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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Live from the Don's Appliances Studios, where Pittsburgh shops for appliances.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is w DVE, Pittsburgh.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
I used to be known as Baron Hilton. Now I'm
known as Paris Hilton's grandfather.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, that's because she did a porno.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
I mean that will supersede any success that you have
in business when your granddaughter does a world famous homemade
porno tape. I know, the steer end of the skid though,
like off of like practically everybody that puts one out
has really been helped by it. So Tommy Lee, you
don't think he was helped by that a little bit?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yes, I mean he was already he was already kind
of sort of irrelevant at that point.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
I mean, I mean everybody got to know his uh,
pogg hog is an aggressive term. I was gonna say, uh,
it's an aggressive pod.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
It is an aggressive had. But I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
I think he got onto the microscope a little bit.
I mean, like Pamela Anderson had gotten into the telescope.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I think that's what you mean. It was a planetary
body that we were looking.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
At Randy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
I mean, poor Pamela Lee was really what I was
trying to get to there. You know, she was the
one that suffered greatly from that video.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
And then she made a resurgence, came back without makeup,
made a movie, and then you hated her for that.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I didn't hate her for it.

Speaker 6 (01:43):
You kind of did. No, no, no, no, it's not
about the sex tape.

Speaker 7 (01:47):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:47):
I don't like you because you're a bad actress.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
She is a bad act very bad.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
She's still a bad act By the way, our friend
Tad Whistle's hanging out with us this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Did you happen to see The Last Showgirl?

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Pam Anderson's acting, uh, acting debut, But she was a
lead actress role in a serious role for this movie,
Oscar Buzz, Oscar Bait. It was, you know, a Los
Angeles show girl on her last you know looks, you know,
the last run that she was having there, things were
getting dim in grim.

Speaker 6 (02:17):
Aging out of the demo.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Aging out of horror, and everybody's like, oh my god,
what a revelatory performance.

Speaker 8 (02:28):
And I watched it.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
I'm like, guys, I feel bad for her too. But
we can't pretend that this is good or that she's good.
She was a terrible actress, but you always like to
point out that she was actually being a good actress
by annoying the pisatomy during that.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
What I was saying is she embodied the part because
she is the part right exactly. So in a way,
it was kind of hard to tell who was who,
because the whole point was that she was so kind
of enveloped in this character or swallowed up in this
character of somebody who only had value in their sex appeal. Yeah,

(03:06):
and so she it made her this very vapid character
who didn't have a lot of deep connections with people.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
So she played it extremely well, but.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
I couldn't tell it's because that's who Pam Anderson was,
or if that's because she was a great actress.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
A little Mickey Rourke and the Wrestler Yes vibe.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
That's a good example, excellent, but also the prime example
is Courtney Love in The People versus Larry Flint, Yes,
where they're like, you need to just play a drugged out,
like polyamorous looney and she's like, can do And it

(03:43):
sounded just like that. She's like, I actually have that
one in my quiver. I can pull that. I got it,
I got it.

Speaker 9 (03:50):
Does Pam Anderson get a plus two for dating Liam Neeson?
Whin Awards season rolls around?

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Well, I think that was all bs.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Right, was it? Yeah? They were breaking Yeah, actually.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
I know, yeah that was so when it got announced,
we were all like, oh man, this is so great.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Look how in love they actually seem to be. And
she's baking him muffins.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
And then people will be like, wait a minute, isn't
this possibly just a cynical marketing ploy for the Naked
Gun reboot? And then everyone was like, no, you don't
love love. These people are in love. It's great they
found each other. He hasn't had a serious partner since
his wife died twenty years ago, and Pam Anderson has
swept him off his feet. And then the movie promotion ended,

(04:33):
and then like they've not talked since or I haven't
seen each other.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
I was rooting for them, huck you so hard. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
I guess at least the storyline and the public part
of it died down. I don't remember them ever saying
they broke up or anything like that. The only part
that I know what they said this has gas is
because their kids were hanging out with each other and
I was thinking, I don't feel like people would bring

(05:00):
the kids into it if it wasn't something serious.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
But also Hollywood people, maybe they would.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Well, her kids might have just been worried about being taken,
and they thought, you know who's good at making sure
that doesn't happen. That guy, And if Tommy Lee comes
around drunk again, I don't want to end up as
a roadie on the New Motley Creue tour. Yet after
that all ended, they said, oh, no, we were never dating.
We were just good friends. Sure looked like you were dating. Yeah,

(05:26):
I was led to believe you were dating me too.

Speaker 6 (05:29):
The making out was the big tell.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh, well on the way for you. Lots of stuff
to get to you today. Three and Out is the
new segment we're doing instead of Pick six. Ever since
Bill decided to depart, Well, I got to do my
end of the things there, so we can't. I'm not
doing six, but I'll do half of it. So instead
of Pick six from now on, it's three and out.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
That yeah, well it sounded better than.

Speaker 10 (05:54):
Then.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
Oh my hand cramp.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
I used to Bitchtabby about writing that all the time.
I'm like, this is hard. It was your job hard?
Oh is writing hard. Oh, I didn't know that because
I don't do anything. Missy Matthews will join us at
age forty five talking Steelers Bears. I'm getting pumped now.
See that's the thing about right well, every time I
write that segment, though, I do get more excited for

(06:17):
the games this weekend, and especially the Steelers game. Steelers
Bears Sunday one o'clock is going to be a doozy,
I believe. And initially I was thinking, like, I want
Mason to play.

Speaker 11 (06:28):
I do.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
I'd rather have Mason play because I don't want a
half handed Aaron Rodgers out there. I don't need a
limp wristed quarterback out there. I want a macho man
with a mustache. But in thinking about it, and I
heard Kyle Brant talking about it on rich Eisend Show,
Aaron Rodgers, as much as I have tried to be like, oh,

(06:50):
you know what, the ayahuasca has killed enough of his
ego that he doesn't have those same things that he
had before. We're like, I have to beat the Bears, right,
or I have to beat the Packers, I have to
beat the Jets. Well, I think he still has that
and when it comes to the Bears. He's twenty four
and five against the Bears. Crazy, twenty four and five.

(07:13):
When he got there, the Bears owned the series. When
he left, the Packers were leading the series lifetime. It's
like one of the oldest rivalries thousand games yes, in
the league. And I think it does mean a lot
to him, and this is all he wants to do,
and this is these were the games he wanted a
ball out for. So if you really want an accurate

(07:36):
barometer of what Aaron Rodgers is still capable of, that
might be what you would see this coming weekend now
against Green Bay.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
I would have thought the same thing.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
We didn't see much from him, to be fair, he
was under fire most of the game with.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
Am I dreaming?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Did he say yesterday when he was speaking with the
press that it was not only about like, you know,
how he felt physically, but also if he felt protected
like he was going to see.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
How want to be loved? No, well, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
It's like literally felt like he could perform and felt
protected by the line like that he could actually do it.

Speaker 9 (08:14):
He's reeling from the Pam Anderson, Liam Neeson, That's what
it is like, devastated, like most of us.

Speaker 6 (08:19):
Who's going to make him sour?

Speaker 8 (08:20):
Though?

Speaker 4 (08:21):
Here was the quote about the Bears, whether there's an
incentive for him to get back and play because of
his long rivalry with the Mallers of the Midway.

Speaker 12 (08:32):
There's a center for every opponent. But I have enjoyed
many a Sunday and Monday and Thursdays in that city.
It's a great sports town. Phenomenal uh sports fans, and
great place to play here. He sort of off of
being the villain there a little bit, sort of enjoy

(08:55):
that I'd rather not be. I mean, I'm not in
Green Bay anymore. I feel like we can let bygones
be bygones.

Speaker 8 (09:03):
Maybe I can.

Speaker 12 (09:04):
I guess it's been.

Speaker 8 (09:06):
It's a great rivalry.

Speaker 12 (09:07):
I mean, in the history of all sports, you talk
about the Lakers and the Celtics and the Red Sox
and the Yankees, you got to talk about the Packers
and the Bears, and there's been some great memories there.
When I first got to Green Bay, the Bears had
the all time series lead. When I left, the Packers
did Okay.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
I just want to point out his face is turning
into lake that grinch smile, you know what.

Speaker 12 (09:33):
I mean, all right, since Jay Love is taken over,
it's even gotten better. But I hope, I hope those
fans can put that, put that behind the I'm sure
they can't. Don't expect them to. But I really enjoyed
the city. They got great sportsmen. I grew up watching
WGN on my five five channel CB back in the day,
so I was a Cubs fan and a Bulls fan.

(09:55):
How can I be a Bulls fan?

Speaker 8 (09:56):
List?

Speaker 12 (09:56):
You know, like Michael Jordan I did. I love them.
So it was a lot of fun memories over the years,
playing that.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
He's the Bill Clinton of quarterbacks.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
He is such a politician, and he's like, no, but
look I beat their ass. Don't get me wrong, but
you know what, I love their TV stations, I do
and Deep Dish. Don't even get me started on Deep Dish.
Love me some Chicago Beef Delicious. I think the clip
that you were talking about is this one.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Abby for you for the appointment?

Speaker 4 (10:24):
Oh no, no, no, yeah, there's this one. Okay, Oh nope,
I don't know what happened. I had it here and
then it popped off. I'm sorry, baby. He was talking
about having to protect himself.

Speaker 6 (10:34):
That might be what it was.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
It was a little bit of a fever dream, you know,
because he's so dreamy.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Right, yeah, yeah, clearly on the way, as we said,
Missy Matthews, Guy Junker. But Mike Pursuda on yesterday's press
scrum there with the quarterback. Abby's got news now for you.
Our buddy Ted Wessell hanging out with us this morning
on DV. What's up now?

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Is this hour brought to you by your neighborhood Ford
Store Dent Fog This.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
Morning, I looked outside and I thought it was snowing.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
I couldn't tell what was going on there, which that
was insane.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
But it'll be otherwise cloudy today and a high of
forty six. A proposal to bring hundreds of housing units
and a grocery store to Pittsburgh's Strip District earned approval
on Tuesday from the city's Planning commission. Six commissioners voted
in favor of New York based Midwood Investment and Development,
replacing a produce ware house in the corner of twenty

(11:23):
first in railroad streets with a mixed use complex consumer
fresh produce, which is vacating the premises where Midwood plans
to build, doesn't plan to move out of the Strip
District until the spring. The seventy three year old fruit
and vegetable wholesaler is relocating to Lawrenceville, leaving Sunfresh Food
Service on twenty third Street as the only remnant of

(11:44):
the Strip District's legacy wholesale produce industry. The yet to
be named complex will span two buildings, include four hundred
and forty one apartments, twenty three town homes, thirty seven
hundred square feet of retail space, three hundred and forty
four parking spots. A narrow eight story tower will mostly
be filled with housing and parking. But it sounds like

(12:07):
even more development coming to the Strip District.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Who is going to live in all of these places
is what I keep wondering. But they apparently are getting
filled because they continue to build more. I mean, they
desperately have needed a grocery store down there for a
long time. Because you're bringing all these people in to
live in the Strip District, you can't be like, all right, well,
now head to Lawrenceville and get some groceries. Best of
luck to you, mm hmm. But I don't know if

(12:32):
you've seen some of those complexes on Railroad Street.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
There crazy. The ones behind the terminal massive.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
They're like one point two million minimum for like three
bedroom town homes and you share a wall with somebody. Look,
once we're getting into the mills, I'm not sharing no walls.

Speaker 6 (12:49):
That's what I'm thinking too. I want more space than that.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Gardell was looking at one of those places. He's like,
are you kidding me? Like, He's like, it's perfect, but
that much money, And I was like, you should buy
one and then I can watch it for you on
the weekends.

Speaker 6 (13:03):
Yeah, we'll just hang out something.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
Exactly, we'll watch it right, Yeah, when I want to
get banged up at the shake shack with Ed Gainey.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Exactly.

Speaker 13 (13:15):
On my block alone, because I'm down there across the
street for me, directly across and directly next to me,
there's two brand new apartment buildings that just went up.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
And I'm not even like at the hub where Abby
was talking about.

Speaker 13 (13:28):
On my square block alone, two new buildings just came out.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Who are all those people, Jacob?

Speaker 13 (13:33):
My building, my building that I'm in is like twenty
units total. The three floors total these buildings are each
eight floors, I think means like one hundred units in
the total in the in those buildings, if not more.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's just like all tech people.

Speaker 6 (13:51):
I guess sometimes it's tech people moving in.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
But I have.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Family friends that were coming from Bethel that are in
I want to say. They're probably in their late seventies
that sold their family Bethel home like where they raised
their children who are adults now, sold it and moved
the Strip. They just live in the Strip now, just
like we go to.

Speaker 14 (14:16):
Restaurants and we hang at that's the dream I think
it is.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Well, one of our friends is doing that in Bloomfield.
Pp Oh, that's right, is his empty Nestra plan. He's
moving to Bloomfield.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Nice has had a place in Bloomfield for like your
Bloomfieldy're right, yeah, Bloomfeldian what was That's great? Okay, that
would be an awesome plan. The Strip is a little
more expensive. And the other thing I would think about
is like there was never a steel mill in the Strip?

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Was there was there a steel mill in the Strip.
I have no idea because I.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
Wonder about isn't there a possible Poultergeis situation going on here?
When we're building all of these apartment complexes on Sacred
Steel Ground.

Speaker 9 (14:59):
You know the souls of steel workers. You know of
yesteryear pet cemetery style thing. They can't build it. The
ground is sour, exactly, can't do it right?

Speaker 6 (15:09):
Give me an arm.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Are needed in good.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
I don't know, I mean kudos and congratulations everyone involves.
Sounds like a lot of people are making a whole
lot of money. I don't know how the hell you
afford to pay that much money to live in the
Strip district.

Speaker 9 (15:25):
But fortunately my Zilo settings when you're scrolling around, protect
me from even knowing that it's possible to buy a
one point two million dollar apartment.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Do you have parameters on your Zillo?

Speaker 9 (15:35):
Oh yeah, you got to cap it. You don't even
want to know how You don't want to dream the
other people live? Yeah, you can't people. No one lived
in the Strip? What you know twenty years ago? I
mean the and it was great, exponential. Yeah, those were
the days.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
And we loved how much blight there was and how
there was absolutely no commerce. This is how it should
be an absolute just graveyard of what once was.

Speaker 14 (15:58):
And now there's a Sephora, Now there's restaurants.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
I can't get a reservation too.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
I mean, that's what drives me crazy down there, and
there's like, I mean the parking, that parking situation back
in parking. Come on, I have been backed up to
the History Center from some jamoke trying to do a
three point turn to get into a parking spot on
the opposite side of the terminal, and it's like there

(16:27):
had to have been a better way than that.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Just because you're willing to wait doesn't mean I am.
I'm glad you think that dude's gonna pull out of
that spot?

Speaker 9 (16:36):
That drives me crazy. There's chill it on his phone,
is what he's gonna do? Five minutes of quiet me
time on my phone? What's going on outside? I have
no idea? And then I don't want to know.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
No, the traffic just backs up all the way because
I literally have been all the way back to the
History Center before, and I'm like, you know, doing the
you know, periscope groundhog move out of the sun roof
of my car, and you see that happening, and I
can't imagine that anybody is okay with it. There needs
to be a law that you can wait a total

(17:09):
of one minute and then after sixty seconds, like it's
a five hundred dollars fine.

Speaker 6 (17:14):
One minute's generous.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Start the clock. One minute is a lot. If you're
behind someone, one minute's a lot.

