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Speaker 1 (00:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Human Pearl Jam have put their money behind something that
will get a lot of use this winter, a zamboni machine.
The Pearl Jam jamboni is a jamby.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
It's being used this season by Two Harbors, Minnesota's Youth
Hockey Association. The association was in search of a local
business to sponsor its new zamboni when its board members
decided on a whim to reach out to Pearl Jam.
Pearl Jam designed its own art for the jamboni, which
is black with the name on the side, a PJ

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in the school's colors, and it's got hockey sticks across
behind it.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
So that's cool. It should have hit up all the
Seattle bands. I'll see if they can help out, can
build the Alison chains Man in the box with the
penalty boxes, Brandy Bellman and the DV morning show Joe
Bartneigg with us there yesterday. You know, it occurred to

(01:27):
me that, you know, you hockey teams might start hitting
up the Clarks now, So look out. That's all I'm saying,
Donnie Iris, You're next. This is the true Okay, I
like this something to consider, just saying, Uh, did you
happen to see, by the way, our buddy Tad Whistle's
hanging out with us this morning. Good morning Ted. What's
going on guys? Not too much? You know, I don't
know if you saw Ben Roethlisberger on his podcast yesterday,

(01:52):
had the funniest SoundBite in the world. He basically said, like,
you know, Mike Tomlins the greatest guy. He's such a
good he's such a good guy. And we know that
Ben does not love Mike Tomlin like he does not like.
I think he holds a grudge that they didn't win
more championships, you know what I mean. I think he

(02:14):
blames coach tu although he'll say he likes him, you
know which I don't believe.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
I like coach Tomlin. I have a lot of respect
coach Tomlin. But maybe it's best for him too. Maybe
maybe a fresh start for him is what's best, whether
that's in the pros, whether maybe go be Penn States.
You know what he would do in Penn State, he'd
probably go win national championships.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
He said, Maybe it's time.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Maybe it talked about around here a lot. Maybe it's time.
Maybe it's a clean house time.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Oh that's brutal. Now. The reason I'm laughing is because,
I mean I do think that Ben is giving him
a little bit of a shot in the ribs there.
But you know, maybe maybe he'd like to coach college,
as anybody thought of that.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Maybe he wants to go run on a farm somewhere.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, maybe he'd like some fresh air, you know, maybe
he could do some clinics. Maybe maybe that's what he
should beat clinics, go out and teach the kids, you know,
seven on seven drills. Just have fun with it. Mike,
spread your wings. Oh killing me the Penn State jump.
I mean, look, I'm laughing through the pain because this

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ultimately means the Steelers are in a bad way right now.
Uh six and six and headed to Baltimore. It can
all change with the win over the Ravens and then
they would be in sole possession of first place in
the AFC North. But we see this all the time
in Pittsburgh Steelers Land during the Mike Tomlin era, which
is the roller coaster ride of emotions week to week.

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And that's what people are sick and tired of. It's
just up and down in mediocrity. We stink, We you know,
we we won a game we shouldn't have maybe we
don't stink, and then we lose to a team we
shouldn't have lost to What the hell Tomlin? I mean,
sitting at six and six at this point in the season.
Everybody had us at eight to nine or nine and eight,
and it looks like we're headed right in that direction,

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although when you look at the schedule, I mean, Miami
looks like a good bet for a win, and only
because Shador Sanders has been so bad. The Browns look
their defense is so good, But you think you're getting
those two if nothing else right, which puts you at
eight and nine and might win the division. Who knows,
that's just not good enough after all these years. I

(04:35):
don't know if it means it's gonna change. Everybody's talking
about it now. The last two days have just been
full of should the Steelers move on from Tomlin? And
a lot of people have joined the fray that I
didn't think would. People saying like, yep, it's time for
Tomlin to go? Like who I mean, national figures like well,
the dude Florio never loved the Steelers. He likes to

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give the Steelers shots whenever he can, and he's saying
basically like, yeah, it might be time for Mike Tomlin
to go. Will Bond was the one guy who was,
you know, saying they shouldn't get I will root against
the Steelers if they fired Mike Tomlin, which is like, eh,
I don't know, you know, that's a bit mucha a
bit much. He's not gonna get fired mid season. If

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anything happens, it would be after this season. Diana Rossini
reporting that he looks tired and you can tell that
he's exhausted. I bet the dude's burned out, no question
about that. But whatever they've been doing ain't working. I mean.
Ba was on Pat McAfee show yesterday, Bruce Arians and
he said, basically, both the coordinators are getting blown out
at the end of the year, no matter what. Now.

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Ba's got a little bit of a grudge too, because
he got sort of forced out of town because tired.
He retired only to coach two more teams and went
three more teams and win a Super Bowl, but they
shoved him out of town because he was getting Ben
killed basically, and he basically said, both coordinators are gone,
and yep, maybe it's time for coach t he said,

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because he couldn't believe what he saw in that defense.
So it's getting it's getting uglier than just a bunch
of insurs going. I'm sick and tired of Tomlin. I
don't know if that din is loud enough for Art
Rooney to hear and think, whoa, it's time change. I
don't know how you can ignore it.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
I think we know once we see the cakes a
giant eagle, it's over Tomlin cakes. Well, no, once we
got to the Matt Canada gookie cakes, I think we knew.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
You can't ignore it anymore. It's true. All right, Well,
we got a busy show for you today. Meryl Hodge,
Mark Madden will be on with us a little bit
later on this morning, and Abby's got things ready to
cook for you. Here. What's going on? News? This hour
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Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's cloudy today, with a high around thirty four. We
talked briefly yesterday about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and
now by the numbers, a record two hundred and two
point nine million US shoppers hit stores and websites during
the five day stretch from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, according
to the National Retail Federation, So that is up from
one hundred and ninety seven million shoppers last year. Black

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Friday remained the most popular shopping day, with shoppers spending
an average of three hundred and thirty seven dollars over
the weekend. But this is the story I actually wanted
to get to because it highlights our love hate relationship
with things like Amazon. Amazon's currently testing ultra fast deliveries
because it wants to get purchases to your front door.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
In thirty minutes, like Domino's pretty much.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
This is a thirty minute delivery service that they are
testing in two places right now. It's only going to
be in Seattle and Philadelphia to start.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
I don't like it. We're going to push people to
the absolute break. We're going to push our employees to
the breaking point. You saw that it was bad when
they couldn't pee before. These people won't be allowed to
go to the bathroom all day so that you can
get your lysol. It's not all products available, but kint
it to your point.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's going to be offered for thousands of everyday household
essentials and grocery items and it's not free. The thirty
minute delivery start at thirteen ninety nine per order. If
you're a Prime member, your charge will be discounted to
three ninety nine, but a small basket fee of a
dollar ninety nine will be added to orders below fifteen bucks.
But they're going to have it twenty four hours a day,

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seven days a week.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Wow. Well, I know you know. They were talking about
the drone deliveries, which I thought was hilarious because I
could just see that ending back people's packages exploding on
their front porch after being dropped from twenty feet. Oops.
I don't know that we're quite there, but this thirty
minute delivery thing seems completely unnecessary. What could you possibly

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need unless it's a ride to the hardware store, I
don't know. I mean in thirty if you need something
in thirty minutes, you go out of your house and
go get it, right, Yeah, I mean this one would
apply to a very small number of non lazy people.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
This is my six hundred pound life kind of stuff. Right,
You're like, I can't leave.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Me leave it on the porch. You were supposed to
send the robots. I didn't drift for this, but why
would those people need something eminently, you know what I mean,
It's like, well, where are you going?

Speaker 4 (09:18):
The drivers are all gonna need catheters, which is like
just scary to mean, just to perform their job, Yes, totally.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
And they're already kind of putt in reckless situations because
they're under such pressure to get all those deliveries in
on time that they're parking sort of perilously on streets
and making a date and they're hopping out of the truck.
And I mean I saw a dude yesterday almost get
clipped just trying to run across the street because he
was parked on the opposite side of the street of
his delivery and he was kind of dodging traffic like frogger.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
And it's bad possibly getting hit and also getting mfed
every day, oh my, constantly for illegally parking.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
What you have to do right exactly. I mean that's
part of the issue that business owners in the Strip
district had when they were reducing it down to one
lane on pent Avenue for the bike lanes, because they're like,
where are the delivery trucks going to park? Where are
emergency vehicles gonna park? They're going to have to just
stop traffic. But yeah, don't. I don't know. We'll see

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how it goes, but it sounds like a turn towards
the more dystopian future. Sometimes it doesn't always work though,
Like AI is not going like they thought.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
No, and Amazon even has the whole AI component two
and they have an added pharmacy. I don't know if
you've been shopping on Amazon lately, but like on the
little corner now, they also offer medical services and pharmacy.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Okay, well hold on now you're talking all right, so
hold on a second. Yeah, what kind of drugs can Amazon?
As soon as said catheters, I was like, I don't
know if you want that from Amazon? Wrong size, Martha. Well,
you know, good luck to all involved.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Lane Kiffin's jobs saga is quote not that deep. According
to his daughter, Landry Kiffen, a sophomore at ole Miss,
shared a message with those upset that her dad bolted
from ole Miss to take the head coach job at
LSU on Sunday. Quote wish I could be as creative
as angry football fans, Landry wrote in a text over
the video that she posted, adding hearthands emoji and added

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the hashtag it's not that deep. She also liked a
bunch of comments defending her father's decision to leave the
Rebels on the cusp of the college football playoff after
six years at the Helm. Landry attended the Lane Or
attended Lane's introductory press conference at Tiger Stadium with her
brother Knox and mom Layla on Monday. It's unclear if
Landry will transfer from Old Miss to LSU.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
I mean, they haven't won a national championship since nineteen sixty.
He had them on the break of being able to
do that this year. There at least, you know, in
the conversation and after doing that, he tears the team apart,
like she's so wrong about this not being drama philed.
The entire thing is drama, And I got bad news

(11:59):
for you. Your daddy is drama. His entire professional life has
been drama. This is he went to This would be
like you know, Tomlin coaching the Steelers to the AFC
Championship and before the game jumping over to the Ravens
and coaching them.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
That's the thing. It's the mid season. It's not finishing
the season with the team that you're on and with
the transfer portal. It's not like Lane Kiffin is Mary
Poppins who came in and fixed everything, and then he's
onto the next one with his umbrella. Yeah, he's onto
the next one, and I'm taking all the good players.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
With me exactly, and coaches right and basically said, you know,
leaves them in the lurch. So their bid for a
championship is gone next year is destroyed. I mean, there
are better ways to go out now. The NCAA probably
it's incumbent upon them to fix this going forward. I
don't know if they will, because you should not be

(12:51):
able to do this in mid season, like poaching of
coaches is. I mean, it's kind of screwing things up,
way worse than nil is because these coach the players
are following coaches. But in some instances, like when they
fired James Franklin at Penn State, I was like, Wow,
that's a lot of money to pay that guy. Why

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would you fire in mid season? What's the point? Well,
he was able to get another job quickly enough that
they didn't have to pay fifty million. They can only
pay what was it nine million or something like that,
So that's where it's advantageous if they get rid of that,
Like hey, nobody can get a job until after the
national championship game. Just push it until the end of
the season. Then everybody can. You know, they'll be tampering

(13:33):
and stuff for sure. But if you just make it
that simple, like you can't change schools until the football
season is done, or declare that you're doing.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
That, I'm in a favor of whatever prevents it from
blowing up mid season. This is a total disaster for
Old Miss. And uh, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
I mean I never cared about All Miss, but right,
but I am on their side on this one. But
the people that did you know, their life is you know,
turned upside down. His daughter should probably just kind of
pipe down on this one, is really the point?

Speaker 4 (14:04):
Does Link even get an extra point for naming his
daughter Landry as what I imagine as an homage to
Tom Landry?

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yes, you would imagine. Well, his other daughter Lombardi would.
They're totally different. She has a mall, she smokes Paul Mas.
You've met my my daughter, did cu. It's all got
to be Southern coaches, right, He can't know nobody north
of the Mason Dixon line. Yeah. Does he get a

(14:31):
huge pay bump too?

Speaker 2 (14:32):
He was making what twelve at ole Miss is he
making like ninety at LS?

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, it's probably ninety over a certain number of years.
It won't be anymore, for sure. He's got a lot more, waymore.
That's why when that one reporter from ESPN asked him, like, well,
what's the allure of LSU over old miss? What do
they have that ole Miss doesn't? It's like boosters money,
like they will pay. It's life changing, generational wealth. Not

(15:01):
that he was getting a pittance at ole Miss, But dude,
ed Ojeron is still getting paid until next week for LSU.
LSU's currently paying three coaches Ojeron, Brian Kelly, and Lane Kiffen. Wow,
which is hilarious. Yeah, it's a lot anyways.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
All right, if you think Amy Schumer's husband is enjoying
her new glow up might be wrong. It sounds like
she's not taking him along her new journey. She posted
a lot of photos over the weekends. I'm calling them
first traps, And it wasn't just the excess pounds that
were missing. A lot of people noticed it was also
her wedding ring. In fact, she doesn't seem to have

(15:41):
it on in any of the new picks.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
That she's posted.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
And we talked about this last week where she scrubbed
her whole social media and people were saying that at
first they thought that maybe she was scrubbing her Instagram
of all of the photos in which she appeared to
weigh more, and she said that that was because she
had got healthier. She had had Cushing syndrome, which had
given her this moonface, which the internet helped her diagnose

(16:06):
essentially and said, you know, that's a sign of your
cortisol production basically being off, and it helped her diagnose
that and get healthier. She's been using weight loss drugs
and she's been very vocal about getting cosmetic surgery to
help with some of this. But either way, now that
she's been feeling a lot more confident, she scrubbed her

(16:27):
social media.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
She's been posting all of these photos.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
But the biggest again thing that people have noticed is
that she's probably getting divorced.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
But she got skinny and she lost there maybe just
doesn't fit anymore. I thought about that.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
That honestly was the first place my head went to him, like, well,
maybe the wedding green doesn't fit anymore. But there's been
a couple of stories going along this now. But there's
a lot of tabloids that are saying she's one hundred
percent getting divorced and that she's just over the relationship.
Other sources saying that they're just having the normal issue

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that couples in long term marriages have.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
I love you and your moonface. It was the Cushing syndrome.
I loved.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Anytime someone scrubs their social media, immediate red flag in
your brain, like.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Are they okay? Yeah, absolutely, all right, what's coming here? However,
I think there's an age stipulation on that. It's like
anybody over the age of thirty five, because my nieces
like they do that stuff all the time. They'll wipe
in and like the younger kids are doing it all
the time without any retribution. But I agree with you.
To me, it's like I won't erase the evidence of

(17:36):
my past. Those are the bread crumbs that I left there,
and to erase them would be disingenuous. It's as if
I know and that's that's enough, and I'm trying to
erase my past and pretend I had a different journey
to get here now warts and I'll go ahead, go
back and see that awesome soul patch I had. I agree.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
I won't get rid of anything because I feel like
then I'm lying. And if you saw that photo and
you liked that photo.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Then you kind of already know it was there, right,
I can't hide it. Yeah, that's weird that she did
all that though. It is uh, it does usually mean
you're breaking up though, because you're wiping the pictures of
you and your husband. It might mean that they're painful
to look at. But she was the body positive person.

Speaker 5 (18:24):
I know.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
That's the weird thing. All that body positivity went right
out the window once Ozempek came around. All of that
like this is the new face of healthy and so
people are like, f that, take the drugs and get hot.
Now it's easy. Actually, we could finally do it. We
have the technology. Yeah. That is the biggest bummer is
how quickly that left us all, oh yeah immediately, we
actually don't care that much. But look, there is a

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component of it that is healthy. Like, you know, to
not carry around that much excess weight is typically a
much better scenario for you biologically.

