December 15, 2025 • 41 mins
Jeff Konkle tells us about his marathon of a day this past Saturday when he had to take one son to a wrestling tournament, then take his other son to a birthday party, all while getting ready to host a neighborhood holiday party that night.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It is really cool. My tire pressure is already.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I hate that streaming.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Yeah, that'll be fun.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
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 (00:22):
It's a nice business model. I actually I've already had probably.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's called a garage Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'll tell you it's pretty brutal right now. And my
car's doing that. There's something on my battery. I hope
it's the battery, not the alternator, you know what I mean.
It does that like am I gonna start?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Or am I just gonna leave you stranded here? Kind
of sound.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Mine does that as well.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
It's a push to start, though yours is an ignition.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Mind's a push to start and it goes.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, well I told you not to get the dodge wine, No.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
The bum the dodge baby, you little meby.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I can't turn it sucks out there still because it's
so cold.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Why it takes so long to clear the roads down here,
like it's it's bonkers.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And and over Saturday, like we very much knew it was.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Coming, and what were they?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
No, no, So they put out this video. The Department
of Public Works put out a video. It was very
funny on like Thursday, where they were like prepping for
the storm. Did you see that? And there it was like,
you know, like like the Chicago bulls, you know, coming
out of the tunnel type thing, and they're like high
five and and stuff, and it's like slow mo and
(01:52):
they're acting like big slibs. Yeah, like jumping into their
trucks and everything, which I thought was very funny, But
then what the hell happened?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't get it, and I don't want to always
every time that its snows pulled this. Like I grew
up in the Yukon card of car. I was born
in the snow, but I'm kind of used to it.
That was a storm on Saturday that when I was
coming up. It might have kept some people home type thing,
(02:22):
but they plow and people know how to drive in
that stuff because you just you have to girls, you'll
never leave. But when the roads are that unattended, you
can't go anywhere. And people were I mean I was.
I felt like an old man sitting next to a scanner.
I was just sitting on social media racking up Oh
(02:43):
there's another accidents.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Oh there's another one.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I kept watching it because like I saw the alerts
coming in and I was watching, you know, like on
your Apple weather there's an actual map. Yeah, that's how
old lady I've become. I'm like watching the map change.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I'm talking about. That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I kept I kept being like, I got time, it
wasn't that bad.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
And then I'm also looking out the window, going well,
I don't see anything yet because that and that's.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
A little dat of me. So it was a combo deal.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Okay, see it must not be real.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
No, don't think it. Tire up on it.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And so I got thinking I had time for my travels,
and I did not, because once it started coming down,
it was fast. And then by the time I was
getting home to my plan, I almost wrecked into like
the big stone sign that says you're coming into my plan.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And so I felt extra stupid for waiting.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I went to Giant Eagle or like on Friday, and
it was Holy Cow, just because people were already uh huh,
preparing for what was to come. They were literally saying
on the news like, hey.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Do all your errands today. It's gonna be bad tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Most I have seen my Giant Eagle and in a
long long time, like since like pre COVID shut down.
Then when they told everybody like you better hurry up
and get out there. And the next day it started snowing,
and I was like, you know, there's a couple of
things I don't I have that i'd like to have
because I'm making soup.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
If I'm staying in, I'm doing a big pasta. I
made a big pasta. Yeah it was good. It wasn't
my finest work, but it's it was. It's pretty good
because I had it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It's not your finest work.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I'm a soup maker. I make soup. I come from
a long line of soup craftsmen. We craft soup, that's right. Yeah,
this one. I went a little heavy on the oregano,
on the fresh oregon o, and I wish I would
if I wish I would have backed it down a
little bit because it had a little more of a
you know, Ragou aftertaste than I wanted it to have.
(04:51):
I mean literally Ragu the brand, not Ragu sauce. And
I didn't have a really good loaf of fresh bread.
I'm like, I wonder if there's something a giant Eagle,
because you know I love their bakery. So I'm like,
I go there and I'll tell you what they had.
They had one loaf one that was it pre cut? No, that,
(05:14):
which is fine. I don't want that for for what
I'm looking I'm looking for a rip butter it up
and dunk.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
No no, no, I was gonna say, you don't want me,
I don't want pre cut. I'm with you on that.
I say, don't let them cut it. Yeah, don't let
them cut it.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
If I want it for sandwiches, I want one of
those like multi green Tuscanese which are banging that one.
I'll take a pre cut just so I don't have
to keep doing it every time I want to make sandwich.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But when I'm doing it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
For like a dipper, for like a suit, no, no,
you got to be able to rip it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I want to be able to.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Rip it and dip it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So they had one literally, there's one loaf of bread,
and it turned out to be the perfect loaf of
bread because it was like a country boulet, which I
don't know what that is, but it looked like sour dough,
but it wasn't sourdough.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It was just white, hard crusted bread.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It was amazing, Okay, But then I remember they have
the day old bread section and I was like, I
wonder if they got any bread back there. Also there
was me and one guy in the store. Wow, that
was it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Everybody was feeling soup.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I think there was nothing on the shelves though anywhere.
It was like comical because I was thinking, this is
only a forty eight hour situation at most for most people.
Like Saturday and Sunday, you didn't really want to go
anywhere yesterday, but you could. I wasn't like not traversible,
but some roads were still not great, as we just
(06:28):
pointed out.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And I went back and I got a little ostiago
bread that they had. It was a day old, dude.
That stuff was ridiculous too.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So I just had bread and soup and watched old
movies like I'm like, I'm one hundred years old.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I kind of love that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, it was fine.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You know, I've had a little veno and watched the
snow come down and it was beautiful, and then just
kept every time I opened up Twitter so that there
was more accidents in the city of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yeah, I mean once once it starts, I want snowed in,
you know.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
What I mean, like fun feeling.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah. I have friends that like that have the impulse
that as soon as they see it start to snow,
they're like, I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I must be in it, I must leave, I must traverse.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
And I also respect that game, but I'm like, as
soon as it begins, I'm like, let's cocoon.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I don't mind doing, like on a big blizzard like that,
doing a nighttime walk.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, I get the boots.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Walk around the neighborhood because it's all lit up because
of the snow. So I mean that's that's a fun
thing to do. But it was freaking cold. It wasn't
just snowing. I mean it was really really cold this weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
So the Steelers game tonight, Monday night football, the temperatures
are going to be absolutely brutal. And the Dolphins flew
in early. They practiced somewhere I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Is that where it was.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, holy cow, they were out in that blizzard practicing
getting ready for tonight, trying to get used to it.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
It looks like for the game tonight, it's going to
be about seventeen degrees with a real temperature of twelve.
And just for reference, if you want to practice, it's
eleven degrees right now. So if you are, you know,
if you want to see, like, cannot handle it tonight.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Step outside.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, my feet are still freezing just from walking from
the car.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I hung out yesterday outside to let Edie sled ride
with her. I hope someday boyfriend across the street. And
you know, it's fun because the neighbors and I the
parents of this boy, we think we're like basically supervising
their dating as you know, we just kind of like
watch them hang out, you know, and they're at the
(08:37):
age where like they totally they get along so well,
but like and they can still dump snow on each
other and they maybe have like six to eight months
before they're going.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
To be mortified to hang out with each other.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
So we're just enjoying the fact that it's still cute.
But they wanted to sled ride together and so we're
like we can facilitate that, but like just sitting out
there and like our toes are freezing because we're not
moving around the way the kids are and everything, and
just had like tea and like things to try to
warm me up and keep going. But I'm just like
this is adorable. Also I am miserable.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, I did a dog walk for forty five minutes
and it was it was challenging towards the end, no question.
But just drive safe out there if you're going to
the game tonight, and I hope that we get a
lot of Steeler fans there. We need to win this game.
This is going to be a tough one. It's going
to be brutally cold. As Abby said, and no TJ Watt.
TJ Watt, the dry needling situation really bumming me out.
(09:31):
I always what don't I always tell you lube your needle.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Every single time.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It's the one thing I.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Know about you, your needle. What are we doing with
dry needles? How can we not afford lube needles?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Now?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I don't understand. I've had acupuncture before. I've had the
acupuncture where they stick the needle in you, and then
they put a electric stem on the needle.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I thought it was reckless.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I don't enjoy Yeah, any accoutrom all to the needle.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
It's too inexact of a science for me. Yeah you
know what I mean, like, is it in far enough?
