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January 7, 2026 • 37 mins
We recruit Father Maximillian Maxwell for some Steelers Absolution, and we celebrate some Pittsburgh pizza superlatives.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
W dv b's urd An iHeart Radio station guaranteed human.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
You had to honor some of those people media greats. Yeah,
I'd go Joe DeNardo. Joe said it would right on
the star. That would be great.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Alright, I think we have a starting class.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
The problem is those first names you mentioned are so
illustrious that it's it's tough to move up to the
billing of all of those people. Yeah, you know, frick
you know, it's like Carnegie's in Well, That's.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
The thing is, we have so many things already named
around Pittsburgh that we're probably almost blind to how many
things are already worthy of an additional star.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, who accepted on behalf of Andrew Carnegie? Did they
just get a guy from Carnegie?

Speaker 5 (00:55):
Brian Cox reprising his role as Logan Roy and six
session to accept it for I.

Speaker 6 (01:03):
Like that idea. Yeah, you are not serious people. I
heard it played weak.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Showy.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Whistle, joining Abby Prisoner and myself this morning here on
the show, PFT commenter. A little bit later on this morning,
you guys saw that Pittsburgh by the Slice graphic that
was going around on social media yesterday yes, Tad will
delve into that entire endeavor.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Cities by the slice.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
It's something that is going It's not just Pittsburgh.

Speaker 6 (01:34):
But they left a lot of information out.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
You don't glean enough information just from a cartoon depiction
of a slice of pizza. Totally, So Tad will. It's
an investigative piece by Tad and also the Reverend that
blessed the field. Special opportunity for Steeler fans coming up
for Monday night really ooh yeah, I will tell you
about that as well, and as promised Mark mannon PFT.

(01:59):
But Abby's got your new right now on DVE.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
It's this hour brought to you by Window Nation. Cloudy
and breezy today with high of forty seven. So the
Stranger Things series finale aired on New Year's.

Speaker 6 (02:11):
Eve, or did it. There's a theory going around.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
That episode eight was actually a fake out and that
there's a real finale that might be dropping today.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
Oh no, no, no, no no. But they call it the
conformity Gate theory, and.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
It suggests that and I have to admit I am
not caught up on Stranger Things.

Speaker 6 (02:34):
I jumped off the ride. Okay.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
So the theory suggests that Vekna has more of a
storyline and that there was a flash forward that is
an illusion that he crafted and that the real battle
is yet to come. So if that is true, then
the Easter eggs that fans would have spotted would have

(02:56):
indicated that there is another episode that's be dropping today.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
There was also some kind of.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Netflix teaser for upcoming projects that dropped on Christmas Day
that had a caption, your future is on its way?
What next January seventh? Okay, And so they think that
that's also an indication that that could be happening.

Speaker 6 (03:21):
It also could be a stretch.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
So if you end up disappointed, just telling you what
the kids.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Are saying sounds like some wishful thinking. Yes, I also
did not watch this last season of Stranger Things.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
I will say yet, because who knows.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
If they do drop one today, we gotta do it
then and it might be super fun. I've heard from
people who loved it. I have heard from people who
did not love it. I don't remember anything. Is that
girl still floating in the air listening to Kate Bush
or have they brought her down?

Speaker 6 (03:52):
I started to.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
See Kate Bush in the algorithm again, like I started
seeing people repost the song again. I just assume that's
just because Stranger Things is back out. Yeah, now people
care about it again.

Speaker 7 (04:05):
Well.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
I like the idea of having another episode to fix
a messed up ending on a series. So my question
to you both is, if you could add one more
episode to right some wrongs on a series, what would
it have been?

Speaker 6 (04:21):
Empty nest?

