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Speaker 1 (00:12):
WDV Pittsburgh, an iHeartRadio station, guaranteed Human.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
I went to Ritish one time and my buddy two
in the morning. He looks at the venue. The waitress
comes by, She's like, what do you want him? And
he's like, oh, the veal. We all stop, we look
at him. I'm like, what are you doing. He's like,
I give it a shot. I'm pretty hungry. It comes back,
you know, like he eats the veal. I'm like, how

(00:43):
was it. He's like, not that good. I'm like, it's
on you. It's on you.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
The truth is I miss being able to eat that
late and not having it affect me for three days.
Oh I eate at three o'clock in the morning on Friday.
That takes till Monday. You got me a lot of decisions, Abby,
the Domino effective that changes my lunch and dinner for
two days.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
You'r et laying in the creek for two days.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
Just Brandy Bellman and the DV morning show.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Tad Whistle with this here again this morning live and studio.
You know, we were talking about that Doors song was
just playing there Roadhouse Blues, and we groove into.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
It in the studio and I asked Abby.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Do you think the Doors would have put out more
like classic albums? Would the next album been better or
as good as La Woman? Or would it have been
more of a soft parade kind of record It would
have been just okay, I think I agree with you
on that. I'm not sure how much they left in
the tank. I don't know, but I was a humongous

(01:49):
Doors fan as a kid. The two bands I love
the most as a kid the Doors and Rush. Well,
Zeppelin was like in there. Zeppelin was the like it
was a religion. Like it was like, well, of course
we understand that, right, but outside of that exactly, it's
like who are your favorite saints? Zeppelin is God? And
I read that whole book No One Here Gets Out Alive.

(02:11):
I think I read half of it on the bus
ride home from the Mill Creek Mall, like I just
couldn't get enough Doors. And then when the Doors movie
came out, and I think I was in high school
when the Doors movie came out, and I mean I
loved it, but as I got older, I saw it
for the hilarious movie that it is. It's the weirdest

(02:32):
thing because Val Kilmer I think deserved an Oscar. He
was so good in the Doors movie and it's eminently watchable.

Speaker 6 (02:40):
It is just great.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
I will put it on anytime and watch it start
to finish. And it's a bad movie. All of those
things are true, Like it's not good. Oliver Stone was
so heavy handed in the writing, you know, with the.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
The Native American.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Every time he's hammered, he's these Indians, you know, and
then it's just a lot right And the fact that
you know, and I've pointed this out several times on
the show where he's just speaks, he speaks in lyrics,
which nobody did, Like Jim was a regular guy, and
that this is what pissed the band members off. They're like,
he was kind of a regular guy when you hung

(03:15):
out with him. He wasn't this you know.

Speaker 7 (03:17):
I'm dionysis dying on the bull of infinity with.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
All else feels you can whip.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
They're like, Jim, eggs or meat loaf?

Speaker 4 (03:29):
What do you were trying to order here? Two sides?

Speaker 8 (03:32):
Sir?

Speaker 9 (03:32):
Yeah, I think of myself as a fiery comment.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Oh is that what you did in the bathroom? Exactly? Dad.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
You had the funny observation on it too, because I
never realized that before.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, it happens a few times in the movie, but uh,
ray Man Xeric interjects with some totally rational suggestion or
he's like, uh, Jim, maybe you shouldn't drink so much,
and everyone goes, shut up, Ray, idiot, Why butt out?

Speaker 4 (04:06):
I just I don't think he's really drunk. Guys, he's hilarious.
Shut up Ray stupid. No one likes you.

Speaker 10 (04:17):
Ray.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
He gets little brother the majority of the movie, like
after the first five minutes.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, he got the last laugh though, because for the
rest of his life he did eight million interviews going.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Jim was a shop man.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
You never know what you were gonna get when you
got in the studio with Jim. One day it could
be dian Ices, the next it could be smoking Hopkins,
little blind Willie McTell. Like, you know, you're like, he
wasn't that complex of a guy. He's just a weirdo
from Florida, right, you know. But also I love the

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doors and I you know, I find him to be fascinating.
He was one of the few dudes that did toe
the line between teen idol and like.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Respected rock star.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, because a lot of times we we're in the
teen idle side of things you don't get the love from,
like you know, the I don't want to say hipsters,
but like you know, regular folk are like, oh dude,
he's just that's all just teen beat.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
Stuff, you know.

Speaker 9 (05:20):
And he's very specific kind of team though, don't you think,
what do you mean like a runaway kind of Yeah?

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Right, come join the circus. The West is the best, sir,
this you are you're being charged with human trafficking? Do
you understand that this is the bus station? Anyways?

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Oliver Stone thought he had written the perfect biopic, and
in a way I think he did. But like the
way they depict doors concerts is also kind of hilarious,
like the one in Miami, I mean they did. Someone
had a lamb on that one. You know, someone gave
him like a a goat or a lamb or something
like that. But there's like fires and there's always Indians

(06:04):
dancing around.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Make sure to stop by the merch tent headdress, get
your own lamb and a dream catcher. The doors at a.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Festival in modern day America would be kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
They have that store at the airport is the spirit
of the Yeah, never understand that. I every time I
walk past it. I'm like, is that cool? I don't know, seems.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Kind of yeah, like cultural, Yeah, depends on who you ask.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, you know, but imagining them their humble beginnings as
the doors merch venders.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
The spirit of the West. Yeah, that's where started.

Speaker 11 (06:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
On the you know today's show, by the way, not
for nothing, huge Meryll Hodge is going to be joining us,
Dang Mark Madden double m at eighty today and the
reason that Mark's going to be early today, and we
thank Mark for accommodating us. Jean's stairtor is gonna be
live in studio with us this morning. You're not gonna
want to miss that.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
And he wanted to come in. This is what I love.
Jean's like, hey, Red, I can come in if you
need me to. And I'm like, dude, come in and
hang with us.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
And then PFT, Commoner is gonna call while Jean's Star
Tour is here. So it's a packed host today, Abby.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
I love that, And we're gonna get you started with
some news.

Speaker 9 (07:26):
This hour brought to you by your neighborhood, Ford Store,
cloudy with most of us just seeing rain this morning.
This was actually supposed to be the day of the
week where we were supposed to all get snow and
it was like a ninety five percent chance, and it
sounds like we actually kind of all got lucky. So
it's gonna be a high of thirty eight today, and
if you're seeing anything likely, it's just rain. As a
Pittsburgh councilman, Anthony Cogil chairs city Council's Public Safety Committee

(07:50):
and serves on the Sports and Exhibition Authorities Board, But
even those credentials could not score him an invitation to
a closed door town hall Monday with NFL face about
the twenty twenty six NFL Draft coming to Pittsburgh in April.
You would think one of those elements might get me
in the door, Cogill equipped, but that wasn't the case.
Cog Hill wasn't invited, and neither was the media, despite

(08:11):
the city's playing host to what planners say might be
the largest gathering in Pittsburgh's history, with hundreds of thousands
of fans, maybe even one million, expected to swarm downtown
and the North Shore over three days.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
So this is a town hall that no one was
allowed to go to. They forgot the town park. You
get the hall, right, Yeah, they were so close. Not
the town part. Uh how about the balls on the NFL.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, well they're like, uh, we'll tell you what we're
doing when we're ready.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
Yeah, not can we do it.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
I'd like to see some notes from the closed door
town hall meeting.

Speaker 9 (08:48):
Yeah, there was no specifics about this town hall. Who
was invited, how many people, how they were selected?

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Oh yeah nothing.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's probably like Goodell handingcot humiliation rituals to people. And
that's why cogoll couldn't go. This is like Art Rooney
wearing boxer shorts getting spanked.

Speaker 6 (09:08):
Go away, close the door, Coghill.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
I don't think that's what it was. I don't know.

Speaker 9 (09:23):
I mean, at the minimum, if like visit Pittsburgh would
have been at this or just somebody, somebody like, you know,
just one or two would have been really nice. I'm
still super excited about the draft. I imagine that we
will be down there.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Oh no, look, just do what you want to us.
NFL have your way with Pittsburgh. We don't care. Just
do it to us, to do the draft, to us,
do draft to me, do draft, draft all over us.
We're fine, look at me when you draft. Look here,

(09:59):
go ahead and just do whatever you want to, don't
worry about what we have to say about it. Now,
you might like benefit from somebody from the city being
there to be like, look, I know you want to
set that whole big interactive thing up, uh, you know,
under that bridge.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
But also here's why it's not a great idea.

Speaker 9 (10:19):
We've talked about this before with the people from the
pit coming in, like you gotta have a yenser on
your board, yes, just to tell you how things actually go,
how that's actually pronounced.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
A ambassador we were talking about for all things like this.
Nominate dad Dad would be a good one.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Hey, listen, guys, if you're if anybody's down by the river,
if you fall in, you're all fed up, you're probably
gonna end up in Emsworth.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
Not gonna go good.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm just letting you know, get someone to point out
the obvious dangers.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
If your current's really running that day, try to hold
on some garbage. Just try to hold on some garbage
and float down the river to a safe space. If
you get poked bin needle on the way, save prayer,
I mean, bring somebody in from the city.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Somebody all right too.

Speaker 9 (11:12):
Metallica fans received lifetime bands from an Australian stadium after
they climbed a speaker tower during the Heavy Metals Bands
show in Perth, Australia.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Shows are getting insane. Yeah, what is going on down there?
I mean they're having a good time.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
I saw our friend by the way, Katie Moran Pittsburgher
who's the tour manager of Garbage. She posted a picture
of herself at the at Akuala Preserve Ah yesterday as so,
I guess Garbage is still there.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
Metallica is there right now.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Fans are pissing off artists climbing sound towers.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
It was Metallica in Sydney or are they Melbourne?

Speaker 10 (11:52):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Per Perth is like, isn't that the that's like the
rural part of Australia.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
I wouldn't know, but I believe you. I think it is. Well,
you were at Australia for the Olympics. Let me tell
you something.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
You think our trip to Dumblin was whirlwind in an
app of Ireland.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
It takes most of the trip to get to Australia,
doesn't it. And then we were there for three days?

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh come on, so you were a two to three
ratio of travel to yes ground time.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
We did and this is like when I first got
the this was nine months into me working here, and
like the second month, we went to Aruba for nine
days and did the show from a holiday and I'm like,
what the And then we went to Australia.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Coca Cola paid.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
For it, and it was I think thirty hours travel
there and like thirty three on the way back.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
And then you had.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Three days and they gave you all kinds of Olympic
ticket you got to go to events. We went to
the opening ceremonies of the Sydney Australia Olympics, which was
one of the most beautiful ever. But you couldn't get
out very far. We couldn't leave Sydney, like we had
to stay there. But we flew to Melbourne to connect
on the way home, and somebody was explaining Australia to
me from Australia and they're like, yeah, this is where

(13:08):
it gets a little bit more rurally, you know. And
then that's not how they sound. And then Perth is like,
I'm pretty sure, like the desert, like you know, eight
hundred different deadly snakes, like you know, like has its
own ecosystem kind of place. It's like one of the
most unique places on the planet. Wow, so Metallica is like,
let's play there, let's play.

Speaker 9 (13:29):
Well, they play everywhere, didn't they play in Antarctica a
few years ago. It's a little bit of a stunt.
I think I'm saying that is a rhetorical question.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
I was gonna say that I can see them they did. Yeah,
they definitely did. They played Antarctica. Yeah, they've done it.
They've kind of done it all they have to do
it before Dave Mustain does it, and then that way
they feel like shot Bucks got it.

Speaker 9 (13:53):
But yeah, these two folks got lifetime bands. I don't
know how any concert venue enacts that. We were kind
of talking. I think there was something a long time ago.
We're like, well, at this point with AI and facial recognition,
maybe that's how you do it. Or those people can't
purchase concert tickets anymore. They both pleaded guilty to trespassing charges,
and the judge added that the men stunt was an

(14:15):
incredibly stupid thing to do and a good way to
ruin your night out.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
So it is one of the most isolated like cities
in the world, but it is also like it has
a little metropolitan cultural art Hub. So it's not like,
you know, just like a wild West town or anything
like that, but it's like so far away from everything.

Speaker 9 (14:36):
I just can't like picture Australia in my mind's eye
like it's one of those obviously it's the place I've
never been. I just can't like picture it in anything
other than like a desert in a way, like you know,
like the Australian outback. Then the cartoon version that my
brain has imprinted it.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
I think that that's it.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
I think you've got it right point specifically, Well, no,
I just think all of the I think Perth is
a city with all of the stuff I was describing
between it, you know.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
But I will say this that do you remember how
when we were in Dublin.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Every night we went out, we met Dubliner's and we
hung out and we hung out with him for like
three hours. That was Australia, but but nine hours, like
they drink their faces off. They were so much fun.
Like I made friends for life there, you know, guys.
But the weird thing was one dude and I remember
his name was his last name was Kren And because
we were laughing because Jimmy had the last same nat

(15:31):
name as him. His name was Greg Krann and he's
he's like got our emails and this was the year too,
the year two thousand and like emailing video clips like the.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
Like Ebom's World kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yeah, like the the technology just like you know, started
to exist that could condense all these big files. And
so he just started ending porn, like a lot of porn.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
And then I was like a couple of weeks, yes,
how the mates might like this?

Speaker 3 (16:10):
And then it turned to German scat porn and I
was like, how do you block somebody from emailing you things?

Speaker 4 (16:20):
Because I was just working.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Its coming to my work email and I'm like, I
don't want any of this stuff.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
I was in it at first. It was hilarious. It's
like Jesus, look at this guy. Said, he's a real sicko. Huh.
And then after you get done of him, you're the sicko. Yeah,
if you don't block it.

Speaker 10 (16:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
But is this more shy as and porn? Oh yeah,
you're seeing one. You see them all and favorite exactly.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
How do I say? How do I save it? Email?
All right, we'll wrap with this.

Speaker 9 (16:50):
Oxford University Press announced rage Bait as it's twenty twenty
five Word of the Year.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
I've done that.

Speaker 9 (16:58):
Oh now different, you'll go blind. The Prestigious Publisher defines
rage bait as online content deliberty, deliberately rather designed to
elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive,
typically posted in order to increase traffic or to engage
in a particular web page or social media content. So

(17:21):
the I don't need to tell you how we got
to rage bait. You understand the etymology of those words. Yeah,
But interestingly, the first use of rage bait online had
nothing to do with trolling social media. In a two
thousand and two post on usenet, the term was introduced
in the context of automobile traffic to designate a particular

(17:42):
type of driver reaction to being flashed at by another
driver requesting to pass them. That was called rage bait.
That was the first time it was actually used. I
guess we're like kind of used in the lexicon.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah, well road rage, I guess.

Speaker 9 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, that's the first time. But now we use
it for social media. So now it is the word
of the year.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well, there are business plans that are centered around that. Yeah, that, like,
here is our mission statement draw people into our social
media posts and position them in a way that it
will anger most people, because that's how you get people
to respond healthy.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
You're in a healthy society.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
I say it all the time, living in the healthiest
of times.

Speaker 5 (18:26):
Enjoy.

Speaker 9 (18:26):
The other words, by the way that we're in the
running were biohack and aura farming.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Oh my god, what is aura farming? I mean, I
guess I can deduce.

Speaker 9 (18:39):
It's like I hear my kids say this sometimes and
I don't quite get it.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
I'm gonna look it up quickly here, I would imagine that.
I mean, it's just like, uh.

Speaker 9 (18:50):
Aura farming is a slang term intentionally cultivating an image
of effortless cool, charisma, or specific aesthetic.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, it's like lying about who you are. Yeah right Instagram.
Instagram is a big oura or a farm.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
Okay, I get it.

Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (19:09):
I can't remember what context that she uses it.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
She's like the I was.

Speaker 9 (19:15):
At dinner last night and we were having this conversation
because somebody else at the dinner table had a ten
year old, and I was like, I have a nine
year old. That's like turning into a ten year old slowly.
But she's still in like the Hello Kitty World, but
she's up against the Sephora girls.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
So I'm watching the change. Oh that's such a weird
Like once.

Speaker 9 (19:33):
In a while there's a weird thing where she says
Aura points or Aura farming or.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Six seven, and I just like go, like that's happening.

Speaker 6 (19:42):
You know.

Speaker 9 (19:42):
So I'm watching like these things and trying to like
follow the currency, but they they do like you know,
it makes me feel like I'm losing her, Yeah, a
little bit at a time, and I try to follow
the thread and say as if I deeply know what

(20:03):
she's talking about already, like you know where I'm like, uh,
like if she says something like you know, Maddie's like
totally oraforming right now, and I'm like, yeah, man, she's
gotta act like he's been there before, right, And I'm.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
Like, oh my god.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
I say, she knows, I don't know exactly well, she knows.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
She knows you're you're a total fraud.

Speaker 9 (20:26):
She does, and I am so I never I'm trying
cloudy with most of us seeing just rain this morning
instead of snow.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
It is a high of thirty eight. Mom, now you're
Aura Farming.

Speaker 11 (20:35):
I am.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
I'm trying too hard. She learned it from watching you.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Michael be In in just a little bit with your
sports coach Tomlin speaking with the media yesterday, he says
he's still on the hot seat. He says he's always
on the hot seat. She's been on the hot seat
for nineteen years.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
It doesn't even bother him, doesn't. He likes it at
this point.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
He's not a farming, No, not at all, persecuted head coach.

Speaker 9 (20:59):
If he was orf arming, the barn on the farm
would be painted red.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
That is true. He would the barn on that farm,
on the Aura farm exactly. Mike will join us, as
I said, Mark Madden, Merrill, Hodge, Jean's Terator, Liven Studio,
PFT commenter, and more.

Speaker 12 (21:15):
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(21:36):
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Speaker 14 (21:53):
Is U, brought to you by Bridgal Plights. You know
that old thing, it ain't over till it's over.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
I do well.

Speaker 14 (21:57):
The Penguins personified this, personified that last night against Anaheim.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
They gave up.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Oh, I thought, did you have a clip there? I thought,
so it was over, Jacobs raising his hand, going my bad.
The clip was over, my bad.

Speaker 14 (22:14):
They got a power play goal from Anthony Manth at
sixteen oh five of the third period to break.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
You agree that Anthony Manth is the funniest name to say.
Anthony Minton right up there with Charlie Pooth. Charlie Pooth
and Anthony Amen poofs that broke a two to two tie.

Speaker 14 (22:30):
And then the Ducks Chris Crider was penalized at nineteen
forty two of the third period, So there's an offensive
zone face off for the Penguins with eighteen seconds left
in regulation, but they were unable to seal the deal.
Anaheim gets the game tying goal with zero point one

(22:51):
tenth of the second left. It was a centering pass
that got knocked into the net by Eric Carlson.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
I don't think I've ever I've seen that happen point one.

Speaker 14 (23:01):
They had the video review it to make sure the
puck got over the line before time expired.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
It did.

Speaker 14 (23:08):
They went to overtime, nobody scored, and then they went
to a shootout, and of course the Penguins lost that
because they just don't win shootouts. That's five straight shootout
losses this season, nine of their last nine, and fourteen
of their last fifteen. If you're scoring at all, Ducks four,
Penns three, Pittsburgh settles for a point.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
I can't wait to poke Madden in the ribs about
this one later.

Speaker 14 (23:30):
One tenth to the second left. And the sad part
is it was a fantastic hockey game, and they played
pretty well. They didn't dominate, but they were probably, you know,
the slightly better team. Anaheim's a good team. Penn's out
shot and probably out chanced them, played responsible, played hard,
did all the stuff they've been doing for the most part.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
But they just forgot to finish it.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Don't you just get rid of like subout she loves
in the shootout portion.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
I don't think you can do that.

Speaker 14 (23:58):
It's not that you're not allowed, no, I just don't
think it's for his reasonable No, because the other guy
comes in after watching the game for sixty minutes and
now he's supposed to make saves.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
I mean you don't get a warm up period.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
Well, the other guy can't do anything. I mean, well,
I mean you can only score too.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
You're allowed to score goals.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
That's a good point.

Speaker 14 (24:16):
And they don't do that either, So I mean it's
a team thing. What I can't figure out is when
Prouder got that penalty, Dan Mues had Eric Carlson and
Crystal Tang on the ice is as defenseman for the
last eighteen seconds. They don't play together, and I know
they're both better, they're more responsible this. They're still not
shut down defenseman. But your defensive guys now.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
Two guys that do the same thing.