Because there was times where it's like and the acupunctures
and she was lovely, but she's like explaining it like, hey,
you know, sometimes you don't get where you need to go,
so if this hurts, it shouldn't hurt, you know. And
I'd be like, ah ah, you know, it's okay. I
got it on the wrong place.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Uh, and didn't mess with her when she doesn't go well.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It was like right before I had got my my
hips replaced and then I was just everything was so
I was just recoiled completely from the waist down and
all the muscles were killing me.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
People were like, you gotta go do this, it'll work,
And I've done it before, but not with that electric stam.
And I went and did it with the electric stem
and it felt like, oh, I think if they screwed
this up, you could really be hurt. Now. I don't
know if he had the electric stem on it in
between his ribs there, But.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
How the hell do you go in so far?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Isn't there shouldn't there be like a line like dipstick,
you know, like, yeah, don't go past this line when
pushing it into somebody's rib cage.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I know from my brief brief stint in officing school
that needles have gauges, but I you know, length is
a whole other thing.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Anyways, it might not be as bad as previously feared,
which is good news. There's even speculation he could play
next week against Detroit, but he won't be there tonight
and James Pierre won't be there tonight, which give the
amount that they're probably gonna run the ball. Isn't that
big of a deal, I don't think, as long as
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they have Derek Harmon and waiting to find out for
sure on that one. Michael, have more coming up for
you at the bottom of the hour as we get
set for Steelers Dolphins and eight fifteen kickoff tonight right
here on your radio Home of the Steelers. And right
as I was going to bed last night, I read
the tragic news out of Hollywood. For me, there is
(12:02):
some very weird timing with all of this that I'll
tell you in a second, But God, was I sorry
to hear this, Abby.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, this was unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
And it was the same thing I was getting ready
to go to bed and we saw the story that
Rob Reiner, respected actor and director, was found stabbed to
death alongside his wife Michelle in their home in Brentwood, California.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So here's what we know right now.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
And People reported last night that multiple unnamed sources had
told them that.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
The Reiners were People Magazine.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
People Magazine, yeah, yeah, just to be clear, had told
them that the Hiners were killed by.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Their son Nick.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
But the Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Alan Hamilton told
reporters around midnight Eastern time last night that officials had not.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Identified a suspect.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
So it's odd that I have pulled up some sources
that usually you and I would use as pretty reliable
prep that are going with that full bore. So I
just want to say that at least, you know, the
police are saying that that they're not going with that reliably.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So family members are currently being interviewed.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
That's about the most reliable thing that we can go with.
So I want to at least put that out there.
The investigation is still ongoing. There are family members that
are still at the scene.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
But certainly a lot of tributes are pouring in.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I know, I saw something from Kathy Bates, who starred
in Reiner's movie adaptation of Misery, talking about how devastated
she was, saying, I loved Rob and he changed the
course of my life. And I know we're going to
get amazing tributes throughout the morning here because he just
They've there's even some films that I forgot about.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
That I didn't like. The first thing I think.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Of is always spinal Tap, because I'm just always going
to think of spinal tap first. But things like stand
by Me, the Princess Bride, the Short thing when Harry
met Sally, a few good men. You know, Kathy Bates
mentioned Misery, but just an incredible film career in addition
to his television career and everything that he did with
(14:15):
all in the family.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Playing meat Head.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I mean, he's kind of always said to that, like
you know that that's something that no matter what he does,
he's always going to be remembered for. So he comes
from television royalty to begin with, but.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Hard to imagine the circumstances here. His son Nick had
had mental health issues and had drug addiction issues and
was homeless for a period of time, was living on
the streets, moving around the country, and his family did
everything they could, from what I understand, to try and
help him, and he had finally accepted help at one point,
(14:58):
not long ago, like within the last six or seven years,
he wrote a screenplay about it. Nick did, Wow, his
dad produced it. It's a movie.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, you've seen it.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Or you just know.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I saw the trailer for it last night. It's called
Being Charlie from twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Oh so I mean not that long ago, ten.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Years ago, and instead of a famous director as a father,
the character as a famous politician and Rob Reiner directed it,
and Nick Reiner was the writer. It's his screenplay. He
is suspected to be the one apparently. As Abby said,
(15:44):
it's terrible on every level. It's just so tragic. But
it was just like weird coincidence. I told you, I
was listening to Gary Marshall's book on tape right and
he was the guy that developed Happy Days and everything.
And then went on to Lavert and Charlie, and then
he went on to direct Pretty Woman and Beaches and
(16:05):
I don't know, a million huge hits, you know, he
became a big director. His sister was Penny Marshall. So
when I was listening to that book on tape, it
queued up the next like, hey, you might like this.
It was Penny Marshall's autobiography, and I'm like, I love
her voice. I just want to hear what this sounds like.
So I started listening to it, and it really does
just sound like you're hanging out with Penny Marshall.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
And her voice is so hilarious as everything she says.
It just sounds like this, and she's just roll all,
roll all low key, so very unbelievably. Yeah, just then
brown to accent comes out.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
But she married Rob Reiner, right, And so I was
on my forty five minute walk around the park yesterday
listening to her title stories of being married to Rob
Reiner and how their house became this comedy incubator when
they were coming up and it was, you know, his
best friend is Albert Brooks and Richard Dreyfus lived in
their guest house and they were She said that they
(16:56):
actually stayed together six months longer than they wanted to
because Richard Dreyfus couldn't handle them breaking up. And this
was after he had won the Oscar and he was
still living with them. And stay together for the driver.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, they stayed together for Ricky Dreyfus as she called.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
But just talking about Rob, and she just talked about
how important comedy was to this group of people that
would include like James L. Brooks who went on to
do The Simpsons and you know Taxi, Mary Tyler Moore,
et cetera. You know, Albert Brooks, no relation, you know,
but being Carl Reiner's son, there was a lot of
pressure on him and he did outstanding in Hollywood. I mean, like,
(17:31):
that's a tough thing. And I would venture to guess
with his son, there was some big shoes there and
that was probably part of the impetus for what sent
him down the road that he was on. This is
gonna be like one of the Hollywood scandals of the
decade type thing. You know, this is on a Phil
Hartman level. It's stuff that every time you hear Rob
(17:52):
Reiner's name, Now, this is gonna you're gonna think of that,
you know, it's really really sad, and apparently Larry David
and Billy Chris the War There Yesterday, Billy Crystal's lost
his two best friends in the most unbelievable circumstance in
Robin Williams and in Rob Reiner seventy eight. You think
you make it the seventy eight, You've had.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
An unbelievable life.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
You just imagine that you've reached that happy ending kind
of yeah, fairy tale.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
He did so many great movies, so many great movies
that I mean, aside from really a groundbreaking role as
meathead Michael Civic in All in the Family. You know,
obviously nepotism helped him out. It's one of those things
where the door opens for you and then are you
good enough?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And he definitely was.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
He was in The Jerk, he was in Uh of course,
did Spinal Tap, which was one of his first movies,
like major movies, Throw Mama from the Train, he was,
he was in Postcards of the from the Edge, you know,
Carrie Fisher was Penny Marshall's best friend. And then of
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course Misery Sleepless in Seattle, Bullets over Broadway, which he's
outstanding in primary colors. He's in that movie, which is
really really good, The Princess Bride. I mean, he's the
narrator and the Princess Bride. He did tons of stuff
with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm, his acting credits
(19:23):
go on and on. Stand By Me is the one
that I'm always like, I think is just an absolute masterpiece.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, Actually, I want to play this audio for you.
I don't have my zoom up.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I'm sorry, can I can't see Jacob, but I send
him this. On The Rich Eisen Show back in twenty seventeen,
rober Rinder was asked what the favorite movie that he
had directed was, and this was the answer that he
gave me.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
The one that means the most is stand By Me
because it was the first time I made a movie
that I felt reflected my personality, my sense of bilit.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
So yeah, The American President, Ghosts of Mississippi, so many
great flicks. He did the Albert Brooks Defending My Life
documentary too, where it's just him and Albert Brooks sitting
down and talking about their life.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Uh, what a drag. Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
He directed the LBJ movie too. I didn't realize that
with Woody Harrelson the circumstances make it hard to believe
he just had a heart attack and be like, oh
he was great, and.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
He's just like oh man, hard to fathom.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Anyways, Yeah, an unbelievably sad story. I'm sure we'll probably
get some more updates this morning. Again, right now, it
does sound like an extremely tragic story that there's this.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Family component to it.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
But if we get anything that's a little more concrete,
I'll make sure to update you this morning.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Dude, when Harry met Sally awesome, unbelievable princess bride, he
directed the Princess Bride.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, anyways, mostly cloudy this morning.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
It is breezy. It is going to be cold today.
