December 18, 2025 • 40 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
He got down, but god, that's.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Going on maybe.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
To w dv E Pittsburgh and iHeart radio station guaranteed human.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
If you are in even if you go to see
a therapist, if your phone is on or their phone
is on, or there's an Alexa in the room or
something like that. Has has there been millions of hours
of people talking about their most intimate problems being recorded
and somehow thrown into some big digital identity vat for you.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Low self esteem, you've got the or oh but I
don't know, like.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Or does it get to the point where like they
can sell your like Google one day just becomes like
you know, a blackmailer, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
And they're like, we're.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Gonna tell your boss what you did unless you purchase
this new operating system.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
We know what happened at the Christmas party. Now you've
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of it. All you have to do is buy these
bathouse one.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Time purchase Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It feels like it's gonna be a bitcoin transfer for you,
like a constant negotiation that you're gonna be having with
some digital overlords going forward or I'm being paranoid one
or the other, or everything will be fine and not
much will change.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's gonna be great. I think so too, very excited.
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I remember talking to Harlan Williams uh when he did
our comedy Fest couple of years ago, and he was
telling me all about how Howie Mandel has this ai
room of comedians like you walk in and it's like
holograms pop up and it's George Carlin doing modern comedy.
You know, he's dead so he can't do that. And
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I thought that was creepy. And he's like, oh no,
it's so exciting, don't you get it? And he was
not doing a bit.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He thinks.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
It's like, I mean, there are a lot of people
who think that this is the greatest thing going that
the you know, being servants to the robot overlords are.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
It's gonna be a fun future. No, let me die.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
When I'm gone, let me be gone, let my soul rest.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I do kind of think that it's still as easy
as like, guys, we're just gonna unplug the robots now, okay,
let's go back to normal.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yes, honestly, that's where my inner Billy Gardell really does
come out when it's just like pour water on everything.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, water will save everything.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
That's why everybody's investing, like, you know, make sure we
have enough water because we'll need to kill the robots.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Sid you there are two Billy Gardell's. Abbey's got your
news right now. What's going on.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
News this hour is brought to you by your neighborhood
Ford Store. Clouds today and a high of fifty six.
And I know I'm kind of in Mike's territory here,
but this is big news. For the second time in
less than four years, the Penguins are being sold. The
Chicago based Hoffman family of Companies is purchasing the team
from the Fenway Sports Group. According to The Athletic Fenway
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bought the team from former Penguin superstar Mario Lemieux and
businessman Ron Berkele for nine hundred and fifty million in
twenty twenty one. Under Fenway's ownership, the Pens have not
made the playoffs for the past three seasons. According to
its website, the Hoffman Family of Companies investment firm has
two hundred brands and properties globally, employees more than seventeen
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thousand people and has more than four hundred locations across
thirty countries. It's unclear what the purchase price will be.
In Forbes's two twenty twenty five valuations of National Hockey
League teams, the Penguins were valued at one point seven
five billion.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Okay, so they stand to make a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, good turnaround for FSG, who did nothing here
in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Let's stress everybody out.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Madden constantly defends them too, because they own his favorite
football club, Liverpool.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
And so he's like, well, what do you want them
to do.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I'm like, I don't know any name a person that
everybody knows from FSG.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You can't know.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
They never had like a hey, I'm the hockey guy.
I mean they did in the end of name. I
don't remember if it was Trevor or what the hell
it was. But they did have a guy, but he
was not exactly omnipresent so much so I can't remember
his name, Whose nephew was he somebody's exactly, but just
you know, it's nice to have people hands on in
the community and things like that.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's what's traditionally worked here.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
And some of the speculation is that FSG and delving
into the NHL has decided that it is a garage
league and they want nothing to do that because they
have such they have much more high minded aspirations F
one and you know with the European soccer leagues.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Is it a bad look that they sold? Is it? Like,
are people within the NF NHL concerned about it? No?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I think they're like, good riddance whatever. They don't care.
I don't think they care one way or the other. Honestly,
I don't know that it's a bad look so much
as I would say, if anything, I think that it
like it. It's a bad look for FSG in in
terms of the perception that they were unable to do
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anything from an actual winning standpoint, right from turning the
organization around just pure sports. But they're gonna make so
much money on it. It's like, how do you argue
with this, Oh, this thing that we just kind of
backed assed into. Oh how many billions did we make
in five years? Okay, good deal, I'll see you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah. So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I hope these the Hoffmans, is that it the Hoffins? Yes,
I hope that there are a little more hands on
here in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That put that a whole argument to bed, though, that
Mario is going to have anything to do.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well, Mario didn't have anything to do with FSG.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I mean, he has the minority ownership stake still, but
he didn't want to show his face and give them
the gratification of his association because of a five million
dollar dispute on the multimillion dollar sale. And it was
about a minority owner, like very small stake owner who
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kind of popped up at the last second. Like remember
that movie Casino, Like that woman comes out of nowhere
and she's.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Like, she's like, I actually own a bunch of it.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
So it was like one of those situations and FSG's like, oh,
you got to pay.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Her, Marrio, and.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
He's like, uh, you know, obviously, don't I want to
do that, especially with the taxes. And then they said no,
and they took him to court and made him pay.
So they ended up basically for five million dollars, which
in their world is not a lot. They lost their
best ambassador to the city over that five mil. He
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begrudgingly went to a few games.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I don't know if that change is going forward. I
would imagine if you're this Hoffman group and this is
the first time they're getting into hockey. The first thing
you would want to do is like, all right, let's
get Mario back in the box for you know, at
least half the games go just have him drinking wine.
People like to see them. It's just like the Pope.
You just want to see them up there.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You know. You went the blessing and that's it, And
I hope that happens.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I know he's been spending less and less time around here,
but maybe that would change, you know. And when Sid
goes away, I kind of feel like that's like his
son isn't on the team anymore, you know, so I
think we only have the window of Sid's playing career.
Maybe not, but it kind of feels.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Like that's me. I think you might have something there.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
You do want Mario up there? Yes, overseeing everything? You know.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Yeah, you want me on that wall. Obviously you need
me on that wall. Did I call the code red?
You're damn right, I called the code red. Obviously got
to have the code red.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
All right, Well, enjoy the oscars on TV for the
next couple of years, because eventually that will be a
thing of the past.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
The Academy Awards will move.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
To AB from ABC to YouTube starting in twenty twenty nine,
with YouTube holding the global streaming rights through twenty thirty three.
Academy Chief Executive Bill Kramer and Academy President Lynette Howell
Taylor expressed excitement about the partnership with YouTube, stating that
it will expand access to the Oscars to a larger
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worldwide audience. YouTube will not only stream the Oscars, but
also cover red carpet events, the Governor Awards, and the
Oscar nominations.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Announcement.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
ABC will continue to broadcast the Oscars until twenty twenty eights,
which will also mark the one hundredth Oscars ceremony.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Very strange, It is a little weird.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
But that just shows you where it's going. Network television
has less and less of an impact right now. That's
something that seems like, you know, for the people who
are like, where the hell's the football game? Amazon?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What get the I don't have that? This sucks.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Those people are being dragged into the future and all
of those streaming sites are going to be just as
accessible and have the same production qualities as any other network.
It won't matter eventually, I think It's one of those
things that right now it sounds bad, but it's basically
the future is not so much ABC, NBCCBS, YouTube and
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Netflix is really what you know, who are battling one another.
In fact, one of our guests today a bigcat from
Barstool Sports Pardon My Take.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
They just announced.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yesterday their world famous podcast Pardon My Take, is switching
from YouTube to Netflix.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Netflix bought them away.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Oh wow there, and they're they're gonna have Spit and
chick Licks is gonna be on Netflix too, and they're
going to keep the archives on YouTube for now for them,
but then they're going to just start to build up
a catalog on the Netflix side of things.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
And that's the war that's kind of going on right now,
especially with Netflix and the Warner Brothers deal and all
of that. So when when you see YouTube and it
looks like, oh my god, the oscars, boy, that's going
to be completely irrelevant, it's going to YouTube actually going
to be the same as everything else. Eventually just seems
like it's more of an isolated platform.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
This might be as dumb people don't are on YouTube
all the time.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
You know, people watching Like we kind of always say
like oh, television's dad, Like, clearly it's not. People are
just using like the apps on the TV, but like,
are people actually watching YouTube and Netflix on their phone?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Mostly? Yah?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
When you're talking about es things like barstool spitting chicklets,
like is that on your phone when you're when you
would be consuming that on Netflix?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I think a lot of people have it on their computer,
on laptops or desktops while they're working on another computer,
or they just shoot it to their TV and you can,
you know, the YouTube TV app is on if you
have like a Samsung TV. You just put that app
on your TV and it's the same thing as choosing
your cable or HBO or anything else.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You just go to YouTube TV.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay, Because I'm thinking of those as like podcasts, right,
So I just think of that.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
More as like a medium. I'm listening to people watch those.
