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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Guaranteed human.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Are there is there any harm to parental white lives?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Well, I peok, Like dad said, I mean, there needs
to be a fine line so that you're not trying
to you're not making your kid think that you have
this sort of you know, deity like quality.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
When I grew up, Will I be a god too?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Maybe? Well, if you're listening to me and clean your room.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I just remember when you're here every other weekend, you
gotta do what I say.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's the people that are telling you is for sure.
You know, the weekend dad, the weekend dads.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Even though there's different rules in this house and the
one of your mom's, remember mine have consequences. And you'll
never be a god like me if you don't just
sit there and watch TV for twelve hours while your
dad goes.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
At the bar.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm gonna throw on True Lies.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I'll tell you when that happened to me, it was
awesome because my dad would be like, you're twenty bucks
order Dominoes, And I was like, bet, yes, we are.
On I'm the richest man in America. I have HBO
and a Domino's pizza coming. What it could not get
any better? Ah, like two leader of Doctor Pepper just
(01:25):
crushing it, watching movies that you really weren't supposed to watch.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Now, some people will say otherwise, but I think that's parenting.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Yeah yeah, Yeah, he's taken care of.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He's got food, entertainment, and a roof over his head.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
This is going to serve him for the rest of
his life in terms of like the whole Santa thing
and like you know, spreading the Santa vibe with it
only being seven days until Christmas and we're a week
away from Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Have you seen the sketch.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
From a few years ago and now they did with
Ryan Gosling and Vanessa Bear who like move into this
neighborhood and they get invited to a Christmas Eve party
and they're like being welcomed by their new neighbors and
it becomes very apparent, like the kids come downstairs.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Like, Dad, when Santa coming, We'll get to bed.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
No, Santa's up on the roof right now, I think,
and Mine Costling and Vanessa Bear like.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
He's up there right now.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And then they start just making out with it and
like getting really hot for each other.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Like this is it, baby, this is it. Yeah, this
is it.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And they're acting like those characters in pulp fiction that
you know when they rob the exactly the kind of
do that over the prospect of meeting Santa. It's so
bizarre and funny, and I just like, there's the Santa magic.
You just you can't get away from it. This time
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of year, no matter how old you get, it does
feel like there's something in the air that compels you
to believe in something a little bigger than yourself.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Probably people that get hot for Christmas, like Disney adults.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Right, Oh, I.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Didn't even mean like that, but yeah, there's people who
get horny for Christmas. There's no doubt about it. I mean,
I have a buddy who's like, every time he watches
Christmas Vacation, he's.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Like, it's just's turned me on so much.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
That's Beverly D'Angelo. Yeah, and I'm like, yeah, and the
other the one girl who's yeah, no line, yeah, I
have a log.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You gotta be careful though, with.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
The the how hard you sell the Santa thing. I
remember like one of my buddies from grade school, well
into seventh grade, he was like, guys, I don't know.
I look, I don't have to. It turned into a
religious thing. He's like, I don't have to explain my
faith in Santa to anyone because I remember the year,
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the year, but maybe sixth the year before we were
It was in a appropriate for him to still be
doing it. And his mom made like a last desperate
play where she like put sleigh bells on the roof.
Now they went up on the roof and she's like, well,
then explain this. Oh no, Yeah, it was like the
(04:16):
shroud of turn for him. It was like this art
of fact that you know, couldn't be.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
With.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I don't have to explain my faith and sand it
to you people.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
That's like he's like, look when I get done breastfeeding,
I will explain to you.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
I think we learned a lot about his relationship with
his Yeah, something tells me they shared a bed for.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
A long time.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I don't think he's got a normal romantic relationship right now.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
No, probably not anyone but forever. But this is his
time of year. I mean, this is his super Bowl,
this is it. Yeah. Meryl Hodge coming up seven forty five,
Big Cat nine a M and Guy Junker at nine
to forty five.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Abby's got news right now.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What's Up?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
This hour is brought to you by Keystone Basement Systems.
What Basement, Keystone Basementsystems, dot Com Clouds today and a
high of fifty six Survivor is celebrating season fifty with
a special event that spans the country.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Season fifty okay, and so they've had multiple seasons per year.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Have had to because that just sounds impossible, right, Otherwise
they would have been on like next to all in
the family.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
And this is Jacob's Christmas because Jacob is a big
Survivor fan.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Have you seen all fifty Survivors?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Jacob?
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Yeah, the season forty nine finale was last night. You've
seen all fifty seasons? Randy, I don't know if I
should be ashamed to admit it. I started watching the
like Australian Survivor.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Of Australia have you can't get off on regular Survivor anymore?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
No, you need the high test stuff to get you.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
But if you if you ask the people who know,
they'll all tell you Australian version has become better version.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What's better?
Speaker 8 (06:05):
They just stayed truer to like the original game, the
newer seasons of the US version are a little copy
and paste. It's a little too focused on stop stories,
you know, like, oh, I'm doing this for my mom
or I'm doing this for my family. It's just, you know,
they used to bring in people of just like it
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used to be a social experiment, bringing different people, and
now it's just let's get like the most emotionally heavy
stories we can find and really drawing a crowd. And
the season fifty is supposed to be a celebration of
the show.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And bringing in old cast members.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
But Lo and Behold, they do a trailer for every
upcoming season as the last season ends, and Lo and
Behold Survivor fifty was the next season, and then the
trailer Mister Beast.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Pops up exactly.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
I had the same reaction, and I'm like, I'm out,
I'm gonna watch, but I I it's supposed to be
like this awesome thing where they bring back twenty four
former contestants, and then in the middle of the trailer,
mister Beast is there. And I don't remember ever signing
up for Mister Beast to be a part of the show.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
That now I would go to an island to get
away from a world with mister Beast.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That's kind of the point.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You have watched seven hundred and thirteen hours.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Over over decades, though it's not like IV one year
and uh and the Australian Survivor as well, which is
how many seasons.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Uh, they're only at thirteen. Okay, I applaud you. That's
that's dedication. That's you know, there are.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
Those people who watch like Law and Orders for SVU
Sure or Grey's Anatomy or er On Loop, but that's art.
Jacob's right. I don't have to explain my faith in
the pit to you. That's crazy though fifty seasons. I
had no idea.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
So the show actually just dropped a video sharing that
the Survivor fifty Challenge now Jacob, is going to begin
on January thirtieth, and it will have fans searching for
fifty immunity idols and there's going to be one in
each state. So host Jess Probes said that Survivor's always
been about testing yourself, solving problems, facing.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
The unknown, and finding out what you're made of.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
So for twenty five years, fans have watched players take
that journey, and now with this Survivor fifty challenge.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
We're letting fans try it for themselves.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Fans need to register on this Survivor fifty website to
find out more. There is a prize that will be
awarded who we have to wait to find out what
that is. Are you going to go look for one
of these idols?
Speaker 8 (08:50):
They advertised this last night during the show, and my
friends and I who watch together, assume it's gonna be
in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Why do you think Philadelphia? Pittsburgh? I mean, we are
going to host the draft. Why are we not going
to I just that's a good point, Abby. I don't know.
I just feel like it's under the Mister Rogers Statue.
Are major cities. I don't feel like crossing over all right?
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Also too, like I'm i'm, I'm, I'm becoming less invested.
I don't need, I don't need to go searching for
this prize and see the mister Beasts logo.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's in a homeless encampment under a bridge over on the.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
North side, sponsored by Dude Wipes.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Go get it, no problem?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well, all right, well, best of luck to everybody.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
By the way, if he walked in the room, I
you you could tell me anybody was mister beast.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I don't really know what he looks like.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
It looks like a college freshman sort of. He does.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
He kind of looks like anybody, which is one of
the things that also makes his appeal like even more
confusing to me.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
He has like one of those.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Like blonde beard things happening that I that it makes
me insane on Beard.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Uh, look, it's blonde beard the least some of all
the pirates. He Spencer Pratt.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
He's probably gonna be hosting the Academy Awards when they
move it to YouTube. He should He probably will owe.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
But he he like could own YouTube with how much
money he makes. Although we've talked about a story this
year where he kept saying that he had to borrow
money from his mother to pay for his well because
he wasn't liquid or.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Something like that.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
He makes me crazy.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I do want to get to this story because it's
really crazy, and we're going to try to put it
together together.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You're putting your head in your hands.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I am frustrated. I am frustrated with it.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
John Travolta and his late wife Kelly Preston had three
children together, but their youngest child is biologically a Presley,
and I mean Elvis Presley Priscilla Pressley. This is the
According to a bombshell legal document, Priscilla Presley's former business partner,
Bridget Cruz, is currently suing Priscilla's son, Navarone Garcia for
(11:11):
breach of contract.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You've never heard of Navarone Garcia ever in my life? Nope,
didn't know.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
But what's way more interesting in new legal docs filed
in the case is that Cruz alleges that John and
Kelly used Riley Keow's eggs to give birth to their
son Ben. In the papers, Cruise alleges Michael Lockwood, Lisa Marie,
Presley's ex husband, told her Kelly had been unable to
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bear her own children. Cruz claims John and Kelly previously
used Lisa Marie's eggs to get pregnant, but they no
longer wanted Lisa's eggs because they did not want eggs with.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Heroin on them.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Fair it's fair, it is under Do you have any
eggs without heroin?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
No, It's unclear whether Lisa Marie's eggs ever produced a child.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
However, crazy eggs have the genetic makeup of if somebody's
on drugs.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Is that?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
Like?
