November 21, 2025 • 43 mins
Dave Dameshek believes the Steelers should be able to handle the fraudulent Bears. Erik Lawrence of Levon Helm calls in to talk with Randy about this Saturday's Small's Waltz.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the DV morning show, Randy, but I'm going alone
with Abbey Krisner. Our buddy Ted Whistle's hanging out with
us this morning. And on Fridays, we opened the program
getting ready for a big weekend of Steeler football by
checking in with our friend across the coast from the
Football America podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
But Pittsburgh's own ladies and.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
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Dave Damage.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Ye here it comes.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's a pleasure to be with you once again. And yeah,
a week ago, I was really excited not just for
the for the Steelers game, but also for the pick
game an actor shure against the visitors from Notre Dame.
I was struck by a few things. It was a
disappointing game, but you know, of course we were ad
pre absolved of any tension because it was it wasn't
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a must win game. I do want to get to
the fact and.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
These guys can rob our house and everything's fine. They
could sleep with our wives next week as long as
we beat Georgia. Tacket doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I mean, it kind is true, but also you know,
you know, I take a man's got to stand for
something in this world, and I thank everybody. My thing
in life is taking everyone else to task, you know,
for their significant mistakes, like calling something a must win
game when it's not a must win game. It's you know,
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the Steelers are not in a must win game on
Sunday up in Chicago, but they better get it. They
want to get the double digit wins because go through
the schedule. We'll get to that in a second, but
that pit games amused me on a couple of fronts.
First of all, in the midle all the luminaries were
on the sidelines, Tony Dorset and everybody else not Tony
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dor Set. My grandfather in nineteen seventy two call up
in the Hope Well called my father and said, I
just watched this kid, Tony dor SIT's going to break
all the records and he's on his way to pick
next year. And so he did. And I got to
tell Tony Dorset, my grandfather, my late grandfather, watched you
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play and I told him that story. And now you
and I sit here right around the year two thousand,
you and I are sitting in the same room. What
a thrill this is for me to complete that circle
And Tony Dorse's response was, huh, Look.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
He appears to have suffered significant cognitive issues from his
years playing football, so I'm going to attribute it to
that and not anything impolite.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
No. But then, but then it was on a later date,
Tony Dorset and I sat down once again and I
told him that story on the air, and in that
occasion he was more interested in it. And I then
asked if I could, if I could be grandfathered in
much like my grandfather, to calling him Dorset instead of
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the fancy pants nunciation Dorset that that he used once
he got down to Dallas, and he afforded me that.
So Tony Dorsett was there and everybody else, and why
the pronunciation.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I know why Thaisman did, but why did Dorset.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I think it was legitimately just sort of like a
fancy pants affectation down there with with the cowboy hat wears.
By the way, we don't talk about that enough. That
period in Americana when when people, just because of the
popularity of the TV show Dallas, including everybody around the country,
started wearing cowboy hats, including our own pop Stargele, who
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he walked around for several years wearing a cowboy hats.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Bradshaw. We had a lot of cowboys on that team.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well they were cowboys, right, so they properly should be
wearing this. I still think the weirdest period was after Swingers.
I remember going into bars and people would have those
big chains hanging on their pants and they would wear
zoot suit out and they were twenty three. Boy, those
people were jackasses. No offense to anybody in that room
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who may have been drawn into that. But anyway, so
also on the sideline was Pitt basketball great Sam Clancy,
and they cut away to him and they had they
had the graphic underneath Hugh Greens. Yeah, they misidentified him.
So it's not Joe Tess's fault necessarily, except that Joe
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test is kind of a jackass himself, so he had
to really play it up. And they cut It's Sam
Clancy Cairn as Hugh Green and.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
He goes there.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
It's the greatest offensive lineman in college football history, which
is ironical. Sam Clancy never played a snap.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Of college football, but nevertheless, but what a basketball player
Sam Clancy was.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, same Clancy walked so clyde Vaud could run,
and then at the end of the game, as you
may have noticed, pitch scored and a lot of Notre
Dame people were very very upset about this. They picked
all the time out with fifteen seconds left and and
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never mind, I mean that they tried to score a
touchdown at the end of the game. People are how
dare they try to score a touchdown? You know, the
backups have parents too, their families like to see him
score touchdowns and all of that. So I think it
was it was a moment of empathy from the dudes
in a in a non must win game. But as
he as as pitch scores at the gun, Jesse Palmer
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hilariously chimes in with, like, just out of curiosity, what's
the points spread on this one? Hey? Great, great, great
time in our society to be to be insinuating that
the games are fixed. You're really doing a great job
and college football, this is the perfect opportunity for you
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to crack wise with it, with your with your A plush,
with your A plus job.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
But you know he missed his ticket because had he
been a reality start just six seven years later, he'd
be running the transportation department right now.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
True, and instead this is what he had to deal
with right as he was coming off of The Bachelor.
He as people may forget, not just as the host,
he was once the Bachelor himself. This is a dating
show in which everybody knows where they encourage you with
what do they call it the dream Suite? What do
they call it the Fantasy Suite? They give you a
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key to go put your love on whatever bachelorette you choose.
You know, it's encouraged all that. So I I Palmer's
coming off of that, and he's just starting at ESPN
as I am starting my ESPN radio show in Los Angeles.
And so they booked Jesse Palmer to talk some college football,
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but of course I like to talk about the game
of life as well, And so I said that Jesse,
before we get into USC and U c l a
here real quick, what was your number on on the Bachelor?
And he said, what what do you mean by that?
And I said, you know you're bachelor, you know, not
all women bachelor. Yeah. Well, I mean I'm not crude
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like you, but you know I was a gentleman about it, yes,
and he and and we arrived finally at the at
the number being six, which you know, it's a press
an impressive number. What do they have? Twenty there? Six
of them?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Okay? And then I mean that does get you in
the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I I think so? But who am I to say?
I don't know? You know, but so I So we
continue with the conversation and about football the rest of
the way, and then the next morning I wake up
to a phone message from an executive at ESPN. Jesse
Palmer took this to the highest levels at ESPN Radio.
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He was offended by the question how how how dare
I ask him that on the air? Now, mind you,
I didn't go on the dating show where you're encouraged
to put your love on as many women as you can.
I merely asked him about it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But I, well, yeah, I had.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I had to blow the phone call in So then
I find myself out of body calling former Florida Gators
star and Bachelor love maker Supreme Jesse Palmer, and thank
goodness I got his voicemail instead of his live voice.
But I had to call him and apologize. That was
the remedy for my violated I apologize for bringing up
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the fact that you slept with multiple women on a
game show.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That what you said you see.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Hi, this is s Dannischek.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Come.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
You were on a show yesterday and I by the way,
you just said it there, bowman, I've been I've been
talking about this quite a bit lately. You just said
slept with which is replaced. When we were growing up,
TV shows and movies always that the act was always
referred to as making love. And I'm curious, has any
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man on the planet Earth, un ironically ever said let's
make love. Let's let's let's art when we made love
last night? Has anybody said that in a sincere way
ever in the history of people, because.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's all over movies. Eddie Murphy addressed this.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I believe in raw you know, like you know, I
make love to women I love, but you know it's
like I bleep women I love. I don't make love
to them. I bleep them. Do you want someone to
say make love to me? Or do you want someone
to grab the back of your head and to sleep.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Out of me?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Other?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yes, well he he makes love and how he? But yeah,
it's it's funny. That's one of those things in movies,
that that's something that happens in movies that make love
and all that that never happens in real life. My
favorite one of those are near the top of the
list is they're never in history has this happened in
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real life. But there are hundreds, if not thousands.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Of move movie.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Deaths that occur with with people with that are the
result of people fighting on top of moving train cars.