I mean they're all there's video for all of them.
I mean Mark Marin was one of the last holdouts.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
He never filmed his everybody else has been filming there
forever because it's another revenue source.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I wonder why he didn't. I just think he wanted
to keep it purely audio.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yeah, you know, he's he was a kind of a
one of those little crotchety.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well slight slight.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I think he saw it as breaching what he was
more about the original medium of radio, where he spent
some time on air America, and he wanted it to
maintain that sort of authenticity. I think he liked the
NPR kind of vibe of things. That's my guess. I
don't know, but it is they They just walked past
a ton of money by not putting that on a
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computer for people to watch. Because streaming video just you know,
brings more and more in. That's why they've been trying
to put us on TV on the DV Morning show
for ten years and we're just now putting out some videos.
But our companies wanted they they all want that. They
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want all radio shows to be on TV the entire time.
And that's how it feels like ESPN just turned into
a radio show that is being televised all day long. Now.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I can't wait to see our engineers head explode when
I tell them, you know, we could go live on
this on this switcher.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Oh yeah, well you said, Or your head explode when
I tell you you know we can go live? Oh
I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
I wouldn't care. But you said engineers plural. That's funny.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Wait until I tell Jeff exactly because we used to
have a whole room full of engineers. But things are
different now, yeah, a little bit. Yeah, you know, sometimes
change is good. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
After suing each other over this year the fallout on
their on stage fight in Boston back in September, Perry
Ferrell and three other members of Dan's Addiction have put
the issue and the band officially to rest. Each side
posted statements on Wednesday afternoon that seems like they were
very carefully crafted by lawyers. Perry's went up first, and
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it said, to everybody in Boston and all around the world,
I'd like to address what happened on stage last year.
I have reflected on it, and I know that I
didn't handle myself the way that I should have, and
I appollologize to our patrons and my bandmates for losing
my temper and for disrupting the show.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
If you remember, this is like when Jane's Addiction was on.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Stage and it was basically Dave Navarro and Peripheral like
clashing with each other. And we learned that Perry couldn't
hear himself saying this was something that was happening, I think,
night after night on the tour, but it was also.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Maybe with some drinking issues.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But by the end of the show, Perry had punched
Dave Navarro and they fought on stage, and that was
the end of Jane's Addiction. But Perry said that Jane's
Addiction has been at the center of my life for decades.
The band, the songs, the patrons, and the impact that
we've had on music and culture mean more to me
than any words I could ever possibly write down. My
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aim has always been to give our audience as the
best possible show, something real, honest and positive. And in
Boston we felt short of that, and I am truly
sorry to everybody who's impacted. So from the bottom of
my heart, I want to thank each and every one
of you for your continued love and support.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
But then shortly after that.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Hold on, I want to back up, Yes, we fell
short of that. We fell short of that, Perry, you
fell short of that. Those guys were still playing the song.
You're the one who had a fit and tried to
beat up your guitar player, and you couldn't beat him
up if you wanted to.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Is Navarro is still a lean Uh he's not quite
as kind of stacked jacked up as he was, but
he's still cut and lean, where Perry Ferrell is just
like skinny.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And kind of they're all kind of heroin cheeks, still
a little bit minus the heroine I assume.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, yeah, at this point, no, they're way too angry
to be on heroin.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
But like as soon as his message went up, and
this is again you can tell that the lawyers were involved.
They were like, okay, Perry's message has to be up
for exactly two minutes before everyone else's message can go up.
And then as soon as that happened, it was the
rest of the band.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Their message goes up and basically said, you know, we.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Made a lot of inaccurate statements about Perry's mental health,
and for that we are sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Uh yeah, okay, this is they're they're splitting.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Up the the pie at this point, and they're and
they're like, we gotta make nice and further revenues come
in and are going to be distributed this way, and
then Perry's like, fine, I'll do that, but you have
to tell everybody that I'm not a nut case, you know.
And then they're like, okay, well you have to say
that you are a jackass in Boston.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yes, you hurt La La palooza.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, And so then they basically said that now we
look forward to the future as we embark on our
separate musical and creative endeavors. Jan's addiction will forever live
in our hearts. We're proud of the music we created together. You,
the fans, are our lifeblood, and we will always appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
So that is pretty much a rap. That was Jan's addiction.
That was the end of Perry Ferrell's statement. That was
the end of the band. The rest of the band members.
Perry Ferrell, in his original apology statement called the fans patrons,
which I don't like. It feels a little cheap. Yeah,
it was good call good cat. Hey, we do it
for the patrons. You know, we're all about the patrons here.
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I love my patrons.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, you're calling them customers at that point, and that's
very much what this was, one big business transaction.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Now they can go away. It's fine. I saw them
several times. I always had a good time.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I always like seeing Jane's but I'm okay not seeing
them anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I think I only saw them once and that was fine.
But they were like a one record band for me too.
M it was like nothing shocking, and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Correct, Yeah, their first two were pretty big when I
was in college.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So yeah, I'm good with it all right. It is
going to be cloud Habit, little habit, whatever that one was. Yeah,
I don't know why that one didn't connect with me
as much. Mmmmmmm. I guess it's a me problem.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Sounds like it's you from Clouds today, and I.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
A very excited for today's show. Heard great things. Meryl
Hodge is going to be calling us. Big Cat is
joining us at nine am this morning. We told you
about that a little earlier. That deal with Netflix got
announce yesterday, a pretty big deal. Guy Junker also going
to be joining us as we get set for Steelers
Lions Sunday, afore twenty five kickoff here on your radio
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Speaker 4 (19:08):
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By the way, our buddy Tad Westle hanging out with
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Speaker 2 (19:16):
In a Jerry Garcia mugshot T shirt, it's a good one.
Clustered down on Bourbon Street.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Still's quarterback Aaron Rodgers practiced without anything on his damaged
wrist on Wednesday. That won't be the case on Sunday
in Detroit. But Rogers is nonetheless getting better.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Yeah, it's still not one hundred percent. I'm having battles
with the training staff. Happy battles, not knockdown, drag out battles,
but trying to trying to feel more normal. So I
go through practices like today without anything on my wrist.
I'm still not without some pain with certain movements, but
I'm trying to get the strength back and all those
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little muscles that have been unused for a number of weeks.
So it's a work in progress. Last week was outsy,
just a little pad on top of it. Not sure
what this week's going to be, but hopefully you know
at some point there's not gonna be anything on the risk.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Not the first time he's practiced without anything on there,
but a good sign that risk is coming around. They
need Aaron Rodgers as close to one hundred percent as
they can get them the rest of the way. Of course,
the game against the Lines on Sunday is a big one,
but it isn't Aaron rodgers first such rodeo. He's been
in enough of those over the years, twenty one of
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them now to know how they should best be approached.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Not the oldest guy in the league, but I've been
been in part a lot of these games, and I
think you have to approach it the same way. As
crazy as it might sound, the best way to play
well on game day is to find a way to
make the game seem like practice. And the only way
to do that is to make practice as game like
as possible. So that's why practice is so important to me.
Every rep matters, you know, even if it's to walk through,
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it's because you have to play the game out Monday
to Saturday. So when you get to Sunday one day,
whatever it is, and it feels like practice because in practice,
there isn't the nerves that show up on game day.
So how can I make the game feel as much
like practice? I have to make practice feel as much
like the game as I possibly can.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
More of that tremendous perspective from Aaron Rodgers that we
have been.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Exposed to all season long, football porn all year long.