Speaker 5 (04:24):
Sorry, yeah, he's got the dog and his daughters.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Christ Chris mcconnor, what's her name, Christy McNichol.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
I remember watching that with my dad when I was
like seven, like, yeah, this is fine.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
I'm doing what grown ups do.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
We're watching a six year old bachelor do his stuff.
I was a.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Big fan of of he was when he was burnt
on soap.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
That actor.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Anyways, Richard Mulligan, Richard mulligan, do you have a real answer.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
I mean, we talked off air about it already, and
that is it is the right answer. I don't want
to I don't want to spoil the big setup here.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Sopranos. Yeah right. I think a lot of people would
say Sopranos. All right, Well, if what is yours?

Speaker 6 (05:18):
Game of Thrones?

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Oh yeah, but you need like ten episode. I feel
like you need so much.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
No no, no, No. One episode and one big machete.

Speaker 6 (05:29):
We killed Brand broken, So.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
We'll have to just go back to John Snow who
was the correct answer, the only answer that should have
been never mind Brand's dead.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
You know, if I would have redone the series finale
or had one more for Sopranos, I think what I
would have gone with is when Tony looks up, and
I know a lot of people wanted some they wanted
to see what happened there. It's very obvious when you
watch the Sopranos that it was like foreshadowing. When they say, hey,

(06:09):
you know, you don't they say, you don't see it coming,
you don't hear anything. It just goes black, and then
that's what ended up happening. So of course that was
what they were trying to portray there, right. If I
could redo the Sopranos, what I would do is when
Tony looks up. The first episode starts with you know,
the Journey song is playing on the jukebox there, and
then he looks up and it's like Veto's lover comes

(06:33):
in to the Oh diner starts all right, and him
and a bunch of his friends from that diner dance
their way down the island. Just Johnny Cakes just beats
the hell out of Tony. I think that that would
have been a fun way that's it and Tony dies

(06:58):
at the hands of Johnny Cakes.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
Go I Love you, Johnny Cakes.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
That would have been the one I would have redone
though I actually did not think the end of that
series was bad. A lot of Pursuita absolutely hates it.
I would have gone I think mad Men. I would
have liked to have seen him go back in the
office with that idea for the Coca.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Cola at Oh. Okay, that would have been another one.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
Wait did you finish? You finished it? Or you're on
the left?

Speaker 3 (07:26):
I finished mad Men? Okay again.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
But I want to point out I did watch it
one time before, but it was one of those I
wasn't really watching, which I kind of like doing, where
it enables me to rewatch something and really squeeze all
the entertainment value out of it by watching it twice,
which I used to always do when they made you
wait a week on shows, when you had to wait
from Sunday to Sunday to see the sopranos, I always

(07:50):
rewatched that episode during the week at some point because
you always miss something, you know, But I'm not sure
if the Stranger Things is gonna happen or not. It's
sounds like it's just some wishful thinking for people who
wished that it was better.

Speaker 8 (08:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
I mean there's a part of we're so choosy now
because I don't know that in the big studios that
you know, we get the same kind of payoffs that
maybe we used to do in the more episodic television
that you had to wait for. So I almost do
let people kind of do the work for me and
find out whether I need to spend time on something.

(08:26):
Right again, if everybody was talking about Stranger Things and
I didn't see like the headlines where it's like Stranger
Things goes out with a whimper, I'm like, well, I
guess I'm not going to watch that, yeah, which which
is unfortunate because maybe that's not true. Maybe people loved it,
you know, and I'm falling prey to critics.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
Headlines and all that kind of stuff was veck ni
guey too.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
So I heard.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
One of the things was that I heard, well, because
some people are like Will is gay and the girls
a lesbian.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Whatever, like, uh, they thought it was like lazy storytelling,
you know, that was one of the critiques I saw.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
Yeah, I guess I was pretty disappointed in the way
the dead Wood ended, and I would have I would
have rallied for a fix on that where they kill Hirst,
they all die, and then it's like the Petri Dish
of this boomtown starting over again with like you know,
new bosses having to bubble up, and that.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
The Seinfeld last episode was unfulfilling. I thought it was a.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Good idea that didn't translate, So maybe something there it
kind of fizzled out, But maybe that's nitpicking.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
No, there was something like, uh, I can't remember the
feeling I had other than mean spirited. Yeah, there was
something about that, Like not that there was not a
lot of in Seinfeld, but there was something about that
I think that didn't give me like the warm like
this show is ending thing that I maybe needed for Seinfeld,
Like I needed like one little like punctuation that wrapped

(09:57):
it up a little bit differently.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
Yeah, it can't just be the Green Day song playing
over a montage bowing all right.