The daytime high is twenty three. It is currently eleven degrees.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
All right, Michael, have a full preview of Steelers Dolphins
tonight here at Akroscher Stadium. The pregame starting right now
for you. Charlie Batcher gives a call later on this morning, Jerry,
do you Lack and Billy Gardell Instead of Tuesday, we'll
do the nine o'clock hour with us here on this Monday.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Bundle up, it is cold as hell out there.
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Speaker 2 (21:53):
It is Monday Night football.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
The Steelers are hosting the Dolphins, and here we go again.
A strutch run can save a season that has threatened
to go off the rails multiple times, but has it yet?
Seems like it never does, and defensive coordinator Terrell Austin
has a theory about who's most responsible for that.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
That's one of the things I think, you know, one
of the things that I think Mike is an elite at.
You know, he's obviously an unbelievable coach, but in terms
of team building and culture building he does that is
as well as anybody I've ever been around. In terms
of hey, here's the here's what we're building, here's why
(22:34):
we're building it, here's how we're gonna build it. And
it's not a one time thing. And they you know,
you talk about it in three months. That is something
that is around here daily in different ways. He presents
it in different ways, but I think that that is
one of the things that is that he does that
is far and above what you know, uh, maybe the
(22:55):
average coach to do.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
Now, it's not dog bites Man Newsworthy that a subordinate
praises this boss in public. But you look at the
history of this and it brings us back to the
great debate in Steeler Nation. Is Mike Tomlin never having
had a losing season, a fantastic achievement or something that
nobody cares about for the fans, it's mostly the latter.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
In the industry, it is by far the former.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
But it is also part and parcel of the global
perspective of what's happening in Pittsburgh being much different on
other levels than it is here in Pittsburgh, which is
to say, there always seems to be a separate narrative
outside Pittsburgh, not just on that just a referendum on
(23:44):
Tomlin altogether.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Yeah, which got louder than it's ever been in the
wake of the last time the Steelers went to Akerscher Stadium,
which was a disheartening, discouraging loss to Buffalo. They got
run over, the fans chanted for Tomlin's head, the boot renegade,
a lot of people in the national meetia started debating
whether or not Tomlin should still be the Steelers coach.
And yet here they are seven and six, chance to
(24:07):
get to eight and six, chance to take another step
toward a division championship. Aaron Rodgers has seen this from
before before and figures the Steelers, well, they're probably onto something.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
We know, with all due respect, I don't. I don't
think there's a lot of importance put into the outside
narratives here, which I think means a lot. And that's
how I felt in Green Bay. You know, there wasn't
guys worried about what Twitter was saying or what you know,
the news was saying about certain people. You know, there
was various times I feel like I need to say
something like run the table or relax, but those are
(24:42):
individual periods. But at the core, we never doubted that
we were going to be in the mix. In December
and here. I think it's the same thing. I don't
think guys are too worried about getting in Twitter fights
or you know, arguing about some of the outside narratives.
And it's a credit to during the structure as a whole,
from mister Rooney on down, but putting the right people
(25:04):
in place. And I think as you see in the league,
it's a very knee jerk reaction league where if you're
not winning, you're out. And they've won here for a
long time. There's been some eight and eight seasons as well,
but there wasn't any doesn't seem like it from Afar.
There wasn't any like we had to make wholesale changes.
I'm a firm believer if you choose the right people
to lead and you have the right process, you don't
(25:25):
have to make changes. You just deal with the ups
and downs and don't make crazy reactions in the moment
that you feel like are going to you know, make
things better, because for the most part it leads to
rebuilding or dysfunction that that kind of can break some
of the foundational characteristics of winning organizations like the Steelers are.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
You know that was Rogers last week probably given the
most sillient argument I've heard for why the Steelers continue
to roll with Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Rooney doesn't explain it that well.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
It's that stability does matter because there's a risk if
you don't have stability, right, and you can you can
go over the abyss.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Now that the count. There are counter arguments to that, of.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Course, oh, no question, But I mean that he stated
it very clearly, I think in a way that a
lot of people never have. He said, well, we like Mike,
we think we can win with Mike. You know, it's
sort of that was a little more detailed and a
little more nuanced. They have checked the first required box.
If you're going to hold your team to a standard,
(26:28):
you got to be in it down the stretch, right.
You gotta have a chance to make the playoffs. Then you
got to make the playoffs. Then you got to win
a playoff game. Then you got to get to the
super Bowl. Then you got to win a super Bowl.
So a lot of work to do. But once again,
they're in the same spot that they traditionally are, which
is December football. That matters that that shouldn't be taken
for granted or assumed or or undervalued because there's teams
(26:54):
a little E next to their name right now in
the standings eliminated, and that ain't no fun.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I mean, look what's going on in Cincinnati, my lord,
and you have a generational franchise quarterback.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
And he's wondering if he should play the game anymore.
Although you know some reports, you know, Diane Rassini in particular,
saying he is not depressed. He about life. This is
not an existential problem for him. Just yes, Oh, good,
that makes sense, right.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Uh, good news and bad news.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
On the injury front, Darnault Washington has had his questionable
designation removed pig so he's gonna make it back from
uh the concussion he sustained in Baltimore. He's gonna play.
James Pierre Andnders Pete and TJ.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Watt are out.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
Derek Harmon listed as questionable, but he was only a
limited participant in practice on Saturday. Mike Tomlin had said
that he needed to practice and they needed to see
the quality of his participation. I'm guessing Harmon's not gonna play. Yeah,
with a limited it's not encouraging. According to Tom Pelsero
of the NFL Network, the Steelers are hopeful TJ. Watt
(28:05):
will only miss one game, and I know they're one
and eleven without them, but they've never been in a
better spot not to have them based on the depth
they have an outside linebacker, agree, so if you got
to get through one without him, you gotta get through
one without him. It's everybody got problems. In fact, they're
glad you have them. And that's a leg thing. Pertinent scores. Yesterday,
(28:30):
Bears beat the Browns thirty one to three. The Steelers
have a game at Cleveland. Remaining Ravens beat the Bengals
twenty four to nothing. Steelers a host of Ravens in
the regular season finale, and the Lions lost to the
Rams forty one to thirty four. Steelers go to Detroit
this coming Sunday. That is gonna be a desperate Lions
team that is really good, even though the record is.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Eight and six. That was gonna leave them Mark. Yeah,
that's gonna be tough.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I mean the Steelers, which makes tonight critical. You gotta
win tonight and then against the Browns and that might
be enough.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
It should be given it.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
The Ravens have to play New England and green Bay,
although green Bay just lost Michael Parsons.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Oh brutal that, I mean, it vindicates Jerry Jones to
a degree.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
One player.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
When you sink that many assets into one player and
then you lose them for the season, you know, that's
part of the risk there, right, Although going up into
Green Bay and I don't know, there's something about playing
in that weather. I always feel like it's easier to
get hurt up there. When they were in Denver for
that game, right, it's easy to get cold. Yeah, by
the way, look out for Denver. Huh, maybe look out
(29:43):
for Denver and don't worry about the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Apparently, don't worry about the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Kenny Pickett is not going to be the answer there,
and Pete Carroll most definitely is not.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I think they just dropped their eighth in a row. Yeah,
this might be as bad as they've ever been.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
It's seriously thirty one nothing and it wasn't that close.
I was rooting for Kenny. I loved the idea of
Kenny plus eleven and a half coming through yesterday that
did not love alas it did not that and Philip
Rivers chunking his way to an almost victory yesterday that
would have been the story of the day.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I thought the Philip.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Rivers thing was going to be an embarrassing, disgraceful failure.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
No, it turns out that guy is just one of
those guys.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
And I would have given him a chance had he
gone to camp, had he been practicing for a couple
of weeks to just walk in and play quarterback in
his sleep. They had they had to restart his Hall
of Fame clock because you don't forget. Don't forget. He's like,
it's not even dad boughd. He's like a big guy.
