November 20, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pittsburgh when we did the opener with Warren Zevon at
one point before he goes on like we all go
to go up, and I stop, and I because I'm like,
everyone's leaving him alone. I'll have one second alone with him.
And I just wanted to have like that Josh Ammy
kind of experience. And I was just like, hey, Warren,
real quick, not for nothing. I mean, I made a
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lot of money playing your songs through the years and
a real important artist to me. And the song Desperado
under these really just changed the way I thought about songwriting.
And he goes he's reading the Bible. Oh my god,
he was reading the Bible, and he went close the
Bible and he looked up and he went Doesperado under
the eaves. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
And I was like, I'm out, that was perfect, great,
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thank you. I am not like he was nice enough
to acknowledge me with without it being like, you know,
going over the top. And I didn't want to take
too much. And I was like, thank you, and I
ran away. I was hoping he'd be like fans in
that explain it to him. So it's a store, what's.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
The symbolism Randy Bellman and the DVD.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Tad Whistle hanging in studio with us this morning. Yeah,
I'm sure warrens Evon was intrigued by Bobby Subgum and
pants annow so's it's confusion, Okay, got it alrighty pants
in that okay? Uh, anyways, enjoy every pants. I do
(01:30):
love that. That's his cat's phrase though, Enjoy every sandwich.
It's such a good one. Letterman even uh brought it
up again in his Hall of Fame induction ceremony last
weekend when he inducted Warren Yvon into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. That's how he left, like, enjoy
every sandwich, which was just terminally ill sign off. Yeah. Yeah.
Have you ever seen the documentary I Have Not the Wind?
(01:51):
Oh my god, you want a tear jerker, I'll tell
you what. Watching that one, watching a man who's like, yeah,
I'm gonna die, I'm gonna I'm trying to hurry up
and record an album. Yes, ok, I've seen clips from
that before. I do, right, And you know Springsteen comes
in in the middle of the night and uh plays
the song Disorder. I think it's disorder in the house. Yeah,
he plays them. Uh. It is a powerful record. But
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watching that documentary was a bit too much for me.
I love Warren. He was the best, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Anyways, Okay, Guy Junker will join us lit. I love
Guy Man, I love Uh he'll enjoy sandwich, Guy does,
and he'll tell you where to go and get the sandwich.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
That's it. Nine forty five. He's got your news. Now,
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Speaker 3 (02:35):
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Speaker 5 (02:39):
I was just out in the kitchen and I took
a pick at the windows.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It's still it's it's weird, like it's the missed. You
can't see past these picture windows we have, not picture windows.
They're like wall the wall windows we have. I don't
know what's out there. I know it does look John
Carpenter ish.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Yeah, I mean I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Take me.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
It's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I'm exhausted. Just make it quick. I'm tired. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Anyway, once that fog does move out of the way,
it'll just be a cloudy day and a high of
forty six. Triple A expects a record number of Americans
to travel for Thanksgiving. Here's when you do and don't
want to hit the road. They're expecting just under eighty
two million people to head out this year. That's up
from around eighty million last year, and seventy three million
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will drive. So let's start with the worst days to leave. So,
in general, the worst times to be on the road
next Tuesday, from noon to nine pm.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That's a pretty wow big window. It's a pretty big window.
So Tuesday, I you know, I like the trend that
we have decided to lean into here in this country,
where the day that you would think that most people
would take off for the respective holidays Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Year's this gets back to by a couple of days.
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Now people are like, I'm done on Tuesday at noon.
I'm not effing around. I need a week for the Turkey.
It's been a long year. I'm leaving on Tuesday. I
need to get back home so I can go out
with my high school friends and feel real sad. It
seems like a great idea, and then you get out
there you're like, what am I doing? See, you're young
enough to still do stuff like that. I'm well past
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the age of that. But those days of that Wednesday night,
you know, they always say the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving
is the biggest bar night of the year. But the
truth about that is is it's not the biggest bar
night in the traditional bar areas. It's the biggest neighborhood
bar night of the year. Right, you go to the
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bar you grew up going to, you know, like in
the South Hills, the saloon will be packed. You know,
in the East End, the squirrel cage will probably be packed.
And then you know, further over, I don't know what's
the you know, name your bar over in Reading Square,
you know, like those places, Yeah, Murphy's, Yes, that'll all
be jammed, But the south side, in those big bars
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in Lawrenceville, nobody will be at those. Yeah, that's a
great point. And going back to your neighborhood bar in
your hometown, it's like, I haven't been here in ten years?
Am I cool in here? Was I cool the last
time I was in here? Because I felt like it
might have got a little away from Yeah, that happened
to my younger brother, who is not a person who
gets out of hand, but he one night, just out
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of character did and the bar bar where we kind
of didn't even have rules because we were such regulars,
you know, the owners like not Randy, he can't know.
And I'm like he's like no, and my brother's like
I'm sorry, you know. And I had to like negotiate
him back into the fold, like well, we're keeping an
eye on you, like what did you do? And he's like,
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I threw a shot glass off that I.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Can't do that.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
He's like, I was trying to throw it to my
friend and I'm like, did you think he was gonna
do the shot? Was there serran wrap on the top.
We saw it in a movie. Yeah, And he's like, yeah,
I messed up. So he had that experience. But typically
I go to bars where I feel like, you know,
it's kind of like you go to places where you're
one of the better behaved people, no full well knowing
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that there are people who are much worse than you.
A great move. Yeah, yeah right, I'm not going to
be the drunkest guy. Exactly. It gives you a big,
big window to be a moron. Look at that guy,
he's got real problems, exactly. I'm not Lenny. They're worried
about him, they're not worried about me.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
The worst time to head home is Sunday, November thirtieth,
that's between eleven am and eight pm. Also, Monday, December first,
between noon and eight pm apparently is bad, and that
Monday is rough because there's also just regular commuter traffic.
I guess for everybody who doesn't have as much vacation time.
But the best day to drive is next Thursday, because
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there's not a ton of traffic on Thanksgiving itself.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Well, I tell you that's the best day. Best day
to fly Thursday morning if you are within a short
flight of your Thanksgiving destination, take one of the early
flights out and you'll be there before noon. I would
be terrified to fly day of what just for yeah,
something goes wrong, I don't know. Potential of missing.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Turkey, yeah, wasting your whole day on a delay.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, I mean that could happen typically on those commuter
flight like the shorter ones. I'm not talking like going
to like you know, on a five hour flight. I mean,
if you're going to New York, Chicago, even Orlando or Atlanta,
you know something within three hours, you're usually going to
be okay. And unless the weather's bad, in which case
you know, all bets rough or if you know we
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run out of air traffic controllers, because apparently that happens
from time to time.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Now, I was gonna say, are you also thinking the
mentality of the people who are working because it's a
holiday like that, they would be pissed that they're working
on a holiday.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It's not fun. Yeah, that's when you get Neil, thank
you for working, Thank you for working. Yes, that's a
good call, thank you for working. My dad would pack
turkey sandwiches in his pocket all the time, not on Thanksgiving,
just regular flights. He'd have them on there and then
he'd started eating it and someone would go, well it
looks good, and he'd be like it is, would you
(08:23):
like one? And then he'd pull out another one wrapped
in Cela fame and give out turkey sandwiches. So what
I'm suggesting is maybe if you're flying that day, take
a little tip from Bruce there, make yourself a nice
sandwich to get to those people. Eggs sal I'm trying
to think of the grossest thing, egg salad sandwich. Would
you like one?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Straight out of my pocket?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
But it's ninety eight point six degrees right like a
warm tuna, a warm tuna salad. I got this sushi
from a kiosk, but.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
You can have it.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Did you see that Olivia mun sat on a talk
show yesterday that she got violently ill.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yes, Bathtub sushi is what she called it, which is
a terrible name. She was she thought it would be
I don't know, luxurious perhaps to have sushi while she
was having a nice hot bath. But the problem is
that'll cook your sushi. Sushi is not supposed to be hot.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, it's not supposed to got over. I think it's
like forty degrees or something like that, Yes, and she's
like puts a sushi platter on top of like a
steaming hot bath and then slowly eats it as it's
all being like kind of cooked, and then she had
massive food poisoning from it. Humid Sushi a new restaurant concept.
(09:37):
We're gonna open one in Robinson. Get on down to
Humid Sushi this weekend, all right.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
So for some people it's a quick drive to meet
up with family and friends for Thanksgiving, but for others
you do have longer travel time. According to a new survey,
the average person is willing to drive one hundred and
seventy two miles out of their way to pick.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Up a loved one.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Oh my god, and f W that's what I thought.
That's I don't that's three hours. Three hours.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, I want to take inventory of my life. I
don't know if I should say this on the radio.
I don't think I love anyone that much.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I just what I would do is paying in nordon
amount to have somebody else do it, right, you know,
I'd be like, where are you, mom, Saint Mary's what
did you You missed the bus coming back from your
your casino trip. Okay, there's a car service coming. A
man named Raoul is going to pick you up. He's
very nice. Don't worry. He'll drive you to Eerie with
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a ninety minute out and back to pick somebody up.
