December 17, 2025 • 39 mins
Our friend Tad Wissel shares with us his guide to navigating the Steelers gift giving scene for this holiday season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guaranteed human.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Because for many years I used to just plug in
the tree that was pre lit. Yeah, for many many
years I did that because I was never home, Like
as soon as our Christmas break happened, I was like
out of town at a sibling or whatever. You know,
I'd go visit my family. But I wanted to have
a tree. I just didn't want it to have a
million ornaments and just a pain in the ass because
I wasn't really there to enjoy it. But now I'm
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in Pittsburgh a lot more often for the holiday, so
I have it a little more festooned for the holiday.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Do you have ornaments?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Do they're not currently on the tree? Currently? There are
lights on the tree.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Okay, so you're kind of in the trend.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
There is a tree, there are lights. I have several.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Ornaments, color lights.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
They're color lights. They're big, they're the old retro bulbs.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
That is nice. Yeah, see, I'm nice.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
You're really nice. You're going on festive but you own ornaments.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, I'm not an idiot.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I mean, why would I have Brandy Bellman and the
DVE Morning Show?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I lease, okay, I lease, you got it out of
me at least the ornaments, they're not mine. Okay, finally
I'm hoping there's an option to buy in a few years,
hoping to own them.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You know what, that's actually that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It probably looks something you can do like rent the
dress things that you do rent the runway, which I
have done before. Pretty good idea when that's for like
ladies on the big events.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Later is do you know about this time?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No? Tell me.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Rent the runway is whenever you have like a fancy
pants event, and you can look at this website that
basically has, you know, really like dresses that are super
out of your price range because they're like high fashion
and stuff you would never own.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You rent the.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Dresses in like multiple sizes, and then you wear them
to your event and then you send them back. It
sounds it's a fun pastic idea because then you look
like you can afford stuff that you.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Cannot and then and then you don't have to wear it.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So they dry clean the dresses and stuff. It's not
like all right, because that's the only gross part is
that other people are wearing them.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
That's how we save money. That's a cost cutting measure.
You never washed the dresses.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's like a be kind rewind and they just trust
you to clean it.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
No, I did rent one once that I was like,
this smells like a pickle, but I'm still gonna wear it.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Right, the zipper's broken and it smells like a pickle.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But getting back to your original idea, this might be
a million dollar Christmas idea. Rent Christmas decorations and and
then somebody comes in and just boom, they just plaster
it like a like a like a one of those
insect fog bombs they put off. Yep. Yeah, and they
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take it away. They just explode Christmas all over your house.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Live with your parents for three days, we'll be and
then come on back.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It'll be all decked out. It's your termites. Nope, Christmas,
Christmas everywhere, Christmas all over the place.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
And then they take it away. And that's the part
I like.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, nobody likes packing up Christmas decorations because there's a
depressing element to it. When you put the Christmas decorations away,
it's here we go again. It's another year. Jesus, How
am I going to get through this year?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Oh God, I'm up here in this crawl space, jamming
this disheveled box of ornaments. The boxes are never in
good shape no ever, because people are so frustrated by
that point, they're like just jamming in the corner.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I was impressed with the person. I was though, that
put the Christmas lights away.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Last last year. That's a great feeling.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I'm like this, this woman is a good woman.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, like making your bed actually, like wrapping them up,
zip tying.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, look at you? Who like what Yeah it was
somebody attached to Were you tying somebody up? It's like, yeah,
I was in the box. Look I did. What a
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good girl. Well, Merry Christmas. You only have eight days
till Christmas? How's that sound? I'm behind.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I was panicking when Abby was reading, uh, last hour
the deadlines, shipping dates, shipping dates, unless you want to
pay fifty bucks to mail.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
A hat somebody you don't like that much. Here you go.
I don't want to docs.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
But I remember, like even in the summer months, there
was something that Billy Gardell wanted from the studio and
he was like, oh, I really want to take this home,
but I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
If I do, I'm ship it to you. It to
you and he was like, oh, that'd be great, and
I'm like, I'll take care of it. But they're like,
I don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
How much?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Well, he handed me like fifty bucks and I'm like, oh,
my cousin, I would love to send this to you.
He's like, please take this. I will not take no
for an answer that I take the fifty bucks. And
I'm thinking, like that's too much.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
It's probably like a sheets mug or something like that.
It's like three dollars, Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And I was like, oh, I'm not gonna I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I was like, okay, oh no, you got to tell him. No,
he's got money, tell him no, absolutely, three hundred bucks.
My mind is racing. Was it an organ well, yeah,
you could have.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
It was a it was a photo. It was like
it was like a canvas. It was like a canvas photo.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah. I mean you could have bought it a plane
ticket for that much. Yeah, with a courier.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
But now I'm thinking like Christmas and expedited because I
just sent it like it'll get there when it gets there.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I didn't even I didn't even try to make a fancy.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well here's why what you do in this scenario is
you shift gift giving methodology and you if you are
sending it somewhere far away, if the person lives in Chicago,
you find out what pizza place they go to, and
you send them pizzas you like, you go into the
around their neighborhood to something that delivers, and you have
that delivered to their house and like, that's what they're
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getting this year. That's great. Not cooking. Yeah, I'm sending
you dinner for Friday night. Here's a bunch of pizzas.
You're probably sitting home with the kids, rapid presents, or
doing whatever you do before the holidays. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yes, yes, the pizza thing is amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I always say food food with nobody's mad about food
if it was not not sweets. Necessarily, sweets are okay,
but actual food, like a dinner's worth of food, Like
sending frozen stuff from gold Belly, it's a winner.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Sweet sweets is almost homework because you're like you're giving
someone the guilt and shame. Yes, you yourself would never
want And I say this as a guy who just
received a huge bag of caramel popcorn.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yes, oh dude, I used to send the Pittsburgh popcorn
to my siblings and they all fricking loved it, those
huge tins. And then they were kind of like, you
you can't keep doing that to like it's so much,
it's so good, and then they all that you eat
it and it's it's a pretty high calorie car. Yes,
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it's really.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Good though, it is really good.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Are they still rocking down there? I know they It
was a little rocky there for a minute. You have
to check. I remember that idiot went in there for
the health department. They're like, there's rat turns all over
the place. They're like, those are popcorn kernels? You more
only yes, And they like got tabbed for a health
violation that didn't actually exist, and then they rescinded the
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health violation after the fact, which is no right. When
you put like sex offender on your neighbor's door and
they're like, oh, not him, sorry, and they take it down.
Everyone's like it's a weirdo.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
I will say that one of the gifts that Randy
sent last year we're still enjoying the benefits of, and
it was it was the Sarah's Candy chocolate bombs, and
they were these things that Edie loves because anytimes she
goes out in the snow, she wants these chocolate bombs
now and they are these like round chocolate bombs full
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of marshmallows that you put in hot chocolate and.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Then they explode.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
That sounds awesome, It's amazing, and.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So like he sent so many of them that like
now when she comes in and you know, noses all ready.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And everything a lot. I don't remember that.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah, it was like a whole Sarah's thing and there
was a bunch of chocolate bombs in them.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I thought there was one. Nope, it was like one gross.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
It was one Baker's.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
They didn't realize a palette was Pittsburgh Popcorn Company is
still rocking and you can order online and it is
a really good gift for the expatriot Pittsburgh in your life.
