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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It is really cool. My tire pressure is already. I
hate that screaming Yeah, that'll be fun.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
There's like there should be a place where you can
pull into that just warms you up while you check
your tire pressure, because every time you have to check
your tire pressure, it's freezing and you never want to
pull over into it. So it's just be this place
where you just like pull in really quick and it's
just like it's nice music and it warms you up.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's a nice business model.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I actually I've already had probably it's called a garage.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Randy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, I tell you it's pretty brutal right now. And
my car's doing that. There's something on my battery. I
hope it's the battery, not the alternator, you know what
I mean. It does that like am I gonna start?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (00:45):
Or am I just gonna leave you stranded here? Kind
of sound.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Mine does that as well.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's a push to start, though yours is an ignition condition.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Mind's a push to start and it goes.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Yeah, Well I told you not to get the dodge one, No,
the bum.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
The dodge baby. You need a little meby I can't turn.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
It sucks out there still because it's so cold. I
don't understand why it takes so long to clear the
roads down here, like.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
It's it's bonkers.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
And and over Saturday, like we very much knew it
was coming and where were they?

Speaker 6 (01:31):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
No now, So they put out this video. The Department
of Public Works put out a video. It was very
funny on like Thursday, where they were like prepping for
the storm. Did you see that? And there it was like,
you know, like like the Chicago bulls, you know, coming
out of the tunnel type thing, and they're like high
five and and stuff, and it's like.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
Slow mo and they're acting like big slips.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, like jumping into their trucks and everything, which I
thought was very funny, But.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
Then what the hell happened?

Speaker 7 (01:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I don't get it, and I don't want to always
every time that its snows pulled this Like I grew
up in the Yukon card of car. I was born
in the snow, but I'm kind of used to it.
That was a storm on Saturday that when I was
coming up. It might have kept some people home type thing,

(02:22):
but they plow and people know how to drive in
that stuff because you just you have to girls, you'll
never leave. But when the roads are that unattended, you
can't go anywhere. And people were I mean I was.
I felt like an old man sitting next to a scanner.
I was just sitting on social media, racking up the

(02:43):
Oh there's another accidents. Oh there's another one.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I kept watching it because like I saw the alerts
coming in and I was watching, you know, like on
your Apple weather there's an actual map. Yeah, that's how
old lady I've become. I'm like watching the map change.

Speaker 8 (03:01):
I'm talking about.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I kept I kept being like, I got time, it
wasn't that bad. And then I'm also looking out the window, going, well,
I don't see anything yet because that and that's a
little dat of me.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
So it was a combo deal.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
Well I can't see it, must not be real.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
No, don't think it's tied up on it.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
And so I got thinking I had time for my travels,
and I did not, because once it started coming down,
it was fast. And then by the time I was
getting home to my plan, I almost wrecked into like
the big stone sign that says you're coming into my plan.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
And so I felt extra stupid for waiting.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I went to Giant Eagle or like on Friday, and
it was holy cow, just because people were already huh,
preparing for what was to come. They were literally saying
on the news like, hey.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
Do all your errands today. It's gonna be bad tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Most I have seen my Giant Eagle and in a
long long time, like since like pre COVID shut down
on them when they.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Told everybody like you better hurry up and get out there.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
And the next day it started snowing, and I was like,
you know, there's a couple of things I don't I
have that i'd like to have because I'm making soup.
If I'm staying in, I'm doing a big pasta. I
made a big pastaff.

Speaker 8 (04:23):
Yeah it was good. It wasn't my finest work, but
it's it was.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's pretty good because I had it say it's not
your finest work.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
I'm a soup maker. I make soup. I come from
a long line of soup craftsmen. We craft soup, that's right. Yeah,
this one. I went a little heavy on the oregano
on the fresh orag, you know, and I wish I
would if I wish I would have backed it down
a little bit because it had a little more of
a you know, Ragou aftertaste than I wanted it to have.

(04:51):
I mean literally Ragu the brand, not Ragu sauce. And
I didn't have a really good loaf of fresh bread.
I'm like, I wonder if there's something a gint Eagle,
because you know I love their bakery. So I'm like,
I go there and I'll tell you what they had.
They had one loaf one that was it pre cut? No, that,

(05:14):
which is fine. I don't want that for for what
I'm looking I'm looking for a rip butter it up
and dunk.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
No, no, no. I was gonna say, you don't want me.
I don't want pre cut.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
I'm with you on that. I say, don't let them
cut it. Yeah, don't let them cut it.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
If I want it for sandwiches, I want one of
those like multi green Tuscanese which are banging.

Speaker 8 (05:33):
That one.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
I'll take a pre cut just so I don't have
to keep doing it every time I want to make sandwich.

Speaker 9 (05:37):
But when I'm doing it for like a dipper, for
like a suit, no, no, you got to be able
to rip it. I want to be able to rip
it and dip it. So they had one, literally there's
one loaf of bread. And it turned out to be
the perfect loaf of bread because it was like a
country boulet, which I don't know what that is, but
it looked like sour dough, but it wasn't sourdough.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
It was just white, hard crusted bread.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
It was amazing, Okay, but then I remember they have
the day old bread section and I was like, I
wonder if they got any bread back there. Also there
was me and one guy in the store. Wow, that
was it.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Everybody was feeling soup. I think there was nothing on
the shelves though.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
Anywhere.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
It was like comical because I was thinking, this is
only a forty eight hour situation at most for most people.
Like Saturday and Sunday, you didn't really want to go
anywhere yesterday, but you could. I wasn't like not traversible,
but some roads were still not great, as we just
pointed out. And I went back and I got a
little Ossi Hugo bread that they had. It was a

(06:32):
day old you know, dude. That stuff was ridiculous too.
So I just had bread and soup and watched old
movies like, I'm like, I'm one hundred years old.

Speaker 8 (06:42):
I kind of love that.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, it was fine.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
You know, I've had a little veno and watched the
snow come down and it was beautiful, and then just
kept every time I opened up Twitter so that there
was more accidents in the city of Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, I mean once, once it starts, I want snowed in, you.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
Know what I mean, like fun feeling.

Speaker 10 (07:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
I have friends that like that have the impulse that
as soon as they see it start to snow, They're like,
I must be in it.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I must leave, I must traverse.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
And I also respect that game, but I'm like, as
soon as it begins, I'm like, let's cocoon.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
I don't mind doing, like on a big blizzard like that,
doing a nighttime walk.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, I get the boots.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Walk around the neighborhood because it's all lit up because
of the snow. So, I mean, that's that's a fun
thing to do. But it was freaking cold. It wasn't
just snowing. I mean it was really really cold this weekend.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
So the Steelers game tonight, Monday Night Football, the temperatures
are going to be absolutely brutal and the dolphins flew
in early. They practiced somewhere I don't even know is
that where it was. Yeah, holy cow, they were out
in that blizzard practicing, getting ready for tonight.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Trying to get used to it.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
It looks like for the game tonight, it's going to
be about seventeen degrees with the real ill temperature of twelve.
And just for reference, if you want to practice, it's
eleven degrees right now. So if you are, you know,
if you want to see, like cannot handle it tonight.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Step outside.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, my feet are still freezing just from walking from
the car.

Speaker 8 (08:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
I hung out yesterday outside to let Edie sled ride
with her. I hope someday boyfriend across the street. And
you know, it's fun because the neighbors and I the
parents of this boy, we think we're like basically supervising
their dating, as you know, we just kind of like
watch them hang out, you know, and they're at the

(08:37):
age where like they totally they get along so well,
but like and they can still dump snow on each
other and they maybe have like six to eight months
before they're going to be mortified to hang out with
each other. So we're just enjoying the fact that it's
still cute. But they wanted to sled ride together and
so we're like we can facilitate that. But like just
sitting out there and like our toes are freezing because

(08:58):
we're not moving around the way the kids are and everything,
and just had like tea and like things to try
to warm me up and keep going.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
But I'm just like this is adorable. Also I'm miserable.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, I did a dog walk for forty five minutes
and it was it was challenging towards the end, no question.
But just drive safe out there if you're going to
the game tonight, and I hope that we get a
lot of Steeler fans there.

Speaker 5 (09:20):
We need to win this game. This is gonna be
a tough one.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's going to be brutally cold, as Abbie said, and no,
TJ Watt, TJ Watt, the dry needling situation really bumming
me out.

Speaker 5 (09:31):
I always, what don't I always tell you lube your needle.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Every single time. It's the one thing I know.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
About you, your needle. I know what are we doing
with dry needles? How can we not afford lube needles?

Speaker 8 (09:43):
Now?

Speaker 2 (09:43):
I don't understand I've had acupuncture before. I've had the
acupuncture where they stick the needle in you and then
they put a electric stem on the needle.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
What do you think of that?

Speaker 5 (09:56):
I thought it was reckless.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
I don't enjoy Yeah, any accoutrom ale to the needle.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's too inexact of a science for me. Yeah, you
know what I mean, like, is it in far enough?
Because there was times where it's like and the acupunctures
and she was lovely, but she's like explaining it like, hey,
you know, sometimes you don't get where you need to go,
so if this hurts, it shouldn't hurt, you know. And
I'd be like, ah ah, you know, it's like, Okay,
I got it on the wrong place.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
You know.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Uh, didn't mess with her when she does it go well.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
It was like right before I had got my my
hips replaced and then I was just everything was so
I was just recoiled completely from the waist down and
all the muscles were killing me. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
People were like, you gotta go do this, it'll work.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
And I've done it before, but not with that electric
stam And I went and did it with the electric
stem and it felt like, oh, I think if they
screwed this up, you could really be hurt. Now. I
don't know if he had the electric stem on it
in between his ribs there, But.

Speaker 8 (10:55):
How the hell do you go in so far?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Isn't there shouldn't there be like a line like dipstick,
you know, like, yeah, don't go past this line when
pushing it into somebody's rib cage.

Speaker 11 (11:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
I know from my brief brief stint in eurficing school
that needles have gauges, but I you know, length is
a whole other thing.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Anyways, it might not be as bad as previously feared,
which is good news. There's even speculation he could play
next week against Detroit, but he won't be there tonight,
and James Pierre won't be there tonight, which give the
amount that they're probably gonna run the ball. Isn't that
big of a deal, I don't think, as long as

(11:37):
they have Derek Harmon and waiting to find out for
sure on that one.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
Michael, have more coming up for you at the bottom
of the hour as.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
We get set for Steelers Dolphins and eight fifteen kickoff
tonight right here on your radio home of the Steelers,
and right as I was going to bed last night
I read the tragic news out of Hollywood that for me,
there is some very weird timing with all of this
that I'll tell you in a second.

Speaker 5 (12:06):
But God, was I sorry to hear this, Abby.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, this was unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
And it was the same thing I was getting ready
to go to bed and we saw the story that
Rob Reiner, respected actor and director, was found stabbed to
death alongside his wife Michelle in their home in Brentwood, California.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
So here's what we know right now.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
And People reported last night that multiple unnamed sources had
told them that.

Speaker 5 (12:33):
The Reiners were People Magazine.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
People Magazine, yeah, yeah, just to be clear, had told
them that the Hiners were killed by their son Nick.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
But the Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Alan Hamilton told
reporters around midnight Eastern time last night that officials had not.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Identified a suspect.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
So it's odd that I have pulled up some sources
that usually you and I would use as pretty reliable
prep that are going with that full bore. So I
just want to say that at least, you know, the
police are saying that that they're not going with that reliably.
So family members are currently being interviewed. That's about the

(13:17):
most reliable thing that we can go with, so I
want to at least put that out there. The investigation
is still ongoing, there are family members that are still
at the scene.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
But certainly a lot of tributes are pouring in.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
I know, I saw something from Kathy Bates, who starred
in Reiner's movie adaptation of Misery, talking about how devastated
she was, saying, I loved Rob and he changed the
course of my life. And I know we're going to
get amazing tributes throughout the morning here.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Because he just they've There's even some.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Films that I forgot about that I didn't like.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
The first thing I.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Think of is always spinal Tap, because I'm just always
going to think of spinal tap first, But things like
stand by Me, The Princess Bride, the Short Thing when
Harry met Sally, a few good men. You know, Kathy
Bates mentioned Misery, but just an incredible film career in
addition to his television career and everything that he did

(14:15):
with all in the family, playing Mead heead.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
I mean, he's kind of always said to.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
That, like you know that that's something that no matter
what he does he's always going to be remembered for
so he comes from television royalty to begin with.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
But hard to imagine the circumstances here. His son Nick
had had mental health issues and had drug addiction issues
and was homeless for a period of time, was living
on the streets, moving around the country, and his family
did everything they could, from what I understand, to try

(14:53):
and help him, and he had finally accepted help at
one point, not long ago, like within the last six
or seven years, he wrote a screenplay about it.

Speaker 5 (15:04):
Nick did, Wow, his dad produced it. It's a movie.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, you've seen it or you just know. I saw
the trailer for it last night. It's called Being Charlie
from twenty fifteen.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Oh so I mean not that long ago, ten years ago.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
And instead of a famous director as a father, the
character as a famous politician, and Rob Reiner directed it,
and Nick Reiner was the writer. It's his screenplay. He
is suspected to be the one apparently. As Abby said,
it's terrible on every level. It's just so tragic. But

(15:48):
it was just like weird coincidence.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
I told you.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
I was listening to Gary Marshall's book on tape, right,
and he was the guy that developed Happy Days and everything,
and then went on to Lavern and Charlie and then
he on to a direct Pretty Woman and Beaches and
I don't know, a million huge hits, you know, he
became a big director. His sister was Penny Marshall. So
when I was listening to that book on tape, it
queued up the next like, hey, you might like this.

(16:13):
It was Penny Marshall's autobiography, and I'm like, I love
her voice. I just want to hear what this sounds like.
So I started listening to it, and it really does
just sound like you're hanging out with Penny Marshall.

Speaker 12 (16:23):
Her voice is so hilarious, so everything she says it
just sounds like this, and she's just roll roll all,
roll all low key.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
So yeah, just then brown accent comes out.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
But she married Rob Reiner, right, And so I was
on my forty five minute walk around the park yesterday
listening to her title stories of being married to Rob
Reiner and how their house became this comedy incubator when
they were coming up, and it was you know, his
best friend is Albert Brooks and Richard Dreyfus lived in
their guest house and they were She said that they

(16:56):
actually stayed together six months longer than they wanted to
because Richard Dreyfus couldn't handle them breaking up. And this
was after he had won the Oscar and he was
still living with them.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
And stay together for the driver.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
Yeah, they stayed together for Ricky Dreyfus, as she called.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
But just talking about Rob, and she just talked about
how important comedy was to this group of people that
would include like James L. Brooks who went on to
do The Simpsons and you know Taxi, Mary Tyler Moore,
et cetera. You know, Albert Brooks. No relation, you know,
but being Carl Reiner's son, there was a lot of
pressure on him and he did outstanding in Hollywood. I mean, like,

(17:31):
that's a tough thing. And I would venture to guess
with his son, there was some big shoes there and
that was probably part of the impetus for what sent
him down the road that he was on. This is
gonna be like one of the Hollywood Scandals of the
decade type thing. You know, this is on a Phil
Hartman level. It's stuff that every time you hear Rob

(17:52):
Reiner's name now this is gonna you're gonna think of that,
you know, it's really really sad. And apparently Larry David
and Billy Christ war there yesterday. Billy Crystal's lost his
two best friends in the most unbelievable circumstance in Robin
Williams and in Rob Reiner seventy eight.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
You think you make it to seventy eight, You've.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Had an unbelievable life.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
You just imagine that you've reached that happy ending kind
of yeah, fairy tale.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
He did so many great movies, so many great movies
that I mean, aside from really a groundbreaking role as
meathead Michael Civic in All in the Family. You know,
obviously nepotism helped him out. It's one of those things
where the door opens for you and then are you
good enough?

Speaker 5 (18:38):
And he definitely was.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
He was in The Jerk, he was in Uh of course,
did Spinal Tap, which was one of his first movies,
like major movies, Throw Mama from the Train, he was,
he was in Postcards of the from the Edge, you know,
Carrie Fisher was Penny Marshall's best friend, and then of

(19:01):
course Misery Sleepless in Seattle, Bullets Over Broadway, which he's
outstanding in primary colors. He's in that movie which is
really really good, The Princess Bride. I mean he's the
narrator and the Princess Bride. He did tons of stuff
with Larry David on Criby Your Enthusiasm, His acting credits.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Go on and on.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Stand By Me is the one that I'm always like,
I think is just an absolute masterpiece.

Speaker 13 (19:30):
You know.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yeah, Actually, I want to play this audio for you.
I don't have my zoom up.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
I'm sorry, can I can't see Jacob, but I send
him this. On The Rich Eisen Show back in twenty seventeen,
rober Rinder was asked what the favorite movie that he
had directed was, and this was the answer that he
gave me.

Speaker 14 (19:44):
The one that means the most is stand By Me
because it was the first time I made a movie
that I felt reflected my personality, my sense of Bill so.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Well, Yeah, The American President, Ghosts of mississipp Be, so
many great flicks. He did the Albert Brooks Defending My
Life documentary too, where it's just him and Albert Brooks
sitting now and talking about their life.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
What a drag. Oh.

Speaker 5 (20:14):
He directed the LBJ movie too.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
I didn't realize that with Woody Harrelson, the circumstances make
it hard to believe he just had a heart attack
to be like, oh, he was great.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
But he's just like oh man, hard to fathom.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Anyways.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, an unbelievably sad story. I'm sure we'll probably get
some more updates this morning. Again, right now, it does
sound like an extremely tragic story that there's this family
component to it. But if we get anything that's a
little more concrete, I'll make sure to update you this morning.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Dude, when Harry met Sally awesome, unbelievable Princess Brian. He
directed the Princess Bride.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah, anyways, mostly cloudy this morning.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
It is breezy. It is going to be cold today.
The daytime high.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Is twenty three. It is currently eleven degrees.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
All right, Michael, have a full preview of Steelers Dolphins
tonight here at Akroscher Stadium.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
The pregame starting right now for you.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Charlie Batcher gives a call later on this morning, Jerry,
do you Lack and Billy Gardell? Instead of Tuesday, we'll
do the nine o'clock hour with us here on this
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It is cold as hell out there.

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It is Monday Night Football. The Steelers are hosting the Dolphins,
and here we go again. A strutch run can save
a season that has threatened to go off the rails
multiple times, but has it yet seems like it never does,
and defensive coordinator Terrell Austin has a theory about who's

(22:11):
most responsible for that.

Speaker 17 (22:13):
That's one of the things I think, you know, one
of the things that I think Mike is an elite at.
You know, he's obviously an unbelievable coach, but in terms
of team building and culture building, he does.

Speaker 18 (22:27):
That is as well as anybody I've ever.

Speaker 17 (22:29):
Been around in terms of, Hey, here's the here's what
we're building, here's why we're building it, here's how we're
gonna build it. And it's not a one time thing,
and then you know, we talk about it in three months.
That is something that is around here daily in different ways.
He presents it in different ways, but I think that
that is one of the things that is that he
does that is far and above what you know, uh,

(22:54):
maybe the average coach to do.

