11.14.25 Randy Baumann and the DVE Morning Show FULL SHOW

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the dB Morning Randy Bauman, along with Bill Crawford
and Abby Prisner, Mike Pursuda from New Jersey dot Com
or the New York Star Ledger. New York Yankees beat
writer Randy Miller joining us right now on the DV
Morning show.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Randy, good morning. How are you man?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm great, It's great to be on DVE. I'm a
native Jeannette, the guy who's grew up listingertation.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, it's been a long time.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
We haven't spoken in a while, but you know, I
know you in pursuit of have been friends for a
long time, but you and I have crossed paths a
couple of times, and it's definitely good to talk to
you again. This story's making a lot of ways here
in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
There's some some people.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Who are saying, oh, oh, well, Paul Sken's denied this report,
but I don't hear a denial in what he said.
What did you make of Paul Sken's comments about your
story about him wanting to be traded to the Yankees
and vocalizing that to teammates.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I wasn't surprised.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Haven't been a Yankee. I covered the Phillies for seventeen
years and this is my coming up, my eleventh of
the Yankees.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
And over the.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Years I heard a lot of stories from people would
have been in the organization, not good stories, and a
lot of people have been unhappy there. And I did
a big story last year on Domingo Herman and how
that the Parts signed him after he'd been through a

(01:26):
lot of issues and the Parts didn't do their due diligence,
and I kind of had pretty interesting phone conversation with
GM after that surprised me. Then I help players are
a lot of friends in the game and people I
talked to, and when I heard this story, I wasn't surprised,
but it wasn't from what It wasn't just schemes. I

(01:47):
heard that a lot of people when they're there. It's
when you're the miners, get to the big leagues, they
can develop you and then get out of there because
the owner just isn't going to spend money and schemes
wants to win. I'm in Las Vegas right now off
of the GM meetings, and I waited out and spoke
to the Pirates GM the other day by myself for
a little bit, and I told him what I'd heard,

(02:08):
and he's just he wasn't surprised.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
He knows.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
He told me that every one of our conversation, schemes
I want to win.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I want to win.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Keeps been the best priority for probably since Barry Bonds
and Deans is doing it the right way. And it's
sad to me. I grew up a big Pirates fan,
kept score probably one hundred and twenty or thirty games
a year in the Starguel Park or Candelira era, and
it's sad what they become. It's just I hope that

(02:38):
the owner sells the team at some point. I think
there's going to be a lockout next year that might
we might even lose the entire twenty twenty seventh season.
I know the owners want to get a floor to
the I get a cap of the floor, and maybe
that's the best thing that could happen to Pittsburgh because
it's it's a shame. And look, everyone knows that there's
no chance the Pirates are going to keep schemes for

(03:00):
the long run. There's just no shots. He's going to
get probably five hundred million at some point. And also,
by the way, there's before I even talked to a
pirate about this, and it was brought up to me.
It wasn't something high asked. It was brought up to
me and it was I know in my story it
was a couple of comments, but it was a ten

(03:21):
minute conversation about the pirates that I've heard from being
out in the New York area. I have heard from
people that that schemes. His girlfriend has told people that
he's going to be a Yankee. I heard that second hand.
I didn't write it because I heard its secondhand.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
But he was for an apartment in Dormont.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
I thought, I think she tried to buy Babe Russel
the Little House and it got denied at one point.
So after that happened, I had heard stories who who knows.
I just know that at one point last year someone
had told me that it's Kings of talk about wanting
to be an angel, and I mentioned the story about

(04:04):
how he got Mike Trouts autographs. From what I've heard,
people have said to him, why would you want to
be an angel? Look what they've done to Mike Trout's career.
Look what they've done to the six years of a
Tawny's career. You're going to go there and beat your
hometown team, and you're never going to win. And now
I'm hearing I'm hearing the Yankees, and I'm not hearing
that anything's going to happen. Now. I think he can

(04:24):
be a part for a couple more years. But I
do know that from talking to people with the Yankees
that they have heard the same thing. They've they've kind
of laughed off, like, hey, you know, you hear this
stuff all the time. Everybody wants to come here. Let's
let's see what happens down the road, you know, for
agency's a long way. Now see what happens down the road.
So the Yankees have heard this. They've heard the stuff too,

(04:47):
not from me, They've heard it from other people.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
The Skis agent must be like, shut up, you're killing us.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, you know, I have a funny story and uh,
you know, I I ripped the Pirates because I love
the old pirates and it's sad what become. But this
is this is a story that kind of illustrates what
the pirates are. And you wonder, why is nutting like this?
You know, if he's going to be an owner, why

(05:16):
not put some money into the team. Well, a few
years ago, a long time friend of mine passed away,
and I'm at the dinner after the funeral, and I'm
sitting next to his my friend's cousin, and her husband
was there, and her husband was a lot older, and
we're talking about my job, and her husband says, hey,

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I want to let you know I am friends with
Nutting's father, who I think passed away maybe a couple
of years ago. And he says, every year, there's a
few of us that make this trip to Colorado and
it's it's a bunch of rich people to go and
have these dinners and go hang out for several days.
He goes, what's crazy is we're these dinners and they

(05:57):
are very expensive dinners. And at the end of dinner,
Nothing's dad pulls out of his jacket instant coffee and says,
I ain't paying twenty dollars for damn coffee. So here's
a guy that has close to a billion dollars that
was bringing his own instant coffee. So when you say,
you know, the apple doesn't fall apart from the three like,

(06:17):
it's just when you hear that, it's just like, oh god,
you know, it's.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
It's sad to me.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
But look there's no chance they're keeping Schemes for the
long run. I think this year ms Keller is going
to make sixteen point four million. If they don't trade him,
that'll be the richest contract in pirate history. I hear
that he's available for a trade, Reynolds is available for
a trade. He's making money. But when it comes time
for Schemes to get into his fifth and sixth year,

(06:46):
I think the last year he might make might set
a record for arbitration eligible numbers, which might be thirty
thirty five. I think Soto had the record two years
ago when the Yankees maybe thirty one million. By then,
Schemes could get thirty five million odie open market. He's
gonna get fifty million dollars a year. And it's just
it's just he's never he has no shots of staying,
so at some point the pirates are gonna have to

(07:08):
trade him. When I talked to the GM two days ago,
he said, the way to keep him the longest is
to is to win. Well, keep him the longest. What
does that mean? Keep him for five years instead of four,
six years instead of five. That's that's the best case.
The best case scenario. I believe is that is that
he gets to where Garret Cole was. You know, I

(07:31):
talked to Garrett Cole a lot who who still loves
Pittsburgh and still upset that the Pirates didn't keep him
for six years. And they try to win because a
lot of people that I talked to that come through
your organization, they just love the city. They love the fans.
They they know what it was like in the seventies
when they won, when the Pirates were as popular as

(07:54):
as the Steelers, more popular than the Penguins. And now
what there's a couple of generations fans that know nothing
but losing. And the Schemes is already the best right
handed in baseball. He in s Google Beside Young Winner
for Detroit are the best two pitchers in baseball. And
it's sad that he has no shot in making the playoffs.

(08:15):
What are the Pirates gonna do this year? The GM says, Oh,
we're gonna spend a little more money. What's that mean.
They're gonna get one bat that's a five million dollar player.
That's not gonna change anything. They're gonna lose. They're gonna
lose eighty five ninety games for sure. Agan next year.
It's just not gonna change.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
And that's Randy, correct me if I'm wrong.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
That's your perception of how baseball looks at the Pirates
that are not a serious player.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Of course, they're not a serious player. And and the
thing is is that we always hear the small market. Well,
look at Milwaukee, Milwaukee. I've been to Milwaukee. I've been
there with you. The night that the Mummy Brister's when
sister his sister are gonna fight in the bar.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Got to do a different interview about that one.

Speaker 6 (08:57):
He's got a twist, Chubby Brister twins.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
I remember there was like the Evil Twin and.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
The good Win and.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
I just remembers she got in a fight and she
was being drug away and she started bra serious.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's amazing.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, yeah, Mike. Mike was probably seventeen beers in and
doesn't remember.

Speaker 7 (09:29):
The fire engine red in the studio.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
You're welcome, love the bar. People are not in the industry.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
You're not taking them seriously, is the suspicion.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
It's how can they They've had what four winning seasons
since Barry Bonds left and and it's I think of
in the seventies when I remember being excited at a kid.
When there was talk Peter Rose might come to the
it comes to the Pirates. Gallbrook was going to give
them some horses, even going to come, and now it's
just it's a joke. And they got a beautiful ballpark.

(10:09):
People come from all over the nation go see that ballpark,
and they just don't win. Well, why can Milwaukee win?
Why why can Tampa win? Look at Tampa. I go
to Tampa all the time. The Yankees play there twice
a year. I'm there for spring training. They get ten
thousand people at the games. And yet they've been in
the playoffs and they're in the Al East. They beat

(10:31):
out the Yankees for division titles, beat them in the playoffs.
How can they win? Because they put a lot of
money into their form system, they do things right. Even
with the Pirates. I hear stories that their farm system
isn't the greatest in certain areas. The scouts aren't the
greatest in certain areas. And that's where a lot of
these other teams that at least they put the money

(10:53):
in developing players, they can't keep them.

Speaker 8 (10:56):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
I hear a lot of times in spring training when
you get there, there's eighty people in the in the clubhouse,
and there's a lot of guys that are six year
freezing PARAMIDT League signs that are going to go to
Trip Away, and all the ones that play for the Pirates.
I go up to them and shout with them, what
was your time like in the organization? And this has

(11:17):
been going for years. You just you don't hear good stories.

Speaker 8 (11:21):
You know.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
The one guy who loves Pittsburgh was was Bednar I
I I, uh, it's a it's fun getting to know
him a little bit.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
He just came at the end of the year.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
But the guy, the guy loves Pittsburgh goes and he
goes in tailgates with the Steeler games of fans and
uh and uh. Yankee fans are just seeing what kind
of guy he's a He's a true Pittsburgh who's a
founder of guy. And I think the Yankee fans are
gonna really go to love him. I don't think any
of them understand the uh his his entrance song, you

(11:54):
know Steelers Uh still he does renegade. Yeah yeah, And
I was pretty fired enough. I taped the first time
and sent to some of my friends dot home. They
were they were excited about it, and nobody at the
Yankee fans don't understand.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (12:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Randy Miller from uh in New Jersey dot Com the
the author of the article yesterday about Paul Skean's apparently
telling a teammate that he wanted to be traded to
the Yankees.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
I mean, this was this Tony Soprano in that driveway
scene where he picked up.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, of course he was yeah. Uh.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
But this to me, you know, we talked about this earlier,
This to me is the least surprising story in the world.
You know, guy who's in jail, who committed no crime
wants to escape.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
I do believe that Skeens knows he's there for a
couple more years, and I believe he wants to win there.
I have friends in Louisiana that followed him when he
was at LSU from all counts. I hear he's a
pretty good guy. People reporters I talked to. I hear
he's a pretty stand up guy. But he knows, he

(13:06):
knows he's not going to be a long term pirate.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
It's it's it's obvious. I know that he's I know
people that talk to him about it. Then, look, he's
just not going to come out and say, yes, I
want to I want to go to the Yankees. I've
never heard anything about the Yankees. I've been telling people
last year. I hear he wants to go to the Angels,
and people like, what, why would he go there? That's
what someone told me that that talked to him. And

(13:29):
then now, uh, when I brought that up to uh,
I remember the Pirates. No no, no, no, no, no, it's it's the Yankees.
And then I said, okay, well that makes sense because
I've heard some stuff about I don't know his girlfriend,
but it's out there to to where it's got back
to the Yankees. I know it's got back to the
Yankees that that they've heard it, and they've kind of

(13:51):
laughed at off. Look, you hear all the time people
want to play for this a lot of times that
the agents are always throw the Yankees and everything to
try up the price. That I still believe that he'll
be a Pirate for at least two more years, and
then I think when they realized that he's not going

(14:13):
to sign long term, at that point he will move on.
I know Garret Cole was interested in being a pirate
long time, long term heartbreak.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's what's heartbreaking, because these guys actually do want to
stay here, you know.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
And Bob Nuttings.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Who loved it there, he still does. We talked about
Pittsburgh all the time. I pulls a great guy to
be around. He could be the best pitching coach in baseball,
but he's never going to do it because he's made
so much money. But a great guy. And we talked
about Pittsburgh a lot, and he look. He pitched in
All Star Games, pitched in a World Series with the Yankees.
Some of his best moments of his life were the

(14:50):
playoff games in Pittsburgh and winning in Pittsburgh when nobody
thought today or whoever winning They had that three year
stretch where where they were in what the wild Card series,
and they won one game where the fans were all
over the Reds pitcher and that was a great moment
in Pittsburgh and it was I remember watching that game
on TV and it's like, wow, this reminds me of
what it was like for a kid. And now it's

(15:11):
a whole generation of fans that are seeing this for
the first time and cool that let's build it let's
add on to this team and at least keep me
through six years. And look, he ended up going getting
trade with Houston, he gets another World Series, goes to
the World Series. There, he goes the World Series the Yankees.
He gets this big contract, but he's he still wishes

(15:32):
that he would have had another run with the Pirates
to see if they would have added on that last
year instead of getting rid of him, they would have
added on. He thought they were close. And when you
look at how close Milwaukee has been over the years,
I think those those Pirate teams were as good as
any of these Milwaukee teams. You looked the same thing
with the Pampa Tines. So a small market team, if

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you do it right, you can you can get in
there and have a little two or three year run
like the Pirates had years ago. But look, everybody knows
that they're not They're not spending like they should. They're
keeping their luxury tax money, and uh, it's it's disgraceful
because there's a lot of great baseball fans in Pittsburgh.
I know because my friends are Pirate fans. My dad's

(16:16):
a Pirate fan, my cousin's a big Pirates fan. And
you see their Facebook posts and and they're still living
and dying. I have a friend in Louisiana who watches
every freaking, every freaking game, and it's like they're they're
they're so upset. Uh. One drove the drove to Cooperstown
for Parker from Louisiana to to Coopertown Parker's can All
Day induction. Then then two weeks later drove from Louisiana

(16:38):
to Pittsburgh to go see l Over going to Pirates
All Fames. So there's still huge Pirate fans out there
living in the past, hoping that they live long enough.
And but look, there's a lot of Red Sox fans
that never thought You're one of them, right, Randy, Yeah,
you probably never thought I think I got your tickets
to one year.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yes, and uh and uh and I'll never get it.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
And you never thought you'd never see the Red Sox
win the World Series.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
And I got to go with that.

Speaker 10 (17:01):
Yeah, And then now.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
The Cubs have won, so things can change. I just
wonder when we heard rumors years ago about Cuban, if
Cuban would have bought the team, how it would be different.
But I still believe the Silver lining here for the
pirate fans is and it's a really good thing that
the Dodgers won the Real Series this year because from
what I hear is that most of the owners in

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baseball are united against the Dodgers. The Dodgers are bringing
in so many millions of dollars in Japanese advertising that
basically the the O Tawny contract was paid off in
a couple of years. That's right here. And now I
know a lot of the owners, including Steinbrenner for the Yankees,
who has many billions, that they're like, we have to

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stop this. We're not gonna be able to even we
can't compete with the Dodgers in their spending. They're paying
so much in luxury tax, but it doesn't matter because
the advertising money that they're bringing in from Japan is
offsetting this and they're still making money, a big money.
So from talking to players, they're insisting over our mid
body or we ever going to have our salary cap,

(18:10):
and the owners are saying, well, we're getting a salary cap.
So there's going to be a might be the worst
work stoppage in sports history, as bad as the hockey.
But I believe the way it's going to get solved.
Is I believe there's going to be a cap. I
believe it'll be a high cap, so the Yankees and
Dodgers and Mets will still be able to spend a
little more than everybody else. But I believe it's going

(18:30):
to force the Pirates, the Marlins, the Rays, the Brewers,
the small market teams to spend a lot more. And
that point, nothing's going to either have to spend or
sell the team. And so I think that'll be a
good thing for pirates. And is that that we that
they get a cap in here a couple of years
down the road, and that gives them a chance to
force the Pirates to spend and get a chance to win,

(18:53):
because it's it's it's a shame what's.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Going on here. Certainly, way way, way too long.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Randy Miller, thank you so much. We really appreciate your
time this morning. Thanks for calling from Vegas.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Anytime.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Guys, Thank you all, rybody, take care, kids, shout it
all up.

Speaker 8 (19:07):
Back off, Boogaloo, go bring me down.

Speaker 10 (19:10):
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Speaker 11 (19:23):
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Speaker 1 (19:30):
It's the DV Morning Show and welcoming right now, as
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Ladies and Gentlemen, brought to.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
You by the Gateway Clipper.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
It's our friend Dave Dannischeck's updating.

Speaker 8 (19:47):
Not as enthusiastic as usual for obvious reasons. Here the
flags across with all America flying at half staff or
something like that, or maybe replacing it with a terrible
chow to give a little shout for this big life
event for our guy Bill Crawford. Very sad stuff for
dve go get him though, Where what is the plan here?

(20:09):
So you're gonna what is the thing like you're angling
before you see Mike Comlins pattern over the last couple
of years, and Crawford's like, yay, maybe my numbers up
in twenty twenty six to play QB out of forty plus. Dude,
keep getting their shots, Why not me?

Speaker 6 (20:26):
I'm announcing myself as eligible for the twenty twenty six
Drafty and I'm just trying to get ahead of it.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
I want to get in the gym.

Speaker 6 (20:33):
I have a couple of trainers in Bridgeville here that
are gonna that are gonna get me in the tip
top shape that I know that I can be in,
and I know that I can take this team to
the playoffs.

Speaker 7 (20:44):
And not just to the playoffs, Dave, I want to
win a game.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
He just wants to be a long servant leader, that's all.

Speaker 7 (20:49):
Yeah, I want to be the servant leader.

Speaker 6 (20:51):
But I'm going into the caves Laurel Caverns to be
exact for just a couple of weeks.

Speaker 8 (20:56):
Yes, this is a good plan. You know they remember
last spring when they announced that the Steelers were you know, like,
can you imagine the talking heads, the grown up people.
I didn't hear a ton of this from the banks
of the Three Rivers, but nationally, just if you need
this is before the disaster, the rolling disaster that we

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are watching unfold here with these Steelers once again, but
last spring, in between last year's shameful demise with Russell
Wilson at the Helm and between, but before what we
saw on Sunday night and so far and what is
a harbinger of bad times ahead. Perhaps we were told
by all the talking heads, like can you imagine how

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great the Steelers are really excited about building to the
twenty twenty six draft, because if they in right there
at the point, if they could announce the first overall
draft pick as a pitcher, like no, no, no national voices,
that's Cleveland Brown's crap. The Steelers announced the first overall

(22:01):
pick indicates sorrow in the actual season. That, in other words,
is what we're experiencing right now as steel As fans.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
But anyway, the good news is that if they do
announce local.

Speaker 8 (22:13):
Boy, if they do announce local son, Bill Crawford is
the first ever all pick. Now, them talking heads was
right all along, this is going to be grand stuff.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
So I look forward to that.

Speaker 8 (22:23):
I'm just gonna I'm gonna go hibernate until the draft.
Somebody wake me up so I can I can celebrate
with Crawford because right now I'm just I'm just sick.
But I do want to say this very quickly.

Speaker 7 (22:35):
That I just want to know are at this well.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
I mean, I'm just sick over this.

Speaker 8 (22:45):
Oh listen, I'm going to be sick in my ball
now I already am, but I'm trying to say. I'm
trying to say some of the some of the more
serious illness to unfold around the holidays.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
So I could be really delightful.

Speaker 8 (22:58):
At Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I want to make clear
that it could have been worse, because if you're down
in the dumps, you know silver lining Dave is here
to boost your spirits. Yeah, it was grim and embarrassing
for what the second time in three weeks or whatever,
it was on a national stage, prime time, the uh
the the Mike Tomlin and company figuratively at least standing

(23:22):
nude before the pro football world to show to show balls,
sick or otherwise, and that that performed three points three
three points? Oh ohtho. But I don't know if you
heard all the all the people, all the all the
sober local people want you to know, the talking heads like, hey,

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Chargers have a great defense. Oh okay, so so then
that so then that makes it okay to only score
three points in a pro football game when you're the
mighty Pittsburgh Steelers touted with a smart move. Oh no, Dave,
you don't get it. Aaron Rodger, you just see you
just seem angry about something that we can't quite put
our finger on. But I don't think you understand. We're
practice every day and you should see the command Aaron

(24:06):
Rodgers has. And you thought he was going to be disruptive. No,
I didn't think he was going to be disrupted with
his teammates. I thought he was old and wasn't going
to be able to evade professional athletes chasing him around.
And so far it looks like I'm right if you want.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
A gloater?

Speaker 8 (24:25):
Do you think I Do you think this makes me happy?
Do you think this gives me pleasure?

Speaker 2 (24:31):
A little bit? A little bit, a little bit?