Speaker 6 (17:19):
One minute's generous.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
I agree with you, you'l like forever, but.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
Like putting a bow on it. I do love the
Strip District. I love everything that it's done. I was
very worried that all of the development was going to
take away from the character of the Strip District. I mean,
as someone who loves going down there on Saturday mornings,
especially Sunday mornings, and doing the whole Strip District experience,
buying food to make dinner later in the day, eating
too much while you're down there, you know, I'll grab

(17:45):
it an oyster off the street, tip of the accordion player,
all of that crowd. I love it all. It's the best.
And then we should we get to be at rollers. Yeah,
and then you're this is awesome, and then your groceries
go sour because you're getting hammered at lefties. And then
you know what lefties has gone now, But you know
back in the day and you make some bad decisions
then and you're like, we.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Shouldn't go back to the Strip District.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
That I mean the espresso clearly gave us way too
much gas and we drank our faces off. Today all
the groceries have gone bad and we have to order
grub up. That's a time on our tradition, okay.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
And really I do love.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
That that, nonwithstanding all the new development, I don't think
is really taken away too much for the purests. And
I have great regard for all of the historical preservation
societies in Pittsburgh throughout the many neighborhoods, and I understand

(18:35):
the importance of keeping that historically as intact as possible.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
But this can only be a good thing, I would
imagine in the long run.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
I'm very much just of the school of like changing
it now, I've gotta look at something new, and because
when you drive that railroad street over to jump onto
the you know underneath the convention center there, it's cool looking.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
It's like, man, they have an awesome you downtown that
the town homes look cool and modern and juxtaposed with
the you know, archaic sort of layout of.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
What the Strip District was set up to be, which
is just manufacturing and loading docks and you know, putting
stuff and taking stuff off of boats. And now it
has all of that like vibrancy. It is kind of cool.
I don't know how plastic those houses are, though, because
sometimes there is a little rock ridge element to it, right,
you know, it's like, well, this looks lovely, and then

(19:29):
you put your hand on the wall and fall into
your neighbor's living room.

Speaker 9 (19:33):
Yeah, they look a little almost you know, AI generated,
computer generated. But they're so nice, and you know, we
don't see nice things all the time. I guess they're
nice and new. It would be cool to have as
part of your routine, Like, you know what, I'm gonna
walk out of my apartment. I'm gonna go hang out
by the river. See what's going on?

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yes, their Yeah, there are some rocks. You look at
some trash. It's not the Mississippi though. Yeah, you know
what you're getting into.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
Oh yeah, you're going down there and there's a hobo
you know, who takes a bite out of a carp
Got a good one today, Good Lord.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Dense fog again this morning, otherwise cloudy, a high of
forty six.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Betty, we're moving back to Fox Shuttle.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
There are heathens about No, I'm just kidding, but the
strip I'm ultimately happy for it. I was resistant to
the change at first. I still don't know where all
these people are coming from. But because every time I
see a demographic study of Pittsburgh, it's changing in a
way that I don't think that it would be prime
to be like let's build way more housing.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Again it is there's tech people that are coming in
and they need a place quickly, and they are making
a ton of money, and the oh, exposed brick sounds
really nice, and then they get you know, those amazing
like kind of like layout apartments, but kind of to
Tad's point, it's a little wild. It's like I'm playing
like millions of dollars for exposed brick.

Speaker 6 (21:01):
And then when I want to go hang out.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
I got to sit by a chocolate river with asexual
fish in it, like.

Speaker 6 (21:06):
And I'm not cool, but also, yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Asexual fishes in the coffee house this weekend.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
They're so good, so good.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
But the I do like the urban kind of cause
play that happens when like, you know, people are like,
I'm living in the city, really where in a castle
that is protected by fences on Railroad Street and everything
looks very nice.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
It's like, well, I mean it's kind of urban. You know,
it's a little bit urban.

Speaker 6 (21:33):
They can't get me up here.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
That's what it feels like, right, Yeah, they're like, oh, here's.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
The boiling oil batch. Did things really get crazy?

Speaker 10 (21:41):
No?

Speaker 4 (21:41):
No, this is when we this is where we dump
the oil on them. Should they revolt? Yes, that's right.
But I think that the demographic I'm not taking into
account is the one that you were talking about, Abbey,
which is the people who live in the suburbs, who
are like, you know what, I kind of want to
do the third chapter of this whole thing.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yere in the city.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
It action be on Railroad Street or down in you know,
off Penn Avenue in those new places, because that's a
weird thing when you're sitting at Dianoia's outside and you're
like having a libation and it's beautiful, and then there's
like people walking by with their dog and you're like,
where do you live? How did you bring a dog
down here? You're on twenty seventh or whatever that you know,

(22:21):
it's pretty far out on Penn, but they have places
all over out that way.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, I guess you know.

Speaker 9 (22:29):
It's if you live in the burbs and you want
to get that full experience. I don't know if that's
really the place to do it. But if you don't
want to, you know, do any housework and pay into
an ho that keeps your gutters clean and never cut grass. Yeah,
that's probably a good spot for it.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
That's a good point. You should be the spokesperson. I mean,
that is a sale there, Tad, right there on the
way for you. Mike pursued of joining us here, as
I said, Aaron Rodgers speaking yesterday, getting a set for
Steelers and the Bears a one o'clock kickoff right here
on your radio home.

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Hey, it's Randy from the DVL of us this morning,
and Mike Persuda has your sports on the DV morning show.

Speaker 8 (23:24):
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Speaker 15 (23:26):
Aaron Rodgers did not practice yesterday, but after not practicing,
he said he would try to give it a go
today and he also outlined what would have to happen
between now and Sunday for him to be able to
play against the Bears.

Speaker 12 (23:38):
Got to get the okay and gotta feel like I
can protect myself.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Far that was the clip you were talking about.

Speaker 8 (23:46):
Just a couple of things. Doesn't seem like it's all.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
About you, okay, and feel like I can protect myself.

Speaker 15 (23:50):
It's kind of making it seem like it's Mike Tomlin's
decision there, big of them.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Got to get the okay.

Speaker 15 (23:57):
Yeah, Well, I gotta tell my complaint and I'm gonna play.

Speaker 8 (24:01):
Well, right, I don't know that it's gonna work out
that way.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
Honestly, do you put any stock in like what Kyle
Brant is saying about you know, hey this, I mean
this dude wants to play against the Bears.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
I mean he's gonna play no matter what.

Speaker 15 (24:18):
Well, I don't put necessarily stuck in with Kyle Brandt
says about it. But I put a lot of stock
in what Aaron Rodgers says about it.

Speaker 12 (24:26):
There's incentive for every opponent. But I have enjoyed many
a Sunday and Monday and many Thursdays in that city.
It's a great sports sound phenomena sports fans, and great
place to play.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
You want to hear just a little bit of this
Kyle Brandt's take on that. Sure, for some reason it
is not oh here, it is okay. Yes, he's playing
this game. I don't care if it's a freezing cold take.
It is every single thing he wants to play. He's
a soldier Field, which is his de facto home stadium
he goes. He owns that place. With due respect to

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the McCaskey family, their dual owners are Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
We all know that, yes, this is his reason for living,
to go to Chicago and once more dunk their heads
in the toilet and flush against what he's all about.

Speaker 8 (25:14):
All right.

Speaker 15 (25:16):
He does have a career record including playoffs of twenty
six and five against the Packers. His career passer rating
against against the Bears. His career passer rating against the
Bears is one hundred and seven point three, and he's
thrown sixty four touchdowns and ten picks against the Bears.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Pretty good.

Speaker 8 (25:33):
So he likes playing the Bears.

Speaker 15 (25:34):
And beyond what he said and what Kyle Brandt said,
Mason Rudolph said that Rogers teammates here with the Steelers
know that playing the Bears is a pretty big deal.

Speaker 8 (25:45):
Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 16 (25:46):
I mean I think he made the comment early on
that he'd you know, there's certain games that mean a
lot and the games you circle, and this is one
of them. And so I understand his you know, motivation
to come back and take the feel against an old rival.

Speaker 8 (26:03):
I wasn't playing for two reasons.

Speaker 15 (26:06):
First, I think if they're going to do anything in
the playoffs, it's going to be with him, and they
need him in December and January. So if there's any
effect whatsoever, if he's not one hundred percent, he should
take a game off.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
I agree.

Speaker 15 (26:22):
I think they can win with Rudolf. Remember when they
signed Rudolph, I was thinking, Okay, they can go nine
and eight, ten and seven with Mason Rudolph, Probably not
any further. But with Aaron Rodgers, you can talk yourself
into some possibilities, more win in the postseason, you know something, sure,
you know, would you rather see him play Josh Allen
in January with Aaron Rodgers or Mason Rudolph. We saw

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that a few years ago with Mason Rudolph wasn't horrible,
but it wasn't good enough. Let's see what it looks
like in a big postseason game with Aaron Rodgers, and
if he's banged up, and clearly he is, why risk it.
I don't think this is the game you do that.
But we'll see how they play. At some other practice
stuff yesterday, Darius Slay concussion, was a full participant, Jalen

(27:06):
Warren ankle didn't practice, Cole Holcombe illness full participant, Alex
high Smith peck did not practice, and then the usual
maintenance stuff. Bears maybe getting some reinforcements, a couple of
their cornerbacks, their top two cornerbacks are practicing again. Kyler Gordon,
who's supposed to be their nickel but only played one

(27:26):
game this year. His twenty one day window to return
from the reserve injured.

Speaker 8 (27:31):
List was opened yesterday.

Speaker 15 (27:34):
He's trying to get over a calf injury, doesn't I
wouldn't think he would play Sunday if he just started
practicing yesterday, But who knows.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
Well, they're more careful with caps than they've ever been.

Speaker 8 (27:45):
Are they. Yeah, I mean Ken, all these.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
People are getting achilles now, it's like an epidemic of achilles.
Something's happening, and so they're pretty careful. Yeah, Gordon's supposed
to be their nickel. Jalen Johnson, who's supposed to be
a starting corner. His window open last Friday. He's trying
to get over groin injury. So if he does a
full week, maybe he plays against the Steelers on Sunday.

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Also for the Steelers, Corey Trice.

Speaker 15 (28:11):
Junior, the twenty one day window to bring him back
from reserve injury closed yesterday without him being activated.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Man, he will and another wasted a year for Corey Trice.

Speaker 8 (28:20):
He will be on ie or the rest of the year.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Bummer.

Speaker 9 (28:23):
What do you think his career path from here looks like?
Mike in terms of being a three year guy who
has seen the field a total of what four games?

Speaker 15 (28:31):
Maybe they've already kept him way longer than they usually
do with guys in his situation that just can't get
healthy because they think he could be so good if
he could stay healthy. But you know, it doesn't cost
anything to bring him the camp next year and see
how it works up, right, I mean, you're gonna have.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Ninety guys, right.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
I don't think he'd totally give up, but I'm not
real optimistic that it's ever gonna work out. That just
sucks because I mean, the upshot of that one was
significant to see him walking around out there and running
around out there when he's able to run. He just
like and on the eight when he wasn't in a wheelchair,
you know he but on the eighth day God created cornerback.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
I mean that's what he liked.

Speaker 15 (29:12):
His size is Speed's sick, but he can't can't stay light.

Speaker 8 (29:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (29:18):
College troops last night, Ducane improves a four and one
with a ninety two seventy eight win over lloy Ola Maryland.
Penn State, Hey, Penn State, your basketball team's eight. Excuse
me five and oh after an eighty four eighty went
over Harvard. Hey, Penn State, you actually have a basketball team.
It's five and oh.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
I usually got to see them at recall back in
the day John Imichi was playing. Back then, Recall was
a tremendous venue. Loved recall. Yeah, which I'm old, folks,
and that's it was Recall back then. Not the Bryce
Jordan's and they joined the Big Ten.

Speaker 8 (29:47):
That was no bueno.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
No, it was way too small. It was like a
high school.

Speaker 8 (29:51):
It was really when there's.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
To work out there, you could go use it as
a student. It's probably still there. Yeah, these are for wrestling,
all right.

Speaker 15 (29:59):
There you go when that was a big game and
they would fill it up and the fans are right
on top of the court, and that low celia was
really loud.

Speaker 8 (30:09):
Good stuff.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
What's off fish there?

Speaker 8 (30:11):
Could you? Yeah?

Speaker 15 (30:12):
Pitt is that UCF. Tonight Panthers are four and one.
Robert Morris is at Saint Bonaventure. Colonials are three and one,
and a couple of good top twenty five games last night,
Number eleven Alabama beat number eight Illinois ninety to eighty six,
and number four Arizona beat number three Yukon seventy one
sixty seven. I've really come around to the theory that anytime.

Speaker 8 (30:35):
Yukon loses, it's a good thing.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
I'm looking on that. Abby's got your news coming up
at the top of the hour.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
We are going to give some love to the Super
Bowl Shuffle and no big deal. One time William Shatner
pooped his pants while performing live on stage.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
I believe it.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Dan Hurley is the gott to be the most handed
coach out there right now, right across the board in sports.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Where do you rank him?

Speaker 8 (30:57):
Like?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Who even comes close to him?

Speaker 15 (30:58):
I have to give it wellnybody employed by the University
of Michigan.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Well, you are biased.

Speaker 8 (31:03):
He's up there. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yeah, we're going to rate our algorithms when we come back. Also,
since Bill has taken off, the pick six segment got
cut in half, so we'll do three and out for
you today, Missy Matthews, Guy Junker talking Steelers.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
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Speaker 4 (32:19):
This is w DV Pittsburgh. There was never a steel
mill in the Strip?

Speaker 9 (32:27):
Was there?

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Was there a steel mill in the Strip. I have
no idea because I.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Wonder about isn't there a possible pultergeist situation going on
here when we're building all of these apartment complexes on
sacred steel ground. You know the souls of steel workers,
you know of yesteryear pet cemetery style thing. They can't build.
The ground is sour, exactly, can't do it right?

Speaker 6 (32:50):
Get me an R.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
I needed in good?

Speaker 5 (32:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
I mean kudos and congratulations everyone involves. Sounds like a
lot of people are making a whole lot of money.
I don't know how the hell you afford to pay
that much money to live in the Strip district?

Speaker 9 (33:06):
But fortunately my Zilo settings when you're scrolling around, protect
me from even knowing that it's possible to buy a
one point two million dollar apartment.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Do you have parameters on your Zillo?

Speaker 9 (33:16):
Oh yeah, you got a cap it. You don't even
want to know how you don't want to dream? The
other people live, Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Show, everybody, Todd Whistle, who is giving you good advice
there for Zillo scrolling, because that is a form of
like self care to me is to not expose yourself
to the things.

Speaker 9 (33:35):
You can't have absolutely, And you know, a better form
of self care would be to just not look at
Zillo at all.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
That would be ideal.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
Zillo's fun. And I do like how every time I
look at Zilo, I'm like, oh, nine hundred thousand dollars
for that. Let's look inside. That can't be worth that much.
Look what they did with the molding there, Yeah right, terrible.
What I do, chipped, I'd knock out that wall. And
you know, all of a sudden, I make all these

(34:04):
plans and tell them why their house is wrong.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
In the first place, I pay you half that house
is worth half.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
Then meanwhile, some dude comes into town who just got
a job at UPMC and he's like, i'll give you
five hundred thousand over asking I need to live there.

Speaker 9 (34:17):
And they're like, that's cool, we'll do that. It feels
like a mature thing to do. It's like, I'm not
scrolling TikTok. I'm looking at Zillow like a you know,
I might start flipping houses.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
My whole life trajectory is going to change. The I
might start flipping houses.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
Backup plan for people has to be the most popular
plan B that people have.

Speaker 9 (34:44):
Everyone has a buddy who has like done ones. It's
you know, it's not unlike gambling. It's like you hear
about the big winds and flipping a house, right, it's
like you're really stressed out. Buddy whose hands are always
destroyed because they're doing everything by themselves. They have to
you should get stitches. I was doing some drywall.

Speaker 18 (35:03):
It's a new place in Highland Park, and I mean
it's been super stressful, but it's so rewarding.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
It is so rewarding. How long have you worked there?
I've been doing it for fourteen months now. Oh yeah,
what's the estimated profit on that?

Speaker 8 (35:15):
One?

Speaker 4 (35:16):
Gonna lose a little, actually gonna lose about fifteen thousand
when it's all said and done, but rewarding.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Learning a lot, learning a lot, rewarding.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
But everyone thinks they can just do that because everyone
thinks their taste and what they would do is what
would sell.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Oh I'll tell you if I had.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
A chance, what I do to that house and I
move the driveway on that side, flip that thing right
around in no time? Oh yeah, what's no time? How
quick do you think you're getting things done these days?
Seven years? If you are not the person doing every
single thing or have a connection to somebody, everyone thinks, oh,
even if you have the money, like, oh, I'm gonna

(35:54):
buy it, and then I'll hire someone Like uh uh,
you got to go into business with somebody who does
the work because if you don't, they aren't prioritizing you
at all, and that project ain't getting done. So that
house that you just want to flip is gonna be
standing there doing nothing for a long ass time.