Speaker 6 (18:57):
It is.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
And we keep hearing things about ozempic two. There's other
benefits to it. I mean, I saw another story yesterday
that was circulating about ozembic penis, which which is what
you get more go on, you get more length.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Nah, yeah, really, I.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Mean not significantly. I think it's because people who.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Tend to carry too much weight. Yeah, no, I that
people tend to carry too much weight.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
You know, once they lose the weight, they see that
they get a little more.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Length compared to everything else down there. It's looking healthy.
I thought you were going to say it also shed
some some lbs, because that would be weird if it lost, like,
you know, some consistency and whatnot, that would be a bummer. Yeah, exactly.
There have to be another pill to offset that. This
offset's ozembic penis. I thought that that was.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
The first thing that we heard with ozembic because we
didn't believe the hype. Were like, there's no way that
this is a magic bullet, and it might be just
not bear right because we're working so hard at the
gym and we're counting our calories and how dare anyone
cheat code? This is gotta be This is gotta give
you a tail, right, And now we're like, nope, makes

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your hair grow, it actually heals your liver stops good
for dementia.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
It stops you from smoking, and everybody looks hot now yea,
and Amazon will deliver it in thirty minutes. Mike's got
your sports coming up here in just a little bit.
As coach Tomlin met with the media yesterday, I thought
a very measured Mike Tomin press garbage. When he's on
the hot seat, he's he is a delight, you know. Yeah,

(20:37):
he's not mean to anybody when he's in on the
hot seat.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
I think it was Brooke who asked me his name
dropping reporters that he does not like exactly.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Was that you, Brooke?

Speaker 7 (20:47):
Was that you?

Speaker 1 (20:48):
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Speaker 6 (20:59):
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Speaker 1 (21:02):
Just save us. As a priest said on the free
iHeartRadio app from the Bridgeville Appliance Weather Center, all right,
my pursuit has got your sports right now. I get
a little voice crack on times it change that sound
like Mike Tomlin addressing the press. Cort after yeah, or

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what's his name? Gus Johnson? Oh my god, judge Dawn.

Speaker 8 (21:28):
I cringe when I hear his name. I can't watch
a game. I turn it down?

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Is that bad? Is it? You literally don't listen to him?
You will turn it down? Is there anybody else that
you've did one?

Speaker 7 (21:41):
That for.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Collinsworth is getting there for a lot of people. And
the weird thing is Romo is too, Like the Romo
and Nance dynamic used to be so great, but now
it's devolved into this. I don't know. It's a weird
dynamic between the two of them because Tony Romo doesn't
know what to do since they won't let him tell
you what the play is that's coming. And he was
really good at that and I really like that. Yeah,

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I don't know why they think that's bad, Like, tell me.

Speaker 8 (22:10):
Well, there's two tight ends on the left, so they're
gonna throw it to the right. Yeah, four feet across
from the line of scrimmage and that's where the ball
would go.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
It wow, And that was like his special skill. They
won't let him do it anymore. So he's not really
that personable guy, Like he's a robot. Let it be that.
And so Nance is constantly having to cover for all
the stupid stuff he's saying, yeah, it's not good. It's
weird because I still consider them like a premiere duo,
but the product has gotten bad. It's because they won't

(22:38):
let Romo do what he was good at and they're
paying him a lot of money to stink.

Speaker 8 (22:42):
It's almost like if he was still playing. He was
a quarterback and now they want him to be a safety.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah, doesn't make much sense. He wasn't that good a
quarterbacks back. To coach Tomlin yesterday talking with the media,
I do think it's hilarious his the difference in his
demeanor when he's on the hot seat. I mean, he
was an abst salute the light to deal with yesterday.
I don't know about the light, but he was different
compared to Yeah, you know the Kurt answers he would

(23:08):
give in the past and sometimes, you know, doing a
little talking down to the border. That wasn't happening yesterday.
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Speaker 8 (23:17):
One of the things the Steelers have addressed in advance
of Sunday's critical matchup against the Ravens in Baltimore is
the frustration. It was clearly evident last Sunday as the
Steelers were in the process at getting pummeled by Buffalo.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Here's Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 9 (23:32):
I think frustration became a component of it, which is
a natural thing. We got a lot of guys that
work extremely hard and put a lot into prep, and
you know, we want to win. We want to do
what's required to win, but we didn't necessarily express that
want to appropriately, and so we kind of talked about
that yesterday as a collective. You know, I owned the

(23:54):
responsibility of making sure that these guys understand a component
of being a tough team to beat is not beating ourselves.
We had some penalties, and certainly you're gonna have penalties
when you play, but penalties are a fifteen yard variety.
Loss of composure and things of that nature hadn't been us,
and so that needs to be corrected immediately. We talked

(24:15):
about that, and when it's from some of our guys
like captains and so forth, guys that represent us at
the coin toss, it's certainly merits discussion and analysis. And
so we went through that and we look forward to
moving on from that.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Guys who represent us at the coin toss. It's a
roundabout way of saying TJ. Watt Cam Hayward. Cam Hayward
Watt didn't get a fifteen yard penalty, did he? Oh no,
but he was ranting on the sidelines.

Speaker 8 (24:44):
Yeah, yeah, but I thought that was a Cam Hayward
thing and as diplomatic as possible, which Hayward's earned that
kind of respect. But you know, you can't have that stuff.
And we'll see if they can get at least that
much right against.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
People are to Cam too right now about the way
things went in the offseason. Well, it comes back because
they're losing, Yes, so it's it's not as good of
a look as it might have been. It seems less
competitive and more petulant to a lot of people. I
think he's I still think Cam is having a decent season.
You know, as short as a couple of weeks ago,

(25:21):
I thought he's having a really good season. I think
he's had a tough time in the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 8 (25:24):
Yeah, I don't think anybody was part of the solution.
Last Sunday Boy was brutal. What Hayward queen? The guys
are counting on? Nobody had an answer for the same
running play over and over and over again. Fans chatting
for Tomin said during the Buffalo game. We're also clearly frustrated,
and Tomin maintained yesterday he could appreciate that.

Speaker 9 (25:48):
You know, in general, I agree with him from this perspective.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Football is our game.

Speaker 9 (25:56):
We're in a sport entertainment business, and so if you're
for the Steelers, entertaining them is winning, and so when
you're not winning is not entertaining. And if you've been
in this business, you understand that, and so I respect it.
I share frustrations. I understand what makes this thing go,
and winning is what makes this thing go.

Speaker 8 (26:19):
Derek Harmon will not play on Sunday against Baltimore. That
ain't good news in terms of quote unquote questionable. Patrick
Queen with a glute might be limited at the start
of preparation, which begins today.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
In earnest didn't sound like.

Speaker 8 (26:40):
That was especially dire, and Tommin expects Aaron Rodgers to
be okay, but he's also potentially limited when they start
practicing today.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
If he can't go under center.

Speaker 8 (26:51):
Mike, Yeah, he talked about that, but he didn't exactly
blow it out of the water. Said it'll be less
of a conversation this week, so he'll be able to
do it for two quarters. I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Well, he wasn't real clear about it.

Speaker 8 (27:04):
Yeah, I think he'll be able to go under center,
and he was trying not to acknowledge that that was
a really dumb ass thing to do. It was to
play him when he could not He couldn't go under center.
I mean, they can't if they're not a good enough
offense to limit themselves the way they do right, some
significant personnel moves. Yesterday time Adam Thalon Feeling excuse me,

(27:28):
claimed off waivers from the Vikings. He had asked the
Vikings for his release because he's in his last year
and they're playing him as the fourth receiver and he's
not getting on the field and he's not getting any targets.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
He's thirty five, so he fits right in the expendables expand.

Speaker 8 (27:43):
You know, I just I wanted to remind myself who
this guy was, and he was one of our the
generation's best receivers. I mean he All you got to
do is google Adams Feeling highlights and there's reams of
it lining up outside, lining up in the slot, making

(28:04):
contested catches, making diving catches, making combat catches, blocking in
the run game, going over the middle, short outs, deep sideline.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Did it all right?

Speaker 8 (28:16):
And then you start looking a little close, like, wow,
all these highlights are with Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, and he's done too.

Speaker 8 (28:22):
Like two years ago he had a thousand yard season,
caught over one hundred passes.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
This year he's caught eight.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
He's already done the homecoming like he's back in Minnesota.
And unfortunately for him, the Bills signed Brandon Cooks last
week because maybe he could be there on right a
contender exactly. I don't know if we're a contender, but
there's six.

Speaker 8 (28:43):
And six first place team. Yeah, by definition they're contented,
I know. I mean they could lose fifty to two
on Sunday and then they might he probably wouldn't still
be thinking of them as a contender. But right now,
as we sit here, there are six and six first place.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
But we're in a Steelers valley right now. So you
have to forgive me for only looking at things from
that perspective. If we win next week.

Speaker 8 (29:02):
Peak that was kind of one of Tomlins teams yesterday
as well. Several times directly or indirectly, he's you know,
we have won six games, like we're.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Not on twelve, the same components that he said something
the effect of, like, you know, they're like, why do
you keep doing the things that aren't working? He's like,
because they won a six games, they have worked.

Speaker 8 (29:20):
Yeah, Darius Slay also got gassed yesterday. What complete Santa
But Sante Samuel now signed to the roster. He was
promoted from the practice squad last Sunday. Now he's on
the fifty three and the glaring indictment to this point,
I mean, there's everybody's talking about Mike Tomlin and everybody's

(29:42):
trying to come up with reasons why he shouldn't be
the coach anymore.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (29:48):
They brought in Juan Thornhill and Darius Slay to rebuild
the secondary, and we're excited about it.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
And not only were these guys not part of the solution,
they didn't make it to the end of the season.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
That's how bad they were. Yes, so the and then
you can, you know.

Speaker 8 (30:06):
Apply that to DK Metcalf to whatever degree you want,
Patrick Queen, to whatever degree you want. Aaron Rodgers. All
of a sudden, he looks like Russell Wilson. In the
mid season. It looked great, but it looks like it's
limping to the finish.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
By the way, kudos to our buddy Seth Warbaf for
the tweet of the year earlier this week saying, Mike
Tomlin will say something like we can't eat soup with forks,
we need spoons. Then the Steelers will sign a twenty
eighteen Pro bowler to the practice squad. Guess who was
on the twenty eighteen Pro Bowl, Adam Adam.

Speaker 8 (30:37):
That's right, you know, like you mentioned the Diane Rassini observation, Yes,
yesterday and today somebody called in with the same one
Sunday night on the post game. You talked to Mike
tomin in August. You sat at a table with him.
Was was there an inch of of decline in his
enthusiasm or his excitement?

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Was the job? But that was what she said, is
that when it comes to football, you see the fire.
But she I think she was speaking outside of it.
He seems like a different person, And I think that's
just getting older. But yes, I think that that is
speculation and maybe in the age of podcasting, it's something
you say, not something you write. Correct. Yeah, and again,
everybody's reaching right now.

Speaker 8 (31:17):
I'm I tend to focus in on one thing a week,
and right now it's talent evaluation, like that's the scheme.
Obviously they couldn't come up with something that worked against Buffalo,
but they've come up with great stuff before. Sometimes your
schemes are good, sometimes they're bad. Every coach goes through that.
I don't think his enthusiasm or fire or energy or

(31:38):
what he's bringing to the table has changed.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
They can't.

Speaker 8 (31:41):
They clearly can't find a quarterback since Ben and now
they can't find a lot of other guys.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Abby'll have your news coming up top of the hour.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
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to talk a little Super Bowl sixty festivities and unfortunately
not related.

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People are domesticating raccoons, Merril Hodge and what dang Merl's like?
I got three? Mark Madden will join us later this
morning as well, plus Tad Whistle with us this morning.
We'll go through the Pittsburgh Steeler alphabet. You know, the
city paper is doing a thing right now where they're
asking people to help them fill out the Pittsburgh alphabet

(32:18):
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Speaker 1 (35:48):
Bruce Arion. By the way, our buddy Ted Whistle with
us this morning. Bruce Arians, he goes on the Pat
McAfee show. A lot of Pittsburgh on that Pat McAfee show,
as we know, for obvious reasons. Uh, plumb native Pat
mcafe b a is one of our favorites. Absolutely love
Bruce Arians. Was bummed out when he was retired from Pittsburgh.
He didn't retire from football. He was just retired from

(36:10):
the Steelers, which was a bit of a drag. He
retired himself. What do you mean he retired himself. Hey,
he was gonna get Roethlisberger killed. He was to be
He left to them like three years in a row
and said, I don't know if I'm gonna keep coaching.
Because he was trying to get more money leverage. Yea,
and they finally got tired of him not committing. Okay, okay,
all right, that's pertinent. Yeah, all right, Well that being said,

(36:31):
I still love being.

Speaker 8 (36:32):
Also, he's a great coach when he had Roethlisberger and
Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
What a quarterback whisperer, Kelly Holcom, you're getting all mad
at BA.

Speaker 8 (36:42):
Now, I just think there's a little revisionist BA going on.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Little bs about BA. I'm got you, all right. So
he's on McAfee yesterday and Pat asks him, Hey, does
it seem different the criticism of Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 11 (36:58):
Now, I think it's a lot hot.

Speaker 12 (37:00):
I mean, I would not want to be either one
of the coordinators because you're not coming back next year
for sure.

Speaker 11 (37:05):
For sure, that's that's gonna happen. It's always happened.

Speaker 12 (37:08):
And so it's like will Art pulled the trigger, which
I doubt very seriously. And if I were Mike, I
would want to get out and go somewhere new, start over.

Speaker 11 (37:21):
You got to do this a couple different times. Yeah,
and it uh not about my choice a couple of times.
But let's just say you had a chance.

Speaker 13 (37:28):
Obviously, whenever you're at Indianapolis, we would have hopefully kept
you forever. I think there were some business conversations that
went the wrong way. Nobody with a brain would have
done what happened there. But you end up being a
head coach for Arizona, then obviously you end up you done.

Speaker 11 (37:40):
You go to Tampa Bay.

Speaker 13 (37:41):
Whenever you get into a new building, is there a
sense of refreshment, Maybe your your voice is heard differently
in different places. It's like, what do you think about
coach Tomlin potentially choosing to go elsewhere? Because everybody that
talks on TV says if coach Tomlin was to move
on from Pittsburgh whatever it is, traded fired leto steps away,
he would get hired some fifteen other teams will be like,

(38:01):
give us coach Tomlin. I think everybody in Pittsburgh agrees
with that, right tone, Everybody in Pittsburgh kind of understands
that any agrees with that, yeah, I think, but they
just would like to see what potentially could look like
post Mike Tomlin, where other teams are begging for a
coach Tomlin. But if he was going to another building
for you, what did you experience whenever you go to
a new place.

Speaker 12 (38:18):
Yeah, it's such an easy you're giving that message. You know,
some players get tired of the message, and you have
to keep it fresh. Mike's done a great job of
keeping it fresh for years, and you know that. I
don't know, I'm shocked watching their defense play. I'm just
totally shocked because talent's not tissue. They got talent, and
they went out and got all those guys in free agency,

(38:40):
and it's just amazing to me to watch the Steelers
play right now.

Speaker 11 (38:43):
It's almost like they don't have Steeler pride all right.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
A lot said there, Yeah, I know that. It kind
of irks you when people are like discussing things that
are just out of hand right now, which is Mike
Tomlin getting fired. It's not even close to happening in reality,
but people are coming to this realization on the national
platforms that wow, this could actually be headed in a
direction that they never saw a coming. This is like

(39:10):
Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft finally, you know, being in
odds Andy Reid is the example we off in cite
when talking about Mike Tomlin. But when you hear Ba
saying that I know he's got a bit of an
axe to grind too, and you can take it with
a grain of salt. But it does feel different, Mike.