You want to send somebody a little Pittsburgh who's not
living here, that's always a good one. Love it, send
them a little Strip District.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
When this hour.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
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The legendary rapper is going to take the stage at
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to take part in the holiday halftime party. That's going
to be the second game of Netflix's Christmas doubleheader that
starts with the Commanders hosting the Dallas Cowboys, which we
talked about yesterday.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
It's going to be hosted by Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Snoop Dogg will not say no to anything. Hey, Snoop,
want to leave your family on Christmas to go to
Minnesota to perform to an ari a pre recorded track
for ten minutes? Yes, well you can say no. I'm
cool to stay with my family. On Chris, he's got
enough money. He's got like Martha Stewart money. Well, he's
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got a lot. Yeah, weren't they they were like, I don't.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Know, they weren't an item, I guess, but they were friendly.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
They did.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Though I know I think about that all the time
all the time, all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't know. I do know that she is inordinately beautiful,
and I'm attracted to her, and I never thought that's
somebody I would be like, oh god, she's so hot.
She is actually smoking hot. She is so beautiful. Martha
Stewart ridiculously beautiful, and she's old, she's and so it's
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snooped on maybe me like PA mean, there's like some
like I don't know if it's like parliament in Japan
or something where everyone's like fighting with would. Every time
I see that, I laughed. That is That's kind of
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how I feel about Martha Stewart trying to drag me
away from the MiG Would. Mike used to like bust
my chops about Helen Mirren two, and I'm like, dude,
Helen Miren, how was it on what grounds? Was he
busting your job?
Speaker 9 (11:09):
I know she?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I mean well I think it was because I said
still and I'm like, I'm right, yeah, she is what
down gorgeous? I don't know, I'm not ages there, I go,
uh news, I cantained multitudes.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Listen, you're diverse man.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Good, that's the character.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
A new survey on gen Z's holiday spending habits found
the sixteen percent of participants said that receiving a bad
or a cheap gift from a partner would make them
end the relationship. Majority of respondents, about sixty five percent,
believe that receiving a gift that doesn't reflect their tastes
or interests is the worst kind of gift, as it
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can feel like the giverver doesn't know or care about them.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Great news as someone whose wife has a birthday today. Yeah,
second guess at all for the Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Fun time? Yeah, did you do enough? Ted? Were you
paying attention? All right? All right, I'm at that game.
That's a tough one. I mean, paying attention is like
you have to have that it worked into your strategy
of relationshiping of like putting stuff in the you know,
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in the back of your brain, Like aha, I have
to remember that. That's a good one. But that's the
hard thing to do. Yeah, the longer the relationship goes on,
the easier it is to let those things go in
and out. Like that'd be a good gift anyways.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Yeah, right, send myself an email immediately. M hmm, Well
we'll see how.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Did you feel like you did a good job. I'll
let you know tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I think so, okay, good, Okay, that's good.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I've seen this happen with other couples before. I know
I had a girlfriend that at once one I don't
remember if it was Christmas exactly, but she kind of
knew the relationship was over when her boyfriend at the
time got her hangers, like clothes hangers.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Nice one, Cedar, I.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Don't think so.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I think he was just like, this is somebody who's
given hangers. A second, don't be smirch a hanger. You're
saying that hangers would not be a good gift. Okay,
let me just yes, Yeah, hangers is a little impersonal.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yeah, it's like I just noticed we needed hangers, and
I thought that was dutiful.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
She was like, yeah, dry the bone.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Like your clothes will be when fancy hangers the basement
is fine.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Uh, you know, subscriptions are a good gift.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
You can do that, the Hanger weekly.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
There's there's so many options, great aid.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Issue subscriptions to I think I've I know I've given
subscriptions for Christmas two friends of mine. Magazines are expensive
and people just don't get them anymore. The one that
is it seems like a good idea. The New Yorker,
which is you know, I used to love The New
Yorker because it had such a variety of subjects that
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it covered, and it's a great magazine. But one New
Yorker takes me two weeks to read if I'm diligent,
and these suckers come every four or five days, I
swear to God, I mean the pile that would accumulate
of New Yorker magazines, yeah, on my coffee table. It
would just be like, I can't keep looking at representation
of my intellectual inefficiencies. I have to get rid of
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those and pretend I'm the kind of guy who would
have read all of those instead of proving that I
am not. And I sent them to friends and like
my friend's yes, she said the same thing. She's like,
I love it, but please don't send it to me again,
because it's it's just this daunting like, oh, oh, really,
you're just gonna scroll your whole life away, or you're
going to go back to the written word here. Uh,
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it's uh, it's really tough.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
It's tough sit in the most uncomfortable chair in your
house and reads The New Yorker, a chair that only
looks good, right, Yeah, the dog won't sit in it earth.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
All right.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
If you were thinking twenty twenty five couldn't get any worse,
I ask.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
The news for you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
It's not great.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
The Rolling Stones will not be touring in twenty twenty six,
after all, that's not the bad news. Bad news, really
bad news is that they've canceled their plans because of
Keith Richards.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
He is not up to it.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Uh oh good.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
That's rock and roll's most indestructible man. How old is
he eighty two tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yeah, you've been dealing with arthritis in recent years, so
it doesn't actually list any other health issues.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
That look good.
Speaker 8 (15:58):
I don't have, but source says when they properly sat
down to discuss the tour, Keith said that he didn't
think he could commit and wasn't keen on a big
stadium tour for over four months.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
There Air is.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Apparently a new album coming out in twenty six, so
that is something to look forward to.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I just I know that arthritis is taking down a
lot of guitar players. Sure, so it might just be
that simple, because once you start fumble fingering, which Jimmy
Page did for a long time, it it just feels
I don't know, it's like John bon Jovi getting out
there and trying to sing and not being able to
do it. There's something so defeating about it, you know
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what I mean, Yeah, like you're doing more harm than good.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
The Bond Jovie stuff though, is like another level.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
My heart kind of breaks for him, It does because
I know.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
How hard he's kind of nothing funny about it.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
My heart's breaking for him because I know how hard
he's working, and I know how bad he wants to
get back on the horse. He can't do it. I mean,
he has every member of the band singing like the
verses with him at this point. It's like a sing along.
It's kind of like karaoke when everybody's saying like and
he's breathing so hard. You can see him using breathing
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techniques to try and like salvage whatever ability he used
to have, and it's just not there.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
That's what's odd to me is that I know that
you said in the documentary which I still didn't watch,
that he was almost using like stems or something like
on his throat to try to get like the notes.
Which it's weird, like all the footage you can hear
that he has the notes but he doesn't have any
of the breath work, and he seems like he's like
a healthy looking dude, and it would seem like the
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airflow would not be the problem. But when you listen
to it, that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
The problem is.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
He was doing that version of Fast Cars by Tracy Chapman.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And hey almost like baitje hang it all the way
in the.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Back, like you can't. This was their tour announcement. Okay,
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so I'll say this about that. And he just doesn't
even do that hard. If you're a fan of on Jovie,
like a diehard, you don't care about that. Yeah, Like,
people go see David Lee Roth and he can't do
even that much. I'm constantly seeing and I'm sending you
videos that I see all the time abby of of
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retro acts coming back. And these fan bases do not care.
They want to be there for the celebration of it.
They're fine with it. Right now, Will that sell out stadiums?
I mean they're doing big, big venues. I don't know.
I mean David Roth is basically playing small theaters and
like casinos.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
And he's half a skibbity bop right now.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
But you know that when you put he's just gonna
bomp around the stage like a you know magician from
the seventies. Hey, yeah, right, throwing glitter up in the
air and I stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I would love to take an uber to the Pepsi
Roadhouse to see David Lee Roth.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
That uber home is always a bitch, But yes, if
you're looking for a late Christmas gift for me, that's
what I want.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I don't even know if he's there yet. Has he
been booked at the road House? Does the Dead House
exist anymore?
Speaker 9 (19:51):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
No, it's a great thing to say, dude. One time
I went there to see Loretta Lynn and I got
backstage just a buddy of mine, like new the promoter whatever.