Ooh man, not doing that?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
What's the most you've driven?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Like, I'm I've done that though I've gone to I've
definitely gone to Buffalo and back to pick somebody up
up from from Erie. But I mean, I don't know.
You're going like eighty miles an hour and it ends
up being like an hour there, an hour back. But
something about the one hundred and seventy two mile figures,
it just seems so far it's a daunting number. That
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is daunting.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Five percent of people said that they would be willing
to drive seven hundred miles, which is a major trip.
That's basically the distance between New York City and Chicago.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Just just go give somebody.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, well, Thanksgiving is the best holiday of all of
them because there are no gifts, and there's all the
food and all the hanging out, and there's football NonStop,
and it's just fun. It's a fun hang. If you
have a fun family, it's a fun hang. Now, if
you have a disastrous family, it's a nightmare, and you
look for the things to do and stay busy. Yeah. Yeah,
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if your significant other has a nightmare family, it's still
pretty fun. Yeah, so you're back in the fun. I'm
just gonna sit back, I'm gonna drink fifteen beers, and
I'm gonna let the day come to me. Because you
don't really have ownership of that. You get to be
a spectator. Yeah, and then you know, behind closed doors,
all you do is you pump up your significant other.
(12:09):
Like that was messed up. I can't believe she said
it either. Your cousin Judy really believes that.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
My gosh, sweetheart, I don't think the light's out of
your eyes.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Oh, I just never agree, never agree with the other person.
I've had those like you know that the Christmas dinner
in the Bear from season one, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Traumatic that the whole episode's traumatic.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Have you seen it?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
The one with Jamieie Curtis.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I've been a part of one of those, and let
me tell you, it is a scar. I mean it
leaves a scar. And so I'm always like, I go
in with the lowest expectations. And nowadays that stuff is
long gone. But like when both my parents were around, man,
and they were both remarried, any one of those holidays
could have turned into that at any minute. You'd be
very careful. One comment could set someone off on a
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tangent and then you were back in the races. Do
you think that your siblings would agree with you? It's
like the famous Christmas dinner, like it's the one or
would they each have their own? That was well, So
the siblings were with me one hundred percent, yeah, because
they weren't all there. There was only three of us
at that one, but it was. But we had friends
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who were like, you know, we have like a bunch
of friends who were kind of they're like brothers, they're
members of our family, you know, right, And there was
a few of those people there too, and it was
like we walked out on mass we had to. It
was one of those situations. We ended up at Applebee's
because Applebee's was open, and when I say we got drunk,
oh my god. It was just a horrific family explosion
(13:50):
that happens to all kinds of families, typically not then,
but for us it did. And it was like, this
is a bad one. We got, we gotta go. We
had to go pull the ripcord and Applebee's was open.
Applebee's was open, and I it was sad but hilarious,
Like we had the best worst time ever. You know,
it's like what what has caused? This is ultimately sad,
(14:12):
but this is hilarious. And we're you know, we're getting
those stupid drinks they have. We're like, give us a
round whatever those was. It's big and it's got stuff
in it. Bring one of those you know, giganic blue
drink and a fish. Yeah yeah, seven yeah, Like my
ninety pounds sister is like just sucking down those big
things with eight kinds of alcohol in them. Those things
are so just heartburn, instant heartburn. We all said, the
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worst hangover in the world, and we're like, I wonder
some of the food is actually left, Like do you
think we can eat it? Oh? Yeah, like the next
day no, the answer was no, it was it was gone.
But Thanksgiving usually people are like, cool, there's a great
snl sketch that Eddie Murphy did when he hosted just
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a few years ago, and it's like like him putting
on the front of the dinner I just want to
say a few things and how lovely this is to
get your family together. And then they keep cutting too
behind the scenes of what it's really like that week,
and it is super accurate and hilarious how hectic it
can be, and like, you know, the mom's at the
table just like, oh, I just threw this together, and
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you know, I'm just glad everyone likes it. You know,
while she's cooking, she's greening, and everybody cut out, and
the grandpa's stinking up the bathroom and all that. You know,
that's kind of the fun of it though, the annoyance, right, yeah,
and then it all comes together in whatever way, or
it doesn't. Apple end up an apple bee that is
(15:41):
That should be their ad campaign, by the way, they
should be like this Thanksgiving, if your dysfunctional family boils over,
you've got a space with us at Applebee's, come get
one free drink for every traumatic incident that happened at
your dinner table. They do dollar marks. Yeah, that's not
out of question. I think that might have been. What
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we were drinking was like huge marks. I don't deserve
anything nice, it's just the sours. Help I forget? Yeah, drinking,
do you forget? I'm a big Thanksgiving fan though, because
my brother makes a Thanksgiving meal every year and he's
the master at it.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
He's the cook.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yep, he's the cook and he does like three different
stuffings every year and their bomb. One of them is
sausage and peppers. Oh stuffing. So it's a you know,
tray of stuffing. And when you take a big hunk,
it's got sausage and peppers and and it tastes like
stuffing and a sausage and pepper sub It's the most
amazing thing I've ever had. It's great. And then he
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does a shrimp at to fe one.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Oh that's bragging.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, it's really good. I don't even know those are
sides you're putting, you know, those are sides being raised
to the level of entree. I make that. Yeah. I
typically won't eat them with the because it's too much.
But it's like a separate like I'm gonna go get
a little dish of stuffing and puts gravy over it.
It's definitely a great leftover snack too. Yeah, and then
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I'm on clean up duty, which is not as bad.
My buddy used to do a he used to host
friends giving where he made her ducan every year. I
don't know. That feels perverted to me. It's stuffing another
animal into another's cavity. It's all de boned too, so
you cut it in slivers like a log like how
you would you know, forest boards. It's isn't it greasy?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Though?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Is in the duck really greasy? There? There's supposed to
be stuffing between the birds too, so it's like six
layers of stuff. But you know, the duck is just
it's it's not like chicken and turkey. It's definitely different. Yeah,
you can tell what it is.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yeah, duck is a greasy thing for me.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Ram it that's how you make you got ram it?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Get it in there. I like to ducan. As you
can see, nobody likes to duck and like me does
he deep private, No, this was like a he by
the time you got there, which was way too early.
We were in our twenties, you know, drinking your friendsgivings
all the way. Like I have friends who were in
their mid forties and they still do a friends giving.
(18:15):
They did it last week and I'm like, I think
that's too much. That's too much Thanksgiving pens. Yeah, yeah,
it depends on the group. I don't know, but you know,
the early appeal of friendsgiving is like, no adults, my
Grandpa's not going to yell at me for going in
the basement. This is awesome, right and getting hammered, well crushed.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Years ago there was like this kind of like it
was a year after COVID I think, or like, well, no,
actually we were kind of still in it. I think
it was twenty twenty one where we went to like
a friends giving year, but everybody did bring their kids,
which was a major problem, like because it was not
(18:55):
as fun everybody. We got a house in Deep Creek
and we all kind of split it and because of
the aforementioned kids, everybody got the stomach flu.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Ah, really really bad.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
The problem with this for me was that the Monday
after the friends giving, I had my hernia surgery schedule.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So as we were coming home, my husband and daughter
start puking over and over again. Yes, and I'm like,
I have a hernia surgery, So somebody has to drive
me to the hospital at four in the morning, like,
and they're like, moally, it's me and I'm like okay,
So I drove myself to the hospital.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
And then while I'm at.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
The hospital, they're like, well, we can't really start the
surgery cause somebody at least has to call us and
tell us that they're the one that's picking you up,
because like you can't, you know, you have to have
a driver. So I was like I got him at
least to like call and say that he would pick
me up, not knowing full well like if he was
going to pick me up or not. But I get
done with the surgery and then he's picking me up
green He's just like he looks like Kermit and be
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like I am here.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
And I had like a face mask on everything.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
If I throw up with I will kill you. The
scariest thing to consider after hernia surgery would be getting
the stomach flu.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But also, like the whole time, I just kept thinking,
I'm like, I have been denied again. Like all I
was supposed to have was two days of pain pills
and service.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I was supposed to be able to go.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I need soup and have somebody like gently helped me
out of bed. And all I had was a pillow
I could put over top of my stomach and at
two in the morning, I'd have to like roll.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Just go.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Two days because I wouldn't let either one of them
near me, because I'm like, didn't get it.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
I did not get it. I also didn't see either
one of them for a.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Week, so there was thatgiving.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, Michael be joining us here in just a little bit.
He's a Thanksgiving fan too, and we are one week
away from Thanksgiving. I'm mostly thankful this year that the
Steelers are not playing on Thanksgiving. Yes, can't stand when
they play on Thanksgiving. It drives me crazy because it
turns the holiday into a Steelers game. Then I'm in
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Steelers game mode. I can't do both. I don't possess
that ability of duplicity. The dichotomy of emotions that are
supposed to be coexisting. The Steelers one just swallows it
whole Christmas we played on Christmas. That became a Steelers game.
There was no Christmas. It was just a Steelers game.
