December 12, 2025 • 45 mins
Sean Lennon, the son of John and Yoko Ono, joins the show to promote his Academy Award Winning short film 'War is Over'
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Height, WDV Pittsburgh and iHeartRadio Station guaranteed human.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oscar Meyer is looking for the newest Hotnogger, the person
who is lucky enough to climb behind the wheel of
the Wienermobile and drive around the country. They usually get
about five thousand applications. They cut that down to a
dozen and technically you are the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile folks
person and you go through a two week immersive onboarding process.
(00:32):
So apparently it's very intense. You have regular meetings with
various teams and you need to be a people person
of course to do this. But you have to have
the valor driver's license, good driving record, ability to work
long weekends. But they give you thirty five thousand dollars,
an additional weekly allowance of one hundred and fifty dollars,
and you get health benefits and hotel costs are covered.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's a good gig, but I would never get it
the way I drive. I'd be putting that Wiener into everything.
Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show Joe Bartnick.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Just slinging arrows all day yesterday is great. Hanging out
with Joey b live in studio and Sean Collier will
be in with us today and we'll be talking to
Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Brandon.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Eccles a little bit later on this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And how about Bastard Beardard Irish been in the coffeehouse
and an interview with Sean Lennon.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So John Lennon and Yoko Ono son.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Sean, So why Sean Lennon, He's.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Gonna review Sean Collier's movies. That is finally it's the
It's Sewn of the Dead this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'm so glad somebody's finally holding Sean's feet.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
To the fire.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, he's gonna he's going to take issue with all
of his reviews.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
He has a OSCAR winning animated short from last year.
He and an animator put together this animated short called
War Is Over and it's base and inspired of course
on his parents famous Christmas song and it is now
available for free on YouTube and he's promoting that fact.
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He wants people to go and see it because they
couldn't get a distributor for it. So, you know, animated chorts,
you really have to go seek that out. You know,
it's not something like every time you see those on
the Academy Awards every year.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You're like, where do I go to see those?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You know, unless you're doing like a short film festival,
you typically don't get to go, you know, to the
waterfront and just be like two for that eight minute
movie please, you know. So this is the way for
everyone to watch it, and he's promoting it. So that's
coming up at seven forty five to dight. Pretty cool stuff.
Abby's got a news update for you.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Now. What's going on is this hour brought.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
To you by Keystone Basement Systems with Basement Keystone Basementsystems
dot com. Cold with a passing flurry this morning and
high of thirty three. It is really coold. My tire
pressure's already. I hate that screaming.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah, that'll be fun.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
There's like there should be a place where you can
pull into that just warms you up while you check
your tire pressure, because every time you have to check
your tire pressure it's freezing and you never want to
pull over into it. So it's just be this place
where you just like pull in really quick and it's
just like it's nice music and it warms you up.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It's a nice business model. I actually I've already.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Had probably garage.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
You don't say I've already had to do it twice
this season.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
There was one time, though, I pulled into the gas
station to use the free air.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Thing and the hose was gone.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
But I thought I was just being like dumb, and
I'm I was trying to still pull the thing out,
and this old guy pulled up and he gave me
this really long man's plaining explanation that in the winter
they take the hose away, and he.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Was clearly wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They absolutely everybody's tire pressure goes down.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Which is what I said to him because also I
pulled and I waited because I wanted to see if
I was being stupid and I was missing so big
because I hadn't done it by myself in a long time,
and I just wanted to make sure I wasn't like
missing a critical step. And so I pulled to the
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side because I saw somebody else was coming up, and
this old guy, you know, comes up and he sees
that it is also broken, and then I just said,
I'm like, yeah, it's it's something's wrong, like the hose
isn't there, And then he gave me this long explanation
that they take those away in the winter and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Ha, and I said, but why would that make sense?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Isn't now when my tire pressure is going to be
fluctuating the most?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And then he gave me a longer explanation as to
why that wasn't true, and I was like, oh, you're
an idiot.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
He deserved it for engaging him. Yeah, that was dumb.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
One time I went to one of those, like on
the side of a get go and there is these
two younger black eyes and they couldn't figure out how
to work it, and so I was waiting for them
and I.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Was like, I was like, hey, can I help you guys?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Because I knew I could see they didn't know how
to work and it's you know, you press the butt
you know, it's not you dial in the tire pressure
and then you press the button. But they didn't see
the on button. And I was like, can I help
you guys? And you know, I think instinctually they thought
I was being like a male Karen right, yes, And
(05:19):
there were some like racial elements to it, and uh,
the guy's like it was the kid.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Basically he's like, oh, two young black.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Men can't help themselves set it and I'm like, no,
you one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It's just it looked like you were And they're.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Like, so you have a problem with two young black men,
you know, And I'm like, I do not.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I do not. I have no problem with that at all.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I'm saying, it looks like you don't know how to
use the machine, and I'll gladly show you how to
do it. And the guy like started into a like
a third comeback at me, you know, and his buddy.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Was like, no, hey man.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He's like he's like, he's actually just trying to help.
But I'm like, I really haven't. I understand that. You're like,
you know, that would be a conditioned response. I get it, And.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Also we super don't know how to use it, so
get over here.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, And then I said, I'm like, hey man, take
as long as you what I was just trying to
show you. It was just like this funny, awkward thing.
And I'm like, I'm really not. This has nothing to
do with anything other than do you need to put
an air in your tires?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Do you feel a tremendous amount of pressure, like you
can't make the machine go any faster? But do you
feel awful when there's a line of people behind you,
and you don't.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I do. I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Well, I mean, it takes as long as it takes.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It takes, I mean, but I still feel like a
piece of garbage.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Well, if you like go in your car and start
reading a pamphlet or something like that and you're just
not paying attention to it, that's one thing. But if
you're tending to it and it fills up at the
rate it fills up, I do want it to fill
up much quicker, much like I want my gas tape
to fill up quicker. And I get that there are
safety involved in both of those issues, but I kind
of feel like both of those can be twice as
fast as they.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Are, but they are not.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
But imagine how much gas would be spilled all over
the place if that thing came out even fat, because
there's already a ton of gas. I went to a
full service station a couple of weeks ago without knowing.
I didn't know it was a full start. I didn't
even know they had.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Them in Pennsylvania anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And I rolled into one up in the area over
Thanksgiving and I got out and said, and the guy's like, sir,
what are you doing? And I'm like, I'm putting gas
in my car and he's like, I do that here.
And I'm like, okay, you do that here, and he's like,
this is a full service station. For for a second
I thought he was like, I just hang out here
and fill up everyone's gas.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Dude, I'll take care of this. I'm ted I fillip gas.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I've seen that in a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
But up like closer to where my sister lives, there
are a couple.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, and when you get those stations, you gotta kind
of have to be like a don't forget about the
white walls, you know what I mean, Like it's full service,
check the oil, do this, you know you're paying for it,
But tip no, because it's really weird. He came because
you were usually playing paying in credit card. So I
don't know, should you tip in those It feels well,
(08:01):
we are so conditioned to tip now that it would
seem like that guy deserves a tip way more before
the person who gives you an empty cup and tells
you to go fill up your own coffee exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You know, Oh no, but I'm not. I'm going to
a gas station. I never have cash ever.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I don't have cash anywhere.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Never.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I was like, there was a person at the thirty
first Street bridge who was like, you know, hey, anything
can help, and I'm like holding up my hands. I'm like,
I don't. I don't have cash. I don't know, Like
homeless people need to get VENMO now.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, which would kind of not help their gaze.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Why not the same time, Well, they'd.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Be holding on, like, you know, an iPhone and be
like anything helped. There you go, that's that over to you.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
No, I don't know. I'm not trying to be insensitive.
I actually feel either.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I'm just saying that, doesn't you know it's not congruent?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, don't they have to hold the phone? Yeah? I
guess you're right. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
That's all right.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's all about messaging, folks. We can't sell many problems.
This mor racial divide, harmlessness.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
We're blowing.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
We're over three right now on working class conditions. All right,
what else you got?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I didn't even finish the weather quite frankly, I again said,
it is going to be cold with a passing flurry
this morning in high thirty three Saturday.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Snow is coming in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
The accumulation is going to be somewhere around an inch
or two and high around thirty five, and then Sunday
bitterly cold with snow showers and a high around nineteen.
With time running out for twenty twenty five, City officials
have announced plans to ring in twenty twenty six with
the thirty second year of First Night festivities in the
Downtown Cultural District. The December thirty first event is going
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to include magic, live music, a holiday market, ice carving,
hands on activities, and more. It's very kid friendly if
you want to bring the kids down to this. There's
also going to be a dollar Bank Battle of the Bands,
which is going to charge up the crowd, so they're
going to have that element as it's well.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, always like, did you ever do a Battle of
the bands when you.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Were younger performing in them? Several?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, what I did when I was in eighth grade,
I did one, and when I was in tenth grade,
I did one. And the one I did in tenth
grade was an abject disaster, and everything kicked out in
the rest of the band, like the the guitar players
amp stopped working and like the PA kind of busted.