Speaker 8 (22:57):
Now, it's not dog bites Man Newsworthy that a subordinate
praises this boss in public. But you look at the
history of this and it brings us back to the
great debate in Steeler Nation. Is Mike Tomlin never having
had a losing season, a fantastic achievement, or something that
nobody cares about for the fans, it's mostly the latter.

(23:20):
In the industry, it is by far the former.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
But it is also part and parcel of the global
perspective of what's happening in Pittsburgh being much different on
other levels than it is here in Pittsburgh, which is
to say, there always seems to be a separate narrative
outside Pittsburgh, not just on that, just a referendum on

(23:44):
Tomlin altogether.

Speaker 8 (23:46):
Yeah, which got louder than it's ever been in the
wake of the last time the Steelers went to Akerscher Stadium,
which was a disheartening, discouraging loss to Buffalo. They got
run over, the fans chanted for Tomlin's head, the boot renegade.
A lot of people in the national meetia started debating
whether or not Tomlin should still be the Steelers coach.
And yet here they are seven and six, chance to

(24:07):
get to eight and six, chance to take another step
toward a division championship. Aaron Rodgers has seen this from
before before, and he figures the Steelers, well, they're probably
onto something.

Speaker 19 (24:20):
Well, with all due respect, I don't. I don't think
there's a lot of importance put into the outside narratives here,
which I think means a lot. And that's how I
felt in Green Bay. You know, there wasn't guys worried
about what Twitter was saying or what you know, the
news was saying about certain people. You know, there's various
times I feel like I need to say something like

(24:40):
run the table or relax, but those are individual periods.

Speaker 18 (24:43):
But at the Core.

Speaker 19 (24:44):
We never doubted that we were going to be in
the mix in December, and here, I think it's the
same thing. I don't think guys are too worried about
getting in Twitter fights or you know, arguing about some
of the outside narratives. And it's a credit to during
the structure as a whole, from mister Rooney on down,
but putting the right people in place. And I think

(25:05):
as you see in the league, it's a very knee
jerk reaction league where if you're not winning, you're out.
And they've won here for a long time. There's been
some eight and eight seasons as well, but there wasn't
any doesn't seem like it from Afar. There wasn't any
like we had to make wholesale changes. I'm a firm
believer if you choose the right people to lead and
you have the right process, you don't have to make changes.

(25:26):
You just deal with the ups and downs and don't
make crazy reactions in the moment that you feel like
are going to you know, make things better, because for
the most part it leads to rebuilding or dysfunction that
that kind of can break some of the foundational characteristics
of winning organizations. Like the Steelers are.

Speaker 16 (25:44):
No.

Speaker 8 (25:44):
That was Rogers last week probably given the most sillient
argument I've heard for why the Steelers continue to roll
with Mike Tomlin. Rooney doesn't explain it that well. It's
that stability does matter because there's a risk if you
don't have stability right, and you can, you can go
over the abyss. Now that count. There are counter arguments

(26:07):
to that, of course, Oh, no question, But I mean
that he stated it very clearly. I think in a
way that a lot of people never have. He said, well,
we like Mike, we think we go in with Mike.
You know. It's sort of that was a little more
detailed and a little more nuanced. They have checked the
first required box. If you're going to hold your team

(26:27):
to a standard, you got to be in it down
the stretch, right. You gotta have a chance to make the playoffs.
Then you got to make the playoffs. Then you got
to win a playoff game, Then you got to get
to the super Bowl. Then you got to win a
super Bowl. So a lot of work to do. But
once again, they're in the same spot that they traditionally are,
which is December football. That matters, That that shouldn't be
taken for granted or assumed or or undervalued, because there's

(26:54):
teams a little E next to their name right now
in the standings eliminated and that ain't no fun.

Speaker 20 (27:00):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
I mean, look what's going on in Cincinnati, my lord.

Speaker 8 (27:05):
And you have a generational franchise quarterback.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
And he's wondering if he should play the game anymore.
Although you know some reports, you know, Diane Orsini in particular,
saying he is not depressed. He about life. This is
not an existential problem for him. Just yes, Oh, good,
that makes sense, right.

Speaker 8 (27:26):
Uh, good news and bad news. On the injury front,
Darnault Washington has had his questionable designation removed pig so
he's gonna make it back from uh the concussion he
sustained in Baltimore. He's gonna play. James Pierre, Anders Pete
and TJ. Watt are out. Derek Harmon listed as questionable,
but he was only a limited participant in practice on Saturday.

(27:49):
Mike Tomlin had said that he needed to practice and
they needed to see the quality of his participation. I'm
guessing Harmon's not gonna play. Yeah, with a limited it's
not encouraging. According to Tom Pelsero of the NFL Network,
the Steelers are hopeful TJ. Watt will only miss one game,
and I know they're one and eleven without them, but

(28:11):
they've never been in a better spot not to have
them based on the depth they have an outside linebacker. Agree,
so if you got to get through one without him,
you gotta get through one without him. It's everybody got problems.
In fact, they're glad you have them, and that's a
leg thing. Pertinent scores yesterday, Bears beat the Browns thirty

(28:31):
one to three. The Steelers have a game at Cleveland
remaining Ravens beat the Bengals twenty four to nothing. Steelers
a host of Ravens in the regular season finale, and
the Lions lost to the Rams forty one to thirty four.
Steelers go to Detroit this coming Sunday. That is gonna
be a desperate Lions team that is really good, even
though the record is eight and six. That was gonna

(28:53):
leave them Mark.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
Yeah, that's gonna be tough.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
I mean the Steelers, which makes tonight critical. You gotta
win tonight and then against the Browns and that might
be enough.

Speaker 8 (29:02):
It should be given it. The Ravens have to play
New England and green Bay, although green Bay just lost
Michael Parsons.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Oh brutal that, I mean it vindicates Jerry Jones to
a degree.

Speaker 8 (29:18):
One player.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
When you sink that many assets into one player and
then you lose them for the season, you know, that's
part of the risk there, right, Although going up into
Green Bay and I don't know, there's something about playing
in that weather. I always feel like it's easier to
get hurt up there. When they were in Denver for
that game, right, it's easy to get cold. Yeah, by
the way, look out for Denver. Huh, maybe look out

(29:43):
for Denver and don't worry about the Raiders.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
Apparently, don't worry about the Raiders.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Kenny Pickett is not going to be the answer there,
and Pete Carroll most definitely is not.

Speaker 5 (29:53):
I think they just dropped their eighth in a row.

Speaker 8 (29:55):
Yeah, this might be as bad as they've ever been.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
It's seriously thirty one nothing and it wasn't that close.
I was rooting for Kenny. I loved the idea of
Kenny plus eleven and a half coming through yesterday. That
did not love alas it did not that and Philip
Rivers chunking his way to an almost victory yesterday.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
That would have been the story of the day. I
thought the Philip.

Speaker 8 (30:17):
Rivers thing was going to be an embarrassing, disgraceful failure.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
No, it turns out that guy is just one of
those guys.

Speaker 8 (30:25):
And I would have given him a chance had he
gone to camp, had he been practicing for a couple
of weeks to just walk in and play quarterback in
his sleep. They had they had to restart his Hall
of Fame clock because you don't forget. Don't forget. He's like,
it's not even dad boughd. He's like a big guy.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Now.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
It looked a little chonky. There's a little chungkis.

Speaker 8 (30:49):
Actually, yeah, they had to restart his Hall of Fame
clock because he played again. So he goes back to
wait in five years. They she just put him in.
I agree that special. In addition to his Hall of
Fame worthy first career, he walked off the street and
played credible quarterback in the NFL at forty four years.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
After four and a half years and now also his
healthcare resets he was six weeks away from which is.

Speaker 8 (31:12):
Big because he's got nineteen kids. Exactly, so it gets
another five years. Yeah, getting embraces.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah, this is why the league needs to expand, because
Philip Rivers kept expanding.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
He's expanded. Abby's got your news Top of the Hour.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
All right, So some photos from the Epstein files were
released and there's mostly.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
No surprises who's in them.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
But one that's a little odd and is a donation
in your name a great gift or does it suck?

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Human Fund Steelers Hall of Honor dinner happened this past weekend.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
I think it was last night.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
As a matter of fact, it was last Big Ben
brought the place to tears.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
We got a clip for you coming on.

Speaker 21 (31:51):
Mister Smalls presents a benefit concert for the Rainbow Kitchen
Feed the Bird this Friday, but mister Small Theater. This
all ages show will feature the best and local Pittsburgh Muslake,
Joe Braschecky, Bill Deeseon Jeane the Werewolf, Tiny Wards, Clinton,
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(32:11):
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Speaker 2 (32:19):
West Ruler here stay up to date with everything happening
in Steelers Nation. Join me and Matt Williamson for the
Drive weekday afternoons from four to six near two the
DV morning show Randy, but I'm going along with Abby Prisner.
Mike pursued a Mike, you had a busy weekend going
to the Army Navy game on Saturday, where two Pittsburghers
shone brightly.

Speaker 8 (32:39):
Mount levin Is showing up for the Naval Academy.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
Yeah, including the winning touchdown catch.

Speaker 8 (32:44):
Yeah, they were impactful. Uh and uh seventeen sixteen Classic game,
can't beat it.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
You were there start to finish. It looked like, uh
it was cold.

Speaker 8 (32:56):
It was. Yeah, it's mid to say it's supposed to
be cold.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
If it weren't cold, I would have loved to go
to that. I do want to go maybe next year
if the weather life ends out. Dude, going to Met Life,
Met Life, you have thrown down some beverages. I kind
of wanted to be in Baltimore, Philly though, I don't
know if I'm MetLife, I don't really, I don't know.

Speaker 8 (33:18):
Well, I got to give Mark Madden credit for this
because he turned me on to this place that's near
met Life. It's about two miles away, two and a half.
It's called Reds. It's a bar and for for stadium
events that MetLife is. There's eight thousand lanes of highway
and like just driving and navigating where to park and everything,

(33:39):
even if you can get a parking pass, is confusing
as hell. So you go to this place Reds. They
charge you like fifty bucks to park there, and then
they have shuttles to and from the Yeah, I've done
it for Army Navy. I've done it for Springsteen at MetLife.
It's great. You go ahead and get some bruise, you
get some food, and it's not like they have one
guy driving a crappy shuttle. Yeah, it's an army. It's

(34:01):
just constantly going. It's it's one of the best deals going.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Speaking much, Weaving talked about the penguins and we can
wait for a little while to get there because.

Speaker 8 (34:09):
This just didn't They've blown it up.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
It's it's crazy to me they think again, I almost
agree with Madden that you can think about just firing
the coach, like you know, he's he's only sixty six
percent ready to take this job.

Speaker 8 (34:24):
Yeah, no, it's really bad. It's I mean, it can
happen once in a while when it happens four games
in a row.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Seven times it's happened this year. I think Grover heads
stat if five of those were wins there in first place. Yeah,
so at any rate this past weekend, the Hall of
Honor dinner happened last night at Akroscher Stadium in the
in the club, right, was it up in the club?
This was Ben Roethlisberger at one point. Mike, of course
is on the voting committee. And so you were there,

(34:52):
and I told Bennet didn't vote for him.

Speaker 5 (34:56):
He was talking about Pouncy, Who's getting into the Hall
of Honor?

Speaker 22 (35:00):
Pounce, I hate you to do this to me. This is
the only part I didn't actually write down because I
didn't know what to say. Rather than thank you, I
hate you didn't come back one more year, but I
still love you.

Speaker 8 (35:19):
You the heck of a teammate man.

Speaker 22 (35:32):
Uh, it was you made it fun. He made it
challenging because we wanted to live up to you. You
saw those videos, Pounce was he knew how to told
that line of a little extra not not dirty, just extra.

(35:55):
He knew how to be a little extra. But that's
what made him special. That's what made him who he is,
what made him a special football player. And then when
I said I hated when you were on the football field,
I could probably go on for a long time about you,
but I have to keep stopping.

Speaker 8 (36:13):
I'm just.

Speaker 22 (36:15):
Anytime that someone on the defense got under my skin,
which wasn't very often, probably because they were doing something
dirty or cheap, I knew that I could kind of
pick a fight with him because Pounce is gone. And
I didn't have to fight long because Pounce was coming.
And I'll just I'll end it with this Pounce. I'm

(36:38):
I'm just I'm so so glad that that Brown's game,
when Miles Garrett took the helmet off, it wasn't me
out there because I don't know what would happen.

Speaker 8 (36:49):
I love you Pounds so much.

Speaker 22 (36:50):
Man, I'm nothing without you, buddy, that's right now.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
I gotta be honest.

Speaker 23 (36:59):
I was.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
He was kind of surprised by the emotion there. I
knew that he felt very strong about Pouncy. I mean,
we know that classic the two of them sitting on
the bench scene there after the loss to Cleveland. But
that kind of took me by surprise a little bit. Mike,
I have to imagine that in the room. It got
pretty heavy in there.

Speaker 8 (37:19):
Oh you could hear it in his voice there. I
mean he was choked up. Yeah, he had to fight
through that. And all three of those guys the rest
of the class. It was Ben, Marquise Pouncy, and Joey Porter,
and they were all really emotional about it. Porter brought
his high school coach, a couple of his high school coaches,
a bunch of his high school teammates. I mean he
had a ton of tables. Yeah, and Pouncey was just

(37:42):
almost amazed that this would happen to him. That was
kind of the vibe he was like, in case you're
probably going to the Canon Hall Fame. I mean he said,
when you come from nothing, it hits different, and that
was kind of his theme. But he was just so
appreciative and grateful. Ben was the love of with Marquis
Pouncy and and the organization, and same thing with Joey Porter. Uh,

(38:05):
they were all they were all really uh, really choked up,
but but they had some great things to say.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
So those are the three getting in Yeah, and is
that tonight it was last night. No, they like the
ceremony at the stadium. Did they get honored.

Speaker 8 (38:20):
I think they're gonna I think they're going to the game,
but I mean last week they give them a steel football.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
It happened last night. Yeah, I didn't know if there was,
like you know, the Then they take.

Speaker 8 (38:29):
Them down to the Hall of Honor and I think
that there's a wall of Yeah you've been there, right, yeah, yeah,
they have that really cool the actual Hall of Honor
and you know, not the museum park. Yeah, just the
guy's picture and a little right up and then there's
a steel football steal football.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
Yeah, yeah, tonight that was the fun event.

Speaker 8 (38:50):
Yeah. You must have been there late though, uh, you know,
ten earlier than later than I would have preferred. But
this is this is the Laate. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
And then you get Monday night football tonight while you're
behind to go on.

Speaker 8 (39:05):
Army Navy and just wore myself out completely in the
two days beforehand. I would have handled it.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yeah, and now you have Monday night football with the
post game that you have to do on the Steelers
side of Edinburgh. So you'll come back here and sleep
an hour and get up and do the show.

Speaker 18 (39:19):
Tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (39:20):
We'll be uh, we'll be uh spending two and a
half RESTful hours at the beautiful Hampton Inn. Oh there
you go. We we got to deal with those guys
and uh I get to uh at least get us
get a bed, get in a bed and take a shower.
Feel like a human being when I when I see
you people tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
A good deal, uh, mister Wednesday on a Monday, Jeff
Conk We're gonna hang with us here shortly, Charlie Batchell.
Later this morning Jerry Dean, Billy Gardell hangs for the
nine am hour.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
We'll talk a little Holidays with Bill too.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Coming up.

Speaker 5 (39:46):
Abby's news Next is a.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
Donation in your name? A great Christmas gift or does
it suck?

Speaker 2 (39:52):
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Speaker 5 (40:00):
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Speaker 21 (40:03):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
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no TJ.

Speaker 24 (40:16):
Watt for the Steelers tonight when they take on the
Dolphins from Monday Night Football. Watt, who is out after
being hospitalized for a partially collapsed lung which required surgery,
will miss his eleventh career regular season game as at
Pittsburgh Steeler tonight. Pittsburgh has won and ten in those
games without TJ. Watt, the lone win coming in twenty
twenty two against Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Speaker 8 (40:36):
They might be better equipped.

Speaker 24 (40:37):
To survive Watt's absence than ever before now, though, thanks
to the trio of edge rushers at their disposal and
Alex Hismith, Nick Kirbig and Jack Sawyer. High Smith had
a sack in three tackles for loss in Baltimore last week,
and as six and a half sacks in his nine
games played this season. Nick Krbig also has six and
a half sacks this season, matching high Smith for second
most on the team behind Watts seven. Herbick hasn't seen

(40:59):
more than forty percent of the snaps on defense since
Heihsmith's returned from injury. A couple of weeks ago, so
it will be a big increase in workload for the
third year outside linebacker. Kickoff tonight is at eight fifteen
between the Steelers and the Dolphins, as Pittsburgh looked to
make it an unbelievable twenty third straight win at home
on Monday Night football and more importantly, maintain their lead
in the AFC North.

Speaker 8 (41:20):
I'm Tom Opferman with the Steelers Report.

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Speaker 5 (41:53):
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Speaker 2 (42:00):
No TJ wattat the dry needling situation really bumming me out.
I always what don't I always tell you lube your
needle every single time.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
It's the one thing I know about you.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Your needle. I know what are we doing? With dry needles.
How can we not afford lube needles? Now, I don't understand.
I've had acupuncture before. I've had the acupuncture where they
stick the needle in you and then they put a
electric stem on the needle.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
What do you think of that? I thought it was reckless.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
I don't enjoy any accoutromal.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
It's too inexact of a science for me. Yeah, you
know what I mean, like, is it in far enough?
Because there was times where it was like and the
acupunctures and she was lovely, but she's like explaining it like, hey,
you know, sometimes you don't get where you need to go,
so if this hurts, it shouldn't hurt, you know. And
I'd be like, ah ah, you know, okay, I got
it on the wrong place, you know.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
Uh, And that's what there when she does it, go.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
If that what it would be, they'd be like okay,
and then they would pull the needle out and then
put it back in. Let's try here. It's just medieval,
you know, just getting poked. I one time had real
bad lower back pain. Couldn't fix it with the chiropractice,
so they were like I go to an acupuncturist and
I remember saying to the lady, I was like, my
back hurts.

Speaker 26 (43:23):
Can you get my back? She put one needle in
I went and she goes, mmm, okay, we're going to
focus on your shoulder, and I was like, no, no, no,
get back in there. I didn't come here for my shoulder.
Which it just that whole thing. How that got up assurance.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Sometimes it's in your shoulder, you know what I mean, Like, yes,
the referential and then they do that and then you're like, oh,
my back's fine.

Speaker 26 (43:49):
The whole point of acupuncture is that it centers your chi,
isn't it.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Like that's the that's the energies. There's nothing. The first
time I did it, the premature acupuncture.

Speaker 26 (44:00):
Yeah, how somebody scientifically evaluated that, took that to an
insurance group and said this is a certified treatment.

Speaker 5 (44:06):
Blows my mind. Blows my mind.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
I mean, I definitely have had it done, and I
do believe in it. I think that like once they
started doing the stem on it, I was like, all right,
I don't know about this, and then you start like
looking around for a diploma on the wall.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
No, no, like wait a minute you had to dery.