And I just sat backstage at the Pepsi road House,
which is not like a fancy green room, it's like
the kitchen, and she was just sitting in a chair.
I mean I was ten feet away from her, and
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she was sitting there in the huge dress, and there's
people taking food in and out, you know, right past her,
and she's like, oh, pardon me, honey, like zero pretense
to her. She had her grandkids around. They were like
running up to her. She was telling them behave Her
son was her bandleader and he was totally drunk and
she kept telling him stay away from the whiskey, you know,
like she's It was like everything that you would have
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guessed it would be, And it was unfolding there at
the Pepsi Roadhouse in whatever that like green room slash
kitchen it was. It was awesome. It was like one
of my favorite express and I didn't talk to her
or anything. I was just watching it and I'm like,
my god, that's laurettel in like this. And then her
son being hilariously drunk on stage and she was admonishing
him throughout the show. And it was not a bit
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tyler God, I was it. She was doing that the
whole time, not at.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
The Pepsi Roadhouse, do not mismarch it.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
He was telling like hard r jokes, Oh my god,
and she was like damn it, you know, like turning
around and yelling at him. And she was I think
in her seventies, you know, he was probably fifty eight
because she had kids when she so, Yeah, I want
a baby Doe in the Best movie. Yeah, they never
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really talk about how weird that part of it is.
I want a baby dude. It's like, well you're fourteen. Yeah,
that dude went to the house and then her dad's like,
well just treat her right, see you. Yeah, And then
she stayed married to that guy forever.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
And put up with a lot, and now she well
I guess then later was able to put up with
this drunk son duke Junior.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Was it, Well, yeah, that's her the only guy she
was ever with. I want a baby doo who knew
taw Whistle can do Sissy's fac it. I went to
go ahead. I went to Julliard for Yes, this is
one of those things where I want to I was
telling Abby, I want to do a drunk Christmas Carol
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next year. Just somebody's doing that out in la right now,
where they're performing a Christmas Carol but everybody in the
cast is drunk. Oh, Like, it would be fun if
we did stuff like that. Come in you can do
it the bottle rocket or we're like we all go
and get smashed. You have to, yeah, and then you
do a Christmas Carol. But it would be fun to
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also do just like pop up one man shows like
Tad Whistle is.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
As right playing the role of a person playing the role.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I'm telling you right now, the box office would have
a line down the street. Mike's got your sports coming
up next. Also, Tad's got some Christmas gift ideas for you.
You're gonna want to stick around for Steeler themed uh
and Missy Matthews, Mark Madden and all the m's coming
up here on the DV Morning Show.
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Do you own a small business? You need to hear this.
US seeing show, and Mike, I just want to point
out last hour you were not exactly bully on the
Steelers for Sunday against the Lions, and I would like
to reiterate, let me enjoy the win from Monday night
for one more day before you remind me how tough
the Sunday is gonna be. We waited all year to
have a beatdown and we got. We got to sit
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back and just relax in a fourth quarter. Every Steeler
fan needed that.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
Yeah, but it was Monday. It's a short week.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
Gotta move on, gotta turn give us time, got a
Bob Seeger this one and turn the page, especially since
they're going to Michigan.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, Motor City Sunday. All of the action starts at
twelve thirty here on DV for that four to twenty
five kickoff in Detroit.
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Speaker 11 (24:31):
If the Steelers have a chance on Sunday in Detroit,
and theoretically they have one, that's why they play the games.
It's because the Steelers have Aaron Rodgers. This is Rogers
time of the year, and Mike Tomlin knows it not
because of anything Rogers is saying or doing in preparation
for December football just because.
Speaker 12 (24:50):
No, nothing relative to his process or his prep process.
But it's just value value that you can measure, value
that you can't measure in having a guy that's been
there and done that. It benefits him, benefits us as
a collective. I think it raises the tide for the collective.
It's just certain conversations and things that you don't even
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worry about. You know, we had a significant possession down
late in that game, and he affords us an opportunity
to run a misdirection pass and you don't even have
to tell him, hey, throw an incompletion or take a
sack because we want the clock running. He knows that
he's lived that life. And so that's just one small example,
but there's there's countless examples of benefits of having a
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guy with his level of experience, the quality of that experience,
particularly this time of year as a road gets narrow.
Speaker 11 (25:41):
That's a pretty good thing to have because the road
is going to get narrow against the Lions who are
desperate to get back on the right side of the
cut line.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
As it relates to the NFC.
Speaker 11 (25:50):
Playoffs, Aaron Rodgers certainly knows what it's like to go
into Detroit, and he knows the Lions, and he's not
gonna blink.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
No, he's not gonna blank. I'm not so much worried
about the offense on this one. I'm worried about whether
or not we have herbig TJ. Watt and not having
any pass rush against Jared Goff would be problematic.
Speaker 11 (26:13):
Perhaps possibly potentially, But the Steelers do have depth that
was on display against Miami. They beat the Dolphins despite
not having TJ.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
Watt.
Speaker 11 (26:24):
And at this time of the year when it seems
like every team has injuries, and the Steelers certainly have theirs,
Mike Tomlin maintained yesterday that, well, the Steelers always keep
their feathers numbered for just such an emergency.
Speaker 12 (26:38):
It's not if it's win, as it pertains the injury
in our business, and so if you're in a position
like mine, you better work your tail off to ready
each and every man that's a part of the program
and had that urgency daily and I certainly do, and
we do as a staff. But those are the guys
that are the deserving of the credit. I'll never ask
guys to be patient. I'll ask them to work while
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they wait and and a lot of guys have done that,
and we get performances like.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
Many of them displayed.
Speaker 12 (27:06):
It's just evidence that they have and certainly some of
them are going to get additional opportunities to do so,
and maybe some new guys we're going to get opportunities
to do so as we move forward.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
That's just the nature of this thing.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
I think your ability to adapt and adjust and pivot
often defines as a collective. And certainly we've had some
opportunities to do so, and they've had some success at times.
And we better keep digging because I just been on
enough of these journeys. I know it's a component of it.
Speaker 11 (27:38):
Yeah, Dylan Cook was certainly the headline of their playing
left tackle, second career NFL game, first career NFL start.
He worked for three years while he waited, and he
was ready. You look at the quarterback spot off as
a Joey Porter. They started with Darius Slay. That became
an injury slash ability thing, so they went to James Pierre.
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He gets hurt, but they had gone out and got
a Sante Samuel Veteran, been there, done that guy, So
they think they can plug and play, and they're probably
going to have to in a couple more places.
Speaker 9 (28:10):
No significant injury news from.
Speaker 11 (28:13):
Mike Tomlin yesterday, which is not surprising given that he
was talking to the media about twelve hours after the
Dolphins game ended. But Tomlin did make it sound very
much as if Derek Harmon is going to be able
to play, that's great. The context there was that Harmon
was actually physically ready to play by the end of
last week, but he had only been limited in practice
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for one day, so they didn't think it was fair
to play Hi when he wasn't properly prepped.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
This week. Presumably he's going.
Speaker 11 (28:41):
To be properly prepped, and he even wound up going home.
He's a Detroit kid and getting to play Ford field
against the Lions, I would think would be a big deal.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
For Harmon, and you need them against that. You need
running back tandem there.
Speaker 11 (28:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (28:54):
They got two running backs, Montgomery the power guy and
Gibbs the speed guy. They got receivers out there ying
Yang what they don't have our defensive backs and kind
of what they're dealing with. Three three starters are down.