You know, it never happens in real life, but people
always are fighting on top of moving train car.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
How do you know?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
How do you know what?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
How do you know that it's not going on?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I guess I'm being overly cynical. Maybe I'm just.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Not aware train fight club that's going on that you're
not privy to.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It doesn't mean you know.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Maybe they're just adept at keeping their balance and don't
fall off to a grizzly death that gets reported in
the trip the next day.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well, it always gets to back, it always, it always
is the fate of the bad guy. It never happens
to the good guy. But the bad guy never notices
the oncoming tunnels, you know, his back's always turned to it,
and then like the good guy sees it over the
back guy's shoulder, and then the bad guy turns around
just in time to see he's about to meet his
demise at the hands of this wall or rock that
he's going to run into. But yeah, I've heard the
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trains running there by Old mo damashek in Egmont, And
maybe I should keep a keener eye out there to
see if people are fighting on top of it.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Perhaps perhaps rule number one of train Fight Club do
not talk about train fight club.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
That's why you wouldn't know about it. Nobody would know,
otherwise they wouldn't be getting that club.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, well you want to do that or be the bachelor,
let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Let's talk about our non bachelor quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who's
very happily married to a person.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
So look, yeah, he's anti Koe.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
He's got the wrist injury, all right, that's very real now,
whether or not it prevents him from playing this weekend,
where do you land on the He is the Boogeyman
to the bears, and we must do everything we can
to put him on that field. He is Ogie Oglethorpe
walking out there. He is Frankie five Angels brother walking
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into the courtroom and Godfather too. It immediately changes the
trajectory of everything that's about to happen.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I like that they didn't change the outfit. When when
Frankie five Angels comes in with the brother that they
that like, they brought him straight from Italy. They put
him on the plane. They didn't even have time to
dress them up, and I'm like, in a suit, no
farm clothes. He's like, I was just shepherding. What's going on?
It's got that funny little hat. I don't even know
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what you'd call that thing. But anyhow, No, I mean,
you know, I like tradition and all that. I think
I've made that pretty clear, But I don't believe in
voodoo though. I mean, like Aaron Rodgers, here's the thing
that people what's emerged for me is a lot of
people have a difficult time distinguishing between the name brand
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and the reality of what that brand is. In the
year of Our Lord twenty twenty five, I mean Aaron Rodgers, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Like people, you think Mason Rudolph is as good as
Aaron Rodgers. No, not in their respective primes. But Aaron Rodgers,
who clearly before the risk injury, was prioritizing not getting hit,
now has a left wrist injury. So when he sees
anybody within ten yards of him. What do you think
he's going to try to do he gets the ball
out of his priority is very much like Ben Roethlisberger's
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in the twilight of his career, which is like what
Tom Brady and Peyton Manning and every other old guy
does it at the end of it. They don't want
to get hit because they understand their own mortality. And
so of course Aaron Rodgers is like that. So that's
not a good place to start with your starting quarterback
in the quarterback league. So of course it should be
Mason Rudolph here. And I think it's ridiculous, but like
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the indulgence of this when I mean, the guy is
not going to be able to literally defend himself so
long as he has a ball in his throwing hand,
what's he going to fend off an oncoming defender with
if not his left hand, Well, he's gonna turtle it up,
is what his react?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well, maybe a little like a plastic poker. They're just something.
It's just a little fact like, yeah, something to keep
in them.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
In like a captain hook hook kind of thing like that.
Maybe that like you you want some of this, come
get it? Yeah, like, yeah, that would be interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, something like that, something that's attached to.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
One of those and my next I need one of
them hooks for my next top of train fight too.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But here's the thing, whether it's whether it's him or Okay,
so you make it clear, Yeah, the boogeyman thing is
not relevant in twenty five Okay, so h assuming you
know either Mason or Aaron Rodgers in there. I still
think Arthur Smith needs to think of this as despite
who's behind center, you have to go through Jalen Warren.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah, like as long as Jalen Warren is right. But
you know, Caleb Johnson, this this holding back, this precious
is Is Caleb Johnson ready to contribute? I want to
get him. Mike Tomlin is quoted in the broadcast last Sunday, like,
you know, Mike told us he'd like to get Caleb
Johnson some more snaps. If only Mike Tomlin had any say,
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and who gets the ball and what I mean?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Okay, but he's a rookie.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
This is not This is not a quarterback. Running Backs
are ready to if they are if they are good,
they're ready to roll on day one in the NFL.
He's not like there's a learning curve. He's I disagree
with that. Okay, what you think? What do you think
the bus Then that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I never understood this. This Uh you know, they just
thought fant of company, he's going to be the next Nogy.
We're giving him all the workload we gave Naugy. That
was the narrative when he got drafted, and I asked
everybody all summer, why is it that we're just assuming
this guy's going to come in here and do this
lo and behold. He couldn't do it, and he made
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mistake after a mistake, and he was towering at the
line on contact.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
He was completely shutting down.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
He went down on first hit every time he got
one chance at a breakaway.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
This weekend, he grabbed a guy by the face mask,
I mean his head. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Can he come around from a mental standpoint not to
do stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That's dumb.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yes, But running in the NFL is different than running
against Iowa State. He has to be able to continue
after contact. He has to hit the hole even when
somebody's there. He can't dance around and wait. And he's
got a big problem with making the transition to the pros.
Do I think he's a bus No, but I think
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he's more likely headed in the bus direction than he
is headed into the envy of the AFC direction.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Wow Bowman, Yeah, I mean, listen, you're damning him pretty
good here, and maybe you're right. I don't know, but
I mean again, that would be a fundamentally atrocious move
by the Pittsburgh Steelers to burn that pick then on
somebody who as If you are right, I do agree
with you that if he is the man, then we
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would know he's the man by now. I just don't know.
It's the end of November's wild I but Penn State
not playing a freshman, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
This is this They needed this guy and he couldn't
do it. It was too big for him. He screwed
up a kickoff. He you know, he put the ball
on the carpet a couple of times. He couldn't pick
up any blocks. He was not ready for prime time
on delivery, and they crowned him as the guy who
was going to take over for Nausey, who was probably
the most underappreciated running back the Steelers have had in
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the last five years.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Because the team wasn't winning playoff games well.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Because it's where they where he was drafted that everybody
resented Naji Harritt. But it will take a running back. Well,
I mean, yeah, I'm with you on a lot of
what you said there. I also think it's the Steeler's
precious process that is gotten in the way of Caleb Johnson.
Berry fostered that the same stupid, I mean monumentally stupid.
Good thing. You're a pro football player and you don't
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know the kickoff rules. You're back there to be the
kickoff returner, but you don't know what the rule is.
Barry Foster did that two generations ago, and he worked
out for a little while in Pittsburgh as well. The
difference is here is this is this weird like we
got to ramp our guys up so that they're ready
to be steal so they stand the way the Steeler
Like listen, hey, Mike Tomlin, you know it's you know
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about free agency, man, like you waste a rookie year
now the clock is really picking on a guy. This
is foolishness. But okay, whether it's Kenny Gainwell or Jalen
Warren or Caleb Johnson, they better for real. I'm not
trying to be negative, which has become now the trend
with Dave when I talk about the Steelers over the
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last year and a half. By the way, I'm also
right about everything I've said about the Steelers for the
last year and a half. I hate the pat myself
on the back, who are my kid? And I love
to do it now, except it makes me sad in
this case, because I want the Steelers to be good.
They better win this game against the Bears, because after
that reminder, you want some cynicism, you want some glass Dude, Dave.
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They're six and four in the first place, which is
which you complaining about? Well this year, I mean one
year ago at this time they were eight and two.
They were just coming off of a win against the
Baltimore Ravens. How did the season work out? Well? They
went ten and seven. Why because at the back end
of the of the schedule they played four good teams.