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But my keyboard was shining through, so I just did
like light my Fire.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
By myself.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
It just made it a solo performance.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And someone's like, hey, could you pick a non eleven
minute song, please fill in time.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
We don't want to hear your Casio keyboard.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Did you save the day?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
No? I mean I did this like a brief. I
didn't do the full version of it. You know, I
did a quick one.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
But that was the kind of you know, I had
my church chops at that point, you know, Sunday morning Mass.
But it was mortifying when you're up there in a
Battle of the band and you're like, you know the
other bands, You're like, we're we're better than those guys.
And then you go up and equipment failure and panic
because you're in young so panic ensued. And it was
at a school I didn't go to also, which was
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another thing, so I didn't know anybody. Yeah, so that
that felt super like I felt like an interloper.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
The character build of a Battle of the bands.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
My dad's like, how you do? How'd you do? And
I lied, I go, we did awesome. I didn't want
him to be like, you know, yeah, barrel head, why
would you go there?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
And not know how to turn on your equipment.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You would be so proud of me. Yeah, that was.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
The best one did.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I did them before where there was always like bigger
things on the line, Like as the band's kind of
like got bigger, like it would always be like, oh, you.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Win recording time or you win whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So that was the way that you could get grew,
like the true embarrassment of having to.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Really put yourself out there.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I mean, Battle of the Bands are typically younger people
though right, it's not. Adults aren't usually in Battle of
the Bands.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
One of the last I did I was an adult.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
He was a year ago. No, it was.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
No no, I remember because I had to do a
Battle of the Bands with an adult band. And one
of the last bands that I was playing against, my
boyfriend was in.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Oh that's hilarious. And he was pissed because you guys beat.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Him like a pulp rushed him.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And he was pissed because I think like at the
end he was kind of like, you know, you're being
really competitive about this, and I'm like, you know, I
want the recording time.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, like we can still hang out.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Always a good trait in a guy.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, he's super jealous of his partner's talent. You're being
super competitive, Like actually, actually I just whooped her aft.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
The official New Year's Eve countdown to ring in twenty
twenty six is going to be held at the Highmark
Stage on penn Avenue Place.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
They're the Future of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Ball will rise nearly seventy five feet too, its pinnacle position,
symbolizing a city on the rise, as fireworks fill the
sky and the audience joins in harmony for a rendition
of old line signs that it would be very sweet
for downtown Basberg.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I've been to those first nape yes before.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
They're wonderful me too. They're super fun, fun for the
whole family.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Really is, and everybody's getting into the year and round
up business, even the deliciously gay hookup app Grinder.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Here is a sample of their.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Twenty twenty five wrap up. At least the categories that
we can look into. A Mother of the Year is
still Lady Gaga.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I'm surprised it's not Chapel Roone, but it is Lady Got.
Daddy of the Year is Jdvans. Oh good guess yeah,
Pedro Pascal, you were close.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Though practically the same guy. Can't tell them apart.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Mother in Training is Sabrina Carpenter, which I think she's
earned that.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
I think mothers have to be five feet tall. I
think she's it's a diminutive, diminutive mother diminutive that am
I putting an extra slog and you put.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
An A in there, But I'll take that a and
make her an ant. Oh not mother cookie ant.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
There you go, Hottest Man of the Year and this
actually goes.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I think you got the people's like.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Sexiest Man of the Year is Jonathan Bailey, who plays
Fierro in Wicked.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Listen. I'm not the target audience for this pole, but
I don't see it.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I don't see it either. I can't find I don't
know who he is, so find a thing.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I can't tell you if he's hot.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Movie of the Year.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
They gave it to K Pop Demon Hunters, which is correct.
Bulge of the Year they gave to Bad Bunny.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I haven't noticed. I have not noticed.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I thought I had my shot this year, right, Yeah,
goiters don't count.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
No, no, they said the gayest fashion trend of the year,
slutty little glass.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Thank god I took mine off.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Sean Collier has this little glass.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Those are more of a buddy holly thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Best beef this year was Cardi B and Nicki Minaj.
That actually seems kind of tired to me.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
I thought they've been feuding for Yeah, I thought was
the century. I thought that was old.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I thought that was also very old. I gotta go
ahead and judge this up. Most bears, they say, are
in Ireland.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I didn't see that at all, and.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I looked I was searching iro Low.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I would say like most bears, I would go with
like Wisconsin. Yeah, I thought that's why Chicago was named that.
I mean Ireland has the bare body type is prevalent
in Ireland, but maybe out in the cable nets sweater areas. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
he's just sitting at the pub. He's not cruising grinder, right.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
And the highest percentage of winks that goes to Switzerland.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Did you see that.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I didn't know there was a preponderance of twins in Switzerland.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Also, is twinks a slur?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I don't know that it is. I I think that
it's a positive.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Oh okay, yeah, I don't know. Go on, I have
nothing to have this conversation that's gonna be the.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Last of the list that is fit for us.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well, everything else, and even that, I would say it
a lot of that it was not fit for us.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Did you see that the story that the speaking of grinder?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
The story last week where the woman this guy said something,
posted something super racist on her Facebook post and so
she I like got the guy's id, searched him on
Grinder and he just to see if he had a
Grinder account.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Because he's got you know, wife and kids and everything,
and he had one, of course he does.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
And so she drove three hours to his business and
like filmed herself driving there and everything, and then film
herself walking in and she's like, yeah, you're gonna do this,
this and this, or I'm gonna tell everybody about your
Grinder account. And she never showed the guy's face, and
he's like, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. And I like,
I didn't know if it was fake or not. I'm
assuming everything's fake now. I always got in thinking, but boy,
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there's something that felt really real about it. And it
was gratifying even if it wasn't real, because I know
there's a lot of that out there, you know, people
throwing stones from gay houses.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
That's it's. On the one hand, I want to remind
people that sometimes you think you're doing something clever and
then you get shot in the face.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yes, yea, that is true. Keep that in mind.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
On the other hand, wouldn't it be cool if people
started thinking that they might be held accountable for things
they say online? Wouldn't wouldn't it be cool if people
lost that veil of anonymity where I could be terrible
because who's gonna find me? It's the Internet.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Well, if you're not anonymous, it will you will have
to pay the price a lot of times. It's the
anonymity where it gets and you don't know, Like, that's
why it's just pointless to argue with people on the
internet because ninety percent of the time their bots. Yeah,
you know, and we all saw that when Twitter made
everybody's origin country available for those few weeks, do you
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remember that, And it turned out like all of those
big accounts that were stirring the pot on a daily
basis were all bots from foreign countries, and you know,
they were all trying to sew political discord here in
the United States, and none of those accounts were from
the United States.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
They just make America great Bubba from Vietnam.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
How did this happen? It was literally like be like
from Malaysian stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Anyways, No, there was actually I'm trying to figure out
the origin of it now. There was just a Taylor
Swift story that came out in Rolling Stone magazine.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Were basically said that.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
The entire storyline about the newest album, Life of a
Show Girl, that had that whole connotation of her going
like full trad wife and like the narrative underneath that record.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I didn't know that that's what the under that.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
It was a.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Smear campaign basically, But now there is proof that the
Rolling Stone article was planted by an AI company that
was hired to so insane.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Don't talk to anybody, don't believe anything, go live in
the woods.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
I can't even follow any of.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It anything, now do you know? Here, here's all you
have to know about Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Though.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
She was on Colbert this past week and he asked
her about the notion that, you know, she's had a
good run of success and there's a lot of critics
who want her to, you know, go away and give
someone else their time at the top and she's like,
I don't want to, you know, and instead, like the
very smart thing to say there, I think would have
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been like, it's ridiculous to think that there's not room
for all kinds of people.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
There's no limited space at the top.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It's everybody can ascend in a you know, rising tide
raids is all boats type of thing. But she's like, no,
I want to grind people that I want to be
the person that beats you. And then then she's viewing
it through this competitive lens, which, again, anytime you do art,
if you're competitive, like you're kind of missing the point
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of what gives it the soul that everyone loves in
the first place.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Maybe I'm wrong, though, who knows.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
When you go shark eyes, it's just not as cute anymore.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
There's something, that's all I'm saying, a little a little
humility when you when you're putting out songs about your boyfriends.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Would I forgot you wrote that song?
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Isn't it great that I like a guy with a big,
old big Probably? I mean, I'm happy for you, but
this seems like more of a you conversation.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, you know, the ball's been bouncing off his head
quite a bit since you wrote those songs, f YI,
and you know what, look credit to her. She made
the NFL take her off those broadcasts. She still goes
to the games, they just don't show her.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I mean Travis recently said though that, like he even
said he had some kind of conversation where he was
saying that he didn't want her songs played in the
stadium and all that kind of stuff, and that they've
tried to insulate their very very public relationships.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Probably sick of them.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah, save me. I can't take her anymore. I can't
get out.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Let's see how interesting he is when he's done playing.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
To her.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
All the podcasts in the world, I can't believe that
that one is as popular. It's number one. It's just
two guys saying nothing. Maybe that's what people want. Maybe
people want to have that.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
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Mike pursuita joining us now, some concerning news on TJ.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Watt. We're waiting here for Brandon Eccholes is going to
join us here in just a little bit. But the TJ.