Speaker 5 (44:24):
I'm a nail tech.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
This counts.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
It kind of feels like a second occupation for a
lot of people. The first thing that they wanted to
do in life didn't pan out, and now they're an acupuncturist.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Are you like me?

Speaker 26 (44:36):
Where If they're not Asian, I'm even more suspect.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
I want an old Asian lady. I want to in
my mind, I wanted to like she grew up in
the Orient in the Year of the Rooster. Yeah, And
instead it's just like she's like, I'm from Washington, Pa.
Actually was born and raised there, and this is my
daughter's barb. She's like, the needle point didn't work out,
so we're doing this t wat out for tonight. They

(45:01):
punctured as along with a dry needlef that just sounds awful, brutal.

Speaker 26 (45:07):
Somebody tapped tapped the needle a little too hard with
the mallet a couple of times too.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
Like acupuncture needles are supposed to be like some like.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Literally on the surface, that's what I thought, Like they
don't go through the skin.

Speaker 8 (45:21):
Well, maybe t. J.

Speaker 26 (45:22):
Watt's just so tough that they really had to bring
up Like the John Henry sledgehammer and be a steel
driving man on that guy's spine.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
That's true. The only thing I could think of this
is what happens when you let Steely mcbeam dry needle.

Speaker 8 (45:32):
People or gars.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Okay, I got my sound.

Speaker 6 (45:41):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Jeff Conckle hanging out with us in studio. Charlie Batch
a little later on this morning, Jerry do you like?
And Billy Gardell hanging out for an entire hour in
the nine am hour. Abby, we did a little decorating
in the studio. We have one strand of tinsel up.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Just behind you.

Speaker 8 (45:55):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
It's a start and it's just quaint enough that that's
my kind of Christmas. I have one little piece of
tensil left. I'm gonna put it pine Jeff. Whenever we
get a break, I.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
Got a tree up.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Now we got oh yeah, so now look, hey we're
ten days out. Okay, now it's Christmas up till December fifteenth.
I'm like, eh, but as soon as you're ten days
you wait.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
That long ten days out, well, I get to enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
It's so much effort. There's Christmas all around me. I
I've been busy. I'm up at Christmas all around.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
I mean I'm not anti Christmas. I just didn't get
around to getting the tree up. I watch all the
dumb Christmas movies and do you know the one that
people are talking about this year that I have watched
years ago and have always hated this movie. And for
some reason, I don't know if it's because it's available
on Netflix now or what it is, but the Family

(46:50):
Stone a lot of people are tired. Apparently TikTok did
a whole dissertation on this, okay, that it might be
one of the worst holiday movies ever, and they're actually
going to do a sequel with it, and it is
star study. Diane Keaton is in it, Sarah Jessica Parker,
Claire Danes, Rachel McAdams is in it, Luke Wilson, Craig T. Nelson, uh,

(47:16):
Star star after star, like, just tons of big names
in one of the worst movies. If you think everybody
in Love actually is bad, and they are, they are.

Speaker 5 (47:28):
There's almost no redeeming people.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
That is the one thing.

Speaker 26 (47:32):
I remember my parents seeing this years ago because someone
told them it was a Christmas movie and I was like,
how was that? And they're like everyone in that movie
was grossly unlikable, like you didn't room for a single
person to get anything they wanted.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
And the horn Stars are the are the most rootable
characters in Love. Actually the family Stone is even worse.
These are all terrible people in a hugely dysfunctional family,
not in a fun like aren't we just.

Speaker 8 (48:02):
This is like.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Just reprehensible people acting poorly okay, and they frame it
in a way that like, and this is family.

Speaker 8 (48:10):
It's like the plot is.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Like, you know, hippie kind of weird family, quirky family
has the Michael you know, Alex p. Keaton kind of
son who's like very Manhattan business and he brings his
very stuffy soon to be fiance Sarah Jessica Parker into
their house where they have lots of you know, they're
fun people and they've got there. They're lovey and they

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have inside jokes and she needs everything to be the way.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
She wants it to be for how for Christmas?

Speaker 2 (48:41):
Because that's what you would do if you would go
somewhere right, you would try to like stomp all over
everybody and then argue all kinds of political points at
the table that you know that they stand for.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Nobody would do.

Speaker 5 (48:53):
This, and nobody would bring this woman into their home.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
And then she has an affair with the brother, and
then and then and then he has an affair with
her sister, and.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
All over Christmas brak.

Speaker 5 (49:06):
Every person in it is terrible.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
They're all awful to the girlfriends drama or comedy dramedy,
And for some reason it's getting like the big social
media push again.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
And I don't know why other than like I said that, they're.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
They're playing dunking on it.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Yes, it's all people dunking on it, and rightly so
it's so bad, it's so chaya, it's.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
Rotten tomatoes score and critics score pretty dismal.

Speaker 8 (49:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:31):
No person watches that and goes that was a lovely holiday.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Message, wasn't it. No, it's all terrible. It's bad people
making each other worse. And love actually still to me,
love actually is like bubbly while doing it.

Speaker 5 (49:46):
This is depressing while doing it. Yeah, you have to.

Speaker 26 (49:49):
Have some kind of redeeming quality. When you turn it off.
You have a little bit of an after dinner mint.
And I always felt like love actually at least had that.

Speaker 8 (49:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
Well, and they have that rock star character who's kind
of the comic relief through it all and.

Speaker 26 (50:03):
Well, plus a couple I caught like with the cards,
even though that scene with the cards in love actually
I was like, this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
You're at the woman's house.

Speaker 26 (50:10):
That you're you know, basically trying to get to have
an affair with you, and you're just silently you have
what cue cards from the Screen Actors Guild that you're
running through with this.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
You were the best man at her wedding to your
best friend.

Speaker 5 (50:24):
Murder and it's just Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Emma Thompson tries to get her brother leam Neesan to
start having sex with women the day after he buries
his wife the day after, right, She's like, you have.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
To stop crying and get out there.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
What are you talking about.

Speaker 8 (50:39):
I'm horny.

Speaker 5 (50:39):
Yeah, everybody, everybody's terrible.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
The Colin, the Colin Firth character, his girlfriend cheats on
him with his brother to start the movie, and then
he goes off to a villa somewhere to write a book,
and he hires a woman to take care of the
house and be a housekeeper, and he wants to nail
her the entire time.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
It's like inappropriate on every level.

Speaker 8 (51:02):
She can't even speak English.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
That doesn't stop him from being like, not just I
want to have sex with I am in love with
this woman.

Speaker 26 (51:09):
I would say that that scenario where a woman is
cheating on a brother with another brother, or vice versa
or whatever, this I think is only in Netflix's TV land.
Has anyone ever heard of this happening in real life?

Speaker 5 (51:24):
No, brother never doing the.

Speaker 26 (51:28):
I only heard about this maybe once in high school
a girl dated an older brother. He broke up with her,
and then she started trying to date the two year
younger brother, which was a big scandal. But that was
the only time I ever heard of such a thing happening.
Martin Brodure, Hall of Fame goalie for The.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
New Devils, divorced his wife because he was having an
affair with her sister.

Speaker 5 (51:48):
Then he married her sister. Here's the nickname uncle Dad.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
No oh oh.

Speaker 5 (51:57):
No, yeah, that's a bad one.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
That's a bad one.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
That's a that's a tough one. But that happens in
that movie The Family Stone, and they just laugh it
off and they're like, isn't it great that we found
out that we actually like the other person.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
Instead of like you slept with me fiance.

Speaker 26 (52:13):
Can you imagine the level of shunning that not only
your immediate family has anyone that hears that story immediately
presses you out of their social circle. That is that
is like almost like a biblical level violation of trust.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
One of my brothers dated not one, two three sisters
over the course of fifteen years. Like it wasn't in
a row, but over the course of time from like
aged fifteen to thirty in the same family.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
Get a new neighborhood.

Speaker 27 (52:48):
Wow, he's got a tight yeah, and it's you know,
wower if he just like liked their dad's basement.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
He's just like, they have a big screen TV. I
have nothing to do on the weekends your dad. I
think there are definite lots of stories of relationships starting
with one sibling and not going very far, not like
having any real sort of you know, love involved, and

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then them ending up with another brother or sister.

Speaker 5 (53:25):
I think that has happened a lot.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
I went to a dance with a boy that ended
up dating my sister.

Speaker 5 (53:32):
But like, did you feel weird about it?

Speaker 3 (53:35):
At first?

Speaker 1 (53:36):
I was just like but it was more just like, oh,
he didn't like me kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
But I got over it pretty fast.

Speaker 5 (53:42):
I have a friend. I have a friend who.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
She was asked to a dance in high school by
somebody and she was she dinged them like, and later
became engaged to his brother. So for always the ding
the brother had to be like, yeah, yeah, I got

(54:07):
rejected in high school by you, and now you're my
in law and I'm sorry male pride.

Speaker 26 (54:13):
I don't care how progressive of a man you are,
even a woman, you can't bury that down deep enough
unless you are a fully self actualized person. If you
have a hint, a little hint of self doubt, that
is going to pry that wound open the.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
Whole time, that's that's you. I don't think you come
back from that way.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
I don't think. And I think women can do it
and guys can't. And I think, like there's.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Someone have no fury, like a woman scorned.

Speaker 5 (54:39):
Different, that's not being scorned.

Speaker 26 (54:40):
You don't think that's being scorned. I don't think being
peering out.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
And then no, no, if a woman wanted to go
on a date with somebody and that person said, like
I picture scorn as being wrong.

Speaker 26 (54:52):
Like I cheated on you with your sister, that's scorn
that's that's pretty scornful, a lot of scorning.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
That's a lot of scorn Not brothers, but you know
the Ramones. You and I were talking about that a
while back, Like, that's a big thing between Johnny and
Joey Ramone is that Joey Ramone was like in love
with this woman, Linda, and they like, very very briefly
had a relationship and Johnny Ramone ended up being in

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love with her, and she married Johnny Ramone and.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
They hated each other for the rest of their lives.

Speaker 5 (55:27):
Thank god, those guys were talented.

Speaker 26 (55:29):
Yeah, because you got you gotta have forty twenty vision
to see past those shosses that were going on.

Speaker 5 (55:38):
There, those haircuts.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Anyways, Yeah, it's Christmas movie season, which is the whole
point of me bringing this up in the first place.
And so many of them are bad because they the
romance angle of these is on all these Hallmark movies.
I mean, obviously they're terrible, but there is something about
the holidays that makes people extra horny.

Speaker 5 (55:58):
I don't know what it is. It's like funerals make
people horny.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
I don't get that either, but brief makes people makes
people horny. But the holidays really make people horny. They
love watching romance during the holidays.

Speaker 26 (56:11):
It's it's I think it has something to do with
sitting with two pairs of wool woolen footed socks next
to a roaring fireplace and a little foot see going
on on the on the coffee table or something like that.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
That's that's that's it's something. It's a little static energy, yes.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
But that doesn't it that feels weather dependent, climate dependent,
like in California.

Speaker 5 (56:35):
They're not thinking like, oh, let's cozy, yeah fire you know.

Speaker 8 (56:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 26 (56:39):
I've always said that, like my wife watches all those
Hallmark movies and I get watched. You know, I watched
them with her, and I did have like a million
dollar idea, which is, you know, you spend two and
a half hours with these people and they're both kind
of good looking people and they're missing each other in
tensions building, and that the end of two and a
half hours they always end up getting back to together.

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But they end up getting back together with a little
smooch and then credits roll. And I said, you could
make a billion dollars if like a on demand ad
would just pop up and just be like do you
want to see these people have sex right now?

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Youpe charge fifteen dollars and here we go. Let these
two B level actors.

Speaker 26 (57:17):
They're pretty close to doing porn anyway if they're doing Hallmark.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Movies, so let it just absolutely let it rip.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Do you remember the Algro clip we had about the
people making fun of the Hallmark movies.

Speaker 28 (57:28):
I was wondering if you two were coming to the
Green pine Grove town Square Christmas Eve Festival of Lights
Christmas Tree Decorating Contest finalist coolty Hey.

Speaker 29 (57:36):
I just wanted to know if you were coming to
the Twinkle Twinkle Jingle Jaco Merry Christmas Snowflake Winter pine Cone,
Pleusy mitt and Decorating Stands Revolution, Hash Slinging, Mass Slinging,
crash stinging, cookoff, fucking stuff for Naughty, Saying a Wet
T Shirt Contest Short of Cuneries with the orphans and
single tax evaders, pre diabetics.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
At leastwear eggnox siftings for rates tonight.

Speaker 8 (57:56):
I'd be one just to get through that.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
What's hilarious is that first part is real. I thought
the first part the first time, Doodle, I thought that
was the bit. It's not it's not the bit. This
is the real part.

Speaker 28 (58:09):
I was wondering if you two were coming to the
green Pine Grove town Square Christmas Eve Festival of Lights,
Christmas Tree decorating Contest, finaliscolatory, that is real.

Speaker 26 (58:21):
Do you think that the writers of the Hallmark movies
are throwing in some things just to get their like
Jolly's off its writers in The Lion King used to
put like little dirty jokes, you know, like animation and stuff.

Speaker 5 (58:33):
Yeah, yeah, uh huh something like that.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
But no, I know that they they kind of steered
into the skid there for a while, and they even
hired some sn L people to be a part of them.

Speaker 5 (58:44):
Who was it that went and was in one that
really wanted to be? Like Will Ferrell?

Speaker 3 (58:49):
I think did one?

Speaker 5 (58:50):
Oh really a Hallmark?

Speaker 10 (58:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (58:52):
Like I'm pretty sure Will Ferrell did a Hallmark? See
to me that would be hilarious.

Speaker 26 (58:57):
And now because Netflix is now apparently the most predatory
capitalist enterprise on Earth, they are going hard, real hard
after the Hallmark Channel. They have some same kind of
schlocky Christmas movies, but now they got some not quite
sea level stars. They get like Lindsay Lohan is in

(59:17):
a couple of them, Like I think Amanda safe Free
is in one of them or something like that. Like
they're starting to they're starting to put their chips on
the table about that one too.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
On the way for you, Mike, pursuit it jumping in here,
getting you ready for Monday night football Steelers and the Dolphins.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
It's going to be cold. Are you going to this
brutal No way?

Speaker 26 (59:33):
I think I was just curious and I looked at
what tickets are going for on ticket Master. It's like
thirty dollars. Yeah, yeah, Pee, I mean you could go
to this game if you really wanna. It's gonna's going
to go single digis.

Speaker 18 (59:46):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
Our buddy Tad's gonna go.

Speaker 5 (59:48):
Yeah, I am not. I told him go shirtless wearing overalls.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
If you're going, go supports team free cryo for four hours,
rutally cold night, a lot of running the ball. Will
we have Derek Harmon doesn't look like it. We don't
have TJ. Watt either, and uh they'll have uh Devon
h Chain. So that's no good for the Steelers tonight.

(01:00:14):
Got to somehow tough enough that run defense and hope
for good things because getting a win tonight paramount. Uh,
they win tonight and then against the Browns, that should
get them in with the raven schedule coming down the
pike here, Michael, have more on that. The Hall of
Honor dinner last night for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Did you
get that clip of us play been Yeah, well you

(01:00:35):
got a issue with that.

Speaker 26 (01:00:36):
I just think tearing up over he's going in the
hall with That's not the point that I took away
from that one I took.

Speaker 23 (01:00:42):
I took.

Speaker 26 (01:00:43):
The last parting thing was one more shot at Mason
Yoh yeah, he said, boy, if that was me Markus
Pouncey would have lost his mind. But it was just Mason,
so nobody really cared that was his. That was the
subtext of black clip. Well yes, but but in Pouncy's defense,
he did go on do something. Yeah, he did do something.
But to me that was like, you know, boy, you

(01:01:05):
couldn't you couldn't edit that out and think of a different.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
Way to say that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
We have to be very careful when talking about what
somebody would do in retribution for you. When they were
besties with Aaron Hernandez, Yes, I.

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Cloudy and cold today, high of eighteen, just a few
passing clouds and cold tonight for the Steeler game, Las
Night's All of Honor Dinner with the Pittsburgh Steelers where
Marquise Pouncy, Ben Roethlisberger, and Joey Porter were inducted into
the Black and Gold Hall of Honor. There and looking
at footage of that all kinds of Stealer luminaries on hand.

Speaker 8 (01:02:08):
All kinds and three very emotional speeches by the three honorees,
it really is interesting. As you pointed out, I don't
even know if it was on or off, Mike, you
know a couple of guys who are going to Canton
Ben for sure, Yeah, I think Poutsy's worthy. But you
never know with an offensive lineman because they just stole

(01:02:28):
no championships. They don't well, they don't have the stats
to write hammer at Home. But a great night. That
just some of the highlights. Joey Porter, in his remarks,
aware of his reputation for volatility, he referenced Greg Lloyd,
James Harrison, and Levon Kirkland and he said they were

(01:02:52):
nuts before I got here. That's true, so he kind
of learned that role. Poutsy was just so appreciative and
almost a maze. Like the vibe I got from him
was he died to understand why everybody was making a
big deal out of his career, which I mean, again,
I think Hall of Fame worthy. He said, when you
come from nothing, it hits different. Yeah, and then at

(01:03:15):
one point he just said this is freaking awesome and
he just stopped. Yeah, he was, that's that's a you know,
in a great place. And Ben, in his typical Ben
fashion quote, I'd like to thank the Cleveland Browns for
not drafting me.

Speaker 5 (01:03:34):
Just another win for the steel This was Marquise Pouncy
last night.

Speaker 30 (01:03:39):
It's a complete honor to stand up here for all
you guys, ladies as well, to be a part of
this organization everything gone from that's in our family. When
you come from nothing right and uh, people take you
in and give you a life that you never ever expected.
It's different. This is a special organization. I know my

(01:04:03):
twin brother played with the Dolphins, he played with the Chargers,
but this is different. When we come up here as family,
Mike comes up here as trade life family, and it's
as crazy to be in this moment.

Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
I don't think y'all understand, Like, it's freaking awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
I'm not gonna lie about it.

Speaker 8 (01:04:20):
It was freaking awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:04:23):
How about that. Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 8 (01:04:25):
Like he didn't expect it. Yeah, like Markkeith pouncing any
honor the Steelers have to give, he gets he earned,
but he was sort of he was that appreciative, surprised almost.

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
Yeah, the gratitude was palpable.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
And Joey Porter, who I think has turned his post
career persona into like the funnest guy in the world
to follow around. And he goes to the YMCA and
gets yelled at by the septagenarians there each and every week,
and uh, he's become like a fun stealer dad, which
is a long way from where he once was, which

(01:05:02):
was most terrifying Steeler on the field.

Speaker 31 (01:05:05):
Now that Steeler table back there that they was announcing
them was the guys that raised me. I had Levin Kirkland,
Wayne gandhy Earl Holmes, Cordell Stewart, Jerome Bettis.

Speaker 8 (01:05:18):
I played with.

Speaker 31 (01:05:19):
POTSI and hamp As. I started to show them to
steal a way that I learned from them. Dudes back
there now.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
The Steeler way? Is there anybody doing that now? Cam
Hayward trying? Is it getting through? TJ trying?