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They lost all four of those. Guess what if the
Stealers lose today, I lose on Sunday, They're gonna be
six and five. They felt to play the Bears at
Detroit and the Ravens twice. You think they're getting to
ten wins with that schedule, They're gonna have to pull
some mighty upsets to get there. If they dropped this
one to the Bears, who by the way, are good
themselves and are also deeply incentive to win this game
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to hold on the first place themselves, this is a
tough spot. It all rounds. I listen. I know people, Oh, dude,
you don't like Mike Tomlin who was more supportive of
Mike Tomlin than Dave. How you know? The remarkable never
losing even streak is something to point at and no
matter how much people try to diminish.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It, it is.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
It is amazing that he was able to do that.
But like I said last year, they should have moved
on to Ben Johnson.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Well, he's doing amazing things there in Chicago, no doubt.
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Speaker 2 (20:34):
Thanks Dave, great stuff, pad. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, well, he didn't have a whole lot of opportunities
to shoot the ball.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
There, dude, what do you want to hear?
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Speaker 1 (21:15):
Well Bill has sailed on to greener comedy pastures, which
means we can't do pick six anymore on the road,
but I can do my end.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yes, that's right, He's on the road, that's right. So
instead I'll be doing three and out for you.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
These are games that are guaranteed to probably, maybe, likely
possibly be a lock.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
All right, let's get it started.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
The Browns at the Raiders, oh minus four. This game
is the worst thing to happen to Las Vegas since
the Rico Act, at least the mob who had a
treated guy who lost a month's salary playing Keno. No
more free ba Phaser Bogo coupons for the Robin Tug
Joint off Fremont Street, since Corporate America took over since City.
This game is so bad I'm surprised or not flexing
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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 (22:16):
But I digress. Let's start with Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
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
to within an inch of him quitting the sport, the
Browns now have no other choice but to start should Sanders,
and after watching him play in the second half last week,
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they'd be better off starting Bernie Sanders. Hell, they'd be
better off starting Bernie Kozar, and he just had a
liver transplant.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Last week.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Shador was four of seventeen with an interception and two
sacks that he made exponentially worse by running backwards.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
He makes Kenny Pickett look like Mike Vick under pressure.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
And since he'll be suited up for the Raiders, Kenny
might just give Shador a backwards run for his money.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
On this one.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
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.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
A double shift.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Gino's postgame presser after getting ripped by the Cowboys last
week an instant classic.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I keep saying this, man, if some don't look right
out there, blaming it on me, right, If it don't
look right, blame it on me. That's all you can do.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Blame it on me.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
If your kids mess up with school, blame it on me.
Carbrick down going to work, Blame it on me.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
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 lug that Levin furniture couch to his third team
in two years. And when Pickett finally does take charge,
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Miles Garrett is gonna batter him so hard it'll make
what he did the Mason look like he was brushing
some lint off his shoulder.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
He killed Kenny. You pastered.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
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 (24:10):
I'm taking the Browns next Eagles at the Cowboys. Cowboys
getting three and a half.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Nick Sirianni, the second most popular former IUP coach Jacob
nod to you and your Indiana squad. Well, he's flying
his brotherly Bird's to Jerry World this weekend to face
their division rival Dallas Cowboys. Last week, Cowboys receiver CD
Lamb and George Pickens were bench for the first series
of the game for team conduct violation. The team won't
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say what the violation was, but given the yearly ongoing
soap opera in Dallas, they probably shot JR.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
If you're under forty, google it.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Cowboys interim coach Brian Schottenneimer at this point, every coach
in Dallas is interim as far as I'm concerned. He
refused to say what the dumbnamic duo were doing that
got them bench, but he did praise them for not
thinking 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.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
That's why I love these guys.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Schottenheimer later excused Pickens on sportsmanlike conduct penalty on a
touchdown celebration, saying I just.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Love the way he plays. This is giving big.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
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
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year alone, there were NFL Netflix docu series America's 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 episod of
Botched Epic Plastic Surgery Disasters, and I'm still waiting for
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him to pop up in the Ken Burns American Revolution
documentary as Young Boy in Town Square. But the only
TV show in which the Cowboys fans want to see
Jerry's overlifted face is the Super Bowl. It's been nearly
thirty years since they've been back, and Cowboys fans want
them to start focusing on Lombards instead of Emmys. And
the Cowboys are primed for an upset because the Eagles
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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,
to be fair, that has only one crack, and Sa
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
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stuff like I didn't walk through the fire just to
smell the smoke, or I had purpose before everyone had opinions.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
That's great, Jalen, but how.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Does that explain why you check down more often than
a guy with a broken zipper. I do hope the
Eagles use the toush push a lot, because you know
the Texas governor thinks it's super gay.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Ooh, what silf?
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Perspecting man would grind him silf into the backside of
another Get my lawmaking kid with these two teams. They
met in the season opener, Eagles defensive stud Jaalen Carter
got thrown out for spitting on Dak six seconds into
the game. This time, I think the Eagles are going
to be swallowing a big d upset.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
I'm taking Jerry's kids play the home dogs.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Next the meat 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, colloil, silver, and goat colostrum that
men's bones overnight?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
If not, we might be looking too Mighty Mason and
his over the mutcho mustache to make mixedmeat of the months.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
There's a.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
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,
the town Chicago is Rogers twenty four in five against
the Bears, and famously hollered I still own you to
Bears fans after scoring a touchdown for Green Bay in
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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 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
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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 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.
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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. 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
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you with his feet. Caleb's real strength is that he
protects the football the way you should grill a steak.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
He very rarely turns it over.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Additional headaches for the Steelers running back DeAndre Swift and
Kyle Manunge have been harder to stop than AHEMOPHILIAX nosebleed.
Not to mention, the Bear's defense has more takeaways this
year than Ice. But whether it's Mason or rec Risted
Rogers behind Zach's back on Sunday, I bet your bottom
dollar the Steelers offense doesn't blow in the Windy City.
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That's because they finally commissioned Warren to lead the off
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 (30:16):
Let Mount Washington or Rup.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Arthur for God's sake. It all boils down to this.
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.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Take the Steelers and the points just to be safe.
That's it. There you go.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
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Speaker 1 (31:24):
Randy Bauman and Glad to be joined right now in
anticipation of this week's Look the Dog is excited to
in anticipation of this week's The Smalls Waltz, the tribute
to the legendary Last Waltz concert performed by the band
and all of their rock and roll friends. Joining us
right now from Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble Band. He'll be
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a part of Saturday night's festivities at Mister Small.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
It's our friend, Eric Lawrence. Eric, what's up, buddy? How
are you?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
I'm so glad to be talking with you. Randy.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Likewise, you know, and I was telling you in rehearsal
the other night and before we got on the air
here just how grateful I am that you're a part
of this show. And you know, you said something to
me last year at the end of the show and
we were having a little post celebratory libation, and you
talked about how much this music means to you.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
And I think that that's something that makes this special.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
This show is because this music for the people who
are there in.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
The canon of everything that comes from the band.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Of course they always love, but there's something about these
particular songs that strikes an almost religious chord with people.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Eric, Yeah, cord is a good word.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Yeah, I agree, And I can just say, you know,
I've done a lot of work where I've studied how
sound and vibration affects people in an almost medicinal way,
and how they've used it for thousands of years in
indigenous cultures. And I have this unique experience that's different
for most people is that I've stood on stage in
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front of tens of thousands of people and when one
helm would go into a song like Ophelia or you know,
the Night they Drove, you know, like whatever song the
Weight of course, you know, I would just see people
burst into tears, like spontaneously and lift off the ground.
