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December 9, 2025 • 38 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Eaton Park was the same thing, like that Eaton Park
on Banksville. I mean I did some super late night
oh same super burgers there with a few like tables
full of people who were in similar states of mind.
And I miss that. Post COVID, all of the late
night eating is gone. There's no more like diner culture
late at night. No more like I don't know, there's

(00:21):
Ridders still, no longer twenty four hours.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh, nothing like going to Ridder's pretty drone, looking at
the menu and be like, what could I Okay, this
is what I want, but could I actually eat it?
And then uh, you know, hearing the waitresses fight, right,
the waitresses are all wearing scrubs as if you're in
an er. Well, WI kind of are in intensive care

(00:45):
for sure, you're.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
In a fragile state.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
And then just hearing the waitresses bicker, and then you
being sort of wrapped up in the drama, like them
coming back to your table like, I'm sorry you had
to hear that, hun, but she has been stealing tips.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Brandy Bellman and the DV morning show.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Dad Whistle with us this morning. Yeah, diners are my
favorite places. That's my favorite place to eat. I grew
up going to diners with my dad. He would always
get a chocolate milk and a cheeseburger.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
Oh that's classic.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, because he was like, can't have a shake every time?
That's like it is like that was his diet shake.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Yeah, that's shake light.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, but just even when you would get a chocolate
shake at a diner, and when you do get a
chocolate sake at a diner and then they give you
the extra shake in the silver thing and they're like,
here's some extra shake my favorite thing.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, I'm thinking of me, love it. Here, take the extra.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
But it does feel like you're like being trusted with
some hardware.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
You know that now we're gonna need that back in
the kitchen. Don't be walking away with that or no
one else is getting shakes.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
You can tell when bars have been burned by that
because they make you give us your ID while you
have this fancy cup, this Moscow mule cup or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah. That was just the subplot in Tim robinson show
Chair Company You I Yeah, I finished it.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I love Tim Robinson that show just I couldn't get
into it.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
It was so there was a lot of laughs. The
story is.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Just cringey and uh, I don't know, it's I love.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
I think you should leave. I think that his stuff
works best in quick bursts.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, and when it's like the longer narrative like that
Paul red movie I didn't like. But Jacob, you loved it.
And you say, the kids your age who wear shorts
to work all love it.

Speaker 6 (02:30):
Yeah, everyone who I know of my age still wears
shorts to work and love friendship. But I'm the only
one that hasn't watched The Chair Company yet.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
I've been too lazy.

Speaker 6 (02:42):
I got logged out of my HBO Max account and
you can't take never cover the password forever.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
It takes five seconds, real person.

Speaker 6 (02:49):
I have heard great things, nothing but great.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Things about The Chair Company.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
My brother and his wife love it, and they're like,
have you seen it?

Speaker 7 (02:56):
You know?

Speaker 1 (02:56):
And they're all excited, And I was like, I want
to love it as much as you do, but I.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
Just don't awkwardness to my own life that I can't
take on the embarrassment the secondhand embarrassment is somebody else
right now.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
But all the laughs are like in the stuff that
has nothing to do with the story, do you know
what I mean? It's like All the ancillary things are
what's funny and they have nothing to do with the story,
like the dog ates the patches on my hippie shirt,
like that stuff is funny to me, but it doesn't.
I don't know, and if you aren't watching it, have
no idea what I'm talking about. So never mind. But

(03:29):
the Chair Company got renewed. HBO is bringing it back
for season two.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Okay, well, it didn't make the cut for the Golden Globes. Unfortunately.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
I did start throwing on mad Men on HBO Max
when I was doing cardio because I wanted to see
if there were any more goofs and I haven't spotted
any goofs yet.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
I wonder if they fixed it yet, right, because I
mean that's the other thing with the streaming capabilities, right,
they can make fixes very quickly. And I think, well,
I mean they can. I think that that we've even
seen that in the past whenever an episode of a
show like kind of gets docks like, they can cleanse
these things quickly.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah. So the Golden Globe noms came out, did we
get nominated? We made it?