Now it looked a little chonky. There's a little chungkis.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Actually.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
Yeah, they had to restart his Hall of Fame clock
because he played again. So he goes back to wait
in five years, they shed just put him in.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I agree that special.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
In addition to his Hall of Fame worthy first career,
he walked off the street and played credible quarterback in
the NFL at forty four years.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
After four and a half years and now also his
healthcare resets he was six weeks away from which is.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Big because he's got nineteen kids exactly, so it gets
another five years.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah, getting embraces.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Yeah, this is why the league needs to expand because
Philip Rivers kept expanding.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
He's expanded. Abby's got your news Top of the Hour.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
All right.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
So some photos from the Epstein files were released and
there's mostly no surprises who's in them. But one that's
a little odd and is a donation in your name
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Speaker 3 (31:38):
Human Fund Steelers Hall of Honor dinner happened this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I think it was last night.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
As a matter of fact, it was last Big Ben
brought the place to tears.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
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Speaker 12 (31:51):
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Speaker 3 (32:19):
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DV morning show Randy, but I'm going along with Abby Prisner.
Mike pursued a Mike, you had a busy weekend going
to the Army Navy game on Saturday, where two Pittsburghers
shone brightly.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Mount levin Is showing up for the Naval Academy. Yeah,
including the winning touchdown catch. Yeah, they were impactful.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
Uh and uh seventeen sixteen classic game, can't beat it.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
You were there start to finish. It looked like, uh
it was cold.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
It was. Yeah, it's mid to say it's supposed to
be cold.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
If it weren't cold, I would have loved to go
to that. I do want to go maybe next year
if the weather life ends out. Dude, going to Met Life,
Met Life, you have thrown down some beverages. I kind
of wanted to be in Baltimore, Philly though I don't
know if I'm MetLife, I don't really.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Well, I got to give Mark Madden credit for this,
because he turned me on to this place that's near
met Life. It's about two miles away, two and a half.
It's called Reds. It's a bar and for for stadium
events that MetLife is. There's eight thousand lanes of highway
and like just driving and navigating where to park and everything,
(33:39):
even if you can get a parking pass, is confusing
as hell.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
So you go to this place Reds.
Speaker 8 (33:43):
They charge you like fifty bucks to park there, and
then they have shuttles to and from the Yeah, I've
done it for Army Navy. I've done it for Springsteen
at MetLife. It's great.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
You go ahead and.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
Get some bruise, you get some food, and it's not
like they have one guy driving a crappy shuttle. Yeah,
it's an army. It's just constantly going.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
It's it's one of the best deals going speaking much waving.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Talked about the penguins and we can wait for a
little while to get there because.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
This just didn't They've blown it up.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
It's it's crazy to me they think again, I almost
agree with Madden that you gotta think about just firing
the coach, like you know, he's he's only sixty six
percent ready to take this job.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Yeah, No, it's really bad. It's I mean, it can
happen once in a while. When it happens four games
in a row.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Seven times it's happened this year. I think grover heads
stat if five of those were wins there in first place. Yeah,
so at any rate, this past weekend, the Hall of
Honor dinner happened last night at Akroscher Stadium in the
in the club, right was it up in the club?
This was Ben Roethlisberger at one point. Mike, of course
is on the voting committee. And so you were there
(34:52):
and I told Bennett didn't vote for him. He was
talking about Pouncy. Who's getting into the Hall of Honor.
Speaker 11 (35:00):
Pounce, I hate you to do this to me. This is
the only part I didn't actually write down because I
didn't know what to say. Rather than thank you, I
hate you didn't come back one more year, but I
still love you. You the heck of a teammate, man. Uh,
(35:37):
it was you made it fun. He made it challenging
because we wanted to live up to you. You saw
those videos. Pounce was he knew how to told that
line of h a little extra, not not dirty, just extra.
He knew how to be a little extra. But that's
(35:57):
what made him special. That's what made him who he is,
what made him a special football player. And then when
I said I hated when you were on the football field,
I could probably go on for a long time about you,
but I have to keep stopping. I'm just anytime that
someone on the defense got under my skin, which wasn't
(36:19):
very often, probably because they were doing something dirty or cheap,
I knew that.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I could kind of pick a fight with him because pounces.
Speaker 11 (36:27):
God, and I didn't have to fight long because pounce
was coming. And I'll just I'll end it with this pounce.
I'm I'm just I'm so so glad that that Brown's
game when Miles Garrett took the helmet off, it wasn't
me out there because I don't know what would happen.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I love you Pounds so much.
Speaker 11 (36:50):
Man, I'm nothing without you, buddy, that's right now.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
I gotta be honest. I was.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
He was kind of surprised by the emotion there. I
knew that he felt very strong about Pouncy. I mean,
we know that classic the two of them sitting on
the bench scene there after the loss to Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
But that kind of took me by surprise.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
A little bit, Mike, I have to imagine that in
the room.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
It got pretty heavy in there.
Speaker 8 (37:19):
Oh you could hear it in his voice there. I
mean he was choked up. Yeah, he had to fight
through that. And all three of those guys the rest
of the class. It was Ben, Marquise Pouncy, and Joey Porter,
and they were all really emotional about it. Porter brought
his high school coach, a couple of his high school coaches,
a bunch of his high school teammates.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
I mean he had a ton of tables.
Speaker 8 (37:39):
Yeah, and Pouncey was just almost amazed that this would
happen to him.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
That was kind of the vibe.
Speaker 8 (37:45):
He was like, in case, you're probably going to the
Canton Hall Fame. I mean he said, when you come
from nothing, it hits different, and that was kind of
his theme.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
But he was just so appreciative and grateful.
Speaker 8 (37:58):
Ben was the love of with Marquis Pouncy and and
the organization, and same thing with Joey Porter.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Uh, they were all they were all really uh.
Speaker 8 (38:08):
Really choked up, but but they had some great things
to say.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
So those are the three getting in Yeah, and is
that tonight it was last night?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
No? They like the ceremony at the stadium. Did they
get honored. I think they're gonna.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
I think they're going to the game. But I mean
last week they give them a steel football. It happened
last night.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, I didn't know if there was, like you know,
the then.
Speaker 8 (38:28):
They take them down to the Hall of Honor and
I think that there's a wall of Yeah you've been there, right, Yeah, yeah,
they have that really cool the actual Hall of Honor
and you know, not the museum park.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Yeah, just the guy's picture and a little right up.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
And then there's a steel football steal football.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, yeah, tonight, that was the fun event. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (38:51):
You must have been there late though, uh, you know,
ten earlier than later than I would have preferred, but this.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Is this is the late it is.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Yeah, and then you get Monday night football tonight while
you're behind to go on.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Army Navy and just wore myself out completely in the
two days beforehand.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
I would have handled it.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Yeah, and now you have Monday night football with the
post game that you have to do on the Steelers
of Edinburgh. So you'll come back here and sleep an
hour and get up and do the show tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (39:20):
We'll be uh we'll be uh spending two and a
half RESTful hours at the beautiful Hampton Inn.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 8 (39:26):
We we got to deal with those guys and uh
I get to uh at least get us get a bed,
get in a bed and take a shower. Feel like
a human being when I when I see you people tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
A good deal, uh, mister Wednesday on a Monday, Jeff Conk,
We're gonna hang with us here shortly, Charlie Batchell. Later
this morning Jerry Dean, Billy Gardell hangs for the nine
am hour.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
We'll talk a little Holidays with Bill too. Coming up.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Abby's news Next is a donation in your name? A
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Speaker 13 (40:16):
Watt for the Steelers tonight when they take on the
Dolphins from Monday Night Football. Watt, who is out after
being hospitalized for a partially collapsed lung which required surgery,
will miss his eleventh career regular season game as at
Pittsburgh Steeler tonight. Pittsburgh has won and ten in those
games without TJ. Watt, the lone win coming in twenty
twenty two against Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They might
be better equipped to survive Watt's absence than ever before now, though,
(40:40):
thanks to the trio of edge rushers at their disposal
and Alex Hismith, Nick Kirbig and Jack Sawyer. High Smith
had a sack in three tackles for loss in Baltimore
last week, and as six and a half sacks in
his nine games played this season. Nick Krbig also has
six and a half sacks this season, matching high Smith
for second most on the team behind Watts seven. Herbick
hasn't seen more than forty percent of the snaps on
(41:01):
defense since Heihsmith's returned from injury a couple of weeks ago,
so it will be a big increase in workload for
the third year outside linebacker. Kickoff tonight is at eight
to fifteen between the Steelers and the Dolphins, as Pittsburgh
looked to make it an unbelievable twenty third straight win
at home on Monday Night football and more importantly, maintain
their lead in the AFC North. I'm Tom Aframan with
the Steelers Report.
