December 15, 2025 • 53 mins
Billy Gardell joins the show on a Monday morning to remember the late, great Rob Reiner. Our own Mike Prisuta gets us ready for kickoff tonight with his Pregame Preamble
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm mister yer. Yeah, him and mister Freeze become friends. Remember, Yeah,
which one is?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (00:07):
That's not Rudolph coming to town? Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I think you're right, And that's what because that's the
one that has Chris Kringle.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
When he's like younger. Yes, she looks like Conan O'Brien.
He does.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
The year with the up.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, just to fatten them up, that's right. And this
has caused us to fatten them up. The person I'm
gonna make Patty start saying that. Brandy Bellman and the
d V Morning Show Billy.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Gardell live from Los Angeles, California, this morning here on
the d V Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Because we got our buddy man, Jeff Conkle in here
with us as well this morning, mister Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Here have I ever been in here with Jeff Conkle
in the studio, But it's been a minute, it's been
a long time. But yeah, nice to see you again. Well,
nice to see you too, buddy.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Well you got coffee cup? You got a nice coffee
cup there? What's that coffee cup?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I got a cup? This one is I get one
from all the cities that I enjoyed doing stand up
in and this morning is Saint Louis. Oh yeah, and
I like those. I like those big starbuck cups. I
like a cup of coffee you could soak your feet in.
I'm not messing around with a little cup. You like
a bowl. I like a coffee that has a high dive.
(01:29):
That's what I'm looking for.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Do you like coffee so much that you switch to
decaf in the afternoon and keep drinking it.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Nope, I just drink regular. I don't drink regular all day,
never switch, not all day. I do two big good morning.
I did two giant buckets in the morning, and then
usually around four o'clock I'll hit a lot or something
get that express espress So I enjoyed that.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, I'll go for some uh decaf because I like
the taste.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I just I don't want the zing because I'll be
up all that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, I won't be up all I got. I could
probably it's.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
An old man thing.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I just said, real, real loud, you're zinging, then I
gotta go.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, Patty's rule is two o'clock. I like it. I'm
not sure how much my a FIP doctor likes me
having espressure off the you got you gotta you gotta
roll the dice somewhere. Man, Jesus, you got to get
up at the table and roll the dice somewhere.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, I mean, you stop smoking so and all you
got is gambling. You know, it's just give me something stopped.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I got gambling and coffee. They don't go well together.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Now, Billy Gardell is live in Los Angeles, California. And
but you know there's some really tragic news out your
way in Los Angeles that.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Right before I went to bed last night. I'm still
waiting for all the news to break and just heartbreaking.
What what a, what a? What a sweet man? And God,
I hope it's I don't know what this is. I
don't know what the whole story is yet. But I
don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yeah, the details are starting.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
To leave, I know, I know, and yeah, I don't know. Well,
we haven't. When we went to bed last night, it
was at first it was there were two bodies found
at Rob Reiner's house. Now they're saying it's his wife
and him. Yep. And but that was the last I
heard before I went to bed. It's just tragic, well crazy,
it gets more tragic.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Because they were found by their their daughter, and the
suspected killer is their son Nick. Oh my god, he's
had awful mental health problems and so much of Bill.
He wrote a script. In twenty fifteen, Rob Reiner directed
the movie. It's called Being Charlie, and it's all about
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his life, Nick's life as a recovering addict and dealing
you know, with that man the tumult there in his family.
So it's just kind of unthinkable, but without dwelling too
much on the terribly tragic aspect of things. From a
purely comedic standpoint and uh, an entertainment world standpoint, he
was a giant.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Giant man, one of the greatest comedy directors. Uh. You
could put him in the Hall of Fame man and
just one of the all time greats. I mean, Harry
met Sally, you know, and then and then to turn
into a dramatic turn A few good men like that.
Guy was true artist, true artist.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
He had a run that was like it started with
spinal tap and then it had the sure Thing.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Stand by Me?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh, misery question the Princes, the Princess Bride.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
He did misery too, what spinal tap? Sure Things stand
by Me? Princess Bride, when Harry met Sally Misery, A
few good men, back to back to.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Back to back to back to back to back. That
stands all genres.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
That's a little horror, that's a little thriller, that's romantic comedy.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Holy cap bell.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I was telling these guys, I just happened to coincidentally
be listening to Penny Marshall's autobiography on tape because it's
Penny Marshall.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Reading it that it's weird.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Wow, it's awesome though, because you know, her voice is
so hilarious since she's got that, she's learn and Shirley
and she partied with Robin Williams and John Belushi and
all those guys, and she was married to Rob Reiner
and their house for many many years was like a
comedy like Incubator, and all of the people at that
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time I equated to like the Laurel Canyon scene. Everybody
was like hanging out to Peter Torks and Stephen Stieler's house,
like that was Rob Reiner and Penny Marshall's house for
comedy in the seventies, and it would be like Rob
Reiner and his best friend from forever, Albert Brooks who
basically would live there. Richard Dreyfus lived there with him too,
Tim Matheson, Belushi and Ackroyd.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Steven Spielberg would come over.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And hang out with with them and just like they
would be literally sitting around and talking about comedy.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
James L.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Brooks was also a guy who was there all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Who you know, Mary Tyler, Moore, Taxi, The Simpsons, Terms
of Endearment, broadcast news, you name it. All of those
people were kind of putting their heads together at a
young age like Okay, how are we gonna make our mark?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
And that was all fomented.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
By Rob Reiner and Penny Marshall, like, yeah, come on over.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Do you feel like in a room like that?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Even at the time that they're looking around at each
other and just saying like something crazy is going on
here in this room, Like no, like or do you
think there was just like, Hey, we're just buddies and
we're just that's exactly because you don't.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Know, we're just think it was just a creative scene.
There used to be a lot of those, Jeff the
old days, like the salons where you'd all get together,
but there was a there was there was there was.
There was a vod there though that you if the
thought was there was energy transference. Same with the music
there in Laurel Canyon, like he was talking about, you
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hung around other creative you weren't worried about and that
was a time where people were really trying to create
something cool it wasn't and something good and something that
would remark it wasn't about those guys. Honestly, Yeah, we're
all in it so we can pay the rent, but
but the priority was let's create something good before we rent,
and that vibe all believed hanging out with each other.
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The Lampoon guys had the same philosophy, hang around other,
hanging around to other athletes other than you, and all
of a sudden you become better. And then there was
a worming vibe to that. So but what a legacy, man,
what a tragedy.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It's like, did you ever see there's a there's a
documentary about the like Nashville and the seventies and late seventies,
something about something something highway and the people around the
table at the time, none of them are big and
it's Steve Earl, guy Clark, Ronnie Carrington. Yeah, like, uh,
(07:59):
whis his name van zant uh ste no towns vanzan
yeah left, yeah exactly. So it's like all of those
guys sitting round a table and then they all want
to be went on to become country music Hall of fame.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
That happened to me on a smaller level. Man, when
I started at this little club in Orlando in nineteeny seven.
Our open mic night was me, Darryl Hammond, Carrot Top,
Larry the cable guy. Who else was in a four
who up being a kind of a big name in
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voice servers at Nickelodeon like in the nineties, he did
Good tomorrowse you think who else? Wayne Brady? That this
was our crew that and no one, no one knew,
None of us knew we were going to make it.
And I mean Wednesday it was open mic night, and
we would all do open night and then everybody would
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have half a joke written on a cocktail napkin and
we'd all go to Dennyef the opens around and try
to go out. Like I said, how we're going to
pay them in class?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
You're in, you know all right, So let me let
me ask you this. Well, I'm going to have Jacob
guide you through a reconnect here because we're getting a
little spotty, We're getting a little little pop pop action.
So we kind of did a broad brush struck over
that story. Abby, wantn't you bounce to the next thing
that we have here while Billy is uh getting a reset?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I will Okay, So I saw this coming up here,
we can talk about it. Maybe a larger phenomenon of
bad movies either becoming good over time or maybe just
becoming awesomely bad over time.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Francis Ford copele is meg Yeah is headed back to
theaters there.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I still have not seen it.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, I feel a duty to see because I do
love the fact that he put his own money behind it.
And he's like, Nope, I'm not leaving any to my kids.
I'm gonna make an unbelievably ridiculous movie that I have
wanted to make forever and I don't care.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Who likes it.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
And he's doubling down on that because the movie, again.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Considered a total flop.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Is such a return to select Alamo draft house locations
on New Year's Day and quote it's my hope that
every New Year's Day the film will become a fulcrum
of discussion about the betterment of society and humanity.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Well, then he shouldn't have made it five hours long.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
I also feel like when you go in saying that
that's what the movie's about, that's a little high falutin,
and people just generally recoil, like like, I don't want
to I don't want to know full crumbs.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Right, I'm not going to the movie theater for a
full crumb.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
So he wants it to stand the test of time
and believe every New Year's Day you're gonna go see it.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Yeah, I'm not gonna go see it.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I will one day have uh, you know, I'll wait
till I get the mumps or something like that, you know,
and I can't move.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I have mono and I have to stay home, and
then I'll watch it.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
But you went back for The Irishman when we said that, Yeah,
I'm going back.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
For here's the thing the Irishman considered bad.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I think it was pretty bad, bloated, but there's I
will go back and I'll watch three scenes in that movie.
Probably I've probably watched three scenes in that movie four
hundred times. Which are which are the the the Harvey
Kaitel meeting, Like what do.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You what are you doing in Delaware? Frank?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Like that that one the fight scene in the jail
when it's like, what do you want me to do
with with your four and one? Kay uh see, Like
that's one of those movies that has some scenes that
are so gripping. But then that movie is also like
three hours and forty five minutes long, and the last
hour is just how you get old and die at
the end, So like it's it's not a very compelling,
yeah to sit through at the end.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Desperately needed a better edit that and also younger stars.