Imagine the Steelers, you've already lost to Shawn Elliott. Now
take Joey Porter Junior and Jalen Ramsey out and throw
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a secondary together and see what that looks like.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
All right, Well when we pick up Alan Blizard, now
we're gonna really be cooking with gas. Okay, there's no
way that's gonna happen. Right, I think they're good with
Scantling and Theeld. I was gonna say, how much better
is he than Scantling? Vow this Scantling? You know, every
time we call him Scanlon, we're cutting his name in half. Yeah,
I know it's supposed to be bow this Scanlon.
Speaker 11 (29:39):
I just it's it's like Mark Andre, clumsy and awkward
to say. But I don't like doing the MVS because
that feels like a nickname and it sounds like a pharmacy.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Go to MVS, get a.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Touchdown, a long receipt.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Yes, yeah, I just I don't know if they can
keep up.
Speaker 11 (29:55):
Okay, I think Detroit's going to score and Patriots Steelers
to me look like a team that can get about
twenty eight thirty one if they're if they're on their
details and executing and kind of meeting their potential.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Hey, I've been on the Lions this year to watch
them stink up the joint. So look enough, all right,
Abby's got your news top of it.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Forty one is going to be enough.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
All right?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Here comes the pit season two and is micro gifting
better than one big gift.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I'm gonna remind you of this. If the Steelers come
out on top of you, are you are very sure
that they're not winning this game?
Speaker 11 (30:39):
Let me see this all all of this all year,
all these predictions and assessments that nobody really knows.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I know, nobody really knows. But this is the most
sure I've seen you in a long time, this game
that a Steeler's opponent has virtually no shot of losing.
Speaker 11 (30:53):
Yeah, I think this is the game all year. I
just I'm not seeing the path to.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Victory and every other one you saw one in this one. Okay,
I'm not trying sometimes several right, all right, I'm not
going to lose faith. And despite that, I am still
looking forward to hearing Tad's Steeler gift recommendation for you
here in just a little bit. With the holidays now here,
we are eight days away from Christmas. Hard to believe,
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Mark Madden, Missy Matthews, and a whole lot more coming up,
but it.
Speaker 11 (31:26):
Probably has a path to victory for the Steelers. He's
a very optimistic guy.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
I should listen in on that.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yes, if you if you want a rosy outlook for
the Steelers in the organization and appreciation of all the
things that they have accomplished their Yes, that's.
Speaker 9 (31:40):
Right, that's fun.
Speaker 11 (31:41):
This has been to see them get to eighty six
and have a shot down the stretch.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
And why Mike Tomlin should be commended for it. Yes,
listen to Mark Madden at nine. Mike has something to say.
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Speaker 2 (33:22):
Randy ba'ma along with Abby Krisner, Mike pursued our buddy
Tad Whistle's hanging out with us this morning. Uh and
you know at this time of the year, just eight
days before Christmas when you're doing that last minute shopping boy,
that can be hectic. So with some gift ideas for
the Steeler fan in your life, here is Tad Whistle
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Tad take it away.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Well, you can never go wrong with buying Steeler stuff
for a loved one. But there's so many choices. This
list is just meant to make, uh, you know, your
selections a little less overwhelming. All right, When we think
about the greatest invention of the twenty first century, what
comes to mind, AI and machine learning, human genome sequencing. Nope,
(34:08):
it's pretty obviously Facebook Marketplace. Yes, now we are in
the golden age of online commerce when it comes to
buying Steeler chotchkes and random crap. Here's a list of
potential gifts from real Facebook marketplace posts that I've seen
over the last thirty hours. So these are actual Steeler
related They're very real, Okay, very real. A three D
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printed bust of James Harrison the Only Catches looks nothing
like James Harrison. It actually looks like Sergeant Doakes, the
detective who hates dexter.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Surprise, or maybe the.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
Person in your life who loves the black and gold
and loves to drink, but in a classy way. There's
an eighty five dollars decanter shaped like a Steeler. Helme,
how about a custom upholstered recliner. I know eleven dollars
may sound a little steep for a chair wrapped in
a Steelers tablecloth, but it does come with a matching ottoman.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Oh well, I mean you can't beat that, Bess Rising
For fifty bucks.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
You can own a piece of history with a seat
from three River Stadium. Oh well, that's kind of cool,
but not the whole seat. What just the bottom part
where the butts go. There's no back to, no back
go back the advertise. Also, it comes to a certificate
of authenticity, which I would love to see because it's
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the bat, it's the bottom of the seat. There's a
homemade Steelers deadpool mask, and I know that your your
brain just immediately zapped to that one person in your
life who could use that.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
How about a hand painted Steeler coffee table?
Speaker 5 (35:57):
I should say, you know, the the artwork is a
little wonky, but you'll have plenty of time to figure
out a fix for this handsome buffet on your way
back from Bethel Park after you've picked it up, but look,
Christmas shouldn't just be about stuff. You know, we get
so stuff oriented. You can book a ninety minute tour
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of Akrosure Stadium that includes a stroll through the Great Hall,
a look inside the Steelers locker room, in a photo
op with one of the deconsecrated Heinz ketchup bottles. The
price tag is only twenty five dollars, but if you
want to upgrade the experience for another fifty bucks, my
buddy Gary will accompany you and loudly talk over the
tour guide with fun anecdotes like that's the men's room,
(36:45):
I've seen it, dude pissing this scene. And one time
I was in line at Annie Hands and I met
Dari Chisholms.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Great girl. Oh yeah, Darius's great. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
Speaking of experiential gifts, you could also book a holiday
greeting with Cameo, the video messaging app that connects celebrities
and athletes with the masses. Who wouldn't want a Christmas
wish from Dick Lebow? Yeah, they've got a nice roster
Steelers on there. Heinz, Ward, Terry Bradshaw, even Antonio Brown
And look, the message doesn't even have to be holiday related.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
It can be whatever.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
As a matter of fact, two days ago, I paid
former Stealer wide receiver Sammy Coates ten bucks to encourage
my friend to get a colonoscope.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
You gotta get it done, baby.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I think it's gonna be great for.
Speaker 8 (37:39):
Everything's gonna be okay.
Speaker 9 (37:40):
So don't be worried, gonna be scared.
Speaker 12 (37:42):
Man.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Yeah, I'm done it.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
I'll do it twice a year, so hey, go get it.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Done, man, twice a year. I know what you're thinking.
Did Sammy Coach just say he hits two colors a year? Whatever?
The reason is a glad he's doing it right. You
could never be too sure.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
But look, if Sammy Coates will do that for ten bucks,
imagine what Antonio Brown will do for two point fifty.
He might violate a gag warrior. Look if I could
just get on my soapbox here. We get so caught
up in the consumerism, the spending, all the stress, it's
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easy to lose sight of what's really important this holiday season.
Love Family and the Steelers Margaritaville collection available at the
Steelers Pro Shop, which I guess is some kind of
bizarre partnership between the Steelers and Jimmy Buffett's estate.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I'm not making this up.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
There's a whole line of pastel shirts that are just
the Steeler logo with the sunset and a couple palm trees,
making their target demographic uncles hipsters. I honestly don't know. Look, yeah,
they're a hideous abomination. Yes, their existence only proves that
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God is dead and everything is for sale.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
But that being said, which it was, I kind of
want one, have me shopping and Mary Stressmas to all
tad whistle with Christmas ideas for the Steeler fan in
your life.