Watt situation is concerning.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Absolutely concerning, and not a whole lot of hardcore information
other than Watt's got a lung issue that he began
experiencing on Wednesday and wasn't at practice yesterday. Here's what
Mike Tomlin had to say about it yesterday.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
I'm a little bit, you know, cost us about what
I say because I'm not a medical expert. But to
make a long story short, he was experiencing some discomfort
when he was at the facility yesterday, and so we
took him to the docks and you know, they're going
through some procedures. He stayed overnight in the hospital. He
has a lung situation that's being addressed. I think he
(23:11):
has some testing and so forth ahead of him this afternoon,
and that's all I know at this juncture. He and
I communicated last night. He was comfortable, and that's all
I have really at this point. His status for Monday
night is really up in the air. I think what
transpires this afternoon is going to provide more information for us.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
I just don't have a lot as I stand here today.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Can you tell us what prompt did that discome from?
I don't know, No, I do not.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
There was a report that came out that said that
it could have occurred during treatment.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Is there anything we passed on?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
I don't know specifically when it occurred. I know he
was in the cafeteria at one point, and that's kind
of when I got wind of him.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Like, to your knowledge, was he dealing with anything that
was worthy of being on the jury report at any point?
Speaker 9 (23:50):
Not to my knowledge at all, particularly in game or
after the game.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Nothing to make.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Sure he was still in the hospital currently right now.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Yes, So it wasn't a football injury based on that, correct,
And this team's statement said lung discomfort one on one
equals painkilling shot.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, and something went wrong?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yes, I don't know about I don't know if it's
pain killing shot or what shot it was. I mean there,
it could have been anything. But if it was near
the ribs and they punkt it along. There's the one
case that everybody's comparing this to, which is to Rod
Taylor correct now his situation. The automatic assumption is, well,
this will be this is going to go. The pathology
(24:31):
of this will be the same. So he was out
for five games. His was a big deal. I mean
he sued the team.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well he got a staph infection, did he not? I
believe that was part of it, which is why it
was so long.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yes, I don't know if that's why it was so long,
or that ran concurrent with what would have been the
normal time to get over.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I don't know if it's a punctured lung.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I don't know if it's How do we not have
more pulmonary knowledge between the two of us out, Your
lungs are not.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Just you know the drawing that you saw like they
kind of.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Go eliminate us. Abbey, Well, I'm just.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Saying, like you can reach your lungs even from like
your top of it.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
You got a lot of lung and if you're a
professional athlete, you probably have slightly more lungs.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah, there are many places in which they could have
reached his lungs.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I mean a quick search.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
It just it says that he got a punctured lung
to Rod Taylor did in twenty twenty, and it was
the needle going too deep during nerve block, causing air
to leak im pressure on the lung, resulting in hospitalization,
significant distress prompting lawsuit doesn't say anything about the infection.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Okay, well it was a while ago. I don't know,
but this is this is a big screw up. Uh
not just certainly what anybody wanted to hear.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Get ready for a team that just runs the ball
down everybody's throat. Although Aaron Rodgers isn't counting TJ Watte
out just yet.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I haven't talked to TJ. But I would never bet
against anybody in the Watt family of being able to
deal with something small or large and getting back on
the field as quickly as possible.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Well, there you hear from the quarterback, and now you're
going to hear from defensive stalwart for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Brought to us by Calliante Pizza and Draft House, the
Pizza Champions. It's Brandon Eckles joining us on the dB morning,
so let's give him a big round applause, Pavan a
hell of a season, Brandon, Good morning?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
How are you? Man? What a dude? How you doing
all right? All right?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
First of all, congrats on the season that you're having.
I don't know that there was a ton expected from
you this year from the fan base, but you've quickly
become a fan favorite for multiple huge plays that you've
been making. Both you and James Pierre seem to have
stepped up significantly here.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
They those weren't the two names that.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
We were hearing in camp that we're going to drive
this defense to what coach Snlin then said, could be historic.
But you certainly have played your way in through various reasons,
into being one of the most relied upon members of
that secondary. Was there a turning point for you, like
a game where you're like, hey man, you know I'm
going to be a huge contributor to this defense.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
I mean it I started when you know they first
sign me. You know, I always knew what I was
capable of. You know, it's basically coming out of New York.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
You know, I was just you know, I had to
deal with.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
The cars that I was dealt, you know, and I said,
once I'll get a new chance, I'm gonna you know,
so so the team, what I can you know, actually
do and I could perform And you know that's.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Just kind of the mindset.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
I came into this organization with.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
What's what's working specifically for your brandan just you find
a home on the slot? Uh do you prefer that
over outside?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Is it the guys around you? What's what's clicked here
that didn't click with the Jets?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Maybe?
Speaker 8 (27:51):
I mean, I'm not gonna say, you know, nothing to
click with the Jets. You know, I was just behind
you know, a great set of guys within you know,
the Reed South Guard now you know Mike Carr and
you know, I just rotate in as needed. But you know,
with Pittsburgh, you know, I just you know, I wouldn't
say I prefer you know, corner o slat. I love
(28:12):
I love playing both, you know, especially now that I'd
have got real comfortable in the sloot, Like I come
to realize, you know, Slot is you know, actually fun.
You know, I'm able to get around the ball, you know,
so what you know what I can do, you know
with making plays on the ball in regards with that,
But I wouldn't say you know nothing just then click
(28:33):
it just I you know, like I said, I had
to deal with the cars that I was dealt, you know,
being in a position that I was in.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
You were one of the few guys able to bring
Lamar Jackson down this past weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You guys got to him a bunch.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Uh. It couldn't have been the easiest guy to bring
down there, but a huge turnaround for the Steelers defense
week to week. Was that better play from the Steelers
defense a philosophy shift or just better execution by you
guys against the Ravens.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
I'm like, I'm gonna say, good execution, good play calling
from you know, our DC, and you know, just being
going out there, you know, playing at one hundred percent.
You know, that's the best thing we could do for ourselves,
you know, to go to where we want to go.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
What'd you take of Pittsburgh Baltimore in general? How do
what kind of game.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Is that you know?
Speaker 9 (29:21):
I love?
Speaker 8 (29:21):
I love the robbery. I'm not yeah, I'm not gonna lie.
It's something fun. You know, it's really tense. Uh A
lot of hitting, a lot of talking. You know, it's
on you know that you live, you know, you live.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
For to do Brandon, I got to ask you about
your role as a gunner as well. And a bunch
of us talked to Ben Scronic yesterday about TJ or
excuse me, DK metcalf just.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Kind of taking that last rep. How'd that go down?
As far as you can tell?
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Uh So I ended up running out there, you know,
I didn't know what was going on. I lined up
on one side of the field and I seen being
on the opposite side, and so when being ended up
coming back and I'm.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Like, like, what are you doing?
Speaker 8 (30:06):
He was like Jim count Field, just Gutfield.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I'm like what.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
And then I look on the other side and I
see DK and I'm like, yo, nah, Well like nah,
what's going on though?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
How did he do? Bet? Cap was AOD rep?
Speaker 8 (30:24):
Yeah, it was a good rip. Well, you know, his
first time playing gun. You go get double team, you
a dude, the double team getting double team?
Speaker 10 (30:34):
That's a gun.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
It ain't nothing.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
It's far from easy.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Uh So, what do you make of Pittsburgh?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
You know you're having been here for several months now,
How have you assessed what it's like to be playing
for this iconic franchise and a fan base that you know,
when you were at the Jets, that's a team that
was kind of you know that that is a long
suffering fan base.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Though they are you know, they're.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Ardent fans, don't get me wrong, But Steelers a little
different sympathetic.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yes, Stealing nation is a different animal, is it not.
Speaker 10 (31:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Nah, it's different.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
You know, I love it.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
I just love I love the atmosphere.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
I love you know.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
How committed the fan base is. You know, we just
went to you know, some of these you know, far
away games and you would think it's a home game
with you know how much you know how many Pittsburgh
Still fans are there, and I'm like, bro, like what
is going on? Like they make it, you know, they
make it really, they make it real comfortable, you know
when you go to them away games. So you know
(31:32):
it ain't a bad look good.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
You're and you're a Memphis guy originally, like Calvin Austin right.
Speaker 8 (31:39):
Now, I'm a Mississippian, but I'm right outside of Memphis,
like I said, like the town I stay in that
I'm from is South A, Mississippi, which is literally probably
like five minutes from the borderline of Memphis.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
How's high school football in Mississippi fast? I'm guessing.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
I mean it's smooth. You know, he didn't got more
competitive over the years, you know, in regards of you know,
more uh, you know, more college teams going to recruit
out there now, especially you know after my class. I
don't want to brag too much, but you know, that's.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Just the way it is.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yeah, of course, man, once you led the way, everybody else,
you know. Yeah, it's just like Nirvana and Seattle. Everybody
goes and signs the bands there. That's how it goes.