There's no question serious. I don't know how this is
going to turn out.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
And I know they've brought him here to get into
the playoffs, to win in the playoffs, and that's going
to decide whether it was worth doing or not. But
I've enjoyed listening to him week by week.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
But I always like to give the caveat of yes,
they brought him here to get them to the playoffs
and win a playoff game.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
But he was not their first choice, which is.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
To say they did not go to these great lengths
to pull Aaron Rodgers here so much as we waited
for him to make a decision whether or not he
was going to play here, or of Minnesota, who probably
wishes they would with as much trouble as they had
this year, although maybe not JJ coming around.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
So if Justin Fields takes their offer, it would have
been him, Yeah, Sam Darnold.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It would have just been a.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Simple yeah, okay, you were playing this year, now you're
playing next year.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Right.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Funny how it worked out, and we'd have Mason Rudolph
probably starting by now, Oh my god, if Justin's season
in New York. Although I mean, look, they even made
Aaron Rodgers stink the Jets offense, so maybe it's not
completely fair to say that Justin Fields might not have
performed a little bit better. I don't know that we
would have been much better record wise than we are
right now with Justin Fields. We're still just you know,
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hovering over five hundred. But I like where this has
gone from an entertainment standpoint. No complaints in that department.
The Steelers are always a fun soap opera one way
or the other. And listening to him, like when he
just is about football, it's great. And he has just
been about football this year. That's what we wanted. We
were worried it wasn't going to be that, and it
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has been so what's not to like?
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Yeah, and you know, playing well, that was that wobbly
middle part of the season where he was terrible against
the Chargers, terrible, and then he wasn't that good against
Cincinnati before he got hurt. But boy, he was really
good in Baltimore, and it was really good against Miami
and then watching that Dolphins game, the difference between Rogers
and Tua, well, it was just staggering.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I mean, I'm kind of the more I see clips
from to on Monday Night that I watched in real
time in disbelief, but I was still caught up in
a Yes, good play by us. It was impossible to
not see how he was ill equipped he is to
be a quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
But it takes away a little bit from my feelings
of the Steelers win. Well it should yeah, yeah, I'm like.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
No, I mean, it's how did we not the degree
of difficulty is going to ratchet up considerably, exactly against
Jared Goff. Yeah, let's put it that way. That's all
I'm getting at. I mean, the defense stopped who they
had to stop. That's all you can do in a
game to beat who you're playing. But that it's not
a linear thing. It goes up and down as to
how hard that is.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Yeah, but like we were saying yesterday, Tad, it's just
nice to get a win where you can just relax.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, you know, yeah, look at us, it is nice.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
You know, you do have to keep the two a
thing perspective. But when you're up three scores like it's
it feels foreign.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Yes, you know, yes, yeah, this isn't going to go
down to the last play of the game.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I can't believe it. And they're paying two all that money.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
No, dude, that would be a ninety million dollars cap
hit if they cut him. Apparently, it's making it bigger
than what they did in Denver.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
They have to do it, you have to. They have
no choice. They cannot play that guy. They're playing Quinn Eewers.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
This week, they promoted their third string quarterback above their
second string quarterback, which lets you know what they think
of Justin or what the hell's his name?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Zach Wilson.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Wilson, Yeah, practice report the particulars from the Steelers side
of it yesterday. No James Pierre Calf, No Nick herbig hamstring,
No Isaac Samalow triceps. Sam al also shot down at
least four of us who requested a moment of his
time to speak politely. Well, not so much, just you know,
(25:14):
one after the other. Isaac got a minute now, okay,
and so that went.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
No.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
TJ Watt long, Derek Harmon a full participant.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's good news.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
JJ Watt, brother of TJ Watt, appeared on the Pat
McAfee show and had some things to say about his
brother yesterday.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Quote.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
TJ's working through it, and he's handling the situation day
by day. It's obviously not something that he expected, and
he's finding the proper steps to get back to where
he would like it to be. Dry needling is incredibly calmon.
Everybody in the league, most anybody who's been in the
legue has probably done it at some point. I would
say he was certainly not anticipating being in the hospital
(25:56):
and getting lung.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Surgery last week. Ye, thanks for the date. JJ.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Well, lots of people were quick to point out yesterday
when we were talking about it, that dry needling is
not like acupuncture.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's a different procedure altogether. Sounds awful, Yes, it does.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
It does shine just a little bit of light and
this is mostly darkness. But the amount that these guys
indoor to play every week and what they go through
is almost incomprehensible.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I mean, was it James Harrison who said he spent
two hundred thousand dollars a year on recovery.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Fifty grand a month? I thought in that GQ article,
like a year round.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Fifty grand a month. That's so that's six hundred grand.
I mean it's a lot of money. I mean it's
just you know, they're getting in fifty car recks once
a week, Yeah, and then trying to do it again.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
No thanks.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I mean, I go to the gym twice and I'm like,
I have to go to Cryoh I need red light therapy.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I slept funny me. I don't know how to thanking magnesium.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
For the Lions, starting left tackle Taylor Decker was a
non participant. They actually had a walk through, not a
practice yesterday, Steelers had what amounted to a glorified walkthrough.
Safety Kirby Joseph I said yesterday he was on ir
He's not, but he's got a knee injury. He didn't
practice a Meek Robertson starting cornerback hand was limited. Thomas
Harper's safety. He's trying to get out of the concussion protocol.
(27:25):
He was a full participant. Pens are in Ottawa tonight
to take on the Senators. They were off yesterday and
they have dropped to the third team on the outside
looking in in the playoff chase. They are fourteen nine
to nine for thirty seven points, two points behind. The
Devils were the second wild card at thirty nine points,
but the Panthers and Canadians are now between the Pens
(27:46):
and the Devils.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Otto was trying to get into that mix.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
It's still very crowded and very competitive, but this much,
I think I have figured out. If you never win
a game and all you get is the occasional loser point,
that's probably not going to be good enough.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Probably not, I don't know. It might be going on
a limb on Yeah, no, I think you yeah, yeah,
it's pretty accurate.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
Let me walk back a little bit when I said
at six thirty yesterday the Steelers have no chance. It's sports,
you always have a chance. I'm not optimistic about this game.
I understand why, Okay, I just I want to get
that out there in the proper context. I think Detroit
is a better team than the Steelers. I think Detroit
is the more desperate team than the Steelers. And even
(28:30):
with the ravage secondary with Detroit, well, the Bears didn't
have any linebackers and the Chargers didn't have any offensive
lineman and they found a way to lose both of
those games. And oh, by the way, both of those
were on the road. So I'm not optimistic. Let's put
it that way, all right. He's not optimistic, folks.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
They have a chance. You always have a chance. Yeah.
An they made a movie about it, James Harrison's podcast.
He's very excited about it. He said, we're lyon Tamers. Really. Yeah,
I believe.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Though Aaron Rodgers is eleven and six against the Lions,
something like him, he's.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Probably got a winning record against just about everybody. Yeah,
that was a Green Bay when he was with Green Bay.
You're saying, yeah, yeah, in that division, Yeah, they're not
bringing the packers there.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
No, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah, although you know, who knows Alanizzard might sign, you know,
anything's possible.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
I think it's a little overkilled, but I mean I
think they're good with the two guys that brought in.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Well, seems how long it took to get MVS up
to speed. I just can't imagine bringing in another guy
and being like, Okay, learn the offense in three days,
like we just did that twice.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
I don't think it was getting MVS up to speed.
I think it was them finally giving up on off
the pot and making the move that needed to be made. Yeah,
because scal Or Fieland was here for forty eight hours. Yeah,
a little longer, and he played Yeah. Yeah, I mean
it's s wide receiver. It's not sending the guy to
the moon.