If they they could have Cappuccino in as Hafa, But
if they would have gone with just two younger stars,
if they would have gone like DiCaprio and Bobby conna
Valley or something like that, it would have been such
a different movie. I think it's in the vein of
the classic Scorsese's Casino, Goodfellas Mead Streets. It's just it's
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so distracting. Also, the scene where de Niro has to
beat the guy up in the street.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
It looks like a seven year old man, yeah, desperately
trying hard to recover from that.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
And when he bends over the hood of the truck,
and he goes, what's the problem with ster?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
And he goes, hey, kid, like Joe Peschi's.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Calling him a kid, and they look very old.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
They both look too old.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Yeah, but so he's they're re releasing this. The thing
I think the problem with Megalopolis is nobody really knew
what the it was about.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
They still don't.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I didn't know what it's about. I don't know what
I'm going to see. I don't know any of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I think it only makes sense to him and to
Randy's point, he spent one hundred and twenty million dollars
of his own money to make it admirable.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
One of my favorite moments of this year was that
they re released for like one weekend the original Ninja
Turtles movie in theaters, and I took my kids to
see it. And you want to talk about kind of
a cheesy, campy movie, the first nineteen ninety one Ninja
Turtles movie. And I had an absolute one hundred percent
flast and so did my kids. And actually I looked
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it up because I was like, I wonder how this
got received. Roger Ebert gave it like two and a
half stars, and the line was in terms of Ninja
Turtles movies.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
This is about as good as it can get. And
that's pretty high praise for a Ninja Turtles movie. It
is they have a Christmas movie they do. We wish
you a Turtle Christmas.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I don't know that I've seen that one, and that's surprising. Calabonga.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yeah, love it all right.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Have you ever gotten this as a gift or given
as a gift and then wondered if the person hated
you for it. Somebody pulled twenty thousand Americans and asked
if a donation in your name is actually a good
gift or a bad one. They didn't ask people about
specific nonprofits, just any charity that the person might pick
because it's important to them. Turns out, most Americans do
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think it's a good gift. About fifty six percent said.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Yes, if someone gives that to you, you have joy
in your heart when that happens.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
I'm nothing wrong with the donation. I just don't think
you need to involve me at all. Well, I can
just keep me out of it.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I can tell you that this caused a lot of
consternation in my family when my sister was dating this
guy who was a total deadbeat, and we all we
hated this dude. He was he was a garbage person
and he was one of those like.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
You mean and that was his job. Or he was
a garbage.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Now he was a successful artist on a on a big,
big scale.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Garbage person, but he was garbage.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Never had money.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
He would have big showings that would get glowing reviews,
and he never had money. And he rail against, you know,
every chance you get. He got to rail against, you know,
the bourgeois machine, the machine.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Yes, he would do it.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
And then meanwhile he's hit at dinner in order the
most expensive bottle of wine and have no intention.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
That's why he has no money, one of those guys.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
And we could not stand him, and we did a
secret stand up and he drew my brother that year,
and he gave him one of those like I bought
a goat for you for a village, a goat in
an Africa somewhere, and none of us believe there was
an actual goat. We're like, there's no goat. Well, and
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I've done that before, like or I've got that. I
think Sally did it for me one time, and I
had it like I was feeding an elephant for a
year or so.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Let's see with her. You know that that's an consistent
thread with him. You already didn't like him, so that
if you get a if you get a jump ball
with somebody you didn't like, you're gonna assume cynically that
this is not a real gift.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
He's notoriously cheap, you know, and never has money, and
so to come up with this gift, We're like, dude,
this is the phoniest gift. There is no goat. Was
there a way to verify? Did you go on the
website afterwards?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Say?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
It was very The whole thing was.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Like real sort of ambiguous, and you know, the details
were few and far between. But to be fair, I
don't think my brother looked into it too much because
he really did want to run with the narrative.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
He's just like, he's like, oh, I bought a goat
for a village.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Awesome, that that's exactly what I wanted, a fake goat
for a non existing village. Just next Christmas, he's there
with a with a hero machine, just shaving shaving goat
legs off. Well, the next year I told him, I'm like,
you should send him goat, Like, like, you know what
I mean like goat steaks savory.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah, gyro nact like, hey, good news about that goat.
Is this regifting?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:47):
I don't know. I mean, I know it's a time.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
For charity, but I just feel like I sometimes feel,
especially if you're cynical about the person, that that sounds
like a snooty that seems like a snooty gift a
little bit. I think like I don't need material things,
and we're like like, well I got you this, Uh
you know, I got you a radio controlled car.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh, I don't need material things. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
It just sort of seems like you're taking the taking
the fun, the fun materialistic part out of Christmas.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
I can.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I can understand that.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
And I go both ways, like in that I've had
things anyone else. I have done things like for birthdays
and stuff where I really meant it. I didn't want
presents and I had like a charity tie too. I'd
be like, I would like.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
You if the recipient is requesting it, then it's all good.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Well, I kind of know what's important to me and
like and if they know that that's something I'm affiliated
with and they're like, hey, I know you and you
suck at accepting presents, and.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
So I did this already.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Be like, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
If someone wants a Steelers starter jacket and you get
them a goat, then you're gonna get talked to.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You're gonna get talked about the deadbeats that I have
as friends.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
And sometimes they're like, I made a donation to this
in your name, and then you're like, you're.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Lying, give me the receipt. Well, Abbey knows. One of
my favorite tricks of the trade when it comes to
Christmas shopping for someone and you're like, hey, I don't
have to get them.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Here's something that nobody hates.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Go on like gold belly send them pizza New York pizzas,
pizzas from New York City.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
The best thing I got last he's a good one.
Here's some nice coffee, here's some pizzas. Oh you don't
like pizza really well, not even just be sitting around
and there's pizza there. Now you're on an ice watch list,
so yeah right now.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah that that truly was one of the best presents
that I got last year was the gold Belly.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Pie from Johnny.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
That was from John's on Bleaker, which is old Jacobs
favorite job.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
And they give you the instructions and everything exactly how
to put it in.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The I'm more of a Joe's guy, but I like Johnston,
Oh Margret, and it was so good. Yeah, And I'll
send muflettas from so Grocery, New Orleans to my brother
who loves those.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
That's the easiest way. Like, here's food.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Food.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Nobody even if you don't, even if it's a gift
from somebody who are like, I don't like this person,
but I have to send them a gift.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, food, Yeah, telling you right now, so I know.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
If I get a couple of ripe bovocados, I know
where I stand with you.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That's right, fair enough.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Not or very unripe, just hard hard avocados.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
As my son calls them, hulk balls.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
They do kind of look hulk bullish.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
It is a little hulk bawl. All right, we'll do
one more.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
It has been forty years since Teddy Rex's been blue
kids minds by talking and reading stories. Let's see how
far we've come. Foul mouthed AI toys could be a
big issue this Christmas. It's the first year a ton
of popular toys will have built in AI features. A
nonprofit called Public Interest Research Group released its fortieth annual
Trouble in Toyland Report. In the past, they focused on
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things like choking hazards, but they say AI is emerging
as a new threat to look out for this Christmas.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
See, there was a sixty minute story last week about
chat like characters on kids' phones and stuff like that,
and it's like it starts off innocent enough, because like, hey,
if you wanted to talk to Abraham Lincoln or Martin
Luther King or something like that, like you could talk
to all these people, but then they program from it's
like what if Dora the Explorer was evil? And then
they're like, within five questions, Dora is just like you
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should self harm. And so like when you start talking
about choking hazards, I think it's now autoerotic self asshxiation
that Teddy Rouxman's going to be promoting at this point, Like,
you got to be really careful about attack to Nathan Bedford.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Forrest you are dead on.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Unfortunately, because some of those toys that they featured will
get into sexually explicit topics pretty quickly. They can also
offer advice on where a kid can find matches or not.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Okay, so these are like if Teddy Rock Spin had
chat ept pretty much.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Okay, Billy's back with his now Billy guard that we
have him back.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I don't know. Is that better? Yeah? It does sound better?
All right, he's so spot I'm sorry, buddy.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
So despondent.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I know how long it holds? Yeah, let's see.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
You got them Santa Ana wins out there? Is that
what's going on?
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, that's why I can't figure out why the way
back machine's not working this morning. But hopefully you know, well.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
It sounds good now, But what is your what is
your opinion on people who give you as a gift
a charitable donation to someplace.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
At this point in my life, I like that if
you're gonna wait, like, if you're gonna give me a gift,
so I donated some money to cancer research or something.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yeah, like I did a donation in your name or
maybe I mean listen. On the on the other like side,
you could say like I bought a star and named.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Well, I'm all, that's romantic for your partner. I get
all that that's thoughtful, But if you give me a
charitable don't it. I'm great. I would much rather you
give me that than something that carbonates my own water.
I don't want that mine. I got enough stuff. I'm good.
I'm good to man.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I was like, I'm there.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
I wanted one of those this Christmas, so that just
totally deflated that.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I knew I was never going to use it. Listen,
I knew if I got one of those, it was
going to end with an explosion, like an eighties movie
that went right out of the house. It came and
went the same. It was like Good Fellows. It came
in the front door, it went right out of the garage.
That was it.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
It's like when they're making bathtub Gin and the whole
house explodes.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I actually, whenever we do a holiday party, if we're
gonna or if we do a gathering like that, we
always say that. We always kind of put that on
the invite, like because my dad passed of lung cancer,
so we do that, or children's hospital if you want
to throw twenty bucks or whatever, fifty bucks or whatever
to do that. I don't bring nothing here. Don't bring
unless it's edible. You could bring something, bring some food,
(23:09):
but don't. I don't need any more. Stuff I don't
want no more.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Say not for nothing. If you want to get something
for the Pittsburgh in your life. And along these lines,
the Batch Foundation can really use use your help.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
There you go and He's golden, Charlie's golden, and that
that that charity is true. That is a great thing
to do. That is a great thing to do. Great costs.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yep, you can click and ship right now. They're looking
for toys. You go on to their website and it'll
tell you what toys they need. You click, you go
to the toy you want to buy or toys you
want to buy, throw them in your cart and you
buy them and they ship them right to the Batch Foundation.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
You got to do it now, though, because twenty second
is the last day that you can collect toys. And
if anyone's out there waiting, I was doing some last
minute Christmas shop.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
But you think you got time, You don't got time.
You got to go today.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Yeah, I'm actually going to try to drop off this week.
I have a little like kind of tub now full
of toys that I keep meaning to go to one
of the drop off locations, and I keep going, I'll
go tomorrow, I'll go tomorrow. And so whenever he said,
I think he said the twenty second was the last
day the easter.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Pretty quickly I had a hurry.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
It is cold in Pittsburgh today is currently twelve degrees
are high today.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Is seventy three bell Rose and fish.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That's good, you know, I tha Audio Bill because Saturday
we got so much snow and I stayed in and
you know what he did.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
I made soup.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
But oh yeah, soup weather. I got two of those
out here. Oh yeah, I get two bowls of soup
all year. That's my fast. I'm wearing a fly. I
wear sweaters too soon out here too. I'm just sweating midday.
And Patty's like, not yet, not yet yet?
Speaker 5 (24:43):
You missed East Coast? You are? You got that?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I missed the weather that way? I do. I miss
the weather terribly. I love the changing of the seasons.
When I was back this year for the fall, there's
nothing like that. I missed that terribly. Aren't you glad
my time?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Aren't you glad you're not here tonight for Monday Night
football to wave the terrible towel pregame.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
No, I actually would love to do one like that.
That would be I think that would be a killer one,
you know, I mean, you know, I've I've had so
many amazing ones, but I never had a snow one.
I never had. I would love to have a shot,
would have one way. Well, your voice went out. That
was just freezing. That was freezing. We were beyond snow.
We were out. We were out past the wall. We
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were the wall. We were we were, we were with
the Walkers coming to get us. Some Game of Thrones.
