could be closed was closed.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Every street that could be closed was closed.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
And it took us two hours to park the car
to the point where I gave up. I parked at
the Warhol and I told my friends too, I'm.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Like, we're walking, we're walking, yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
And so we walked and then I was like, not
only are we gonna go to the mixer, then we're
gonna go on to pet Expo afterwards, because now we're parked,
and then when we.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Walk back, we're on the War Hall and we're holding
and I'm like, this shit is not ready for a draft.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
I was losing my mind. I went full Pittsburgh Dad.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I was just like, yeah, enough everything downtown now that's
a problem.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
We're like, how are we going to deal with the draft?
Speaker 5 (15:47):
They're redoing the Melon Square parking garage, the one across
from William Penn.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
So that's where I usually like the park for shows
because I like to just run out of rain and
get down there and I feel like it gets you
out of traffic enough. Yeah, sure to bump that was done.
That's they're they're redoing that, probably for the draft. So
I ended up Square was being redone. Yes, So I
ended up parking down at the Oliver Street parking Garage,
which is like where Capitol Grilla is, which is like
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a ten minute walk and.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
It was freezing. Oh my god, it was freezing. But
I was walking through downtown. I was thinking, Yo, everybody's
freaking out about.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Downtown being all dangerous and everything, and it was like
I'm fine, and I'm like, you know, I'm walking out
because I left a little bit early from the show. Yeah,
because it, dude, it went late. I mean, the show
went late. And I'm walking by myself and I'm like,
this is fine. Everything's fine. And so I'm at Mellon
Bank Center and there's like this little there's a little
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like stairwell that goes down three sets to drop from
the that road that goes like around it to basically
it's a stairwell that leads you to Melon Bank Center,
but it's very dark, or I can walk all the
way around and go over to fifth and go down
that way right. So I'm like, because I cut it
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down the middle coming out of the arena, and I'm like,
I'm just gonna keep cutting, you know, through these building
squares here. And I got to that and i was like,
I'm looking down at it, and in my head the
whole time, I was totally I went out. I was like,
I was looking at it. I'm like, there's probably nobody
in there. I can't see anybody, but it's three stairwells
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of dark, and I'm like, if I got mugged in there,
I would deserve it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I don't know that has I wouldn't be like pittsburghw
Pittsburgh's a mass play.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Any city, you probably shouldn't at ten o'clock or whatever time.
It was like ten thirty, like walk through these dark corridors,
and so I ended up walking a long way and
I just beat myself.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Up the whole way. You're such as.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Now you don't know that's not in there.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, I was so bumfed. But other than because I
was in my head thinking it's it's not bad. This
is Downtown's fine right now. You know it's looking better
and better. Uh. Might have something to do with the
fact that it was like fifteen degrees.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
The windshow was brutal downtown.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I think most cities are like that at ten o'clock
at night, except for maybe Boston. Boston is like, for
some reason, the safest city I've ever been in, or
at least it felt like the cleanest and safest.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
But I used to live when.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I lived in Hollywood, I had this thing that I
would do because everybody was getting mugged. Worked at the
Improv Olympic. Improve Olympic is in like a CD part
of Hollywood. It's right on Hollywood Boulevard, and people were
just getting beat up, getting their phones taken, getting you know, mugged,
And I was like, all right, well I got a solution.
I'm gonna run full speed to my car. You're gonna
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mug me, you got to tackle me first. Yeah, maybe
that's going to take some of the mugg and energy
out of you. You can get me in the open field,
like I still had a little bit of like a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Of juke move right.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
That's smart, that's smart.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Never had an issue.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Well I probably should have just done that. Here's the
set list. He played thirty five songs last night.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Oh my God, I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Thirty five, thirty five, open with help. Then he played
coming Up, Coming Up, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Yeah, it's such a good song. Got to get you
into my life. Baby, you can drive my car. Let
me letting go is a wing song, Come on, come
on over now, let me roll it, which was awesome.
That's the one my wheelchair. It's getting better all the time. Yeah,
let him in closer to Heaven, my Valentine. He dedicated
to his wife Nancy, who was in the crowd.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
La married again.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Yeah, He's like, this was my my wife and Nancy,
she's in the crowd, and he pointed kind of like
to by to where I was sitting, and I felt
compelled to almost stand up and take my hat off.
Here I'm Nancy eighty five that he played that's my
mom's name, and then maybe I'm Amazed, which was you
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don't know, I'm not going to tell you that I
am amazed. That is my favorite Paul McCartney song. I
love this of all time, and I was worried he
wasn't going to be able to pull it off because
he had trouble singing that back in the day. Because
his vocal performance in the studio is so great. It's like, oh, darling,
you know, it's not one that you could just rip
off live because it's so impossible to sing. But he
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did a really good job with it. I've Just Seen
a Face, which was just awesome. He did this kind
of broken down acoustics set, like where they came out
in front and they just all played acoustics and like
the keyboard player had accordion and stuff. So they for
that they played I've Just Seen a Face, In Spite
of all the danger, Love Me Do in spite of
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all the danger. It was so the Quarryman. It was
the first song the Beatles ever recorded. Wow, he's like,
he told the story he needed his real country sounding song.
Then he played Dance Tonight, Blackbird Here Today, which is
that it was a tribute to John Lennon. Here, do
you guys remember when he put that song out. It's
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all about him talking to John the whole song. Yeah,
if you heard it, you would remember, okay now. And
then Lady Madonna jet being for the benefit of mister Kite.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Which was a really interesting one to do.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Then he did something and he did something with the
with the ukulele intro like he does for George.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
And he's like, George, would you know pass out ukulele?
He gave me this ukulele and.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
He tells the story about how he told George one
day he's like, I learned one of your songs on
the ukulele. And he starts playing something in the way
she moves, you know, he just and then the band
kicks in. Yeah, so it's that's cool, so good. Then
it was oh bloody Obla Dah, band on the Run,
get back, let it be Live, and let die Hey Jude,
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and then the encore come on sounded like there no,
this is the encore and it's not one song.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Good night.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I've got a feeling. Now, I was gone for this.
I've got a feeling.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
It starts with I've got a feeling.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Maybe another one of the most difficult songs you could
possibly sing in the Beatles catalog Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
They did the reprize, the fast part, you.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Know, late in the night. That's impressive.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Helter skelter damn.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, he has enough voice to do that.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Golden Slumbers, carry that weight at the end. He did
the end of Abbey Road at the end of the show.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Wow, damn.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Eighty three years old.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I mean that's his lifestyle, honestly, Like the way that
he eats and lives it is so clean, like he's
a vegan, right yep.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Yeah, yeah, he's more limber than like anybody too. He's
like super yoga man and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
You go to State fit financy.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Nancy Bauma.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Yeah, that's right, Thank you, everybody, Thank you. Mike's got
your sports when we come back there. Stealer coach Tomlin
talking to the media yesterday, mister Wednesday on the way
as well.