Speaker 8 (39:29):
It does because they've never had a losing season, and
it feels like this could be a losing season. I
think that's what's different. And to what degree if it
ends up a losing are they gonna win again? Are
they gonna win the division?

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah? Either could happen. Yeah, I mean, I just don't know.

Speaker 8 (39:46):
And I know nobody thinks they can beat the Ravens,
and I get why they.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Think that, but I think they could be the Ravens.

Speaker 8 (39:52):
I didn't think they had a shot against the Colts,
and they played the best game of the year, right.
What was worse than that Green Bay debuckle was the
same thing as Buffalo. They were winning at halftime and
then they totally imploded and the captain, one of the
captains comes out after the games. So we just didn't
fight hard enough, like we didn't give it f Like,
how much.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Worse can it get than that? Well, I thought they
should have beat the Bears. Then they won, so and
the Bears are now considered to be one of the
best of the NFC.

Speaker 8 (40:16):
The Steelers had that game, had a chance to win it,
to win. Yeah, they had the ball at the end
and they just didn't finish it. Yeah, they've beaten in
they've beaten Indianapolis, they've beaten New England.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
The only real bad loss is Cincinnati. It was a
bad loss. And Seattle, I mean Seattle's are green Bay.
The green Bay and the Bills loss I think are
bad losses. Second half collapses, yes, yeah, but they're winning teams.

Speaker 8 (40:39):
You know, it's not like they lost to uh Okayland,
right yet I.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Put it in there.

Speaker 8 (40:47):
Yes, the Seattle game, they you know, Seattle's a good team,
but they had some really bad self and flipped kickoff
thing was just you know, yeah, it was bad.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
But the whole.

Speaker 8 (40:57):
Message argument, I mean, how many guys are on this
team that we're here for you years ago?

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Not too many.

Speaker 8 (41:04):
And the ones that are the Haywards in the wats
that they're not message guys. They're they're motivated, you know
what I mean, they don't they don't need the coach
to message them.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Remember in the movie Victory, when they get all those
the soccer the giants from all the different countries who
are who are in jail or in the prison camp
there for the Allies, and they're like, let's put these
were once great players. If we put them on the
field against the Germans, they're all going to be great.
And there's a bunch of guys who are just too
sick to play. Those are the ones Toma keeps getting
the guys who were just like ye, the guys are

(41:39):
just I know they were once great. And I don't
know where Feeling is on that list. Darius Slay and
Lawn Hill. I mean they gave Slay ten million dollars
to last twelve weeks.

Speaker 8 (41:51):
Gret He played eighty eight percent of the snaps for
Filly in the Super Bowl last year.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
We know how that happens, though, Mike, these guys fall
off a cliff and that's just they keep getting them
right when they're on the edge. Well that's why you
fish for the younger ones, man, you know. But I mean,
you know, because money, Yeah, we ten mil. I mean,
it's not a money thing. Where are you finding?

Speaker 8 (42:11):
You know, we'll see a lot of right, I mean, like,
you know, people are laughing at the feeling.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Think I mean they're trying something. I'm not laughing at
the feeling. I think it's an upgrade immediately. I do too.
I mean that the throw to Austin where he is
like on his tippy toes trying to get it and it.

Speaker 8 (42:31):
You know, there's three things I like about it. One,
he's got a track record. I don't know what he's
got left now. The Vikings, he was he was the
Vikings number three. They brought him back. Ted was pointing
this out. He went to Carolina and then the Vikings
brought him back because he's the State of Minnesota guy,
and he had a great career for the Vikings. That
was kind of a feel good but they had when
they got Addison back from suspension. He went from being

(42:54):
the number three to being the number four. Feeling yeah,
and number four doesn't get any reps, so he just
wasn't playing and that's so he wasn't catching anything.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
But again, he's six too. He's not Calvin.

Speaker 8 (43:07):
Calvin Austin and Roman Wilson on his shoulders are about
his tall now, So you got a better chance at
fifty to fifty, That's what I'm saying. And I mean
his career was made on He's not a separation guy.
He's not an unopen guy. He's a throw it to
me and I'll catch it guy. And you know what,
it surprises me how much DK is not that guy.
DK is not a battle catch guy.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (43:29):
I always I didn't think he was necessarily a I
always thought he was more catching run than down the field.
He did get down the field sometimes, but yeah, he
for a big, strong dude. You don't you don't see
him just dominating guys that he towers over.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Okay, Meryl Hodge, more Steeler talk from Marylyn Mark Madden
coming up and Abbey's got you Well.

Speaker 8 (43:49):
I'm glad McAfee confirmed the opinion of the city of
Pittsburgh from Tone Digs.

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Really, I gotta go check with Tone.

Speaker 8 (43:59):
Get on the of Western Pennsylvania because you know, he
sits in a desk with Bob lads and where it's
a Cowboy.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
National show and he's you know, joke, it's still a joke.
Aby's got your news.

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Speaker 15 (44:47):
The Buffalo Bills brought the NFL's number one rushing offense
to Pittsburgh Sunday, and that rushing offense dominated the game
as a guided the Bills to their twenty six to
seven victory over the Steelers.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
James Cook led the way.

Speaker 15 (44:58):
For Buffalo on the ground, gaining one hundred and forty
four yards on thirty two carries, his NFL leading seventh
game rushing over one hundred yards this year. The Bills
improved to six and one in games where Cook eclipses
the century mark. It wasn't just James Cook, as Ray
Davis and Josh Allen added sixty two and thirty eight
rushing yards respectively to rack up a total of two
hundred and forty nine yards on fifty one carries for Buffalo.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
Two hundred and forty nine yards is.

Speaker 15 (45:21):
The most rushing yards gained against the Steelers at Akroshur
Stadium and the most overall in Pittsburgh since nineteen seventy
five win. Funny enough, the Buffalo Bills ran for three
hundred and ten yards at three Rivers Stadium. Offensively, things
didn't go any better for Steelers either. They were able
to generate only fifty eight yards rushing on one of
the league's worst run defenses heading into the game, and

(45:41):
only gained one hundred and sixty six yards of total
offense with just eighteen minutes time of possession. The loss
dropped the Steelers to six and six, same as the
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Because we likely can't imagine that any of us are
going to be there for any really good reason.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
We have not talked much about the Super Bowl, but hey,
you never know, Adam Feeling can get us there. We
just don't know.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
But the NFL announced this week that the halftime performer
Bad Bunny will be joined by pregame singers Charlie Pooth,
Brandy Carlyle, and Coco Jones.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
I know, I thought Coco Jones was a Disney movie. No,
this is a this is a this is a person.
He's very sad.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
Charlie Pooth is gonna have the honor of performing the
national anthem.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
Charlie Pooth stones like a sentence, Charlie Pooth, it sounds like.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
I have something in my mouth, like I got lint. Yeah,
it's like a money Python Dade, Brandy Carlisle will sing
America the Beautiful, which's probably gonna she's amazing, incredible. Yeah,
and Coco Jones does lift every voice and sing. These
pregame performances are going to air on NBC, Telemundo, and Peacock.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
But Charlie Pooth.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Has spoken out against the critics who claim that he
is not the best choice to sing the national anthem.
At the super Bowl, and most of these critics are
lamenting how far we've fallen from let's say, nineteen ninety
one Whitney Houston moments. But Poo was quick to respond,
quoting that tweet in particular and stating, I've never claimed

(50:05):
to be as good a singer as Whitney Houston, but
I assure you were putting a really special arrangement together
in D major. It'll be one of my best vocal performances.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
He's gonna put his pooth on it. Yeah, in D major.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
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Get ready? In D major? Was that supposed to denote
some sort of like no music? Yeah, it's in D major? Hello?
Did you guys think I didn't know what I was
doing D major? I guess maybe that's what he was doing.

(50:43):
Maybe he was doing a play on you thought of that.
I have no idea. Yeah, I don't know if that's
like the hardest key to sing in or something. If
he was trying to be like, uh, and we'll do
it in D major, you know, yeah can handle it.
And he's gonna wear a rock vest. You know, he's

(51:05):
gonna do everything he can to make it more difficult.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Well, I wish there were more raccoons involved in Super
Bowl performances, but they're not. But in a related story,
apparently people are making raccoons their pets.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
I made it a related story. Yeah, I want it
to be. Or that might be the halftime show next year.
That might be all we're allowed to do. Trumble be
like raccoons. Nothing but raccoons. They're hilarious.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
There is research that just got published in Frontiers and
Zoology that analyzed around twenty thousand photos of Oh my God,
so hot.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Apparently this is.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Led by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and
researchers found that raccoons in urban areas have shorter snouts
than rural based ones. Shorter snout length is a physical
trait tied to domestications strong. The physical changes usually come
as animals become more gentle, tolerant, and less aggressive towards

(52:05):
humans because people are bringing them inside.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Yeah, this is social media's fault, it really is. Yeah,
and raccoons are not animals. You should domesticate. They just aren't.
I cannot. I mean, they're adorable, don't get me wrong,
but so are bears. Right, very cute. Yeah. I got
into this weird thread yesterday in which this woman was

(52:28):
claiming that all of the tech companies are pushing these
animal videos on us, and like these AI animal videos
where they are making animals seem i don't know, more
human like yeah, because and with the net effect of
it being like we're supposed to stop feeling the way

(52:53):
we do or respecting animals the way we do because
in the dystopian digital future, we won't like have it
as many, like everything's gonna go extinct, and so they
want us to not care about animals as much. I
don't know, it was a weird thread. I was really
enjoying some of the arguments. I'm like, I actually think
it makes them cuter. And I want like that one

(53:13):
where the possum like looks at the mirror and he's like, yeah,
that's an AI. But you know, I'm mad as AI
because I want it to be real. I don't trust
any animal videos online anymore. You think they're all AI.
So many are being faked.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
All the ring doorbell footage of like oh yeah, you've
seen an uptick and bears and wolves coming to people's doors,
Like that's not happening.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
Anymore dropping off an Amazon package.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
Yeah, they aren't even twenty nine minutes. Yeah, that's not happening.
More like all those videos are AI and it's you know, somebody.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
You want them to be real. Some of them, right,
the Halloween candy ones where there would be like possums
or whatever, like eating all the candy and then they
would set off the witch on their porch, you know,
and then it would like freak the animal out.

Speaker 8 (53:55):
Those were like all AI. They were yeah, a bomber,
I know.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Ah see, I'm with you, though, I think this is
AI or not the rounds or at least the cameras
or nature cams all that kind of stuff. This is
making animals more cute to me, and it should just
actually just have an uptick in attacks.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
I had a friend last year who had a vicious
squirrel attack and had to get her hand stitched up
at Urgent Care because she was like, I could feed
a squirrel.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Right, No, rip your hand off.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
They actually they only look cute.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
They want to eat you too. Everything wants to eat you. Well, No,
the raccoons, you really aren't right about them, like breaking
through in the news. This was on the AP wire
this morning.

Speaker 17 (54:46):
A raccoon broke into a close Virginia liquor store and
drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend. An
animal control officer says the raccoon was found Saturday passed out.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Next to the store's toilet.

Speaker 17 (55:00):
The officer says the raccoon then sober up after a
few hours. Official says, they release him back into the wild.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
Yeah. The raccoon went in and got drunk, so much
better than me reading it. By the way, Yeah, give
me a break. See that's AI. See, that's why they
have to put the guaranteed human up there, because you
don't know, you don't know if it's going to be
abby or the computerized AI voice. I mean, listen, I

(55:28):
like her better. You can't domesticate raccoons, don't do it.

Speaker 4 (55:32):
The Uh there's a bartender at one of the bars
that I go to, and uh, she's just like a
fifty year old lady and uh, you get to a
certain point of the night and she's like, you know,
I had raccoons as a pet. It's a girl which
in Bloomfield where she lives, which is sort of like
you know, near like the valley by the busway.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
It's possible. You're thinking, oh, I guess that could have happened.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
And then she brings out her phone and she's like,
look at this was sunny and this was cher They
were adorable. No, I'm being one hundred percent serious, And uh,
did you keep me in the house?

Speaker 1 (56:06):
Yes, she kept them. They slept in a dresser, she said,
of course they did. So this is like in the
eighties in Bloomfield. Yes, I'll get some pictures and I'll
send them to you. When you said that she had
raccoons as a kid, I assumed she lived in like
Sarvar or something. Yeah, in the city. That's hilarious.

Speaker 4 (56:26):
Yeah, but they just ran off one day because their
food motivated and animals they just want to do sex.
They're just like everybody else, So they can't do it
in a lady's dresser.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
It's unbecoming. I mean, there is a weird feeling when
you're like, the raccoons ran away from me. I gave
you everything. I gave you Oreos coffee. What wasn't good
about what we had going on here? I gave you
a dresser. Anyways, Yeah, those Bloomfield raccoons notorious. Good name

(56:59):
for a softball team over there. Hell yeah, all right, Tad.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
Randy brought this up yesterday, but now the visual of
this has really made the round, so I feel like
everybody has had a chance to actually see it and
appreciate what a big botch this is.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
So HBO Max.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
Just released all seven seasons of Mad Men in four
k unintended consequences here, the wrong files were delivered to
HBO and many of those files did not include the
post production work, so that led to some interesting flubs
everybody can think of, like even the Game of Thrones

(57:37):
coffee cups being left into the scenes.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
This is kind of like the same vibe.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
The most glaring mistake was probably in the season one
episode Red in the Face. So in that episode, and
this is what Randy brought up yesterday, Roger Sterling, who
was played by John Slattery, vomits in front of a
group of prospective clients. And this is after what you said,
he comes out for oysters. I can't remember this.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
I think eight too many oysters yet, Okay.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
In the version posted on HBO Max, you can see
two Krew members at the edge of the shot managing
the puke machine behind.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
Yeah, and it is it's egregious. It ruins the vibe well,
the crew members that are in the shot terrible. But
I don't understand how that aspect ratio like widened to
that point and they kept it in Like was it
as simple as they're like, oh, we'll just give you

(58:32):
the four K feed and they just dumped it onto
HBO Max. I mean, shouldn't there have been some sort
of editing that went on in that process they would
have flagged that. And the other question I have is is,
I mean, I know it just drops, so maybe people
haven't had that much time to go through the whole season.
Is that the only instance of that happening, because that's

(58:52):
so far the only example I've seen used.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Yeah, I wonder if people haven't just been able to
crush all of the episodes yet and what else is
screwed up in there?

Speaker 1 (59:01):
You know what'll be funny though, is do you remember
when young people started watching Seinfeld and they got really
mad about how just mean everybody was, and then they
watched the Office and they got really like, they got
really mad about how not PC it was. Do you
think they'll understand that mad Men is set in a
time on purpose that these They're like, this is the

(59:23):
most sexist show ever. It's like, well, that's kind of
the best of it. That's what it's about. It really is.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Sometimes I get well, I told you, I'm on my
now third rewatch of the Sopranos. Every time that I
do that, I get mad at the Sopranos because of
you know, the way that women are treated and you know.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
The language in it, and I always get mad. I
still love the show.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
But then I also I realize as I'm watching the
show how much I hate men.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
At the time, I'm like, Scott, it's just those men,
I know, not all men. I do love when like
Tony will be like, you know, he he just says
the most awful, misogynistic things. But then like, you know,
he's got a soft spot for a hooker. You know,

(01:00:18):
he's like, she's a good one. I should tip her
a little bit more. The other thing a Leader Banana
Bread really.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Bothers me is the music at the bottom Bang is horrible.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
It's pretty bad. It is the worst, and there's all the.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Time, and I'm always like, why didn't someone help the
imp somebody?