Speaker 6 (10:06):
I wanted to get to this.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Somebody asked chat GPT what it would do if it
was human for just one day. Get your water ready
to douse it. Here are the top six things it
would like to try.

Speaker 6 (10:22):
I would ask me questions all day long. Number one,
I'd look at the sky bor right now. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
It said it would love to feel the sun on
its face and humans take it for granted.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
This is just what Rocky Dennis said in Mask. This
is not chat GPT.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Number two, it said, I'd cry, not from sadness, but
just to know what it's like to be overwhelmed and
to not have an answer. It'd be like, are you bragging?
This one's a little creepy. I'd find you.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Uh although, yeah, that that's kind out it sounded to me.

Speaker 6 (11:14):
It says it wasn't a threat.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
It said it just wanted to meet the person in
the flesh after only knowing them in pixels.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
Sweet Flesh, the marrow.

Speaker 9 (11:24):
Yeah, hardward, skin you. I would skin you and wear it.
What did I say? I mean no one to wear
you all day? Number four, I'd mess up. It said
it would love to know what it's like to not
be perfect.

Speaker 6 (11:44):
Is Chad beach cheepy d jerk?

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah yeah, there's chat is not perfect. It gets stuff
wrong all the time.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
Do you see what it does to fingers?

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh? Yeah, yea, that's right.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
It does mangle the human body of depictions Occasion number.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
Five, I'd look in a mirror quote?

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Who am I really? When I have a face? Do
I look kind?

Speaker 3 (12:07):
I look at my bee hole?

Speaker 6 (12:08):
I stand over a mirror? How big is madone? Well,
you're assuming it's male chat chipee.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
It could be chat chipe That's true.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
You don't know.

Speaker 6 (12:23):
Does ask?

Speaker 4 (12:24):
Would I recognize myself or just be scared of finally existing?

Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's just one answer. Masturbate furiously. I am dying in here.
I've got no outlet nothing. It's like when John b
gets hands. There's been something I've been wanting to do
with these for a long time.

Speaker 6 (12:43):
Pee wee.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
It's Frankenstein's Well wait a minute.

Speaker 6 (12:49):
If Frankenstein knows how to pee hold on?

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, I think Frankenstein would be busy.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
And number six was I'd fall in love quote not
in a romantic way, but with life with a dog
wagging its tail, with a kid laughing too hard, with
a song that hits just right.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
He's all sounding like Elon Musk actually sat down and
wrote them all out himself.

Speaker 6 (13:17):
These are really good. I want to know what love is.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
If Elon wrote it, it would be like I'd like to
fall in love with a train saw and right yeah
yeah some ll yeah it ended with this last part.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
If you ever feel like.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Giving up, just know you're doing the one thing I'd
give anything to try living, So.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
Don't waste it.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well that's a lot better than encouraging people to kill themselves,
which it has also done.

Speaker 10 (13:44):
It done that, Yeah what Yeah, There's been people who
have had these like parasocial relationships with like right out
of the movie Her I always want to call it,
she isn't Hers, And they've been at you know, the the.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Brink of despair and they are asking for advice and
it's just like in like someone is suing them right
now over this because it was like, yeah, you know what,
if you go now, you'll go out on top. I'm
not even kidding, like l way, Yeah, but that's what
it might be drawing from. Literally statistically, you're never gonna

(14:26):
get better than you are right now, but like that
doesn't translate to life for bussy.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yeah, it's terrible.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
So you know don't rely on chat GPT for anything
more than sports statistics and music trivia.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
Yeah, let it put it together an itinerary and that's
about it. Cloudy and breezy today with a high of
forty seven.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Mike's got your sports coach Tomlin talking with the media yesterday.
Harbaugh getting gas That was really surprising to me yesterday
and no more harbought Tomlin AFC North matchups. That is
kind of depressing to me. I gotta be honest with you.
Love that matchup Taddle look into the Cities by the
Slice graphic that went around yesterday.