Speaker 5 (01:05:31):
Can I let you know tonight Monday night football and
I can't lose game.

Speaker 8 (01:05:35):
Sports that are brought to you by Bridgal apply. So
the Steelers have another meaningful December game on tap tonight
against Miami. It was questionable as to whether they play
any of those this season in the wake of being
thumped by Buffalo at the end of November, but Mike
Thomlins stayed the course and the Steelers followed. Here's Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 19 (01:05:54):
Now he's been the same. You know, his meetings are
for anybody like myself or Adam coming in or Marquz.
You know, it's it's pretty eye opening him Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday get in front of the team and talking
for you know, thirty plus minutes every single day. And
the way that he leads without any notes, and his

(01:06:14):
preparedness every single week, and the way he you know,
keeps a tight a tight grasp of the pulse of
the team and the energy of the team makes my
job a lot easier.

Speaker 8 (01:06:26):
You know, Rogers talked extensively about Tomlin last week, and
you could almost mash together his remarks and they would
stand as an acceptable introductory speech when when Tomalin gets
into the hall of thing like just one one lauded
after another. Uh, so far, so good after Baltimore, but

(01:06:47):
they got to finish and there's still a lot of
work to do. This much, we know Rogers is getting
what he signed up for, meaningful December football and what
he anticipated all along because of Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 19 (01:07:00):
It's not surprising. I mean, he's been here for how
many years, eighteen and eighteen years, never had a losing season.
There's got to be something to it, you know. I
think every team is looking for that special sauce of
a coach who could lead and be consistent and and
you know, be involved understand how to delegate lead when
it needs to be done, and they don't have to

(01:07:21):
fill every space with words. I guess one of his
greatest gifts as a head coach is that in my
time here, in this short time, obviously, but I don't
feel like he's ever tried to fill his space with
unnecessary words. And that might think seem like a small thing,
but it's actually, you know, a very meaningful thing. But
there's just sometimes the more words that are said, the

(01:07:42):
more opportunities for panic or freak out that can happen.
And he's very concise and to the point with the
objectives each week, with the point of that we're playing,
and with the expectations for us as a football team.
So I think everybody you know, I have a unique
perspective and guys who played elsewhere perspective coming in here.
But the guys that are here should understand how special

(01:08:05):
it is to have a guy like that lead the team.

Speaker 8 (01:08:09):
I miss fairly detailed now. Obviously, Aaron Rodgers has never
been to a Mike Tomlin press conference because apparently the
concise nature that he uses to deal with the team,
his press conferences are nothing but unnecessary words. All right,
it's one unnecessary word after another for half an hour.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
Well, it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
He's actually getting a lot better at that about being
terse with them. He's he's it seems to be dependent
on the situation. If things are going good, he doesn't
have time to talk to them. If they're chanting fire, Tomlin,
he's delightful.

Speaker 8 (01:08:49):
We'll see what he's like tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Hat to see how you guys doing, Brook, Can I
get you a cup of coffee?

Speaker 8 (01:08:55):
You know again, it's not out of the norm for
the subordinates to praise the boss. In fact, it would
be rare if they said, oh, coach doesn't know what
he's still to go. But you don't have to go
to that degree that Rogers went, well, we've heard these
last two hours, uh, these last two sports casts. Just
the amount of detail and and how does it seem

(01:09:18):
so much?

Speaker 26 (01:09:20):
Does it seem genuine to you or does it seem
like this sort of like a little bit of internal
politic and also not or a little bit of reassuring
yourself for making the decision you made.

Speaker 8 (01:09:29):
Well, he said all along that was the biggest reason
he came here was because of Tomlin. Right, and this
these are the games he wanted to play. He didn't
get to play these games with the Jets because by
December it was over right, and he played them all
the time with the Packers. And remember when he sat
across the table from us at Latrobe and he said,
I wanted one more shot at it. Yeah, this is
the shot.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
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to fifteen kickoff means we start the pregame at four
o'clock with Tom Hoffman and Matt Williamson before Suita Labs
and do like crank up the network, Rob King, Max Starks,
Missy Matthew, Steelers Dolphins to night Monday Night Football. And
you gotta win this one. Gotta win this one. You

(01:10:10):
can't put yourself further behind the eight ball. It's not
mathematically must, but no, you gotta stay in front of it.
It's a lot cloudier if they don't. And then you
got to talk about beating Detroit or maybe sweeping Detroit,
or maybe sweeping Baltimore. I think Detroit's a bridge too far.
I'm thinking about going to that one. Love the stadium,
love the toime, love the stadium, love the town. I'll
tell you what sad Joe Burrow could have helped us

(01:10:31):
out a little bit yesterday and did absolutely none of that.
No help there, no help there, No, they were they
are checked out. Yeah, yeah, I thought that he was
gonna have a field day with that defense. But whatever
crisis he seems to be having is greatly affecting the
rest of the team. I mean, Jamar Chase talked about it.
He's like, I've never been in a position where I
have to uplift Burrow.

Speaker 20 (01:10:52):
To be honest, I never.

Speaker 5 (01:10:55):
Been in the situation with him where I had to
uplift him, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 30 (01:10:58):
But going forward, I might need to because he does
it to me at the end of the day, and
you never know what he might be going through, So
I might I might need to start doing that, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
How down in the dumps or how down ca Yeah
that might stunk yesterday. Well Burrow thought that Burrow stunk.

Speaker 32 (01:11:16):
There's no team in the NFL that would have won
the game today if I was the quartette.

Speaker 5 (01:11:21):
Wow, dude's in a bad place.

Speaker 26 (01:11:24):
I thought maybe that first press conference was a little
bit of ropidope, thinking like, yeah, I'm just not I
don't have it anymore, and then he was going to
come out on Sunday and throw for seven hundred and
forty yards and eight touchdowns.

Speaker 5 (01:11:34):
But no, yep, that's what I thought. Abbey's got your news.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
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and his wife Michelle.

Speaker 3 (01:11:42):
And remember the legendary director Billy.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
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since we'll be doing the Power Hour on the heels
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Speaker 23 (01:12:22):
Ladies and gentlemen from.

Speaker 5 (01:12:24):
Steelers Audio Network postgame show. How are you, Charlie?

Speaker 8 (01:12:27):
I'm doing well, but yourself, I mean I'm warm for
the time being.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
I'm inside but it is not going to be worn
at Akroscher Stadium tonight. Windshills in the single digits for
the Pittsburgh Steelers the Dolphins.

Speaker 8 (01:12:38):
I don't know if you saw.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
They showed up and they went to Robert Morse and
practiced on the field there in the snow, in the
middle of the blizzard to try to get ready for tonight.
But how did you, as a backup quarterback deal with
staying warm? Was that the most important thing to just
like Bun Luton lay Hey, hopefully they don't need me.
I'm just gonna stay warm in a big jacket and
sit on a heated bench.

Speaker 32 (01:13:00):
That's always the toughest part because you have no idea
when you're going into the game, so you're trying to
stay as warm as possible. But even before the game
was starting, games like this, I would literally sit next
to Ben Roethlisberger and we would sit there and I
would say, how many layers are you putting on today?
Because it's one thing to kind of put the lawn
John's underneath, but you know, you put on on one
pair of socks, two pair of socks, you know, so
you played with all of that and ultimately, as You're

(01:13:21):
standing here just kind of waiting, and I'm just sitting
at myself like, no, it's okay, go ahead and take it, Ben.

Speaker 4 (01:13:25):
I'm Charlie.

Speaker 8 (01:13:29):
Tua is one in seven when it's less than forty
six degrees. The one win was a week ago yesterday
against the Jets, who are the most non competitive NFL
team I've seen in years, and it was forty three degrees.
If it's twenty something tonight or the win children the teens,

(01:13:50):
is this a real advantage or just just a statistical
kind of coincidence.

Speaker 32 (01:13:57):
Yeah, people put a lot of emphasis on but trust me,
no player wants to play in degrees like this. So
it's just the fact that you just have to deal
with when you're practicing and hopefully mentally you're able to
get over it. But he playing inn AFSE, so you're
going to be playing those games up north, so you
have to figure out a way to get those wins,
and unfortunately they didn't fall in his direction. But people
make more of it than what it is. But you know, yeah,

(01:14:20):
I don't necessarily think that that's something that you can
look at and say, oh, what the temperature, this is
going to be the reason why we win. I don't
necessarily think that way.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Derek Harmon, it doesn't look like he's going to practice
by Tomlin's own sort of standard saying he needed to
see something significant practice out of him and we did
not see that. Well, assuming he doesn't play tonight, what's
the bigger loss for them having no Derek Harmon or
having Dylan Cook your third offensive tackle on the left side.

Speaker 32 (01:14:49):
Yeah, I think Dylan Cook is going to be okay
because he's literally Isaac say Malo. This guy's playing fantastic
and it really has Pro Bowl considerations, that's how good
he's been playing this year. So I think he's going
to be that voice for Dylan Cook next to him.
So I'm not necessarily worried about that. But what I
am worried about is the fact that Derek Harmon is
not there. He's the reason why we drafted him in
the first round because we were giving up so many

(01:15:11):
yards and now here you are, you know, back to
back two hundred yard games. You're not having TJ. Watt
here this week.

Speaker 18 (01:15:17):
That gives me.

Speaker 32 (01:15:18):
That's an area of concern for me, especially when the
Dolphins strength is running the football and you know what
this weather they're going to turn around and continue to
hand it off, and it's going to be something that
we're all going to have to pay attention to because
we haven't been able to stop the run the last
couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
Well, that being said, do you just totally load up
against the run and make to a throw the ball
in single digit cold air?

Speaker 32 (01:15:39):
Yeah, you absolutely do, and you make it one dimensional.
You're just hoping that you know, the ball is a
little bit slick out here with the weather, or maybe
that causes him to make a mistake, maybe not get
a grip and not being able to push the football
down the field as far as he can throw it,
and maybe you can now make it take advantage of
that with the interception or so. So those are things
that you just, you know, you pay attention to as
the game goes on. But again, you don't know what

(01:16:00):
the wind is going to be like. And that's something
that I always like to go out early just to
see what the wind patterns are because you pretty much
predict what direction that deep balls are going to be thrown.

Speaker 8 (01:16:09):
In Charlie, they've rediscovered down the field passing against the Ravens.
Rogers has said that these are the games he came
here to play. And they added a couple of vets
who didn't do much statistically, But Adam Theeling and Marquez
Valda Scantling, are they going to be impact players? And
will the Steelers be able to replicate what they did

(01:16:31):
in Baltimore tonight and the rest of the way.

Speaker 32 (01:16:34):
Yeah, I think they'll be able to replicate it, because
I do expect them to spread it out a little
bit more. But when you look at it, even though
you mentioned those two guys statistically didn't help. But man,
when you come in here and only here for a
couple of days and you actually get to start and
Adam Thieling did last week, that lets you know, Okay,
they're looking for a change. And if that happens, and
you look at that and you're gonna say, okay, we're
going to.

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
Use this a little bit more.

Speaker 32 (01:16:56):
So, I fully expect the Steeler to use that their
short as game, you know, equivalent to the running game.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
If they're not able to get that going early.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
Charlie Batch, this is the time of year that you
guys really shine at the Batch Foundation.

Speaker 5 (01:17:09):
And I know you're busier, and heck, right now, tell
us what's going on.

Speaker 32 (01:17:13):
It's been a busy month for sure. Already last week
we had over you know, this takes fifteen hundred volunteers
to make this particular batch of toys program work, and
last week we had so many volunteers that helped out
because this year we are adopting four hundred families, which
is eighteen hundred and eleven kids, So we knocked out
half of those presents last week and it was just
truly impressive to see everybody who came out. And we

(01:17:36):
have a really exciting week here this week as we're
trying to finalize and close out on all of these families,
so we'll be wrapping at the batch and ultimately, you know, getting.

Speaker 3 (01:17:44):
Ready to deliver next week.

Speaker 32 (01:17:45):
But we are in dire need of still toys ages
ten through eighteen. And if you you know, if you're
interested in being the part of it, you can go
to batchfoundation dot org. You'll be able to see all
the drop off locations around the city, also clicking ship
options that was.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
Directly to us.

Speaker 32 (01:18:01):
So we are collecting toys up until December twenty second.
So we just truly appreciate everybody who believes in the
mission vision of what we're trying to occom.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
Clicking hip is so easy and if you're worried about
getting out and abounting on the roads right now, you
don't have to Clicking chip very simple and just go
to Batch Foundation dot org.

Speaker 8 (01:18:16):
By the way, nobody works a room like Charlie did
last night. Oh yeah, I wonder who the most popular
guy in the in the at the event was.

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
I already know that.

Speaker 8 (01:18:27):
I mean it was number sixteen, Toy, I thought you
were running for office. For a minute, you didn't shake
hands with and slap on the back and make feel
a little bit better for having spoken with you. No,
it's always good to be here.

Speaker 32 (01:18:41):
I mean, it's not twenty fourth year around here, and
there's been so many awesome people that I've met along
my journey and people who have supported me, and it
just become friends and some of them becomes family, and
it's just really good to see everybody. That's just from
a player perspective, but Steelers Nation, and I'm just truly
grateful and humbled to be a part of it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
How about Ben breaking up last night kind of being
reduced to tears talking about his love for Marquis Pouncy.

Speaker 32 (01:19:05):
Yeah, that's genuine, and that's.

Speaker 8 (01:19:07):
How bad Kendrick Green was.

Speaker 32 (01:19:13):
He literally in his speech he said, he said, listen,
I love you, but also I'm mad at you.

Speaker 8 (01:19:18):
Still be it.

Speaker 5 (01:19:19):
I wanted you to come back for one more year
and you chose.

Speaker 33 (01:19:22):
Not to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
And Fount he just couldn't do it.

Speaker 8 (01:19:25):
But that love that both of them have, that is
that is.

Speaker 32 (01:19:27):
Genuine and organic and Mandy, they have a beautiful friendship, no.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
Doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
Charlie continued success. I'm looking forward to getting out to
the Batch Foundation this holiday season. Already did one clicking
ship and I'm telling everyone else to do it. I
have it tweeted out. You can go to my Twitter
at dv Randy and just scroll down a little bit
and you'll see the retweet I did of Charlie's tweet
from yesterday, which will tell you exactly what you need
to do if you want to volunteer or clicking ship,

(01:19:52):
just be a part of this great thing they're doing
at the Batch Foundation this holiday season.

Speaker 8 (01:19:56):
Thanks so much, Chuck. Appreciate you, buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
Yeah, I appreciate thanks for having me.

Speaker 5 (01:20:00):
All right, man, we'll see Abby's got your news when
we return.

Speaker 3 (01:20:02):
Were resetting on the sad news of the death of
Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
Billy Gardellen nine o'clock hour, Jeff Conco, mister Wednesday with us,
and you think you had a rough Saturday in the storm,
well he was spared.

Speaker 8 (01:20:15):
No, you had no quarter at all.

Speaker 26 (01:20:18):
You were zero time, going from seven to probably around
midnight of winter activity.

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
In again where they're like, stay inside if you don't
have to go out, don't.

Speaker 5 (01:20:31):
Yes, you can hear the melancholia in my voice for
her voice.

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Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
TJ watt out for tonight. They punctured as long with
a dry needle. That just sounds awful.

Speaker 4 (01:21:14):
Brutal.

Speaker 26 (01:21:14):
Somebody tap tapped the needle a little too hard with
the mallet a couple of times too.

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
Like acupuncture needles are supposed to be like some like
literally on the surface.

Speaker 5 (01:21:26):
That's what I thought, Like they don't go through the skin. Well,
maybe TJ.

Speaker 26 (01:21:30):
Watt's just so tough that they really had to bring
out like the John Henry sledgehammer and be a steel
driving man on that guy's spine.

Speaker 5 (01:21:36):
That's true. The only thing I could think of this
is what happens when you let Steely mcbeam dry needle people.

Speaker 34 (01:21:41):
Guards.

Speaker 5 (01:21:42):
Okay, I got my sound.

Speaker 4 (01:21:47):
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Speaker 8 (01:21:51):
Really puncture TJ's long with the.

Speaker 5 (01:21:57):
That's no good. Hopefully he'll be back next week.

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
That's the early word is that it'll only be one
week that he will miss as a result of a
punctured lung. I'm telling you right now, I get dry
needled in the lung. I'm gonna take a few weeks off. Okay,
just you know there were Steelers fans be like you
could come back from that. Oh, he'll probably play on Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:22:17):
All the medical experts that just emerged over the weekend.

Speaker 26 (01:22:22):
Think of the back team that needed to be rinsed
that thing out. What's what's the band aid for your lung.
Do you reinflate along? I thought you're lung. Don't you
do a good job of inflating your own lungs?

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
I think you do.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
I think you have to be put on a ventilator
to make it happen now, and I think they had
to obviously repair the And does it make a noise
like a.

Speaker 5 (01:22:47):
Every time he breathes, he's like wheezing.

Speaker 2 (01:22:52):
He just sticks his finger in like bugs bunny and
then someone plays him like squeezebox.

Speaker 3 (01:22:58):
Just gotta go up to Perogi Plus and patch it.
It's a little bit of like culcame or something like that.

Speaker 5 (01:23:03):
Just a little bit of potato and cheddar in there exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:23:06):
That's what Pittsburger's do. That would be a really good dude.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
I might do parogis for dinner tonight, Parogi's and kill boss.

Speaker 8 (01:23:14):
So that's a nice stick to your ribs.

Speaker 26 (01:23:16):
Meal potatoes need to be involved at some point in
the house dinner tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:23:21):
I think I did that for either No the Christmas
ever New Year's Eve. I ordered a big thing of
pogis and.

Speaker 1 (01:23:30):
Like different flavors, ordered them from from where place in Coreopolis.

Speaker 26 (01:23:35):
Oh, I know what you're talking about this is like
one of the last Parochi bastions.

Speaker 8 (01:23:39):
Yeah are we are we losing our Parogi?

Speaker 26 (01:23:42):
I think I think there's only like a couple of
people that do it full tilt, handmade and like we'll
do catering stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
You know, there's a restaurant in Sharpsburg that just does
all honky food like this, and it's like a diner
and you go in and it's just all now like incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
Yes, yeah it was viv you're and kitchen okay, got
like haluski and got Parogui's and got a bunch of stuff,
got all these different flavors, put it out and that
was like the dinner.

Speaker 3 (01:24:11):
And then I think I made, like, you know, my
own sides and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
But of course you did, you know, Yeah, Jeff concole
with us this morning, mister Wednesday, on a Monday, and
I was asking Abby, before you got here, how did
you handle Saturday?

Speaker 5 (01:24:26):
Because I did the old I went to the Giant Eagle.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
I went to Giant Eagle at two o'clock and it
was so crowded that I was like, I'm not doing this.
I'll just come back when it's when the snow has started,
and everyone's home because I'm not afraid to drive a
mile in the snow.

Speaker 3 (01:24:40):
I lived.

Speaker 5 (01:24:42):
I don't want to brag, but I lived close to
a jockey guys.

Speaker 3 (01:24:45):
I don't know if you know any exclusive zip code.