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Yeah, he's in a band. I mean, he's pretty connected
to the music business. But the funniest song they play
right there, Yeah, the funniest music they play at the
Botto Bang is there's an episode where they play the
Canks living on a Thin Line, which is so not
a song. Like you can tell David Chase loves that
song and it is one of my favorite, all time

(01:01:00):
favorite songs and it is just not a strip club
song at all, and you can tell like he just
wanted it. And then they're thematically for the song and
it book ends the episode. But like the strippers are
trying to dance to Dave Davies singing, you know what
are we supposed to do? You like, not exactly new
Jersey stripper song. You know, Mike's coming in with your

(01:01:24):
sports here and just a little bit. Coach Tomlin very
nice with the media. Tad you pointed it out earlier.
He's even name checking them. Brooke, I think it was
you who asked before. Jerry love that jacket. My man
Ben's did you get taller? When he's on the Hot

(01:01:45):
Seed Boy, he's a treat.

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Speaker 8 (01:02:21):
The roster looks a lot different today than it did
yesterday for the Steelers. Sante Samuel, cornerback added to the
active roster. He won't be a practice squad promotee anymore.
He's now one of the guys, and with James Pierre
in the concussion protocol, Samuel might find himself starting against
the Ravens on Sunday. Darius Slayh waived reportedly as Sleigh

(01:02:45):
and the Steelers just decided that this wasn't working and
they were both correct.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
If he gets picked up by another team, they have
to pay what like five million of the ten million.
How does that work? Because assuming he's a crew half
of the contract or whatever this bonus was on the
ten million dollars one year contract probably depends on how
much they pay him? Did can he sign for less

(01:03:14):
than the contract and then the Steelers have to pay
the rest of it? Is that how that went?

Speaker 8 (01:03:18):
I think they just have to pay him because he's
a vet okay, And then if he gets if he
gets another contract, he just gets more, I think, and.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
There's some sort of cap stipulation that whatever he gets
paid gets reduced or something like that. He would probably
get veteran minimum.

Speaker 8 (01:03:32):
Ten million was a lot. Yeah, he's not going to
get anything if he gets signed. I can't imagine anybody
would sign him. I don't know how desperate you would
have to be a corner.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
I didn't think he was going to be as good
as he has been, but he fell off a cliff immediately.
He was a liability from day one. Him and Thornhill,
two guys. Thornhill was on our show talking about that,
you know, they have a chance to be historic, just
like Mike Tomlin did.

Speaker 8 (01:03:58):
Yeah, well he's got it. Started it and then Tomlin
doubled down on it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Oh, is that how it went? Thorn Hill?

Speaker 8 (01:04:05):
Thornhill said, we have a chance to be one of
the all time great defense.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
That was it. And then we then when coach came on.

Speaker 8 (01:04:12):
Yeah, great things, and by great things, I mean historic,
which they gave up more rushing yards than the Han
since nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Technically got that box down. Was historic.

Speaker 8 (01:04:24):
Adam Feelin claimed off waivers from the Vikings. Six foot two,
two hundred pound thirty five year old receiver who was
one hundred catch guy two years ago and an eight
catch guy this year for the Vikings, who was a
healthy scratch last Sunday against Seattle.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
The good news, No one's catching the ball in Minnesota. No,
not with JJ.

Speaker 8 (01:04:45):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
This might work because.

Speaker 8 (01:04:51):
He's never been a guy who relied on speed to
get wide open. He's always been a contested catch combat.
He can he can run all the routes. Mostly a
slot guy, but he can play outside. He can go
over the middle, he can run the short outs or
deep sideline stuff, slants. Whatever you need him to do,

(01:05:12):
and throw him the ball and he catches it. That's
been his history and he's been very good at that.
The Steelers could really use a guy like that. And
he's buddies with Rogers, even though they never played together.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
Yeah, important, if you want the ball. By the way,
did you see Rogers had they had a birthday party
for Rogers last night at his house. He's doing a
little of that extra film work at his house and
Ben's gronic brought a cake over, so we know Ben
shows up to those. Yeah, that's right, it's not him.
That's what you could ask. That's how you can find
out when Rogers talks today. Yeah. How many pieces of
cake did d k have one? Okay? All right?

Speaker 5 (01:05:46):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
How many slices did Johnny have none? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:05:51):
I tried to give him one, but he was in
the wrong spot. He just sat on the table where
he was supposed to.

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
Shit, he was in Wexford, right, where's that? Damn? It
is funny to me though, just to think me, you know,
Sco dirt going in there with the cake, Happy birthday
two you. I was thinking maybe this weekend she could,
I don't know, throw me the ball. It works out,

(01:06:17):
you know, if it's there, if I'm opening, wasn't invited.
No no cake for he was just sitting there. Really
is anybody gonna give me a piece of cake? Good
at eating cake?

Speaker 6 (01:06:28):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
No cake for you. I used to have my cake
and eat it too, Even so you come in your
name again? Fat Friarmouth oh geez.

Speaker 8 (01:06:43):
The Steelers that getting ready for the Rage and Ravens,
and they're uh, not exactly steaming toward Baltimore with great confidence.
But the Ravens team waiting for them has likewise resembled
a steaming pile of times.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
So that's in Cleveland, Mike, you steam towards Cleveland, not Baltimore.
It's gonna be a fight. In Mike tomlins estimation.

Speaker 9 (01:07:03):
We both said at six and six and six. Both
of those positions come with some scars, certainly, but they
need to come with some lessons learned as well. And
I think the team that that that displays the ability
to apply to those lessons best is gonna be the
team that's gonna be in position to control this game
and thus be in control of the North.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
There was a game, I think two years ago against
the Ravens where all Harball had to do was run
the ball, and for some reason he did not, and
we beat them.

Speaker 8 (01:07:32):
Kind of like their game Thursday night, Thanksgiving Night against Cincinnati.
I think Henry had ten carries.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
Yeah, they put it in Lamar's hands when he's clearly
battling something right now, and you have the answer, Randall, you.

Speaker 8 (01:07:48):
Always have a chance because the other team has coaches too. Indeed,
quarterback Aaron Rodgers has struggled of late after initially providing
everything the Steelers hoped he would. Rogers might be better
positioned to provide more of the latter against the Ravens.

Speaker 9 (01:08:06):
Maybe, you know, I feel good about what we can
do offensively. I don't think that we're limited in any way. Certainly,
we're going to do some things a little bit different
to accommodate present circumstances, like we worked almost exclusively out
of gun a pistol a week ago to minimize some
of that. It'll probably be probably be less of a
discussion this week. We'll see as a week whereas on

(01:08:27):
and certainly I think he came out of the game,
at least physically from a from a rif injury perspective,
in a good place.

Speaker 8 (01:08:34):
Probably less of a discussion falls short of what I
wanted to hear him say, which was to man, we're
never doing that again, right, But maybe it'll end up
that way.

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
But is Mason that much of a drop off where
it's like, all right, even if we can do half
of the game with Aaron Rodgers under center, that's better
than given the whole game to Mason. You know, I
didn't think so, but I didn't think so either.

Speaker 8 (01:08:59):
But it seems like they did what they did because
they lost faith in Rudolph.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
Tomlin and Mason have a relationship like Miles Teller and JK.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
Simmons hiplash.

Speaker 4 (01:09:09):
It's really bizarre and respect.

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
You do it again, not my tempo, Mason, Duck get
in here, drafts on the bench. We know it's funny
you bring up Duck or funny in.

Speaker 8 (01:09:28):
A coincidental kind of way.

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
He got Rudolph got benched in.

Speaker 8 (01:09:33):
Cincinnati because he one hopped the ball at the start
of the third quarter. Remember he got hurt against Baltimore.
Oh yes, And then they played Duck for a little bit.
That was one of the funnest losses I ever watched.
And then they went back to Rudolph.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:09:47):
And then they were losing a game against the really
bad Bengals team and they got the ball first drive
in the third quarter and he one hopped it and
they said that's it. And then they put Duck in
and he hit James Washington for like a seventy five
yard eight yard past. Washington ran the rest of the
way and then Duck was back the legend of Duck.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:10:05):
But uh, you know, the Rudolph of a couple of
years ago was really what they needed, you know, the
right guy in the right place at the right time.
And I think they were looking for more of that.
I think that in the uh in ability to recognize
that illegal formation and the Bears was bad.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
Is it that mental mistake do you think? Or is
it like, you know, he gets in there and he
threw a pick early in, but.

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
Don't forget the throw Washington and the throw before the
pick was at DK. Yeah. So if they're gonna try
to do that crap again this week, man's that's not
gonna sail against this defense. Even though they started out
the year being kind of crappy, Baltimore defense has gotten better,
well thirty something against Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Yeah, with Burrow. They

(01:10:57):
were better with Burrow than Flacco. I didn't think Burrow
played great. I don't know. I think Flacco was kind
of like, you know, flat. Yeah, it's kind of like
the Jacoby Brissett thing. You know, it comes in for
a couple of weeks, you're like, ah, this guy look
out and then they always find their level Yilson did.

Speaker 8 (01:11:16):
N ft Higgins, and one of the reasons it was
working was because he hads firing. Don't know, I haven't
been impressed with Baltimore all year. Maybe now it's the
time the Ravens start to ascend.

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Now you there, buddy, I'm here, Baby, are here?

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
All right? Good deal? Let me ask you this. Let's
start off with this. This has been the subject of
much discussion since Sunday. Was there anything Terrell Austin or
Mike Tomlin could have done schematically to stop the bills
running attacker? Was that truly just the Bills imposing their will?

Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
Well schematically, yeah, you could have done some anybody could
do some things differently after the fact, which I actually
think they're going to have to do this week, and
things like like run blitzes, switching up for your front,
shifting things.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
Okay, Now that all being said, the first.

Speaker 5 (01:15:23):
Run of the game was nineteen yards, and it is
one of the most fundamental things of defense. You have
to keep containing. Okay, So as a defender, this is taught.
In fact, I've coached for thirty years, every age from
eight to forty eight, but I started out coaching youth football.

(01:15:44):
And if anybody's ever coached football youth football, have been
around youth football. You can design all the players you want,
but everything's going to the perimeter. It don't matter what
you and everybody's going to the back line, right, So
you get to teach kids how to keep containing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
I keep the ball on the inside shoulder and try
to and they don't do it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:01):
You try to keep that right, Okay, that's a fundamental
that's a fundamental function in defense. Nobody contained the ball
and even tried to contain the ball on their first
I think they had three or four hours that had
total all of sixty yards where they got to the perimeter. Okay,

(01:16:21):
should never happen in the national football That was interesting.
In the fourth quarter, they play right, they play contain,
they keep the ball on the inside shoulder, and they
get two to three yards so you know, this is
like a coach has all the power, no control. You know,
it's just like a parent has all the power, no control.
Once they the front door of your home, once you
step inside the white lines, it's on you. So from

(01:16:45):
a structural, fundamental aspect of how you should play the game,
we just don't do it very well. We don't do
it for sixty minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
We break down.

Speaker 5 (01:16:54):
I mean, shoot, we lost the line of scrimmage where
if you can't win that, you've just done. I don't
care who you are and who your linebackers are, your
quarterback is, your running backs are, your receivers are.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
You can't win in this league. You just can't. And
they mauled us up front on both sides of the ball.

Speaker 5 (01:17:10):
And then when you can't fundamentally play the run like that,
you're always going to be in trouble, you know, I mean,
and they're back. I guarantee you that in practice, that
is the one thing you would have to emphasize. He's
going to come to the perimeter because he's so dynamic,
he's so quick, and he's so lateral that if he
doesn't have anything inside, he's going to try to find
something on the perimeter.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
They had to talk about that. You had to know
that going in.

Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
And then the very first play we act like we didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
I mean it looked like they didn't even.

Speaker 5 (01:17:39):
Know how to play contain shoot, they didn't even know
the ball he'd gotten to the outside till it was
to the outside. So like the awareness, So like that's
on the players. You know that, that's just on the players.
It's not all the players. I guess there's some scheme
stuff you could do and then you're going to need
to do to help your team out, But from a
fundamental aspect, that's on the player.

Speaker 8 (01:18:01):
Meryl, how limiting would you say, is it for an
offense to go exclusively shotgun?

Speaker 5 (01:18:08):
Well, to me, it takes all of the physical presence
out of football. Okay, I think it's a soft way
to play. You know, when you get under center and
you got backs behind you, and here's okay, here's what
the difference is between a guy who's under center and
a guy who's in the shotgun. When you're in the
shot and gun and your back's on one side or
the other, okay, yeah, you can run to either side,

(01:18:29):
but there's not as big a thread of that that's
not a and you get to see the ball handling
because the ball is snapped back there. So there's a
greater visual of what's happening versus quarterback under center, who
turns around the backs behind you, and you don't know
at that point, Hey, where the ball is gonna go
right up to the back or they're gonna fake it,
they're gonna go right, they're gonna go left, or is
he gonna pulled onto it and throw it. I mean,

(01:18:50):
there's just so much more. There's more efficiency under center,
there's more power under there, there's more options for you.
So when you're constantly in the shotgun, I just you
you limit yourself. That's all really you're doing is you're
limiting yourself. And I've you know, I'm watching I watched

(01:19:10):
the entire league. I'm gonna tell you this, the really
good teams. You know, more and more people are actually
getting under center. I mean that talking about a problem
Phil on the same state Philadelphia has that problem. They
can't get their quarterback under center. It's a big dilemma
over there. And they're more efficient when they're under center,
you know, especially around the football, you can be more

(01:19:31):
I'm not saying that I should. I'm gonna scratch that.
Running and passing, you can be more efficient under center
than you can in the shotgun. You have more options,
there's more threats, there's more concerns, there's more things the
defense has to operate through than when the dude's in
the shotgun all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:19:48):
Meryl, there were a lot of booze on Sunday from
the home crowd there. They booed renegade, they were chanting
fire Tomlin. Uh, that's the first time something like that
has happened. From player's perspective, How do you, guys, how
did you react to that? I know there were times
when it wasn't all rosie when you were here. Uh,

(01:20:09):
you know under Chuck Nole three River Stadium? Does that
stuff seep into the locker room? And then how do
you kind of contain all of that if.

Speaker 5 (01:20:18):
You let it, If you let it, it will And
then that really comes down to the leader, because you
know when I when we first started here or I
first got here, you know, there was already the game
had passed Chuck by he didn't know he was doing
he needs saying. So we had to deal with that
in the locker room. But we it never went any
further than the noise.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
The noise is always done once we wentst in the locker room.

Speaker 5 (01:20:42):
And it was based how Chuck handled it, you know,
not that he said, hey, listen, let's not listen to that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:48):
It was how he coached.

Speaker 5 (01:20:49):
Because if if you were, if you ever were in
a meeting with Chuck Nole and then you heard the
outside no noise, They're like, Okay, they have no idea
what they're talking about. That guy has forgotten more than
any of us may have know about the game still
to this day, you know. I mean, so that didn't
affect us because the guy who was leading us, we knew,

(01:21:10):
had nothing passing by. He was a char and he
was as smart and still the grace man met.

Speaker 1 (01:21:17):
Yeah, they were. The criticism was that he wasn't as
sharp as he once was. And you guys saw the
polar opposite of that in the locker room. Yes, and
I'm telling you, and you really see it.

Speaker 5 (01:21:26):
This is true really in life, you know, you find
out who you are in the dark days or the
darknesses versus the light of your journey. And he displayed,
he displayed his most brilliant moments in our darkest moments.
You know, he was the guy who led us and
brought usself out of where we were and where we
needed to go.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
You know, and I just.

Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
So no, it did not let it. I didn't let
the Lockers. He didn't allow that. Just based on how
he coached and how he led all.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
Right, Steelers heading to Baltimore this weekend, This seems like
a beatable Ravens team. The Steelers could find themselves despite
all of the tumults that is occurring here in the
Steel City. It's tumultuous. They could find themselves atop the
AFC North with the win over Lamar Jackson and the Ravens.
How do they do that?