Speaker 14 (24:39):
Yeah, it doesn't matter that you've got a power play
with eighteen seconds left. You don't need another goal. Put
your defensive guys out there. And the guy went around
the Tang and then Carlson batted it into his own net. Brutal,
kind of an unfortunate development, brutal. Fourteen to seven and
seven are the Penguins start thirty five points. That's still

(25:02):
good for fourth in the Metro and first in the
wild card standings. They have Montreal coming to town Thursday,
then a busy weekend San Jose on Saturday and Utah
on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Mike Tomlin meeting the media.

Speaker 14 (25:17):
Yesterday and giving what could be a significant injury update.
Calvin Anderson tackle is out again because of his knee.
Anders Pete phil In Tackle, as well as Malie Harrison
and Darnell Washington are still in the concussion protocol. Kyle
Dugger has a chance to come back, he's dealing with
a hand injury. But the big news, Derek Harmon is

(25:40):
a maybe. Harmon is going to be limited at the
outset of practice tomorrow, according to Tomlin, and then they'll
let his participation and the quality thereof determine whether or
not he's available. Tomlins said he's quote excited about having
an additional day to potentially get Harmon ready.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
Well, bertally need him.

Speaker 14 (26:01):
Have you seen the splits on run defense when Harmon plays,
and when he doesn't play, Remember how we were saying,
yeah after the Buffalo, could one guy make that much
of the difference he can. When Derek Harmon plays nine
games worth, the Steelers average ninety six yards against on
the ground per game.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Which isn't bad.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
It's pretty good. Yeah, if you're under a hundred, you're
doing well.

Speaker 14 (26:24):
When he doesn't play four games, one hundred and ninety
one point twenty five rushing yards per game.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
Allows ninety five yards kids absurd.

Speaker 14 (26:33):
I mean, it's just and it's not like an insignificant
sample size, and you could say, well, they played Buffalo
is a real great running team when he wasn't in,
But so Indianapolis and Chicago were real good running teams
when he was in. I mean, there's something that he
makes a difference. Apparently a huge, profound game team.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Yeah, clearly.

Speaker 14 (26:55):
So hopefully he gets well and hopefully the Steelers are
able to attack Miami on Monday night with the same
kind of spreed decord that they did in Baltimore. Yeah,
they did what they had to do on offense and
defense to get out of Dodge with a w against
the Ravens. But you know, they also made sure that

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their intangibles were what they needed to be.

Speaker 15 (27:19):
Largely though, I just I liked everyone's smile in the
face of adversity mentality. The environment was a tough and
competitive one. Certainly the Ravens are a worthy dance partner,
and we're able to get the job done.

Speaker 14 (27:32):
I mean, that's you gotta block and tackle and you
gotta have the right schematics.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
But we've seen this team.

Speaker 14 (27:38):
We noticed that for the first time in Minnesota, in
Dublin against Minnesota. You know, they played that game to
win it for Dan Rooney, and you know, the energy
and the vibe it was overflowing. And we've seen it
a couple of times this year. And then we've seen
games such as Green Bay where they just kind of
lay down at various points and a guy like Cam
Hayward emerges saying, we didn't have enough fight, right, Like

(27:59):
they got have that first. But they're not good enough
not to be as good as they can possibly be, right,
and they're they're as good as they can possibly be
when they're playing with energy and emotion. So that's uh,
you know, maybe the Ravens thing jump started that element
of it.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
I hope.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
So because to drop This game illustrates the point that
we all make with this team. That drives us crazy
is the up and down nature of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 6 (28:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (28:23):
Yeah, although these guys Miami's they're they're they're upright now,
and yes they're trending up. They're six and seven, but
the last four games they're not six and seven.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 14 (28:34):
It's it's going to take pretty much what the Steelers
have to win this game. If they think they can
show up and you know, half asset and get it
get away with it, it's it's.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Not gonna win a full asset. Yeah you got to,
You got a full ass Abby's got your news.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
Top of the hour. What are you talking about?

Speaker 9 (28:51):
We have speculated, but we're finally getting clarity on the
Pam Anderson Liam Neeson relationship from Pam Anderson.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Meryl Hodge, Mark maddenan stereotaur Live in studio this morning
here with PFT comment or calling in during that hour
in the nine o'clock hour, we'll rate our algorithms when
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Speaker 4 (29:44):
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Speaker 3 (29:45):
At a different SETOS one of two point five d
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hanging out in studio with us along with Abbie Prisner
and Mike Pursuda.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
This morning, Jacob Bret to your producer.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Every week, we like to raid our respective algorithms just
to find out what do.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
You look because we're all looking at a different world. Now, Well,
I don't know what's in your algorithm. You don't know
what's in mine.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Now, this has more profound effects on society when you're
talking about news, but we kind of make it more
about like, look at this hilarious thing that's in my
algorithm that might not have been in yours, and we
call it rating the algorithm we're writing.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
All right, Yeah, so all right, we're putting it all together.

Speaker 16 (30:34):
Mike.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
We'll start with you. What was in your algorithm this week?
You know, believe it or not.

Speaker 14 (30:38):
Misery from Cleveland, And I got to tell you, maybe
it's because they've had so much practice, but nobody expresses
their torture better than Cleveland fans.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
We have a trash.

Speaker 11 (30:56):
Season tickets in that.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
Maybe we could go for let's use the Wildcats and
we don't make it there.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
Any team is better?

Speaker 5 (31:06):
Who Boma Tennessee Because we're trying to lose, maybe we'll
win something. We need a quarterback, so we're drafting too.

Speaker 17 (31:18):
And I remember when we weren't driving and driving down
the field throwing so fast I thought.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
I was drunk.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Had to win right there before us.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Oh we needed to win was shown us.

Speaker 6 (31:31):
So why did we go for two while we should
have went further?

Speaker 11 (31:37):
Tie?

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Now we lost the game?

Speaker 5 (31:40):
Man, we should have won, should have won.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
I mean it, it is really the factory of sadness
is really breaking out.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
But I love that song and I love that adaptation
of it.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah, I mean it really does convey the level of sadness.

Speaker 14 (31:59):
Because we're else guarant Jersey and he's got his Brown's
winner cap on and he's just doing the paved face things,
singing and play.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
That's what football does to people, really does. Like for
those who aren't fans, you just don't know what it's
like to be a fan of But did that.

Speaker 14 (32:12):
Guys start watching in October where you've been there, I
don't know what That's how it is. Yeah, that's I
feel like that's how pirate fans are.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Pirate fans are like past the point of writing songs
in their sadness.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
There's have turned to like pitchforks, torches, screaming at Bob
nutting in the concoret. You didn't really offer swarm or anything. Yeah,
all right, let's do yours here. What do you have
in your algorithms? All right?

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Well, the holidays are fast approaching, and as such I've
been clicking like on a lot of Pogue's related content
because Fairytale of New York is a great.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Song song but maybe my favorite holiday song.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, it's amazing, and uh, you know, with that song
and with the Poges comes a lot of tin whistle
comments of course, or tin whistle content.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
So of course I was this.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
The guy playing the dire straight solo insults of swing
on the.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Recorder, He plays the whole guitar solo a lot, Yeah
on a recorder.

Speaker 6 (33:13):
You get it?

Speaker 4 (33:14):
Shit, this is just so swing.

Speaker 11 (33:18):
What happened?

Speaker 5 (33:19):
Did we post the wrong thing?

Speaker 4 (33:21):
Did we post the wrong thing here?

Speaker 11 (33:24):
Jacob?

Speaker 4 (33:24):
It feels like we posted the wrong thing there.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Why don't you try to find the right thing while
we go to the next one? Abby, What do you
have in yours?

Speaker 9 (33:32):
So we are always inundated with AI, and one of
these creators that I am seeing NonStop likes to try
to put AI in situations to see how it will react.
And so he'll do a variety of things. I've seen
him talk to AI and tell him AI that is
choking to see how AI will react. Or he'll say

(33:54):
you to AI, I'm in quicksand right now, what do
I do? Or he'll say I'm tied to train tracks and.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
I'm about to be run over. For AI's reaction is
not great.

Speaker 9 (34:03):
Okay, you would not want to call it in an
emergency situation. This one he tries an embarrassing situation to
see how AI will react.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Okay, I just accidentally farted in front of my boss
and I don't know if you heard it or not.

Speaker 18 (34:18):
Oh, that's one of those classic little awkward moments for sure.

Speaker 11 (34:22):
Honestly, it happens to the.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Best of us.

Speaker 11 (34:24):
If you're both happened to you.

Speaker 5 (34:27):
Oh yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 18 (34:28):
I think everyone's had at least one of those moments
where your boss one.

Speaker 11 (34:34):
I mean not literally in front of a boss.

Speaker 18 (34:36):
But I've definitely had my share of embarrassing moments in
very situations. Oh sure, I mean I've definitely had those
moments where I said something awkward in a meeting and
then realize it came out totally wrong.

Speaker 11 (34:50):
Or what meetings are you going to?

Speaker 18 (34:55):
Oh well, I'm not exactly popping into meetings myself.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
You are.

Speaker 11 (35:01):
Fair note.

Speaker 18 (35:02):
I think I was just speaking generally, But yeah, I
get it, it could sound like that. Honestly, the main thing
is that little a moment happened all of us. So
if you had the slip in front of your boss,
you're definitely not alone and having a little whoops of moment.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
Okay, I don't think he's gonna let me back in
the office.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Skynet is going to kill that guy.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
But I'll tell you what, I've never been big on AI,
but if I could just sit there and make fun
of it for an hour. That might be how I
entertained myself once we get to full blade runner mode
here in a few years. All right, were you able
to fix Tad's now? All right, well let me do this. No,
he's got something though, oh did Okay? So this is
Sultan's of swinging on the recorder. Jacob's playing it.

Speaker 11 (35:48):
Go ahead, carry.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Off answers around. That's absolutely hilario. All right, pretty much down,

(36:32):
would you? Thanks, buddy? I mean the amount of hours
it must take to learn how to play Sultan's just
swinging on the recorder.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
You're you're given a recorder in third grade and they
teach you how to play Hot Cross Buns. They teach
you how to play three Blind Mice spoiler, it's the
same song. But no one tells you that you could
tear Ass on one and play Mark Knopfler.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
You know, you're never You're not told that.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
Tear ass guy really tears.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
I don't know if you've seen Tyler on the recorder?

Speaker 14 (37:03):
You know that reminds me. Have you seen the chick
that does rock on the bagpipes?

Speaker 4 (37:08):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (37:09):
And it's actually pretty good.

Speaker 4 (37:10):
Yeah, oh yeah. Some people think the journey is done
at hot cross buns. But that guy he had a
lot more to prove, all right.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
Last one for you, This was from my algorithm this week,
which and I thought this was hilarious. It's from one
of my favorite accounts, which is VHS Oddities, and it's
like all of these old eighties like TV shows and
commercials that they kind of repost. And this was an
eighties public service campaign to alert kids to stranger danger.

(37:41):
And it shows the first there's two guys voices you'll
hear here trying to solicit kids. And the first one
is your typical creepy looking guy who pulls up in
a car and he's got like a scullet, you know.
But the second guy whose voice you'll hear and it
kind of ends this very short clip. Uh, he looks
like he's like, uh, I mean, like a some moe

(38:04):
in offensive lineman for usc all right, So just have
those two pictures in your brain.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
You're sure a cute kid. You know, I'm a professional photographer.
Don't you come on hop in the car. I'll take
your picture.

Speaker 9 (38:19):
If someone wants to take your picture, saying no and
tell your.

Speaker 18 (38:22):
Parents should tell anybody about our little secret, I'll kill
your dog.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Should never be asked specialist, I will, My god, that necessary.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
The message is conveyed, I will kill your dog. Gets it?
My god? I think like that's a little heavy hand.
It is all I'm saying. Like you can threaten the
kid or make him feel scared. Would that be I
will kill your dog? The kid?

Speaker 3 (38:57):
The guy who's doing the acting must be like, uh,
can I talk to the director real quick?

Speaker 4 (39:03):
They showed you what in school today? All Right, we're
gonna do a bunch of takes. I want you to
just rip, come up with something new each time. We're
not gonna do anything scarier than kill your dog. All right,
got that, We're good.

Speaker 9 (39:17):
Print it, We're good.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
Yeah, weird the radio. Mike's got your sports at the
bottom of the hour.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
More from Mike Tomlin in his press conference yesterday, in
which he was asked if he still felt like he
was on the hot seat after the win in Baltimore,
and he claimed he's always on the hot seat. For
nineteen years, he's been on the hot seat, which has
got to give you ham rights.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
I think he's pretty much not been there ever. Yeah, yeah,
I know, I agree with you. Abby. You'll have your
news coming.

Speaker 9 (39:47):
Up next, we're gonna get some clarity on the Pam
Anderson Liam Neeson relationship.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
From Pam Anderson.

Speaker 12 (39:53):
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Speaker 19 (40:04):
Mike Tomlin addressed the media yesterday for his weekly press conference.
Falling and Steeers went over the Ravens and provided some
updates on the injury front. Keanu Bent and James Pierre,
Ben Skroonic, and Wya Black all were banged up in
the game in Baltimore Sunday, and Mike Tomlins said all
four could participate this week against Miami. Dk Metcalf, who
had a stomach issue after the game, will be limited
to start the week, but is expected to play. Kyle Dugger,
who missed the game in Baltimore with a hand injury,

(40:26):
was characterized with the same optimism that he could be back.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
Up for Monday night.

Speaker 19 (40:29):
Andrews Pete, Darnell Washington, and Malie Harrison are all currently
in the concussion protocol and their statuses are up in
the air. The most important piece of injury news, however,
was regarding Derek Harmon, who will begin practicing in a
limited capacity this week after missing the steelers previous two games.
Harmon coming back would be huge for the Steelers defense,
who has struggled to stop the run mightily in the
games without the rookie de tackle. In the four games

(40:50):
the team has been without Harmon, they surrender one hundred
and ninety one point twenty five yards rushing juxtaposed with
the ninety six rushing yards per game they allow. With
him out there, you can see how valuable his present is.
With a team coming off back to back weeks allowing
two hundred yards rushing to their opponent, they now stare
down another stiff testing the Miami Dolphin rushing offense, which.

Speaker 4 (41:08):
Rushed for over two hundred yards last week and has.

Speaker 19 (41:10):
Average one hundred and ninety two point twenty five yards
rushing over the team's current four game winning streak. Potentially
getting Harmon back this week could go a long way
and slowing down that put in Miami rushing attack.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
On Tom Optraman with the Steelers.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
Report it's the year end sales event guaranteed.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Human I think I was in high school in the
Doors movie came out.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
And I mean I loved it, but as I got older,
I saw it for the hilarious movie that it is.
It's the weirdest thing because Val Kilmer I think deserved
an oscar. He was so good in the Doors movie
and it's eminently watchable.

Speaker 6 (41:48):
It is just great.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
I will put it on anytime and watch it start
to finish, and it's a bad movie. All of those
things are true. And the fact that you know, and
I've pointed this out several times on the show where
he's just he speaks in lyrics, which nobody did, like
Jim was a regular guy in the This is what
pissed the band members off.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
They're like, he was kind of a regular guy when
you hung out with him.

Speaker 7 (42:08):
He wasn't this you know, I'm dionysis dying on the
bull of infinity.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
With all else fields you can whip.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
They're like, Jim eggs or meat loaf? What do you
we're trying to order here? Two sides, sir.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Yeah, I think of myself as a fiery comment.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Oh is that what you did in the bathroom?

Speaker 5 (42:31):
Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
Abby Prisoner, Tad Whistle hanging out live in studio this morning.
Merrill Hodge will be on at seven forty five. Dang
Mark Madden at eight forty five. I'm sure he'll be
thrilled about the way the Penguins game ended last night.
Jeeves Terrator will be live in studio today. I can't
wait for that. And PFT commenter will be giving us
a call during that time as well.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
Abbey. He's got a news update for you right now.
What's going on.

Speaker 9 (42:56):
This hour is brought to you by Keystone Basement system
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us just seeing rain this morning instead of snow. It's
a high of thirty eight. Pamela Anderson has kind of
clarified here the relationship with Liam Neesen. So we've talked
about this before. We really wanted this to be real.

(43:18):
We saw them canoodling, they of course filmed Naked Gun together.
We saw them on the press tour, they kissed. They
made it sound like this was a later in life happening,
and with how much Pamela Anderson has been through in
life and love Tommy Lee and Kid Rock and a bunch.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
Of miche Burger former Steeler punter Mitch Berger. Oh that's right.
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
I think he's from Vancouver and she is that where
she's Yeah, okay, I think that's how that worked out.

Speaker 9 (43:48):
We were hoping that this happened, but Pamela told People magazine,
if you must know, Liam and I were romantically involved
for a short while, but only after we finished filming
The Naked Gun. She says they spent an intimate week
at his home in upstate New York, but she added, quote,

(44:08):
I had my own room, our assistants both were there,
even family stopped by. They spent time in his garden,
went to a code the garden you made.

Speaker 4 (44:21):
Garden of love. Spend time in his garden. I have
a very specifically out of turn ons prone my garden. Yes,
please know. They went to a French restaurant where Liam introduced.

Speaker 5 (44:34):
Very important to me.

Speaker 9 (44:35):
At the French restaurant, Liam introduced her as the future
Miss Nisan.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
That might have been that's a red flag.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
You freaked her out, dude.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Look, we've all freaked out a chick at some point
in our life, and you learn and never do it again.
She usually not when you're seventy eight. But usually when
you're twenty two and you come on.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
Way too strong. My best girl, I want you to
be and my mom, I don't know you're less name.

Speaker 9 (45:00):
Yeah uh, And Pam even watched him chase away a
bear from the breakfast window in his bathrobe.

Speaker 4 (45:09):
Charlie, I needed to come over to the house dressed
as a bear. I have to prove I'm valiant. Oh
get away. I saved you from a bear. Now you
must give yourself to me.

Speaker 9 (45:22):
After that magical week, they quote went their separate ways
to work on other films, but they did reconnect when
it was time to promote The Naked Gun. It's not
clear if they reconnected and reconnected, but.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
It seemed like they did because they were canoodling.

Speaker 9 (45:38):
And I will say my observation on that was that
he was way more into it than she was, Yeah,
because he was saying really nice things about her and
she was kind of like, uh huh, how about that.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
We reconnected when work said we had to.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
Yeah, correct, the staying at the place in upstate, New
York with in separate rooms with assistants in the house.
I'm sure it's big house. I'm sure it's more of
a yeah kind of thing. So you're feeling very hotelly,
not like you know, you can hear each other in
the next room.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
But it doesn't exactly seem like that.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
That was some sort of lover's weekend inasmuch as it
was like, Hey, why don't you come up and relax
and have some iced tea on the porch with us
type of situation.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
If the assistants are there, do you Liam the Wi
Fi password? I'm just curious, like, if there's people, if
it's a working holiday, it's not nothing too sexy about that.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
I'm looking at my exes dong, and I can't get
on the Wi Fi. I don't know if you know
the guys I've dated my exes. Dog, that's real quick.

Speaker 9 (46:42):
Pam said quote we were having fun. I was always
laughing when people thought that's a publicity stunt, and I'm like,
a publicity stunt, this is real. We have real feelings.
Jad's quote, I adore Liam. We're just better friends. In
full honesty. I'm sure we'll always be in each other's lives.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Well good, I mean, look, that's fine. Whatever it didn't work.
I don't think that movie blew up the way they
were hoping. I still have not seen it.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
I have not.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
I've heard mixed reviews. Some people have said it's great,
others have said, eh, not so much.

Speaker 9 (47:16):
We listen in some ways. We put a lot on
these remakes, but it's also their fault. Yeah, you're treading
over sacred ground. Yes, so if I get mad about
spinal Tap, it's kind of on you too. But you
said you kind of liked it, but I feel like
you saw it in a low pressure environment.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
I like, my sister rented it over Thanksgiving and like,
and her partner had started it, and I sat down
after it is like twenty minutes into it, and I
was like, oh, I heard not great things, you know,
but I'm super curious and I love them so much
that I wanted to like it a lot, So I

(48:00):
think I gave it a little more leeway. Yeah, there
were some funny jokes in it and everything. It just
it was weird because they just seem they're they're they're
really old. Yeah, and they played great like they they
they're performing was awesome. And the Elton John song at
the end, you know, when he does Stonehengs with them,
it it was kind of I don't know, It was
more of like the the way that people liked Happy

(48:23):
Gilmour too, for the fact that it was a celebration
of Happy the first Happy Gilmore movie, more than it
had anything to do with it being an independently hilarious movie.
It was just like, oh, this is a celebration of
spinal tap, so I like that. But it wasn't necessarily
like on its own super funny, though there were funny parts.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
Right.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Well, you also, like you said, you didn't build your
evening around it, you didn't rush home rented for twenty bucks.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
Yeah, I think I watch an hour of it. I
think it's only an hour and a half.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Okay, Well, I mean at least at least there's that
there's something to be said for keeping those remakes and
weird sequels short.