Speaker 9 (36:13):
Take this wall out, really open up the kitchen. Then
someone who actually knows what they're talking. So that's a
load bearing wall. You can't do that, Yeah, right, it's
impossible to do. We can talk about other options, but
this is my dream you know. Yes, this was on
my dream board, and that's how I would like it
to be done. So you and your men figure out

(36:35):
how to do it.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (36:38):
Yep, we're gonna put this on the back burner. You
you're a Bloomfeldian bloom Felder, that's correct. The housing prices
there have, like now there are people flipping houses there
where they take an old house, they got it and
then they put up this like ikea home. Literally in
some places they were putting up like the cargo like boxes.

Speaker 10 (37:03):
Right.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Yeah, that's really close to the two blocks from my house.

Speaker 9 (37:05):
It's a shipping container containers damp and it's on the
market for the for a gentleman's eight and.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
A quarter to live in a shipping container.

Speaker 9 (37:15):
And the people around you, like the the old school
Italian people, like there's a woman right across the street
with like the Virgin Mary statuette in your front yard,
and it's like, man, and now you wake up every
morning and you.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Look at this, you look at this shipping container house.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
Yeah, and then like Julie Louis Dreyfu's character from Christmas
Vacation walks out.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Why is the floor wet?

Speaker 4 (37:38):
Margo, Yeah, that is eight quarter to live in a
shipping container, it might be eight. There was I remember
seeing a house on I think fortieth where it was
like I think they bought it for like two hundred
and then within six months it was a brand new

(37:58):
looking thing, and they wanted like eight fifty for it,
and I was just laughing and thinking, like, who's gonna
buy It's sold in like a week, right, And I
know from friends of mine that lived over there. I
remember Sarah Fitz used to always say this too.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
It's just like those people are the enemy. Like you
think you're going in there and you're like, I'm.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
One of these people now I live in Bloomfield. And
meanwhile the rest of the neighbors aren't like thanks for
driving up the property prices.

Speaker 9 (38:23):
They're like, you ain't one of us, You'll never be
one of us. And then when a house like that sells, well,
first off, when it's newsworthy, like the flip is newsworthy,
it's like, well that's not good, you know if you're
the guy who flipping the house, like may they wanted
a little more low profile on this one. But then
when it sells, you know, I'm like, I guess I'm

(38:45):
the idiot. I'm the fool. Of course it was going
to sell.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
It's always going to sell.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
And that's when you see those prices, You're like, no way,
And before you can finish the sentence, somebody has put
the down payment on it.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
That'sten final. North Sides like that too.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
North Side homes are insanely priced, but it is beautiful
and but like it's very north Side. Like, if you're
going to the north Side, you gotta love the north Side.
I think there's some Bloomfield Bloomfield experiences to that effect
as well, where it's like you have to really appreciate
and love the neighborhood and it can't just be about location.

(39:20):
And I think people come in from out of town
and then they do it because of location, and then
they find out that they are in a very colorful neighborhood. Yeah,
you know, the neighborhood by the way that I absolutely love,
but the Todd and Margo's maybe not so much.

Speaker 9 (39:35):
Yeah, you've got to have some you know, some respect
for the neighborhood. I've been there for ten years and
it's like, what's up, new.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Guy, Like I've been here for a little while.

Speaker 9 (39:43):
Now, Oh no, dude, right, sorry, I parked in front
of your house that one time, seven years ago.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
It's on me.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
I've lived in Pittsburgh for almost thirty years of the
last thirty four, and it's still like, yeah, you go
to Erie, You're from Erie, you know, Like, well I am.
But I've literally lived in Pittsburgh longer than anywhere in
my life. But I never consider myself to be like
I think there is something to it. You know, it's
like Hawaii and I'm a holly here, you know, like

(40:10):
get accepted, you appreciate the culture, and unless you're born here,
I think that that's the hard and fast rule.

Speaker 9 (40:16):
And that is why I live in the Ship and
Container House today to Tad Whistle with us here Shipping
Container residents and also content creator of some of my
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Speaker 6 (40:42):
The nineteen eighty five Chicago.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Bears put out the Super Bowl Shuffle months before they
raised the city's one and only Lombardi Trophy. That legendary
Bears season in which they went fifteen and one in
the regular season and wrote to a Super Bowl when
turn the team's rap song from a novelty into a
nation hit and required viewing for future generations of anybody

(41:05):
from Chicago.

Speaker 6 (41:05):
But now the history of.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
How the Bears found their shuffle is going to be
the subject of a documentary which is going to be
premiering on November the twenty fifth on HBO and you
will also be able to stream it on HBO Max.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
I mean, they all basically are like you know, easy
cte at this point. So many of those dudes had
a bad ending to their career. They were badasses. But
what their real contribution was not to the sport of football,
but it was to the sport or to the art
of the NFL team songs. And of course without the

(41:44):
Super Bowl Shuffle, the Super Bowl Shuffle, the Super Bowl
Shuffle shuffled so the Rams.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Could ram it, could ram it.

Speaker 8 (41:52):
We get a rabbit to see if you're remagad right,
you can ram it all that.

Speaker 10 (41:58):
Rabbit.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
This is my favorite right now.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
Holly.

Speaker 8 (42:11):
If you throw it that way, it's going to be
a rock.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
I'm like your Ramis.

Speaker 8 (42:14):
You could see nobody likes.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Ramon anymore than nobody likes Rammon more than me. They're like, God,
nobody likes Raymon.

Speaker 6 (42:24):
More than you. When when you when you say it,
what do you mean?

Speaker 2 (42:30):
We're talking about the same thing here, right? I mean
you mean you mean football? This is about football, is it?

Speaker 4 (42:37):
The funny thing is I don't know how to explain
it any different than this. If you are a younger
person and you wonder what the eighties were like, this is.

Speaker 8 (42:48):
It about me? We're git a rabbit to see if
your remed is right.

Speaker 19 (42:51):
You can ram it all night.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
That's it. How man was the nineteen eighties?

Speaker 4 (42:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (42:58):
How many of those haircuts are flat on the top?

Speaker 3 (43:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, yeah, you know that's what
I'm thinking because I can't even see the screen just
asking little.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Tiny mullet's coming out of the back too.

Speaker 6 (43:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (43:12):
I think in much the same way that they do
hard knocks every year, they need to force a team
the NFL, the league should step in and force a
team every year to come up with a song. It's random,
It'll be like it'll be like the draft lottery, you know,
for the major sports that have that, just spinning it around,
and some people will be hoping that they get it.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
What if you just make the worst team in the
league every year, do an inspirational song, like they have
to do one of those songs about how they're going
to turn it around to.

Speaker 9 (43:40):
Be the Cleveland having to come up with the something
new and exciting aage.

Speaker 4 (43:44):
Justin fields and I'm okay, and I've had fifteen coordinators
come my way. That's not a bad idea, because you know,
Check always had the idea of the Loser Bowl, where
the two worst teams play a game with the winner
getting the first round draft pick, the first overall pick

(44:04):
in the draft. I do kind of like that, but
this is a nice way to do it without having
to play an extra game.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Just oh, oh, you need the.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
Bottom of the barrel in the NFL, Well, then you're
gonna have to come up with a song, a rap song.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
It's like RuPaul's Drag Race when they make you lip
sync for your life at the end, do you know that?

Speaker 4 (44:23):
No?

Speaker 2 (44:23):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 6 (44:23):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
At the end of RuPaul's Drag Race, they put the
two queens who are on the bottom of the competition, okay,
and then they make them lip sync for their life
at the end and they have to slay a queen
and if they do.

Speaker 6 (44:40):
They get to stay aw yeah, otherwise they sash away.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
This is why Trump's gonna keep winning.

Speaker 9 (44:47):
Two disinterested head coaches. They each have to take a
verse in the NFL song. Oh my god, it's so funny.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
I'm Kevin Stefanski and I like ball shed Door. Sanders
is real tall. He's got to play him this weekend, dude.
I was looking at the stats, by the way, for
this game. I think there's a real potential of Shudor
Sanders versus Kenny Pickett on Sunday, Man Bob, because they're
gonna bench Gino Smith if things go poor from the

(45:19):
get go. By the second half, Kenny Pickett is in
and you're gonna see Kenny Pickett taking on the team
that traded him away because he was so terrible having
to go against Miles Garrett.

Speaker 9 (45:29):
They're all revenge games for Kenny, now, aren't they. Pete
Carroll to your point, I think it's the Gino Smith
benching is coming because Pete Carroll made some you know.
He had some comment the other day like I'm a
big Geno's still a big Geno Smith believer, which is like, oh, that's.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
What you would say right before you bench exactly believer
believe meaning he can do it. I means me wrong, right.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
Gino had the hilarious SoundBite the other da after the game.
He's like, blame me if anything goes wrong in your life,
Blame me late for school, Blame me got an accident,
Blame me. Gino's fault. Everything, Gino's fault. It's like, Okay,
it's clearly unraveling now. It won't last long. So that's
why as bad as that game is this weekend, I'm
interested to watch Raiders and Browns in Vegas.

Speaker 17 (46:14):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (46:14):
I cannot wait just for the crap.

Speaker 4 (46:16):
Fest that it'll be because it'll be after the Steelers game.
It'll be a fun one to wind down with after
the Steelers whoop the Bears.

Speaker 6 (46:24):
One o'clock game. Regardless of who's a QB. I like
the Steelers at one o'clock. I always do.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
Yeah, you can get It's like it forces you to
get up and get some stuff done, which I do
like because if you don't, if you.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Don't get anything done.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
You think you're gonna get something done after a Steelers game,
not happening. Two days over, not happening because now it
gets dark immediately the game's over and it's almost dark,
and you're like, I'm not gonna go clean the basement now, Nope,
that's not happening.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Then you crack another beer and you're like, when does
the pot grows?

Speaker 10 (46:56):
Ready?

Speaker 9 (46:57):
The only thing I could do right now is meet
someone at a bar I could walk to. That's the
only after Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
You had to wide down.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
See that's the best part of Bloomfield. You can walk
to a million great bars. There's so many good ones.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Is Nicos still in operation? Oh yes, all right? Is
karaoke still happening at Nicos? It's not.

Speaker 9 (47:19):
He was recently sold, by the way, Oh.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
My god, don't tell me Bob Nutting didn't by it.

Speaker 16 (47:24):
Did you know?

Speaker 2 (47:26):
We need to get into the dive bar game.

Speaker 4 (47:28):
We bought the whiskey play flush out the portfolio a
little bit. Well, I I remember going to karaoke and
Nicos and you were a karaoke I was you were
well known Ace in the hole in the karaoke game.

Speaker 6 (47:43):
Wait, what was your song.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Oh, it all depends depending on Tad's mood.

Speaker 9 (47:48):
Do you like the Springsteen catalog? Also like to take
some big swings and miss on some ambitious songs. But
you know, I for some reason, it's like you get
to a point in the night, like can I sing
scenes by scenes from an Italian restaurant by myself?

Speaker 2 (48:05):
I think I could? What is it seven eight minutes?

Speaker 8 (48:08):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
By the time you get do the things are okay
with me these days.

Speaker 4 (48:10):
Got a good job, gotta go to hops, gotta good
why got onto life and the family is fine.

Speaker 8 (48:15):
This song's really long.

Speaker 4 (48:16):
I'm sorry, guys to.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
Last night. I did not know I.

Speaker 8 (48:20):
Need a beer here?

Speaker 2 (48:22):
Two minute piano.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
Yes, And if you have to order a beer in
the middle of your karaoke song, you've chosen one that's
too long. But my favorite thing about the Nico's Uh
Karaoke was the guy from that worked a giant Eagle,
Chris Chris Polino Perlino legend, My Abby you.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
Were with me, Yes, my heart will go He would sing.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
My heart will go on and it brought the house down,
And I mean he was incredible.

Speaker 8 (48:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (48:51):
If if the the Filipino guy from Journey, their new
outfit died. If he went down, they should absolutely contact Chris.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
Yes, and Giant Eagle would probably give him work leave
so that he could return to his job at Giant Eagle.
I would hope after touring with Journey he was to
hear him do worlds apart. After seven beers at Nikas
brings a tear to your eye, Mike, proceive has got
your sports when we come back on the way for you. Also, well,

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since you know Bill took off to do stand up
full time and we're gonna miss the hell out of
him and wishing him rule real well and everything. But
I've got to pick six partners, so I'm doing three
and out today, So I'll give you three games today
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Games of Skill, Games of skills Skill. It's essentially just
a slot machine room on Liberty Avenue.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
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Speaker 9 (50:37):
You could, I guess, you could do whatever you want
in there, really walk in and play the slots and
it pays.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
How does it pay off?

Speaker 9 (50:44):
It prints a ticket and then there's a kiosk like
another machine. This is like the fancy high tech machine,
and then you scan there and it just kicks out twenties.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
From what I understand, this is dystopian casino is what
this is.

Speaker 9 (50:57):
And all the comments are there's one of those by
my house.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
That's where we're at. Yes, come in here and just
throw all your money away. It's just a tiny room
we've got right here. We put six slot machines up,
come and give us your money surcharge free atm in
there too, right well that hey, it's never bad to
have one of those around. I mean, at least you
know it's there if you need cash to go in

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one of the bars, because if.

Speaker 8 (51:23):
You're gonna drop two dimes, who wants to pay two fifty.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
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Speaker 2 (51:31):
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Speaker 8 (51:33):
Sports Us Up?

Speaker 15 (51:33):
Brought to you by Bridgeville Plus Aaron Rodgers was replaced
by Mason Rudolph for the second half of last Sunday's
win over Cincinnati and might be again on Sunday in Chicago.
Rogers talked yesterday about the relationship that's developed between QB
two and QB one.

Speaker 12 (51:49):
Mason, he's a troll. He makes every day so much fun.
I told him this, I said, just thanks for making
this fun, because every day he's got we we joke
in the quarterback room. He's got a checklist of the
jokes he's got to get off out of his brain
every single day. But he's he's hilarious and I really

(52:10):
enjoy our time together in the room in here outside
of facility. He's a great backup, you know, like he's
super helpful during the week. He's a professional, he's ready
to play as a gamer, and you know, watching the
locker room last week, I was super fired up watching
him go up and down the field and those couple
of drives he had and thankful for the way he play,

(52:30):
the way he prepares, and he's a lot more type
A I would say than I am with the preparation.
Like he's wound a little tight, but it makes it
good for a good for a good backup quarterback because
he's he's so so intuneto the details, and yeah, I
just love being around him.

Speaker 15 (52:49):
H Rudolph did not appreciate that initial characterization.

Speaker 8 (52:52):
But he's all in on Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 7 (52:56):
That's pretty harsh, kind of from a control himself.

Speaker 16 (53:00):
He is, uh, I mean, I think, uh, yeah, I
do have a list of well I don't make a list,
but we've got we've got a good, healthy banter all
of us in the quarterback room each each and every day,
and it's been one of the most fun rooms I've
ever been a part of. So we keep it light
and there's a lot of you know, he's got there's

(53:20):
a lot of material out there for me to you know,
to use. So he's a little bit of a disadvantage
because I don't have the paparazzi waiting outside my house
in Malibu every day.

Speaker 7 (53:30):
So you know, he's he's got a very story.

Speaker 8 (53:34):
You know, he's a plant, big plant.

Speaker 16 (53:35):
Medicine guy, and so you know, we were curious about
learning about you know that, and his experiences and where
he's been and uh, there's yeah, a great story about
him getting out of I believe it was Peru right
before COVID lockdowns.

Speaker 7 (53:51):
He was like the last point out during night tripping
for ayahuasca. So it was that was a fun, fun listen.

Speaker 15 (54:00):
It was really fun listening to those two guys talk
about each other yesterday, and the relationship has developed there,
and I got a feeling Rudolph just gave us the
tip of the iceberg. I think he's the I'm gonna
bust Aaron Rodgers Chops every day guy. And I think
Rogers actually appreciates it because it means he's getting treated
like one of the boys.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
Well he wants that, I think, yeah, you know, and
he wants to bust Chops and so many of those
guys are like looking at him like a daddy and
they don't want to offend him. So I think, like
you said, Schronic was the one guy who clearly started it.

Speaker 15 (54:31):
Yeah, but Rudolph is in more close proximity just with
the meetings and whatnot. And it's interesting because Rogers has
remained a real task master on the details and he's
not there's no wiggle room at all with how the
players are supposed to be run and what everybody's supposed
to do. But you know, away from that, he's trying
to be just one of the guys and he's kind

(54:52):
of pulling it off. Didn't practice yesterday. He said he's
gonna try to practice today. Darius Slay was a full
PARTICI participant yesterday working through his concussion.