Speaker 5 (01:22:15):
Well, you got their running game is still dangerous. If
you let that guy get going that that just wrecks everything,
and honestly does. That's so that's why I was talking
about schematically. They have done this in the past. Now
because come in, keep in mind, like we're talking about
what the coaches do schematically, they have done good a
good job against him most of the time, and that's

(01:22:35):
going to be your number one priority. Once that happens
to that team, They're like, Lamar's really not playing the way,
he's he's customed to playing. He's he's throwing the ball
like he did coming out of Louisgo. He's he's kind
of all over the play, especially if you take their
running game away from them, you know, and then the
run action game, like speaking up under center. You know,

(01:22:55):
they have a lot of effectiveness when he's under center,
and they start to do that more with him, but
that that's only when they start run the ball. Well,
so you take that away from them. Man, you got
a really good job. Not not only is this game big,
like you know, you got to lead. Now you control
everything because you got them again, you got Cleveland, so
you can actually control your destiny. You you win the

(01:23:16):
rest of these games, which you have the ability to
do if you just play sixty minutes of good football
versus you know, thirty and and just spot football. So
that's the priority. They don't do that, and then then
they can't run the football. You can run the football
in this team. You just can't give up on it.
You can't surrender to you. You have to you have
to decide and be committed to that. And they do

(01:23:38):
a combination of those two things they got.

Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
They're a great chance to win this game on the
road merrily. I am shocked you're not calling me from
a deer stand this morning. Well, let me tell you this.
I wish that was.

Speaker 5 (01:23:48):
That's the thing, like I say, I wish that I
was so disappointed in myself.

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
Okay, well I'm not disappointed. I'm just you know, it's
a little bit of a surprised. Did you have you
gotten out yet? Not as much? Actually I was. I
actually have to have elbow surgery. So that's a.

Speaker 5 (01:24:06):
Big reason I'm not because I gotta get the sticks
before I can I can really do what I need
to do.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
Pull a bow back.

Speaker 18 (01:24:13):
You say you can't pull a bow back. Yeah, it's
a little, it's a little. It's a little difficulty, all right. Well,
speed recovery to you. You know you could always use shotgun.
We all know that's the soft way of doing it.
So Maryl's love you, brother Meryl.

Speaker 1 (01:24:33):
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Speaker 8 (01:24:44):
The Steelers in case anyone has forgotten, just got run
over by Buffalo on Sunday and the Steelers in case
anyone's forgotten got run over by the Ravens and Derrick
Henry last January in the playoffs. So, uh, Mike Tomblin,
who clearly hasn't forgotten either one of those things, emphasized
yesterday that they are focusing on run defense as they

(01:25:05):
get ready.

Speaker 1 (01:25:06):
That's good to take on the Ravens and Baltimore.

Speaker 8 (01:25:08):
On Sunday, Tomlin called such an approach quote justified and appropriate.
I would agree, yeah, I concur Now how you go
about doing that, that's the heart of the matter. The
fixes for the Steelers boiled down to details such as
being in the right gap and to schematics, many of
which were tried last Sunday against the Bills and very

(01:25:31):
few of which consistently succeeded.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
You got to put a lot of lines in the water.

Speaker 9 (01:25:35):
Certainly, we're looking at strategic global things from a strategy
or a schematic standpoint, So we're also looking at the
divisional labor and the positions that we put players in,
how we adjust and adapt and communicate, particularly when that
gets strained due to player availability or lack thereof.

Speaker 8 (01:25:55):
And speaking of lack thereof, Derek Harmon is not going
to play really hurts the Steelers.

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
That's not great. Patrick Queen is questionable, although I don't
know how much it hurts.

Speaker 8 (01:26:09):
I was gonna say, And they went to Cole Holcombe
when Queen got hurt in the Buffalo game. And there
was a time a couple of years ago when he
first got here, when we all thought Cole Holcomb was
a really good player.

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
And now it doesn't seem to be room for him.

Speaker 8 (01:26:20):
Well, maybe this is his chance to get back in
the mix.

Speaker 1 (01:26:24):
And he should be fully healed from that rebuild, so
ready to ready to lock and load.

Speaker 8 (01:26:31):
It's not as if the Steelers are incapable stopping to run.
You can check the Indianapolis game, you can check the
Chicago game.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
But yeah, and.

Speaker 8 (01:26:40):
They just but it's a week to week deal in
the NFL, and nobody apparently is more aware of that
or endorses that theory more than Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 9 (01:26:51):
You know, you'd have to look at each one of
those things individually, the plans, the players available to us,
the schematics of those that we compete. Again, I think
that's the challenge. And the beautiful thing about this league
is that weekend and week out, man, you start a
new there're certainly, particularly at this point of the year,
some evidence of who you are and evidence of who

(01:27:12):
your opponents are. But from a strategy standpoint, you better
start at ground zero. You better build, and that's what
we're in the process of doing today in this week.
And they have to put out a better performance this week,
you know.

Speaker 8 (01:27:25):
And it's funny. The Ravens have beat the Steelers two
games in a row. The Steelers had won four in
a row prior to that, and they have a good
track record historically against Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson. But
I think everybody still has TSD from that playoffs January,
and in the event they were starting to get over
it came the Buffalo game and now it's back, right.

(01:27:46):
I mean, it's two six and six teams, two teams
with warts, two rivals that usually play a one score game,
and I'm talking like forty times out of fifty five
or something ridiculous. And yet the impending sense that I
get is doom.

Speaker 1 (01:28:02):
The thing that confounds me is, you know, and Merrill saying,
ultimately it's on the players, you know, it's not. There's
only so much scheming you can do, and they're you
know it The fault lies not as well, A little
bit right with each of them, but but ultimately the
players have to make the plays. I cannot believe for
the life of me that they were getting blown off

(01:28:24):
the ball and just handled by the Bills that much
when they've done it against those teams that we've talked about.
They've stopped the run against Jonathan Taylor, they stopped the
run against the dual attack from the Bears. It has
to be guys not doing what they're supposed to do,
not that they don't have the talent to do it,
or did they just catch.

Speaker 8 (01:28:44):
The Colts on a good day when they weren't doing
what they're supposed to do.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
Everything off and the Bear. I don't know who knows
it's the NFL man.

Speaker 8 (01:28:53):
It's really hard to figure week the week, but clearly
this game starts and ends with run defense and with
the Steelers' ability to run the ball against these guys.

Speaker 1 (01:29:03):
So it's obvious Slay didn't play last week because they
didn't want that dude to get hurt or something, and
they just well they just scratched him. He's not playing.
It was not the best option, a healthy scratch. At
ten million a year, they drop him, he'll probably get
picked up by somebody. Well it's a.

Speaker 8 (01:29:20):
Probably Oh, line is the most desperate position and corner's
probably second.

Speaker 1 (01:29:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:29:24):
So yeah, but he's he'll get veteran minimum and maybe
some incentives.

Speaker 1 (01:29:29):
But is the Adam Feeling signing. You have to think
that guy making the intention known like he he wants
to play. I mean MVS has not even sniffed the
lineup yet. No, and apparently he's not gonna because they
got Feeling correct. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:29:45):
Now MVS is much more of a Mike Williams type
of receiver. Just run down the sideline and if he
can hit him on a deep ball or two, that's
that's the point. Feeling's a complete, He has been a
complete and actual number two.

Speaker 1 (01:30:01):
He could be compared to what we have. Yeah, I
mean the problem I have with Calvin Austin and Roman
Wilson is height.

Speaker 8 (01:30:07):
Yes, it's a problem, and they're not necessarily combat catch guys.
Feeling has always been a guy you get the ball
anywhere near him and he's gonna find a way to
catch it. We've all seen it for years, you know,
plays in the back of the end zone, plays along
the sideline. He was playing a lot early in the
season for Minnesota is the number three when Jordan Addison

(01:30:29):
was suspended, and when Addison came back, then it was Addison, Naylor,
and Jefferson and that's the guys they were rolling with.
Feeling got scratched last Sunday when the Vikings played Seattle,
and that's when he said, Hey, if you guys don't
need me in mine, if I go somewhere else, this
is my last year, right, I'd like to play whatever
football I have left. And they said, sure, you're all waivers,

(01:30:49):
go for it. How quickly can he acclimate and your
guy I know, but like there's still a lot to remember.

Speaker 1 (01:30:58):
Figure out five.

Speaker 8 (01:30:59):
Things he can do and tell them to do those.
I mean, this is desperate times. Yeah, you can't keep
going the way they're going with this passing game.

Speaker 1 (01:31:07):
What's the best way to attack the Ravens defense. I'll
tell you tomorrow. You're watching the film tonight.

Speaker 8 (01:31:15):
Yeah, yeah, but I think the best way to attack
him is to run the ball on him and get
them worried about that and they get back to the
play action from under center. That's the key, and there's
where your tight ends come into play. And now everybody
comes up for your tight ends and now you go downtown.

Speaker 1 (01:31:30):
Forty two year old Aaron Rodgers celebrating his birthday last
night with a birthday cake brought to him by Ben's Karonic,
all the receivers saying happy birthday to him.

Speaker 8 (01:31:37):
And then you know, lovely without looking at the tape.
Just philosophically, the best way to attack any defense is
if they give you one on one outside, make them.

Speaker 1 (01:31:46):
Pay for it.

Speaker 8 (01:31:47):
Yeah, because if they're giving you one on one side,
that means they're addressing other things and trying to take
away your running game and your short middle.

Speaker 1 (01:31:55):
Do you think Rogers has looked uncomfortable in the pockets
since the Charger game. I don't know why. Now.

Speaker 8 (01:32:02):
The on line at a bad game against the Chargers,
and some of that after the fact could be attributed
to Singamala not being there and brought up Jones kind
of needing Saamalu to be respectable, which when he came back,
Jones was respectful. Now Jones is gone. I don't think
Pete was the problem the other night.

Speaker 1 (01:32:20):
I was gonna say they stick with Pete at left tackle,
and you Spencer Anderson is a swing guy still and
bounce him around and put him in formation.

Speaker 8 (01:32:29):
You know, it's funny. Ye, Rogers did the same thing.
I talked to Rudolph about the sack strip in Chicago.
Remember I was saying, yeah, you should have thrown at
the warning anyway because he's being covered by the defensive tackle,
and Rudolf so well, I should have thrown it away,
is what I should have done. Okay, I get that.
You know it's not third down, it's not fourth down.
Lived to fight another day, don't turn it over. Rogers

(01:32:51):
did the same thing on that sack strip. He went
back when he wanted. Initially, whatever that was wasn't there.
He stepped up, didn't get rid of it and started
going right like.

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
It looks like he went through two or three progressions.
Got to go off in your head, man, get rid
of it. It was the first play in the third quarter.

Speaker 8 (01:33:08):
If we've seen him do that, until he throws the
ball to guy's feet or throws it out. He's not
opposed to giving up a play.

Speaker 1 (01:33:16):
But doesn't it remind you of Russ trying to do
too much? That these guys get to a point in
their career where they something in them wants to keep
fighting and then they don't value the live to fight
another day thing where Tom Brady excelled at that these
guys are trying to do too much to prove they
can still do it, and Brady.

Speaker 8 (01:33:34):
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Speaker 4 (01:33:37):
Other than Brady, Rogers is like the throw it away guy,
like the guy to do it. Like, wow, he really
is taking his medicine here. Everyone should aspire to be
like this. But yeah, I don't know if it's because
you know the curtain's coming down or what that you
feel like you got to make the play.

Speaker 8 (01:33:56):
Yeah, with Russ he was trying to throw he got it,
and Sitting wanted to throw the deep ball every play
and they just weren't able to protect it and it
was a disaster. Yeah, Rogers has missed some throws. He
acknowledged he missed. He's missing a lot of miss Throwman
Wilson on a getting hit one of those early, and
it changes the way the defense calls the game, and

(01:34:16):
then that opens stuff up for you. So let's get
real inside baseball here. They got to play better, man, Yeah,
I mean, they just got to play better.

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Speaker 1 (01:37:49):
When you need a lawyer, Oh, buddy, Tad Whistles hanging
out with us this morning. And you know I was
telling you earlier how the Pittsburgh City Paper is asking
its readers to submit the Pittsburgh alphabet. A is the
words that describe Pittsburgh. So I asked Tad to do
the same thing with this version of the Pittsburgh Steelers,
the twenty twenty five Pittsburgh Steelers, and eh through z

(01:38:11):
Tad whistle take it away. A for adjustments adjustments, Yes,
as in Tomlin, don't make no adjustments. B Randy for
booing renegade.

Speaker 4 (01:38:27):
Yeah, was it a bunch of drunk people looking for
something anything to scream about, or an indication of the
disconnect between the powers that be and the HOYPOLOI, I
don't know. Seemed like this might have been to let
the meat cake moment, let them listen to sticks.

Speaker 1 (01:38:49):
I'm not proud of this one. C is for the
C word.

Speaker 4 (01:38:52):
Hold on now, for you know which I find myself
screaming a dozen or so times during these games, making
the Steelers at least partly responsible for my forthcoming d divorce.
He is for the episode after the Chargers game when
I almost got three zero two to the Hangar sports

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Bar in Coriopolis Peaks and Valleys, almost at f Friarmouth.
I guess I can barely say his name right. It
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say that guy's name. Where are they hiding this dude,

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It's not like John hu Smith's getting his touches g
for good dudes, Good dudes, Jalen Warren, good dude, Herbic,
A couple others. Blow it all up, and let's start
over with these guys. We'll get a little place, we'll
have a cow. I'm down on the flat.

Speaker 1 (01:39:58):
We're gonna have a field of out fouth for all
the good dudes, and I will tend to them farmer.
Tad h is for Hell, say the line coach. We
want here in December on leash Hell. We're in Hell.
Get us out of Hell, my last hell. Please Eyes

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for irritable bow syndrome.

Speaker 4 (01:40:30):
After stress eating a pound of cashews while James Cook
and the Bills ran butt naked the same corny plays
sixty times on the Steelers. Jay is for one Thornhill,
an otherwise forgettable dude who will live forever and stealer
infamy for a stupid thing that he said that this
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(01:40:52):
It is the Howard Dean scream of your five Pittsburgh Steelers.
Kay is for Kam getting knead in the stomach by
Josh Allen. You're the d lineman, he's the quarterback. You're
supposed to knee him, and not in the stomach, in

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the groin. That's how backwards things are right now. Elis
for long December, except there's no reason to believe that
maybe this year will be better than the last. Emma's
for Mason, as in Mason ain't pulling their asses out
of the fire this Christmas, and for nameless gray faces,

(01:41:37):
a once fun Tomlinism that right now, like all Tomlinism,
just annoys you. Oh, offensive line, Why does our offensive
line always suck?

Speaker 1 (01:41:48):
P Pat Meyer?

Speaker 4 (01:41:52):
Pat Meyers should be fired because the offensive line sucks.
Speaking of underperforming hus for Queen, we already got to
watch you on Sunday. Seeing you beef with former stealer
backups on Twitter is a new level of aggravation. We
simply do not need log off my man, our Ravens

(01:42:15):
week oof used to bring such joy. Feels like this
one snuck up on me, but really I was just
dreading it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:24):
S is for scheme.

Speaker 4 (01:42:27):
The word use so much this season it no longer
means anything at all. Out schemed, over schemed, under schemed, schematics, schemantics,
steely mcscheme, Paul schemes.

Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
Everybody haven't fun and we haven't foun out down to
put a bow on the letter s.

Speaker 4 (01:42:51):
Let's say so long and Cyonara to scapegoat tea tero
ouster whose exit interview is going to be a lot
like Joe Peshy's in Good Fellow. It was revenge for
Joey Flacco and a lot of other things. You ugly

(01:43:12):
the wins, the losses, the season of it, the for victories.
Look at the rest of this schedule, show me the victories.