And so I saw how how incredible music played with
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the spirit of people who just really really love what
they do, really brings people to a better place in
their lives.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
And this music.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
In particular, And although I never did the last Waltz
as a full concert would leave on, he wasn't ever
really interested in doing something like that.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
What I did see.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Was when you played one of those songs and you know,
we're artists, were used to playing, you know, to us,
the great challenge is finding that next special thing. But
when there is a special thing and you do it
and you know it touches something for people, it's just
very an amazing feeling to witness these songs.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah, I mean, there's something unique about the Last Waltz. Obviously,
the all star factor is one part of it that
you can obviously point to, but I think the thing
that that gets kind of lost in the understanding of
what makes it special is that, yes, it's the all
star roster, but the way that those performers pushed each
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other throughout the show and the end results ends up
being the best of what the best have to offer.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Yeah, well, there's a kind of elation when you're surrounded
by all these other people and you're doing music that
you love and and you know and there's a there's
a like mindedness to it.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
And even though you know, I was a kid.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
When the Last Waltz happened, the first time I played
with the band in ninety three was was Bill Clinton's inauguration,
where you know, it was euphoric in Washington, d C.
At that time, and people really felt like we were
turning over a new and the group that I played with,
you know, the band, but it was also Vassar Clements,
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Stephen Stills and doctor John and Bob Dylan making a
mysterious appearance and you know, and uh and lots of
other people of course. Uh, you know, the guy got
me involved in it all was John Simon, who was
a neighbor of mine who brought me in and you know,
probably had, you know, single handedly, unintendedly had the biggest
impact on my entire career by getting me involved in
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this stuff. Yeah, and I saw that same thing with
those same a lot of the same musicians, but the
same caliber caliber of musicians, and it was just joy.
We had an eight and a half hour rehearsal that
was completely discombobulated, but everybody was just just laughing and
happy to be there.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Ye know. Dylan is the guy that I think that
I always wonder you know, I know, Van Morrison famously,
you know, would kick it up a notch if Dylan
was around.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
He just worshiped Bob Dylan.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
And you know, there's an apocryphal, possibly apocryphal story of
him moving to wood Stock just to sort of be
around Bob Dylan back in the day. But you know,
you see Neil Young hears Joni Mitchell perform and that
propels him to give a special performance, and that propels
Ronnie Hawkins to give a special performance. And Doctor John
comes out and does his doctor John thing, and then
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well that you know, the next man up uh tries
to you know, do their best and and basically hold
serve with all of these icons of that time.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you've got to be on your
best game and that you know, we've also heard the
stories about what they did to make everybody comfortable.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yeah, sure there was a little there was a little
performance enhancing aspect to it all.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Yeah, it doesn't need to be spoken on radio, but
but but but yeah, I definitely felt like that was there,
although I you know, definitely when I played, it wasn't
the same, right, the same.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Type of encouragement that was backstage.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
But but but they didn't need because because that was
the show that that helped to make all of them
who they are, you know, helped to create the legends
of them and then the rest of their lives. You know,
they they were already in the flow of becoming that
and then this kind of crystallized it thanks to the
Scorsese and you know, and uh, you know in general public,
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you know, going out there, and and and and bear
in mind too, the Last Waltz was, as Howard Johnson
liked to remind us all the time, was a tour.
It wasn't a concert or a night you know, two
nights of concerts. They were touring the Last Waltz. You know,
the horn section was on, and maybe all the stars
weren't there for the entire tour, but whoever could jump
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on would jump on.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, that's that is the least talked about aspect of
the Last Waltz, and miss just not even misunderstood.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I don't think people realize that.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Right, except for the really hardcore fans. Yeah, you know,
and uh, yeah, it's true. And and that I got
to experience, you know, during my years touring with with
with Levan, touring with Little Feet, touring with you know,
jumping back to the nineties with Buddy Miles, is like
you'd show up and then everybody else would show up,
just wanting to be around right and to feel Levon's
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groove and to you know, get on stage with him
and you know and try to mix it up a
little bit. You know, a boy, when I play with
Buddy Miles, you know, there would be a line out
the door of guitar players waiting to sit in, and
I bet and we wouldn't stop until they all did,
you know, and not just the local guys, but like
big name people, everybody, everybody in town who was free
that night would be there to sit in.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Well, that spirit of performers pushing each other really shines
through on these Pittsburgh Ramble Band shows. Here, Paul Luke
is going to be a part of this one, Clinton Clegg,
John Binley, Joe Grischky, Jeff Taylor, Attie Twigg, Bill Deazy
and Celadonia, Molly Alphabet Chet, Vincent Andre Costello, Jen Wartz.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
It's going to be an absolute blast.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
And of course helming the horn section up from the
Midnight Ramble Band himself, Eric Lawrence, who joins us now, Man,
I can't wait till tomorrow night. I'm very much looking
forward to it, and I just want to say thanks
again for lending your time and your talent to this
great event, which by the way, raises a whole bunch
of money for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank at
a time of the year that they desperately need it.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
So thank you again.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
And I want to throw in Mark Dignam's name there too,
because he's a gay, close personal fan. We just went
to see Josh Rieder together.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Mark is the best, I mean, what an absolute he is, like,
he is the if there's a saint of the local
music scene, like if there's like a pope somebody like
I need a concierge here, you know, our concierer concieri,
not a concierge, somebody that can.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Confide in or get advice from.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Mark is always there and makes himself available to all musicians,
and he is the best possible spirit to have around
for any of these kinds of events.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
He's the wisdom and that's just what we were talking about.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
He's the kind of guy when he performs in this setting,
you know, it's it's so rooted and reaches so high
up into the sky.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
At the same time that.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Everybody else is going to be there too, you know,
like that wave you know, just carries over. I mean,
last year's concert was just such a joy for me
to be a part of and thank you for putting
it all together, because this is the Pittsburgh Waltz. It's
you know, you've just put together, you know, as many
of the stars of Pittsburgh that you know that you
can assemble at one on.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
One night, at one time.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
And and I see the spirit with the guys at
the rehearsal. You know, everybody is involved. It's really beautiful.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Well yeah, it's it's just so much fun. And there
are a few tickets left. They're probably gonna sell out
by the time this interview air, So get on it
and call over to the Mister Small's box office or
log onto DV dot com.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
They have a link there that you can get in for
the small As Waltz.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
That's tomorrow night in eight o'clock show, star Studded, and
it is a faithful rendition of the great concert film
of all time Martin Scorsese and the band and the
last Waltz from the Midnight Ramble Band.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
Sorry, throwing one one last quick thing. I still play
in Woodstock at Levon's Barn. You can go to leave
on Heilm dot com. It's now called the Helm Family Ramble.
It's run by Levon's amazing daughter Amy and.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Her son Lee.
Speaker 5 (41:23):
Uh is probably as close as will come to seeing
Levon you know return, Kay, it's incredible. Oh well, he's
seventeen now and he's just like a great drummer and
a great singer, and he's just got this beautiful spirit
and uh and for some reason he brings his uh,
his step granddad out, who just loves him so much.
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Donald Fagan comes to just about every show that he
sits in. Sometimes he even sits in with the seventeen
year old band that Lee has with his friends. You know,
he just he loves his grandson so much that you know,
you know, he's not doing anything but coming to our show.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Well, if you're headed up to Levon's barn, you might
see Eric playing up there with the Ramble Band and
all the great shows that Amy and her family are
putting on up there. But you can definitely see him
tomorrow night at mister Small's as part of the Smalls Waltz.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Eric, see you tomorrow, thanks so much, buddy.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
Yeah, Hi bye.
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Speaker 9 (42:29):
It'll be a matchup between two division leading teams this
Sunday when the Steelers and Bears meet in Chicago and
in Pittsburgh. All eyes are on quarterback Aaron Rodgers and
his availability with a broken left wrist injury. Rogers was
a limited participant in yesterday Steelers practice as he continues
to trend toward playing Sunday against the Bears, and Rogers
has a career record of twenty four and five against Chicago,
so his services could prove useful against the Bears defense
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that leads the league with fifteen interceptions. On the defensive
side of things, the Steelers have their work cutout for
them against the powerful Bears offense that loves to run
the football. In fact, when playing at home in Soldier Field,
the Bears run the ball forty nine percent of their snaps,
and it works, as Chicago has the league's second best
rushing attack, averaging one hundred and forty six point six
yards per game on the ground. After a tough start
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to the season stopping the run, the Steelers run defense
has been trending in the right direction as of late,
they've climbed all the way up to the league's thirteenth
best run dye, allowing just one hundred and six point
four yards on the ground per game. It'll be a
tall task slowing up the bears rushing attack, but the
form of the Steelers defense should inspire confidence and stifling
the Bear's bread and butter on offense might just be
enough to pull off the upset in the Windy City.