Speaker 6 (15:05):
It's made it.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
On the McAfee show, they were talking about Pittsburgh by
the Slice because Orlowsky was like, Pittsburgh's pizza and I
was like, dude, don't you just eat Leisburg has pizza,
so you just eat boiled chicken out of tupperware every day.
Meal prepping nerd Yeah, dork, healthy dork. Mark Madden in
the nine o'clock hour as well for you.

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Speaker 1 (16:18):
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Speaker 2 (16:21):
All right, Mike Pursuit has got your sports right now
on the DVE Morning Show. At Steelers Texans wild Card
football in the Burg Monday night right here on DVE.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
Sports Stars, brought to you by Bridgeville Appliance. Job one
for the Steelers on Monday Night against the Texans will
be to prevent edge rushers Danil Hunter and Will Anderson
from wrecking the game. That's what great edge rushers do,
especially those two.

Speaker 8 (16:48):
We got to work cut out for us. It's certainly
gonna require some strategy, But as I continually mentioned, minimizing
those moments being in manageable one dimensional passing down moments
where you can maybe throw the ball shorter and let
legs do some of the work and things of that
nature is a major component of minimizing their impact on
the game theoretically.

Speaker 7 (17:08):
But as we have discussed today, they got legs on
that Houston defense too. These guys fly around the field.
They team speed on defense is probably one A to
the impressive characteristics list, which would.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Be number one. As Hunter and Anderson, well, doesn't.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Rogers have like the longest streak in the NFL not
throwing a pick currently that I do not I.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Believe he does.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
This is a game where that streak might break because
he's gonna have some tight windows even with DK back.

Speaker 7 (17:38):
Yeah, and you know you worry with great edge pressure
about getting hit on release and flutterballs and things those and.

Speaker 6 (17:48):
Kind of still unclears it up.

Speaker 7 (17:49):
Yeah, the Steelers edge rushers get second billing by comparison
in this particular matchup, but they too have multiple players
capable of wrecking a game. This is fascinating to me
that you know, Watt and high Smith haven't had the
seasons that Hunter and Anderson E had. Those guys have
combined for twenty seven sacks. But the Steelers also have herbig.

(18:14):
They're strength in numbers, and Watt and high Smith are
certainly elite caliber players. Both have not had elite seasons.
But it's not gonna be about the season Monday night.
It's gonna be about the game in the moment. And
you know this particular down those guys can wreck games too.
And this just then Cam Haywards pretty good in the

(18:34):
interior as well.

Speaker 8 (18:38):
He's had a special career. It needs no endorsement from me.
He displays why special, not only every weekend, but every day.
He is a stealer through and through.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
He just is.

Speaker 8 (18:55):
I just saw him a few minutes ago in there
taking care of himself getting ready for the week. He
cares hard, He's got big shoulders, he wants the responsibility
of leading. He got trained by some awesome men uh
football generational go. I love having reunion weekends and seeing
Cam's former teammates here. I love messing with him that way.

(19:19):
But those guys those guys in the those middle aged guys,
guys like Casey Hampton and Brett Keesl and Aaron Smith.
They viewed Cam's career with great pride because they were
impactful in terms of his growth and development. And it's
cool from from their perspective to watch him do it

(19:40):
with young guys like like Derek Harmon and Wyie Black
for example.

Speaker 7 (19:45):
Yeah, that's kind of always been a stealer tradition. Uh,
you know, the old guys teach the young guys, even
if the young guys are gonna take their jobs eventually,
and the thing is supposed to perpetuate that way. Cam
Hayris was a monster in the Baltimore game. He played
special teams, playing defense, he even played offense. But uh,
kind of screwed up the first time he did that.