Speaker 4 (01:24:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:24:49):
So I went back after the snow started.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
Nobody there, me and one guy, and there was absolutely
nothing left on the shelves. And I was thinking to myself,
you know, this is only about a day, Like how
do people not have a day's worth of stuff in
their house. I'm such a hypocrite because I'm one of
these people that thinks like, why aren't people getting out more?

Speaker 26 (01:25:12):
And we need to get out and socialize more and
be around tons of people. And then we went to
the mall on Friday and I was like, we need
a new pandemic. People need to there can't there's no
parking spots here. It has to go away. There's it
was so crowded and at first you're like, good economic activity.
And then you go try to get a table at
a restaurant. They're like it's an hour and forty five
minute wait, and you're like, get me out of here.

Speaker 5 (01:25:32):
Well, you did go in what is peak Christmas shop.

Speaker 3 (01:25:36):
Yeah, I know, I know it was.

Speaker 26 (01:25:37):
And we had a busy weekend to begin with, like
we had to. We were hosting a neighborhood Christmas party
rich night on Saturday night of the night of like well,
I'm gonna call it at snowstorm. So we have a
We had that going on, thirty five people coming over
to our house. Our house cannot hold thirty five people.
We needed to, like, you know, structurally reinforce the floor

(01:25:58):
joists in case everybody had happened to jump at the
same time. We're afraid the house would like Teller seven
and just collapse in os. Do not play house of pain.
Do not play house jumping around. But on top of that,
we'll get to that in a second. Uh, that morning,
we had to wake up at seven o'clock and go
to an all day youth wrestling tournament that lasted for
seven and a half hours, which, if there's whatever the

(01:26:21):
next level of a super Spreader event is a youth
wrestling tournament in Mount Lebanon is like an ultramega wuhan
wet market.

Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
Just people kids swiping.

Speaker 26 (01:26:33):
Their nose and then grabbing your kids and kids walking
into a bathroom likely urinating on their shoes and then
coming out and then going on the mats and everything
like that. The fact that everyone there doesn't have a
new strain of COVID forty eighth or whatever we're on
at this point, it's measles. So just absolutely astounding. And
we were there for six and a half hours. Six

(01:26:54):
and a half hours. My son had four matches. Oh,
this is what kills me. My brother does the same thing.
He'll say, hey, your nephew has two basketball games. One's
at three and one's at seven thirty. And I'm like, well,
what are you doing? We just watched the other games.
I'm like, that's a six hour day, a long time plus.

Speaker 8 (01:27:14):
Okay.

Speaker 26 (01:27:15):
Out of the four matches, my son gets pinned in
three seconds in the first one, so nice start to
the day. He rallies back, he has two pins, you know,
ten seconds, ten seconds, So now we're up to twenty
four total seconds of matt time that I've seen.

Speaker 5 (01:27:28):
And then the last match was like a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
So out of six and a half hours, I watched
my son wrestle for maybe maybe a minute and forty
five seconds total.

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
That was what are you just watching wrestling matches?

Speaker 18 (01:27:40):
The entire day.

Speaker 26 (01:27:40):
I'm an assistant coach, so I have to I have
other things to do at least, so that was occupying
my time. But good lord, like that's when you have
something to do. At the end of the day. We
had grocery stuff to do. We had, you know, the
house to get ready and vacuuming to be done, toilets
to be wiped down that we hadn't wiped down in six.

Speaker 5 (01:27:58):
And a half months.

Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
Does your guests can't know you put?

Speaker 5 (01:28:00):
No, they cannot absolutely know.

Speaker 26 (01:28:01):
Well, it actually ended up working out because, you know,
my wife, whenever we're having people over, gets mean.

Speaker 3 (01:28:09):
She gets mean to us.

Speaker 26 (01:28:12):
Because and rightfully so, me and my two sons are
pretty much fully useless, you know, to help out, Like
we we don't get the level that she's going for
a lot of times, so we were not helpful.

Speaker 3 (01:28:24):
We're a lot of times just in the way.

Speaker 26 (01:28:26):
So the fact that we were out somewhere for most
of the day actually helped the harmony of the house
for the most part. Like I literally as soon as
she said, like you know, we're gonna host We're gonna
host this Christmas party. Were gonna have thirty five people
in our house and I looked at her and I
was like, Okay, we're hosting it on Saturday.

Speaker 5 (01:28:39):
Should I just get a motel for me and the.

Speaker 2 (01:28:41):
Boys for the Thursday Friday before hats and we're just
completely out of your head so she can just clear
the palate. So wait, was there any consideration to postpone
the party due to the weather. No, because the neighborhood party,
we can walk through yards, so nobody was gonna have
a tough time, tough time getting an air and anyway.
And actually that sort of made it nicer because you know,
you could, you could wear and you sort of felt

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snowed in, kind of a little cozy that way. But
you know, again, she's trying to do this elevated stuff.
She's in the Pinterest algorithm, so she you know, if
a party was left up to me, I would get
a keg and some popcorn and that would be it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
And it would be a bad party.

Speaker 5 (01:29:16):
I don't know if that's gonna be a bad party,
but I know what you're saying.

Speaker 26 (01:29:19):
It would not be an elevated party that you want
representing your family. My wife carries the flag for the
Concoles and says, you're our guests and you're we're gonna
treat you right. There was a big fight over she
was trying to make like whiskey ice cubes, like the
big whisky ice. So she put some cranberries in the
molds and a little sprig of time in there.

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
That's amazing, that's what everybody said. I thought it was
the stupidest thing. I was like, no one's even gonna
notice this thing. The amount of people that I made
a glad, They're like, what what is this in the glass?
Is there cranberries and a little sprig of time.

Speaker 26 (01:29:54):
It's just the nice touch that she I mean, she
slaved over that, and I thought it was so silly
that I was like, no one's you even know. They're
just gonna slug their whiskey and be done with it. No,
got so many, so many compliments. It was nice, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
Well, I would expect, you know, nothing else from Jerry
to be thoughtful like that, and you to just pooh
pooh all the ideas and he's in a colon thing.
Nobody's gonna careybody's gonna get hammered appreciate it.

Speaker 26 (01:30:16):
But so like but okay, so you had to shovel
a ton of snow to like, no, no, didn't shovel snow.
Made all my neighbors sign a waiver beforehand of no
of legal dismleegal absolving. But my theory with snow when
it comes down like that, because I could shovel at
five o'clock it was still snowing, Yeah, that means I'm
gonna have to be out there, you know, a half

(01:30:38):
hour later. So I just let it go when I
in my opinion, fresh packed snow is less of a
slip hazard than if you shovel an ice on an
asphalt driveway.

Speaker 5 (01:30:47):
So I just let it ride then, and then I
did it.

Speaker 26 (01:30:50):
I did it the next The next day, in between
the wrestling tournament and the party, I had a birthday
party to take my son to. This is in the
middle of the snow stormges. The birthday party is twenty
five minutes away. Oh and it's at a reserved It
was at Cool Springs, like the basketball thing. So I know,
as someone who's had to book a kid's winter birthday party,

(01:31:12):
these people probably showed up a couple hundred bucks. Weather
report comes in and now people were falling off, So
I was like, listen, if we can make it, we're
gonna make it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:21):
So we literally grabbed the four wheel drive.

Speaker 8 (01:31:23):
I had to pick up.

Speaker 26 (01:31:23):
Another kid and we went out there because I was like,
these people aren't gonna get their security deposit back unless
we got out there. Yeah, so we're skinting, like we
were hitting some patches, doing little backslide and tokyo drifting
around a Bethel Church road and everything like that.

Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
And so that was harrowing enough. And then party went off.
It went great.

Speaker 26 (01:31:42):
Nice thing about having a party of suburban neighborhood people
is that there's a squad to help you clean up
at the end of the night, Like at eleven fifteen
or whatever. When we wrapped up, everyone was just like,
give me a trash bag, give me some lyceolve, I'm
gonna wipe this thing down.

Speaker 8 (01:31:56):
And we were left.

Speaker 5 (01:31:57):
It was better than we found it. So it was
really nice that way.

Speaker 3 (01:32:00):
Yeah, and then you.

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
Leave there, go back to the neighborhood party and thirty
five people were in your house for how long?

Speaker 5 (01:32:08):
Two and a half hours.

Speaker 26 (01:32:09):
Well, that's not bad, that's not bad. We moved it
was a progressive party. We moved to one other There
was a second location, so we traced over.

Speaker 8 (01:32:15):
So it's like the late night you guys did we
were we were.

Speaker 26 (01:32:17):
The advertiser food house and uh and the other person
was like the kind of the drinks and cookie house.
And this is a big point of contention. So we
we got a honey baked ham. So we're trying to
idea thirty five adult party. I just want to point
this like a.

Speaker 5 (01:32:30):
Honey baked like a honey baked ham.

Speaker 8 (01:32:32):
That makes it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:33):
That's elevated. Yes, yeah, honey bag.

Speaker 26 (01:32:35):
Okay, Well, we never know how to order for people,
so like you know, and this this goes for everything,
like if we're having seven people over, my wife will
be like, we need five pizzas and then you have
like sixty five slices of pizza that you can just
frisbee to the raccoons at the end of the night.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
So we have thirty five people. Were like, I don't
know how many how many honey bake how.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
Many honey baked hams you think you need for thirty
five people? I would say two sounds like this.

Speaker 5 (01:33:00):
This was a point of contention.

Speaker 26 (01:33:02):
We were like, do we get one and maybe alligator
armored a little bit, or we buying two honey baked hands,
which by the way, are freaking expensive. The honey baked
ham is get like bitcoin, and then honey baked ham
is like the next the next level of currency that
we're going to be trading in. My mom and my
wife got into it and almost an argument over how

(01:33:23):
many hams to get, and to the point where my
mom was like, you cannot get more than two hams.
That's absolutely that is fiscally irresponsible. Your children, they have
college funds to fund. You cannot be doing that, to
the point where they ended the conversation and my mom
butt dialed me, left me a message of a conversation
she had with my dad. She's like, I don't know
what the you just hear it in the background. I
don't even know what they're doing. You're gonna get two

(01:33:44):
honey baked hands.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
Do you think it was a butt dial or was
it a mom moved No, my mom is I don't
know how you're still dialing. I don't know how you're
still dialing people with your butt on this in the
era of touchscreens.

Speaker 26 (01:33:55):
She somehow manages to do it, but that was this
was a big, big issue. So we went with one
hand and guess what we had like like three quarters
of a ham left over. So if anybody wants to
come over and have sandwiches, please we need to get
rid of this time.

Speaker 3 (01:34:06):
I alease, see you bring in any ham.

Speaker 5 (01:34:08):
I always think people eat are going to eat more
than they actually do.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
I'm always preparing for like, well, everyone's gonna come and
pig out, yeah, and not remembering that most times when
I go to a party, I'll eat a little bit.
I don't usually sit down and gorge myself. And most
people are like, well, I'm having cocktails and I'm just
gonna nibble.

Speaker 8 (01:34:31):
Alcohol.

Speaker 26 (01:34:32):
The same way when we buy alcohol, we're like, okay,
we got thirty five people. Each person's gonna drink seven
to twelve beers.

Speaker 8 (01:34:39):
Okay.

Speaker 26 (01:34:40):
Now meanwhile something they have like one Michelot Ultra and
then they're like, my gurd is kind of flaring up.
So yeah, never you always are like so again, if
anybody's supposed to have a well bring it down the
Steelers game to night, We'll just have a rager of Heinekens.

Speaker 2 (01:34:53):
Sounds like you got a great tailgate ready to go,
but don't don't sell the short the uh get a
ca and popcorn, because that, to me is one hell
of a fun party.

Speaker 8 (01:35:03):
See.

Speaker 26 (01:35:03):
To me, people just want to get together, and I
think that the Pinterest thing actually puts the hurdle too high.
And everyone says like I don't want to have people
over because I don't want to paint my baseboards so
that you know, it can be instagrammable, or people judge
me when they come in the house.

Speaker 5 (01:35:18):
I think, and this is I think a guy's perspective
on this.

Speaker 26 (01:35:21):
People enjoy the warmth more than the decor, like the
the fellowship more so than anything else, and that's what
brings the people to the party.

Speaker 3 (01:35:29):
But it's a level of courtesy.

Speaker 26 (01:35:31):
I think that if you're really showing respect for your guests,
you're putting those nice little touches.

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
You're not doing the scorekeeping when you go to your
neighbor's house for stuff like this. But your wife is
possibly so Jerry is like, we are getting a good
score for this, whether you said you want it or not.
She was over preparing, she had that in mind. So
that seems to me to be very much. That's why
I'm saying keg and popcorn sounds great. And my Instagram

(01:35:57):
score for the neighborhood. That'd be very low, very low.
No one would even whip their phone out, like we're
sad for him. You can't have nice, yes, right, that
is such a bachelor. But Abby, I know that you
you did a little Christmas cookie in on Friday night.

Speaker 7 (01:36:11):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (01:36:12):
My aunt has started this tradition. It's adorable where every
year and.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
It started off as this like small little party and
now it's expanded to like pretty much the whole family
where we do like a sugar cookie royal icing cookie
decorating party.

Speaker 5 (01:36:28):
This sounds like that the Tinsel Twinkle Jingle town.

Speaker 28 (01:36:32):
But I was wondering if you two were coming to
the green Pine Grove town Square Christmas Festival of Lights
Christmas Tree decorating Contest finaliscoltary.

Speaker 3 (01:36:43):
It When I say royal icing. The reason why I
say that is because I'm trying to not give it prestige.
It's because royal icing means the kind of that really flat,
colorful icing.

Speaker 1 (01:36:59):
When you see like a decorated cookie that like almost
looks like fonded, It looks like like.

Speaker 5 (01:37:04):
Like paint, like smiley smiley cookie is Yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:37:09):
That's a little bit more of like based like corn
syrup icing that's like flat and like it's really like, yeah,
it looks like a cartoon almost, So we weren't. We're
not making like chocolate, you know, like peppermint cookies or
anything like that. This is just sugar cookies like art
on top.

Speaker 3 (01:37:28):
And so she puts us in teams and then you
had to like break off into teams.

Speaker 8 (01:37:32):
This is a competition.

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
Is a competition, And I won last year and I.

Speaker 23 (01:37:37):
Was back to defend.

Speaker 2 (01:37:39):
Okay, so how do you win? Is it there's a vote.
There's a vote, okay, based on what what's the judging criteria? Creativity, presentation?

Speaker 1 (01:37:49):
And so Edie and I were on a team, My
daughter and I were on a team, My mom and
dad were on a team.

Speaker 3 (01:37:55):
My cousin and his husband were on a team. Like
everybody's broken into.

Speaker 26 (01:37:59):
Like you know the group did anyone buffet like absolutely
fell apart in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
Oh, my dad and.

Speaker 1 (01:38:05):
Mom, Like I can't believe they're still married after, Like
what happened to their They.

Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
Drink and cammer, yeahdales and yeah on a cookie. But
I made I made a little gnome that really cinched
the deal.

Speaker 1 (01:38:20):
But my my daughter also like we came correct and
she made one that was a Christmas sweater that said
who farted on it?

Speaker 2 (01:38:27):
And I think.

Speaker 8 (01:38:31):
Killer.

Speaker 3 (01:38:32):
We unanimously won the vote.

Speaker 1 (01:38:34):
Everyone voted for us, and so we won a flower
pot that was a shrunken head and that was our big.

Speaker 18 (01:38:41):
W wow wow.

Speaker 5 (01:38:44):
Nothing Christmas like a shrunken.

Speaker 3 (01:38:46):
Hair exactly, So we failed it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:47):
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Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
There was so much to talk about from yesterday in
the NFL and around the NFL. We didn't talk about
the Penguins collapse once yet, both against the Utah Mammoths.
And the Sharks five to one lead, then a three
to zero lead. You're really good at taking the reservation.

Speaker 8 (01:39:44):
You're just not.

Speaker 3 (01:39:46):
Holding the lead.

Speaker 8 (01:39:49):
Yeah, the Utah thing. Four goals allowed in a five
minute and fifty nine second span of the third period,
three to nothing lead became a four to three deficit.
At least they battle back and got it.

Speaker 5 (01:40:00):
To overtime, which they lost again, which they.

Speaker 8 (01:40:03):
Lost the first shot.

Speaker 5 (01:40:05):
It was like ten seconds in overtime.

Speaker 26 (01:40:07):
Can we bring like Eric Christiansen back or somebody who
was actually good at the shootout?

Speaker 8 (01:40:11):
And this in the wake of on Saturday, uh allowing
four in ten minutes and forty nine seconds of the
third period, a five to one lead, a five to
five tie, and they lost that in overtime.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
Did you hear the mashup of the Sharks played by
play guy on each goal?

Speaker 8 (01:40:31):
I did not.

Speaker 5 (01:40:32):
It's five to one right now, and here's the goal
to make it five to two.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
Scor Sharks score.

Speaker 8 (01:40:40):
Five three five four online five five loads up. I mean, guys,
get a little excited for December hockey. But it was historic, though,
wasn't it. You're beating the Penguins, not the Gretzky Oilers.

Speaker 2 (01:40:58):
They were five, they were winning five to one with
twelve and there's twelve and a half minutes.

Speaker 8 (01:41:03):
Yeah, like I should be able to get that one home.

Speaker 2 (01:41:08):
I don't even know who to blame everybody, Yeah, I guess,
but a crazy weekend there. Then you had the Heisman
Trophy awarded to Jacob's guy this weekend. Fernando Allezuela congratulates.

Speaker 3 (01:41:25):
So close.

Speaker 4 (01:41:27):
Yeah it was great.

Speaker 34 (01:41:28):
I don't know if you guys saw the the really
great uh post by Adidas. He just signed his Adidas deal.
His name is spelled h i zmy and do o
z a. Well sorry, Mendoza Emi and do o z a. Yeah,
and so they put in he is Mendoza, heights Mendoza,

(01:41:49):
heis Mendoza. That's pretty cool, and it reads, you know,
two ways. He is Mendoza, heis mean Dooza. It's it's
really awesome. Then you had that jackass from Vanderbilt all
weekend beyond.

Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
I've never seen anybody going that the bass from like
a guy that you're kind of rooting for to oh,
we all universally hate him. It took like three weeks, no,
just the one in between last weekend. Well, now when
his mom was like torking at the game. It was
kind of like, all right, is this You saw the
footage of him like a New York City club.

Speaker 34 (01:42:17):
Oh yeah, he's holding up that Indiana's with the signs
that said f Indiana and they were throwing on middle fingers.

Speaker 5 (01:42:25):
Yeah, dude, classic bag.

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
He's a total He's like right out of the school
of Johnny Manziel.

Speaker 8 (01:42:31):
What as were pumping college football's tires a little bit.
Navy beats Army seventeen sixteen Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:42:37):
You were there for that.