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's a pleasure to be with you once again. And yeah,
a week ago, I was really excited not just for
the for the Steelers game, but also for the pick
game an actor shure against the visitors from Notre Dame.
I was struck by a few things. It was a
disappointing game, but you know, of course we were ad
pre absolved of any tension because it was it wasn't
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a must win game. I do want to get to
the fact and.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
These guys can rob our house and everything's fine. They
could sleep with our wives next week as long as
we beat Georgia. Tacket doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I mean, it kind is true, but also you know,
you know, I take a man's got to stand for
something in this world, and I thank everybody. My thing
in life is taking everyone else to task, you know,
for their significant mistakes, like calling something a must win
game when it's not a must win game. It's you know,
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the Steelers are not in a must win game on
Sunday up in Chicago, but they better get it. They
want to get the double digit wins because go through
the schedule. We'll get to that in a second, but
that pit games amused me on a couple of fronts.
First of all, in the midle all the luminaries were
on the sidelines, Tony Dorset and everybody else not Tony
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dor Set. My grandfather in nineteen seventy two call up
in the Hope Well called my father and said, I
just watched this kid, Tony dor SIT's going to break
all the records and he's on his way to pick
next year. And so he did. And I got to
tell Tony Dorset, my grandfather, my late grandfather, watched you
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play and I told him that story. And now you
and I sit here right around the year two thousand,
you and I are sitting in the same room. What
a thrill this is for me to complete that circle
And Tony Dorse's response was, huh, Look.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
He appears to have suffered significant cognitive issues from his
years playing football, so I'm going to attribute it to
that and not anything impolite.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
No. But then, but then it was on a later date,
Tony Dorset and I sat down once again and I
told him that story on the air, and in that
occasion he was more interested in it. And I then
asked if I could, if I could be grandfathered in
much like my grandfather, to calling him Dorset instead of
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the fancy pants nunciation Dorset that that he used once
he got down to Dallas, and he afforded me that.
So Tony Dorsett was there and everybody else, and why
the pronunciation.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I know why Thaisman did, but why did Dorset.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I think it was legitimately just sort of like a
fancy pants affectation down there with with the cowboy hat wears.
By the way, we don't talk about that enough. That
period in Americana when when people, just because of the
popularity of the TV show Dallas, including everybody around the country,
started wearing cowboy hats, including our own pop Stargele, who
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he walked around for several years wearing a cowboy hats.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Bradshaw. We had a lot of cowboys on that team.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well they were cowboys, right, so they properly should be
wearing this. I still think the weirdest period was after Swingers.
I remember going into bars and people would have those
big chains hanging on their pants and they would wear
zoot suit out and they were twenty three. Boy, those
people were jackasses. No offense to anybody in that room
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who may have been drawn into that. But anyway, so
also on the sideline was Pitt basketball great Sam Clancy,
and they cut away to him and they had they
had the graphic underneath Hugh Greens. Yeah, they misidentified him.
So it's not Joe Tess's fault necessarily, except that Joe
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test is kind of a jackass himself, so he had
to really play it up. And they cut It's Sam
Clancy Cairn as Hugh Green and.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
He goes there.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
It's the greatest offensive lineman in college football history, which
is ironical. Sam Clancy never played a snap.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Of college football, but nevertheless, but what a basketball player
Sam Clancy was.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, same Clancy walked so clyde Vaud could run,
and then at the end of the game, as you
may have noticed, pitch scored and a lot of Notre
Dame people were very very upset about this. They picked
all the time out with fifteen seconds left and and
(05:14):
never mind, I mean that they tried to score a
touchdown at the end of the game. People are how
dare they try to score a touchdown? You know, the
backups have parents too, their families like to see him
score touchdowns and all of that. So I think it
was it was a moment of empathy from the dudes
in a in a non must win game. But as
he as as pitch scores at the gun, Jesse Palmer
(05:36):
hilariously chimes in with, like, just out of curiosity, what's
the points spread on this one? Hey? Great, great, great
time in our society to be to be insinuating that
the games are fixed. You're really doing a great job
and college football, this is the perfect opportunity for you
(05:58):
to crack wise with it, with your with your A plush,
with your A plus job.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
But you know he missed his ticket because had he
been a reality start just six seven years later, he'd
be running the transportation department right now.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
True, and instead this is what he had to deal
with right as he was coming off of The Bachelor.
He as people may forget, not just as the host,
he was once the Bachelor himself. This is a dating
show in which everybody knows where they encourage you with
what do they call it the dream Suite? What do
they call it the Fantasy Suite? They give you a
(06:35):
key to go put your love on whatever bachelorette you choose.
You know, it's encouraged all that. So I I Palmer's
coming off of that, and he's just starting at ESPN
as I am starting my ESPN radio show in Los Angeles.
And so they booked Jesse Palmer to talk some college football,
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but of course I like to talk about the game
of life as well, And so I said that Jesse,
before we get into USC and U c l a
here real quick, what was your number on on the Bachelor?
And he said, what what do you mean by that?
And I said, you know you're bachelor, you know, not
all women bachelor. Yeah. Well, I mean I'm not crude
(07:16):
like you, but you know I was a gentleman about it, yes,
and he and and we arrived finally at the at
the number being six, which you know, it's a press
an impressive number. What do they have? Twenty there? Six
of them?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Okay? And then I mean that does get you in
the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I I think so? But who am I to say?
I don't know? You know, but so I So we
continue with the conversation and about football the rest of
the way, and then the next morning I wake up
to a phone message from an executive at ESPN. Jesse
Palmer took this to the highest levels at ESPN Radio.
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He was offended by the question how how how dare
I ask him that on the air? Now, mind you,
I didn't go on the dating show where you're encouraged
to put your love on as many women as you can.
I merely asked him about it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But I, well, yeah, I had.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I had to blow the phone call in So then
I find myself out of body calling former Florida Gators
star and Bachelor love maker Supreme Jesse Palmer, and thank
goodness I got his voicemail instead of his live voice.
But I had to call him and apologize. That was
the remedy for my violated I apologize for bringing up
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the fact that you slept with multiple women on a
game show.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That what you said you see.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Hi, this is s Dannischek.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Come.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
You were on a show yesterday and I by the way,
you just said it there, bowman, I've been I've been
talking about this quite a bit lately. You just said
slept with which is replaced. When we were growing up,
TV shows and movies always that the act was always
referred to as making love. And I'm curious, has any
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man on the planet Earth, un ironically ever said let's
make love. Let's let's let's art when we made love
last night? Has anybody said that in a sincere way
ever in the history of people, because.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's all over movies. Eddie Murphy addressed this.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I believe in raw you know, like you know, I
make love to women I love, but you know it's
like I bleep women I love. I don't make love
to them. I bleep them. Do you want someone to
say make love to me? Or do you want someone
to grab the back of your head and to sleep.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Out of me?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Other?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yes, well he he makes love and how he? But yeah,
it's it's funny. That's one of those things in movies,
that that's something that happens in movies that make love
and all that that never happens in real life. My
favorite one of those are near the top of the
list is they're never in history has this happened in
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real life. But there are hundreds, if not thousands.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Of move movie.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Deaths that occur with with people with that are the
result of people fighting on top of moving train cars.