Speaker 8 (24:34):
Yeah, well, look, consider my side of it. I'm slack
jawed that people who seem bright to me continue to
indulge this nonsense, that that after the Russell Wilson experience,
everybody's like, I don't think you understand, Dave. I don't
think you quite get it from out there in LA.
But but Aaron Rodgers is a different guy. How is
it any different than what happened with Russell Wilson? So

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far it's exactly the same. But anyway, here's how it
could have been. Work the guy, the guy gashing him
up and down the field all night long on the
ground could have been Nachie Harris, and then it would
have been really embarrassing. Oh no, it was as about
as embarrassing as it could have been, but it would
have been a little bit worse if it would have
been nach The football gods have done their best to
protect Mike Tomlin from true shane. We've been talking about

(25:19):
it for what eight and ten weeks now. They should
have lost to Justin Fields. That would have exposed things
a lot earlier in the season than where we are now.
But as much as possible, the football gods have insulated
Tomlin from true shame. And as long as you don't
pay attention to what's going on in Dallas. With George
Pickens being one of the top receivers in the games
that also fielders, you.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Know, you know who's glad that we didn't go to
Justin Fields full time last year Justin Fields he earned
another thirty million dollars because we benched him.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
No, this is the stink.

Speaker 8 (25:55):
And thinking of people being all over the place about
who these stealers are, you do you think as much
as many shots as I will take at the Steelers'
brain trust. You are now Randy Bauman, the signature radio
show on the banks of the Three Rivers for at
least the last quarter century. You you are asserting now

(26:16):
that the Steelers' brain trust equals the Jets brain trust
their coaching abilities and otherwise.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
No, oh, look now.

Speaker 8 (26:24):
You look dumb, Dave, because you wanted the Steelers to
take that to bring back justin.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Passing in the first half. No coaches are that bad.

Speaker 8 (26:33):
He sucks, but that's not the point is you bring
him in is a transition and.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
You I wanted that too, and it was obviously going
to be the wrong move.

Speaker 8 (26:42):
I disagree, because what if you if what you want
is to set yourself up with a bridge quarterback, I mean, listen,
PURSUITA and I are among a small handful of people
who I'm pretty sure I'm kissing pursuit into this. It
said for a long long time, and still say. Jackson

(27:02):
Dart was obviously the guy. It's the quarterback league. Well,
but we took Kenny Pickett and that didn't work out,
and you picked him in the twenties, and you see
what you get when you get into into the back
half of the of the first round, it's not as dependent. No,
you keep taking swings at the only position that matters.
You don't take a defensive tackle when you have a
desperate need for a quarterback. Oh no, but we got
the forty year old man who's going to bridge us

(27:24):
into into brighter days. Except that now none of those
guys in twenty twenties just appear to be worth it.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Listen, here's what I'll say.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
You are right, and we have dissected their mistakes from
an organizational standpoint to the end that like there is
nothing left of the body.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
I will say that it is very Pittsburgh that we
have an old bridge that's going to get us to
the future.

Speaker 7 (27:49):
I will say we can all.

Speaker 6 (27:50):
Agree that at least that is on brand for Pittsburgh,
the lab without.

Speaker 12 (27:56):
Kay, that's what I can do that.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Okay, So let's let's look at let's let's get let's
get optimistic. Okay, let's let's let's try to find a
silver line.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Okay, I want to do that.

Speaker 8 (28:11):
Samuel means that, Santi Samuel Junior, he this is this
move makes this defense historic.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Thank you for something I think say I'm a ray
of sunshine.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Let me tell you something.

Speaker 8 (28:26):
Else I hate talk about, like what the national voices
were buzzing about.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
You are one of the national voices, FYI, But go ahead.

Speaker 8 (28:38):
I don't I don't wear that, I don't accept that.
I'm focused singularly on.

Speaker 13 (28:44):
My I can.

Speaker 8 (28:45):
I'm capable of weighing in intellectually on the thirty one
other teams, but by heart, it sits on the banks
of the three rivers. Now, the the I hate when
they do the thing when they have nothing to talk about.
The the the unimatgined of people. What should we do
to fill this TV segment? Well, I know, let's thirty
two times over put up the schedules of these pro

(29:06):
football teams and hack through them in April and pretend
that we can divine what the results are going to
be in November and December games blind.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Let's just do that.

Speaker 8 (29:15):
I do think we can now do that, now that
we've transcended the halfway point in the stealer schedule, and
let's just go at it. Obviously, we can't predict in
a league fully when the Carolina Panthers can go to
Green Bay and knock them off head to head and
all that, but as best we can tell me what
you think of this. They're five and four, as you know,
are they going to how many wins do you hear here?

(29:37):
Just count your head? How many wins do you count
out of this remaining schedule to get to ten, which
I think is we can agree, probably the magic number
to at least get into the postseason or take a
shot at winning the North. Here we go, Bungals at Bears,
Buffalo in Pittsburgh, at the Ravens, Dolphins in Pittsburgh, at

(30:01):
Detroit Cleveland with Baltimore. I count four wins there. I
think they wind up. I now it kind of seems
I have.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
I have Brown's Bengals, Dolphins, Crawford.

Speaker 6 (30:15):
I don't like the Dolphins because it's a night game
and Aaron is too old to play at night. Now
three three bad, bad games in prime time. I don't
like that as a win. I got them at four.
I have I have them winning the game against the Bungles,
I have them beating the Bears. I've got them beating
the Ravens once.

Speaker 8 (30:37):
I mean, I think, what what I said, I talk
about pat myself on the back, but what I said, whatever,
it was three weeks ago before, before the first game
against Cincy, and I stand by this even as things
have spiraled a little bit here. If they had won
that game, they just have to beat the Crepa Joe

(30:58):
Flacco and they would have been then they that would
have gotten in to six and one, and that would
have been a five games spread against the Ravens. And
if you merely not merely, but if you split with
Baltimore in those two, it creates a mountain too tall
for Baltimore, no matter what they do the rest of
the season, for them to overcome. The Steelers would have

(31:20):
won the division with a win there. I know that
sounds retro and like wow, but maybe they stole want
to get the Colts that you didn't anticipate they had
been six and one, five game margin that it would
have been nearly impossible. Assuming again, like Crawford just said,
a split against Baltimore. I no longer see the possibility
of that split. Though you think they're gonna win at
the first game is at Baltimore, I don't have high

(31:42):
hopes for them pulling that one out in between. I
mean that's after they played the Bills, So I mean
they're not gonna win at Detroit. Clear they're certain. I mean,
who would pick that The swing game, aside from needing
to beat Baltimore at least once, is at the Bears.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
You know, Okay, so you're saying, but if they win
four games, that makes them nine and eight, and you
do they get in the playoff at nine and eighth
this year?

Speaker 8 (32:06):
And look at the It's just the way it susses
out if you, if you take a look at the
at the way things lay out right now, they look
comfy in a in a playoff spot. They're fourth seated,
but they're the the It is bizarre. It's downright weird.
If you look at as much conversations like who's saw
the Patriots and Buffalo at the top of the standings?

(32:28):
What is this two thousand and eight?

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Everybody?

Speaker 3 (32:32):
It's hysterical.

Speaker 8 (32:33):
But anyway, I can't stop.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Laughing about how delightful it is.

Speaker 8 (32:37):
But uh oh, you know, and they kiss the Steelers
into that too, because they still are holding on the
first place nominally, but look at the teams that are
rising up beneath them. Do you the Bills already have
a game on them so that they buy by necessity,
Pittsburgh would have to win that Buffalo game. To overcome
the Bills, otherwise they aren't passing them in the Still,
Buffalo is essentially ahead of Pittsburgh in the stand if

(33:00):
you assume the Ravens are going to win the division.
The Texans are one game behind the Steelers now, and
here come the Chiefs on the rise as well. So
all the teams that are by number underneath Pittsburgh right
now are probably going to or some percentage of them
are going to wind up ahead of Pittsburgh. And where
that leaves the Steelers, I don't know. The only one

(33:22):
who they really have head to head is the Colts,
and that's nice, except that the Coults ain't going to
blow the division. So it's neither here nor there.

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Speaker 8 (33:34):
I don't mean to be a bummer, but of course
that that only aligns with where we are today, Will
mischie Bill Crawford, go get them out there, Region Square Son.
We believe in you. We know you're gonna kill it
out there, and and everybody's cheering for you on the
banks of the Three Rivers. Pali.

Speaker 7 (33:52):
Thanks check.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
It's it's been so fun talking Steelers with you Man,
as evidenced by h When everybody leaves the studio and
we're off air, we've done this segment, we've taped it,
we've sent it off to be repurposed for the next
day's show. And it's still me and you sitting here
talking Steelers for thirty five to forty five minutes. They

(34:14):
start closing the whole building down. Chairs are flipping around me,
they're turning the lights off.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
I'm already home sleeping.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
If you guys are still talking, it's like build it.

Speaker 8 (34:27):
The next day's show starts in ninety minutes.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
I'm miss hang out here. It's about that, Kay, late
to take a nap.

Speaker 6 (34:33):
Now, it's been a blast, man, and I hope we
keep in touch and I might just have to call
you to do this segment off air, just between us
on the phone sometime.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (34:43):
Listen, the Steelers season may be winding down, but the
Pens are just getting going. And then we got schemes
talk about bridging into twenty twenty six. Let's do it, fella,
go get them out there.

Speaker 14 (34:53):
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alls even long on your radio home for the Steelers
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Speaker 10 (35:00):
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Speaker 2 (35:06):
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Speaker 10 (35:07):
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Speaker 1 (35:13):
It's the DVE Morning Show Randy Bauman along with Bill
Crawford this morning here on his big last day, welcoming
our next guest. Brought to you by Edgar Snyder and associates.
They're always looking out for you in this in perfect world.
Before you talk to the insurance company, find Edgar, we
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Speaker 2 (35:30):
What's upbody?

Speaker 7 (35:31):
Good morning morning.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yes, it is a good morning.

Speaker 15 (35:35):
So let's start with, Oh, it's kind of a bad
morning because it's Bill's last show and I got a time.
I'm gonna severely miss you. The amount of times coffee
has come back.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Out through my nose and stuff that you have said
is like a record. So good luck to you, brother.

Speaker 15 (35:52):
I love you, and you're tremendously talented.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
I know you'll do well whatever you do.

Speaker 6 (35:56):
Thank you so much, Guy, And I just want to
say it's been an absolute pleasure getting it to you
every week, and you've done such an amazing job filling
the spot of your partner.

Speaker 7 (36:07):
It's It's truly been an honor to get to talk
to you.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Man.

Speaker 6 (36:10):
I grew up watching you and uh and I love
how much you still know about every single sport. I mean,
it just it gives me hope that that's you know,
that's that's on deck for me for the rest of
my life. It doesn't matter if you're retired. You're working
now more than you ever did.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Well, you grew up watching me. Is that an age joke?

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Because that you're I'm sorry, I mean you have got
that gray beard now you well, I mean you probably
got four shades grayer. Watching Penn State blow that game
to Indiana last week.

Speaker 15 (36:46):
I was talking to producer Jacob there went up to
the game. If you were just not interested in either
team and just watched that New Joe. It was a
fabulous football game. But it's a look, it's a terrible
They stink and it's don't I don't even know they
can win the last three games to get to a
lousy Bowl, but they got to be one of the
best three and six teams or whatever. They lost two

(37:08):
games by one point double overtime. The Oregon back to
back weeks against the one and two undefeated teams in
the country and played, you know, a good half against
Ohio State in a great game against Indiana. Yeah, you
want to pull your hair out, absolutely well.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
You know that's one of those things a good coach
might be able to get you over the hump there.
And there's really about Brian day Bole possibly going to
Penn State. He's wearing the Penn State hoodie a day
after being fired by the jet the Giants.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
What are your thoughts on that that? I don't want him.
And he he has a kid that goes there too,
I believe, so that could be part of the reason.
He even has that sweatshirt, you know.

Speaker 15 (37:45):
And I want a young up and coming I would
love to see him. I don't even know who it is,
some Division two head coach or a thirty five year old, bright,
young coordinator somewhere. And as much as I supported James Franklin,
you got man, you gotta have somebody with the personality
to recruit.

Speaker 13 (38:03):
I don't care how good of a.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Coach you are.

Speaker 15 (38:05):
You know, even though you know Sicknaty was just done
a fabulous job in Indiana. But holy cow, I watch
his interviews, I think, how can any how can he
ever sit in anybody's living talking to the common player.

Speaker 16 (38:15):
For him, he's a jag off.

Speaker 6 (38:16):
Yes, he looks miserable if they're winning by fifty or
if they're down in again.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Right, you can't tell.

Speaker 15 (38:26):
The sideline reporter asked him last week, you know, you know,
knowing what your schedule's like the rest of the way,
how big is this game? And he's like, I don't
care about the schedule the rest of the way. You know,
he just didn't want to give her, give her the
time of day and whatever.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
So yeah, no they even have to recruit anymore, though, Guy,
isn't it just buying your money?

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Isn't it just what just buying players? And yeah, you
know what that that's a good point.

Speaker 15 (38:52):
I still think if that, But I where I think
it comes in, Randy is the guys that aren't getting
me and I that's true with the Stars, but I
still think if you want to a national championship contender,
you need trench players that maybe aren't going to get
nil money or get very little nil money.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
You need linemen.

Speaker 15 (39:08):
It might have three or four big university opportunities that
are still just going for the scholarship. So yeah, with
the Stars, I think you're one hundred percent right.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Yeah, and they have the money.

Speaker 13 (39:19):
They'll be able to get the big time players.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Now a big college football matchup this weekend. Of course
here in Pittsburgh. ESPN's College Game Day is going to
be filming here and Pat McAfee and crew will be
revving up all the technic fans getting super pit Notre Dame.
I got a call from somebody I don't really even know,
who's a friend of my older brother, and he's like,

(39:44):
call and see if you have any extra tickets to the.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Pit Notre Dame game.

Speaker 4 (39:50):
Like, I couldn't pick you out of a lineup, number one,
number two, What planet are you on?

Speaker 2 (39:56):
There haven't been tickets for this game since they went on.

Speaker 15 (40:01):
I had a guy call me in the nineteen ninety
one baseball playoffs at five in the afternoon that I
played high school baseball with and hadn't talked to in
seventeen years. The wanted to know if I could get
him a ticket for a Pirate playoff, the Pirate playoff
game that was starting in two hours.

Speaker 17 (40:18):
So I know exactly what that is like.

Speaker 15 (40:22):
But it also shows you how.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Huge this game is.

Speaker 15 (40:24):
And I wasn't quite sure what Nordoozy was trying to
do when he, you know, said, hey, we could lose
this game from one hundred and three to three the
next and win the next two, and I'd be.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Okay with that.

Speaker 15 (40:35):
I mean, I understand the thinking. The biggest game left
for them is the road game at Georgia Tech. I mean,
they win that, they've got a really good shot of
playing in.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
The ACC Championship game.

Speaker 15 (40:45):
This game is not a conference game, but from where
they've been for a long time, and with all this
national attention, and then really their first chance to prove
this year that they belong with the elite or belong
as a ranked team. Maybe he just doesn't want to
make it that big. Maybe he's trying to play the
hype to his players. You know, Okay, game days coming
here to place, the sold out, let's just let's let's

(41:05):
everybody calm down. But I don't think he quite got
that thought across. I think some people scratched their heads
the way the way he presented that.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
He presents things in a lot of head scratching ways.
It's been my experience, all right.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers taking on Joe Flacco
once again the Flacco led Bengals.

Speaker 7 (41:26):
Hunk Bowl Part two, geriatric Boogaloo.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
They've gotten in four weeks better than the last time
they faced each other.

Speaker 15 (41:35):
Well, you talk about gray hair watching Penn State Indiana,
I reckon they went bald. Watch That reminded me of
the Steelers of the sixties when I was a little
kid and I became a New York Giants fan because
they sucked.

Speaker 8 (41:49):
So bad every year that came from beginning to end.

Speaker 15 (41:53):
I kept thinking, Okay, he'll settle down, and then even
at halftime, all right, he'll get himself together.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
And it'sn't just him. I mean, it's muffed punts. It's
stupid coaching.

Speaker 15 (42:01):
Cana Johnson finally gets a chance to come back in
the game when they're in the shadow of their own
goal host When the last time you saw me let
one go through it.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Over his head into the m zones. Yeah, in the
Seattle gain. I just that whole game. I want to
make me kill myself.

Speaker 13 (42:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (42:14):
But now so since so, all right, Cincinnati's coming in
here now. Normally they've beaten the Steelers four straight times. Now,
it's been been a while since the Steelers have been
able to beat them, and you have to be concerned
with the way Jamar Chase and the way they threw
the ball against them, and since he as banged up,
as the Steelers secondary is right now. But the key
to this time around is they the Bengals running game

(42:36):
is not good. They let them run on him the
first time, which opened up that they got to shut
down the run first. Jamar Chase is gonna make some
catches if they allow them to run the ball as well.
He's gonna throw over them again.

Speaker 13 (42:48):
But I think they're gonna beat him this time around.

Speaker 15 (42:50):
You know, that's the only damn win they have in
their last six or seven games.

Speaker 16 (42:53):
I mean, they stink.

Speaker 7 (42:55):
I said the same thing off air today, guy.

Speaker 6 (42:58):
I said that I think they're gonna win this game
because I thought the last game that they played, they
totally and completely overlooked the running game of the Bengals
and Chase Brown, and that caught them so off guard
in that game that the wheels came off.

Speaker 8 (43:16):
Well.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
I hated the way they made it.

Speaker 15 (43:17):
I think you're a roundre percent right, But I think
they also acted like they weren't.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
You know.

Speaker 15 (43:21):
Tomlin referred to in this press conference this week that
you know they weren't exactly sure how Flacco was going
to fit into their offense, you know, just ten days
into his tenure there. I mean, I've seen Joe Flacco
twenty plus times in the regular season over the years.
I would have think you'd be a little more, a
little more prepared. I find it funny that there is

(43:42):
such gnashing of teeth about Aaron Rodgers' performance.

Speaker 13 (43:46):
And it was hideous.

Speaker 15 (43:47):
I mean, it was terrible, but to this, I think,
up before the game last Sunday, he's their most valuable player,
if not him Boswell.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
And it's just funny.

Speaker 15 (43:56):
I was taking out some newspapers to the recycling and
I'm looking at the post his head from before the
Packers game, and it's like, here's the headlines, Rogers turning
back the clock, turning heads. I knew we'd see the
quick decisions in the accuracy. I wasn't expecting the mobility.
Another headline, Rogers defying Father time ahead of Packers showdown.
And after one lousy performance, everyone's like, oh, I think

(44:19):
his career is over.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
He's like that, he's Doug.

Speaker 15 (44:22):
I just think it was a terrible game and I
think I think we'll see more. I think we'll see
more of the rest of the way of what we
saw the first couple of months. You know, not him
in his prime, but certainly better than he was against
the games.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Well, let's hope.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
So I want to clock kickoff here on DV Steelers
Bengals this Sunday on the flagship of the Black and
Gold and Guy Jocker, brought to you by Edgar Snyder
and Associates this morning.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Thanks guy, We'll talk to you next week, Budy.

Speaker 15 (44:43):
All right, guys, Happy football viewing Bill, happy future.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Thank you guy.

Speaker 18 (44:49):
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Speaker 19 (45:01):
The Steelers will try to get their revenge against the
Bengals this Sunday, since he comes to Pittsford for the
second leg of the division rivalry this season. Pittsford lost
to since he back in Week seven, thirty three to
thirty one, in a game that saw Bengals star wide
receiver Jamar Chase put up sixteen catches on twenty three
targets for one hundred and sixty.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
One yards and a touchdown.

Speaker 19 (45:17):
That kind of game is the norm for someone like Jamar,
who was the NFL's second leading receiver this season despite
losing his star quarterback Joe Burrow to injury in Week two.
It was what the other Chase did to the Steelers
that was the bigger problem in the team's last meeting
since he running back Chase Brown ran for one hundred
and eight yards in just eleven carries, and the Bengals
as the team ran for one hundred and forty two
total yards, despite entering that game as the league's worst

(45:38):
rushing offense. Well fast forward to Week eleven and that
fact hasn't changed. The Bengals rank dead last and running
the ball with an average of just seventy eight point
eight yards per game on the ground. What better change, though,
is how the Steelers handle Brown, whose game against the
Steelers was by far his best of the season so
far and the only game he's eclipsed one hundred yards
rushing this year. With the Bengals receiving cores and passing

(45:58):
game posing such a massive threat, the Steelers will be
best to take the running game completely away from sinc.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
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Speaker 10 (46:19):
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Speaker 4 (46:23):
Ralphie May gave me a gummy one time and a
buddy of mine met me to see a Penns game
and we're like sitting there and I'm like, well, Ralphie
gave me this, you want to split it.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
He's like if we split it, it's not gonna do anything.
And I'm like, yeah, whatever, here, take half of it.
I'm like, I'll take half of it. We'll just yeah,
we'll get a little buzz here and then you know,
we'll uber over to the south side.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
I'm telling you, gon dark going going, like.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
We can't be in public anymore. But I was like,
but but you see the puck real well, right, He's like,
I can see the puck perfectly. I'm like, hey do
I can see the puck Like it's like I see
the puck before it gets to where it's going.