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Speaker 5 (23:39):
I'm trying to just like replay the concert off my
phone for everybody in the studio.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
It's not doing it justice.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
That's usually such an annoying thing to do, and it's
actually really enjoyable. It's like, Okay, watch this, no, watch this,
but it's really I mean, he does sound really good
and the visuals are really cool, like they're appropriate for
every song.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Yeah, you know, he had a really cool stage setup,
but the whole arena is just filming the concert because
you're just in awe of what it's kind of like
seeing Bigfoot.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I have to take a video.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Was he out of focus in your videos?
Speaker 5 (24:10):
He was, but he's wearing a belt so it was
easy to tell their watch. Yeah, swim covered in hair.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
He knows when it's time to hide.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Much better swimmer than us.
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Speaker 9 (24:25):
Aaron Rodgers played what was undoubtedly the worst of his
nine games with the Steelers in Sunday Nights twenty five
ten loss in LA. But Steelers, said coach Mike Tomlin
emphasized yesterday he is not interpreting the result as the
possible beginning of the end for his soon to be
forty two year old QB.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Sunday night was what it was.
Speaker 11 (24:45):
But I have no long term reservations about his ability
to play the position and play the position at a
high level for us.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
Well, he's got to be right about that. If they're
gonna make anything of this season. That's the first thing.
Rogers says, to play well for them to win. Yeah,
I mean any quarterback has to play well for any
team to win.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Rogers in particularly for this one.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Well, I mean one in three in his last four.
I mean, we got to write the rudder pretty quick here.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
By the way, I saw Kinger in the bathroom at
the show last night, and I said Kinger, Paul McCartney
is two Aaron Rodgers. If Paul McCartney can play at
eight thirty at night, Aaron Rodgers should be able.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
To Yeah, nobody's trying to kill Paul McCartney.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
While he's doing it.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
That drummer looked like he had a look at his eye.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
If he had to run from Khalil Mack. I don't
know how good Paul McCartney would have been. There might
not have been an en Court.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Might have been lurking off stage with a blow dart.
I don't know. I'm going to be the last one.
The bass player blocks the blood side like he ain't
finishing the tour. It's a good point.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
Rogers may get a boost from the presence of a
familiar face this coming Sunday against the Bengals. If wide
receiver Marquez Valdez Scantling winds up on the active roster, we'll.
Speaker 11 (25:56):
See what the week holds for him and all the
others on practice squad Man, We're not opposed to elevating
people and giving them an opportunity to contribute. I think
it's just been been about every game this year where
we've elevated someone and and and utilized their talents.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Last week it was.
Speaker 11 (26:13):
Mark Robins, Mark Robinson who just reacquired several other weeks Man,
it's been Trey Sermon, for example, And so I'm certainly
open to evaluate and scantling his ability to to know
what to do and the quality and that execution, and
how it might fit into what we're trying to do
offensively in an effort to engineer victory.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Certainly now interesting there he said.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
Uh, he referenced MVS and everybody else on the practice squad.
That may or may not have been a nod to
Sante Samuel Junior.
Speaker 11 (26:46):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
It had not yet been reported when Tomlin spoke that
he was joining the Steelers practice squad, but ESPN subsequently
reported that.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
The expendables keep expanding, man.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Which are collecting baseball cards, aren't we?
Speaker 9 (26:59):
Well, this guy's twenty six and he's a former second
round pick, and he's a really good player if he's healthy.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
No, we know he can play corner, but houses back.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Well, he had back surgery done by a Steelers doctor, Beckyaty.
So if anybody ought to know how his back is,
it's the Steelers, and there were teams were lined up
to get this guy. They need help a corner, I mean,
makes a lot of sense. And the MVS thing, we
talked about this yesterday. The door has kind of opened
(27:26):
for him because Keishawn Williams muffed the punt. Now, he's
been returning punts ever since Calvin Austin got hurt and
been doing a really good job at it until Sunday,
but they haven't been playing him a wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
So if you want to make sense, if you want
to take that.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Game day helmet away, Austin goes back to punt returns
and then mvs joins the rotation at receiver.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Yeah, and his relationship with Rogers said should have expedite
that process. I mean, it's funny that we're playing the
Bengals this week because Joe just got to town. He
didn't know the plays, and he's still hooking up with
Chase and Higgins quite frequently. You know, the plays don't
matter as much as the chemistry.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
Tomaland was asked about Keishawn Williams in that muff punt
against the Chargers, and part of the answer was, certainly,
we'll look at this week and make plans accordingly given
what transpired in the last game. And by the way,
Austin didn't let it up at receiver either, so you know,
if you want to put him back on punts, where
he's pretty good. And if that forces them to limit
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his role wide receiver, there's your open door for MVS.
Might be a different looking Steelers team when they take
on the Bengals Sunday, which given the one and three.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Record in the last four games, it would returning punts
limit his play at receiver.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Austin possibly, you know, everybody has a reps limit.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
He was the number two guy when he was returning
punts above all else.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Isn't it just like an injury concern?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
He did it a little bit this year.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
It was a little different story last year in terms
of where he was in the receiver rotation. And then
Tom said when he came back from injury, they just
wanted him concentrating on getting back up to speed at
wide receiver. And again Williams was doing really well. But
you can't put it on the ground. You just can't
put it on the ground.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
And also, he doesn't have a proven track record in
terms of bouncing back. It's not like he's got six
years of returning that you can bank on, So you
have to You're not in a position to be able
to take a chance on him right now, even though
he might be mentally sound enough and have the fortitude
to come back and not do it again. I don't
know that you take that chance. And it's not the
(29:38):
end of the world for him.
Speaker 9 (29:38):
He's a first year guy, but it's you know, right now,
you gotta do what you gotta do. And I told
you guys when MBS got here, they didn't bring this
guy in here to be on the practice squad. Well no,
I mean he made magic with Aaron Rodgers for four years.
It was a long time ago. But got to find
out if there's any left because they got three points
when it mattered against the Chargers. Some other tidbits from
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Tomlin yesterday. He's feeling stability with Jalen Ramsey and Kyle
Duggar at Safety. In terms of the health status for
the upcoming week, Cole Holcom will be limited to start,
uh Jabrill Pepper's limited to start, Isaac Saamalo limited, but
they are optimistic about his return. And Scotty Miller has
(30:23):
been cleared with his broken finger. Yeah, I mean, Scotty
Miller is a nice, complimentary contributor, but he's not a
needle mover.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Kind of let down.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
I thought he was gonna I thought he was gonna
mean a little more to this offense. Training camp preseason.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, in training camp, everybody looks like they're all pro.
Yeah they really do, don't they.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, it's uh Nate Washington disease.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Yeah, he's gonna make a big splash this year. You
watched certain days, everybody has a day. Abbey's got your
news Top of the Hour.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
A wild sight of a car hanging out of a
Pittsburgh garage yesterday.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
I don't know if you guys saw that.
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Mister Wells, Well, you've got them. Jeff concle istory out there, everybody,
it's it's cold out there.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
What's going on? Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I hate coming in when like, nothing interesting has happened
to me, but like, you know, last week it's pretty typical,
just grocery shopping, Rake the Leaves got invited to an
underground ping pong fight club. The third thing my neighbor
got me all tangled up in this subterranean, suburban adult
ping pong league last week.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Okay, So so.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Last week, like he you know, I have a little
ping pong like an outside ping pong table, and like
my neighbor and I were playing. He's like, you know,
I played with a couple of guys you know, every
so often, Like you wanna you wanna come join us?