You know, it never happens in real life, but people
always are fighting on top of moving train car.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
How do you know?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
How do you know what?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
How do you know that it's not going on?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I guess I'm being overly cynical. Maybe I'm just.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Not aware train fight club that's going on that you're
not privy to.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It doesn't mean you know.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Maybe they're just adept at keeping their balance and don't
fall off to a grizzly death that gets reported in
the trip the next day.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well, it always gets to back, it always, it always
is the fate of the bad guy. It never happens
to the good guy. But the bad guy never notices
the oncoming tunnels, you know, his back's always turned to it,
and then like the good guy sees it over the
back guy's shoulder, and then the bad guy turns around
just in time to see he's about to meet his
demise at the hands of this wall or rock that
he's going to run into. But yeah, I've heard the
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trains running there by Old mo damashek in Egmont, And
maybe I should keep a keener eye out there to
see if people are fighting on top of it.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Perhaps perhaps rule number one of train Fight Club do
not talk about train fight club.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
That's why you wouldn't know about it. Nobody would know,
otherwise they wouldn't be getting that club.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, well you want to do that or be the bachelor,
let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Let's talk about our non bachelor quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who's
very happily married to a person.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
So look, yeah, he's anti Koe.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
He's got the wrist injury, all right, that's very real now,
whether or not it prevents him from playing this weekend,
where do you land on the He is the Boogeyman
to the bears, and we must do everything we can
to put him on that field. He is Ogie Oglethorpe
walking out there. He is Frankie five Angels brother walking
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into the courtroom and Godfather too. It immediately changes the
trajectory of everything that's about to happen.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I like that they didn't change the outfit. When when
Frankie five Angels comes in with the brother that they
that like, they brought him straight from Italy. They put
him on the plane. They didn't even have time to
dress them up, and I'm like, in a suit, no
farm clothes. He's like, I was just shepherding. What's going on?
It's got that funny little hat. I don't even know
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what you'd call that thing. But anyhow, No, I mean,
you know, I like tradition and all that. I think
I've made that pretty clear, But I don't believe in
voodoo though. I mean, like Aaron Rodgers, here's the thing
that people what's emerged for me is a lot of
people have a difficult time distinguishing between the name brand
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and the reality of what that brand is. In the
year of Our Lord twenty twenty five, I mean Aaron Rodgers, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Like people, you think Mason Rudolph is as good as
Aaron Rodgers. No, not in their respective primes. But Aaron Rodgers,
who clearly before the risk injury, was prioritizing not getting hit,
now has a left wrist injury. So when he sees
anybody within ten yards of him. What do you think
he's going to try to do he gets the ball
out of his priority is very much like Ben Roethlisberger's
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in the twilight of his career, which is like what
Tom Brady and Peyton Manning and every other old guy
does it at the end of it. They don't want
to get hit because they understand their own mortality. And
so of course Aaron Rodgers is like that. So that's
not a good place to start with your starting quarterback
in the quarterback league. So of course it should be
Mason Rudolph here. And I think it's ridiculous, but like
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the indulgence of this when I mean, the guy is
not going to be able to literally defend himself so
long as he has a ball in his throwing hand,
what's he going to fend off an oncoming defender with
if not his left hand, Well, he's gonna turtle it up,
is what his react?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well, maybe a little like a plastic poker. They're just something.
It's just a little fact like, yeah, something to keep
in them.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
In like a captain hook hook kind of thing like that.
Maybe that like you you want some of this, come
get it? Yeah, like, yeah, that would be interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, something like that, something that's attached to.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
One of those and my next I need one of
them hooks for my next top of train fight too.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But here's the thing, whether it's whether it's him or Okay,
so you make it clear, Yeah, the boogeyman thing is
not relevant in twenty five Okay, so h assuming you
know either Mason or Aaron Rodgers in there. I still
think Arthur Smith needs to think of this as despite
who's behind center, you have to go through Jalen Warren.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah, like as long as Jalen Warren is right. But
you know, Caleb Johnson, this this holding back, this precious
is Is Caleb Johnson ready to contribute? I want to
get him. Mike Tomlin is quoted in the broadcast last Sunday, like,
you know, Mike told us he'd like to get Caleb
Johnson some more snaps. If only Mike Tomlin had any say,
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and who gets the ball and what I mean?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Okay, but he's a rookie.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
This is not This is not a quarterback. Running Backs
are ready to if they are if they are good,
they're ready to roll on day one in the NFL.
He's not like there's a learning curve. He's I disagree
with that. Okay, what you think? What do you think
the bus Then that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I never understood this. This Uh you know, they just
thought fant of company, he's going to be the next Nogy.
We're giving him all the workload we gave Naugy. That
was the narrative when he got drafted, and I asked
everybody all summer, why is it that we're just assuming
this guy's going to come in here and do this
lo and behold. He couldn't do it, and he made
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mistake after a mistake, and he was towering at the
line on contact.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
He was completely shutting down.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
He went down on first hit every time he got
one chance at a breakaway.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
This weekend, he grabbed a guy by the face mask,
I mean his head. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Can he come around from a mental standpoint not to
do stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That's dumb.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yes, But running in the NFL is different than running
against Iowa State. He has to be able to continue
after contact. He has to hit the hole even when
somebody's there. He can't dance around and wait. And he's
got a big problem with making the transition to the pros.
Do I think he's a bus No, but I think
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he's more likely headed in the bus direction than he
is headed into the envy of the AFC direction.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Wow Bowman, Yeah, I mean, listen, you're damning him pretty
good here, and maybe you're right. I don't know, but
I mean again, that would be a fundamentally atrocious move
by the Pittsburgh Steelers to burn that pick then on
somebody who as If you are right, I do agree
with you that if he is the man, then we
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would know he's the man by now. I just don't know.
It's the end of November's wild I but Penn State
not playing a freshman, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
This is this They needed this guy and he couldn't
do it. It was too big for him. He screwed
up a kickoff. He you know, he put the ball
on the carpet a couple of times. He couldn't pick
up any blocks. He was not ready for prime time
on delivery, and they crowned him as the guy who
was going to take over for Nausey, who was probably
the most underappreciated running back the Steelers have had in
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the last five years.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Because the team wasn't winning playoff games well.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Because it's where they where he was drafted that everybody
resented Naji Harritt. But it will take a running back. Well,
I mean, yeah, I'm with you on a lot of
what you said there. I also think it's the Steeler's
precious process that is gotten in the way of Caleb Johnson.
Berry fostered that the same stupid, I mean monumentally stupid.
Good thing. You're a pro football player and you don't
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know the kickoff rules. You're back there to be the
kickoff returner, but you don't know what the rule is.
Barry Foster did that two generations ago, and he worked
out for a little while in Pittsburgh as well. The
difference is here is this is this weird like we
got to ramp our guys up so that they're ready
to be steal so they stand the way the Steeler
Like listen, hey, Mike Tomlin, you know it's you know
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about free agency, man, like you waste a rookie year
now the clock is really picking on a guy. This
is foolishness. But okay, whether it's Kenny Gainwell or Jalen
Warren or Caleb Johnson, they better for real. I'm not
trying to be negative, which has become now the trend
with Dave when I talk about the Steelers over the
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last year and a half. By the way, I'm also
right about everything I've said about the Steelers for the
last year and a half. I hate the pat myself
on the back, who are my kid? And I love
to do it now, except it makes me sad in
this case, because I want the Steelers to be good.
They better win this game against the Bears, because after
that reminder, you want some cynicism, you want some glass Dude, Dave.
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They're six and four in the first place, which is
which you complaining about? Well this year, I mean one
year ago at this time they were eight and two.
They were just coming off of a win against the
Baltimore Ravens. How did the season work out? Well? They
went ten and seven. Why because at the back end
of the of the schedule they played four good teams.