Speaker 6 (12:11):
I would think that any genetic material can be altered
with whatever you do to your body, you know, same
same thing if she had got undergone radiation. You know,
why wouldn't any kind of free radical change your bondy?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Who knows what all that two pai glue did to
his sperm?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
You know?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah, now it's on.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
However, Cruz claims a deal was orchestrated where Riley, one
of Lisa Marie's daughters, gave her eggs to Travolta so
that Kelly could give birth to Ben, who is fifteen
years old.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Now.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Cruz claims Riley was given an old Jaguar and ped
between ten to twenty thousand dollars for the deal.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Okay, so Riley kiow Yes is from Daisy Joe's in
the six.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Right, correct, She's an actress and too was.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Great in that by the way. And they're a band
from Pittsburgh. Don't forget that in the story, right, I
feel like fictional band from Pittsburgh. So they used her eggs.
She doesn't carry the baby. They just use her very
fertile that's my baby making stuff. And her payment was
ten thousand dollars in a Jaguar. Yeah, I kind of
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think that she gave them a huge deal.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That's a huge deal. I think that is a bargain
price for her eggs. I think so too right. I
don't know what eggs go for. I haven't really wanted
into it.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Well, in Los Angeles, I would think in Elvis Presley,
egg is a lot more than ten thousand dollars. People
pay a whole lot of money to have a like
a press league kid.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I'm imagining the Jaguar to be a complete beater and being.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Like, hey, what do you think about this? AH gets
you in this today? I need a couple of eggs.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
He's like, I bought it from horse Shack and now
welcome back. Said in nineteen seventy six. Uh, it's a
weird story. I don't know who the brother is. The
father of that kid is Marco Garibaldi, who was married
to Priscilla Presley.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, and I don't he was an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I don't know, some rich guy.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
But the kid whose name is Garcia for some reason,
his last name, that kid Navarone Garcia.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
He's he wanted to be the only heir.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
He's like, I was told I was the only male heir,
and you have robbed me of that now because John
Travolta's kid is now part Travolta, part Presley. And how's
Marco Garibaldi's Jean's gonna compete with John Travolta's jeans. No
way that younger kid's gonna be a phenom you watch.
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I don't care.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
No, I'm just like, I guess I'm missing the par
like was it was there a relationship that I missed
between the Travoltas and the Presley's.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
No, I guess they were just f They were just
kind of like, I gotta have.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
An Elvis baby.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I was thinking about it and at the end of
the day, I gotta have a little Elves baby.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
They'm like, how much for an Elvis baby?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
That's uh?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
What about a.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
To take a tray? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
I got this old Jaguar Phantom made up story like
Quentin Tarantino gave me this after we shot pulp fiction.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It's highly sentimental.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
How much for a Eddie Cochrane baby?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
It's just all like that paul Anka. How about a
paul Anka baby? What's an inca baby, going, what's in Aca?
Give me an anka egg? What are we looking at?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Nope, ooh, a.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Little bit more than I want to pay two akes.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Just keep going down the line of the entertainers in
the seventies, in the late sixties and seventies.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's a wild story.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Cliff Richard, give me a Cliff Richard egg. No, that too, well,
I guess in the UK it is worth mooring. I
get it, okay, but.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
It does seem like, even with the car and the money.
I wonder if in agreeing to that that they were
thinking about, like you just said, like an air too.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
That's what it is. But that's what I'm saying is when.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
They agreed to it on the front end, I wonder
if they were going, like, oh my god, this kid's
gonna have rights to all of this.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
And I'm telling you right now, I bet Donnie Iris's
daughters are listening to this thinking we miss the bubs.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Jesus, we could have cashed out. We know he's got cars.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
No, God, you.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Could have had it, Iris Egg. Anyways, clouds today in
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Speaker 3 (16:57):
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Audio Network with Rob King, Max Stark's and Missy Matthews,
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Speaker 1 (18:44):
DVE Steeler fans.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
If you're making the trip, I got two pieces of
advice for you, the Old Chiley and Lafayette Coney Island
in that order.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Okay, get hammered, then go grab a dog Chilly Dogs. Yeah,
it's Saturday night in Detroit. I I love that city.
I think it's a fun party. You scared me away
from going. I was gonna go, and then you made
it sound like I was gonna have a bad time
at the game watching the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Get depends embarrassed and you get out of games.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well, I want the Steelers to win the first and
foremost and my last memory of that field is us
winning a super Bowl, So I don't need to tarnish
that high bar.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Pretty good chance. I think this is gonna tartist that.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Well, and I met Robbie Robertson, Kid Rock Bob, O'Connor,
Mario was there. It is like who's who of just
random celebs. It was the best time ever Robbie big time, No,
he was totally cool. I was having a cigarette on
the patio and Robbie Robertson was just sitting there and
I was like Robbie.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And he was like yeah. And I was like, oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Dude, big fan of Rocks Station in Pittsburgh, blah blah blah.
Can I get a picture to put on the website?
And he's like sure, man, you know, and I took
a picture and I was like Lion's fan and he's
like she's like windsor baby, you know, like talking about Ontario.
I was like, ah, yeah, makes sense. He jumped right
over here, you know, and he was super cool. And
I walked away and I couldn't believe it. And my
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friends were high fiving Mario while I was doing this,
and I didn't know. Mary walks through and they're they're like, eh, Mary,
Odi like gives everyone high fives.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I come back and they're like.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Dude, you missed it.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Marios five to.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Everybody, and I'm like, no, you missed it. I met
Robbie Robertson and they're like, who I was, Like Robbie
Robertson from the band, and they're like, marching band Lyons, man,
get it, we met Mary. I'm like, I know, but
I just met the guy who wrote the night they
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drove All Dixie Down.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
They're like, you're a dork.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
You're the biggest, Like they just teed off on me
because I was so excited about meeting a guy that
had no idea who he was.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You know, I got, I tell you, Robbie Robertson high
fives with Marrio. I got a side with your friends.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I had a cigarette with Robbie Robertson. You know, I
had a cigarettes with Robbie Robertson.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Come on, cool, and I didn't bother him. I didn't
crawl up his ars too much. You know, I'm just
kind of like, yeah, I know, just talking about of
course you'd be a.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Detroit Lions fan. That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
A movie like the Hamilton Tiger Cats, I think they did.
I think they they were proud Canadians.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Canadian football never get it.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
No, And in watching that John Candy documentary and the
fact that he owned one of those the Toronto Argonauts,
I believe, and they went to the championship that first year,
and then he got he like became an ambassador for
the sport, and they thought it was going to finally
like cross over now and then he got fleashed for
a lot of money by a billionaire, and uh that
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was and nobody paid attention to anymore.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
Probably one of the things they did wrong with Canadian
football was there was a period of time where they
had eight teams and two of them were named rough Riders.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, they couldn't come up with watch more than seven names.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
That was the problem. One of them smelled it one word,
and the other one was rough rider.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
There was a time though, when Doug Flutie went there,
people thought, oh, well, maybe let's start paying attention.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And then when Rock and Ismael went there.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
People there was a little thought that, Okay, maybe all
of these great American players who are just fringe here
are going to have like a USFL experience, they'll get
paid a lot of money to go to the CFL instead,
And then of course that money never came.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Yeah, it's not like European basketball, right, it just doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
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Speaker 7 (22:37):
Some American football on Sunday in Detroit against the Lions.
