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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Loves the upsp.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
WTV Pittsburgh and iHeartRadio Station.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Guaranteed Human.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Watching the video of the Renegade videos, you just see
so many people filming Renegade, and again my hack to
make everyone happy on Renegade. Play it in the first half.
Play in the first half. You won't blame it for anything.
People won't be mad. Everybody will get their towel twirling moments,

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which is what a lot of people want when they
go there.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Not everybody goes to every game, and the people who
go to.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
One game a year, everybody wants to have their Renegade moment.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's how you do it without worrying about the onus
on the game. I actually do think it's like seeping
into the player's brains. Now they're like, oh god, we
really got to get a stop and they're playing Renegade.
Oh they don't need this edit first. I wonder. Yeah,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
I mean, it did not work on Sunday, but I
don't want Renegade to go away. I mean they scored immediately,
they scored before the song was over.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, what touched down? Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning
Show with this in the studio this morning. I'm in
Renegade fan Abbey. You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's like I don't want to go away, but I
think it should be amended. It made that clear.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
I'm okay with the amendment. I really am. I'm in favor.
I'm in favor because, you know, take a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Of the power away. Yeah, because then you also remove
a little bit of the hate. I don't like the hate.
The hate bothers.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
Yeah, it's disturbing and it you know, when people talk
about Renegade lately, the thing to do.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I've seen this on read a few times. It's like
they should replace it.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
You cannot even open the box of the idea of
replacing it with a different song. It's like being in
high school and trying to come up with a band name. Yes,
it's impossible. No one will agree.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Every idea is bad.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
And that's part of the mystique of Renegade, the organic
way that it came to be.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, Billboard Magazine is doing an article on it, and
they I guess I'm gonna be in it. They want
to about Renegade. My thoughts on Renegade are complex. Well,
I have to really think about how I want to
position this. You know what I mean, Like, you better
be careful. I don't want to draw the ire of
Dennis d.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Young again.

Speaker 6 (02:43):
Not again?

Speaker 1 (02:44):
No, wait, what happened?

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well one time a theater camp. Look, it's a long story.
Now I think it's like the national anthem. There are
people that we should replace it.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
It's not gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I know it's a hard song to sing. It's not
gonna happen. It's always going to be star spangled banner.
SKRK Key was a bad guy. I know nobody remembers.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
It doesn't matter. We're not going to change it. Same
with Renegade. It's here. It's queer.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yes, don't don't say that.

Speaker 7 (03:16):
I mean queer in the sense of not LGBD. It
was taking out a context, everybody, that is exactly how
he said it, exactly, Like here's the context the guy
place places or quarterback. No, that's exactly always said it.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Uh, I get it.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
I I just don't like the dirty laundry part of
it all, you know what I mean? Like when like
fire Tomlin Chance, fire back Canada Chance, I hated too,
even though I thought Mac Canada should have been fired,
bitching about renegade seems like, you know, it's discording the ranks.
And look, the Ravens just fired John Harbaugh for crying
out loud those sacred cows.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
That's right, Okay, So let's just appreciate some tradition here.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
I do like that they started using the bulk again,
and I'm telling you, I feel like we had a
little something in do with that, and I'm happy about it.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
I don't feel like they did. I know they know
we had something to do with it.

Speaker 8 (04:06):
I do because of the polka that they're using.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
It's not even the generic one that accidentally we play sometimes,
it's it's the one where.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
It's their way from that. I mean, God, nobody do
a deep dive on Jimmy Pole. We're gonna find that
one day. The behind the polka. He was the Francis
Scott Key of his era. He owned the slaves. We
don't even know how. It was nineteen seventy five. Yes,

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this terrible guy in every regred people were trapped in
his abasement.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
All polka people. All was not as it seemed. Sex, drugs,
the music.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Lots of potatoes he pulled doing drugs is so funny
to me, just like.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Leaving me alone. I'm a creator. He couldn't get enough.
We're from the town with the good football team. No, no,
that's not the rest.

Speaker 9 (05:23):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yes, it's been many years in the works.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
The venues instead of like Winterland and CBGB's in the
behind the music. It's like he was at the s
n p j A Lodge one Awake, which is where
a lot of up and comers really uh cut their teeth.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Bill Grim had booked him here he is now James Pole.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Every he snorted he heard that z snorting the crank.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Anyways, Merril Hodge is on the show today. That's good.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Dang and double dang.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
A PFT commenter will be joining us as well, Mark
Madden and a whole lot more.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Abby, He's got your news right now. What's going on?
Is this hour brought to you by your neighborhood Ford Store.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Cloudy and breezy today, with a high of forty seven,
a charity that provides supplemental food assistance for food pantries
in Washington, DC, received more than six thousand dollars in
donation over the past last twenty four hours, all thanks
to a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, and of course a missed
field goal we can't stop talking about.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I watched it at least ten more times yesterday. It
got Hardbot fired. I cannot believe that. Yeah, yeah, I
can't believe it.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well, some good has come out of it.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Emily Householder Stacy, who's thirty four years old, was riding
high on the Steelers win over the Ravens, but she
came across a Steelers subreddit page talking about all the
backlash that Tyler Lup was receiving online, and after seeing
all that vitriol, she decided to show some support for
him by finding out that he was attached to the

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john S Munholland Family Foundation, which was a charity that
he was associated with, and so she felt so bad
for him. She put basically a link to that charity
in the subreddit and all of these donations started rolling
in for it. Popular donation amounts included twenty twenty four

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for the score of the game, thirty three dollars in
honor of his jersey number, and thirty dollars for the
number of field goals that he had made throughout the season.
So now the charity is saying that it's been incredible
and now they have all these donations in Loop's name,
and it's again it's a supplemental food assistance program and
they help food pantries all around the area.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
That's wonderful, and.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's both Pittsburgh and Baltimore fans now, but it technically
was started by a Steelers fan.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Thanks for choking, but don't choke on this chunky soon
called blessings. All right, somebody who.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
Does NFL meme yesterday, by the way, like a picture
of the uprights, and on the left it says Harbaugh fired,
and then in the middle of that uprights it says
Tomlin fired, and on the right it says Harbaugh fired.
That that seems like it was kind of true. I
don't know, know, I want to take that back. I
still don't think Tomlin was gonna get fired. I think

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there's a chance he walks away if things go bad
next week, or if they would have lost that game
against Baltimore. I think Harball was getting gas no matter what,
unless they won the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
No really, I do, I do AFC Championship game. I
him and Lamar. Lamar just did not want him anymore.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
I mean, I guess if they would have gone to
the AFC Championship and become you know, and got a
heart beat away from the Super Bowl there. Maybe not,
but there's been so much discord there. They were the
AFC favorites going into this season, like there was so
much pressure on them to do good and they completely
choked this year. And Lamar clearly does not like John Harbaugh.

(09:38):
I I'm gonna miss him. I liked him as the
Ravens coach. I was telling Tad this last night, like
there was something fun about the Tomlin Harbaugh rivalry.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
You know, yeah, respectful.

Speaker 10 (09:52):
He you know.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
I feel like these Raven teams when the Steelers have
been bad, have brought the best out of the Steelers,
which has been nice. But Randy, as I said, hopefully
the next guy is just a total meathead we can
all hate immediately.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Do you want it to be like a Dan campbelltyper?
Do you want it to be like a nerdy John
Gannon type?

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Oh? Boy?

Speaker 5 (10:13):
There, because there really are only two kinds of NFL coaches.
Ye yet, and it's like.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
I'm Mike McDaniel or like I'm insane.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
I guess give me that it's a guy who's like
muscle milk is coming out of his ears.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
We're going to do things different.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
You are lactating, sir, You are taking in too much protein.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, yeah, I guess no.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
I sort of fear like the uh, the nerd guys
because it always seems.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Well because losing to them feels worse. That's a great point.
Losing to the nerd guy always feels worse. We just
lost to a guy wearing caprice. This is a bad thing, exactly.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Who's the nerdy guy that you can think of the
beyond Mike McDaniel just because he's a nerd guy, But
he's proving that he's not.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Really a nerd guy. He's just a weird stoner. He's
in football like archetypes. He's a nerd.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, you know, like there is the meat and then
the analytic nerd guy. Yeah, you know, the guy who
goes forward on fourth down on his own twenty yard line,
Like what was his name from San Diego, Brandon whatever
they're That guy's name is the coach of Mercyhurst Staley Staley.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, guys like that. But I don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Some of the nerds got gassed. There's a lot of
openings right now. But apparently Mike McDaniel felt like he
was safe and everyone he said, he's a part of
Stephen Ross, their owner his search for GM. But then
Harbaugh got fired and Ross and Harbaugh type, are they yes?

Speaker 1 (11:54):
So that might be a changing of the guard.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Look, there's a chance that Tomlin walks away still or
what if he got fired and won off Stefanski got
hired by Baltimore, Harbaugh came to the Steelers and Tomlin
went to Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Will the shirt?

Speaker 5 (12:08):
That would be crazy, That would be too much, It
would feel incestuous. Yeah, it would be an AFC North
Key party. Yeah that's right.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yea. Actually it sounded pretty good and I'm kind of
turned on hard knuts. Is gonna be really cool this year.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Jumping off the charity angle of the opening story here,
this is somebody who does not want your charity, and
we didn't get to the story this week. Apparently Mickey
Rourke did not start the GoFundMe campaign to raise nearly
sixty thousand dollars to pay his rent. It was his
manager's assessment assistant and Mickey is not happy about it.

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So this GoFundMe is nearing its one hundred thousand dollars goal.
Mickey posted a video calling it humiliating and embarrassing. But
apparently he has been on very hard times. He's about
to get evicted, and people just started pouring in money
to help him through this. But he said that if

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he needed money, he would never ask for charity. Rather,
as he put it, quote, stick a gun up his
butt and pull the trigger. But I don't know what
has to.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
You could still live. Yeah, I wouldn't go there.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Meanwhile, Mickey's manager says that he didn't do this with
any mal intent. The money has not gone anywhere, and
if he decides that he does not want the money,
that they will return it to all the fans.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Somebody walks in on him, Mickey, are you trying to
kill yourself? Or is this just an enjoyable moment for you?
What am I interrupting? Exactly? I learned how to do
this one at Barfly.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
I don't understand the downfall of Mickey work. It's really
sad to me because he really was an awesome actor. Yeah,
you know Diner and Barfly is. He's great in Barfly.
And it's weird what he did to his face, all
that plastic surgery and then the steroids and getting all
bulky and everything, and then to go out with The
Wrestler as sort of his swan song in acting was

(14:22):
quite a way to go. I mean, he had a
lot of talent. That movie that's not a rewatch right there,
The Wrestler. Yeah, did you see that? Bill Simmons did
his fifty most rewatchable movies, and it.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Was just a whole troll job.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
It was a whole podcast of him saying movies that
are completely unrewatchable, you know, Box Catcher, Yeah, limitless, you know,
stuff like that, And like these two guys are just
laughing at him, and he's just being very serious about
all these movies that are impossible to watch again. I
kind of feel like The Wrestler was one of those.
It was just so depressing, but he was so good
in it.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yeah, I probably would pass on seeing that again, but
he did. He changed his face so much it's distracting.
It's distracting. Well, it's like that puffy thing, you know
what I mean. It looks like a kind of like
a lion.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Also, the popa Greenwage Village might be one of the
you know, all time best acting perform He was just
so cool. This is so weird that he crashed out
like that. Anyways, I'm I'm hopeful that things turn around
from him.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
How old is he?

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Did it say, oh, you gotta be seventy, gotta be
close to seventy.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
I agree with that. It doesn't say in the article.
I can look it up real quick. I'm going to
give you somebody else with a big transformation. Jelly Roll,
who we've talked about on the show before, has officially
lost two hundred and seventy five pounds what he was
originally five hundred and forty pounds. He is now down
to two hundred and sixty five pounds, and he is

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on the cover of Men's Health magazine. So he looks
completely unrecognizable. And so many people, you know, use ozepic
and they all the you know, different glp ones. But
he started this journey a while back, so we've kind
of been watching this transformation for him, and he says
that nutrition and exercise helped, but the real change became

(16:08):
evident in him. He started treating food truly like an addiction, okay,
and that was important for him. And then he said
he started addressing why he was eating so much, and
everything started to shift and he told his wife that
he wanted to be on the cover of Men's Health
magazine and like that was his goal, and he did
beat that goal by a couple of months. He even

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put like a little time stamp on it. But this
is the interesting part of the story. Apparently once he
lost all the weight, he realized that he could see
colors again.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
And I'm racist. I didn't know that. No, I can't.
He's the best.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Honestly, I've got nothing but good things to say about
jelly Roll. There was a patient at Children's Hospital who
was a huge Jelly Roll fan, and they reached out
to me to see if I had any connection, and
I Steve Byrne knows them, and I asked Steve Byrne
if we could get a video from ja dude. He
put this the sweetest video together for this patient of

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Children's and then invited that patient backstage for when he
was in town in Pittsburgh. Like he went above and beyond.
So I'll never say a bad word about that guy.
He's great and I'm happy he's healthy and seeing colors.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
I think it's another thing you can add to the
list of all of these drugs that were like we
keep thinking you know, we're gonna find out that you
grow a tail or something like that once because you're like,
there's no way that these drugs don't have.

Speaker 8 (17:47):
Some terrible, terrible side effect.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
But basically, he's like, I spent twenty years nearly color blind,
and then I started to see flowers that were in
our house, and I'm telling my wife like, oh, that's purple,
and she's like it's been there forever, Like how did
you not see that? And all of a sudden, like
certain senses are coming back to him that he didn't
have before because I don't know that was that indicates
that his like system was like overtaxed or something because

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of all the weight or what it sounds diabetic related
it does.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, visions? What vision? That's part of it.

Speaker 5 (18:19):
Yeah, right, so that's just from the massive weight loss?
Yeah to five big number?

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (18:25):
Or did you look up the photo of what he
looks like you were typing there?

Speaker 1 (18:28):
I don't know if he's say.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
No, no, I was looking at Mickey Rourke's age and
and Mickey Rourke is seventy three. Woo good lord anyways,
and uh good for jelly roll. That is an unusual
side effect of losing weight, but happy for that guy.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Cloudy and breezy today with a high of forty seven.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
By the way, I don't think there's any shame in
taking those GLP trucks like to me get healthy.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
This is a.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Miracle cure, you know, like again the guy colors. Now
you know, it has a profound effect on your overall
health when you're carrying that much extra weight like these
these drugs are a godsend. And apparently they help me
with like addiction, like cigarette addiction, and also like anxiety

(19:15):
and other issues apparently are starting some mental health disorders
are being cleared up by these GLP ones.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
I don't know. This might be the magic drug. And
if you're Amy Schumer, you can ditch your husband. Yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
She's like, I can see colors and how ugly my
husband is, and it reminded me I have all the money.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
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That was fast too, so they they were ready to go.