Speaker 22 (47:01):
I know what's going there, Like we thought we were
on another plane and I like five minutes before there's
a scroll like it texts Ralfie. I'm like, what the
hell was that?

Speaker 2 (47:12):
And he's like, oh, yeah, dog, you saw God you know.
And I'm like, I didn't want to. You didn't tell
me it was that.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
Yeah, right, you know, I don't trust any of that
stuff anymore. If somebody gives me a gummy now, like,
I'll lick a leg.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (47:25):
Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show, Yeah, you.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
Get those gummies that make you see it in the future.
That's no good. It is the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Mister Wednesday jumping in on a Friday, Jeff Hour, did
you wanted to bid a do a big farewell?

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Like the news came late on Wednesday, so I needed
to come in one last time and uh, tip of
the caps.

Speaker 6 (47:50):
The captain, my captain. Now, it's been a blast, dude,
You've been so good on the show. It's it's been
a real thrill for me. I said this to you
off the air, but like just the idea that we
kind of started around the same time, I think I
had a little bit of a head start on you.
And then to go from the open mics and comedy

(48:11):
clubs and all those disaster gigs to get into Uh.

Speaker 7 (48:14):
To pala around with you on the air has been awesome.

Speaker 17 (48:16):
Man.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
Well, the nice thing is is that I haven't stopped
doing the crappy open. I'm still doing somebody's got to
carry that come full circle. But I remember, I'm going back.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
The whole reason I got on.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
The show was because, you know, you sort of came
in and having been a stand up comedian beforehand, you
were because I was worried, I don't I didn't want
to burn through my bits like I had bits that
you're right, And then you're like, I don't want to
just do all the bits, and you're like, come in
and just like we'll riff, and you're funny enough to
just do that, and so that put me at ease,
and then that.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Started the journey.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
So yeah, there were actually the younger comics of your
age that started doing that. You were the only one
that lasted. Yeah, there were not a bunch, but there
was like three or yes war and they didn't pan out.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (49:03):
You know what's funny is that before I was on
the show, I was on the show, like I was
just coming in to hang with the guys Jim and
Randy and and I came in the first time and
did like a Pittsburgh chunk that I'd been working on. Yeah,
that was that was really well polished, crushed, and there

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came in the next.

Speaker 7 (49:24):
Week, did really well. They were like, come in again.

Speaker 6 (49:27):
I came in again, crushed, and they were like, you know,
just come in and just bring your A material, you know,
just do your A material.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
And I was like, I'm out.

Speaker 7 (49:37):
I had fifteen minutes, yes, burn through it all.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Oh well, we'd be like with Sake who used to
write everything on the bus ride to the station. Yeah,
oh man, Yeah, you'd get on the bus and then
scribble it and the chicken scratch and then come here
and then like read off a legal pad.

Speaker 6 (49:55):
So many different notebooks that he had filled and they
were all crumpled up because he probably was folding him
and putting him in his pocket. Oh yeah, I talked
to him one time. He wrote over four hundred of
those bits.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Yeah, yeah, and they were always good.

Speaker 7 (50:09):
It's a great output.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
There's been many times at night where I'm falling asleep
on Tuesday night being like they're not gonna I have
nothing to I have nothing interesting that I've done or
said or thought in the last week.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
So this is it for me.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
I'm gonna go on there and talk about how like
my bread buttering went in that day, and they're gonna
be like, Okay, that's enough of that. And then you
wake up at five point forty five in the morning
and a panic. And I guess I'm a procrastinator because
something always I can pull it out somehow.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
There's the occasional what do you want to talk about, Jeff,
and you just go every so often, I'm figuring it out.

Speaker 7 (50:44):
What do you want from me?

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Tax season? I'm really busy right now. There's always stuff.

Speaker 7 (50:50):
I have a disability. I have a disability.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
On the show a little bit later on this morning,
Sean Callier will be stopping by. We're gonna talk with
Derek Harmon from the Pits Steelers. Also getting you set
for Steelers Bangles on Sunday. Missy Matthews will call in
the band Poster Child in the coffee House. Hey, so
lot's going on right now here on Bill's last day
here on the show, Abby's got a news update for you.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
First, what's going on?

Speaker 23 (51:15):
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a high of forty nine, So bundle up for the game.

Speaker 20 (51:38):
Target is mandating that employees smile more on the job.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Oh boy.

Speaker 23 (51:44):
A company directive says workers have to smile and make
eye contact with any customer that comes within ten feet
of them.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
You know, nothing really sets the mood for a nice
retail experience quite like being greeted by somebody who looks
like they're going to ask you for asylum.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
You know, yah, are you having fun?

Speaker 13 (52:05):
Are they watching?

Speaker 24 (52:06):
Help me?

Speaker 4 (52:07):
I can see your lobotomy scar you had got in
the break room.

Speaker 7 (52:11):
I don't think I've ever made eye contact with anybody
at Target.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
They want to change that.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
Yeah, they're in a tough position because everyone complains that
there's no service at stores, but then the minute that
someone asked you a question like hey.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Let me alone.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Yeah, there's got to be a happy medium. But I
mean usually, like Target, it's kind of a self serve situation. Right,
there's no not a lot of things where you're like,
I'm gonna need some help here. You know what you're
going for when you go into Target. Yeah, you can't
make the people that you've hired better. You have to
hire better people. Yeah, you know what I mean, Like

(52:47):
you hired the person I was.

Speaker 7 (52:49):
Miserable when I came in for the interview.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Remember, what did you expect your Target? The other day?

Speaker 4 (52:56):
Well, let me see what you guys think about this.
The other day, I'm at CBS and you know how
they make you check out on your own, Like.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
You know, Yeah, there's the everywhere.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
There's like one cashier at every Giant Eagle, one cashier
at all these.

Speaker 4 (53:08):
But they're also like in charge of the floor for
some reason. And that was the scenario here. So that
person is not at the cash register, so there's nobody there.
It's on man, and there's a woman trying to get.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Out of there with some foot insoles or something I
don't know, and she's like running into trouble, and then
the little wo goes on above her saying like help
is on the way, and it starts blinking and.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
She's like oh, because then she's stuck because there's nothing
you could do. And you're like, I wanted to get
in and out of here, and now I am at
the mercy of the first available employee of a store
that I'm not running. So she waits, I want to say,
maybe twenty five seconds, and then she just goes help, help,

(53:52):
and I'm behind her and I'm like, I don't know
about this tact.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
I'm not sure. I start screaming help here, and then
she goes hello.

Speaker 17 (54:02):
Like that.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Then there's nothing.

Speaker 4 (54:05):
So I'm thinking to myself, like I probably just wait
there and assume somebody's taking a dump, you know what
I mean, Like they know they know twenty five seconds
too soon to pull the trigger on that one. Also,
you don't scream help, You just leave ye leave the
thing on the register and you try again another time,

(54:26):
and you walk go to the car, you mutter to yourself,
and you drive to the right aid that's right next
to the to the That's what.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
I would have done.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
No, actually, what I really would have done was if
the other one was open, I would have just gone,
I've done that and let that one just ring as
it's busted. And then she got really upset and gave
the biggest yell of all yeah no, not like the
caveman's scream.

Speaker 16 (54:51):
She just she was like, is anybody And before she
can get it.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
Out, the guy like pops out of an aisle right
in front of He's like, I got you, I got you,
I got you, I got you, And I just kind.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Of felt like, I don't know if I'm on her
side or not on her side. It is frustrating.

Speaker 4 (55:09):
It's not that guy's fault because they don't have anybody
there staffing the place.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
He's got to run everything. And you know, as a customer, I.

Speaker 4 (55:19):
Check something out of Giant Egle the other day by myself,
and I did it incorrectly and realized that after I
had like in my bag and I was checked out,
and I'm like, under what like responsibility right now? I
know I got billed for five apples and they're six
in there, but I'm not taking the other forty five
minutes to rectify this supermory problem in my advantage.

Speaker 7 (55:41):
Card and I don't work here, so I guess my
payment is an Apple.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
If the assumption is that we work here, then give
you one of those manager's key cards and then give
me the pin code. I'll fix this myself, like, let
me trouble shoot this, like, I'm sure I can get
in the system.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
But they like they hold you to the standards of
someone who works there, because I remember somebody getting limpid
with me in a giny one time when it didn't
work out, Like I was having that same trouble and
the siren thing went.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
On and they're like, you have to bleep bleep and
bleep whatever, and I'm like, oh, really, I missed the
training manual.

Speaker 24 (56:12):
Don't work here.

Speaker 4 (56:14):
The worst is at CVS S where because CBS sometimes
you have to buy sensitive things and I feel like
every time I've ever had a problem at the self
checkout line, it's the siren goes off and it's just
like your preparation, ah, not scan your preparation, h did not.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Scan anal warp cream not scan it. Just a guy
gets on the announcer.

Speaker 4 (56:36):
These guys are allowed to buy this many suppositories in
one thing.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
Like vagicil they still sell vagicil. Do I need to
get his license if he wants a.

Speaker 16 (56:47):
Whole gross of anal war cream.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Yes, they really have. Okay, Oh they definitely laughed.

Speaker 7 (56:55):
They fired, They fired everybody.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
There's nobody working there.

Speaker 4 (56:59):
Nobody get ninety people in the in the pharmacy. And
I'll tell you that's another thing that's going on right now.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
Abby. Ever since they closed the Right Aids, Giant Eagle
picked up a lot of way.

Speaker 20 (57:09):
Yeah, they have now like to just just Giant Eagle locations.
I want to say.

Speaker 23 (57:14):
They opened one in Wickly, Yeah, just yesterday and they
had like a jazz band playing.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Oh that's nice.

Speaker 20 (57:22):
Yeah, get zim which is about as sickly as it gets.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
By the way, well thanks for being.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Bethel Park has like acoustic guitar player in the in
the bar out there.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
Bartney couldn't believe it. He's like Pittsburgh there you come up.

Speaker 6 (57:37):
Oh is it considered Bethel the one up by the
souths Village. Yeah, yeah, okay, that's a nice one. Now
that's a district.

Speaker 20 (57:44):
It is a market district.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Yeah, it's were real nice.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
But now at Giant Eagle, the line for the pharmacy
is insanely long and it goes back into the aisles.
So like I needed to get liked odorant and toothpaste
and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
And I'm like, excuse me, excuse me. And there's all
these people and they're all sick and they got masks
and stuff, and there's wayne line.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
I'm sorry, I just you like that in that pharmacy
line that contagious people snakes around your cosmic crisp apples.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
That's always good. Exactly, wash your fruits, everybody. We've talked
about this on the show before we got to do
something about that.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
I've seen people eating green beans out of the bin
with their bare hands.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
Before wash your produce.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
There does need to be like a little video, like
a like a public service announcement that just shows like
the root of the travel of a strawberry or blueberry
whatever anything that you are Just blueberries are usually package releast,
but like the stuff that is like lemons, apples, all

(58:48):
of that stuff, what is it touched before it gets there?

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Apple?

Speaker 4 (58:53):
Everybody picks up an apple and you need to take
a look at it, put it back. You know, there
could have been one hundred people touched that apple. Yeah,
there's so many poems on that thing. But sometimes you
go to the back of the apples right and get
one of the back apples, and then it knocks them
all forward and then you get like an apple lanch.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
Yes, there is some precariously stacked apples. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (59:11):
Yeah, it's a game of Jenga.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (59:13):
Not only is this saying that they have to make
eye contact with you if you're within ten feet, but
they have to make small talk if they get within
four feet.

Speaker 7 (59:21):
Okay, seem a raise.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
This is where I think it's I think this turns
people off.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
Like I was at a store where it's like, you know,
one of these stores is trying to be like high service,
and I just wanted to look at stuff, and a
teenager comes up to me in a suit that doesn't
quite fit them, and he's like, how about the Steelers.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
I'm like, uh oh, yes, how about the Steelers?

Speaker 4 (59:42):
Like I'm looking at polo shirts right now, I'm not
trying to talk about the Menka Fitzpatrick trade right this
very second. And actually there's like a bell curve, like
getting greeted in case you need anything is one thing.
Continuing a conversation after you've clearly given the signals like
I'm all just looking a yeah. Now I feel like
you're on commission, and now I feel pressured to buy something,

(01:00:04):
and now I want to run away. Do you remember
the video that went viral of the Old Country Buffet
employee video teaching them how to make that small talk
when people came to the carving station and they have
this chef carving up meat and he's talking to people,
and this was instructional, have a chocolatesagna.

Speaker 7 (01:00:23):
It's my favorite.

Speaker 16 (01:00:26):
Did you catch your game?

Speaker 17 (01:00:27):
WA's right?

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
Is it still hot out there? This sounds like chef
is about to lay some pipe on this guy. Alright,
what are you doing after this? You want to go
see the chocolate fountain? The best is his? All right?
At the end here, all.

Speaker 7 (01:00:48):
Right, all right, after he's been denied at every question.

Speaker 13 (01:00:54):
On a plate.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
The guy they have doing it is like clearly like wedding.

Speaker 6 (01:01:02):
Nobody wants to talk to the meat carver that's sweating gumballs.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
It's it's it's an awesome one, no doubt. Old Country
Buffet is shaved, shaved.

Speaker 7 (01:01:14):
What I want a sandwich?

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Dude?

Speaker 20 (01:01:18):
Wait, Old Country Buffet, it's not there anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
I don't think no, I think it turned into something else. Actually, no, no, no,
maybe it is still there. I thought to turn into
like Deluth trading.

Speaker 16 (01:01:28):
That's what I thought.

Speaker 17 (01:01:30):
Hi, how you?

Speaker 25 (01:01:31):
Once you've greeted the guest, start a brief conversation, try
asking a question the guest can answer innocence or two.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
You might ask something like.

Speaker 7 (01:01:39):
This is it still hot out there?

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Or this did you catch your game last? Nice? Or
this have you tried with wasagna?

Speaker 7 (01:01:47):
That's my favorite.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
Get to start conversations with children by saying something.

Speaker 8 (01:01:52):
Like this, what grade are you a score?

Speaker 24 (01:01:58):
Jail?

Speaker 12 (01:02:00):
No?

Speaker 17 (01:02:00):
He decided what dessert you're going to have?

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Or this have you tried with lazagna?

Speaker 26 (01:02:06):
Matter question?

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Guest contact with the same phrase, How's that for you?
How's that? How's that? Makes sure guests are happy with
this they received.

Speaker 25 (01:02:20):
If they are not, or if they also want to
slice a different conversation, you can correct the situation promptly.

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
I want to cut to this guy at the club,
but like he's at don Z's in the eighties and
just going up the girls.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
Have you tried the lasagna?

Speaker 7 (01:02:34):
That's only the club?

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
The Maurian candidate like he only knows one thing to
say to women.

Speaker 20 (01:02:39):
I want him psyching himself up all day to get
it right, to get it right.

Speaker 7 (01:02:44):
You tried have you tried the lasagna?

Speaker 20 (01:02:46):
But then like blowing it at the last.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Damn that this guy is, or Hi, how are you?

Speaker 25 (01:03:01):
Once you've greeted the guests a brief conversation, it looks
like question the guest can answer innocence or two.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
You might ask something like this, is it still hot
out there?

Speaker 7 (01:03:12):
Have you try the lasagna?

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
He's sweating and he's like carving me. Is it still on?

Speaker 7 (01:03:19):
And you're sitting next to a heat lamp. It's it's
it's winter.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
I could just see him saying have you tried the lasagna?
And they're like no, and he's just like have you
tried the lasagna?

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
And then he just stabs himself, carves himself open, and
then comes up and go, we don't have.

Speaker 24 (01:03:43):
What are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
I mean, I'm just making.

Speaker 6 (01:03:47):
Like the kind of people they're hiring that they need
to teach this stuff, like these people should actually not
have sharp objects in their hands. Try things like hello, hey,
how are you?

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
You didn't say anything about winking while asking have you.

Speaker 8 (01:04:04):
Talk?

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
The talking to little kids?

Speaker 7 (01:04:07):
One that is so see I think something.

Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
I think some people are training on how to talk
to little kids because they probably feel uncomfortable and they're just.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Like, you know, I don't know, have you tried, little boy?

Speaker 7 (01:04:20):
How old were you when you first tried the lasagna?

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
He's sweating though, you know, like he's sitting there sweating.
He's talking to a little girl who's holding their plate.
That you know, my mother says, not too stranger. Oh
my god.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
Yeah, you can google that if you want to check
the Old Country Buffet Carving Station Wow Instructional Manual, because
it is awesome corporate speak.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
I'm definitely saying, have you tried the lasagna? It's pretty
much everyone I meet to.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Micha will be in with your sports in just a
little bit, and we've got Missy Matthews joining us. Sean
call Youer will be joining us. We're to talk to
Derek Harmon of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 7 (01:05:02):
You gotta has tried.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Yeah, uh, that carving guy. There's there are so many.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
Videos of that guy like that have been remixed and
stuff like once you see his face, you'll know exactly
who it is because he became a meme.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
But it's kind of like the Oprah peeing ten minutes
of Oprah peing.

Speaker 7 (01:05:21):
People have put from the color purple.

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
Yes, yeah, people have put together like compilations of him
just asking those questions over and over, and then they
put different people like you know up to the line
and it'll just be like a scene from a movie
that's like the Internet rights shopping.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
When when the Internet first started, that's all it was.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
And then you know, now of course, you know fascism anyways, Uh,
on the way for you as promised, all of the
stuff we said. But Jeff Conkle, thanks for popping in
and saying, I thank you if you want to.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
I don't know what you're s I got it on.

Speaker 4 (01:05:53):
But uh uh not to callously plug a show on Saturday,
but Saturday, yeah, beer come out on Saturday. It's gonna
be a really fun show and just as a as
a final uh you know, Bill and I will you
know we're gonna be doing the plenty of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
But you don't get a chance.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
I mean, I've been on the show for like ten
years too, and you just don't get a chance in
life to spend a lot of time with like great
friends and not to get all Norm McDonald and.

Speaker 6 (01:06:24):
David Letterman. But I love you man, So I love
you too, buddy for everything. I love you too. Go
see Jeff Man. He's one of my favorite comics. He's
amazing and it's been a blast.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Dude. Yeah, thank you so much for everybody. First thing
on stage this weekend. Is that all right for you?

Speaker 17 (01:06:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
Every joke all right?

Speaker 7 (01:06:42):
Good bombs?

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
Yeah? What great are you in? Can you play the
greater song in the world for me only if you
can dig it?

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Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
Sports brought to you by Bridgeville Appliants.

Speaker 5 (01:07:06):
Steelers getting ready to host the Bengals on Sunday and
the last time these two teams met on October the
sixteenth in Cincinnati and Aaron Rodgers to Pat Friarmuth catch
and run touchdown almost won the game. From Rogers perspective,
the Steelers might want to try dialing that up again.

Speaker 14 (01:07:23):
I feel like you had more repsa game and more
opportunities to be in the progression early in the progression
telling I was a big part of it. But uh,
maybe Pat's are really smart, Pilaria. We gotta keep finding
way to get him on the field, you know. Darnelle
has been a big part of our success, you know,
but we got to get Pats some more opportunities too,
and maybe both of them out there at the same time.

Speaker 13 (01:07:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:07:45):
Usually when it's two tight ends and Friar moose involved
at Tim and John new Smith. But the idea of
Friarmuth and Washington, maybe I like it. One receiving tight end,
one blocking tight end, even though neither one is one dimensional.
They both have specialty. We'll see what Arthur Smith dials up.
Fiarmouth went five catches, one hundred and eleven yards and

(01:08:06):
two tds and that thirty three thirty one loss to
the Bengals in October last year, he had games of
eighty five and sixty eight yards and scored two touchdowns
against Cincy. The year before that a nine catch, one
hundred and twenty yard effort. The year before that, games
of seventy five and seventy nine yards against the Bengals.

Speaker 13 (01:08:24):
They just don't seem to ever want to cover him.

Speaker 7 (01:08:26):
He loves playing them.

Speaker 6 (01:08:28):
Remember when we were talking about how little they threw
over the middle of the field in that one game,
and I think it was with Kenny Pickett right after
they fired Mac canada.

Speaker 7 (01:08:37):
First pass off deep down the middle.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
Yep.

Speaker 13 (01:08:41):
He was asked about that this week.

Speaker 5 (01:08:42):
He said, maybe it's because his dad's from Cincinnati, Firemouth,
not Picket.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
Really.

Speaker 13 (01:08:46):
Yeah, I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
I thought I didn't either.

Speaker 13 (01:08:48):
I know he's from New England, but that's from Cincinnati.
Maybe hometown kid.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Sure is comfortable. Gotta do something to get him more activated.

Speaker 5 (01:08:59):
Yep, no question, got to activate everybody more after that
h for nine on third down.

Speaker 4 (01:09:05):
Didn't you guys think though that John new Smith would
get more than one targeted game?

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
Like I thought he was gonna be like the de
facto number two guy, Like we're gonna see him being
used like Gronk.