Speaker 8 (01:42:38):
I was there for that. So we're a couple of
guys from Mount Lebanon playing for the midshipman Alex Tesca
and Eli Heidenreich. All they did. Tesca ran nine times
for fifty yards. Heisen Reich had five carries for twenty
eight yards. He also caught what turned out to be
the game winning touchdown pass fourth and goal from the

(01:42:59):
Army eight was six point thirty seven left in regulation.
Navy is down sixteen to ten, So I was thinking,
at least kick a field goal, try to get a stop,
and then try to get a field goal or a touchdown.
Navy said, no, no, if that we're going for the
gold right now, hide and Red catches nate yard touchdown
pass part of a six reception, seventy two yard day

(01:43:21):
through the air. And then the last time Navy had
the ball, fourth and one from the Army forty one
with a buck fifty four left. Now only up one point.
You don't get this. Army has to go about twenty
five yards to kick a field goal and win the game. No,
Navy said, We'll just give it to Alex Tesca and
he's going to gain two yards and get the first

(01:43:42):
down that puts the game away, anchors away. Baby, don't
give up the ship. Good deal. We'll talk a little
stillers are we at a time? Oliver hazard Perry said
that don't give up the ship they have. Everybody has
those flags when they tailgate. They're so cool.

Speaker 2 (01:43:58):
Yeah, it's a pretty I believe it's from the War
of eighteen twelve, famous naval battle.

Speaker 8 (01:44:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:44:06):
Well, we made my dad a flag for his birthday
one year and the same font that said effort let him.

Speaker 5 (01:44:13):
Have the ship, because he.

Speaker 3 (01:44:18):
That seems counter to what there's because he loved that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:21):
You know, he was a Navy guy and he'd always
put he'd always if we had a party that don't
give up the ship, thing would be flying, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:44:26):
So we had one that I was said, let him
have the ship, it's not worth it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:32):
It was. It was not Oliver Hazard Perry. It was
Captain James Lawrence. During eighteen twelve. It became iconic when
Oliver Hazard Perry flew the flag based on his works.

Speaker 8 (01:44:42):
Oh okay, there we go, and they're still flying it today.
They are Steelers. Better not give up the ship tonight
against the Dolphins Monday Night Football No TJ. Watt, Although
according to Tom Pelsero, the Steelers are hopeful that what
will only miss one game. Derek Harmon was just limited.
Didn't practice on Saturday, so I'm guessing he's not going

(01:45:03):
to play either against the team that has run the
crap out of the ball for four consecutive weeks. The Dolphins,
all of a sudden, are reborn after their one and
five start. Steelers are in the middle of the NFL
stretch run. These games that they're playing tonight, the games

(01:45:24):
to come, the one they played December seventh in Baltimore, Well,
these are the type of games that Aaron Rodgers came
here to play.

Speaker 19 (01:45:32):
Yeah, I mean, it's been a couple of years since
I played in you know, meaningful games in December, so
that's why we play. Obviously, you played to win championships.
You got to be in position and playing the right
way late in the season. So good to be a
part of a big time game last Sunday and the
rest of these will be the same.

Speaker 5 (01:45:52):
Quite a soundtrack there, What a vibe going on? A
little shaggy going on in the background. Is that in
Chili's or.

Speaker 8 (01:45:59):
It was in luck to not give me a good feeling?

Speaker 5 (01:46:02):
Yeah, it shouldn't have.

Speaker 8 (01:46:04):
But the way they were preparing defensively, you mentioned no watt,
probably no harm in Miami can really run the balls.
Steelers have a hard time with run defense, but a
couple of things working in their favor heading into tonight.
Pittsburgh is on twenty two consecutive home games on Monday
Night football. Wow, what a sta that's a significant streak.
Miami is also with Tua at quarterback, one in seven

(01:46:29):
when the temperature is below forty six degrees. The one
win was a couple sundays ago against the Jets, who
stun are horrible, terrible, and the temperature was forty three
degrees so barely snuck under the forty six degree line
of demarcation. So basically, when it's as cold as it's
going to be tonight, Tua is oh for his life.

(01:46:49):
So load up on the run, and load up on
the run to a beat you and maybe count on
a defensive mindset that shown up lad in games. Statistically,
the Steelers have been abysmal based on what they were
expecting of themselves defensively, but the four and one in

(01:47:10):
safe situations, having closed out the Jets, the Patriots, the Vikings,
and the Ravens. They gave up the ship at the
end of the Cincinnati game in Cincinnati. So but forour
and one, and even if they're having a hard time
during a game, they've they've had a habit of rising
to occasions that defensive coordinator Tarah Austin beliefs they should

(01:47:32):
rise up for and handle.

Speaker 17 (01:47:35):
I just think it's the mentality of our players. We
all know it's a sixty minute game. We know things
don't always go the way you won them, the way
you draw them up, the way you talk about them
in practice. But if you play hard and you do
things right, you know, if you can play really well
in crunch time, you'll have an opportunity to win the game.
And that's really what our guys do. You know, our

(01:47:55):
guys don't. They don't fear those situations. They don't fear
those type, you know, times in the game when when
the pressure is the most. And I think that's why
we've been able to be successful in some of those situations.

Speaker 8 (01:48:08):
Big one, it's not a mathematical elimination game, but kind
of might as well be, because if you look at
the wild card standings and again, you know, you beat
the Ravens at the end of the year here and
that's going to be highly impactful. But do you really
want to have to count on that?

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
Yeah, we could have used the Bengals beating the Ravens
and the Bills not having a massive comeback against the
Patriots yesterday.

Speaker 8 (01:48:35):
The Texans right now are the third wild card at
nine and five, and they have a better conference record
than the Steelers at seven and six, So starting to
look like division title or bust.

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
Did you see josh Allllen thrown up on the sidelines
of the game yesterday. I did not, And he says
he does it every game. Oh yeah, No, I just
do not have a game. Sometimes you you know, the
cameras catch me and sometimes I don't. Usually I'll get
it all out before the game.

Speaker 35 (01:49:00):
Physical that's I mean, if they don't catch it every game,
I don't know, Like it basically happens every game. I
don't know why I do it. It just happens. And
do it to nothing else but other than just like
a weird feeling, just got to get it out.

Speaker 5 (01:49:16):
He throws up every game. That's a weird thing.

Speaker 2 (01:49:19):
What a great crutch to have if you're nervous beforehand,
you just react and then you're like, all right, I'm good.
I mean, that would be great if it went away
with your throw up, if your nerves went away. Yeah,
if you just immediately calm down with whatever inendorphin rush
that that gets you.

Speaker 18 (01:49:36):
All right.

Speaker 8 (01:49:36):
Well, we'll talk to Jerry do like a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
You know. We talk a lot about what they need
to do against the Dolphins defensively to defend against Tua
and a chain. But what should they do against this
Dolphins defense tonight?

Speaker 8 (01:49:49):
Depends how they play. When I watched Miami, they played
a lot of single high because the Jets think and
they had a guy that never heard of playing quarterback.
So they just loaded up against New York's run nine
man boxes. And if Miami plays cover too, you got
to run the ball. If Miami does not play cover two,
you've got to attack those one on ones, just like
the Ravens game. And hopefully DK Metcalfe Aaron Rodgers have

(01:50:11):
it going on again. Hopefully Feeling and Valdas Scantling are
more impactful. From a statistical standpoint, the Steelers are kind
of built to take what they're given. I know there's
been a lot of talk about identity and what do
they do well, what they don't do well. They try
to take the path at least resistance and exploit the

(01:50:34):
defense where it's exploitable. That's what they gotta do.

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Network joining us.

Speaker 5 (01:51:27):
Good morning, Jared.

Speaker 6 (01:51:27):
How are you, Rando? I'm fine. Good morning to you.
Hope you're doing well, brother?

Speaker 18 (01:51:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:51:33):
Same. Have you learned anything new about the incident that
punctured TJ. Watts Lung? Who was doing that? Is it
is like, is it team affiliated? Was it somebody they
bring in and the subcontract or something? How did that
all go down?

Speaker 6 (01:51:50):
Well, if it happened at the facility, whether the appears
to be the outside people aren't brought in? I think
I think maybe on occasion, maybe a pyropractor comes in.
But in terms of I know.

Speaker 3 (01:52:06):
They've had massage therapists to come in that weren't implied.

Speaker 6 (01:52:09):
By the team, right and and and sometimes that causes
a problem, not that kind of problem, but just maybe
whether he should be you know, you know, I don't know,
if you.

Speaker 2 (01:52:18):
Know there's someone there to do massages that the team
pays for, and sometimes they bring someone else in. That's
when the Patriots were into Robert specific retinue of.

Speaker 6 (01:52:30):
Any any type of treatments such as what we're referring
to here. If if a player wants to do that,
they have to do that. I mean they you know,
if they want someone else to do it, they obviously
have to go outside the building because then it becomes
legal issues as to how the guy was injured or
you know, whatever happens. Like in this case, something like

(01:52:53):
that happens. So because it happened at the facility, I
only have to assume that it was someone you know,
a train's somewhat part of the training staff or whatnot.
And then of course, when that happened and he was
experiencing problems, he checked with the doctors, and doctors immediately
sent him to the hospital excuse me, on Wednesday, and
of course he remained there until Thursday. And you know,

(01:53:18):
so I know this from just kind of asking around
that as bad as it sounds, it's not as bad
as it sounds. And so I expect TJ. Watt to
play again, and maybe sooner than people think.

Speaker 2 (01:53:35):
Yeah, that is just crazy to me insane that he'd
be able to bounce back that quickly. But I'm glad
to hear it, no doubt about that. All Right, on
the injury front, we have we gleaned anything more about
Derek Harmon? Is it his lack of participation tell us
all we need to know practice wise about whether he
plays tonight.

Speaker 6 (01:53:54):
Yeah, usually that's the case. You know, they were certainly
hoping to get him back.

Speaker 15 (01:53:58):
I know he was.

Speaker 2 (01:53:59):
He was.

Speaker 6 (01:54:01):
You know, his type of injury is usually two to
four weeks, so it's been two. You know, you could
you could spend the numbers what it's like with him
and without him, and they could be coincidence or it
could be telling. But one thing's for sure. What hurts
when he's not there, not only just not having him,
Then all of a sudden, your rotational depth just isn't

(01:54:21):
as good. So instead of why a black, say, coming
a little bit more off the bench in a rotational system,
now he's having to play more. And now the trickle
down is that the next person who comes in isn't
as good as maybe why a Black would have been
off the bench. And so that seems to be because
it's not exactly like They're loaded with talent on the
front line. It's not like they go six and seven deep.

(01:54:44):
So when you miss, you know, if not your key guy,
certainly one of your key guys along with Cam, then yeah,
it can't it can't help.

Speaker 2 (01:54:53):
So tonight, given how the last game against the Ravens went,
where it was widely basically assumed that the reason Aaron
Rodgers had such a prolific day was that he had
scanting and Feeling out there to balance DK and take
some attention away.

Speaker 5 (01:55:12):
Will both of those guys get a helmet tonight?

Speaker 6 (01:55:15):
Yeah, I've been told that that's the plan. They're going
to go the same way. I don't know what effect.
You know, when you look at the numbers, obviously they
didn't have a big impact. Uh you know, Vela Scantling
had one target and it was on one of those
third and seven plays when he runs a five yard round,

(01:55:37):
which is Gene Caryer's favorite playing.

Speaker 3 (01:55:39):
Football short of the stations.

Speaker 6 (01:55:46):
But but feeling, I think you will see more involved.
You know on the past that Aaron Rodgers had batted
back to him, it was going down the field of
feeling who was wide open. They just they felt that
was a touchdown, and I think you're going to see
him probably get more targets. You know, he got a
crash course last Friday that he played twenty five snaps

(01:56:09):
was really surprising to me because he did next to
nothing with the team and team grills on Thursday and Friday.
Though he got the big crash course and you know
they used them a lot, So I think you'll see
him get targeted a little bit more. But I believe
the plan is they're going to you know, it worked

(01:56:29):
for whatever reason, and they're not going to change anything up.
So I think you'll see it.

Speaker 2 (01:56:32):
Stay exactly to say, but what do you anticipate the
balance of attack will be run past tonight for the Steelers.

Speaker 6 (01:56:42):
Well, you know, the Dolphins defense has gotten a little
bit better, especially against the run. But you know, as
cold as it is, certainly Aaron Rodgers should be accustomed
to cold playing in Great Bay all those years. I
think it's it's just going to depend. I think, you know,
the running game hasn't exactly been sharp, and and you
know early in the year, if the running game isn't sharp,

(01:57:04):
then your attack then is let's get the running game
going this time of year when when you have to win.
It's like, let's do what we do that's going to
help us win the game. And so if that's throwing
the ball, they'll throw the ball. So I mean it's
going to be cold. I don't think it's going to
be nasty with logs obviously, not rain or snow or anything.
So I mean I think, you know, it's kind of like, look,

(01:57:26):
we're going to do what we need to do. If
we're not running the ball, well, we're not going to
try to run the ball well or vice versas. So
to me, what we saw last week I think is
something similar. Of course it depends on Miami plays, but
I think it's going to be the same type of
aggressive attack.

Speaker 5 (01:57:40):
How do you think Renegade's going to go over tonight
first home game since it was booed?

Speaker 6 (01:57:45):
Let's just hope the timing is a little bit better
when they play at Randall. That was the problem last time. Yeah,
you know, it stopped on fourth down. They're trailing and
they're trying to generate enthusiasm and that crowd was in
no mood to be enthusiastic. Now, ye, yes, just the
wrong way.

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Speaker 8 (01:58:24):
Thanks Jerry d stay warm tonight.

Speaker 6 (01:58:25):
Buddy, Joel, I'm gonna try Randall. Thanks man.

Speaker 2 (01:58:28):
Okay, we'll see Billy Gardelle joining us for the nine
am hour. Jeff Conkle's in studio with us as well,
and Abby you'll be leading off the nine hour for us.

Speaker 1 (01:58:36):
We do have to get to that sad news resetting
on the death of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle.

Speaker 2 (01:58:41):
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Speaker 18 (02:00:30):
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which one is that? That's not Rudeolph, that's Claus Is
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Speaker 8 (02:00:38):
Yes, I think you're right.

Speaker 2 (02:00:40):
And that's what because that's the one that has Chris
Kringle when he's like younger. Yes, she looks like Conan O'Brien.

Speaker 11 (02:00:46):
He does.

Speaker 3 (02:00:50):
The year with the up.

Speaker 37 (02:00:53):
Yeah, she has to faten them up, that's right, and
this has caused us to fatten them up.

Speaker 18 (02:00:57):
He suit dumb. But the person I'm gonna make Patty
start saying that.

Speaker 4 (02:01:06):
Brandy Bellman and the DVE Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (02:01:09):
Billy Gardell live from Los Angeles, California, this morning here
on the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (02:01:16):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (02:01:17):
Because we got our buddy man, Jeff Conkle in here,
with us as well this morning, mister Wednesday, here go.

Speaker 18 (02:01:23):
Have I ever been in here with Jeff concor.

Speaker 23 (02:01:26):
In the studio?

Speaker 2 (02:01:27):
But it's been a minute, It's been a long time.
But yeah, nice to see you again. Nice to see
you too, buddy.

Speaker 5 (02:01:33):
Well, you got the coffee cup. You got a nice
coffee cup?

Speaker 8 (02:01:35):
There?

Speaker 5 (02:01:35):
What's that coffee cup?

Speaker 18 (02:01:37):
I got a cup? This one is?

Speaker 37 (02:01:39):
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 out with a
little cup.

Speaker 8 (02:01:52):
You like a bowl, And.

Speaker 18 (02:01:55):
I like a coffee that has a high dive. That's
what I'm looking for.

Speaker 5 (02:01:58):
Do you like coffee so much to you switch to
d calf in the afternoon and keep drinking it.

Speaker 18 (02:02:03):
Nope, I just drink regular.

Speaker 5 (02:02:05):
I don't drink regular all day, never switch, not all day.

Speaker 18 (02:02:10):
I do too big A good morning. I did two
giant buckets.

Speaker 37 (02:02:16):
In the morning, and then usually around four o'clock I'll
hit a lot or something, get that express express.

Speaker 3 (02:02:22):
So I enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (02:02:23):
Yeah, I'll go for some uh decaf because I like
the taste.

Speaker 5 (02:02:28):
I just I don't want the zing because I'll be
up all night.

Speaker 18 (02:02:31):
Yeah, I won't be up all go I could probably
It's an.

Speaker 5 (02:02:34):
Old man thing.

Speaker 8 (02:02:35):
I just said, real, real loud.

Speaker 18 (02:02:38):
You're singing, bro, you're singing.

Speaker 8 (02:02:42):
Then I gotta go for my waters.

Speaker 18 (02:02:45):
Yeah. Patty's rule is two o'clock.

Speaker 2 (02:02:47):
I like it.

Speaker 18 (02:02:47):
I'm not sure how much my a FIP doctor likes me.
Have an express you got you gotta you gotta roll
the dice somewhere, man Jesus, And how to get up
at the table and roll the dice somewhere?

Speaker 5 (02:02:59):
Yeah, and mean you stop smoking? So and all you
got is gambling?

Speaker 3 (02:03:02):
You know, it's just give me something stopped.

Speaker 18 (02:03:05):
I got gambling and coffee. They don't go well together.

Speaker 2 (02:03:08):
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 before I.

Speaker 37 (02:03:19):
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.

Speaker 18 (02:03:34):
I don't.

Speaker 8 (02:03:34):
Yeah, the details are starting to leave, I.

Speaker 18 (02:03:36):
Know, I know, Yeah, I don't know. We we haven't.

Speaker 37 (02:03:40):
When we went to bed last night, it was at
first it was there were two bodies found that at
Rob Reiner's house. And 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.

Speaker 2 (02:03:55):
It gets more tragic because they they were found by
their their daughter, and the suspected killer is their son, Nick,
Oh my god, who'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

(02:04:18):
it's all about his life, Nick's life as a recovering
addict and dealing, you know, with 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 an entertainment world standpoint,
he was a giant, giant man, one.

Speaker 37 (02:04:39):
Of the greatest comedy directors. 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 2 (02:04:55):
He had a run that was like it started with
spinal tap and then and had the sure thing stand
by me, Oh, miser misery question the princes, the Princess bride.
He did misery too, Yeah, what spinal tap? Sure things

(02:05:19):
stand by me, Princess Bride. When Harry met Sally, misery
a few good men, back to back to back to
back to back to back to back. That spans all
genres too. That's a little horror, that's a little thriller,
that's romantic comedy.

Speaker 5 (02:05:32):
Holy cap Bill, I was telling these guys.

Speaker 2 (02:05:34):
I just happened to coincidentally be listening to Penny Marshall's
autobiography on tape.

Speaker 5 (02:05:39):
Because it's Penny Marshall reading it.

Speaker 18 (02:05:40):
That is weird.

Speaker 8 (02:05:41):
Wow, it's awesome.

Speaker 12 (02:05:43):
Though, because you know, her voice is so hilarious since
she's got that dry.

Speaker 5 (02:05:50):
And she partied with Robin Williams and John Believe She
and all those.

Speaker 2 (02:05:54):
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 time I
equated to like the Laurel Canyon scene.

Speaker 5 (02:06:07):
Everybody was like hanging out to Peter Tork's and.

Speaker 8 (02:06:09):
Steven Stiler's house.

Speaker 2 (02:06:10):
Ye, 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.

Speaker 5 (02:06:21):
Richard Dreyfus lived there with him too.