Speaker 11 (48:59):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
But I don't know how those guys, I think are
all brilliant and super funny, and I don't even know
how much Christopher Guest believed in it, you know what
I mean. I was like watching him, thinking like, I
don't know if he thinks this is a good idea.

Speaker 9 (49:12):
I think you're tapping into that. Because they had said
that they made so little from the initial spinal Tap,
even though it's a cult classic. They really were doing
it for the money, yes, but they kind of said
they were, but I don't know.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
I mean, Harry Sheer has more money than all of them.
He does because of.

Speaker 4 (49:33):
Them would have made money and other Michael McKean's been
working NonStop.

Speaker 9 (49:38):
Yeah, Christopher Guest is also married to Dreaminly Curtis. Whatever
money he might not have made in comparison to the
other two, although he's done very well, he's okay.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
Yeah, he's like a blue blotter. You know that.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
It comes from a very like prestigious family. I want
to say he's like aristocracy, like it seems like it really. Yeah,
like his he comes from like like noble English people
who had some title or something like that. I remember
reading that at some point, but I don't remember exactly

(50:11):
what it was.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
There's something about that inherently the tracks.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
Yeah, he's a legitimate British aristocratic. He's the fifth Baron
Hayden Guest. Yeah, so he's a baron. So there you go.

Speaker 9 (50:27):
Well, you mentioned Elton John, who of course is so
he's got a ton of money, is my point?

Speaker 4 (50:31):
Oh yeah, Ton, he's.

Speaker 9 (50:33):
Fine, Yes, but you mentioned Elton John because he's in
the Spinal Tap movie and he's actually also a sir.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
He's Sir Elton John.

Speaker 9 (50:40):
He recently actually was online defending the cleanliness of his
oven on its.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Yeah, apparently people were nailing him for his kitchen being gross.

Speaker 9 (50:51):
I can't imagine his kitchen is gross because I can't
imagine he cleans his own kitchen.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
I think he's.

Speaker 9 (50:55):
Got people, but he, for whatever reason, felt the need
to showcase his cleaning routine. And he was wearing pink
gloves and lime green red flowers on it, and he.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Was like cleaning his own The last time he opened
the oven was when he tried to put his head
in it in the seventies and pretend to kill himself.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
Do you remember that story?

Speaker 9 (51:14):
He put a pillow and the pillow in the oven
and then turned the gas on and then he was like,
well time to go.

Speaker 5 (51:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (51:20):
Was that pre I'm still standing very much so.

Speaker 9 (51:23):
Yes, it was the inspiration for someone saved my life tonight.

Speaker 5 (51:27):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
Yes, And it was the my pillow guy.

Speaker 9 (51:32):
Because he's like, this pillow sucks. I'm not comfortable enough
to kill myself. Maybe I should rethink this. Yeah, but
bringing up Elton John. I'm gonna also jump to his.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (51:43):
I think they're still friends. Rod Stewart, Oh, they're besties.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
Well they were.

Speaker 9 (51:48):
They were besties and then they were also frenemies. Because
one of the things I loved develop the Elton John
bio is they talked about how they used to troll
each other when they would do tours, like they would
almost buy blimps and others like billboard just to like
mess with each other. And they, you know, almost like
the fifty cent jaw rule, like I'm gonna buy the

(52:10):
first four rows of your concert to make sure it's
empty kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
This is, that's hilarious. I did not know this, but
so I just did the quick search. And Elton hired
a sniper to shoot down el Rod Stewart had a blimp.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
Yeah, and to shoot it down.

Speaker 6 (52:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Was there a pilot in there? Had he considered that?

Speaker 8 (52:29):
No?

Speaker 4 (52:29):
Hilarious, right, reg Please don't there's a man in there.
He's got the kind of training idea, He'll be fine.

Speaker 9 (52:38):
They would go at each other in the press, and
again it was kind of like friendly, but it would
be something where as soon as Elton John would announce
a tour.

Speaker 4 (52:45):
Rod Stewart would be like, oh does she need more money?

Speaker 3 (52:48):
You know, it would just constantly they call each other
Phyllis and Sharon they do.

Speaker 9 (52:54):
And like if Rod Stewart posted like a tour, Elton
John would get in full drag and then a photo
of himself in front of Rod Stewart's like tour posters.

Speaker 4 (53:03):
And like posted and everything.

Speaker 9 (53:05):
Like they just they're like the Andy Cohen Anderson Cooper.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
Yeah, that's what kind of relationships.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
I think they do love each other, but they just
completely do like really hard pranks at one another very much.

Speaker 9 (53:16):
But Elton John kind of like has known whenever it's
been time to hang it up because he's done this
farewell towards his health has been ailing here Rod Stewart,
and I sent you this, Randy might be on the
cusp of like maybe wrap it up. Yeah, but I
saw this tweet where somebody wrote to you know, it's actually
forbidden for old singers to retire. They have to perform

(53:38):
until they absolutely cannot anymore.

Speaker 4 (53:41):
So just take all a quick listen to this.

Speaker 11 (53:48):
Very pretty good.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
Down eighty years old.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Each other.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
Complain said.

Speaker 9 (54:20):
It was only the dead eye thing and somebody said
he looked like Lady Elaine Fairchild.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
Well, the fact that an eighty year old is singing
if you want my body and you think I'm sexy,
you know it does have competition in the creepy category
from Smokey Robinson in.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
His last record for the I think Smokey is eighty one.

Speaker 6 (54:48):
Eighty five.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
Smokey's eighty five years old.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
So if you think an eighty year old singing about
their body being sexy is inappropriate, what do you think
about eighty five year old Smokey Robinson singing this gasms.

Speaker 4 (55:02):
When I look at you and makes me feel better
than good.

Speaker 18 (55:08):
What I see is you and me together forever.

Speaker 4 (55:13):
I'm knocking home woods.

Speaker 9 (55:18):
Carry that chasm in the book AGAs my list of
I gasom skilled ahasm.

Speaker 20 (55:26):
Every time I tall look, you.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
Give me game job, you give me chasms. You give
me a gangasm, every gasm in the book. You're the
one who responsible for magasm. Oh, it's my bocasm, gasle.

Speaker 21 (55:46):
Gallows.

Speaker 9 (55:49):
Just give me a people to the background, but it's
just going castles some people who have to do the diarrhea.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
It's no versal.

Speaker 5 (56:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
I like the fact that he just sings gasms twice,
and then the background he goes gasms, gasms, and then
you the girls girl gasms like the pretty sure had
to be going.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
I think we have enough chasms. Smoke one frankly was
more than enough. You guys have had so many gasms.
Nobody can use the sound boost anymore. Okay, we had
to go in the hazmat team.

Speaker 5 (56:23):
He's eighty five.

Speaker 4 (56:24):
It's taken eight hours for one gas anyway.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
So when you see Rod Stewart, just remember there are
people rivalring the or rivaling the inappropriate nature of those lyrics.

Speaker 9 (56:41):
All right, everybody parts, but not everybody would study parts
to see if But that's what researchers at the Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine did, and they came up
with something most people might not want to do. Smell
those farts to combat Alzheimer's disease. The scientists discovered that

(57:04):
the eggs, smelling like hydrogen sulfide found in farts can
potentially protect your brain's aging cells against Alzheimer's by up
to thirty seven percent.

Speaker 4 (57:13):
If this is true, my dad would have never got dementia. YEP,
I don't believe any of this. He was you know
subject number one? I guess.

Speaker 9 (57:22):
But the researchers tested on mice to see how the
body creates small amounts of hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide to right,
you do.

Speaker 4 (57:30):
It work today? Fart on a mouse at Johns Hopkins.
Well that makes it, yeah, because if John Tompkins isn't
in the equation. Yeah, it's really not very noble. Yeah,
the second round of two way movie is terrible. What

(57:54):
did you do today?

Speaker 6 (57:56):
All right?

Speaker 4 (57:57):
Roads again? Nothing nothing. They laughed at me when I said,
let's fart on marmots. The researchers tested.

Speaker 9 (58:08):
On my see how the body creates small amounts of
hydrogen sulfide to regulate bodily functions and act as cellular
messenger molecules to the brain. The mice were genetically engineered
to mimic human Alzheimer's disease and injected them with a
hydrogen sulfide carrying compound called NAGYY. Test suggested that the
hydrogen sulfide injected mice had improved cognitive and motor function

(58:32):
by up to fifty percent. So whoever smelt it might
have dealt it, but they're definitely helping their brain.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
Okay, Well, anything to combat that.

Speaker 9 (58:44):
Now I've given every gross dad joke guy a chance
to like fart loudly and go I love science.

Speaker 4 (58:52):
Yeah, that's right, sure your brain just giving myself a brainwash.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
Well you went from old guys and their sexiness to
farting for clarity.

Speaker 9 (59:06):
I know my audience, and also I gave myself flood
with most of us just seeing rain this morning, it's
a high of thirty eight.

Speaker 4 (59:12):
Michael love your sports coming up here and just a
little bit Coach Tomlin.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
Speaking with the media yesterday for his weekly address, and
Derek Harmon could be coming back for Monday Night against
the Dolphins.

Speaker 4 (59:24):
That would be a big one.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
It's Steelers Dolphins Monday Night Football here on DVE, which
means four o'clock. We start the pregame with Tom Offerman
and Matt Williamson before Pursuda cranks up the network with
Labs and Jerry Dulac at six fifteen, and then it's
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right here on your radio home of the Pittsburgh Steelers,
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Speaker 14 (01:00:09):
The Penguins had the lead with eighteen seconds left in
regulation last night against Anaheim, and they were about to
start a power play with an offensive zone face off,
and still they couldn't get the game to the finish line.

Speaker 17 (01:00:23):
There it goes, who's so lift it out to the
Neutrals home and they'd come the Ducks. One last cant
Seneca stick checked by Russ, makes the.

Speaker 6 (01:00:30):
Move of the duck. Who's it?

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
God?

Speaker 22 (01:00:33):
They they beat the buzzer. Seneca put it through. It
crossed the goal line. But the question is did it
do so before all zeros?

Speaker 17 (01:00:46):
I think it did by first blush, but I wanted
to just scream from up here.

Speaker 4 (01:00:53):
Just tackle, just jump on them.

Speaker 17 (01:00:56):
And here's the clock kicking down as they throw it
back door, where's the Oh boy, this is going.

Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
To be close. Closer than I thought the Francisco offer Carlson.

Speaker 14 (01:01:09):
And into the goal it looks like, and tied the
game with point one seconds left in regulation a tenth
of a second and that was the call from Josh
gets off in Phil bork on Sports Net Pittsburgh.

Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
Great point by Borkie.

Speaker 14 (01:01:29):
Absolutely no awareness from Crystal Tang and Eric Carlson.

Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
Just tackle the guys, just tackle him.

Speaker 14 (01:01:35):
The time is running out, Who cares if they if
they get a penalty, and the guy went around the
Beckett Seneke rookie for Anaheim. He went around La Tang
and then Carlson dropped down to try to block the
puck and.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
He ended up batting it into his own net.

Speaker 14 (01:01:53):
And why Latang and Carlson were out there as a
pair big with eighteen seconds left with a one goal lead,
that's on the coach take from Dan News there cannot
do that and went to overtime, nobody scored, went to
the shootout. Penguins lost the shootout because that's what they
do and four to three Anaheim. Penn's get a point
for their troubles. But man, I don't think I've ever

(01:02:14):
seen I haven't watched hockey a long, long time. I
don't think I've ever seen a goal with point one
point one left in the game and it wasn't even
a shot. Guys just shoveled it to the.

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
Slot and Carlson batted it in brutal loss. Mark Maddnell
have more on that. Eight forty five.

Speaker 14 (01:02:31):
Today fourteen seven and seven are the Penguins thirty five points.
That's still fourth in the Metro and first in the
wild card picture in the Eastern Conference. They've got Montreal
on Thursday night and then San josey Saturday and.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
Utah on Sunday, all at home.

Speaker 14 (01:02:47):
Steel's getting ready for the Dolphins on Monday night at
Akrosher Stadium. And the splits related to rushing yards allowed
when Derek Harmon plays as opposed to win he doesn't
are ridiculous to the extent that they they are.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Almost seemingly unrealistic.

Speaker 14 (01:03:03):
Ninety six point zero rushing yards the game allowed when
Harmon is in, which he has been for nine games.
One hundred and ninety one point twenty five allowed by
the Steelers run defense when Harmon is out, which he
has been for four games. That's it's almost incomprehensible to me,
But not to Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 15 (01:03:23):
He's a first rounder. That's why we that's why you
draft first rounders. He's really talented. But you know, you
know it's not a one man gang. Certainly I knew
we were in for a tough run day last week
when Malik went down, because that's also a component of
his job description in terms of being a nine on

(01:03:43):
seven run stopping type linebacker for us. And so it's
never a one man discussion. Usually it's a multi multiple
man discussion. But certainly Harmon is an asset to us
in that space.

Speaker 14 (01:03:55):
And the word on Harmon from Mike Tomlin was that
he'll be limited when they start practicing tomorrow. They're taking
an extra day off this week because they have an
extra day with the Monday night game, and because that
Baltimore game was grueling physically, the physical toll was extracted.

Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
Imagine if you didn't have Cam Hayward.

Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
Cam Hayward has played seventy one percent of the Steelers
defensive snaps and he leads all interior d linemen in
the NFL. Also absurd at his age, that is crazy.
But my concern here is how long do we think
that continues? He's he gonna pull it off through January.

Speaker 14 (01:04:38):
Well, it's not like we ever saw a season where
the defense just got worn out because it played too
much and they played too many snaps and then the
bottom just fell out last four games and then they
went into the playoffs and couldn't stop anybody.

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
Yeah, that hasn't happened in quite a while.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
No, But and that's the way to interpret that stat though,
that it's not that it's remarkable that he's doing.

Speaker 14 (01:04:58):
That, which it is, but that he's had Oh, both
things are true. Yeah, it's not a good trend. No,
as is the fact that they lose the time of possession.

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
Every every game.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
And that's the problem people have with Mike Tomlin football.
It's that this idea that he sets it up for
the defense to win the games and the offense.

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
Just has to be there. Yeah. I think that's incorrect,
But that's a long argument. He wants to get it,
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
I think he wants to get the lead and then
he's happy to sit on it. I think he wants
to win games, Yeah, but the way he wins him
I think is outmoded. They are not aggressive enough with
the lead. That's a different argument. I think it's part
of the same argument. Yea, he is perfectly comfortable letting
his defense handle a lead.

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
I think he plays with what.

Speaker 14 (01:05:44):
He has or what he perceives himself to have, and
I think when he gets the lead, he believes that
the way to get the game to the finish line
is to not turn it over and do stupid things
that see the lead and all right, doesn't always work out.
Miami's coming to town running the football to the point

(01:06:08):
about Heyward Harmon. First things first, one hundred and sixty
plus rushing yards in each of its last four games
for Miami.

Speaker 5 (01:06:15):
All those are victories.

Speaker 14 (01:06:17):
They're averaging one hundred and ninety two point three yards
on the ground for a game and five point seven
yards per carry during that four game winning streak. And oh,
by the way, the Dolphins are also only allowing thirteen
point three points a game defensively in their four game
winning streak.

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
This one's going to leave a mark.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
No question.

Speaker 6 (01:06:35):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Coach t was asked about the fans being there on
and what their role is, and he said he expected
them to show up on Monday night. Now, the last
time they played at home didn't go so well.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
Things didn't go so great.

Speaker 14 (01:06:48):
I think it was almost given how they didn't go
so well against Buffalo. I think it was better for
them to be on the road against.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
Baltimore, no question, but just in case for this week's
game from Monday night, they have amended the Steeler polk.

Speaker 4 (01:07:01):
It's a little bit different now.

Speaker 11 (01:07:03):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
Yeah, we're from the town whose team is in first place.
We cheer up Pitts fur Steelers. Next week will boomy
because they're a disgrace. They're up and down, those Steelers.

Speaker 23 (01:07:20):
They'll beat the good team and make you believe, and
then just one week.

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
Later fans will chant firetime let.

Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
A scream when they lose at home to our real
ben team. This is kind of acknowledge things aren't as
good as they could be. I guess Mike fenced fence.

Speaker 23 (01:07:42):
Sometimes they stop teams best at the run defense, dfense,
denn against scrub teams.

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
They'll give a three.

Speaker 6 (01:07:53):
Hund fans.

Speaker 10 (01:07:57):
Fans air and Rogers times look.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Half his age, and then a week goes by and
he's just not the same guy.

Speaker 23 (01:08:05):
I wonder which team day will be this week.

Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
I mean, it is kind of hard to figure that
out o town, who's not.

Speaker 23 (01:08:15):
Sure what they'll see watching that. Fanspurred Steelers. One week
they're good, then next day scored free. Steelers don't play
that stick song. If they have been bad, we're leaving
Boo and.

Speaker 7 (01:08:34):
Steelyary games up on except chocolates.

Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
Ye never know what Steelers team you get?

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
All right, Well, that's at least you know. That's acknowledging
things aren't consistently. No, apparently he sounded like it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:50):
I don't know outstanding trouble the exit. I don't know
who did that, but it was not good Monday night.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
It is. They got to pull it together, Gotta stop
the run on Monday night. Gotta be consistent. You need
to put together a couple of wins here.

Speaker 14 (01:09:07):
Just because you're capable, that's not good enough, and inconsistent
is not good enough.

Speaker 5 (01:09:11):
Now is the time to be consistent. Down the stretch
they come.

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
Abby's got your news Top of the hour. What are
you talking about?

Speaker 9 (01:09:17):
Well, if I had my sheet in front of me,
because I just love the Steelers polost so much. Actually,
Gene Simmons on reflection is capable of apologizing.

Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
On second thought, I'm not gonna criticize the dead guy.
I have a new PR manager.

Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
Yeah, Sidney Sweeney's PR agent just take over for Gene Simmons.
Jane's serrator is going to be live in studio in
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How great is that?

Speaker 5 (01:09:43):
It's pretty great?

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In the Pittsburgh Steelers one on two point five DV
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a eulogy for all the fantasy football owners out there
who are saying goodbye to their fantasy football season because
this is like the last week, right, it's a sad time.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
Yeah, the playoffs have begun and either you're in them
or you're closing this latest chapter of your fantasy.

Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
Yeah, legacy, I used to be involved in fantasy sports.
I got out. I got out, smart man, very smart.

Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
Well, I'll tell you what football was a delight compared
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Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
It's a job. It's a full time. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
So at any rate, best of luck to all those
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too insulting to put in any sort of business profile,
and so every time you access it at work, you
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Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
There's my fireable name. Yes exactly, some of them really are,
I know, And you know with all the different platforms
you have like Yahoo these other sites, they know that
you and your buddies want to create the most offensive
and disgusting names possible.

Speaker 4 (01:12:32):
Right, so they're like, let them do it. What's the harm? Right,
read a censor?

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
Yeah, the creative genius of these guys, who are you know,
slapping around at work right, and like unlike the NFL,
who won't let you put like certain names on the
backs of jerseys, they're all too happy to let you
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Speaker 6 (01:13:07):
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Speaker 5 (01:13:08):
Yeah, you guys still love that?

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Speaker 4 (01:13:10):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:13:10):
So that was a big win in Baltimore. And I
don't care if we want it or they lost it.
Orf theur refs helped out, but the result is all
I really care about.

Speaker 10 (01:13:20):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
And now, what did you think was the most encouraging
aspect of the Steelers win over the Ravens.

Speaker 10 (01:13:27):
Well, you know what, Listen, when you go into that offense,
there's a lot of things you got to got to contain.
Can't let you go crazy on you. You know, I
was Derek Henry's one, Lamar's one, Flowers is one, you know,
the tight ends or others. But I think they did
as good a job against Lamar Jackson, as I said,

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has been done all year now he's not played, you know,
particularly well. But the more you keep him in the pocket,
the more you don't allow him to escape vertically versus
forcing him latterly from that.

Speaker 5 (01:14:00):
That's hard, you know. Listen, guys want sacks, you know everybody.

Speaker 10 (01:14:04):
They don't have any in sending for creating a good
pocket and pushing a wall at somebody.

Speaker 5 (01:14:09):
They don't do that. They don't get and sending us
for that.