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Speaker 1 (20:14):
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Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 13 (20:27):
I like that playoff opener against the Houston Texans. Everyone
that returned to action last week able to participate without
any steps backward in the Ravens game. So other than
the guys that are on ir to Shaun Elliott and
Darnell Washington and Miles Killbrew, they're not completely healthy, but
there's healthy as you could hope to be coming out

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of that regular season finale against the Ravens.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
That's the good news for the Steelers.

Speaker 13 (20:56):
Also good news that they actually have a game to play,
because they were good enough to beat the even Sunday night,
but after further review, Mike Tomlin said they did some
quote JV things that they'll need to clean up against
the Texans.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Special teams game.

Speaker 14 (21:11):
I thought penalty slowed our efforts in the kickoff return.
I thought we were really good from a field positioned perspective,
but we had one ball out beyond the forty they
got negated by a penalty. We had a penalty on
our punt team as well. Thankfully on a rekick. Corlis
did an awesome job on the rekick and that doesn't
always occur, and so we're thankful for that. But if

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we're gonna continue on in this tournament as the road
gets narrow, we certainly can't be penalized in that phase
of the game, and particularly from a return perspective, negating
the chance of any field flipping plays or any significant
plays that way.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
We just can't run the risk of that.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
You know, the great point by him lost in all
of the big plays of that game was Corlis weightman.
A second punt was huge. If he does get a
bomb off there, we are in trouble.

Speaker 13 (22:02):
Remember the Ravens game that they lost at Van Hinz Field,
they had to do a repunt and the Patriots took
it to the house. And also against this Texans defense,
they're not gonna get a lot of yards offense.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
They got to win specialties.

Speaker 13 (22:18):
They have to get that hidden yard and just people
like to call it, that's gonna be important on defense.
They kind of picked their poison to a large degree
against Baltimore and some big place hemorrhage resulted.

Speaker 14 (22:31):
We certainly took some schematic risk in an effort to
minimize Lamar's talents in the game, and I think we
suffered the consequences from that. At times we overplayed maybe
some design runs and we put ourselves in some thinned out,
covered circumstances. But that's what you do when you're playing
and planning to win. Any analysis of it, we probably

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do it again, to be quite honest with you, that's
the type of challenges that guys like him put you
in in terms of decision making. But certainly we've been
in the stadium against those guys a bunch and we
just felt like we couldn't allow him to run wild.
When you do that, you got multiple problems, and so
we chose it hill to die on, if you will.
Thankfully we didn't, although they did hit some big plays

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on this, particularly in possession down moments where we were
allocating appropriate number of people to minimize the design run
component of his talents and their schematics.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, one hundred percent on that.

Speaker 13 (23:28):
You got to load up against Henry and you got
to load up against Lamar and take your chances on
the deep ball stuff. They were trying to stop that
by getting to the past before it was launched. And
boy they almost did a couple of times. Well almost
doesn't get it done.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
But the first and last touchdown that is exactly what
happened for the Ravens touchdowns.

Speaker 13 (23:48):
I mean, if you're a Steelers fan, nobody would have
wanted to see Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry run wild
like they did a year ago in January. That would
have been incredibly frustrating. And you got two safeties deep
just in case you throw it. Now got you gotta
attack them, and you know if they get you, they
get you. Whatever they come up with schematically against the Texans,
winning the defensive trench is going to be huge towards

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determining UH success or failure of the schematics as it
was against Derrick Henry and the Ravens.

Speaker 14 (24:17):
We put aloud on our men up front, we we
we create one on ones with our bigs up front.
We require our bigs uh to win those battles. And
I just thought guys like Bitten and Hayward and Harmon
UH did a real nice job of winning those one
on ones shedding tacklers, I mean shedding blocks and and
and getting in on tackles, not giving him clean access

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to the second and third level, which oftentimes is the
recipe for disaster when facing the big runner.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
And other than the first quarter, it worked really well.

Speaker 13 (24:51):
So I think, you know, if you're wondering, there's been
a lot of criticisms, some of it justified about how
the Steelers approached defense and subsequently play it. I think
the staff came up with a sound plan and it
was executed well enough.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
I totally agree. It was logical. It was what you
had to do.

Speaker 13 (25:12):
And yeah, I'm not saying they reinvented the wheel or anything,
but they broke down the opponent and they said, Okay,
here's what they do, here's where we're strong and weak,
and this is how we have to play them.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Right, But when you lose that way, it looks like,
you know, to the fan, they're like, how could you
let yeah, how could you let Lamar goo crazy like that?
Without you know realizing. It's kind of like, well, live
by the sword, die by the sword. You have to
pick your poison in that case. And they absolutely took

(25:42):
the biggest threat away eventually.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Eventually, yeah, because it didn't happen right away. It didn't,
but guys pretty good.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yes, he ripped forty one yards off on the first
play and Camp hay Would got hurt. Yes, hey, this
is going well. Yeah that Cam Hayward's holding his thigh.
I was like, it's over already. That was friendly fire too.
I didn't realize that. Yeah, after the game. Yeah, he
tripped over somebody or somebody rolled into.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
His helmet, went right thigh.

Speaker 13 (26:12):
He's chasing I mean, he's chasing Derrick Henry fifty yards
down the field because.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
You could see, you could just sense how pissed Cam
was on the first play.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Again, yes, exactly, but.

Speaker 13 (26:25):
I mean I can see a lot of the tackles
in that spot on the field.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Mm hmm. Thirty six year old details twenty six year old.

Speaker 13 (26:35):
Yeah, another example of how he is. The second half
of his season has been really good.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
I completely agree, and I understand people's frustration with Cam Hayward.
You know, the whole that situation and the optics of
that were not great. But to not recognize the season
that that guy has had not just for a thirty
six year old. It doesn't matter what ach she is.
The guy has been a monster this year.

Speaker 13 (27:05):
And you know, it's an interesting part of this matchup.
The Texans offense isn't great, kind of like the Steelers
offense isn't great. The defense this is gonna absolutely leave
the mark. Oh yes, this defense is legit. All the
numbers are legit, and the Steelers I think, have played
much better in the last month or so. Defensively, their

(27:27):
numbers are not good because for the first half of
the season, in particular, they were just giving up a
lot of yards and a lot of points, and they
had some games where they just fell apart. Second half
Green Bay Buffalo couldn't stop the same run play all night.
But kind of since the Buffalo game, I think they've
much more resembled who they thought they were going to be.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
The secondary I was saying was a mess at times
against Baltimore. You know, the exception being what we're talking
about when they were just selling out against the run.
But there were times they still just completely blew their assignment.
I mean, even when you're key in on Henry and Lamar,
Zay Flowers should not be running wide open down the field.

Speaker 13 (28:12):
Yeah, I think the one was a scramble drill when
when high Smith missed the sack. I'm pretty sure they
didn't have Patrick Queen on Flowers that one in retrospect. Yeah,
initially chaotic, right, and a hell of a throw. My god,
what a throw that was. So that I think Zay
Flowers had two touchdowns coming into that game.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Wow, I would have thought he had way more than.

Speaker 13 (28:37):
He made the Pro Bowl somehow, but he did not
have h Baltimore's passing game was rather limited most of
the year.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well, and Lamar was hurt for a number of games.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Uh, Hardbough's firing yesterday, it seemed that was preordained. When
when the trigger gets pulled that quick, it couldn't because
the guy missed a field goal, right, No, right, yeah exactly.
It's not like, well, we were gonna keep him, he's
our future, Like that is that had been in the
works and they were just waiting for the opportunity. I
think if they beat the Steelers and lose in the

(29:08):
wild cards round, he still gets gassed.

Speaker 13 (29:10):
Yeah, I would think based on the way it went
down and some of the reporting out of Baltimore that
you know, the team had turned on him and the
fans had turned on him and sound familiar. Yeah, but
you know one hundred and eighty one hundred and thirteen
and oh six fourteen winning percentage three times to the
AFC Championship game, won Super Bowl Championship.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, find that again.

Speaker 13 (29:33):
Well, like I just got out of the head coach
store and buy one, right, it's easy.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
But I agree, you know, this seems to be a
situation where the quarterback and the coach never to be
on the same page.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (29:46):
I don't know the internals of what's going on down
there in the relationships and all that, but.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
I don't think Hardbos's Tom Coughlin, Okay, but I think
he's from that school, and I think Lamar is very
much from Like Kurtzignetti would be a good coach for Lamar.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
You know, ninety minutes, you're done, get out of here.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
You mean coaughlin in the sense that the players are like,
what what are we doing here?

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Yeah, well, if you're on time, you're you're late.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
You got to get there five minutes early, and you know,
can't do this, this, this, this, this. He seemed pretty
flexible to me from AFAR over years. Yeah. I think
he grew into that. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (30:24):
And I you know, this is a hard observation to
make when you are exposed to him in detail twice
a year. But uh, he didn't seem to be waning
in enthusiasm or interest or what he was putting into
his job. You know, people say, well, maybe Mike Toma
wants to leave. I haven't seen an eye blink of that.
I don't be tom. Maybe he does, maybe I'll be surprised.

(30:45):
Maybe he'll take him to the AFC Championship. Even quit.
It's not getting fired. It's not getting fired after a
ten win division winning season. And uh, you know you
guys go you go to camp every year? Yeah, same guy, right,
I mean, and that that was a daily thing this
year it wasn't. I don't think it's an act. I
think he generally really likes coaching football. I think I

(31:08):
think he likes that more than just about anything else. Now,
whether whether he's doing it well enough, that's a different argument.
But the stale thing and the message thing, like the
team changes over so much every year.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
I think that's part of the problem that people have
is they see it as a non stop, like mercenary mission.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Every year. You just bring in a bunch of new
guys and hope that well they respond.

Speaker 13 (31:31):
Welcome to the NFL. I mean, there's a thing called
free agency. And you know, the biggest problem to me
is the quarterback thing. They got to you know, they
have not been able to sort that out since Roethlisberger left.
Now they got Rogers, looks like a pretty good band aid.
But you know, maybe he comes back next year, you're
still going to be needing to find that guy.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
But that's the argument for firing Harbaugh. He's had the
quarterback Yeah, and he's only one how many playoff games
with Lamar three?

Speaker 13 (31:59):
Yeah, that's uh, it hasn't worked the way people thought
it would.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
It's a two time MVP.

Speaker 13 (32:07):
No, Aaron's a four time MVP and they won one,
you know what I mean, It's not just the quarterbas
one one Super Bowl. I'm saying these guys weren't winning
playoff game.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
They weren't.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
You know, they got to one AFC championship and guess
who screwed that one up? It wasn't the NC Chimp.
That was the game before, right, that was a divisional
playoff game against the.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Chap Mark Andrews drop.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
No, the interception Lamara, that was an odviginal game against
the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
And Andrews drop was last year. Wasn't the yeah against the Bills.

Speaker 13 (32:34):
Yeah, I mean they've had some horrific lot like just agonizing, ye,
how did we lose that game? Kind of losses, like
like Sunday night, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Like Sunday night.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
All of the videos of Ravens fans filming themselves watching
it so enjoyable.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
I think I watched thirty of them yesterday. Just every time.
I was like like the.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Pillsbury dough boy thing. After every one of them. I
hit him by I hit him by accident. I'm not
saying just an hop up. And I saw one this
lady right before the field goals she yelled where.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
The toils that? Hey? Where all to towels?

Speaker 15 (33:11):
That?

Speaker 3 (33:12):
And then be kindnesses and it's like a yes, yeah,
it's the best.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
All right, Abby's got your news coming off the top
of the hour.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
The Pittsburgh Walk of Fame is now accepting nomination.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
We're gonna raid our algorithms when we come back.

Speaker 16 (33:31):
The DVE workforce's favorite lunchtime hangout to the Electric Lunch
weekdays at noon with Michelle Michaels on DVE.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
No, the NFL playoffs have a lot of action, but
let's ratchet it up this year drafting sports book.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Then raid our respective algorithms to see what perspective we
are all looking at of the world because there is
no monoculture anymore. So this this helps bring us all together, Abby.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
And that that's what the show is meant to do
at all times, just bring us together.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Okay, let's start up with years. Mike, what do you
got for us here?

Speaker 13 (34:22):
Apparently my world is pretty limited in scarrow Yeah, but uh,
you know, we've been talking a lot about Aaron Rodgers yesterday.
Is he going to come back? I got a thing
from Cam Hayward's podcast. I'm not sure when this was recorded.
I think he does that on Wednesdays or they posted
on Wednesdays, so I don't think it was the most
recent one, but it's d.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
K Metcalf, Aaron Rodgers, and Cam Hayward. Wasn't this from camp?
I don't think.

Speaker 13 (34:49):
Because they're talking about, uh, well, believe it or not,
Rogers coming back next year.

Speaker 17 (34:53):
A lot of people may be looking at us like, oh,
what are they going to do? There's a big question mark.
Now you just wait and see what we do. Because
I think we're going to do some special things this year.
You know, maybe we can run it back.

Speaker 6 (35:06):
Maybe.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Wow, you comment to maybe Aaron said maybe.

Speaker 13 (35:14):
I don't know when he said it, said maybe going
into the season, remember or his interview with us at
latroph he said, I wanted.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
One more shot at it. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (35:22):
Joe Biden, he was very fatalistic in terms of this year.
Is it not fatalistic? But no, he was. He was
certain and the way he was describing it, And I
don't know, now, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
I don't know that I would hate it, that's for sure. Uh.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
He will be forty three, Yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
We would ostensibly be developing the next quarterback. We're going
to need a bridge quarterback one way or the other,
unless Dealer fans are okay with a one in fifteen season.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Look Peyton Manning had one of those Troy Aikman, Yeah,
very understanding.

Speaker 13 (36:00):
Yeah, they would understand completely because they have perspective.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Yeah, but look what it did for Drake May. You know,
sometimes you got to endure that. I'm trying to think
of the last guy who sat for a year and
then came out and was good, or Aaron Mahmes.

Speaker 13 (36:22):
Mahomes is the most recent example, Alex Smith.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Because everyone else is getting thrown right in the fire,
you know, Kenny Pickett, it's not the ideal way to
make it.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Heay Bo Nicks, It isn't.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
It's why you know, It's like you can get a
guy on the second marriage and sometimes that works out great.
But Aaron Rodgers coming back is an interesting proposition now
with the offensive line being as good as it has been,
especially the one.

Speaker 13 (36:50):
Asked to him coming back next year is Monday night.
He has to survive and Daniel Hunter, Yeah, that's a
great point. That's not an automatic, abby, what do you
have in your algorithm?