Speaker 10 (29:58):
Abby's got your news coming up to the hour, the
survivors scavenger hunt all across the country, and a really
wild lawsuit claiming that John Travolta's youngest child is actually Oppressley.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Merril Hodge coming up seven forty five. That story is wild,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I almost can't follow it.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
It's so wild big Cat nine o'clock today, Guy Junker,
And when we return, we'll rate our algorithms.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
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Speaker 4 (30:56):
Right, it's the DV Morning Show, Randy, but I'm gonna
along with Abby Krisner and Mike pursud Offer and Ted
Whistle hanging with us as well. And each week we
like to rate our algorithms to see what the other
people in the room are looking at because we all
have a different vantage point of culture. These days, there
is no monoculture anymore. So we're trying, we're attempting to
(31:19):
expand our horizons here.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
We're we're.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Okay, well, let's start first off with Abby's Abby, what
is your algo?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
This week?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
There's this guy that is on TikTok that he tends
to make these comparisons between either NFL players and fast
food chains that they represent. But he's on this kick
now where if NFL players were HBO characters. And I
really like what he's done here this week, But I
should say the one that I grabbed was right before
(32:00):
the Miami wins. You just kind of have to keep
that in mind for the timing here. But he does
start right off with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 11 (32:07):
Aaron Rodgers Tony Soprano's mom, you know, held a lot
of sway in her day and was very smart and
pretty well respected actually, but has just become kind of
a crotchety old bag that nobody wants around.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Baker Mayfield Kendall.
Speaker 11 (32:22):
Roy really talented a lot of fun to watch, quite
enough sauce to get over the hump and be the number.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
One boy, but like we're all kind of rooting for him.
Speaker 11 (32:32):
And also there's just something about that opening scene with
Kendall with the headphones where he's wrapping in the car,
like I could just fully see Baker doing that. Philip
Rivers baby Billy Gemstone, a spicy Southern boy who is
just addicted to the game, and I absolutely love watching
them both on my TV, and I really hope Philip.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Survives this weekend. Derrick Henry.
Speaker 11 (32:53):
Derrick Henry is the mountain from Game of Thrones, a gigantic,
unstoppable course that people kept trying to catch out at
different times, and he just keeps coming.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Oh I like that one. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
He has multiple videos and so like that was like
part four of.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Many, So I like what he's doing there.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Oh yeah, because there's plenty of stealers that you could
just go down the list and find your favorite HBO
classic character. For tad, what did you have on your
algorithm most week?
Speaker 5 (33:22):
I'm always in the market for new insults and what's
old is new again. Here's a guy on TikTok listing
the top seven Teddy Roosevelt insults of all time?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Is this insults about Teddy Roosevelt.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
No insults that Teddy Roosevelt is laying on political rivals.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Oh that's good, Okay.
Speaker 12 (33:41):
Here are the top seven Teddy Roosevelt insults of an
anonymous Supreme Court justice. He said an amiable old fuzzy
wuzzy with sweetbread brains of William Jennings Bryant, he said,
a professional yodeler, a human trombone of William Randolph Hurst,
he said, that leprous spot honor civilization. Of William Howard Taft,
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he said, a flub dub with a streak of the
second rate, and the common in him of Woodrow Wilson,
he said, a visiting logafee back by flubb dubs and
molly coddles. Of Henry James, he said, a little emasculated
mass of inanity. And of William McKinley, he said he
had no more backbone than a chocolated Claire.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
I love the human trombone lines, yes, yes, flubb dub,
he said, flub dub twice like chocolate Claire.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I'm I'm using that one, Roger. All right, Mike, what
was in your algorithm?
Speaker 7 (34:41):
You know, whenever I'm in an NFL game, I like
to see at the end of players from both sides
of congregate in the middle of the field after it's over,
and usually it's former teammates or guys who went to
the same college.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
There's some kind of tie.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Uh. But after the Steelers beat the Dolphins, Miami rookie
guard Jonah Savaia and Naya sought out Cam Hayward. Those
two have no ties whatsoever, but seven seven Naya sought
out Cam Hayward.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Anyway, I keep working, brother.
Speaker 8 (35:09):
Hey, what do I need to thanks? Bro?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Hey, just keep the confidence, yeah, you know, keep mixing
it up. Don't become predictable by these little things. If
you got all the time in the world.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I absolutely loved that. I saw that video and I
was like, this is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I thought that was really cool.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Now.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
I tried to ask Cam about it yesterday. He just said,
there's too many live mics. Like he was like being
the big all pro brother to the rookie who's trying
to make his way in the leg and telling him,
you know, giving him a little confidence, give him a
little advice.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
That was That was a cool moment. I thought, I agree,
uh completely. And what was that.
Speaker 7 (35:47):
Guy's name, Jonah Savayah Naya. He's a second round pick
out of Arizona. Pretty good player, yeah, I mean, pretty
good potential player. He's just finding his way. But uh,
I just found it interesting.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
All right.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
In my algorithm, this one we didn't get to this week,
and this kept popping up, so I figured this would
be a good opportunity to err it. After the game
on Monday night, Aaron Rodgers being asked about this rag
tag group of Pittsburgh Steelers that the front office is
thrown together, and he categorizes them as cast offs from
other teams.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
And then you can hear when he.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Is asked if he considers himself one of those on
the island of misfit veterans.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
If you look at our roster, which it makes it
really special. You know, Kenny Gamwell signed a next to
nothing contract. You know Connor Hayward after thought had a
touchdown run. You know Mark que has been on a
couple of teams. Adam Thielen got cut, Samuel was on
the street for a long time. So it says a
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lot about the character of the guys we brought in.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Consider yourself one of those cast offs too, No, I'm
not a kidder.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
It makes it even more impressive what I've done with
this roster of cast offs. Let's all take a manage,
and my greatness.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
What's funny about that? He his attitude. Those guys suck.
I'm not I'm not a caf Adam Thalam asked for
his as for his release, okay, because he didn't want
to play on a bad team exactly for what he
thought was a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Out not so bad. Sante Samuel had back.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
Surgery, right, I mean, yeah, Aaron Rodgers is more of
Conor Hayward was a draft pick here and it's been
on the team every year ever since, and he has
had the same role special teams demon and occasional contributor
that his career has been consistent. Rogers is a bigger
cast off than any of those guys, because the Jets
flew him across the country to tell the gobound rocks yes.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
If you can't play it, you can't rewrite everything and
then not be willing to get in that boat with
the cast offfs.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Once again, there are as many cast offs in there as.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
He thought, deeply irritating, and he's unaware, and that's what's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
He's like, look at all these cast offs, and he's like, why.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
I think qualifies because he's been bouncing around since Green Bay.
But other than that, I mean, yeah, Gay, well did
you know he was a backup to Saint Quon Barkley.
So free agency is designed for those guys.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Now, he got a crappy contract as it turns out.
Speaker 7 (38:32):
I mean he's way over overperforming it.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
No, I'm not a cast off, but shut up.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Instant replied. It's like he knew as he was saying
that that it was about. He's like, uh uh oh,
I'm kind of describing me.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
No. You know, Connor Hayward again to fly all the
way across the country and the coach told him hedn't
want him anymore.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Oh wait, that was me. Ye see what I what
I was saying earlier. There's no shortage of entertainment with
the Pittsburg Steeling. We're ready, Yeah, weird. On the radio,
Abby's got your news.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
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Speaker 14 (39:27):
The Steelers on Monday night picked up their twenty third
straight Monday Night football win at home when they disposed
of the Miami Dolphins twenty eight to fifteen.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
That street dates all the way.
Speaker 14 (39:36):
Back to October fourteenth, nineteen ninety one, when the New
York Giants came to town and took down the Chuck
nol led Pittsburgh Steelers. Ever since then, no team has
been able to walk into Pittsburgh and do what New
York did that evening, and that included the other night
for the Dolphins. There's a bit of a slow start
to the game, with the first score not coming until
twenty four minutes into the game, a Dolphins steel goal
breaking the ice, but then Pittsburgh erupted for twenty eight
(39:56):
unanswered points as they bruise their way to victory in
dominant fashion. Success and both stopping the Miami Dolphin rushing attack,
which was averaging one hundred and ninety two yards over
its previous four games, and rushing the ball themselves on offense,
no doubt, helped the Steelers get the victory. Miami only
managed sixty three yards on the ground on sixteen carries,
while the Steelers rushed the ball thirty two times to
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the tune of one hundred and thirty five yards.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
And two rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 14 (40:19):
Up next, for the Steelers, who improved to eight and
six with the win, is a step up in weight
class when they visit the Detroit Lions this coming Sunday.
Detroit is eight and six, just like the Steelers and
currently on the outside looking into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
But don't let that fool you. Detroit's much better than
their record. Let's on.