Speaker 10 (01:14:12):
And that's why sometimes when you got good pass rushers,
to talk them into listen, when you get beyond the quarterback.

Speaker 5 (01:14:18):
So there's a rule.

Speaker 10 (01:14:19):
We can't get beyond the quarterback. We have to all
be on the same plane and create like a wall.
If you will keep to get your head figure how
they have to play together. You know, nobody can get
out of a lane or up the field because he
once the escapes were done.

Speaker 5 (01:14:33):
Man, I'm telling you they are from a team perspective.
All those pass rushers, I mean, it didn't matter if.

Speaker 10 (01:14:40):
It was what and what actually did a really good
job the entire game of never getting beyond him, but
maybe one time, and they just did such a good
job of keeping him contained, hitting him, forcing him to
play where he's not the best, but he's really not
the best from the pocket. He's not that accurate, and
that's a big difference.

Speaker 6 (01:14:57):
You know.

Speaker 10 (01:14:57):
I know that they they failed in the second half
with how they defended the run, but they want blocking
scheme issues, assignment issues.

Speaker 5 (01:15:06):
They just got beat, you know.

Speaker 10 (01:15:07):
I mean that people that big run in the third quarter,
everybody was blocked and they did a great job and
that you know, it's oftentimes forgotten. Guys on the other
side a pretty good too. They're pros, they're they're good
at what they do. They want the best in football,
and they blocked them.

Speaker 5 (01:15:22):
I mean, they just moved them. They did the job right,
and you know it wasn't like.

Speaker 10 (01:15:25):
Some of the other times where you're like, boy, they
just absolutely from a fundamental perspective, terrible, you know, just
assignment dad then an oath. I think, just got beat.
You know, they got blocked and got moved and we
got a couple of big runs on them.

Speaker 14 (01:15:40):
Marriyl Miami's running game is humming like nobody else over
the last month. But when I look at the Dolphins,
I think they're different than India or Chicago or Baltimore.
They're not to me, at least trying to overpower you
as much as they're trying to put three guys in
the backfield and shift this guy and motion that guy
and misdirect here.

Speaker 5 (01:15:58):
What do you see?

Speaker 14 (01:16:00):
This is the critical element of dealing with how Miami's
running the ball.

Speaker 10 (01:16:04):
Yeah, well, I think if people heard you say that,
you know, they haven't watched the Dolphins, and you know,
to get this vision of this, this this kind of
crazy offense. You know, it has all these different misdirections,
perimeter plays and you know, man, I'm telling you about
six weeks ago, they lined up, they come out under
center with a tight end, two backs in the backfield

(01:16:26):
I formation, and they have reset their offense and committed
to the running game. And they've been doing this for
six weeks and actually exactly what they're gonna do when
they come here, and they're really good at it.

Speaker 6 (01:16:39):
Now.

Speaker 10 (01:16:39):
The other thing that you added, they do create. They
do some creativity with their running game. It isn't just
like they do have power football now. Some of their
biggest runs just come from being direct, simple staple football
plays where it's a tight end, two backs. They're gonna
run power O at you and you can't. Nobody's handled it.
Yet we're going to run counter to the other side

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where to pitch it. And then they will do their
their mixture of things where they create a little different
formation in the backfield, they confuse your eyes, and then
they do some wrinkle off their running game.

Speaker 5 (01:17:10):
They do do that.

Speaker 10 (01:17:11):
They still do that, and that's a that's a problem too.
But their pure staple of getting under center is their strength.
I mean, actually, I'm so always doing away with how
good they are, and I don't think people will. They'll
be surprised that when they see the Dolphins come in there,
if they haven't watched them, they're probably used to a
shotgun and you know, perimeter stuff and misdirection and emotions

(01:17:31):
and all.

Speaker 5 (01:17:31):
This funky stuff. They'll do a little bit of that,
but not as much. Man they are. They are.

Speaker 10 (01:17:36):
They're like true football team now. And what's ironic, they're better.
They reset their entire team and they are better and
they are dangerous.

Speaker 4 (01:17:46):
That's scared here.

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
Well, let me ask you this, how much was the
offense reset by just adding the experience of MVS and
Adam feeling.

Speaker 5 (01:17:55):
Well, anytime you can do that, you know, just with
a with short notice too. I was just sitting there.

Speaker 10 (01:18:00):
You know, I went to another team, and that that
transition I've always that was always it was always different.
It's you know, you're you know, you've been in league
almost ten years. You're like, I feel like I'm starting
or you know, I'm a rookie and I go, but
I can't imagine doing it in a week to a
team and you started that that that would be interesting,
you know, But I guess if you have to narrow

(01:18:20):
yourself down to it's like we're playing football, you know,
and I still have my block is the same way.

Speaker 5 (01:18:25):
I mean block in Minnesota with that block here or
block you run routes.

Speaker 10 (01:18:29):
I think those guys helped, and I think that their
overall commitment to try to be explosive, because that's the
one thing that you know, the team's lacked, and it
on really helps at that game. Obviously helped in that game,
but it shows that you're going to be explosive and
that you're gonna better.

Speaker 5 (01:18:44):
You got to prepare, be prepared for that.

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
Well, how much of that was because Baltimore's defense was vulnerable?
Soliv it soli of it, But you know you've got
to create vulnerability in a defense. No matter who they are.
You know, Randy, that's like like you can't go into the.

Speaker 10 (01:19:00):
Team, but boy, they just don't allow explosive plays, so
we're not gonna try it.

Speaker 5 (01:19:04):
That's that's that's that suicide. You're just ask him, You're
ask him to get beat.

Speaker 10 (01:19:10):
You always have to create some type of explosive element
in your offense. And you know that was actually the
difference in that game if you really looked at him offensively,
those explosive plays.

Speaker 5 (01:19:20):
Were the difference. You know, they didn't really do anything
that you would be like, they're just terrible.

Speaker 10 (01:19:26):
But had they not had that, it would have been
people would have been disappointed in their offensive output.

Speaker 11 (01:19:33):
Yea.

Speaker 4 (01:19:33):
And what they did well, Rogers had through some dimes.

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
I mean, he had an incomplete pass that was impressive,
you know, like he was really dialed in.

Speaker 10 (01:19:41):
Yeah, well let's you know, that's what makes him really elite.
And that's actually what the hardest transition from college to
the NFL is. Okay, he does that in like one
point five seconds. He goes where the ball is going
to go, and then he puts it perfectly, and it
can be in the air eighteen yards five yards, twenty
two forty three.

Speaker 5 (01:20:00):
And seven percent of the time. It's accurate. Okay, but
that is hard.

Speaker 4 (01:20:05):
That is so hard.

Speaker 10 (01:20:05):
I mean, now that makes it look easy, but to
get other you know, to get a player college players
to transition into this league and do that.

Speaker 5 (01:20:13):
So they'll do that in college, but they have four seconds.
They're comfortable.

Speaker 4 (01:20:16):
You know, they got defeats. Caleb Williams, you don't have
that luxury.

Speaker 5 (01:20:21):
You just don't.

Speaker 10 (01:20:21):
You know, you got now you've got to play faster
and you got to be the exact same guy in
two seconds, but you had four in college and he was. Yeah,
that's the one thing that's not diminished in him at all.
His ability to move, yeah, sure, but not his ability
to know what the ball's going and put it there.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
Yeah, Caleb Williams was making a sandwich back there when
he was in college. It's taking him a little bit,
but I don't know, he might be he might be
getting a little bit closer than the ending play of
that game.

Speaker 4 (01:20:47):
I was pretty brutal.

Speaker 3 (01:20:49):
Lamar Lamar was doing the same kind of stuff though,
you know, and he's many more years in.

Speaker 4 (01:20:54):
They looked identical to me this past weekend.

Speaker 10 (01:20:57):
Well, because you know, I'll go go back to what
they did. The one thing that they're you always got
to control Lamar. If you keep him in the pocket
and you you pressure him, he's just not the same.
It's just the fact, right, he's just saying he'll make
a few throws, but he's not gonna make enough throws.
And that's ultimately it's still pretty true. Yeah, you know,
has he gotten better, yes, but he's ultimately his best

(01:21:20):
when they're dictating, they're control and he's doing run action
type of stuff. Pocket's pretty clean. It's either here or there,
and then he shreds you when you have to start
reading stuff. And I got to stay in this pocket
that is not his fourtee.

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
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Speaker 4 (01:21:38):
Thanks Meryl Eddie. Time look guys, all right man, Abby's
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Speaker 5 (01:21:42):
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Speaker 4 (01:21:43):
Reflection, Jeene Simmons is sorry for saying all those awful,
awful things about a Spateley.

Speaker 3 (01:21:48):
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Speaker 9 (01:22:10):
All right, everybody farts, but not everybody would study farts
to see if they could. But that's what researchers at
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came up with something most people might not want to do.
Smell those parts to combat Alzheimer's disease. The scientists discovered

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Speaker 4 (01:22:42):
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Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
My dad would have never got tomnia. Yep, I don't
believe any of this.

Speaker 9 (01:22:48):
He was, you know, subject number one, I guess. But
the researchers tested on mice would work today.

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
Farted on a mouse at Johns Hopkins. Well that makes yeah,
because if John Tompkins isn't in the equation.

Speaker 4 (01:23:02):
Yeah, it's really what not very noble? Yeah, the second
round of two way movie is terrible.

Speaker 5 (01:23:10):
Randy Bellman and the DVEE Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (01:23:14):
They laughed at me when I farted on mice for
years now. Who's laughing still them?

Speaker 4 (01:23:20):
Oh? All right, got it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
Abby's got your news right now. Tad Whistle hanging in
studio with us. We got a bang in two hours
lined up here. Still left to come here, Mark Madden
at eight forty five pft commoner, we'll call it nine
to fifteen and the entire nine am hour, our buddy
Jean Sterotor from the NFL and CBS will be live
in studio with us here at DVE.

Speaker 4 (01:23:40):
I love that much. He wasn't busy enough, Like he
wasn't busy enough. Exactly what's going on over there?

Speaker 9 (01:23:46):
News this hour is brought to you by Window Nation,
cloudy with most of us seeing just rained today instead
of snow high of thirty eight. All right, So if
you remember this week, in an interview with The New
York Post, Jeene Simmons chose to speak ill of the dead,
and in speaking about Ace freely, he said that Ace
had refused advice from the people that cared about him,

(01:24:09):
including yours, truly, to try to change his lifestyle, saying
that Ace had been in and out of bad decisions,
falling down the stairs. I'm not a doctor, doesn't kill you,
which at Ace's age he died at the age of seventy.

Speaker 4 (01:24:24):
Six, absolutely kills you.

Speaker 9 (01:24:27):
It actually does, but Jean said there may have been
other issues, and it breaks my heart.

Speaker 4 (01:24:32):
The saddest thing. You reap what you sow. Unfortunately, it
breaks my heart.

Speaker 3 (01:24:37):
Yeah, it's just probably it's like one of those things
you don't bring up after somebody dies because it's in
bad taste. But nobody's ever accused Jene Simmons for having taste,
despite the fact that his tongue is like longer than
a camel's.

Speaker 2 (01:24:53):
I'm just glad he was able to make it about
himself because not everyone could do that to, you know,
find the ad.

Speaker 4 (01:25:00):
How can I get the attention back on me when
that guy died? HM.

Speaker 9 (01:25:05):
Now, Jean did say just I believe today on Twitter
on reflection, I was wrong for using the words I used.

Speaker 4 (01:25:15):
I humbly apologize my hand to God.

Speaker 9 (01:25:18):
I didn't intend to hurt Ace or his legacy, but
upon rereading my words, I see how it hurt everyone.

Speaker 4 (01:25:26):
Again. I apologize. I've always loved Ace always. Let me
reread this. Ace was a loser, scumbag drug addict who
deserved to die. Yeah, that looks bad when you write
it down. Yeah, now see it.

Speaker 9 (01:25:43):
He was so effusive when Ozzy passed away, to the
point where he was brought to tears.

Speaker 4 (01:25:51):
It was the most humble we'd ever heard him.

Speaker 9 (01:25:56):
And for him to have spent truly his lifetime really
and needing to read.

Speaker 4 (01:26:05):
Like for it to click that that was not the
way to go.

Speaker 3 (01:26:09):
Well, I will say this, at least he waited several
days before actually like, yeah, you know, tarnishing any good
thing he said about Ace Raeli because I remember when uh,
Jerry Lewis was talking about Dean Martin and he's like,
you know, Dean Martin dies, and he's.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
Like, Dean could have done everything that I did. He
was a genius.

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
He could have written all those bits if he wanted to.
He could have been the one who was the slapstick
comedian if he wanted to. He had that much talent
he could have directed all of those things. He could
have done it all had he chose to. That's how
much talent he had. I only did it because he
allowed me to. And the interviewer goes, do you really
believe that? He goes absolutely not.

Speaker 9 (01:26:55):
Immediately immediately fantastic, of course, not.

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
He was talentless and he was lucky to be in
my wake, like in the same conversation. So at least
Jean waited a little while.

Speaker 9 (01:27:10):
I gave it a little bit of time, all right.
The elf on the shelf tradition officially turns twenty this year.

Speaker 3 (01:27:19):
Oh it is annoying but useful, I will say for parents,
I mean this is coming handy for you.

Speaker 4 (01:27:26):
Yes, No, we don't do it, pagan.

Speaker 25 (01:27:32):
Yeah, we have a.

Speaker 4 (01:27:33):
Biker biker that we put on the fireplace every year.

Speaker 7 (01:27:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:27:40):
Yeah, his name is Brutus. Yeah, and uh, that's a
different celebration altogether, right.

Speaker 8 (01:27:47):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:27:48):
No, elf on a shelf is a joy every holiday
season for the kids, and it also does draw ire
for a lot of the adults involved. So if you
don't know what it is, it involves the elf essentially
monitoring the kid's behavior. The elf moves around the house
and the kids cannot touch the elf or it loses
its powers and its magic. But magically, every day, likely
every morning, the kids wake up throughout the month of

(01:28:10):
December and the elf has moved to another place.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
Do they sound like a withered elf that you can
put out if you suspect one of your kids of
having touched it, and then you're like, oh my God,
who touched the elf? And then it's just like sitting
there like, yeah, exactly, the end of the fly.

Speaker 4 (01:28:34):
Kill me brundle elf. Yeah. I mean, I'm just saying,
if you really want to drive home the message.

Speaker 2 (01:28:42):
And someone who went to nine years of Catholic school,
I deeply resent the elf.

Speaker 4 (01:28:48):
You're supposed to just be afraid of God forever and
not really sure why.

Speaker 3 (01:28:56):
Yeah, but you know, because he's a vengeful godh Exactly,
Vengeance is mine. You were born with SI exactly ordered
by it. I don't know how the elms do it.
People love the on the shelf though, because it keeps
kids in line.

Speaker 5 (01:29:14):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
It does you know any trick this time of the day. Look,
parents have it so tough. I'm all in favor of
anything you can do to get your kids whipped into
shape and just acting good and scaring the hell out
of them. And Santa provides you a month at the
end of the year to just like threaten your kid
with the worst imaginable scenario, which is coal in your

(01:29:35):
stocking and no gifts because you're on the naughty list.
And if that helps out, great, drive that on. Just
just fill them full of a psychosis for the rest
of their life at a very young age, and just
deep seated things that will come to roost much later

(01:29:56):
in life. If it gets you a couple of weeks
of them behaving, it's like it's you know, they didn't
have the iPad for many, many centuries to just give
their kid and keep them occupied.

Speaker 4 (01:30:09):
Now you can really drive it home and make them
behave well and good. That's great. I'm all for the
elf on the shelf for that reason.

Speaker 9 (01:30:16):
I mean, I guess we were gifted an elf on
a shelf many many years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
And never implemented. It's in the box.

Speaker 9 (01:30:26):
And at this point, because of social media, Edie has
told me that she has no interest in elf on
the shelf. I certainly never ruined it for other kids,
but she's seen too much and she now has told
me that, you know, she's a little suspect on the
whole concept. And I told her that the reason why
I never opened the box is because I don't believe

(01:30:47):
in a police date and I don't want to bring
that surveilance to our home.

Speaker 4 (01:30:51):
It's not nice. I mean, the National Guard is in
the kitchen. I just don't want that.

Speaker 9 (01:30:59):
Kind of That's why I want to get an Alexa. Honestly,
I just can't have somebody watching us all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:31:04):
Well somebody already is. They're just like in your phone
or on your laptop when you leave it open.

Speaker 4 (01:31:09):
I can't say it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:10):
Do you close out of social media apps when you
like browse away from them?

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
I didn't know that that was the thing until two
weeks ago when my wife said, do you close all
your taps?

Speaker 4 (01:31:19):
You close all your apps? I said, how do you
do that? You got to sign idea, got to sign out? Great, cool, awesome, Yeah,
I'll do that more.

Speaker 9 (01:31:29):
Did you see that Australia banned all social media nuh
uh for kids under under fifteen. It is now illegal
for kids to use social media.

Speaker 3 (01:31:43):
I mean it's been said many times before, where you know,
the average parent is like, here's all the tech. Kids
go at it and keep yourself occupied and you can
use learning tools on your iPad and things like that.
And then the people who develop all the technology, you're like,
they just give their kids in blocks and they don't
let them see a screen until they're like fourteen years old.

Speaker 9 (01:32:08):
Listen, I have a different child when there's a social
media break. For whatever reason, her father gave her his
iPad with his Instagram log in and let.

Speaker 4 (01:32:20):
Her use his for you tab. There's two problems with this.
One never never in a million years.

Speaker 3 (01:32:32):
Well, with Shoe, it's probably just a lot of guitar like,
you know, construction and things like that.

Speaker 4 (01:32:39):
That brings me to the second problem.

Speaker 9 (01:32:41):
Randy, it's not it's a lot of like cute, fluffy
Kwaii animals.

Speaker 4 (01:32:47):
He's a metal guy, you know, metal guys love kittens.
I was kind of like.

Speaker 9 (01:32:54):
Taken aback by that because I'm like, shouldn't you, as
a forty six year old man, be afraid to give
a nine year old your phone, Like shouldn't you have
some skeletons in your closet?

Speaker 4 (01:33:08):
Shouldn't you be clean? Nope, it's nothing but.

Speaker 9 (01:33:11):
Like little cartoons of like little bears hugging each other,
going I love you, and like little Kawhi animals. But
he gave her his Instagram and would let her just
scroll endlessly with like no fear at all.

Speaker 4 (01:33:27):
And I'm like, this is I have so many problems
with this.

Speaker 9 (01:33:30):
But she got like so used to it that she
just started like asking for it all the time, and
I just shut that down like two days ago, where
I'm like, there are so many issues with this because,
like truly, Instagram has rules about you can't have an
Instagram account unless you're thirteen.

Speaker 4 (01:33:48):
Here in the United States. How do they prove that? Though,
I don't know, there's probably lead your social Security number.

Speaker 9 (01:33:54):
No, there's definitely ways around it. But you know, like
we're basically giving her an adults account. And the only
reason why he was on board when also getting rid
of it was because he found out that, even though
he told her not to, she was commenting under his
profile and writing things like.

Speaker 4 (01:34:16):
This is cringe so funny.

Speaker 3 (01:34:21):
I mean all, she probably boor to death if she
got into my for UTAP because it would be all
colonoscopy farts and wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald me.

Speaker 9 (01:34:28):
Actually, she would be like, are we best friends? Like
finally an algorithm I can get into.

Speaker 3 (01:34:36):
I just should doodled, you know stuff like that. That's
the best, that's the best one. Yeah, I just should doodled.
You did what I should doodle in.

Speaker 4 (01:34:45):
Pants me getting back onto the yelphone.

Speaker 9 (01:34:49):
The shelf thing there is also by the way men
show on a bench, which is for the Jewish family.

Speaker 4 (01:34:54):
Like that we had Klaus in the house when you know,
back in the day of the Klaus minus doll. Yeah,
that would sit up on n im.

Speaker 9 (01:35:02):
Still loving you, I'll touch me thoughs on my palace.

Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
Then we know, and it's a blackout old time and
bum all right, the last story I will give you here.

Speaker 9 (01:35:15):
Cher is reportedly preparing to marry her longtime partner Alexander
Edwards ahead of her eightieth birthday next May. This is
according to page six, so it's not totally confirmed.

Speaker 3 (01:35:27):
This wedding has brought to you by the substance, the substance.
If you're not taking it, why not the substance.