Speaker 1 (01:43:21):
Yeah, not a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:43:23):
W for wide receiver two, which the Steelers finally solved
with Adam Feelin. Hey, if you're pissed off about them
signing a thirty five year old wide out in what
seems to be his final NFL season, imagine how Adam
Feelen feels.

Speaker 1 (01:43:40):
While we're talking about reed treads. Why not kick the
tires on x Xavier Grimble. Maybe he's the missing piece
of this Arthur Smith offense. One more tight end really
opened the playbook.

Speaker 4 (01:43:55):
Why for YOI used to be a happy exclamation, It's
time to start using YOI in a sad, somber way.
YOI double effing the oi. Finally z her Zillow doom scroll.

(01:44:16):
I use it as a calming technique Steelers in the
middle of another second half collapse. I wonder how many
bedrooms I could get if I moved to eighty four.

Speaker 11 (01:44:26):
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Speaker 1 (01:44:43):
Why don't you point five DV The trial is ninety
nine percent preparation. But you flipped the thing around to me,
so you know I see it. It's the Giant Eagle.
Do you want to donate a dollar? It's like everyone
can in see. I hate that Giant Eagle thing so
much because it's like it always talks loud. Do you

(01:45:04):
want to donate for kids? And I'm like, I didn't
know before. It makes it all the way because I
don't want someone to hear me dinging the food bank,
you know what I mean? Because I don't trust Giant
Eagle to do it. I do it myself. You know
what that needs to do?

Speaker 2 (01:45:17):
After you say yes, it needs to go thank you
for your donation because it gives you yeah, nothing there
is zero.

Speaker 1 (01:45:25):
And then because it has it like, thank you Randal
for donating to the food bank. You know what, Giney
Eagle applauds you.

Speaker 2 (01:45:32):
They give you that stupid shame light every time you
don't know how to weigh your avocados. You me the
glory light every time I do the freaking food glory light.

Speaker 1 (01:45:44):
That's different. That is a different. I don't syn altogether.
You told you give me a glory Brandy Bellman and
the DV Morning Show, I mean, Christen. Very strong opinions
on tipping, very strong opinions reservoir dogs.

Speaker 2 (01:46:04):
Okay, I believe in tipping. I overtip all the time.
And there are certain situations. And also when I didn't
mentally put you in my life like I didn't, I
didn't account for you, and then you give me a
card saying I think about you all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:46:26):
You're done drapering it. I don't think about you at all.
I don't because I pay for my services. Okay, well,
let me ask you this. You brought up something that
I think a lot of people feel, the shame siren
when you don't weigh the avocado's right or whatever and
it breaks and you're just sitting there. Boy, there's nothing

(01:46:48):
like the time between when it breaks and someone coming
over and everyone just going, look at this idiot, who's
the roub?

Speaker 4 (01:46:57):
Those things are so loud, and you know, maybe the
answer is to have an MC sort of back there
in the self checkout aisle. Uh, you know, especially for
the donation. Sure, but uh you know, move your avocado,
move your personal lubricant to the bagging area. Quiet, Quiet, Quiet,
there's no volume setting on there.

Speaker 1 (01:47:19):
Those things are way too loud. The siren though, like
help is on the way. I told you the time
I was at CVS and that happened to a woman
and she just started screaming because there's nobody there. She's
like help, help. I'm like, I'm behind you, like there's

(01:47:40):
somebody here. And then someone like was obviously just on
a bathroom break and came over and finally helped her,
but she was losing it. I was like, I wanted
to see how far it would go, and the eventually
she just starts taking off her clothes. It's okay, we're
at a CVS anyway, So what do you got going

(01:48:01):
on over there?

Speaker 2 (01:48:02):
This hour is brought to you by Better Call Side.
It's cloudy today with a high round thirty four. Netflix
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They drew fifty nine million views during its first five days.

Speaker 1 (01:48:19):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
The debut mark's the highest premiere week viewership for any
English language Netflix series and ranks third overall, behind only
Squid Game seasons two and three, which I've not been
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we are.

Speaker 1 (01:48:38):
I remember, I remember the last thing from the previous
season that I remember it is her floating in the
air and Kate Bush song. Yeah, but I don't remember
how we got there or any of that stuff. And
I don't remember how we resolved it. Did we win,
did we did we vanquish the Beast? I don't recall. Yeah,

(01:49:00):
I don't know for good or not.

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
But I did see that Millie Bobby Brown was back
in the news, because I think the thing is is
that we keep seeing things from stranger things pop up,
and we forget that they're not children anymore, even though
they're still probably making them look like children. She got
married to John bon Jovie's son, Jake bon Gie Bonnie,

(01:49:23):
and she announced this week that her new legal name
is Millie Bonnie bon Giovanni.

Speaker 1 (01:49:30):
What so I was gonna ask you first, if Bobby
was actually her name it was like Millie Bobby Brown,
or if that was just like George the Animal Steel,
or like is was it something that people just put
in there because it was like, she's like my baragative
and they're like, oh my god, Millie Bobby Brown. Yeah,
but now it's Millie Bobby, Milly, Bonnie, Baniannie. She she

(01:49:51):
should mash them up into Brown Giovanni. Don't do it,
Millie Bobby bro I just say line in the sand.
It's an old tradition to do the name change.

Speaker 5 (01:50:06):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:50:07):
I don't know. My sister didn't do it. My oldest
sister didn't do it. I didn't do it immediately. Yeah,
and then eventually it becomes like a for tax purposes
or something for my kid.

Speaker 2 (01:50:18):
Oh yeah, sure, I thought. I thought that for traveling purposes.
This is very romantic, I know, but I thought for
traveling purposes. I didn't want my child and I to
have different last names.

Speaker 1 (01:50:30):
Oh yeah, that's smart. Well, you had trouble with your
documentation going to Ireland.

Speaker 11 (01:50:34):
Yeah I did.

Speaker 2 (01:50:35):
It was screwed up because our uh whenever coworkers like
make you know travel plans for you and they know
you as your professional, right, yeah name, they don't know
the difference.

Speaker 1 (01:50:45):
And then in Ireland they were giving.

Speaker 2 (01:50:47):
Me a little bit of flat I did get the
full tsa pat down too.

Speaker 1 (01:50:51):
I need to not get you were screaming at the
agent that you wouldn't tip, and they weren't asking for that,
I know. But then they gave me a glory light
and then they said go on through. That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
Again, going back to the stranger thinks as always kids
to me, this gets me thinking about being a kid again.
Did you guys have an allowance growing up?

Speaker 1 (01:51:11):
Well, it was dependent on chores, but yes, it was
like I got paid to mow the lawn and you know,
ancillary stuff around the house, but usually mowing the lawn
was my deal.

Speaker 4 (01:51:23):
Okay, when I was very little, I got a buck
every Friday. My stepdad put a dollar in my hand
and I got an Eclaire lunch every Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:51:32):
Oh dude, that's nice. Oh yeah, what do you have
to do for a dollar? Just a little bit?

Speaker 4 (01:51:36):
Oh a little not annoying Thursday night specifically, my.

Speaker 1 (01:51:42):
Parents were well I remember this more in the summer.
I don't remember during the.

Speaker 2 (01:51:47):
Week if we had like an allowance thing, but in
the summer, my mom had, you know, a hammer to
drop yeah, and it was a combination of academic things
that we had to do and then.

Speaker 1 (01:51:59):
Just actual chores.

Speaker 2 (01:52:00):
But it was like ten dollars a week, so it
was hefty, but we had a lot to do.

Speaker 1 (01:52:04):
Like summer's sucked. Actually at my home, I just I mean,
I was refereeing soccer when I was like ten years old.
I was refereeing the six year olds. I was mowing.
There was always a thing I was doing to get money.
I had a paper route, you know. I never didn't
have a gig, but they were you know, I could
duck in and out of them pretty easy.

Speaker 4 (01:52:24):
Yeah, my niece is in the referee game right now,
and it is like a great way for a young
person to make cash.

Speaker 1 (01:52:31):
My brothers and I used to make a lot of
money doing that, and then once we got older and
we could do the older game, like when we were
in college in the summer, we would like be do
the parochial schools and you'd go out and you'd have
like a three game schedule and it was like sixty
bucks you'd make, you know what I mean. And back
then in the nineties, you know, like you know, early nineties,

(01:52:51):
like eh, it is let's go drinking. It only costs
four dollars to do that, you know, so we made
a lot of money refereeing back in the day.

Speaker 4 (01:52:58):
You have a referee a game and you came off
the and you were like, that was not worth it
for the amount of abuse that.

Speaker 1 (01:53:02):
Oh so many times well, and the worst was my brother.
And when I would ref with my brother, Charlie, he'd
be like, I'm keeping time, and I'd be like, dude,
don't and he would always short the quarters because he'd
be like, I just want to get the hell out
of here, you know. And he'd be like, this game
doesn't matter. I'm like, you know, it's not like you
have to stop the clock, but you have to at
least give him twelve minute quarters. And he would get

(01:53:23):
yelled at by the parents and be like, hey, ref,
that was ten minutes. That was ten minutes, you know.
And I'd like it took two minutes off, like you're
caught in the middle. Yeah at that point, you know,
just let it play out. He always thought he was
like getting one over on him, you know, which always
thought was funny. I'm like, so we saved about six
minutes and caught hell. I don't understand what the different,
Like it was worth it to stay a little bit longer.

(01:53:47):
But sometimes the weather, you just want out of there.
And then the coaches occasionally would come up to you
and be like, hey man, let's get this thing over with,
you know, and then I also want to go to
the bar. Yeah, my real problems did. I'm only here
because I have to be speedlessing up. But allowances kind

(01:54:10):
of stopped, like getting money from my dad probably when
I was I don't know, twelve or thirteen, because I
had actual gigs.

Speaker 2 (01:54:17):
Yeah, then you start actually working, right, So the preteens now,
the report that I pulled this morning, apparently the average
child's monthly allowance is around fifty two dollars, so they
are getting about thirteen dollars a week now, and I
guess people are kind of like, you know, clutching their
pearls that that's a lot of money for a preteen.

(01:54:38):
And I'm I'm a little split on this, Like my
kid's nine, what did.

Speaker 1 (01:54:42):
They spend the money on? That's well, here's my argument.
In a way, cigarettes are expensive. Cigarettes are extremely those vape.

Speaker 2 (01:54:51):
Pets, you know, how right, you have to fill those
constantly exactly. That's what I'm saying is the things that
would be the carrot on a stick to actually motivate
her to stay consistent with it, because that's the problem
is sometimes she'll kind of get into the spiritatures right,
but I.

Speaker 1 (01:55:10):
Can't keep up with it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:13):
But the things that actually would motivate her are so
much more expensive than that. It's just not enough. So
thirteen dollars a month, like, what's a kid getting?

Speaker 1 (01:55:26):
I don't know that they can buy her thirteen dollars
even a week? What's getting good? Yeah, I'm not sure.
Can you get a pizza? Yeah, that's mostly what you
spend your money on, right, candy, pizza, things like that.
Junk food, junk food.

Speaker 2 (01:55:39):
Yeah, I can get away with a five below trip,
but usually I have to go in like the Giving
Tuesday model where I'm like, I will match your contribution.

Speaker 1 (01:55:49):
Yeah, because even a five below.

Speaker 2 (01:55:51):
Trip, she's gonna pick something and she's like agonizing over what's.

Speaker 1 (01:55:55):
Five blow is a clothing store or something?

Speaker 2 (01:55:56):
No, five below is a glorified dollar tree?

Speaker 1 (01:56:01):
Was a better color scheme? Gotcha?

Speaker 5 (01:56:04):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:56:04):
So you go in there and there's it's junk, but
kind of good junk. Our next segment is not sponsored
by five below.

Speaker 2 (01:56:13):
Now you know what, Actually, I'll take that back five
below has a lot of art supplies, So I think
a lot of parents can get away with if you
go into a five below they are now putting in
like makeup shoes.

Speaker 1 (01:56:27):
I mean they those shoes will have holes in those
by at the end of the day. But yeah, you can.
You can make it happen at five below.

Speaker 2 (01:56:34):
And even like you know, a ball, a hullop whatever,
you know, you can get.

Speaker 1 (01:56:37):
Away with it. And that's some good Christmas shopping.

Speaker 2 (01:56:39):
I'll tell people to get my kid a five below
gift card. But I also like, again, I'm trying to
over incentivize it, so I matched the contribution and have
to make it work.

Speaker 1 (01:56:48):
But again, even like a game online.

Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
Yeah, five bucks has gone and I can cough and
five bucks is gone.

Speaker 1 (01:56:55):
You don't want to give so much that they can
buy nefarious things. I mean, that's kind of the balance.
I think gift strike, you know, like.

Speaker 4 (01:57:03):
That will launch them do celebrity with their peers. Hey,
Abby's got she's getting fifty bucks a week. We can
do whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:57:13):
Pretty much. We could even tip, just not that where
I draw the lines.

Speaker 2 (01:57:21):
Oh wait a minute, hello, hey, and our dickfront is
going to be bringing below frigid temperatures here into the
central US.

Speaker 1 (01:57:30):
This week, I read about this. This is not welcome news. No,
it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:57:34):
A polar vortex from the North Pole has shifted south
over Canada and will be pushing chili sub zero temperatures
down into the US as far as south as Missouri
and Kentucky. Starts tonight and into tomorrow. For us in Pittsburgh,
pricing that it's going to be in the thirties for
our high temperature through the rest of the week. And

(01:57:55):
no snow like you saw on Monday. So the most
shoveling you had to do, luckily, was on Monday. And
I don't know if seeing a bit of snow helped
everybody find a little bit of Christmas spirit or not.

Speaker 1 (01:58:08):
Boy, I am not keeping up with the Joneses. All
of my neighbors have these wonderful Christmas lights up, and
it looks great in my neighborhood. And then there's my
dumpy house, and even one of my neighbors even drove
up the street filming it. And then they're like, oh,
look how nice it is. Oh there's Randy's house. Nothing,
And then they kept, you know, and I'm like, it's
December third, but is it always nothing? Yes, but still

(01:58:30):
it could be something you don't know. You can't pass
judgment until it's like December fifteenth. I'm thinking about just
getting the biggest like grinch blow up thing and just
putting that on my lawn. But have you seen the
dancing grinches, the way they made the blow up Grinches?
They do like when the wind hits them, they do
these hilarious like dances. It looks like they're really getting down.

(01:58:52):
So I think I would like that. Yeah, like the
lawn are the car dealership, it's kind of like that,
but it's a full Grinch, and it's like it looks
like it's like boogieyan.

Speaker 4 (01:59:01):
Are you feeling annoyed enough with the standard set by
your neighbors to just other than the grinch, to do
like one passive, aggressive mailed in decoration.

Speaker 1 (01:59:11):
Oh, like one bulb in the middle of the rhododendron
and just leave it there. Possibly. I mean the other
thing you can do is go super religious and shame them,
be like, well, that's nice that you have all these lights,
but uh, Christmas is but Jesus, it's not always about
material things. It's sad. I have a big Bible on

(01:59:32):
my front yard.

Speaker 2 (01:59:34):
I have seen people put up like a crucifix for
a Christmas decoration before, which is Easter.

Speaker 1 (01:59:41):
It's not the right vibe. No, guys, he's still a baby, guys.
That's the epilogue. This is the fun part. Hot Springs,
the turtle, the instrum. Check it out.

Speaker 16 (01:59:57):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:59:57):
The intivity scene is always hilarious to me too. I
do think it would be good to do the Pittsburgh
Nativity scene where you have myron Cope is a baby
in there? Yeah, and the wise well, Ricky Back would
be Franco's catching the baby. Of course the baby Franco
is the cradle, Oh my god, yeah, yeah exactly, and

(02:00:18):
then you know, pick all your favorite. Mister Rogers would
be one of the wise men too, certainly the wisest. Yeah,
Sally Wigan would be the mother Mary, oh oh oh
baby Jesus, how I don't know who the father is.