Speaker 14 (40:33):
It'll be a stiff test for the Steelers Sunday, but
it's one that if they pass, could catapult them towards
making a serious playoff run. I'm Tom Opferman with the
Steelers Report. You see the skyline
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of people talking about their most intimate problems being recorded
and somehow thrown into some big digital identity vat for you.
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Or does it get to the point where like they
can sell your like Google one day just becomes like
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Speaker 2 (01:12):
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Speaker 4 (01:13):
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Speaker 4 (01:33):
It feels like it's gonna be a bitcoin transfer for you,
like a constant negotiation that you're gonna be having with
some digital overlords going forward or I'm being paranoid one
or the other, or everything will be fine and not
much will change.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's gonna be great. I think so too, very excited.
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I remember talking to Harlan Williams uh when he did
our comedy Fest couple of years ago, and he was
telling me all about how Howie Mandel has this ai
room of comedians like you walk in and it's like
holograms pop up and it's George Carlin doing modern comedy.
You know, he's dead so he can't do that. And
(02:09):
I thought that was creepy. And he's like, oh no,
it's so exciting, don't you get it? And he was
not doing a bit.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He thinks.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
It's like, I mean, there are a lot of people
who think that this is the greatest thing going that
the you know, being servants to the robot overlords are.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
It's gonna be a fun future. No, let me die.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
When I'm gone, let me be gone, let my soul rest.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I do kind of think that it's still as easy
as like, guys, we're just gonna unplug the robots now, okay,
let's go back to normal.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yes, honestly, that's where my inner Billy Gardell really does
come out when it's just like pour water on everything.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, water will save everything.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
That's why everybody's investing, like, you know, make sure we
have enough water because we'll need to kill the robots.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Sid you there are two Billy Gardell's. Abbey's got your
news right now. What's going on.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
News this hour is brought to you by your neighborhood
Ford Store. Clouds today and a high of fifty six.
And I know I'm kind of in Mike's territory here,
but this is big news. For the second time in
less than four years, the Penguins are being sold. The
Chicago based Hoffman family of Companies is purchasing the team
from the Fenway Sports Group. According to The Athletic Fenway
(03:25):
bought the team from former Penguin superstar Mario Lemieux and
businessman Ron Berkele for nine hundred and fifty million in
twenty twenty one. Under Fenway's ownership, the Pens have not
made the playoffs for the past three seasons. According to
its website, the Hoffman Family of Companies investment firm has
two hundred brands and properties globally, employees more than seventeen
(03:46):
thousand people and has more than four hundred locations across
thirty countries. It's unclear what the purchase price will be.
In Forbes's two twenty twenty five valuations of National Hockey
League teams, the Penguins were valued at one point seven
five billion.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Okay, so they stand to make a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, good turnaround for FSG, who did nothing here
in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Let's stress everybody out.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Madden constantly defends them too, because they own his favorite
football club, Liverpool.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
And so he's like, well, what do you want them
to do.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I'm like, I don't know any name a person that
everybody knows from FSG.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You can't know.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
They never had like a hey, I'm the hockey guy.
I mean they did in the end of name. I
don't remember if it was Trevor or what the hell
it was. But they did have a guy, but he
was not exactly omnipresent so much so I can't remember
his name, Whose nephew was he somebody's exactly, but just
you know, it's nice to have people hands on in
the community and things like that.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's what's traditionally worked here.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
And some of the speculation is that FSG and delving
into the NHL has decided that it is a garage
league and they want nothing to do that because they
have such they have much more high minded aspirations F
one and you know with the European soccer leagues.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Is it a bad look that they sold? Is it? Like,
are people within the NF NHL concerned about it? No?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I think they're like, good riddance whatever. They don't care.
I don't think they care one way or the other. Honestly,
I don't know that it's a bad look so much
as I would say, if anything, I think that it
like it. It's a bad look for FSG in in
terms of the perception that they were unable to do
(05:38):
anything from an actual winning standpoint, right from turning the
organization around just pure sports. But they're gonna make so
much money on it. It's like, how do you argue
with this, Oh, this thing that we just kind of
backed assed into. Oh how many billions did we make
in five years? Okay, good deal, I'll see you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah. So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I hope these the Hoffmans, is that it the Hoffins? Yes,
I hope that there are a little more hands on
here in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That put that a whole argument to bed, though, that
Mario is going to have anything to do.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well, Mario didn't have anything to do with FSG.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I mean, he has the minority ownership stake still, but
he didn't want to show his face and give them
the gratification of his association because of a five million
dollar dispute on the multimillion dollar sale. And it was
about a minority owner, like very small stake owner who
(06:33):
kind of popped up at the last second. Like remember
that movie Casino, Like that woman comes out of nowhere
and she's.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Like, she's like, I actually own a bunch of it.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
So it was like one of those situations and FSG's like, oh,
you got to pay.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Her, Marrio, and.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
He's like, uh, you know, obviously, don't I want to
do that, especially with the taxes. And then they said no,
and they took him to court and made him pay.
So they ended up basically for five million dollars, which
in their world is not a lot. They lost their
best ambassador to the city over that five mil. He
(07:10):
begrudgingly went to a few games.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I don't know if that change is going forward. I
would imagine if you're this Hoffman group and this is
the first time they're getting into hockey. The first thing
you would want to do is like, all right, let's
get Mario back in the box for you know, at
least half the games go just have him drinking wine.
People like to see them. It's just like the Pope.
You just want to see them up there.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You know. You went the blessing and that's it, And
I hope that happens.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I know he's been spending less and less time around here,
but maybe that would change, you know. And when Sid
goes away, I kind of feel like that's like his
son isn't on the team anymore, you know, so I
think we only have the window of Sid's playing career.
Maybe not, but it kind of feels.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Like that's me. I think you might have something there.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
You do want Mario up there? Yes, overseeing everything? You know.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Yeah, you want me on that wall. Obviously you need
me on that wall. Did I call the code red?
You're damn right, I called the code red. Obviously got
to have the code red.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
All right, Well, enjoy the oscars on TV for the
next couple of years, because eventually that will be a
thing of the past.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
The Academy Awards will move.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
To AB from ABC to YouTube starting in twenty twenty nine,
with YouTube holding the global streaming rights through twenty thirty three.
Academy Chief Executive Bill Kramer and Academy President Lynette Howell
Taylor expressed excitement about the partnership with YouTube, stating that
it will expand access to the Oscars to a larger
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worldwide audience. YouTube will not only stream the Oscars, but
also cover red carpet events, the Governor Awards, and the
Oscar nominations.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Announcement.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
ABC will continue to broadcast the Oscars until twenty twenty eights,
which will also mark the one hundredth Oscars ceremony.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Very strange, It is a little weird.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
But that just shows you where it's going. Network television
has less and less of an impact right now. That's
something that seems like, you know, for the people who
are like, where the hell's the football game? Amazon?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What get the I don't have that? This sucks.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Those people are being dragged into the future and all
of those streaming sites are going to be just as
accessible and have the same production qualities as any other network.
It won't matter eventually, I think It's one of those
things that right now it sounds bad, but it's basically
the future is not so much ABC, NBCCBS, YouTube and
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Netflix is really what you know, who are battling one another.
In fact, one of our guests today a bigcat from
Barstool Sports Pardon My Take.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
They just announced.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yesterday their world famous podcast Pardon My Take, is switching
from YouTube to Netflix.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Netflix bought them away.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Oh wow there, and they're they're gonna have Spit and
chick Licks is gonna be on Netflix too, and they're
going to keep the archives on YouTube for now for them,
but then they're going to just start to build up
a catalog on the Netflix side of things.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
And that's the war that's kind of going on right now,
especially with Netflix and the Warner Brothers deal and all
of that. So when when you see YouTube and it
looks like, oh my god, the oscars, boy, that's going
to be completely irrelevant, it's going to YouTube actually going
to be the same as everything else. Eventually just seems
like it's more of an isolated platform.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
This might be as dumb people don't are on YouTube
all the time.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
You know, people watching Like we kind of always say
like oh, television's dad, Like, clearly it's not. People are
just using like the apps on the TV, but like,
are people actually watching YouTube and Netflix on their phone?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Mostly? Yah?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
When you're talking about es things like barstool spitting chicklets,
like is that on your phone when you're when you
would be consuming that on Netflix?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I think a lot of people have it on their computer,
on laptops or desktops while they're working on another computer,
or they just shoot it to their TV and you can,
you know, the YouTube TV app is on if you
have like a Samsung TV. You just put that app
on your TV and it's the same thing as choosing
your cable or HBO or anything else.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You just go to YouTube TV.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay, Because I'm thinking of those as like podcasts, right,
So I just think of that.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
More as like a medium. I'm listening to people watch those.