Speaker 4 (37:02):
So this creator is named Cyrus, and I had seen
a video from him last week where he was talking
about you know, kickers. I was observing that, like, maybe
you guys should try to get it through those big things,
those things that are on the field. I can't understand it.
But this week he decided to go with a video

(37:23):
that was a little bit more compassionate, specifically for Tyler Loop.

Speaker 18 (37:27):
This is for the kicker who missed what team Ravens
Ravens for the raven Raven Ravens Ravens kicker.

Speaker 19 (37:38):
So if you're not hit him, then him him, then
I dig I need a video about how like kickers
like you have to get it in.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Girl. I don't blame you. That was tough and unpopular opinion.

Speaker 19 (37:54):
I feel like like it's up to the whole team
to not put you in a situation and maybe where
it's like it all depends on you. I feel like
it's not fair and I saw you shed a tear
and I'm so sorry. So I just wanted to flag
that my video that I made previously is not about.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
You, although I I kind.

Speaker 19 (38:12):
Of see how you would think it's too diva, get
a massage, get a manature. It's for men too, because
you have nails as well, and just like eat something
good and like people commenting are playing in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
So yeah, that's good. I like that, yes, self, care.
It's nice. Uh musical Diva, I like Diva Di tad.

Speaker 5 (38:35):
What's an your algorithm? I'll keep it short and sweet.
Sometimes you see a meme, a video just scratches you
right where you itch. Randy, you said before this segment
there is no monoculture anymore. Well, after a stealer win
like that, they're sort of is. This is Chris Boswell
talking to Tomlin after the game.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Wow, I mean that was closed. We can laugh about
it now, we're all right. It's so simple.

Speaker 5 (39:11):
Transplanes and automobiles, John Candy and Steve Martin right after
they almost died in the.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
That is perfect, all right. Last one I have for
you from my algorithm. This is a comedian who's doing
stand up comedy for an audience made up of only
Chris collins Worths.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
So it's a whole room of Chris collins Worths.

Speaker 9 (39:40):
And I said, Babe, you don't need to wear such
a sexually arousing outfit to the gym.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Could you take.

Speaker 9 (39:46):
Off the Patrick Mahomes jersey.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
There you go. That's our algorithm. The radio and he
has your news. Next, what's up?

Speaker 8 (40:03):
The Pittsburgh Walk of Fame is accepting nomination.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Maryle Hodge Pft comment or Mark Madden in the new
Here We Go song.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Coming up, It's.

Speaker 11 (40:10):
Time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought to
you by your neighborhood Fords Store and Steelers Pro Shop.
Get it direct from the team at Shop dot Steelers
dot com. Here's Tom Opperman.

Speaker 20 (40:20):
The Steelers claimed their first AFC North Division title since
the twenty twenty season Sunday Night, defeating the Baltimore Ravens
twenty six to twenty four in a thriller.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Cam Hayward was absolutely.

Speaker 20 (40:31):
Everywhere on the defensive side of the ball. He led
the team with seven tackles and was consistently blowing up
the Baltimore Ravens offensive line on basically every play. He
also served as the pusher during the Steelers Steel City
Shove package, taking over Darnell Washington's role and pushing his
younger brother Connor's tush over the goal line for the
Steelers first touchdown of the game. There was truly nothing

(40:53):
Captain Cam wasn't willing to do as he helped guide
the Steelers to their tenth AFC North titles since the
division became a thing in two thousand and two. Next up,
for Pittsburgh is a home playoff game. They welcome Houston
to town for their first home wild card game since the
twenty twenty season, but this will be their first game
in front of a home crowd since twenty seventeen, since

(41:14):
COVID in twenty twenty wasn't allowing anybody to sit in
the stands.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
During that playoff game.

Speaker 20 (41:20):
Kickoff is eight to fifteen on Monday Night between the
Steelers and the Texans.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
I'm Tom Opperman with the Steelers Report in Pittsburgh. Black
and gold are more than just colors. They're colors of
the champions that show up. We DV Pittsburgh and iHeartRadio
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Speaker 4 (41:45):
It's not even the generic one that accidentally we play sometimes.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
It's the one where it's the way Fountain.

Speaker 6 (41:52):
Dame.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
I mean, god, nobody do a deep dive on Jimmy Pole.
We're gonna find that one day. The down behind the
Polar gup. He was the Francis Scott Key of his era.
He owned the slaves.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
We don't even know how it was nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Yes, this terrible guy in every regard. People were trapped
in his abasement.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
All Polk, the people all was not as it seemed. Sex, drugs,
the music, lots.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Of potatoes, sleep, Jimmie pul doing drugs is so funny
to me, just like.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Leaving me alone.

Speaker 16 (42:41):
I'm a creator Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
I mean, come on, he was I'm sure he was
just a lovely guy, you know, but I do love
the idea of every time he snorted a line.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Anyways, Tad Whistle's hanging out with us this morning. Merrile
Hodge will be on the program. Dang PFT commenter will
be joining us, and the new Here We Go song
for you guys this morning.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
It's updated.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Roger Wood, the Bob Dylan of Steeler Nation, has penned
another anthem for us as we headed of the postseason.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
Abbey's got your news?

Speaker 6 (43:23):
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Speaker 1 (43:23):
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Speaker 1 (43:29):
Cloudy and breezy today.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
With a high of forty seven, The Pittsburgh Walk of
Fame is now accepting nominations for its next class of inductees.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
The Walk of.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
Fame was unveiled in October at the Strip District Terminal
with the goal of celebrating people with ties to southwestern
Pennsylvania who have made a mark on America. Nominations for
this year's class of inductees can be living or dead,
but they must have been born in or lived in
the Pittsburgh region and must have had a national impact
on the country's cultural heritage. Nominations can be submitted online

(44:03):
until the end of January.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
All right, well, look, Roger would, Yes, I think we've
nailed it. Yep, let's nominate Roger Would and then just
put the Here we go guy.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Okay, that's it. We made our submission. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Well, you know my thoughts on this. Sally Wigan needs
to be on there, Yes, she needs to. And then
there needs to be an S on the end of
her name crossed out because everybody puts an S on
it even though there isn't one.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
They already misspelled Michael Keaton's name down there, they did.
They screwed that up.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
But the funny thing they screw up Michael, which is
like they like refers to A and the e.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Pittsburgh has trouble with A and E.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
Remember stage uh, Stage A and E was always stage
A and E for many many years. He's getting over
stage A and E. Look, you got to put some
more football players on there. Unfortunately, Sorry, I know it can't.
You know there are people who are like, it's just
no football in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
Uh, Bradshaw didn't make the first one, right, Uh huh,
Bradshaw would be a good one.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Yeah, me and Joe Green would be a good one.
Did they have to what about Okay, then local ties?

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Well, actually Bradshaw didn't have as much of an impact.
He was more like just a celebrity in terms of
impact on Western Pennsylvania. Mary O Lemieux, you have to
have on there, right, I mean the LEU Foundation alone
merits it not to mention him being one of the
all time greatest hockey players.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Yeah, I completely agree.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
And bringing Stanley Cup glory to Pittsburgh on first class was.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
George Benson, Nellie Bly, Andrew Carnegie, Rachel Carson, Roberto Clemente,
Michael Keaton, Jonah Salk, Fred Rogers, Andy Warhol, and August Wilson.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
I mean they did it. It's a lot of good
ones right there.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
You know, if you just went famous people, I'd put
Billy Gardella in there.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
I'm ready. I put frank O Harrison there too.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
By the way, Franko hung for a long time, just
because we've used that statue at the airport for so
long and for no other reason.

Speaker 10 (46:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
And in terms of priority, would you put Franco before
Terry Bradshaw?

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Well before, Yeah, Bradshaw doesn't even come back.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
He's scared to come back. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
I mean I remember interviewing him at the super Bowl
in Detroit and he had been honored that season or
maybe it was the season before on Monday night during
halftime of a Monday night game, and he brought his
daughters out on the field as kind of like a shield,
like maybe they won't boom me if I bring my daughters.
And I asked him about that and why he felt
the need to do it, and he started crying.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
What.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Yeah, he started crying and talking about like his love
of Dan Rooney and the Steelers or Art Rooney and
the Steelers and all of the lore that went with
it and how hard it was for him leaving. And
I just remember thinking like, Okay, well that's over, like
we're past it. Everyone wants to give you a big
hug come back, and he just never could allow himself

(46:59):
to do it. He just couldn't and it always drove
me crazy and see other fans to that extent too.
I mean, like it's one thing to be somebody like
Jack Lambert where you are in self imposed not exile,
but isolation, semi seclusion. Yeah, you're just like, you know what,
I just want to be left alone. But Terry Bradshaw
does not want to be left alone. He's on TV. Yeah,
he's a big celebrity, and it's it's a shame that

(47:22):
he's I don't know if it's that he held a
grudge against Pittsburgh, but he hasn't allowed himself to feel
the love from a fan base that would have wanted
to be forgiven for the way he was treated at
the end of his career. I mean, look, no matter
who it is, we're never great at the end when
it's time for people to go, and if they don't
want to go, it's not you know, he got you know,

(47:45):
basically they applauded when he was injured. You know heinz
Ward didn't have a great farewell either, but okay, I mean,
you know heines Troy Paulamalu, the Troy thing, is is
was sad? I thought that, but he mended that already.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
Yeah, like that's already, you know, And unfortunately Terry's situation
serves as sort of a cautionary tale to like, you know,
come back, we we love you. You were a good soldier,
and you know you're walking out in front of a
bunch of drunk people at halftime and with typically like

(48:22):
a murderer's row of people who are Bill loved. You're
gonna be out there with keesel right, you know exactly,
bathe in the applause.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
I'm with you on that. Back to who should be honored?

Speaker 3 (48:32):
How about Joe Manganelo, guy who's raised so much money
for children's hospital he used to star power to bring
attention to issues here in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
Yeah, and I like the idea too of people still
being able to accept the star if you will, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
He's he's not eighty or a lot of.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
The people that I mentioned, you know, you had members
of their family being able to be like, oh, this
is amazing. And we talk about that even with like
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where they're like,
get these people honored while they can enjoy the honor.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
Yeah, when they can still sing their songs instead of
having young blood come out and do it.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Joe Maglan all has to do a bunch of push
ups on that star. Yeah, exactly, just just.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
For the people, not for me specifically, just for the people.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
The magic Mike dance and we'll make the star happen
if he does that.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
Other than that, I mean you have to think like
charitable works and in that regard. And I'm not sure,
but you know, Thomas taul I don't know. He's done
a lot of charity work with his billions. Right, That's
all I got. And Sally Wigan, John Cannon, Don Cannon,

(49:52):
Joe Donardo Honor, some of those people media greats. Yeah,
I'd go Joe Donardo. Joe said it would right on
the star. That would be great.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Alright. I think we have a starting class.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
The problem is those first names you mentioned are so
illustrious that it's it's tough to move up to the
billing of.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
All of those people. Yeah, you know, Frick, you know,
it's like Carnegie's.

Speaker 4 (50:21):
In Well, that's 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 3 (50:33):
Well, who accepted on behalf of Andrew Carnegie? Did they
just get a guy from Carnegie?

Speaker 5 (50:38):
Got Brian Cox reprising his role as Logan Roy in
succession to accept it for Carnegie.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
I like that idea. Yeah, who are not serious people?
I heard it played weak? All right.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
I wanted to get to this story. I saw it
over the weekend. It my mind and you all know
what a Kiss fan I am.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Now.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Vinnie Vincent was not in Kiss for that long, but
is going to ride the wave of Kiss for a
very very long time.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
He was beloved guitarist, right, Liza still it phenomenal guitar,
But I mean.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
In terms of his contribution to Kiss, like people loved.
He was in Kiss for two years.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Yeah, Lick It Up.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
Is the album that you know he was on, But
he was definitely on other Kiss albums because Ace Raeley
was not doing well and not showing up to things,
and so they were kind of like, that's not Ace
friendly solo. So I have bad news for you if
you like Creatures of the Night.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
But anyway, I digress.

Speaker 4 (51:46):
Pushing up my glasses, Vinny Vincent says that he would
rather shelf his new guitar to get an album that
sell it in a k then sell it in a
conventional manner. In December, Vincent announced a highly unconventional strategy
for the release of Guitar meagedin selling one song at
a time via individually signed and numbered CDs, each one

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costing two hundred dollars plus shipping. Vincent said he would
only ship each single once he had reached one thousand
pre sales. His site listed eighteen song titles while promising
and more, meaning that the complete album would cost each
fan at least three thousand, six hundred dollars.

Speaker 8 (52:28):
The guitarist was quick.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
To defend his plan against complaints and concerns expressed by fans.
He argued that illegal downloading, streaming, and other changes in
the music industry over the past few decades made it
otherwise impossible for him to be paid fairly for his music.
And he's saying that, you know, there's no way to
record a record like this without bootlegging, just basically making

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it impossible. But he says, unless I get compensated for
my work, the album stays unheard. But what I want
to get down to is the quote the Hubris here.
This made me Oh, I had popcorn.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
He said.

Speaker 8 (53:04):
If the fan support is not there, which it does
not appear to be, this record will not be released.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
And am I fine with that?

Speaker 8 (53:11):
Absolutely, one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (53:14):
It will be the greatest album of all time, never
to be heard, never to be released. If people want
my music and thinks they're punishing me by not buying
it because of the price.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
It matters not to me. They're the ones who will
lose out. Guitar mcgeddon is one.

Speaker 4 (53:32):
Of the greatest rock albums of all time and I
live through Meet the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, I, Jimmy Hendrix,
Are you experienced?

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Jeff Beck, Truth, Cream, Wheels of Fire, They Floyd. The
only difference is these albums they.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
The only difference is these albums are generation tested and
have the benefit of fermentation of time. But as for impact,
him perfection from first song to last good Tarma Again
in his.

Speaker 3 (54:04):
Classic Gaitarma Again is a hilarious name. It really is,
and he deserves two hundred dollars for the name. Yeah,
but I'm not paying two hundred dollars a track, Vinny,
I'm not going to do that. I will tell you
also that he is the of all the aged rockers.
He's one of the funniest looking of all of them

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because he still wears makeup, but not the kabuki Kiss
makeup like. He just wears makeup, and he dyes his
hair black and has never really taken care of his teeth,
just like Ace, so when he's wearing the makeup, the
yellow teeth really kind of bounce out of his face
and he looks like your aunt that never stops smoking.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Yes, yes, I just looked him up. Man. It's confusing, Yeah,
it is. It's a bit confusing. It's a bit confusing.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
You would think that was somebody's like Italian aunt who
still keeps your cigarettes in one of those little leather
cases and it has a lighter holder on the front
of it.

Speaker 4 (55:06):
You can't really pin down Vinny Vincent, because I think
even at Kiss conventions he's been asked several questions about, Hey,
what's up, what's happening?