So this year you get to have the holiday and
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watch the Ravens and the Bengals. That's the one. Well
Chi's Cowboys too, Yeah, I'm in that one.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
No oh, it's a yeah, I hate them all.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
What a holiday?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah, exactly, all right. Michael joined us here in a
little bit, and then Guy Junker closing things out at
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Speaker 6 (22:23):
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Speaker 6 (22:53):
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still wait and see. Regarding Aaron Rodgers availability for the
Steelers on Sunday in Chicago, back up Mixon Rudolph was
ready when needed last Sunday against Cincinnati and maintained he
would be again if called upon to start or finish
against Chicago, even though Rudolph's prep process is complicated. Thanks
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to Rogers relentless approach to practice reps.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
I get, I get, You're right, he's an incredible the
way you know, he hasn't missed a practice, He hasn't
missed a rap early all season, and he's been he's
been banged up at times, and he's so quite a
you know, it's a tough he's a tough competitor. But uh, yes,
I mean in the natural flow practice, I'll get three
(24:02):
reps out out of a ten pack, so you get
enough to kind of stay sharp enough.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Now, Ruolph also does what he can, uh when he's
not practicing too ready himself in case he's needed. And
toward that end, he brought back something of a cheat
code of sorts from the season he spent last season
in Tennessee.
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Get Uh, you get the scout team reps. What's what's
your fun? And uh, it's fun to compete when you
just you know, you see a card for three seconds
and you go execute it and then uh, we've we've
kind of gotten to rhythm with the quarterbacks of we
call it a little walk and talk after practice. And
something I learned from from the from the great Trevor Simeon,
just a little you know, just getting together and brain
(24:45):
brainstorming about you know, what's what, what coverage can I
get here?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
What's my We're talking through you read and it's a.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Very uh, you know, conducive environment without a without the
threat of getting reprimanded for a wrong answer by coach.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
So it's just just the boys. You think you should
be in jail, Me too.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
Trevor Simmy and the quarterbacks coach in Tennessee former backup
in the NFL. But I kind of like that they
just talking out amongst themselves. If if they're wrong and
the wrong and then they correct each other, you don't
have to feel shame, which has got to help, right.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well, I think that what he is pointing out, not
so subtly is the difference in the dynamic in the
in the quarterback room now versus when he came to
the Steelers organization originally. Correct might be what he's trying
to illustrate.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
There, you back what he used to get every Wednesday,
the backup would be the guy.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yes, yeah, I never thought of it though.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Yeah, I'm just saying I'll have to consider that something
to consider, you might be honest with. Rudolph definitely appreciates
all the support that he gets from Rogers. Uh, and
that continued after Rudolph was able to get that Bengals
game to the finish line.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
I don't think I think it'd be a fourteen year
old me knew that I was getting it, you know,
getting a nice to have from from from a rod
after a game. It would be pretty pretty done exciting.
So he's uh, he's very very kind and complimentary.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
When Mason Rudolph was fourteen, Aaron Rodgers was in his
sixteenth NFL Callly Cow and they are teammates. Now that's amazing,
It really is. You just forget Rogers is forty one
and how long he's been doing this.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, I mean so you see him in them. Yeah, yeah,
I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding him. He's a kidder.
He enjoys jokes.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Darius Slay back at it yesterday full participant trying to
work through his concussion. No Jalen Warren ankle, Cole Holcombe illness.
Full participant Alex high Smith Peck did not practice. Also,
the twenty one day window closed on Corey Trice Junior.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
He will not be activated at the reserve interviews. It's
always gonna be. I hope it's not forever what could
have been, you know, hope next year they give him
another shot and he can finally get healthy, because the
fact that he came back to practice finally got healthy
and was hurt the next day just kind of feels
like he is snake bitten.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
For the Bears, they got a couple of cornerbacks who
are working their way back, trying to get off the
reserve injured list. Jalen Johnson, he's supposed to be a starter.
His window twenty one day window open last Friday. Kyler Gordon,
he's supposed to be their nickel. His window opened yesterday.
Kind of sounds like, just from reading the tea leaves
off the release here that Johnson has a good chance
(27:45):
to play, and Gordon probably next week, So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
The Bears are seven and three.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
They've won five games inside of two minutes remaining, and
they have not beaten the winning team they.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Play two, No, not even two.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
They've played one five hundred team Baltimore and one winning
team Detroit and got smoked by both. The records being
what they are now not when Chicago played them, Yeah,
right right right, very very winnable game. No matter who
plays quarterback for the Steelers. All right, well, just don't
screw it up.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Don't screw it up. That's what I've been saying, don't
screw up.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
And they are they are the most Chicago's the most
turnover producing team in the league and lives and dies
by it even more than the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So just and Kala protects the ball, Yes he does.
He doesn't complete a lot of passes, but he doesn't
throw picks. He throws them so poorly. No, he ca yeah,
what do he misses? Just the bit outside? He tried
the quarter had missed? Yeah, ball eight.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Ball, twelve guys lay off pitches this close.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
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Junker Religions. What's up guys doing? We're doing all right,
We're hanging in there. Did you go to the pit
Notre Dame game last week?
Speaker 4 (30:39):
I did not know. I don't have Yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Don't have that kind of sway. Is that what you're
gonna say, you don't have a connection.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
No, I wanted to watch the Penn State game too,
So I wanted to watch. I just spent the whole
day and you know, in front of a fireplace watching TV.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yeah. Not a great showing by Pitt, not at all.
I hate when Notre Dame fans come in and take
over for a stadium like that too. Tries me crazy.
There are all those chance going on stuff. It just
makes me sick.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Yeah, well, I didn't think. You know, we always talk
about trap games and not looking ahead, and you know,
coaches don't want to and I thought Pat Nordoozy last week.
I'm not sure what his thinking was, but he almost
set that up like we can get killed in this
game and still win the ACC. Well, you know, okay,
(31:27):
that may be true, but I'm not sure if that
set the tone or Look, this is the only rank
this is the only ranked team that they've played this year,
the only ranked team on their schedules that currently ranked
right now, and they weren't able to hang with them
at all. So we'll see what happens with Georgia Georgia Tech.
I think this is actually is a winnable game they have.
They've given up over five hundred yards defensively their last
(31:51):
two games, and one of those was the Boston College stinks.
I mean they almost lost. Yeah they did, and which
were with a set things up nicely so, but yeah,
I just thought the whole vibe going into that, You've
got one of the biggest games and all that commotion
and all the national attention coming in, and I thought
they'd done. He may be downplayed it a little bit
(32:12):
too much. I'll say, you know, we love it when
the Steelers go on the road and take over a stadium.
But I can remember being a kid when the Buffalo
Sabers were really good and they had the French connection,
they would commit on Saturday nights because they couldn't get
tickets up, but they would take over the Civic arena
with their let's go Buffalo chance and that would tick
me off. Oh my god, Yeah, I know what that's
like to be in your own stadium and get out cheered.
(32:34):
But we like it when when the Steelers fans do
with the other.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
People, how far that organization's fallen. We were talking about
that the other day. Buffalo, that's a town. They're like,
you know, the the hockey version of the Pirates, a
town who has supported their team and absolutely loves them
and their complete garbage every year.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
And you know, you look around, you look at what
the Penguins are doing right now, and you look at
the other teams that have had, you know, recent times
to success, whether it's Chicago, La, Well, Boston's playing pretty
well right now. They I mean, they've missed the playoffs
the last few years, but I'm we haven't talked much
about them. I can't believe how well they have played
(33:12):
a little since for card Riquel got hurt and they
got seven guys on injured reserve right now. But since
he got hurt, they they've struggled to score goals a
little bit more. But I think it's one of the
biggest stories in the NHL so far this year.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
No question. Well let me let me switch sports before
coming back to the Steelers. The news Ken Jeff Passing,
not Ken Rosent. Jeff Passon talking about the Buckos being
willing to spend maybe bringing Connor Griffin up at the
tender age of nineteen, and Paul Sken's denying the reports
that he wants to get traded, saying that's not true.
(33:45):
Might this be the worm turning all of a sudden
for Bob Nunning and company? They only have one year
till a supposed shutdown. Is he gonna actually throw the
money out there?
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Well, think about it. You could throw it out for
one year, and if there is a shutdown, you might
not have ever payoff on a year beyond this one.
Mlb dot Com projects the Pirates to spend thirty to
forty million dollars for new salaries. So there's are they're
getting this information somewhere And if this were you know,
if this were some local guy writing or maybe getting
(34:17):
fed stuffed by the team. You might doubt that Jeff
Passens has respected a baseball insider as there is. So
I'm intrigued and encouraged by it, but they still have
to do something. It's funny that this Japanese guy Murakami
got mentioned because I'm might make notes on him and
another guy, Kazuma Okamato about a month ago to talk
(34:38):
to you guys about somehow we never got was right
after the baseball season ended. Okamato is another power hitting
first basement, third basement. He played for Yo Muri. Not
quite the numbers of Murakami, but but he would also
be he's a little better fielder, and he's also a
better average hitter and would be a little more affordable.