I mean they're all there's video for all of them.
I mean Mark Marin was one of the last holdouts.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
He never filmed his everybody else has been filming there
forever because it's another revenue source.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I wonder why he didn't. I just think he wanted
to keep it purely audio.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yeah, you know, he's he was a kind of a
one of those little crotchety.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well slight slight.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I think he saw it as breaching what he was
more about the original medium of radio, where he spent
some time on air America, and he wanted it to
maintain that sort of authenticity. I think he liked the
NPR kind of vibe of things. That's my guess. I
don't know, but it is they They just walked past
a ton of money by not putting that on a
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computer for people to watch. Because streaming video just you know,
brings more and more in. That's why they've been trying
to put us on TV on the DV Morning show
for ten years and we're just now putting out some videos.
But our companies wanted they they all want that. They
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want all radio shows to be on TV the entire time.
And that's how it feels like ESPN just turned into
a radio show that is being televised all day long. Now.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I can't wait to see our engineers head explode when
I tell them, you know, we could go live on
this on this switcher.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Oh yeah, well you said, Or your head explode when
I tell you you know we can go live? Oh
I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
I wouldn't care. But you said engineers plural. That's funny.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Wait until I tell Jeff exactly because we used to
have a whole room full of engineers. But things are
different now, yeah, a little bit. Yeah, you know, sometimes
change is good. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
After suing each other over this year the fallout on
their on stage fight in Boston back in September, Perry
Ferrell and three other members of Dan's Addiction have put
the issue and the band officially to rest. Each side
posted statements on Wednesday afternoon that seems like they were
very carefully crafted by lawyers. Perry's went up first, and
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it said, to everybody in Boston and all around the world,
I'd like to address what happened on stage last year.
I have reflected on it, and I know that I
didn't handle myself the way that I should have, and
I appollologize to our patrons and my bandmates for losing
my temper and for disrupting the show.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
If you remember, this is like when Jane's Addiction was on.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Stage and it was basically Dave Navarro and Peripheral like
clashing with each other. And we learned that Perry couldn't
hear himself saying this was something that was happening, I think,
night after night on the tour, but it was also.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Maybe with some drinking issues.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But by the end of the show, Perry had punched
Dave Navarro and they fought on stage, and that was
the end of Jane's Addiction. But Perry said that Jane's
Addiction has been at the center of my life for decades.
The band, the songs, the patrons, and the impact that
we've had on music and culture mean more to me
than any words I could ever possibly write down. My
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aim has always been to give our audience as the
best possible show, something real, honest and positive. And in
Boston we felt short of that, and I am truly
sorry to everybody who's impacted. So from the bottom of
my heart, I want to thank each and every one
of you for your continued love and support.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
But then shortly after that.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Hold on, I want to back up, Yes, we fell
short of that. We fell short of that, Perry, you
fell short of that. Those guys were still playing the song.
You're the one who had a fit and tried to
beat up your guitar player, and you couldn't beat him
up if you wanted to.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Is Navarro is still a lean Uh he's not quite
as kind of stacked jacked up as he was, but
he's still cut and lean, where Perry Ferrell is just
like skinny.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And kind of they're all kind of heroin cheeks, still
a little bit minus the heroine I assume.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, yeah, at this point, no, they're way too angry
to be on heroin.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
But like as soon as his message went up, and
this is again you can tell that the lawyers were involved.
They were like, okay, Perry's message has to be up
for exactly two minutes before everyone else's message can go up.
And then as soon as that happened, it was the
rest of the band.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Their message goes up and basically said, you know, we.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Made a lot of inaccurate statements about Perry's mental health,
and for that we are sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Uh yeah, okay, this is they're they're splitting.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Up the the pie at this point, and they're and
they're like, we gotta make nice and further revenues come
in and are going to be distributed this way, and
then Perry's like, fine, I'll do that, but you have
to tell everybody that I'm not a nut case, you know.
And then they're like, okay, well you have to say
that you are a jackass in Boston.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yes, you hurt La La palooza.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, And so then they basically said that now we
look forward to the future as we embark on our
separate musical and creative endeavors. Jan's addiction will forever live
in our hearts. We're proud of the music we created together. You,
the fans, are our lifeblood, and we will always appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
So that is pretty much a rap. That was Jan's addiction.
That was the end of Perry Ferrell's statement. That was
the end of the band. The rest of the band members.
Perry Ferrell, in his original apology statement called the fans patrons,
which I don't like. It feels a little cheap. Yeah,
it was good call good cat. Hey, we do it
for the patrons. You know, we're all about the patrons here.
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I love my patrons.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, you're calling them customers at that point, and that's
very much what this was, one big business transaction.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Now they can go away. It's fine. I saw them
several times. I always had a good time.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I always like seeing Jane's but I'm okay not seeing
them anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I think I only saw them once and that was fine.
But they were like a one record band for me too.
M it was like nothing shocking, and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Correct, Yeah, their first two were pretty big when I
was in college.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So yeah, I'm good with it all right. It is
going to be cloud Habit, little habit, whatever that one was. Yeah,
I don't know why that one didn't connect with me
as much. Mmmmmmm. I guess it's a me problem.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Sounds like it's you from Clouds today, and I.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
A very excited for today's show. Heard great things. Meryl
Hodge is going to be calling us. Big Cat is
joining us at nine am this morning. We told you
about that a little earlier. That deal with Netflix got
announce yesterday, a pretty big deal. Guy Junker also going
to be joining us as we get set for Steelers
Lions Sunday, afore twenty five kickoff here on your radio
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Speaker 4 (19:08):
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By the way, our buddy Tad Westle hanging out with
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Speaker 2 (19:16):
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Clustered down on Bourbon Street.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Still's quarterback Aaron Rodgers practiced without anything on his damaged
wrist on Wednesday. That won't be the case on Sunday
in Detroit. But Rogers is nonetheless getting better.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Yeah, it's still not one hundred percent. I'm having battles
with the training staff. Happy battles, not knockdown, drag out battles,
but trying to trying to feel more normal. So I
go through practices like today without anything on my wrist.
I'm still not without some pain with certain movements, but
I'm trying to get the strength back and all those
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little muscles that have been unused for a number of weeks.
So it's a work in progress. Last week was outsy,
just a little pad on top of it. Not sure
what this week's going to be, but hopefully you know
at some point there's not gonna be anything on the risk.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Not the first time he's practiced without anything on there,
but a good sign that risk is coming around. They
need Aaron Rodgers as close to one hundred percent as
they can get them the rest of the way. Of course,
the game against the Lines on Sunday is a big one,
but it isn't Aaron rodgers first such rodeo. He's been
in enough of those over the years, twenty one of
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them now to know how they should best be approached.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Not the oldest guy in the league, but I've been
been in part a lot of these games, and I
think you have to approach it the same way. As
crazy as it might sound, the best way to play
well on game day is to find a way to
make the game seem like practice. And the only way
to do that is to make practice as game like
as possible. So that's why practice is so important to me.
Every rep matters, you know, even if it's to walk through,
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it's because you have to play the game out Monday
to Saturday. So when you get to Sunday one day,
whatever it is, and it feels like practice because in practice,
there isn't the nerves that show up on game day.
So how can I make the game feel as much
like practice? I have to make practice feel as much
like the game as I possibly can.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
More of that tremendous perspective from Aaron Rodgers that we
have been.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Exposed to all season long, football porn all year long.