Wide receiver Adam Thielen's probably going to be in the
thick of it. Field joined the Steelers days before the
game in Baltimore on December the seventh, but thanks to
some intensive and impressive cramming, he was able to play
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Speaker 9 (23:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (23:00):
I wasn't very good crammer, but I told my wife
that's funny to say that, because I told them why
the other day. It's a lot more fun cramming for
something that you really love. So it was not good
at that in college, but uh, but football I really
enjoy the game, and it makes it a little bit
easier when you when you really love and enjoy.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
What you're doing. It's been like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You up to speed, though, I think so I feel
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, I feel pretty good about me. Get a ramit
your scene.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
If you remit rights, you can ram it out on
that grant No how to grammit Granitt.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Steeland showed up in the aftermath of the Steelers' low
point this season, a twenty six to seven loss at
home the Buffalo on November thirtieth. In the aftermath of
that disaster, the wide receivers had some heart to hearts
with offensive coordinator Arthur Smith to make sure they were
all on the same page. Here's DK Metcalf.
Speaker 12 (23:52):
I think it's just a communication throughout the week. I mean,
I know it started like around the middle of the season,
but like after the Buffalo game, we really sat down
to talk and you know, really give them the same
page about how we see, you know, the game plans
moving forward.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
It was interesting they're telling Smith what they wanted to
do and what he thought of what they wanted to do.
You always hear the offensive coordinators talk about the quarterbacks
and well, if this quarterback's playing, we know he's got
some things in the game plan that he really likes,
so we'll emphasize those. And he's got some things that
he doesn't like, so we take those out. They're they're
(24:26):
applying that to the receivers. Also, there's things there are
things the receivers like to run and things the receivers
don't like to run. And these conversations, according to Metcalf,
were not as much about the details of execution regarding
what was called, but uh, you know, calling what they
wanted to have called and when they wanted to run it.
Speaker 12 (24:48):
Oh, yes, sir, I think you know, anytime anybody's being heard,
you know from their point of view, and their point
of view is definitely being executed on game days, you know,
is that much more exciting for you to go out
there and make places.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, you're invested. That makes sense.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Yeah, they're starting to figure it out. Is it too little,
too late or just in time? I guess we're gonna
find out. Sunday, Steelers at the Lions.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Both teams eight and six.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
And I think the general perception is one team is
much better than the other one. And I think that
general perception is probably accurate.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I will say the one area where they have definitely
improved week to week seems to be offensive line.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Oh, they're playing great. Did you see what Brian Boldtinger
posted about the one cook. Yeah, Bouldinger is just raving,
so he didn't have a bad rep.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, and he's the third, fourth guy, fourth left tackle.
So for all the flak that Pat Meyercot, you know,
kudos because these guys seem to be uh gelling together,
although every time they lose. Ayamalu he really does feel
like the lynchpin there.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
He is the one veteran guy in that group and
the big brother and the guy who's won and the
guy who's done it all. Yeah, real security blankets the
wrong word, but he's the guy they all lean on.
Fascinating matchup Sunday, Troy Fatanho against Aiden Hutchinson. Hutchinson is
a monster, game wrecking edge.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yes he is.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
He's just He's TJ Watt at the height of his powers. Yeah,
and that's gonna be a problem. Derek Harmon full participant yesterday.
That's encouraging. No Isaac Sayamala with the triceps, No Nick
Herbig with the hamstring. I saw you made a little
post about Matthew Judon who got released by Well, I.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Was just saying, I'm starting to feel like those dudes
who drive around on trash night with a pickup looking
for scores. Every time somebody puts something to the curb,
I'm like, I can probably get something.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
For that without what and herbig Potentially that outside linebacker
line is really thin.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Well they signed yeah, Moon and one more would be good.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Judon.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
I think he's not what he used to be, but
he can still play.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
They just saw him that. Yeah, that one would be
a layup to me. But we'll see get in a truck.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Let's go tonight. I'm American pickers.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Sometimes you get some good stuff that way.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah, I know, Aaron, were you one of those things
we picked? No, of course not.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I'm a brilliant quarterback and you're an a hole. I'm
dareus just I'm a cast off. Don't paint them aldu either.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Now there's that too.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Let's just for laughs, fine cast off? Because he is
definitively a cast off.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
The team you have, the team you are on kicks
you unceremoniously to the curb.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yes, he's not a contract dispute.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
It's not a train just we don't want you anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Right, that's cast off. You were cast off.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
But what let's say he continues to play the level
he's played at the last couple of years and for
most of the season, and he wants to come back
and play again next year. What do you think he
commands if he plays for thirteen million again.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I mean, he just might. He's in for the love
of the sports.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
He's married now, so you know, it depends on what
his wife wants. You know, you may command more money
for her. And this is a QB starve league, no
question about it, and a development starve league. The older
guys are actually more valuable right now because it's more
about the brains than anything else.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
As long as he can still spin it, and he
can he can spin it.
Speaker 13 (28:37):
You know, Kenny Gamewell signed to next to nothing contract.
You know Connor Hayward after thought had a touchdown run.
You know, Mark Quest been on a couple of teams.
Adam Thielen got cut h Samuel was on the street
for a long time. So says, learn about the character
of the guys we brought.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
In consiting yourself one of those cast off?
Speaker 13 (29:00):
No, I'm not casting.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
That's a stupid question. I'm not casting color Hayward had
a touchdown. Run the hell you telling you? He accepted
a snap and got something in the head.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, we're just a bunch of plucky young bums. No, hope.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
You know, if it wasn't for this to be the CFL,
what about you?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
What could have gone?
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Even?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
What did you just say? Security?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Leave leave?
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I mean everybody he named there was only one cast
off vs. Scaling Yeah, yeah, maybe he did it for MVS.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah he was what you should put him in his place?
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Well, no, just to be like, yeah, come on, Mark,
there's some other bums on the team.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
It's not just you, it's not me, but right, it's
not just do you consider yourself one of those cast offs?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
No, you're an idiot.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
I'll tell you what though, that's about the first hint
of ego that he's shown.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I I mean, I don't know a guy who if
he had he go and was playing that card, he's
got many of those cards in his hand. Well, I
think that his perception on that is I am a
Hall of Famer, I'm not a cast off. I'm not
on the island of misfit toys like I am still
a highly desired quarterback performing in the like at a level.
(30:32):
I think he was number eleven in QBR in the
league after Monday night, you know, top third, pretty high. Yeah,
And I think that he sees it as a sign
of disrespect to lump him in with Connor Hayward, who
definitively is not a cast off.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
He actually got a job right out of the draft
and never lost it.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
I think Rogers was trying to pump the tires of
some of his teammates, as he has tried to do
all year, and I think he just kind of fumbled
it there.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I think he was just trying to say unheralded guys.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Yeah, but cast offs was probably the wrong word, and
that's why I think he was like, no, I'm not
a cast off.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Damn, I shouldn't said cast off.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I was really due.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
As I was saying it out loud, I realized I
am a cast off, and now I've just did something
really disparaging about myself the Packers.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
The Packers drafted my replacement that booted me while I
could still play, and then I went to another team
and it was a disaster for two years and they
booted me and now.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Here I am. I'm I'm the poster boy for Castle.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
He's like, I'm a cast on. Okay, you cast me
on to the team. Yeah, I'll see what Meryl Hodge
has to say about that.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
He's gonna join us.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
When I at my back of teams, there was the
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Speaker 2 (34:12):
It's Meryl h.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
What's up? Maryl what's that?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Start every day off like this?
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Speaker 4 (34:27):
I wake up to it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
Before we get into the Steelers, Liones gotta mentioned what
the incredible job Meryl did is the MC at the
Hall of Honor banquet on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Oh well, boy, couldn't have a more perfect person for that.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Maryland didn't know you had that club in your bag. Man,
great job.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Wait listen, Mike, I'm coming from you. I really appreciate that.