(19:31):
They lost all four of those. Guess what if the
Stealers lose today, I lose on Sunday, They're gonna be
six and five. They felt to play the Bears at
Detroit and the Ravens twice. You think they're getting to
ten wins with that schedule, They're gonna have to pull
some mighty upsets to get there. If they dropped this
one to the Bears, who by the way, are good
themselves and are also deeply incentive to win this game
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to hold on the first place themselves, this is a
tough spot. It all rounds. I listen. I know people, Oh, dude,
you don't like Mike Tomlin who was more supportive of
Mike Tomlin than Dave. How you know? The remarkable never
losing even streak is something to point at and no
matter how much people try to diminish.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It, it is.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
It is amazing that he was able to do that.
But like I said last year, they should have moved
on to Ben Johnson.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Well, he's doing amazing things there in Chicago, no doubt.
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Speaker 2 (20:34):
Thanks Dave, great stuff, pad. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, well, he didn't have a whole lot of opportunities
to shoot the ball.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
There, dude, what do you want to hear?
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Speaker 1 (21:15):
Well Bill has sailed on to greener comedy pastures, which
means we can't do pick six anymore on the road,
but I can do my end.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yes, that's right, He's on the road, that's right. So
instead I'll be doing three and out for you.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
These are games that are guaranteed to probably, maybe, likely
possibly be a lock.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
All right, let's get it started.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
The Browns at the Raiders, oh minus four. This game
is the worst thing to happen to Las Vegas since
the Rico Act, at least the mob who had a
treated guy who lost a month's salary playing Keno. No
more free ba Phaser Bogo coupons for the Robin Tug
Joint off Fremont Street, since Corporate America took over since City.
This game is so bad I'm surprised or not flexing
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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 (22:16):
But I digress. Let's start with Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
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
to within an inch of him quitting the sport, the
Browns now have no other choice but to start should Sanders,
and after watching him play in the second half last week,
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they'd be better off starting Bernie Sanders. Hell, they'd be
better off starting Bernie Kozar, and he just had a
liver transplant.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Last week.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Shador was four of seventeen with an interception and two
sacks that he made exponentially worse by running backwards.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
He makes Kenny Pickett look like Mike Vick under pressure.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
And since he'll be suited up for the Raiders, Kenny
might just give Shador a backwards run for his money.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
On this one.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
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.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
A double shift.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Gino's postgame presser after getting ripped by the Cowboys last
week an instant classic.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I keep saying this, man, if some don't look right
out there, blaming it on me, right, If it don't
look right, blame it on me. That's all you can do.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Blame it on me.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
If your kids mess up with school, blame it on me.
Carbrick down going to work, Blame it on me.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
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 lug that Levin furniture couch to his third team
in two years. And when Pickett finally does take charge,
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Miles Garrett is gonna batter him so hard it'll make
what he did the Mason look like he was brushing
some lint off his shoulder.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
He killed Kenny. You pastered.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
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 (24:10):
I'm taking the Browns next Eagles at the Cowboys. Cowboys
getting three and a half.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Nick Sirianni, the second most popular former IUP coach Jacob
nod to you and your Indiana squad. Well, he's flying
his brotherly Bird's to Jerry World this weekend to face
their division rival Dallas Cowboys. Last week, Cowboys receiver CD
Lamb and George Pickens were bench for the first series
of the game for team conduct violation. The team won't
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say what the violation was, but given the yearly ongoing
soap opera in Dallas, they probably shot JR.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
If you're under forty, google it.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Cowboys interim coach Brian Schottenneimer at this point, every coach
in Dallas is interim as far as I'm concerned. He
refused to say what the dumbnamic duo were doing that
got them bench, but he did praise them for not
thinking 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.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
That's why I love these guys.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Schottenheimer later excused Pickens on sportsmanlike conduct penalty on a
touchdown celebration, saying I just.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Love the way he plays. This is giving big.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
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
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year alone, there were NFL Netflix docu series America's 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 episod of
Botched Epic Plastic Surgery Disasters, and I'm still waiting for
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him to pop up in the Ken Burns American Revolution
documentary as Young Boy in Town Square. But the only
TV show in which the Cowboys fans want to see
Jerry's overlifted face is the Super Bowl. It's been nearly
thirty years since they've been back, and Cowboys fans want
them to start focusing on Lombards instead of Emmys. And
the Cowboys are primed for an upset because the Eagles
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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,
to be fair, that has only one crack, and Sa
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
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stuff like I didn't walk through the fire just to
smell the smoke, or I had purpose before everyone had opinions.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
That's great, Jalen, but how.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Does that explain why you check down more often than
a guy with a broken zipper. I do hope the
Eagles use the toush push a lot, because you know
the Texas governor thinks it's super gay.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Ooh, what silf?
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Perspecting man would grind him silf into the backside of
another Get my lawmaking kid with these two teams. They
met in the season opener, Eagles defensive stud Jaalen Carter
got thrown out for spitting on Dak six seconds into
the game. This time, I think the Eagles are going
to be swallowing a big d upset.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
I'm taking Jerry's kids play the home dogs.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Next the meat 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, colloil, silver, and goat colostrum that
men's bones overnight?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
If not, we might be looking too Mighty Mason and
his over the mutcho mustache to make mixedmeat of the months.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
There's a.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
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,
the town Chicago is Rogers twenty four in five against
the Bears, and famously hollered I still own you to
Bears fans after scoring a touchdown for Green Bay in
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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 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
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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 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.
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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. 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
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you with his feet. Caleb's real strength is that he
protects the football the way you should grill a steak.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
He very rarely turns it over.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Additional headaches for the Steelers running back DeAndre Swift and
Kyle Manunge have been harder to stop than AHEMOPHILIAX nosebleed.
Not to mention, the Bear's defense has more takeaways this
year than Ice. But whether it's Mason or rec Risted
Rogers behind Zach's back on Sunday, I bet your bottom
dollar the Steelers offense doesn't blow in the Windy City.
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That's because they finally commissioned Warren to lead the off
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 (30:16):
Let Mount Washington or Rup.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Arthur for God's sake. It all boils down to this.
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.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Take the Steelers and the points just to be safe.
That's it. There you go.
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talked about how much this music means to you.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
And I think that that's something that makes this special.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
This show is because this music for the people who
are there in.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
The canon of everything that comes from the band.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Of course they always love, but there's something about these
particular songs that strikes an almost religious chord with people.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Eric, Yeah, cord is a good word.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Yeah, I agree, And I can just say, you know,
I've done a lot of work where I've studied how
sound and vibration affects people in an almost medicinal way,
and how they've used it for thousands of years in
indigenous cultures. And I have this unique experience that's different
for most people is that I've stood on stage in
(32:56):
front of tens of thousands of people and when one
helm would go into a song like Ophelia or you know,
the Night they Drove, you know, like whatever song the
Weight of course, you know, I would just see people
burst into tears, like spontaneously and lift off the ground.
And so I saw how how incredible music played with
(33:19):
the spirit of people who just really really love what
they do, really brings people to a better place in
their lives.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
And this music.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
In particular, And although I never did the last Waltz
as a full concert would leave on, he wasn't ever
really interested in doing something like that.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
What I did see.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Was when you played one of those songs and you know,
we're artists, were used to playing, you know, to us,
the great challenge is finding that next special thing. But
when there is a special thing and you do it
and you know it touches something for people, it's just
very an amazing feeling to witness these songs.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah, I mean, there's something unique about the Last Waltz. Obviously,
the all star factor is one part of it that
you can obviously point to, but I think the thing
that that gets kind of lost in the understanding of
what makes it special is that, yes, it's the all
star roster, but the way that those performers pushed each
(34:24):
other throughout the show and the end results ends up
being the best of what the best have to offer.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Yeah, well, there's a kind of elation when you're surrounded
by all these other people and you're doing music that
you love and and you know and there's a there's
a like mindedness to it.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
And even though you know, I was a kid.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
When the Last Waltz happened, the first time I played
with the band in ninety three was was Bill Clinton's inauguration,
where you know, it was euphoric in Washington, d C.