Speaker 13 (01:09:17):
He came he came in with that reputation and he
was kind of that guy in Miami last year.

Speaker 6 (01:09:22):
He had a better season than anybody had here last year.
I mean, he had eight touchdowns in eighty eight catches.

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
What are we doing? What This offense is totally perplexing.
It is, Honestly, it's it's gone backwards.

Speaker 6 (01:09:39):
We gotta be good on third down, and you gotta
be better on first and second down, so you're not
in third and long.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
Yeah. I do think it starts with the more.

Speaker 6 (01:09:47):
Plays you need to possess the ball more, I mean
twenty less plays than the other team.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
I think that the Chargers just gave everyone a blueprint too.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
Is that Rogers immobility like or you know, the extent
of the mobility that he has, not that he can
move around, but he's not twenty five anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
And once he started getting hit in that game, he
was done. It completely rattled him. Or he's just not
even getting hit. He heard the footsteps, he was seeing ghosts.
I think that's why he had such an off night
from an accuracy standpoint.

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
And if they don't fix that, nothing's gonna get fit. Well,
he's got to fix that. Yeah, I mean that's.

Speaker 5 (01:10:24):
Hopefully he looked at the tape and said, I'm not
going out like this, because I don't think he just
got old overnight.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
I don't think he's Cinderella. Sometimes happened.

Speaker 4 (01:10:35):
I don't think he turned the dog jumps out of
the bed and then they limp a little bit and
then you're like, is it is it starting? And you
know what they're gonna have to do If if defenses
are going to back off and cover the slants and
the middle stuff the way the Chargers did, then they're gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Have to run the ball. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:10:51):
And since Cincinnati's to get right game, they can run
it down their throat. They can do whatever they want
in theory and based on what the Bengals put on tape,
but they're going.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
To have to do it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
One thing Arthur Smith likes about his group is in
good times and bad, they keep competing. That's an important
characteristic to have, particularly when the going gets tough, as
it's getting right about now.

Speaker 27 (01:11:15):
I like the resiliency of this group. It's an unselfish
group I've had many of the times. It gives you
a chance even in the game. Is like on Sunday night,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
They have and flow even late and we had that
long drive down there.

Speaker 27 (01:11:30):
You know, you still there's not guys down there pouting
and you know, crying of whatever language I can use here,
but you know it's you get an ugly game with
that you're trying to steal a win, and we didn't
take it that nage of the opportunity to get down
there on the screen and chance to cut up within
five with plenty of time. But that's not the way
it went. So I you know, overall, I think guys

(01:11:50):
have made plays and big moments. There's one going work
every season. You know, you can start out hot. I
mean here we are right right a halfway point and
with an opportunity Sunday the huge the visual game. We
got to continue to improve and so we got to
bounce back from Sunday night.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
Yeah, that's an interesting point.

Speaker 5 (01:12:09):
He brought up that drive in the early stages of
the fourth quarter that got to the ten yard line
and then just stopped.

Speaker 13 (01:12:15):
They get a touchdown there.

Speaker 5 (01:12:16):
It's a one score game and pretty much the whole
fourth quarters as bad as they had been to that point.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:12:22):
Uh, just find a way to play a little more
timely football and make the plays when you got to
make them. Practice report from yesterday Darius Slay didn't practice.
I posted a video him doing a little running pre practice.
Might be seeing a lot of James Pierre on Sunday,
and you might be seeing some Assante Samuel Junior on Sunday.

(01:12:42):
Alex Highsmith, the Slave's still in the concussion protocol. Alex
Higsmith didn't practice with a peck. He said that he's optimistic.
Isaac say Malou Peck was limited. Broderick Jones growing limited,
but Brodrick said he's playing.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
Yeah, yoh y is it his choice?

Speaker 13 (01:13:03):
Probably?

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:13:06):
Same all post a video of him hitting the sled
and doing some stuff. This is not that that would
suggest readiness.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
That's good.

Speaker 7 (01:13:14):
We need him, Yeah, we need they do Hi Smith,
peck is not good news.

Speaker 13 (01:13:18):
So he heard it in the game and just played
through it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:21):
I love Alex high Smith, but he has like this
Corey Trice disease. It's his availability is always in peril.

Speaker 13 (01:13:32):
Yeah, not quite to the Corey Trice.

Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
Corey Trice can't get activated. But I mean he's got
a much milder form of it. It does seem to
get Nick did. It's a shame because he's such a
good player.

Speaker 10 (01:13:42):
He is.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
I think he's a very underrated player when he's.

Speaker 5 (01:13:45):
In Patriots meet to Jet's twenty seven or fourteen on
Thursday Night football, Last Night's guess watch any of that zero.
I'll tell you what. Justin Field's God bless him. He's
playing college football in the NFL. Yeah, you know, drop
back and he's not there.

Speaker 13 (01:14:02):
Run throw it sideways, throw it short.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
So, like we talked about this with Damashek earlier, how
much of that is on the Jets and their inability
to develop something that he can be useful for Because
I look at that and I think, Okay, this proves
once and for all, Justin Fields is not an NFL
caliber quarterback. As much as I thought he would have
been the better choice for us, you know, I think

(01:14:25):
maybe that was wrong. And Damachek argument was, do you
really think he would have been that bad with the Steelers?

Speaker 5 (01:14:30):
He was better last year. I mean it looked different,
oh yeah, than what he's doing now. Apparently he's not
getting any coaching at all up there with the Jets,
and he's as crazy. He's just trying to make it
up as he goes.

Speaker 1 (01:14:41):
You Like, Penix even said that down in Atlanta. He's like,
I don't get any Nobody talks to me. I talked
to my high school coaches and my college coaches.

Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
What I mean, He's got an arm, but it does
it takes him forever. When he drops back, he's just staring,
staring it. That's always been a knock on him. He
can't process and he doesn't throw it quickly in and
he takes sacks or then he just takes off in
the rows. I mean, he ran for a team leading
sixty seven yards and a touchdown, but they didn't really
hang in that game.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
And then you watch Drake May doing what he does.

Speaker 5 (01:15:10):
Oh my god, these guys aren't the same now, both
NFL quarterbacks, but these guys are not the same.

Speaker 6 (01:15:16):
Although he had the game of his life against the
Steelers in the first game, Yes, he did the best
I've ever seen him.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
Look, I know that was like when we're like, oh
we messed up. Oh she got hotter, Oh she got hotter. God, Okay,
we messed Up's don't hey, body positive positivity is gone
and Abby don't forget now that there's those empic now.

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Speaker 2 (01:16:39):
And Shawn, you've got a couple of things to review here.

Speaker 11 (01:16:41):
Well, let's talk about Now You See Me Now You Don't,
which is the third film in the series. That's right,
They didn't come up with now you See Me, Now
You Don't until the third movie. There's one in the
middle that's twenty sixteen's now you See Me two? Do
you think they named that and printed the posters and

(01:17:03):
then a month later somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Went, oh, now you damn it, alright, now you see
Me too.

Speaker 11 (01:17:16):
This is a movie where a pack of all star
stage magicians concoct elaborate robin Hood style heists rob the
rich of their ill gotten games, featuring a loaded cast
of Let's see here, Okay, Woody Harrelson, Shirt, Jesse Eisenberg,
Ela Fisher, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, and Lizzie Kaplan. They

(01:17:40):
did They just scoop up everyone who didn't get an
invite to the Vanity Fair oscar party? What's three steps down?
Did they go to the Red Book oscar party and
say you're all magicians?

Speaker 17 (01:17:51):
Now?

Speaker 11 (01:17:54):
This is it's so weird and it's easy to make
fun of, you know, it's it's fast and the furious old.
Instead of cars, they have matchic tricks. Yes, that is
easy to make fun of it. But you know you're
gonna have a good time. I can't tell anyone that
they're not gonna have a good time watching these. It
kind of cuts through the boring parts of an action movie.

(01:18:17):
You know, there's no we're just driving, Oh we have
to reconvene in a beza like what someone's always doing
a trick. They're always in a weird, impressive location doing
something fun and funky. It makes absolutely no sense. At
any point from beginning to end.

Speaker 17 (01:18:34):
Good.

Speaker 11 (01:18:36):
But it's an all right time. I'm just happy that
this became a big thing. This will probably win the weekend.
These movies made a lot of money. And again it's
based on magicians doing crimes. I don't even think magicians
would be the best at doing crimes. Among entertainers. They'd
be better than comics. Admittedly, they would be much better

(01:18:59):
than comedians, way worse than circus performers. If this were acrobats,
they'd be stealing way better stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Definitely.

Speaker 6 (01:19:08):
Wait, I'm not familiar with this franchise. There's they've been
magicians the whole time.

Speaker 11 (01:19:12):
Yeah, they started as magicians. But is there a quest,
like a like an overall arc for the thing, Like are.

Speaker 7 (01:19:18):
They all working in cahoots? Is this like Oceansill eleven
but with magicians?

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (01:19:23):
And this and this does have the younger and older generation.
There's younger people. I didn't learn who they are because
there's twelve different people in this movie.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
Justice Smith is one of them.

Speaker 11 (01:19:34):
But yeah, they want to there's a there's a bad
lady played by Rosamond Rosamond Pike doing the most over
the top South African accent ever gone girl, Gone girl,
Love her.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
She's great.

Speaker 11 (01:19:47):
She's doing like what was that movie where Leonardo DiCaprio
had a bad blood blood diamond Gilbert. Yes, she's doing
that with Elon Musk's face.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
Is what Rosamond Pike is there and it works.

Speaker 11 (01:20:02):
She's an evil diamond heiress and they want to steal
her diamonds and give the money to all of the
It look, it's very entertaining. Again, no sense throughout. Why
are we watching magicians do a crime? But hey, sure,
why not go to the movies if you feel like.

Speaker 7 (01:20:17):
A criminal and a glitter vest who doesn't?

Speaker 1 (01:20:19):
Okay, tell me about your You and I seem to
differ on this next one. I think that the Eddie
Murphy comedy is called being Eddie. Well, it's because the
documentary it's not like a comedy.

Speaker 11 (01:20:31):
I'm sorry the documentary, the Eddie Murphy documentary is called
being Eddie because it certainly couldn't be called understanding Eddie
or gaining meaningful insight into Eddie.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
I think.

Speaker 11 (01:20:42):
I think that you know, we hung out with him
for an hour and a half, which is which is great.
That was great, but I felt like it was as
much a performance as you know, that's norbit.

Speaker 17 (01:20:56):
You know.

Speaker 11 (01:20:56):
I think he's like, here's here's the character I'm putting
on for this movie. This is the version, this is
what I want people to think the real Eddie Murphy
is like, So I'll play that for you know, the
three Hours where this.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
Guy is here, but it's Eddie Murphy. Yeah, so I'm
okay with it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
I mean, it is very much along the lines of
the Sylvester Stallone documentary, in which nothing was revealed. He
let no information out there that you really would want
to do it known. But I thought there was enough
of an entertainment value in watching Eddie just do a
retrospective on his career, especially the stuff from forty eight Hours.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
And how that was. He was like, I thought that
was a one off.

Speaker 1 (01:21:34):
I thought, I don't think I was gonna do movies,
and they wanted to fire him two weeks into forty
eight Hours, and then like reliving the impact that had
culturally for young black men in the United States at
that time, how empowered they felt by Eddie Murphy's character
in forty eight Hours, which is something I wouldn't have

(01:21:55):
considered but makes perfect sense because they're like, it's they
have like all of these sort of like you know,
cultural ethnologists and stuff who are like that was the
first time we saw somebody go into He goes into
that like you know, the cowboy bar and kicks everyone's
ass and you know, says he's a cop and they're like,
who the hell are you and he's like, I'm your

(01:22:16):
worst fan nightmare. I'm a bleep with a badge, and
I got permission to kick your ass whenever I want to.
And then like Chappelle and all those guys are like
that right there.

Speaker 4 (01:22:26):
That is stand up in like you know, for for
our generation funny and he and he was like in
Jamie Fox's like now watch watch the first scene in
Beverly Hills Cop when he flips that dude in the
strip joint and says, like notices, He's like the baddest
dude in the place.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
He notices everything. He's like, guy's got alunk coat.

Speaker 1 (01:22:47):
I'm kind of hot near for long coat, right, all right,
get my back, And he goes over and he's like
hey man, and then he like disarms the guy and
flips him, and he's like he's an action star, he's
a comedy star. He's the smartest guy in the room
and he's only twenty three years old at that time.
For me, Eddie Murphy is a unicorn. They're just black

(01:23:07):
white whatever. Like he was the Berry Bonds of comedy.

Speaker 17 (01:23:10):
No, like he was.

Speaker 7 (01:23:11):
He was on SNL. Would you say, nineteen years old?

Speaker 11 (01:23:14):
Nineteen unbelievable and at the moment that everybody hated it
because Lauren and the original cast were gone and he
still broke through. They when they put that picture up
of him and his cast in nineteen eighty, he was
the only person I recognize, yeah, from that year and
it still worked.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
There's I agree with you. I just brought him. Duke.

Speaker 11 (01:23:35):
I kept sitting there. They would they would get to
something that felt a little juicy.

Speaker 2 (01:23:41):
Tim Kezerinski, Well, I wasn't. I was neither watching nor
alive at the time.

Speaker 11 (01:23:45):
But they would get to something that felt like I'm
getting We're getting there, We're getting below the surface. I
thought the most interesting moment was when he told the
story about realizing he had OCD when he was a kid,
because every ten minutes he would get up as a child,
he would get up and walk downstairs and make sure
the burners weren't not on the stove and then he'd
go to bed for twenty minutes and go and do

(01:24:06):
it again. And they put that right next to people
speculating on why he doesn't do stand up anymore. And
now I'm like, oh, we're getting somewhere. Now, we're trying
to draw this connection that maybe he's too much of
a perfectionist to do all of this stuff, and then
it just pivots to something else.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
Yeah, I totally disagree.

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
I mean, they juxtapositioned it with the interview with Barbara
Walters where he talks about being paranoid now because he
got so famous he couldn't go anywhere, and then that
was like making him more insular, and that was creating
like the ramping up of the OCD and everything else.
And I think it explains nicely for him that it
stopped being fun for him because the celebrity got so big.
I mean, Chappelle says at the end of it, the

(01:24:46):
biggest accomplishment Eddie Murphy has is surviving being Eddie Murphy.

Speaker 6 (01:24:51):
Oh yeah, And there's no way comedically that he was
ever going to top raw and delirious. So in a
lot of ways, like you had to be done after
that yeah, because he comes back twenty years later. There
was a there was there was a very brief window
where he started doing stand up on that Chappelle tour,
where he would come out and just do like short sets,
and we all thought, oh my god, this is all.

(01:25:12):
And he came back and did SNL and there was
the monologue and everyone's like, he's going to start doing
instant No he's not.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
He can't.

Speaker 6 (01:25:18):
He couldn't possibly.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
You know why, he says, do it. He can't work
it out. There's nowhere for him. Where are you going
to go? He said, he tries.

Speaker 6 (01:25:26):
It's the Steve Martin thing. They know you're act before
you get there.

Speaker 11 (01:25:29):
And you know, I mean, you could hire forty people,
just pay forty people one hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:25:34):
I just think that I think there were some insights
he's reluctant obviously, to go into. He talks about his childhood,
and I mean, anybody with an armchair psychology, you know,
breadth of knowledge, can see where and why he got
into show business. And then you know the abusive father
who leaves the family and then has a strict step
father who comes in and puts him on the discipline train,

(01:25:55):
the straight he's a Long Island Roosevelt Long Island Wow.
And so he he has not an underprivileged upbringing by
any stretch of the imagination. But he was just driven
so much by his stepfather, who is a boxer, and
you know his relationship with Charlie. He delves into that,
how Charlie was his protector, literally beat people up all

(01:26:19):
the time for Eddie, like, and how funny he thought
Charlie was. I mean, how many of us who like
do this stuff for a living will immediately go, oh,
my brother's funnier than me, like, oh yeah, And he
was talking about Charlie that way. So I disagree with you.
I thought there was a lot of insight. You did

(01:26:39):
have to do a little more connecting of the dots.

Speaker 4 (01:26:41):
He didn't cry, He didn't own up to like as
many mistakes in his career as might have been like
fun from a schadenfreud standpoint, But he did talk about
how he thinks Norbit screwed him out of an oscar.

Speaker 11 (01:26:53):
He said he wasn't really mad about losing, while clearly
seething with rage.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Oh yeah, he was pissed. Yeah, maybe put on a tux.
I'd never go anywhere and put on the tux and
I go down there. Why did you make me put on?

Speaker 11 (01:27:05):
I wasn't mad that I lost. I was mad that
I was here and didn't win. Yeah, that's the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
No, no, no, dream Girls girls. Yeah, right about that.
He didn't see it. Dream Girls came out.

Speaker 11 (01:27:24):
Dream Girls came out that December, and he was nominated
for dream Girls. But then Norbit came out two weeks
before the Oscars during voting, and everybody said, this sucks,
and so we're not for Norbit. Yeah, we can't let
Norbit win. So that was their fault. They really screwed
up for Norbit. I mean, we can agree if you're

(01:27:46):
interested in Eddie Murphy, it's worth watching. I mean, we
could disagree what you're going to get out of it,
but uh, there's certainly a lot in there. I can't
believe he really has the puppets. I don't know if
that's a spoiler. I can't believe his puppets.

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
You didn't see the I sent to you now, he says,
if he won, are a mess. Oh you can imagine
why what could have happened?

Speaker 11 (01:28:10):
He said, if he was doing stand up right now,
he would want to do a ventriloquist act with a
puppet of Richard Pryor and a puppet of Bill Cosby
and I have a conversation within the three of them,
and he kind of minds him for a second. And
then at the end of the movie he shows us
the puppets like he has them.

Speaker 4 (01:28:27):
He has them, and they look like Bill Cosy and
he's doing the voices and he's doing a whole.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
Routine and they're talking to each other and it is
so funny. I'm like, I would go watch that. I
really would. Hell Yeah, but you can tell it's just
for him. It's it's it's he's not going to take
that on the Road's got ten kids.

Speaker 6 (01:28:45):
Now, this is the This is the craziest people that
are that famous. Like one time we were at the
DC i Prov and I know we're running late, but
we're at the DC Improv and Chappelle was there in
the green room, didn't even go on stage.

Speaker 7 (01:28:56):
There was a line out the club to just see ship.

Speaker 6 (01:29:00):
Hell and he's back there chain smoking cigarettes and he
goes to a room full of comics.

Speaker 7 (01:29:04):
He goes, you have to have a joke that's so good,
like you don't even tell it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
Every night and we're all like, no, I'm not problem,
what are you talking about?

Speaker 26 (01:29:17):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Anytime I hear Norbit, I think of my favorite Norbit
related story, which is Brian Wilson being interviewed. They go,
what's the last movie you saw on He Goes Norbit?
And they're like really, yeah, it's very funny you see
Norbit And they're like, no, we have Nego Smoker and
they're like, well, what's your favorite movie?

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
He Goes Norbit? It's very big among people whose brains
broke a while ago.

Speaker 7 (01:29:38):
Have you tried the Norbit?

Speaker 13 (01:29:39):
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Derek Harmon First Draft ros How you Do It?

Speaker 13 (01:30:15):
How you How you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:30:16):
What's up?

Speaker 29 (01:30:16):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
Derek?

Speaker 17 (01:30:18):
I'm good man, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
I have to play shift well, I mean, I'm doing fantastic.

Speaker 1 (01:30:22):
And it's been fun watching you get acclimated this year,
uh with the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive line. So this weekend
you're going to be facing a Bengals team in which
the defensive line had a tough go of it against
Chase Brown and their running attack, and it was a
surprise to everybody, but it seemed to be the impetus
for you guys for the next couple of games to

(01:30:43):
write the rudder.

Speaker 2 (01:30:44):
Would you say that that is an accurate assessment?

Speaker 17 (01:30:48):
Most definitely? Most definitely. We know near the beginning and
a half of the season, like we didn't like our
run defense, saying we knew we had to change some
things quickly in just to get back on on the
road where we're trying to go. And I feel like
we've done that and just to sure amount of games.
But this game is big because, like you said, he

(01:31:09):
had a game last game and it's our job to.

Speaker 13 (01:31:11):
Stop them from having one this one.

Speaker 5 (01:31:13):
So, Derek, if we talked to your training camp, if
you've broken anybody's hands since then, I have not not it.
I wanted to ask you about your approach. You were
you were really relaxed that you know you're a number
one pick. You come in a lot of a lot
of hype, a lot of spotlight. You just kind of
go about your business. You look completely unchanged just watching

(01:31:36):
you day to day. Uh is this all coming is
seemingly naturally for you as it looks?

Speaker 17 (01:31:45):
Yes, sir, no man, because for me, of course, you
feel the pressure of being the first round again. Know
you got to go make plays. But I try not
to look into the man. I try to just go
play my ball and just know what I can do.
That's the best that I can because once you start worrying,
by a lot of sun noises start dying, so things
can get bad out there. So it was I focus

(01:32:07):
on just playing good ball and helping my team win.
I'm good, Derek.