There's no question serious. I don't know how this is
going to turn out.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
And I know they've brought him here to get into
the playoffs, to win in the playoffs, and that's going
to decide whether it was worth doing or not. But
I've enjoyed listening to him week by week.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
But I always like to give the caveat of yes,
they brought him here to get them to the playoffs
and win a playoff game.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
But he was not their first choice, which is.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
To say they did not go to these great lengths
to pull Aaron Rodgers here so much as we waited
for him to make a decision whether or not he
was going to play here, or of Minnesota, who probably
wishes they would with as much trouble as they had
this year, although maybe not JJ coming around.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
So if Justin Fields takes their offer, it would have
been him, Yeah, Sam Darnold.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It would have just been a.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Simple yeah, okay, you were playing this year, now you're
playing next year.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Right.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Funny how it worked out, and we'd have Mason Rudolph
probably starting by now, Oh my god, if Justin's season
in New York. Although I mean, look, they even made
Aaron Rodgers stink the Jets offense, so maybe it's not
completely fair to say that Justin Fields might not have
performed a little bit better. I don't know that we
would have been much better record wise than we are
right now with Justin Fields. We're still just you know,
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hovering over five hundred. But I like where this has
gone from an entertainment standpoint. No complaints in that department.
The Steelers are always a fun soap opera one way
or the other. And listening to him, like when he
just is about football, it's great. And he has just
been about football this year. That's what we wanted. We
were worried it wasn't going to be that, and it
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has been so what's not to like?
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Yeah, and you know, playing well, that was that wobbly
middle part of the season where he was terrible against
the Chargers, terrible, and then he wasn't that good against
Cincinnati before he got hurt. But boy, he was really
good in Baltimore, and it was really good against Miami
and then watching that Dolphins game, the difference between Rogers
and Tua, well, it was just staggering.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I mean, I'm kind of the more I see clips
from to on Monday Night that I watched in real
time in disbelief, but I was still caught up in
a Yes, good play by us. It was impossible to
not see how he was ill equipped he is to
be a quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
But it takes away a little bit from my feelings
of the Steelers win. Well it should yeah, yeah, I'm like.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
No, I mean, it's how did we not the degree
of difficulty is going to ratchet up considerably, exactly against
Jared Goff. Yeah, let's put it that way. That's all
I'm getting at. I mean, the defense stopped who they
had to stop. That's all you can do in a
game to beat who you're playing. But that it's not
a linear thing. It goes up and down as to
how hard that is.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Yeah, but like we were saying yesterday, Tad, it's just
nice to get a win where you can just relax.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, you know, yeah, look at us, it is nice.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
You know, you do have to keep the two a
thing perspective. But when you're up three scores like it's
it feels foreign.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Yes, you know, yes, yeah, this isn't going to go
down to the last play of the game.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I can't believe it. And they're paying two all that money.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
No, dude, that would be a ninety million dollars cap
hit if they cut him. Apparently, it's making it bigger
than what they did in Denver.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
They have to do it, you have to. They have
no choice. They cannot play that guy. They're playing Quinn Eewers.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
This week, they promoted their third string quarterback above their
second string quarterback, which lets you know what they think
of Justin or what the hell's his name?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Zach Wilson.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Wilson, Yeah, practice report the particulars from the Steelers side
of it yesterday. No James Pierre Calf, No Nick herbig hamstring,
No Isaac Samalow triceps. Sam al also shot down at
least four of us who requested a moment of his
time to speak politely. Well, not so much, just you know,
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one after the other. Isaac got a minute now, okay,
and so that went.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
No.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
TJ Watt long, Derek Harmon a full participant.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's good news.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
JJ Watt, brother of TJ Watt, appeared on the Pat
McAfee show and had some things to say about his
brother yesterday.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Quote.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
TJ's working through it, and he's handling the situation day
by day. It's obviously not something that he expected, and
he's finding the proper steps to get back to where
he would like it to be. Dry needling is incredibly calmon.
Everybody in the league, most anybody who's been in the
legue has probably done it at some point. I would
say he was certainly not anticipating being in the hospital
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and getting lung.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Surgery last week. Ye, thanks for the date. JJ.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Well, lots of people were quick to point out yesterday
when we were talking about it, that dry needling is
not like acupuncture.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's a different procedure altogether. Sounds awful, Yes, it does.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
It does shine just a little bit of light and
this is mostly darkness. But the amount that these guys
indoor to play every week and what they go through
is almost incomprehensible.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I mean, was it James Harrison who said he spent
two hundred thousand dollars a year on recovery.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Fifty grand a month? I thought in that GQ article,
like a year round.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Fifty grand a month. That's so that's six hundred grand.
I mean it's a lot of money. I mean it's
just you know, they're getting in fifty car recks once
a week, Yeah, and then trying to do it again.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
No thanks.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I mean, I go to the gym twice and I'm like,
I have to go to Cryoh I need red light therapy.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I slept funny me. I don't know how to thanking magnesium.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
For the Lions, starting left tackle Taylor Decker was a
non participant. They actually had a walk through, not a
practice yesterday, Steelers had what amounted to a glorified walkthrough.
Safety Kirby Joseph I said yesterday he was on ir
He's not, but he's got a knee injury. He didn't
practice a Meek Robertson starting cornerback hand was limited. Thomas
Harper's safety. He's trying to get out of the concussion protocol.
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He was a full participant. Pens are in Ottawa tonight
to take on the Senators. They were off yesterday and
they have dropped to the third team on the outside
looking in in the playoff chase. They are fourteen nine
to nine for thirty seven points, two points behind. The
Devils were the second wild card at thirty nine points,
but the Panthers and Canadians are now between the Pens
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and the Devils.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Otto was trying to get into that mix.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
It's still very crowded and very competitive, but this much,
I think I have figured out. If you never win
a game and all you get is the occasional loser point,
that's probably not going to be good enough.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Probably not, I don't know. It might be going on
a limb on Yeah, no, I think you yeah, yeah,
it's pretty accurate.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
Let me walk back a little bit when I said
at six thirty yesterday the Steelers have no chance. It's sports,
you always have a chance. I'm not optimistic about this game.
I understand why, Okay, I just I want to get
that out there in the proper context. I think Detroit
is a better team than the Steelers. I think Detroit
is the more desperate team than the Steelers. And even
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with the ravage secondary with Detroit, well, the Bears didn't
have any linebackers and the Chargers didn't have any offensive
lineman and they found a way to lose both of
those games. And oh, by the way, both of those
were on the road. So I'm not optimistic. Let's put
it that way, all right. He's not optimistic, folks.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
They have a chance. You always have a chance. Yeah.
An they made a movie about it, James Harrison's podcast.
He's very excited about it. He said, we're lyon Tamers. Really. Yeah,
I believe.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Though Aaron Rodgers is eleven and six against the Lions,
something like him, he's.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Probably got a winning record against just about everybody. Yeah,
that was a Green Bay when he was with Green Bay.
You're saying, yeah, yeah, in that division, Yeah, they're not
bringing the packers there.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
No, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah, although you know, who knows Alanizzard might sign, you know,
anything's possible.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
I think it's a little overkilled, but I mean I
think they're good with the two guys that brought in.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Well, seems how long it took to get MVS up
to speed. I just can't imagine bringing in another guy
and being like, Okay, learn the offense in three days,
like we just did that twice.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
I don't think it was getting MVS up to speed.
I think it was them finally giving up on off
the pot and making the move that needed to be made. Yeah,
because scal Or Fieland was here for forty eight hours. Yeah,
a little longer, and he played Yeah. Yeah, I mean
it's s wide receiver. It's not sending the guy to
the moon.
Speaker 10 (29:58):
Abby's got your news coming up to the hour, the
survivors scavenger hunt all across the country, and a really
wild lawsuit claiming that John Travolta's youngest child is actually Oppressley.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Merril Hodge coming up seven forty five. That story is wild,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I almost can't follow it.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
It's so wild big Cat nine o'clock today, Guy Junker,
And when we return, we'll rate our algorithms.
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Speaker 4 (30:56):
Right, it's the DV Morning Show, Randy, but I'm gonna
along with Abby Krisner and Mike pursud Offer and Ted
Whistle hanging with us as well. And each week we
like to rate our algorithms to see what the other
people in the room are looking at because we all
have a different vantage point of culture. These days, there
is no monoculture anymore. So we're trying, we're attempting to
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expand our horizons here.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
We're we're.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Okay, well, let's start first off with Abby's Abby, what
is your algo?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
This week?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
There's this guy that is on TikTok that he tends
to make these comparisons between either NFL players and fast
food chains that they represent. But he's on this kick
now where if NFL players were HBO characters. And I
really like what he's done here this week, But I
should say the one that I grabbed was right before
(32:00):
the Miami wins. You just kind of have to keep
that in mind for the timing here. But he does
start right off with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 11 (32:07):
Aaron Rodgers Tony Soprano's mom, you know, held a lot
of sway in her day and was very smart and
pretty well respected actually, but has just become kind of
a crotchety old bag that nobody wants around.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Baker Mayfield Kendall.