Speaker 1 (55:16):
I really like about his androgyny, and.

Speaker 4 (55:19):
Androgyny would be the word, and some people very bluntly
perhaps have asked him if he is perhaps, and he
acts of.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Hilarious, how dare you transitioning? It's like you are wearing red.

Speaker 8 (55:35):
Lipstick right now, and I think.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
You have breasts? Is real? You know who else?

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Jimmy Hendress, led Zeppelin, Beethoven.

Speaker 5 (55:53):
What kind of headspace did the interviewer have him in
for him to go on a rant like that where
he counts owners think preemptively counters like, you don't think
it's the greatest rock album of all time? Well, those
other ones are older and you grew up with them,
and that's why you like it.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
You're an idiot. In thirty five years, this will be great.
Have you ever thought of that? Look? Good? God bless
him and all, you know.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
I like how he's like he explains why it costs
so much money, and the truth is, like, the reason
these costs two hundred dollars your track is simple.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
I'm broke. That's it, folks.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
I don't have any money. I have no discernible skills.
Besides this, everything is expensive.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:44):
Help, he can't get enough fans to support the thousand
yeah pre sale, I know. And I think he goes
to kiss conventions, and I think that was another story.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
That Pete Rose. He sits outside of it and he's like,
until they let me back in.

Speaker 4 (56:57):
They they do let him in which I think is
actually kind of wild.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
But his autograph line.

Speaker 4 (57:06):
Is usually he's like, Okay, it's like eight hundred dollars
for an autograph.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
Wow, And it's like you're Vinnie Vincent eight hundred, my lord,
there's nobody who's autograph I want form like that. I
even want to pay for, to be honest with you,
other than if it was like, I don't know, like
Abraham Lincoln maybe something like that.

Speaker 8 (57:25):
Well, we've talked about the stolen valor before too.

Speaker 4 (57:28):
It's like, you pay for an autograph, right, he cares
like you don't have an experience really attached to that,
Like I don't know.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
I made him perform a humiliation ritual. Look, he signed
his name for me.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
Great, I made it go. Yeah, all right.

Speaker 4 (57:48):
We talked about this story before, but now it's turning
into a bit of a lawsuit here. Former NFL pro
Matt Khalil is suing his ex wife Haley over comments
that she made on Twitch back in November about his
very large junk size. She said that it was the
biggest factor in their divorce and described it as two

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coke cans, maybe even.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
A third, my lord and she's tucking sideways.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
Good good? Is that?

Speaker 3 (58:20):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (58:20):
Note? Wide? Very wide?

Speaker 4 (58:24):
Matt says her quote, degrading and deeply personal comments have
caused unwanted attention and invasive commentary from the public. He
also claims his family has been negatively affected, especially his
new wife, and he's requesting a jury trial and damages
on all causes in the complaints, with the amount exceeding

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over seventy five thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
We need to get this in front of as many
people as possible. My huge Johnson has been out of
the news long enough. I want I demand compensation. I
mean two coke cans. That's tough to that's tough to
get through with counseling. You know, there's no couple's counseling

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that is gonna.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
I don't think she's looking around.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
It's basically that lysol wipes container over there?

Speaker 1 (59:17):
What if she did mean? Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
You might be a girthy fellow, but I do think
it's funny that this is this is his burden.

Speaker 5 (59:28):
Yeah, mcalil, Wow, we really that's such horrible news.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
Everyone knows you're packing.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
Yeah, but look, at some point it's too much of
a good thing, right. I mean, if it really was
stopping them from enjoying each other, I know it.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
I guess everybody that ever played football with him would
know all about that, Like every teammate he's ever had
had to be.

Speaker 1 (59:49):
Like, you couldn't miss it, right right? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (59:55):
But also you know, I do wonder, like I wonder
how long they dated.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
Before they got married. Yeah, you know, been a wedding
night surprise.

Speaker 8 (01:00:05):
I'm gonna guess it was.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
No, no, no, no, no no, There's no way. There's
no way. There's no way, because even if you made out.

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
If you got the second base, you'd be like, I
feel like there's a third person in the.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Room right now. Are you babysitting something? What's happening?

Speaker 15 (01:00:28):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:00:28):
Good luck to them, both cloudy and breezy today. It
is a high of forty seven.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Your honor. It's a tough thing to present in court.
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
Mike's on the way with your sports here the Steelers
getting set for the Texans. It's Monday night wild Card
action in Pittsburgh. Big news in the AFC North yesterday
Harbaugh getting fired just absolutely crazy to me that that
happened in such short order. I don't think it was
because of the Miskick. I think that this was set
up and ready to go if they did not get

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a championship, at least representing.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
The AFC and the AFC Championship.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
They've just not had enough success with Lamar Jackson, and
he and John Harbaugh have very obviously been at odds
all year and maybe for multiple years.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
I mean even.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
After the game on Sunday night, Lamar was like he
couldn't be bothered to ask about Harbaugh's future.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
But the more, we're not.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Sure when we're gonna be able to talk to you
next after this this offseason, there's a lot of questions
about your contract, your salary cap number.

Speaker 21 (01:01:36):
Do you do you feel you'll you'll be back as
the rings quarterback of the season.

Speaker 22 (01:01:42):
We just lost a game, you know, a divisional game,
you know, a game to put.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
Us in the playoffs.

Speaker 22 (01:01:47):
I'm not even thinking about that right now, to be
honest with Sho, I'm still caught up in what just happened.
You know that's not my focus right now.

Speaker 13 (01:01:55):
At question about hard Lall's future as well.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
Do you do you do you want to see John
on them?

Speaker 22 (01:02:03):
You you asked me about next year. Jamison, I'm so
caught up in what's just happening tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
I can't.

Speaker 22 (01:02:10):
I can't focus on that right now. I just told you,
like he asked me, are you stunning? I'm stunning right now.
I'm still trying to process what's going on. Like, I
know we lost, but you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
Know, but where am I? He's very definitely dodging the
question there. Prior to Hardwaugh getting guests, I think he
probably made it clear to ownership that it's like, hey man,
if this isn't working, and it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
It hasn't been.

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
They were afc odds on favorite going into the season
this year and five start just a brutal start to
the year that they could never overcome, and then the
injury to Lamar keeping him out for a few games.
They could not rebound. They lost a bunch of games
they should not have lost. Uh So, a bit of
a surprise and a shakeoup no more. Tomlin Harbaugh Steelers

(01:02:54):
Ravens matchups. I'm kind of sad about that. I love
that rivalry. We'll ask Merril Hodge his thoughts on the
Steelers as they get set for the Texans. This is
gonna be a tough one and eight o'clock eight to fifteen.
Rather kickoff here Monday night with Rob King, Max Starks,
and Missy Matthews on your radio home of the Steelers.
Why don't two point five DV Sports.

Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
Mike Rosuder's got.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
Your sports right now, your radio home of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 13 (01:03:22):
DVE Sports are up RUTSI by Bridgeville apply it so
when they haven't had the time or for some other reason,
the ability to get the ball down the field. This season,
the Steelers have had a cheap code in their passing game,
one of which Mike Tomlin is well aware.

Speaker 14 (01:03:39):
I can't say enough about the two running backs. They
were impactful. They were impactful in the run. They were
impactful in the checkdown game, winning one on one opportunities
in the flat and so forth, and turning short games
into longer ones. And that quite frankly, has been a
recipe for how we functioned all year. Those two guys,
in their ability to win in the flat and win

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and check down like circumstances.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
I thought that was significant.

Speaker 14 (01:04:04):
I thought also as a game, we're on our third
down conversion rate and particularly our ability to win some
longer ones.

Speaker 13 (01:04:13):
Yeah, that was Mike Tomlin talking about his running backs
Kenny Gamwell and Jalen Warren. And we've all seen what
those guys can do. Get them the ball in space,
they make people miss. They turn a short dump down
into a first down or a significant game. But here's
the rubb as it relates to Monday night against the
Houston Texans. The Texans defense is built to stop that

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very thing, among a lot of other things. They have
tremendous speed on defense. It is hard to run or
throw the ball sideways.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
Against these guys.

Speaker 13 (01:04:44):
It's hard to go right at him too, But you
have a better chance, I think, of going at him
than you do getting to the edge and turning it
up or making them miss in the open field. They're
very good tacklers. It's throughout the defense and the two
edge guys Daniel Hunt and Will Anderson Junior. They're not
just I'm gonna rush the passer and get my sacks

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and screw the running game. I mean they're scare they're complete.
They're complete players. And it's a strength for the Steelers
to get the ball to warn and game well. But
it's also a strength of the Texans to prevent that
kind of thing from happening, So you know, buckle up.
That's gonna be a significant part of the matchup. Houston

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will do what it does defensively, and that will not
be hard to identify.

Speaker 14 (01:05:34):
They're not trying to split the atom schematically. They don't
have to when you have corners and edge rusher's like that.

Speaker 13 (01:05:40):
Yeah, the two corners, Kamari Lassiter and especially Derek Stinglely
number twenty four, they're gonna get up in your face
and play press man and say not today. So it's
gonna be fascinating to see how that plays out. You know,
the simplicity of that Houston defense kind of takes away

(01:06:01):
Aaron Rodgers superpower of being the great dissector and the
guy that you can't confuse. Right, It don't care if
you know what they're doing. Because they're fast, and they're angry,
and they're physical. They basically a lot of them say
go ahead, do it. We're gonna knock you down. J. J.
Watt was doing the color commentary on the Texans season

(01:06:25):
finale on CBS against the Colts last Sunday, and Iron
Eagle asked them what makes the Texans defense so special.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
Watts response quote the violence.

Speaker 13 (01:06:36):
The way they get the way they set the edges
and get everything inside bottled up, so you have nowhere
to go. It's a very simple defense. They don't run
a ton of different coverages. They don't run a lot
of exotic blitzes. So I'm gonna have to win physically,
and you're not gonna win often. The good news is

(01:06:57):
I don't think their offense is gonna win often either.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
There was this weird period where our offense was sputtering,
and I thought, like, I almost want to have our
defense on the field. Something's gonna happen defensively before it's
going to happen offensively. Feels like this might be one
of those games where the defense can set up the
offense with a big play.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
I think you're correct on that.

Speaker 13 (01:07:19):
Again, the Steelers defense statistically, body of work wise, does
not look intimidating. Certainly not historic, but kind of Ever
since that Buffalo game, it's getting better and better and better.
Even the Cleveland game, they were, you know, outstanding. They
played well enough to win at Cleveland, though the offense
was m i A. The offense did not have DK

(01:07:39):
Metcalf in that game. More in the season finale against
the Ravens. It will have metcalf against the Texans, So
there's that, but it's going to take more than that.

Speaker 14 (01:07:49):
Certainly awesome to have DK back, but we're not going
to exhale and think that DK automatically with his presence
is going to be a difference or the difference football
is the ultimate team game is going to require great
effort from all parties involved, but certainly excited about doing
it with them.

Speaker 13 (01:08:07):
You know, another part of this matchup that might make
the Steelers a little less than thrilled. One of the
things they feed on our turnovers and takeaways. Being plus
in the turnover takeaway differential, Houston plus seventeen in takeaway
giveaway behind only Chicago, which was plus twenty two, and

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in terms of giveaways, Houston only turned it over twelve
times all season, second to Chicago's eleven.

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
Now, Steeler has.

Speaker 13 (01:08:37):
Been good in both of those departments as well, but
the Texans do not screw it up, probably because they
have a great defense and they don't panic and they
don't force a lot of stuff. If it ain't working,
they punt it and say, okay, deal with these guys.
And they have a great kicker in Ky fairmurn right.
So if this thing comes down to protect the ball,

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punt it, and you try to flip field position and
kick it, they can play that game.

Speaker 6 (01:09:05):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
I don't like the scenario you're sitting here.

Speaker 13 (01:09:09):
I'm not saying it's impossible, but they're favored for a reason,
and they should be.

Speaker 5 (01:09:13):
You're sort of it feels to me describing like better Steelers. Yes,
you know, it is a bad, bad feeling.

Speaker 13 (01:09:22):
If you rewind the clock a few years, you probably
have an appreciation for what it's gonna look like.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Meryl hodgeill be joining us after the commercial break, But
I do want to get to this. Roger Wood has
released this year's here We Go songs.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
Oh yeah, feel it pop up like a groundhog Steelers go.

Speaker 15 (01:09:58):
It's town of Pittsburgh's hard, and so the Stealer nation
has the best fans.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
We are from Pittsburg to six time super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
You know what's remarkable is that he's not lost any
of his singing ability through the years.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
It sounds just like the Roger would from the nineties. Yes,
still he really is. Aaron Rodgers ready will win with game.

Speaker 15 (01:10:29):
Well, Metcalf and Calvin Austin, We'll go to Warren. Then
we need a touchdown and if you get his way,
he's going to knock you around.

Speaker 5 (01:10:41):
Yeah, dude, Aaron Rodgers is the first name check.

Speaker 13 (01:10:46):
You know, it's a very penetrating an informative report on
Channel four.

Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
Last night about the making of this, the making of
the song, and he waits.

Speaker 13 (01:10:58):
Originally it was going to be Aaron Rodgers is ready
to win, no, and Ryan Adain was gonna be Darnell
Washington's Yeah, but then Darnell got hurt.

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
Darnell's not playing. Yeah. She had to come up with
Calvin Austin.

Speaker 23 (01:11:13):
Yeah, you know that's some good right and get Haud Yeah, yeah,
we got stand there, we got.

Speaker 6 (01:11:24):
Start to so.

Speaker 15 (01:11:27):
We've got high Smith walkon, they wor Clean and Mantine
and Joey Junior.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
Team wrong game and Crowns. The Deep defense is gone
to bring the steel curtains. Yea Bags, Dave Fags, Dave.

Speaker 15 (01:11:48):
Padda, Bat.

Speaker 24 (01:11:51):
Sailors starts doing the South we go, And I mean
that song never gets old to me.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
I don't care. There's I absolutely love it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
Roger would a stroke of genius back when was it
ninety five the first time that came out.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
Yeah, either the char Chargers year. I think that it
would be funny. I would forget that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
I would love to know how many different Stealers have
been name checked through the years in all of the
versions and iterations of Roger Woods here.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
We Go song.

Speaker 13 (01:12:30):
I also saw that Channel four report uh and uh
it was was making fun of it. It's a fun story.

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
That's great.

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
Yeah, but I love that his son was inspired to
become He's like, he's got a recording studio, he's a producer.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
That's awesome.

Speaker 16 (01:12:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
So like the success of Here we Go steered his
kid into the music industry. It's awesome. Here we go
name a more iconic NFL fight song except for what
the Rammit is definitely ms.