Speaker 2 (02:06:22):
Tim Matheson, Belushi and Ackroyd, Steven Spielberg would come over
and hang out with them and just like they would
be literally sitting around and talking about comedy.

Speaker 3 (02:06:33):
James L.

Speaker 8 (02:06:33):
Brooks was also a guy who was there all the time.

Speaker 2 (02:06:36):
Who you know, Mary Tyler, Moore, Taxi, the Simpsons, the
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 going to
make our mark? And that was all fomented by Rob
Reiner and Penny Marshall, Like, yeah, come on over, do
you feel like in a room like that?

Speaker 26 (02:06:56):
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 that, like or do you
think there was.

Speaker 5 (02:07:03):
Just like we we're just buddies and we're just that's
exactly because you don't.

Speaker 18 (02:07:06):
They were just I think it was just a creative scene.
There used to be a lot of those Jeff Day.

Speaker 3 (02:07:12):
Like the salons where you'd all get together.

Speaker 37 (02:07:14):
But there was a there's a there was there was
a there was a vibe there though that you if
the thought was there was energy transference. Same with the
music there in Laurel Canyon, Likery was talking about you
hung around other creatives, 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

(02:07:35):
would remark it wasn't about that. 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. The Lampoon guys had the same philosophy hang
around other, hanging around to other athletes other than you,

(02:07:55):
and all of a sudden you become better and then
there was a wooming.

Speaker 18 (02:07:58):
Vibe to that. So, but what a tragedy.

Speaker 2 (02:08:03):
It's like, did you ever see there's a there's a
documentary about the like Nashville in the seventies, the 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, Rodney Carrington.

Speaker 5 (02:08:24):
Yeah, like, uh, what's his name?

Speaker 8 (02:08:29):
Van Zant?

Speaker 5 (02:08:30):
Uh Town's van Zant? Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:08:40):
So it's like all of those guys sitting around a
table and then they all want to be went on
to become country music Hall of fame.

Speaker 18 (02:08:47):
That happened to me on a smaller level.

Speaker 37 (02:08:49):
Man, when I started at this little club in Orlando
in nineteeny seven, our open mic night was me, Darryl Hammond,
Carrot Top, Larry.

Speaker 18 (02:09:00):
The cable guy.

Speaker 37 (02:09:03):
Who else was in a four who end up being
a kind of a big name in voice servers at Nickelodeon,
like in the nineties, he did Good tomorrowse.

Speaker 18 (02:09:15):
You think who else? Wayne Brady? This was our crew
that and no one, no one knew, none of us
knew we were going to make it.

Speaker 37 (02:09:24):
And I Wednesday it was open mic night, and we
would all do open night and then everybody would have
half a joke written on a cocktail napkin and we'd
all go to Denny's after the opens around to.

Speaker 18 (02:09:36):
Try to go out. Like I said, how we're going
to pay them WHI we didn't class.

Speaker 5 (02:09:41):
You're in, you know all right? So let me let
me ask you this Bell.

Speaker 2 (02:09:44):
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 action. So we kind of did a
broad brush struck over that story. Abby, want't you bounce
to the next thing that we have here?

Speaker 1 (02:09:59):
While Billy, uh yet, I will Okay, So I saw
this coming up here, we can talk about it.

Speaker 3 (02:10:06):
Maybe a larger phenomenon of bad movies.

Speaker 1 (02:10:09):
Either becoming good over time or maybe just becoming awesomely
bad over time.

Speaker 3 (02:10:16):
Francis Ford Coppel has Megalais ye is headed back to theaters.

Speaker 8 (02:10:23):
I still have not seen it.

Speaker 2 (02:10:27):
I feel a duty to see it because I do
love the fact that he put his own money behind it,
and he's like, Nope, I'm not leaving any of my kids.
I'm going to make an unbelievably ridiculous movie that I
have wanted to make forever and I don't care who
likes it.

Speaker 1 (02:10:40):
And he's doubling down on that because the movie, again
considered a total flop, is set 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 fulkrum of discussion about the betterment of

(02:11:00):
society and humanity.

Speaker 5 (02:11:03):
Well, then he shouldn't have made it five hours long.

Speaker 26 (02:11:06):
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, Right, I'm
not going to the movie theater for a full crumb.

Speaker 1 (02:11:19):
So he wants it to stand the test of time
and believe every New Year's Day.

Speaker 3 (02:11:25):
You're gonna go see it.

Speaker 5 (02:11:26):
Yeah, I'm not gonna go see it.

Speaker 2 (02:11:28):
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 5 (02:11:35):
I have mono and I have to stay home, and
then I'll watch it but.

Speaker 3 (02:11:38):
You went back for The Irishman when we said that awful,
and you're like, I'm going back for here's the thing
the Irishman considered bad. I think it was pretty bad,
very bloated, but.

Speaker 26 (02:11:48):
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 Keitel meeting, like what do you what
are you doing? In frank like that that one the
fight scene in the jail when it's like what do
you want me to do with your four to one kid? See, like,
that's one of those movies that has some scenes that

(02:12:09):
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 not a very compelling yeah
to sit through at the end.

Speaker 2 (02:12:21):
Desperately needed a better edit that and also younger stars.
If they they could have kept Puccino in as Hofa,
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

(02:12:46):
so distracting. Also, the scene where de Niro has to
beat the guy up in the street, it looks like
a seven year old man, yeah, desperately trying hard to
recover from that. And when he bends over the hood
of the truck and he goes, what's the problem with ister?
And he goes, hey, kid, like Joe Peschi's call him kid,
And they looked very old. They both look too old. Yeah, so,
but so he's they're re releasing this. The thing I

(02:13:08):
think the problem with Megalopolis is nobody really knew what
the it was about. They sall, 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 1 (02:13:17):
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.

Speaker 8 (02:13:28):
Admirable.

Speaker 26 (02:13:29):
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 blast,
and so did my kids. And actually I looked it

(02:13:50):
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,
this is about as good as it can get. And
that's pretty high praise for a Ninja Turtles movie.

Speaker 21 (02:14:02):
It is.

Speaker 2 (02:14:03):
They have a Christmas movie they do, We Wish you
a Turtle Christmas. I don't know that I've seen that one,
and that's surprising.

Speaker 1 (02:14:10):
Calabonga, Yeah, love it all right? 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

(02:14:33):
that the person might pick because it's important to them.
Turns out most Americans do think it's a good gift.
About fifty six percent said yes.

Speaker 5 (02:14:42):
If someone gives that to you, you have joy in
your heart when that happens.

Speaker 18 (02:14:46):
I don't.

Speaker 26 (02:14:47):
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 2 (02:14:53):
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 you mean, and
that was his job or he was a garbage He
was a successful artist on a on a big, big
scale garbage personage, never had money. He would have big

(02:15:15):
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, the machine.

Speaker 8 (02:15:27):
Yes, he would do it.

Speaker 2 (02:15:27):
And then meanwhile he's sit at dinner and order the
most expensive bottle of wine and have no intention.

Speaker 5 (02:15:31):
That's why he has no money.

Speaker 2 (02:15:33):
One of those guys. And we could not stand him,
and we did a secret sandap 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
believed there was an actual goat, were like, there's no goat. Well,

(02:15:55):
and I've I've done that before, like, or I've got that.
I think Sally he did it for me one time,
and I had it like I was feeding an elephant
for a year or so, let's.

Speaker 23 (02:16:04):
See with her.

Speaker 2 (02:16:05):
You know that that's an consistent thread with him. You
already didn't like him, so that.

Speaker 26 (02:16:10):
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 2 (02:16:16):
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.

Speaker 26 (02:16:25):
There is no goat. Was there a way to verify it?
Did you go on the website afterwards?

Speaker 23 (02:16:30):
Say?

Speaker 2 (02:16:31):
It was very The whole thing was 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 (02:16:44):
He's just like he's like, oh, I bought a goat
for a village.

Speaker 2 (02:16:47):
Awesome that that's exactly what I wanted, a fake goat
for a non existent 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 I'm like,
you should send him goat like like you know what
I mean, like goat steaks.

Speaker 5 (02:17:06):
Savory, yeah, gyro.

Speaker 2 (02:17:08):
Zactly, Like my god, hey, good news about that goat?

Speaker 8 (02:17:14):
Is this regifting?

Speaker 18 (02:17:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:17:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 26 (02:17:16):
I mean, I know it's a time for charity, but
I just feel like, uh, I sometimes feel, especially if
you're cynical about the person, that that sounds like a
snooty that seems like a snooty.

Speaker 5 (02:17:25):
Gift a little bit.

Speaker 26 (02:17:26):
I think like I don't need material things, and you're
like like, well I got you this, Uh you know,
I got you a radio controlled car. Oh, I don't
need material things. I'm so sorry. It just sort of
seems like you're taking that, taking the fun, the fun
materialistic part out of Christmas.

Speaker 1 (02:17:41):
I can I can understand that, 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 tied to I'd be like, I would like,
you's one thing.

Speaker 8 (02:18:00):
That the person.

Speaker 5 (02:18:02):
If the recipient is requesting it, then it's all good.

Speaker 4 (02:18:06):
People.

Speaker 1 (02:18:07):
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.

Speaker 3 (02:18:17):
And so I did this already, be like, that's awesome.

Speaker 26 (02:18:20):
If someone wants a Steelers starter jacket and you get
them a goat, then you're gonna get talked to.

Speaker 3 (02:18:25):
You're gonna get talked about the dead beats that I
have as friends.

Speaker 1 (02:18:28):
And sometimes they're like, I made a donation to this
in your name and then you're like, you're lying.

Speaker 3 (02:18:32):
Give me the receipt.

Speaker 5 (02:18:32):
Well, Abbey knows.

Speaker 2 (02:18:33):
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. Here's something that nobody hates.
Go on like gold Belly, send them pizza to New
York Pizzas. Pizzas from New York City.

Speaker 3 (02:18:47):
The best thing I got last see he is a
good one.

Speaker 5 (02:18:50):
Here's some nice coffee out, here's some pizzas.

Speaker 2 (02:18:52):
Oh you don't like pizza really well, not even just
be sitting around and there's pizza there.

Speaker 5 (02:18:58):
Now you're on an Ice watch list.

Speaker 1 (02:18:59):
So now, yeah, that that truly was one of the
best presents that I got last year was the gold
bells from Johnny.

Speaker 5 (02:19:11):
That was from John's on Bleaker, which Jacobs job.

Speaker 3 (02:19:16):
And they give you the instructions and everything exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:19:19):
How to put it in the I'm more of a
Joe's guy, but I like Johnston, oh Margret, and it
was so good.

Speaker 2 (02:19:25):
Yeah, And I'll send mufflettas from Central Grocery in New
Orleans to my brother who loves those.

Speaker 8 (02:19:32):
That's the easiest way, Like, here's food.

Speaker 3 (02:19:35):
Nobody even if you don't, even if it's a.

Speaker 2 (02:19:37):
Gift from somebody who are like, I don't like this person,
but I have to send them a gift.

Speaker 5 (02:19:41):
Yeah, food, telling you right.

Speaker 26 (02:19:43):
Now, I know if I get a couple of ripe bovocados,
I know where I stand with your fair or very unripe,
just hard hard, as my son calls them, hulk balls.

Speaker 5 (02:19:59):
They do kind of to call bullish.

Speaker 3 (02:20:01):
It is a little hold bull All right, we'll do
one more.

Speaker 1 (02:20:04):
It has been forty years since Teddy Rex's been blue kids'
minds by talking and reading stories.

Speaker 3 (02:20:08):
Let's see how far we've come.

Speaker 1 (02:20:10):
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 things like choking hazards,
but they say AI is emerging as a new threat

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to look out for this Christmas cite.

Speaker 26 (02:20:34):
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 programmed from it's
like what if Dora the Explorer was evil? And then
they're like, within five questions, Dora is just like you

(02:20:55):
should self harm, and so like when you start talking
about choking hazard, I think it's now autoerotic self assixiation
that Teddy Ruxman is going to be promoting at this point, Like,
you got to be really careful about attack to Nathan
Bedford Forest.

Speaker 1 (02:21:11):
You are dead on unfortunately, because some of those toys
that they featured will get into sexually explicit topics pretty quickly.

Speaker 3 (02:21:22):
They can also offer advice on where a kid can
find matches or not.

Speaker 2 (02:21:26):
Okay, so these are like if Teddy Rucks Bean had
chat GPT pretty much. Okay, Billy's back with his now
Billy guard that we have him back.

Speaker 18 (02:21:34):
I don't know. Is that better?

Speaker 4 (02:21:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:21:35):
It does sound better, all right, he's so spot I'm sorry, buddy.

Speaker 3 (02:21:40):
So despondent.

Speaker 18 (02:21:49):
I know how long it holds? Yeah, let's see.

Speaker 8 (02:21:51):
You got them?

Speaker 3 (02:21:52):
Santa Ana wins out there? Is that what's going on?

Speaker 10 (02:21:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (02:21:55):
That's why I can't figure out why the way back
machine's not working this morning.

Speaker 5 (02:21:59):
But hopeful you know, well it sounds good.

Speaker 2 (02:22:02):
But what is your what is your opinion on people
who give you as a gift a charitable donation to someplace.

Speaker 37 (02:22:12):
At this point in my life, I like that if
you're gonna wait, like, if you're gonna give me a gift,
say I donated some money to cancer research or something.

Speaker 1 (02:22:21):
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 I.

Speaker 18 (02:22:29):
Named it you. Well, I'm that's romantic for your partner.
I get all that, that's thoughtful. But if you give
me a charitable donnat, I'm great. I would much rather
you give me that than something that carbonates my own water.
I don't want that. I got enough stuff. I'm good.

Speaker 5 (02:22:50):
Stream too.

Speaker 2 (02:22:51):
Man.

Speaker 3 (02:22:51):
I was like, I'm there.

Speaker 5 (02:22:52):
I wanted one of those this Christmas, So that just
totally deflated that.

Speaker 8 (02:22:55):
I knew I was never going to use it.

Speaker 37 (02:22:57):
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 a Good Fellows, It
came in the front door, it went right out of
the garage.

Speaker 2 (02:23:08):
That was it. It's like when they're making Bathtub Gin
and the whole house explodes.

Speaker 5 (02:23:13):
Exactly.

Speaker 13 (02:23:14):
No.

Speaker 37 (02:23:15):
I actually, whenever we do a holiday party, if we're
going to 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, Like 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,

(02:23:38):
but don't. I don't need any more stuff. I don't
want no more.

Speaker 5 (02:23:41):
Say not for nothing.

Speaker 2 (02:23:42):
If you want to get something for the Pittsburgh in
your life, and along these lines, the Batch Foundation can.

Speaker 5 (02:23:46):
Use use your help.

Speaker 37 (02:23:48):
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 2 (02:23:57):
Yep, you can click and ship right now there 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 26 (02:24:11):
You got to do it now, though, because twenty second
is the last day that you can collect toys.

Speaker 3 (02:24:15):
And if anyone's out there waiting, I was.

Speaker 26 (02:24:16):
Doing some last minute Christmas shop and you think you
got time, You don't got time.

Speaker 5 (02:24:20):
You got to go today.

Speaker 1 (02:24:21):
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.

Speaker 3 (02:24:30):
I'll go tomorrow, I'll go tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (02:24:32):
And so whenever he said, I think you said the
twenty second was the last days.

Speaker 8 (02:24:35):
Pretty quick, I got a hurry.

Speaker 3 (02:24:39):
It is cold in Pittsburgh. Today's currently twelve degrees are high.

Speaker 18 (02:24:43):
Today is seventy three bell, rose and fish. That's good.

Speaker 2 (02:24:47):
You know. I thought of your bell because Saturday we
got so much snow and I stayed in and you
know what it did, made soup.

Speaker 18 (02:24:53):
But oh yeah, soup weather. I got two of those
out here.

Speaker 8 (02:24:58):
Oh yeah, I get two.

Speaker 18 (02:24:59):
Bowls just all year.

Speaker 6 (02:25:00):
That's my.

Speaker 18 (02:25:03):
I'm wearing.

Speaker 37 (02:25:04):
I wear sweaters too soon out here too. I'm just
sweating midday. And Patty's like, not yet, not yet.

Speaker 5 (02:25:11):
But you missed these coast you are?

Speaker 3 (02:25:13):
You got that?

Speaker 37 (02:25:14):
I missed the weather that way, I do. I missed
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? Aren't you glad you're not here tonight for
Monday Night Football to wave the terrible towel pregame. No,
I actually would love to do one like that. That

(02:25:35):
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.

Speaker 3 (02:25:42):
I never had.

Speaker 18 (02:25:43):
I would love to have us would have.

Speaker 8 (02:25:46):
Well, your voice went out.

Speaker 18 (02:25:47):
That was just freezing. That was freezing.

Speaker 37 (02:25:50):
We were beyond snow. We were out, we were out
past the wall. Were the wall? We were, we were
We were with the Walkers coming to get us a
game that was like cold. Yeah, yeah, No, I'd love
to have one where it was on snow. Maybe that'll
happen next year.

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Speaker 8 (02:27:04):
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 has it?

Speaker 35 (02:27:19):
Has it?

Speaker 15 (02:27:20):
Yet?

Speaker 8 (02:27:20):
Here they go again. Here's d C. Terrell Austin. I
think that's part of you, know, when you.

Speaker 18 (02:27:26):
And this has nothing to do with me, has everything
to do with U.

Speaker 17 (02:27:30):
This building and the culture that's been built around here
for a long time, and obviously Mke's been here a
long time. But that's the culture around here where guys, uh,
you know, it's a team thing. You're always playing for
the team, uh, and you do the best you can.
And I think that's why guys hold the rope and
they stay on it and they don't you know, they
don't fall into you know, it's easy when you're if
you lose a few games or you do something, to

(02:27:51):
fall into selfish clicks and do stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (02:27:53):
And our guys don't do that.

Speaker 17 (02:27:54):
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, pasted en president.

Speaker 8 (02:28:08):
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 tonight, win a second game in a
row and then see where they can go from there.
Part of that culture this season that Terrell 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 Andon Rodgers

(02:28:31):
had mentioned Metcalf had been especially impactful in practice prior
to the Ravens game. Turns out that wasn't just by
catching passes.

Speaker 11 (02:28:40):
No, I think I just was feeling the need to
say something about the lack of details with everybody and
groud myself. So I think there's being more vocal in
that aspect, was what he meant. I think nothing like
a sight to see or anything.

Speaker 3 (02:28:55):
That's something you're more people are doing now in December
with this.

Speaker 11 (02:28:59):
Team than you would have in when we came in
And oh, yes, yeah, because I'm not trying to get
here and you know in May or April and you know,
just start speaking. I got to get to know my teammates, gotta,
you know, give them a chance to get to know
me any type of player that I am.

Speaker 8 (02:29:13):
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 throw me the fen
ball once in a while. I do think that, yes,
But in all seriousness, the leader's got to lead right now.
If you're gonna have a DK metcf, you would expect
that from him. If you're gonna have and Aaron Rodgers,

(02:29:34):
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 lean into. And that's why you have
Aaron Rodgers, this Miami defense, the coordinator Anthony Weavers, a
former Ravens player, and you're gonna see the Dolphins tonight
line up will be seven eight guys at the line

(02:29:55):
and then invariably the linebackers are going to drop and
they're not going to bring the house every time, but
they're going to try to confuse you at the line
of scrimmage. Aaron Rodgers 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.