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Hey, it's Randy from the dve more
It is really cool. My tire pressure is already.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I hate that streaming.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Yeah, that'll be fun.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
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 (00:22):
It's a nice business model. I actually I've already had probably.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's called a garage Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'll tell you it's pretty brutal right now. And my
car's doing that. There's something on my battery. I hope
it's the battery, not the alternator, you know what I mean.
It does that like am I gonna start?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Or am I just gonna leave you stranded here? Kind
of sound.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Mine does that as well.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
It's a push to start, though yours is an ignition.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Mind's a push to start and it goes.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, well I told you not to get the dodge wine, No.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
The bum the dodge baby, you little meby.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I can't turn it sucks out there still because it's
so cold.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Why it takes so long to clear the roads down here,
like it's it's bonkers.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And and over Saturday, like we very much knew it was.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Coming, and what were they?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
No, no, So they put out this video. The Department
of Public Works put out a video. It was very
funny on like Thursday, where they were like prepping for
the storm. Did you see that? And there it was like,
you know, like like the Chicago bulls, you know, coming
out of the tunnel type thing, and they're like high
five and and stuff, and it's like slow mo and
(01:52):
they're acting like big slibs. Yeah, like jumping into their
trucks and everything, which I thought was very funny, But
then what the hell happened?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't get it, and I don't want to always
every time that its snows pulled this. Like I grew
up in the Yukon card of car. I was born
in the snow, but I'm kind of used to it.
That was a storm on Saturday that when I was
coming up. It might have kept some people home type thing,
(02:22):
but they plow and people know how to drive in
that stuff because you just you have to girls, you'll
never leave. But when the roads are that unattended, you
can't go anywhere. And people were I mean I was.
I felt like an old man sitting next to a scanner.
I was just sitting on social media racking up Oh
(02:43):
there's another accidents.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Oh there's another one.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I kept watching it because like I saw the alerts
coming in and I was watching, you know, like on
your Apple weather there's an actual map. Yeah, that's how
old lady I've become. I'm like watching the map change.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I'm talking about. That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I kept I kept being like, I got time, it
wasn't that bad.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
And then I'm also looking out the window, going well,
I don't see anything yet because that and that's.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
A little dat of me. So it was a combo deal.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Okay, see it must not be real.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
No, don't think it. Tire up on it.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And so I got thinking I had time for my travels,
and I did not, because once it started coming down,
it was fast. And then by the time I was
getting home to my plan, I almost wrecked into like
the big stone sign that says you're coming into my plan.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And so I felt extra stupid for waiting.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I went to Giant Eagle or like on Friday, and
it was Holy Cow, just because people were already uh huh,
preparing for what was to come. They were literally saying
on the news like, hey.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Do all your errands today. It's gonna be bad tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Most I have seen my Giant Eagle and in a
long long time, like since like pre COVID shut down.
Then when they told everybody like you better hurry up
and get out there. And the next day it started snowing,
and I was like, you know, there's a couple of
things I don't I have that i'd like to have
because I'm making soup.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
If I'm staying in, I'm doing a big pasta. I
made a big pasta. Yeah it was good. It wasn't
my finest work, but it's it was. It's pretty good
because I had it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It's not your finest work.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I'm a soup maker. I make soup. I come from
a long line of soup craftsmen. We craft soup, that's right. Yeah,
this one. I went a little heavy on the oregano,
on the fresh oregon o, and I wish I would
if I wish I would have backed it down a
little bit because it had a little more of a
you know, Ragou aftertaste than I wanted it to have.
(04:51):
I mean literally Ragu the brand, not Ragu sauce. And
I didn't have a really good loaf of fresh bread.
I'm like, I wonder if there's something a giant Eagle,
because you know I love their bakery. So I'm like,
I go there and I'll tell you what they had.
They had one loaf one that was it pre cut? No, that,
(05:14):
which is fine. I don't want that for for what
I'm looking I'm looking for a rip butter it up
and dunk.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
No no, no, I was gonna say, you don't want me,
I don't want pre cut. I'm with you on that.
I say, don't let them cut it. Yeah, don't let
them cut it.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
If I want it for sandwiches, I want one of
those like multi green Tuscanese which are banging that one.
I'll take a pre cut just so I don't have
to keep doing it every time I want to make sandwich.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But when I'm doing it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
For like a dipper, for like a suit, no, no,
you got to be able to rip it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I want to be able to.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Rip it and dip it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So they had one literally, there's one loaf of bread,
and it turned out to be the perfect loaf of
bread because it was like a country boulet, which I
don't know what that is, but it looked like sour dough,
but it wasn't sourdough.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It was just white, hard crusted bread.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It was amazing, Okay, But then I remember they have
the day old bread section and I was like, I
wonder if they got any bread back there. Also there
was me and one guy in the store. Wow, that
was it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Everybody was feeling soup.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I think there was nothing on the shelves though anywhere.
It was like comical because I was thinking, this is
only a forty eight hour situation at most for most people.
Like Saturday and Sunday, you didn't really want to go
anywhere yesterday, but you could. I wasn't like not traversible,
but some roads were still not great, as we just
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pointed out.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And I went back and I got a little ostiago
bread that they had. It was a day old, dude.
That stuff was ridiculous too.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So I just had bread and soup and watched old
movies like I'm like, I'm one hundred years old.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I kind of love that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, it was fine.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You know, I've had a little veno and watched the
snow come down and it was beautiful, and then just
kept every time I opened up Twitter so that there
was more accidents in the city of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yeah, I mean once once it starts, I want snowed in,
you know.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
What I mean, like fun feeling.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah. I have friends that like that have the impulse
that as soon as they see it start to snow,
they're like, I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I must be in it, I must leave, I must traverse.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
And I also respect that game, but I'm like, as
soon as it begins, I'm like, let's cocoon.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I don't mind doing, like on a big blizzard like that,
doing a nighttime walk.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, I get the boots.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Walk around the neighborhood because it's all lit up because
of the snow. So I mean that's that's a fun
thing to do. But it was freaking cold. It wasn't
just snowing. I mean it was really really cold this weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
So the Steelers game tonight, Monday night football, the temperatures
are going to be absolutely brutal. And the Dolphins flew
in early. They practiced somewhere I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Is that where it was.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, holy cow, they were out in that blizzard practicing
getting ready for tonight, trying to get used to it.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
It looks like for the game tonight, it's going to
be about seventeen degrees with a real temperature of twelve.
And just for reference, if you want to practice, it's
eleven degrees right now. So if you are, you know,
if you want to see, like, cannot handle it tonight.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Step outside.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, my feet are still freezing just from walking from
the car.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I hung out yesterday outside to let Edie sled ride
with her. I hope someday boyfriend across the street. And
you know, it's fun because the neighbors and I the
parents of this boy, we think we're like basically supervising
their dating as you know, we just kind of like
watch them hang out, you know, and they're at the
(08:37):
age where like they totally they get along so well,
but like and they can still dump snow on each
other and they maybe have like six to eight months
before they're going.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
To be mortified to hang out with each other.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
So we're just enjoying the fact that it's still cute.
But they wanted to sled ride together and so we're
like we can facilitate that, but like just sitting out
there and like our toes are freezing because we're not
moving around the way the kids are and everything, and
just had like tea and like things to try to
warm me up and keep going. But I'm just like
this is adorable. Also I am miserable.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, I did a dog walk for forty five minutes
and it was it was challenging towards the end, no question.
But just drive safe out there if you're going to
the game tonight, and I hope that we get a
lot of Steeler fans there. We need to win this game.
This is going to be a tough one. It's going
to be brutally cold. As Abby said, and no TJ Watt.
TJ Watt, the dry needling situation really bumming me out.
(09:31):
I always what don't I always tell you lube your needle.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Every single time.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It's the one thing I.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Know about you, your needle. What are we doing with
dry needles? How can we not afford lube needles?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Now?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I don't understand. I've had acupuncture before. I've had the
acupuncture where they stick the needle in you, and then
they put a electric stem on the needle.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I thought it was reckless.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I don't enjoy Yeah, any accoutrom all to the needle.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
It's too inexact of a science for me. Yeah you
know what I mean, like, is it in far enough?
Because there was times where it's like and the acupunctures
and she was lovely, but she's like explaining it like, hey,
you know, sometimes you don't get where you need to go,
so if this hurts, it shouldn't hurt, you know. And
I'd be like, ah ah, you know, it's okay. I
got it on the wrong place.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Uh, and didn't mess with her when she doesn't go well.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It was like right before I had got my my
hips replaced and then I was just everything was so
I was just recoiled completely from the waist down and
all the muscles were killing me.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
People were like, you gotta go do this, it'll work,
And I've done it before, but not with that electric stam.