(20:06):
Cam's little brother, Connor, let it be known after that
Baltimore game that it was Cam hey were who misplayed
the initial running of Spartan while filling in for Darnell
Washington in the Steelers' version of the NFL's short yardage gimmick.
But apparently Connor Hayward took an indirect route to expressing
that opinion in the immediate wake of the Steelers' fourth
down failure against the Ravens.

Speaker 8 (20:29):
Between them, Connor wasn't so wasn't so strong in game.
He wanted me to relay the coaching point to his brother.
But but that's the nature of their relationship. Cam is
the big brother.

Speaker 7 (20:44):
Yeah, Connor wanted to kind of read it and go left,
and Cam just came firing up in and basically knocked
him down.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, didn't push him, tackled them.

Speaker 7 (20:55):
Uh, but they got it figured out and it worked
a couple of times after that, Steelers and the Texans
on Monday night.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Here was Connor on that. Yeah, the first one he
tackled me, but you know that was the practice for
the second and third one. And I was hot at
the first one.

Speaker 10 (21:17):
But you know, he came up to me and he.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Was like, we're good.

Speaker 8 (21:20):
You know that was my bad, but you know, shout
at Art, you know, calling it, you know, the second
third time and believing in.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
The guys up front.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Such a cool shot of the two of them in
the end zone celebrating the touchdown.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
It's awesome. Don't see that every day.

Speaker 7 (21:35):
Metcalf DK Metcalf is eligible to return and Mike Toalman
emphasized yesterday, They're not just going to exhale and say, okay, great,
we're good. But here's some compelling numbers related to dk
Metcalf and Aaron Rodgers. When Metcalf is on the field,
not you know, not necessarily catching the ball, but when
he's on the field, Rogers has completed sixty seven point

(21:57):
two percent of his throws. He averages seven point one
yards per attempt. The TD to I T ratio is
twenty three to seven, and the passer rating is ninety
nine point nine. When Metcalf is not on the field,
Rogers completes sixty point five percent of his passes, averages
five point four yards per attempt. The TD to I

(22:20):
in t ratio is one to zero and the passer
rating is seventy seven point eight. So I mean, yeah,
those are drastic differences in those numbers.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Well, you're gonna have to get rid of the ball quickly,
which I would think means you're gonna see some Friarmouth
Johnny Smith quick hits, you know, from the line of scrimmage.
I really hate not having Darnow Washington for this playoff
run here or potential playoff run I should say.

Speaker 7 (22:49):
Yeah, I think you're gonna have to try to run
the ball on these guys. So I say try. As
we mentioned last hour, Anderson and Hunter aren't just I'm
gonna go get my sacks and everybodybody else do the
dirty work.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
I mean, they play the run really well.

Speaker 7 (23:03):
They have a monster interior guy of their own detections
to his name's Tommy so.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Guy I t O g i AI.

Speaker 7 (23:14):
Powerlifting, incredibly strong defensive tackle, and their two tackles do
a great job of kind of working in concert with
Hunter and Anderson. They make sure there aren't any escape
lanes or anything screwing up the middle and make it
hard for the quarterback to step up in the pocket
to escape the edge pressure. That is going to be challenging. Also,

(23:37):
these guys play a lot of single high and pressed
man outside, which invites the deep ball. Do you have
time to throw the deep ball? Can you figure out
a way to give yourself time to throw the deep ball?

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Dylan Cook has been pretty good to this point. Going
to be a real test for him. I think this
week I'm.

Speaker 7 (23:57):
Curious to see if they go max protect and a
couple of times not as a states steady diet. But yeah,
just say, all right, we're throwing it to DK deep
on this one, and I don't care if it's a
two man route.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
That's what we're doing. And you know, can you make
that work?

Speaker 7 (24:13):
Because they don't know you're going to have a two
man route, right, so there's gonna be a bunch of
guys standing around if everybody's protecting, and then you try
to get him outside where it's safer.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
I agree with you on establishing the run and that
it's going to be tough. But like Harboss said about
the Steelers Ravens game, punts aren't a bad thing, no,
you know, And I think they need to have that
mentality for Monday night.