Speaker 8 (55:04):
No Jalen Warren ankle, no Alex high Smith.

Speaker 15 (55:07):
Peck Cole Holcomb also a full participant, working his way
back from illness. The twenty one day window has closed
for Corey Trice Junior to be activated from the reserve
injured list, so he will not be playing any more
cornerback for the Steelers.

Speaker 8 (55:22):
Did he play any at all? A little bit, maybe.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
A couple of games last year.

Speaker 8 (55:27):
Enough to get hurt again.

Speaker 15 (55:28):
That's just such a such a shame we keep he
has so much potential and he just can't tap into
any of it.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Yeah, you think they give him one more shot.

Speaker 8 (55:39):
You know what would have cost them to bring him
to camp next year?

Speaker 4 (55:42):
I don't know, but I was really hoping we would
see him this year and it would be that surprise.
It was like one of those, you know, in the
back of my mind kind of hopes, like here's the
thing that'll save us after we lose three cornerbacks and
instead we had to go out and get Dugger and
A'sante Samuel and.

Speaker 15 (55:56):
I wouldn't say they were counting on it, but they
were definitely considered that as a possibility that he would
be a factor.

Speaker 9 (56:04):
Sort of build as the steel of the draft when
they got him. Yeah, but for these reasons, yes, yes, right.

Speaker 15 (56:11):
Uh for the Bears, a bunch of guys dinged up
or not practicing. One of them, safety Jakuon Brisker shoulder
Uh didn't practice. He is a Penn State guy and
a Gateway High school guy, Pittsburgh guy. Also, Tremaine Edmunds
linebacker Groin didn't practice. He is the brother of the
guy Bill used to call terrible Edmunds.

Speaker 4 (56:33):
Yes, we got the wrong Edmonds, we got the wrong Edmunds,
we got the wrong linebacker, but we got the wrong
Devon when we got Devin Bush.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Yes, yes, we we failed to get one of those.

Speaker 15 (56:52):
Yeah, I should have got the good one. Yes, a
couple of cornerbacks may be a factor. Sunday, uh Kyler
Gordon is supposed to be the Bear's nickel, but it's
only played one game. They started his twenty one day
window to return from Iri yesterday. He's got a calf
and Tyreek Stevenson hip slash calf. His window was started
last Friday. Both of those guys were limited, but they

(57:14):
both practiced for the Bears.

Speaker 8 (57:18):
Good deal.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Pens are off all week coming back from Stockholm.

Speaker 8 (57:22):
Friday night, Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Good deal, Missy Matthews.

Speaker 4 (57:26):
A little bit later on this morning, Guy Junker at
nine to forty five, Abby's got your news.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
At the top of the hour, the Word of the
Year calls us out for being obsessed with celebrity, and hey,
if you can't sleep, try making yourself a potato bed.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
Well, we can't do the pick six anymore, but we
can do half of that, and so I'll have three
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Speaker 8 (58:00):
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Speaker 1 (58:03):
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Speaker 8 (58:27):
Well.

Speaker 4 (58:28):
Bill has sailed on to greener comedy pastures, which means
we can't do Pick six anymore.

Speaker 8 (58:33):
But on the road.

Speaker 4 (58:34):
But I can do my end. Yes, that's right, He's
on the road, road, that's right. Uh So instead I'll
be doing night road free and out for you. These
are games that are guaranteed to probably, maybe likely possibly
be a lock.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
All right, let's get it started.

Speaker 4 (58:51):
The Browns at the Raiders ooh minus four. This game
is the worst thing to happen to Las Vegas since
the Rico Act. At least the mob knew had a
treated guy who lost a month's salary playing Keno. No
more free Baffhaser Bogo coupons for the Robin Tug Join
off Fremont Street since Corporate America took over Sin City.
This game is so bad I'm surprised they're not flexing

(59:13):
it to the XFL. Both both of these teams are
two and eight, and when you watch them, all you
can think of is how they get two. Neither of
these coaches are buying any green bananas, and there won't
be a quarterback in the building that will last in
the NFL longer than a stick of juicy fruit.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
But I digress. Let's start with Cleveland.

Speaker 4 (59:31):
After doing everything humanly possible to not play Shadoor Sanders,
including trading for a QB, drafting another, conscripting a couple,
shanghaiing a few more elder abusing a free agent quarterback
too within an inch of him quitting the sport. The
Browns now have no other choice but to start should
Dour Sanders, and after watching him play in the second

(59:52):
half last week, they'd be better off starting Bernie Sanders. Hell,
they'd be better off starting Bernie Kozar and he just
had liver transplant.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Last week.

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
Shador was four of seventeen with an interception and two
sacks that he made exponentially worse by running backwards.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
He makes Kenny Pickett look like Mike Vick under pressure.

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
And since he'll be suited up for the Raiders, Kenny
might just give Shador a backwards run for his money
on this one. I think there's a real chance you
see the Raiders cross the picket line because Gino Smith
has stunk worse than a stripper's g string after a
double shift. Gino's postgame presser after getting ripped by the
Cowboys last week an instant classic.

Speaker 12 (01:00:31):
I keep saying this, man, if some don't look right
out there, blame it on me, right see, if it
don't look right, blame it on me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
That's all you can do.

Speaker 8 (01:00:38):
Blame it on me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
If your kids mess up with school, blame it on me.

Speaker 8 (01:00:40):
Carbrick down going to work. Blame it on me.

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
Careful with that generosity of culpability, Gino, because the Shador
stands will blame you for when he stinks. Josina Anderson
already has it written up in her draft folder. The
Browns traded Kenny to the Raiders in the preseason, continuing
to toss the hot potato of his career and making
him lugged that Levin furniture couch to his third team
in two years. And when Pickett finally does take charge,

(01:01:07):
Miles Garrett is gonna batter him so hard it'll make
what he did. The Mason looked like he was brushing
some lint off his shoulder.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
He killed Kenny, you bastard.

Speaker 4 (01:01:16):
Brown's defense wins this one by themselves, and Ryan clark
Will claims Stefanski should be fired for not playing Shador
sooner booking.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
I'm taking the Browns next Eagles at the Cowboys. Cowboys
getting three and a half.

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
Nick Sirianni, the second most popular former Iup coach.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Jacob nod to you and you're Indiana a squad.

Speaker 4 (01:01:37):
Well, He's flying his brotherly Bert's Jerry World this weekend
to face their division rival Dallas Cowboys. Last week, Cowboys
receiver Cede Lamb and George Pickens were bench for the
first series of the game for team conduct violation. The
team won't say what the violation was, but given the
yearly ongoing soap opera in Dallas, they probably shot JR.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
If you're under forty, google it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:00):
Cowboys interim coach Brian Schottenheimer at this point every coach
in Dallas's interim as far as I'm concerned. He refused
to say what the Dumnamic duo were doing that got
them bench, but he did praise them for not tanking
the first series they were allowed to play. Quote, they
literally jump started the offense when they got back in.
They didn't hang their heads, they didn't do any of
that stuff. That's why I love these guys man. Schottenheimer

(01:02:23):
later excused Pickens on sportsmanlike conduct penalty on a touchdown celebration, saying.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
I just love the way he plays. This is giving big.

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
They pooped in my range drover, but if it wasn't
for them, I'd be driving a Kia Energy. Good news
for fans of Schadenfreud, though HBO's hard knocks in season,
NFC East will be filming behind the scenes of this
week's practices and games for this year's NFL Shank sanctioned
Look Behind the Curtain. This is the fifth time Jerry
Jones has turned the Cowboys into a TV show. This

(01:02:54):
year alone, there were NFL Netflix docu series America His Team,
The Gambler and His Cowboys, America's Sweetheart, The Sweethearts, the
Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, and Jerry also did a cameo in
the show Landman. He was featured in an episode of
Botched Epic Plastic Surgery Disasters, and I'm still waiting for

(01:03:15):
him to pop up in the Ken Burns American Revolution
documentary as.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
Young Boy in town Square.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
But the only TV show in which the Cowboys fans
want to see Jerry's overlifted face is.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
The Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (01:03:28):
It's been nearly thirty years since they've been back, and
Cowboys fans want him to start focusing on Lombards instead
of Emmys, and the Cowboys are primed for an upset
because the Eagles have not exactly been flying straight. They
needed a bogus pi penalty to beat the Lions last week.
Aj Brown has been bitching up a storm on Twitch
about how the offense has more cracks than the liberty bell, which,

(01:03:49):
to be fair, that has only one crack. And say
Kwan can't even get this team to crack the top
ten in rushing plus. Every time Jalen hurts his ask
what's wrong with his team, he keeps saying stupid cryptic
stuff like I didn't walk through the fire just to
smell the smoke, or I had purpose before everyone had opinions.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
That's great, Jalen, but how.

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
Does that explain why you check down more often than
a guy with a broken zipper. I do hope the
Eagles use the tush push a lot, because you know,
the Texas governor thinks it's super gay. Ooh, what self
respecting man would grind himseilf into the backside of another. Oo.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Get my lawmaking kid.

Speaker 4 (01:04:23):
With these two teams, they met in the season opener,
Eagles defensive stud Jalen Carter got thrown out for spitting
on Dak.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Six seconds into the game.

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
This time, I think the Eagles are going to be
swallowing a big d upset.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
I'm taking Jerry's kids play the home Dogs. Next.

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
The main event Steelers in Chicago facing the Bears, Bears
favored by two and a half points. Does Joe Rogan
have a special elixir that can quickly cure Aaron Rodgers
broken wrist? Is there some sort of plant medicine concoction
combining elk meat, colloial silver, and goat colostrum that men's
bones overnight?

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
If not, we might be looking to magei Mason. And
is none of us much so muchness to make mixmade
of the monsters of the Midway? You know?

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
The narrative in most sports media is that the Bears
hope to be facing Mason because they have a Chicago
style beef with Aaron, since the second city is his kind.

Speaker 8 (01:05:24):
The town Chicago.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
Is Rogers twenty four and five against the Bears, and famously,
hollered I still own you to Bears fans after scoring
a touchdown for Green Bay in twenty twenty one, which
probably would have adversely affected his chance to win Illinois
on the RFK junior presidential ticket. Nevertheless, there's only four
Bears left from that twenty twenty one team that might

(01:05:47):
still suffer from PTSQB. And this is not the twenty
one Packers who were fresh off a conference title game appearance.
This is the twenty twenty five Steelers, who keep forgetting
to sign a number two wide receiver and a forty
one year old Aaron Rodgers, who has a suture to
achilles and for the last few weeks has looked more
skittish in the pocket than a chihuahua at a vacuum

(01:06:09):
cleaner convention. Chicago coach Ben Johnson has been just what
the Dicka ordered in his first hint as Papa Bear
seven to three in atop the division. He's got this
team turned around quicker than you can say Eberflus. Careful
not to say it two more times or he'll appear.
Quarterback Caleb Williams is only a completed fifty percent of
his passes fifty seven percent of his passes this year.

(01:06:30):
Apparently it is more difficult to catch a ball with
nail polish all over it. But like Rex Ryan's idea
of a perfect date, he can beat you with his feet.
Caleb's real strength is that he protects the football the
way you should grill a steak.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
He very rarely turns it over.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
Additional headaches for the Steelers, running back DeAndre Swift and
Kyle Menunge have been harder to stop than a HEEMOPHILIAX nosebleed.
Not to mention, the Bear's defense has more takeaways this
year than Ice. But whether it's Mason or wreck risted
Rogers behind Zach's back on Sunday, I bet your bottom
dollar the Steelers offense doesn't blow in the Windy City.

(01:07:08):
That's because they finally commissioned Warren to lead the offense.
But he won't have to act alone because somehow Arthur
Smith just discovered that Darnell Washington is harder to take
down the Christmas Lights in a nice storm. Against the
Bengals on Sunday, he looked like Frankenstein, flinging little Putians
off his arms and legs.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Let Mount Washington or rup Arthur, for God's sake. It
all boils down to this.

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
The Bears haven't beat a team with a winning record yet,
and they ain't gonna do it on Sunday. The Pope
might be from Chicago, but the Bears don't have a prayer.
Take the Steelers and the points just to be safe.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:44):
There you go, three games that might probably likely, possibly
maybe be a lock.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
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Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
It's Randy from the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 4 (01:08:06):
You know, it's more important than ever before to connect
with people in real life and how that connection can
make these big, huge, unexpected changes in our lives, like.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
The I might start flipping houses.

Speaker 4 (01:08:20):
Backup plan for people has to be the most popular
plan B that people have.

Speaker 9 (01:08:27):
Everyone has a buddy who has like done ones. It's
you know, it's not unlike gambling. It's like you hear
about the big winds and flipping the house, right, It's
like you're really stressed out buddy whose hands are always
destroyed because they're doing everything by themselves.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
You should get stitches you. I was doing some drywall.

Speaker 18 (01:08:46):
It's a new place in Highland Park and yeah, I
mean it's been super stressful, but it's so rewarding.

Speaker 4 (01:08:53):
It is so rewarding. How long have you worked there?
I've been doing it for fourteen months now. Oh yeah,
what's what's the estimated profit on that one? It was
a little actually gonna lose about fifteen thousand when it's
all said and done.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
But rewarding, learning a lot, learning a lot rewarding.

Speaker 8 (01:09:08):
Brandy Bellman and the DVE Morning Show.

Speaker 4 (01:09:11):
Everybuddy Tad Whistle hanging out with us this morning. Make
sure you follow him on all the socials. What is
your Twitter handle, Tad? It's at Dickensauce.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
Listen.

Speaker 9 (01:09:20):
Mistake mistakes were made eleven years ago when the yeah,
when that Twitter handle right?

Speaker 4 (01:09:26):
Richard is your formal name? So yeah, that's what we
were talking about there.

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (01:09:32):
I totally forgot that was your Twitter handle. I would
not have anyways. Abby's got your news right now. We
got Missy Matthews joining us a little bit later on,
Abbey and Guy Junker is going to be joining us.
Each a packed house here as we get ready for
Steelers and the Bears one o'clock Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
Here on DV This is our Roddy by Window Nation.
The fog advisory this morning, Troup be lifting soon. Otherwise
cloudy and high of forty six. Cambridge Dictionary has named
parasocial as it word of the Year for twenty twenty five,
coined in nineteen fifty six by sociologist Donald Horton and

(01:10:08):
Richard Wohl, The word was initially used to describe television
viewers who formed one sided relationships with TV personalities, but
in recent years the term has had a resurgence, often
associated with pop music fans who are overly familiar with
artists with whom they have no personal connection. So Cambridge
Dictionary specifically cited fans of Taylor Swift, who announced her

(01:10:31):
engagement to Travis Kelcey this year, prompting an emotional reaction
from some fans.

Speaker 6 (01:10:37):
Also last year, Chapel.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
Rone made headlines for calling out weird and creepy followers
and calling out the predatory behavior of so called superfans
that includes non consensual physical and social interactions.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
So this has become a real epidemic as people have
retreated into their cyber world and stopped interacting with the
outside world. Parasocial relationships with celebrities, internet figures, online, you know,
content creating, influencers and all that stuff is prevalent. But

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I'm trying to think of any like what the closest
I ever got to that was, And I would think
it was probably when I was a kid. Just like
if I saw Bill Murray, I'd be like, oh, I
want to know everything about like the people that made
me laugh, But I didn't like think I was in
any sort of give and take with that person.

Speaker 9 (01:11:31):
You Now, there's a word for it, which means it's
getting bad. Yeah, and that word essentially means pre Stoker. Yes,
a parac he is a bit of a parasocial. The
FBI identified him as a parasocial. Yeah, not good.

Speaker 8 (01:11:43):
No, you're right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
It's a harbinger of things to come.

Speaker 4 (01:11:46):
But it's also like so many people are getting like
wrapped up in this to the point of mental illness.
It's not even that it like transfers over into contacting them.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
They just get consumed.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
There's so much content that's out there that if you
want Taylor's swift content and interactions about Taylor, you could
do it all day.

Speaker 8 (01:12:07):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
My aunt fell victim to this.

Speaker 4 (01:12:11):
My aunt fell victim to this during the Clay Aiken explosions.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
She was a.