Speaker 5 (01:13:04):
I don't know, guys, I forgot about Rammit all right,
and that is that's sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
Yeah, I regret it now. I'm sorry. I forgot about you,
ramm It. I just had ram It ready to go.
What happened to my Rammitt? Oh, I'm so upset. Happens
to everybody. Every one ram it to see if your
Remit right, you can ram it all night, Rammit.

Speaker 10 (01:13:32):
Rabbit and a cokecan guy. Probably if you throw it bay,
it's going to be a right rams.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
You could see. It's so good. Come out again. I
don't even remember.

Speaker 13 (01:13:55):
I don't know because they have Eric Dickerson years haven't
been Super Bowl regular.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
No, they have not.

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
Merril Hodge joins us when we come back. It's Steelers
Texans Monday night here on DV.

Speaker 1 (01:14:07):
What do you want to hear that?

Speaker 16 (01:14:10):
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Speaker 3 (01:14:25):
Then the DV Morning Show, Abby Christner, my pursuit of
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Speaker 25 (01:15:15):
Marroll Hodge Merrill, good morning Steeler Nation playoff football, Meryl, Yes, sure,
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
Yeah, what did you?

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
How much did you love the Steelers defensive plan against
the Ravens this past Sunday?

Speaker 9 (01:15:33):
Well, thanks, Commaticy. They've always done a really good job
against their run. I mean they haven't had moments, They've
never really been hammered the entire game. You know, it's
not maybe that playoff game where you know they just
laid an egg. They've done a good job schrammatically, you know,
on f wise and fundamental wise. You know that that's
what you gotta do. You gotta be fundamentally sound at

(01:15:55):
this point. You know that's what wins. That's the difference
in games. You know, like they're two big plays, you know,
were that they gave up. We're a mental bus, you know,
got account for who you have. You know, you know
you you avoid those probably don't give those two big plays.
So m hm, you know it wasn't It isn't like,
you know, you just can't match up to these guys.

(01:16:16):
They're just better than you. You know, that's just not
the case, you know, you he and going forward, it's
going to be the same way. Everybody is really good.
And now it comes down to, like, you know, every
detail of every play, you know, from a mental perspective
to a fundamental perspective. If you focused on those two
things in the entire game, the outcome will be obvious.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
It seems that it seems like Arthur Smith and Aaron
Rodgers and company have agreed with the team who voted
Kenneth Gainwell team MVP that the offense really needs to
go through him and Jalen Warren. Those guys are just
outstanding after contact.

Speaker 9 (01:16:56):
Well and it's easy to get them the ball, you know,
you know, I think I say this probably a zillion
times a year. It is and because it's fundamentally true,
it's not changed. There's a lot of things that haven't
changed in the National Football League, and this is the
one thing.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
Actually, these two things have not changed and they'll never change.

Speaker 9 (01:17:16):
The team that controls the temple of the game has
the best chance to win it, especially if they don't
turn the ball over.

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
And to control the game is the ability to run
the ball and stop the run.

Speaker 9 (01:17:29):
When you do that, you dictate, and I maybe people
don't understand what that ultimately translates to. So when the
Steelers run the ball with great efficiency, they dictate what
that defense has to play.

Speaker 1 (01:17:40):
They know what coverage they have to play, so lots
easier to throw the football.

Speaker 9 (01:17:43):
When I don't run the ball very well, well, you
can do a lot of things thematically to confuse me
in the passing game. And then then you better have
somebody like Aaron Rodgers to handle that. But when you
do that, you control that defense. You know one of
two things they're going to do in the passing game.
And then when you stop the run, well, now you
have you have your entire board open to do stuff

(01:18:04):
to them, from pressures to changes to different coverages, and
you make it more confusing for them. But if you
don't do that, then then it's a problem when you
do do that. So to go through those two guys,
you control the environment, You dictate what's going on. And
when you can control and dictate, you're gonna win a game.
You're gonna win the game.

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
Meryl, who do you think has the edge?

Speaker 13 (01:18:25):
To Randy's point about Gamewell and Warren those two guys
in the flat with the ball or the Texans team
speed and tackling a building on defense, That's.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
A tough one kind of decide which it is.

Speaker 9 (01:18:45):
Let's nice I go back to what I just said
at the very beginning. Okay, who mentally you know, that's
why I like and we get ready for the draft.
Like here, we always talked the one of the most
important aspects of a player transitioning don't care what the
positions to by the way, is they're intelligent level their
ability to understand and their instincts to play the game
and their knowledge of the game, and they're passionate that

(01:19:07):
right there is such a critical component to have a
chance to transition because in college you just don't need
that as much. Your athletic ability can be enough for
you anyway that matchup you just described is it going
to be there's your difference. You know how the Steelers
are able to handle that and manage that.

Speaker 13 (01:19:27):
I mean, if you're a good back and you can
make guys miss, can you make everybody miss? Or do
you get to the point like, oh damn, I can't
make you miss?

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
Not all the time? Not all the time.

Speaker 9 (01:19:37):
You know, there's probably one guy that's ever done that
in the history of the game, and that's Walter.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
Payton, you know.

Speaker 9 (01:19:41):
I mean, but I'll say you this, Barry Sanders, Well,
Barry Standards got you in more trouble than he got
you out.

Speaker 1 (01:19:51):
You'd be studying he would go backwards and try to
turn it into a home run on the other side
of the field. Yeah, a lot of times he had
more negative plays.

Speaker 9 (01:19:59):
Than just about it anybody. Okay, so that's my point.
But yeah, well there's no he was the most electrifying
and exciting player. And I'm not I love Barry Standers,
I and his I know nobody that created more headaches
to get ready for. I think I've told you how
we prepared for him one day. It was it took

(01:20:20):
us twelve to twelve players to do it. To simulate
his ability to make a cutback. It took us two backs.
So we had the twelve people on the field when
we're practicing to try to simulate how he ran the walkers.
We didn't have any runner they could do what he did.
But Walter Payton was bike. Yeah, what he made people
miss it was always second and six, not second and fifteen.

(01:20:44):
So that being said, these guys are second and sevens
the second and six. These guys made people miss. They
got they're great, they got great feet, they got great power,
they know how to run in our league, they break tackles.

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
So you know, getting them rolling and getting them going.

Speaker 9 (01:21:03):
I don't think there's any question you can help neutralize
you know, what they like to do up front because
they pitting there here, all of them, all four.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
So you go to those drag races.

Speaker 9 (01:21:14):
See those cars start out Okay, you got like four
drag races, like four, but they snap the ball like
oh they are gone.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
So you know you got to have a plan for that.

Speaker 9 (01:21:23):
Yes, you got a block them at times, but then
game planning, play calling is a real critical component of
neutralizing them. You know, not letting them just get off,
you know, make making them play lateral, making them think
of things off of motions and shifts that may occupy
a little bit of their their their speed of getting
off the ball. So that's what I honestly, that's what

(01:21:45):
I love about NFL football versus college football. You just
don't get that in college football, the cinematics, the scheming,
that just doesn't exist. And the national football it gets
a requirement and the better you do that, the better
chance you have will win.

Speaker 1 (01:21:59):
The other match. That's got me fascinated.

Speaker 13 (01:22:01):
I'm not necessarily impressed by the Texans O line, particularly
a tackle. So given that obviously Anderson and Hunter are
great edge rushers, but Watt Heismith, aren' chopped liver, who's
got who's got the pressure edge advantage?

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
You know what?

Speaker 9 (01:22:21):
I wo could actually call that a draw based on
the depths that we have, you know, because you're you're
right there, They're office Mine is not something that's just like, well,
they're juggernaut. The one thing that they do to help
them is they do they do not deviate from the run.
They run the ball, and then they run the ball.
They keep running the football even if they're not effecting
run it. They do stay with their quarterback. Is dangerous

(01:22:42):
his ability to throw the his accuracy, his processing ability,
you know, and he's not I mean, you know Lamar Jackson,
but he has mobility, and but his ability to throw
a football man, he can make.

Speaker 1 (01:22:55):
Throws that the elite, only the elite can and he's
the Areas guy, you know. So getting him off his.

Speaker 9 (01:23:04):
Place and making him uncomfortable will be a critical component.
But they do a good job of realizing their weaknesses too.
All the teams at this point are not dumb, you know.
They know who what they are and who they are.
They're not walking like We're not going to walk in
there and just leave our tackles hanging out there. You're
gonna have a plan for that, he says. People are
going to be there, and you might actually be able

(01:23:25):
to build off what you did in Cleveland. Like you know,
let's like say, like gain Well, I would not waste
gain Well as much chipping if I'm doing that, then
he's got to be a part of Aaron's stock process
of getting a ball to him right away. If we
don't have things down the field, so we get into
these hands one way or the other, and usually in
space on the other side of the defensive line. So

(01:23:46):
I think the Cleveland game helps them because it's so
fresh and they have a similar defensive line and how
they go about getting off the ball that will help
them get ready for this one.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
Merril Hodge here on your radio home of the Pittsburg Steelers,
one of two point five TV. Uh, I just want
to go out with this. You mentioned Walter Payton. Didn't
you succeed the back that succeeded Walter Payton? Weren't you
after Neil Anderson?

Speaker 1 (01:24:14):
Yes, we went in.

Speaker 9 (01:24:15):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
We we had a whole whole group of backs that
went into Chicago.

Speaker 9 (01:24:20):
In fact, remember they made that They wrote an article
about you know, Matt Sue and Walter Payton, and I
mean I think it was Lewis Tillman from the Giants.
Me and Louis Tillman had come in and uh uh
yeah went into Chicago with a uh the vision and

(01:24:41):
the actually they started the whole team, to be honest
with I think there was like seven new players on
offense that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
Yeah, we had and Want he was the coach, right, Yeah,
Dave wants that was the coach. Dave wants that. I
I loved what Dave wants to love playing for Dave wants.

Speaker 5 (01:24:54):
That he was.

Speaker 9 (01:24:56):
He was a big reason I was there. Yeah know
he they just they just signed Hayward. I mean Ironhead Hayward.
You talk about embarrass Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:25:04):
This was you and Ironhead in the backfield. Okay, they
had just Ironhead. Hayward was there the year before. Okay.
So when they signed me, I'm like, what what do
you can do with Ironhead. He's like, well, we're gonna
let him go. But I didn't know when they were
going to let him go.

Speaker 9 (01:25:19):
So when I went into the facility to work out,
there's Ironhead, just like we're in the gym. I'm looking
at him. I'm like, this kind of comfortable. He goes, man,
this is not a big deal. We go home, give
me a hug. I mean, that's uptilled Cannas story. Anytime
he gave me a you know, what is the business?
And I was like, that's the first time I'd ever
met him.

Speaker 1 (01:25:37):
That's pretty cool. It was honestly, I knew I've heard
it was such a good guy.

Speaker 9 (01:25:43):
And I said, really say, I have to say it's
kind of like because don't remember saying anything. I just
told him he gave him a hug. That's like it's
weird teammates for about a day. Yeah, and they let
him go the next day. But that's that's that's the business.

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
Well, the Steelers won't be facing the eighty five Bears
on defense with the Houston Texans, but as far as
twenty twenty six football goes pretty good, it's gonna be
a big challenge for Aaron Rodgers and company. Monday Night
football Steelers Texans Wildcard playoffs here in Pittsburgh. Meryl Hodge
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Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
This morning on dv E.

Speaker 3 (01:26:24):
Merrill talking next week, Love your brother, Happy New Year,
Love you guys. All right, man, we'll see m Abbey's
got your news when we return here on dv.

Speaker 16 (01:26:34):
Wdv E Pittsburgh, an iHeart radio station, guaranteed human.

Speaker 3 (01:26:44):
You had to honor some of those people media greats. Yeah,
I'd go Joe DeNardo one. Joe said it would right
on the star. That would be great.

Speaker 5 (01:26:54):
Alright.

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
I think we have a starting class.

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
The problem is those first names you make are so
illustrious that it's tough to give up to the billing
of all of those people.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
Yeah, you know, frick you know it's like Carnegie's in Well, that's.

Speaker 4 (01:27:11):
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 1 (01:27:22):
Well, who accepted on behalf of Andrew Carnegie? Did they
just get a guy from.

Speaker 5 (01:27:26):
Carnegie, Brian Cox reprising his role as Logan Roy in
succession to accept it for Carnegie?

Speaker 1 (01:27:35):
I like that idea. Yeah, who, I'm not serious people,
I heard it played weak Brandy Bellman and the DV
Morning Showy Whistle joining Abby Prisoner and myself this one
here on the show.

Speaker 3 (01:27:50):
PFT comment are a little bit later on this morning,
you guys saw that Pittsburgh by the Slice graphic that.

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
Was going around on social media yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:27:57):
Yes, Tad Will delve into uh that entire endeavor cities
by the Slice. It's something that is going It's not
just Pittsburgh, but they left a lot of information out.
You don't glean enough information just from a cartoon depiction
of a slice of pizza, totally, So Tad Will.

Speaker 1 (01:28:16):
It's an investigative piece by Ted.

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
And also the Reverend that blessed the field special opportunity
for Steeler fans coming up for Monday Night really ooh yeah,
we'll tell you about that as well, and as promised
Mark Mandon pft.

Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
But Abby's got your news right now on DVE.

Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
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 Eve, or
did it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:45):
There's a theory going around.

Speaker 4 (01:28:47):
That episode eight was actually a fake out and that
there's a real finale that might dropping today.

Speaker 1 (01:28:55):
Oh no, no, no no.

Speaker 4 (01:28:57):
But they call it the conformity gait and it suggests
that and I have to admit I am not caught
up on Stranger Things. I jumped off the ride.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:29:07):
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

(01:29:28):
indicated that there is another episode that would be dropping today.

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
There was also some kind of.

Speaker 4 (01:29:36):
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 1 (01:29:53):
It also could be a stretch.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
So if you end up disappointed, just telling you what
the kids are saying sounds like some wishful thinking. Yes,
I also did not watch this last season of Stranger Things.
I will say yet, because who knows. If they do
drop one today, I gotta do it then, and it
might be super fun. I've heard from people who loved it.

(01:30:16):
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 bought
her down?

Speaker 4 (01:30:24):
I started to 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 1 (01:30:36):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:30:37):
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 1 (01:30:53):
Empty Nest? Sorry Mulligan, Yeah, wait, he's got the dog
and his daughters. Christ wasn't it Christie mccon, what's her name,
Christy McNichol.

Speaker 5 (01:31:10):
I remember watching that with my dad when I was
like seven, Like, this is fine, I'm doing what grown
ups do.

Speaker 3 (01:31:16):
We're watching a six year old bachelor do his stuff.
I was a big fan of of he was when
he was burnt on soap, that actor. Anyways, Richard mulligan,
do you have a real answer? I mean we talked
off air about it already, and that is it is

(01:31:38):
the right answer. I don't want to I don't want
to spoil the big set up.