So there's another guy to keep your eye on if
they're going to go you know, international and this international stuff.
(35:01):
I wouldn't be surprised to the Yankees try to sweep
up some of these Japanese guys because they're bitching about
how much advertising money the Dodgers get right from Japanese
companies because they have all these Asian players. Well, you know,
they could get the same thing if they start, you know,
investing in some Asian players, then maybe they could get
some of that Japanese advertising money too. It cracks me
(35:24):
up when Yankees and Yankee fans complain about not being
able to keep up financially with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, the rich matt Ath rich. But you know, look,
if the Pirates land a couple of Japanese players, maybe
those endorsement dollars can go the other way and Permannis
can start advertising in Japan.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
There you go. Yeah, so you should you major in marketing?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
No, but I was good at it. Took I took
one marketing class at Penn State three twenty one. I
was the Nitney NoteTaker for it. As a matter of fact,
everybody bought my notes at the end of the year.
But yeah, yet another miscalling for me. All right, So
let's get to Steelers and the Bears. This Sunday one
o'clock in Chicago. I was asking Missy Matthews about this
(36:11):
about Aaron Rodgers' motivation. Do you think he is as
he sort of positioned himself yesterday, glad that the history
reflects that he has owned the Bears but has no
interest in continuing on beating their ass. That was another time.
This is a new team, and he's glad he did
(36:33):
what he did, but he loves Chicago or does the
fire burn inside? Does he secretly want to go in
there once again and stick it to these guys. I
kind of wanted him to come out and say that, like, yeah,
if I can go, I really want to go there.
I love beating the Bears, I love playing there, and
I love that they have this you know thing about
me coming in there, that I'm the boogeyman.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
I kind of wanted him to go that way with it.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Well, let let me ask you this. If late in
his career Ben Roth was or would have went to
another team and played in Cleveland, what would what would
his feelings be? Would he not have the same fire
against the Browns that he did when he played for
the Steelers. I think he would question, Yeah, and I
still think the Rogers fire burns there too. I mean,
(37:16):
he's and he made sure he got you know, he
put it out there how much he's beat them down.
But then he also tried to politely deflect any attention away.
I'm intrigued by this game. If you look at the
Steelers record against like original NFL, especially the NFC teams,
they stink against almost all of them all time. And
to point out that they won one time in Chicago, ever,
(37:40):
they've only played there seven times since the NFL merger,
they hardly ever play there. Yeah, I think that's a
kind of a goofy stat A lot of those records,
like against the Eagles, the Commanders, the Rams, the forty
nine Ers, they get Giants, they got losing records against
all them because the first forty years when they were
in the league, they got hammered by all those teams
because they stunk into the seventies. But Mike was pointing
(38:02):
it out in his last sports cast there they don't
have a win against the winning team. The combined record
of the teams the Bears have beaten is twenty fifty
one and one so far this year. I mean they
you know, Vegas and Washington and New Orleans and Cincinnati
and the Giants they all there. Now, I'm not saying
they're not good. Usually when we talk about records and
(38:23):
you don't how good this team is, they played a
bunch of greenpus. We're talking about college football. Because the
schedules are manipulated in the NFL you're all you know
on any given Sunday. But you know, I think Cayleb
Williams is developing as a quarterback, tremendous physical talents that
I think he's growing into. And Ben Johnson's obviously done
a good job there. But I'm not gonna sit there
and look at that one and twelve all time record
(38:45):
in Chicago and they, oh, they can't win there.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah. Well, you know, Steelers beat up on some scrubs too,
you know, the Jets, the Browns, the Vikings.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Yeah, but I mean they have I mean, you're gonna
get those. But they also won in New England and
beat Indianapolis, two of the best teams in the league
right now. I mean that's certainly ups their resume in
my mind over what the Bears have done.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Would you rather see Mason or Rogers?
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Well, if I'm paton Ordoozy, I'd say we could lose
this game one hundred and thirteen because because six at
the next seven are against AFC teams or whatever. Five
at the next six, you know, so I'd be real careful.
I mean, my worry about it is, you know, he's top,
he'll tolerate the pain. I'm worried if he gets knocked down.
(39:30):
And my brother in law one time worked as a
mechanic and he fell backwards and broke both of his wrists.
And I'm just worried about I mean, if he gets
knocked down, and that's what you brace, could he be
knocked out for the year, could he further? I mean,
that's a medical question I can't answer. And also what
about handoffs on running plays to the right, He's got
to hand it off with his left hand, taking snaps
(39:52):
under center. I mean, I'm just yeah, not about him
getting hurt down the road, but one key fumble on
a play where his wrist is bothering him. And Rudolph
played so well last week, personally, I kind of would
like to see Rudolph start to sea to I think,
just give him a week's rest. And you know, I
don't understand. This guy's got a winning record as a starter,
(40:13):
He's played well, saved their season, got him into the
playoffs few years ago, and they still seem to always
hesitate about using him.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Not to mention, they have to if you get Rogers
hurt for a longer period of time, Will Howard becomes
one heart beat away from the presidency.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Yeah, that would be an interesting story. Talk about a
forgotten guy we haven't mentioned since training camp and now
Sunday he possibly could be a snap away from playing.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
By the way, I'm predicting, Kenny Pickett finishes the game
for the Raiders this weekend against the Browns, the team
that traded him away, and it'll be Miles Garrett going
up against Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
That'll be hey, a lot of quarterback. And there's Justin
Field's getting replaced by Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Now with the Jets starting that game.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Yeah right, we're starting that game and Lamar has an
ankle injury. Now he's had hamstring me and ankle. I
watched that whole game against the Browns and I didn't
see one designed run for him. You know, he ran
it for ten yards and onyone he was in trouble. So,
I mean, he's had everything wrong with his legs. Not
that I think the Jets are gonna beat him anyways.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
I yeah, maybe it's the same scenario for them where
they should sit Lamar because it's the Jets, you know.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Yeah, good point, they're still a fourteen point favorite.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
That's just ridiculous. But there's always bad NFL teams this year.
It feels like there's three exceptionally bad NFL teams and
yet they fit.
Speaker 4 (41:42):
And that's what I mean about, you know, trying to
figure out when you're looking at schedules in the NFL
compared to college football. The Jets will still figure out
a way to beat somebody. You know, Tennessee will still
figure out a way to beat somebody here and there.
And then you're sitting there, you know, look at we
mentioned the Steelers had a couple of those quality wins.
The three of their four losses are against teams that
(42:02):
are right there, you know, Seattle seven and three, Green
Bay six and three, the Chargers of seven and four.
Of the game that I think is really gonna haunt
them somewhere down the line is at Lotson Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Oh YEA one that does not make sense, no question.
Guy Junker brought to you by Edgars Snyder Associates this
morning on DV. Thanks as always, Guy.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
All right, guys, have a great Thanksgimvy. I'm talking you
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
All right, buddy, take care. Thanks to Guy Junker, Thanks
to Missy Matthews, and thanks for our buddy Tad Whistle,
who was hanging out with us all morning long. Great
to hang with you there, Tad. Thank you guys. I
appreciate it. Yeah, buddy. Tomorrow on the show, Dave danishek
Uh Buzz poets are in the coffeehouse. Have you nice?
And Sean Collier and Ian Bag will be live in
studio all morning. One of our favorite all time comics,
(42:45):
a longtime friend, Ian Bag. He's making his way to
town to do the improv this weekend, so stay tuned
for that tomorrow morning. And of course Michelle's got the
Electric Lunch coming up next at noon. Have a great day, everybody.
I'm finishing you say classy Pittsburgh, don't touch your I
got him type pace macday Baby, So now you gotta
call me Ronald? Would you not eat my pants? Ronald?
(43:08):
Whoa whay goggle it.
Speaker 6 (43:15):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
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Speaker 9 (43:29):
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers spoke to the Steelers' media yesterday for
his weekly chat and only increased optimism in the quarterback
playing Sunday against the Bears. The veteran quarterbacks said that
he was going to try to practice today and would
like to start Sunday in Chicago, but ultimately said that
that decision.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Will be up to coach Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 9 (43:45):
The Steeler should probably want Rogers to play just as
badly as he does when you look at the quarterbacks
track record when playing against the Bears in his career.
During his eighteen years in Green Bay, Rogers met the
Bears twenty nine times and walked away with an unbelievable
twenty four and five record. And perhaps it's even more
impressive than the record is the stats he put up
against Chicago. Rogers has a massed six nine hundred and
(44:06):
sixty five yards thrown for sixty four touchdowns and just
ten interceptions for a passer rating of one hundred and nine. Obviously,
neither Rogers or the Steelers should want to rush things
just to get a win over Rogers's old punching bag,
especially when the team has much greater goals on the horizon.
But it wouldn't hurt to have someone with Rogers's pedigree
when it comes to beating the Bears, seeing as the
(44:27):
Steelers are one in twelve all time in Chicago, with
their lone win coming way back in.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Nineteen ninety five. I'm Tom Opferman with the Steelers Report.