Speaker 4 (01:12:18):
Claymate and upon her passing, she literally like passed away
like typing on the chat room. So all of her friends,
I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding about this at all.
All of her friends in the chatrooms from around the country.
They came to the funeral and they walked into the

(01:12:41):
house afterwards and were taking pictures of like her computer
station so that they could share it on the chatrooms
to show where my aunt was talking to them from.
They wanted to have the full experience and their interactions
in that world of the Claymate world included everything, including

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fan fiction, and that was a big, big part of it.
So fan fiction is I think where the parasocial rabbit
hole starts where you when you start to get into that,
then the lines between reality get blurred, you know, and
what's make believe and what's really happening. And it was
considerable let's just say, uh, it was graphic.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Graphic fan fiction.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
Graphic fan fiction. As in Clay was in her league.

Speaker 4 (01:13:38):
M oh yes, in Clay was like Fabio okay, and
he which I understand, sure, and he was the man
of their dreams and they all had their own stories
of what it might be like to experience to mold Clay.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
Really, but Clay, am I incorrect that Clay was not.

Speaker 6 (01:14:04):
Of their persuasion.

Speaker 4 (01:14:05):
Oh no, you could not convince them of that. This
was before he had come out, okay. And so when
I mentioned it to her one time, I'll never it
was a Fourth of July party and she's like, oh
my god, Clay Agen, it's coming to Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Can you can you possibly get me tickets? I'm like, oh, yeah,
sure thing.

Speaker 8 (01:14:19):
I'm like.

Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
She's like, I just I'm just so love with them,
and I'm like, well not, but no then, I mean,
you are barking up the wrong tree there. You realize that, right,
And she's like, huh, what do you mean? Those are rumors?
Maybe you're gay?

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
That's what she said to me. I swear to god
she said it like that, yeah, And I started laughing
so hard.

Speaker 4 (01:14:35):
I'm like, you're right, yeah, this might this might be
all about me being gay. I'm very very sorry w
had project it onto Clay.

Speaker 9 (01:14:42):
It's crazy that your aunt was such a prolific poster
huge that other people were like, you know, we lost
a real one, dude, That's what it was.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
They were like the og. She was the og.

Speaker 4 (01:14:54):
And my my cousin God bless her, was like not
really thrilled about them being around. Yeah, but my dad,
who was an idiot, thought it was hilarious and he was.

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
Like, these guys are hilarious. He's like, they love Clay act.
It's so nuts. He's like, I invited him back to
the house. I'm like, no, what are you doing? He's like,
is that bad? Should I not have done that? I'm like, no,
you shouldn't have done that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:14):
My club sandwich And then they were they were going
through the house just taking pictures of everything.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
It was very strange.

Speaker 4 (01:15:20):
So that was my hands on experience with a parasocial relationship,
like a group of people who were living in a
delusion to the extent that somebody that they were living
in that parasocial world with had passed. And they made
a state's you know, interstate you know, across state lines
journey North Carolina. I think there was. There was some

(01:15:44):
from Florida and they all came up to Eerie for
the funeral.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
That's wild. And my aunt was awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
She was the nicest lady in the world, Like she
was super cool, and it was not anything I ever
saw coming.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
And it was like out of the blue.

Speaker 4 (01:15:57):
And you know, she was a widower or widow rather,
and I think it just became a thing that she
could glom onto and it made perfect sense.

Speaker 9 (01:16:05):
The idea of the idea of your aunt as a
regular person, you know, like a regular like your aunt
like everyone your mind's eye of an ant uh like
in the stand music video of Eminem like Clay, I
keep writing fan thick about you, but you ain't calling.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
That was basically what it was.

Speaker 4 (01:16:20):
And just to how she felt like she was gonna
get swept off her feet by Clay Aiken. That was
the power of American idol back then. Something tells me
there weren't any Rubens stuttered fan fictions happening. If it were,
or from like you know, Ass's Steakhouse, if you could
be oh, you catch the game last night, Hey, Ruben's

(01:16:45):
that a thick enough cut of meat for you?

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
The tender cuts are thicker and you can come back.

Speaker 9 (01:16:49):
You would have to tell Ruben that, let me get
a half inch thick piece of roast beef come to
a dime with They're more tender that way. Can I
talk into fifty dime slices?

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
No, no ah, alrighty, just a sweaty meat cutter. Anyways,
do you have anybody that you have come close to?
I mean, being a fan of something and parasocial relationships
are two different things.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
That's the thing is that I'm of this mindset of
where kind of Mike always says that he is I
don't want to meet anybody. I want to meet no one.
I met Josh Hammie of Queens of the Stone Age once.
I never want to meet him again. It was perfect good,
like done, end a list, list is done.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
We did it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
But I see this kind of parasocial relationship happened for
influencers a lot because those kind of people who maybe
became Internet famous and didn't expect to be then get this,
you know, flood of attention and don't realize how connected

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people yield to them and how much access and right
people feel to have an opinion about them because they
feel this connection in the relationship and then they have
to like leave social media because it's overwhelming right to
have people be like, you know, you wrote you wrote
that one post or you said that one thing and
just so you know, like that was disgusting to me

(01:18:19):
and now I hate you and everything, and then they
cannot deal with like the burden of the fame.

Speaker 4 (01:18:24):
Basically, when you met Josh Hamie, were you on like
best behavior to just like you know, stick and move
like I admire you greatly and you're a very important.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
Artist in my life, and it's nice to meet you.
Can we have a picture? Thank you? Like, were you
trying to not go overboard in gush?

Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
Yeah, I kept it brief and we had a beer together.
We had a picture and he signed a poster for me,
and yeah, I tried to get the hell out of there.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
Have you ever had met a celebrity?

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
I mean you you worked here for a while and
we're around Pittsburgh Steelers doing work for the the AM
station there for a long time, nine seventy. Did you
ever run into somebody where you're like, I have to
keep it together because I'm such a big fan.

Speaker 9 (01:19:08):
Yeah, maybe James Ferrier. I was just really into him
because he always seemed like such a class act. And
then we had him on Touching Wolf on the Hillside
of Camp and you're like, man, what if this doesn't
live up to my expectations a fairier? The bar is
so high and he was just like the nicest, sweetest
guy ever. Yeah, so you know, like Abby said, like, wow,
that went so well, and I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
I didn't gush. I didn't go overboard.

Speaker 9 (01:19:32):
But you know, talking about these social media influencers, it's like,
you know, but I never saw a video where it's
like so that's the inside of Farrier's apartment.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
Huh.

Speaker 9 (01:19:40):
You know, like you were into Bill Murray, it's like
never you never had content. You're like, so that's his
front yard, huh. Which is a thing now where it's
like you're seeing so much of a person's life that
you you feel like you're right there and you're not. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:19:53):
I got to hang out with Chris Robinson once and
I've told the story on the show before, but my friend,
who is really good friends with him, was like, we
had another friend who's the kind of guy who would
go crazy when he met celebrities. He's like, he can't
pull one of those. And I was like, I know, dude,
I would never do that. And he's like I know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
He's like just so you know, you know, keep it cool,
and I'm like yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
And he was playing with his solo band at the
at Metropol and we jumped on the bus afterwards, and
like I walk on the bus and he's sitting at
the you know, like in those busses where they have
the table, you know, and there's like four people could
sit at the table, two facing each other. He's on
one side and he's got like a box and there's nobody.
The only seat is the one there, and he's like,
shit out, man, and I was like okay. And he
had known that I was, you know, part of DVE

(01:20:35):
and we'd talked on the radio before, but it ended
up being like I sat down across from him and
he was playing EUROP seventy two and I was like, oh,
is that why we heard Birth of Tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
And he's like, yeah, man, I'm on a kick.

Speaker 4 (01:20:45):
And then he started going and all of a sudden,
I'm like interviewing Chris Robinson in front of like everybody
who's like kind of partying on the bus and we're
just having this conversation but this is the two of us,
and I'm like, this is going really well. I'll tell
you what. This is cool. Like we're just talking. It's awesome.
People are kind of interested in the conversation we're having
because it's we're kind of feeding off one another and talking.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
Music, and I'm like, this is great.

Speaker 4 (01:21:08):
Well, he's rolling a joint the whole time, you know,
and I'm like that's got to be insane. Whatever's in there, right,
and he fires it up and everybody's smoking a joint
and whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
And then I'm like, I can probably handle Chris Robinson's
lead No Problem mag mag Mag. And then uh, we're
sitting there.

Speaker 4 (01:21:25):
We talk a little bit more and he's like, oh,
I want to turn you guys on some stuff. He
plays some more music, I grab it again, go back
on it again, whoops, And I'm like anybody else and
they're like, oh no, man, I would never go back
at that. And I'm like, oh god, what did I do?
So fifteen minutes later, now I'm like, now I know
why nobody went back. Now I know this is this

(01:21:47):
is problematic. So we're sitting there and he starts talking
about the Jimmy Page tour. Now now you're hitting me
right right here. And I'm sitting next to him like
we're like Indian style on the floor with like or people.
Five people were all kind of huddled around, you know,
and he's like playing music and stuff and he's he's
talking about one particular show with Jimmy and he's.

Speaker 2 (01:22:09):
Like yeah, and then he wanted to switch the set list.

Speaker 4 (01:22:11):
But it's like, man, I mean it had to be
a certain way because I had to build up to
certain songs. I couldn't do the hardware ones early because
it blow up my voice and stuff, and I lost it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
I just went, man, you sang the bleep out of
those songs. You were incredible. It was like I was
seeing play.

Speaker 4 (01:22:27):
And then as soon as I did that and I
went way over, I went, it was great meeting you, man,
I'll see you later.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
And I just left.

Speaker 4 (01:22:34):
I did, and I jumped off the bus and I
went across the street to that cage that sold pizza
in the Strip district.

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
Do you remember when you walk.

Speaker 4 (01:22:40):
Up to the cage and it's just a guy behind
a fence and he'd pull it back and you'd be like,
two slices, please.

Speaker 6 (01:22:46):
I just wanted in front of the celebrity tonight a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
You're gonna want four exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:22:53):
And it was like two slices crushed on and I'm like, well,
it looks like I'm walking to the incline to go
back to my Washington.

Speaker 8 (01:23:00):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
That I screw up.

Speaker 9 (01:23:01):
You know, it's bad when people are like, oh, I
could never take well, I couldn't have one more hit
of that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
It would kill me. Randy Chris Robinson said that, and.

Speaker 4 (01:23:09):
I'm like, oh, I mean him a massive miscalculation.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
What am I doing?

Speaker 4 (01:23:14):
I was just feeling my oats and then got the
knockout punch and that was the most embarrassing celebrity encounter
I ever had by far. I have seen him since,
and he was like cool and he's like, aha, yeah, dude,
yeah frequently, you know, one of those things. But when
we did the opener with Warren Zevon at Nicks Fat City,
I mean, he's like, my dude, like Warren is the best.

(01:23:35):
And I was in awe because it was I think
maybe six months into me having worked here, and I
was just like, I'm I get to meet Warren Zemon
And then we like did pants and Nat sketches before
him on stage. You know, we're doing morning show sketches
before he gets up and is touring behind the song.
I was in the house when the house burnt down,
and everybody is like taking pictures with him and everything.

(01:23:58):
Do you remember the green room in the in Knicks
Fat City downstairs, yes, dressing room, yes. So 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 Hammy
kind of experience, and I was just like, hey, Warren,
real quick, not for nothing. I mean I made a

(01:24:18):
lot of money playing your songs through the years, and
you know, you're just a real important artist to me.
And the song Desperado under these really just changed the
way I thought about songwriting.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
And he goes he was reading the Bible.

Speaker 4 (01:24:31):
Oh my god, he was reading the Bible, and he
went close the Bible and he looked up me.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
He went dos Bardo under the eaves. Seemed like a
good idea at the time. And I was like, I'm out,
was thank you?

Speaker 4 (01:24:44):
I am not like he was nice enough to acknowledge
me without it being like, you know, going over the top.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
And I didn't want to take too much.

Speaker 9 (01:24:53):
And I was like thank you, and I ran away
m And I was hoping he'd be like fans in
that explain it to him.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
So it's a storm. What's the symbolism, it's it's Lonnie and.

Speaker 4 (01:25:11):
Warns Evon's next album's hull like pants and net related.
You can get pens and other things. That's what a
net means, roll in the pens and net clerk. Anyways,
never meet your heroes. I did meet the band fish
and that was not as much fun as I wanted
it to be. John Mellencamp was a notorious jerk. Meeting

(01:25:34):
him here really not to me. I didn't meet him,
but like Val and Chris Winner and all those guys,
they met him, and there were stories here for years
about how just awful he was to everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:25:45):
What I heard, there's some great David Lee Roth guess
DJ star he was, like dude, everybody loved David Lee Roth.
Here he was.

Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
He did entire sets of like spinning music here? Did
he like candles in the studio? Is that true? I?
I bet he did.

Speaker 13 (01:26:01):
I Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:26:01):
He seems like a vibes guy.

Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
He seems he seems like he would need things to
be just right so he could.

Speaker 10 (01:26:10):
Hi.

Speaker 8 (01:26:10):
Is David Lee.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
Roth inside your stereo? In stereo brought to you by
w DV E one O two point five, Pittsburgh. Yeah
sounds a little yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:26:22):
Yeah, there's a ton I mean Sean McDowell's sound bank.
By the way, Sean McDowell has not worked here for
I don't even know how many years. He has more
in our sound bank than that. I can't find stuff
I did two weeks ago. But if you want to
hear Sean talking to David Lee Roth from nineteen ninety seven, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:26:40):
There and no one will delete it. How could you
never touch it? Also, he's still d V Shawan on Twitter.

Speaker 2 (01:26:49):
I know, I love that. But he should be Yeah, yeah,
he should be forever.

Speaker 6 (01:26:52):
Yeah, you can always find him.

Speaker 4 (01:26:54):
Yeah, do we want to delve into this Timothy Shallomey stuff?

Speaker 6 (01:26:58):
What's up to you, buddy?

Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
Because I feel like he's somebody that a lot of
people have parasocial relationships with.

Speaker 6 (01:27:03):
Oh yeah, well he might enjoy that.

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
Actually, there's this viral online theory that contends that Timothy
Shallomey is secretly a UK rapper right now, okay, named
I think it's he's the kid. He's the kid E
S D E E K I D with fans pointing
to similar vocal tones and a like a presumed accent that.

Speaker 6 (01:27:27):
He has as evidence. But like, you know, he did
that SNL skit with.

Speaker 3 (01:27:32):
Pete Davidson a while back, like he can wrap he's
done it before. But social media sleuths have turned out
audio comparisons. Jacob, were you able to grab like thirty
seconds of that play just a little bit?

Speaker 6 (01:27:44):
Because this is whatever the visuals. It absolutely looks like him. Yes,
it's like a thousand percent looks like him. Yes, guys
like Ams, the Northern Estate Cans.

Speaker 17 (01:27:57):
That's so much.

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
Spring Collection just got.

Speaker 6 (01:27:59):
By just on the same sheens, on.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
The same Kim with the same thns.

Speaker 4 (01:28:04):
Okay, I can't deal with that, but I do think
it looks like him. It really looks like boys did
not sound like him.

Speaker 6 (01:28:12):
No, it sounds like he's putting on an accent. But
you know it's like the brother Yeah, very much. It's
not the weirdest thing that he's done.

Speaker 3 (01:28:21):
But the other very weird thing that he's done we've
kind of pointed out, is definitely marketing this Marty Supreme
movie that's coming out in December. This was a thrill, Okay,
so TikTok was serving me and everybody should watch this.
It's a masterclass in marketing.

Speaker 6 (01:28:39):
But for the few moments that you're not quite sure
what to do with it, right, it is so fun.

Speaker 3 (01:28:46):
It's a zoom meeting of him going through and pitching
ideas about how they should pr for Marty.

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
Supreme, how to market this movie.

Speaker 4 (01:28:57):
He is meeting with the filmmakers, the marketing people from
the studio and they're all in a zoom gallery and
Timothy Shallomet is giving his ideas and you kind of
get suckered in at the beginning into thinking is he.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
Really this crazy?

Speaker 4 (01:29:12):
And then you realize as it goes on, it's like, oh,
this is like a Joaquin Phoenix style bit, and it's
actually very funny.

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
It is eighteen minutes long of him talking about like.

Speaker 6 (01:29:22):
I had my marketing guys go through. I had I
had visual designers.

Speaker 3 (01:29:26):
We spent eighteen months on this color orange, like this
is going to change your life.

Speaker 6 (01:29:30):
And then they like take a minute to like pull up.
He's like, all right, can you guys see my.