Speaker 5 (04:10):
You guys, awesome, very glad news. This hour is brought
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Speaker 3 (04:23):
It's getting so good right now.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
The Golden Globe nominees were announced yesterday. I will tell
you Sidney Sweeney did not get nominated, you guys for the.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Boxing bio portrayal of a lesbian Christie.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, she did her ugly role and it just didn't
work for some reason.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Right. It's like almost like people just want to see
you be hot.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
It's almost like it's the knockers.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, it's like the it's the economy stupid, It's the
knockers stupid.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
I do like that she's Yesterday, we didn't get to
the story about how she's trying to circle back on
the American Eagle ad and saying, you know, I realized
that the silence divided us more than it brought us together.
And it's like, honey, is the bank account looking a
little low? That did nobody go see the biopic.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
That screamed of I hired a new press agent, and
after I fired the last one because I had three
straight movies tank. Yeah, and they told me that I
should disavow eugenics. And so I'm gonna go ahead and say, yes,
white is not might necessarily my problem, my bad apologize.

(05:31):
Didn't mean any of that stuff, and didn't mean it
to tacitly endorse it by going.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
If I have a problem with something, you'll know about it,
because that's a different stance to take in. Of course,
I don't.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Agree with eugenics, right because her first response was if
I have a problem with something, you'll hear about it, okay, Well,
then you obviously don't have a problem with the association
they made, which, by the way, I thought was a
dumb association. I think it was so easy to steer
out and be like, it's ridiculous. It's genes. Of course, horse.
That didn't have any double meaning to it. There was

(06:03):
no connotation beyond the fact that these are good genes
with a J, not a G. Boom, you're out of it. Instead,
she's like, oh, is there discourse? Well, if I have
a problem with it, you'll hear about it, okay. That
means you agreed with it or you're okay with it. Dumb, dumb,
But that face you made is exactly the face the

(06:25):
interview were made to her.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
She was like, you don't want to fudget that a little.
She's like a white fudget.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
And then just motorting yourself and they're like, thank you
for your time.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
That was Sidney Sweeney doing what she does best.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
The Rock did get nominated for his MMA biopic The
Smashing Machine.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Which was like kind of his version of her movie.
I mean, in a way, it's like The Rock gets serious.
I heard that's a really depressing movie.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
I think that it is. However, I think that his
performance in it really did stand out for people. So
as much as it's a difficult watch, I think he
was able to tap into something that really did resonate
where people are finding him to be a serious actor
at this point. The same way that I think there's

(07:23):
a lot of buzz about Adam Sandler.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
We watched George Clooney movie that J Kelly did. He
get nominated for it.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
I want to double check that. I think he might have.
I have a separate page open here.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Another sad movie by the way, that J Kelly movie.
I know Sean Colly really liked it. It's another sad
middle aged man movie from Noah Bambach, which I did.
I thought like there are parts of it that are good,
but also like, I don't know, he kind of keeps
making the same movie with different actors.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
He is nominated for Best Supporting Actors.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
He was really good in it. He's like he's adorable.
He's like archetypal, like Hollywood manager guy. Remember that character
he played, Sandy Wexler in that one movie, Adam Sandler.
It's kind of like it's kind of like that muted
considerably and he's like, oh, Bobby, hy puppy, Oh I love.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
You, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
He's like one of those guys, and he's just like
lives and dies for his clients.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Okay, but he's very.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Sweet in the movie. It's just I don't know if
it's that fun of a movie to watch.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
Did you but the talk that even Sean Collier brought
up with the Oscar buzz, like, did you think it
was that good?

Speaker 3 (08:29):
No?

Speaker 5 (08:30):
Okay, but maybe for the standard of Adam Sandler. That's
what I think it is is that I don't think
it was as good as he was an Uncut Gems.
I think I thought in Uncut Gems, Adam Sandler was like, Wow,
this is an acting.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Performance, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (08:42):
And this one was just kind of like it was
the softer side of Adam Sandler thought it was.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
Okay, okay. One Battle after Another. The Best led all
movies with nine nominations, including Best Drama.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
It's it's one of the best movies I've seen in
a while. Kidding, I really love it.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
Is that one stressful? Yes, incredibly stressful, because that was
the one thing that has me that I continually push
it down the list because I always have to know,
I have to do like a pre flight check in
with myself about where I am before.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
I watch something. You know, you felt there in the
fourth quarter of the Steelers Ravens game. Yeah, that's like
what One Battle after another is two hours and fifteen
minutes of that.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
All right? With the payoff? Totally okay. Sean Penn is
amazing in it. DiCaprio is like.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
He's kind of almost like Lebowski ish in it. If
Lebowski had a little more you know, athleticism. I don't
know if that's the word, a little more you know,
if the conditions were a little more dire. It's I
think it's a great movie, and it's based on a
novel that's supposedly Vineland Thomas pinch On novel.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
It's really it's great.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
I think it's a great story and the acting comes
from people who have never acted before. He has two
like hip hop artists in prominent roles. And the one
woman who is nominated for Best Actress. She's incredible, like
the lead of the movie, and I've never heard of
her before and her performance is like wow, nice.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
And Benicio del Toro.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
Is I do love him.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
He's and he's like a little bit of comic relief
in it. And he's there just a few small beers.
It's like the famous line he has from that one
he gets pulled over for a d U I've been drinking.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, what did you have? Just a few small beers.