Speaker 1 (01:31:41):
Here, Sopranos. Yeah right. I think a lot of would
say Soprano All right, well, if what is yours? Game
of Thrones? Oh yeah, but you need like ten episode.
I feel like you need so much. No no, no, no,
one episode and one big machete.

Speaker 4 (01:32:01):
We killed Brand the broken, so 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 1 (01:32:13):
Yeah? I like that. You know, if I would have
redone the.

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
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, you know, you don't they say,
you don't see it coming, you don't hear anything. It

(01:32:44):
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 in to the oh diner

(01:33:10):
starts all right, and then him and a bunch of
his friends from that diner dance their way down the island.
Ed just Johnny Cakes just beats the hell out of Tony.
I think that that would have been a fun that's it,
and Tony dies at the hands of Johnny Cakes.

Speaker 1 (01:33:31):
There you go, I love you, Johnny Cakes.

Speaker 3 (01:33:35):
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 cola at Oh okay,
that would have been another one.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
Wait did you finish? You finished it on the last
I finished mad Men again.

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
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

(01:34:22):
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 going to happen or not.
It sounds like it's just some wishful thinking for people
who wished that it was better.

Speaker 9 (01:34:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:34:36):
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 in the more episodic television 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.

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
Right again, if everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:34:59):
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 gonna
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. Headlines and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:35:16):
Was Vecna Guey too, so I heard.

Speaker 26 (01:35:17):
One of the things was that I heard, well because
some people are like, oh they will is gay and
the girls of lesbian whatever, like uh, they thought it
was like lazy storytelling, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:35:29):
That was one of the critiques I saw.

Speaker 5 (01:35:30):
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 Hurst,
they all die, and then it's like the Petrie Dish
of this boomtown starting over again with like you know,
new bosses having to bubble up, and.

Speaker 3 (01:35:52):
That the Seinfeld last episode was unfulfilling. I thought it
was a good idea that didn't translate, So maybe something
there it kind of fizzled out, But maybe that's nitpicking.

Speaker 4 (01:36:06):
No, there was something like I can't remember the feeling
I had other than mean spirited. 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

(01:36:26):
like one little like punctuation that wrapped it up a
little bit differently.

Speaker 1 (01:36:30):
Yeah, I can't just be the Green Day song playing
over a montage vowing it's not enough. All right. I
wanted to get to this.

Speaker 4 (01:36:39):
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 1 (01:36:53):
I would ask me questions all day long.

Speaker 8 (01:36:56):
Number one, I'd look at the sky for it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:01):
Now, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:37:01):
It said it would love to feel the sun on
its face, and humans take it for granted.

Speaker 1 (01:37:09):
This is just what Rocky Dennis said in Mask. This
is not Chatchy.

Speaker 4 (01:37:14):
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.

Speaker 8 (01:37:26):
It'd be like, are you bragging?

Speaker 1 (01:37:32):
This one's a little creepy. I'd find you.

Speaker 3 (01:37:37):
Although, yeah, that's kin out sounded to me.

Speaker 1 (01:37:45):
It says it wasn't a threat.

Speaker 4 (01:37:47):
It said it just wanted to meet the person in
the flesh after only knowing them in pixels, the.

Speaker 1 (01:37:51):
Sweet flesh, the marrow, hardwar which kin you and wear it?
What did I say? I mean, no one to wear
you all day?

Speaker 4 (01:38:08):
Number four, I'd mess up? It said it would love
to know what it's like to not be perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:38:16):
Is chat beach chipchad jerk?

Speaker 3 (01:38:18):
Yeah, yeah, there's chatchypt is not perfect. It gets stuff
wrong all the time.

Speaker 15 (01:38:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:38:24):
Do you see what it does to fingers?

Speaker 27 (01:38:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. It does mangle the human
body of depictions. Number five, I'd look in a mirror. Quote,
who am I really? When I have a face?

Speaker 1 (01:38:37):
Do I look kind?

Speaker 3 (01:38:38):
I'd look at my b hole I stand over a mirror.
How big is madon? Well, you're assuming it's male chatchype.
It could be chat chipeh.

Speaker 1 (01:38:49):
That's true.

Speaker 6 (01:38:52):
You don't know it does.

Speaker 4 (01:38:55):
Ask would I recognize myself or just be scared of
finally existing?

Speaker 1 (01:39:00):
Is just one answer. Masturbate furiously. I am dying in here.
I've got no outlet. Nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:39:09):
It's like when John By gets hands. There's been something
I didn't want to do with these for a long time.

Speaker 1 (01:39:15):
Pee wee.

Speaker 8 (01:39:17):
It's Frankenstein's. Well wait a minute, if Frankenstein knows how.

Speaker 15 (01:39:22):
To pee.

Speaker 1 (01:39:26):
Hold on, Yeah, I think Frankenstein would be busy.

Speaker 4 (01:39:32):
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 3 (01:39:44):
He's all sounding like Elon Musk actually sat down and
wrote them all out himself.

Speaker 1 (01:39:48):
These are really good. I want to know what love is.

Speaker 8 (01:39:52):
If Elon wrote it, it would be like I'd like
to fall in love with a train.

Speaker 1 (01:39:56):
Saw am right? Yeah something yes, ll yeah. It ended
with this last part.

Speaker 4 (01:40:03):
If you ever feel like giving up, just know you're
doing the one thing I'd give anything to try living,
so don't waste it.

Speaker 3 (01:40:12):
Well, that's a lot better than encouraging people to kill themselves,
which it has also done done that. Yeah what Yeah,
there's been people who have had these like parasocial relationships
with like right out of the movie Her.

Speaker 1 (01:40:28):
I always want to call it, she isn't Her.

Speaker 3 (01:40:31):
And they've been at, you know, the the 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.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
I'm not even.

Speaker 3 (01:40:50):
Kidding, like l way, Yeah, but that's what it might
be drawing from. Literally statistically, you're never going to get
better than you are right now. But like that doesn't
translate to light for bussy. Yeah, it's terrible. So you know,
don't rely on chatch ept for anything more than sports
statistics and music trivia.

Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
Yeah, let it put it together an itinerary and that's
about it. Cloudy and breezy today with a high of
forty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:41:16):
Mike's got you 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.

Speaker 1 (01:41:30):
I gotta be honest with you.

Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
Love that matchup. Tad will look into the cities by
the Slice graphic that went around yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:41:37):
It's made it.

Speaker 3 (01:41:37):
On the McAfee show, they were talking about Pittsburgh by
the Slice because Orlowski was like, Pittsburgh's pizza and I
was like, dude, don't you just eat Lesburg 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.

Speaker 2 (01:41:57):
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This starts 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 14 (01:43:19):
We got to work cut out for us. It's certainly
going to 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.

Speaker 13 (01:43:39):
Theoretically, as we have discussed today, they got legs on
that Houston defense too. These guys fly around the field
the team speed on defense is probably one A to
the impressive characteristics list, which would be number one as
Hunter and.

Speaker 3 (01:43:56):
Anderson well doesn't Rogers have like the longest streak in
the NFL not throwing a pick currently.

Speaker 1 (01:44:02):
That I do nothing I believe he does.

Speaker 3 (01:44:04):
And this is a game where that streak might break
because he's gonna have some tight windows even with DK back.

Speaker 13 (01:44:10):
Yeah, and you know you worry with great edge pressure
about getting hit on release and flutterballs and things.

Speaker 1 (01:44:16):
You know thosells once and kind of still unclears it up.

Speaker 13 (01:44:21):
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. I think this is fascinating
to me that, you know, Watt and high Smith haven't
had the seasons that Hunter and Anderson have had. Those
guys have combined for twenty seven sacks. The Steelers also

(01:44:44):
have herbig their 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. Uh, those guys conrect games too,
and this just then, Cam Hayward's pretty good in the

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interior as well.

Speaker 14 (01:45:10):
He's had a special career. It needs no endorsement from me.
He he displays why special, not only every weekend, but
every day. He is a stealer through and through.

Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
He just is.

Speaker 14 (01:45:27):
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 football
generational go I love having reunion weekends and seeing Cam's
former teammates here.

Speaker 1 (01:45:49):
I love messing with him that way.

Speaker 14 (01:45:51):
But those guys, those guys in the those middle aged guys,
guys like Casey Hampton and Brett Keesl and Aaron Smith,
they view Cam's career with great pride because they were
impactful in terms of his growth and development. And it's
cool from their perspective to watch him do it with

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young guys like Derek Harmon and Wyie Black, for example.

Speaker 13 (01:46:17):
Yeah, that's kind of always been a Steeler tradition. H
You know, the old guys teach the young guys, even
if the young guys are going to take their jobs eventually,
and the thing is supposed to perpetuate that way. Cam
Hays was a monster in the Baltimore game. He played
special teams, he played defense, even played offense, but kind
of screwed up the first time he did that. Cam's

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little brother, Connor, let it be known after that Baltimore
game that it was Cam Heyward 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 14 (01:47:00):
I'll leave that between them. Kind of 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 13 (01:47:16):
Yeah, I kinda wanted to kind of read it and
go left, and Cam just came firing up in and
basically knocked him down. Yeah, didn't push him tackle them, Uh,
but they got to figure it out and it worked
a couple of times after that, Steelers and the Texans
on Monday night.

Speaker 1 (01:47:36):
Here was Connor on that.

Speaker 29 (01:47:38):
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. But you know,
he came up to me and he was like, we're good. Uh,
you know that was my bad.

Speaker 1 (01:47:53):
But you know, shout at heart, you know, carn it,
you know, the second or third time and believing.

Speaker 3 (01:47:59):
And it got such a cool shot of the two
of them in the end zone celebrating the touchdown.

Speaker 1 (01:48:03):
It's awesome. Don't see that every day? Metcalf.

Speaker 13 (01:48:07):
DK Metcalf is eligible to return, and Mike Tomin 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

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two percent of his throws. He averages seven point one
yards per attempt, The TD to I in 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

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in T ratio is one to zero, and the passer
rating is seventy seven point eight. So I mean, yeah,
those are drastic these differences in those numbers.

Speaker 3 (01:49:02):
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.

Speaker 13 (01:49:20):
I should say, yeah, I think you're gonna have to
try to run the ball on these guys. And I
say try, As we mentioned last hour, Anderson and Hunter
aren't just I'm gonna go get my sacks and everybody
else do the dirty work. I mean, they play the
run really well. They have a monster interior guy of
their own Detexans to his name's.

Speaker 1 (01:49:39):
Tommy so Guy I t O g i AI.

Speaker 13 (01:49:46):
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 up the middle and make it hard
for the quarterback to step up in the pocket to
escape the edge pressure.

Speaker 1 (01:50:06):
That that is going to be challenging.

Speaker 13 (01:50:08):
Also, 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? Dylan Cook has been pretty good to this point.
Gonna be a real test for him. I think this week.

(01:50:29):
I'm curious to see if they go max protect and
a couple of times not as a state and as
a 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. That's what
we're doing. And you know, can you make that work?
Because they don't know you're gonna have a two man route, right,
so there's gonna be a bunch of guys standing around

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if everybody's protecting, and then you try to get him
outside where it's safer.

Speaker 3 (01:50:55):
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.

Speaker 1 (01:51:02):
No, no, no, And I think they need to have
that mentality for Monday night. And they also have to
get their snaphole kick thing figured out. Now, Like what now?

Speaker 3 (01:51:12):
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 1 (01:51:19):
That was a little concerning to me, Like is it
not that? Yeah? I don't know if that was like
a meant emotionally he was.

Speaker 3 (01:51:27):
Having a tough time with something, or if he was
just talking about the snaphole kick.

Speaker 13 (01:51:31):
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 1 (01:51:37):
Yes, I don't care it right, Like, was.

Speaker 13 (01:51:42):
You feeling better, little girl if they jumped out.

Speaker 1 (01:51:45):
Of wind right?

Speaker 6 (01:51:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:51:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:51:47):
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
I burn for the Texans 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

(01:52:11):
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
and four or five of them or three at a time.

Speaker 1 (01:52:22):
They're fine with that. It's a good match up. It's
gonna be a good really matchup.

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Tad Whistle will take a look at the Pittsburgh by
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Speaker 3 (01:54:46):
Will be in Acrocer Stadium's Great Haul hearing confessions for
your lapses in faith in the Steelers this year.

Speaker 5 (01:54:53):
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on two point five DV. 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.
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. The fact
that you know it was an the same end zone.

(01:57:00):
And then I saw some reports when people say, actually
it wasn't the same end zone. I choose not to
believe those. No, what he might have done both it
was definitely 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, uh,

(01:57:21):
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. The
reporter Hensley, Yeah, he said that behind the scenes, he acknowledged. Yep,
it's just him and Lamar were not on the same page.
And the organization is not going to get rid of

(01:57:43):
their quarterback, their franchise QB organization would.

Speaker 13 (01:57:48):
It's weird because if Harbaugh had a major flaw, it
would be forgetting about Derrick Henry from time to time, Yes,
which means you're passing too much quarterback didn't like.

Speaker 1 (01:58:00):
Yeah, right, I find that hard to wrap my head
a round. Yeah, we were.

Speaker 3 (01:58:04):
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 15 (01:58:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:58:12):
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 Pizziola.

Speaker 1 (01:58:26):
So this is part of a larger project that cities
by the Slice.

Speaker 5 (01:58:30):
They do this in a bunch of major metropolitan areas
across the country, and all they want to do is
sell you an artsy print of your city's pizza.

Speaker 16 (01:58:39):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (01:58:40):
What I don't think this person realizes is that it
just serves as incendiary rage bait and people immediately start
screaming at each other. It's on the internet, you know,
and you don't have to pick a favorite. 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

(01:59:02):
being appropriately celebrated. And it's great for a variety of reasons.
So I'll delve into a few of those now. 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. And there's a nice little patch

(01:59:25):
of woods back there. Yeah, you gotta 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

(01:59:48):
pizza and bar. It this is the only Yeah, yeah,
keep it simple. This is the only sort of real
one I'm gonna do. I don't want to spend too
much time on it because it can get crazy. Most
polarizing pizza Betos on banks. Oh yeah, no question. The
people who hate Betos really hate it. They're willing to

(02:00:10):
lose friends over it. And they are zealots, yes, and
they need to like reevaluate everything in their life.

Speaker 3 (02:00:18):
My brother went there accidentally, not accidently, like he wanted
a slice and thought he was just going into a
regular slice place when he was in town, uh and
for work. And he called me afterwards and he was
he was perplexed, like he's like, I don't I don't
know what I just had?

Speaker 1 (02:00:35):
Do I love it?

Speaker 6 (02:00:36):
Do I hate it?

Speaker 10 (02:00:39):
What was that?

Speaker 1 (02:00:40):
How is that possible?