Brandon eckles with us, and he's been having a hell
of a season and I've been saying all along, like
this is a guy who just makes plays NonStop and
you're tough as nails. Man, how's your how's the concussion
situation right now? Because you were evaluated for you know,
(32:37):
getting your bell rung in that game against the Ravens
and then ended up coming back.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
I'm good. I'm all good, though.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
You know, I don't like missing games.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
I'm not the type of one of miss games and
even if I'm hurting, if I if I can walk,
I feel like I can play. This is, you know,
the kind of standards I said for myself. That's how
I always been, you know, growing up in high school.
That's what I was kind of motive to be be like.
So you know, when I'm hurt, you know, I'm probably
just banged up for I just need to take a sickt.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Brandon, you guys have had some real moments on defense
this year. You've had some moments collectively that you guys
would like to forget. What are we going to see
down to stretch here the last four games?
Speaker 8 (33:18):
You know, uh, well you can display those you know,
to be trying to you know, basically play out of
our mars though you know we got the same, we
all got the same and go in his mind and
this you know, making it to the playoffs, but you know,
also trying to make it to the make a Super
Bowl run. So you know, we just got to you know,
be detailed and you know, play at one hundred percent
(33:38):
pays at all times, and you know, just trust Trust's
band caught on Institute.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Brandon Echols, whether it's brought to you by County and
Ti Pizza. This morning Monday night football Steelers and the Dolphins.
You'll be able to hear the whole game right here
on your radio home of the Steelers one on two
point five DV. Brandon, thanks for making time for us
this year and best of luck going forward, keep making
plays and stay healthy.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Man. Yes, I appreciate you all height you got it,
take care. Thanks so much. That's Brandon Echols. I'm a
big fan.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Did not expect him to be a difference maker and
he has been Slay who it's like Thornhill, Slay and
like Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
They signed all those guys and they brought him in.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
I think he did the same press conference as Metcalf
and Slay and everybody's like, oh.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Okay, who's this guy. Yeah, and you know, thank god
for him and James Pierre. What did they need him?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Yes, And it was funny we were talking to Chronic
about that whole punt situation at the end of the
Ravens game. Schronick's hand was he had a finger problem
or a hand problem. So Metcalf went out to replace
Schronic just he just did it. And Chronic when I
was like, I'm not missing this rep and Metcalf said,
(34:48):
I got it, so Chronic went to the other side
and told get.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Off the field. That's awesome. I mean it's kind of
goofy like it'd.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Like to result in too many on the field, but
you know, the motivational to part all those guys and
they're all just the all in nature of that Ravens
game was something to behold.
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to talk about his Academy Award winning animated short War
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Speaker 3 (37:17):
Happy misidentifying you Christmas time here and really honored to
have our next guest here. An Academy Award winner for
Animated Short last year at the Academy Awards for the
Animated short movie War Is Over, inspired by the music
of John and Yoko his parents. It's Sean Lennon here
on w DV Morning.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Sean, How are you.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
Well?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Thanks for making time for us here, War is Over.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
You know I heard all about it when you won
the Oscar last year, but now it's being released on
YouTube and there's a whole lot more going on.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Tell us about it.
Speaker 10 (37:56):
Well, it seems like it's been traded that we been
trying to get this film out of the public, and
we finally have released it on the John Lennon YouTube
channel in a cooperation with Alton John and Mark Ronson
actually and the Beatles channel as well. And yeah, we're
(38:17):
trying to help break money for War Child, which is
a really amazing charity that helps children and families with
children who are affected by war. And it just seems
like everything came together at the right time because Christmas
is coming and it's a Christmas song and a Christmas film,
So yeah, it seems like it worked out finally.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah, And I'm axious for everybody to see this and
check it out, because when I initially heard about it,
I was like, oh, I would like to see that,
and it was hard to find. Now it's super easy
on YouTube. I would assume a good deal of your
desire to raise the social consciousness toward peace was driven
by your parents. The film is inspired by the music
of your parents, John and Yoko. Did they have a
(38:59):
metric for what would be considered a level of success
toward that goal?
Speaker 7 (39:03):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
And is that important or is it just something you
should do as an artist.
Speaker 10 (39:10):
Well, look, I mean I think in reality, not just
my dad, but his whole generation probably would be surprised
at how how how much the world is too unentangled
in wars all over. I think the sixties generation generation,
you know, after the Summer of Love, I think they
thought maybe mankind was heading towards some kind of you know,
(39:33):
each hopie or something. And you know, at one point,
I think my dad even said, you know, the sixties failed,
so what now it's time to you know, now it's
time to win or something.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yeah, flower power failed, right, Yeah, that.
Speaker 10 (39:47):
In the late seventies, And yeah, I think on some level,
you know, there's there's a real sense that the sixties
vision maybe didn't completely succeed. But you know, I try,
I think of it as it was. It was a
step in the right direction. And I think, you know,
we have a responsibility to remain optimistic about the future
(40:08):
of humanity because you know, what are our chances if
we don't think positively.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
And I always look at things like this, like bus
stops along the way to getting to the destination, and
if you're not headed in the right direction, well then
you're you're certainly doomed. And the charitable aspect component of
this for Warchild that you talked about certainly does distinguish
this apart from just a message of peace.
Speaker 10 (40:34):
Yes, And you know, honestly, when you started making the film, uh,
you know, we had been asked to make some kind
of video clip for Wars over Happy Christmas, Wars over
the song and which is obviously a piece anthem, a
Christmas anthem as well, but Putin invaded Ukraine actually after
we had already started the film, so it actually became
(40:58):
you know, kind of speak or uncannily relevant while we
were making the film. So it went from just kind
of a project that we you know, sort of had
an intention to do because we've been asked to do it,
into a project that we thought had real world relevance
and suddenly became salient, you know, in a bittersweet sense.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
I think the very poignant part of this is that
it deals with the story is set in World War
One trench warfare that really shows you the brutality of
war in a day and age when we are sort
of disassociated from it and think that it's all of
these Star Wars technological type of warfare that's occurring, and
it really reminds you that that's not what war is well.
Speaker 10 (41:44):
And the reality is, when I was a kid, you know,
in the nineties, most people thought that we were heading
towards the kind of global unity. I mean, I remember
that book The End of History and that, you know,
we thought China was going to become, you know, fully democratic,
and he thought the Iraqi people. I didn't think that,
(42:05):
but a lot of people thought that Iraq was just
going to jump into like our lap and become a democracy.
And it was a lot more complicated than that.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
And I think, you know, they.
Speaker 10 (42:14):
Call it a tripolar world now, where we're moving toward
the tripolar world, and I think we didn't see it coming.
You know, we didn't see the constant coming. But there's
something in humans that you know, maybe is from three
hundred thousand years of evolution that we have a little
violence in us.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
And I do think we have the.
Speaker 10 (42:32):
Opportunity to evolve beyond it, but I think it's going
to take time.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
The last question I have for you, Sean Lennon with
US war is over the Academy Award winning animated short
available now on YouTube. We're a few days past the
anniversary of your father's passing. I recently saw that famous
footage of Paul listening to the recording a Beautiful Boy
on the BBC special soon after John's death. I remember being,
you know, a young person at that time and feeling
(42:57):
like the whole world had a significant level of concern
for you because you were so young and undergoing something
so traumatic.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Was that something that you felt at the time.
Speaker 10 (43:09):
No, I think I wasn't as aware of it then
as I was over the years. I remember meeting Harrison
Ford and he told me that his mom had thought
about me when she was writing the screenplay for ET,
and that she decided that ET would would die essentially
(43:32):
or be hurt. I think he comes back. I don't remember,
but because of what happened to my dad, because she
she did it. She said she did it for me,
which I was shocked by, but I didn't want to
until my thirties. And yeah, I mean I did get
a sentsive that later on that people were thinking about me,
But at the time I think it was more just overwhelming.
(43:55):
I mean, you know, I was at to Dakota and
there were thousands of people outside singing Beatles songs for
on End and you know, every year on my birthday
and December eighth, it would be crowds outside and it
was it was it was something that was very sweet,
but it was also kind of disorienting. It was a
little confusing. You know, I suddenly learn from just being
(44:15):
an normal kid, so having to really understand that my
dad has this relationship with Republic. And it was in
a very abrupt way that that whole story unraveled.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Sean Lennon. War is over. It's available on YouTube now.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
It won an Academy Award for Animated Short, and its
messages as poignant today as the day that his parents
wrote the song that inspired the film. Sean, thank you
so much for your time this morning, and all the
best going forward.
Speaker 10 (44:43):
It's only eleven minutes long and it's free, So free
senate to your friends. You know, we worked so hard
on it. I want as many people to see it
as possible.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Yes, so well, we're going to make sure that we're
going to post it for people here on our website.
Thank you, you got it, Sean Lennon. Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Sean.