Speaker 13 (39:23):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Because for many years I used to just plug in
the tree that was pre lit. Yeah, for many many
years I did that because I was never home, Like
as soon as our Christmas break happened, I was like
out of town at a sibling or whatever. You know,
I'd go visit my family. But I wanted to have
a tree. I just didn't want it to have a
million ornaments and just a pain in the ass because
I wasn't really there to enjoy it. But now I'm
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in Pittsburgh a lot more often for the holiday, so
I have it a little more festooned for the holiday.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Do you have ornaments?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Do they're not currently on the tree? Currently? There are
lights on the tree.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Okay, so you're kind of in the trend.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
There is a tree, there are lights. I have several.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Ornaments, color lights.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
They're color lights. They're big, they're the old retro bulbs.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
That is nice. Yeah, see, I'm nice.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
You're really nice. You're going on festive but you own ornaments.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, I'm not an idiot.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I mean, why would I have Brandy Bellman and the
DVE Morning Show?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I lease, okay, I lease, you got it out of
me at least the ornaments, they're not mine. Okay, finally
I'm hoping there's an option to buy in a few years,
hoping to own them.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You know what, that's actually that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It probably looks something you can do like rent the
dress things that you do rent the runway, which I
have done before. Pretty good idea when that's for like
ladies on the big events.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Later is do you know about this time?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No? Tell me.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Rent the runway is whenever you have like a fancy
pants event, and you can look at this website that
basically has, you know, really like dresses that are super
out of your price range because they're like high fashion
and stuff you would never own.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You rent the.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Dresses in like multiple sizes, and then you wear them
to your event and then you send them back. It
sounds it's a fun pastic idea because then you look
like you can afford stuff that you.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Cannot and then and then you don't have to wear it.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So they dry clean the dresses and stuff. It's not
like all right, because that's the only gross part is
that other people are wearing them.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
That's how we save money. That's a cost cutting measure.
You never washed the dresses.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's like a be kind rewind and they just trust
you to clean it.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
No, I did rent one once that I was like,
this smells like a pickle, but I'm still gonna wear it.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Right, the zipper's broken and it smells like a pickle.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But getting back to your original idea, this might be
a million dollar Christmas idea. Rent Christmas decorations and and
then somebody comes in and just boom, they just plaster
it like a like a like a one of those
insect fog bombs they put off. Yep. Yeah, and they
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take it away. They just explode Christmas all over your house.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Live with your parents for three days, we'll be and
then come on back.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It'll be all decked out. It's your termites. Nope, Christmas,
Christmas everywhere, Christmas all over the place.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
And then they take it away. And that's the part
I like.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, nobody likes packing up Christmas decorations because there's a
depressing element to it. When you put the Christmas decorations away,
it's here we go again. It's another year. Jesus, How
am I going to get through this year?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Oh God, I'm up here in this crawl space, jamming
this disheveled box of ornaments. The boxes are never in
good shape no ever, because people are so frustrated by
that point, they're like just jamming in the corner.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I was impressed with the person. I was though, that
put the Christmas lights away.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Last last year. That's a great feeling.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I'm like this, this woman is a good woman.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, like making your bed actually, like wrapping them up,
zip tying.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, look at you? Who like what Yeah it was
somebody attached to Were you tying somebody up? It's like, yeah,
I was in the box. Look I did. What a
(04:15):
good girl. Well, Merry Christmas. You only have eight days
till Christmas? How's that sound? I'm behind.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I was panicking when Abby was reading, uh, last hour
the deadlines, shipping dates, shipping dates, unless you want to
pay fifty bucks to mail.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
A hat somebody you don't like that much. Here you go.
I don't want to docs.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
But I remember, like even in the summer months, there
was something that Billy Gardell wanted from the studio and
he was like, oh, I really want to take this home,
but I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
If I do, I'm ship it to you. It to
you and he was like, oh, that'd be great, and
I'm like, I'll take care of it. But they're like,
I don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
How much?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Well, he handed me like fifty bucks and I'm like, oh,
my cousin, I would love to send this to you.
He's like, please take this. I will not take no
for an answer that I take the fifty bucks. And
I'm thinking, like that's too much.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
It's probably like a sheets mug or something like that.
It's like three dollars, Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And I was like, oh, I'm not gonna I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I was like, okay, oh no, you got to tell him. No,
he's got money, tell him no, absolutely, three hundred bucks.
My mind is racing. Was it an organ well, yeah,
you could have.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
It was a it was a photo. It was like
it was like a canvas. It was like a canvas photo.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah. I mean you could have bought it a plane
ticket for that much. Yeah, with a courier.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
But now I'm thinking like Christmas and expedited because I
just sent it like it'll get there when it gets there.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I didn't even I didn't even try to make a fancy.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well here's why what you do in this scenario is
you shift gift giving methodology and you if you are
sending it somewhere far away, if the person lives in Chicago,
you find out what pizza place they go to, and
you send them pizzas you like, you go into the
around their neighborhood to something that delivers, and you have
that delivered to their house and like, that's what they're
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getting this year. That's great. Not cooking. Yeah, I'm sending
you dinner for Friday night. Here's a bunch of pizzas.
You're probably sitting home with the kids, rapid presents, or
doing whatever you do before the holidays. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yes, yes, the pizza thing is amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I always say food food with nobody's mad about food
if it was not not sweets. Necessarily, sweets are okay,
but actual food, like a dinner's worth of food, Like
sending frozen stuff from gold Belly, it's a winner.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Sweet sweets is almost homework because you're like you're giving
someone the guilt and shame. Yes, you yourself would never
want And I say this as a guy who just
received a huge bag of caramel popcorn.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yes, oh dude, I used to send the Pittsburgh popcorn
to my siblings and they all fricking loved it, those
huge tins. And then they were kind of like, you
you can't keep doing that to like it's so much,
it's so good, and then they all that you eat
it and it's it's a pretty high calorie car. Yes,
(07:21):
it's really.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Good though, it is really good.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Are they still rocking down there? I know they It
was a little rocky there for a minute. You have
to check. I remember that idiot went in there for
the health department. They're like, there's rat turns all over
the place. They're like, those are popcorn kernels? You more
only yes, And they like got tabbed for a health
violation that didn't actually exist, and then they rescinded the
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health violation after the fact, which is no right. When
you put like sex offender on your neighbor's door and
they're like, oh, not him, sorry, and they take it down.
Everyone's like it's a weirdo.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
I will say that one of the gifts that Randy
sent last year we're still enjoying the benefits of, and
it was it was the Sarah's Candy chocolate bombs, and
they were these things that Edie loves because anytimes she
goes out in the snow, she wants these chocolate bombs
now and they are these like round chocolate bombs full
(08:19):
of marshmallows that you put in hot chocolate and.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Then they explode.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
That sounds awesome, It's amazing, and.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So like he sent so many of them that like
now when she comes in and you know, noses all ready.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And everything a lot. I don't remember that.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah, it was like a whole Sarah's thing and there
was a bunch of chocolate bombs in them.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I thought there was one. Nope, it was like one gross.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
It was one Baker's.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
They didn't realize a palette was Pittsburgh Popcorn Company is
still rocking and you can order online and it is
a really good gift for the expatriot Pittsburgh in your life.
You want to send somebody a little Pittsburgh who's not
living here, that's always a good one. Love it, send
them a little Strip District.
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Speaker 2 (09:33):
Snoop Dogg will not say no to anything. Hey, Snoop,
want to leave your family on Christmas to go to
Minnesota to perform to an ari a pre recorded track
for ten minutes? Yes, well you can say no. I'm
cool to stay with my family. On Chris, he's got
enough money. He's got like Martha Stewart money. Well, he's
(09:56):
got a lot. Yeah, weren't they they were like, I don't.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Know, they weren't an item, I guess, but they were friendly.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
They did.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Though I know I think about that all the time
all the time, all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't know. I do know that she is inordinately beautiful,
and I'm attracted to her, and I never thought that's
somebody I would be like, oh god, she's so hot.