And I was like, uh yeah, yeah, I'll definitely do it.
And then of course he invites me one week and
I still have something going on, invites me another week.
I have something going on. So last week he's just like, hey,
what are you Are you gonna you're gonna come out
(33:38):
or come out or what?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
And I was like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
So at dinner he texts me it's it's real ominous
from here. He just texted me a random address and
says be here at seventy five And I'm like, what
is this a ransom?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Money? Like no, cops like you so well.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
So it might have been like a rec center, but
it was somebody's house. So I'm like, all right, it's
just at somebody's house. I'm strapped exactly what you don't
come at all, right? And so so he says, you know,
seven forty five, definitely be there as sharp, like that's
when it starts.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
So what do I do?
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Of course I slow roll that and I'm like, I'm
not showing up at seven forty five on the dot.
I'm showing up ten minutes late so that the the
people and the party can arrive and everything like that.
So I go there at seven fifty five. I type
it in the ways. I'm driving by this house. It's
a cold, blustery night, like there's nothing that the streets
are dark, and I'm driving by this house and I
think is the address, and I'm like, uh, I go,
(34:36):
there's nobody at this house. It's there's no cars in
the driveway. The door is open, and there's like a
little light on the k.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
An abandoned house? Is it? Like it's not an.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Abandoned house, but it's just there was no lights like
on it was not a like if a party just
swinging exactly back and forth exactly.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
That is a red flag in the suburbs. If you
don't have landscape lighting.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Hell, there's no uplighting on your elderberry bushes, then your
as the kids say.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
But so I call my neighbor and I'm like, hey,
I don't think I have the right house. And he goes, no,
that's the right house. And I go, well, where's your car?
And he goes, I'm picking my daughter up from basketball practice.
I'm not gonna be there for like twenty minutes. And
I know what you're thinking. You're like, why didn't you
just leave then? And I was like, well, I don't know,
Like maybe they're counting on me at this point, Like
(35:28):
I don't know if there's brackets, if they're seating, if
I'm like the fourth guy that needs to help move
a heavy.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Arm wire or something like that. I don't know anything
that's going on.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
So I'm sitting in the driveway and I'm like trying
to psych myself up to walk into a strange house.
And I feel like I'm Karen and Goodfellows just like
just go down there, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Just go down there.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
That's okaye going Yeah. So I'm psyching myself up. I'm
like doing all this positive self talk in the car.
I'm like, it's okay, just walk into the stranger's house.
You've never been here before, but people like you, people
like talking to you.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
So I walk.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I was I was like, still on the phone with
my friend, and I'm just like, I was like, ago,
does he know this? This guy know that I'm coming.
And he goes, well, he knows I'm bringing somebody, and
I'm like, yeah, but you're not here. You're like, if
I'm a plus one at a wedding, I don't just
show up without the escort.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
That's the whole point of being escorted.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
So again, cold blustery night, I pop my hoodie up
because I'm bald, I got no hat on. So you know,
I'm walking up to this guy's house in a hoodie,
holding a paddle, just looking like I'm like a frat
pledge master from nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
About their first bankfest.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
So of course I'm like, you know, going around the
house and trying to you know, get get up to
the storm door. And I'm greeted at the door by
you know what else but a rather large, muscular looking
pit bull mix and you know what, pitbull mixes love.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Skittish people lurking around their house.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Hold show objects holding potential weapons.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
So the guy comes to the door, and of course
all my fears were completely misplaced.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
He was like the nicest guy ever.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
But I also found like this, Like, so I go
into the house and we're making small talk, and it
just dawned on me that, like, this is the whole
point of small talk. Like, do you know people who
are just like I hate small talk. I hate making
small talk. It's like, well, that's because you suck and
you're rude, Like that's why you hate small talk. Small
talk is the I could not have gotten out of
(37:29):
that incredibly. It's not that they were making it awkward.
It was just an awkward situation. So I'm having to
talk about where your kids go to school, who plays sports,
and everything like that, And that's the whole point of
small talk. You can't get right into it. You need
a little off ramp to kind of exactly like social graces. Man,
you got to know how to navigate that situation. If
you don't know somebody, you don't walk up to him
(37:50):
and say hi, my name's Jeff Israel or Palestine, Like
that's not that's not how that works.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
You have to kind of feel people out.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
So other people start arriving at the end ground ping
Pong flight fight Club, and I am like woefully mismatched
because they're all carrying black satchels. Oh yeah, everyone's got
a little black satchel, and I'm just like kind of
waving around my like you know, lucy cigarette, frigging ping
pong battle. So all various dimensions, like people are opening
(38:17):
up and there's golden lights showing out of it, like
the briefcase in pulp fiction. One guy had this old
wooden paddle that looked like it was carved from the
same wood as Robert Redford's bat in the Natural Like
it was carved, it was hewn from a piece of
redwood that was struck by lightning. But the long story
short is that, like it was a totally pleasant time.
(38:39):
It got really overly competitive for a bunch of like
forty one year old guys. They're like people were sweating
at the at the end of this session. But it
was just the lead up that was like so unbelievably harrowing,
and but it turned out to be great.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
So that was what was fun about it. How did
you perform? I went to two and four.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
I kind of went in there thinking like, well, I
was invited, so I'm probably gonna I'm probably gonna smoke
some people.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
And it didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
I was like, I do, like, really, the logic of
that is completely backwards, Like you're being invited to a
group of guys who are already extremely proficient.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
So yeah, I got absolutely smoked.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
And of course, you know they're all waving their custom
ping pong pads around and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
I got mine at Dunham's the same whatsoever?
Speaker 12 (39:25):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (39:25):
You know Frank Calando when he iss the town, he
goes and plays with the Sea Miller family.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
But they're like like ultra experts, right, Yeah, these were
the Olympians, intermediate intermediate people high high intermediate. I would say, yeah,
we're not part of the full Pittsburgh underground scene yet.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
But it was just ping pong. It was just ping pong. Yeah,
we didn't move an arm wire after. Is there music
playing while ping pong is going on? No, which I
found to be lacking.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Yeah, just speaking of lubrication, if we're trying to make
some like it depends the music is a personal choice too.
And if somebody puts on you know, Neil Simon or
something like that, are or Paul Simon or something that
doesn't really fit the vibe either, or how about goodbye horses, you.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (40:06):
Like you put on the silence of a lambsong. Guys
ready to play some ping punk. Turn out the lights,
everybody put your night vision goggles on you.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Yeah, Abby's got your knees.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Next, your new Miss World is a heavy metal queen.
Speaker 8 (40:19):
And we're gonna talk about that wild site of the
car hanging out of the pictures yesterday, those bananas.
Speaker 13 (40:25):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
to you by your neighborhood Fords Store and Steelers Pro Shop.
Get it direct from the team at shop dot Steelers
dot com. Here's Tom Opperman.