You see the skyline, you drive over the bridges We
built that Ironworkers Local Union number three in this
Pittsburgh when we did the opener with Warren Zevon at
one point before he goes on like we all go
to go up, and I stop, and I because I'm like,
everyone's leaving him alone. I'll have one second alone with him.
And I just wanted to have like that Josh Ammy
kind of experience. And I was just like, hey, Warren,
real quick, not for nothing. I mean, I made a
(00:21):
lot of money playing your songs through the years and
a real important artist to me. And the song Desperado
under these really just changed the way I thought about songwriting.
And he goes he's reading the Bible. Oh my god,
he was reading the Bible, and he went close the
Bible and he looked up and he went Doesperado under
the eaves. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
And I was like, I'm out, that was perfect, great,
(00:43):
thank you. I am not like he was nice enough
to acknowledge me with without it being like, you know,
going over the top. And I didn't want to take
too much. And I was like, thank you, and I
ran away. I was hoping he'd be like fans in
that explain it to him. So it's a store, what's.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
The symbolism Randy Bellman and the DVD.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Tad Whistle hanging in studio with us this morning. Yeah,
I'm sure warrens Evon was intrigued by Bobby Subgum and
pants annow so's it's confusion, Okay, got it alrighty pants
in that okay? Uh, anyways, enjoy every pants. I do
(01:30):
love that. That's his cat's phrase though, Enjoy every sandwich.
It's such a good one. Letterman even uh brought it
up again in his Hall of Fame induction ceremony last
weekend when he inducted Warren Yvon into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. That's how he left, like, enjoy
every sandwich, which was just terminally ill sign off. Yeah. Yeah.
Have you ever seen the documentary I Have Not the Wind?
(01:51):
Oh my god, you want a tear jerker, I'll tell
you what. Watching that one, watching a man who's like, yeah,
I'm gonna die, I'm gonna I'm trying to hurry up
and record an album. Yes, ok, I've seen clips from
that before. I do, right, And you know Springsteen comes
in in the middle of the night and uh plays
the song Disorder. I think it's disorder in the house. Yeah,
he plays them. Uh. It is a powerful record. But
(02:14):
watching that documentary was a bit too much for me.
I love Warren. He was the best, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Anyways, Okay, Guy Junker will join us lit. I love
Guy Man, I love Uh he'll enjoy sandwich, Guy does,
and he'll tell you where to go and get the sandwich.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
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That's it. Nine forty five. He's got your news. Now,
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This hour brought to you by Better Call Side Fog
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Speaker 5 (02:39):
I was just out in the kitchen and I took
a pick at the windows.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It's still it's it's weird, like it's the missed. You
can't see past these picture windows we have, not picture windows.
They're like wall the wall windows we have. I don't
know what's out there. I know it does look John
Carpenter ish.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
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Speaker 4 (03:00):
Take me.
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Speaker 1 (03:02):
I'm exhausted. Just make it quick. I'm tired. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Anyway, once that fog does move out of the way,
it'll just be a cloudy day and a high of
forty six. Triple A expects a record number of Americans
to travel for Thanksgiving. Here's when you do and don't
want to hit the road. They're expecting just under eighty
two million people to head out this year. That's up
from around eighty million last year, and seventy three million
(03:27):
will drive. So let's start with the worst days to leave. So,
in general, the worst times to be on the road
next Tuesday, from noon to nine pm.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That's a pretty wow big window. It's a pretty big window.
So Tuesday, I you know, I like the trend that
we have decided to lean into here in this country,
where the day that you would think that most people
would take off for the respective holidays Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Year's this gets back to by a couple of days.
(04:00):
Now people are like, I'm done on Tuesday at noon.
I'm not effing around. I need a week for the Turkey.
It's been a long year. I'm leaving on Tuesday. I
need to get back home so I can go out
with my high school friends and feel real sad. It
seems like a great idea, and then you get out
there you're like, what am I doing? See, you're young
enough to still do stuff like that. I'm well past
(04:22):
the age of that. But those days of that Wednesday night,
you know, they always say the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving
is the biggest bar night of the year. But the
truth about that is is it's not the biggest bar
night in the traditional bar areas. It's the biggest neighborhood
bar night of the year. Right, you go to the
(04:45):
bar you grew up going to, you know, like in
the South Hills, the saloon will be packed. You know,
in the East End, the squirrel cage will probably be packed.
And then you know, further over, I don't know what's
the you know, name your bar over in Reading Square,
you know, like those places, Yeah, Murphy's, Yes, that'll all
be jammed, But the south side, in those big bars
(05:07):
in Lawrenceville, nobody will be at those. Yeah, that's a
great point. And going back to your neighborhood bar in
your hometown, it's like, I haven't been here in ten years?
Am I cool in here? Was I cool the last
time I was in here? Because I felt like it
might have got a little away from Yeah, that happened
to my younger brother, who is not a person who
gets out of hand, but he one night, just out
(05:30):
of character did and the bar bar where we kind
of didn't even have rules because we were such regulars,
you know, the owners like not Randy, he can't know.
And I'm like he's like no, and my brother's like
I'm sorry, you know. And I had to like negotiate
him back into the fold, like well, we're keeping an
eye on you, like what did you do? And he's like,
(05:52):
I threw a shot glass off that I.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Can't do that.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
He's like, I was trying to throw it to my
friend and I'm like, did you think he was gonna
do the shot? Was there serran wrap on the top.
We saw it in a movie. Yeah, And he's like, yeah,
I messed up. So he had that experience. But typically
I go to bars where I feel like, you know,
it's kind of like you go to places where you're
one of the better behaved people, no full well knowing
(06:19):
that there are people who are much worse than you.
A great move. Yeah, yeah right, I'm not going to
be the drunkest guy. Exactly. It gives you a big,
big window to be a moron. Look at that guy,
he's got real problems, exactly. I'm not Lenny. They're worried
about him, they're not worried about me.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
The worst time to head home is Sunday, November thirtieth,
that's between eleven am and eight pm. Also, Monday, December first,
between noon and eight pm apparently is bad, and that
Monday is rough because there's also just regular commuter traffic.
I guess for everybody who doesn't have as much vacation time.
But the best day to drive is next Thursday, because
(06:59):
there's not a ton of traffic on Thanksgiving itself.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Well, I tell you that's the best day. Best day
to fly Thursday morning if you are within a short
flight of your Thanksgiving destination, take one of the early
flights out and you'll be there before noon. I would
be terrified to fly day of what just for yeah,
something goes wrong, I don't know. Potential of missing.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Turkey, yeah, wasting your whole day on a delay.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, I mean that could happen typically on those commuter
flight like the shorter ones. I'm not talking like going
to like you know, on a five hour flight. I mean,
if you're going to New York, Chicago, even Orlando or Atlanta,
you know something within three hours, you're usually going to
be okay. And unless the weather's bad, in which case
you know, all bets rough or if you know we
(07:48):
run out of air traffic controllers, because apparently that happens
from time to time.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Now, I was gonna say, are you also thinking the
mentality of the people who are working because it's a
holiday like that, they would be pissed that they're working
on a holiday.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It's not fun. Yeah, that's when you get Neil, thank
you for working, Thank you for working. Yes, that's a
good call, thank you for working. My dad would pack
turkey sandwiches in his pocket all the time, not on Thanksgiving,
just regular flights. He'd have them on there and then
he'd started eating it and someone would go, well it
looks good, and he'd be like it is, would you
(08:23):
like one? And then he'd pull out another one wrapped
in Cela fame and give out turkey sandwiches. So what
I'm suggesting is maybe if you're flying that day, take
a little tip from Bruce there, make yourself a nice
sandwich to get to those people. Eggs sal I'm trying
to think of the grossest thing, egg salad sandwich. Would
you like one?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Straight out of my pocket?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
But it's ninety eight point six degrees right like a
warm tuna, a warm tuna salad. I got this sushi
from a kiosk, but.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
You can have it.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Did you see that Olivia mun sat on a talk
show yesterday that she got violently ill.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yes, Bathtub sushi is what she called it, which is
a terrible name. She was she thought it would be
I don't know, luxurious perhaps to have sushi while she
was having a nice hot bath. But the problem is
that'll cook your sushi. Sushi is not supposed to be hot.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, it's not supposed to got over. I think it's
like forty degrees or something like that, Yes, and she's
like puts a sushi platter on top of like a
steaming hot bath and then slowly eats it as it's
all being like kind of cooked, and then she had
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Speaker 3 (09:45):
So for some people it's a quick drive to meet
up with family and friends for Thanksgiving, but for others
you do have longer travel time. According to a new survey,
the average person is willing to drive one hundred and
seventy two miles out of their way to pick.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Up a loved one.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Oh my god, and f W that's what I thought.
That's I don't that's three hours. Three hours.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, I want to take inventory of my life. I
don't know if I should say this on the radio.
I don't think I love anyone that much.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I just what I would do is paying in nordon
amount to have somebody else do it, right, you know,
I'd be like, where are you, mom, Saint Mary's what
did you You missed the bus coming back from your
your casino trip. Okay, there's a car service coming. A
man named Raoul is going to pick you up. He's
very nice. Don't worry. He'll drive you to Eerie with
(10:46):
a ninety minute out and back to pick somebody up.