And I went and did it with the electric stem
and it felt like, oh, I think if they screwed
this up, you could really be hurt. Now. I don't
know if he had the electric stem on it in
between his ribs there, But.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
How the hell do you go in so far?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Isn't there shouldn't there be like a line like dipstick,
you know, like, yeah, don't go past this line when
pushing it into somebody's rib cage.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I know from my brief brief stint in officing school
that needles have gauges, but I you know, length is
a whole other thing.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Anyways, it might not be as bad as previously feared,
which is good news. There's even speculation he could play
next week against Detroit, but he won't be there tonight
and James Pierre won't be there tonight, which give the
amount that they're probably gonna run the ball. Isn't that
big of a deal, I don't think, as long as
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they have Derek Harmon and waiting to find out for
sure on that one. Michael, have more coming up for
you at the bottom of the hour as we get
set for Steelers Dolphins and eight fifteen kickoff tonight right
here on your radio Home of the Steelers. And right
as I was going to bed last night, I read
the tragic news out of Hollywood. For me, there is
(12:02):
some very weird timing with all of this that I'll
tell you in a second, But God, was I sorry
to hear this, Abby.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, this was unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
And it was the same thing I was getting ready
to go to bed and we saw the story that
Rob Reiner, respected actor and director, was found stabbed to
death alongside his wife Michelle in their home in Brentwood, California.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So here's what we know right now.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
And People reported last night that multiple unnamed sources had
told them that.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
The Reiners were People Magazine.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
People Magazine, yeah, yeah, just to be clear, had told
them that the Hiners were killed by.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Their son Nick.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
But the Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Alan Hamilton told
reporters around midnight Eastern time last night that officials had not.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Identified a suspect.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
So it's odd that I have pulled up some sources
that usually you and I would use as pretty reliable
prep that are going with that full bore. So I
just want to say that at least, you know, the
police are saying that that they're not going with that reliably.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So family members are currently being interviewed.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
That's about the most reliable thing that we can go with.
So I want to at least put that out there.
The investigation is still ongoing. There are family members that
are still at the scene.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
But certainly a lot of tributes are pouring in.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I know, I saw something from Kathy Bates, who starred
in Reiner's movie adaptation of Misery, talking about how devastated
she was, saying, I loved Rob and he changed the
course of my life. And I know we're going to
get amazing tributes throughout the morning here because he just
They've there's even some films that I forgot about.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
That I didn't like. The first thing I think.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Of is always spinal Tap, because I'm just always going
to think of spinal tap first. But things like stand
by Me, the Princess Bride, the Short thing when Harry
met Sally, a few good men. You know, Kathy Bates
mentioned Misery, but just an incredible film career in addition
to his television career and everything that he did with
(14:15):
all in the family.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Playing meat Head.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I mean, he's kind of always said to that, like
you know that that's something that no matter what he does,
he's always going to be remembered for. So he comes
from television royalty to begin with, but.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Hard to imagine the circumstances here. His son Nick had
had mental health issues and had drug addiction issues and
was homeless for a period of time, was living on
the streets, moving around the country, and his family did
everything they could, from what I understand, to try and
help him, and he had finally accepted help at one point,
(14:58):
not long ago, like within the last six or seven years,
he wrote a screenplay about it. Nick did, Wow, his
dad produced it. It's a movie.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, you've seen it.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Or you just know.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I saw the trailer for it last night. It's called
Being Charlie from twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Oh so I mean not that long ago, ten.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Years ago, and instead of a famous director as a father,
the character as a famous politician and Rob Reiner directed it,
and Nick Reiner was the writer. It's his screenplay. He
is suspected to be the one apparently. As Abby said,
(15:44):
it's terrible on every level. It's just so tragic. But
it was just like weird coincidence. I told you, I
was listening to Gary Marshall's book on tape right and
he was the guy that developed Happy Days and everything.
And then went on to Lavert and Charlie, and then
he went on to direct Pretty Woman and Beaches and
(16:05):
I don't know, a million huge hits, you know, he
became a big director. His sister was Penny Marshall. So
when I was listening to that book on tape, it
queued up the next like, hey, you might like this.
It was Penny Marshall's autobiography, and I'm like, I love
her voice. I just want to hear what this sounds like.
So I started listening to it, and it really does
just sound like you're hanging out with Penny Marshall.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
And her voice is so hilarious as everything she says.
It just sounds like this, and she's just roll all,
roll all low key, so very unbelievably. Yeah, just then
brown to accent comes out.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
But she married Rob Reiner, right, And so I was
on my forty five minute walk around the park yesterday
listening to her title stories of being married to Rob
Reiner and how their house became this comedy incubator when
they were coming up and it was, you know, his
best friend is Albert Brooks and Richard Dreyfus lived in
their guest house and they were She said that they
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actually stayed together six months longer than they wanted to
because Richard Dreyfus couldn't handle them breaking up. And this
was after he had won the Oscar and he was
still living with them. And stay together for the driver.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, they stayed together for Ricky Dreyfus as she called.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
But just talking about Rob, and she just talked about
how important comedy was to this group of people that
would include like James L. Brooks who went on to
do The Simpsons and you know Taxi, Mary Tyler Moore,
et cetera. You know, Albert Brooks, no relation, you know,
but being Carl Reiner's son, there was a lot of
pressure on him and he did outstanding in Hollywood. I mean, like,
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that's a tough thing. And I would venture to guess
with his son, there was some big shoes there and
that was probably part of the impetus for what sent
him down the road that he was on. This is
gonna be like one of the Hollywood scandals of the
decade type thing. You know, this is on a Phil
Hartman level. It's stuff that every time you hear Rob
(17:52):
Reiner's name, Now, this is gonna you're gonna think of that,
you know, it's really really sad, and apparently Larry David
and Billy Chris the War There Yesterday, Billy Crystal's lost
his two best friends in the most unbelievable circumstance in
Robin Williams and in Rob Reiner seventy eight. You think
you make it the seventy eight, You've had.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
An unbelievable life.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
You just imagine that you've reached that happy ending kind
of yeah, fairy tale.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
He did so many great movies, so many great movies
that I mean, aside from really a groundbreaking role as
meathead Michael Civic in All in the Family. You know,
obviously nepotism helped him out. It's one of those things
where the door opens for you and then are you
good enough?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And he definitely was.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
He was in The Jerk, he was in Uh of course,
did Spinal Tap, which was one of his first movies,
like major movies, Throw Mama from the Train, he was,
he was in Postcards of the from the Edge, you know,
Carrie Fisher was Penny Marshall's best friend. And then of
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course Misery Sleepless in Seattle, Bullets over Broadway, which he's
outstanding in primary colors. He's in that movie, which is
really really good, The Princess Bride. I mean, he's the
narrator and the Princess Bride. He did tons of stuff
with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm, his acting credits
(19:23):
go on and on. Stand By Me is the one
that I'm always like, I think is just an absolute masterpiece.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, Actually, I want to play this audio for you.
I don't have my zoom up.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I'm sorry, can I can't see Jacob, but I send
him this. On The Rich Eisen Show back in twenty seventeen,
rober Rinder was asked what the favorite movie that he
had directed was, and this was the answer that he
gave me.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
The one that means the most is stand By Me
because it was the first time I made a movie
that I felt reflected my personality, my sense of bilit.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
So yeah, The American President, Ghosts of Mississippi, so many
great flicks. He did the Albert Brooks Defending My Life
documentary too, where it's just him and Albert Brooks sitting
down and talking about their life.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Uh, what a drag. Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
He directed the LBJ movie too. I didn't realize that
with Woody Harrelson the circumstances make it hard to believe
he just had a heart attack and be like, oh
he was great, and.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
He's just like oh man, hard to fathom.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Anyways, Yeah, an unbelievably sad story. I'm sure we'll probably
get some more updates this morning. Again, right now, it
does sound like an extremely tragic story that there's this.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Family component to it.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
But if we get anything that's a little more concrete,
I'll make sure to update you this morning.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Dude, when Harry met Sally awesome, unbelievable princess bride, he
directed the Princess Bride.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, anyways, mostly cloudy this morning.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
It is breezy. It is going to be cold today.