Speaker 7 (10:32):
Like that?

Speaker 3 (10:32):
It's great. Yeah, I highly recommend checking that one out.
But it is.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's not I'll sit back and relax movie. It's like
a holy cow.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
And Sean Penn is terrifying in it.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
Well, I haven't heard about him in a minute. Actually
I didn't know he was in that movie.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
He's terrifying.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Okay, he's his baseline is sort of terrifying now.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
And they have him tad made up to look even
like scarier. She's got like a scarred up face and stuff.

Speaker 6 (10:59):
God.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, and it's it's a messed up performance by him.
It's a really diabolical character and he is really good
at it.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
All right, I'm gonna budget some time for it's. The
White Lotus was the top TV show that got Speaking
of the shows that got snubbed, let's look at did
you like The White Lotus this year? I did.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
I wanted that kid to die, not because I hated him,
because I thought it would have had a good part
of the story.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
I thought they chickened out.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, they chickened out.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
I think I have to have shows with consequence. Yeah,
for me to really feel it. Did you want there
to be full on incest and then, well I guess
there was. Ye I forgot about that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
They misdirect it a little bit though.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, it's like unintentionally like whoa, that's you, you know, instead.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Of what they made you think was gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
Ah. I just again, I always like shows with consequence
because there's even shows that start off so powerful and
then in subsequent seasons they lose their consequence, which is
why I tend to think people don't finish shows, you know,
by season three when you learn what the trick is. Yeah,
and no one ever dies and no one ever gets

(12:15):
in trouble. Then the ruses up right when you're done
with it, And.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Then you knew that alf would stop eating cats and
wasn't going to get sent back to Melmack.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
What was the point of watching.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
It any right?

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Right? All right?

Speaker 5 (12:26):
So Wicked for Good did not get nominated for Best Picture,
and so people are calling that a big snub. It
is up for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement, which sounds
like a.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Little pat on the head box office achievement. Could there
be a more cynical award that sounds all like? It
just tells you who's in charge of these awards. It's
they're becoming less consequential by the year, very much.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
That's the crowd pleasing award. It's like, but nobody actually
really liked it. And I told you that. Even I
took my daughter to see it, and even she was bored, senseless.
She was like leaning over the seat and just like
staring at me upside.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Down skeletons singing.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
She said, are you on a Grande's eyelashes are too long?

Speaker 1 (13:12):
She did get nominated for that, though, so that is nice,
longest eyelas collar bone. Yes, like those women are something's weird,
weird as happening. All three of those actresses look emaciated,
all three.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah. Michelle Yo oh I forgot.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
Yeah, Michelle yo gave bless her because I really like her.
Nothing to that performance, Yeah, like just her facial expression
never changed at any point during that movie.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
When your agent make your face get shot up.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
I don't think it was that. I just think she
just didn't either read it or know what the play
was about or anything about it. She just there was
nothing there. Jeff Goldbloom saved the movie for me.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
He does it most times. Yeah, well, no danger of
me ever watching that, You're safe.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
Stranger Things also failed to land anything in its final season.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Is anybody talking about this or watching Strangers did? They
just made everyone wait too long and we all lost interest?

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Right?

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Isn't that basically what is happening here? Or am I
in the minority and I'm not watching and.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
Everyone else's the Demi Gorgan has kids in college like
I have, no bigger they're in school with Philip Rivers
grand children. The Globes also added a podcast category this year.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
And we were nominated, Thank you very much. Start to
finish the DD Morning Show wherever you get podcasts.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
They ignored political shows, which was kind of fun so
smart Yeah, I know, they just kind of and they
also snubbed the true crime genre. But the nominees this
year are mostly the celebrity driven shows, so they got
a good hang with Amy Poehler. I do love that podcast,
my god, She's hilarious and SmartLess also got a nod.
And for those of you who don't know, that's the

(14:56):
one that has Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett.
I also think that's very fun.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Ex husband, yeah, who is the only thing in that.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Podcast that like he tries a little too hard sometimes
like the rest of I don't know they have they
have such a natural great energy because they're all besties.