Speaker 11 (32:22):
Roy really talented a lot of fun to watch, quite
enough sauce to get over the hump and be the number.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
One boy, but like we're all kind of rooting for him.
Speaker 11 (32:32):
And also there's just something about that opening scene with
Kendall with the headphones where he's wrapping in the car,
like I could just fully see Baker doing that. Philip
Rivers baby Billy Gemstone, a spicy Southern boy who is
just addicted to the game, and I absolutely love watching
them both on my TV, and I really hope Philip.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Survives this weekend. Derrick Henry.
Speaker 11 (32:53):
Derrick Henry is the mountain from Game of Thrones, a gigantic,
unstoppable course that people kept trying to catch out at
different times, and he just keeps coming.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Oh I like that one. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
He has multiple videos and so like that was like
part four of.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Many, So I like what he's doing there.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Oh yeah, because there's plenty of stealers that you could
just go down the list and find your favorite HBO
classic character. For tad, what did you have on your
algorithm most week?
Speaker 5 (33:22):
I'm always in the market for new insults and what's
old is new again. Here's a guy on TikTok listing
the top seven Teddy Roosevelt insults of all time?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Is this insults about Teddy Roosevelt.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
No insults that Teddy Roosevelt is laying on political rivals.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Oh that's good, Okay.
Speaker 12 (33:41):
Here are the top seven Teddy Roosevelt insults of an
anonymous Supreme Court justice. He said an amiable old fuzzy
wuzzy with sweetbread brains of William Jennings Bryant, he said,
a professional yodeler, a human trombone of William Randolph Hurst,
he said, that leprous spot honor civilization. Of William Howard Taft,
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he said, a flub dub with a streak of the
second rate, and the common in him of Woodrow Wilson,
he said, a visiting logafee back by flubb dubs and
molly coddles. Of Henry James, he said, a little emasculated
mass of inanity. And of William McKinley, he said he
had no more backbone than a chocolated Claire.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
I love the human trombone lines, yes, yes, flubb dub,
he said, flub dub twice like chocolate Claire.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I'm I'm using that one, Roger. All right, Mike, what
was in your algorithm?
Speaker 7 (34:41):
You know, whenever I'm in an NFL game, I like
to see at the end of players from both sides
of congregate in the middle of the field after it's over,
and usually it's former teammates or guys who went to
the same college.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
There's some kind of tie.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Uh. But after the Steelers beat the Dolphins, Miami rookie
guard Jonah Savaia and Naya sought out Cam Hayward. Those
two have no ties whatsoever, but seven seven Naya sought
out Cam Hayward.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Anyway, I keep working, brother.
Speaker 8 (35:09):
Hey, what do I need to thanks? Bro?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Hey, just keep the confidence, yeah, you know, keep mixing
it up. Don't become predictable by these little things. If
you got all the time in the world.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I absolutely loved that. I saw that video and I
was like, this is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I thought that was really cool.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Now.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
I tried to ask Cam about it yesterday. He just said,
there's too many live mics. Like he was like being
the big all pro brother to the rookie who's trying
to make his way in the leg and telling him,
you know, giving him a little confidence, give him a
little advice.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
That was That was a cool moment. I thought, I agree,
uh completely. And what was that.
Speaker 7 (35:47):
Guy's name, Jonah Savayah Naya. He's a second round pick
out of Arizona. Pretty good player, yeah, I mean, pretty
good potential player. He's just finding his way. But uh,
I just found it interesting.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
All right.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
In my algorithm, this one we didn't get to this week,
and this kept popping up, so I figured this would
be a good opportunity to err it. After the game
on Monday night, Aaron Rodgers being asked about this rag
tag group of Pittsburgh Steelers that the front office is
thrown together, and he categorizes them as cast offs from
other teams.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
And then you can hear when he.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Is asked if he considers himself one of those on
the island of misfit veterans.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
If you look at our roster, which it makes it
really special. You know, Kenny Gamwell signed a next to
nothing contract. You know Connor Hayward after thought had a
touchdown run. You know Mark que has been on a
couple of teams. Adam Thielen got cut, Samuel was on
the street for a long time. So it says a
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lot about the character of the guys we brought in.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Consider yourself one of those cast offs too, No, I'm
not a kidder.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
It makes it even more impressive what I've done with
this roster of cast offs. Let's all take a manage,
and my greatness.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
What's funny about that? He his attitude. Those guys suck.
I'm not I'm not a caf Adam Thalam asked for
his as for his release, okay, because he didn't want
to play on a bad team exactly for what he
thought was a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Out not so bad. Sante Samuel had back.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
Surgery, right, I mean, yeah, Aaron Rodgers is more of
Conor Hayward was a draft pick here and it's been
on the team every year ever since, and he has
had the same role special teams demon and occasional contributor
that his career has been consistent. Rogers is a bigger
cast off than any of those guys, because the Jets
flew him across the country to tell the gobound rocks yes.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
If you can't play it, you can't rewrite everything and
then not be willing to get in that boat with
the cast offfs.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Once again, there are as many cast offs in there as.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
He thought, deeply irritating, and he's unaware, and that's what's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
He's like, look at all these cast offs, and he's like, why.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
I think qualifies because he's been bouncing around since Green Bay.
But other than that, I mean, yeah, Gay, well did
you know he was a backup to Saint Quon Barkley.
So free agency is designed for those guys.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Now, he got a crappy contract as it turns out.
Speaker 7 (38:32):
I mean he's way over overperforming it.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
No, I'm not a cast off, but shut up.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Instant replied. It's like he knew as he was saying
that that it was about. He's like, uh uh oh,
I'm kind of describing me.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
No. You know, Connor Hayward again to fly all the
way across the country and the coach told him hedn't
want him anymore.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Oh wait, that was me. Ye see what I what
I was saying earlier. There's no shortage of entertainment with
the Pittsburg Steeling. We're ready, Yeah, weird. On the radio,
Abby's got your news.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Next, what's up the Survivors scavenger hunts all across the country?
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Big Cat nine am this morning. Also Meryl Hodget seven
to forty five.
Speaker 13 (39:13):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
to you by iron Workers Local Union number three. They
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dot Steelers dot com. Here's Tom Opperman.
Speaker 14 (39:27):
The Steelers on Monday night picked up their twenty third
straight Monday Night football win at home when they disposed
of the Miami Dolphins twenty eight to fifteen.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
That street dates all the way.
Speaker 14 (39:36):
Back to October fourteenth, nineteen ninety one, when the New
York Giants came to town and took down the Chuck
nol led Pittsburgh Steelers. Ever since then, no team has
been able to walk into Pittsburgh and do what New
York did that evening, and that included the other night
for the Dolphins. There's a bit of a slow start
to the game, with the first score not coming until
twenty four minutes into the game, a Dolphins steel goal
breaking the ice, but then Pittsburgh erupted for twenty eight
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unanswered points as they bruise their way to victory in
dominant fashion. Success and both stopping the Miami Dolphin rushing attack,
which was averaging one hundred and ninety two yards over
its previous four games, and rushing the ball themselves on offense,
no doubt, helped the Steelers get the victory. Miami only
managed sixty three yards on the ground on sixteen carries,
while the Steelers rushed the ball thirty two times to
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the tune of one hundred and thirty five yards.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
And two rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 14 (40:19):
Up next, for the Steelers, who improved to eight and
six with the win, is a step up in weight
class when they visit the Detroit Lions this coming Sunday.
Detroit is eight and six, just like the Steelers and
currently on the outside looking into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
But don't let that fool you. Detroit's much better than
their record. Let's on.
Speaker 14 (40:33):
It'll be a stiff test for the Steelers Sunday, but
it's one that if they pass, could catapult them towards
making a serious playoff run. I'm Tom Opferman with the
Steelers Report. You see the skyline
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