The daytime high is twenty three. It is currently eleven degrees.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
All right, Michael, have a full preview of Steelers Dolphins
tonight here at Akroscher Stadium. The pregame starting right now
for you. Charlie Batcher gives a call later on this morning, Jerry,
do you Lack and Billy Gardell Instead of Tuesday, we'll
do the nine o'clock hour with us here on this Monday.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Bundle up, it is cold as hell out there.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
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Well, crazy day in the NFL yesterday, and we're getting
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Speaker 2 (21:53):
It is Monday Night football.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
The Steelers are hosting the Dolphins, and here we go again.
A strutch run can save a season that has threatened
to go off the rails multiple times, but has it yet?
Seems like it never does, and defensive coordinator Terrell Austin
has a theory about who's most responsible for that.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
That's one of the things I think, you know, one
of the things that I think Mike is an elite at.
You know, he's obviously an unbelievable coach, but in terms
of team building and culture building he does that is
as well as anybody I've ever been around. In terms
of hey, here's the here's what we're building, here's why
(22:34):
we're building it, here's how we're gonna build it. And
it's not a one time thing. And they you know,
you talk about it in three months. That is something
that is around here daily in different ways. He presents
it in different ways, but I think that that is
one of the things that is that he does that
is far and above what you know, uh, maybe the
(22:55):
average coach to do.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
Now, it's not dog bites Man Newsworthy that a subordinate
praises this boss in public. But you look at the
history of this and it brings us back to the
great debate in Steeler Nation. Is Mike Tomlin never having
had a losing season, a fantastic achievement or something that
nobody cares about for the fans, it's mostly the latter.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
In the industry, it is by far the former.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
But it is also part and parcel of the global
perspective of what's happening in Pittsburgh being much different on
other levels than it is here in Pittsburgh, which is
to say, there always seems to be a separate narrative
outside Pittsburgh, not just on that just a referendum on
(23:44):
Tomlin altogether.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Yeah, which got louder than it's ever been in the
wake of the last time the Steelers went to Akerscher Stadium,
which was a disheartening, discouraging loss to Buffalo. They got
run over, the fans chanted for Tomlin's head, the boot renegade,
a lot of people in the national meetia started debating
whether or not Tomlin should still be the Steelers coach.
And yet here they are seven and six, chance to
(24:07):
get to eight and six, chance to take another step
toward a division championship. Aaron Rodgers has seen this from
before before and figures the Steelers, well, they're probably onto something.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
We know, with all due respect, I don't. I don't
think there's a lot of importance put into the outside
narratives here, which I think means a lot. And that's
how I felt in Green Bay. You know, there wasn't
guys worried about what Twitter was saying or what you know,
the news was saying about certain people. You know, there
was various times I feel like I need to say
something like run the table or relax, but those are
(24:42):
individual periods. But at the core, we never doubted that
we were going to be in the mix. In December
and here. I think it's the same thing. I don't
think guys are too worried about getting in Twitter fights
or you know, arguing about some of the outside narratives.
And it's a credit to during the structure as a whole,
from mister Rooney on down, but putting the right people
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in place. And I think as you see in the league,
it's a very knee jerk reaction league where if you're
not winning, you're out. And they've won here for a
long time. There's been some eight and eight seasons as well,
but there wasn't any doesn't seem like it from Afar.
There wasn't any like we had to make wholesale changes.
I'm a firm believer if you choose the right people
to lead and you have the right process, you don't
(25:25):
have to make changes. You just deal with the ups
and downs and don't make crazy reactions in the moment
that you feel like are going to you know, make
things better, because for the most part it leads to
rebuilding or dysfunction that that kind of can break some
of the foundational characteristics of winning organizations like the Steelers are.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
You know that was Rogers last week probably given the
most sillient argument I've heard for why the Steelers continue
to roll with Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Rooney doesn't explain it that well.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
It's that stability does matter because there's a risk if
you don't have stability, right, and you can you can
go over the abyss.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Now that the count. There are counter arguments to that, of.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Course, oh, no question, But I mean that he stated
it very clearly, I think in a way that a
lot of people never have. He said, well, we like Mike,
we think we can win with Mike. You know, it's
sort of that was a little more detailed and a
little more nuanced. They have checked the first required box.
If you're going to hold your team to a standard,
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you got to be in it down the stretch, right.
You gotta have a chance to make the playoffs. Then you
got to make the playoffs. Then you got to win
a playoff game. Then you got to get to the
super Bowl. Then you got to win a super Bowl.
So a lot of work to do. But once again,
they're in the same spot that they traditionally are, which
is December football. That matters that that shouldn't be taken
for granted or assumed or or undervalued because there's teams
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a little E next to their name right now in
the standings eliminated, and that ain't no fun.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I mean, look what's going on in Cincinnati, my lord,
and you have a generational franchise quarterback.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
And he's wondering if he should play the game anymore.
Although you know some reports, you know, Diane Rassini in particular,
saying he is not depressed. He about life. This is
not an existential problem for him. Just yes, Oh, good,
that makes sense, right.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Uh, good news and bad news.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
On the injury front, Darnault Washington has had his questionable
designation removed pig so he's gonna make it back from
uh the concussion he sustained in Baltimore. He's gonna play.
James Pierre Andnders Pete and TJ.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Watt are out.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
Derek Harmon listed as questionable, but he was only a
limited participant in practice on Saturday. Mike Tomlin had said
that he needed to practice and they needed to see
the quality of his participation. I'm guessing Harmon's not gonna play. Yeah,
with a limited it's not encouraging. According to Tom Pelsero
of the NFL Network, the Steelers are hopeful TJ. Watt
(28:05):
will only miss one game, and I know they're one
and eleven without them, but they've never been in a
better spot not to have them based on the depth
they have an outside linebacker, agree, so if you got
to get through one without him, you gotta get through
one without him. It's everybody got problems. In fact, they're
glad you have them. And that's a leg thing. Pertinent scores. Yesterday,
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Bears beat the Browns thirty one to three. The Steelers
have a game at Cleveland. Remaining Ravens beat the Bengals
twenty four to nothing. Steelers a host of Ravens in
the regular season finale, and the Lions lost to the
Rams forty one to thirty four. Steelers go to Detroit
this coming Sunday. That is gonna be a desperate Lions
team that is really good, even though the record is.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Eight and six. That was gonna leave them Mark. Yeah,
that's gonna be tough.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I mean the Steelers, which makes tonight critical. You gotta
win tonight and then against the Browns and that might
be enough.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
It should be given it.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
The Ravens have to play New England and green Bay,
although green Bay just lost Michael Parsons.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Oh brutal that, I mean, it vindicates Jerry Jones to
a degree.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
One player.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
When you sink that many assets into one player and
then you lose them for the season, you know, that's
part of the risk there, right, Although going up into
Green Bay and I don't know, there's something about playing
in that weather. I always feel like it's easier to
get hurt up there. When they were in Denver for
that game, right, it's easy to get cold. Yeah, by
the way, look out for Denver. Huh, maybe look out
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for Denver and don't worry about the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Apparently, don't worry about the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Kenny Pickett is not going to be the answer there,
and Pete Carroll most definitely is not.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I think they just dropped their eighth in a row. Yeah,
this might be as bad as they've ever been.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
It's seriously thirty one nothing and it wasn't that close.
I was rooting for Kenny. I loved the idea of
Kenny plus eleven and a half coming through yesterday that
did not love alas it did not that and Philip
Rivers chunking his way to an almost victory yesterday that
would have been the story of the day.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I thought the Philip.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Rivers thing was going to be an embarrassing, disgraceful failure.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
No, it turns out that guy is just one of
those guys.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
And I would have given him a chance had he
gone to camp, had he been practicing for a couple
of weeks to just walk in and play quarterback in
his sleep. They had they had to restart his Hall
of Fame clock because you don't forget. Don't forget. He's like,
it's not even dad boughd. He's like a big guy.
Now it looked a little chonky. There's a little chungkis.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Actually.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
Yeah, they had to restart his Hall of Fame clock
because he played again. So he goes back to wait
in five years, they shed just put him in.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I agree that special.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
In addition to his Hall of Fame worthy first career,
he walked off the street and played credible quarterback in
the NFL at forty four years.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
After four and a half years and now also his
healthcare resets he was six weeks away from which is.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Big because he's got nineteen kids exactly, so it gets
another five years.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah, getting embraces.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Yeah, this is why the league needs to expand because
Philip Rivers kept expanding.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
He's expanded. Abby's got your news Top of the Hour.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
All right.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
So some photos from the Epstein files were released and
there's mostly no surprises who's in them. But one that's
a little odd and is a donation in your name
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Speaker 3 (31:38):
Human Fund Steelers Hall of Honor dinner happened this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I think it was last night.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
As a matter of fact, it was last Big Ben
brought the place to tears.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
We got a clip for you coming on.