Thank you. That was very special night, as you. They
all are and there's not one that but they just
get better and better. And the guys they put in Joey
and Marques and band I mean three league.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Guys right there, Yeah, no question. I mean Joey Porter.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
It's so fun to watch the legacy continue with his
son and Joey Porter Junior has gotten a whole lot
better as he's continued to play for the Steelers. I mean,
he came in with high expectations. I think people were
a little at first frustrated by some of the penalties
he was taken, but that that's part and parcel of
the game. When you want to be a shutdown guy,
he's like figuring out that nu once and becoming the
(35:27):
guy who doesn't get called all the time. You can't
complain about his performance this year, Meryl.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
He's going He's on the right trajectory. Let's just put
it that way. You know, nobody comes in and masters
this game, but you have to work at it. And
as long as you're working at it, I'm sure what
your position is and getting better, that's all you can ask.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Yeah, he might have been out of position against the
Bills a few times, but in terms of past coverage.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
No, and you know what, I an actually dared he's
gotten better at it would make him him with separate
him these two things, like he was really handsy at
Penn State, really handsy. You know, he's had to learn
to deal with that and try not to be his
hands he in the NFL. But his willingness to go
tackle people and make plays in that arena.
Speaker 11 (36:15):
That is.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
That's and everybody separate yourself. You know, if you can
cover in you can and you tackle and you're you're
not afraid of that, then you started coming special. And
he's growing in those areas to your point, he really is.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Now other things defensively for the Steelers that we're concerning
the run defense, you know, they didn't exactly get gashed
without Derek Harmon the other night, which I was glad
to see, no doubt about it. You know, Cam had
a good game and why Black stepped up Benton as well.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Against Detroit. They're really going to.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Have to make sure that that defensive line effort is
as good as they can put forward. Harmon coming back
is crucial, and it appears that he had a full
practice yesterday Mike. So that's good looking good because without him,
with Gibbs and Montgomery, that's just a tough one too.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
To deal with.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Some backups, well, if you just tell you this, they
won't take them long.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
As soon as you plug in some tape and you
see Jamar Gibbs, you'll be like both their backs. And
then they bring the compliment each other. Well, they're wicked,
they're dangerous. Jamar Gibbs, he's probably he's clearly in the
top five of offensive players. You can maybe sitting argue
and one and two ex at the kid is. And
(37:36):
what makes him scary. What's hard is that it's so
easy to get him the ball. You know, you can
just turn around hand it to him. But they also
move him all over the place, which is another big concern.
So he has the problem teams that can hold.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Him in bay.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
And what I mean is that he doesn't really get
like a twenty yard run on you, a thirty yard
run on you, like a home run on you. That's
what you're trying to avoid, you know, if you're gonna
get to survive eight, nine, tens, elevens, yes, and you
just but if you can hold him to that those
type of runs. You've done a good job. But he's
got the only guy. That's the other problem. He's got
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the guy that this would be the greatest test, you know,
on the road to in that environment, you find out
who you are, who you really are, and this is
when you want to find out who's playing you want
to be playing your best. This is you struggle all
year to get to this point, to really start playing
consistent football. And the teams that do that, you know,
they moved out, They moved right into the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
Meryl, you mentioned this isn't the only guy. Far from it.
I mean, these guys are number one in points per game.
They got the pedal down since Stan Campbell took over
the play calling, and they're getting more splashed. Can these
guys be stopped or do they have to be outscored
if you're the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
But the only way you can out the only way
you can truly stop them. So all the people we've
just talked about, yeah they're concerned, but then we really
forgot where we got to win. Is you got to
win if you win the last scrimmage, if you constantly
put their quarterback under stress, that's the only tho, those
only teams that have held them down, they've been able
to win the latt of scrimmage and went play on
(39:16):
the other side a consistent amount of plays and stress
their quarterback. That's that's that's how you neutralize them. I
don't know that, you know, Listen, you have a plan,
and then you play the game, and then you adjust
the plan, and then you react to what takes place.
I think, I really, you know, it isn't about trying
to get in there and outscore them, because they can
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with as good or better than anybody a case better
to try to neutralize them, you know, the best you can.
But then oftense you have to do your part too. Okay,
like the game we just played Miami, I don't think
people really probably could appreciate how good you know, Randy,
you mentioned how we weren't that good against the run. However,
all the teams that have played them in the last
(39:59):
six weeks bets we were the best. I don't know
what the statistics are checked that. I don't care. I
just know that the way they handled their running game,
based on how they were running the football, they completely
neutralized them. And then they completely took their offense away.
So that's ultimately what you had to do against Detroit.
You got to neutralize them the best you can consistently,
and then you have a chance they Ever time that
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offenses on the film, you're either changing field position.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Or you're scoring points offensively. For the Pittsburgh Steelers, they
seem to have turned a corner. Gainwell had a great
game the other night. I still I am a Jalen
Warren fan, and I know that he was sick, so
I wasn't expecting as much as we even got out
of him. I think what it really kept him from
doing was having that burst after contact that we see
him have sometimes. You know, I think he was dealing with,
(40:43):
you know, high temperature flu situation, and it's a wonder
he was even out there. But Gainwell was absolutely outstanding,
catching the ball and running the ball. Offensive line seems
to be jelling nicely, and the passing game is taking
on a different dynamic with scaling and feeling and you
saw scalting with the touchdown DK with the big one
where he just you know, postered Minka on his way
(41:05):
into the end zone. Can we expect this going forward
to continue to get better now that they have those
pieces in place where it's like, all right, Aaron Rodgers
has you know, Roman Wilson, Calvin Austin weren't doing quite
as much to draw attention away from DK, and now
(41:26):
all of a sudden, it seems like DK's getting some space.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Correct. Well, okay, you just glanced over it. But the
thing that has changed this offense the most actually has
been how consistent they've been up front. They just been
so much better as a group. You know, mind they've changed.
You know, their left side has changed. They got three
they're on the third tackle, their second guard. But there
was you didn't know that, he didn't know that they
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were missing. That's credit to you know, the players and
the coaches for doing that. So that is as well
as they keep stabilized that and find keeping that consistency.
You know, I thought sixty was he was incredible. You know,
I think it's seventy one that got hurt. Was was
that his number? Seventy one? Nine? Yeah, seventy one. I
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mean both have played really consistent football on the left side,
you know, the whole They've been so much better there.
You know, they're past blocking, they're run blocking. So once
Stas gets better, just everything else gets better. That often
gets ignored. As soon as you know they start playing better,
all these other positions start playing better than we. Just
that's all we talked about. We forget that. It starts
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and ends up front. And I'll tell you the other thing. Actually,
I was going to say this last week. I was like,
I missed it. Gosh damn. I mean, because they get
no credit, but they do get kind of ripped when
they don't play well. And our tight end group has
been terrific and then run blocking and I mean I've
just been and sorted by Rye receivers. I mean, as
a group, they have really made things different. You know,
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talk about game, we'll get into the perimeter and stuff.
It's just because how well they're doing on the perimeter
walking for him, you know, So yes, as long as
they can't build it on that, I mean, I ran Now,
don't think there's any reason that you you know, you
don't see growth from what you saw against Miami.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
I hope so, I certainly hope. So Aaron Rodgers looked
as good as he has all year in that game.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
You know why, right, But.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
You know why if you walked he if you went
back and watch the first five weeks and then this
the last few weeks. Like his the time he has
in the pocket is like a second more. Now that
sounds like nothing. That's an a turney in the National
Football League, an eternity, you know, and I played better.
Of course, if you'll he'll play that, he'll continue to
play like that. At the end of that.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
Time, there was a play where he was anticipating that
he was going to be getting pressure from the blind
side and he reacted like he was about to get
hit and there was nobody there, And I think it
was because he's just so used to that being the
point where he's in the pocket where he'd be going
down that he was just braking for and then he's like, oh,
(43:59):
nobody's there, you know, because Dylan Cook was doing such
a great job on the left tackle that all of
a sudden he had a little bit more time. And
I'm wondering if he'll adjust to that going forward and
think like, okay, because that might have made him for
making I think I think he still made a completion
on that, but I just wonder if he's going to
factor that in going forward.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Without a doubt.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
The same way when you start trusting people, you start
playing better. When you don't trust people, you start blinking,
you start flinching. So you can see that that trust
is becoming better and better with that group. That's why
I can tell you it's like I was really impressed
by how many times they rotated there, but yet truly
been consistent of these last few weeks. It's a It's
a great sign.
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Six to you you as well.
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Go Steers having New Year.
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Love you brother man.