Speaker 12 (40:36):
The Steelers added to their secondary yesterday evening when the
team signed twenty six year old cornerback of Sante Samuel
Junior to the practice squad. Samuel Junior has spent each
of his prior four seasons in the NFL with the
LA Chargers, starting forty seven games over those seasons, racking
up six interceptions and thirty seven passes defense. Samuel only
played in four games last year before suffering a shoulder
injury that.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Would sideline him for the rest of the season.
Speaker 12 (40:58):
He underwent spinal fusion surgery this past April, hence the
reason a young, talented corner was still available to sign
this late in the season. With Darius Lay in the
concussion protocol and the Steelers being thin at the cornerback
position thanks to the move of Jalen Ramsey to safety,
a Sante Samuel Junior should be able to help that
cornerback room, and his elevation from the practice squad to
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the active rosters should be coming soon. Elsewhere in Steelers Country,
head coach Mike Tomlin addressed the media for his weekly
press conference yesterday, and he updated some news on the
injury front. Mike Tomlin is optimistic that guard Isaac Samali
will be able to play as he's trying to return
from a peck injury. Satty Gabriel Peppers an inside linebacker
Cole Hulkom are also trending back as they'll begin this
(41:39):
week of practice in a limited capacity.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
I'm Tom Offerman with your Steelers Report.
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This is w d E.
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Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Like, I have trouble with like subtle greens and reds
and everything like that, So it's always a.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Fight between us whenever we're doing anything like this.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
But like she's like, oh, like you, like your opinion
is so bad, Like you don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm color blind.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Are a pair of glasses you can buy to to
like even out your color blindness.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I've heard of such a thing, but I don't want
to spend the money. Like it's not that bad, Like
I can tell Abby's hats blue, but like that's that's
about the extent of it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
But like, why why are you asking my opinion? Why
are you even asked? I'd like, why show me? Why
show me? How many fingers do I have? In your way?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I have a disability?
Speaker 6 (01:08):
What you sound like you're talking to your wife right now?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I am.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
We didn't do anything, I understand. I'm really out.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
It's like asking a guy with eighty HD to read
board games.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I can't do it. I just can't do it. Brandy
Bellman and the DV Morning Show.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Six forty five. Today, Merril Hodge Dang seven forty five.
Mark Madden will be on with this in the nine
o'clock hour as well. I went to see Paul McCartney
at PPG Paints Arena last night.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
The videos looked awesome, Sir Paul. He was really really good.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
It's crazy to me that at that age he's singing,
playing bass, playing guitar, playing piano on every song. He's
singing and playing on every song.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And at that age is eighty three.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
I thought it was, but it's eighty three. Yeah, someone's
almost eighty four. It's eighty three. He did songs that
I wouldn't have thought he would have even tried at
this age, like Helter Skelter.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And he did.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
He did Blackbird. And when he did Blackbird and I
think we.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Posted that on the DV socials.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
He he kind of showed his age a little bit there.
He sounded like an old man singing Blackbird to me,
but plenty of other stuff like baby, you can drive
my car and stuff like that. You know what's interesting
too that they did, which was really effective, is one
of his guitar players and I can't remember those guys' names,
but they've been in his band for a long time.
The drummer and the two guitar players have been with
(02:38):
him forever. And the one guy has the identical vocal
tone to Paul McCartney singing harmony, like high harmony, so
like on Baby you Can Drive My Car, Well, it's
the exact same on So it enables Paul to sing
all the low parts. Okay, so and it still sounds
(02:59):
like Paul McCartney is singing the high parts because that
guy sounds identical to him, and he's just a ripping
guitar player. But you know, there's no complaints with the
set list, that's for sure. I mean he starts with
help you know, oh man, it has to.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Just be a bop. The whole time it was.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I mean there was like three or four songs where
he like was like, you're not going to know this one,
but you know what, I'm gonna do it anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
He was like kind of funny with the crowd like
that all night.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
And the crowd age it was definitely median age was
above sixty, I would say, yeah. And it was most
notable when we were trying to get into the arena
and people who are not used to using digital ticketing,
and the fact that he can't have a bag the
size of you know, Jack Kerouax on the road like.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You You couldn't unlock his android.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
All of that.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
So the line to get in was forty minutes on
the bottom part. It was quicker if you went up top,
but that it's just insane, like a lot of.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Time waiting to get in, big line for the elevator.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Oh, the escalator, you know when on the bottom part escalator, Yeah,
nobody was walking up those steps, dude.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
It was a big.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Center, AB Center ab in Yeah, fifth coming down. Yeah,
So that and understanding they were standing almost the entire time.
The crowd stood for most of the show. On the floor.
On the sides, they stood for half the show, which
I was also surprised at.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
But I think people were just in such awe.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Anytime you get to see Paul McCartney and it's like,
oh my god, I'm seeing a real Beatle. And he
did that one song and I can't remember the name
of it that they put out not long ago that
John had written a long time ago. They never released it,
and he and Ringo went in and punched it up
and they used like some AI on it.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
I remember what song you're talking about. I couldn't tell
you the title.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
This video playing behind them, and I don't know if
it was released at the time, and I feel like
I had seen it before, but it was definitely augmented
with a whole bunch of new graphics that accompanied it.
And it's like the old John Like era Magical Mystery Tour,
the old George Harrison, same digitally restored. It looks like
(05:20):
it was filmed yesterday with old Ringo and old Paul
McCartney in the video, like playing with.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Them in a band.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
And as he sang the song and it synced up
perfectly to them playing it live.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
And I was just the entire time, I was nerded
it out.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Thinking how did they They must have clicked that in
in their ears and then fired the video at the
exact same time, and they must have like the drummer
must be playing on a click. Something's got because it
was right in time with the video. It's like you're
watching them perform at live and everyone on the screen
is singing it exactly back to you. And it had
a lot of weird AI stuff in that video, like
(05:59):
it reanimated John and George a bunch of.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Times and stuff like that, which I didn't love.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
It probably feels weird and also amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
That's exactly what it was. It was like, I don't
want to like this slop, but.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Like Prince with a selfie stick, you know whatever, that
Rod Stewart thing.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Was forever with Jupac.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
It was not that, but that in two other songs
he played that I didn't know really really well. Otherwise,
I can't believe how many Wings fans I saw. There
was tons of people wearing Wings shirts and Wings hats
and stuff.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Non ironically, no, they like I mean, I don't dislike wings.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's just.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Paul McCartney.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You're thinking Beatles, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
And he did Jet and he did Band on the
Run and he did what's the one.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Someone's knocking do?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
But don't you think there's a lot of Wings fans
because the Wings were a thing for longer than the
Beatles were, like, because I look at it, like, were
my mom, Well, I don't know how long were we I.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Don't think they were wings together.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I thought they were like the Beatles were only together
for eight years.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
No.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Nineteen uh, sixty four or like sixty three until nineteen.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Well no, yeah was ten years.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Okay, yeah they were.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Because I think of it because my mom is a
Wings fan, right, and I think of it as Joe
Iello started at Mineo's and then walked up the street
and started Iellos, and we grew up on Iellos because
that's just we were following Joe. And my mom loved
Paul McCartney and then he moved on from the Beatles
and started Wings and it's like, all right, now we
(07:51):
like Wings.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
And she loved Iellows Wings and Iellow did they have
They didn't have wings in Iellows.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I don't they miss an opportunity, it really did. Their
mom would loaded up.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Oh my god. They weren't wing Dings though, And that's
really her.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
At this point, I don't know mylar to comprement comprehend
Wing Dings is still it's a personal fault.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I have the best.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
But at any rate, the show was amazing the entire time.