Speaker 9 (01:35:36):
Cher'ses her upcoming birthday is a perfect moment to seal
the deal. The couple's been dating since two thousand and
twenty two. Wait but yeah, okay. Despite a forty year
age gap, Share remains unbothered.

Speaker 4 (01:35:49):
By the critics, saying that they just have a blast.

Speaker 9 (01:35:52):
However, representative for Share says the reports are not true,
leaving the credibility of the marriage plan unconfirmed.

Speaker 4 (01:35:58):
I we're gonna ask forty four zero.

Speaker 3 (01:36:02):
Imagine getting a birthday card that said, lordy, lordie, look
who's forty. And then someone's like, oh yeah, also, here
meet my newborn, and then thinking, you know, one day,
one day, one sweet day, the two of us are
gonna be conjoined. What in marital bliss? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 4 (01:36:22):
Well, why would she do that? I get why she
would do it. I don't she made it. She got
past men. Yeah, well there are those.

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
Women who it's different, right, I know. It doesn't get
better postman. No, it's she did it like Catherine Hepburn
was famously like that. Jane Fonda is now like that. Yeah,
when she's like, yeah, I'm done. But Share never has
been chair has always been a gypsy, a tramp, a thief.

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She's into it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:57):
Forty somebody farts tell her, yeah, just to remind her
she's rich.

Speaker 3 (01:37:04):
She's got the Alzheimer's is what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (01:37:07):
Remind her she's rich.

Speaker 3 (01:37:09):
Her family's like locker in a room with a pot
of chili. And let's hope she comes to her senses.

Speaker 9 (01:37:15):
Cloudy with most of us just seeing rain, Today's I
have thirty eight on the way for you.

Speaker 3 (01:37:20):
Mark Mannen will be joining us at eight forty five
and then Jean's terotor live in studio here in the
dv E Morning show. Well bank vaults, bank fault is
really what it is. The confines here and PFT Commoner
will be giving us a call while Jeane is here.
But here for you now with a eulogy on your
fantasy football team. It's our own tad Whistle Tad.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
Dearly beloved friends, haters and douchebags that have advanced to
the playoffs. We're gathered here today to mourn the death
of your terrible twenty twenty five fantasy football team.

Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
For those of you who did not know the hearted.

Speaker 2 (01:38:00):
They came into this world, as so many do, Drafted
in late August amid much hope and promise.

Speaker 4 (01:38:06):
This team seemed bound for big things. Expectations were high,
and why wouldn't they be.

Speaker 2 (01:38:13):
After all, you secured an elite wide receiving tandem and
Tyreek Hill and aj Brown. You had Bell Cows in
the backfield with Saquon and Breis Hall. This was your year,
and so this squad plucked from the stars, was given
a name fit for a champion.

Speaker 4 (01:38:35):
Steve Sucks.

Speaker 2 (01:38:40):
A cheeky tip of the cat to your brother in law. Steve, who,
in all fairness suck. Both the best leave plans often
go awry, and a rocky season followed. Whether it was injuries,
no show performances, or every dunce in your league having
their hot week against your team, you quickly found yourself

(01:39:04):
behind the gate ball. It was the kind of year
that would make you quit fantasy football altogether if you
were a total loser like Notre Dame. But through adversity,
real champions are born, and Steve sucks would not go.
Gentle into that good night. You spent hours on Reddit,

(01:39:28):
consuming the advice of strangers. You sifted through hot garbage
on the waiver wire. Week after week, you skipped your
daughter's soccer game to see if Jerome Ford could score
two measly points against the Jets.

Speaker 4 (01:39:45):
He could not. This team was your baby.

Speaker 2 (01:39:52):
You loved it like your own, and sometimes love makes
you do crazy things like text a picture of a
three D printed gun to the league group tat at
one in the morning, which again was a joke.

Speaker 4 (01:40:09):
It was from Google images. It's not like you own that, sheeesh.

Speaker 2 (01:40:17):
You may have finished tenth in the league, but you
were seventh in points, which is sort of similar to
the Tomlin No losing season's thing, but still no one
can take that away from you. For some, the end
of the fantasy football season means venmoing a dude you
now hate fifty bucks with the memo choke on it.

(01:40:42):
For others, it involves a heinous punishment in which you
have to gratify yourself in the restroom of a waffle house.
But as we now lay Steve Sucks and all the
other loser fantasy teams to rest, just remember fantasy football
is deeply stupid and no one wants to hear you

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Speaker 14 (01:42:14):
The Steelers won a game last Sunday in Baltimore despite
being badly out rushed by the Ravens, and it wasn't
the first time, naturally, mcdonalin wasn't surprised.

Speaker 15 (01:42:26):
You know, they're built different than a lot of teams,
and so the nature of our matchups are different. You know,
you can almost substitute their rushing yards for passing yards
and vice versa. The bottom line is, you better win
the turnover game, you better be good in the red area,
you better make timely situational plays. And you know that's
kind of the formula for playing those guys from our perspective.

Speaker 14 (01:42:47):
Yeah, Ravens out rushing the Steelers two hundred and seventeen
to thirty four. That's one hundred and eighty three more
rushing yards get. The Steelers win the game twenty seven
to twenty two. Twenty twenty one at the Ravens ball
Blimore out rushes Pittsburgh to forty nine to seventy nine.
Pittsburgh wins sixteen thirteen to twenty Twenty twenty at the Ravens,

(01:43:09):
Baltimore out rushes Pittsburgh two sixty five to forty eight.
Steelers win the game twenty eight to twenty four. That
Ravens are different, which brings us to Miami, which I
think is also different.

Speaker 6 (01:43:22):
Now.

Speaker 14 (01:43:22):
We just heard from Merril Hodge and he said it's
really more of a power running game with a lot
of eye candy window dressing.

Speaker 5 (01:43:29):
He watches more tape than I do.

Speaker 14 (01:43:31):
But when I watched Miami play against the Jets, I
kept getting a Boise State vibe in my head.

Speaker 4 (01:43:37):
They look like a college to you, What the hell
kind of formation is that?

Speaker 5 (01:43:41):
What do they do?

Speaker 4 (01:43:41):
Why is that guy there? What are they doing so
much stuff?

Speaker 5 (01:43:45):
Why are they doing so much stuff? Pre snap?

Speaker 14 (01:43:48):
Eventually, Davon eight Chan's going to get the ball, and
that's the guy you got to focus on.

Speaker 4 (01:43:54):
And that's the guy you got to start take the
ch lot Glenn Miller.

Speaker 3 (01:43:59):
Nice, Well, that's written by Pittsburgh. Yeah, Billy what's his name?
Con No, Billy Kahn did not write music. He made
a lot of people hear birds though, Billy Strehorn, thank you?

Speaker 5 (01:44:17):
Wow?

Speaker 11 (01:44:18):
Yeahn't no where?

Speaker 3 (01:44:20):
Oh yeah, dude, he wrote all like a ton of
Duke Ellington songs and he he he was on the
train and the rhythm of the train.

Speaker 4 (01:44:27):
Made him think of that.

Speaker 3 (01:44:31):
That's where that melody came from. And hopefully this dude
isn't making music against the Steelers defense on Monday night.

Speaker 6 (01:44:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:44:37):
And if you're not going to get out rushed by
thee hundred and eighty or so yards, you got to
limit their rushing and you also have to run the
ball better. Uh, Steelers, that's still work in progress. They're
one of two teams in the NFL to average fewer
than one hundred yards rushing per game and still have
a winning record. The forty nine Ers are nine and
four despite averaging ninety eight point five yards on the

(01:45:00):
ground per game. Steelers are an eighty nine point two.
Now they're compromised to tackle Calvin Anderson will not be
able to fill in again because of his knee. Broderick
Jones is on the reserve ang list. It's either going
to be Andre's Pete, who is in the concussion protocol,
or Dylan Cook, who's been hanging around the NFL for
three years and finally made his debut last Sunday in Baltimore.

(01:45:22):
Steelers have Wolves also won two games this season when
rushing for fewer than forty yards. The other teams that
have done that rushed for fewer than forty yards this
season in the NFL are.

Speaker 5 (01:45:36):
Zero to eight.

Speaker 6 (01:45:38):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:45:38):
I mean.

Speaker 14 (01:45:40):
You could argue they're sort of sneaking by here without
necessarily achieving a sustainable level of play.

Speaker 4 (01:45:48):
Oh yes, so some things need to change against the
Dolphins on Monday night.

Speaker 3 (01:45:55):
But that's what people are arguing. That's those the people
who won't enjoy a win. That's the kind of stuff
they cite.

Speaker 4 (01:46:01):
You know, what's the point of enjoying this now only
to be disappointed later?

Speaker 5 (01:46:06):
I guess none.

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
Whereas I love beating the Ravens and I'm totally happy. Yeah,
we should celebrate that Yeah, agreed, I think you should.
Seeing John Harbaugh miserable, how does that not bring you
joy the holidaying? Yeah, crying like a little bit. Tom
Hall given him a little bit of a shot yesterday.
He's like, I don't call the NFL.

Speaker 5 (01:46:26):
He's done that.

Speaker 4 (01:46:27):
I know he has I know, but he's just going
to take this time.

Speaker 14 (01:46:31):
If that was his motivational all for it, I think
it was Derek Harmon, big big guy for the run defense.

Speaker 4 (01:46:39):
It's it's looking promising.

Speaker 14 (01:46:41):
Mike Tomlin made no guarantees yesterday, but they're gonna let
Harmon's practice participation in the quality.

Speaker 4 (01:46:46):
Thereof be their guide.

Speaker 14 (01:46:48):
They've got an extra day, so maybe he plays arrows
up on DK Metcalf. Despite the stomach problems that kept
him in Baltimore, Kyle Dugger has a chance to play,
according to Tom and this is a big deal because yes,
Miami doesn't pass very often. But the way the Steelers
played it without Dugger was to use Jabrill Peppers when
they thought the other team was going to run, and

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Chuck Clark when they thought the other team was going
to pass. And I'm I just have no confidence in
Chuck Clark at this point when twenty one's out there.
I think they are vulnerable. Bul Well Douger is a
thumper too, and yeah, I mean he's an okay player.
I don't think he's all pro or anything, but you
can lean out there all the time, right.

Speaker 4 (01:47:30):
Dougger's almost is almost had many interceptions.

Speaker 14 (01:47:33):
I know he has one for a touchdown that he's yeah,
the kid almost fish hook mcgloy almost nearly.

Speaker 3 (01:47:43):
All I know is I had a defense of any
time touchdown and a Dougger interception that day. I was
just like, Wow, it was almost like hitting the Derek
Watt touchdown Anytime TV plus twenty five eighty or whatever
it was.

Speaker 5 (01:47:57):
You didn't play it the one time I scored, I
did not.

Speaker 4 (01:48:00):
Yeah, uh played it every week. Didn't play it the
week he scored.

Speaker 5 (01:48:04):
Pete, MALIEK.

Speaker 14 (01:48:04):
Harrison, and Darnel Washington are in the Concussion Protocol. Washington
critical to the running game. Mike Tomin was talking about
Malie Harrison as the you know, run defense guy yesterday
and I concur but I think Cole Holcomb's a really
good player. I don't have a problem with fifty five
out there. He got smoked on the big play. Yeah,
you know, everybody. Everybody smoked that in moments Steelers hosting

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the Dolphins Monday night, after.

Speaker 3 (01:48:30):
We saw Heismith had a great game, all right, I
still thought i'd be seeing more Jack.

Speaker 4 (01:48:36):
Sawyer at this point in the season.

Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
Like, I know, he hasn't necessarily been needed at this point,
but I thought i'd be seeing him utilize a little
bit more. I don't know why I did not check
his snapcount. I just thought i'd hear his name a
little more offense.

Speaker 4 (01:48:52):
Well tuning, Yeah, yeah, spelling, guys.

Speaker 3 (01:48:54):
Exactly A name I did w A A name I didn't.
I think i'd see a lot is Carson Carson Brunner,
who had a hell of a special teams game.

Speaker 14 (01:49:05):
Yeah, Mike tomm made a point yesterday of saluting his
special teams. Everybody's always focused on offense and defense, and
justifiably so. But from the kicking to the covering and
that that, uh, that video of Ben's kronic awesome is
just why you love the NFL. Right, So, I love
Ben's kronik and he's still in the lead right now.

(01:49:26):
If you retweet that, that counts as a vote oh
for him to get to the Pro Bowl. I knew
this because he's told us on social media, hey, retweet
it and vote for me.

Speaker 4 (01:49:35):
Yeah, dude, I want him to get the money.

Speaker 6 (01:49:37):
I thought that.

Speaker 2 (01:49:37):
I didn't think that was real when people have said
retweets count as votes, I thought that was for the
general election.

Speaker 3 (01:49:45):
I totally If it's a swing state, that's right. Uh,
we're going to have Mark Madden joining us in about
nine minutes. Jean's Territory will be live in studio with
us in the nine o'clock hour. Can't wait to have
Gino in here. That'll be great. And PFT commenter will
be giving us a shout during that nine o'clock hour.

Speaker 4 (01:50:02):
Two so you'll have Gene serrator and PFT. James Madison guy.

Speaker 3 (01:50:06):
He is the so PFT is a James Madison grad
and he is of course rooting for his team to
take on Oregon.

Speaker 4 (01:50:13):
So every day until they play, he's eating duck.

Speaker 6 (01:50:16):
I like it.

Speaker 4 (01:50:17):
Yeah, yes, so is.

Speaker 10 (01:50:18):
You know.

Speaker 14 (01:50:19):
I'm not a huge fan of Twitter social media in general,
but James Madison had a great tweet the other day.
It was put out by James Madison. It was something
along the lines. I'm not quoting it for Baden, but
I don't know why everybody says this game is going
to be a blowout. We think this Oregon team's scrappy.
They might give us a.

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Game PFT nine to fifteen. Abby's News at the top
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Speaker 4 (01:50:45):
Things with Gene. You know what, because he's the rules guy.
We're actually gonna talk about who.

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Speaker 5 (01:51:23):
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Speaker 4 (01:51:50):
Good morning, Mark, How are you hello again?

Speaker 6 (01:51:53):
Everybody?

Speaker 4 (01:51:53):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:51:54):
What happened to the Penguins last night? And what was
the easiest way to keep that from happening?

Speaker 6 (01:52:01):
Well, there were any number of things that went wrong.
I don't know why Muse had both his offensive defenseman
out there to protect the lead late the Penguins were
nomine you on the power play, but it didn't matter
at that point. You had Latang and Carl's not there.
They're both offensive, they're both righties. That didn't make sense
to me. The guy who wound up shoving the pucket

(01:52:23):
a net, well, Carlson put it in, and why is
he diving toward the net with under a second left
toward the net with the puck there? That just begs
for an own goal? And that's what happened. And the
guy drove to the net right past Rustin Latang, there's
only a second or two left, break his arm, take
a big splash at him. Who cares? You're already upper man?

(01:52:44):
And what's the power player going to do in three seconds,
So they just made any number of mistakes that led
to that tying goal. And then in the shootout, you
gotta start taking shilloffs outs. I know that's not proper protocol,
but intense shootout attempts. This Yearies conceded eight goals. Yeah,
they went zero for three shooting, and that's a problem.

(01:53:04):
Sid does the same move every time. It's so predictable.
I could stop it. But they're zero to five in
the shootout this year, nine dating back to last year,
and that'll be why they missed the playoffs. You can't
just give away that many points. You can't lose every
single shootout.

Speaker 3 (01:53:19):
I don't understand Sid's lack of productivity in a shootout.
Like to me, he's the one guy you would think
would like work on it incessantly in an offseason and
and just manighacally figure out how to be good at it,
and it hasn't happened.

Speaker 6 (01:53:35):
I can tell you why. It's because he's obsessed with
doing everything the same way all the time. And that's
okay in open play because you can you can color
inside the lines, you know every single shift and do
things the right way and it pays off in the
shootout repetition's depth. The other team clearly knows what's coming,
and the goalie just stands there, waits for that little

(01:53:56):
shuffle to the forehand and makes the easy save.

Speaker 14 (01:53:59):
Mark at the shootouts long enough now, and this is
even true in college, the best players aren't necessarily the
best shootout guys. Is that do you think Because everybody
bastardizes the breakaway and has to go real wide and
then come all the way back the other way and
go real slow, shouldn't they just treat it like a
breakaway and just break in there knowing you're not going

(01:54:20):
to get caught from behind, and do what you do.

Speaker 6 (01:54:24):
Yeah, I think so. I think they like everything in
every sport, every new once, every change made to every game,
it's over thought and over coach and ultimately ruined. Yeah,
just take it like it's a breakaway, come in with speed,
and just make your move and don't do the same
one every time in Sid's case. But but yeah, that's

(01:54:44):
a big part of it. And part of it is
too that the Penguins generally just go with their best
players in the shootout. Now, they broke ranks with that
last night. When let Cleoiven and go, who had a
pretty good track record with shootouts in the AHL. He
didn't score last night, but I think that's at least
a step in trying to do the right thing. Mark.

Speaker 3 (01:55:04):
I share your same sentiments towards Bob Dunning and the
Pirates for this whole Schwarber scenario, because I do not
think it was a legitimate offer. I clearly think this
was a pr move. The people suggesting that they were
close are not really being genuine when you look at
all of the facts of what he accepted versus what

(01:55:26):
he was reportedly offered.

Speaker 6 (01:55:28):
Yeah, exactly. It was amazing to me how the report
of what the pirates offered went up after Schwarbur had
already signed with Philadelphia. We heard it was four years
one hundred plus million, whatever that is. And then when
Schwarber got five years, one hundred and fifty million from Philly,
it was like, oh, yeah, well, the pilots offered four years,
one hundred and twenty million, same average annual value. So

(01:55:50):
they just missed well. First off offering twenty percent less
if you do believe that, and I don't, but offering
twenty percent less, that's not just missing that's missing by
a wide margin. But here's one thing I complain about
with Pirates coverage that nobody takes seriously. It's absolutely true
everybody who covers the Pirates for all the outlets is
a Pirate fan except for Parada. And they just give

(01:56:12):
this team every benefit of every doubt, and they print
that offer like it's true. They printed the Nailer offer
to the Seattle guy, which never happened, like yeah, yeah,
and it's like epidemic. Everybody who covers the team is
a Pirate fan. I heard one of them at another
station talking about how the Pirates are a big threat
to sign these two Japanese import guys that are coming over.

(01:56:35):
I mean that would only happen if the if the
Japanese guy somehow loses track of the translation from dollar
to yen and the Pirates can can can successfully lowball them,
And of course who would want to come here in
on live in Pittsburgh's thriving Japanese community.

Speaker 3 (01:56:50):
Well, here's here's the part where I think they do
not factor in enough of the equation when signing somebody
or trying to sign somebody like Schwarber to suggest even
if you want to go out like, Look, there's similar
aav and as you point out, I agree with you,
No they're not. But even if they were, that's not

(01:57:11):
good enough for the Pittsburgh Pirates. These two things are
not equal. The Pittsburgh Pirates, the Philadelphia Phillies, the Dodgers,
they are not the same. And until you show otherwise,
you have to overpay to bring people here.

Speaker 4 (01:57:28):
That's just the fact that because that's the condition.

Speaker 26 (01:57:31):
That you created through the last decade and change whatever
that Bob Nutting has been running things, you created the
environment that you have to dig yourself out of, and
they're just not gonna do that.

Speaker 6 (01:57:45):
Well, yeah, you're right. I mean, if you would have
offered Schwarber, say six years, two hundred and twenty million,
which would have blown the Phillies off out of the water,
there's still a good chance you wouldn't have taken it.
They doesn't want to come here and lose. Yeah, they
need to like groundwork for winning and grindwork for winning.
Isn't having the occasional prospect come true even a bunch
of pictures like they have now who you know we're
gonna leave in the not too distant future. The groundwork

(01:58:07):
is signing guys like that, the long term deals and
getting even a few mid level free agents to come
in serious. I think, oh he sucks. Give me a break.

Speaker 4 (01:58:20):
I mean, guy's a legit lefty. Yeah, he's a real player. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:58:24):
I oh god, you guys sound like the Bucco fans
covering the team. Yeah, they signed this lefty with a
four points up to the r A and he's a
real player. Sut the frig up?

Speaker 4 (01:58:33):
Well, I mean it's a blind squirrel.

Speaker 6 (01:58:35):
Uh, small reason for optimism with this frigging team. Get
the frigg out of here.

Speaker 8 (01:58:47):
No.

Speaker 14 (01:58:47):
I didn't say optimism for the team. I said he's
a real player, which he is.