Ooh man, not doing that?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
What's the most you've driven?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Like, I'm I've done that though I've gone to I've
definitely gone to Buffalo and back to pick somebody up
up from from Erie. But I mean, I don't know.
You're going like eighty miles an hour and it ends
up being like an hour there, an hour back. But
something about the one hundred and seventy two mile figures,
it just seems so far it's a daunting number. That
(11:15):
is daunting.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Five percent of people said that they would be willing
to drive seven hundred miles, which is a major trip.
That's basically the distance between New York City and Chicago.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Just just go give somebody.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, well, Thanksgiving is the best holiday of all of
them because there are no gifts, and there's all the
food and all the hanging out, and there's football NonStop,
and it's just fun. It's a fun hang. If you
have a fun family, it's a fun hang. Now, if
you have a disastrous family, it's a nightmare, and you
look for the things to do and stay busy. Yeah. Yeah,
(11:47):
if your significant other has a nightmare family, it's still
pretty fun. Yeah, so you're back in the fun. I'm
just gonna sit back, I'm gonna drink fifteen beers, and
I'm gonna let the day come to me. Because you
don't really have ownership of that. You get to be
a spectator. Yeah, and then you know, behind closed doors,
all you do is you pump up your significant other.
(12:09):
Like that was messed up. I can't believe she said
it either. Your cousin Judy really believes that.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
My gosh, sweetheart, I don't think the light's out of
your eyes.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Oh, I just never agree, never agree with the other person.
I've had those like you know that the Christmas dinner
in the Bear from season one, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Traumatic that the whole episode's traumatic.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Have you seen it?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
The one with Jamieie Curtis.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I've been a part of one of those, and let
me tell you, it is a scar. I mean it
leaves a scar. And so I'm always like, I go
in with the lowest expectations. And nowadays that stuff is
long gone. But like when both my parents were around, man,
and they were both remarried, any one of those holidays
could have turned into that at any minute. You'd be
very careful. One comment could set someone off on a
(13:07):
tangent and then you were back in the races. Do
you think that your siblings would agree with you? It's
like the famous Christmas dinner, like it's the one or
would they each have their own? That was well, So
the siblings were with me one hundred percent, yeah, because
they weren't all there. There was only three of us
at that one, but it was. But we had friends
(13:27):
who were like, you know, we have like a bunch
of friends who were kind of they're like brothers, they're
members of our family, you know, right, And there was
a few of those people there too, and it was
like we walked out on mass we had to. It
was one of those situations. We ended up at Applebee's
because Applebee's was open, and when I say we got drunk,
oh my god. It was just a horrific family explosion
(13:50):
that happens to all kinds of families, typically not then,
but for us it did. And it was like, this
is a bad one. We got, we gotta go. We
had to go pull the ripcord and Applebee's was open.
Applebee's was open, and I it was sad but hilarious,
Like we had the best worst time ever. You know,
it's like what what has caused? This is ultimately sad,
(14:12):
but this is hilarious. And we're you know, we're getting
those stupid drinks they have. We're like, give us a
round whatever those was. It's big and it's got stuff
in it. Bring one of those you know, giganic blue
drink and a fish. Yeah yeah, seven yeah, Like my
ninety pounds sister is like just sucking down those big
things with eight kinds of alcohol in them. Those things
are so just heartburn, instant heartburn. We all said, the
(14:36):
worst hangover in the world, and we're like, I wonder
some of the food is actually left, Like do you
think we can eat it? Oh? Yeah, like the next
day no, the answer was no, it was it was gone.
But Thanksgiving usually people are like, cool, there's a great
snl sketch that Eddie Murphy did when he hosted just
(14:57):
a few years ago, and it's like like him putting
on the front of the dinner I just want to
say a few things and how lovely this is to
get your family together. And then they keep cutting too
behind the scenes of what it's really like that week,
and it is super accurate and hilarious how hectic it
can be, and like, you know, the mom's at the
table just like, oh, I just threw this together, and
(15:19):
you know, I'm just glad everyone likes it. You know,
while she's cooking, she's greening, and everybody cut out, and
the grandpa's stinking up the bathroom and all that. You know,
that's kind of the fun of it though, the annoyance, right, yeah,
and then it all comes together in whatever way, or
it doesn't. Apple end up an apple bee that is
(15:41):
That should be their ad campaign, by the way, they
should be like this Thanksgiving, if your dysfunctional family boils over,
you've got a space with us at Applebee's, come get
one free drink for every traumatic incident that happened at
your dinner table. They do dollar marks. Yeah, that's not
out of question. I think that might have been. What
(16:01):
we were drinking was like huge marks. I don't deserve
anything nice, it's just the sours. Help I forget? Yeah, drinking,
do you forget? I'm a big Thanksgiving fan though, because
my brother makes a Thanksgiving meal every year and he's
the master at it.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
He's the cook.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yep, he's the cook and he does like three different
stuffings every year and their bomb. One of them is
sausage and peppers. Oh stuffing. So it's a you know,
tray of stuffing. And when you take a big hunk,
it's got sausage and peppers and and it tastes like
stuffing and a sausage and pepper sub It's the most
amazing thing I've ever had. It's great. And then he
(16:39):
does a shrimp at to fe one.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Oh that's bragging.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, it's really good. I don't even know those are
sides you're putting, you know, those are sides being raised
to the level of entree. I make that. Yeah. I
typically won't eat them with the because it's too much.
But it's like a separate like I'm gonna go get
a little dish of stuffing and puts gravy over it.
It's definitely a great leftover snack too. Yeah, and then
(17:04):
I'm on clean up duty, which is not as bad.
My buddy used to do a he used to host
friends giving where he made her ducan every year. I
don't know. That feels perverted to me. It's stuffing another
animal into another's cavity. It's all de boned too, so
you cut it in slivers like a log like how
you would you know, forest boards. It's isn't it greasy?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Though?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Is in the duck really greasy? There? There's supposed to
be stuffing between the birds too, so it's like six
layers of stuff. But you know, the duck is just
it's it's not like chicken and turkey. It's definitely different. Yeah,
you can tell what it is.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yeah, duck is a greasy thing for me.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Ram it that's how you make you got ram it?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Get it in there. I like to ducan. As you
can see, nobody likes to duck and like me does
he deep private, No, this was like a he by
the time you got there, which was way too early.
We were in our twenties, you know, drinking your friendsgivings
all the way. Like I have friends who were in
their mid forties and they still do a friends giving.
(18:15):
They did it last week and I'm like, I think
that's too much. That's too much Thanksgiving pens. Yeah, yeah,
it depends on the group. I don't know, but you know,
the early appeal of friendsgiving is like, no adults, my
Grandpa's not going to yell at me for going in
the basement. This is awesome, right and getting hammered, well crushed.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Years ago there was like this kind of like it
was a year after COVID I think, or like, well, no,
actually we were kind of still in it. I think
it was twenty twenty one where we went to like
a friends giving year, but everybody did bring their kids,
which was a major problem, like because it was not
(18:55):
as fun everybody. We got a house in Deep Creek
and we all kind of split it and because of
the aforementioned kids, everybody got the stomach flu.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Ah, really really bad.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
The problem with this for me was that the Monday
after the friends giving, I had my hernia surgery schedule.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So as we were coming home, my husband and daughter
start puking over and over again. Yes, and I'm like,
I have a hernia surgery, So somebody has to drive
me to the hospital at four in the morning, like,
and they're like, moally, it's me and I'm like okay,
So I drove myself to the hospital.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
And then while I'm at.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
The hospital, they're like, well, we can't really start the
surgery cause somebody at least has to call us and
tell us that they're the one that's picking you up,
because like you can't, you know, you have to have
a driver. So I was like I got him at
least to like call and say that he would pick
me up, not knowing full well like if he was
going to pick me up or not. But I get
done with the surgery and then he's picking me up
green He's just like he looks like Kermit and be
(20:03):
like I am here.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
And I had like a face mask on everything.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
If I throw up with I will kill you. The
scariest thing to consider after hernia surgery would be getting
the stomach flu.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But also, like the whole time, I just kept thinking,
I'm like, I have been denied again. Like all I
was supposed to have was two days of pain pills
and service.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I was supposed to be able to go.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I need soup and have somebody like gently helped me
out of bed. And all I had was a pillow
I could put over top of my stomach and at
two in the morning, I'd have to like roll.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Just go.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Two days because I wouldn't let either one of them
near me, because I'm like, didn't get it.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
I did not get it. I also didn't see either
one of them for a.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Week, so there was thatgiving.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, Michael be joining us here in just a little bit.
He's a Thanksgiving fan too, and we are one week
away from Thanksgiving. I'm mostly thankful this year that the
Steelers are not playing on Thanksgiving. Yes, can't stand when
they play on Thanksgiving. It drives me crazy because it
turns the holiday into a Steelers game. Then I'm in
(21:30):
Steelers game mode. I can't do both. I don't possess
that ability of duplicity. The dichotomy of emotions that are
supposed to be coexisting. The Steelers one just swallows it
whole Christmas we played on Christmas. That became a Steelers game.