Speaker 10 (45:00):
Take care
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So apparently it's very intense. You have regular meetings with
various teams and you need to be a people person
of course to do this. But you have to have
the valor driver's license, good driving record, ability to work
long weekends. But they give you thirty five thousand dollars,
an additional weekly allowance of one hundred and fifty dollars,
and you get health benefits and hotel costs are covered.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's a good gig, but I would never get it
the way I drive. I'd be putting that Wiener into everything.
Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show Joe Bartnick.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Just slinging arrows all day yesterday is great. Hanging out
with Joey b live in studio and Sean Collier will
be in with us today and we'll be talking to
Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Brandon.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Eccles a little bit later on this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And how about Bastard Beardard Irish been in the coffeehouse
and an interview with Sean Lennon.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So John Lennon and Yoko Ono son.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Sean, So why Sean Lennon, He's.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Gonna review Sean Collier's movies. That is finally it's the
It's Sewn of the Dead this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'm so glad somebody's finally holding Sean's feet.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
To the fire.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, he's gonna he's going to take issue with all
of his reviews.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
He has a OSCAR winning animated short from last year.
He and an animator put together this animated short called
War Is Over and it's base and inspired of course
on his parents famous Christmas song and it is now
available for free on YouTube and he's promoting that fact.
(02:09):
He wants people to go and see it because they
couldn't get a distributor for it. So, you know, animated chorts,
you really have to go seek that out. You know,
it's not something like every time you see those on
the Academy Awards every year.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You're like, where do I go to see those?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You know, unless you're doing like a short film festival,
you typically don't get to go, you know, to the
waterfront and just be like two for that eight minute
movie please, you know. So this is the way for
everyone to watch it, and he's promoting it. So that's
coming up at seven forty five to dight. Pretty cool stuff.
Abby's got a news update for you.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Now. What's going on is this hour brought.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
To you by Keystone Basement Systems with Basement Keystone Basementsystems
dot com. Cold with a passing flurry this morning and
high of thirty three. It is really coold. My tire
pressure's already. I hate that screaming.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah, that'll be fun.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
There's like there should be a place where you can
pull into that just warms you up while you check
your tire pressure, because every time you have to check
your tire pressure it's freezing and you never want to
pull over into it. So it's just be this place
where you just like pull in really quick and it's
just like it's nice music and it warms you up.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It's a nice business model. I actually I've already.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Had probably garage.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
You don't say I've already had to do it twice
this season.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
There was one time, though, I pulled into the gas
station to use the free air.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Thing and the hose was gone.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
But I thought I was just being like dumb, and
I'm I was trying to still pull the thing out,
and this old guy pulled up and he gave me
this really long man's plaining explanation that in the winter
they take the hose away, and he.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Was clearly wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They absolutely everybody's tire pressure goes down.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Which is what I said to him because also I
pulled and I waited because I wanted to see if
I was being stupid and I was missing so big
because I hadn't done it by myself in a long time,
and I just wanted to make sure I wasn't like
missing a critical step. And so I pulled to the
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side because I saw somebody else was coming up, and
this old guy, you know, comes up and he sees
that it is also broken, and then I just said,
I'm like, yeah, it's it's something's wrong, like the hose
isn't there, And then he gave me this long explanation
that they take those away in the winter and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Ha, and I said, but why would that make sense?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Isn't now when my tire pressure is going to be
fluctuating the most?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And then he gave me a longer explanation as to
why that wasn't true, and I was like, oh, you're
an idiot.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
He deserved it for engaging him. Yeah, that was dumb.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
One time I went to one of those, like on
the side of a get go and there is these
two younger black eyes and they couldn't figure out how
to work it, and so I was waiting for them
and I.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Was like, I was like, hey, can I help you guys?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Because I knew I could see they didn't know how
to work and it's you know, you press the butt
you know, it's not you dial in the tire pressure
and then you press the button. But they didn't see
the on button. And I was like, can I help
you guys? And you know, I think instinctually they thought
I was being like a male Karen right, yes, And
(05:19):
there were some like racial elements to it, and uh,
the guy's like it was the kid.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Basically he's like, oh, two young black.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Men can't help themselves set it and I'm like, no,
you one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It's just it looked like you were And they're.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Like, so you have a problem with two young black men,
you know, And I'm like, I do not.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I do not. I have no problem with that at all.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I'm saying, it looks like you don't know how to
use the machine, and I'll gladly show you how to
do it. And the guy like started into a like
a third comeback at me, you know, and his buddy.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Was like, no, hey man.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He's like he's like, he's actually just trying to help.
But I'm like, I really haven't. I understand that. You're like,
you know, that would be a conditioned response. I get it, And.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Also we super don't know how to use it, so
get over here.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, And then I said, I'm like, hey man, take
as long as you what I was just trying to
show you. It was just like this funny, awkward thing.
And I'm like, I'm really not. This has nothing to
do with anything other than do you need to put
an air in your tires?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Do you feel a tremendous amount of pressure, like you
can't make the machine go any faster? But do you
feel awful when there's a line of people behind you,
and you don't.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I do. I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Well, I mean, it takes as long as it takes.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It takes, I mean, but I still feel like a
piece of garbage.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Well, if you like go in your car and start
reading a pamphlet or something like that and you're just
not paying attention to it, that's one thing. But if
you're tending to it and it fills up at the
rate it fills up, I do want it to fill
up much quicker, much like I want my gas tape
to fill up quicker. And I get that there are
safety involved in both of those issues, but I kind
of feel like both of those can be twice as
fast as they.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Are, but they are not.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
But imagine how much gas would be spilled all over
the place if that thing came out even fat, because
there's already a ton of gas. I went to a
full service station a couple of weeks ago without knowing.
I didn't know it was a full start. I didn't
even know they had.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Them in Pennsylvania anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And I rolled into one up in the area over
Thanksgiving and I got out and said, and the guy's like, sir,
what are you doing? And I'm like, I'm putting gas
in my car and he's like, I do that here.
And I'm like, okay, you do that here, and he's like,
this is a full service station. For for a second
I thought he was like, I just hang out here
and fill up everyone's gas.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Dude, I'll take care of this. I'm ted I fillip gas.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I've seen that in a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
But up like closer to where my sister lives, there
are a couple.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, and when you get those stations, you gotta kind
of have to be like a don't forget about the
white walls, you know what I mean, Like it's full service,
check the oil, do this, you know you're paying for it,
But tip no, because it's really weird. He came because
you were usually playing paying in credit card. So I
don't know, should you tip in those It feels well,
(08:01):
we are so conditioned to tip now that it would
seem like that guy deserves a tip way more before
the person who gives you an empty cup and tells
you to go fill up your own coffee exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You know, Oh no, but I'm not. I'm going to
a gas station. I never have cash ever.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I don't have cash anywhere.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Never.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I was like, there was a person at the thirty
first Street bridge who was like, you know, hey, anything
can help, and I'm like holding up my hands. I'm like,
I don't. I don't have cash. I don't know, Like
homeless people need to get VENMO now.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, which would kind of not help their gaze.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Why not the same time, Well, they'd.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Be holding on, like, you know, an iPhone and be
like anything helped. There you go, that's that over to you.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
No, I don't know. I'm not trying to be insensitive.
I actually feel either.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I'm just saying that, doesn't you know it's not congruent?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, don't they have to hold the phone? Yeah? I
guess you're right. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
That's all right.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's all about messaging, folks. We can't sell many problems.
This mor racial divide, harmlessness.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
We're blowing.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
We're over three right now on working class conditions. All right,
what else you got?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I didn't even finish the weather quite frankly, I again said,
it is going to be cold with a passing flurry
this morning in high thirty three Saturday.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Snow is coming in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
The accumulation is going to be somewhere around an inch
or two and high around thirty five, and then Sunday
bitterly cold with snow showers and a high around nineteen.
With time running out for twenty twenty five, City officials
have announced plans to ring in twenty twenty six with
the thirty second year of First Night festivities in the
Downtown Cultural District. The December thirty first event is going
(09:37):
to include magic, live music, a holiday market, ice carving,
hands on activities, and more. It's very kid friendly if
you want to bring the kids down to this. There's
also going to be a dollar Bank Battle of the Bands,
which is going to charge up the crowd, so they're
going to have that element as it's well.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, always like, did you ever do a Battle of
the bands when you.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Were younger performing in them? Several?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, what I did when I was in eighth grade,
I did one, and when I was in tenth grade,
I did one. And the one I did in tenth
grade was an abject disaster, and everything kicked out in
the rest of the band, like the the guitar players
amp stopped working and like the PA kind of busted.
(10:21):
But my keyboard was shining through, so I just did
like light my Fire.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
By myself.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
It just made it a solo performance.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And someone's like, hey, could you pick a non eleven
minute song, please fill in time.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
We don't want to hear your Casio keyboard.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Did you save the day?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
No? I mean I did this like a brief. I
didn't do the full version of it. You know, I
did a quick one.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
But that was the kind of you know, I had
my church chops at that point, you know, Sunday morning Mass.