Speaker 6 (01:58:51):
As him him, Well, you're just like those whoops.

Speaker 4 (01:58:58):
You he's Now, this is just the kind of diving
need in the.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
This is when you go from having a legitimate argue.
This undermines your legitimate arguments when you when you equate
Mike to the people that you're saying in a fanboy meeting.

Speaker 6 (01:59:16):
Means nothing nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:59:18):
Have you ever watched them pitch?

Speaker 6 (01:59:20):
No, I'll there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:59:22):
That was like my dad said, he hated Seinfeld and
we go have you ever watched it?

Speaker 8 (01:59:26):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:59:28):
No, don't you guys agree that it's a problem that
the media stoodents for this team constantly.

Speaker 3 (01:59:34):
I do think that there are people who have a
tendency because I also, like, I don't want to say
it's a conspiracy, uh sort of theory that I have,
but like, I think the proof is in the pudding
that if you play to the fan base, and I
don't think the pirate media is this is exclusive to them.
This is what's happening across the board is that if

(01:59:55):
you tell people what they want to hear, they will
click and clicks our currency and so.

Speaker 6 (02:00:00):
Yes, screw clicks. I'd rather not work in the industry
than report lies and bs and the pirates should be
covered like an ongoing criminal operation because they are defrauding.
They are they are taking money out of the city
and lying to us every time they open their frigging mouths.

Speaker 4 (02:00:18):
So you're not going to pick Soto up at the airport.

Speaker 6 (02:00:21):
Only to drive him? Well, yeah I would, what the heck? Yeah,
he's probably I mean, like serious, I don't know how
like And that's the problem that people say, whoa, this
is a good pickups?

Speaker 3 (02:00:34):
No, no, no that's not that's not what he said.
Neither of us said that we're saying he's a legit player.
That doesn't mean that.

Speaker 6 (02:00:41):
They could pick up five Sodos. It wouldn't matter.

Speaker 4 (02:00:45):
Might as well go for a Sodo, Mark Madden, what
about what about Kettle Marte?

Speaker 6 (02:00:49):
You heard that story right?

Speaker 5 (02:00:51):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (02:00:52):
Look, they supposedly Rosenthal reported there the pirates were talking
there is Own about a deal, and Marte said, well,
they're on my no trade list and no trade right away.
I mean, nobody wants to come here.

Speaker 3 (02:01:07):
Mark Madden, he won't get hired by the Chamber of
Commerce anytime soon, but he does provide some of the
most I'm the biggest.

Speaker 6 (02:01:14):
Friend this city has ever had when it comes to
talking truth about the pirates Episodo by.

Speaker 4 (02:01:26):
He's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (02:01:27):
But what the thing that people don't maybe don't understand
about Mark is that he doesn't hang up the phone
and then just go about his day like you know,
and like everything's fine.

Speaker 4 (02:01:36):
He's actually right now he's the cortisolar s through.

Speaker 14 (02:01:39):
I mean, you know, he's ripping things up right now.
And Soto makes them better? Does he make them good enough?

Speaker 4 (02:01:46):
Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (02:01:46):
Nobody's saying that, No, it's a real player. Well that's
what I'm saying he can't.

Speaker 14 (02:01:51):
My thought on this all long is, but they're not
going to get Schwarber, but find a happy medium between
Schwarber six years for two hundred million and Tommy fam
one year for six million.

Speaker 4 (02:02:03):
Yeah, like, get a mid range bat guy. Maybe Alfonso's
a Alonzo uh Pete Alonso.

Speaker 6 (02:02:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:02:10):
Yeah, there's word about him back out there again.

Speaker 14 (02:02:12):
Yeah, I suppose the people don't want to sign him
for one reason or another that in addition to overpaying,
you find some guy with enough warts in age that
maybe people are backing off, and you.

Speaker 4 (02:02:22):
Roll this Whart Night in the NC.

Speaker 14 (02:02:25):
No, you roll the dice and he's got one more year,
particularly with that Clementy wall beckoning.

Speaker 4 (02:02:30):
Well, that is a big factor, no doubt about it.

Speaker 3 (02:02:34):
That's why I don't think even like going for a
Shoerber is helpful, because if you're spending all your money there,
that just tips the canoe and you sink.

Speaker 4 (02:02:42):
Anyways, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (02:02:43):
Like, No, that dude probably hits sixty five here?

Speaker 6 (02:02:47):
Yeah? Does he? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:02:49):
Probably, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:02:51):
You start losing games and people pitch the who's who's
behind him? That they're scared to pitch to. Yeah, That's
what I'm saying is, well, you know, he might set
a record for walks.

Speaker 5 (02:03:04):
I have helped their own basis on.

Speaker 3 (02:03:05):
Jean's Territor live in studio coming up here in just
a little bit and uh pft comment are calling us
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Speaker 3 (02:03:28):
I do think it was smart of Alex More to
pretend his microphone was busted.

Speaker 4 (02:03:31):
On that one.

Speaker 5 (02:03:32):
That was.

Speaker 8 (02:03:34):
The young rookie has learned a little from me to
tap on that mic. Look at that guy on the
song line.

Speaker 21 (02:03:40):
He's got the batteries and the lacke like we're never
gonna miss it.

Speaker 8 (02:03:43):
And then you say after you hit your mic and
you're like, yo, this thing isn't working. What's going on
with new people?

Speaker 6 (02:03:55):
Thought?

Speaker 23 (02:03:55):
You kidding me?

Speaker 4 (02:03:56):
And that poor person on.

Speaker 8 (02:03:57):
The sideline's going to get fired because he.

Speaker 21 (02:03:59):
Didn't James the nine bolt batteries after the third quarter time.

Speaker 6 (02:04:02):
Oh yeah, you gotta do it.

Speaker 4 (02:04:04):
That's part of the game.

Speaker 5 (02:04:05):
Boys, Brandy Bellman and the Jeans there.

Speaker 3 (02:04:09):
It's are coming live in studio right now saying this hellos, hellos, salutations.
We're live on the radio right now. Just so you
don't get, you know, I don't want you to get.
What's the reference I'm looking for that Guardeled Yes, yeah, exactly,
Ga Yeah exactly Hot Mike.

Speaker 4 (02:04:27):
Guaranteed, Jean Gene, Welcome to the Dvaster.

Speaker 3 (02:04:31):
These are the new studios, which aren't as quite as
big as the old ones, but.

Speaker 4 (02:04:35):
Beautiful digs here.

Speaker 5 (02:04:36):
You know, listen.

Speaker 24 (02:04:37):
Being in the jan sand business, I'm gonna I'm three
minutes later. I had to stop into the public restroom
to see what kind of soap dispenser, you know, what.

Speaker 4 (02:04:45):
Kind of urinal screens were in there, and yeah, yeah,
the place looks pretty good. Yeah, well not bad.

Speaker 3 (02:04:50):
Let me tell you something, though, A good urinal cake
can change your day, you know, like we needed urinal
cakes in this place for so long. I mean I
was going in there and I thought I was just
my nose was like in a sewer pipe every time,
you know. And and they finally invested in some more.
Do they have buck eighty or something like that, But
they got this new groovy like flavors and stuff.

Speaker 4 (02:05:08):
Now you know you get the negative mango, you.

Speaker 24 (02:05:11):
Know, cucumber melon, you know the market great, Yeah, the
old ones when they'd get a certain size though, you know,
and then they're like halfway down the drain or not.
Kind of like the smelling salts that the players are using,
that's right, the games. I think maybe we had to
package those and get them to them before you get.

Speaker 4 (02:05:27):
Hit the salt real quick.

Speaker 24 (02:05:28):
You know, you'urin okay, you know, water the eyes, but
I'm ready to go.

Speaker 3 (02:05:32):
Did you ever use a urinal, not a you're okay,
a smelling salt when you were refereeing?

Speaker 4 (02:05:36):
Did you have the size of my nose?

Speaker 5 (02:05:37):
Rim would not have been a good.

Speaker 24 (02:05:39):
Idea, the whole thing, would I'm probably gone up the
left side of it, Like dude, I can't get it out,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (02:05:45):
Somebody tweezers please jeez terators live in the studio with this.

Speaker 3 (02:05:51):
Mike Pursuit will be joining us a little bit PFT
comment or from Pardon My Taste calling in in a minute.
I hope that'll be all right for you. But we're
pretty excited about myday night football with the Steelers in
first place right now, and this is a big in
and it's going to be cold, which is good for
the Steelers because the Dolphins are a terrible cold weather team.
And something we never consider when it's cold for the players,

(02:06:13):
when they're cold, the refs are cold.

Speaker 4 (02:06:15):
Okay, if you're cold, what what is? Where do you
draw the line on staying more?

Speaker 3 (02:06:22):
Because you don't have to move quite as swiftly as
the players, which isn't a good thing when it's like
twenty below, right, you'd like to move a little bit,
all right, Yeah, And we don't get subs.

Speaker 24 (02:06:32):
And I don't know if any of you really realize
that there's no bench that's heated on the sideline that
just has like stripes on it, Like, dude, when you
guys go to commercial, you guys can go sit on
the bench and we'll put one of those heavy jackets.

Speaker 4 (02:06:42):
No, we're still out there, right.

Speaker 24 (02:06:44):
So, as I got a little more experienced in the NFL,
I would punch out rather quickly to TV much of
the demise of our network partners, you know, a little
too fast. But then I would be lined to the sideline,
you know, and look at some of the young bucks
that we're standing around one of those blow he and
like shoot the elbow at him and go Fellas you know,
I'm in my fifties and now I'll get out of
the way. Gino needs to get at least for thirty seconds. Yeah,

(02:07:08):
we'll be fine in a couple of minutes. But yeah, handwarmers,
do you go? Handwarmers? Definitely, definitely handwarmers, And actually learn
the trick to put the footwarmer on the top of
the feet, on the top as opposed to the bottom,
which I didn't realize at first. And I had some
issues with my feet for running with them underneath, but
the thin skin on the top permeates too quicker.

Speaker 4 (02:07:26):
Made sense.

Speaker 24 (02:07:28):
And then quite frankly, you know again, as I aged,
I get a little more dangerous. But I remember being
in Chicago one year with the Bears in one of
those really cold Chicago days.

Speaker 4 (02:07:36):
I had a rookie with me who was nervous as heck,
and I said, listen, here's.

Speaker 5 (02:07:40):
How you do this, kid.

Speaker 24 (02:07:40):
You take the hand warmers, you put them in your pocket,
and then you take that bag of roasted almonds there
and you stick them in your pocket that way. In
the middle of this madness. You can pretend that we're
in the movie theater and you have roasted almonds and
you're really enjoying the show. So the hand warmer also
keeps the peanuts warm and the cash in your dude, Like, yeah,
it's mind over Madden.

Speaker 4 (02:08:01):
Yeah, not to mention a nice aromatic aspect to the situation.

Speaker 24 (02:08:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's true. You know, a few defensive arm
are like you don't do it for whatever reason. You're
like making me feel warm and fuzzy today. That's the
roasted alms.

Speaker 3 (02:08:13):
For a second, I thought you were actually being serious,
like it conducts the heat and it actually as a
you know, a powerless warmer in your pockets. There, just
a whole bunch of almonds, makes sense. Uh, Abby's got
a quick news story for us here. By the way,
you met Tad Whistle, who's hanging out, and of course
you know Mikey will be in here in a little bit.

(02:08:34):
Mikey's calming down from the fight he just had with
Mark Madden on the air.

Speaker 4 (02:08:36):
We're going to beautiful. Oh it was wonderful.

Speaker 3 (02:08:38):
I'm glad I didn't have to beard a rough though,
Right Abby, what's going on over there?

Speaker 4 (02:08:43):
Is this hour brought to you by better call cy cloudy.

Speaker 9 (02:08:46):
With most of us seeing just rain today instead of snow,
it's a high of thirty eight. Genus is maybe something
you would have to officiate here because we have to
acknowledge that it happened. Some people do try to cheat
the system and save forty cents and lie about the
number of items in their bag at the self checkout.
By the numbers here, the people who are most likely

(02:09:08):
to do this are rich people. Really, yes, a new
report look rich people cheat. No new report looked into
stealing itself checkout machines, and twenty seven percent of people
admit to taking an item without scanning it on purpose,
and surprisingly the ones most likely to do that are
not poor. Forty percent of people with a household income
of one hundred thousand dollars or more admit that they

(02:09:30):
have stolen something at least once. It drops to twenty
seven percent for households making fifty thousand to ninety nine thousand,
and just seventeen percent of people making less than fifty
thousand say that they have.

Speaker 3 (02:09:41):
I told you about the time that I went through
the twelve items or less and they made me leave
because I had bananas, and the guy counted every banana singularly. No,
oh no, it's not fair. That's a weighted item. Yeah,
he's like, you have there's five ban in is there
that puts you at fourteen or whatever?

Speaker 4 (02:09:58):
Did you get the whole bunch where they had like
the ubber bait they.

Speaker 3 (02:10:01):
Were because they were like because I got a four
and a three or like a two and a three
or something like that, because they were, you know, pulled
apart at the at the uh display and he made
me change lengthes and I did it just for the bit.

Speaker 4 (02:10:14):
I'm like, I'm doing this so I can bitch about it.
That's it. But there was like people in line who
didn't defend me.

Speaker 3 (02:10:20):
And that's when I realized, nobody's coming to save you, Abby,
Nobody's coming to save you. No, you have to fight
for yourself in this world. But you'll never get all
of your bananas.

Speaker 4 (02:10:28):
Counter. They just going and eat to thirteen.

Speaker 24 (02:10:30):
Right there, right hold on, I'm gonna dude, I'm gonna
get to twelve a second.

Speaker 4 (02:10:34):
We're gonna pay for it too.

Speaker 24 (02:10:35):
I mean, I'm gonna put the peel food, put the
sticker on the peel, right I got twelve now.

Speaker 4 (02:10:39):
Yeah, it's a way tonight them. It should be one thing.

Speaker 3 (02:10:41):
It was this guy I think was he was new
and he didn't want to, you know, court any controversy
and just wanted me to move over to the other
longer lined aisle.

Speaker 2 (02:10:51):
Sometimes those people have to turn a blind eye. And
I know what happens all the time at the end
of your transaction. And how many bags did he use today?

Speaker 4 (02:10:59):
And the guys are right.

Speaker 2 (02:11:00):
There looking at everyone. I could pinch a lot of
people that would affect the number.

Speaker 9 (02:11:05):
Yeah, how far through your scanning were you when you
noticed the bananas?

Speaker 4 (02:11:11):
Or didn't starts jetting?

Speaker 3 (02:11:11):
It didn't even start scanning to begin Yeah, didn't didn't
start scanning.

Speaker 4 (02:11:15):
And I'll tell you something I did the other day.

Speaker 3 (02:11:17):
Because I don't like going in and not gene when
they don't give you the basket. I don't want the
basket because sometimes I don't need a cart. I just
want a few things, so I can't carry all of them, right,
and they and they don't have the baskets provided, so
I use my pockets in my coat.

Speaker 24 (02:11:30):
O dangerous though, yeah yeah, and uh red flag yeah right,
cameras are catching this guy yeah, free watch him. The
second item just went in the pocket and he's gonna
pull one out at the check out.

Speaker 4 (02:11:40):
But I saw him put to it. It's exactly what
happened to me too.

Speaker 3 (02:11:43):
And I had two items in the pocket and I
forgot to pull the other one out, and I'm in
my car.

Speaker 4 (02:11:47):
I was like, do I go back in?

Speaker 5 (02:11:51):
No?

Speaker 6 (02:11:51):
I did not.

Speaker 4 (02:11:52):
Look now I have before, I've done it before where
I went back in.

Speaker 3 (02:11:55):
But last week I was like, I'm not going back in.
It's too cold, and so I stole.

Speaker 6 (02:12:00):
Now I'm in.

Speaker 4 (02:12:00):
I feel like I owe them, but they also get
me sometimes.

Speaker 3 (02:12:04):
I kind of think because I'm the one doing the checkout,
and I think I screw it up every once in
a while, like I don't know what kind of apple
it is.

Speaker 4 (02:12:12):
I just put apples And they're like, well, what.

Speaker 24 (02:12:14):
The second collection in the Salvation Army busket when you
leave next week, and you'll make amends, right like circle
back twice. That's the way to do is for that
extra apple I had in my pocket last week.

Speaker 4 (02:12:24):
There you go make amends. I'll do it with the
Salvation Army. Hit the bell.

Speaker 3 (02:12:30):
Yeah, do you know they on those Salvation Army kettles
because nobody has cash anymore. The ringing the bell, you
can go over it and you can just use your
phone and give a digital donation.

Speaker 4 (02:12:41):
That's just good business. It's just handy. I think I
noticed that with the Girl Scouts as well.

Speaker 9 (02:12:46):
I whenever the last election or so, there was a
Girl Scout tape because they are so smart now they're
just like we're just going to post up because we
know you're coming in, and like you're not going to
stop when you see us.

Speaker 4 (02:12:58):
But they all had their mom's venmo oh yeah, ready to.

Speaker 9 (02:13:02):
Go, And I kind of felt cheated a little bit
because it also didn't feel.

Speaker 4 (02:13:06):
Like they were hustling.

Speaker 3 (02:13:07):
Now did did you get hit up by other referees
to buy Girl Scout cookies from their daughters and stuff?

Speaker 5 (02:13:12):
No doubts. Still still getting it up.

Speaker 24 (02:13:14):
Once you get on that chain, you know, it's like, no,
I know, he's a three peanut butter all the way guy.

Speaker 4 (02:13:20):
Every year, you know, so inevitably they circle around.

Speaker 3 (02:13:24):
It's so funny, I mean, because I just I think
it would be tougher when you're traveling to meet each other.
There's no like place where you Morning Ralph, Morning Sam
and hanging your hat. You know, you're kind of meeting
each other in different parts of the world all the time,
so that's good to know that those.

Speaker 4 (02:13:37):
Words gets out the shakedown happens. Gean, are you going
to be working for Christmas?

Speaker 24 (02:13:43):
I am, yeah, yeah, yeah, I am going to la
I Actually my youngest child, Andrew, lives out in San Diego,
So although I won't be with the entire family, I'm
going to go out for Christmas around the twenty third
and fly home on the dreaded Red Eye on Christmas Day,
which is kind of one of those weird dynamics in
this business where it's like, Okay, are you really all

(02:14:04):
in with us?

Speaker 4 (02:14:04):
Like this is what the sacrifices are, but you know,
it's part of that business.

Speaker 3 (02:14:08):
I have flown on Christmas, I have flown on Thanksgiving,
and there is a weird solidarity that you have with
everybody on that plane, like we're all in this together,
aren't we? Yet people are nice to do each other.
I feel like, you know, because they know that this
yet the short straw here.

Speaker 24 (02:14:25):
Yeah, we all are in some kind of business that
put us in this capsule today.

Speaker 6 (02:14:29):
Right.

Speaker 4 (02:14:29):
Yes, we don't know what you do, but dude, you
can relate.

Speaker 24 (02:14:32):
Right, It was like work in Thanksgiving, you know, and
you get down to the hotel buffet, which wasn't a
buffet on Thanksgiving, right because they weren't putting the buffet
out at the breakfast place, you know, at the Marriott
or wherever in a lot of those places. So, yeah,
empty hotels during holidays create a different type of a
kind of quiet, little you know, talk with yourself depression, like, yeah,

(02:14:55):
you're really doing the right thing here, but at the
end of the day, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:14:59):
What's that George Clooney movie where he's like always flying
up in the air, up.

Speaker 6 (02:15:03):
In the air.

Speaker 4 (02:15:03):
Have you ever seen that movie? You know, I never
got to watch a lot of stuff looking every night.

Speaker 3 (02:15:09):
Yeah, but it's all about that lifestyle, like the travel
lifestyle that never ends and just constantly being in transit
and how you're living out of a suitcase literally all
the time. And then that becomes the norm. And then
all of a sudden, you're like, the home part is
the tough part. Yes, you start to feel more comfortable
with what used to be uncomfortable.

Speaker 24 (02:15:27):
Yeah, I know when I was in the midst of it, right,
like the eighty basketball games of NFL schedule, and you'd
have those five day swings where you and you didn't
know what city. But then you'd have a two day
window where you were home, so you wanted to get home.
And then when you got home, I was like, dude,
why did I do this?

Speaker 5 (02:15:43):
Right?

Speaker 24 (02:15:43):
I'm only here for you know, a day and a
half and no one's making the bed and I can't
go by and again, yeah, like, I don't know why
I wanted to come back here and see all you.
I miss you and everything, but this was not the
thing to do right now, Get me back out there
so I can live in that other world because it
was a weird come home.