Speaker 3 (01:29:34):
Screen And as he's going through the screensave, like his
screensaver is a picture of him winning an Oscar or
this gold.

Speaker 6 (01:29:44):
And you guys can see my screen right, yes? Yes
to him, no, we can, we can see it and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Check this out.

Speaker 6 (01:29:51):
Wow, that's a nice orange orange.

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
Ya Oe talking about blimps raining down, ping pongs on
everybody like he.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
It very much.

Speaker 4 (01:30:01):
It has like an office vibe to it, yeah, like
where everyone's like kind of cringing around all of these
terrible ideas that this actor has. But they're not so
crazy that you think, like there might not be a
possibility that he actually believes this would be the way
to market the movie.

Speaker 3 (01:30:16):
The thing that like made it kind of plausible for
me is that he's dating Kylie Jenner not anymore?

Speaker 6 (01:30:26):
Wait is when did that happen?

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
This week?

Speaker 6 (01:30:29):
They broke up?

Speaker 4 (01:30:30):
That's I thought I read that. I don't know, maybe
my algorithm was feeding me misinformation. Maybe it's all part
of the marketing of this movie.

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
He's dating Liam Neeson. Oh my back out on the market.

Speaker 6 (01:30:43):
Yes, that's right. Well, because you know a particulars.

Speaker 4 (01:30:49):
Some of them happening to be man sex just ham stuff.
The reports, according to AI are false.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
Okay, so they're still together.

Speaker 6 (01:30:57):
See they're still together.

Speaker 3 (01:30:58):
But the thing is is that like like kind of
really cringey stuff all the time, And sometimes he shows
up at basketball games and he looks like guy fiery,
and so sometimes I can't tell what's the funny and
what's right him?

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
Yes, where does the bit end?

Speaker 10 (01:31:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
Almost never, Tad, you must have that problem.

Speaker 4 (01:31:19):
People must be like, based on your comedy, people must
always think that you like, is the are you doing
a bit? Are you actually just being eccentric tad. There's
a lot of stuff on there.

Speaker 9 (01:31:27):
When I do the Morty Tennis and character, people think
that I'm like a you know, trying to break into
the industry. Like I'm waiting for Katie Ka to call
me up and tell me that they have an opening.

Speaker 4 (01:31:38):
My favorite Morty Tennis in is the one where there's
snow on all the cars of Bloomfield and someone went
around drawing penises on all of them. That was you
can't say what the word what it's called, but yes,
it's a time honor tradition, you know, that first snowfall
walking home for the bar, Like, hey, you know what
I could do right now?

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
Wouldn't this be fun? Right?

Speaker 9 (01:31:58):
Just trying penises the windshield? Yeah, my wife's like, hey,
don't do it. I'm like, don't get it. I don't understand.

Speaker 8 (01:32:05):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
These are good natured people. It's fine.

Speaker 4 (01:32:08):
Yeah, Mike's got your sports. When we come back here
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Speaker 12 (01:32:13):
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Speaker 15 (01:32:26):
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Rodgers did not practice yesterday, but his intention yesterday was
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to play on Sunday in Chicago, but not to play
the villain against the Bears again.

Speaker 12 (01:32:42):
I'd rather not be. I mean, I'm not in Green
Bay anymore. I feel like we can let bygones be bygones.
Maybe I can't. I guess it's been. It's a great rivalry.
I mean, in the history of all sports, you talk
about the Lakers and the Celtics and the Red Sox
and the Yankees, you got to talk about the Packers

(01:33:02):
and the Bears.

Speaker 7 (01:33:03):
And there's been some great memories there.

Speaker 12 (01:33:05):
When I first got to Green Bay, the Bears had
the all time series lead. When I left, the Packers did,
and since Jay Love has taken over, it's even gotten better.
But I hope, I hope those fans can put that,
put that behind them. I'm sure they can't. Don't expect
them to, but I really enjoy the city. They got
a great sportsman. I grew up watching WGN on my

(01:33:27):
five five channel. TV back in the day. So I
was a Cubs fan and a Bulls fan. How can
I be a Bulls Fanlest you don't like Michael Jordan?

Speaker 8 (01:33:35):
I did?

Speaker 12 (01:33:35):
I love them, So it was a lot of fun
memories over the years playing there.

Speaker 15 (01:33:41):
I don't know where he was going with that. They're
gonna torch him if he shows up. What do you
mean the fans? Oh yeah, like, don't boomy. I liked
Michael Jordan. Come on, just the politician, passive aggressive, reminding
them that they're his bitch.

Speaker 9 (01:33:56):
Yes, okay, yeah, I swung a hundred year old series.

Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
Not that it's a big deal.

Speaker 9 (01:34:01):
I'm sure everyone's forgotten about it. Rivalry that's been going
on since the beginning of the time. I sort of
changed the tide with them. But you know, lovely people
really enjoy the town. They're gonna go, well, he likes us.

Speaker 4 (01:34:15):
Actually we're the one. We're the one time they might
get buttered up like that. We we love when people
love us so much. We might be like, yeah that
in Chicago.

Speaker 8 (01:34:27):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (01:34:28):
Mason Rudolph finished last Sunday in May or may not
start this Sunday. So Rudolph is doing what he has
become used to doing, straddling that fine line between being
prepared and casey plays and being understanding in the event
he doesn't.

Speaker 8 (01:34:43):
You know, you gotta you have to.

Speaker 16 (01:34:44):
You have to be chump with the you know, every
time your numbers call, Otherwise you're gonna miss an opportunity
and it won't be in the right mental state. And then,
but you know, I've been back and forth, I got
I got plenty of punny of experiences going back and
forth in different roles, and so I just that's part
of what's probably chilled out my personality a little bit,
because I just, you know, screw it, and I just,

(01:35:07):
you know, the roll with the.

Speaker 15 (01:35:09):
Punches chilled out his personality. And I talked to him
in training camp in August, and he talked about how
he at that point had stopped keeping score in his
head of his practice completions and whether plays.

Speaker 8 (01:35:23):
Worked or not, and how it was going.

Speaker 15 (01:35:25):
And he's, you know, he's kind of maniacal about am
I still making progress? Okay, I'm here for a reason.
I'm a quarterback. Let's just get better today. And that's
what the small stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:35:36):
His demeanor changed completely when he came back to the
Steelers after being in Tennessee and because I know he
was thinking about just quitting and going and becoming a
real estate agent in Oklahoma. And then he ended up
having that year that got him the you know, the
gig down in Tennessee, the three wins at the end

(01:35:57):
of the year that got him in the playoffs. Yes,
and then he goes down there. Not an ideal situation,
but he seems like way more zen about things. He
also didn't have it easy because Ben was just kind
of like he was persona on groud in the quarterbacks room,
and I think his real personality came out. And when
we talked to him last year about that stuff, it
was like, you know, he's the jokester and he writes

(01:36:19):
comedy sketches for the quarterback.

Speaker 15 (01:36:21):
The receivers talk about how funny he is and what
a locker room presence he is.

Speaker 2 (01:36:26):
And he wasn't like that for the first three or
four years.

Speaker 15 (01:36:30):
Yeah, tough to be that though, when you were in
that position that he was in then right now he is.
He hasn't done a ton, but he's done enough that
he's established and they trust him and he you know,
when he asked to go in, he's ready to go
in as he was in that Bengals game. You know
they weren't losing, but it was ten to nine when
he got the ball for the first time, and he

(01:36:50):
got the game to the finish line.

Speaker 4 (01:36:52):
And so let me ask you this, what is it
in your mind that keeps him from being a starting
quarterback caliber, you know, quarterback in the NFL. What is
it about his game where you hear Aaron Rodgers go, oh,
he's a great backup. He's a great backup. I mean, yeah,
he wins the Charlie Batch Award for the Steeler fans,

(01:37:14):
no doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
But I've always thought, like going into this year, I.

Speaker 4 (01:37:18):
Thought he was perfectly adequate to get us to where
we needed to go. Is he a super Bowl winning quarterback?
Maybe not, not with this team, but but he's guy
as good as Trent Dilfer.

Speaker 15 (01:37:28):
I would say that's probably the answer to your question,
is that he is not perceived as a guy who
can take a team all the way.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
But why, what is it about his game and is
it not?

Speaker 4 (01:37:40):
I want to watch any of his Tennessee tape because
I just figured that team was a disase.

Speaker 8 (01:37:43):
I didn't care.

Speaker 4 (01:37:44):
I mean, I've seen cam Ward play for them a
couple of times this year. He has no chance. Their
coach had no business coaching. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe
it's just opportunity, It's what I'm saying. Most of the
there's a lot of guys that start popping seven years,
eight years into the league.

Speaker 2 (01:37:59):
He might be one of those guys. He could be
a geno Smith.

Speaker 4 (01:38:03):
Baker I thought was always I thought Baker was always good,
much to the screen of Dealer fans, because every time
I mentioned it, they're like, well, why don't you root
for the Browns, And I'm like, he doesn't stink.

Speaker 2 (01:38:10):
I'm not saying I'm rooting for him.

Speaker 15 (01:38:12):
You could watch Baker play and the compete level jumped
off the TV.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
Screen, no question, no question. He's struggling in a little
bit right now. But there was so apparent yes, and
I thought he would have been a fun free agent
for us to pick up for the story, and then
he ended up being pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:38:27):
I don't know if we would have put a good
enough team around him.

Speaker 4 (01:38:29):
He certainly had a uh, you know, cabal of incredibly
talented receivers down there who are hurt too often, but
got to have.

Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
None was standing he's got the cabal.

Speaker 8 (01:38:39):
Uh got to get one of them.

Speaker 9 (01:38:42):
I think there are guys that have had way more
rope than Mason, Rudolph that have you know, started twice
as many games as him. But I don't know if
he lacks, you know, Baker, the compete level. Mason doesn't
have this outward swag, this you know panache. Maybe that
I have a hot take.

Speaker 4 (01:39:01):
I think because when he got knocked out of that
Baltimore game and they gave him the Spaceball's helmet and
they had to carry him off the field because they
didn't have a cart, that the perception of that backed
up with Miles Garrett whacking him on the head with
his own helmet all within a year just made everybody
think that he was like a clown.

Speaker 9 (01:39:18):
Yeah, it was perceptual. And then Duck was all swag
and no talent or you know.

Speaker 4 (01:39:25):
I saw Duck on a podcast yesterday for some reason.
He did some podcasts and it was coming up in
my reels and he literally said I could run.

Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
From Mayor Pittsburgh and win. Wow, he goes. Those people
love me up there.

Speaker 8 (01:39:38):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 15 (01:39:39):
We were coming back from Arizona that year and we
could have. Then we were in that ridiculous security line
at the airport and people had attached little rubber ducks to.

Speaker 4 (01:39:48):
Their hats and they were wearing duck shirts, and yeah,
he was We had duck fever free. It was a
phenomena for about fifteen minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:39:56):
True.

Speaker 4 (01:39:56):
Then he threw four picks against Buffalo and that was that. Yeah,
he talked about that too. He's like, man that I
was thinking that game.

Speaker 2 (01:40:03):
Abby. You'll have your news coming up at the top
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Speaker 3 (01:40:05):
When is the best time to hit the road for Thanksgiving?
And speaking of that, what is your personal driving limit
for picking somebody up?

Speaker 4 (01:40:13):
Missy Matthews from the Steelers Audio Network joins us when
we come back talking Steelers Bears right here on DVE.

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Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
It's Missy Matthews. Ladies and gentlemen, Hey, Missy, how are you.

Speaker 21 (01:40:42):
Hey, guys, good morning.

Speaker 4 (01:40:44):
I'm sorry about uh pit Pitt. And I hope you
had fun. That's what I was thinking on Saturdays. I
hope you had fun, and I hope you got to
meet herb Street's dog.

Speaker 21 (01:40:57):
I did, I did.

Speaker 2 (01:40:58):
Ok.

Speaker 21 (01:40:59):
It was like it was a great atmosphere. Everything was
great until like the first few minutes of the game.

Speaker 10 (01:41:06):
But that's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
Until the game started, is what you're saying.

Speaker 21 (01:41:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, basically that's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:41:13):
You'll get him next time. All right, Well, let's talk Steelers.
I'm glad you had fun. That's all I care about.

Speaker 10 (01:41:17):
Uh, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:41:19):
My question to you is regarding Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 4 (01:41:22):
There's a vibe that he's giving off these days since
he's gone in the Darkness Retreat and taken the ayahuasca
and the ego killing moves that he's been doing, where
he seems very zen about everything.

Speaker 2 (01:41:35):
And I you know, he didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:41:37):
Come out and say like, yeah, I want to beat
the Jets because Aaron Glenn disrespected me and that organization,
you know, really mangled things up there for a couple
of years, and he didn't say like, yeah, I want
to beat the Packers because they gave up on me
and I wanted to stay there, and they drafted my
predecessor before or my successor rather before I was ready
to go. And I don't like the way the things

(01:41:59):
ended there, And yeah, I'd like to show him that
they made a big mistake. He never said anything like that,
but the assumption was that's what he was thinking. So
when it came to what he had to say about
the Bears yesterday, it seemed very passive aggressive, like, yeah,
I'm twenty five and four against those guys and I
had some success. But I love those fans and I
love the tone and the team. And WGN I watched

(01:42:21):
their TV stations.

Speaker 2 (01:42:24):
Do you think he still has that fire?

Speaker 4 (01:42:28):
Kyle Brandt was saying, Oh, no, this is the game
he's living for, to play as a Pittsburgh Steeler, to
go into Chicago and show them who their daddy is again.
Do you think he'll push past the injury because of that?

Speaker 21 (01:42:42):
I don't think he's gonna push through the injury because
of that. But like Nathan Rudolph basically said yesterday, like, yeah,
you know, Aaron circled this game. He kind of, you know,
gave that away. Which I don't think anybody's surprised. I
do think it's smart though, not to you know, get
them to the bulletin board material. Didn't do it before,
the Jets, didn't do it before Green Bay, like you said,

(01:43:04):
But he's eleven and oneted Soldier Field twenty four, you know,
and five against them all time. So I just I
just think he's a gamer, you know. They he literally
was trying to come back into the game on Sunday,
right and they barely had you know, X rays or
examined him or whatever, and he.

Speaker 10 (01:43:23):
Was like, let's go.

Speaker 21 (01:43:24):
I mean I saw on that play when he grabbed
it immediately and how much pain he was in. But
then he was like, let's go. We got to run
another play, Like come on, let's try to get this done.
You know. I just think that's his mentality. But needless
to say, I'm sure adding another you know, victory over
the Bears into his career column would not be a

(01:43:47):
bad thing. But I do think he downplayed it in
terms of like, hey, that's when I was with Green Bay,
like I'm with I'm with the Steelers now.

Speaker 4 (01:43:54):
Yeah, do you think that last weekend against the Bengals
before Jalen Warren got hurt. They they were giving him
the ball quite a bit, and it looked like Arthur
Smith was running the offense through Jalen Warren, which I'm
a big proponent of.

Speaker 2 (01:44:08):
Then he got hurt.

Speaker 4 (01:44:09):
Kenneth Gannwell came in and had a hell of a
game in his stead, as he seems to do, which
is great. But do you think that indicates that Arthur
Smith wants to commit more to the run going forward
or was that game specific? Will they revert back to
throwing the ball as much as they had been prior
to that against the Bears?

Speaker 21 (01:44:29):
No, I mean, I do think it is a commitment
to like, hey, we got to get the run game going.
It helps keep them not one dimensional. And I think
you know, we've seen Kenny Gamewell have a game like
that before in Doublin. We didn't realize if Jalen Warren
was going to play or not. It was literally a
pre game decision. They worked him out, said nope. Kenny

(01:44:49):
went also had two touchdowns that day and you know,
almost one hundred yards. So I think, you know, with
both of them, they have trust and I do think
it's something whether.

Speaker 10 (01:44:58):
It's those two.

Speaker 21 (01:45:00):
Caleb Johnson seems to get in here and there every
so often. But you know, Darnel Washington looks like a
pretty good toolback, running back, whatever you want to call him,
if you can get him the ball in some form
or fashion and just let him run people over. So
I think too, the Bears have more takeaways in terms
of their defense than the Steelers, So I don't know
if I want to be slinging the ball all over there,

(01:45:22):
but I think committing to the run, which goes back
to what Arthur Smith said the offense was physical and
running the ball when he came to Pittsburgh as the
OC is something they have to do. And I agree
with you on that, Missie.