Speaker 6 (01:32:12):
We talked to your teammate Keanu Benton last week. He
said he tried Permanny Brothers wasn't for him. He said
he didn't even know Pittsburgh really had any good pizza.
He said his favorite restaurant was Chipotle. Please tell me
you've at least tried something kind of Pittsburgh, any pizza,
any food whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
I have not not yet.

Speaker 17 (01:32:33):
Man, the most closest day I had some beat dubs.

Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
The other day, Derek, I'm gonna I'm driving a van
over there and just taking you guys to some places
because I feel like everyone's.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
Somebody is we gott to bring it to you?

Speaker 4 (01:32:48):
Yeah, Cam Hayward is dropping the ball like like to
not pass down. The tradition of places is sad. These
guys need to be eating is a dereliction of duty.

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
We would enjoy it more than defensive life.

Speaker 7 (01:33:00):
Exactly Who's got the biggest appetite on the D line?

Speaker 17 (01:33:07):
Is it you?

Speaker 3 (01:33:09):
Probably it's between me and Black, Me and Black.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
Oh, dude, he's proud of his belly. That guy is
so proud of my gosh.

Speaker 1 (01:33:19):
Uh So the other thing you're you're all my maters
playing tonight, right? The Duck's got Friday night football.

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
Tonight, I believe so. I think I've seen it, Yes, sir,
playing Minnesota. The other alma mater's playing tomorrow. Well, I
don't know which alma mater? Do you claim? More Oregon?

Speaker 17 (01:33:37):
Because I was with him over there, but I don't
get me wrong. Uh, Michigan State is still home. But
when somebody asked me, yeah, I went to Oregon to
play football and I went to school at Michigan State.

Speaker 2 (01:33:48):
There you go. I can live with that.

Speaker 13 (01:33:49):
Derek, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
So Flacco again this weekend. What have you learned about
Joe Flacco since he's faced him the first time? Namely, well,
he's not us you know forty year old statue. This
guy can hurt you.

Speaker 5 (01:34:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:34:04):
Man, he's a savvy event man, been doing this since
I was a kid.

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
Man.

Speaker 17 (01:34:10):
But once again, he hits that ball up quick like,
very smart at the game, knows the game inside and out.
We got to get him down, man, and in the
back end has gotta we go cover. And once they
covered the defront, de won go get you get to
the QB man. So that's our biggest game planning focus.

Speaker 5 (01:34:29):
You don't even have to get him down just I'm
sure you've seen by now. You get out there for
warm up and certain guys on the respective team say
hello with the fifty yard line, maybe exchange hug just.

Speaker 2 (01:34:42):
Yeah, and then when he drumps his knees, walk away game.

Speaker 4 (01:34:53):
Uhud Derek Harmon with this from the Pittsburgh Steelers and
back home this weekend, and did you since you know,
for the Indie game, there was this anticipation among Steeler
fans that it was a game that was going to
be a harbinger of things to come, like it was
going to indicate a direction for the season. And there

(01:35:15):
was kind of a vibe in that stadium, and there
was fans in the first quarter of that game that
weren't exactly thrilled. And then you guys turned it around
and stopped the most prolific offense in the league and
get out of Akroscer Stadium with a win against.

Speaker 2 (01:35:30):
The Colts this weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:35:32):
Since that game, there's been a little bit, you know,
with the backside against the Chargers, there's still some of
that uncertainty. What do you expect the atmosphere to be
like at Akroscher Stadium on Sunday?

Speaker 17 (01:35:43):
And since I've been and the fans been real, and
they've been real since day one. Now they don't come
up support. We've got to go out there and put
on the surfer man and walk out of that staying
would have?

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
Did I love it?

Speaker 1 (01:35:57):
Derek Harmon from the Pittsburgh Steelers brought to you by
callient A pizza in draft house. We'll get you some
Caliante pizza. You can start there and then we'll bounce
around all Derek Harmon, Lady, get him on Sunday. Man,
appreciate than.

Speaker 17 (01:36:14):
I like that.

Speaker 7 (01:36:14):
That's perfect strategy.

Speaker 24 (01:36:19):
I can't believe this is.

Speaker 7 (01:36:21):
So Higgins, come here, come here, come here, buddy.

Speaker 13 (01:36:25):
Yeah. Yeah, they'll just be dropping like flies and.

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
Equivalent of the Hitman and Michael Clayton. It's really like
you buy in all right, we thought of it's all right.

Speaker 7 (01:36:38):
Oh my god, that's such a good plan.

Speaker 3 (01:36:40):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
You're from Delaware. I'm from Delaware.

Speaker 24 (01:36:42):
How time.

Speaker 6 (01:36:46):
He's such a good dude too. Man, he did the
the rookies thing at children's hospital. I mean, now, he
broke several kids hands, but just they were already there,
perfect places, just like doctor k right over. Man, you
know they're all in casts. But just to get to
like sit down with a man that big for those

(01:37:07):
kids like they.

Speaker 7 (01:37:07):
Were in awe of him.

Speaker 2 (01:37:08):
Right yeah, No, I'm and y A.

Speaker 7 (01:37:10):
Black came in and it was like these two huge trees.

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
Why black and his belly is the funniest thing in
the world to me.

Speaker 13 (01:37:17):
I'll still Cam has dropped the ball feeding these guys.

Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
Are these guys you're talking about get Chipotle? Kind of
lack of leadership what I'm saying, it has brought them
to this point driving me crazy.

Speaker 7 (01:37:28):
I mean, do we have to wait till Jalen Ramsey
tells them that they got to eat it? Permanny Brothers.

Speaker 4 (01:37:34):
Jalen Ramsey's probably not eating anywhere outside of like his neighborhood.
I guarantee you wherever he's living. He strikes me to
be like somebody that like doesn't even live here.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
Where are all these.

Speaker 6 (01:37:44):
Guys living, like all these free agents that come here
for a year and they're gone.

Speaker 2 (01:37:49):
Aaron Rodgers' wife has a big house and they all
live there in Malibu. No, I think she's here. Really?

Speaker 7 (01:37:57):
What it Neville Island?

Speaker 2 (01:38:00):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:38:02):
Well, when it comes to Aaron and islands, let's let's
assume he avoids those.

Speaker 2 (01:38:08):
Abby's got your news right now?

Speaker 23 (01:38:10):
Is this hour brought to you by Windownation, times of
sun and clouds, a high of fifty five today. High
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twenty second in downtown Pittsburgh, including your headlining band The Calling,
performing at eight thirty pm on the Expinity Riverside Stage
at forty King Boulevard and sixth Street. Sean, can you
sing the Calling song for us?

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
Cool?

Speaker 17 (01:38:37):
How you will go?

Speaker 2 (01:38:39):
That's accurate?

Speaker 20 (01:38:40):
Yeah, good job.

Speaker 1 (01:38:41):
We don't even have them in our system. I don't
even have the Calling here to call up.

Speaker 20 (01:38:47):
That seems wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:38:48):
Yeah, that's a nomination that this one?

Speaker 8 (01:38:51):
Is it?

Speaker 9 (01:38:52):
This?

Speaker 29 (01:38:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:38:53):
Yeah, I can confidently tell you I've never heard of
these guys, but but I know that they're popular.

Speaker 6 (01:39:01):
Sleely Wander will be there, like like Vocal Fog Machine.

Speaker 4 (01:39:12):
If Bill Dezy got puky in his delivery instead of
instead of the beautiful delivery that he has.

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
Breed wish, it's Bill des and Scott Staff.

Speaker 20 (01:39:30):
This is someone's wedding song.

Speaker 2 (01:39:33):
Someone. It sounds like there might be a lot of people. Okay,
girl dead on. It sounds like what plays as you
enter into the state of Florida. I don't know. It

(01:39:54):
just sounds like you pass over the state line, Welcome
to Florida.

Speaker 17 (01:39:57):
A re.

Speaker 20 (01:40:03):
It will be one of several free musical happenings.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
So happy she is me? Yeah, trying to you're trying
to clean up our mess house.

Speaker 20 (01:40:10):
It really was at the.

Speaker 23 (01:40:12):
Sixty fourth annual event that kicks off the holiday season
in western Pennsylvania. In addition to the calling, expect performances
on the high Mark main stage from Joe Gusheki and
the House Rockers Cohone Concept, Justin Fabis, the Pittsburgh Clo
Mini Stars, and there will of course be craft food vendors, shopping,
the Sister Bridge lighting, tree lighting, and Zambelli rooftop fireworks.

Speaker 11 (01:40:36):
And it is all free, you think, Joey g Ell
get the Bigger Crab, Yes, yeah, rock and roll legend, Joehecky,
yeah yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:40:45):
Stop by the craft food services. Have you tried the lasagna?

Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
What grade are you invent?

Speaker 1 (01:40:56):
I know?

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
Springsteen?

Speaker 7 (01:40:57):
Interesting? Have you tried the Lausanna?

Speaker 30 (01:41:00):
All right, that's my favorite part of that? All right,
all right, it's still hot outside. As he's sweating his
face off, He's.

Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
Got like heat lamp redness all over his face. You're
sweating on the January, No hot it here.

Speaker 1 (01:41:22):
You're wearing an afghan blanket around your neck.

Speaker 23 (01:41:28):
The holidays are almost here and light up, and I
remember reminds us of that, So it is time to
put on your happy face. A new pole found seven
in ten adults feel like they have to act happier.

Speaker 20 (01:41:40):
This time of year.

Speaker 23 (01:41:41):
So essentially seven and ten are faking the Christmas spirit.

Speaker 2 (01:41:46):
Oh yeah, that's brutal.

Speaker 29 (01:41:48):
It is.

Speaker 7 (01:41:48):
It's hard, it's so deadening.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
I'm thankful for the excuse to act grumpier like it's cold.
I gotta do it. I gotta get gifts. I gotta
know this. This is when you can really lean into
being a scrooge.

Speaker 20 (01:42:01):
I took my daughter out last night.

Speaker 23 (01:42:03):
We had a little sushi dinner together, and then she
decided to go to Home Goods because she's alerted me
she does not like my Christmas to core.

Speaker 20 (01:42:14):
She doesn't like how I've been doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:16):
It's awesome.

Speaker 20 (01:42:17):
She told me yesterday that Santa is not emo, and
I said, neither am I? And she just said it's
a little dark.

Speaker 7 (01:42:30):
Wait, what is your Christmas decor?

Speaker 17 (01:42:33):
Is it all like.

Speaker 2 (01:42:36):
Christmas? Is that the guy from my chemical romance in
the Santa Hat? Is that all we know?

Speaker 25 (01:42:41):
No?

Speaker 20 (01:42:41):
No, no, no, no, I I go.

Speaker 23 (01:42:45):
I just go jewel toned, Like that's like our house,
Like the house esthetic is darker.

Speaker 20 (01:42:52):
I guess I call it grown up goth. It's not creepy.

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
It's Wednesday. It's Giving Wednesday.

Speaker 20 (01:42:59):
You were there one time. Draw it by memory, draw
me like, what are your French girls?

Speaker 8 (01:43:04):
Like?

Speaker 20 (01:43:04):
You wouldn't know it at all, but yeah, probably welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
To most No no, no, You've made all kinds of
good stuff that night.

Speaker 23 (01:43:14):
But it's like I tried to match the aesthetic of
the house and so I went jewel toned with the
Christmas tree and so for whatever reason, she thinks that's
dark because it's not red and green and cutesy.

Speaker 20 (01:43:28):
But I said, I'm like, well, what do you want?
And she said pink?

Speaker 23 (01:43:32):
And I'm like, I'm like, huh up one second, I'm
like Christmas. I'm like, I can compromise with you. I
am not doing candy, like we're not doing explosion of
like hot pink anything, but we can do like a
rose gold, goldish Christmas stuff. So if you want to
go look at stuff and you tell me what you like,

(01:43:54):
that's fine.

Speaker 4 (01:43:55):
What if she points to the oval office and goes this,
I want this spray painted gold home depot stuff, concrete patty.

Speaker 15 (01:44:05):
Gold.

Speaker 6 (01:44:07):
See, I don't negotiate with terrorists, and I consider kids
at that age terrorists, Like I'm you don't get to
pick the decor, just like I didn't get to pick
the decor. I never would ever even imagine asking my
parents to go out for dinner so we could discuss
their their choices.

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
They were terrible.

Speaker 6 (01:44:25):
All of our decorations were pretty bad.

Speaker 11 (01:44:27):
You got the nativity set that has a few Ninja
Turtle action figures filling in for the missing sheep. Yeah,
the one you got broke, the three Santa blow molds
and the tree.

Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
What decor? It's the same. It's the stuff in the attic.
Every year for twenty years. We have this stuff that
I've had since I was a little kid.

Speaker 1 (01:44:45):
I remember it all being put out at Christmas and
it's been saved every year and my brother and I
still have it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:50):
Uh up it put it up at our family's house. Yeah,
and I break it out every year.

Speaker 1 (01:44:57):
And it's fun to look at these little statuettes and
all the Christmas decorations from kids.

Speaker 2 (01:45:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:45:03):
Sure, and you ascribe this value to it, right that
like one of them, like a little thing broke.

Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
I was like, oh oh, that was my favorite.

Speaker 24 (01:45:11):
I love that little like.

Speaker 1 (01:45:13):
You know urchin sing singer New Carol or whatever you like,
Oh shoot, you know, and I'm thinking like, oh, it's
priceless probably you know, you know, you look this stuff
up online. Our parents didn't go by really nice stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
It's like whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:45:28):
Marshals was at the time. That's when they bought all
that stuff. But it just lasted, and so you have it.

Speaker 2 (01:45:32):
So it's like it's not worth anything.

Speaker 4 (01:45:35):
No, it looks like it is because it's old, but
it's just old and it's the stuff you're used to
looking at, so the value is all intrinsic.

Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
Yah, it's like what you derive from looking at it emotionally.

Speaker 7 (01:45:49):
I feel like also, like the Christmas Decord.

Speaker 6 (01:45:51):
Back then, everything back then, nothing was super expensive and nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
Was total crap.

Speaker 6 (01:45:57):
That's what I'm saying. It actually took time to make.
Like all the stuff we got, all the ornaments from Hallmark.
I still have them from my childhood. Yes, And my
grandparents every year would buy us like a series like
mine was trains, and so every year Hallmark would put
out a train, a different train nineteen eighty two, nineteen
eighty three, nineteen eighty four.

Speaker 7 (01:46:17):
And and my dad, I've told this story on the show.

Speaker 6 (01:46:20):
Like my parents didn't set Christmas up until Christmas Eve,
which I think is insane.

Speaker 7 (01:46:26):
Like the tree goes up on Christmas Eve.

Speaker 6 (01:46:28):
Whoa the platform and the train go up. And every
year it would get like later and later, like we
would cut you know, we would wake up in the
morning and we'd just be sitting at the top of
the steps and he'd go down there and he'd be like,
I got to check and see.

Speaker 7 (01:46:40):
If Santa came.

Speaker 6 (01:46:42):
I'd hear the sweeper running, like I'd hear a hammer,
and I'd be like, did he come?

Speaker 26 (01:46:46):
Like what's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:46:47):
It sounds like hard labor is going on in our
living room.

Speaker 1 (01:46:51):
I just liked how my brain morphed through the years
to seeing that Christmas tree and it went from representing
presence and how much fun I was gonna have too
as you got older, is like beef stick. There's gonna
be beef stick and cheese and ham cubes and crackers, mushrooms, beer,
and like, you know, it's soda first coke and play

(01:47:13):
pop whatever, and then that it's beer and eating. And
now it's kind of for me, it's just eating. Like
when I see the tree, I'm like, oh, I love
this time of year. I'm gonna get so fat everywhere
you have four dips, just four dips on the plates.
The pumper nickel spin it stipump. Oh yeah, that's what

(01:47:38):
other time of the year does that breakout? It never
comes out in the summer. The pumper nickel, right, pumper
nickel is like the holiday Oh yeah, yeah, and then
you just rip it off the side.

Speaker 13 (01:47:49):
It's kind of awesome.

Speaker 7 (01:47:50):
I'm not a huge fan of the pumper nickel bread.

Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
When else do you ever use it? I don't right. Well, now,
you know, if you went with like you could do
like a.

Speaker 1 (01:47:59):
Pumper nickel rye kinda like a Germany sandwich, Yeah, like
corn beef, kind of like a ruben something like that.

Speaker 6 (01:48:06):
I just don't want the bread to take over, you
know what I mean. It's like it's a sandwich. It's
not about you. Yes, you're there to hold things in,
but it's like a nice book cover. You got to
have the right one. Yeah, sure, I had an egg
sandwich at what's that coffee plate? Defer, have you guys
been there?

Speaker 17 (01:48:22):
Hell?

Speaker 2 (01:48:22):
Yeah, So there's one in this there's one in the strip,
and then there's one up on Troy Hill.

Speaker 7 (01:48:28):
Okay, and it's a I've only been to the one
in the strip.

Speaker 1 (01:48:31):
They have a really good egg sandwich. But what makes
it is like they give you all these options, and
I want with the Briosh because I'm like Brioche. You
can always depend on Brios.

Speaker 2 (01:48:41):
Brios always makes it feel special. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:48:43):
A little fluffy, A little fluffy, A little sheen, Yeah,
little sheen on the Brios.

Speaker 1 (01:48:48):
Little she give me a little a little sheen. That's
all I'm looking for. It was really good anyways. Oh yeah,
but Christmas and Abby uh no goth.

Speaker 20 (01:48:59):
Look at that is not.

Speaker 2 (01:49:04):
No, that is beautiful Christmas? Is that goe?

Speaker 11 (01:49:09):
But I can see it being a nine year old's
conception of emo. There's no color, there's no well the
lights are all white. The lights are all white. There's
no there's no there's no like red and green to it.

Speaker 20 (01:49:23):
It's not red and green like a cartoon.

Speaker 23 (01:49:26):
But there are jewel tunes and it's blue because its
matches the decor.

Speaker 1 (01:49:31):
Look, man, you're you're poking the barrel. Yeah, I mean
it's going down. And just listen to my favorite Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:49:40):
Songs from the color Sater. There's Grammer and your sports
here in just a little bit? Is that just that
Creed song? Uh? Arms he he hear? I thought we

(01:50:00):
are Holmes? Why will pay him?

Speaker 1 (01:50:01):
It's not the same as the hold on on Bill's
last day. If we're doing Creed with arms wide open,
I'm gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:50:09):
Have to insist on Bill's fast food drive through order
as Scott staff.

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
Oh my god, I don't know if I remember it.

Speaker 20 (01:50:17):
Okay, let's go maybe to that.

Speaker 2 (01:50:20):
Will all joice her.

Speaker 7 (01:50:24):
A numberfore.

Speaker 16 (01:50:27):
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Speaker 5 (01:51:50):
Bengals will be in Akroscher Stadium on Sunday, and after
getting lit up in October and Cincinnati, the Steelers dvs
want another shot at the Bengals and the Steels dps
are not alone.

Speaker 31 (01:52:05):
I would think I would think our team is forgetting
the defensive backs. I think I think our team defense
is looking for an opportunity to play well. And it
doesn't matter whether you know the last time I mean
it's the bottom line is we need to play well
this week to try to win the game, and you
know what happened last time means nothing.

Speaker 7 (01:52:24):
You know, how can we play well this week?

Speaker 31 (01:52:25):
And I think that's really our focus and has been
our focus in our room, is to try to make
sure each week we played better and give ourselves an
opportunity to win.

Speaker 5 (01:52:35):
Four hundred and seventy total net yards that's not nothing.
Twenty three targets, sixteen catches, and one hundred and sixty
one receiving yards for Jamar Chase still can't wrap my
head around he dropped a couple balls dropped, But think
I think at that time that was flack as second
game with the Bengals just been acquired, played against Green Bays.

(01:52:58):
First half was awful, as second half was good, and
then this was a Thursday night. I don't think anybody
or most people in Steeler Nation anticipated him being good,
and I think that was part of part of the
recoil and horror when they lost that game. But he's
done nothing but like people up since, I mean, he's
got it going on. They're going to have to find

(01:53:18):
a way to steal a couple of possessions with takeaways,
get a critical stop with Sue.

Speaker 2 (01:53:25):
We'll see, uh.

Speaker 6 (01:53:26):
I mean he had he had eleven touchdowns in three
games and a thousand yards passing.

Speaker 7 (01:53:35):
I mean, to your point, and it it looks like
it just flows.

Speaker 13 (01:53:39):
It's not fluky.

Speaker 5 (01:53:41):
He he Flacco catches the ball, he reads it and
he throws it and stuff happens. Uh, Terrell Austin to
Steelers defense where it thinks they are in a much
better position now than they were back in October.

Speaker 31 (01:53:54):
You know, we we obviously didn't play very well that
that that day. But every day is a single day,
you know, just a single every game it takes on
its own life. But I think that you know, we've
got a little bit more stability and the back end
in terms of you know, how we're playing people and
where they are, and so you need that against a
group like this.

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
Their dynamic, they've.