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any better? Ah, like two leader of Doctor Pepper just
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crushing it, watching movies that you really weren't supposed to watch.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Now, some people will say otherwise, but I think that's parenting.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Yeah yeah, Yeah, he's taken care of.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He's got food, entertainment, and a roof over his head.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
This is going to serve him for the rest of
his life in terms of like the whole Santa thing
and like you know, spreading the Santa vibe with it
only being seven days until Christmas and we're a week
away from Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Have you seen the sketch.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
From a few years ago and now they did with
Ryan Gosling and Vanessa Bear who like move into this
neighborhood and they get invited to a Christmas Eve party
and they're like being welcomed by their new neighbors and
it becomes very apparent, like the kids come downstairs.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Like, Dad, when Santa coming, We'll get to bed.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
No, Santa's up on the roof right now, I think,
and Mine Costling and Vanessa Bear like.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
He's up there right now.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And then they start just making out with it and
like getting really hot for each other.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Like this is it, baby, this is it. Yeah, this
is it.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And they're acting like those characters in pulp fiction that
you know when they rob the exactly the kind of
do that over the prospect of meeting Santa. It's so
bizarre and funny, and I just like, there's the Santa magic.
You just you can't get away from it. This time
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of year, no matter how old you get, it does
feel like there's something in the air that compels you
to believe in something a little bigger than yourself.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Probably people that get hot for Christmas, like Disney adults.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Right, Oh, I.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Didn't even mean like that, but yeah, there's people who
get horny for Christmas. There's no doubt about it. I mean,
I have a buddy who's like, every time he watches
Christmas Vacation, he's.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Like, it's just's turned me on so much.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
That's Beverly D'Angelo. Yeah, and I'm like, yeah, and the
other the one girl who's yeah, no line, yeah, I
have a log.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You gotta be careful though, with.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
The the how hard you sell the Santa thing. I
remember like one of my buddies from grade school, well
into seventh grade, he was like, guys, I don't know.
I look, I don't have to. It turned into a
religious thing. He's like, I don't have to explain my
faith in Santa to anyone because I remember the year,
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the year, but maybe sixth the year before we were
It was in a appropriate for him to still be
doing it. And his mom made like a last desperate
play where she like put sleigh bells on the roof.
Now they went up on the roof and she's like, well,
then explain this. Oh no, Yeah, it was like the
(04:16):
shroud of turn for him. It was like this art
of fact that you know, couldn't be.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
With.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I don't have to explain my faith and sand it
to you people.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
That's like he's like, look when I get done breastfeeding,
I will explain to you.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
I think we learned a lot about his relationship with
his Yeah, something tells me they shared a bed for.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
A long time.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I don't think he's got a normal romantic relationship right now.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
No, probably not anyone but forever. But this is his
time of year. I mean, this is his super Bowl,
this is it. Yeah. Meryl Hodge coming up seven forty five,
Big Cat nine a M and Guy Junker at nine
to forty five.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Abby's got news right now.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What's Up?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
This hour is brought to you by Keystone Basement Systems.
What Basement, Keystone Basementsystems, dot Com Clouds today and a
high of fifty six Survivor is celebrating season fifty with
a special event that spans the country.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Season fifty okay, and so they've had multiple seasons per year.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Have had to because that just sounds impossible, right, Otherwise
they would have been on like next to all in
the family.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
And this is Jacob's Christmas because Jacob is a big
Survivor fan.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Have you seen all fifty Survivors?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Jacob?
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Yeah, the season forty nine finale was last night. You've
seen all fifty seasons? Randy, I don't know if I
should be ashamed to admit it. I started watching the
like Australian Survivor.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Of Australia have you can't get off on regular Survivor anymore?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
No, you need the high test stuff to get you.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
But if you if you ask the people who know,
they'll all tell you Australian version has become better version.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What's better?
Speaker 8 (06:05):
They just stayed truer to like the original game, the
newer seasons of the US version are a little copy
and paste. It's a little too focused on stop stories,
you know, like, oh, I'm doing this for my mom
or I'm doing this for my family. It's just, you know,
they used to bring in people of just like it
(06:26):
used to be a social experiment, bringing different people, and
now it's just let's get like the most emotionally heavy
stories we can find and really drawing a crowd. And
the season fifty is supposed to be a celebration of
the show.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And bringing in old cast members.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
But Lo and Behold, they do a trailer for every
upcoming season as the last season ends, and Lo and
Behold Survivor fifty was the next season, and then the
trailer Mister Beast.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Pops up exactly.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
I had the same reaction, and I'm like, I'm out,
I'm gonna watch, but I I it's supposed to be
like this awesome thing where they bring back twenty four
former contestants, and then in the middle of the trailer,
mister Beast is there. And I don't remember ever signing
up for Mister Beast to be a part of the show.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
That now I would go to an island to get
away from a world with mister Beast.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That's kind of the point.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You have watched seven hundred and thirteen hours.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Over over decades, though it's not like IV one year
and uh and the Australian Survivor as well, which is
how many seasons.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Uh, they're only at thirteen. Okay, I applaud you. That's
that's dedication. That's you know, there are.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
Those people who watch like Law and Orders for SVU
Sure or Grey's Anatomy or er On Loop, but that's art.
Jacob's right. I don't have to explain my faith in
the pit to you. That's crazy though fifty seasons. I
had no idea.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
So the show actually just dropped a video sharing that
the Survivor fifty Challenge now Jacob, is going to begin
on January thirtieth, and it will have fans searching for
fifty immunity idols and there's going to be one in
each state. So host Jess Probes said that Survivor's always
been about testing yourself, solving problems, facing.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
The unknown, and finding out what you're made of.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
So for twenty five years, fans have watched players take
that journey, and now with this Survivor fifty challenge.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
We're letting fans try it for themselves.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Fans need to register on this Survivor fifty website to
find out more. There is a prize that will be
awarded who we have to wait to find out what
that is. Are you going to go look for one
of these idols?
Speaker 8 (08:50):
They advertised this last night during the show, and my
friends and I who watch together, assume it's gonna be
in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Why do you think Philadelphia? Pittsburgh? I mean, we are
going to host the draft. Why are we not going
to I just that's a good point, Abby. I don't know.
I just feel like it's under the Mister Rogers Statue.
Are major cities. I don't feel like crossing over all right?
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Also too, like I'm i'm, I'm, I'm becoming less invested.
I don't need, I don't need to go searching for
this prize and see the mister Beasts logo.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's in a homeless encampment under a bridge over on the.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
North side, sponsored by Dude Wipes.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Go get it, no problem?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well, all right, well, best of luck to everybody.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
By the way, if he walked in the room, I
you you could tell me anybody was mister beast.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I don't really know what he looks like.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
It looks like a college freshman sort of. He does.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
He kind of looks like anybody, which is one of
the things that also makes his appeal like even more
confusing to me.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
He has like one of those.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Like blonde beard things happening that I that it makes
me insane on Beard.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Uh, look, it's blonde beard the least some of all
the pirates. He Spencer Pratt.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
He's probably gonna be hosting the Academy Awards when they
move it to YouTube. He should He probably will owe.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
But he he like could own YouTube with how much
money he makes. Although we've talked about a story this
year where he kept saying that he had to borrow
money from his mother to pay for his well because
he wasn't liquid or.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Something like that.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
He makes me crazy.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I do want to get to this story because it's
really crazy, and we're going to try to put it
together together.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You're putting your head in your hands.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I am frustrated. I am frustrated with it.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
John Travolta and his late wife Kelly Preston had three
children together, but their youngest child is biologically a Presley,
and I mean Elvis Presley Priscilla Pressley. This is the
According to a bombshell legal document, Priscilla Presley's former business partner,
Bridget Cruz, is currently suing Priscilla's son, Navarone Garcia for
(11:11):
breach of contract.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You've never heard of Navarone Garcia ever in my life? Nope,
didn't know.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
But what's way more interesting in new legal docs filed
in the case is that Cruz alleges that John and
Kelly used Riley Keow's eggs to give birth to their
son Ben. In the papers, Cruise alleges Michael Lockwood, Lisa Marie,
Presley's ex husband, told her Kelly had been unable to
(11:38):
bear her own children. Cruz claims John and Kelly previously
used Lisa Marie's eggs to get pregnant, but they no
longer wanted Lisa's eggs because they did not want eggs with.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Heroin on them.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Fair it's fair, it is under Do you have any
eggs without heroin?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
No, It's unclear whether Lisa Marie's eggs ever produced a child.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
However, crazy eggs have the genetic makeup of if somebody's
on drugs.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Is that?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
Like?