Speaker 15 (01:45:36):
I came out of that Bengals game really impressed by
the defense and the job that it did against Flaco
and those two elite receivers, and highly disappointed in the
offense for not just moving up and down the field
every time I got the ball and scoring a touchdown
every time I got the ball. Our colleague Rob King said, well,
you know, it was pretty windy, and maybe that helped

(01:45:57):
the defense and maybe that hurt the offense. Well, we
talked on the pre game show we were in agreement
the wind was going to be a factor.

Speaker 8 (01:46:03):
How bad was it?

Speaker 21 (01:46:06):
I mean, the wind was pretty crazy, and it was
for I would say, three quarters of the game. I
don't think it was you know, I saw somebody throw
a ball and it looked like it kind of caught
a little bit. I think it was more special.

Speaker 4 (01:46:17):
Teams and whatnot.

Speaker 21 (01:46:18):
But I'm sure you know, everybody, both sides, both teams
I should say, took that into account because it was
like a swirly wind. I don't know how it's explain
it where it just kind of like hovered around the
field and just kept making big purples and going every
which way. It didn't seem to have, you know, just
like one direction. But I don't think it was you know,

(01:46:43):
an end all be all in terms of like, hey,
we can give the offense the path if that makes.

Speaker 2 (01:46:47):
Sense, Missy.

Speaker 4 (01:46:48):
If Mason Rudolph does end up starting, what hurts the
Steelers about that? And what is the benefit of Mason
Rudolph starting?

Speaker 2 (01:46:57):
What does he do better? Do you think than Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 21 (01:47:00):
I mean, I think obviously he can push the ball
downfield a little bit more, but it's not like Aaron
can't do that. I just think that, you know, we
saw that twenty twenty three season when Rudolph saves Christmas
and the rest of the game got us to Buffalo
in a freaking snowstorm, and I think everybody has confidence

(01:47:20):
in him. It's not like anybody on Sunday when they
realized it was Mason, because it's not like Mason knew
ahead of time to go out and start warming up.
Luckily they didn't get the ball first, so he did
have time, but it was very much like at the
last second, Hey, Aaron's not coming out, Mason, you're up.
And I thought he did a very commendable job. I think,

(01:47:41):
you know, there's enough people who have played with him before.
He's also the guy that got the entire team, the
offense through the offseason workout program, whether it was when
they could barely do anything in football and shorts Ota
is mini camp. You know, he took all those first
team reps, He worked with all those guys. They did
things on their own as well. So I think if

(01:48:03):
it has to be Mason, I think everyone will rally
around them.

Speaker 6 (01:48:06):
Missy. Somebody has to do it. And one thing I'll
say that Mason did better in that game. Is he
did find Roman Wilson.

Speaker 21 (01:48:13):
Well, I was going to say, even when Aaron hurt
his wrist to play before and then when he went
to Roman Wilson on that next play, he was not
happy with Roman Wilson that incompletion there to end the half.
But yes, Roman Wilson, I mean, hey, it seems like
he's kind of taking a step ahead of Calvin Austin
and I think, however, they need to make this work.

(01:48:36):
Everybody needs to be unselfish. He k needs to get
the ball more and obviously a run game will help.

Speaker 22 (01:48:42):
Them do that.

Speaker 4 (01:48:43):
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Speaker 2 (01:48:52):
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Speaker 8 (01:48:55):
Is it like I think it's still Soldier Field?

Speaker 21 (01:48:57):
Not like I think it is? Yeah, okay, not like
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It might not pay Corp Stadium at Soldier Field or
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Speaker 2 (01:49:13):
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Speaker 1 (01:49:17):
Director trailers are some of the most dangerous Pittsburgh.

Speaker 4 (01:49:24):
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 Amy
kind of experience. And I was just like, hey, Warren,
real quick, not for nothing. I mean, I made a
lot of money playing your songs through the years and
a real important artist to me. And the song Desperado

(01:49:45):
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 doesperdo under
the eaves?

Speaker 2 (01:49:58):
Seemed like a good idea at the time, And I
was like, I'm out, that was great, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:50:04):
I Am not like he was nice enough to acknowledge
me 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.

Speaker 9 (01:50:15):
I was hoping he'd be like, pants in that. Explain
it to that. So it's a store. What's the symbolism?

Speaker 4 (01:50:25):
Brandy Bellman and the DVD Tad Whistle hanging in studio
with us this morning. Yeah, I'm sure warns Evon was
intrigued by Bobby subgum and pants and so it's confusions. Okay,
got it, alrighty pants in that? Okay, anyways, enjoy every pants.

Speaker 2 (01:50:49):
I do love that. That's his cat's phrase though, Enjoy
every sandwich. It's such a good one.

Speaker 4 (01:50:52):
Letterman even brought it up again in his Hall of
Fame induction ceremony last weekend when he inducted Warren Zevon
into the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
That's how he left, is like, enjoy every sandwich, which
was his terminally ill sign off. Yeah it is a
good one. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:51:07):
Have you ever seen the documentary I Have Not the Wind?
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.

Speaker 2 (01:51:20):
Yes, okay, I've seen clips from that before I do right.

Speaker 4 (01:51:23):
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 with them.
Uh it is a powerful record. But watching that documentary
was a bit too much for me. I love warn
he was the best, no doubt.

Speaker 10 (01:51:38):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:51:39):
Anyways, Okay, Guy Junker will join us lit. I love
Guy Man. I loved the best. Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:51:44):
He'll enjoy every sandwich he Guy does, and he'll tell
you where to go and get the sandwich.

Speaker 10 (01:51:51):
Uh. That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:52):
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Speaker 1 (01:51:54):
News?

Speaker 3 (01:51:54):
This hour brought to you by Better Call Side Dense
Fog Advisory continues.

Speaker 6 (01:51:58):
I was just out in the kitch and I took
a pick.

Speaker 8 (01:52:01):
Out the windows.

Speaker 2 (01:52:02):
It's still really bad. It's it's weird, like the missed.

Speaker 4 (01:52:06):
You can't see past these picture windows we have, not
picture windows.

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
They're like wall to wall windows we have. I don't
know what's out there. I know it does look John
Carpenter ish.

Speaker 6 (01:52:17):
Yeah, I mean I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (01:52:19):
Take me.

Speaker 6 (01:52:20):
It's fine, it's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:52:21):
I'm exhausted. Just make it quick. I'm tired.

Speaker 4 (01:52:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:52:24):
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

(01:52:47):
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 6 (01:52:58):
That's a pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:52:59):
Wow big window.

Speaker 6 (01:53:00):
It's a pretty big window.

Speaker 4 (01:53:02):
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 it gets backed up by a couple of days.
Now people are like, I'm done on Tuesday at noon.

(01:53:23):
I'm not effing around. I need a week for the Turkey.
It's been a long year. I'm leaving on Tuesday.

Speaker 9 (01:53:30):
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 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.

(01:53:52):
But the truth about that is is it's not the
biggest bar night in the traditional bar areas.

Speaker 2 (01:53:59):
It's the biggest neighborhood bar night of the year.

Speaker 8 (01:54:03):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:54:03):
You go to the bar you grew up going to,
you know, like in the South Hills, the saloon will
be packed, you know, in 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 Regent Square there, you know, like
those places, Yeah, Murphy's, Yes, that'll all be jammed, But

(01:54:24):
the south side, in those big bars in Lawrenceville, nobody
will be at those.

Speaker 2 (01:54:28):
Yeah, that's a great point.

Speaker 9 (01:54:29):
And going back to your neighborhood bar in your hometown,
it's like, I haven't been here in ten years?

Speaker 2 (01:54:36):
Am I cool?

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
In here?

Speaker 9 (01:54:37):
Was I cool the last time I was in here?

Speaker 2 (01:54:39):
Because I felt like it might have got a little away.

Speaker 4 (01:54:41):
From Yeah, that happened to my younger brother, who is
not a person who gets out of hand, but he
one night, just out 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 really, He's like no,

(01:55:02):
and my brother's like, I'm sorry, you know, And I
had to like negotiate him back into the fold. Well,
we'll keeping an eye on you.

Speaker 6 (01:55:10):
What did you do?

Speaker 14 (01:55:10):
And he's like, I threw a shot glass off that
I'll do that. 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?

Speaker 2 (01:55:21):
Was there serran wrap on the top.

Speaker 6 (01:55:23):
We saw it in a movie.

Speaker 4 (01:55:24):
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 that there are people who are much
worse than you. Yeah, yeah, right, I'm not gonna be
the drunkest guy exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:55:44):
It gives you a big, big window to be a moron.
Look at that guy.

Speaker 4 (01:55:48):
He's got real problems exactly. I'm not Lenny. They're worried
about him, they're not worried about me.

Speaker 3 (01:55:56):
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 just not a ton of traffic on Thanksgiving itself.

Speaker 2 (01:56:21):
Well, I tell yeah, that's the best day.

Speaker 4 (01:56:24):
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.

Speaker 9 (01:56:35):
I would be terrified to fly day of what just
for Yeah, something goes wrong, I don't know, potential of
missing turkey.

Speaker 6 (01:56:42):
Yeah, wasting your whole day on a delay.

Speaker 4 (01:56:46):
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
you know something, within three hours, you're usually going to
be okay. And unless the weather's bad, in which case
you know, I'll bets are off. Or if you know,

(01:57:07):
we run out of air traffic controllers, because apparently that
happens from time to time.

Speaker 3 (01:57:10):
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 2 (01:57:21):
Oh, it's not fun.

Speaker 4 (01:57:23):
Yeah, that's when you get Neil, thank you for working,
Thank you for working. Yeah, 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 start eating
it and someone would go that looks good, and he'd
be like it is, would you like one? And then

(01:57:43):
he'd pull out another one, wrapped in cel of 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.

Speaker 9 (01:57:55):
So I'm trying to think of the grossest thing egg
salad sandwich. Would you like one.

Speaker 6 (01:57:58):
Straight out of my pocket?

Speaker 9 (01:58:00):
But it's ninety eight point six degrees right, like a
warm tuna, a warm tuna salad.

Speaker 6 (01:58:07):
I got this sushi from a kiosk, but you can
have it.

Speaker 4 (01:58:10):
Did you see that Olivia mun sat on a talk
show yesterday that she got violently ill.

Speaker 3 (01:58:15):
Yes, bathtub sushi is what she called it, which is
a terrible.

Speaker 6 (01:58:20):
Terrible name.

Speaker 3 (01:58:21):
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's not supposed to be hot.

Speaker 4 (01:58:36):
Yeah, it's not supposed to go 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.

Speaker 2 (01:58:53):
Humid Sushi a new restaurant concept.

Speaker 4 (01:58:56):
We're gonna open one in Robinson on Dad the Humid
Sushi this weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
All right, 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 up.

Speaker 6 (01:59:22):
A loved one.

Speaker 9 (01:59:23):
Oh my god, and f W that's what I thought.
That's I don't that's three hours. Three hours.

Speaker 3 (01:59:31):
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 4 (01:59:44):
I just well, what I would do is pay an
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 gonna pick you up. He's
very nice. Don't worry. He'll drive you to Erie.

Speaker 9 (02:00:05):
The ninety minute out and back to pick somebody up.

Speaker 6 (02:00:09):
Ooh man, not doing that? Well, the most you've driven like.

Speaker 4 (02:00:14):
I've done that though I've gone to I've definitely gone
to Buffalo and back to pick somebody 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.

Speaker 2 (02:00:33):
It's a daunting number.

Speaker 6 (02:00:34):
That is daunting.

Speaker 3 (02:00:36):
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 6 (02:00:44):
Just just go get somebody.

Speaker 4 (02:00:46):
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.

Speaker 2 (02:00:56):
It's a fun hang. If you have a fun family,
it's a fun hang.

Speaker 4 (02:00:59):
Now, if you have a disastrous family, it's a nightmare,
and you look for the things to do and stay busy.

Speaker 9 (02:01:04):
Yes, if your significant other has a nightmare family, it's
still pretty fun.

Speaker 2 (02:01:10):
Yeah, you're back in the fun.

Speaker 9 (02:01:14):
I'm just gonna sit back, I'm gonna drink fifteen beers,
and I'm gonna let the day come to me.

Speaker 4 (02:01:20):
Because you don't really have ownership of that. You get
to be a spectator.

Speaker 9 (02:01:23):
Yeah, and then you know, behind closed doors, all you
do is you pump up your significant other like that.

Speaker 2 (02:01:29):
Was messed up.

Speaker 4 (02:01:33):
I can't believe she said it either. Your cousin Judy
really believes that.

Speaker 3 (02:01:40):
My gosh, sweetheart, I don't think the light's out of
your eyes.

Speaker 8 (02:01:49):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:01:49):
I just never agree, never agree with the other person.

Speaker 4 (02:01:52):
I've had those like you know that the Christmas Dinner
in the Bear from season one, Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (02:02:00):
Episodes traumatic have you seen it? The one with Jamie Curtis.

Speaker 4 (02:02:03):
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 back 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.

Speaker 2 (02:02:23):
You'd be very careful.

Speaker 4 (02:02:24):
One comment could set off on a tangent and then
you were back of the races.

Speaker 9 (02:02:30):
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?

Speaker 4 (02:02:37):
So the siblings who 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 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 down on Mass we had to.

(02:02:59):
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 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 gotta we gotta go,
We gotta go pull the rip cord. And apple Bee's

(02:03:20):
was open. Apple Bee'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, but this is hilarious. And we're you know,
we're getting those stupid drinks they have. We're like, give
us around whatever those was its big and it's got
stuff in it.

Speaker 2 (02:03:41):
Bring one of.

Speaker 6 (02:03:41):
Those you know, giganic blue drink and a fish.

Speaker 2 (02:03:43):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:03:44):
Seven.

Speaker 4 (02:03:44):
Yeah, Like my ninety pounds sister is like just sucking
down those big things with eight kinds of alcohol in them.

Speaker 9 (02:03:51):
Those things are so just heartburn, instant heartburn. We all
said the worst hangover in the world.

Speaker 4 (02:03:57):
And we're like, I wonder some of the food is
actually left, Like, do you think we can eat it
together like the next day.

Speaker 2 (02:04:04):
No, the answer was no, it was it was gone.

Speaker 4 (02:04:07):
But Thanksgiving usually people.

Speaker 2 (02:04:10):
Are like, cool.

Speaker 4 (02:04:11):
There's a great snl sketch that Eddie Murphy did when
he hosted just a few years ago, and it's 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 to behind the scenes of what it's really like
that week, and it is super accurate and hilarious how

(02:04:33):
hectic it can be, and like, you know, the mom's
at the table just like, oh.

Speaker 2 (02:04:37):
I just threw this together, and you know, I'm just
glad everyone likes it.

Speaker 4 (02:04:40):
You know, while she's cooking, she's greening, and everybody out
and Grandpa's stinking up the bathroom and all of that.

Speaker 2 (02:04:48):
You know, that's kind of the fun of it. Though,
the annoyance, right.

Speaker 9 (02:04:52):
Yeah, and then it all comes together in whatever way
or it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (02:04:58):
End up an Apple bease that is.

Speaker 4 (02:05:00):
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.

Speaker 9 (02:05:16):
They do dollar marks. Yeah, not out of the question.

Speaker 2 (02:05:20):
I think that might have been.

Speaker 4 (02:05:20):
What we were drinking was like huge marks. I don't
deserve anything nice, just the sours help they forget? Yeah, drinking,
do you forget? I'm a big Thanksgiving fan though, because
my brother makes a Thanksgiving Neil every year and he's
the master at it.

Speaker 6 (02:05:37):
He's the cook.

Speaker 4 (02:05:38):
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 then it tastes like
stuffing and a sausage and pepper sub It's the most
amazing thing I've ever had.

Speaker 2 (02:05:57):
That's crazy it's great. And then he does a shrimpet
to fail one.

Speaker 6 (02:06:01):
Oh that's bragging.

Speaker 2 (02:06:02):
Yeah, it's really good.

Speaker 9 (02:06:04):
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.

Speaker 2 (02:06:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:06:11):
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 put some gravy over it.

Speaker 9 (02:06:21):
It's definitely a great leftover snack too.

Speaker 2 (02:06:23):
Yeah, and then I'm on clean up duty, which is
not as bad.

Speaker 9 (02:06:27):
My buddy used to do a he used to host
friends giving where he made tur duck in every year.

Speaker 8 (02:06:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:06:33):
That feels perverted to me.