Speaker 2 (02:00:35):
Rixy Rixy Back brings murr and tells you all about it.

Speaker 1 (02:00:42):
They make this in Beaver County. I'm telling you, this
is something that should happen. Rick make it happen. Market
these well, you know, so there's somebody out there who
Larry Richard will probably have this marketed in a week
or so. Don't worry. It's the Son of God and

(02:01:05):
Joseph tis a little bit.

Speaker 16 (02:01:12):
Well.

Speaker 2 (02:01:12):
There is a British newspaper that asked its staff to
basically say things to trick yourself into making the Christmas
spare come out so off, Like you kind of feel
like you're not getting the vibe yet. There are ways
to just force feeling festive and so here are some
of the highlights that might work for you.

Speaker 1 (02:01:31):
One is just put the tree up, Like, just put it.

Speaker 2 (02:01:33):
Up and just see if just that gets it going
for you. So that would be the inside of your
house too, right, so maybe that would help the outside.

Speaker 1 (02:01:44):
Yeah, I'm more of the inside kind of guy. I
am a keep it on the inside celebration kind of guy.
You always have been.

Speaker 2 (02:01:51):
If you put the tree up, could you see it
from them?

Speaker 1 (02:01:55):
Look at that that's judged.

Speaker 2 (02:01:57):
That totally counts, And then you don't have to do
the lights out side and you can control it.

Speaker 6 (02:02:01):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (02:02:02):
Okay, wrap a few gifts. You don't have to wait
until you're done shopping. Just wrap a couple things. If
you've bought things so far, start making your feel festive, eat.

Speaker 1 (02:02:13):
Or drink something like I just wrapping things from around
your house and just leaving them there. They're not actually gifts.
It's just like fun for you. Yeah right, it's just like, well,
that's that, you know. It's the Steeler's Almanac. I bought
in nineteen eighty eight. Excited to open it up and
leave through this pigram.

Speaker 2 (02:02:35):
There is eat, drink, something festive. One writers that her
family always made you fish pie around the holidays.

Speaker 1 (02:02:44):
Lightist.

Speaker 2 (02:02:45):
Second, I did say it was a British magazine, okay.

Speaker 1 (02:02:47):
I mean they have spotted dick is another thing they have.
They have fish pie and spotted dick, and they have
some weird things they eat over there. Every time he
shows up for the holiday, here's spotted dick again. God,
you know there's for that dick.

Speaker 7 (02:03:03):
Go.

Speaker 2 (02:03:04):
Ice skating is one of the things that made the list.

Speaker 1 (02:03:08):
You can do the downtown. Yeah, the downtown one's kind
of fun.

Speaker 7 (02:03:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:03:12):
Is it like a super long line at this point?
I mean, I mean bring your own skates. Oh, you
can rent, you can run skates there. You take home
some athletes foot but you know they sell to act
in at a on the corner.

Speaker 4 (02:03:27):
I think with the polar vortex coming in and still
being for me this far away from Christmas, this is
the time of year when I like to watch John
Carpenter's The Thing where you're like, you're absolute coldest, you
feel like you're there, you don't trust anyone.

Speaker 1 (02:03:41):
That's interesting. Do you think that's the coldest movie ever made?
It feels like it. You know, there's that argument in
Cheers where they talk about the sweatiest movie ever made.
Making cool hand Luke is one of the movies that
they that's a great one they put forth. But coldest
movie ever made? Things one of them? What's up there?

(02:04:02):
I don't know. I'm trying to the coldest. I mean,
it's cold on Mars right, so the Martian, I guess
you could say, but that's not like warm up, Oh
dude U. The Hateful Eight?

Speaker 7 (02:04:16):
Ye, great.

Speaker 1 (02:04:19):
Fargo, definitely a lot of cold and Fargo a lot
of cold. That's a that's a good winter movie. Just
life in Minnesota in the winter depicted perfectly makes you
a murderer.

Speaker 20 (02:04:32):
A couple of wrong turns that could be Jerry Londongard right.
Does the shining count for sure? But it's all inside mostly. Yeah,
I can't think of a whole lot of other keep trying,
but you know what, Jacob has one.

Speaker 1 (02:04:50):
What do you got, Jacob? Your your MIC's not on, Buddy, Sorry,
they're Revenant with Leo and really good one, really good
cold movie.

Speaker 2 (02:04:59):
Get your Self Inside a Horse, because watching Christmas movies
is the last thing that made this short list, this
abbreviated one, just because that kind of also gets you
in the spirit. You know, you pop on like a
home Alone or something like that, and that'll just kind
of get you vibeing. But thinking about Christmas movies too.
Macaulay Culkin's been making the rounds. Did you see that

(02:05:20):
he did the Google commercial? Like I kind of always
would have assumed with his childhood and really how much
he disappeared from the limelight.

Speaker 1 (02:05:32):
That he Okay, he like divorced his parents. I mean
he he got autonomy, and he had a messed up
like that their dad was a monster, very much so.

Speaker 2 (02:05:43):
That he maybe would not look at his home alone
career and and kind of what that did for him
with such a light Yeah, I mean it just seemed
like it would have been.

Speaker 1 (02:05:57):
Painful for him.

Speaker 2 (02:05:58):
So when I see him on these Google cremercials where
It's basically like Kevin has a grown up setting up
the house, you know, going back to the house.

Speaker 1 (02:06:07):
It's nice. It kind of feels healing for everybody. I'll
tell you what. I've never seen Home Alone two and
it was on last night and I saw Tim Curry
is in it, and I immediately was like, anything can
happen on how a dog could turn into a cat?
Like that song is never going to leave my brain.

(02:06:27):
We don't want it to random, we do. Mark Madden
is going to join us at nine forty five. You know,
this is a pretty funny interview. John Popper from Blues
Traveler did this interview in Rolling Stone where they asked
him who's the worst harmonica player of all time?

Speaker 6 (02:06:42):
What?

Speaker 1 (02:06:43):
And apparently the guy that was interviewing him knew what
he was going to say, and his answer is Alanis Morissett.

Speaker 2 (02:06:55):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:07:00):
Now, her songs were on the radio the same time
as Blues Traveler was popping right in the nineties, like
all then't run Around and Hook and all those songs
they had that were hitting, they were up against her
and everything. So he had to hear this song non stop,
and as a harmonica player, it drove him nuts, and
so he said, I objectively have to say Alanis Morisset,

(02:07:21):
she managed to fit the entire thing in her mouth
and on one hand in my pocket. I would love
her songs on the radio. You ought to know. It's
probably one of the best songs ever written. But when
she plays the harmonica, it's terrible, and she insists on
playing it. I'm that anal guy that bothered to figure
out that the harmonicon can be like horns. So it
really made me intolerant of people who are trying to
play actual notes. Aren't trying to play actual notes. Now.

(02:07:44):
That was recently Enrolling Stone, but he also in his
twenty sixteen memoir Suck and Blow other stories I'm not
supposed to tell, Oh my God, John Popper wrote where
I draw the line as a Lanis Morisset, I can
hear breaking harmonica when she puts it two. There's a
track she did hand in my pocket, and I can
hear the reeds breaking during the harmonica solo. They're not

(02:08:05):
meant to be blown that hard, and I'm arguably the
one person who hears it. Every time that song is played.
It's like for a solo, we're gonna smash this violin
against the window. That's the sound I hear when I
hear this song. And then he did an interview on
Learndtharmonica dot com and he said, I always use Alanis
Morris that as the culmination of the progression of doom.

(02:08:26):
I can hear her song one end of my pocket,
and I hear her break a harmonica. You can hear
the red give out, and I feel like, say, why
are you killing a harmonica on the radio. And then
last summer he went on out of Corolla's podcast and
around the fifty seven fifty mark, he was asked to
improve a few different songs, and when Corolla cued up
hand in my Pocket, Popper said, oh boy, And then

(02:08:47):
he mocked her performance by blowing everything as hard as
he could with no rhyme or reason, and he ripped
over the song for a while and he said, she
broke a reed. You hear that dissonance, uugh, Corolla. And
at what point in your career do you think you'd
be able to pull this off? Papper said, I don't
have a wide enough face. She can literally fit. You
can hear she's fitting the harmonica inside of her face.

(02:09:10):
So I just don't want to stop and admire that
inn the most recent issue of Rolling Stone. Once again,
John Popper feels the need to tee off on Alanis
Morisset for this solo. And we've all had the one
thing that we've heard in a song that always drives
us nuts. For John Popper, it's Alanis Morisset swallowing the harmonica.

Speaker 4 (02:09:34):
Promise me, Randy that if you ever interviewed John Popper,
he will bring it up.

Speaker 1 (02:09:38):
I could probably get him on the phone. I know
his keyboard play really well. We should probably get John
Popper onto Basher.

Speaker 4 (02:09:44):
Everyone that interviews John Popper henceforth has an obligation to
ask him if you had the pick of worse harmonica.

Speaker 1 (02:09:52):
So now I don't know the answer to this question.
John matter suited, but if you had the Jews the worst.
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Speaker 8 (02:10:57):
You know, we've talked a little bit about how incredibly
evenly matched the Steelers and Ravens are.

Speaker 1 (02:11:04):
Statistically, they're both six and six.

Speaker 5 (02:11:08):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (02:11:08):
Baltimore's point differential is minus four. Pittsburgh's is minus eight.
Baltimore scored two hundred and eighty nine points, the Steelers
have scored two hundred and eighty one. Ravens have allowed
to ninety three, the Steelers have allowed to eighty nine.
It's just couldn't be more down the middle, right, So
why does everybody think.

Speaker 1 (02:11:29):
This is the way that they got there?

Speaker 8 (02:11:30):
The Steelers are heading toward the abyss Well, the Ravens
are going to rise up and be the scourge of the.

Speaker 1 (02:11:38):
Was there three or four games Lamar didn't play. Uh
that I do not know. But that's the only difference
is if you went, you know, average per game per
starter on offense, the defensive stats line up pretty evenly.
I can't tell you that.

Speaker 8 (02:11:52):
In Lamar Jackson's last three starts, he has completed fifty
five percent of his passes. The offense, UH has averaged
two hundred and thirteen point three yards per game, and
he has no touchdowns in three interceptions. His passer rating
is sixty three point one. He hasn't scored a rushing
touchdown in four games and a passing touchdown in three.

Speaker 1 (02:12:16):
He keeps accumulating injuries too. Yeah, he gets dinged here
and there. He's got to. He's got to. They haven't
been good now.

Speaker 8 (02:12:24):
Probably the reason everybody is terrified is that Derrick Henry,
although not dominant statistically against the Steelers, in his last
two games against the Steelers, one hundred and sixty two
on the ground in their win in December last year
during the season ending five game losing streak, and then
one hundred and eighty six in the wildcard game.

Speaker 1 (02:12:46):
So that's yeah, that was a little bit of a yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:12:52):
And the Steelers only allowed more rushing yards at home
than they had since nineteen seventy five, the last time
they tried to play run.

Speaker 1 (02:12:58):
Deeferent for last two games he played against US. That's
that's bad. So that's not great.

Speaker 8 (02:13:04):
Ravens started poorly because they're playing good teams, and now
they've done well lately because they've been playing bad teams.
It's not like they've clicked in the gear and all
of a sudden they're this juggernut tea.

Speaker 1 (02:13:18):
I don't think that at all about Baltimore. I think
if the Steelers can play something approaching, you know, not
mistake free, but a little less mistake prone than they've been,
they can win this game. The offense has just been
so unimaginative and unproductive that you don't see how they're
gonna score. It's it doesn't look much different to me

(02:13:41):
than Shador Sanders running the Cleveland offense right now. That's
how bad I think the Steelers offense.

Speaker 8 (02:13:47):
Looks h I think the Steelers offense looks bad. I'm
not going to go Shador bad. I think looks like
he has no rule, doesn't belong, which is what I
thought all along. Yeah, but you know, just don't suck
and this is doable.

Speaker 1 (02:14:04):
Don't suck. It feels like a big ask. Yeah, there
should be a sign on the locker room they smack
on the way up. Don't suck. Play like you don't
suck today.

Speaker 8 (02:14:14):
And traditionally it's obviously a close game. That was not
the case in the wildcard game. Run the ball and
stop the run. Sure, super easy stuff, right, and hopefully
they're not in shotgun every time, and there's a little
mystery to what they're trying to do. And hopefully Aaron
Rodgers can get back to doing what he was doing

(02:14:36):
before that Chargers game, because this has been a different
guy since then, and the offense has been different since then.

Speaker 1 (02:14:43):
He's taken some hits, there's no doubt. It looks like
he's hearing footsteps, seeing ghosts, and you know Sam Darnold's style,
and maybe he's just it hurts more to get hit
when you're forty two.

Speaker 8 (02:14:56):
Which he just turned yesterday, Happy birthday.

Speaker 1 (02:15:02):
I want to know where the cake was from. Who
made Aaron Rodgers kate? Was it just a giant eagle
ale cookie cake? It's a guess. I don't know, but
he's such like a like health conscious guy. That might
have been some sort of like wheat grass. Uh, you know,
like the time you brought tailgate. I didn't bring tail

(02:15:23):
to the tail to a tailgate. I don't know what
you're talking about. That never happened.

Speaker 5 (02:15:28):
No.

Speaker 1 (02:15:28):
I was at my house for a Monday night game
and a couple of buddies came over. I grilled up
a bunch of chicken, and I like had some sauted
kale and I got my balls busted for that, and
I'm like, yeah, I'm just trying to have some vegetables.
So I pooped tomorrow. But you guys knew whatever you want.
Then you brought a tailgate. No, I didn't bring it.
I would never be that. I should have never done

(02:15:50):
that in front of other people apparently at all. But
I definitely did not bring it to a tailgate. I
have better sense than that. My tailgate food was always
the simple stuff, because I always think it works best.
Number one, as I always tell you, in a pinch,
a bucket of KFC will go immediately. That's a great

(02:16:10):
bucket of KFC. Walk into any party. I don't care
how fancy it is. Put down, A bucket of KFC gone.
But chip him. Barbecue ham is the easiest thing in
the world to make with just the Isley, So I
don't even make your own. Dump the Isley stuff in,
throw some banana peppers in there, crock pot it for

(02:16:31):
a while. It'll get nice and kind of burnt edges
and all that. You throw that out with just some
buns at a tailgate, Gone gone. Sean Casey had about
a pound and a half the last time I did that,
and he was just hard, you know, just to the face.
I'm like, dude, there's only like three pounds in there, like,

(02:16:51):
calm down. But that's always gone right away. So I
always do that compliment. Yes, well I did for presentation purposes. Yes,
put a little sprig of kale there. Yeah, Steeler Polka.
You're six beers deep, you go. I got I better
eat something. I gotta get something in the case for kale. Yes,

(02:17:13):
a rewrite is in order. Well, thanks for that, Mike.
But Mark Mann is going to join us here shortly.
I wonder if does Mark evertailgate or he does watch parties?
Doesn't he does watch parties for the game, we'll talk
to double m He is, as you know, he's bullish
on the Steelers, uh and uh, but pretty excited about
what the Penguins are doing. There's some excitement brewing there.

(02:17:35):
I think, well, it's one of those things where the
expectations are set appropriately, so your disappointment level never really
gets that far down, you know what I mean, You're
not really that upset when they don't win, but you're
seeing them make strides and you're able to look at
it like, ah, you know what this is really the
building blocks, is something that might work, and whatever it

(02:17:57):
is seems to reinvigorated sid And and Carlson.