That was like cold, yeah, yeah, No, I'd love to
have one where it was on snow. Maybe that'll happen
next year.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
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Is I brought to you by Bridgeville Plants and Steelers
are hosting the Dolphins tonight, and the circumstances ought to
be recognizable, if not comfortable, a season that could have
crashed and burned several times already and still might.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Has it? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Has it?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Here they go again, here's d C Terra Austin.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
I think that's part of you know, when you and
this has nothing to do with me, has everything to
do with this building and the culture that's been built
around here for a long time, and obviously Mike's been
here a long time. But that's the culture around here
where guys, you know, it's a team thing. You're always
playing for the team, and you do the best you can.
And I think that's why guys hold the rope and
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they stay on it and they don't you know, they
don't fall into you know, it's easy when if you
lose a few games or you do something, to fall
into selfish clicks and do stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
And our guys don't do that.
Speaker 11 (27:26):
Our guys just figure out, Hey, how can we work
hard to figure out a way to get us out
of this rut and keep moving forward. And I think
it's a testament to the building. It's a testament to
the guys that play the game. You know, our players
that have been here past and president.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
Yeah, getting out of a ruts one thing, getting on
a roll is another. And that's what they're going to
try to do to win a second game in a
row and then see.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Where they can go from there.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
Part of that culture this season that Terol Austin referenced
includes wide receiver DK Metcalf taking it upon himself to
speak out in advance of what became a win over
the Ravens. Back on December the seventh, quarterback and Rodgers
had mentioned Metcalf had been especially impactful in practice prior
to the Ravens game. Turns out that wasn't just by
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catching passes.
Speaker 12 (28:11):
No, I think I just was feeling the need to
say something about the lack of details with everybody and
glude myself. So I think there's being more vocal in
that aspect.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Was what he what he meant?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Nothing like a sight to see or anything.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
There is that something You're more people are doing now
in December with this team than.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You would have been when we came in.
Speaker 12 (28:32):
And oh yes, sinitely, yeah, because I'm not trying to
be here and I know in May or April and
you know, just start speaking. I got to get to
know my teammates, not gotta you know, give them a
chance to get to know me any type of.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Player that I am.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
Do you think of when something along the lines of
will you first run the right rounds so you could
draw some coverage and they could.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Throw me the ball once?
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Why?
Speaker 9 (28:55):
I do think that, Yes, But in all seriousness, the
leader's got to lead right now. If you're gonna have
a DK METCAF, you would expect that from him. If
you're gonna have and Aaron Rodgers, you would expect that
from him. And Randy were asking me during the last
sports cast, how do they attack Miami? And you know,
the path of least resistance is kind of what they
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lean into. And that's why you have Aaron Rodgers. This
Miami defense. The coordinator Anthony Weaver is a former Ravens player,
and you're gonna see the Dolphins tonight line up will
be seven eight guys at the line, and then invariably
the linebackers are going to drop and they're not going
to bring the house every time, but they're gonna try
to confuse you at the line of scrimmage. Aaron Rodgers
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that he should be unconfusable because he's been doing this
for twenty one years and yet and that's why you
have him, and that's this is how you go the
rest of the way. But here's the ass and this
scissors reads it and then he attacks where it's.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Vulnerable, Okay, and then he's got to tell everybody what
he's read. And this is where the problem has been.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yes, this is also a very salient point by you.
I don't think i've heard the words Aaron Rodgers and
unconfusible in the same sentence in quite a while. Yeah, oh,
I didn't say unstoppable.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
But to Randy's point, if he knows what what covered,
but Roman Wilson doesn't, what good does it do? But
he talked, you know again back to the how do
you attack these guys think Rogers talked about that deep
ball to Metcalf that started the Ravens game, and Mike
Tomlin and said, yeah, we woke up in an aggressive
(30:30):
posture a lot. They didn't throw that because they were
in an aggressive posture. They threw that because the coverage
was giving them the option. And he saw it and
Metcalf saw it, and they said, forget to play. We
have called we're going downtown here, and that's how they
need to operate.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Yeah. The only thing that worries me about Aaron Rodgers
on a game like this.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
This is a game where he sees DK in a
position where the defense is vulnerable and then wants to
send him, and then, in the single digit temperatures, thinks
that he's twenty five years old and forgets that he's
forty two years old and ducks one.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
That's what I'm a little worried about. I'm not worried
about that.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
I'm worried about the cold affecting the passing, you know,
the catching part of it.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
I think about a game where Kenneth Gainwell is going
to have eighteen receptions with you for one hundred and
forty yards or something like that, there's gonna be a
lot of checking down there.
Speaker 9 (31:21):
Might he likes those, but I'm not worried about Roger's arm.
That would be the least of my concerns. And it's
Miami secondary, I think is vulnerable. They got a bunch
of young guys up front, they drafted three defensive linemen.
They're starting to figure it out. But just throw it
where Minka Fitzpatrick is not and you got a pretty
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good chance of having.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I think that's written on the board this week. Yeah,
I think they wrecked that on the board this week.
If it's not at all Fitzpatrick is not, play.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Leg a champion, throw it where Fitzpatrick is not.
Speaker 13 (31:55):
You know.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
The other thing, there's been a lot of talks since
that Ravens went about their culture and how they hang
in there and persevere and all that.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
One of the.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
Reasons that they do that, at least in Rogers estimation,
is that Mike Tomlin's eighteen years streak of never having
had a losing season sets a significant tone.
Speaker 14 (32:16):
Yeah, that's really impressive. I mean, we had to run
twenty and nine to twenty sixteen where we didn't miss
the playoffs in Green Bay and won the division number
of times during that stretch, and you know, it creates
an expectation of winning, and the winning gets ingrained in
the culture. And I think there's a lot to be
said for that. It's not overt it's just kind of
the foundational part of the locker room and the team
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is an expectation of winning. And when you're a part
of organization like that, which I was in Green Bay
and then didn't have it in New York, it makes
a big difference teams that don't have that ingrained in it.
There's always the opportunity to do it. It just takes
the right people and the right timing and the right
coaching to kind of put it together. And you learn
how to win. When you've been a place that has
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a history of excellence, like Green Bay with the sixties on,
like Pittsburgh with the seventies on, it's just kind of
understood when you walk in the door that that winning
is the most important thing, and like the great Vincetin
Bardi said, it's the only thing that really matters.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
Okay, now I'm ready. You mentioned Vince Lombardi. Now I'm
ready for the game.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Aaron knew him.
Speaker 9 (33:26):
Yes, I find it fascinating that there's a large part
of the fan base that thinks they're doomed to fail
because they're the Steelers, and they think they have a
shot because they're the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
They both can't be right.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
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Will this laugh from Los Angeles, California on a Monday
instead of a Tuesday, because tomorrow'll be all postgame talk
with the Steelers playing Monday Night football Tonight again the
Miami Dolphins for an eight to fifteen kickoff Aaron Rodgers
versus TUA. That'll be an interesting one. Gonna be cold tonight.
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if you want to go to a Steelers game and
bundle up tonight and cheer on the home root for
our home team.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
That's a cold What do you bring to this?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Gid? What what's the what's what's the outfit?
Speaker 5 (35:24):
You bring booze, you bring hand warmers, you bring a
seat pad? What do you Because it's single digits is
now you're in a different level of dealing with cold.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
You know what, Missus Matthews said something about the sideline
thing that never occurred to me.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Whenever she was talking about the handwarmers.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
She was like, if you put them in your boots,
you put them on the tops of your feet, never
on the bottom. And I was like, oh, like the
toes on the tops of the toes, because that's the
thing for me. Once my get cold, I am in consolable.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
I am the worst person you've ever met.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
So my dad used to always take a piece of
carpet to games like this. Of course, he took two
pieces of carpet. One he'd put on his seat and
the other he would put on the ground and put
his feet on it. Now, Yester, yesterday the Bears put
out a statement preventing their fans from bringing cardboard to
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the games because people were doing that with cardboard, and
he'd sit on cardboard. You put your feet on cudboard.
Just some about having your feet on that cold cement.
It really duty so, but they weren't letting their fans
do it. I'm not exactly sure why, other than they
had to clean up a lot of cardboard. Now, that
might seem bad, but that's not nearly as bad as
the Bengals yesterday.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
Yeah, how about that, Mike Brown? What happened the chintzy
owner of the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
After Cincinnati received five six inches of snow on the
side of the stadium that get snowed in, they did
not clear the snow for their fans in anticipation at
the one o'clock the Bengals game.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
You had to clean your own.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Yes, I was in Cincinnat this weekend actually visiting my
friends that are there that you guys know about it at
this point.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
And yeah, it was a bleep show.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
So tons of snow and not much, but they did
a terrible job of.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Clearing They didn't clear it.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Yeah, right, when that happens in Buffalo, they pay volunteers
twenty bucks an hour to go and shovel it all out.
And then they go and you know, they get drunk
and do what over Like Yeah, they're like they're like
the dozers on frabl Rock if if they drank, Yeah,
(37:35):
they're just.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Going to celebrate the jump table exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
So, uh, I don't think you have to worry about
the seats being cleared off tonight. I'm sure that at
Akercer Stadium they've taken all measures to make sure everybody's
nice and comfortable.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
That Ran Wilson's doing Actually we speak.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Like a man.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Give him something to do for crying out loud Christmas.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I think that's gonna be my retirement plan. I'm just
gonna come you know, clean the seats at the stadium. Yeah,
for rough weather, and that'll be my retirement plan.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Billy, when you were a kid, if I like this
first thing that pops in your head, what is the
present as a kid that you got that was the
life changer?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
I think a bicycle. I got a I got a
bicycle one year that was not something that my dad
had pieced together in the garage that wobbled when you
pedaled it when I actually got it, when I got it.
When I got it, oh yeah, I had a couple
of spare park bikes, you know, and oh yeah. His
argument was, well, let's see if he likes it. Well,
what kid doesn't want a bike that? You know? But
(38:39):
I was riding around in a in a rust bucket
for a while, and then when I've got a new
bike I got, I got that huffy evil Canievil one,
and that was I thought. I thought I had super power.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
The confidence, the confidence, and still with a new bike.
He trusted me with this thing.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Nineteen seventy six, nineteen seventies six. Yeah, I thought I
thought I had super powered.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Now I know that bike and that bike ye had
a plastic like uh.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
The plate on the front end of the handlebar.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
No, didn't it look like a gas tank on a
motorcycle and it was like right underneath.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I didn't have the one with the gas time.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Do you know what I'm talking about? I mean, it
wasn't actually.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Yeah exactly, but I no, but I know. But it
had that plastic piece that looked like you were riding
a button. No, but I had like a mine had
a like a plastic plate on the front of the handlebars.
But I removed that. I didn't like the way that
sounded when I was right, Yeah, I didn't enjoy that.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
And now that was in Florida or was it in
in Pittsburgh?
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Now that was in Pittsburgh. That was before my dreams
were shattered. I didn't have to invent in imagination to
deny my life show that I could become an artist.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Next question, not much to delve into there, right, all right?