But it was mortifying when you're up there in a
Battle of the band and you're like, you know the
other bands, You're like, we're we're better than those guys.
And then you go up and equipment failure and panic
because you're in young so panic ensued. And it was
at a school I didn't go to also, which was
(11:08):
another thing, so I didn't know anybody. Yeah, so that
that felt super like I felt like an interloper.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
The character build of a Battle of the bands.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
My dad's like, how you do? How'd you do? And
I lied, I go, we did awesome. I didn't want
him to be like, you know, yeah, barrel head, why
would you go there?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
And not know how to turn on your equipment.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You would be so proud of me. Yeah, that was.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
The best one did.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I did them before where there was always like bigger
things on the line, Like as the band's kind of
like got bigger, like it would always be like, oh, you.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Win recording time or you win whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So that was the way that you could get grew,
like the true embarrassment of having to.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Really put yourself out there.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I mean, Battle of the Bands are typically younger people
though right, it's not. Adults aren't usually in Battle of
the Bands.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
One of the last I did I was an adult.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
He was a year ago. No, it was.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
No no, I remember because I had to do a
Battle of the Bands with an adult band. And one
of the last bands that I was playing against, my
boyfriend was in.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Oh that's hilarious. And he was pissed because you guys beat.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Him like a pulp rushed him.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And he was pissed because I think like at the
end he was kind of like, you know, you're being
really competitive about this, and I'm like, you know, I
want the recording time.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, like we can still hang out.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Always a good trait in a guy.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, he's super jealous of his partner's talent. You're being
super competitive, Like actually, actually I just whooped her aft.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
The official New Year's Eve countdown to ring in twenty
twenty six is going to be held at the Highmark
Stage on penn Avenue Place.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
They're the Future of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Ball will rise nearly seventy five feet too, its pinnacle position,
symbolizing a city on the rise, as fireworks fill the
sky and the audience joins in harmony for a rendition
of old line signs that it would be very sweet
for downtown Basberg.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I've been to those first nape yes before.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
They're wonderful me too. They're super fun, fun for the
whole family.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Really is, and everybody's getting into the year and round
up business, even the deliciously gay hookup app Grinder.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Here is a sample of their.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Twenty twenty five wrap up. At least the categories that
we can look into. A Mother of the Year is
still Lady Gaga.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I'm surprised it's not Chapel Roone, but it is Lady Got.
Daddy of the Year is Jdvans. Oh good guess yeah,
Pedro Pascal, you were close.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Though practically the same guy. Can't tell them apart.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Mother in Training is Sabrina Carpenter, which I think she's
earned that.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
I think mothers have to be five feet tall. I
think she's it's a diminutive, diminutive mother diminutive that am
I putting an extra slog and you put.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
An A in there, But I'll take that a and
make her an ant. Oh not mother cookie ant.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
There you go, Hottest Man of the Year and this
actually goes.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I think you got the people's like.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Sexiest Man of the Year is Jonathan Bailey, who plays
Fierro in Wicked.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Listen. I'm not the target audience for this pole, but
I don't see it.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I don't see it either. I can't find I don't
know who he is, so find a thing.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I can't tell you if he's hot.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Movie of the Year.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
They gave it to K Pop Demon Hunters, which is correct.
Bulge of the Year they gave to Bad Bunny.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I haven't noticed. I have not noticed.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I thought I had my shot this year, right, Yeah,
goiters don't count.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
No, no, they said the gayest fashion trend of the year,
slutty little glass.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Thank god I took mine off.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Sean Collier has this little glass.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Those are more of a buddy holly thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Best beef this year was Cardi B and Nicki Minaj.
That actually seems kind of tired to me.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
I thought they've been feuding for Yeah, I thought was
the century. I thought that was old.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I thought that was also very old. I gotta go
ahead and judge this up. Most bears, they say, are
in Ireland.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I didn't see that at all, and.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I looked I was searching iro Low.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I would say like most bears, I would go with
like Wisconsin. Yeah, I thought that's why Chicago was named that.
I mean Ireland has the bare body type is prevalent
in Ireland, but maybe out in the cable nets sweater areas. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
he's just sitting at the pub. He's not cruising grinder, right.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
And the highest percentage of winks that goes to Switzerland.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Did you see that.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I didn't know there was a preponderance of twins in Switzerland.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Also, is twinks a slur?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I don't know that it is. I I think that
it's a positive.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Oh okay, yeah, I don't know. Go on, I have
nothing to have this conversation that's gonna be the.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Last of the list that is fit for us.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well, everything else, and even that, I would say it
a lot of that it was not fit for us.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Did you see that the story that the speaking of grinder?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
The story last week where the woman this guy said something,
posted something super racist on her Facebook post and so
she I like got the guy's id, searched him on
Grinder and he just to see if he had a
Grinder account.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Because he's got you know, wife and kids and everything,
and he had one, of course he does.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
And so she drove three hours to his business and
like filmed herself driving there and everything, and then film
herself walking in and she's like, yeah, you're gonna do this,
this and this, or I'm gonna tell everybody about your
Grinder account. And she never showed the guy's face, and
he's like, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. And I like,
I didn't know if it was fake or not. I'm
assuming everything's fake now. I always got in thinking, but boy,
(17:15):
there's something that felt really real about it. And it
was gratifying even if it wasn't real, because I know
there's a lot of that out there, you know, people
throwing stones from gay houses.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
That's it's. On the one hand, I want to remind
people that sometimes you think you're doing something clever and
then you get shot in the face.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yes, yea, that is true. Keep that in mind.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
On the other hand, wouldn't it be cool if people
started thinking that they might be held accountable for things
they say online? Wouldn't wouldn't it be cool if people
lost that veil of anonymity where I could be terrible
because who's gonna find me? It's the Internet.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Well, if you're not anonymous, it will you will have
to pay the price a lot of times. It's the
anonymity where it gets and you don't know, Like, that's
why it's just pointless to argue with people on the
internet because ninety percent of the time their bots. Yeah,
you know, and we all saw that when Twitter made
everybody's origin country available for those few weeks, do you
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remember that, And it turned out like all of those
big accounts that were stirring the pot on a daily
basis were all bots from foreign countries, and you know,
they were all trying to sew political discord here in
the United States, and none of those accounts were from
the United States.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
They just make America great Bubba from Vietnam.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
How did this happen? It was literally like be like
from Malaysian stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Anyways, No, there was actually I'm trying to figure out
the origin of it now. There was just a Taylor
Swift story that came out in Rolling Stone magazine.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Were basically said that.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
The entire storyline about the newest album, Life of a
Show Girl, that had that whole connotation of her going
like full trad wife and like the narrative underneath that record.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I didn't know that that's what the under that.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
It was a.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Smear campaign basically, But now there is proof that the
Rolling Stone article was planted by an AI company that
was hired to so insane.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Don't talk to anybody, don't believe anything, go live in
the woods.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
I can't even follow any of.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It anything, now do you know? Here, here's all you
have to know about Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Though.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
She was on Colbert this past week and he asked
her about the notion that, you know, she's had a
good run of success and there's a lot of critics
who want her to, you know, go away and give
someone else their time at the top and she's like,
I don't want to, you know, and instead, like the
very smart thing to say there, I think would have
(19:54):
been like, it's ridiculous to think that there's not room
for all kinds of people.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
There's no limited space at the top.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It's everybody can ascend in a you know, rising tide
raids is all boats type of thing. But she's like, no,
I want to grind people that I want to be
the person that beats you. And then then she's viewing
it through this competitive lens, which, again, anytime you do art,
if you're competitive, like you're kind of missing the point
(20:23):
of what gives it the soul that everyone loves in
the first place.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Maybe I'm wrong, though, who knows.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
When you go shark eyes, it's just not as cute anymore.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
There's something, that's all I'm saying, a little a little
humility when you when you're putting out songs about your boyfriends.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Would I forgot you wrote that song?
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Isn't it great that I like a guy with a big,
old big Probably? I mean, I'm happy for you, but
this seems like more of a you conversation.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, you know, the ball's been bouncing off his head
quite a bit since you wrote those songs, f YI,
and you know what, look credit to her. She made
the NFL take her off those broadcasts. She still goes
to the games, they just don't show her.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I mean Travis recently said though that, like he even
said he had some kind of conversation where he was
saying that he didn't want her songs played in the
stadium and all that kind of stuff, and that they've
tried to insulate their very very public relationships.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Probably sick of them.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah, save me. I can't take her anymore. I can't
get out.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Let's see how interesting he is when he's done playing.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
To her.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
All the podcasts in the world, I can't believe that
that one is as popular. It's number one. It's just
two guys saying nothing. Maybe that's what people want. Maybe
people want to have that.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
You know, hey, if it weren't for people tuning into
people saying nothing. Situation happening right now on the way
for you. Brandon Eckles from the Steelers is going to
join us in about six minutes at seven five.
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Speaker 1 (22:18):
It is the DV morning show.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Mike pursuita joining us now, some concerning news on TJ.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Watt. We're waiting here for Brandon Eccholes is going to
join us here in just a little bit. But the TJ.