Speaker 8 (15:12):
Yeah, but it's the thing is like Jason Bateman has
that natural like fifty cent I was just born to
be a bully funny, and Will Arnett seems like he
has to force Relly bring.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
It back to bully.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
He is funny though, but he is. No, they're all
they're all funny.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
They are all funny. I do like that one. The
Golden Globes will air live on CBS Sunday, January the eleventh,
And you know he raced all his bullets On the
Miss America Universe. Nikki Glazer is returning as the host
for the second straight ear.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
She was pretty good last year.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
I think she'll do another great job because she was
good on SNL.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
By the way, did you see Nicki on sn I
really liked.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Her and I think she kind of embodies like almost
like the Heidi Gardner loss, Like she's almost like a
good if she was into doing s and now she'd
be a good replacement for that because she kind of
embodies that that character arc and that kind of role.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
I will say, SNL I think is making a turn
in the right direction. They seem to be letting the
younger people do weird stuff and that's when it gets good,
and that's when they find their footing, like they're not
so caught up in making sure that you know, uh,
there's some older star who needs to you know, whether
it's tidy or whoever, needs to be in every sketch

(16:30):
like they're that Ashley Padilla girl went from a featured
player too. She's in every freaking sketch and they're pretty
good and they're pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
And they did a really.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Weird one with the two younger women who are on
that show, the new Tiktoka Ronica Slowskowski or something like that,
and the girl who did the weird songs. Anyways, they
did this really weird song about cousins and it was like,
not necessarily like my thing, but it blew up online.
And that's how you know they're going in the right direction,

(17:03):
is like something really weird hits yeah and pops and
they start to trust the younger people instead of doing
the same thing over and over again. James Austin Johnson
is a great He's like there, Phil Hartman, I think
that that guy is He kind of came out of
nowhere to be a star on that show. And Colin
jo just did Pete haggs Ath this past weekend. I
don't know if you saw that. He was very funny.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
I like seeing him in the character actor roles because
we're so used to seeing him do the update stuff
and kind of being himself in a way.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
I do like him kind of doing some more impressions.

Speaker 5 (17:34):
It's fresh air on the show. Yeah, But to your point,
I do also think like the James Austin Johnson being
the classic impressionist angle of SNL is great, but letting
the new people kind of do a Tim Robinson thing
but still accessible and letting them be weird. There's still

(17:56):
gonna be birthing pains for SNL because people are, you know,
not sure what to make of the show as those
seasons go on. But if you can just let them
be weird, let them breathe, yea, I think it will.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Find its footing, which is like every reference is not
for me, every joke is not like going to target me,
you know, and it shouldn't. I'm way out of the
demo of what they're trying to appeal to and when
it is like trying to make you know, guys over
fifty laugh, and they're doing it wrong. So I think
they're finally I think they learned from the last couple
of years. Dad, Do you watch the show at all,
because we always say that we don't really watch it

(18:29):
live necessarily all the time, but we'll watch it like
in clips.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
I'll watched the clips. I'm a little bit behind. Yeah,
I mean, James Austin Johnson is like amazing, and I too.
Do love Colin Joe just when because people are excited
to see him in a sketch and they're like ready
to laugh and ready to be engaged. Because he's stepping
outside of the comfort zone of where you know him from.
I'll have to check him out of hag Seth because

(18:53):
I know that they even they made a joke about
that last year on the show, like who would play
hag Seth on SML?

Speaker 7 (19:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, Well, and that being said, I think him and
Chay it's probably time for them to like let someone
else do that, you know, on SNL.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
I'm sure that they're kind of both.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Chay sounded like he's wanted to leave for a few
years and it would just be interesting to put another
character in there.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
You know, there's a bitterness to Chay that sometimes it
reads a little too fourth wall breakdown, where you're like,
do you want to maybe go home and take a nap?

Speaker 9 (19:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (19:28):
Have you been here too long?

Speaker 3 (19:30):
I love cha?