She is actually smoking hot. She is so beautiful. Martha
Stewart ridiculously beautiful, and she's old, she's and so it's
(10:32):
snooped on maybe me like PA mean, there's like some
like I don't know if it's like parliament in Japan
or something where everyone's like fighting with would. Every time
I see that, I laughed. That is That's kind of
(10:53):
how I feel about Martha Stewart trying to drag me
away from the MiG Would. Mike used to like bust
my chops about Helen Mirren two, and I'm like, dude,
Helen Miren, how was it on what grounds? Was he
busting your job?
Speaker 9 (11:09):
I know she?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I mean well I think it was because I said
still and I'm like, I'm right, yeah, she is what
down gorgeous? I don't know, I'm not ages there, I go,
uh news, I cantained multitudes.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Listen, you're diverse man.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Good, that's the character.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
A new survey on gen Z's holiday spending habits found
the sixteen percent of participants said that receiving a bad
or a cheap gift from a partner would make them
end the relationship. Majority of respondents, about sixty five percent,
believe that receiving a gift that doesn't reflect their tastes
or interests is the worst kind of gift, as it
(11:49):
can feel like the giverver doesn't know or care about them.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Great news as someone whose wife has a birthday today. Yeah,
second guess at all for the Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Fun time? Yeah, did you do enough? Ted? Were you
paying attention? All right? All right, I'm at that game.
That's a tough one. I mean, paying attention is like
you have to have that it worked into your strategy
of relationshiping of like putting stuff in the you know,
(12:23):
in the back of your brain, Like aha, I have
to remember that. That's a good one. But that's the
hard thing to do. Yeah, the longer the relationship goes on,
the easier it is to let those things go in
and out. Like that'd be a good gift anyways.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Yeah, right, send myself an email immediately. M hmm, Well
we'll see how.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Did you feel like you did a good job. I'll
let you know tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I think so, okay, good, Okay, that's good.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I've seen this happen with other couples before. I know
I had a girlfriend that at once one I don't
remember if it was Christmas exactly, but she kind of
knew the relationship was over when her boyfriend at the
time got her hangers, like clothes hangers.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Nice one, Cedar, I.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Don't think so.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I think he was just like, this is somebody who's
given hangers. A second, don't be smirch a hanger. You're
saying that hangers would not be a good gift. Okay,
let me just yes, Yeah, hangers is a little impersonal.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yeah, it's like I just noticed we needed hangers, and
I thought that was dutiful.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
She was like, yeah, dry the bone.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Like your clothes will be when fancy hangers the basement
is fine.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Uh, you know, subscriptions are a good gift.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
You can do that, the Hanger weekly.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
There's there's so many options, great aid.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Issue subscriptions to I think I've I know I've given
subscriptions for Christmas two friends of mine. Magazines are expensive
and people just don't get them anymore. The one that
is it seems like a good idea. The New Yorker,
which is you know, I used to love The New
Yorker because it had such a variety of subjects that
(14:21):
it covered, and it's a great magazine. But one New
Yorker takes me two weeks to read if I'm diligent,
and these suckers come every four or five days, I
swear to God, I mean the pile that would accumulate
of New Yorker magazines, yeah, on my coffee table. It
would just be like, I can't keep looking at representation
of my intellectual inefficiencies. I have to get rid of
(14:43):
those and pretend I'm the kind of guy who would
have read all of those instead of proving that I
am not. And I sent them to friends and like
my friend's yes, she said the same thing. She's like,
I love it, but please don't send it to me again,
because it's it's just this daunting like, oh, oh, really,
you're just gonna scroll your whole life away, or you're
going to go back to the written word here. Uh,
(15:06):
it's uh, it's really tough.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
It's tough sit in the most uncomfortable chair in your
house and reads The New Yorker, a chair that only
looks good, right, Yeah, the dog won't sit in it earth.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
All right.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
If you were thinking twenty twenty five couldn't get any worse,
I ask.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
The news for you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
It's not great.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
The Rolling Stones will not be touring in twenty twenty six,
after all, that's not the bad news. Bad news, really
bad news is that they've canceled their plans because of
Keith Richards.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
He is not up to it.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Uh oh good.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
That's rock and roll's most indestructible man. How old is
he eighty two tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yeah, you've been dealing with arthritis in recent years, so
it doesn't actually list any other health issues.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
That look good.
Speaker 8 (15:58):
I don't have, but source says when they properly sat
down to discuss the tour, Keith said that he didn't
think he could commit and wasn't keen on a big
stadium tour for over four months.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
There Air is.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Apparently a new album coming out in twenty six, so
that is something to look forward to.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I just I know that arthritis is taking down a
lot of guitar players. Sure, so it might just be
that simple, because once you start fumble fingering, which Jimmy
Page did for a long time, it it just feels
I don't know, it's like John bon Jovi getting out
there and trying to sing and not being able to
do it. There's something so defeating about it, you know
(16:40):
what I mean, Yeah, like you're doing more harm than good.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
The Bond Jovie stuff though, is like another level.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
My heart kind of breaks for him, It does because
I know.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
How hard he's kind of nothing funny about it.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
My heart's breaking for him because I know how hard
he's working, and I know how bad he wants to
get back on the horse. He can't do it. I mean,
he has every member of the band singing like the
verses with him at this point. It's like a sing along.
It's kind of like karaoke when everybody's saying like and
he's breathing so hard. You can see him using breathing
(17:14):
techniques to try and like salvage whatever ability he used
to have, and it's just not there.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
That's what's odd to me is that I know that
you said in the documentary which I still didn't watch,
that he was almost using like stems or something like
on his throat to try to get like the notes.
Which it's weird, like all the footage you can hear
that he has the notes but he doesn't have any
of the breath work, and he seems like he's like
a healthy looking dude, and it would seem like the
(17:44):
airflow would not be the problem. But when you listen
to it, that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
The problem is.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
He was doing that version of Fast Cars by Tracy Chapman.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And hey almost like baitje hang it all the way
in the.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Back, like you can't. This was their tour announcement. Okay,
(18:39):
so I'll say this about that. And he just doesn't
even do that hard. If you're a fan of on Jovie,
like a diehard, you don't care about that. Yeah, Like,
people go see David Lee Roth and he can't do
even that much. I'm constantly seeing and I'm sending you
videos that I see all the time abby of of
(19:00):
retro acts coming back. And these fan bases do not care.
They want to be there for the celebration of it.
They're fine with it. Right now, Will that sell out stadiums?
I mean they're doing big, big venues. I don't know.
I mean David Roth is basically playing small theaters and
like casinos.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
And he's half a skibbity bop right now.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
But you know that when you put he's just gonna
bomp around the stage like a you know magician from
the seventies. Hey, yeah, right, throwing glitter up in the
air and I stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I would love to take an uber to the Pepsi
Roadhouse to see David Lee Roth.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
That uber home is always a bitch, But yes, if
you're looking for a late Christmas gift for me, that's
what I want.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I don't even know if he's there yet. Has he
been booked at the road House? Does the Dead House
exist anymore?
Speaker 9 (19:51):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
No, it's a great thing to say, dude. One time
I went there to see Loretta Lynn and I got
backstage just a buddy of mine, like new the promoter whatever.
And I just sat backstage at the Pepsi road House,
which is not like a fancy green room, it's like
the kitchen, and she was just sitting in a chair.