By that game?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
All right, all right?
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Did you take the bike out immediately? Regardless of weather.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
It was at we were riding in the snow right away,
took a spell and the ice hit a slush puddle
too hard and uh. And then in the summer it
was at the slag dump kind of going downside piles
of you know, decimated call cinder. So that's where we
used to play in Swiss Speld. There's a slag dump
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right behind Memorial Field. Sure there was a hole in
the fence. We'd get in there. I think we were
going BMX tricks. No one said nothing. You come home
just covered and soot.
Speaker 7 (40:38):
You have fun.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Oh it was a blast.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I loved it.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
So you're my older brother Charlie's age and my brother's
Charlie and Gary were like Irish twins and they always
got like the same stuff.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
But evil can evil.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I cannot impress upon people enough what a big deal
it was for someone your age to get evil.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
I was I was too young for that, but I just.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
And there was one year my dad got them or
Sanna whatever got them the Evil canevil set that was
like a motorcycle and there's the action figure there's on
the motorcycle and it went, it looped and you could
create jumps and everything like that. And my dad was
very excited about this. And so his two idiot sons
go down and they like set up a whole track
(41:20):
for him to film with the Super eight. He wants
to see you know, like their first creation with this,
and what jump that they're gonna have and is he
gonna go over the Snake River.
Speaker 5 (41:29):
Or what is it?
Speaker 3 (41:30):
It had a big green Snake river canyon that came
with it that you could set it up to jump over.
And they set it up and immediately my dad's like,
all right, go and they're like they.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
You know, pull the thing to get it revved up.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
And they put it on the track and it goes
flying down the track and it does the loop.
Speaker 15 (41:51):
And then everyone's like oh, and then it goes off
a jump and goes up into the air and goes
way faster than they thought it was going to and
lands right in the fire on fire on Christmas and immediately.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Just gone that in one take one one t shooting anything.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
You gotta know what's down range. That's right right into
the fireplace.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
You know.
Speaker 5 (42:18):
It like landed and took a hard right kind of
like how Evil would land.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Yeah, he would do that every night. That's why you watch.
Speaker 5 (42:26):
Yes, right, damn hard right, turned right into the fire.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
The actually figure pumps up into the air and burns
into a grizzly death, never.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
To be used again. Even I knew as a kid
when he when Evil Canevel tried to jump the Grand Canyon,
when they rolled that rickety rocket out there that looked
like wildly he put it together. I think even as
a nine year old, I was like, I don't think
this is gonna go well. I don't think this is gonna.
Speaker 7 (42:57):
Go well at all.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
Did you ever see the Evil k Evil documentary that
was on I think it was on Netflix or it
might have been. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's Netflix. And
I think Johnny Knoxville is that sense that makes sense
and it is a tail of not just like the
craziest person you ever like. It just seems inconceivable that
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he would be this destructive for his own edification like
it made him happy because to him, it was the
only way to stay famous and the only way he
could be a smoking, boozing babe hound was to be famous,
and nothing was more important to him than being famous
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and desired.
Speaker 6 (43:43):
If you have no other skills in life, then jumping
a couple buses while they're on fire seems like a
good plant.
Speaker 3 (43:48):
Yes, you know, bones heel and chi chicks dig scars
was the famous joke from Simpsons, but that was basically
what he thought, and he would, and he was like,
not the greatest person, maybe not somebody you want to
be your dad?
Speaker 6 (44:00):
Do you really want to delve into stuntman's pass and
make morals? I mean, these people are on the fringes
of society.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Whenever, whenever, I just thought step dad. He had stepdad
written all over him. He just had stepdad written on it.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
He was basically, like you said, stuntman, he's like right
out of a Burt Reynolds movie in the set, like
something from Hooper, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (44:22):
That was his real life one hundred.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
He might have been a stepdad and his step son
was probably like, yeah, jump the canyon.
Speaker 15 (44:27):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
You know, she jumped the found Jesus Poace.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
But you know that's funny, that's that is what his
son jumped. His son jumped the Caesar.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
It became Yeah, Robbie Canevel.
Speaker 6 (44:43):
Was the one legacy to have to inherit. You want
to do you think Brownie James has tough shoes to fill.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
Exactly, at this rate, you're never gonna jump seventeen buses.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
What a disappointment.
Speaker 5 (44:57):
So you're already for for the holiday. When Wilster get there.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Ray rock and roll man. He gets him on the twentieth.
I got a little surprise for him for at his place,
but that don't get there till Wednesday. So I have
gotten him convinced to stay here from the twentieth to
the twenty fifth. And his mother is very excited. So
she's got him home for four days. So that'll be
round the clock full fridge. I'm actually doing it for
(45:24):
selfish reasons because he'll be home. They'll be stuff in
the fridge, they'll be cookies, they'll be whatever his favorite meal.
You know, the prince is coming home, so I'll get
to eat and part take in that tip. Now you
know I need something from the store. Now, she's like,
you got a car. Oh okay, the boy comes home
and it's that that fridge starts to look like Narnia.
(45:45):
You just open.
Speaker 5 (45:48):
Well, Billy, hoping you have the happiest man.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Everybody. Have a very merry Christmas, happy Holidays, and happy
New Year. And here's to a safer time. Here's to
a hinder time. Uh, don't be a jag off ho
ho ho.
Speaker 5 (46:04):
There you go. That should be on a T shirt
down in the Strip district. Don't be a jag Off.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Steel watch die Hard on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 5 (46:14):
Hey, that is your number one Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Yeah, we got too. We always do a double feature
Polar Express followed by die Hard. It's not Christmas in
the guard House until knacka Tone, until Hans Gruber goes
off the Knackatoby building. That's how we know.
Speaker 5 (46:30):
I told you how we know.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
St necks up in the air.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
I saw those inflatables on somebody's yard. They had Knockatomy
Plaza inflated in the front yard.
Speaker 7 (46:39):
I have that, I have.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
I have the ornament of Willis in the air vent,
and I have an ornament of Hans falling on my
tree right now.
Speaker 5 (46:47):
That's awesome. Well, look, man, have a great one.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
We're getting set for guys, Christmas, Happy Holidays.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
Monday Night Football tonight, and he'll be cranking up the
network at four o'clock. But here he is for you
now with the amble to kick off. It's Steelers Dolphins,
Monday Night Football. Here's Mike Persuda.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Oh this is good timing. This is good time.
Speaker 7 (47:12):
A man's coming down.
Speaker 9 (47:24):
When last Herd and hackersher a significant contingent of those
in attendance voiced their displeasure with the Steelers unofficial national anthem.
In response, the Steelers went down to Baltimore and cranked
up the football version of how do You Like Me Now.
Their potentially season saving twenty seven to twenty two victory
over the Ravens was as much about intangibles as it
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was downfield passing. DK Metcalf led to charge in both departments,
but was far from alone in delivering the response The
Steelers suspected they'd be able to conjure up all along
in the aftermath, Defensive coordinator Tara lost and maintained head
coach Mike Tomlin is elite in such circumstances because the
Steelers are built for them, and quarterback Aaron Rodgers referenced
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referenced Tomlin's special sauce as one every team is looking
for in a coach still want to throw stones at
sticks that noise won't distract from the task at hand,
Miami or the opportunity to take another step toward winning
a division.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
It won't be easy without TJ.
Speaker 9 (48:26):
Watt, particularly when it comes to stopping the run, but
they have won twenty two in a row on Monday
nights at home, and tonight's opponent often resembles a fish
out of water when the temperature dips below forty six degrees,
So there's at least a chance if we hear renegade tonight,
all will be forgiven, if not forgotten, at least temporarily.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
The jig is up, the news is out. This season
is just getting started. Are you ready for some football? Yeah? Two?
Speaker 9 (48:58):
Really can't throw when baby it's cold outside. The running
game the must slow, Baby it's cold outside. Stackhen wins.
Can't be just a Christmas wish. Keep throwing downfield if
there's one on ones take them. The playoffs all wait,
but they still have to make them. Miami'd rather be warm.
Rogers is at home in the storm. Baby it's cold outside.
Speaker 7 (49:23):
Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 5 (49:25):
Four o'clock he gets the network going today.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
We start our pregame as early as all right, he's
at six o'clock rather four o'clock is when we start
our pregame. Pursuit of Labs and Jerry dou Lac lead
you into the eight to fifteen kickoff with Rob King,
Max Stark's and Nissy Matthews here on DVE special thanks
to mister wen Say.
Speaker 6 (49:45):
Jeff Conkle coming in Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy hawk
this first night of Hanukah. Tonight last night I thought,
or last night was okay, God bless us, every bless everyone, right, Jacob.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
Somebody called Randy Grossman.
Speaker 5 (49:59):
Yeah, because you've got our own rap right here.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (50:04):
And look it's game day, which means pot down the baby.
It's cold outside and pot up.
Speaker 7 (50:15):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Lets went from that time with that great cha that pit.
Speaker 3 (50:26):
Billy.
Speaker 7 (50:26):
You're too late to say.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
It's every second. Keep me on the left, don't.
Speaker 7 (50:36):
Leave you love your bits. It's been yet.
Speaker 3 (50:57):
Name and scrownbid ball, the fence, the fence, gigs, the stealers.
Speaker 7 (51:06):
Always best of all.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
Joe me Joe to your.
Speaker 7 (51:13):
Team against the other team. He stopped from here to year.
Where's some glad he's playing year?
Speaker 2 (51:20):
Not join with me?
Speaker 7 (51:22):
And seeing lesty learsy. We're round the time with that
great football team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. We need s harmit
not only history your again the Steelers Jerellas Drillas show.
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And so if Frank brows army, he's been many years
he's having just be lusty. Left machinery is having. I'm finished.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
You stay classy, Pittsburgh. Don't touch your face.
Speaker 9 (52:01):
Iike got him tup Pittsburg, allday baby.
Speaker 1 (52:03):
To now you guys call me Ronald?
Speaker 5 (52:05):
Would you not eat my pants?
Speaker 1 (52:06):
Ronald?
Speaker 5 (52:07):
Ah? Whoa man?
Speaker 7 (52:11):
Whay go ahead.
Speaker 13 (52:16):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
to you by First National Bank. Let's get started. Remember
FDIC and Steelers Pro Shop. Get it direct from the
team at shop dot Steelers dot com. Here's Tom Opperman
No TJ.
Speaker 16 (52:29):
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 a
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,
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thanks to the trio of edge rushers at their disposal
and Alex Heismith, Nick Herbig and Jack Sawyer. High Smith
had a second retackles for loss in Baltimore last week
and has six and a half sacks in his nine
games played this season. Nick Herbick 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 defense since
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Highsmith'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, maintained their
lead in the AFC North.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
I'm Tom Aperman with the Steelers Report at FNB.