Speaker 7 (19:30):
Though.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
He did one of our comedy fests, and I mean
we literally all hung out until the sun came up.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
He seems he was so funny. I've told the story before.
Our liver limo driver was irish.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
And Irish d and we were watching this documentary and
you know, having some beers late night and just a
few small beers and it was Wattstacks, you know, and
it was like the whole you know, nineteen seventy two
and Watts.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
It's like the black woodstock. And Jay looks at and
and he's like, you know, he's like black people, Irish people.
We're like, got a lot of things in common, you know,
and Ed goes, oh no, we do not, Like dude.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
It was so funny and like doubled Shaye over He's like,
oh my god, because they were best buddies all night.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
They were talking all my He's like, we got a
lot of things in common.

Speaker 9 (20:29):
Oh no, we do not.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
That was that epic night we always talked about when
Ralphie May was in town and he ended up showing
up and Bartnick and Versey and Andy Picaro and yeah, yeah,
it was.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
A My floor.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
The floor in my basement was full of Coleslaw because
we got we got thirty permannis like to go so
like we just so we had something to eat and
we had all these Primanne sandwiches and they were just
all we're Ralphie was sitting there was a circle of
Coleslaw on the floor. It was so funny. The next
day I'm like sweeping. I'm like, this is disgusting and hilarious.

(21:10):
An allergy instead of a push broom at that point.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
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they be eight and five instead of nine and four.
Questionable as to whether the Chargers can catch Denver, which

(22:37):
is eleven and two in the division, so it's probably
a wild card or bust for them. And at nine
and four, they're two games ahead of the Steelers and
they have a head to head win.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Over the Steere's the good news. Their schedule on the
way out, it's tough. Is not easy Chiefs in as
much as it's the you know, the division game. It's
a division game at home for the Chiefs, then the
Cowboys in and then the Texans, who are a defensive
juggernaut right now, and they close out January fourth in Denver,

(23:10):
so they might conceivably go one and three down the
stretch here or Denver.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Has nothing to play for by then. And yeah, and
they placed the jvs that that could happen. Denver's ten
straight they ripped off.

Speaker 9 (23:23):
I think if the Steelers beat Miami and Cleveland, they'll
be fine based on what Baltimore has left. I don't
see Baltimore rolling through the Patriots, the Packers and the
Bengals unscathed.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
No, and I think that that game against the Bears
just made the Packers better.

Speaker 9 (23:43):
That was a like high test for them. Oh that
was That's that division's version of Steelers Ravens, only only
with much better records, longer Andy, five years old, more history,
and they got the Ben Johnson LA floor stuff. I
actually thought that this past Sunday was one of the

(24:06):
best NFL Sundays of the year.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Great matchups all the way until you passed out with
the Chiefs and the Texans. Well, I mean, you know,
I can't stay for those games anymore, you know, make
a first half bet and go to bed or cash out. Hey,
I've been waiting all day for Sunday night most of

(24:28):
the time, and I'm like, hurry.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Off, what is with the ephed Why can't it be
a seven thirty start. They got to milk it.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
It just can't. You know.

Speaker 9 (24:39):
Stell's getting ready for the Dolphins Monday night at atter. Sure,
if you were paying close attention to our video or
excuse me, our visit with Charlie Batch, you hear them
talk about Miami's offense and it's kind of weird. It
is a crowded back to the Dolphins are just running
the ball, running the ball, and they'll have to back
there in shotgun. But a lot of times they'll have

(25:01):
a running back in a full back, or they'll have
a running back in a tight end, or they'll have
a running back and a wide receiver, or they'll have
a running back in a full back and their extra
offensive lineman number sixty four is eligible. And they got
guys shifting all over the place and motions all over
the place, and basically what they're trying to do is
get you, oh, what's going on over there? And then
they just run it up the middle. The running it's

(25:24):
kind of what Baltimore used to do while back, and
it can be distracting, confusing. Defense really has to be
ho it's details, and that's going to be challenging for
the Steelers. Miami's running It's not just Devon ahchan four

(25:44):
game winning streak. The Dolphins have rushed for over one
hundred and sixty yards in all four of those games.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Miami hasn't done that since nineteen seventy seven.

Speaker 9 (25:56):
Each and got an MRI yesterday. Coach said he's fine, yep,
So he'll be there very much, looking forward to playing.
And then they have the guy who filled in against
the Jets, second year guy Jalen Wright hadn't really done
much of anything this year, but he had over one
hundred yards against the Jets in the last three quarters.
And they have a rookie out of Oklahoma State, Oli Gordon,

(26:16):
a bigger back six twenty five. He's kind of the
short yarded goal line guy. So they compound you with
three guys.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Would be a great week to get Derek Harmon back. Oh, yes,
it would, Yes, it would.