Speaker 6 (12:11):
I would think that any genetic material can be altered
with whatever you do to your body, you know, same
same thing if she had got undergone radiation. You know,
why wouldn't any kind of free radical change your bondy?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Who knows what all that two pai glue did to
his sperm?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
You know?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah, now it's on.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
However, Cruz claims a deal was orchestrated where Riley, one
of Lisa Marie's daughters, gave her eggs to Travolta so
that Kelly could give birth to Ben, who is fifteen
years old.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Now.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Cruz claims Riley was given an old Jaguar and ped
between ten to twenty thousand dollars for the deal.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Okay, so Riley kiow Yes is from Daisy Joe's in
the six.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Right, correct, She's an actress and too was.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Great in that by the way. And they're a band
from Pittsburgh. Don't forget that in the story, right, I
feel like fictional band from Pittsburgh. So they used her eggs.
She doesn't carry the baby. They just use her very
fertile that's my baby making stuff. And her payment was
ten thousand dollars in a Jaguar. Yeah, I kind of
(13:22):
think that she gave them a huge deal.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That's a huge deal. I think that is a bargain
price for her eggs. I think so too right. I
don't know what eggs go for. I haven't really wanted
into it.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Well, in Los Angeles, I would think in Elvis Presley,
egg is a lot more than ten thousand dollars. People
pay a whole lot of money to have a like
a press league kid.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I'm imagining the Jaguar to be a complete beater and being.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Like, hey, what do you think about this? AH gets
you in this today? I need a couple of eggs.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
He's like, I bought it from horse Shack and now
welcome back. Said in nineteen seventy six. Uh, it's a
weird story. I don't know who the brother is. The
father of that kid is Marco Garibaldi, who was married
to Priscilla Presley.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, and I don't he was an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I don't know, some rich guy.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
But the kid whose name is Garcia for some reason,
his last name, that kid Navarone Garcia.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
He's he wanted to be the only heir.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
He's like, I was told I was the only male heir,
and you have robbed me of that now because John
Travolta's kid is now part Travolta, part Presley. And how's
Marco Garibaldi's Jean's gonna compete with John Travolta's jeans. No
way that younger kid's gonna be a phenom you watch.
(14:56):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
No, I'm just like, I guess I'm missing the par
like was it was there a relationship that I missed
between the Travoltas and the Presley's.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
No, I guess they were just f They were just
kind of like, I gotta have.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
An Elvis baby.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I was thinking about it and at the end of
the day, I gotta have a little Elves baby.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
They'm like, how much for an Elvis baby?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
That's uh?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
What about a.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
To take a tray? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
I got this old Jaguar Phantom made up story like
Quentin Tarantino gave me this after we shot pulp fiction.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It's highly sentimental.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
How much for a Eddie Cochrane baby?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
It's just all like that paul Anka. How about a
paul Anka baby? What's an inca baby, going, what's in Aca?
Give me an anka egg? What are we looking at?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Nope, ooh, a.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Little bit more than I want to pay two akes.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Just keep going down the line of the entertainers in
the seventies, in the late sixties and seventies.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's a wild story.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Cliff Richard, give me a Cliff Richard egg. No, that too, well,
I guess in the UK it is worth mooring. I
get it, okay, but.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
It does seem like, even with the car and the money.
I wonder if in agreeing to that that they were
thinking about, like you just said, like an air too.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
That's what it is. But that's what I'm saying is when.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
They agreed to it on the front end, I wonder
if they were going, like, oh my god, this kid's
gonna have rights to all of this.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
And I'm telling you right now, I bet Donnie Iris's
daughters are listening to this thinking we miss the bubs.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Jesus, we could have cashed out. We know he's got cars.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
No, God, you.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Could have had it, Iris Egg. Anyways, clouds today in
a high fifty six.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Hey, Feedinburgh, that's tomorrow night, and we're very much looking
forward to this.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It's a big gig.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
It's Mister Small's and Rob James from the Clarks has
thrown this all together and called a bunch of his
friends to raise money for the Rainbow Kitchen at Mister
Small's Friday Deceummer nineteenth, that's tomorrow night, and it's an
all ages show, so this is pretty cool. Bring the
kids with you. You can donate and see some great performances.
Jokerschecky will be there performing live Bill Deezy Jeane the Werewolf,
(17:25):
Abby's Band, Tiny Wars who are Killer That's a great
opportunity to see them if you haven't yet. Clinton Clegg
of the common Heart will be jumping up and playing
Kelsey Friday from Brownie Mary, Jim Donovan and the Sunken Warriors,
Liz Berlin and Jen Works from Rusted Root who along
with Jim Donovan Rusted Root alum so a bit of
a Rusted Root reunion. There also Andre Costello, Chad Vincent,
(17:49):
Addie Twig and Seldonia Morgan Arena and more. Get your
tickets at mister Small's dot com or dve dot com
for Feed the burg Guts Tomorrow night.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
It's malls wherever you're driving has everything you need for
the drive. Chad Tyson ROX Pittsburgh weekday afternoons on DVE.
He also has a reloaded cut from the DVE Morning
Show and Sports News.
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This report All right, Mike Pursuda has got your sports
right now in the DV Morning Show, Get You said
for Sunday in the Motor City Steelers at the Lions
of four to twenty five kickoff here on the Steelers
Audio Network with Rob King, Max Stark's and Missy Matthews,
your radio home of the Black and Gold.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
DVE Steeler fans.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
If you're making the trip, I got two pieces of
advice for you, the Old Chiley and Lafayette Coney Island
in that order.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Okay, get hammered, then go grab a dog Chilly Dogs. Yeah,
it's Saturday night in Detroit. I I love that city.
I think it's a fun party. You scared me away
from going. I was gonna go, and then you made
it sound like I was gonna have a bad time
at the game watching the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Get depends embarrassed and you get out of games.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well, I want the Steelers to win the first and
foremost and my last memory of that field is us
winning a super Bowl, So I don't need to tarnish
that high bar.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Pretty good chance. I think this is gonna tartist that.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Well, and I met Robbie Robertson, Kid Rock Bob, O'Connor,
Mario was there. It is like who's who of just
random celebs. It was the best time ever Robbie big time, No,
he was totally cool. I was having a cigarette on
the patio and Robbie Robertson was just sitting there and
I was like Robbie.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And he was like yeah. And I was like, oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Dude, big fan of Rocks Station in Pittsburgh, blah blah blah.
Can I get a picture to put on the website?
And he's like sure, man, you know, and I took
a picture and I was like Lion's fan and he's
like she's like windsor baby, you know, like talking about Ontario.
I was like, ah, yeah, makes sense. He jumped right
over here, you know, and he was super cool. And
I walked away and I couldn't believe it. And my
(20:14):
friends were high fiving Mario while I was doing this,
and I didn't know. Mary walks through and they're they're like, eh, Mary,
Odi like gives everyone high fives.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I come back and they're like.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Dude, you missed it.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Marios five to.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Everybody, and I'm like, no, you missed it. I met
Robbie Robertson and they're like, who I was, Like Robbie
Robertson from the band, and they're like, marching band Lyons, man,
get it, we met Mary. I'm like, I know, but
I just met the guy who wrote the night they
(20:50):
drove All Dixie Down.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
They're like, you're a dork.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
You're the biggest, Like they just teed off on me
because I was so excited about meeting a guy that
had no idea who he was.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You know, I got, I tell you, Robbie Robertson high
fives with Marrio. I got a side with your friends.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I had a cigarette with Robbie Robertson. You know, I
had a cigarettes with Robbie Robertson.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Come on, cool, and I didn't bother him. I didn't
crawl up his ars too much. You know, I'm just
kind of like, yeah, I know, just talking about of
course you'd be a.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Detroit Lions fan. That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
A movie like the Hamilton Tiger Cats, I think they did.
I think they they were proud Canadians.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Canadian football never get it.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
No, And in watching that John Candy documentary and the
fact that he owned one of those the Toronto Argonauts,
I believe, and they went to the championship that first year,
and then he got he like became an ambassador for
the sport, and they thought it was going to finally
like cross over now and then he got fleashed for
a lot of money by a billionaire, and uh that
(21:50):
was and nobody paid attention to anymore.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
Probably one of the things they did wrong with Canadian
football was there was a period of time where they
had eight teams and two of them were named rough Riders.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, they couldn't come up with watch more than seven names.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
That was the problem. One of them smelled it one word,
and the other one was rough rider.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
There was a time though, when Doug Flutie went there,
people thought, oh, well, maybe let's start paying attention.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And then when Rock and Ismael went there.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
People there was a little thought that, Okay, maybe all
of these great American players who are just fringe here
are going to have like a USFL experience, they'll get
paid a lot of money to go to the CFL instead,
And then of course that money never came.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Yeah, it's not like European basketball, right, it just doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
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Steel is going to play.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Some American football on Sunday in Detroit against the Lions.