You just kind of like, is that really Paul McCartney
still singing those songs? He kind of looks like my grandmother,
Like he's got that irish kind of look.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
To him. You know those Liverpudlians are all basically irish
and all.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Their aging spots start to merge. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I mean it's like a snow leopard, like his not child,
just his face. It just it looked like my grandmother.
It's hard to explain my grandmother also very talented singer songwriter.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Three hour concert for a guy in that age, it's
pretty remarkable, Pretty remarkable eighty three. Just the fact that
he was playing bass guitar and then playing guitar. He's soloing,
doing some ripping guitar solos eighty three.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
I don't think he gets thought of when you think
of somebody who can solo.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
No. He goes and I can't remember what song it was.
I think it might have been let me roll it
to you.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
He'd put like a little tag on it of Hendricks
Foxy Lady, and then soloed over it.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
And then at the end of it he's like, this
was Jimmy Hendricks. Yeah, you didn't know, And he was like,
very funny. He just told the story about the first
time he saw Hendrix and it's kind of a famous
story at this point, but he retold it.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
He did so.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
School, gymnasium or where where.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Well, it was in a club in London, and it
was like it was kind of like a vip room
and there was not anybody really, you know, it's like
the Stones hung out there, the Beatles hung out there,
and there was only like twenty people there. And then
Jimmy Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding set up
and they're all like, oh my, what is this And
he made that he made the sound of Jimmy plugging
(09:58):
in his guitar. He's like, it is could be loud
because when he plugged in, it was like oh yeah,
like it just the sound of him plugging in was left.
And then he's like, oh cools. The next night, everybody
was the Pete Townshend. Jeff book was the Jimmy page,
you know, and he clept and he just goes through
(10:19):
the list of all the people and everyone's.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Like the Queen, Oh my god, Benjamin Disraeli.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
So it was everything you'd expected a Paul McCartney performance.
The only thing I'll say is this is entirely too expensive.
It's so expensive to go to that show. It bums
me out.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
How much.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
Oh I mean, when we were looking at them. I
mean we had a story. I thought that it was
like three hundred bucks.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
You on a lower end.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Yeah, that was face value, secondary market, five hundred for nosebleeds.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
On the secondary mark.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
If you wanted to sit behind the stage and not
be able to you would be able to watch a
TV and be behind the stage. Basically, that was two
hundred dollars last night. That's just too much money that, yeah,
to be behind him. And the first time he played
here at PPG Pains Arena, which was the first concert
ever at PPG Paints Arena. He it was also stupid expensive,
(11:23):
just crazy, and I.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
That made more sense right, new venue. He's however, many
years younger. When did that open PPG.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Like earlyteen years ago?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I think, oh, that's it.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I think, yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Was gonna guess twelve, but let's.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yeah, I think it was right around twenty ten. But
he was amazing. The setlist was great, the band is awesome.
It's weird seeing a beatle anytime you can still see
a beatle. I think that's the last time I'm paying
a lot of money to see a legend like that. Like,
I really didn't think i'd ever see him again, you
(12:00):
know what I mean. So it's like, yeah, this is it.
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, how much more touring could he do? He's eighty three.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
He's running around the stage. He's singing Jet Jet.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Like all the like.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Oh when you say running, no, he's like like like
a Johnt like jaunting.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I have trouble with a jaunt.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Like.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
His cholesterol is lower than mine.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Oh, there's no question about that, no question about that.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
I mean, Bartneck's is lower than mine. For some reason, I.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Can't Yes, it is. Oh, he's been bragging about him.
He's lying.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
He's like Jo flying by the way Serena twenty ten.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Yeah, uh, packed house. Got to sit next to Kinger
and his family, which was great.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh awesome.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Uh, just an amazing show. They got to do something
about getting people in and out of there. That's the
only wild.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
But you're right, it's it's also probably the age of
the audience. Like when I went in for Sabrina, Carpenter
was like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It definitely is.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
But but you know what's interesting because you know we
have the draft coming up, and the last home game
I saw a bunch of people for NFL films and
just with the Steelers that I know, and I stopped
a couple of people and I'm like, what are you doing?
And they're like, Oh, we're working on traffic flow right now.
We're just mapping things out and trying to figure things out.
And it was for the Green Bay game, and it
(13:27):
was an absolute disaster down there, and I was like,
what what are you guys gonna do when four hundred
thousand people show up? They're like, we have no idea
because to your point, just like old people going to
a Paul McCartney concert is a disaster. If there's ever
been a game at Akershore and PNC Park, it's.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
A total nightmare. Yes, now double it now double that?
Yeah right, And that's the draft.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
So I don't know how that we're going to do it,
or how they're going to support like a staye AE
like venue over there by PPG, because aren't they building
one of those.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
They're building another venue across the street.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Yeah, that's correct, you know what.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Honestly, I was downtown this past weekend just trying to
go to that Pittsburgh Vintage mixer.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I was.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
I picked up a friend and I was going to
that there was also a pet Expo at the same time.
I loved it.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
It was amazing. It was there was so much stuff.
I wanted to send you.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Guys pictures every five minutes.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
There was so much funny stuff we either like either
sports memorabilia, amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Concert t shirts, TV stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
There was.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
There was dve stuff, but I think we've all seen
it before. People send us stuff all the time, either
of old vinyl records, yeah, stuff like that, So it
wasn't anything that we haven't necessarily seen before.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
But I really did love it.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
And because it's at the Convention Center, it is ever too.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
They're really cool. The people who run that are great, amazing.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
But every parking garage that could be closed was closed,
every lot that could be closed was closed.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Every street that could be closed was closed.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
And it took us two hours to park the car
to the point where I gave up. I parked at
the Warhol and I told my friends too, I'm.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Like, we're walking, we're walking, yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
And so we walked and then I was like, not
only are we gonna go to the mixer, then we're
gonna go on to pet Expo afterwards, because now we're parked,
and then when we.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Walk back, we're on the War Hall and we're holding
and I'm like, this shit is not ready for a draft.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
I was losing my mind. I went full Pittsburgh Dad.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I was just like, yeah, enough everything downtown now that's
a problem.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
We're like, how are we going to deal with the draft?
Speaker 5 (15:47):
They're redoing the Melon Square parking garage, the one across
from William Penn.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
So that's where I usually like the park for shows
because I like to just run out of rain and
get down there and I feel like it gets you
out of traffic enough. Yeah, sure to bump that was done.