Speaker 8 (53:38):
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Speaker 5 (53:43):
The one of a kind East
I'm mister yer. Yeah, him and mister Freeze become friends. Remember, Yeah,
which one is?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (00:07):
That's not Rudolph coming to town? Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I think you're right, And that's what because that's the
one that has Chris Kringle.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
When he's like younger. Yes, she looks like Conan O'Brien.
He does.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
The year with the up.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, just to fatten them up, that's right. And this
has caused us to fatten them up. The person I'm
gonna make Patty start saying that. Brandy Bellman and the
d V Morning Show Billy.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Gardell live from Los Angeles, California, this morning here on
the d V Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Because we got our buddy man, Jeff Conkle in here
with us as well this morning, mister Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Here have I ever been in here with Jeff Conkle
in the studio, But it's been a minute, it's been
a long time. But yeah, nice to see you again. Well,
nice to see you too, buddy.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Well you got coffee cup? You got a nice coffee
cup there? What's that coffee cup?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I got a cup? This one is I get one
from all the cities that I enjoyed doing stand up
in and this morning is Saint Louis. Oh yeah, and
I like those. I like those big starbuck cups. I
like a cup of coffee you could soak your feet in.
I'm not messing around with a little cup. You like
a bowl. I like a coffee that has a high dive.
(01:29):
That's what I'm looking for.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Do you like coffee so much that you switch to
decaf in the afternoon and keep drinking it.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Nope, I just drink regular. I don't drink regular all day,
never switch, not all day. I do two big good morning.
I did two giant buckets in the morning, and then
usually around four o'clock I'll hit a lot or something
get that express espress So I enjoyed that.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, I'll go for some uh decaf because I like
the taste.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I just I don't want the zing because I'll be
up all that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, I won't be up all I got. I could
probably it's.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
An old man thing.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I just said, real, real loud, you're zinging, then I
gotta go.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, Patty's rule is two o'clock. I like it. I'm
not sure how much my a FIP doctor likes me
having espressure off the you got you gotta you gotta
roll the dice somewhere. Man, Jesus, you got to get
up at the table and roll the dice somewhere.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, I mean, you stop smoking so and all you
got is gambling. You know, it's just give me something stopped.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I got gambling and coffee. They don't go well together.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Now, Billy Gardell is live in Los Angeles, California. And
but you know there's some really tragic news out your
way in Los Angeles that.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Right before I went to bed last night. I'm still
waiting for all the news to break and just heartbreaking.
What what a, what a? What a sweet man? And God,
I hope it's I don't know what this is. I
don't know what the whole story is yet. But I
don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yeah, the details are starting.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
To leave, I know, I know, and yeah, I don't know. Well,
we haven't. When we went to bed last night, it
was at first it was there were two bodies found
at Rob Reiner's house. Now they're saying it's his wife
and him. Yep. And but that was the last I
heard before I went to bed. It's just tragic, well crazy,
it gets more tragic.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Because they were found by their their daughter, and the
suspected killer is their son Nick. Oh my god, he's
had awful mental health problems and so much of Bill.
He wrote a script. In twenty fifteen, Rob Reiner directed
the movie. It's called Being Charlie, and it's all about
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his life, Nick's life as a recovering addict and dealing
you know, with that man the tumult there in his family.
So it's just kind of unthinkable, but without dwelling too
much on the terribly tragic aspect of things. From a
purely comedic standpoint and uh, an entertainment world standpoint, he
was a giant.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Giant man, one of the greatest comedy directors. Uh. You
could put him in the Hall of Fame man and
just one of the all time greats. I mean, Harry
met Sally, you know, and then and then to turn
into a dramatic turn A few good men like that.
Guy was true artist, true artist.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
He had a run that was like it started with
spinal tap and then it had the sure Thing.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Stand by Me?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh, misery question the Princes, the Princess Bride.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
He did misery too, what spinal tap? Sure Things stand
by Me? Princess Bride, when Harry met Sally Misery, A
few good men, back to back to.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Back to back to back to back to back. That
stands all genres.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
That's a little horror, that's a little thriller, that's romantic comedy.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Holy cap bell.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I was telling these guys, I just happened to coincidentally
be listening to Penny Marshall's autobiography on tape because it's
Penny Marshall.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Reading it that it's weird.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Wow, it's awesome though, because you know, her voice is
so hilarious since she's got that, she's learn and Shirley
and she partied with Robin Williams and John Belushi and
all those guys, and she was married to Rob Reiner
and their house for many many years was like a
comedy like Incubator, and all of the people at that
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time I equated to like the Laurel Canyon scene. Everybody
was like hanging out to Peter Torks and Stephen Stieler's house,
like that was Rob Reiner and Penny Marshall's house for
comedy in the seventies, and it would be like Rob
Reiner and his best friend from forever, Albert Brooks who
basically would live there. Richard Dreyfus lived there with him too,
Tim Matheson, Belushi and Ackroyd.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Steven Spielberg would come over.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And hang out with with them and just like they
would be literally sitting around and talking about comedy.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
James L.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Brooks was also a guy who was there all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Who you know, Mary Tyler, Moore, Taxi, The Simpsons, Terms
of Endearment, broadcast news, you name it. All of those
people were kind of putting their heads together at a
young age like Okay, how are we gonna make our mark?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
And that was all fomented.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
By Rob Reiner and Penny Marshall, like, yeah, come on over.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Do you feel like in a room like that?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Even at the time that they're looking around at each
other and just saying like something crazy is going on
here in this room, Like no, like or do you
think there was just like, Hey, we're just buddies and
we're just that's exactly because you don't.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Know, we're just think it was just a creative scene.
There used to be a lot of those, Jeff the
old days, like the salons where you'd all get together,
but there was a there was there was there was.
There was a vod there though that you if the
thought was there was energy transference. Same with the music
there in Laurel Canyon, like he was talking about, you
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hung around other creative you weren't worried about and that
was a time where people were really trying to create
something cool it wasn't and something good and something that
would remark it wasn't about those guys. Honestly, Yeah, we're
all in it so we can pay the rent, but
but the priority was let's create something good before we rent,
and that vibe all believed hanging out with each other.
(07:21):
The Lampoon guys had the same philosophy, hang around other,
hanging around to other athletes other than you, and all
of a sudden you become better. And then there was
a worming vibe to that. So but what a legacy, man,
what a tragedy.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It's like, did you ever see there's a there's a
documentary about the like Nashville and the seventies and late seventies,
something about something something highway and the people around the
table at the time, none of them are big and
it's Steve Earl, guy Clark, Ronnie Carrington. Yeah, like, uh,
(07:59):
whis his name van zant uh ste no towns vanzan
yeah left, yeah exactly. So it's like all of those
guys sitting round a table and then they all want
to be went on to become country music Hall of fame.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
That happened to me on a smaller level. Man, when
I started at this little club in Orlando in nineteeny seven.
Our open mic night was me, Darryl Hammond, Carrot Top,
Larry the cable guy. Who else was in a four
who up being a kind of a big name in
(08:39):
voice servers at Nickelodeon like in the nineties, he did
Good tomorrowse you think who else? Wayne Brady? That this
was our crew that and no one, no one knew,
None of us knew we were going to make it.
And I mean Wednesday it was open mic night, and
we would all do open night and then everybody would
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have half a joke written on a cocktail napkin and
we'd all go to Dennyef the opens around and try
to go out. Like I said, how we're going to
pay them in class?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
You're in, you know all right, So let me let
me ask you this. Well, I'm going to have Jacob
guide you through a reconnect here because we're getting a
little spotty, We're getting a little little pop pop action.
So we kind of did a broad brush struck over
that story. Abby, wantn't you bounce to the next thing
that we have here while Billy is uh getting a reset?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I will Okay, So I saw this coming up here,
we can talk about it. Maybe a larger phenomenon of
bad movies either becoming good over time or maybe just
becoming awesomely bad over time.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Francis Ford copele is meg Yeah is headed back to
theaters there.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I still have not seen it.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, I feel a duty to see because I do
love the fact that he put his own money behind it.
And he's like, Nope, I'm not leaving any to my kids.
I'm gonna make an unbelievably ridiculous movie that I have
wanted to make forever and I don't care.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Who likes it.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
And he's doubling down on that because the movie, again.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Considered a total flop.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Is such a return to select Alamo draft house locations
on New Year's Day and quote it's my hope that
every New Year's Day the film will become a fulcrum
of discussion about the betterment of society and humanity.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Well, then he shouldn't have made it five hours long.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
I also feel like when you go in saying that
that's what the movie's about, that's a little high falutin,
and people just generally recoil, like like, I don't want
to I don't want to know full crumbs.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Right, I'm not going to the movie theater for a
full crumb.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
So he wants it to stand the test of time
and believe every New Year's Day you're gonna go see it.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Yeah, I'm not gonna go see it.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I will one day have uh, you know, I'll wait
till I get the mumps or something like that, you know,
and I can't move.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I have mono and I have to stay home, and
then I'll watch it.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
But you went back for The Irishman when we said that, Yeah,
I'm going back.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
For here's the thing the Irishman considered bad.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I think it was pretty bad, bloated, but there's I
will go back and I'll watch three scenes in that movie.
Probably I've probably watched three scenes in that movie four
hundred times. Which are which are the the the Harvey
Kaitel meeting, Like what do.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You what are you doing in Delaware? Frank?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Like that that one the fight scene in the jail
when it's like, what do you want me to do
with with your four and one? Kay uh see, Like
that's one of those movies that has some scenes that
are so gripping. But then that movie is also like
three hours and forty five minutes long, and the last
hour is just how you get old and die at
the end, So like it's it's not a very compelling,
yeah to sit through at the end.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Desperately needed a better edit that and also younger stars.