Speaker 31 (01:54:17):
Got obviously the receivers, they got a good tight end,
they got a running back that can run in catch,
so's they attack you from all angles. And I just
think us being a little bit more stable in terms
of substitution, who's in, who's out, will help us hopefully
play a little.

Speaker 2 (01:54:33):
Better this time.

Speaker 5 (01:54:33):
Yeah, he's talking about Jayleen Ramsey and Kyle Duggar handling
the safety position and not different guys on different snaps
and all that.

Speaker 2 (01:54:40):
Stuff they were doing earlier.

Speaker 5 (01:54:42):
Also, Bill, this one was for you based on our
conversation yesterday or Austin said that there will be a
better plan in place for the Bengals running.

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
Game in the rematch. In other words, thank god, In
other words, they will have one.

Speaker 31 (01:54:54):
Yeah, Well, we you know, the goal is to not
let the run game go on, but if it does,
I think we're, uh, we'll have a different mindset maybe
in terms of how we recalibrate, because obviously what I
did the first time didn't and so we'll be I
think we'll be better prepared for it. Obviously we won't
know till we get out there on Sunday, but we

(01:55:15):
think we you know, I don't think it'll take us
by surprise because they've been running the ball more efficiently
and more often in the last three or four weeks.

Speaker 5 (01:55:24):
I mean, that's as close as he can get without
actually saying, you know, we just didn't think they'd.

Speaker 2 (01:55:28):
Even run the ball.

Speaker 7 (01:55:29):
It was a perfect storm.

Speaker 6 (01:55:30):
They hadn't been running the ball well and then Tomlin's boogeyman,
Joe Flacco had arrived and he's so scared of chasing
Higgins already, and you could see how they would completely
overlook the running game.

Speaker 5 (01:55:44):
You know, we were talking about that on Steel's preview
last night with Meryl Hodge. We didn't even talk about
Chase Brown. We broke that game down for an hour
the first time, and we didn't talk about Chase Brown
because they were so crappy running for the worst in
the league.

Speaker 2 (01:55:56):
What was the point? But I think that's how they
prepared for that game. They didn't talk about them either.

Speaker 7 (01:56:03):
Yeah, everybody now they're aware, Oh these guys they have
a running back.

Speaker 13 (01:56:07):
Yeah, tell you know, you learn, you get smarter, you
play better the next time.

Speaker 2 (01:56:11):
Any given Sunday.

Speaker 1 (01:56:13):
It should be something that every single coach drives into
these guys weekend and week out.

Speaker 2 (01:56:18):
Yep, because all you ever hear is other professionals.

Speaker 1 (01:56:21):
They do not need reminding that day off facing other
professionals who seek to go out and defeat them.

Speaker 2 (01:56:29):
Like actually, I agree with that.

Speaker 6 (01:56:31):
They do and they need former Steelers Super Bowl winners
on the sidelines. They need emotional speeches on Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (01:56:38):
They need. The reminding is what you disagree with? Yes, yes, absolutely,
that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (01:56:42):
Constant, reminder, constantly.

Speaker 2 (01:56:44):
Yes, I could not agree more.

Speaker 1 (01:56:46):
Do not look at their rankings, and I don't know
that that's not happening, but I can't imagine it is.
Given the performance that we saw.

Speaker 5 (01:56:54):
This is gonna be uh. Williamson was emphasizing this point
last night. Every Bengals games is saying lately, they score
a bunch, they give up more yep. And Matt thinks
that the Steelers is gonna win because they will get
the defensive takeaways at home. You'll have the splash Oh yeah, okay,
two or three splash plays. Last time in Cincinnati. If
the Steelers don't throw two picks, they probably win the game.

(01:57:16):
Yeah wow, they'll set a fumble in that game, right yep.
So I think that one was three turnovers for Cincinnati
and the Bengals won by two. This one maybe three
zero turnovers Pittsburgh and they win by four.

Speaker 1 (01:57:29):
In defense of the players, though, you know, they could
be sitting in positional meetings and the coach will be
saying all that stuff about like, don't take these guys
for granted, just because they're last in the league, and
rushing right now does not mean you take these guys
for granted.

Speaker 2 (01:57:39):
And then they roll film on the guys. They roll
the tape and they're like, these guys suck.

Speaker 6 (01:57:44):
And then you know, no matter how much you beat
it in ye human nature, you're gonna take them lightly.

Speaker 2 (01:57:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:57:48):
In terms of points allowed and yards allowed, the Bengals
are like second all time worst right now. If the
season ended today and their their numbers were their numbers, yeah,
they would be the second worst ever in points aloud,
in yards per game allowed.

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Speaker 2 (02:00:25):
It's Missy Matthews.

Speaker 7 (02:00:27):
Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 13 (02:00:27):
Miss what's that?

Speaker 3 (02:00:28):
Miss?

Speaker 12 (02:00:30):
I have? Happy Friday?

Speaker 2 (02:00:32):
Happy Friday to you too.

Speaker 1 (02:00:33):
And as you know, our young William Crawford here is
off to greener pastures.

Speaker 2 (02:00:39):
This is his swan song.

Speaker 1 (02:00:41):
The final broadcast for for Bill is a young forty
six year old young William headed.

Speaker 7 (02:00:46):
Out into the world, finally graduating Hike School.

Speaker 2 (02:00:55):
So we'll try to ask as many Roman Wilson questions
as possible.

Speaker 12 (02:00:58):
What I'm trying to say perfect You should have had
Roman Wilson on to celebrate.

Speaker 7 (02:01:02):
Yeah, we missed.

Speaker 2 (02:01:04):
Well, well, I don't want to break this arise.

Speaker 7 (02:01:07):
The Edmund Fitzgerald, so that does make sense.

Speaker 2 (02:01:10):
We do have Ryan Switzer calling in later though, but guys,
he doesn't like me.

Speaker 6 (02:01:16):
Oh he's a he's a parade All American high school,
high school.

Speaker 2 (02:01:21):
Yeah that's right.

Speaker 1 (02:01:23):
Oh all right, Well I'm gonna have to do some
juggling while wearing commercial breaks in. But that that was
the ending, Missy. This is it for the Steelers as
far as I'm concerned. If you lose this one, you
have a real uphill battle to the playoffs. You basically
have to knock off the Ravens twice and hope the
Bengals lose a couple of times.

Speaker 12 (02:01:44):
Yeah, they need this one, not just because it's a
division game. You obviously want to win division games. But
I just think, you know, the last four games have
not gone the way that I think anybody anticipated, the
team included, so I think coming home one o'clock game,
not primetime, love that for everybody. They definitely need to

(02:02:07):
take advantage of this Bengals defense, who's traded players away,
who just you know, continues to deal with injuries and
things on that side.

Speaker 26 (02:02:15):
Of the ball.

Speaker 8 (02:02:16):
But course for the Steelers, they do, they do, but.

Speaker 12 (02:02:21):
You know, you don't wanna, you know, rest on your
laurels there and think that it's just gonna be easy peasy.
But the defense also has to stop this offense, so
it will be complimentary football at its finest.

Speaker 1 (02:02:36):
I am most concerned about the offensive decline here. And
the one aspect we were talking about earlier is that
when we got John Smith, I thought, I thought I
was gonna see John Smith jerseys all over town.

Speaker 2 (02:02:48):
I thought, this guy is gonna be our gronk.

Speaker 1 (02:02:51):
He's gonna come in here, and Arthur Smith, Arthur he
just loves tight ends, and we're gonna see, you know,
essentially a big number two receiver in Johnny Smith.

Speaker 2 (02:03:03):
And that hasn't happened.

Speaker 1 (02:03:04):
But is it because Arthur Smith hasn't designed it that way,
or have the opportunities not availed themselves for the offense
to open up like that.

Speaker 12 (02:03:14):
I mean, I did think when he came it was
kind of like, oh, we get Jalen Ramsey. Oh and
him like why, Like how did Miami? Why was that
the deal? But you're like, okay, cool, Like he caught
a lot of touchdown last You're like, come on over,
we'll take you too. But I do feel like it
got a little jumbled in terms of, you know, thirteen

(02:03:34):
different guys have caught a football from Aaron Rodgers this season,
so it's almost like he's not playing favorites too much.
And I feel like, obviously when teams are taking away
DK Metcalf, like other guys have to get open. But
I think to you know, the addition of Darnell Washington
playing a lot because of what he has been able
to do both you know, playing as an offensive tackle

(02:03:58):
and a catching past tight end, and then Spencer Anderson
that takes guys off the field. I just I don't know.
I feel like maybe Friar Moove needs to be a
little bit more involved in What better week to do
it than a Cincinnati Bengals game where you know he
has two one hundred yard games against them in his career,
and as coach called him the zone killer, it just
seems like it doesn't matter what happens or who the

(02:04:20):
quarterback is throwing him the ball, Moose does good against
the Bengals.

Speaker 5 (02:04:23):
Missie, are you going Saturday and you're just gonna stay
at after sure all weekend?

Speaker 12 (02:04:28):
I mean, listen, we are going to the Gavin McKenna
hockey game tonight, I won't say the other part, going
to the game tomorrow, and then covering the Steelers on Sunday.
So this is like my sports trifecta.

Speaker 8 (02:04:42):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:04:44):
Uh, game day will be here for Pitt notre dame.

Speaker 9 (02:04:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:04:48):
I going to ask you, what did you think of
coaching our Dooozy's comment about we don't care if we
lose one hundred and ten to three as long as
we win the next two games. And of course what
he is trying trying to convey there is that it's
more important to win the conference games. But do you
think he could have done that a little more? Definitely?

Speaker 12 (02:05:11):
Yeah, just I feel like it came out wrong. And
then he just like kept going. But I think everybody
knew what he meant, but it was just kind of
like stop, like just just yes, cop ACC games are important,
you know, I know they're they're sid really well. And
that's what I was kind of like, So did you
tell him to say that? Joking with him? Obviously he

(02:05:32):
did not, but I just think that.

Speaker 5 (02:05:35):
You know it, didn't he fix it when he told
everybody to make sure they're liquored up? That yeah, you
know early start nude game, make sure you get liquored up. Okay,
because you got to work a lot now for nude kick?

Speaker 12 (02:05:52):
Are you going to go pursuit us?

Speaker 13 (02:05:54):
I got a Robert Moore.

Speaker 5 (02:05:55):
Sorry, I t game Saturday night that I'm working, or
I would be there and I would be liquored up.

Speaker 12 (02:06:01):
Well, we didn't have to ask you the second part.

Speaker 3 (02:06:04):
We knew that.

Speaker 13 (02:06:04):
Well, just like to confirm the obvious.

Speaker 1 (02:06:06):
I wonder what tickets are going for for that game
right now? I would imagine do people hit you up
for that? I was talking to Guy Junker about this yesterday, Missy.
I had guys calling me that are friends with my
older brothers who I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:06:17):
Know, and they're like, hey man, what's going on? Long
time no talk. I'm like, I don't know who this is.
Can you get me three free tickets to the Pitt
Noder name game? Because I'm like, get Ben, what are
you talking about? No way, man, I.

Speaker 12 (02:06:31):
Will I mean it's sold out, and I do feel
like I haven't looked recently, but the you know secondhand
market when when Pitt's sending out and email thing it's
sold out. But go to seat geek, you know, our
whatever partner to try to buy tickets. You know, people
are gonna just completely jack those prices up right now.

Speaker 1 (02:06:50):
You can sit in the nose bleeds like literally, yes,
those bleeds one hundred and thirty five dollars on stub hub,
which is not bad, which is not bad.

Speaker 8 (02:07:00):
Name.

Speaker 2 (02:07:00):
What's the cost to get in the club? Five hundred? Wow?

Speaker 1 (02:07:04):
Well minimum, there's most of them are, yeah, most of
them are six hundred two thousand for the club.

Speaker 2 (02:07:11):
Oh yeah, well, because that's that's not surprising.

Speaker 1 (02:07:13):
Oh yeah, rich alumni, Notre Dame. It's going to be
a huge you know, HOI POLOI hoity toity type.

Speaker 5 (02:07:21):
I'm sorry I can't go mister. Uh there's something about
a Notre Dame game. It's just there's a different feeling
for those even though it's not an ACC game.

Speaker 12 (02:07:32):
There is, But I mean, I don't know. I just
I'm probably going to find people. I feel like, people
that like Notre Dame didn't go to Notre Dame and
just like them because of the prestige and you know
what they movie, Yeah, and that drives me crazy. Like
I don't know, I'm a pitch fan, and like I've
gone through the ups and downs, Like I was at

(02:07:52):
Pit Stadium for that last game against Notre Dame, you
know before that went kaboom.

Speaker 2 (02:07:58):
Like you've heard your fan it does.

Speaker 12 (02:08:01):
Yeah, Like I'm still a pick fan, you know, Like
I'm not just picking the cool, flashy team. So I
just I don't like Notre Dame. It's not as much
as I like hate some of the teams from like
Pit Basketball in the Big East days and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (02:08:15):
But it's like, yeah, who didn't grow up in New York.
It's like, oh, you picked the winner?

Speaker 12 (02:08:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but you know they're all going to
be there and that drives me crazy. And they're just
very snobby.

Speaker 2 (02:08:28):
I'm Catholic, so I have to root for Notre Dame.
I'm right, I mean to, but I'm a Kick fan,
right exactly?

Speaker 4 (02:08:37):
Now, are you going to get together with any of
the Plumb mafia that's coming in with McAfee.

Speaker 12 (02:08:43):
I'm going to go stop by the game day set tomorrow.
I really I want to say hi to Patent some
other Plumb people obviously, but we did. I did not
get a chance to meet Kirk kurb Street's dog, Peter.
I know this sounds ridiculous in Cincinnati, the Bengals that
let him in the stadium, So that's like one of
the things I need to check off my list.

Speaker 2 (02:09:04):
That's so funny.

Speaker 1 (02:09:05):
The Bengals used to, I mean, Marge Shot used to
bring two Saint Bernards into the river front and they
crap all over the field.

Speaker 7 (02:09:12):
Maybe that's why exactly know, But.

Speaker 12 (02:09:15):
Like everyone, let's Ben go or lets Peter. His previous
dog was Ben go everywhere, Like I have a Golden Retriever.
I love Golden Retrievers. I'm obsessed with like all the
social content he puts out about him, so I like
want to go, like stay hi to the doge bizarre,
but that's where I'm at.

Speaker 5 (02:09:32):
I really liked that he publicizes his dog so much
because he's the only guy in America.

Speaker 8 (02:09:36):
That I.

Speaker 2 (02:09:41):
Just you know, more dog.

Speaker 1 (02:09:43):
By the way, I want to apologize to the actual
Plumb Mafia for calling Pat's friends the plumb Mafia.

Speaker 2 (02:09:48):
That was I didn't mean anything by it, no disrespect.

Speaker 12 (02:09:52):
Yeah to the people on two eighty six, you know,
doing things out there.

Speaker 4 (02:09:57):
Yeah r.

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Steelers one o'clock on Sunday and you can hear Missy
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Speaker 2 (02:10:12):
Missy, thanks so much, Thanks guys and Bill.

Speaker 12 (02:10:16):
We'll keep in touch. I already left him like a blobbering, crying,
laughing voice memo because I was driving what I found out.
So I'll just you know, I'll leave that there.

Speaker 7 (02:10:28):
Thanks, miss Love. I love your appearances on here.

Speaker 6 (02:10:31):
You do such a great job dealing with Michael during
training camp and the pregame show and during the game
broadcast and your one on one interviews with players and
coaches on Steelers dot Com are always tremendous. But my
favorite thing is I get to co host the Steelers
Fashion show with you. It's always a blast. You're way
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how funny you are, mostly because your humor is off
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Speaker 2 (02:10:57):
But yes, I just want to let you know.

Speaker 6 (02:10:59):
If Randy said at the beginning of this segment, I'm
still going to be texting you every single week about
Roman Wilson, So get ready.

Speaker 12 (02:11:05):
For that perfect perfect we will just yeah, we'll start
it now, and I hope you still do the fashion
show and I can't wait to see what's next. And yeah,
we'll touch base once you get through this week because
I know you've been busy.

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Thanks guy, going to mess you all right, matt than you. Bye, guys,
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Speaker 1 (02:13:04):
Wenj F Concle stop by earlier this morning to bid
bumpoge to our own Bill Crawford, who is about fifty
two minutes away from getting to sleep as much as
he wants. Fastered you very nice and Jeff One. You know,
and Bill is going on to full bore pursue comedy.

Speaker 2 (02:13:24):
Comedy.

Speaker 1 (02:13:24):
But you know, the one thing I want to tell
people is to make sure because part of comedy in
the modern world is doing the full on social media assault.
So make sure you're following Bill on all socials because
you're going to be cranking out lots of online content
to get support this, you know, jump into the comedy

(02:13:47):
world again.

Speaker 6 (02:13:48):
Yes, yes, I mean stand up obviously, that's my roots,
that's that's my soul. But I got a million ideas
of things that I want to do, and I always
tell people that, you know, when you're on this show,
a juggernaut show like this, it becomes the center of
your universe, as it should, and the amount of time

(02:14:10):
that we spend prepping for this show, and you know,
we're only on air for four hours, but I haven't
been present with anybody in.

Speaker 2 (02:14:19):
My life for thirteen years, right exactly.

Speaker 6 (02:14:21):
It's like, no, you're telling me something that's life changing
and life altering for you.

Speaker 2 (02:14:25):
Hold on a second.

Speaker 6 (02:14:25):
I have to get traded for DK metcalf and gave
him more money than they've Okay, Jerry, do like tweet it, honey,
hold on one one second. Yeah, And so I just
you know, I'm going to have more time to focus
on some of that other stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:14:39):
Yeah, because there's plenty you have comedy ideas that you
can't execute on, you know, in the parameters of morning radio.
But like for people who aren't following you yet, you're
going to change the social media because you have DV
and the stuff right now. Yeah yeah, but if you're
following him on that, it's just Grandfather's over.

Speaker 2 (02:14:57):
So that's right. So where should people follow you now?

Speaker 6 (02:15:00):
Just on my Twitter account and an Instagram account. Okay,
there's no separate accounts.

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Speaker 2 (02:15:11):
Oh yeah, yeah, all right, because I'm a DV guy. Man.

Speaker 6 (02:15:15):
You know, I said that in my in my goodbye,
and a lot of people don't know exactly where that
came from.

Speaker 2 (02:15:22):
That is. I don't know if we have that we
I'm looking for it.

Speaker 6 (02:15:25):
Jim tom Sula, Munholme native, definitely a Pittsburgh guy. Was
coaching in the NFL for several years. I don't know
if he still is. He probably is, was coaching I
think for the forty nine ers at the time. I
don't have that, but I have him farting in the press.

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I have our spoof of when he farted in his
press conference and we did a fart ball life.

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What if I told you that Door Matt Salesman that
drank irons and the mun Hall projects struck football gold
with the forty nine ers every weekend was something you
know all that, I mean getting together.

Speaker 20 (02:16:17):
And eating like crazy.

Speaker 4 (02:16:20):
And you know, what if I told you that the
England Monarchs, Scottish Claymores, Berlin Thunder and Ryan Fire were
teams he coached for in NFL Europe.

Speaker 2 (02:16:33):
And not the names he gave to his best farts.

Speaker 4 (02:16:37):
And what if I told you that all along the
potholed road from Pittsburgh to San Francisco, Jim Tomsula Farty.
ESPN Films presents a thirty for thirty film Jim Tomsula
A Fartball Life Friday at nine on ESPN.

Speaker 2 (02:16:54):
Yeah, that's yeah. I mean we had to go out
with at least one fart bit.

Speaker 7 (02:17:00):
I mean, how could we not.

Speaker 2 (02:17:02):
I'm a DV guy.

Speaker 6 (02:17:04):
The other thing that I said in the farewell that
maybe people don't know the backstory on as I referred
to man boy rest in Peace, who used to work.

Speaker 7 (02:17:13):
At Casey's Bar down on the South Side Sean.

Speaker 6 (02:17:15):
Yeah, and you know you would buy shots for the
bar and he was like, slide down this fireman's poll
and pour everybody's shots. And it was the most fun ever.
And there was a name of a night on Monday
Night that we can't say anymore. No, And uh, he
was such a funny dude. He was such a good
guy and it was before I was on the show
when Cianna Miller was in town shooting a movie and

(02:17:38):
called Pittsburgh something that rhymes with Pittsburgh that isn't nice.

Speaker 2 (02:17:43):
And I wentburg yet worse, and I.

Speaker 6 (02:17:46):
Went down to the South Side to interview everybody to
ask them what they thought about it.

Speaker 7 (02:17:51):
And that was man Boy's rebuttal.

Speaker 6 (02:17:54):
He was like, she needs to go back to her city,
her state, her time, her country, because I'll tell you
this right now, Pittsburgh is the best city in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 7 (02:18:02):
And I was like, it's hard to argue that objectively.
That's that's a true statement.

Speaker 1 (02:18:08):
It is funny, how like there's so much stuff that,
like I always feel we have to explain the context
of because they're like, why are they saying it wrong?