Wide receiver Adam Thielen's probably going to be in the
thick of it. Field joined the Steelers days before the
game in Baltimore on December the seventh, but thanks to
some intensive and impressive cramming, he was able to play
against the Ravens, and he feels like he's gotten himself
caught up since then.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (23:00):
I wasn't very good crammer, but I told my wife
that's funny to say that, because I told them why
the other day. It's a lot more fun cramming for
something that you really love. So it was not good
at that in college, but uh, but football I really
enjoy the game, and it makes it a little bit
easier when you when you really love and enjoy.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
What you're doing. It's been like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You up to speed, though, I think so I feel
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, I feel pretty good about me. Get a ramit
your scene.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
If you remit rights, you can ram it out on
that grant No how to grammit Granitt.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Steeland showed up in the aftermath of the Steelers' low
point this season, a twenty six to seven loss at
home the Buffalo on November thirtieth. In the aftermath of
that disaster, the wide receivers had some heart to hearts
with offensive coordinator Arthur Smith to make sure they were
all on the same page. Here's DK Metcalf.
Speaker 12 (23:52):
I think it's just a communication throughout the week. I mean,
I know it started like around the middle of the season,
but like after the Buffalo game, we really sat down
to talk and you know, really give them the same
page about how we see, you know, the game plans
moving forward.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
It was interesting they're telling Smith what they wanted to
do and what he thought of what they wanted to do.
You always hear the offensive coordinators talk about the quarterbacks
and well, if this quarterback's playing, we know he's got
some things in the game plan that he really likes,
so we'll emphasize those. And he's got some things that
he doesn't like, so we take those out. They're they're
(24:26):
applying that to the receivers. Also, there's things there are
things the receivers like to run and things the receivers
don't like to run. And these conversations, according to Metcalf,
were not as much about the details of execution regarding
what was called, but uh, you know, calling what they
wanted to have called and when they wanted to run it.
Speaker 12 (24:48):
Oh, yes, sir, I think you know, anytime anybody's being heard,
you know from their point of view, and their point
of view is definitely being executed on game days, you know,
is that much more exciting for you to go out
there and make places.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, you're invested. That makes sense.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Yeah, they're starting to figure it out. Is it too little,
too late or just in time? I guess we're gonna
find out. Sunday, Steelers at the Lions.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Both teams eight and six.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
And I think the general perception is one team is
much better than the other one. And I think that
general perception is probably accurate.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I will say the one area where they have definitely
improved week to week seems to be offensive line.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Oh, they're playing great. Did you see what Brian Boldtinger
posted about the one cook. Yeah, Bouldinger is just raving,
so he didn't have a bad rep.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, and he's the third, fourth guy, fourth left tackle.
So for all the flak that Pat Meyercot, you know,
kudos because these guys seem to be uh gelling together,
although every time they lose. Ayamalu he really does feel
like the lynchpin there.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
He is the one veteran guy in that group and
the big brother and the guy who's won and the
guy who's done it all. Yeah, real security blankets the
wrong word, but he's the guy they all lean on.
Fascinating matchup Sunday, Troy Fatanho against Aiden Hutchinson. Hutchinson is
a monster, game wrecking edge.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yes he is.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
He's just He's TJ Watt at the height of his powers. Yeah,
and that's gonna be a problem. Derek Harmon full participant yesterday.
That's encouraging. No Isaac Sayamala with the triceps, No Nick
Herbig with the hamstring. I saw you made a little
post about Matthew Judon who got released by Well, I.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Was just saying, I'm starting to feel like those dudes
who drive around on trash night with a pickup looking
for scores. Every time somebody puts something to the curb,
I'm like, I can probably get something.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
For that without what and herbig Potentially that outside linebacker
line is really thin.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Well they signed yeah, Moon and one more would be good.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Judon.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
I think he's not what he used to be, but
he can still play.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
They just saw him that. Yeah, that one would be
a layup to me. But we'll see get in a truck.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Let's go tonight. I'm American pickers.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Sometimes you get some good stuff that way.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah, I know, Aaron, were you one of those things
we picked? No, of course not.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I'm a brilliant quarterback and you're an a hole. I'm
dareus just I'm a cast off. Don't paint them aldu either.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Now there's that too.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Let's just for laughs, fine cast off? Because he is
definitively a cast off.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
The team you have, the team you are on kicks
you unceremoniously to the curb.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yes, he's not a contract dispute.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
It's not a train just we don't want you anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Right, that's cast off. You were cast off.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
But what let's say he continues to play the level
he's played at the last couple of years and for
most of the season, and he wants to come back
and play again next year. What do you think he
commands if he plays for thirteen million again.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I mean, he just might. He's in for the love
of the sports.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
He's married now, so you know, it depends on what
his wife wants. You know, you may command more money
for her. And this is a QB starve league, no
question about it, and a development starve league. The older
guys are actually more valuable right now because it's more
about the brains than anything else.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
As long as he can still spin it, and he
can he can spin it.
Speaker 13 (28:37):
You know, Kenny Gamewell signed to next to nothing contract.
You know Connor Hayward after thought had a touchdown run.
You know, Mark Quest been on a couple of teams.
Adam Thielen got cut h Samuel was on the street
for a long time. So says, learn about the character
of the guys we brought.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
In consiting yourself one of those cast off?
Speaker 13 (29:00):
No, I'm not casting.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
That's a stupid question. I'm not casting color Hayward had
a touchdown. Run the hell you telling you? He accepted
a snap and got something in the head.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, we're just a bunch of plucky young bums. No, hope.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
You know, if it wasn't for this to be the CFL,
what about you?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
What could have gone?
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Even?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
What did you just say? Security?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Leave leave?
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I mean everybody he named there was only one cast
off vs. Scaling Yeah, yeah, maybe he did it for MVS.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah he was what you should put him in his place?
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Well, no, just to be like, yeah, come on, Mark,
there's some other bums on the team.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
It's not just you, it's not me, but right, it's
not just do you consider yourself one of those cast offs?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
No, you're an idiot.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
I'll tell you what though, that's about the first hint
of ego that he's shown.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I I mean, I don't know a guy who if
he had he go and was playing that card, he's
got many of those cards in his hand. Well, I
think that his perception on that is I am a
Hall of Famer, I'm not a cast off. I'm not
on the island of misfit toys like I am still
a highly desired quarterback performing in the like at a level.
(30:32):
I think he was number eleven in QBR in the
league after Monday night, you know, top third, pretty high. Yeah,
And I think that he sees it as a sign
of disrespect to lump him in with Connor Hayward, who
definitively is not a cast off.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
He actually got a job right out of the draft
and never lost it.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
I think Rogers was trying to pump the tires of
some of his teammates, as he has tried to do
all year, and I think he just kind of fumbled
it there.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I think he was just trying to say unheralded guys.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Yeah, but cast offs was probably the wrong word, and
that's why I think he was like, no, I'm not
a cast off.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Damn, I shouldn't said cast off.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I was really due.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
As I was saying it out loud, I realized I
am a cast off, and now I've just did something
really disparaging about myself the Packers.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
The Packers drafted my replacement that booted me while I
could still play, and then I went to another team
and it was a disaster for two years and they
booted me and now.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Here I am. I'm I'm the poster boy for Castle.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
He's like, I'm a cast on. Okay, you cast me
on to the team. Yeah, I'll see what Meryl Hodge
has to say about that.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
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When I at my back of teams, there was the
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Speaker 2 (34:12):
It's Meryl h.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
What's up? Maryl what's that?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Start every day off like this?
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Speaker 4 (34:27):
I wake up to it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
Before we get into the Steelers, Liones gotta mentioned what
the incredible job Meryl did is the MC at the
Hall of Honor banquet on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Oh well, boy, couldn't have a more perfect person for that.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Maryland didn't know you had that club in your bag. Man,
great job.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Wait listen, Mike, I'm coming from you. I really appreciate that.