I mean I was ten feet away from her, and
(20:13):
she was sitting there in the huge dress, and there's
people taking food in and out, you know, right past her,
and she's like, oh, pardon me, honey, like zero pretense
to her. She had her grandkids around. They were like
running up to her. She was telling them behave Her
son was her bandleader and he was totally drunk and
she kept telling him stay away from the whiskey, you know,
like she's It was like everything that you would have
(20:35):
guessed it would be, And it was unfolding there at
the Pepsi Roadhouse in whatever that like green room slash
kitchen it was. It was awesome. It was like one
of my favorite express and I didn't talk to her
or anything. I was just watching it and I'm like,
my god, that's laurettel in like this. And then her
son being hilariously drunk on stage and she was admonishing
him throughout the show. And it was not a bit
(20:56):
tyler God, I was it. She was doing that the
whole time, not at.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
The Pepsi Roadhouse, do not mismarch it.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
He was telling like hard r jokes, Oh my god,
and she was like damn it, you know, like turning
around and yelling at him. And she was I think
in her seventies, you know, he was probably fifty eight
because she had kids when she so, Yeah, I want
a baby Doe in the Best movie. Yeah, they never
(21:23):
really talk about how weird that part of it is.
I want a baby dude. It's like, well you're fourteen. Yeah,
that dude went to the house and then her dad's like,
well just treat her right, see you. Yeah, And then
she stayed married to that guy forever.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
And put up with a lot, and now she well
I guess then later was able to put up with
this drunk son duke Junior.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Was it, Well, yeah, that's her the only guy she
was ever with. I want a baby doo who knew
taw Whistle can do Sissy's fac it. I went to
go ahead. I went to Julliard for Yes, this is
one of those things where I want to I was
telling Abby, I want to do a drunk Christmas Carol
(22:07):
next year. Just somebody's doing that out in la right now,
where they're performing a Christmas Carol but everybody in the
cast is drunk. Oh, Like, it would be fun if
we did stuff like that. Come in you can do
it the bottle rocket or we're like we all go
and get smashed. You have to, yeah, and then you
do a Christmas Carol. But it would be fun to
(22:28):
also do just like pop up one man shows like
Tad Whistle is.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
As right playing the role of a person playing the role.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I'm telling you right now, the box office would have
a line down the street. Mike's got your sports coming
up next. Also, Tad's got some Christmas gift ideas for you.
You're gonna want to stick around for Steeler themed uh
and Missy Matthews, Mark Madden and all the m's coming
up here on the DV Morning Show.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
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Speaker 2 (23:28):
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Speaker 10 (23:35):
Cloudy then becoming partly cloudy lake today high of forty eight,
some clouds that I dropping to twenty nine, partly cloudy
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Speaker 2 (23:44):
Do you own a small business? You need to hear this.
US seeing show, and Mike, I just want to point
out last hour you were not exactly bully on the
Steelers for Sunday against the Lions, and I would like
to reiterate, let me enjoy the win from Monday night
for one more day before you remind me how tough
the Sunday is gonna be. We waited all year to
have a beatdown and we got. We got to sit
(24:05):
back and just relax in a fourth quarter. Every Steeler
fan needed that.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
Yeah, but it was Monday. It's a short week.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
Gotta move on, gotta turn give us time, got a
Bob Seeger this one and turn the page, especially since
they're going to Michigan.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, Motor City Sunday. All of the action starts at
twelve thirty here on DV for that four to twenty
five kickoff in Detroit.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
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Speaker 11 (24:31):
If the Steelers have a chance on Sunday in Detroit,
and theoretically they have one, that's why they play the games.
It's because the Steelers have Aaron Rodgers. This is Rogers
time of the year, and Mike Tomlin knows it not
because of anything Rogers is saying or doing in preparation
for December football just because.
Speaker 12 (24:50):
No, nothing relative to his process or his prep process.
But it's just value value that you can measure, value
that you can't measure in having a guy that's been
there and done that. It benefits him, benefits us as
a collective. I think it raises the tide for the collective.
It's just certain conversations and things that you don't even
(25:12):
worry about. You know, we had a significant possession down
late in that game, and he affords us an opportunity
to run a misdirection pass and you don't even have
to tell him, hey, throw an incompletion or take a
sack because we want the clock running. He knows that
he's lived that life. And so that's just one small example,
but there's there's countless examples of benefits of having a
(25:33):
guy with his level of experience, the quality of that experience,
particularly this time of year as a road gets narrow.
Speaker 11 (25:41):
That's a pretty good thing to have because the road
is going to get narrow against the Lions who are
desperate to get back on the right side of the
cut line.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
As it relates to the NFC.
Speaker 11 (25:50):
Playoffs, Aaron Rodgers certainly knows what it's like to go
into Detroit, and he knows the Lions, and he's not
gonna blink.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
No, he's not gonna blank. I'm not so much worried
about the offense on this one. I'm worried about whether
or not we have herbig TJ. Watt and not having
any pass rush against Jared Goff would be problematic.
Speaker 11 (26:13):
Perhaps possibly potentially, But the Steelers do have depth that
was on display against Miami. They beat the Dolphins despite
not having TJ.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
Watt.
Speaker 11 (26:24):
And at this time of the year when it seems
like every team has injuries, and the Steelers certainly have theirs,
Mike Tomlin maintained yesterday that, well, the Steelers always keep
their feathers numbered for just such an emergency.
Speaker 12 (26:38):
It's not if it's win, as it pertains the injury
in our business, and so if you're in a position
like mine, you better work your tail off to ready
each and every man that's a part of the program
and had that urgency daily and I certainly do, and
we do as a staff. But those are the guys
that are the deserving of the credit. I'll never ask
guys to be patient. I'll ask them to work while
(27:00):
they wait and and a lot of guys have done that,
and we get performances like.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
Many of them displayed.
Speaker 12 (27:06):
It's just evidence that they have and certainly some of
them are going to get additional opportunities to do so,
and maybe some new guys we're going to get opportunities
to do so as we move forward.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
That's just the nature of this thing.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
I think your ability to adapt and adjust and pivot
often defines as a collective. And certainly we've had some
opportunities to do so, and they've had some success at times.
And we better keep digging because I just been on
enough of these journeys. I know it's a component of it.
Speaker 11 (27:38):
Yeah, Dylan Cook was certainly the headline of their playing
left tackle, second career NFL game, first career NFL start.
He worked for three years while he waited, and he
was ready. You look at the quarterback spot off as
a Joey Porter. They started with Darius Slay. That became
an injury slash ability thing, so they went to James Pierre.
(27:59):
He gets hurt, but they had gone out and got
a Sante Samuel Veteran, been there, done that guy, So
they think they can plug and play, and they're probably
going to have to in a couple more places.
Speaker 9 (28:10):
No significant injury news from.
Speaker 11 (28:13):
Mike Tomlin yesterday, which is not surprising given that he
was talking to the media about twelve hours after the
Dolphins game ended. But Tomlin did make it sound very
much as if Derek Harmon is going to be able
to play, that's great. The context there was that Harmon
was actually physically ready to play by the end of
last week, but he had only been limited in practice
(28:35):
for one day, so they didn't think it was fair
to play Hi when he wasn't properly prepped.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
This week. Presumably he's going.
Speaker 11 (28:41):
To be properly prepped, and he even wound up going home.
He's a Detroit kid and getting to play Ford field
against the Lions, I would think would be a big deal.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
For Harmon, and you need them against that. You need
running back tandem there.
Speaker 11 (28:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (28:54):
They got two running backs, Montgomery the power guy and
Gibbs the speed guy. They got receivers out there ying
Yang what they don't have our defensive backs and kind
of what they're dealing with. Three three starters are down.
Imagine the Steelers, you've already lost to Shawn Elliott. Now
take Joey Porter Junior and Jalen Ramsey out and throw
(29:16):
a secondary together and see what that looks like.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
All right, Well when we pick up Alan Blizard, now
we're gonna really be cooking with gas. Okay, there's no
way that's gonna happen. Right, I think they're good with
Scantling and Theeld. I was gonna say, how much better
is he than Scantling? Vow this Scantling? You know, every
time we call him Scanlon, we're cutting his name in half. Yeah,
I know it's supposed to be bow this Scanlon.