Speaker 8 (02:18:01):
And I think they're starting to get further enough, further enough.
They played enough games now that it's starting to be
more realistic to me, not just oh, they played good
fifteen games to start to see it's gonna level back
to the meme. This might be the meme and it
seems like the Holy Eastern Conference Stakes.

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this Sunday. We actually start our covers at seven thirty
am the Sunday for the one o'clock kickoff because Chad
Tyson Steelers tailgate kicks off. It's rock songs to get
you in the right stay of mind, War Pigs, Thunderstruck,
but they will not play Renegade this Sunday morning. I've

(02:19:47):
been in formed, so no Renegade. Okay, good. I don't
like all this bad juju people are assigning to Renegade.
It's not renegade fault. Renegade did not play itself. It's
not Renegade. Don't throw the maybe out with the bathwater here.
It was an ill timed attempt at revving up the
fan base, and it's not Renegade's fault. Renegade is a

(02:20:10):
great tradition, and I think that we should not be
so quick to just replace it, despite Pittsburgh Reddit desperately
wanting to find another song.

Speaker 4 (02:20:18):
No good suggestions on that thread. By the way, if
you look for the what's the replacement song? I think it's,
you know, either Renegade or nothing. Sit in the silence
with your feelings thoughts. Yes, maybe think about what you did.

Speaker 1 (02:20:30):
Right. Well, we kicked it around a little bit yesterday
with Bartnek and he was saying war pigs but to me,
you know, and I said, that's an anti war song,
you know, And you know he said, have you seen
another playing? Yeah, exactly, it's an anti battle song. But anyway,
Sunday's Contown to kick Off with Tom Offman and Matt
Williamson begins at nine a m By the way, Matt
Williamson's son is a freshman at UK and last night

(02:20:53):
at halftime he got to do the ten thousand dollars
shot from half court and he it went in and out,
didn't give me two, chunked three times and kicked out.
Oh for ten g's. I'm sure Matt will tell you
all about that nine am on Sunday and then pursue.
The Labs and Jerry Doulac continue the pregame coverage at
eleven AM before the kickoff at one o'clock with Rob King,

(02:21:16):
Max Stark's Missy Matthews live from Baltimore, Maryland. It's Steelers
Ravens this Sunday. I'm glad it's an early game. Glad
it's an early game. I wouldn't want to wait around
all day for that one. I want it. I want
to know what the deal is by four o'clock. You
don't always want to wait all day for Sunday night. No, no, no,
because the season's over if we lose right looking grim like,

(02:21:39):
the playoffs are out of reach. If we lose this game,
I mean not technically, the Ravens could lose a bunch
of games and we could beat them the second time.
I understand that. But from a percentage standpoint, what do
we drop down to, like chance wise, if we lose
this game, like twenty percent you have to be something
like that, right, Yeah, imagine. So Mark Mann's not answering
his phone, Jacob still not well, I hope he's okay. Gee,

(02:22:03):
I hope he's okay. Well, that'll give me an opportunity
happy to talk about the big charity. Then I certainly
can feed the.

Speaker 2 (02:22:09):
It's gonna be at mister Small's and it is going
to benefit Rainbow Kitchen. And so we give all the
props to Rob James of the Clarks for putting this together.
It's gonna be Friday, December the nineteenth, Mister Small's Theater.
And I love that this is all ages. It's going
to feature the best in the local Pittsburgh music scene.
The Randallbauman Ramble Band is the backing band for all

(02:22:32):
of this.

Speaker 1 (02:22:32):
So you guys are probably on stage pretty much the
whole night, like half a show.

Speaker 2 (02:22:36):
Thank god, that's I love that. But also you've got
Joe Gersheky Bill, Deezy Jeane, the Werewolf, Tiny Wars, Clinton
Clegg of the common Heart, Kelsey Barber also known as
Kelsey Friday, sun King Warrior, Liz Berlin, Jen Wertz, Andre Cassello,
Chet Benson Atty Twig and Cledonia and Morgan Arena. So
you can get those tickets at mister Smalls dot com

(02:22:58):
or there's also a page dedicated to it a dot com.

Speaker 1 (02:23:01):
Mark Madden joining us now and brought to you by CALLOUSI,
serving the Pittsburgh area for over one hundred and seven years.
Good morning, Mark, How are you?

Speaker 7 (02:23:07):
Good morning everybody?

Speaker 1 (02:23:08):
Oh? Will you sound like you are distant? Are you
in a silo or something? Are you in the tunnel?

Speaker 7 (02:23:14):
Pretty close? I'm a connaiat like pa. I was up
here for the boat tour of the Lakeside Christmas trees.

Speaker 1 (02:23:21):
No kidding?

Speaker 11 (02:23:21):
How was that.

Speaker 7 (02:23:24):
Just delightful? I posted a bunch of photos on my Twitter,
just a site to be hold over one hundred and
thirty Christmas trees at Lakeside. Great night, moonlight, just enough
snow perfect.

Speaker 6 (02:23:35):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:23:36):
Was that just you and Bill Hillgrove tooling around in
a Boston Whaler? Is that what's going on up there? No?

Speaker 7 (02:23:42):
Because that would have ended bad.

Speaker 1 (02:23:45):
No.

Speaker 7 (02:23:46):
My buddy Rob Shelhas who owns a Robin Becky Day
own a funeral home in Wescue and they have a
house up here and they have they like chartered this
the Kaylee Bell. It's a paddle boat that's been up
here for years and still does trips around the lake
and they chartered it. And you know, a bunch of
people just a great time.

Speaker 1 (02:24:05):
That sounds amazing. You are really fond of Conye at
Lake that I like that you have that connection to
that place.

Speaker 7 (02:24:11):
Yeah, that's my favorite place. I should quit and live here.

Speaker 1 (02:24:14):
Well, I don't mean, I don't know, you can if
you want to, but you know, maybe Mike Tonle.

Speaker 7 (02:24:20):
Live here.

Speaker 1 (02:24:22):
All right. I know your feelings on the Steelers and
Mike Tomlin right now, and I'm wondering if they can
somehow beat the Ravens this weekend manage to get into
the playoffs. Do you think that Mike Tomlin will keep
going as the Steelers coach or do you think the
writing is pretty much getting written on the wall right now.

Speaker 7 (02:24:43):
I think they can lose off and he will continue
with Steelers coach. I think that is the commitment. Can
never fire a coach. That's how Daddy did it, That's
how Grand daddy did it. They're just not ever going
to fire the coach, which makes all the speculation a
waste of time and pretty funny just watching ESPN and
they act like this isn't his faults and that he'd

(02:25:05):
be doing himself a favor if he left, because obviously
he'd go right to New York and turn the Times
around because they've been terrible for decades. But he's a
football freaking genius. The whole situation is just hilarious. If
you don't laugh at it, you cry. I prefer to laugh.
I just think it's funny that some make him out
to be the victim in this one. He has absolute
control over everything that goes on there and has had

(02:25:28):
for his entire tenure. It's just it's amazing how little
blame he's really getting. I mean, there's a vocal section
of Twitter, the fans, even some of the media. You're
catching on, but most people are like, oh, poor Mike Tomlin,
that he just hasn't had a quarterback for a year
as well he drafted Kenny Pickett.

Speaker 1 (02:25:49):
Yeah, the talent evaluation I think has been the biggest,
probably the two biggest knocks against Mike Tomlin in my
opinion are talent talent evaluation lack there, and assistant coaches
that you know, his coordinators have just been not up
to snuff for a long time, and they've settled with
Pat Meyer, the offensive line coach for so long, and

(02:26:10):
it's always a problem for the Steelers. But the assistant
coaches thing is the only one. I don't know for sure.
I don't know how much money they offer. I don't
know how attractive of a gig it actually is.

Speaker 7 (02:26:24):
If they're the franchise they pretend to be, and they
do pretend to be, then why is the budget for
assistant coaches so low? Why is it the smallest staff
in football? Why is it reported to be the lowest
pain staff in football? Why are they chincy about that?
Why don't they try to win? I mean, you can
kick go out of the play for this upstairs too,

(02:26:44):
But talk about a guy that ain't going nowhere.

Speaker 1 (02:26:47):
Yeah. Now, on the other hand, the Penguins have switched horses,
not exactly midstream, and things are going in the right direction.
I think that was a hell of a fun game
to watch. The other night, Sidney Crosby cantinuing to torture
the Flyers and all of a sudden, you know, they
bring Rutger back up, they bring Boco up, and this

(02:27:08):
is a fun team to watch, Like I was saying
to Mike before the break, because my expectations are set appropriately,
I can't really get too disappointed by the Penguins right now.
It's only upshots.

Speaker 7 (02:27:19):
Change is fun, change for boats progress, even if it
can be a false daughter or fools gold sometime, which
I don't think this is. I think it's gonna take long,
and the people believe for the Penguins to get the
wather want to be, but they will get there. But yeah,
it's just everybody said it. You can't fire Mike Sullivan
because you couldn't do better. Well, they fied Mike Sullivan.

(02:27:41):
He's gone to New York and the Rangers are an
absolute disaster and Dan mus is doing a pretty good
job here in Pittsburgh so far. And by the way,
that was a glorious when at Philadelphia on Monday night,
not least because see it, their perpetual tormentor got two
more goals, but because the Flyers try to put bullye
but they are a bunch of sluts who are softest

(02:28:03):
puppy crap on a sidewalk and the Penguins took zero
from them. This one guy was given lazark crafting from
the flyer bench. Lizzark got him right between the legs,
full blow up and in and hard and down and
see you later. And the bench did nothing. That secrets
guy after like he was coming come after Connor Clifton,
and Clifton didn't even flinch. Screw those guys. They they

(02:28:26):
think they're the fires. They're not even the Flyers anymore.
The only fire they gouts behind the bench. And I
bet he's a shade.

Speaker 1 (02:28:32):
Oh yeah, I think he's gonna want to do a
lot of retooling there, Rick Tockett. But uh, it was
funny to see the Zegres thing. It was like, if
you're a Flyer fan and you're watching that, that had
to be a boy moment where even you, even a
Flyer fan, has to be really embarrassed by that.

Speaker 7 (02:28:50):
All right, Segres is a guy who he played at Anaheim.
You couldn't have melt him down and poured him into
a fight. And now he gets an orange black on.
He thinks he's a tough guy, the worst thing you
can be in hockey. And I'm sure, especially as a
fly with that twisted tradition. Is a phony, tough guy,
and they got a whole bunch of jerseys full of those.

Speaker 1 (02:29:08):
Last thing I want to ask you about the Lane
Kiffin situation with him going to LSU. I mean, this
is as ugly as it gets in college football, and
he might have destroyed a program for a few years
on his way out to go to LSU, which frankly
is has more prestige and more money. But he has
this Ole Miss team on the presibiss of you know,
they have just as good a chance to win the
national championship as anybody. He bails out of that. This

(02:29:31):
completely screws that up for Ole Miss. He takes players,
he takes coaches. Is there a fix for this for
college football? Or are they right now inexorably broken?

Speaker 7 (02:29:45):
I have fixed it. I don't watch it at all.
Stuff like this is why I'm totally turned off to it.
Layane Shiffins thief. All Miss new what they hired when
they got him. It just took a little longer for
to blow up in their face, and they did get
some good return from it for a while, I suppose.
But it's what Steve You're right, Ran, it's what's wrong

(02:30:05):
with college football. It's inextrictably broken. He was under contract
to old mister twenty thirty one. Why does he get deleted?
And the answer right here as well, that's just the
way they do in college football. Well, some school needs
don the guts to stop doing that way. Say you
can't leave. We'll see in court and tell LSU to
get an inter coach. In the meantime, we'll see how
it trickles down. But nobody seems willing to do that.

(02:30:27):
And then you got this Penn State disaster, which I
said accurately at the time, and they made a horrible
mistake fire in Franklin. It's tomlin Esk and Sullivans to say,
but they weren't going to hire better and they certainly haven't,
so I seriously, I just don't get attention. At the
bottom line of all of it is college football has
been around for one hundred years plus. They still don't

(02:30:49):
have a fair and objective way to determine a national champion.
That's fair to everybody. I turned on ESPN, I hear
Paul fine Baum. Yeah, talk about well this team, that team,
you know they're talking about brand names, and Miami beat
Notre Dame, but Notre Dame's gonna get in any way.

(02:31:11):
You know, It's just it's not equitable, And how can
that be after all this time? I mean, why do
the wrong people constantly have power in college football? I
just don't get it. So long story short, I just
don't watch. And I mean I just don't watch it all.
I came in the pit, came sometimes if I think
it'll be an embarrassing loss, because I get a kick
out of that. But otherwise I'm just not interested.

Speaker 1 (02:31:34):
Mark Madden brought to you by Calucy this morning on DV.
Thanks Mark, Enjoy CONNYE Lake.

Speaker 7 (02:31:39):
And by the way, Pitt never disappoints me because they
always disappoint me.

Speaker 1 (02:31:46):
Merry Christmas. We'll see you Mark Dell lim. Mark Madden
brought you by Callusy this morning. Also thanks to Meryl Hodge,
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up next with the Electric Lunch and Neon. Have a

(02:32:07):
great day, everybody. I'm finished. You stay classy, Pittsburgh. Don't
touch your face. He got him time, Pittsburgh.

Speaker 9 (02:32:13):
Hockday.

Speaker 1 (02:32:14):
Baby, But now you gotta call me Ronald? Would you
not eat my pants?

Speaker 11 (02:32:17):
Ronald?

Speaker 1 (02:32:20):
Whoa man? Whay? Goggle ahead.

Speaker 14 (02:32:27):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
to you by your neighborhood Ford Store and Steelers Pro Shop.
Get it direct from the team at shop dot Steelers
dot com. Here's Tom Opferman.

Speaker 15 (02:32:38):
The Buffalo Bills brought the NFL's number one rushing offense
to Pittsburgh Sunday, and that rushing offense dominated the game.
As a guide to the Bills to their twenty six
to seven victory over the Steelers.

Speaker 1 (02:32:47):
James Cook led the way for Buffalo on.

Speaker 15 (02:32:49):
The ground, gaining one hundred and forty four yards on
thirty two carries, his NFL leading seventh game rushing over
one hundred yards this year. The Bill's improved to six
and one in games where Cook eclipses the century mark.
It wasn't just James Cook, as Ray Davis and Josh
Allen added sixty two and thirty eight rushing yards respectively
to rack up a total of two hundred and forty
nine yards on fifty one.

Speaker 1 (02:33:09):
Carries for Buffalo.

Speaker 15 (02:33:10):
Two hundred and forty nine yards is the most rushing
yards gained against the Steelers at Akroshur Stadium and the
most overall in Pittsburgh since nineteen seventy five, when, funny enough,
the Buffalo Bills ran for three hundred and ten yards
at three Rivers Stadium. Offensively, things didn't go any better
for Steelers either. They were able to generate only fifty
eight yards rushing on one of the league's worst run
defenses heading into the game, and only gained one hundred

(02:33:33):
and sixty six yards of total offense with just eighteen
minutes time of possession. The loss dropped the Steelers to
six and six, same as the Baltimore Ravens, who they
played this Sunday at M and T Bank Stadium in Baltimore,
with the winner taking control of the AFC North Division.

Speaker 1 (02:33:47):
I'm Tom Opferman with the Steelers Report. Steelers fans, your
team is a powerhouse. Are you ready to throw another
great game here in the Steel City.

Speaker 21 (02:33:56):
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Speaker 1 (02:34:11):
Now, how about that young duo on offense. That's the
next powerhouse on our radar.

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Speaker 1 (02:34:27):
This report. He is sponsored by Flynn's Tire and Auto Service.
Still seen heavy delaizing ben on the Parkway west, top
of the hill down of the tunnels park what East
slung from before Wilkinsburg and Sowdowns on twenty eight with
work going on, approaching the fortieth Street bridge, a Bonnie
Diver total traffic go in the snow