Speaker 9 (26:28):
And defensively, these guys are starting to figure it out too.
I mentioned last hour. Ten sacks in the last two games,
six against the Jets, at least two takeaways in all
four of their wins in the four game winning streak.
So they're running the ball, they're taking it away, they're
protecting it, and their passing game is just kind of,
you know, a little play action boot sidelines, crossers, slants.

(26:54):
They didn't take one deep shot against the Jets. They
didn't have to. Can't give up two hundred yards again,
I'm guessing on the ground that would probably be bad.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Which is why I would like to see Harmon back
and hope that Queen's hip is okay.

Speaker 9 (27:10):
But I also think you can load up against the
run against these guys. I mean, you know, Waddle's a
pretty good player, but that's that's gonna be the change up.
The fastball for Miami is going to be run, run, run.
Why would they stop now?

Speaker 3 (27:26):
You just put JPJ on Waddle.

Speaker 9 (27:29):
Mate, I do whatever I gotta do to stop the run,
and then I figure out the pass.

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Speaker 7 (28:40):
How are you? Randall? And I'm good. I'm not used
to being with you on a Tuesday, but wonderful morning.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
See, we appreciate you, uh postponing a day so that
we could bump Gene's terrator up. The necessity of that
pretty obvious. Three huge calls that want the Steelers way
on Sunday. One of those the refs got wrong and
they admitted as much. The league did to John Harbaugh yesterday.

Speaker 7 (29:06):
Right right, Yeah, And anytime I had to step aside
for Jeans terator, I'm glad to do it, of course. Yeah.
The the right, and you did say according to John Harbaugh,
and he said the league authorized him to say that.
And you know that's you know, all that's fine. They
got that wrong. The part they got to catch right,

(29:31):
except the rule was just so stupid, so stupid. You
can toe tap two feet touchdown, you can reach across
the plane, get it punched out touchdown, you could take
two steps controlling the ball, but you didn't take a
third step. I mean eight years after Jesse James and
they still can't get that. What's a catch right? And

(29:53):
I just I just thought that was ridiculous. And of
course that really hurt the Ravens because they you know,
they they turned the ball over on downs, so there're
seven points, well, who knows it. I'm sure they would
have gone for two. And the other one I never
got a good clear look, but obviously the officials did
on the thing with Aaron Rodgers. But yeah, those were

(30:15):
the two in particular. And then of course saw on
the field goal. That was a big one too, because
the Steelers scored one play later.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
In all fairness, that could have worked in the Ravens
favor by eating up even more clock if they were
able to score a touchdown there, which they had a
wide open both Roberts was coming open and DeAndre Hopkins,
sitting in the back of the end zone would just
waving his arms throw it to me and Lamar unable

(30:43):
to do it. So they had their opportunities, and that
would have really put the Steelers in a bad spot
because they would have to score with even less time
on the clock. Well, that now was standing. They're in
first place seven and six, but it wasn't without a cost, Jerry.
A lot of injuries for concussions was suspected during the game,
and then Echols was granted the release back into the

(31:03):
wild there. But right now they are nursing a whole
lot of injuries. What do you know on the injury
front for the Steelers at this point?

Speaker 7 (31:10):
Yeah, yeah, I don't a whole lot right now, Randall,
because I'll probably get a better feel by by tomorrow.
But you know, on the play you're referencing to DeAndre
DeAndre Hawkins, you know, judging from his reaction and Lamar's reaction,
Mark Andrews actually broke up that play, you know, trying
to dive across and reach up high and he deflects

(31:32):
the ball and you know, it looks like it's going
to be, you know, probably a short touchdown, but yeah,
I mean they were losing a lot of guys, and
I think that was you know, I think that's kind
of one of the things that this that the Steelers
and the coaches, the players and the coaches embrace in
those moments. And by that, I mean the resolve that

(31:53):
they have by trying to mix and match as best
they could, especially on defense when guys were going down.
When Patrick Queen.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
Went down, so that looked bad.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
The Queen injury looked really bad, and I couldn't believe
he got back in the game.