Speaker 11 (29:39):
I just it's it's like Mark Andre, clumsy and awkward
to say. But I don't like doing the MVS because
that feels like a nickname and it sounds like a pharmacy.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Go to MVS, get a.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Touchdown, a long receipt.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Yes, yeah, I just I don't know if they can
keep up.
Speaker 11 (29:55):
Okay, I think Detroit's going to score and Patriots Steelers
to me look like a team that can get about
twenty eight thirty one if they're if they're on their
details and executing and kind of meeting their potential.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Hey, I've been on the Lions this year to watch
them stink up the joint. So look enough, all right,
Abby's got your news top of it.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Forty one is going to be enough.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
All right?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Here comes the pit season two and is micro gifting
better than one big gift.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I'm gonna remind you of this. If the Steelers come
out on top of you, are you are very sure
that they're not winning this game?
Speaker 11 (30:39):
Let me see this all all of this all year,
all these predictions and assessments that nobody really knows.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I know, nobody really knows. But this is the most
sure I've seen you in a long time, this game
that a Steeler's opponent has virtually no shot of losing.
Speaker 11 (30:53):
Yeah, I think this is the game all year. I
just I'm not seeing the path to.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Victory and every other one you saw one in this one. Okay,
I'm not trying sometimes several right, all right, I'm not
going to lose faith. And despite that, I am still
looking forward to hearing Tad's Steeler gift recommendation for you
here in just a little bit. With the holidays now here,
we are eight days away from Christmas. Hard to believe,
(31:22):
Mark Madden, Missy Matthews, and a whole lot more coming up,
but it.
Speaker 11 (31:26):
Probably has a path to victory for the Steelers. He's
a very optimistic guy.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
I should listen in on that.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yes, if you if you want a rosy outlook for
the Steelers in the organization and appreciation of all the
things that they have accomplished their Yes, that's.
Speaker 9 (31:40):
Right, that's fun.
Speaker 11 (31:41):
This has been to see them get to eighty six
and have a shot down the stretch.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
And why Mike Tomlin should be commended for it. Yes,
listen to Mark Madden at nine. Mike has something to say.
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Speaker 10 (33:11):
Ninety four point five three WS. It's the DVE Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Randy ba'ma along with Abby Krisner, Mike pursued our buddy
Tad Whistle's hanging out with us this morning. Uh and
you know at this time of the year, just eight
days before Christmas when you're doing that last minute shopping boy,
that can be hectic. So with some gift ideas for
the Steeler fan in your life, here is Tad Whistle
(33:44):
Tad take it away.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Well, you can never go wrong with buying Steeler stuff
for a loved one. But there's so many choices. This
list is just meant to make, uh, you know, your
selections a little less overwhelming. All right, When we think
about the greatest invention of the twenty first century, what
comes to mind, AI and machine learning, human genome sequencing. Nope,
(34:08):
it's pretty obviously Facebook Marketplace. Yes, now we are in
the golden age of online commerce when it comes to
buying Steeler chotchkes and random crap. Here's a list of
potential gifts from real Facebook marketplace posts that I've seen
over the last thirty hours. So these are actual Steeler
related They're very real, Okay, very real. A three D
(34:33):
printed bust of James Harrison the Only Catches looks nothing
like James Harrison. It actually looks like Sergeant Doakes, the
detective who hates dexter.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Surprise, or maybe the.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
Person in your life who loves the black and gold
and loves to drink, but in a classy way. There's
an eighty five dollars decanter shaped like a Steeler. Helme,
how about a custom upholstered recliner. I know eleven dollars
may sound a little steep for a chair wrapped in
a Steelers tablecloth, but it does come with a matching ottoman.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Oh well, I mean you can't beat that, Bess Rising
For fifty bucks.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
You can own a piece of history with a seat
from three River Stadium. Oh well, that's kind of cool,
but not the whole seat. What just the bottom part
where the butts go. There's no back to, no back
go back the advertise. Also, it comes to a certificate
of authenticity, which I would love to see because it's
(35:40):
the bat, it's the bottom of the seat. There's a
homemade Steelers deadpool mask, and I know that your your
brain just immediately zapped to that one person in your
life who could use that.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
How about a hand painted Steeler coffee table?
Speaker 5 (35:57):
I should say, you know, the the artwork is a
little wonky, but you'll have plenty of time to figure
out a fix for this handsome buffet on your way
back from Bethel Park after you've picked it up, but look,
Christmas shouldn't just be about stuff. You know, we get
so stuff oriented. You can book a ninety minute tour
(36:18):
of Akrosure Stadium that includes a stroll through the Great Hall,
a look inside the Steelers locker room, in a photo
op with one of the deconsecrated Heinz ketchup bottles. The
price tag is only twenty five dollars, but if you
want to upgrade the experience for another fifty bucks, my
buddy Gary will accompany you and loudly talk over the
tour guide with fun anecdotes like that's the men's room,
(36:45):
I've seen it, dude pissing this scene. And one time
I was in line at Annie Hands and I met
Dari Chisholms.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Great girl. Oh yeah, Darius's great. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
Speaking of experiential gifts, you could also book a holiday
greeting with Cameo, the video messaging app that connects celebrities
and athletes with the masses. Who wouldn't want a Christmas
wish from Dick Lebow? Yeah, they've got a nice roster
Steelers on there. Heinz, Ward, Terry Bradshaw, even Antonio Brown
And look, the message doesn't even have to be holiday related.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
It can be whatever.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
As a matter of fact, two days ago, I paid
former Stealer wide receiver Sammy Coates ten bucks to encourage
my friend to get a colonoscope.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
You gotta get it done, baby.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I think it's gonna be great for.
Speaker 8 (37:39):
Everything's gonna be okay.
Speaker 9 (37:40):
So don't be worried, gonna be scared.
Speaker 12 (37:42):
Man.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Yeah, I'm done it.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
I'll do it twice a year, so hey, go get it.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Done, man, twice a year. I know what you're thinking.
Did Sammy Coach just say he hits two colors a year? Whatever?
The reason is a glad he's doing it right. You
could never be too sure.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
But look, if Sammy Coates will do that for ten bucks,
imagine what Antonio Brown will do for two point fifty.
He might violate a gag warrior. Look if I could
just get on my soapbox here. We get so caught
up in the consumerism, the spending, all the stress, it's
(38:24):
easy to lose sight of what's really important this holiday season.
Love Family and the Steelers Margaritaville collection available at the
Steelers Pro Shop, which I guess is some kind of
bizarre partnership between the Steelers and Jimmy Buffett's estate.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I'm not making this up.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
There's a whole line of pastel shirts that are just
the Steeler logo with the sunset and a couple palm trees,
making their target demographic uncles hipsters. I honestly don't know. Look, yeah,
they're a hideous abomination. Yes, their existence only proves that
(39:06):
God is dead and everything is for sale.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
But that being said, which it was, I kind of
want one, have me shopping and Mary Stressmas to all
tad whistle with Christmas ideas for the Steeler fan in
your life.
Speaker 13 (39:23):
Mister Smalls presents a benefit concert for the Rainbow Kitchen
to Feed the Bird this Friday a Mister Small's Theater.
This all ages show will feature the best in local
Pittsburgh musle like Joeberschecky, Bill Deese, Jeane the Werewolf, Tiny Wards,
Clinton Clegg of the Common Heeart, Kelsey Barber, sun King Warriors,
Liz Berlin, Jen Wurtzhundred, Costello, Cheed Benson at E Twigg
(39:44):
and Cledonia and Morgan Arena. Let's sketch your tickets at
mister smalls dot.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Com or dve dot com.
Speaker 9 (39:51):
The season of.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Performance is happening now and Spitzer.
Speaker 9 (39:54):
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