At that time, and people really felt like we were
turning over a new and the group that I played with,
you know, the band, but it was also Vassar Clements,
(35:06):
Stephen Stills and doctor John and Bob Dylan making a
mysterious appearance and you know, and uh and lots of
other people of course. Uh, you know, the guy got
me involved in it all was John Simon, who was
a neighbor of mine who brought me in and you know,
probably had, you know, single handedly, unintendedly had the biggest
impact on my entire career by getting me involved in
(35:27):
this stuff. Yeah, and I saw that same thing with
those same a lot of the same musicians, but the
same caliber caliber of musicians, and it was just joy.
We had an eight and a half hour rehearsal that
was completely discombobulated, but everybody was just just laughing and
happy to be there.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Ye know. Dylan is the guy that I think that
I always wonder you know, I know, Van Morrison famously,
you know, would kick it up a notch if Dylan
was around.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
He just worshiped Bob Dylan.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
And you know, there's an apocryphal, possibly apocryphal story of
him moving to wood Stock just to sort of be
around Bob Dylan back in the day. But you know,
you see Neil Young hears Joni Mitchell perform and that
propels him to give a special performance, and that propels
Ronnie Hawkins to give a special performance. And Doctor John
comes out and does his doctor John thing, and then
(36:18):
well that you know, the next man up uh tries
to you know, do their best and and basically hold
serve with all of these icons of that time.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you've got to be on your
best game and that you know, we've also heard the
stories about what they did to make everybody comfortable.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yeah, sure there was a little there was a little
performance enhancing aspect to it all.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Yeah, it doesn't need to be spoken on radio, but
but but but yeah, I definitely felt like that was there,
although I you know, definitely when I played, it wasn't
the same, right, the same.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Type of encouragement that was backstage.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
But but but they didn't need because because that was
the show that that helped to make all of them
who they are, you know, helped to create the legends
of them and then the rest of their lives. You know,
they they were already in the flow of becoming that
and then this kind of crystallized it thanks to the
Scorsese and you know, and uh, you know in general public,
(37:21):
you know, going out there, and and and and bear
in mind too, the Last Waltz was, as Howard Johnson
liked to remind us all the time, was a tour.
It wasn't a concert or a night you know, two
nights of concerts. They were touring the Last Waltz. You know,
the horn section was on, and maybe all the stars
weren't there for the entire tour, but whoever could jump
(37:42):
on would jump on.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, that's that is the least talked about aspect of
the Last Waltz, and miss just not even misunderstood.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I don't think people realize that.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Right, except for the really hardcore fans. Yeah, you know,
and uh, yeah, it's true. And and that I got
to experience, you know, during my years touring with with
with Levan, touring with Little Feet, touring with you know,
jumping back to the nineties with Buddy Miles, is like
you'd show up and then everybody else would show up,
just wanting to be around right and to feel Levon's
(38:14):
groove and to you know, get on stage with him
and you know and try to mix it up a
little bit. You know, a boy, when I play with
Buddy Miles, you know, there would be a line out
the door of guitar players waiting to sit in, and
I bet and we wouldn't stop until they all did,
you know, and not just the local guys, but like
big name people, everybody, everybody in town who was free
that night would be there to sit in.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Well, that spirit of performers pushing each other really shines
through on these Pittsburgh Ramble Band shows. Here, Paul Luke
is going to be a part of this one, Clinton Clegg,
John Binley, Joe Grischky, Jeff Taylor, Attie Twigg, Bill Deazy
and Celadonia, Molly Alphabet Chet, Vincent Andre Costello, Jen Wartz.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
It's going to be an absolute blast.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
And of course helming the horn section up from the
Midnight Ramble Band himself, Eric Lawrence, who joins us now, Man,
I can't wait till tomorrow night. I'm very much looking
forward to it, and I just want to say thanks
again for lending your time and your talent to this
great event, which by the way, raises a whole bunch
of money for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank at
a time of the year that they desperately need it.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
So thank you again.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
And I want to throw in Mark Dignam's name there too,
because he's a gay, close personal fan. We just went
to see Josh Rieder together.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Mark is the best, I mean, what an absolute he is, like,
he is the if there's a saint of the local
music scene, like if there's like a pope somebody like
I need a concierge here, you know, our concierer concieri,
not a concierge, somebody that can.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Confide in or get advice from.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Mark is always there and makes himself available to all musicians,
and he is the best possible spirit to have around
for any of these kinds of events.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
He's the wisdom and that's just what we were talking about.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
He's the kind of guy when he performs in this setting,
you know, it's it's so rooted and reaches so high
up into the sky.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
At the same time that.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Everybody else is going to be there too, you know,
like that wave you know, just carries over. I mean,
last year's concert was just such a joy for me
to be a part of and thank you for putting
it all together, because this is the Pittsburgh Waltz. It's
you know, you've just put together, you know, as many
of the stars of Pittsburgh that you know that you
can assemble at one on.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
One night, at one time.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
And and I see the spirit with the guys at
the rehearsal. You know, everybody is involved. It's really beautiful.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Well yeah, it's it's just so much fun. And there
are a few tickets left. They're probably gonna sell out
by the time this interview air, So get on it
and call over to the Mister Small's box office or
log onto DV dot com.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
They have a link there that you can get in for
the small As Waltz.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
That's tomorrow night in eight o'clock show, star Studded, and
it is a faithful rendition of the great concert film
of all time Martin Scorsese and the band and the
last Waltz from the Midnight Ramble Band.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
Sorry, throwing one one last quick thing. I still play
in Woodstock at Levon's Barn. You can go to leave
on Heilm dot com. It's now called the Helm Family Ramble.
It's run by Levon's amazing daughter Amy and.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Her son Lee.
Speaker 5 (41:23):
Uh is probably as close as will come to seeing
Levon you know return, Kay, it's incredible. Oh well, he's
seventeen now and he's just like a great drummer and
a great singer, and he's just got this beautiful spirit
and uh and for some reason he brings his uh,
his step granddad out, who just loves him so much.
(41:43):
Donald Fagan comes to just about every show that he
sits in. Sometimes he even sits in with the seventeen
year old band that Lee has with his friends. You know,
he just he loves his grandson so much that you know,
you know, he's not doing anything but coming to our show.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Well, if you're headed up to Levon's barn, you might
see Eric playing up there with the Ramble Band and
all the great shows that Amy and her family are
putting on up there. But you can definitely see him
tomorrow night at mister Small's as part of the Smalls Waltz.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Eric, see you tomorrow, thanks so much, buddy.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
Yeah, Hi bye.
Speaker 8 (42:17):
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Speaker 2 (42:28):
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Speaker 9 (42:29):
It'll be a matchup between two division leading teams this
Sunday when the Steelers and Bears meet in Chicago and
in Pittsburgh. All eyes are on quarterback Aaron Rodgers and
his availability with a broken left wrist injury. Rogers was
a limited participant in yesterday Steelers practice as he continues
to trend toward playing Sunday against the Bears, and Rogers
has a career record of twenty four and five against Chicago,
so his services could prove useful against the Bears defense
(42:51):
that leads the league with fifteen interceptions. On the defensive
side of things, the Steelers have their work cutout for
them against the powerful Bears offense that loves to run
the football. In fact, when playing at home in Soldier Field,
the Bears run the ball forty nine percent of their snaps,
and it works, as Chicago has the league's second best
rushing attack, averaging one hundred and forty six point six
yards per game on the ground. After a tough start
(43:14):
to the season stopping the run, the Steelers run defense
has been trending in the right direction as of late,
they've climbed all the way up to the league's thirteenth
best run dye, allowing just one hundred and six point
four yards on the ground per game. It'll be a
tall task slowing up the bears rushing attack, but the
form of the Steelers defense should inspire confidence and stifling
the Bear's bread and butter on offense might just be
enough to pull off the upset in the Windy City.
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