That's they're they're redoing that, probably for the draft. So
I ended up Square was being redone. Yes, So I
ended up parking down at the Oliver Street parking Garage,
which is like where Capitol Grilla is, which is like
(16:18):
a ten minute walk and.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
It was freezing. Oh my god, it was freezing. But
I was walking through downtown. I was thinking, Yo, everybody's
freaking out about.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Downtown being all dangerous and everything, and it was like
I'm fine, and I'm like, you know, I'm walking out
because I left a little bit early from the show. Yeah,
because it, dude, it went late. I mean, the show
went late. And I'm walking by myself and I'm like,
this is fine. Everything's fine. And so I'm at Mellon
Bank Center and there's like this little there's a little
(16:49):
like stairwell that goes down three sets to drop from
the that road that goes like around it to basically
it's a stairwell that leads you to Melon Bank Center,
but it's very dark, or I can walk all the
way around and go over to fifth and go down
that way right. So I'm like, because I cut it
(17:12):
down the middle coming out of the arena, and I'm like,
I'm just gonna keep cutting, you know, through these building
squares here. And I got to that and i was like,
I'm looking down at it, and in my head the
whole time, I was totally I went out. I was like,
I was looking at it. I'm like, there's probably nobody
in there. I can't see anybody, but it's three stairwells
(17:34):
of dark, and I'm like, if I got mugged in there,
I would deserve it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I don't know that has I wouldn't be like pittsburghw
Pittsburgh's a mass play.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Any city, you probably shouldn't at ten o'clock or whatever time.
It was like ten thirty, like walk through these dark corridors,
and so I ended up walking a long way and
I just beat myself.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Up the whole way. You're such as.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Now you don't know that's not in there.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, I was so bumfed. But other than because I
was in my head thinking it's it's not bad. This
is Downtown's fine right now. You know it's looking better
and better. Uh. Might have something to do with the
fact that it was like fifteen degrees.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
The windshow was brutal downtown.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I think most cities are like that at ten o'clock
at night, except for maybe Boston. Boston is like, for
some reason, the safest city I've ever been in, or
at least it felt like the cleanest and safest.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
But I used to live when.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I lived in Hollywood, I had this thing that I
would do because everybody was getting mugged. Worked at the
Improv Olympic. Improve Olympic is in like a CD part
of Hollywood. It's right on Hollywood Boulevard, and people were
just getting beat up, getting their phones taken, getting you know, mugged,
And I was like, all right, well I got a solution.
I'm gonna run full speed to my car. You're gonna
(18:54):
mug me, you got to tackle me first. Yeah, maybe
that's going to take some of the mugg and energy
out of you. You can get me in the open field,
like I still had a little bit of like a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Of juke move right.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
That's smart, that's smart.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Never had an issue.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Well I probably should have just done that. Here's the
set list. He played thirty five songs last night.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Oh my God, I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Thirty five, thirty five, open with help. Then he played
coming Up, Coming Up, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Yeah, it's such a good song. Got to get you
into my life. Baby, you can drive my car. Let
me letting go is a wing song, Come on, come
on over now, let me roll it, which was awesome.
That's the one my wheelchair. It's getting better all the time. Yeah,
let him in closer to Heaven, my Valentine. He dedicated
to his wife Nancy, who was in the crowd.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
La married again.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Yeah, He's like, this was my my wife and Nancy,
she's in the crowd, and he pointed kind of like
to by to where I was sitting, and I felt
compelled to almost stand up and take my hat off.
Here I'm Nancy eighty five that he played that's my
mom's name, and then maybe I'm Amazed, which was you
(20:09):
don't know, I'm not going to tell you that I
am amazed. That is my favorite Paul McCartney song. I
love this of all time, and I was worried he
wasn't going to be able to pull it off because
he had trouble singing that back in the day. Because
his vocal performance in the studio is so great. It's like, oh, darling,
you know, it's not one that you could just rip
off live because it's so impossible to sing. But he
(20:30):
did a really good job with it. I've Just Seen
a Face, which was just awesome. He did this kind
of broken down acoustics set, like where they came out
in front and they just all played acoustics and like
the keyboard player had accordion and stuff. So they for
that they played I've Just Seen a Face, In Spite
of all the danger, Love Me Do in spite of
(20:52):
all the danger. It was so the Quarryman. It was
the first song the Beatles ever recorded. Wow, he's like,
he told the story he needed his real country sounding song.
Then he played Dance Tonight, Blackbird Here Today, which is
that it was a tribute to John Lennon. Here, do
you guys remember when he put that song out. It's
(21:13):
all about him talking to John the whole song. Yeah,
if you heard it, you would remember, okay now. And
then Lady Madonna jet being for the benefit of mister Kite.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Which was a really interesting one to do.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Then he did something and he did something with the
with the ukulele intro like he does for George.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
And he's like, George, would you know pass out ukulele?
He gave me this ukulele and.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
He tells the story about how he told George one
day he's like, I learned one of your songs on
the ukulele. And he starts playing something in the way
she moves, you know, he just and then the band
kicks in. Yeah, so it's that's cool, so good. Then
it was oh bloody Obla Dah, band on the Run,
get back, let it be Live, and let die Hey Jude,
(21:57):
and then the encore come on sounded like there no,
this is the encore and it's not one song.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Good night.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I've got a feeling. Now, I was gone for this.
I've got a feeling.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
It starts with I've got a feeling.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Maybe another one of the most difficult songs you could
possibly sing in the Beatles catalog Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
They did the reprize, the fast part, you.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Know, late in the night. That's impressive.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Helter skelter damn.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, he has enough voice to do that.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Golden Slumbers, carry that weight at the end. He did
the end of Abbey Road at the end of the show.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Wow, damn.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Eighty three years old.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I mean that's his lifestyle, honestly, Like the way that
he eats and lives it is so clean, like he's
a vegan, right yep.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Yeah, yeah, he's more limber than like anybody too. He's
like super yoga man and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
You go to State fit financy.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Nancy Bauma.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Yeah, that's right, Thank you, everybody, Thank you. Mike's got
your sports when we come back there. Stealer coach Tomlin
talking to the media yesterday, mister Wednesday on the way
as well.
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Speaker 5 (23:39):
I'm trying to just like replay the concert off my
phone for everybody in the studio.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
It's not doing it justice.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
That's usually such an annoying thing to do, and it's
actually really enjoyable. It's like, Okay, watch this, no, watch this,
but it's really I mean, he does sound really good
and the visuals are really cool, like they're appropriate for
every song.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Yeah, you know, he had a really cool stage setup,
but the whole arena is just filming the concert because
you're just in awe of what it's kind of like
seeing Bigfoot.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I have to take a video.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Was he out of focus in your videos?
Speaker 5 (24:10):
He was, but he's wearing a belt so it was
easy to tell their watch. Yeah, swim covered in hair.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
He knows when it's time to hide.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Much better swimmer than us.
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Speaker 9 (24:25):
Aaron Rodgers played what was undoubtedly the worst of his
nine games with the Steelers in Sunday Nights twenty five
ten loss in LA. But Steelers, said coach Mike Tomlin
emphasized yesterday he is not interpreting the result as the
possible beginning of the end for his soon to be
forty two year old QB.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Sunday night was what it was.
Speaker 11 (24:45):
But I have no long term reservations about his ability
to play the position and play the position at a
high level for us.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
Well, he's got to be right about that. If they're
gonna make anything of this season. That's the first thing.
Rogers says, to play well for them to win. Yeah,
I mean any quarterback has to play well for any
team to win.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Rogers in particularly for this one.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Well, I mean one in three in his last four.