If they they could have Cappuccino in as Hafa, But
if they would have gone with just two younger stars,
if they would have gone like DiCaprio and Bobby conna
Valley or something like that, it would have been such
a different movie. I think it's in the vein of
the classic Scorsese's Casino, Goodfellas Mead Streets. It's just it's
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so distracting. Also, the scene where de Niro has to
beat the guy up in the street.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
It looks like a seven year old man, yeah, desperately
trying hard to recover from that.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
And when he bends over the hood of the truck,
and he goes, what's the problem with ster?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
And he goes, hey, kid, like Joe Peschi's.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Calling him a kid, and they look very old.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
They both look too old.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Yeah, but so he's they're re releasing this. The thing
I think the problem with Megalopolis is nobody really knew
what the it was about.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
They still don't.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I didn't know what it's about. I don't know what
I'm going to see. I don't know any of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I think it only makes sense to him and to
Randy's point, he spent one hundred and twenty million dollars
of his own money to make it admirable.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
One of my favorite moments of this year was that
they re released for like one weekend the original Ninja
Turtles movie in theaters, and I took my kids to
see it. And you want to talk about kind of
a cheesy, campy movie, the first nineteen ninety one Ninja
Turtles movie. And I had an absolute one hundred percent
flast and so did my kids. And actually I looked
(13:21):
it up because I was like, I wonder how this
got received. Roger Ebert gave it like two and a
half stars, and the line was in terms of Ninja
Turtles movies.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
This is about as good as it can get. And
that's pretty high praise for a Ninja Turtles movie. It
is they have a Christmas movie they do. We wish
you a Turtle Christmas.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I don't know that I've seen that one, and that's surprising. Calabonga.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yeah, love it all right.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Have you ever gotten this as a gift or given
as a gift and then wondered if the person hated
you for it. Somebody pulled twenty thousand Americans and asked
if a donation in your name is actually a good
gift or a bad one. They didn't ask people about
specific nonprofits, just any charity that the person might pick
because it's important to them. Turns out, most Americans do
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think it's a good gift. About fifty six percent said.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Yes, if someone gives that to you, you have joy
in your heart when that happens.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
I'm nothing wrong with the donation. I just don't think
you need to involve me at all. Well, I can
just keep me out of it.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I can tell you that this caused a lot of
consternation in my family when my sister was dating this
guy who was a total deadbeat, and we all we
hated this dude. He was he was a garbage person
and he was one of those like.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
You mean and that was his job. Or he was
a garbage.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Now he was a successful artist on a on a big,
big scale.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Garbage person, but he was garbage.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Never had money.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
He would have big showings that would get glowing reviews,
and he never had money. And he rail against, you know,
every chance you get. He got to rail against, you know,
the bourgeois machine, the machine.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Yes, he would do it.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
And then meanwhile he's hit at dinner in order the
most expensive bottle of wine and have no intention.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
That's why he has no money, one of those guys.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
And we could not stand him, and we did a
secret stand up and he drew my brother that year,
and he gave him one of those like I bought
a goat for you for a village, a goat in
an Africa somewhere, and none of us believe there was
an actual goat. We're like, there's no goat. Well, and
(15:28):
I've done that before, like or I've got that. I
think Sally did it for me one time, and I
had it like I was feeding an elephant for a
year or so.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Let's see with her. You know that that's an consistent
thread with him. You already didn't like him, so that
if you get a if you get a jump ball
with somebody you didn't like, you're gonna assume cynically that
this is not a real gift.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
He's notoriously cheap, you know, and never has money, and
so to come up with this gift, We're like, dude,
this is the phoniest gift. There is no goat. Was
there a way to verify? Did you go on the
website afterwards?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Say?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
It was very The whole thing was.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Like real sort of ambiguous, and you know, the details
were few and far between. But to be fair, I
don't think my brother looked into it too much because
he really did want to run with the narrative.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
He's just like, he's like, oh, I bought a goat
for a village.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Awesome, that that's exactly what I wanted, a fake goat
for a non existing village. Just next Christmas, he's there
with a with a hero machine, just shaving shaving goat
legs off. Well, the next year I told him, I'm like,
you should send him goat, Like, like, you know what
I mean like goat steaks savory.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah, gyro nact like, hey, good news about that goat.
Is this regifting?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:47):
I don't know. I mean, I know it's a time.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
For charity, but I just feel like I sometimes feel,
especially if you're cynical about the person, that that sounds
like a snooty that seems like a snooty gift a
little bit. I think like I don't need material things,
and we're like like, well I got you this, Uh
you know, I got you a radio controlled car.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh, I don't need material things. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
It just sort of seems like you're taking the taking
the fun, the fun materialistic part out of Christmas.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
I can.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I can understand that.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
And I go both ways, like in that I've had
things anyone else. I have done things like for birthdays
and stuff where I really meant it. I didn't want
presents and I had like a charity tie too. I'd
be like, I would like.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
You if the recipient is requesting it, then it's all good.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Well, I kind of know what's important to me and
like and if they know that that's something I'm affiliated
with and they're like, hey, I know you and you
suck at accepting presents, and.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
So I did this already.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Be like, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
If someone wants a Steelers starter jacket and you get
them a goat, then you're gonna get talked to.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You're gonna get talked about the deadbeats that I have
as friends.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
And sometimes they're like, I made a donation to this
in your name, and then you're like, you're.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Lying, give me the receipt. Well, Abbey knows. One of
my favorite tricks of the trade when it comes to
Christmas shopping for someone and you're like, hey, I don't
have to get them.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Here's something that nobody hates.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Go on like gold belly send them pizza New York pizzas,
pizzas from New York City.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
The best thing I got last he's a good one.
Here's some nice coffee, here's some pizzas. Oh you don't
like pizza really well, not even just be sitting around
and there's pizza there. Now you're on an ice watch list,
so yeah right now.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah that that truly was one of the best presents
that I got last year was the gold Belly.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Pie from Johnny.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
That was from John's on Bleaker, which is old Jacobs
favorite job.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
And they give you the instructions and everything exactly how
to put it in.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The I'm more of a Joe's guy, but I like Johnston,
Oh Margret, and it was so good. Yeah, And I'll
send muflettas from so Grocery, New Orleans to my brother
who loves those.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
That's the easiest way. Like, here's food.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Food.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Nobody even if you don't, even if it's a gift
from somebody who are like, I don't like this person,
but I have to send them a gift.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, food, Yeah, telling you right now, so I know.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
If I get a couple of ripe bovocados, I know
where I stand with you.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That's right, fair enough.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Not or very unripe, just hard hard avocados.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
As my son calls them, hulk balls.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
They do kind of look hulk bullish.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
It is a little hulk bawl. All right, we'll do
one more.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
It has been forty years since Teddy Rex's been blue
kids minds by talking and reading stories. Let's see how
far we've come. Foul mouthed AI toys could be a
big issue this Christmas. It's the first year a ton
of popular toys will have built in AI features. A
nonprofit called Public Interest Research Group released its fortieth annual
Trouble in Toyland Report. In the past, they focused on
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things like choking hazards, but they say AI is emerging
as a new threat to look out for this Christmas.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
See, there was a sixty minute story last week about
chat like characters on kids' phones and stuff like that,
and it's like it starts off innocent enough, because like, hey,
if you wanted to talk to Abraham Lincoln or Martin
Luther King or something like that, like you could talk
to all these people, but then they program from it's
like what if Dora the Explorer was evil? And then
they're like, within five questions, Dora is just like you
(20:27):
should self harm. And so like when you start talking
about choking hazards, I think it's now autoerotic self asshxiation
that Teddy Rouxman's going to be promoting at this point, Like,
you got to be really careful about attack to Nathan Bedford.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Forrest you are dead on.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Unfortunately, because some of those toys that they featured will
get into sexually explicit topics pretty quickly. They can also
offer advice on where a kid can find matches or not.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Okay, so these are like if Teddy Rock Spin had
chat ept pretty much.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Okay, Billy's back with his now Billy guard that we
have him back.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I don't know. Is that better? Yeah? It does sound better?
All right, he's so spot I'm sorry, buddy.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
So despondent.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I know how long it holds? Yeah, let's see.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
You got them Santa Ana wins out there? Is that
what's going on?
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, that's why I can't figure out why the way
back machine's not working this morning. But hopefully you know, well.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
It sounds good now, But what is your what is
your opinion on people who give you as a gift
a charitable donation to someplace.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
At this point in my life, I like that if
you're gonna wait, like, if you're gonna give me a gift,
so I donated some money to cancer research or something.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yeah, like I did a donation in your name or
maybe I mean listen. On the on the other like side,
you could say like I bought a star and named.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Well, I'm all, that's romantic for your partner. I get
all that that's thoughtful, But if you give me a
charitable don't it. I'm great. I would much rather you
give me that than something that carbonates my own water.
I don't want that mine. I got enough stuff. I'm good.
I'm good to man.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I was like, I'm there.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
I wanted one of those this Christmas, so that just
totally deflated that.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I knew I was never going to use it. Listen,
I knew if I got one of those, it was
going to end with an explosion, like an eighties movie
that went right out of the house. It came and
went the same. It was like Good Fellows. It came
in the front door, it went right out of the garage.
That was it.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
It's like when they're making bathtub Gin and the whole
house explodes.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I actually, whenever we do a holiday party, if we're
gonna or if we do a gathering like that, we
always say that. We always kind of put that on
the invite, like because my dad passed of lung cancer,
so we do that, or children's hospital if you want
to throw twenty bucks or whatever, fifty bucks or whatever
to do that. I don't bring nothing here. Don't bring
unless it's edible. You could bring something, bring some food,
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but don't. I don't need any more. Stuff I don't
want no more.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Say not for nothing. If you want to get something
for the Pittsburgh in your life. And along these lines,
the Batch Foundation can really use use your help.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
There you go and He's golden, Charlie's golden, and that
that that charity is true. That is a great thing
to do. That is a great thing to do. Great costs.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yep, you can click and ship right now. They're looking
for toys. You go on to their website and it'll
tell you what toys they need. You click, you go
to the toy you want to buy or toys you
want to buy, throw them in your cart and you
buy them and they ship them right to the Batch Foundation.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
You got to do it now, though, because twenty second
is the last day that you can collect toys. And
if anyone's out there waiting, I was doing some last
minute Christmas shop.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
But you think you got time, You don't got time.
You got to go today.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Yeah, I'm actually going to try to drop off this week.
I have a little like kind of tub now full
of toys that I keep meaning to go to one
of the drop off locations, and I keep going, I'll
go tomorrow, I'll go tomorrow. And so whenever he said,
I think he said the twenty second was the last
day the easter.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Pretty quickly I had a hurry.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
It is cold in Pittsburgh today is currently twelve degrees
are high today.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Is seventy three bell Rose and fish.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That's good, you know, I tha Audio Bill because Saturday
we got so much snow and I stayed in and
you know what he did.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
I made soup.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
But oh yeah, soup weather. I got two of those
out here. Oh yeah, I get two bowls of soup
all year. That's my fast. I'm wearing a fly. I
wear sweaters too soon out here too. I'm just sweating midday.
And Patty's like, not yet, not yet yet?
Speaker 5 (24:43):
You missed East Coast? You are? You got that?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I missed the weather that way? I do. I miss
the weather terribly. I love the changing of the seasons.
When I was back this year for the fall, there's
nothing like that. I missed that terribly. Aren't you glad
my time?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Aren't you glad you're not here tonight for Monday Night
football to wave the terrible towel pregame.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
No, I actually would love to do one like that.
That would be I think that would be a killer one,
you know, I mean, you know, I've I've had so
many amazing ones, but I never had a snow one.
I never had. I would love to have a shot,
would have one way. Well, your voice went out. That
was just freezing. That was freezing. We were beyond snow.
We were out. We were out past the wall. We
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were the wall. We were we were, we were with
the Walkers coming to get us. Some Game of Thrones.