There was no Christmas. It was just a Steelers game.
So this year you get to have the holiday and
(21:50):
watch the Ravens and the Bengals. That's the one. Well
Chi's Cowboys too, Yeah, I'm in that one.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
No oh, it's a yeah, I hate them all.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
What a holiday?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
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ready when needed last Sunday against Cincinnati and maintained he
would be again if called upon to start or finish
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(23:37):
to Rogers relentless approach to practice reps.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
I get, I get, You're right, he's an incredible the
way you know, he hasn't missed a practice, He hasn't
missed a rap early all season, and he's been he's
been banged up at times, and he's so quite a
you know, it's a tough he's a tough competitor. But uh, yes,
I mean in the natural flow practice, I'll get three
(24:02):
reps out out of a ten pack, so you get
enough to kind of stay sharp enough.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Now, Ruolph also does what he can, uh when he's
not practicing too ready himself in case he's needed. And
toward that end, he brought back something of a cheat
code of sorts from the season he spent last season
in Tennessee.
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Get Uh, you get the scout team reps. What's what's
your fun? And uh, it's fun to compete when you
just you know, you see a card for three seconds
and you go execute it and then uh, we've we've
kind of gotten to rhythm with the quarterbacks of we
call it a little walk and talk after practice. And
something I learned from from the from the great Trevor Simeon,
just a little you know, just getting together and brain
(24:45):
brainstorming about you know, what's what, what coverage can I
get here?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
What's my We're talking through you read and it's a.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Very uh, you know, conducive environment without a without the
threat of getting reprimanded for a wrong answer by coach.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
So it's just just the boys. You think you should
be in jail, Me too.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
Trevor Simmy and the quarterbacks coach in Tennessee former backup
in the NFL. But I kind of like that they
just talking out amongst themselves. If if they're wrong and
the wrong and then they correct each other, you don't
have to feel shame, which has got to help, right.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well, I think that what he is pointing out, not
so subtly is the difference in the dynamic in the
in the quarterback room now versus when he came to
the Steelers organization originally. Correct might be what he's trying
to illustrate.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
There, you back what he used to get every Wednesday,
the backup would be the guy.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yes, yeah, I never thought of it though.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Yeah, I'm just saying I'll have to consider that something
to consider, you might be honest with. Rudolph definitely appreciates
all the support that he gets from Rogers. Uh, and
that continued after Rudolph was able to get that Bengals
game to the finish line.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
I don't think I think it'd be a fourteen year
old me knew that I was getting it, you know,
getting a nice to have from from from a rod
after a game. It would be pretty pretty done exciting.
So he's uh, he's very very kind and complimentary.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
When Mason Rudolph was fourteen, Aaron Rodgers was in his
sixteenth NFL Callly Cow and they are teammates. Now that's amazing,
It really is. You just forget Rogers is forty one
and how long he's been doing this.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, I mean so you see him in them. Yeah, yeah,
I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding him. He's a kidder.
He enjoys jokes.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Darius Slay back at it yesterday full participant trying to
work through his concussion. No Jalen Warren ankle, Cole Holcombe illness.
Full participant Alex high Smith Peck did not practice. Also,
the twenty one day window closed on Corey Trice Junior.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
He will not be activated at the reserve interviews. It's
always gonna be. I hope it's not forever what could
have been, you know, hope next year they give him
another shot and he can finally get healthy, because the
fact that he came back to practice finally got healthy
and was hurt the next day just kind of feels
like he is snake bitten.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
For the Bears, they got a couple of cornerbacks who
are working their way back, trying to get off the
reserve injured list. Jalen Johnson, he's supposed to be a starter.
His window twenty one day window open last Friday. Kyler Gordon,
he's supposed to be their nickel. His window opened yesterday.
Kind of sounds like, just from reading the tea leaves
off the release here that Johnson has a good chance
(27:45):
to play, and Gordon probably next week, So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
The Bears are seven and three.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
They've won five games inside of two minutes remaining, and
they have not beaten the winning team they.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Play two, No, not even two.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
They've played one five hundred team Baltimore and one winning
team Detroit and got smoked by both. The records being
what they are now not when Chicago played them, Yeah,
right right right, very very winnable game. No matter who
plays quarterback for the Steelers. All right, well, just don't
screw it up.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Don't screw it up. That's what I've been saying, don't
screw up.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
And they are they are the most Chicago's the most
turnover producing team in the league and lives and dies
by it even more than the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So just and Kala protects the ball, Yes he does.
He doesn't complete a lot of passes, but he doesn't
throw picks. He throws them so poorly. No, he ca yeah,
what do he misses? Just the bit outside? He tried
the quarter had missed? Yeah, ball eight.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Ball, twelve guys lay off pitches this close.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
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Speaker 4 (28:53):
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Notre Dame game last week?
Speaker 4 (30:39):
I did not know. I don't have Yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Don't have that kind of sway. Is that what you're
gonna say, you don't have a connection.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
No, I wanted to watch the Penn State game too,
So I wanted to watch. I just spent the whole
day and you know, in front of a fireplace watching TV.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yeah. Not a great showing by Pitt, not at all.
I hate when Notre Dame fans come in and take
over for a stadium like that too. Tries me crazy.
There are all those chance going on stuff. It just
makes me sick.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Yeah, well, I didn't think. You know, we always talk
about trap games and not looking ahead, and you know,
coaches don't want to and I thought Pat Nordoozy last week.
I'm not sure what his thinking was, but he almost
set that up like we can get killed in this
game and still win the ACC. Well, you know, okay,
(31:27):
that may be true, but I'm not sure if that
set the tone or Look, this is the only rank
this is the only ranked team that they've played this year,
the only ranked team on their schedules that currently ranked
right now, and they weren't able to hang with them
at all. So we'll see what happens with Georgia Georgia Tech.
I think this is actually is a winnable game they have.
They've given up over five hundred yards defensively their last
(31:51):
two games, and one of those was the Boston College stinks.
I mean they almost lost. Yeah they did, and which
were with a set things up nicely so, but yeah,
I just thought the whole vibe going into that, You've
got one of the biggest games and all that commotion
and all the national attention coming in, and I thought
they'd done. He may be downplayed it a little bit
(32:12):
too much. I'll say, you know, we love it when
the Steelers go on the road and take over a stadium.
But I can remember being a kid when the Buffalo
Sabers were really good and they had the French connection,
they would commit on Saturday nights because they couldn't get
tickets up, but they would take over the Civic arena
with their let's go Buffalo chance and that would tick
me off. Oh my god, Yeah, I know what that's
like to be in your own stadium and get out cheered.
(32:34):
But we like it when when the Steelers fans do
with the other.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
People, how far that organization's fallen. We were talking about
that the other day. Buffalo, that's a town. They're like,
you know, the the hockey version of the Pirates, a
town who has supported their team and absolutely loves them
and their complete garbage every year.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
And you know, you look around, you look at what
the Penguins are doing right now, and you look at
the other teams that have had, you know, recent times
to success, whether it's Chicago, La, Well, Boston's playing pretty
well right now. They I mean, they've missed the playoffs
the last few years, but I'm we haven't talked much
about them. I can't believe how well they have played
(33:12):
a little since for card Riquel got hurt and they
got seven guys on injured reserve right now. But since
he got hurt, they they've struggled to score goals a
little bit more. But I think it's one of the
biggest stories in the NHL so far this year.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
No question. Well let me let me switch sports before
coming back to the Steelers. The news Ken Jeff Passing,
not Ken Rosent. Jeff Passon talking about the Buckos being
willing to spend maybe bringing Connor Griffin up at the
tender age of nineteen, and Paul Sken's denying the reports
that he wants to get traded, saying that's not true.
(33:45):
Might this be the worm turning all of a sudden
for Bob Nunning and company? They only have one year
till a supposed shutdown. Is he gonna actually throw the
money out there?
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Well, think about it. You could throw it out for
one year, and if there is a shutdown, you might
not have ever payoff on a year beyond this one.
Mlb dot Com projects the Pirates to spend thirty to
forty million dollars for new salaries. So there's are they're
getting this information somewhere And if this were you know,
if this were some local guy writing or maybe getting
(34:17):
fed stuffed by the team. You might doubt that Jeff
Passens has respected a baseball insider as there is. So
I'm intrigued and encouraged by it, but they still have
to do something. It's funny that this Japanese guy Murakami
got mentioned because I'm might make notes on him and
another guy, Kazuma Okamato about a month ago to talk
(34:38):
to you guys about somehow we never got was right
after the baseball season ended. Okamato is another power hitting
first basement, third basement. He played for Yo Muri. Not
quite the numbers of Murakami, but but he would also
be he's a little better fielder, and he's also a
better average hitter and would be a little more affordable.
So there's another guy to keep your eye on if
they're going to go you know, international and this international stuff.