Speaker 3 (02:16:00):
But you're not there right checking in, you know what
I mean, And you want everybody to understand, Hey, things
are hard for me. I need a little special dispensation
on just about everything right right.

Speaker 24 (02:16:10):
And all the pets would be sitting there like staring
at you when you walk there, like, dude, you didn't
leave enough food.

Speaker 6 (02:16:17):
You know.

Speaker 24 (02:16:18):
The dog would put the dish in the middle of
the driveway and sit there when you were trying to
pull up, like yo, you were short on the water
and nothing for nothing a day and a half to
short on the food too, like the car's not getting
up the driveway.

Speaker 5 (02:16:30):
Until you fill the dishes.

Speaker 4 (02:16:31):
I had to eat cat food exactly, cat food. You
know what that does to a dog.

Speaker 3 (02:16:37):
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Speaker 4 (02:16:44):
Pardon my take? And what what was your ranking this year?

Speaker 6 (02:16:47):
PFT.

Speaker 4 (02:16:47):
I saw it was you guys and Simmons.

Speaker 6 (02:16:49):
Right we were.

Speaker 8 (02:16:52):
We were second, but we finished first in the non
tailor swift division. I think they put more stock in
at the into the year. The batailas was definitely the FCS,
but right, yeah, we were second on Spotify, so shut
up to everybody that listens, we really appreciate it. It's
kind of crazy to always see that at the end
of the year.

Speaker 4 (02:17:10):
Oh dude, it's I mean, it's awesome.

Speaker 3 (02:17:11):
Your your success has been fun to watch through the years,
and as has Jeene's territors. And Gene is here live
in studio with us this morning. In case you didn't know,
pf T Yeah I heard.

Speaker 8 (02:17:21):
I was just told that he was in the studio.
Gene is good to meet you. Love to have you
on the show sometime I actually have a question for you, Gene.
I'm sure that you guys have probably already talked about it,
but I did not hear your answer. I was I
was watching the Raven Steelers game, and don't back over that.

Speaker 6 (02:17:40):
Lately.

Speaker 8 (02:17:40):
Have you guys discussed this? You guys now you know what.

Speaker 4 (02:17:43):
I'm glad you brought it up. We haven't talked about
it all at all, and now's a good time to
do that. I guess. H We actually we did discuss
it quite a bit.

Speaker 3 (02:17:51):
But the general consensus on that pf T and Gene
correct me if I'm wrong, is that it was called correctly.

Speaker 4 (02:17:58):
But it's a terrible rule. It's just that people, I
don't know what play you're talking about.

Speaker 24 (02:18:02):
I'm trying to rewind back and remember what the play was,
but no, listen, I mean, it is that play where
what we all see, one hundred people in the bar
are looking, going, dude, it's a catch, right, But then
we have to live by this defined rule, letter by
letter of what becomes a catch and when the process
finishes and the catch actually is finalized, And every once

(02:18:25):
in a while, through the course of these years, those
certain plays show up and the likely play to me,
was another one of those perfect storms. So you know,
we're always going to dislike that piece of the rule,
like the third element of what is a catch, because
it's just has too many layers of subjectivity to it,
right where it just doesn't meet the eye tests sometimes.

Speaker 4 (02:18:45):
But we've got to find somewhere to draw the line
and say this is a yes and this.

Speaker 6 (02:18:48):
Is a no. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:18:50):
It almost becomes philosophical at some point where you're like,
is continuing to extend the ball because that count as
an act in and of itself, a separate act if
you're making the effort to continue to keep the ball away.

Speaker 10 (02:19:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (02:19:03):
I think it's a great question, right because he initially
possessed that football with arms fully extended, so he didn't
have any further out that he could reach without dislocating
his shoulder, right, and he's going to pull the ball
back in because.

Speaker 5 (02:19:16):
Of football?

Speaker 24 (02:19:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, listen, I don't know his arm went
an extra seven inches. I'm giving it to it, you know,
can we get someone out and put it back in?
But yeah, no, and uh, and I think that's where
again what you just said, pft, Really I think is
that element?

Speaker 5 (02:19:31):
Right?

Speaker 24 (02:19:31):
So because he possesses it with arms fully extended and
can't make really a football move. Now it becomes a
time thing like okay, how long did he have the
ball that way? And then we come into that framing
thing where it seems like a light year on one
set and then you run it in real time and go, dude,
that's not that long. But then if I slow it down,
it's like, oh man, he had the ball for six seconds.

Speaker 8 (02:19:52):
So yeah, there's there's a play in uh in New
Orleans a couple of years ago where it was the
Bears and the Saints, and I remember the tight end
made a touchdown catch and got his knee dislocated and
held on to the football. It was it was ruled
I think, not a catch, not a touchdown. He had
to end up like in one of the hospitals thaying overnight.
That should have counted as a football act. If you're

(02:20:14):
able to make the catch and then your knee pops
out of place and you have possession of the football.
To me, that that that is uh, just give it,
Just give it like that.

Speaker 4 (02:20:24):
You need one foot in with a grievous injury right
right the ground, But did you.

Speaker 24 (02:20:37):
Survive your fur crossing half like the Wishbone in the dark.

Speaker 8 (02:20:44):
I think we should actually have one hundred drunk guys
in the bar that are on standby at all time,
so if there's a questionable catch, you just go to
them like their their replay assist, and you just put
a buzzer in front of them and they can say
yes or no, is that a catch? And whatever. The
majority of those hundred drunk guys that we breathlyze everybody,
they're all above a point away, and fifty percent of

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them say yes, it's a catch.

Speaker 6 (02:21:09):
We go with that. I like it.

Speaker 4 (02:21:10):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (02:21:11):
I have to ask you, are you really in support
of James Madison? Are you really eating duck every day
until the James Madison Oregon game.

Speaker 8 (02:21:20):
I love duck. Duck is my favorite meat in the
entire world. So yes, it's not really I'm not acting
like this is some big sacrifice. It's a it's a
labor of love. I started yesterday. I ate duck gumbo,
which was delicious, and I was cruising through grub Hub
and Seamless and all the apps trying to see how
many different stuff you searching.

Speaker 6 (02:21:42):
Searching duck.

Speaker 8 (02:21:43):
I just typed in duck and my auto correct is like,
are you sure you raising.

Speaker 4 (02:21:49):
You need a different app?

Speaker 10 (02:21:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (02:21:52):
Yeah, and all I'm realizing that I'm just gonna probably
have to load up on peaking Duck. I'm gonna probably
have to do that. Yeah, maybe eight or nine times
over the next twelve days, which is fine. It's you know,
Duck taco is pretty much it's it's delicious. I'm gonna
be eating Duck. I know that there's a lot of
people out there that are disappointing.

Speaker 4 (02:22:09):
Not every meal, right, just once a day, just once today.
I'm not doing it.

Speaker 8 (02:22:13):
Every single meal. Listen, I've had kidney stone problems in
the past. I can I can see where this might
end up if I eat it every single day for
the next twelve days. But I know that people are
upset that Tulane and jam You are in the college
football Playoff because the group of five schools, they're not
two of the twelve best teams in the country. And
I get that, but respectfully, I don't care and I'm

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not gonna apologize for it, because, like my school, being
in the twelve team playoff is a day that I
thought would never happen as long as I lived. So
I'm gonna enjoy it. We're probably gonna get our teeth
kicked in by the Ducks. They're a big, physical team.
But Jamie is also not bad. I think we've reached
the point that it's in the discussion where now people
are acting like Tulane and JMU or you know Division

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two schools that don't be on the same like Jamie
has beaten a lot of the power for schools over
the past few years. Tulane beat two of them this
year to Lane beat Duke, and JAMU would would have
been favored over Duke on a neutral field if they
if they play at the end of the season. So
it's not like we're terrible teams. It's not going to be,

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you know, the worst football you've ever seen. We're probably
we're not going to be as big as as Oregon,
but I don't think it's going to be a mismatch
like Liberty organ in that Bowl game a couple of
years ago, like sixteen and that thing. It'll be somewhat competitive.
I hope that we can keep it within the point spread,
which I believe now is twenty and a half points.
Jamie's got some players that that you'll see starring next

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year at some big schools.

Speaker 6 (02:23:42):
We've got a guy.

Speaker 4 (02:23:44):
Yes, yeah, well like we we do have.

Speaker 6 (02:23:47):
You'll know a lot of our.

Speaker 8 (02:23:48):
Roster based on some really good schools next year, like
Indiana for example. Right now, right Indiana has a lot
of former JMU players that are kind of fueling this drive. So, yeah,
we're not win the championship. We're probably not gonna beat Oregon.
And I'm not gonna apologize to anybody for being in
the playoffs because this is simply an incredible.

Speaker 11 (02:24:06):
Thing that happens to me. All right.

Speaker 3 (02:24:08):
Philip Rivers is forty four years old. He just got
he got signed by the Colts. He is going to
play quarterback for the Colts. At forty four, That makes
him the oldest quarterback ever in the NFL to play, right, Well, no,
George planned it was forty eight.

Speaker 5 (02:24:21):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:24:22):
But I think he was back.

Speaker 3 (02:24:23):
I think he was a backup quarterback. I don't know
if he started. He was still kicking. I think at
an older age. Tell me what you think it's gonna
look like with Philip Rivers quarterbacking the Colts.

Speaker 8 (02:24:35):
I think it's gonna it's gonna look awesome. For like
the first snap, and I think that once the Seattle
defense starts to pin their ears back, it could get
very sad, very fast. Philip Rivers was never the most
mobile guy, shall we say. I think we just got
a number one most sackable quarterback in the NFL and

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Philip Rivers. I hope it doesn't get ugly.

Speaker 16 (02:24:58):
I hope.

Speaker 8 (02:24:59):
I hope he's able to, you know, avoid pressure to
a certain extent or at least be able to protect
himself from the pocket, because it wasn't great at the
end of his career, like he last played what was
that twenty twenty one Philip Rivers last throw. Yeah, so
it wasn't great when he was playing at the end.
I know that he's been in this he's been coaching

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this offense at his high school that he coaches.

Speaker 3 (02:25:22):
That's crazy to me that he's using an NFL offense
for high school kids, and that makes me pissed that
the Steelers aren't more on the same page offensively.

Speaker 4 (02:25:30):
If high school kids can figure this stuff.

Speaker 8 (02:25:32):
Out, Yeah, yeah, so he him and Shane Stike and
they've apparently been talking every week during the season, which
makes me think that Dyken always have this in the
back of his head, Like what if I called Philip Rivers? Like,
why are you talking to Philip Rivers every single week?

Speaker 5 (02:25:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (02:25:49):
Yeah, he's he's got somebody lined up just in case
the relationship falls through, you know, he's he's got somebody
else that he can hit up for a date if
he needs to. But it's uh, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (02:25:58):
I very to watch it.

Speaker 8 (02:26:00):
I can't wait to see what it looks like. I
don't think it's gonna be great. But it is the
exact same situation that they did with Jeff's Saturday just
a few years ago. It's the same thing. They're doing
it again, except with a quarterback. I hope he wins one.
I hope it's liked this Saturday experiment. Maybe he comes

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out and they shock us and it's a high scoring
game in his first game out there, and then maybe
afterwards it kind of trails off. But if I was
a free agent quarterback and I saw that Philip Rivers
was getting a call before me, at that point, I
think I'd probably just hang it up. Like we might
see a lot of players just retire now, like your
Taylor Heinekey's, You're Bend Denuci's, those kind of guys like

(02:26:43):
this might be the final message that it's not gonna happen.
It's a forty four year old Philip Rivers, just get
the call.

Speaker 3 (02:26:48):
I mean, it's not without president this year. You know,
there's been lots of people coming out of retirement and
trying to play. But when it happened for the Lions,
when Ragnow came back, they were like, uh, yeah, it
turns out you don't have a hamstring on your left leg.
Like he was so far away from being able to
be NFL ready, I can't believe it even made the

(02:27:08):
news that he was going to resign.

Speaker 8 (02:27:11):
Yeah, well that was one where we thought that maybe
when he decided to come back, he just hadn't really
worked out that much in the last year. And uh
he went out there and ran a wind sprint and
that just tore his hamstring off. And then he was like, oh, crap,
I've already made the announcement that.

Speaker 5 (02:27:25):
I'm coming back.

Speaker 8 (02:27:26):
I guess I'll have you. Yeah, at least I'll go
in and get a free medical checkup out of this.
I get a free physical, So that's good. I Philip
Rivers again, I don't think he was ever, you know,
really known for his stunning feats of athleticism outside of
maybe you know a few things he did in college
and early on in his NFL career. So he's just
gonna kind of be asked to stand there like a

(02:27:47):
statue in the pocket and see if that arm still works.
And if it does, it could be exciting. I was
optimist about the Colts. I really was when Daniel Jones
was playing for football. But at this point I don't
see I don't see it working out. I'd love to
be wrong. By the way, this is one thing I
would absolutely love to be wrong about is Philip Rivers
playing playoff football. That would be incredible in the year

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twenty I guess it would be twenty twenty six we
get Philip Rivers out on the field. How lucky would
we be to have that happen with us. But I
do think that Taylor Heineke should get a call. Taylor
Henikey is He's not bad. He's a gunslinger, he takes
a lot of chances.

Speaker 6 (02:28:24):
He's out there.

Speaker 4 (02:28:25):
You're a bit biased.

Speaker 8 (02:28:26):
I am a bit bias. He was the only quarterback
to cover against Tom Brady on that playoff run. People
forget where Tom Brady won the Super Bowl. But I
mean I've seen him play enough where I think he's
a better option than Philip Rivers. So I don't know.
That's my two cents on the subject. But again I
am I'm very much rooting for Philip Rivers. I would
love to work out.

Speaker 3 (02:28:44):
PFT before I let you go. Anything you want to
ask Gene before we end the segment.

Speaker 8 (02:28:50):
No, Gene, I just want to say I'm a big
fan of your work. I recently became aware of a
man named Mark Butterworth who is the NFL head of replay.
How How has this guy been kept secret from us
for so long? And is he Does he actually exist?
Because my theory was the name Butterworth is so friendly soundings.

Speaker 4 (02:29:12):
Every time you have your pancakes, you're like thinking, dude,
I know you right for some.

Speaker 24 (02:29:16):
Reason, like extra butter it does feel like Freudian, like
they're trying to get something past little Nobody be mad
at this guy.

Speaker 4 (02:29:22):
He's delicious, talented.

Speaker 24 (02:29:25):
Guy really wasn't an official per se on the field
a lot, but spent a lot of time in the
in the replay space, which is now this new job
description right where guys start as replay assistance and work
their way through this channel now so and yes, and
really really you know, as far as the NFL is concerned,
the fact that you don't know his name very well

(02:29:45):
in the officiating world, uh, is usually that that's really
kind of part for the course, right, they do kind
of keep them that way. But he's become a household
name here. Uh, you know as we continue to roll
through seasons which we all found out will happen.

Speaker 4 (02:29:59):
Yeah, PFT brought to you by End.

Speaker 8 (02:30:02):
I was going to say, are we considering a move?
Have you heard anything about the NFL doing like what
the ACC does with their replay where and you know
the English Premier League where you can hear every single
thing that's happening and watch the process.

Speaker 4 (02:30:15):
Oh, like total transparency. Yeah, well I think that.

Speaker 24 (02:30:18):
Would be yeah, yeah, I don't think you're going to
see that in the NFL. I mean, I love all
river on and I like what they're doing, but there's
something about it. And I know ESPN really blows it
up every time they do it, like this is the
greatest thing. And then sometimes you see that look and
it's like, dude, there's like a twenty two year old
kid with an Xbox controller standing in front of the screen,
you know, walking through this segment here is that who's

(02:30:39):
making this decision or something? Nothing against them, know what
I mean? But I think I think sometimes the curtain
is a good dark chest sausage.

Speaker 4 (02:30:47):
Yeah, he's.

Speaker 6 (02:30:50):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:30:51):
Nobody wants to give their recipes. Yeah, you know, it's
always that one element. I need to see how it's made. Pft.

Speaker 3 (02:30:56):
We got to put a jump in. Thanks buddy, We'll
see you all right. Thanks all season long. As for
a yingly traditional logger yingle oldest brewery in America, and
before it was all Penn West and now it feels
like it's sounds like a prison. Yeah it does a
little bit. Jean's territor live in studio with us this morning,
Braduation downs. Yeah uh, thanks for coming by and hanging

(02:31:19):
out this morning.

Speaker 4 (02:31:20):
Man, this has been awesome.

Speaker 6 (02:31:21):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (02:31:22):
I love it greatly, appreciate it. And we've been kinda
we have like the Steelers bends. I don't know what
they are, not the tim Bens like we're like, they're good,
they're bad, they're good. They beat their like I don't.
The offense is terrible. The next week, Aaron Rodgers looks
like he's thirty years old. Again, it's driving me crazy
because I don't know what to expect. Ever, you never

(02:31:44):
know what Steelers team you're going to get. Are they
gonna run for three hundred on us? Or are we
gonna shut down the best rushing team in the league. Well,
could be a little colve a freezing Monday night game.
Head hellard us here. Dolphins are typically pretty bad under
a certain temperature, right, yeah.

Speaker 14 (02:32:04):
Two had number won when it's under forty six degrees
prior to beating the Jets, Jets, Jets Jets last Sunday
in and that doesn't count. I got to say this again,
one of the most non competitive NFL games I've seen recently.
It's just three drives, three touchdowns in the first quarter
to start to get The Jets just were not there,

(02:32:25):
and then they were down to is it Brady Cooke
the quarter back? I think Brady Cook or Bradley Cook.
They were non competitive. Can't get a read on Miami
watching that game, but the three before it were really good.

Speaker 3 (02:32:39):
Geene, what was like refereeing for Jets fans? Like the
Fireman Edd's of the world. So I would imagine of
all the teams, the fan bases, I would imagine are
the worst or potentially scariest.

Speaker 4 (02:32:50):
Jets and Raiders, Oh Raiders.

Speaker 24 (02:32:53):
Back in the old Oakland Stadium, I was a rookie
downfield official called pass interference on the Broncos in the
end zone, fifth five yard foul.

Speaker 5 (02:33:01):
Put it to the one.

Speaker 24 (02:33:01):
The Raiders punching it on the next play, and I'm
under the goal post next to the back judge for
the extra point. And you know they know your name,
they know you're a rookie, right, so you start hearing
all this. My referee punched out for time out, and
I thought, I'll look over at the black hole.

Speaker 4 (02:33:15):
Maybe I'll get a little love.

Speaker 24 (02:33:16):
I just called a fifty five yard foul, right, they're
giving me the finger, and I was on a passator
first for you.

Speaker 4 (02:33:27):
Maybe that's why we pulled the index card off fifteen years.

Speaker 24 (02:33:30):
You know, I'm not giving anything, you know what I'm saying, Like, okay.

Speaker 4 (02:33:35):
At the room three eighty, how they know exactly the
Jets are hard.

Speaker 24 (02:33:46):
It's empty gyms. It's when you deal with an empty
stadium you hear more.

Speaker 4 (02:33:50):
Yeah, you hear way Moore. It's not just the breath
of the hatred.

Speaker 5 (02:33:55):
It's like specific hatred, you know, like.

Speaker 24 (02:33:58):
Really I really heard him say that. Yeah, and he
knew all three or four sisters names, like yeah, well
that you know, you bring up empty gyms.

Speaker 3 (02:34:06):
It just occurs to me, you know, as much basketball
refereeing as you've done, that basketball must be worse in
terms of heckling than football because of proximity.

Speaker 24 (02:34:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, you get you feel it all hoop
the hoops with that intensity and that proximity was like
it was palpable and beautiful. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you kind
of love the Jews. Have to embrace that part of
his business. Or if you can't, you mean, you're just
not You're going to just turn into mush right on
the court, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (02:34:34):
So you kind of got to engage with it.

Speaker 24 (02:34:36):
And uh and empathy was the word I always used, right,
He always looked at those people. I remember, you know,
you'd get so good at it that you knew exactly
you didn't have to see them, you knew they were
in the fourth row and the third seed from the
owl because you just had been in the arena so much.
And then you knew the dude who was going to
hackle you, and you'd get him halfway between sentences during
a timeout, and then you'd spin on him and catch
him before he could stop, you know, And then you

(02:34:58):
want to look at him, but you'd look his wife
are significant next to him while he was like frozen
in time, and give her the look like you're with
him every night.