I mean, we got to write the rudder pretty quick here.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
By the way, I saw Kinger in the bathroom at
the show last night, and I said Kinger, Paul McCartney
is two Aaron Rodgers. If Paul McCartney can play at
eight thirty at night, Aaron Rodgers should be able.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
To Yeah, nobody's trying to kill Paul McCartney.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
While he's doing it.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
That drummer looked like he had a look at his eye.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
If he had to run from Khalil Mack. I don't
know how good Paul McCartney would have been. There might
not have been an en Court.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Might have been lurking off stage with a blow dart.
I don't know. I'm going to be the last one.
The bass player blocks the blood side like he ain't
finishing the tour. It's a good point.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
Rogers may get a boost from the presence of a
familiar face this coming Sunday against the Bengals. If wide
receiver Marquez Valdez Scantling winds up on the active roster, we'll.
Speaker 11 (25:56):
See what the week holds for him and all the
others on practice squad Man, We're not opposed to elevating
people and giving them an opportunity to contribute. I think
it's just been been about every game this year where
we've elevated someone and and and utilized their talents.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Last week it was.
Speaker 11 (26:13):
Mark Robins, Mark Robinson who just reacquired several other weeks Man,
it's been Trey Sermon, for example, And so I'm certainly
open to evaluate and scantling his ability to to know
what to do and the quality and that execution, and
how it might fit into what we're trying to do
offensively in an effort to engineer victory.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Certainly now interesting there he said.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
Uh, he referenced MVS and everybody else on the practice squad.
That may or may not have been a nod to
Sante Samuel Junior.
Speaker 11 (26:46):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
It had not yet been reported when Tomlin spoke that
he was joining the Steelers practice squad, but ESPN subsequently
reported that.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
The expendables keep expanding, man.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Which are collecting baseball cards, aren't we?
Speaker 9 (26:59):
Well, this guy's twenty six and he's a former second
round pick, and he's a really good player if he's healthy.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
No, we know he can play corner, but houses back.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Well, he had back surgery done by a Steelers doctor, Beckyaty.
So if anybody ought to know how his back is,
it's the Steelers, and there were teams were lined up
to get this guy. They need help a corner, I mean,
makes a lot of sense. And the MVS thing, we
talked about this yesterday. The door has kind of opened
(27:26):
for him because Keishawn Williams muffed the punt. Now, he's
been returning punts ever since Calvin Austin got hurt and
been doing a really good job at it until Sunday,
but they haven't been playing him a wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
So if you want to make sense, if you want
to take that.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Game day helmet away, Austin goes back to punt returns
and then mvs joins the rotation at receiver.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Yeah, and his relationship with Rogers said should have expedite
that process. I mean, it's funny that we're playing the
Bengals this week because Joe just got to town. He
didn't know the plays, and he's still hooking up with
Chase and Higgins quite frequently. You know, the plays don't
matter as much as the chemistry.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
Tomaland was asked about Keishawn Williams in that muff punt
against the Chargers, and part of the answer was, certainly,
we'll look at this week and make plans accordingly given
what transpired in the last game. And by the way,
Austin didn't let it up at receiver either, so you know,
if you want to put him back on punts, where
he's pretty good. And if that forces them to limit
(28:31):
his role wide receiver, there's your open door for MVS.
Might be a different looking Steelers team when they take
on the Bengals Sunday, which given the one and three.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Record in the last four games, it would returning punts
limit his play at receiver.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Austin possibly, you know, everybody has a reps limit.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
He was the number two guy when he was returning
punts above all else.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Isn't it just like an injury concern?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
He did it a little bit this year.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
It was a little different story last year in terms
of where he was in the receiver rotation. And then
Tom said when he came back from injury, they just
wanted him concentrating on getting back up to speed at
wide receiver. And again Williams was doing really well. But
you can't put it on the ground. You just can't
put it on the ground.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
And also, he doesn't have a proven track record in
terms of bouncing back. It's not like he's got six
years of returning that you can bank on, So you
have to You're not in a position to be able
to take a chance on him right now, even though
he might be mentally sound enough and have the fortitude
to come back and not do it again. I don't
know that you take that chance. And it's not the
(29:38):
end of the world for him.
Speaker 9 (29:38):
He's a first year guy, but it's you know, right now,
you gotta do what you gotta do. And I told
you guys when MBS got here, they didn't bring this
guy in here to be on the practice squad. Well no,
I mean he made magic with Aaron Rodgers for four years.
It was a long time ago. But got to find
out if there's any left because they got three points
when it mattered against the Chargers. Some other tidbits from
(30:01):
Tomlin yesterday. He's feeling stability with Jalen Ramsey and Kyle
Duggar at Safety. In terms of the health status for
the upcoming week, Cole Holcom will be limited to start,
uh Jabrill Pepper's limited to start, Isaac Saamalo limited, but
they are optimistic about his return. And Scotty Miller has
(30:23):
been cleared with his broken finger. Yeah, I mean, Scotty
Miller is a nice, complimentary contributor, but he's not a
needle mover.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Kind of let down.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
I thought he was gonna I thought he was gonna
mean a little more to this offense. Training camp preseason.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, in training camp, everybody looks like they're all pro.
Yeah they really do, don't they.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, it's uh Nate Washington disease.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Yeah, he's gonna make a big splash this year. You
watched certain days, everybody has a day. Abbey's got your
news Top of the Hour.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
A wild sight of a car hanging out of a
Pittsburgh garage yesterday.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
I don't know if you guys saw that.
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Speaker 5 (32:44):
Mister Wells, Well, you've got them. Jeff concle istory out there, everybody,
it's it's cold out there.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
What's going on? Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I hate coming in when like, nothing interesting has happened
to me, but like, you know, last week it's pretty typical,
just grocery shopping, Rake the Leaves got invited to an
underground ping pong fight club. The third thing my neighbor
got me all tangled up in this subterranean, suburban adult
ping pong league last week.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Okay, So so.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Last week, like he you know, I have a little
ping pong like an outside ping pong table, and like
my neighbor and I were playing. He's like, you know,
I played with a couple of guys you know, every
so often, Like you wanna you wanna come join us?
And I was like, uh yeah, yeah, I'll definitely do it.
And then of course he invites me one week and
I still have something going on, invites me another week.
I have something going on. So last week he's just like, hey,
what are you Are you gonna you're gonna come out
(33:38):
or come out or what?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
And I was like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
So at dinner he texts me it's it's real ominous
from here. He just texted me a random address and
says be here at seventy five And I'm like, what
is this a ransom?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Money? Like no, cops like you so well.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
So it might have been like a rec center, but
it was somebody's house. So I'm like, all right, it's
just at somebody's house. I'm strapped exactly what you don't
come at all, right? And so so he says, you know,
seven forty five, definitely be there as sharp, like that's
when it starts.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
So what do I do?
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Of course I slow roll that and I'm like, I'm
not showing up at seven forty five on the dot.
I'm showing up ten minutes late so that the the
people and the party can arrive and everything like that.