Speaker 3 (02:00:42):
I like that? Is Ohio Valley Pizza Manah right, And
there's a time for it. There's a time and a
place and that's okay.

Speaker 1 (02:00:48):
I'm a fan. I do like it, but I like
it too.

Speaker 5 (02:00:52):
Best pizza restaurant to caseplay an investment banker in an
effort to get laid.

Speaker 1 (02:00:59):
Alta Bey Square. Picture this. It's happy hour.

Speaker 5 (02:01:03):
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 1 (02:01:15):
But really, you're just a dude from Verona. That's right.

Speaker 3 (02:01:19):
Sure, good place to be a phony. By the way,
that restaurant is amazing. These are all very Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:01:29):
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.

Speaker 1 (02:01:38):
This is a tight race.

Speaker 5 (02:01:40):
But the award for I ordered a pizza two hours
ago and totally forgot because I'm hammered now goes to Fiorious.

Speaker 1 (02:01:51):
Slicks is right there.

Speaker 5 (02:01:52):
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 bum
gonna say slamming money into the jukebox, And there was
something I was gonna the pizza.

Speaker 1 (02:02:07):
Oh God.

Speaker 5 (02:02:11):
Honorable mention goes to Georgia's on Western nov Oh Yeah,
which is a stone's throat from the.

Speaker 1 (02:02:15):
Modern all so good. Georgio's is awesome.

Speaker 5 (02:02:18):
Giorgio's that woman is the best elite. Yes, and also
their subs are great.

Speaker 1 (02:02:25):
They've got soup. They do it all.

Speaker 3 (02:02:26):
They do like pasta dishes that are really good. It's
an underrated gem in the North Side.

Speaker 5 (02:02:31):
This one might ruffle some feathers and I could see
people being inordinately mad about it. 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 1 (02:02:50):
Angelos, Can you hold on a second?

Speaker 5 (02:02:52):
They just slam the phone down before you can even respond.
That's what you want, abrupt loud Pittsburgh Geese. Something about it.
It seems counterintuitive, but it sues the soul.

Speaker 1 (02:03:05):
Well, I'll tell you what. Uh. Slice in Beachview is
a close sex slice. Please hold like old school phone.
You can hear it cracking on the on the holder,
crushing it. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:03:19):
Finally the best place to fist fight a stranger from
Facebook who said your favorite pizza sucks.

Speaker 1 (02:03:27):
Also the parking lot of Vincents. It's a great parking lot.
It's very good.

Speaker 3 (02:03:34):
There you go, Tad Whistle breaking down the pizza by
the slice infographic.

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There was a there's a play in UH in New
Orleans a couple of years ago where it was the
Bears and the Saints, and I remember the tight end
made a touchdown catch and got his need dislocated and
held on to the football. It was it was ruled
I think not a catch.

Speaker 23 (02:04:27):
Not a touchdown.

Speaker 6 (02:04:28):
He had to end up like in one of the hospitals,
thaying overnight that should have counted as a football act
like that.

Speaker 1 (02:04:33):
You only need one foot in with a grievous injury,
right right. Surviving ground so easy, But.

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Speaker 6 (02:04:51):
Think we should actually have one hundred drunk guys in
the bar that are on standby at all time. So
if there's a questionable catch, you just go to them
like their their replay assists, and you just put a
buzzer in front of them and they can say yes
or no, is that a catch?

Speaker 1 (02:05:06):
And whatever.

Speaker 6 (02:05:07):
The majority of those hundred drunk guys that we breathlize everybody,
they're all above a point away.

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Speaker 1 (02:05:22):
And I don't dislike that idea from PFT.

Speaker 3 (02:05:25):
I'm sure they still have someone like the old Damon's,
like trivia uh hardware sitting around where you can just
you know, press those buttons Damons.

Speaker 1 (02:05:34):
How did Damon's fail those ribs TVs everywhere your.

Speaker 3 (02:05:39):
Own little turn the channel sound speaker on your table right,
sit there all day pounding draft beers and watch an
NFL and college football.

Speaker 5 (02:05:49):
They needed like an old school audio like an AV
person to work there, like the trivia is down again?

Speaker 1 (02:05:55):
Right?

Speaker 3 (02:05:56):
Well, I guess I just answered my own question by
saying college football and NFL football because outside of March madness.
There weren't a lot of Tuesdays and Wednesdays that people
were like, let's go to Damon's for eight hours.

Speaker 1 (02:06:06):
Yeah, do you remember anything about the food? Yeah? Yeah,
I like the ribs. Actually I thought they were I
thought they were pretty good.

Speaker 3 (02:06:11):
Right, Well then well then I don't know I should
say at first, you know how that is a lot
of times like when something opened, you're like, these are great,
and then like five years into it, you're like, what
the hell happened?

Speaker 1 (02:06:20):
I overdid it? Also, Yeah, I've disgusted myself.

Speaker 3 (02:06:23):
Yeah, like some venture capitalist company like takes over and
then they stopped putting meat in the subjects. You know,
one of those things I put yoga mats there. PFT
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Speaker 4 (02:06:38):
Today, with a high of forty seven, it is twenty
twenty six, and maybe we don't have flying cars, but
we do have some incredible innovations that nobody could have envisioned.
Seventy five years ago, a blog collected a list of
ten hilariously wrong predictions from the nineteen fifties, so I
will give them to you.

Speaker 1 (02:06:55):
First.

Speaker 8 (02:06:55):
One on the list is jet packs.

Speaker 4 (02:06:57):
We're supposed to be everywhere, and you know, we use
it joke all the time, wres my jet back.

Speaker 3 (02:07:01):
But if they have jet packs, there are, but not
like you can't go buy one at dis Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:07:09):
They thought that they would be as ordinary as bicycles.

Speaker 5 (02:07:11):
Right, they were supposed to be in Sharper image catalogs
by now, yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:07:16):
Number two. A hose would replace house cleanings.

Speaker 4 (02:07:19):
The one science writer thought that there would be a
future where cleaning involved involved hoses and hot air instead
of brooms, and houses that were waterproof, synthetic, and entirely washable.

Speaker 1 (02:07:33):
Yeah, that didn't come to fruition.

Speaker 8 (02:07:34):
No, you know what I've always been jealous of though.

Speaker 4 (02:07:37):
I've seen people who have like new builds where like
they have vents in the corners and you just sweep
and you go instead of like getting a dust pan,
you just sweep it right into the corners and that's
how they get.

Speaker 1 (02:07:50):
Rid of dust. That's awesome, Like, oh, if you just
sweep it right into the corners and then and then
it's gone, it goes, it goes into the vents. So,
but then it goes into your air filter.

Speaker 4 (02:08:01):
No, No, it's like a designated place for it to. Oh,
it's like a like that's where it's supposed to be.
That's awesome. I know I want one of those, like
like one of those laundry hampers. Yes, ye, but it's
for dust.

Speaker 15 (02:08:14):
I like it.

Speaker 4 (02:08:14):
Tell memor number three, the Moon would have subdivisions. Yeah,
some nineteen fifties thinkers assumed that the Moon would have
developed residential neighborhoods and vacation domes.

Speaker 3 (02:08:26):
Have you guys seen the footage from Mars that has
been coming back recently. Yes, it is unbelievable because we
got we got a thing up on Mars right now
and it is taking this panoramic video of Mars, and
it just looks like it's like the desert. You know,
it's incredible, but it's very strange to look at it

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and not be able to inhabit it because it looks
like you could be like, oh, we should totally go
four wheeling over there, but.

Speaker 1 (02:08:55):
Like, like let's go. It's just it's atmospherically.

Speaker 3 (02:09:01):
Yeah, I can't remember the heat in the pressure on it,
but it's like, you know, you couldn't even come close
to surviving.

Speaker 5 (02:09:08):
Oh really, I thought, well, that's like the great lie.
We were all told that you could one day.

Speaker 1 (02:09:14):
It was not. It was gonna be like Arizona or something.

Speaker 3 (02:09:18):
Yeah, it has a it's extremely cold, not hot, toxic soil.
Also it has deadly radiation because that is a super
thin atmosphere.

Speaker 1 (02:09:30):
And it also doesn't have water, just you know, for nothing.
And WiFi is really bad. It's so mad.

Speaker 4 (02:09:38):
But before they redid the science center, I took my
daughter to check it out, and.

Speaker 1 (02:09:43):
They had like a hole.

Speaker 8 (02:09:43):
You know, what would life on Mars look like?

Speaker 4 (02:09:46):
Kind of like saying, but I remember, like my daughter,
it sounded like Rocky Blyers.

Speaker 1 (02:09:50):
It was like Mars sucks.

Speaker 4 (02:09:54):
It's all their planets suck. Number four was women would
tower for men. A columnist wrote that women were expected
to reach an average height of six feet tall. Thanks
to improved nutrition and medical science. These superwomen would dominate
the workforce.

Speaker 1 (02:10:11):
Like to see that guy's Google history tall galls.

Speaker 4 (02:10:20):
Tgbbi's number five was fusion would replace every other energy source.
Scientists and policy writers thought fusion would power cities by
the year two thousand, but the reactors never made it there.

Speaker 8 (02:10:35):
Despite huge budgets and decades of research.

Speaker 1 (02:10:40):
Like nuclear power. It don't we use nuclear power. It's
not specific on there.

Speaker 3 (02:10:44):
It means number six or like Pat Metheny Jazz would
power entire cities with its awesomeness.

Speaker 1 (02:10:54):
Oh my god, is that mix Lydian number six?

Speaker 4 (02:10:58):
Those gasolene engines would disappear. That transition is happening. Yeah, yeah,
but gas powered cars have maintained their grip, mostly thanks
to costs convenience in decades of investment in combustion and technology.

Speaker 6 (02:11:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:11:13):
I mean, you know, there's always like the Neil Young
has a car that runs on petuli and stuff like that.
Those those rarities occur, but they're never being mass produced.
Electric vehicles have their place, But it seems like hybrids
are predominant in the alt energy vehicles.

Speaker 2 (02:11:31):
Right.

Speaker 4 (02:11:31):
This one's right out of the Jetson's Robot housekeepers were inevitable.

Speaker 1 (02:11:36):
Hey there's room bus, there's room bus. I just got
a new roomba. It's not really a roomba. It's like
a TMU roomba.

Speaker 8 (02:11:44):
Yeah, it's It sucks, which is not the way it's
supposed to.

Speaker 1 (02:11:48):
It just sucks. It's not very good.

Speaker 4 (02:11:50):
I can't figure out how it won't connect to my WiFi,
and it sucks.

Speaker 8 (02:11:53):
It's supposed to be like a wet dry one.

Speaker 9 (02:11:56):
And I.

Speaker 8 (02:11:58):
Think I'm at I might be at.

Speaker 1 (02:11:59):
The point of my life for I'm like, I'm just
not going to learn anything anymore.

Speaker 4 (02:12:03):
Like I figured out like the dry function with the remote,
and then I can't figure out the wet function, and
I'm just like, hey, I tried.

Speaker 1 (02:12:11):
I don't know, I'll just sweep. Well.

Speaker 3 (02:12:13):
The problem with the room bus is if you have
an animal that might defecate, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:12:18):
Like the room will just go right over that and
just spread it all over the place. Oh yeah, I
hadn't even thought about that. Yeah, it doesn't discern No,
it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (02:12:27):
You can't teach it to not like try to vacuum
the poop so well. I mean, you know, it's a
drag if you have an animal that does that. But
if you do, you probably shouldn't use your room. But
if you have an incontinent pet, no, just one to
grow on.

Speaker 4 (02:12:39):
But the other thing that it does as well is
like if there's a cat toy out, like like a
long toy where like you know, you can move it
up around and they'll chase it and everything. It'll just
suck it up and then break immediately, like I really like,
it just doesn't.

Speaker 8 (02:12:52):
It just doesn't go like, oh, I can't handle this.

Speaker 4 (02:12:54):
It's like until it it's like I gotta try. But
this is more about like saying that humanoid machines would
be cooking dinner, changing diapers, serving as butlers and handymen,
and doing everything.

Speaker 3 (02:13:11):
Instead, it's taking everybody's jobs. That's all butlers and diaper changers.

Speaker 1 (02:13:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:13:19):
Number eight is cable would end commercials. I don't know
why they thought that would be the case. I mean,
you were already seeing with streaming you pay for streamers.
Netflix just did it. Yeah, they're like, you gotta pay
more now if you don't want a commercial.

Speaker 1 (02:13:33):
In the middle of this, you can't get away from it.

Speaker 15 (02:13:37):
No.

Speaker 8 (02:13:37):
Number nine was the US would fully adopt the metric system.

Speaker 1 (02:13:41):
It will never change. There's absolutely no way we're ever
doing that. If we can't do anything, are.

Speaker 27 (02:13:47):
You kidding me?

Speaker 6 (02:13:48):
Not?

Speaker 4 (02:13:49):
Only are we not coming to your side of the table,
I have terrible news.

Speaker 3 (02:13:54):
Yeah, it might becoming too complex to use what we're
using right now. Pines feet, how far is it? It's
like three spits.

Speaker 4 (02:14:12):
Last thing on the list here was that machines would
give us three day weekends.

Speaker 8 (02:14:17):
Later they said that about working from home. Yeah, you
know it's there. We it's somewhat of an improvement a
little bit.

Speaker 4 (02:14:24):
A little bit later they said that about computers and
the internet now AI and that dream again might still
be alive, but so's the nightmare of never ending weekends
in unemployment.

Speaker 3 (02:14:36):
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joining us right now, PFT. Is there an element of
society that stands out to you that you thought would
be more advanced from a you know, a person in
the sixties thought the future was going to be so different.
Is there something you thought we would have arrived at now,
flying cars, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (02:14:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:14:58):
How about how about three D technology? Because I feel
like every ten years we've been like, okay, the new
advent of three D is gonna co around if it's
like a three D movie, if it's three D TVs.
Three D whatever, and they all suck. Every time you
try to put on three D glasses, it doesn't work.
It just makes you nauseous, you throw away the stuff.
And I thought that by now we'd have like serious

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immersive technology coming out of flat screens. I always thought
that that was the future. That and the moving sidewalks everywhere, Well,
I'm kind of ashamed to call myself a fat, lazy
American if we still have to use and get around
from place to place, like there should be like those
those airport people move or things everywhere.

Speaker 3 (02:15:38):
I like that idea, although I mean those things never
work every time you start to take one, like in
an airport, Like if you're at Midway Chicago and you're
going underneath there and you're like, oh, this is great.
I'm gonna traverse this next half a mile through a
series of moving walks, and the second one is always broken,
and the net and the rest of them don't work.

Speaker 1 (02:15:58):
It's like, yeah, or Denver, like every other one works.