Speaker 4 (02:06:35):
It's stuffing another animal into another's cavity.

Speaker 9 (02:06:38):
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 a isn't it greasy?

Speaker 10 (02:06:47):
Though?

Speaker 2 (02:06:48):
Is in the duck really greasy?

Speaker 9 (02:06:50):
They're supposed to be stuffing between the birds too, so
it's like six layers of stuff. But then you know,
the duck is just it's not like chicken and turkey.
It's definitely different. Yeah, it could tell what it is.

Speaker 6 (02:07:01):
Yeah, duck is a greasy thing for me.

Speaker 2 (02:07:09):
Ram it.

Speaker 6 (02:07:11):
That's how you make you got up, ram it, get.

Speaker 2 (02:07:14):
It in there. I like to Ducan. As you can see,
nobody likes to Ducan like me. Does he deprivate? No,
this was like a he.

Speaker 9 (02:07:24):
By the time you got there, which was way too early,
we were in our twenties, you know, drinking your.

Speaker 2 (02:07:28):
Friends givings all the way.

Speaker 4 (02:07:30):
Like I have friends who are in their mid forties
and they still do a friends giving.

Speaker 2 (02:07:34):
They did it last week and I'm like, I think
that's too much. That's too much.

Speaker 9 (02:07:38):
Thanksgiving depends Yeah, yeah, it depends on the group. I
don't know, but you know, the the early appeal of
friends giving is like, no adults, my Grandpa's not gonna
yell at me for going in the basement.

Speaker 2 (02:07:49):
This is awesome, right and getting hammered.

Speaker 6 (02:07:53):
Well crushed.

Speaker 3 (02:07:54):
Years ago, there was like this kind of like it
was a year after COVID, did 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 friend's giving year, but everybody did bring their kids,
which was a major problem.

Speaker 6 (02:08:14):
Like because it was not as fun. Everybody. We got
a house in Deep Creek and we all kind of split.

Speaker 3 (02:08:18):
It, and because of the aforementioned kids, everybody got the
stomach flu ah, really really bad. The problem with this
for me was that the Monday after the friends giving,
I had my hernia surgery schedule.

Speaker 8 (02:08:39):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (02:08:40):
So as we were coming home, my husband and daughter
start puking over and over again.

Speaker 6 (02:08:46):
Yes, and I'm like, I have.

Speaker 3 (02:08:47):
A hernia surgery, so somebody has to drive me to
the hospital at four in the morning, like, and they're like, really,
it's me and I'm like okay, So I drove myself
to the hospital.

Speaker 6 (02:08:59):
And then while I'm at.

Speaker 3 (02:09:00):
The hospital, they're like, well, we can't really start the
surgery because 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.

Speaker 6 (02:09:15):
But I get done with.

Speaker 3 (02:09:16):
The surgery and then he's picking me up green He's
just like he looks like Kermit and be like I'm here,
and I had like a face mask on everything.

Speaker 6 (02:09:28):
If I throw up with I will kill you.

Speaker 4 (02:09:32):
The scariest thing to consider after hernia surgery would be
getting the stomach flu.

Speaker 3 (02:09:38):
But also, like the whole time, I just kept thinking,
I'm like I have been denied again.

Speaker 22 (02:09:45):
Like all I was supposed to have was two days
of pain pills and service. I was supposed to be
able to go I need soup.

Speaker 3 (02:09:57):
Yeah, and have somebody like gently helped me out of bed.

Speaker 6 (02:10:01):
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 just god two.

Speaker 3 (02:10:15):
Days because I wouldn't let either one of them near
me because I'm like, you didn't get it.

Speaker 6 (02:10:20):
I did not get it.

Speaker 3 (02:10:22):
I also didn't see either one of them for a week,
So there was that happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (02:10:29):
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, I can't stand
when they play on Thanksgiving. It drives me crazy because
it turns the holiday into a Steelers game. Then I'm

(02:10:49):
in 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
a hole. 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 watch the Ravens and the Bengals.

Speaker 6 (02:11:12):
That's the one.

Speaker 2 (02:11:12):
Good night all well.

Speaker 6 (02:11:14):
Chi's Cowboys too, Yeah, I mean that one.

Speaker 1 (02:11:17):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:11:19):
Oh yeah, I hate them all?

Speaker 6 (02:11:23):
What a holiday?

Speaker 2 (02:11:24):
Yeah, exactly?

Speaker 9 (02:11:25):
All right.

Speaker 4 (02:11:25):
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Speaker 15 (02:12:39):
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 to Rogers relentless approach to

(02:12:59):
practice reps.

Speaker 16 (02:13:01):
I get, I get, You're right he is. It's an
incredible the way you know he does. He hasn't missed
the 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.

Speaker 7 (02:13:17):
But uh, yes, I mean in the natural.

Speaker 16 (02:13:19):
Flow practice, I'll get I don't know, three reps out
of out of a ten pack, so you get enough
to kind of stay sharp enough.

Speaker 15 (02:13:27):
Now, Ruolph also does what he can, uh when he's
not practicing too ready himself in case he's needed and
toward that, and he brought back something of a cheap
code of sorts from the season he spent last season
in Tennessee.

Speaker 16 (02:13:42):
Get you get the scout team reps. What's your what's
your fun? And uh, it's fun to compete when you
just you know, you see a card for three seconds
and then 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

(02:14:04):
and brain brainstorming about you know, what's what coverage?

Speaker 7 (02:14:07):
Can I get here?

Speaker 8 (02:14:08):
What's my work?

Speaker 2 (02:14:08):
Top three?

Speaker 8 (02:14:09):
You read?

Speaker 16 (02:14:10):
And it's a very uh you know, conducive environment without
a without the threat I getting reprimanded for a wrong
answer by coach.

Speaker 2 (02:14:17):
So it's just just the boys. You think Fauci should
be in jail.

Speaker 15 (02:14:20):
Yeah, me too, Okay, Treuvor 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
they're wrong and the wrong, and then they correct each
other and you.

Speaker 8 (02:14:33):
Don't have to feel shame. Yeah, which has got to help, right.

Speaker 4 (02:14:36):
Well, I think that what he is pointing out, not
so uh subtly is the difference in the dynamic in
the in the in the quarterback groom.

Speaker 2 (02:14:48):
Now versus when he came.

Speaker 4 (02:14:51):
To the Steelers organization originally might.

Speaker 2 (02:14:55):
Be what he's trying to illustrate there.

Speaker 15 (02:14:59):
Beck, what he to get every Wednesday, the backup would
be the guy.

Speaker 11 (02:15:04):
Yes, yeah, never thought of it though. Yeah, I'm just saying,
I'll have to consider that. You're something to consider, you
might be honest. Rudolph definitely appreciates all the support that
he gets from Rogers, and that continued after Rudolph was
able to get that Bengals game to the finish line.

Speaker 16 (02:15:21):
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 dat from from from a rod after
a game. It'd be pretty pretty done exciting. So he's uh,
he's very very kind and complimentary.

Speaker 15 (02:15:37):
When Mason Rudolph was fourteen, Aaron Rodgers was in his
sixteenth NFL only cow.

Speaker 8 (02:15:43):
And they are teammates.

Speaker 2 (02:15:44):
Now that's amazing, it really is.

Speaker 4 (02:15:48):
You just forget Rogers is forty one and how long
he's been doing this.

Speaker 2 (02:15:51):
Yeah, I mean so you see him in them?

Speaker 4 (02:15:55):
Yeah, yeah, I'm just kidding, his kidding.

Speaker 2 (02:16:01):
He's a kidder. He enjoys jokes.

Speaker 15 (02:16:03):
Darius Slave 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 8 (02:16:21):
He will not be activated reserve interview.

Speaker 4 (02:16:24):
There's always going to 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 15 (02:16:40):
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 it, he leaves
off the release here that Johnson is has a good

(02:17:04):
chance to play and Gordon probably next week.

Speaker 4 (02:17:08):
So we'll see the uh. The Bears are seven and three.

Speaker 15 (02:17:11):
They've won five games inside of two minutes remaining, and
they have not beaten the winning team they played two, No,
not even two. They've 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,

(02:17:35):
no matter who plays quarterback.

Speaker 8 (02:17:36):
For the Steelers.

Speaker 2 (02:17:36):
All right, well, just don't screw it up. Don't screw
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Speaker 15 (02:17:41):
And they are they are the most Chicago's the most
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by it even more than the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (02:17:48):
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, but yeah,
what he misses just outside?

Speaker 8 (02:18:00):
He tried?

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Speaker 10 (02:19:50):
What's up, guy, How you's doing.

Speaker 2 (02:19:54):
We're doing all right. We're hanging in there. Did you
go to the Pitnowner Name game last week?

Speaker 10 (02:19:59):
I did not. No, I don't have Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:20:03):
You don't have that kind of sway. Is that what
you're going to say, you don't have?

Speaker 10 (02:20:06):
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 4 (02:20:13):
Yeah. Not a great showing by Pitt, not at all.
I hate when Notre Dame fans come in and take
over a stadium like that too. Trives me crazy. There
are all those not chants going on stuff. It just
makes me sick.

Speaker 10 (02:20:26):
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,

(02:20:47):
that may be true, but I'm not sure if that
set the tone or this is the only 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

(02:21:10):
two games, and one of those was the Boston College
who stinks. I mean they almost lost, Yeah they did,
and which we're going to 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

(02:21:32):
bit too much. I'll say that. You know, we love
it when the Steelers go on the road and take
over a stadium. But I remember being a kid when
the Buffalo Sabers were really good and they had the
French connection. They would comme in 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 kick me off.

Speaker 8 (02:21:49):
Oh my god.

Speaker 10 (02:21:50):
Yeah, I know what that's like to be in your
own stadium and get out cheered. But we like it
when when the Steelers fans do.

Speaker 4 (02:21:55):
With the other people how far that organization's fallen. We
were talking about that the other day. Buffalo, that's town.
They're like, you know, the hockey version of the Pirates,
a town who has supported their team and absolutely loves
them and their complete garbage every year.

Speaker 19 (02:22:10):
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 tons
of success, whether it's Chicago, La, well, Boston's playing pretty
well right now.

Speaker 10 (02:22:23):
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 a little since forcard
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 this
is I think it's one of the biggest stories in
the NHL so far this year.

Speaker 4 (02:22:44):
No question. Well let me let me switch sports before
coming back to the Steelers. The news Ken Jeff Passing,
not Ken Rosenthal. Jeff Passon talking about the Buckos being
willing to spend maybe bringing Connor Griffin up at the
tender age of nineteen, and Paul Skeins deny eyeing the
reports that he wants to get traded, saying that's not true.

(02:23:04):
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 10 (02:23:15):
Well, think about it. You could throw it out for
one year, and if there is a shutdown, you might
not have to ever pay off 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
a they're getting this information somewhere. And if this were
you know, if this were some local guy writing or

(02:23:36):
maybe getting fed stuff 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 gonna make notes on him
and another guy, Kazuma Okamado about a month ago, to

(02:23:57):
talk to you guys about somehow we never got it
right after baseball season ended. Okamado is another power hitting
first basement third baseman. 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.

(02:24:20):
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

(02:24:43):
cracks me up when Yankees and Yankee fans complain about
not being able to keep up financially with the Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (02:24:49):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, the rich mattoth rich. But you know, look,
if the Pirates land a couple of Japanese players, maybe
those endorsement dollars can go the other way and Permans
can start advertising in Japan.

Speaker 10 (02:25:03):
There you go. Yeah, so you should have you major
in marketing.

Speaker 2 (02:25:07):
No, but I was good at it.

Speaker 4 (02:25:08):
I 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 about Aaron Rodgers' motivation.

Speaker 2 (02:25:33):
Do you think he.

Speaker 4 (02:25:34):
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.

Speaker 2 (02:25:47):
That was another time.

Speaker 4 (02:25:49):
This is a new team, and he's glad he did
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

(02:26:10):
me coming in there, that I'm the boogeyman.

Speaker 10 (02:26:12):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:26:13):
I kind of wanted him to go that way with it.

Speaker 10 (02:26:16):
Well, let me let me ask you this. If late
in his career, Ben Roethlisberger 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.

Speaker 2 (02:26:29):
I think he would answer to that question.

Speaker 10 (02:26:32):
Sure, Yeah, And I still think the Rogers fire burns
there too. I mean, 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

(02:26:54):
them all time. And to point out that they won
one time in Chicago ever when he played there seven times.
Since the NFL merger, they hardly ever play there. 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 got Giants, they got losing
records against all them because the first forty years when

(02:27:16):
they were in the league, they got hammered by all
those teams because they stunk until the seventies. But Mike
was pointing it out 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 had, you know, Vegas and Washington and New Orleans

(02:27:37):
and Cincinnati and the Giants, they all there now I'm
not saying they're not good. Usually when we talk about
records and we don't know 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 Kayleb Williams is developing as a quarterback, tremendous
physical talents that I think he's growing into. And Ben

(02:27:59):
Johnson's av He's done a good job there. But I'm
not going to sit there and look at that one
and twelve all time record in Chicago. They oh, they
can't win there.

Speaker 4 (02:28:06):
Yeah, well, you know, Steelers beat up on some scrubs too,
you know, the Jets, the Browns, the Vikings.

Speaker 10 (02:28:12):
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 2 (02:28:24):
Would you rather see Mason or Rogers?

Speaker 10 (02:28:28):
Well, if 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 the AFC teams or whatever,
or 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

(02:28:49):
if he gets knocked down. 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 it. 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

(02:29:10):
off with his left hand, taking snaps 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 say,
I think, just give him a week's rest. And you know,

(02:29:30):
I don't understand, this guy's got a winning record as
a starter. 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 2 (02:29:40):
Not to mention they have to.

Speaker 4 (02:29:41):
If you get Rogers hurt for a longer period of time,
will Howard becomes one heart beat away from the presidency.

Speaker 10 (02:29:49):
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 4 (02:29:58):
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 10 (02:30:09):
That'll be Hey, a lot of quarterback. And there's Justin
Field's getting replaced by Tyrod Taylor now.

Speaker 2 (02:30:14):
With the Jets, is starting that game too.

Speaker 10 (02:30:20):
Yeah, right, sure, starting that game. And Lamar has an
ankle injury now he said hamstring me and ankle. I
watched that whole game against the Browns, and I didn't
see one designed run for him. I think he only
ran it for ten yards and only one who was
in trouble. So I mean he's had everything wrong with
his legs, not that I think the Jets are gonna

(02:30:41):
beat him anyway.

Speaker 4 (02:30:41):
I'm just gonna say, yeah, maybe it's the same scenario
for them where they should sit lamar, because it's the Jets.

Speaker 10 (02:30:48):
You know, good point, they're still a fourteen point favorite.

Speaker 4 (02:30:53):
That's just ridicula. But there is always bad NFL teams.
This year, it feels like there's three exceptionally bad NFL
teams and.

Speaker 10 (02:31:01):
Yet they face 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.
You'll 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

(02:31:22):
teams that 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 going to
haunt them somewhere down the line is at loss in Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (02:31:32):
Oh yeah, one that just does not make sense, no question.

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Speaker 10 (02:31:40):
All right, guys, have a great Thanksgiving. I'm talk to
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Speaker 2 (02:31:43):
All right, buddy, take care. Thanks to Guy Junker, Thanks
to Missy Matthews.

Speaker 4 (02:31:46):
And thanks for our buddy Tad Whistle who was hanging
out with us all morning long.

Speaker 9 (02:31:49):
Great tang with you there, Tad. Thank you, guys. I
appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (02:31:52):
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Tomorrow on the show, Dave Danishek, the buzz Poets are
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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.

Speaker 2 (02:32:14):
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Speaker 1 (02:32:22):
For now.

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Speaker 23 (02:32:49):
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 like
to start Sunday in Chicago, but ultimately said that that
decision will be up to coach Mike Tomlin. The Steelers
should probably want Rogers to play just as badly as
he does when you look at the quarterbacks track record when.

Speaker 2 (02:33:09):
Playing against the Bears in his career.

Speaker 23 (02:33:12):
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 even more impressive
than the record is the stats he put up against Chicago.
Rogers hasn't massed six nine hundred and sixty five yards
thrown for sixty four touchdowns and just ten interceptions for
a passer rating of one hundred and nine. Obviously, neither

(02:33:33):
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
Steelers are one in twelve all time in Chicago, with
their lone win coming way back in nineteen ninety five.

Speaker 2 (02:33:54):
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