Watt situation is concerning.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Absolutely concerning, and not a whole lot of hardcore information
other than Watt's got a lung issue that he began
experiencing on Wednesday and wasn't at practice yesterday. Here's what
Mike Tomlin had to say about it yesterday.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
I'm a little bit, you know, cost us about what
I say because I'm not a medical expert. But to
make a long story short, he was experiencing some discomfort
when he was at the facility yesterday, and so we
took him to the docks and you know, they're going
through some procedures. He stayed overnight in the hospital. He
has a lung situation that's being addressed. I think he
(23:11):
has some testing and so forth ahead of him this afternoon,
and that's all I know at this juncture. He and
I communicated last night. He was comfortable, and that's all
I have really at this point. His status for Monday
night is really up in the air. I think what
transpires this afternoon is going to provide more information for us.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
I just don't have a lot as I stand here today.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Can you tell us what prompt did that discome from?
I don't know, No, I do not.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
There was a report that came out that said that
it could have occurred during treatment.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Is there anything we passed on?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
I don't know specifically when it occurred. I know he
was in the cafeteria at one point, and that's kind
of when I got wind of him.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Like, to your knowledge, was he dealing with anything that
was worthy of being on the jury report at any point?
Speaker 9 (23:50):
Not to my knowledge at all, particularly in game or
after the game.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Nothing to make.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Sure he was still in the hospital currently right now.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Yes, So it wasn't a football injury based on that, correct,
And this team's statement said lung discomfort one on one
equals painkilling shot.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, and something went wrong?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yes, I don't know about I don't know if it's
pain killing shot or what shot it was. I mean there,
it could have been anything. But if it was near
the ribs and they punkt it along. There's the one
case that everybody's comparing this to, which is to Rod
Taylor correct now his situation. The automatic assumption is, well,
this will be this is going to go. The pathology
(24:31):
of this will be the same. So he was out
for five games. His was a big deal. I mean
he sued the team.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well he got a staph infection, did he not? I
believe that was part of it, which is why it
was so long.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yes, I don't know if that's why it was so long,
or that ran concurrent with what would have been the
normal time to get over.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I don't know if it's a punctured lung.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I don't know if it's How do we not have
more pulmonary knowledge between the two of us out, Your
lungs are not.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Just you know the drawing that you saw like they
kind of.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Go eliminate us. Abbey, Well, I'm just.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Saying, like you can reach your lungs even from like
your top of it.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
You got a lot of lung and if you're a
professional athlete, you probably have slightly more lungs.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah, there are many places in which they could have
reached his lungs.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I mean a quick search.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
It just it says that he got a punctured lung
to Rod Taylor did in twenty twenty, and it was
the needle going too deep during nerve block, causing air
to leak im pressure on the lung, resulting in hospitalization,
significant distress prompting lawsuit doesn't say anything about the infection.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Okay, well it was a while ago. I don't know,
but this is this is a big screw up. Uh
not just certainly what anybody wanted to hear.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Get ready for a team that just runs the ball
down everybody's throat. Although Aaron Rodgers isn't counting TJ Watte
out just yet.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I haven't talked to TJ. But I would never bet
against anybody in the Watt family of being able to
deal with something small or large and getting back on
the field as quickly as possible.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Well, there you hear from the quarterback, and now you're
going to hear from defensive stalwart for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Brought to us by Calliante Pizza and Draft House, the
Pizza Champions. It's Brandon Eckles joining us on the dB morning,
so let's give him a big round applause, Pavan a
hell of a season, Brandon, Good morning?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
How are you? Man? What a dude? How you doing
all right? All right?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
First of all, congrats on the season that you're having.
I don't know that there was a ton expected from
you this year from the fan base, but you've quickly
become a fan favorite for multiple huge plays that you've
been making. Both you and James Pierre seem to have
stepped up significantly here.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
They those weren't the two names that.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
We were hearing in camp that we're going to drive
this defense to what coach Snlin then said, could be historic.
But you certainly have played your way in through various reasons,
into being one of the most relied upon members of
that secondary. Was there a turning point for you, like
a game where you're like, hey man, you know I'm
going to be a huge contributor to this defense.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
I mean it I started when you know they first
sign me. You know, I always knew what I was
capable of. You know, it's basically coming out of New York.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
You know, I was just you know, I had to
deal with.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
The cars that I was dealt, you know, and I said,
once I'll get a new chance, I'm gonna you know,
so so the team, what I can you know, actually
do and I could perform And you know that's.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Just kind of the mindset.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
I came into this organization with.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
What's what's working specifically for your brandan just you find
a home on the slot? Uh do you prefer that
over outside?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Is it the guys around you? What's what's clicked here
that didn't click with the Jets?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Maybe?
Speaker 8 (27:51):
I mean, I'm not gonna say, you know, nothing to
click with the Jets. You know, I was just behind
you know, a great set of guys within you know,
the Reed South Guard now you know Mike Carr and
you know, I just rotate in as needed. But you know,
with Pittsburgh, you know, I just you know, I wouldn't
say I prefer you know, corner o slat. I love
(28:12):
I love playing both, you know, especially now that I'd
have got real comfortable in the sloot, Like I come
to realize, you know, Slot is you know, actually fun.
You know, I'm able to get around the ball, you know,
so what you know what I can do, you know
with making plays on the ball in regards with that,
But I wouldn't say you know nothing just then click
(28:33):
it just I you know, like I said, I had
to deal with the cars that I was dealt, you know,
being in a position that I was in.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
You were one of the few guys able to bring
Lamar Jackson down this past weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You guys got to him a bunch.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Uh. It couldn't have been the easiest guy to bring
down there, but a huge turnaround for the Steelers defense
week to week. Was that better play from the Steelers
defense a philosophy shift or just better execution by you
guys against the Ravens.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
I'm like, I'm gonna say, good execution, good play calling
from you know, our DC, and you know, just being
going out there, you know, playing at one hundred percent.
You know, that's the best thing we could do for ourselves,
you know, to go to where we want to go.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
What'd you take of Pittsburgh Baltimore in general? How do
what kind of game.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Is that you know?
Speaker 9 (29:21):
I love?
Speaker 8 (29:21):
I love the robbery. I'm not yeah, I'm not gonna lie.
It's something fun. You know, it's really tense. Uh A
lot of hitting, a lot of talking. You know, it's
on you know that you live, you know, you live.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
For to do Brandon, I got to ask you about
your role as a gunner as well. And a bunch
of us talked to Ben Scronic yesterday about TJ or
excuse me, DK metcalf just.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Kind of taking that last rep. How'd that go down?
As far as you can tell?
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Uh So I ended up running out there, you know,
I didn't know what was going on. I lined up
on one side of the field and I seen being
on the opposite side, and so when being ended up
coming back and I'm.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Like, like, what are you doing?
Speaker 8 (30:06):
He was like Jim count Field, just Gutfield.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I'm like what.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
And then I look on the other side and I
see DK and I'm like, yo, nah, Well like nah,
what's going on though?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
How did he do? Bet? Cap was AOD rep?
Speaker 8 (30:24):
Yeah, it was a good rip. Well, you know, his
first time playing gun. You go get double team, you
a dude, the double team getting double team?
Speaker 10 (30:34):
That's a gun.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
It ain't nothing.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
It's far from easy.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Uh So, what do you make of Pittsburgh?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
You know you're having been here for several months now,
How have you assessed what it's like to be playing
for this iconic franchise and a fan base that you know,
when you were at the Jets, that's a team that
was kind of you know that that is a long
suffering fan base.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Though they are you know, they're.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Ardent fans, don't get me wrong, But Steelers a little
different sympathetic.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yes, Stealing nation is a different animal, is it not.
Speaker 10 (31:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Nah, it's different.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
You know, I love it.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
I just love I love the atmosphere.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
I love you know.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
How committed the fan base is. You know, we just
went to you know, some of these you know, far
away games and you would think it's a home game
with you know how much you know how many Pittsburgh
Still fans are there, and I'm like, bro, like what
is going on? Like they make it, you know, they
make it really, they make it real comfortable, you know
when you go to them away games. So you know
(31:32):
it ain't a bad look good.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
You're and you're a Memphis guy originally, like Calvin Austin right.
Speaker 8 (31:39):
Now, I'm a Mississippian, but I'm right outside of Memphis,
like I said, like the town I stay in that
I'm from is South A, Mississippi, which is literally probably
like five minutes from the borderline of Memphis.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
How's high school football in Mississippi fast? I'm guessing.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
I mean it's smooth. You know, he didn't got more
competitive over the years, you know, in regards of you know,
more uh, you know, more college teams going to recruit
out there now, especially you know after my class. I
don't want to brag too much, but you know, that's.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Just the way it is.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yeah, of course, man, once you led the way, everybody else,
you know. Yeah, it's just like Nirvana and Seattle. Everybody
goes and signs the bands there. That's how it goes.