Speaker 6 (02:18:15):
You know, Yah, Pittsburgh baby, like Mike's tom or tourisms exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:18:22):
Yeah. I'm like, you know, it's no Mozart, Pittsburgh really
is the bad. Oh, dude, you have to take off
your hat and give it to him, all of those
d tier. He does that all the time we're here.

Speaker 20 (02:18:34):
It is Pittsburgh is the best place to live.

Speaker 2 (02:18:37):
I don't care where anybody says.

Speaker 16 (02:18:39):
If you got to do some clean up.

Speaker 20 (02:18:40):
Hey, it is what it is, but we're still number
one out here.

Speaker 6 (02:18:44):
Anah, that's Barry from Squirrel Hill. They interviewed him after
they burned down the Fudruckers.

Speaker 2 (02:18:51):
And then just one last time, Bill being that attack guy.

Speaker 33 (02:18:55):
I was in bed and that that I just heard
that big bang and that and what that when in
post carway by my house and that laying their upside down.

Speaker 7 (02:19:05):
And more, and that's in ten seconds he got around the.

Speaker 33 (02:19:07):
Car and that she was sitting along the side of
the road here and that so then I got a
launch here so she could sit out on and a
take them more comfortable. She just say that her head
was hurting and this than that that she needed her
medication and that yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:19:20):
That's nine and that nine hit the paddles out.

Speaker 17 (02:19:27):
A lot.

Speaker 2 (02:19:27):
YEA even snuck in the wear in this. You never
do out here a lot in that in this.

Speaker 1 (02:19:32):
Oh this right, Well, you'll still get plenty of Bill
in your social media feeds if you follow him, so
make sure you do that post haste. And uh, all right,
well let's get cranking here for the last forty five.
We got Abbey with a quick news update for you here.

Speaker 23 (02:19:46):
On DVE is this hour bride to you by better
call side times of sun and clouds today with a
high of fifty five Saturday, it sounds like we'll get
some rain and a thunderstorm in the afternoon high of
sixty five there and then for steelers Sunday shower in
places in the morning breezy and cooler, and it sounds like.

Speaker 20 (02:20:03):
A high of forty nine.

Speaker 23 (02:20:05):
Tahoe, a game of precision and adrenaline in which players
hurled discs of.

Speaker 20 (02:20:11):
Steel at gunpowder.

Speaker 23 (02:20:13):
Filled targets, is well known as Columbia's national pastime, but
now a version of the game is making its debut
in the Pittsburgh area under the.

Speaker 20 (02:20:22):
Name of Bombhole, a modernized you I say before, it's
a modernized version of Tahoe.

Speaker 23 (02:20:32):
It's making its US debut in Millville's playground Dropout, which
offers immersive group entertainment such as axe throwing, game show studio,
and Pennsylvania's only bar style curling experience played on a
real ice rink.

Speaker 20 (02:20:48):
Bombhole players toss weighted.

Speaker 23 (02:20:50):
Balls specifically engineered targets that are erupted with bursts of.

Speaker 20 (02:20:56):
Flame and sound when struck.

Speaker 23 (02:20:59):
Bombhole as automatic ball returns to keep playing.

Speaker 2 (02:21:02):
The bomb hoole Bombhole that they erupt, they erupt. Yeah,
I don't know. I went to KFC way too late
one night, and I think Bombhole is going to erupt.
What did you expect?

Speaker 23 (02:21:15):
Yeah, there's live hosts and digital leader bowl boards as well,
and they are going to have free early access to
test groups for this and that is going to occur
on November the twenty first.

Speaker 2 (02:21:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:21:28):
I don't want to be the first one over the
wall on that. I'll wait till they smooth out the
bomb Hole.

Speaker 2 (02:21:34):
Yeah, before I go in. I don't need to be
the first spelunker there.

Speaker 7 (02:21:40):
Somebody asked you to play Bombhole in Millville. You run, yeah,
you run fast?

Speaker 2 (02:21:44):
Yeah. I fell for that once woke up in Shady Side. Jacob.

Speaker 23 (02:21:53):
I didn't give you a heads up on this, but
can you get the ac DC sound ready for me?
With the bag pipers, three hundred and seventy four bagpipers
gathered in Federation Square to break the world record for
the largest bagpipe ensemble, surpassing the previous record of three
hundred and thirty three bagpipers in.

Speaker 20 (02:22:12):
Bulgaria, and of course they did long way to the time.

Speaker 17 (02:22:19):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (02:22:28):
This is.

Speaker 26 (02:22:31):
The cool thing is.

Speaker 23 (02:22:34):
Who were in the original music video, Les Kenfield and
Kevin Conlin were in this Bagpiper crowd, So two people
from the actual ac DC video were also breaking.

Speaker 20 (02:22:47):
The world record. So I wanted to make sure everybody
got a.

Speaker 2 (02:22:49):
Chance to do that. Every cat within five miles is
still running, all right.

Speaker 23 (02:22:58):
Pizza Hut could soon be up for sale Young Brands,
Pizza Hut's parent company said it's conducting a formal review
of options for the brand, which has struggled to compete
in a crowded pizza market. YOUM CEO Chris Turner said
that Pizza Hut has many strengths, including a global footprint
and strong growth in many markets. Pizza Hud has nearly

(02:23:18):
twenty thousand stores in more than one hundred countries, but
Pizza Hut has long saddled with large, outdated dining restaurants
at a time when consumers want fast pickup and delivery.
Pizza Hut was founded in nineteen fifty eight in Wichita,
Kansas by two brothers who borrowed six hundred dollars from
their mother to open the store. They chose the name
because their sign only had room for eight letters. That's

(02:23:42):
why it's called pizza.

Speaker 2 (02:23:43):
Hut Shana is County. Yeah, checks out, All right, there
you go. Don't but I want the dine in experience. Yeah,
really I don't want what are you going?

Speaker 11 (02:23:52):
I went to that one in Irwin that still is
shaped right, and they don't have the salad bar, but
they you can still sit down at a little booth.

Speaker 2 (02:23:59):
And I was so happy.

Speaker 11 (02:24:00):
And then the guy brought over like he was carrying
the stones and temple of doom, like he brought over
the little shaker of parmesan and the little shaker of
red pepper.

Speaker 1 (02:24:10):
And I was like, this is checkered tablecloth, cockered tablecloth dark.
It was very dark, red red plastic. Class didn't have
the glasses. They messed up.

Speaker 6 (02:24:22):
I could the pan, pizza, the crust, the crunch, crinch, crunch, crunch.

Speaker 7 (02:24:31):
So good, so good, crunch, crunch crunch.

Speaker 1 (02:24:36):
I I loved those glasses because you could you could
have jumped off a cliff with those red cups landed
on it and it would still be intact. Those things
were the most durable glasses that have ever existed. Now,
the microplastic like erosion factor on those things probably pretty

(02:24:57):
significant sign. Yeah, but who cares? Kept the cokes so cold?
I mean every pop was freezing cold on it.

Speaker 4 (02:25:04):
And they were huge, too huge, Yeah, like twenty two
ounces enormous at least they see nobody care, but I
was I was mostly smaller, so maybe it was like
little hands.

Speaker 1 (02:25:13):
You know, that's Kenny Picket, all right. Kenny Picket's like,
we can't go to pizza hut, guys, I can't drink anything.
Ups are too big? How is he not gotten in
over there?

Speaker 7 (02:25:26):
Oh he got in one time and then fumbled immediately.

Speaker 2 (02:25:29):
That's right. You know that was one down right. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:25:32):
But like Gino is stinking it up pretty good, and
they're sort of selling pieces off. Yeah, you wonder everybody's hurt. Well,
they look good though. Those raiders are go to Forbes Classic.
You just like the uniforms.

Speaker 2 (02:25:48):
Yeah, yeah, they do have a good unify. And I
pointed this out last week. It was the old ones.

Speaker 13 (02:25:51):
Uh they played last Thursday.

Speaker 1 (02:25:54):
Snoop Dogg always likes to say, you know, he's a
Steeler fan and I'm steel fan for life.

Speaker 2 (02:25:59):
Here all that crap.

Speaker 1 (02:26:01):
If you're a Steeler fan for life, you cannot appear
in a thirty for thirty on the Los Angeles Raiders
wearing a Los Angeles Raiders uniform. I understand that that's
not the seventies dynasty Raiders Steelers dynamic, but.

Speaker 4 (02:26:18):
It doesn't matter. That's you have no history knowledge of
the team. If you allow yourself to be a fan
of both the Raiders and the Steelers.

Speaker 6 (02:26:29):
It's like, but isn't it isn't that when he came
into his fandom in the seventies.

Speaker 2 (02:26:34):
Yes, but so how so how did he also become Yeah, that's.

Speaker 7 (02:26:38):
What I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (02:26:39):
It's not like eactly, he became a fan in the
nineties when those two teams weren't rivals and trying to
go to the Super Bowl every year to represent the AFC.

Speaker 2 (02:26:48):
This is my point. It would be like being a
I root for the Yankees and the Red Sox equally. No,
you can't. You can't do it.

Speaker 1 (02:26:57):
That's why I hate when people are always just like, oh, look,
zoom dog, he loves the Steelers. I'm like, he loves
whatever is bringing him attention.

Speaker 7 (02:27:05):
Is that analogy? The Steelers are the Yankees?

Speaker 2 (02:27:08):
Right?

Speaker 17 (02:27:08):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:27:09):
Okay, well yeah, I mean they won more.

Speaker 4 (02:27:12):
Yeah, I mean how many Super Bowls of the Raiders
have two Jim Plunkett and Stabler rich gannon lost.

Speaker 13 (02:27:20):
Didn't they win?

Speaker 17 (02:27:21):
H on?

Speaker 13 (02:27:22):
Brad Johnson played for Tampa, right, they lit up the Raiders.

Speaker 4 (02:27:25):
Yeah, that was the rich Cannon game. Is it just
too I think it's too like it should be more
because they were so damn good. Yeah, but guess what
was standing in their way?

Speaker 8 (02:27:35):
Mike?

Speaker 2 (02:27:37):
All right, I'm looking it up.

Speaker 13 (02:27:38):
They beat Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (02:27:41):
Yep, they got three nineteen eighty four against Washington.

Speaker 4 (02:27:46):
That's the one I forgot, nineteen seventy seven against the Vikings,
and then the.

Speaker 1 (02:27:50):
Eighty one Jim Plunkett the Hogs was an upset, big upset,
and they smashed them.

Speaker 7 (02:27:55):
Yes, thirty eight the Hogs is just a crazy sentence.

Speaker 1 (02:27:59):
I was in college lost on that game. You remember
your bet from nineteen eighty four?

Speaker 5 (02:28:04):
I do, because I was still in college and I
was covered a Michigan State hockey game the night before
and one of the Lansing TV stations was interviewed a
bunch of people about who's going to win the Super Bowl,
and they interviewed me, and I went on this fairly
ridiculous soliloquy about how the Raiders had no chance against

(02:28:27):
the Redskins.

Speaker 2 (02:28:28):
Alas oops they did. Yeah, so there you go.

Speaker 1 (02:28:33):
Then Jim Plunkett and company, Todd Christensen and all of
those guys, Dave Casper, they took care of Dick Vermeal
and the Crying Eagles in nineteen eighty one, Harold Denying
Harold Carmichael.

Speaker 13 (02:28:47):
Ron Zworski only threw three interceptions in that game.

Speaker 2 (02:28:49):
That's not bad. That's not bad.

Speaker 4 (02:28:52):
All right, Michael, have a full report. Actually you know what,
well not, Mike, well not. We're going to go to
the band when we return. Love these guys, Poster Child,
awesome band in the coffee house coming up here after
the break, and then we'll have the special send off
for Bill before we go. Bill, including we have something
really nice lined up for you that I think you're
going to absolutely love.

Speaker 2 (02:29:12):
Can't wait, So stick around for that, I think I will.

Speaker 3 (02:29:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:29:17):
Well, you're under no obligation in twenty six minutes, really
really now, I mean, yeah, we see you guys. Light Yeah,
walks out? Oh did you okay? Yeah? Right, you ain't
going nowhere now you can't leave.

Speaker 16 (02:29:34):
Glude to the seat.

Speaker 2 (02:29:36):
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Speaker 2 (02:31:02):
Hey, it's Randy from the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 15 (02:31:05):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:31:10):
Show, Randy Ballman along with Bill Crawford Still.

Speaker 32 (02:31:17):
Still Crawford, Still Crawford, Don't Crawford, uh and Uh, Abbey
Prisner and Mike Pursuita, Sean Colliers live in studio Jacob
brec Our producer.

Speaker 2 (02:31:29):
But it is time once again for the DVE Coffee House.

Speaker 1 (02:31:34):
Now the Coffee House is being performed from the Point
Park University Stage, brought to you by Moe's Southwest Girl. Welcome,
celebrating twenty years serving Pittsburgh and in the coffee House
today is the band Poster Child and Gibson Miscisco is

(02:31:55):
with us right now.

Speaker 2 (02:31:55):
What's up, Buddy?

Speaker 24 (02:31:56):
How are you.

Speaker 2 (02:31:57):
How's it going, guy? That's good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (02:32:00):
So you know, I've got to see you perform a
lot lately and be on stage with you here, and
your career is just zooming along, man, and I expect
nothing less than that. And I mean every time I
see it, you're really becoming more accomplished. How old of
a fella are you now? Gibson twenty years old? Randy,
I'm twenty.

Speaker 2 (02:32:19):
Twenty, getting old. I'm getting up there. Yeah, that's right. Well,
you got about a year to make it, you know,
and that's it after that? Yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 (02:32:29):
So you got a new a gig coming up here
this weekend tomorrow night, actually over a club cafe with
my buddy Zach Kaim, who's a great local Songwriter's great yeah, yeah,
and then a band called Gardener, and it's gonna be
super cool.

Speaker 34 (02:32:46):
We're gonna be making it back from Philly just in
time to make that happen. And it's gonna be full
band over a club cafe. It's gonna be dope.

Speaker 2 (02:32:53):
I think, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:32:55):
I was telling people that. I was like, I think
it's gonna be dope, and they're like, and I'm like, no,
I'm serious. Where are you playing in Philly?

Speaker 34 (02:33:01):
We're doing like this little this this college gig, which
I think you know, uh, it's kind of an underrated
way to make your way out of the city and
get some cash doing it.

Speaker 2 (02:33:09):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 34 (02:33:10):
It's it's gonna be at Swarthmore, one of their campus venues.

Speaker 2 (02:33:15):
I think.

Speaker 1 (02:33:16):
Okay, So Tomorrow Night on the South Side at Club
Cafe and the tickets are available right.

Speaker 2 (02:33:22):
Now in advance.

Speaker 1 (02:33:23):
Yes, sir, absolutely go to Club Cafes website. I believe
it's isn't it a Clubcafe live dot com?

Speaker 2 (02:33:29):
I think it is? Yes, Okay, good deal. What are
we gonna hear from here, Bud?

Speaker 34 (02:33:32):
We're gonna hear it's an upcoming single coming at on
the twenty fourth of this month called Michael's Sword. It's
just me here, but I'm gonna I'm gonna sing it
for you and see what you guys think.

Speaker 2 (02:33:42):
You know, I think you'll like it.

Speaker 1 (02:33:43):
Gibson Frcisco live in the Coffeehouse his band Poster Child
Tomorrow Night on the South Side at Club Cafe with
Zach Kaim.

Speaker 2 (02:33:51):
Here he is free now on DV.

Speaker 29 (02:34:03):
You'll say I could tub out the way.

Speaker 34 (02:34:10):
That every time when to meets your case, anal moment
share between U stays and marches alongside.

Speaker 26 (02:34:25):
That's the true.

Speaker 29 (02:34:29):
To fight in the shoe.

Speaker 2 (02:34:32):
A sacrificial rble.

Speaker 34 (02:34:34):
Dude, just fine, you could be the briand of me
the one he will call it a super girl.

Speaker 29 (02:34:48):
Yeah, it sort all the THI to burn out of
my cor sword.

Speaker 24 (02:34:57):
Thank God for.

Speaker 26 (02:34:59):
The Lord.

Speaker 29 (02:35:03):
With that, said Bill spain fall so great God, so
we got the.

Speaker 26 (02:35:10):
Sad friend, it's said of yourself, I.

Speaker 16 (02:35:41):
Have faith.

Speaker 29 (02:35:44):
Like how a is a political approach to making friends
believably become mony friend Sanzio, it has been Richard the

(02:36:05):
faith still burn out of Michael, sir, Thank God to
the Richards will stay so raya record, said.

Speaker 26 (02:36:26):
Friend instead yours.

Speaker 29 (02:37:11):
Prinzond the faith.

Speaker 24 (02:37:17):
Burn out an.

Speaker 26 (02:37:18):
Gole sort thank God the Lord.

Speaker 29 (02:37:26):
Reckon to fields name aso praying Preakti sad from hestead
your your.

Speaker 2 (02:37:52):
Nobody's just go from the holster sid.

Speaker 1 (02:38:00):
You know, whenever you end up putting that on a record,
I know you're gonna do it with a full band accompaniment,
but you gotta do a just a solo version like that, because.

Speaker 2 (02:38:10):
That alternate one just for you guys, just for us.

Speaker 9 (02:38:13):
Man.

Speaker 1 (02:38:14):
Yeah, dude, that is That's a song that should be
heard that way too. That is incredible stuff. I continue
to be your biggest fan, buddy. I mean, my god,
I can't believe how much better you get every time
I hear you. And well, look, you know, genetically you
are predisposed of this. You come from the stock of
two great singer songwriters. So you're making your parents proud,

(02:38:35):
no doubt about it. I have them to thank and
I have you to thank for your your appreciation. Thank you, Andy,
you got it all right, buddy. That's give Somesco Mecisco
from the band post your child tomorrow. And if you've
not seen the band, I mean they're just incredible, and
they're all young, and they've got that energy and the
drive and the passion and it's just an amazing show.

Speaker 7 (02:38:56):
Twenty he's twenty years old.

Speaker 1 (02:38:59):
And Zach Kind band is like internationally renowned right now.
He's like doing incredible things all over not just the country,
but again he's being recognized worldwide. And from his days
at the front of the Knox Boys till now, Zach
is really making a mark for himself as well. So
this is one hell of a show tomorrow night at

(02:39:19):
a club cafe. It's gonna sell out. Get your tickets
at Clubcafe Live dot com. The Coffeehouse brought to you
by Point Park University and of course mos Southwest Girl. Welcome,
all right, a special farewell to our beloved Bill Crawford.

Speaker 10 (02:39:35):
When we return, Chad Tyson turns your car into a
sonic playground a lot every weekday afternoon. He's got a
reloaded cut from the DVE Morning Show Sports and a
Workforce commercial Free hour at three afternoons with Chad Tyson
on DVE.

Speaker 1 (02:39:55):
It is the DV Morning Show Randy Bauman with Bill Crawford,
Abby Krisner, Mike p To our buddy Sean coll You's
hanging out with us, and Bill is headed off into
the Great Wide Comedy open to pursue comedy full time.

Speaker 2 (02:40:10):
And I know we all know you're gonna absolutely kick ass.

Speaker 1 (02:40:15):
Like like we told everybody before, make sure you're following
Bill on all platforms because part of the comedy world
these days is just blanketing the online, you.

Speaker 2 (02:40:25):
Know, yeah, getting out there.

Speaker 1 (02:40:26):
The audience is online exactly, so you'll be you'll you
won't be missing Bill. Follow him on social media and
there's tons of content coming your way.

Speaker 11 (02:40:35):
What's your handle not DV Bill c Yes, less formally
associated with DV Bill Crawford.

Speaker 7 (02:40:43):
No, I mean no, it's still there. The address is
the same, you.

Speaker 2 (02:40:47):
Know, once you start cranking up the social media content. Bill.

Speaker 1 (02:40:50):
Those Japanese are the Korean k pop fans that because
there's a Billy Crawford over there right.

Speaker 2 (02:40:56):
There, is like, yeah, they're going to be hitting me up.
They usually do. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:41:00):
Well, we wanted to send you off with something special,
and it was tough to try to figure out exactly what.

Speaker 7 (02:41:07):
To do and bring in a case of white claw.

Speaker 3 (02:41:09):
I did not know.

Speaker 2 (02:41:10):
I would know that would have been a pursuit of
move to beat that horse. Yeah, nicolob Ultri got it disappointed.

Speaker 6 (02:41:17):
I can I just tell you something really funny that
Mike said, because this is this was even before I
was on the show.

Speaker 7 (02:41:23):
I was trying.

Speaker 6 (02:41:24):
This was in the days when I was manifesting as
a young comic. I came on the show and I said, Hey, guys,
you know I'm going out on the road. I'm doing
the road. I'm going out and doing comedy. I'm doing
the road, right, So you guys, wish me well. I
and I leave, and I still had like ten shows

(02:41:44):
booked here in Pittsburgh. All right, so every week why
Sockey's like, yeah, I'm doing this show bill.

Speaker 2 (02:41:49):
Craver's on it.

Speaker 7 (02:41:50):
Yeah, I'm doing this show bill.