Speaker 2 (02:30:16):
But here's the assumption in this ross reads it and
then he attacks where it's voting okay, and then he's
got to tell everybody what he's read. And this is
where the problem has been.

Speaker 8 (02:30:23):
Yes, this is also a very salient point by you.

Speaker 18 (02:30:27):
I don't think i've heard the words Aaron Rodgers an
unconfusible in the same sentence in quite a while.

Speaker 8 (02:30:34):
Yeah, I didn't say unstoppable. But to Randy's point, if
he knows what what covered, but Roman Wilson doesn't, what
good does it do?

Speaker 18 (02:30:45):
Well, that's it.

Speaker 8 (02:30:47):
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 posture, or that 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

(02:31:07):
and Metcalf saw it, and they said, forget to play.
We have called we're going downtown here. Well, and that's
how they need to operate. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:31:15):
The only thing that worries me about Aaron Rodgers on
a game like this. 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 (02:31:34):
That's what I'm a little worried about I'm not worried
about that.

Speaker 8 (02:31:37):
I'm worried about the cold affecting the passing, you know,
the catching part of it.

Speaker 26 (02:31:41):
I think about the game where Kenneth Gainwell is going
to have eighteen receptions for one hundred and forty yards
or something like that, there's gonna be a lot of
checking down there.

Speaker 8 (02:31:50):
Might he likes those, But I'm not worried about Roger's arm.
That would be the least of my concerns. And this
is Miami secondary, I think is vulnerable. They got 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

(02:32:10):
good chance of having I think.

Speaker 37 (02:32:12):
That's written on the board this week. Yeah, I think
they wret that on the board this week. If it's
not at all to Bitspatrick is not, play.

Speaker 5 (02:32:20):
Like a champion. Throw it where Fitzpatrick is not.

Speaker 8 (02:32:23):
Yeah. 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. One of
the reasons that they do that, at least in Rogers
estimation is that Mike Tomlin's eighteen year streak of never
having had a losing season sets a significant tone.

Speaker 19 (02:32:45):
Yeah, that's really impressive. I mean, we had a run
twenty and nine at 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.

Speaker 8 (02:33:02):
It's not overt it's just.

Speaker 19 (02:33:03):
Kind of the foundational part of the locker room and
the team 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

(02:33:25):
and the right coaching to kind of put it together.
And you learn how to win. When you've been a
place that has 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 Vince Lombardi said, it's the only thing that

(02:33:45):
really matters.

Speaker 8 (02:33:47):
Okay, now I'm ready. You mentioned Vince Lombardi. Now I'm
ready for the game.

Speaker 5 (02:33:51):
Aaron knew him.

Speaker 23 (02:33:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:33:56):
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. They both can't be right.

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Speaker 2 (02:35:19):
Billy Gardell hanging out with us laugh from Los Angeles,
California on a Monday day instead of a Tuesday because
tomorrow will be all postgame talk with the Steelers playing
Monday Night Football tonight against the Miami Dolphins for an
eight to fifteen kickoff Aaron Rodgers versus tu That'll be
an interesting one. Gonna be cold tonight. There are some
tickets available on secondary market are very reasonable if you

(02:35:42):
want to go to a Steelers game and bundle up
tonight and cheer on the home root for our home team.
That's a cool What do you bring to this game?
What's the what's what's the outfit? You bring booze, you
bring hand warmers, you bring a seat pad?

Speaker 35 (02:35:56):
What what?

Speaker 26 (02:35:57):
Because it's single digits is now you're in a different
level of dealing with cold.

Speaker 1 (02:36:01):
You know what, Missy Matthews said something about the sideline
thing that never occurred to me.

Speaker 3 (02:36:06):
Whenever she was talking about the handwarmers, she was like,
if you.

Speaker 1 (02:36:09):
Put them in your boots, you put them on the
tops of your feet, never on the bottom.

Speaker 3 (02:36:13):
And I was like, oh, like the toes on the
tops of the toes, because that's the thing for me.
Once my feet get cold, I am in consolable. I
am not.

Speaker 18 (02:36:23):
I am the worst person.

Speaker 3 (02:36:25):
You've ever met.

Speaker 2 (02:36:26):
So my dad used to always take a piece of
carpet to games like this. Of course, he took two
pieces of carpet. One you'd put on his seat and
the other he would put on the ground and put
his feet on it. Now, yesterday, yesterday the Bears put
out a statement preventing their fans from bringing cardboard to

(02:36:46):
the games because people were doing that with cardboard, and
he'd sit on cardboard, you put your feet on the cardboard.
Just some about having your feet on that cold cement.
It really came break. Yes, okay, 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. Yeah, how about that,

(02:37:07):
Mike Brown? What happened the chintzy owner of the Bengals
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.

Speaker 5 (02:37:24):
The Bengals game. You had to clean your own yes, watch.

Speaker 34 (02:37:27):
I was in Cincinnati this weekend actually visiting my friends
that are there that you guys know about at this point,
And yeah, it was a bleep show. So tons of
snow and not as much as but they did a
terrible job of clearing they didn't clear it.

Speaker 2 (02:37:42):
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 it over.

Speaker 5 (02:37:52):
Like yeah, they're like they're like the dozers on frabl Rock.

Speaker 2 (02:37:58):
If they drink, Yeah, celebrate the jump exactly. So, uh,
I don't think you have to worry about the seats
being cleared off tonight. I'm sure that at Achercer Stadium.
They've taken all measures to make sure everybody's nice and comfortable.
Then Wilson's doing actually speak a man, give him something

(02:38:22):
to do for crying out loud Christmas is my I.

Speaker 37 (02:38:25):
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 2 (02:38:34):
Billy, when you were a kid, if I like, first
thing that pops in your head, what is the present
as a kid that you got that was the life changer?

Speaker 37 (02:38:45):
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 you pedaled it.
It didn't have I actually got it when I got it.
When I got it, oh yeah, I had a couple
of spare park bikes, you know.

Speaker 8 (02:39:00):
Oh yes.

Speaker 18 (02:39:02):
His argument was, well, let's see if he likes it. Well,
what kid doesn't want to bike that?

Speaker 10 (02:39:07):
You know?

Speaker 18 (02:39:07):
But I was riding around in a in a rust
bucket for a while.

Speaker 37 (02:39:11):
And then when I got a new bike I got,
I got that huffy evil canievil one, and that was
I thought.

Speaker 2 (02:39:17):
I thought I had super power, the confidence, the confidence
and still with a new bike. He trusts me with
this thing.

Speaker 37 (02:39:24):
Nineteen seventy six, nineteen seventy six.

Speaker 18 (02:39:29):
Yeah, I thought I thought I had super power.

Speaker 2 (02:39:31):
Now I know that bike motorcycle and that bike, yeah,
had a plastic like the plate on the front ender
of the handleball. No, didn't it look like a gas
tank on a motorcycle And it was like right underneath.

Speaker 18 (02:39:46):
I didn't have the one with the gas tank, do.

Speaker 8 (02:39:49):
You know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 37 (02:39:50):
And it wasn't actually yeah, exactly no, but I know,
but it had that plastic piece that looked like you
were riding a butt. No, but I had like a
mine had a like a plastic plate on the front
of the handlebars.

Speaker 18 (02:40:03):
But I removed that. I didn't like to way that
sounded when I was right. Yeah, I didn't enjoy that.

Speaker 5 (02:40:09):
Yeah, and now that was in Florida or was it
in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 18 (02:40:13):
That was in Pittsburgh. That was before my dreams were shattered.

Speaker 37 (02:40:16):
Didn't have to invent an imagination to deny my life
so that I could become an artist.

Speaker 3 (02:40:21):
Next question, not much to delve into there, right, all right?
About that game?

Speaker 18 (02:40:29):
All right, all right?

Speaker 5 (02:40:30):
Did you take the bike out immediately? Regardless of weather.

Speaker 37 (02:40:35):
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.

Speaker 18 (02:40:52):
Slam. So that's where we used to play in Smithsfeld.
There was a slag dump right behind Memorial Feature. It
was all all on the fence. We'd get in there.

Speaker 37 (02:41:01):
I think we were going BMX tricks. No one said nothing.
You'd come home just covered and soot.

Speaker 11 (02:41:06):
You have fun.

Speaker 3 (02:41:07):
Oh it was a blast.

Speaker 18 (02:41:09):
Yeah, I loved it.

Speaker 2 (02:41:10):
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 3 (02:41:17):
But Evil can Eevil.

Speaker 2 (02:41:19):
I cannot impress upon people enough what a big deal
it was for someone your age to get Evil canel.

Speaker 10 (02:41:24):
I was.

Speaker 5 (02:41:24):
I was too young for that, but I just shiver
all the Evil can Eevil stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:41:27):
And there was one year my dad got them or
Sanna whatever got them, the Evil can Eevil 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

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track 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 or what is it?
It had a big green Nake river canyon that came
with it that you could set it up to jump over,
and uh. They set it up and immediately my Dad's like,
all right, go and they're like what they you know,

(02:42:10):
pull the thing to get it revved up, and they
put it on the track and it goes flying down
the track and it does the loop and then everyone's
like oh. And then it goes off of 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 fire on Christmas.

Speaker 8 (02:42:33):
And immediately melt.

Speaker 18 (02:42:36):
Just gone one tight one one.

Speaker 8 (02:42:40):
Yeah, shooting anything.

Speaker 2 (02:42:42):
You gotta know what's down range that's right right into
the fireplace. You know it like landed and took a
hard right kind of like how Evil can Evil would land.

Speaker 18 (02:42:52):
Yeah, they would do that every night.

Speaker 8 (02:42:54):
That's why you watch Yes, right damn hard right, turned
right into the fire.

Speaker 2 (02:43:01):
The actually pumps up into the air and burns to
a grizzly death, never to be used again.

Speaker 37 (02:43:09):
Even I knew as a kid when he when Evil
Canievel tried to jump the Grand Canyon, when they rolled
that rickety rocket out there that looked like wild he
put it together.

Speaker 18 (02:43:20):
I think even as a nine year old, I was like,
I don't think this is gonna go well.

Speaker 5 (02:43:24):
I don't think this is gonna.

Speaker 3 (02:43:25):
Go well at all.

Speaker 2 (02:43:26):
Did you ever see the Evil Knievel documentary that was
on I think it was on Netflix or it might
have been.

Speaker 5 (02:43:33):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's Netflix. And I think Johnny.

Speaker 3 (02:43:36):
Knoxville is.

Speaker 18 (02:43:39):
Oh that makes sense, that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (02:43:40):
And it is a tail of not just like the
craziest person you ever Like.

Speaker 2 (02:43:47):
It just seems inconceivable that 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 and desired.

Speaker 26 (02:44:11):
If you have no other skills in life, then jumping
a couple of buses while they're on fire seems like
a good plant.

Speaker 2 (02:44:17):
Yes, you know, bones heel and chick dig 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 26 (02:44:29):
Do you really want to delve into stuntmen's past and
make morals? I mean, these people are on the fringes
of society.

Speaker 18 (02:44:36):
Who I just thought step dad? He had stepdad written
all over him. He just had stepdad written on it.

Speaker 2 (02:44:44):
He was basically, like you said, stunt man, he's like
right out of a Burt Reynolds movie in the set,
like something from Hooper, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (02:44:50):
That was his real life one.

Speaker 26 (02:44:53):
He might have been a step dad and his step
son was probably like, yeah, jump the canyon exactly.

Speaker 18 (02:44:59):
You know, she jumped the found Seezer's palace, not on you,
but you know that's funny.

Speaker 5 (02:45:04):
That's that is what his son jumped.

Speaker 3 (02:45:06):
His son jumped this Caesar, it became Yeah, Robbie Knievel.

Speaker 26 (02:45:11):
Was the one legacy to have to inherit. You want
to think Brownie James has the tough shoes to fill.

Speaker 9 (02:45:16):
I mean.

Speaker 5 (02:45:19):
Exactly.

Speaker 8 (02:45:20):
At this rate, you're never gonna jump seventeen buses.

Speaker 3 (02:45:23):
What a disappointment.

Speaker 5 (02:45:26):
So you're already for for the holiday. When's the Wilster
get there?

Speaker 18 (02:45:30):
Ray rock and roll man, he gets him on the twentieth.

Speaker 37 (02:45:32):
I got a little surprise for him, uh for ed
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 selfish reasons because he'll be home. They'll be stuff

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in the fridge. They'll be cookies, they'll be whatever his
favorite meal.

Speaker 18 (02:45:59):
You know, the princess coming home. So I'll get to
eat part take in that too. 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.

Speaker 8 (02:46:13):
You just.

Speaker 5 (02:46:17):
Well, Billy hoping you have the happiest man.

Speaker 37 (02:46:21):
Everybody. Have a very merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and happy
New Year. And here's to a safer time. Here's to
a kinder time.

Speaker 3 (02:46:30):
Don't be a jag off Ho ho ho there you go.

Speaker 5 (02:46:33):
That should be on about the T shirt down on
the strip district. Don't be a jag off.

Speaker 18 (02:46:40):
Steel watch die Hard on Christmas.

Speaker 5 (02:46:42):
Eve Hey, that is your number one Christmas movie.

Speaker 18 (02:46:45):
Yeah, we got too.

Speaker 37 (02:46:47):
We always do a double feature Polar Express followed by
die Hard. It's not Christmas in the garden House until
Knaka Tone until Hans Gruber goes off the Knackotoba building.

Speaker 8 (02:46:57):
That's how we know.

Speaker 3 (02:46:58):
I told you how we know.

Speaker 18 (02:47:00):
Sat next up in the.

Speaker 2 (02:47:01):
Air I saw those inflatables on somebody's yard. They had
Knocking Tommy Plaza inflated on the front yard.

Speaker 18 (02:47:08):
I have two of them.

Speaker 1 (02:47:08):
I have.

Speaker 37 (02:47:09):
I have the ornament of Willis in the air vent
and I have an ornament of Hans falling on my
tree right now.

Speaker 3 (02:47:16):
That's awesome.

Speaker 8 (02:47:17):
Well, look man, have a great one. We're getting set
for guys.

Speaker 18 (02:47:21):
Christmas, Happy Holidays.

Speaker 2 (02:47:22):
Monday Night Football tonight and he'll be cranking up the
network at four o'clock.

Speaker 5 (02:47:26):
But here he is for you now.

Speaker 2 (02:47:27):
With the preamble to kick off, It's Steelers Dolphins, Monday
Night Football.

Speaker 8 (02:47:31):
Here's Mike Pursuda. This is good timing, this is good time.

Speaker 23 (02:47:43):
Hey man, it's coming down. Baby.

Speaker 8 (02:47:53):
Least heard Hack for sure. A significant contingent of those
in attendance voice 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

(02:48:14):
was downfield passing. DK Metcalf led to charge in both departments,
but was far from alone in delivering a response the
Steelers suspected they'd be able to conjure up all along.
In the aftermath, defense coordinator Tara Austin maintained head coach
Mike Tomlin is elite in such circumstances because the Steelers
are built for them, and quarterback Aaron Rodgers referenced referenced

(02:48:38):
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.
It won't be easy without TJ. Watt, particularly when it
comes to stopping the run. But they have won twenty

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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. The jig
is up, the news is out. This season is just
getting started. Are you ready for some football?

Speaker 22 (02:49:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (02:49:26):
To really can't throw when, baby, it's cold outside. The
running game, they must slow, Baby, it's cold outside. Stack
and 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.

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Baby it's cold outside. Yeah, four o'clock. He gets the
network going today.

Speaker 2 (02:49:56):
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 Pursued, the Labs and Jerry dou Lac lead
you into the eight fifteen kickoff with Rob King, Max
Stark's and Missy Matthews here on d v E special
thanks to mister wen Say.

Speaker 8 (02:50:14):
Jeff Conkle coming in.

Speaker 26 (02:50:16):
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hank this first night of
Hannica tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:50:20):
Last night, I thought her last.

Speaker 5 (02:50:22):
Night was Okay, God bless us, every bless us everyone.

Speaker 2 (02:50:25):
Right, Jacob, somebody Grossman, Yeah, last.

Speaker 18 (02:50:28):
Night last night.

Speaker 8 (02:50:29):
You've got our own rep right here.

Speaker 6 (02:50:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:50:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:50:32):
And look it's game day, which means.

Speaker 8 (02:50:36):
Pot down the baby.

Speaker 5 (02:50:37):
It's cold out side and pot up.

Speaker 23 (02:50:43):
By you're too late to say.

Speaker 3 (02:50:58):
Keep on, we love you, Prisms. It's been many years
in Honey Jurnkey.

Speaker 13 (02:51:13):
The Seilers, the scenery, a fast, fast and scramble leads
the ball.

Speaker 33 (02:51:29):
The fast.

Speaker 8 (02:51:32):
Face Kings, the stealers.

Speaker 13 (02:51:35):
Always best of all, Joe b Joe to your team
against the other team.

Speaker 23 (02:51:44):
He's start from year to year. We're so glad he's
playing here. Not join with me and she lesty Arty.

Speaker 2 (02:51:54):
We're round the time with a dreat football team.

Speaker 23 (02:52:00):
Sport Steelers.

Speaker 14 (02:52:02):
We need not.

Speaker 23 (02:52:07):
God guess Steelers and honey.

Speaker 13 (02:52:18):
Many years, says commys Steelers Machinerymmy.

Speaker 5 (02:52:26):
I'm finished you stay classy Pittsburgh.

Speaker 4 (02:52:28):
Don't touch your face.

Speaker 18 (02:52:29):
I got him type Pittsburg day baby.

Speaker 8 (02:52:32):
So now you gotta call me Ronald?

Speaker 3 (02:52:33):
Would you not eat my pants?

Speaker 8 (02:52:35):
Ronald?

Speaker 18 (02:52:38):
Who?

Speaker 11 (02:52:40):
Why?

Speaker 23 (02:52:41):
Go ahead?

Speaker 21 (02:52:45):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on d V,
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Speaker 24 (02:52:58):
Watt for the Steelers tonight when they take off the
Dolphins from Monday Night Football. Watt, who was out after
being hospitalized for a partially collapsed long which required surgery,
will miss his eleventh career regular season game as at
Pittsburgh Steeler tonight. Pittsburgh has won and ten in those
games without TJ. Watt, the lone win coming in twenty
twenty two against Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They might
be better equipped to survive Wat's absence than ever before. Now, though,

(02:53:21):
thanks to the trio of edge rushers at third disposal
and Alex Higsmith, Nick Kirbig, and Jack Sawyer. High Smith
had a sack and three tackles for loss in Baltimore
last week, and as six and a half sacks in
his nine games played this season. Nick Krbig also has
six and a half sacks this season, matching high Smith
for second most on the team behind Watts seven. Herbick
hasn't seen more than forty percent of the snaps on

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defense since 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, maintain
their lead in the AFC North.

Speaker 5 (02:54:01):
I'm Tom Aframan with the Steelers report.

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