Brandon eckles with us, and he's been having a hell
of a season and I've been saying all along, like
this is a guy who just makes plays NonStop and
you're tough as nails. Man, how's your how's the concussion
situation right now? Because you were evaluated for you know,
(32:37):
getting your bell rung in that game against the Ravens
and then ended up coming back.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
I'm good. I'm all good, though.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
You know, I don't like missing games.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
I'm not the type of one of miss games and
even if I'm hurting, if I if I can walk,
I feel like I can play. This is, you know,
the kind of standards I said for myself. That's how
I always been, you know, growing up in high school.
That's what I was kind of motive to be be like.
So you know, when I'm hurt, you know, I'm probably
just banged up for I just need to take a sickt.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Brandon, you guys have had some real moments on defense
this year. You've had some moments collectively that you guys
would like to forget. What are we going to see
down to stretch here the last four games?
Speaker 8 (33:18):
You know, uh, well you can display those you know,
to be trying to you know, basically play out of
our mars though you know we got the same, we
all got the same and go in his mind and
this you know, making it to the playoffs, but you know,
also trying to make it to the make a Super
Bowl run. So you know, we just got to you know,
be detailed and you know, play at one hundred percent
(33:38):
pays at all times, and you know, just trust Trust's
band caught on Institute.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Brandon Echols, whether it's brought to you by County and
Ti Pizza. This morning Monday night football Steelers and the Dolphins.
You'll be able to hear the whole game right here
on your radio home of the Steelers one on two
point five DV. Brandon, thanks for making time for us
this year and best of luck going forward, keep making
plays and stay healthy.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Man. Yes, I appreciate you all height you got it,
take care. Thanks so much. That's Brandon Echols. I'm a
big fan.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Did not expect him to be a difference maker and
he has been Slay who it's like Thornhill, Slay and
like Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
They signed all those guys and they brought him in.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
I think he did the same press conference as Metcalf
and Slay and everybody's like, oh.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Okay, who's this guy. Yeah, and you know, thank god
for him and James Pierre. What did they need him?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Yes, And it was funny we were talking to Chronic
about that whole punt situation at the end of the
Ravens game. Schronick's hand was he had a finger problem
or a hand problem. So Metcalf went out to replace
Schronic just he just did it. And Chronic when I
was like, I'm not missing this rep and Metcalf said,
(34:48):
I got it, so Chronic went to the other side
and told get.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Off the field. That's awesome. I mean it's kind of
goofy like it'd.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Like to result in too many on the field, but
you know, the motivational to part all those guys and
they're all just the all in nature of that Ravens
game was something to behold.
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Coming up next to hour Bastard Bearded Irishmen in the
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Sean Lennon will join us, son of John and Yoko,
to talk about his Academy Award winning animated short War
Is Over, inspired by his parents famous Christmas song, So
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Speaker 3 (37:17):
Happy misidentifying you Christmas time here and really honored to
have our next guest here. An Academy Award winner for
Animated Short last year at the Academy Awards for the
Animated short movie War Is Over, inspired by the music
of John and Yoko his parents. It's Sean Lennon here
on w DV Morning.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Sean, How are you.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
Well?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Thanks for making time for us here, War is Over.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
You know I heard all about it when you won
the Oscar last year, but now it's being released on
YouTube and there's a whole lot more going on.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Tell us about it.
Speaker 10 (37:56):
Well, it seems like it's been traded that we been
trying to get this film out of the public, and
we finally have released it on the John Lennon YouTube
channel in a cooperation with Alton John and Mark Ronson
actually and the Beatles channel as well. And yeah, we're
(38:17):
trying to help break money for War Child, which is
a really amazing charity that helps children and families with
children who are affected by war. And it just seems
like everything came together at the right time because Christmas
is coming and it's a Christmas song and a Christmas film,
So yeah, it seems like it worked out finally.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah, And I'm axious for everybody to see this and
check it out, because when I initially heard about it,
I was like, oh, I would like to see that,
and it was hard to find. Now it's super easy
on YouTube. I would assume a good deal of your
desire to raise the social consciousness toward peace was driven
by your parents. The film is inspired by the music
of your parents, John and Yoko. Did they have a
(38:59):
metric for what would be considered a level of success
toward that goal?
Speaker 7 (39:03):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
And is that important or is it just something you
should do as an artist.
Speaker 10 (39:10):
Well, look, I mean I think in reality, not just
my dad, but his whole generation probably would be surprised
at how how how much the world is too unentangled
in wars all over. I think the sixties generation generation,
you know, after the Summer of Love, I think they
thought maybe mankind was heading towards some kind of you know,
(39:33):
each hopie or something. And you know, at one point,
I think my dad even said, you know, the sixties failed,
so what now it's time to you know, now it's
time to win or something.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yeah, flower power failed, right, Yeah, that.
Speaker 10 (39:47):
In the late seventies, And yeah, I think on some level,
you know, there's there's a real sense that the sixties
vision maybe didn't completely succeed. But you know, I try,
I think of it as it was. It was a
step in the right direction. And I think, you know,
we have a responsibility to remain optimistic about the future
(40:08):
of humanity because you know, what are our chances if
we don't think positively.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
And I always look at things like this, like bus
stops along the way to getting to the destination, and
if you're not headed in the right direction, well then
you're you're certainly doomed. And the charitable aspect component of
this for Warchild that you talked about certainly does distinguish
this apart from just a message of peace.
Speaker 10 (40:34):
Yes, And you know, honestly, when you started making the film, uh,
you know, we had been asked to make some kind
of video clip for Wars over Happy Christmas, Wars over
the song and which is obviously a piece anthem, a
Christmas anthem as well, but Putin invaded Ukraine actually after
we had already started the film, so it actually became
(40:58):
you know, kind of speak or uncannily relevant while we
were making the film. So it went from just kind
of a project that we you know, sort of had
an intention to do because we've been asked to do it,
into a project that we thought had real world relevance
and suddenly became salient, you know, in a bittersweet sense.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
I think the very poignant part of this is that
it deals with the story is set in World War
One trench warfare that really shows you the brutality of
war in a day and age when we are sort
of disassociated from it and think that it's all of
these Star Wars technological type of warfare that's occurring, and
it really reminds you that that's not what war is well.
Speaker 10 (41:44):
And the reality is, when I was a kid, you know,
in the nineties, most people thought that we were heading
towards the kind of global unity. I mean, I remember
that book The End of History and that, you know,
we thought China was going to become, you know, fully democratic,
and he thought the Iraqi people. I didn't think that,
(42:05):
but a lot of people thought that Iraq was just
going to jump into like our lap and become a democracy.
And it was a lot more complicated than that.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
And I think, you know, they.
Speaker 10 (42:14):
Call it a tripolar world now, where we're moving toward
the tripolar world, and I think we didn't see it coming.
You know, we didn't see the constant coming. But there's
something in humans that you know, maybe is from three
hundred thousand years of evolution that we have a little
violence in us.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
And I do think we have the.
Speaker 10 (42:32):
Opportunity to evolve beyond it, but I think it's going
to take time.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
The last question I have for you, Sean Lennon with
US war is over the Academy Award winning animated short
available now on YouTube. We're a few days past the
anniversary of your father's passing. I recently saw that famous
footage of Paul listening to the recording a Beautiful Boy
on the BBC special soon after John's death. I remember being,
you know, a young person at that time and feeling
(42:57):
like the whole world had a significant level of concern
for you because you were so young and undergoing something
so traumatic.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Was that something that you felt at the time.
Speaker 10 (43:09):
No, I think I wasn't as aware of it then
as I was over the years. I remember meeting Harrison
Ford and he told me that his mom had thought
about me when she was writing the screenplay for ET,
and that she decided that ET would would die essentially
(43:32):
or be hurt. I think he comes back. I don't remember,
but because of what happened to my dad, because she
she did it. She said she did it for me,
which I was shocked by, but I didn't want to
until my thirties. And yeah, I mean I did get
a sentsive that later on that people were thinking about me,
But at the time I think it was more just overwhelming.
(43:55):
I mean, you know, I was at to Dakota and
there were thousands of people outside singing Beatles songs for
on End and you know, every year on my birthday
and December eighth, it would be crowds outside and it
was it was it was something that was very sweet,
but it was also kind of disorienting. It was a
little confusing. You know, I suddenly learn from just being
(44:15):
an normal kid, so having to really understand that my
dad has this relationship with Republic. And it was in
a very abrupt way that that whole story unraveled.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Sean Lennon. War is over. It's available on YouTube now.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
It won an Academy Award for Animated Short, and its
messages as poignant today as the day that his parents
wrote the song that inspired the film. Sean, thank you
so much for your time this morning, and all the
best going forward.
Speaker 10 (44:43):
It's only eleven minutes long and it's free, So free
senate to your friends. You know, we worked so hard
on it. I want as many people to see it
as possible.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Yes, so well, we're going to make sure that we're
going to post it for people here on our website.
Thank you, you got it, Sean Lennon. Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Sean.
Speaker 10 (45:00):
Take care
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The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.