Speaker 7 (32:08):
I was the same way. But I think, you know
that as it turned out, that they will kind of
embrace that situation because of what they were still able
to accomplish. And I know, you know, you look, Randall,
from that last drive that in the third corps that
bled into the fourth quarter, from that moment on, the

(32:30):
Ravens out gained the Steelers. It was like two hundred
and twenty to eight.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
And so.

Speaker 7 (32:36):
And the Steelers ran how many plays in the fourth quarter,
very few. But what happened though, was where I give
the defense credit is that the Ravens were at the
Steeler ten on three separate occasions and only came away
with two field goals. And then at the end the
last drive they were at the thirty when it ended
with the heigh smith sacks, so at that point that

(32:58):
the defense stepped up when they were down that deep
into their territory and to hold them to just two
field goals on three times from the ten, uh, you
know they you know, you got to commend them for that,
that's for sure, Terry.

Speaker 9 (33:10):
This team has been so up and down all year
in all three phases really uh, kind of digging deep
and finding a way to beat Baltimore which was a
revenge game and a rivalry game and a game for
first place and a game for history and all that stuff.
Did that possibly elevate the Steelers collectively? And can we

(33:33):
expect some consistency now or have they already shown us
what they are?

Speaker 7 (33:39):
Uh? Well, my bet that's what we're going to find out,
because you know it's to how about you know they
like to use the expression stacking wins, Well, you know,
how about putting one on top of the other. I
mean they did that early in this season when they
won three in a row after the Seattle game. But
instead of stacking losses this time of year, probably a
good idea to at least stack a couple of wins.
And so, to me, that's what we're going to find

(34:01):
out on Monday. I mean Miami's you know, right now,
I don't care who they beat. They're sneaky good four
in a row and five out of six, but they
have to show that. I mean the game against Baltimore.
I don't want to say it doesn't mean anything if
they lose to Miami, because Mike, they go two and
two in the last four games. As long as they
beat the Ravens, they're in they could go one in three.

(34:24):
And as long as they beat the Ravens, their win probability,
I saw according to the New York Times is over
eighty percent because of the schedule that the Ravens have.
But I still think if you're going to be any
kind of decent team, then you can't just rely on
one victory. And Mike, let me say this, I'll give
you props. When we talked in the pregame show and
I said that Arthur Smith wants to be more aggressive.

(34:46):
You said that Ravens defense is susceptible to big plays,
and they certainly were.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
On Sunday Terry big national story on Saturday and Sunday
about the Steelers and the contract situation with Mike Tomlin.
Of course, a lot of outcry and Steeler nation that
they were tired of Mike Tomlin football and the fire
Tomlin chance of course breaking out the boot renegade.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
The peasants were angry and that was quite out of it.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
So then we find out that the Steelers have an
option on his seventh year for twenty or the twenty
twenty seventh season, but they have to exercise it by
March of twenty six, so that's four months from now.
Do you have any information on whether or not that
is something that is actually in question right now or
is it something that seems like a fatal company that

(35:40):
they're not.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Even close to being ready to change horses right now?

Speaker 7 (35:44):
Well, that, yeah, that ladder of statement is probably more
correct Randall. And even in Adam Schefter's report, who you know,
I like personally and respect the heckcut of professionally, I
just thought, you know, his his tweet was, well, they're
not going to fire Mike Tomlin, but there's going to
be a discussion about it. Well, first of all, that's

(36:04):
coming from Mike Tomlin's agent, because it's not coming from
the Steelers because they don't discuss anything that's going to
happen after the season during the season. So from that end,
I know where that's coming from. The stuff about the option,
I mean, I'm not going to sit here and dispute
it because I know this A couple of contract extensions
ago they gave Mike Tomlin. It was a one year,

(36:26):
one year extension with a one year deal with a
one year option, and ever since then, I just assumed,
and maybe even before that, there was always an option
clause in his contract, So the fact that they stated
it once before was surprising to me. They haven't done
that since. But anything that might even happen isn't even

(36:50):
being discussed by the Steelers right now because they just
don't do that, and so not during the season. Anything
that's going to happen next season won't discussed till after
this season. So do I you know, do I expect
anything to happen, No, I don't. But I've always said
Mike Tomlin will be gone when Mike Tomlin decides he's

(37:11):
had a enough, whether he needs a change of scenery,
whether he needs to whether he wants to retire. But
I don't see the Steelers making any move in that
regard unless the complete bottom would fall out, and I
don't see that happening.

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