So I go there at seven fifty five. I type
it in the ways. I'm driving by this house. It's
a cold, blustery night, like there's nothing that the streets
are dark, and I'm driving by this house and I
think is the address, and I'm like, uh, I go,
(34:36):
there's nobody at this house. It's there's no cars in
the driveway. The door is open, and there's like a
little light on the k.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
An abandoned house? Is it? Like it's not an.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Abandoned house, but it's just there was no lights like
on it was not a like if a party just
swinging exactly back and forth exactly.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
That is a red flag in the suburbs. If you
don't have landscape lighting.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Hell, there's no uplighting on your elderberry bushes, then your
as the kids say.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
But so I call my neighbor and I'm like, hey,
I don't think I have the right house. And he goes, no,
that's the right house. And I go, well, where's your car?
And he goes, I'm picking my daughter up from basketball practice.
I'm not gonna be there for like twenty minutes. And
I know what you're thinking. You're like, why didn't you
just leave then? And I was like, well, I don't know,
Like maybe they're counting on me at this point, Like
(35:28):
I don't know if there's brackets, if they're seating, if
I'm like the fourth guy that needs to help move
a heavy.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Arm wire or something like that. I don't know anything
that's going on.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
So I'm sitting in the driveway and I'm like trying
to psych myself up to walk into a strange house.
And I feel like I'm Karen and Goodfellows just like
just go down there, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Just go down there.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
That's okaye going Yeah. So I'm psyching myself up. I'm
like doing all this positive self talk in the car.
I'm like, it's okay, just walk into the stranger's house.
You've never been here before, but people like you, people
like talking to you.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
So I walk.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I was I was like, still on the phone with
my friend, and I'm just like, I was like, ago,
does he know this? This guy know that I'm coming.
And he goes, well, he knows I'm bringing somebody, and
I'm like, yeah, but you're not here. You're like, if
I'm a plus one at a wedding, I don't just
show up without the escort.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
That's the whole point of being escorted.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
So again, cold blustery night, I pop my hoodie up
because I'm bald, I got no hat on. So you know,
I'm walking up to this guy's house in a hoodie,
holding a paddle, just looking like I'm like a frat
pledge master from nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
About their first bankfest.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
So of course I'm like, you know, going around the
house and trying to you know, get get up to
the storm door. And I'm greeted at the door by
you know what else but a rather large, muscular looking
pit bull mix and you know what, pitbull mixes love.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Skittish people lurking around their house.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Hold show objects holding potential weapons.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
So the guy comes to the door, and of course
all my fears were completely misplaced.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
He was like the nicest guy ever.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
But I also found like this, Like, so I go
into the house and we're making small talk, and it
just dawned on me that, like, this is the whole
point of small talk. Like, do you know people who
are just like I hate small talk. I hate making
small talk. It's like, well, that's because you suck and
you're rude, Like that's why you hate small talk. Small
talk is the I could not have gotten out of
(37:29):
that incredibly. It's not that they were making it awkward.
It was just an awkward situation. So I'm having to
talk about where your kids go to school, who plays sports,
and everything like that, And that's the whole point of
small talk. You can't get right into it. You need
a little off ramp to kind of exactly like social graces. Man,
you got to know how to navigate that situation. If
you don't know somebody, you don't walk up to him
(37:50):
and say hi, my name's Jeff Israel or Palestine, Like
that's not that's not how that works.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
You have to kind of feel people out.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
So other people start arriving at the end ground ping
Pong flight fight Club, and I am like woefully mismatched
because they're all carrying black satchels. Oh yeah, everyone's got
a little black satchel, and I'm just like kind of
waving around my like you know, lucy cigarette, frigging ping
pong battle. So all various dimensions, like people are opening
(38:17):
up and there's golden lights showing out of it, like
the briefcase in pulp fiction. One guy had this old
wooden paddle that looked like it was carved from the
same wood as Robert Redford's bat in the Natural Like
it was carved, it was hewn from a piece of
redwood that was struck by lightning. But the long story
short is that, like it was a totally pleasant time.
(38:39):
It got really overly competitive for a bunch of like
forty one year old guys. They're like people were sweating
at the at the end of this session. But it
was just the lead up that was like so unbelievably harrowing,
and but it turned out to be great.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
So that was what was fun about it. How did
you perform? I went to two and four.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
I kind of went in there thinking like, well, I
was invited, so I'm probably gonna I'm probably gonna smoke
some people.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
And it didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
I was like, I do, like, really, the logic of
that is completely backwards, Like you're being invited to a
group of guys who are already extremely proficient.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
So yeah, I got absolutely smoked.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
And of course, you know they're all waving their custom
ping pong pads around and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
I got mine at Dunham's the same whatsoever?
Speaker 12 (39:25):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (39:25):
You know Frank Calando when he iss the town, he
goes and plays with the Sea Miller family.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
But they're like like ultra experts, right, Yeah, these were
the Olympians, intermediate intermediate people high high intermediate. I would say, yeah,
we're not part of the full Pittsburgh underground scene yet.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
But it was just ping pong. It was just ping pong. Yeah,
we didn't move an arm wire after. Is there music
playing while ping pong is going on? No, which I
found to be lacking.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Yeah, just speaking of lubrication, if we're trying to make
some like it depends the music is a personal choice too.
And if somebody puts on you know, Neil Simon or
something like that, are or Paul Simon or something that
doesn't really fit the vibe either, or how about goodbye horses, you.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (40:06):
Like you put on the silence of a lambsong. Guys
ready to play some ping punk. Turn out the lights,
everybody put your night vision goggles on you.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Yeah, Abby's got your knees.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Next, your new Miss World is a heavy metal queen.
Speaker 8 (40:19):
And we're gonna talk about that wild site of the
car hanging out of the pictures yesterday, those bananas.
Speaker 13 (40:25):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
to you by your neighborhood Fords Store and Steelers Pro Shop.
Get it direct from the team at shop dot Steelers
dot com. Here's Tom Opperman.
Speaker 12 (40:36):
The Steelers added to their secondary yesterday evening when the
team signed twenty six year old cornerback of Sante Samuel
Junior to the practice squad. Samuel Junior has spent each
of his prior four seasons in the NFL with the
LA Chargers, starting forty seven games over those seasons, racking
up six interceptions and thirty seven passes defense. Samuel only
played in four games last year before suffering a shoulder
injury that.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Would sideline him for the rest of the season.
Speaker 12 (40:58):
He underwent spinal fusion surgery this past April, hence the
reason a young, talented corner was still available to sign
this late in the season. With Darius Lay in the
concussion protocol and the Steelers being thin at the cornerback
position thanks to the move of Jalen Ramsey to safety,
a Sante Samuel Junior should be able to help that
cornerback room, and his elevation from the practice squad to
(41:19):
the active rosters should be coming soon. Elsewhere in Steelers Country,
head coach Mike Tomlin addressed the media for his weekly
press conference yesterday, and he updated some news on the
injury front. Mike Tomlin is optimistic that guard Isaac Samali
will be able to play as he's trying to return
from a peck injury. Satty Gabriel Peppers an inside linebacker
Cole Hulkom are also trending back as they'll begin this
(41:39):
week of practice in a limited capacity.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
I'm Tom Offerman with your Steelers Report.
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