Thank you. That was very special night, as you. They
all are and there's not one that but they just
get better and better. And the guys they put in Joey
and Marques and band I mean three league.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Guys right there, Yeah, no question. I mean Joey Porter.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
It's so fun to watch the legacy continue with his
son and Joey Porter Junior has gotten a whole lot
better as he's continued to play for the Steelers. I mean,
he came in with high expectations. I think people were
a little at first frustrated by some of the penalties
he was taken, but that that's part and parcel of
the game. When you want to be a shutdown guy,
he's like figuring out that nu once and becoming the
(35:27):
guy who doesn't get called all the time. You can't
complain about his performance this year, Meryl.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
He's going He's on the right trajectory. Let's just put
it that way. You know, nobody comes in and masters
this game, but you have to work at it. And
as long as you're working at it, I'm sure what
your position is and getting better, that's all you can ask.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Yeah, he might have been out of position against the
Bills a few times, but in terms of past coverage.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
No, and you know what, I an actually dared he's
gotten better at it would make him him with separate
him these two things, like he was really handsy at
Penn State, really handsy. You know, he's had to learn
to deal with that and try not to be his
hands he in the NFL. But his willingness to go
tackle people and make plays in that arena.
Speaker 11 (36:15):
That is.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
That's and everybody separate yourself. You know, if you can
cover in you can and you tackle and you're you're
not afraid of that, then you started coming special. And
he's growing in those areas to your point, he really is.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Now other things defensively for the Steelers that we're concerning
the run defense, you know, they didn't exactly get gashed
without Derek Harmon the other night, which I was glad
to see, no doubt about it. You know, Cam had
a good game and why Black stepped up Benton as well.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Against Detroit. They're really going to.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Have to make sure that that defensive line effort is
as good as they can put forward. Harmon coming back
is crucial, and it appears that he had a full
practice yesterday Mike. So that's good looking good because without him,
with Gibbs and Montgomery, that's just a tough one too.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
To deal with.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Some backups, well, if you just tell you this, they
won't take them long.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
As soon as you plug in some tape and you
see Jamar Gibbs, you'll be like both their backs. And
then they bring the compliment each other. Well, they're wicked,
they're dangerous. Jamar Gibbs, he's probably he's clearly in the
top five of offensive players. You can maybe sitting argue
and one and two ex at the kid is. And
(37:36):
what makes him scary. What's hard is that it's so
easy to get him the ball. You know, you can
just turn around hand it to him. But they also
move him all over the place, which is another big concern.
So he has the problem teams that can hold.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Him in bay.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
And what I mean is that he doesn't really get
like a twenty yard run on you, a thirty yard
run on you, like a home run on you. That's
what you're trying to avoid, you know, if you're gonna
get to survive eight, nine, tens, elevens, yes, and you
just but if you can hold him to that those
type of runs. You've done a good job. But he's
got the only guy. That's the other problem. He's got
(38:13):
the guy that this would be the greatest test, you know,
on the road to in that environment, you find out
who you are, who you really are, and this is
when you want to find out who's playing you want
to be playing your best. This is you struggle all
year to get to this point, to really start playing
consistent football. And the teams that do that, you know,
they moved out, They moved right into the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
Meryl, you mentioned this isn't the only guy. Far from it.
I mean, these guys are number one in points per game.
They got the pedal down since Stan Campbell took over
the play calling, and they're getting more splashed. Can these
guys be stopped or do they have to be outscored
if you're the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
But the only way you can out the only way
you can truly stop them. So all the people we've
just talked about, yeah they're concerned, but then we really
forgot where we got to win. Is you got to
win if you win the last scrimmage, if you constantly
put their quarterback under stress, that's the only tho, those
only teams that have held them down, they've been able
to win the latt of scrimmage and went play on
(39:16):
the other side a consistent amount of plays and stress
their quarterback. That's that's that's how you neutralize them. I
don't know that, you know, Listen, you have a plan,
and then you play the game, and then you adjust
the plan, and then you react to what takes place.
I think, I really, you know, it isn't about trying
to get in there and outscore them, because they can
(39:39):
with as good or better than anybody a case better
to try to neutralize them, you know, the best you can.
But then oftense you have to do your part too. Okay,
like the game we just played Miami, I don't think
people really probably could appreciate how good you know, Randy,
you mentioned how we weren't that good against the run. However,
all the teams that have played them in the last
(39:59):
six weeks bets we were the best. I don't know
what the statistics are checked that. I don't care. I
just know that the way they handled their running game,
based on how they were running the football, they completely
neutralized them. And then they completely took their offense away.
So that's ultimately what you had to do against Detroit.
You got to neutralize them the best you can consistently,
and then you have a chance they Ever time that
(40:20):
offenses on the film, you're either changing field position.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Or you're scoring points offensively. For the Pittsburgh Steelers, they
seem to have turned a corner. Gainwell had a great
game the other night. I still I am a Jalen
Warren fan, and I know that he was sick, so
I wasn't expecting as much as we even got out
of him. I think what it really kept him from
doing was having that burst after contact that we see
him have sometimes. You know, I think he was dealing with,
(40:43):
you know, high temperature flu situation, and it's a wonder
he was even out there. But Gainwell was absolutely outstanding,
catching the ball and running the ball. Offensive line seems
to be jelling nicely, and the passing game is taking
on a different dynamic with scaling and feeling and you
saw scalting with the touchdown DK with the big one
where he just you know, postered Minka on his way
(41:05):
into the end zone. Can we expect this going forward
to continue to get better now that they have those
pieces in place where it's like, all right, Aaron Rodgers
has you know, Roman Wilson, Calvin Austin weren't doing quite
as much to draw attention away from DK, and now
(41:26):
all of a sudden, it seems like DK's getting some space.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Correct. Well, okay, you just glanced over it. But the
thing that has changed this offense the most actually has
been how consistent they've been up front. They just been
so much better as a group. You know, mind they've changed.
You know, their left side has changed. They got three
they're on the third tackle, their second guard. But there
was you didn't know that, he didn't know that they
(41:51):
were missing. That's credit to you know, the players and
the coaches for doing that. So that is as well
as they keep stabilized that and find keeping that consistency.
You know, I thought sixty was he was incredible. You know,
I think it's seventy one that got hurt. Was was
that his number? Seventy one? Nine? Yeah, seventy one. I
(42:13):
mean both have played really consistent football on the left side,
you know, the whole They've been so much better there.
You know, they're past blocking, they're run blocking. So once
Stas gets better, just everything else gets better. That often
gets ignored. As soon as you know they start playing better,
all these other positions start playing better than we. Just
that's all we talked about. We forget that. It starts
(42:34):
and ends up front. And I'll tell you the other thing. Actually,
I was going to say this last week. I was like,
I missed it. Gosh damn. I mean, because they get
no credit, but they do get kind of ripped when
they don't play well. And our tight end group has
been terrific and then run blocking and I mean I've
just been and sorted by Rye receivers. I mean, as
a group, they have really made things different. You know,
(42:56):
talk about game, we'll get into the perimeter and stuff.
It's just because how well they're doing on the perimeter
walking for him, you know, So yes, as long as
they can't build it on that, I mean, I ran Now,
don't think there's any reason that you you know, you
don't see growth from what you saw against Miami.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
I hope so, I certainly hope. So Aaron Rodgers looked
as good as he has all year in that game.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
You know why, right, But.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
You know why if you walked he if you went
back and watch the first five weeks and then this
the last few weeks. Like his the time he has
in the pocket is like a second more. Now that
sounds like nothing. That's an a turney in the National
Football League, an eternity, you know, and I played better.
Of course, if you'll he'll play that, he'll continue to
play like that. At the end of that.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
Time, there was a play where he was anticipating that
he was going to be getting pressure from the blind
side and he reacted like he was about to get
hit and there was nobody there, And I think it
was because he's just so used to that being the
point where he's in the pocket where he'd be going
down that he was just braking for and then he's like, oh,
(43:59):
nobody's there, you know, because Dylan Cook was doing such
a great job on the left tackle that all of
a sudden he had a little bit more time. And
I'm wondering if he'll adjust to that going forward and
think like, okay, because that might have made him for
making I think I think he still made a completion
on that, but I just wonder if he's going to
factor that in going forward.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Without a doubt.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
The same way when you start trusting people, you start
playing better. When you don't trust people, you start blinking,
you start flinching. So you can see that that trust
is becoming better and better with that group. That's why
I can tell you it's like I was really impressed
by how many times they rotated there, but yet truly
been consistent of these last few weeks. It's a It's
a great sign.
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you after the New Year, and hope you guys have
the best Christmas holiday with your family.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
And a happy, healthy twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Six to you you as well.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
Go Steers having New Year.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Love you brother man.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
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Speaker 1 (45:04):
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