Speaker 2 (02:41:51):
Craver's on it.

Speaker 6 (02:41:52):
And Mike said, when Crawford said he was going on
the road, did he mean road?

Speaker 7 (02:41:56):
I wrote, phenomenal?

Speaker 1 (02:42:00):
Want well, you know, in trying to figure out what
to do in order to send you off, sometimes things
just land in your lap. And I had this sent
to me and it really is the perfect way to
send you off and wish you well.

Speaker 2 (02:42:17):
Oh yeah yeah from Noah Gooise in the band room,
your own special version.

Speaker 16 (02:42:27):
Please stop it.

Speaker 2 (02:42:30):
You can listen.

Speaker 18 (02:42:35):
That is fim.

Speaker 35 (02:42:39):
Jokes cracked in the morning, causing every inser.

Speaker 29 (02:42:47):
Up to great.

Speaker 24 (02:42:55):
You have the morning, sir, sad.

Speaker 26 (02:43:02):
Double meaning Billy, You're still a numble?

Speaker 2 (02:43:11):
How good is that? Phenomenal? No, Franco, I know, yeah,
I thought you was gonna drop something in there.

Speaker 20 (02:43:23):
I just allow the sound of the crank rank.

Speaker 24 (02:43:27):
Really, oh morning you.

Speaker 26 (02:43:32):
Helping to survive O morning tribe. The reason in parkway
traffic that I even want to stay you you're still.

Speaker 7 (02:44:09):
Oh yeah, this still better?

Speaker 2 (02:44:12):
This actually sounds better than the other one.

Speaker 7 (02:44:14):
Pat him, I love it.

Speaker 24 (02:44:15):
Why still get the slow.

Speaker 8 (02:44:21):
On the eight?

Speaker 2 (02:44:21):
I what does remember the studio? Hopefully it's still giving
I don't know, very nice.

Speaker 35 (02:44:29):
Harmonies, dude, you're still.

Speaker 6 (02:45:06):
Yeah there you Goh was awesome so much. I you know,
Noah texted me a beautiful message and I told him.
I was like, man, you know, it's been great to
get to know you. You're a super talented kid. I'm
going to see you out there dream chasing. And it's
been awesome to meet his family as well. Man, he's

(02:45:28):
got a he's got a big family, bunch of DV listeners,
great people.

Speaker 7 (02:45:33):
Thank you so much, Noah. That is not what I
thought you guys were going to do.

Speaker 6 (02:45:37):
I thought you didn't want to tell me who sent
you this because it was Bill Cameron, because he made
a super edit of every mistake I made over the
years of my commercials. Oh and it's it's not safe
for air like most of it because I'm swearing because
I messed up a million times.

Speaker 2 (02:45:56):
Does it bother you at all that he kept those no?

Speaker 6 (02:45:59):
Because when and I would mess up, I would mess
up spectacularly, and he was like, I'm I'm creating a
file I knew.

Speaker 2 (02:46:06):
Because it sounds like an audio ransom note type thing.

Speaker 17 (02:46:09):
You know.

Speaker 7 (02:46:09):
Well that's why I always was, you know, so kind
and nice right.

Speaker 2 (02:46:14):
There alone his swords on the wall.

Speaker 6 (02:46:17):
Yeah, man, that you know, I missed those those early
days back in Green Tree when everything was kind of
just funk.

Speaker 7 (02:46:25):
Like you walk down the hall, you hear Amanda swearing
out of her office. You see Anthony sitting in his
office with his bluetoothe.

Speaker 1 (02:46:33):
And he tells you to stop because to you, but
he's on the phone and you have to listen to
him finish a conversation, and where he just goes like
this and then the finger comes up to you like wait, yeah, okay, yeah,
hold on, hold on. You're like, I gotta go, I
gotta go. And then he'll like, okay, hold on, and
then okay, bye, I'll call you. And then he goes there,

(02:46:54):
how you doing?

Speaker 2 (02:46:56):
What do you need?

Speaker 7 (02:46:57):
What can I help you?

Speaker 2 (02:46:58):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (02:46:58):
He's got the drawer full of tickets.

Speaker 2 (02:47:00):
Yeah, whatever you do for.

Speaker 6 (02:47:02):
That disgusting couch in Maida's office that was the X
Fest plaque ceiling tiles yeah, well all the stuff that
he didn't put up on the walls that were just
leaning up against.

Speaker 1 (02:47:13):
The wall, gold records from like bands that were like
flashes in the pan. Yeah, yeah, God's mac exactly all right.
So we got a little bit more before we go here,
and uh, you know we we do have to send
it over to Mike pursuita were still doing well.

Speaker 2 (02:47:29):
I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (02:47:30):
I have it queued up here. We're just gonna go
a little long. I'm gonna go a little long show.
Is the show, guys.

Speaker 2 (02:47:37):
Yeah, we'll come back around. We'll come back around.

Speaker 17 (02:47:42):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:47:42):
So it is Steelers Bengles one o'clock here on Sunday
on your radio Home with Steelers one o two point
five d v E. Here with the preamble to kick
off from the pregame show on the Steelers Audio Network,
is our own Mike Persuda.

Speaker 2 (02:48:02):
This karaoke bet is hilarious deep beef.

Speaker 5 (02:48:05):
Back when with the pack Aaron Rodgers famously uttered a
one word response spelled out letter by letter for emphasis,
in the midst of a disappointing one and two start
R E L A X. The twenty fourteen Packers will
go on to do just that get their act together
and eventually advance all the way to the NFC Championship Game,

(02:48:27):
and Rodgers would ultimately win his second NFL MVP award
a decade and changed later. Rogers has cautioned not the
fans this time, but his teammates not to quote freak
out unquote in the midst of what could be described
as a mid season crisis.

Speaker 2 (02:48:44):
Both may need more convincing.

Speaker 5 (02:48:46):
The Steelers have slipped from four to one to five
and four, and what was once a comfortable lead in
the ANFC North might be gone by Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (02:48:53):
By Thanksgiving, it might be gone by Sunday night.

Speaker 5 (02:48:56):
The defense is bracing for a rematch against an offense
that's scorched the Steelers for four hundred and seventy yards
on October to sixteenth and Cincy. That bloated total included
thirteen targets, sixteen catches, and one hundred and sixty one
yards to one freaking receiver, and the most recent performance
by the offense last Sunday night in Los Angeles was

(02:49:18):
assessed by no less an authority than the QB as
a stinker. Tell me again why freaking out isn't an option?

Speaker 2 (02:49:24):
Right about now? Because the quarterback says, so hey, rogers
on to know.

Speaker 5 (02:49:29):
But if it doesn't get turned around on multiple fronts
against the Bengals, the next word in the spelling beam
might be P A N I sed Are.

Speaker 2 (02:49:40):
You ready for some football?

Speaker 29 (02:49:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:49:43):
All that pressure got you down.

Speaker 5 (02:49:46):
H for nine on nine third downs, find some rhythm,
complete a pass, and on defense, defend each blade of
grass like the days.

Speaker 2 (02:49:55):
When since he was the Bungles.

Speaker 5 (02:49:57):
Score some points, stop throwing picks and full just.

Speaker 2 (02:50:01):
Come on down to act for sure, wave a towel.
The home crowd's the cure.

Speaker 5 (02:50:06):
If it is, the freak out can officially be put
on hold, at least for one more Sunday.

Speaker 1 (02:50:12):
All right, Steelers Bangles one o'clock here on DVE. That
means at nine am we start the countdown to kick
off with Tom Offerman and Matt Williamson before pursuit of
Labs and Jerry Dulac crank up the network at eleven.
Kickoff is with Rob King, Max Starks, and Missy Matthews.
At one o'clock right here on the flagship station of
the Pittsburgh Steelers, one o two point five DVE, we'll

(02:50:34):
go out with the polka but first, oh yeah, you know,
I don't feel the need for a huge, long goodbye
because it's not too much goodbye, like we're we're this
door is always open for you, and it ain't like
I'm not going to be talking to you real soon
either way. But just know how much I love you
and how much I appreciate you, and thank you for
everything and for making this part of my career the

(02:50:55):
most fun.

Speaker 6 (02:50:56):
Thank you too, man, It's been a hell of a ride.
I thank you, my family, thanks you, thank the listeners
for just being so amazing. Thank you guys so much.
It has just been the thrill of my life, you know,
talking with you guys on and off air every single morning.

Speaker 2 (02:51:15):
It's been the best. Dude.

Speaker 1 (02:51:18):
We're all still your biggest fans, and I know you're
going to kill it. And uh, you know, whenever you
need to share stuff.

Speaker 4 (02:51:26):
You know, the doors open and they're taking my keys,
well I'll have to use a weird visitor thing.

Speaker 2 (02:51:35):
Just do that, just signers something like that.

Speaker 6 (02:51:40):
But I just tell you this really quickly. Yesterday I
got the most beautiful message. You know, all the salespeople
have become my friends. Everybody in this building is a friend.
Of mine, and she said, you know, I wish you
well good luck out there. I know you're destined for
great things. There's just a couple Zero Resp that, you know,

(02:52:01):
we have the Black Friday sale coming up that we
just need you to, you know, record, And I was
just like, spell it backward, Afford. I don't work here anymore, no,
but but I love I love them, and of course
I'm going to record the commercials. Thank you everybody that
I've worked with Zero Res and Better Call Cy and

(02:52:24):
Climate Tech and Window Nation. You know, all those people
have really helped me. Really with my house. That's the
thing that I've done the most with. It's great house.
I'm like, do you have anybody that does garage doors?
Any garage doors? I need some flooring. Oh, thanks to
Cliff's Carpet one out in La Trobe. They hooked me
up with flooring bag in the day. I'll never forget

(02:52:47):
my first endorsement. It was Ideal Image. They came to
me they said, this is laser hair removal. You can
talk about your wife. I talked about my then wife.
Didn't realize that those spots were going to play seventeen
times a morning, every single day. People thought I was
married to Chewbacca and you turned up the the commercial
the first time it was on, you were like, what

(02:53:08):
the hell is this? I said, you told me to
take anything, and you said, yeah, but not that.

Speaker 2 (02:53:17):
I thought it was self explanatory. Yeah, you know, you
know it was, of course, because.

Speaker 20 (02:53:23):
You take anything.

Speaker 2 (02:53:25):
Yeah, all right, I got some. That's not the thing.

Speaker 6 (02:53:29):
Well, just like, is she Armenian?

Speaker 20 (02:53:32):
What's going on?

Speaker 7 (02:53:34):
How many times?

Speaker 2 (02:53:35):
Oh, Harry are her pitts?

Speaker 9 (02:53:38):
Like?

Speaker 2 (02:53:39):
It's not that far sessions.

Speaker 1 (02:53:41):
U make sure you're following Bill on social media. He's
going to be putting out all kinds of stuff as
he delves into the world of comedy full time, and
he'll be doing stand up all over the place and
make you.

Speaker 7 (02:53:54):
Still want to come see you guys for radio soon man.

Speaker 29 (02:53:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:53:58):
Yeah, that's by far like the best thing I think
that that I've been a part of with you guys,
Like just to get to be a part of the juggernaut, Randy,
that you really built up over the years, and to
see how Michelle and Sean and and now Chad have
have taken your lead on that.

Speaker 2 (02:54:14):
It's a group.

Speaker 1 (02:54:15):
That's kind of you to say, but that is a
group effort, and it's all due to Mandy Ornaley, who
no longer works there, and she she made sure that
d V was the one to do that, and the
DV listeners have really embraced it.

Speaker 2 (02:54:24):
It's awesome.

Speaker 1 (02:54:25):
Of course, there'd best and like I said, d V
comedy fests coming up here.

Speaker 2 (02:54:31):
You know, you get an invite to everyone, so.

Speaker 6 (02:54:33):
You realize you have to pay me now, But I
don't yeah to come watch yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 13 (02:54:45):
Thought. I think you're going to crush it.

Speaker 32 (02:54:48):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:54:48):
And I don't know what the key to life is,
but for a while I've been operating under the assumption
that it's not having the most this or that it's
figuring out who you are and what you want and
going for that. And I think, take your shot, man,
It doesn't in the grand scheme of things. It doesn't
even matter if the shot goes in. Just take it

(02:55:10):
and you'll be happy. And I wish you all the
success in the world.

Speaker 11 (02:55:15):
I think the shots going in because Bill Bill belongs
on stage with the microphone, and that was true before
he was on this show.

Speaker 2 (02:55:24):
I remember, Yeah, there are worse places to be.

Speaker 6 (02:55:30):
No, I feel like I'm getting released back into the
wild right now, we'll be back in the records.

Speaker 1 (02:55:46):
When people ask me, because so many people are used
to your comedy being Pittsburgh centric here on the show,
and they're like, he's doing comedy full time. I mean,
does he do stuff that's not Pittsburgh. These are people
who have not seen this question. So I tell them
I go one time we were in LA and Steve
Byrne had the whole Sullivan and some crew and we

(02:56:08):
went to the improv I think it's the Orange County
Improv and they all got up and Bill got up
and did a set. And when I tell you, the
only other person that came close to Bill was Roywood Junior.

Speaker 2 (02:56:19):
That was the truth.

Speaker 1 (02:56:20):
And that's a Los Angeles audience who has not They
don't know anything about Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (02:56:24):
He's not there talking about Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (02:56:25):
Bill is in innately skilled stand up comic and it
is a rare thing to have the abilities that he has.
So I think they're only going to flourish now that
you can water those plants all the time.

Speaker 2 (02:56:35):
Thank you so much, man. Yeah, I get the same
I get the same thing. People from Pittsburgh come up
to me.

Speaker 6 (02:56:41):
Concerned, alarmed, even what do you do when you're knowing
in Pittsburgh, I'm like other stuff, it's you know, but
but here is where my sense of humor is in
full bloom, right like my This is where my sense
of this is where my comedy was born.

Speaker 7 (02:57:02):
So here it is the fullest.

Speaker 6 (02:57:05):
And then I just prone a couple things when I
go out on the road and it's still fun and
I still have a blast, and yeah, man, I'm gonna
be around, so we'll see each other for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:57:15):
Well exactly, And that's the point I want to make
to people. Bill's gonna be around, but make sure you're
following them on social media, and if you haven't done
so already, do Thatt post haste. I want to thank
you everybody that was on the show today, Dave Damashek,
Guy Junker, Sean Collier, Sean, what do you got coming up?

Speaker 2 (02:57:32):
Well?

Speaker 11 (02:57:33):
A cool event next week is part of the Three
Rivers Film Festival, which is going right now. They've got
great stuff every day for the next ten days. And
next Friday, I will be hosting Chiller Theater Shorts program
at the Rowhouse, Hollywood with Lori Cardill, star of Day
of the Dead, and Chilli Billy's daughter. I'll be doing
Chiller Theater with a Cardill next Friday night.

Speaker 2 (02:57:55):
Yeah, very cool. Look up the Three Rivers Film Festival
for that.

Speaker 1 (02:57:58):
Thanks to Missy Matthews as well well and Gibson Mercisco
from the band Poster Child, who just sent us off
with an incredibly beautiful song this morning Steelers begles, are you.

Speaker 2 (02:58:09):
Doing the tailgate? I am all right, So if you
want to go wish.

Speaker 7 (02:58:12):
As far as I know, I could walk out of
this room and it could be covered in plastic.

Speaker 2 (02:58:18):
Woun't worry about that. Get it with a Bengals back. Yes,
go wish.

Speaker 1 (02:58:24):
Bill well at stage A before the game if you're
looking for a place to hang out, and he'll be
at the helmet those tailgates going forward.

Speaker 2 (02:58:33):
All right, Well, I think, as you said, the show's
a show, so we.

Speaker 4 (02:58:36):
Got to do what we do on Fridays to its
unless there's out.

Speaker 20 (02:58:42):
The last time you didn't walk out the time before.

Speaker 7 (02:58:45):
I'm going to walk out this time.

Speaker 2 (02:58:49):
Keep going. These songs are working because before just.

Speaker 27 (02:58:52):
We have to do it.

Speaker 2 (02:58:53):
Calm down, sometimes they don't.

Speaker 11 (02:58:55):
You got to exit Bill walking down the road like
the Incredible Hulk, only the polkas playing in the background.

Speaker 1 (02:59:01):
Yeah, okay, the last time you have it's the last
time you have access to this button bar. So is
there anything you want to hear before I hit the back?

Speaker 7 (02:59:10):
Oh man, now, man, let's let's do it.

Speaker 2 (02:59:13):
Just get into the pole, all right.

Speaker 4 (02:59:17):
One o'clock on Sunday, Steelers Bengals right here on d
v E.

Speaker 16 (02:59:32):
Great football team, Stealers chuck out and no friends out
all the.

Speaker 1 (02:59:44):
Stealers.

Speaker 2 (02:59:45):
Mike is not singing.

Speaker 16 (02:59:50):
We love yours.

Speaker 24 (02:59:51):
Steelers and fans.

Speaker 16 (03:00:08):
Fans make and scramble letters at the ball.

Speaker 17 (03:00:13):
He fans.

Speaker 24 (03:00:16):
Fans keeps the Stealers always best of ball.

Speaker 2 (03:00:22):
Joe, Joe to your thing, Jas the other team he
stopped from here the year whistle Glands playing here.

Speaker 16 (03:00:32):
Not join with me and see Lasty. Let's run that
time with a great football.

Speaker 24 (03:00:41):
Team, Richard, the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 2 (03:00:46):
We need sabit, not only a dream.

Speaker 24 (03:00:50):
You're again the Steelers.

Speaker 1 (03:00:54):
Jerrellsterrillas can put the show.

Speaker 2 (03:00:58):
And so it's Frank Army.

Speaker 35 (03:01:02):
Many years something, just dusty machinery.

Speaker 2 (03:01:10):
We're playing the whole song.

Speaker 16 (03:01:11):
Gay, I don't know who works. Let's star and start and.

Speaker 2 (03:01:31):
Right hand to get Frank.

Speaker 29 (03:01:36):
Game, no.

Speaker 3 (03:01:40):
Problem and way.

Speaker 2 (03:01:51):
Ladies and gentlemen, it is. That's a wrap for Bill
Crowford and Mark you all.

Speaker 7 (03:01:55):
And do you know everyone who listening?

Speaker 2 (03:01:57):
Room?

Speaker 7 (03:01:57):
About one who's listening right now?

Speaker 10 (03:01:59):
I'm finished.

Speaker 2 (03:02:01):
You stay classy, Pittsburgh.

Speaker 10 (03:02:03):
Don't touch your face.

Speaker 35 (03:02:04):
I got him type Pittsburgh day baby, But now you
gotta call me Ronald?

Speaker 20 (03:02:08):
Would you not eat my pants?

Speaker 2 (03:02:09):
Moronald? A normal size nipple?

Speaker 20 (03:02:17):
Oh to tees chicken by why goggle ahead?

Speaker 24 (03:02:23):
Nipples the same size as every ball?

Speaker 8 (03:02:31):
Bye, great Friday, mother.

Speaker 18 (03:02:35):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
to you by Independence Health System Expert Care here and
Steelers Pro Shop. Get it direct from the team at
shop dot Steelers dot com. Here's Tom Opperman.

Speaker 19 (03:02:48):
The Steelers are trying to get their revenge against the
Bengals this Sunday, and since he comes to Pittsford for
the second leg of the division rivalry this season, Pittsburgh
glasses Sincy back in Week seven, thirty three to thirty
one in a game that saw Bengals star wide receiver
Jamar Chase put a sixteen catches on twenty three targets
for one hundred and sixty one yards and a touchdown.
That kind of game is the norm for someone like Jamar,
who was the NFL's second leading receiver this season despite

(03:03:08):
losing his star quarterback Joe Burrow to injury in Week two.
It was what the other Chase did to the Steelers
that was the bigger problem in the team's last meeting,
since he running back Chase Brown ran for one hundred
and eight yards in just eleven carries, and the Bengals
as the team ran for one hundred and forty two
total yards despite entering that game as the league's worst
rushing offense. Well, fast forward to Week eleven and that
fact hasn't changed. The Bengals rank dead last and running

(03:03:30):
the ball with an average of just seventy eight point
eight yards per game on the ground. What better change
those how the Steelers handle Brown, whose game against the
Steelers was by far his best of the season so
far and the only game he's eclipsed one hundred yards
rushing this year. With the Bengals receiving core and passing
game posing such a massive threat, the Steelers will be
best to take the running game completely away from since
if they hope to successfully get their payback.

Speaker 2 (03:03:52):
I'm Tom Opraman with the Steelers.

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This report is sponsored by Iheartadvertising dot com.

Speaker 23 (03:04:06):
Still seeing some slowdowns on the Parkway west on the
inbound side from the top of the hill down to
the tunnels heading out to the airport.

Speaker 2 (03:04:12):
Pretty good trip, about twenty minutes.

Speaker 9 (03:04:13):
From the four pit tunnels to Pittsburgh International and TSA
weightlines around ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (03:04:17):
A Bonnie Diver total traffic.

Speaker 20 (03:04:20):
Run a business and not thinking about radio

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