Speaker 12 (31:51):
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Speaker 3 (32:19):
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in Steelers Nation, Join me and Matt Williamson for the
Drive weekday afternoons from four to six near twent the
DV morning show Randy, but I'm going along with Abby Prisner.
Mike pursued a Mike, you had a busy weekend going
to the Army Navy game on Saturday, where two Pittsburghers
shone brightly.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Mount levin Is showing up for the Naval Academy. Yeah,
including the winning touchdown catch. Yeah, they were impactful.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
Uh and uh seventeen sixteen classic game, can't beat it.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
You were there start to finish. It looked like, uh
it was cold.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
It was. Yeah, it's mid to say it's supposed to
be cold.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
If it weren't cold, I would have loved to go
to that. I do want to go maybe next year
if the weather life ends out. Dude, going to Met Life,
Met Life, you have thrown down some beverages. I kind
of wanted to be in Baltimore, Philly though I don't
know if I'm MetLife, I don't really.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Well, I got to give Mark Madden credit for this,
because he turned me on to this place that's near
met Life. It's about two miles away, two and a half.
It's called Reds. It's a bar and for for stadium
events that MetLife is. There's eight thousand lanes of highway
and like just driving and navigating where to park and everything,
(33:39):
even if you can get a parking pass, is confusing
as hell.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
So you go to this place Reds.
Speaker 8 (33:43):
They charge you like fifty bucks to park there, and
then they have shuttles to and from the Yeah, I've
done it for Army Navy. I've done it for Springsteen
at MetLife. It's great.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
You go ahead and.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
Get some bruise, you get some food, and it's not
like they have one guy driving a crappy shuttle. Yeah,
it's an army. It's just constantly going.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
It's it's one of the best deals going speaking much waving.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Talked about the penguins and we can wait for a
little while to get there because.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
This just didn't They've blown it up.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
It's it's crazy to me they think again, I almost
agree with Madden that you gotta think about just firing
the coach, like you know, he's he's only sixty six
percent ready to take this job.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Yeah, No, it's really bad. It's I mean, it can
happen once in a while. When it happens four games
in a row.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Seven times it's happened this year. I think grover heads
stat if five of those were wins there in first place. Yeah,
so at any rate, this past weekend, the Hall of
Honor dinner happened last night at Akroscher Stadium in the
in the club, right was it up in the club?
This was Ben Roethlisberger at one point. Mike, of course
is on the voting committee. And so you were there
(34:52):
and I told Bennett didn't vote for him. He was
talking about Pouncy. Who's getting into the Hall of Honor.
Speaker 11 (35:00):
Pounce, I hate you to do this to me. This is
the only part I didn't actually write down because I
didn't know what to say. Rather than thank you, I
hate you didn't come back one more year, but I
still love you. You the heck of a teammate, man. Uh,
(35:37):
it was you made it fun. He made it challenging
because we wanted to live up to you. You saw
those videos. Pounce was he knew how to told that
line of h a little extra, not not dirty, just extra.
He knew how to be a little extra. But that's
(35:57):
what made him special. That's what made him who he is,
what made him a special football player. And then when
I said I hated when you were on the football field,
I could probably go on for a long time about you,
but I have to keep stopping. I'm just anytime that
someone on the defense got under my skin, which wasn't
(36:19):
very often, probably because they were doing something dirty or cheap,
I knew that.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I could kind of pick a fight with him because pounces.
Speaker 11 (36:27):
God, and I didn't have to fight long because pounce
was coming. And I'll just I'll end it with this pounce.
I'm I'm just I'm so so glad that that Brown's
game when Miles Garrett took the helmet off, it wasn't
me out there because I don't know what would happen.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I love you Pounds so much.
Speaker 11 (36:50):
Man, I'm nothing without you, buddy, that's right now.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
I gotta be honest. I was.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
He was kind of surprised by the emotion there. I
knew that he felt very strong about Pouncy. I mean,
we know that classic the two of them sitting on
the bench scene there after the loss to Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
But that kind of took me by surprise.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
A little bit, Mike, I have to imagine that in
the room.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
It got pretty heavy in there.
Speaker 8 (37:19):
Oh you could hear it in his voice there. I
mean he was choked up. Yeah, he had to fight
through that. And all three of those guys the rest
of the class. It was Ben, Marquise Pouncy, and Joey Porter,
and they were all really emotional about it. Porter brought
his high school coach, a couple of his high school coaches,
a bunch of his high school teammates.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
I mean he had a ton of tables.
Speaker 8 (37:39):
Yeah, and Pouncey was just almost amazed that this would
happen to him.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
That was kind of the vibe.
Speaker 8 (37:45):
He was like, in case, you're probably going to the
Canton Hall Fame. I mean he said, when you come
from nothing, it hits different, and that was kind of
his theme.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
But he was just so appreciative and grateful.
Speaker 8 (37:58):
Ben was the love of with Marquis Pouncy and and
the organization, and same thing with Joey Porter.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Uh, they were all they were all really uh.
Speaker 8 (38:08):
Really choked up, but but they had some great things
to say.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
So those are the three getting in Yeah, and is
that tonight it was last night?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
No? They like the ceremony at the stadium. Did they
get honored. I think they're gonna.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
I think they're going to the game. But I mean
last week they give them a steel football. It happened
last night.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, I didn't know if there was, like you know,
the then.
Speaker 8 (38:28):
They take them down to the Hall of Honor and
I think that there's a wall of Yeah you've been there, right, Yeah, yeah,
they have that really cool the actual Hall of Honor
and you know, not the museum park.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Yeah, just the guy's picture and a little right up.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
And then there's a steel football steal football.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, yeah, tonight, that was the fun event. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (38:51):
You must have been there late though, uh, you know,
ten earlier than later than I would have preferred, but this.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Is this is the late it is.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Yeah, and then you get Monday night football tonight while
you're behind to go on.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Army Navy and just wore myself out completely in the
two days beforehand.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
I would have handled it.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Yeah, and now you have Monday night football with the
post game that you have to do on the Steelers
of Edinburgh. So you'll come back here and sleep an
hour and get up and do the show tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (39:20):
We'll be uh we'll be uh spending two and a
half RESTful hours at the beautiful Hampton Inn.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 8 (39:26):
We we got to deal with those guys and uh
I get to uh at least get us get a bed,
get in a bed and take a shower. Feel like
a human being when I when I see you people tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
A good deal, uh, mister Wednesday on a Monday, Jeff Conk,
We're gonna hang with us here shortly, Charlie Batchell. Later
this morning Jerry Dean, Billy Gardell hangs for the nine
am hour.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
We'll talk a little Holidays with Bill too. Coming up.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Abby's news Next is a donation in your name? A
great Christmas gift or does it suck?
Speaker 3 (39:52):
This week's WDB bud like game day bar of the
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Speaker 12 (40:03):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
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Speaker 2 (40:14):
Here's Tom Opperman no TJ.
Speaker 13 (40:16):
Watt for the Steelers tonight when they take on the
Dolphins from Monday Night Football. Watt, who is out after
being hospitalized for a partially collapsed lung which required surgery,
will miss his eleventh career regular season game as at
Pittsburgh Steeler tonight. Pittsburgh has won and ten in those
games without TJ. Watt, the lone win coming in twenty
twenty two against Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They might
be better equipped to survive Watt's absence than ever before now, though,
(40:40):
thanks to the trio of edge rushers at their disposal
and Alex Hismith, Nick Kirbig and Jack Sawyer. High Smith
had a sack in three tackles for loss in Baltimore
last week, and as six and a half sacks in
his nine games played this season. Nick Krbig also has
six and a half sacks this season, matching high Smith
for second most on the team behind Watts seven. Herbick
hasn't seen more than forty percent of the snaps on
(41:01):
defense since Heihsmith's returned from injury a couple of weeks ago,
so it will be a big increase in workload for
the third year outside linebacker. Kickoff tonight is at eight
to fifteen between the Steelers and the Dolphins, as Pittsburgh
looked to make it an unbelievable twenty third straight win
at home on Monday Night football and more importantly, maintain
their lead in the AFC North. I'm Tom Aframan with
the Steelers Report.
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