(35:01):
I wouldn't be surprised to the Yankees try to sweep
up some of these Japanese guys because they're bitching about
how much advertising money the Dodgers get right from Japanese
companies because they have all these Asian players. Well, you know,
they could get the same thing if they start, you know,
investing in some Asian players, then maybe they could get
some of that Japanese advertising money too. It cracks me
(35:24):
up when Yankees and Yankee fans complain about not being
able to keep up financially with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, the rich matt Ath rich. But you know, look,
if the Pirates land a couple of Japanese players, maybe
those endorsement dollars can go the other way and Permannis
can start advertising in Japan.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
There you go. Yeah, so you should you major in marketing?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
No, but I was good at it. Took I took
one marketing class at Penn State three twenty one. I
was the Nitney NoteTaker for it. As a matter of fact,
everybody bought my notes at the end of the year.
But yeah, yet another miscalling for me. All right, So
let's get to Steelers and the Bears. This Sunday one
o'clock in Chicago. I was asking Missy Matthews about this
(36:11):
about Aaron Rodgers' motivation. Do you think he is as
he sort of positioned himself yesterday, glad that the history
reflects that he has owned the Bears but has no
interest in continuing on beating their ass. That was another time.
This is a new team, and he's glad he did
(36:33):
what he did, but he loves Chicago or does the
fire burn inside? Does he secretly want to go in
there once again and stick it to these guys. I
kind of wanted him to come out and say that, like, yeah,
if I can go, I really want to go there.
I love beating the Bears, I love playing there, and
I love that they have this you know thing about
me coming in there, that I'm the boogeyman.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
I kind of wanted him to go that way with it.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Well, let let me ask you this. If late in
his career Ben Roth was or would have went to
another team and played in Cleveland, what would what would
his feelings be? Would he not have the same fire
against the Browns that he did when he played for
the Steelers. I think he would question, Yeah, and I
still think the Rogers fire burns there too. I mean,
(37:16):
he's and he made sure he got you know, he
put it out there how much he's beat them down.
But then he also tried to politely deflect any attention away.
I'm intrigued by this game. If you look at the
Steelers record against like original NFL, especially the NFC teams,
they stink against almost all of them all time. And
to point out that they won one time in Chicago, ever,
(37:40):
they've only played there seven times since the NFL merger,
they hardly ever play there. Yeah, I think that's a
kind of a goofy stat A lot of those records,
like against the Eagles, the Commanders, the Rams, the forty
nine Ers, they get Giants, they got losing records against
all them because the first forty years when they were
in the league, they got hammered by all those teams
because they stunk into the seventies. But Mike was pointing
(38:02):
it out in his last sports cast there they don't
have a win against the winning team. The combined record
of the teams the Bears have beaten is twenty fifty
one and one so far this year. I mean they
you know, Vegas and Washington and New Orleans and Cincinnati
and the Giants they all there. Now, I'm not saying
they're not good. Usually when we talk about records and
(38:23):
you don't how good this team is, they played a
bunch of greenpus. We're talking about college football. Because the
schedules are manipulated in the NFL you're all you know
on any given Sunday. But you know, I think Cayleb
Williams is developing as a quarterback, tremendous physical talents that
I think he's growing into. And Ben Johnson's obviously done
a good job there. But I'm not gonna sit there
and look at that one and twelve all time record
(38:45):
in Chicago and they, oh, they can't win there.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah. Well, you know, Steelers beat up on some scrubs too,
you know, the Jets, the Browns, the Vikings.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Yeah, but I mean they have I mean, you're gonna
get those. But they also won in New England and
beat Indianapolis, two of the best teams in the league
right now. I mean that's certainly ups their resume in
my mind over what the Bears have done.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Would you rather see Mason or Rogers?
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Well, if I'm paton Ordoozy, I'd say we could lose
this game one hundred and thirteen because because six at
the next seven are against AFC teams or whatever. Five
at the next six, you know, so I'd be real careful.
I mean, my worry about it is, you know, he's top,
he'll tolerate the pain. I'm worried if he gets knocked down.
(39:30):
And my brother in law one time worked as a
mechanic and he fell backwards and broke both of his wrists.
And I'm just worried about I mean, if he gets
knocked down, and that's what you brace, could he be
knocked out for the year, could he further? I mean,
that's a medical question I can't answer. And also what
about handoffs on running plays to the right, He's got
to hand it off with his left hand, taking snaps
(39:52):
under center. I mean, I'm just yeah, not about him
getting hurt down the road, but one key fumble on
a play where his wrist is bothering him. And Rudolph
played so well last week, personally, I kind of would
like to see Rudolph start to sea to I think,
just give him a week's rest. And you know, I
don't understand. This guy's got a winning record as a starter,
(40:13):
He's played well, saved their season, got him into the
playoffs few years ago, and they still seem to always
hesitate about using him.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Not to mention, they have to if you get Rogers
hurt for a longer period of time, Will Howard becomes
one heart beat away from the presidency.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Yeah, that would be an interesting story. Talk about a
forgotten guy we haven't mentioned since training camp and now
Sunday he possibly could be a snap away from playing.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
By the way, I'm predicting, Kenny Pickett finishes the game
for the Raiders this weekend against the Browns, the team
that traded him away, and it'll be Miles Garrett going
up against Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
That'll be hey, a lot of quarterback. And there's Justin
Field's getting replaced by Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Now with the Jets starting that game.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Yeah right, we're starting that game and Lamar has an
ankle injury. Now he's had hamstring me and ankle. I
watched that whole game against the Browns and I didn't
see one designed run for him. You know, he ran
it for ten yards and onyone he was in trouble. So,
I mean, he's had everything wrong with his legs. Not
that I think the Jets are gonna beat him anyways.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
I yeah, maybe it's the same scenario for them where
they should sit Lamar because it's the Jets, you know.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Yeah, good point, they're still a fourteen point favorite.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
That's just ridiculous. But there's always bad NFL teams this year.
It feels like there's three exceptionally bad NFL teams and
yet they fit.
Speaker 4 (41:42):
And that's what I mean about, you know, trying to
figure out when you're looking at schedules in the NFL
compared to college football. The Jets will still figure out
a way to beat somebody. You know, Tennessee will still
figure out a way to beat somebody here and there.
And then you're sitting there, you know, look at we
mentioned the Steelers had a couple of those quality wins.
The three of their four losses are against teams that
(42:02):
are right there, you know, Seattle seven and three, Green
Bay six and three, the Chargers of seven and four.
Of the game that I think is really gonna haunt
them somewhere down the line is at Lotson Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Oh YEA one that does not make sense, no question.
Guy Junker brought to you by Edgars Snyder Associates this
morning on DV. Thanks as always, Guy.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
All right, guys, have a great Thanksgimvy. I'm talking you
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
All right, buddy, take care. Thanks to Guy Junker, Thanks
to Missy Matthews, and thanks for our buddy Tad Whistle,
who was hanging out with us all morning long. Great
to hang with you there, Tad. Thank you guys. I
appreciate it. Yeah, buddy. Tomorrow on the show, Dave danishek
Uh Buzz poets are in the coffeehouse. Have you nice?
And Sean Collier and Ian Bag will be live in
studio all morning. One of our favorite all time comics,
(42:45):
a longtime friend, Ian Bag. He's making his way to
town to do the improv this weekend, so stay tuned
for that tomorrow morning. And of course Michelle's got the
Electric Lunch coming up next at noon. Have a great day, everybody.
I'm finishing you say classy Pittsburgh, don't touch your I
got him type pace macday Baby, So now you gotta
call me Ronald? Would you not eat my pants? Ronald?
(43:08):
Whoa whay goggle it.
Speaker 6 (43:15):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
to you by iron Workers Local Union number three. They
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Pro Shop get it direct from the team at shop
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Speaker 9 (43:29):
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers spoke to the Steelers' media yesterday for
his weekly chat and only increased optimism in the quarterback
playing Sunday against the Bears. The veteran quarterbacks said that
he was going to try to practice today and would
like to start Sunday in Chicago, but ultimately said that
that decision.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Will be up to coach Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 9 (43:45):
The Steeler should probably want Rogers to play just as
badly as he does when you look at the quarterbacks
track record when playing against the Bears in his career.
During his eighteen years in Green Bay, Rogers met the
Bears twenty nine times and walked away with an unbelievable
twenty four and five record. And perhaps it's even more
impressive than the record is the stats he put up
against Chicago. Rogers has a massed six nine hundred and
(44:06):
sixty five yards thrown for sixty four touchdowns and just
ten interceptions for a passer rating of one hundred and nine. Obviously,
neither Rogers or the Steelers should want to rush things
just to get a win over Rogers's old punching bag,
especially when the team has much greater goals on the horizon.
But it wouldn't hurt to have someone with Rogers's pedigree
when it comes to beating the Bears, seeing as the
(44:27):
Steelers are one in twelve all time in Chicago, with
their lone win coming way back in.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Nineteen ninety five. I'm Tom Opferman with the Steelers Report.
You see the skyline, you drive over the bridges We
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