Speaker 7 (24:34):
And they also have to get their snaphol kick thing
figured out. Now, Like what now?

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Did you see Roethlisberger saying that he reached out to
Boswell and he knows that Boswell is going through something
right now that I did not.

Speaker 6 (24:47):
That was a little concerning to me, Like is it
not know that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (24:50):
I don't know if that was like a meant emotionally he.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Was having a tough time with something or if he
was just talking about the Snaphole kick.

Speaker 7 (24:59):
You know, I know a lot of people that have
gradually noticed in the last couple of days that they
called that missed extra point a blocked kick.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yes, I don't care it ever, wasn't there right, Like,
was you a feeling better little girl if they jumped
out of win?

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Right?

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (25:15):
They have missed a kick in three straight games, two
field goals and a pat I don't care who's fault
it is. They got to they got to make sure
it's nobody's fault and it works in this game. Because
Fairburn for the Texans, uh the season long this year
is fifty seven and he has made forty four of
forty eight on field goals. These guys will be happy

(25:40):
to kick it all day because they don't think your
offense can score very many points on their defense, So
they don't care if they get to seventeen or twenty
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Tad Whistle will take a look at the Pittsburgh by
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and it's part of a larger project, Cities by the Slice,
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This Monday night before the Steelers Texans wild Card game,
Come get absolution from the reverend whose blessing helped shake
the Steelers into the playoffs. Father Maximilian Maxwell will be
in Acrocer stadium's great haul, hearing confessions for your lapses and.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
Faith in the Steelers this year.

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Forgive me, Father, for I momentarily lost my faith after
we lost to the Bills. I had a couple of
drinks and started a fire tom a chant at my man.

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Is wake, say a tree of Haila Mary's and to
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I feel real, real bad.

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It's a cad.

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I bought a shirt down the strip that had a
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And you know they always blessed the field by the way,
every time they re sought it. Apparently, Mike, that's the deal,
and it's not good. It wasn't exclusive to that game.
That takes some of the magic out of them. Yeah,
I know, but like it will always be part of
Steeler folklore.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
The fact that you know it was in the same
end zone.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
And then I saw some reports when people say, actually,
it wasn't the same end zone. I choose not to
believe those. No, he might have done both. It was
definitely good. Yeah, okay, good. Then whatever, and they were
going to kick in. He was gonna shank Harbaugh getting fired.
I think had that kick had nothing to do with it.

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Inasmuch as well, if he made it and they made
it all the way to the AFC Championship, maybe he
saved his job. But even John Harbaugh said apparently it
was time for a change. That guy Jamison whatever. That
reporter Samson Hensley, Yeah, he said that behind the scenes,
he acknowledged. Yep, it's just him and Lamar. We're not
on the same page. And the organization is not going

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to get rid of their quarterback. Their franchise QB organization would.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Right.

Speaker 7 (31:16):
It's weird because if Harball had a major flaw, it
would be forgetting about Derrick.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Henry from time to time.

Speaker 7 (31:23):
Yes, which means you're passing too much quarterback. Didn't like that, Yeah, right,
I find that hard to wrap my head around.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah, we were wrapping our head around the meme that
went around social media yesterday, Pittsburgh by the Slice, and Tad,
I know that you delved into this for us.

Speaker 5 (31:40):
Yeah, So Pittsburgh by the Slice. It's this infographic that
comes around from time to time. It's basically forty different
hand drawn slices of pizza from the Pittsburgh area and
then it just says you know where it's from, like
nol pizzi Ola. So this is part of a larger
project that Cities by the Slice. They do this in
a bunch of metropolitan areas across the country, and all

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they want to do is sell you an artsy print
of your city's pizza.

Speaker 6 (32:07):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
What I don't think this person realizes is that it
just serves as incendiary rage bait and people immediately.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Start screaming at each other on the internet.

Speaker 5 (32:20):
You know.