That was like cold, yeah, yeah, No, I'd love to
have one where it was on snow. Maybe that'll happen
next year.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
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Speaker 1 (26:27):
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Is I brought to you by Bridgeville Plants and Steelers
are hosting the Dolphins tonight, and the circumstances ought to
be recognizable, if not comfortable, a season that could have
crashed and burned several times already and still might.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Has it? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Has it?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Here they go again, here's d C Terra Austin.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
I think that's part of you know, when you and
this has nothing to do with me, has everything to
do with this building and the culture that's been built
around here for a long time, and obviously Mike's been
here a long time. But that's the culture around here
where guys, you know, it's a team thing. You're always
playing for the team, and you do the best you can.
And I think that's why guys hold the rope and
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they stay on it and they don't you know, they
don't fall into you know, it's easy when if you
lose a few games or you do something, to fall
into selfish clicks and do stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
And our guys don't do that.
Speaker 11 (27:26):
Our guys just figure out, Hey, how can we work
hard to figure out a way to get us out
of this rut and keep moving forward. And I think
it's a testament to the building. It's a testament to
the guys that play the game. You know, our players
that have been here past and president.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
Yeah, getting out of a ruts one thing, getting on
a roll is another. And that's what they're going to
try to do to win a second game in a
row and then see.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Where they can go from there.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
Part of that culture this season that Terol Austin referenced
includes wide receiver DK Metcalf taking it upon himself to
speak out in advance of what became a win over
the Ravens. Back on December the seventh, quarterback and Rodgers
had mentioned Metcalf had been especially impactful in practice prior
to the Ravens game. Turns out that wasn't just by
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catching passes.
Speaker 12 (28:11):
No, I think I just was feeling the need to
say something about the lack of details with everybody and
glude myself. So I think there's being more vocal in
that aspect.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Was what he what he meant?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Nothing like a sight to see or anything.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
There is that something You're more people are doing now
in December with this team than.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You would have been when we came in.
Speaker 12 (28:32):
And oh yes, sinitely, yeah, because I'm not trying to
be here and I know in May or April and
you know, just start speaking. I got to get to
know my teammates, not gotta you know, give them a
chance to get to know me any type of.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Player that I am.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
Do you think of when something along the lines of
will you first run the right rounds so you could
draw some coverage and they could.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Throw me the ball once?
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Why?
Speaker 9 (28:55):
I do think that, Yes, But in all seriousness, the
leader's got to lead right now. If you're gonna have
a DK METCAF, you would expect that from him. If
you're gonna have and Aaron Rodgers, you would expect that
from him. And Randy were asking me during the last
sports cast, how do they attack Miami? And you know,
the path of least resistance is kind of what they
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lean into. And that's why you have Aaron Rodgers. This
Miami defense. The coordinator Anthony Weaver is a former Ravens player,
and you're gonna see the Dolphins tonight line up will
be seven eight guys at the line, and then invariably
the linebackers are going to drop and they're not going
to bring the house every time, but they're gonna try
to confuse you at the line of scrimmage. Aaron Rodgers
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that he should be unconfusable because he's been doing this
for twenty one years and yet and that's why you
have him, and that's this is how you go the
rest of the way. But here's the ass and this
scissors reads it and then he attacks where it's.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Vulnerable, Okay, and then he's got to tell everybody what
he's read. And this is where the problem has been.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yes, this is also a very salient point by you.
I don't think i've heard the words Aaron Rodgers and
unconfusible in the same sentence in quite a while. Yeah, oh,
I didn't say unstoppable.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
But to Randy's point, if he knows what what covered,
but Roman Wilson doesn't, what good does it do? But
he talked, you know again back to the how do
you attack these guys think Rogers talked about that deep
ball to Metcalf that started the Ravens game, and Mike
Tomlin and said, yeah, we woke up in an aggressive
(30:30):
posture a lot. They didn't throw that because they were
in an aggressive posture. They threw that because the coverage
was giving them the option. And he saw it and
Metcalf saw it, and they said, forget to play. We
have called we're going downtown here, and that's how they
need to operate.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Yeah. The only thing that worries me about Aaron Rodgers
on a game like this.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
This is a game where he sees DK in a
position where the defense is vulnerable and then wants to
send him, and then, in the single digit temperatures, thinks
that he's twenty five years old and forgets that he's
forty two years old and ducks one.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
That's what I'm a little worried about. I'm not worried
about that.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
I'm worried about the cold affecting the passing, you know,
the catching part of it.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
I think about a game where Kenneth Gainwell is going
to have eighteen receptions with you for one hundred and
forty yards or something like that, there's gonna be a
lot of checking down there.
Speaker 9 (31:21):
Might he likes those, but I'm not worried about Roger's arm.
That would be the least of my concerns. And it's
Miami secondary, I think is vulnerable. They got a bunch
of young guys up front, they drafted three defensive linemen.
They're starting to figure it out. But just throw it
where Minka Fitzpatrick is not and you got a pretty
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good chance of having.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I think that's written on the board this week. Yeah,
I think they wrecked that on the board this week.
If it's not at all Fitzpatrick is not, play.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Leg a champion, throw it where Fitzpatrick is not.
Speaker 13 (31:55):
You know.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
The other thing, there's been a lot of talks since
that Ravens went about their culture and how they hang
in there and persevere and all that.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
One of the.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
Reasons that they do that, at least in Rogers estimation,
is that Mike Tomlin's eighteen years streak of never having
had a losing season sets a significant tone.
Speaker 14 (32:16):
Yeah, that's really impressive. I mean, we had to run
twenty and nine to twenty sixteen where we didn't miss
the playoffs in Green Bay and won the division number
of times during that stretch, and you know, it creates
an expectation of winning, and the winning gets ingrained in
the culture. And I think there's a lot to be
said for that. It's not overt it's just kind of
the foundational part of the locker room and the team
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is an expectation of winning. And when you're a part
of organization like that, which I was in Green Bay
and then didn't have it in New York, it makes
a big difference teams that don't have that ingrained in it.
There's always the opportunity to do it. It just takes
the right people and the right timing and the right
coaching to kind of put it together. And you learn
how to win. When you've been a place that has
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a history of excellence, like Green Bay with the sixties on,
like Pittsburgh with the seventies on, it's just kind of
understood when you walk in the door that that winning
is the most important thing, and like the great Vincetin
Bardi said, it's the only thing that really matters.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
Okay, now I'm ready. You mentioned Vince Lombardi. Now I'm
ready for the game.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Aaron knew him.
Speaker 9 (33:26):
Yes, I find it fascinating that there's a large part
of the fan base that thinks they're doomed to fail
because they're the Steelers, and they think they have a
shot because they're the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
They both can't be right.
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It is the DV Morning Show Billy Gardell hanging out?
Will this laugh from Los Angeles, California on a Monday
instead of a Tuesday, because tomorrow'll be all postgame talk
with the Steelers playing Monday Night football Tonight again the
Miami Dolphins for an eight to fifteen kickoff Aaron Rodgers
versus TUA. That'll be an interesting one. Gonna be cold tonight.
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There are some tickets available on secondary markets, very reasonable
if you want to go to a Steelers game and
bundle up tonight and cheer on the home root for
our home team.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
That's a cold What do you bring to this?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Gid? What what's the what's what's the outfit?
Speaker 5 (35:24):
You bring booze, you bring hand warmers, you bring a
seat pad? What do you Because it's single digits is
now you're in a different level of dealing with cold.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
You know what, Missus Matthews said something about the sideline
thing that never occurred to me.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Whenever she was talking about the handwarmers.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
She was like, if you put them in your boots,
you put them on the tops of your feet, never
on the bottom. And I was like, oh, like the
toes on the tops of the toes, because that's the
thing for me. Once my get cold, I am in consolable.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
I am the worst person you've ever met.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
So my dad used to always take a piece of
carpet to games like this. Of course, he took two
pieces of carpet. One he'd put on his seat and
the other he would put on the ground and put
his feet on it. Now, Yester, yesterday the Bears put
out a statement preventing their fans from bringing cardboard to
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the games because people were doing that with cardboard, and
he'd sit on cardboard. You put your feet on cudboard.
Just some about having your feet on that cold cement.
It really duty so, but they weren't letting their fans
do it. I'm not exactly sure why, other than they
had to clean up a lot of cardboard. Now, that
might seem bad, but that's not nearly as bad as
the Bengals yesterday.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
Yeah, how about that, Mike Brown? What happened the chintzy
owner of the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
After Cincinnati received five six inches of snow on the
side of the stadium that get snowed in, they did
not clear the snow for their fans in anticipation at
the one o'clock the Bengals game.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
You had to clean your own.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Yes, I was in Cincinnat this weekend actually visiting my
friends that are there that you guys know about it at
this point.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
And yeah, it was a bleep show.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
So tons of snow and not much, but they did
a terrible job of.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Clearing They didn't clear it.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Yeah, right, when that happens in Buffalo, they pay volunteers
twenty bucks an hour to go and shovel it all out.
And then they go and you know, they get drunk
and do what over Like Yeah, they're like they're like
the dozers on frabl Rock if if they drank, Yeah,
(37:35):
they're just.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Going to celebrate the jump table exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
So, uh, I don't think you have to worry about
the seats being cleared off tonight. I'm sure that at
Akercer Stadium they've taken all measures to make sure everybody's
nice and comfortable.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
That Ran Wilson's doing Actually we speak.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Like a man.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Give him something to do for crying out loud Christmas.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I think that's gonna be my retirement plan. I'm just
gonna come you know, clean the seats at the stadium. Yeah,
for rough weather, and that'll be my retirement plan.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Billy, when you were a kid, if I like this
first thing that pops in your head, what is the
present as a kid that you got that was the
life changer?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
I think a bicycle. I got a I got a
bicycle one year that was not something that my dad
had pieced together in the garage that wobbled when you
pedaled it when I actually got it, when I got it.
When I got it, oh yeah, I had a couple
of spare park bikes, you know, and oh yeah. His
argument was, well, let's see if he likes it. Well,
what kid doesn't want a bike that? You know? But
(38:39):
I was riding around in a in a rust bucket
for a while, and then when I've got a new
bike I got, I got that huffy evil Canievil one,
and that was I thought. I thought I had super power.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
The confidence, the confidence, and still with a new bike.
He trusted me with this thing.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Nineteen seventy six, nineteen seventies six. Yeah, I thought I
thought I had super powered.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Now I know that bike and that bike ye had
a plastic like uh.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
The plate on the front end of the handlebar.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
No, didn't it look like a gas tank on a
motorcycle and it was like right underneath.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I didn't have the one with the gas time.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Do you know what I'm talking about? I mean, it
wasn't actually.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Yeah exactly, but I no, but I know. But it
had that plastic piece that looked like you were riding
a button. No, but I had like a mine had
a like a plastic plate on the front of the handlebars.
But I removed that. I didn't like the way that
sounded when I was right, Yeah, I didn't enjoy that.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
And now that was in Florida or was it in
in Pittsburgh?
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Now that was in Pittsburgh. That was before my dreams
were shattered. I didn't have to invent in imagination to
deny my life show that I could become an artist.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Next question, not much to delve into there, right, all right?