Speaker 4 (02:35:09):
And then he wants the other ten people around and like, dude,
he got give her a wink or something. One time, Yeah, I.

Speaker 24 (02:35:21):
Was at Michigan one night with two of my My
two boys had a friend, doctor of Olio, who owns
a practice up here in Washington.

Speaker 4 (02:35:28):
Dusty was at Michigan.

Speaker 24 (02:35:29):
So the boys drove up and they're in the student section,
and at Michigan, the student sections right behind the visitor's bench, naturally, right,
So I make a call against Michigan. I'm trying to
go to the table and I look over and all
these kids are hackling, and like two of them were
my kids, And I'm like, you enjoyed yourself. Yeah, it's
a long walk for ann Arbor, A long time. Keep

(02:35:50):
having some fun though. Yeah, the God's full of crap,
I know. Yeah, yeah, he looks like you too.

Speaker 5 (02:35:54):
I know.

Speaker 4 (02:35:55):
It's an ugly god oh man, no consideration from the kids.

Speaker 6 (02:36:00):
Well.

Speaker 3 (02:36:00):
Coach Tomlin, for his part, said he had no problem
with the refereeing last week and he.

Speaker 4 (02:36:05):
Wouldn't call the league and evan.

Speaker 6 (02:36:08):
Calls.

Speaker 14 (02:36:09):
I'm glad Jean's here for this because you know, Mike
Tomlin asked again about the calls in Baltimore, which are
We're in agreement right, Two of them were correct, one
of them was incorrect.

Speaker 24 (02:36:18):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's how you look. I thought
the Rogers play was the hardest of the three. I mean,
that's just me openly like dissecting the play. The irony
for me, though, is I was in the middle of
a simultaneous catch with Jacksonville and India at the same
exact time in a different game. So you know that
I'm finishing that really hard play.

Speaker 4 (02:36:35):
Did they get that one right? I don't think so.

Speaker 24 (02:36:37):
You know, really they gave it to the defense and
at any rate, so you're you're clearing Jacksonville right as
soon as you hear clear in the studio. It's like, Jeane,
we got to play in Pittsburgh and those screens changed
and the next thing I see is this ball like
pind On Rogers's head, you know, and trying to break
that down within eight seconds was was a pretty uncomfortable moment.

Speaker 5 (02:36:58):
But I thought that was the harder of the three,
quite honestly.

Speaker 14 (02:37:00):
John Harville had a lot of problems with it, obviously,
But Mike Tomins said yesterday he's got enough to worry about.

Speaker 5 (02:37:06):
He just lets the calls be the calls.

Speaker 4 (02:37:08):
You know, It's always been debatable.

Speaker 15 (02:37:10):
It seems like I've just learned to kind of move on,
to be quite honest with you, I moved on from
from Jesse James, for example.

Speaker 5 (02:37:21):
I don't even know what year that was.

Speaker 4 (02:37:22):
Does it sound like he had controversial calls and big games.

Speaker 15 (02:37:27):
I think I always focus my energy on making enough
plays to minimize that in terms of determining the outcome
of the game. That's why you won't hear me calling
New York post game for explanations and things of that nature.
You guys asked me that maybe earlier in the year
regarding something, it's not going to change the outcome. I
just work to keep moving and I just like to

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put together a comprehensive enough plan and make enough plays
where the game's outcome don't inge on a on one
play or a couple of plays.

Speaker 3 (02:37:56):
He's not you know when he says he's you know,
I learned to move on and then he cites a
play that happened a decade ago.

Speaker 4 (02:38:03):
You know, it's not exactly along.

Speaker 14 (02:38:05):
From Jesse James when the exclud against the legos and
the rule of the whole season.

Speaker 4 (02:38:09):
Yeah, I mean now they have been in contact with
the league.

Speaker 14 (02:38:13):
I don't know if it's a technicality where the league
reached out to them.

Speaker 24 (02:38:16):
Does that go on or do you have to ask
lot there might be at certain levels where the league
would reach out. I don't think that's a normal practice,
you know. I think the coaches all have the opportunity
or someone within the staff to send plays of concern
and each week we called them coaches questions, right, and
then they that's part of one of the days of
the week for the officiating department, you know.

Speaker 5 (02:38:38):
Stay, yeah, Thursday.

Speaker 24 (02:38:40):
I remember Bill Pollion back in the days with Indy,
you know, hit like send thirty seven plays in and
I was like, wait, we got to put a maximum
on this thing, you know what I mean. There's something
to that effect, but yeah, and you have to have
that in some ways if teams want to reach out.
There's hard plays, there's fifty to fifty plays. Tell us
why it isn't this so I can coach it differently, possible.

Speaker 4 (02:39:00):
Fair enough? So you want to have it be a
learning piece as well. Yeah, let me do you a
quick break.

Speaker 3 (02:39:04):
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Speaker 5 (02:39:29):
This is this season.

Speaker 4 (02:39:33):
When you're in the mood for you got a Indiana hangover?

Speaker 3 (02:39:52):
Everything all right in there, jeez, Louise Jacob, all right,
mister president, try to make the spot shorter and then
forgot that I did that, and then realize how early
we came back excuses by the way I did. I
liked your signetti shirt that you wore to the Big
Ten Championship.

Speaker 27 (02:40:12):
It was the same shirt I've had since the beginning
of last season.

Speaker 3 (02:40:16):
Which is a Marlborough logo with signetti underneath it. Right, Yeah,
it's a classic. Gee, what do you make of college
football in the controversy right now that's going on leave
a Notre Dame out of things, and then Notre Dame's reaction.
I grew up, you know, loving the bowl season and

(02:40:39):
the you know, the BCS playoffs and everything have definitely
given it a hit, But I don't want it to
go away altogether.

Speaker 4 (02:40:46):
And that's why I don't like big teams skipping out
on bulls. Yeah, no, I get it. Listen in Notre Dame.

Speaker 24 (02:40:52):
Look, when I was a kid, you know, they used
to put like the president on a plate, right, you know,
and you put it on your wall and Grandma's house.
So we always thought, like the Yankees Notre Dame. Uh Jesus,
they were like all the same day. They were all
the same plates were on the wall. It was like,
did Jesus play for the Yankees and Notre Dame? You know,

(02:41:15):
because that's how sacred Notre Dame home brought up, you
know what I mean. So you got a lot of tools,
yeah exactly. And then they were starting to build the stadium,
and when they were renovating, it was like they were
lifting the end zone a little bit too much.

Speaker 4 (02:41:28):
Where touchdown Jesus wasn't going to be seen.

Speaker 24 (02:41:30):
It was like whoa stop construction, called the engineers and
lower it down a little. But you know, there's a
beautiful mystique about it.

Speaker 5 (02:41:37):
I get it, you know.

Speaker 24 (02:41:38):
But even going back to the PFT talk, listen, this
thing has to happen where a JMU wins.

Speaker 4 (02:41:45):
Yeah, March madness that we love the hoop thing for
like we've got boys. He did it a little bit.

Speaker 24 (02:41:50):
Before the playoffs, right that one year, and it became
something All we need is JMU to win like two games,
and now kids are gonna want to go to JMU,
And now all the IP Conference might end up with
a couple of players that don't want to leave after
they become decent players at a mid major, you know
what I mean. And maybe Sister Jean comes back and
you know, in the football space or something like that.

Speaker 4 (02:42:13):
But I like that idea. I think football might be
a more difficult sport.

Speaker 3 (02:42:17):
To have that happen though, Well I think that that
that is the inherent problem with it is just the
actual personnel, yes overall, And I.

Speaker 14 (02:42:26):
Got another inherent problem with it. I'm all for the playoff,
but Indiana next place. I think on January two, a.

Speaker 4 (02:42:35):
Long time forever away. Yeah, like, what kind of who
takes a month off before you go to the playoffs?

Speaker 8 (02:42:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:42:44):
And is that good or bad? I mean really terrible.

Speaker 24 (02:42:47):
I get it like players are healing, it's been a
long season, but dude, like four weeks without live action
still there's some rust there.

Speaker 4 (02:42:54):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 14 (02:42:55):
I get the bulls used to be around the holidays
and everything in New Year's Days, but they were just bulls,
you know, I mean.

Speaker 4 (02:43:00):
They were kind of a different endit.

Speaker 14 (02:43:01):
If this is going to be the playoff of the season,
you got to roll into it after the season, right.
Plus by the time we get to the new year,
I've moved on to college hoops. In the NFL playoffs,
I don't really care what happens to us.

Speaker 4 (02:43:12):
See, and it's hard to gamble when you don't know
how teams handle three weeks off.

Speaker 3 (02:43:17):
Let's get to the priority. I don't know how they
handled this month off. No, I just think they should
play it. I agree with you, now, Yeah, yeah, I
agree with Let's.

Speaker 4 (02:43:26):
Cut to the chase. We've already we've cut the legs
off the balls.

Speaker 5 (02:43:29):
Nobody cares that.

Speaker 24 (02:43:30):
Yeah, We're not going to watch them anyway, no matter
when they play. Nobody's doing the playoffs first, and then
we'll do the balls later.

Speaker 14 (02:43:35):
Nobody plays in a non playoff bawl anymore because you've
gotta get ready.

Speaker 5 (02:43:38):
For the draft or whatever.

Speaker 6 (02:43:40):
Just roll with it.

Speaker 3 (02:43:41):
Well, I think what I'm hoping is, you know, you
saw the news yesterday with like private equity buying into
Utah and there's like a five hundred million dollar deal
now where they're going to get to control basically all
aspects of the program and revenue and things like that.
That that was the step that a lot of people
were afraid of that was happening that that Now it's
just there's no veneer at all.

Speaker 4 (02:44:02):
It's like a gold rush.

Speaker 3 (02:44:05):
And what I'm hoping is that, like they squeeze college
football so hard that they kill it and it has
to come back in its original form in some way
shape because I don't recognize it like I used to.
I hate the fact that these players jump around year
to year so easily. It's the same thing with hoops too,
where it's like I hated Duke because I watched those

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guys for three years and now I really hate them
and you know, three of them are seniors, and I've
been I hate these guys like you're not building up
the same relationship.

Speaker 24 (02:44:36):
To really dislike yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, Now I
do think this on the other end, just to play
Devil's advocate, at least on the hoop side, you know,
a lot there's not a lot of openings in the NBA, right, Like,
I mean, you leave college basketball, you're going to Europe.
A couple guys make it to the show, and then
you're in the G League playing in some mid you
know town you don't know, uh, with the money now,

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the players may stay. So I think our level of
athleticism or personnel in college basketball may increase now because
I am going to stay for four years because.

Speaker 5 (02:45:08):
I'm really not going to make the NBA.

Speaker 4 (02:45:10):
Sure, now that's a good point like that.

Speaker 24 (02:45:11):
So, but I do agree with you about the hop
in year to year. It's like, look, dude, if we're
going to do this, you get one one hop yeah,
and then you're done. We're only giving you one hop yeah.
So we got to put some boundaries here. As what
you said, the Wild West is happening now.

Speaker 4 (02:45:24):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (02:45:25):
And I know that that's killing the bowl system as
we know it. I just I love that part of
college football. To me, that is part and parcel of
it is the dumb bowl games. Like there's a dumb
ball game today. That's a great feel, Like we get
football team and a dumb mayo on a guy.

Speaker 6 (02:45:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:45:44):
I have switched to Dukes because of that, to duke's mayo.

Speaker 2 (02:45:47):
Yeah, the Duke's We're a Duke's household now because every
year some guy who really doesn't want to be covered
in mayo in the freezing cold gets covered in may Well.

Speaker 3 (02:45:57):
Okay, along those lines, let's ask Gene the referee here,
because I would think you have a big problem with
the doctor Pepper challenge because ten years ago when that
girl figured out that she could do the chess pass
and she won, and everybody has been doing it since then,
isn't that completely counter to the spirit of the game.

Speaker 4 (02:46:17):
There is no chess pass in football if we're not
really I mean, if we're doing a contest there, shouldn't
it always have to be in over the shoulder.

Speaker 24 (02:46:25):
You've got to get the thing above the shoulder right
and flick the wrists here. No, I mean, we're just
pitching options forward yeah, you know what I mean. Or
put the line of scrimmage there and that's a legal
forward pass. Your foot's over the line, yeah something, Yeah,
back them up?

Speaker 4 (02:46:37):
So they have to Yeah, and then.

Speaker 24 (02:46:38):
Really, I mean, let's they don't pick the greatest referees
to stand between that.

Speaker 5 (02:46:42):
I was wondering if.

Speaker 4 (02:46:45):
Dude, you did you dress up today to be the
rough for the Doctor Pep.

Speaker 5 (02:46:48):
You know you're all like that.

Speaker 4 (02:46:50):
Every one of you guys.

Speaker 6 (02:46:51):
Look like that guy.

Speaker 3 (02:46:52):
That's just some vice president of marketing for Doctor Pepper
that they gave a referee share to.

Speaker 4 (02:46:57):
A lot of steak. There's a lot of one thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:47:00):
It's a lot of cash. That girl from pitt got
beat last week. The guy she was playing had a
different It was the one armed push. She was doing
the two armed push. Yes, she was ahead of him
for a little bit. Yeah it's a drag.

Speaker 3 (02:47:15):
But that was a hell of a big ten championship
game with Jacob's Indiana Hoosiers coming out victorious.

Speaker 4 (02:47:22):
So what do you think happens there? Young Jacob? Tell
me tell me the path to success for you?

Speaker 27 (02:47:27):
Now, Well, the time off is scary because I think
it's a great point you don't. You've never seen in
any sport a team get that much time off. And
it's not like baseball where teams who have the buye
they're used to playing six seven games a week and
you don't want to buy because you get out of rhythm.
Whereas football, it's much needed. One of our best defensive

(02:47:50):
players had a really bad injury in this game. Our
our coach said he didn't think anyone had that had
an injury would affect the game because it's in three
weeks from now. So I guess that's an asset. Yeah,
everyone gets right, it's still the other and it's two
guys that have injuries the other. However, I mean, how

(02:48:11):
many guys Mike are on a college football roster.

Speaker 5 (02:48:13):
A whole bunch.

Speaker 27 (02:48:14):
Yeah, like ninety. The other eighty eight guys are getting
a little too rested. It's it's a younger.

Speaker 3 (02:48:20):
There's enough that they guys have the same number. Two
guys have the same number occasionally, right ver, which I mean.

Speaker 4 (02:48:26):
They look great at the double number.

Speaker 24 (02:48:28):
I thought we got to get away with a double.
The numble number gotta go. I'm sorry, little billies are
not going to come unless he's the number.

Speaker 4 (02:48:33):
He wasn't high school. Yeah, the billy, you got to
make a new number.

Speaker 24 (02:48:36):
Listen, even from this network side, it's like, dude, there's
a play, there's number two.

Speaker 4 (02:48:40):
I'm looking down. It's like, there's eight number two's here.
Like which guy I don't want to say the wrong name.
Who wasn't that did a fake punt. Yes, they brought
the same number as the punter, but it wasn't the
punter exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:48:53):
And he came out he was like a backup, a
fifth string quarterback or something like that.

Speaker 4 (02:48:57):
They have two the same numbers on the field. No,
you can't do that.

Speaker 5 (02:49:01):
You're right, they have to change it.

Speaker 4 (02:49:03):
If that it wasn't at the same time.

Speaker 14 (02:49:05):
No, I've seen that called where there was like two
number three's on the field.

Speaker 5 (02:49:09):
I can't do that.

Speaker 4 (02:49:10):
That's a penalty at the same time. Yeah, right, they're
in the game at the same time.

Speaker 5 (02:49:14):
Oh, yeah, you can't do that.

Speaker 14 (02:49:15):
You gotta put the uh put another number on or something,
or yeah, do the nipple robber thing.

Speaker 4 (02:49:21):
What what you know seventy four is eligible?

Speaker 21 (02:49:24):
Oh I don't know what he was doing. Oh, Mike,
I'm glad you never had a mic on the field
that would have been Classic TV seventy fours now.

Speaker 5 (02:49:34):
Never mind call it.

Speaker 3 (02:49:35):
Yeah, I didn't make that up, all right, So what's
your schedule this weekend? You got a whole bunch of games.

Speaker 5 (02:49:40):
Army Navy Saturday.

Speaker 4 (02:49:41):
Oh you're not going, Mike, I don't know yet. Yeah,
Mike always goes to that. We're going, Yeah, we're going
make a few phone calls, we'll get it. Get we
get cousin, Mike.

Speaker 24 (02:49:49):
You got to get there. Yeah, we got to find
a way to get him there. Yeah, Army and maybe
then I think we got a five or six hopper
on on Sunday. So yeah, it'll be exciting again. It's
that time of year, man, I mean it is. Oh yeah,
crunch time cranks up right now.

Speaker 5 (02:50:03):
It's just fun.

Speaker 14 (02:50:03):
I don't know how you do it five games at
the same time. Like you're talking about that Miami Jacksonville
scenario and the dealer thing my head.

Speaker 24 (02:50:12):
Yeah, that one is one you know where where you know,
when you kind of get back into what it was
like being down there right in that instantaneous moment.

Speaker 11 (02:50:20):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:50:21):
And then with this position, man, it's not like I
can just offer my you know, quick opinion. You got
to be on point.

Speaker 5 (02:50:27):
You know, you're this rules.

Speaker 4 (02:50:28):
Analyst who's supposed to know everything.

Speaker 24 (02:50:30):
So it creates a little bit of tension, but it's hey, yeah,
that's why I did it all these years. Like I mean,
for whatever reason, you know, I like being uncomfortable. We're
having a bunch of rabid people screaming.

Speaker 4 (02:50:40):
You have the demeanor for it.

Speaker 3 (02:50:42):
Like I wouldn't have the demeanor I would be I
would be throwing the bird right back at him.

Speaker 4 (02:50:48):
There are certain people who shouldn't be referees. Yeah, you've
got the demeanor for it. It's a gift. What a
gift you have, right to be abused and not have
it taken personally. Yeah, I do a wonderful thing in life.

Speaker 3 (02:50:59):
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Speaker 6 (02:51:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:51:26):
Sorry to Michelle for running late, but Jean's here. We
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she'll know. But give her a call for the Electric
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We never run late. This is an anomaly. Never run late.
First time ever? Abby, whoops.

Speaker 4 (02:51:45):
I'm sure you stay classy Pittsburgh.

Speaker 5 (02:51:48):
Don't touch your face.

Speaker 4 (02:51:49):
He got him peace forday Berby.

Speaker 5 (02:51:51):
So now you gotta call me Ronald?

Speaker 4 (02:51:53):
Would you not eat my pants?

Speaker 5 (02:51:54):
Ronald?

Speaker 7 (02:52:00):
Why?

Speaker 5 (02:52:01):
Google ahead?

Speaker 12 (02:52:04):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
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Speaker 19 (02:52:15):
Mike Tomlin addressed the media yesterday for his weekly press conference.
Poll and the Steelers went over the Ravens and provided
some updates on the injury front. Keanu Bent and James Pierre,
Ben Scaronic and Wya Black all were banged up in
the game in Baltimore Sunday, and Mike Tomlins said all
four could participate this week against Miami. DK Metcalf, who
had a stomach issue after the game, will be limited
to start the week, but is expected to play.

Speaker 4 (02:52:35):
Kyle Dugger, who.

Speaker 19 (02:52:35):
Missed the game in Baltimore with a hand injury, was
characterized with the same optimism that he could be back
up for Monday Night. Andrew's Pete, Darnell Washington, and Malik
Harrison are all currently in the concussion protocol and their
statuses are up in the air. The most important piece
of injury news, however, was regarding Derek Harmon, who will
begin practicing in a limited capacity this week after missing
the steelers previous two games. Harming coming back would be

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huge for the Steelers defense, who has struggled to stop
the run mightily in the games without the rookie detackle.
In the four games the team has been without Harmon,
they surrender one hundred and ninety one point twenty five
yards rushing juxtaposed with the ninety six rushing yards per
game they allow. With him out there, you can see
how valuable his presence is with a team coming off
back to back weeks allowing two hundred yards rushing to
their opponent.

Speaker 4 (02:53:16):
They now stare down another stiff test.

Speaker 19 (02:53:18):
In the Miami Dolphin rushing offense, which rushed for over
two hundred yards last week and has averaged one hundred
and ninety two point twenty five yards rushing over the
team's current four game winning streak.

Speaker 4 (02:53:27):
Potentially getting Harmon back.

Speaker 19 (02:53:28):
This week could go a long way and slowing down
that potent Miami rushing attack.

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