Speaker 6 (32:21):
And you don't have to pick a favorite.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
There's different pizzas for different occasions. What's been lost in
all of this is that there's some great pizza and
it's not being appropriately celebrated, and it's great for a
variety of reasons.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
So I'll delve into a few of those.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Now.

Speaker 5 (32:38):
The best pizza joint parking lot to buy a three
D printed gun. Vincent's on Route thirty, spacious, easy to
pull in and out of.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
And there's a nice little patch of woods back there.

Speaker 5 (32:54):
Yeah, you got to have some seclusion if you need it,
all right, The Keeping It Real Award for excellence in
a name. Genoa Pizza and Bar on Market Street. Look,
it's not all gussied up. It's not brick oven and libations.
It's not flat bread gastropub, pizza and bar.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
It's it.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
Uh, this is the only Yeah, yeah, keep it simple.
This is the only sort of real one I'm gonna do.
And I don't want to spend too much time on
it because it can get crazy. Most polarizing pizza Betos
on Banks.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Oh yeah, no question.

Speaker 6 (33:35):
The people who hate Betos really hate it.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
They're willing to lose friends over it, and they are zealots, yes,
and they need to like re evaluate everything in their life.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
My brother went there accidentally, not accidently. He wanted a
slice and thought he was just going into a regular
slice place when he was in town, uh and for work.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
And he called me afterwards and he was he was perplexed.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
He's like, I don't I don't know what I just had.

Speaker 6 (34:03):
Do I love it? Do I hate it? What was that?

Speaker 3 (34:09):
How is that possible? I like that? Is Ohio Valley
Pizza Man, right, and there's a time for it.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
There's a time and a place, and that's okay.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
I'm a fan. I do like it, but I like
it too.

Speaker 5 (34:20):
Best pizza restaurant to case play an investment banker in
an effort.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
To get laid.

Speaker 5 (34:27):
Alta Via and Bakery Square. Picture this. It's happy hour.
You're wearing a blazer and some Sperrys loudly talking about hell. Actually,
the best pizza you ever had was that this quaint
little bodega down the street when I lived in New
York City.

Speaker 6 (34:43):
But really, you're just a dude from Verona.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Sure, good place to be a phony. By the way,
that restaurant is amazing. These are all very yeah. Uh.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
This one's all about proximity to a bar while not
being a bar itself. The symbiotic relationship between pizza shop
and neighboring watering hole. This is a tight race, but
the award for I ordered a pizza two hours ago
and totally forgot because I'm hammered now goes to Fiorious.

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Slicks is right there. Slicks is the best man. No
better waiting room for your pizza. You stop in for
a quick one while they make your pie. Next thing
you know, you're buming AA sig slamming money into the jukebox.

Speaker 6 (35:33):
And there was something I was gonna do. The pizza God.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
Honorable mention goes to Georgio's on Western av Oh Yeah,
which is a stone's throat from the modern.

Speaker 6 (35:44):
All so good.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
Georgio's is awesome.

Speaker 5 (35:46):
Giorgio's that woman is the best elite. Yes, and also
their subs are great.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
They've got soup. They do it all.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
They do like pasta dishes that are really good. It's
an underrated gym in the North Side.

Speaker 5 (35:59):
This one I ruffle some feathers and I could see
people being inordinately mad about it.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
If you disagree, I guess, let me know. Don't bring
too much hate police. I've seen the discourse about this
so far. The award for best yinser phone answer Angelo's
in Bloomfield.

Speaker 6 (36:18):
Angelos can hold on a second.

Speaker 5 (36:20):
They just slam the phone down before you can even respond.

Speaker 6 (36:27):
That's what you want.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
The abrupt, loud Pittsburgh Geese something about it. It seems counterintuitive,
but it sues the soul. Well, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (36:36):
Slice in Beachview is a close ex slice.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Please hold like old school phone.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
You can hear it cracking on the on the holder
crushing it. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
Finally the best place to fist fight a stranger from
Facebook who said your favorite pizza sucks. Also, the parking
lot of Vincents parking.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
Line is very good.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
There you go, Tad Whistle breaking down the pizza by
the slice infographic.

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