By that game?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
All right, all right?
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Did you take the bike out immediately? Regardless of weather.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
It was at we were riding in the snow right away,
took a spell and the ice hit a slush puddle
too hard and uh. And then in the summer it
was at the slag dump kind of going downside piles
of you know, decimated call cinder. So that's where we
used to play in Swiss Speld. There's a slag dump
(40:28):
right behind Memorial Field. Sure there was a hole in
the fence. We'd get in there. I think we were
going BMX tricks. No one said nothing. You come home
just covered and soot.
Speaker 7 (40:38):
You have fun.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Oh it was a blast.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I loved it.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
So you're my older brother Charlie's age and my brother's
Charlie and Gary were like Irish twins and they always
got like the same stuff.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
But evil can evil.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I cannot impress upon people enough what a big deal
it was for someone your age to get evil.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
I was I was too young for that, but I just.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
And there was one year my dad got them or
Sanna whatever got them the Evil canevil set that was
like a motorcycle and there's the action figure there's on
the motorcycle and it went, it looped and you could
create jumps and everything like that. And my dad was
very excited about this. And so his two idiot sons
go down and they like set up a whole track
(41:20):
for him to film with the Super eight. He wants
to see you know, like their first creation with this,
and what jump that they're gonna have and is he
gonna go over the Snake River.
Speaker 5 (41:29):
Or what is it?
Speaker 3 (41:30):
It had a big green Snake river canyon that came
with it that you could set it up to jump over.
And they set it up and immediately my dad's like,
all right, go and they're like they.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
You know, pull the thing to get it revved up.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
And they put it on the track and it goes
flying down the track and it does the loop.
Speaker 15 (41:51):
And then everyone's like oh, and then it goes off
a jump and goes up into the air and goes
way faster than they thought it was going to and
lands right in the fire on fire on Christmas and immediately.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Just gone that in one take one one t shooting anything.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
You gotta know what's down range. That's right right into
the fireplace.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
You know.
Speaker 5 (42:18):
It like landed and took a hard right kind of
like how Evil would land.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Yeah, he would do that every night. That's why you watch.
Speaker 5 (42:26):
Yes, right, damn hard right, turned right into the fire.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
The actually figure pumps up into the air and burns
into a grizzly death, never.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
To be used again. Even I knew as a kid
when he when Evil Canevel tried to jump the Grand Canyon,
when they rolled that rickety rocket out there that looked
like wildly he put it together. I think even as
a nine year old, I was like, I don't think
this is gonna go well. I don't think this is gonna.
Speaker 7 (42:57):
Go well at all.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
Did you ever see the Evil k Evil documentary that
was on I think it was on Netflix or it
might have been. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's Netflix. And
I think Johnny Knoxville is that sense that makes sense
and it is a tail of not just like the
craziest person you ever like. It just seems inconceivable that
(43:21):
he would be this destructive for his own edification like
it made him happy because to him, it was the
only way to stay famous and the only way he
could be a smoking, boozing babe hound was to be famous,
and nothing was more important to him than being famous
(43:42):
and desired.
Speaker 6 (43:43):
If you have no other skills in life, then jumping
a couple buses while they're on fire seems like a
good plant.
Speaker 3 (43:48):
Yes, you know, bones heel and chi chicks dig scars
was the famous joke from Simpsons, but that was basically
what he thought, and he would, and he was like,
not the greatest person, maybe not somebody you want to
be your dad?
Speaker 6 (44:00):
Do you really want to delve into stuntman's pass and
make morals? I mean, these people are on the fringes
of society.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Whenever, whenever, I just thought step dad. He had stepdad
written all over him. He just had stepdad written on it.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
He was basically, like you said, stuntman, he's like right
out of a Burt Reynolds movie in the set, like
something from Hooper, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (44:22):
That was his real life one hundred.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
He might have been a stepdad and his step son
was probably like, yeah, jump the canyon.
Speaker 15 (44:27):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
You know, she jumped the found Jesus Poace.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
But you know that's funny, that's that is what his
son jumped. His son jumped the Caesar.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
It became Yeah, Robbie Canevel.
Speaker 6 (44:43):
Was the one legacy to have to inherit. You want
to do you think Brownie James has tough shoes to fill.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
Exactly, at this rate, you're never gonna jump seventeen buses.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
What a disappointment.
Speaker 5 (44:57):
So you're already for for the holiday. When Wilster get there.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Ray rock and roll man. He gets him on the twentieth.
I got a little surprise for him for at his place,
but that don't get there till Wednesday. So I have
gotten him convinced to stay here from the twentieth to
the twenty fifth. And his mother is very excited. So
she's got him home for four days. So that'll be
round the clock full fridge. I'm actually doing it for
(45:24):
selfish reasons because he'll be home. They'll be stuff in
the fridge, they'll be cookies, they'll be whatever his favorite meal.
You know, the prince is coming home, so I'll get
to eat and part take in that tip. Now you
know I need something from the store. Now, she's like,
you got a car. Oh okay, the boy comes home
and it's that that fridge starts to look like Narnia.
(45:45):
You just open.
Speaker 5 (45:48):
Well, Billy, hoping you have the happiest man.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Everybody. Have a very merry Christmas, happy Holidays, and happy
New Year. And here's to a safer time. Here's to
a hinder time. Uh, don't be a jag off ho
ho ho.
Speaker 5 (46:04):
There you go. That should be on a T shirt
down in the Strip district. Don't be a jag Off.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Steel watch die Hard on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 5 (46:14):
Hey, that is your number one Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Yeah, we got too. We always do a double feature
Polar Express followed by die Hard. It's not Christmas in
the guard House until knacka Tone, until Hans Gruber goes
off the Knackatoby building. That's how we know.
Speaker 5 (46:30):
I told you how we know.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
St necks up in the air.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
I saw those inflatables on somebody's yard. They had Knockatomy
Plaza inflated in the front yard.
Speaker 7 (46:39):
I have that, I have.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
I have the ornament of Willis in the air vent,
and I have an ornament of Hans falling on my
tree right now.
Speaker 5 (46:47):
That's awesome. Well, look, man, have a great one.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
We're getting set for guys, Christmas, Happy Holidays.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
Monday Night Football tonight, and he'll be cranking up the
network at four o'clock. But here he is for you
now with the amble to kick off. It's Steelers Dolphins,
Monday Night Football. Here's Mike Persuda.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Oh this is good timing. This is good time.
Speaker 7 (47:12):
A man's coming down.
Speaker 9 (47:24):
When last Herd and hackersher a significant contingent of those
in attendance voiced their displeasure with the Steelers unofficial national anthem.
In response, the Steelers went down to Baltimore and cranked
up the football version of how do You Like Me Now.
Their potentially season saving twenty seven to twenty two victory
over the Ravens was as much about intangibles as it
(47:45):
was downfield passing. DK Metcalf led to charge in both departments,
but was far from alone in delivering the response The
Steelers suspected they'd be able to conjure up all along
in the aftermath, Defensive coordinator Tara lost and maintained head
coach Mike Tomlin is elite in such circumstances because the
Steelers are built for them, and quarterback Aaron Rodgers referenced
(48:09):
referenced Tomlin's special sauce as one every team is looking
for in a coach still want to throw stones at
sticks that noise won't distract from the task at hand,
Miami or the opportunity to take another step toward winning
a division.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
It won't be easy without TJ.
Speaker 9 (48:26):
Watt, particularly when it comes to stopping the run, but
they have won twenty two in a row on Monday
nights at home, and tonight's opponent often resembles a fish
out of water when the temperature dips below forty six degrees,
So there's at least a chance if we hear renegade tonight,
all will be forgiven, if not forgotten, at least temporarily.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
The jig is up, the news is out. This season
is just getting started. Are you ready for some football? Yeah? Two?
Speaker 9 (48:58):
Really can't throw when baby it's cold outside. The running
game the must slow, Baby it's cold outside. Stackhen wins.
Can't be just a Christmas wish. Keep throwing downfield if
there's one on ones take them. The playoffs all wait,
but they still have to make them. Miami'd rather be warm.
Rogers is at home in the storm. Baby it's cold outside.
Speaker 7 (49:23):
Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 5 (49:25):
Four o'clock he gets the network going today.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
We start our pregame as early as all right, he's
at six o'clock rather four o'clock is when we start
our pregame. Pursuit of Labs and Jerry dou Lac lead
you into the eight to fifteen kickoff with Rob King,
Max Stark's and Nissy Matthews here on DVE special thanks
to mister wen Say.
Speaker 6 (49:45):
Jeff Conkle coming in Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy hawk
this first night of Hanukah. Tonight last night I thought,
or last night was okay, God bless us, every bless everyone, right, Jacob.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
Somebody called Randy Grossman.
Speaker 5 (49:59):
Yeah, because you've got our own rap right here.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (50:04):
And look it's game day, which means pot down the baby.
It's cold outside and pot up.
Speaker 7 (50:15):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Lets went from that time with that great cha that pit.
Speaker 3 (50:26):
Billy.
Speaker 7 (50:26):
You're too late to say.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
It's every second. Keep me on the left, don't.
Speaker 7 (50:36):
Leave you love your bits. It's been yet.
Speaker 3 (50:57):
Name and scrownbid ball, the fence, the fence, gigs, the stealers.
Speaker 7 (51:06):
Always best of all.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
Joe me Joe to your.
Speaker 7 (51:13):
Team against the other team. He stopped from here to year.
Where's some glad he's playing year?
Speaker 2 (51:20):
Not join with me?
Speaker 7 (51:22):
And seeing lesty learsy. We're round the time with that
great football team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. We need s harmit
not only history your again the Steelers Jerellas Drillas show.
(51:46):
And so if Frank brows army, he's been many years
he's having just be lusty. Left machinery is having. I'm finished.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
You stay classy, Pittsburgh. Don't touch your face.
Speaker 9 (52:01):
Iike got him tup Pittsburg, allday baby.
Speaker 1 (52:03):
To now you guys call me Ronald?
Speaker 5 (52:05):
Would you not eat my pants?
Speaker 1 (52:06):
Ronald?
Speaker 5 (52:07):
Ah? Whoa man?
Speaker 7 (52:11):
Whay go ahead.
Speaker 13 (52:16):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
to you by First National Bank. Let's get started. Remember
FDIC and Steelers Pro Shop. Get it direct from the
team at shop dot Steelers dot com. Here's Tom Opperman
No TJ.
Speaker 16 (52:29):
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 a
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,
(52:53):
thanks to the trio of edge rushers at their disposal
and Alex Heismith, Nick Herbig and Jack Sawyer. High Smith
had a second retackles for loss in Baltimore last week
and has six and a half sacks in his nine
games played this season. Nick Herbick 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 defense since
(53:15):
Highsmith'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, maintained their
lead in the AFC North.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
I'm Tom Aperman with the Steelers Report at FNB.
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