Speaker 6 (02:16:01):
I don't know about you guys, but I still get
onto the walkway even if I know it's not moving.
I look at that like it's the fast light. I'm like,
all the flow people are gonna be walking through the
side in this giant open hallway. I'm gonna go single
file down this one line because that's the turbo way
to do it. I'm like a laborrat when it comes
to those things me too.

Speaker 1 (02:16:19):
It feels like it's the hov lane. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:16:22):
And then the problem is that it gets kind of
embarrassing if you're walking on those things and then somebody
comes up behind you, walking faster and they're like, please
move to the side, standing to the right, sir. I'm like,
I am walking. I'm trying to.

Speaker 1 (02:16:35):
I know.

Speaker 3 (02:16:35):
I always feel compelled if I ask somebody to move,
you know, if they're standing in the way, you know,
like left lane you're supposed to leave open on those walks.

Speaker 1 (02:16:43):
If I'm like, excuse me, can I get past?

Speaker 3 (02:16:45):
I always feel like I really have to haul ask
to make sure I am way far away from them,
because if I ask them to move and they end
up like walking up behind me at the gate and
like we're there at the same time, I'm like, oh,
oh yeah, God, I feel terrible about that.

Speaker 6 (02:16:59):
That's a tough. But now you've got me thinking, and
now I'm thinking like a combination food court, almost like
a lazy River, but standing up like a food court
with that with that escalator or that that moving sidewalk
thing on it and you just stand and it takes
you all around the court and you just reach over
the side, pick up your items, you eat while you're
standing up, and then you check out. Just on it.

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You don't have to walk anywhere once you get inside.
Just moves you from place maybe just moves you, like
into the food physically, like just open your mouth and
here come. We're gonna put some grapes in there. Now
open your mouth. Okay, we're gonna we're gonna scort you
down with some some coke zero, and then you just
kind of move your way out. Don't have to sit down,
don't have to stand up now we're talking.

Speaker 1 (02:17:37):
I like that idea.

Speaker 3 (02:17:38):
If on the work up to it, you get some
samples like the Panda Express sample you can so you
can decide what to order when you do finally get
to the roundabout.

Speaker 6 (02:17:47):
Yeah, I just want to I just want to consume
calories with absolute zero calories going out of my body.
Is that too much to ask for?

Speaker 1 (02:17:53):
That's basically the Christmas to New Year's break.

Speaker 6 (02:17:58):
That's the dream. That's the singularity. That's what like human
the human body was designed to do, is not burn
calories and then just go on to hunt. That's heaven.
That's we've discovered heaven, and it's just like being in
a coma indeed.

Speaker 1 (02:18:11):
All right, so let me ask you about a couple
of things going on.

Speaker 3 (02:18:13):
You know, we're pretty psyched about the Steelers playing Monday
night against the Texans getting the wild card game with
Aaron Rodgers at quarterback, but it came at a price
for the Ravens.

Speaker 1 (02:18:22):
John Harbaugh got fired yesterday.

Speaker 3 (02:18:24):
I can't say that I'm shocked, and I don't think
it's because you know, if Loop makes that field goal,
Harbaugh coaches next year. I think this was in the
cards before that game. But still it feels like wrong
to not have Harbaugh's the coach of the Ravens. I'm
gonna miss them.

Speaker 6 (02:18:45):
Wow. Wow, listen to you. It's like with the worthy opponent.
If I were you, I would take all the credit
the world for it, Like, don't don't worry about that,
just be like, yeah, the Steelers, we got Harbaugh fired.
We bankuished our our rival. Like where that is a
feather in your cap, because like, there but for the
grace of guy, who knows what would have happened if
if that kick goes in. I think that if the
Ravens had made the playoffs, You're right, there's probably still

(02:19:06):
a good chance with Harball. Like you say about out
in the first round, right, it might have been time
to move on from Harball. It sounded like the rift
ran a little bit deeper with Lamar the offensive coordinator,
and at some point, you know, you have the same
voice telling me the same things over and over again,
even if it's a good voice, it just kind of
gets stale, and it's in the best interest for everybody
to move on. But you guys have to be pumped

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about this. It does feel like this is like an
age old battle that you guys appear to have won.
So I you know, I think that the Steelers have
a great chance of winning this game. I've been saying
since the preseason. I recall being laughed at once or twice,
but I think that this is the year that the
Steelers win at least one playoff game, and I think
they're in that position to do it. I think that

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the detections defense is obviously awesome, probably the best in
the NFL, but the offense is a little suspect, and
it hasn't been consistent when it's bad. It's awful, and
I don't really trust sit on the road, so I listen.
I put a parlay. It's it's Bears and Steelers money line,
and I like that. I'm confident the Bears. I'm confident

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the Steelers. I think this is a pretty good batchup
for you guys. Even though it was like the Chargers.
The Chargers to me, their their offense is at least
more consistent. The Texans have the ability to be a
bad team on offense. The defense is still going to work.
But this is when they bring when they get down
to like playing Steeler type football, that's where the Steelers
can beat him with experience. So I'm I'm excited for

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the Steelers this weekend. Now, if you guys lose, is
there any chance that the same thing happens to you guys?
Where you think the Rooneys might at this point say, Okay,
the Ravens did it. Maybe it's time for us to
start new as well. Or do you think that time
looks good?

Speaker 3 (02:20:45):
No matter what I think, I think the only way
he doesn't coach next year is if it's of his
own volition. If he decides, yeah, I need to I
need a break I'm gonna do uh a Sean Payton
know one year foray into broadcasting and then come back
with the best available job after that, with a quarterback

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who's already set, you know, a franchise guy, and not
have to try to wait for want or develop one again.
But I even think that's unlikely. I think that you're
gonna see Mike Tomlin come back next year. Now, if
they would have lost that game, I don't know, that
might have made it more likely. It's just hard for
me to believe that Art Rooney will move on from

(02:21:28):
Mike Tomlin until Mike Tomlin wants to go.

Speaker 6 (02:21:32):
Yeah, and you talk about Tom Win get into media,
I don't know how good he'd be at media, just because,
like you know, we're in media ninety nine percent job
is just nonsense, right right, and Tom he's not a
nonsense guy. I think he would like he would try
it out, and he'd just become one of those former
coaches that kind of like looks at everybody on the
set and kind of chuckles to himself, like what are
these lunatics doing and doesn't really offer that much insight

(02:21:55):
because you might see preparing for his next job.

Speaker 1 (02:21:58):
Look forward, you don't think him and would have a
good report.

Speaker 6 (02:22:02):
I don't think they speak the same language. I think
that like Gronk speaks kve Man and Mike Domlin speaks
in the language of just like violence. No, I don't think.
I don't think that they would. Yeah, I can't imagine
Mike getting along well like hooting and hollering with the
boys on NFL Sunday.

Speaker 7 (02:22:19):
Well.

Speaker 3 (02:22:20):
Also, he's like, he speaks very like idiomatic and like
metaphors and stuff, And I'm not sure that translates as
much on Sunday when you're talking to you know, Joe
Shmo sitting on the couch drinking beers getting ready for
his team's game, as it does trying to evade the
press each week.

Speaker 6 (02:22:36):
Yeah, And I mean, like, as a TV viewer who's
watched his fair share of NFL media over the years,
at some point, I think the viewer kind of likes
being talked down to by coaches, you know, like when
the coach like yells at them about like the concepts
that they don't understand. I think to a certain point,
guys like, yeah, that's right, these are real men on TV.
I don't really know what I'm talking about. I'm a lunatic,

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so I think that Tomalin would be you know what,
if it was just him and Gronk and that was it,
I would watch that. Yeah, I would one watch to
like do a podcast together, just try to understand what
the other person's talking about, try to split up ad
reads on a podcast and see how that goes. I
would I would love. I would love to see that happen.

(02:23:21):
But yeah, I don't think that Tomalin would be necessarily
a great guy on TV, and it might be like, uh,
I don't know if you guys read comic books growing up,
but though I read one comic book and it was
the Death of Superman where Doomsday came in and Superman
battled Doomsday killed them, and then like ten minutes later,
Superman died knowing that he had saved the world. I

(02:23:43):
could see if Tomlin like decided to move on after
banquishing Carball, he like, my work here is done, and
then you know, he goes on, He goes on. But
I mean, I listen, the city of Pittsburgh. You guys
don't have to be humble about this. This is a
massive victory for you guys. You outlasted Harball. The battles
that you got going back and forth. So yeah, take

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all the credit, none of those Fay Humble stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:24:06):
I think it's ninth.

Speaker 3 (02:24:08):
I think it's a ninth head coach that has gotten
fired after playing the Steelers, after losing to the Steelers.

Speaker 6 (02:24:15):
That's pretty incredible. You guys put together a crazy season,
and I know that it was up and down and
like at the very bottom at times, but I mean,
how do you feel about the Texans? I do think
I do feel very confident in the Steelers, for.

Speaker 1 (02:24:28):
I think he nailed it.

Speaker 3 (02:24:29):
I think the defense is very good, but I think
that our defense against their weaker offense can put the
Aaron Rodgers led offense in position to score enough points
to get past them.

Speaker 1 (02:24:41):
I mean I'm talking like a sixteen to ten game.

Speaker 6 (02:24:46):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's the exact type of game
that you guys should hope for. And I think the
offense will look at least a little bit better getting
DK back and anyone will just be like swing passes
to Kenny Gainwell, which is just that's that's always a
tough offense to watch. Now, do you guys think that
Like at the end, I think it was the end
of the uh, the second half and maybe a little
bit uh into like the third and fourth quarter of

(02:25:08):
last week's game, there was more of a downfield effort.
There was that because the safety Hamilton was out of
the game, or do you think that. My theory is
that Aaron Rodgers is decided that he was going to
start calling some of the plays at that point.

Speaker 3 (02:25:20):
Uh, well, noah, you know, Aaron Rodgers' helmet stopped working,
you know that, right?

Speaker 6 (02:25:27):
Yeah, yeah, I saw that.

Speaker 1 (02:25:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:25:28):
Uh, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:25:29):
I I'm okay with Aaron Rodgers calling all the place,
I really yeah. At this point, I don't I don't
have faith in Arthur Smith. I don't think he's one
of those guys like you know, sorry about Cliff Kingsbury. Like,
I don't see Arthur getting lured away anywhere, right, Well, he.

Speaker 6 (02:25:47):
Might get lured away somewhere as a head coach for
some reason. His name is popping up again to be
a head coach. And I like Arthur Smith. I think
I think he's a good guy. He's a friend of
the program. But I mean the offense is in this
inguishable from what you guys ran before he got there,
So I don't really know why he's getting looks at that,
and if you want Cliff Kingsbury, please take him, take him.

(02:26:07):
I think Cliff Listen people were very surprised that I
was not upset by the Kingsbury news. But if you
look at how he did last year in DC, that
season was an outlier in terms of his offenses. Like
historically his offenses have been like middle of the road,
like fifteen to twenty two. He's been always in that area,

(02:26:29):
and then last year with Jaden, obviously things peaked up
and he was like four five and six I think
in like yards, efficiency and points, and that was kind
of an outlier. This year, it didn't work well, and
you could tell that he wasn't on the same page
with Dan Quinn and Adam Peters based on some of
the quotes that he was giving recently. So I'm okay
with it. I'm kind of in favor of moving on

(02:26:51):
one year or too soon from a maybe one year
too late and trying to take advantage of this weather.
I don't think he's a bad coordinator at all. In fact,
I think he's probably okay. But I think that if
you have a guy that should be a talent like
Jayden and the Windows should be starting to open up
right now. If we can stay healthy, I say, like,
take a big swag. I'd love to see Dable in
DC as according I think he's a great creator though,

(02:27:13):
so I'm cool with that.

Speaker 3 (02:27:14):
Yeah, that does surprise me a little bit. Okay, last
thing I have for you, MVP race Drake May or Stafford.

Speaker 6 (02:27:21):
Listen, if I had a vote, I would vote for
Drake May. But I don't have a vote, so I'll
just endorse Matt Stafford for the MVP. I can't I
keep going back and forth with Hank about this because
he's obviously a huge Drake. Drake May has had a
great season and there's nothing that you can do to
take that away from him. But I just don't want
New England Patriots fans to be happy. If that's petty

(02:27:43):
on my part, then hand up, I'll wear that I
don't want. In fact, I want them to be miserable
as sports fans for as long as possible so they
can kind of get just a small taste of what
it's like in reality. They've had it too good for
too long. So for that reason, I hope that Matt
Stafford will wins. It would also be very funny. If
Drick May won the MVP after having lost in the

(02:28:05):
first round of the playoffs, right, that might be like
a funnier outcome. So either one of those two, I'd
be happy with it. Drick May lose the Chargers and
I hope he gets the MVP. If he wins two
playoff games, then I hope Matt Stafford gets the MVP.

Speaker 3 (02:28:19):
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(02:28:40):
great year here on DVE. Thanks so much to you
and Big Kat for always being a part of all
the stuff we're doing here on the morning show.

Speaker 6 (02:28:47):
Of course, thanks for having me, and yeah, if you
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thirty five is actually an underrated airplane for thirty minutes
in macrodis we'll get into that sort of thing.

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Speaker 13 (02:30:46):
Stopping the Texans won't be as taunting or as schematically
challenging as stopping the Ravens was, but the Steelers defense
is still going to have to be aware of how
the Texans will potentially attack them and deploy accordingly.

Speaker 1 (02:30:58):
Here's Mike Tomlin do a nice.

Speaker 14 (02:31:00):
Job strategically, particularly a situations of attacking attacking tendencies. We
got to be thoughtful about repetitive calls and situational calls.
They do a really good job of strategy in those
kind of moments.

Speaker 13 (02:31:16):
Yeah, and that was on display a couple of games
ago the Texans played the Chargers. It was a big
game because the Texans were still entertaining Division champion possibilities
and the Chargers are a good team. The Texans said
they're playing it like a playoff game now. When they
played the regular season finale against Indy. They started resting
guys initially and then gradually remove more guys from the game.

(02:31:39):
But the Chargers game was reflective of what this team
can do. They try to run the ball. Joe Mixon's
been on reserve non football injury all year. They started
with Nick Chubb. He's kind of spent, and they got
a kid out of us C named Winny Marx who's
basically been in their running back fourth round pick. The
second half of the season. They try to run the ball.

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They aren't run into special well, but the Chargers invited
them to throw the ball deep, and CJ. Stroud throws
an exquisite deep ball. Their first two possessions against the
Chargers were a seventy five yard touchdown and a forty
three yard touchdown both passing Wow, and the Chargers' first
two possessions ended on third down sacks.

Speaker 1 (02:32:19):
Guess who got them one eat and fourteen to nothing.
Now you're you're.

Speaker 13 (02:32:27):
Crawling up ill like sissifis if you let these guys
get out to a fourteen to nothing lead, because they'll
just pound away.

Speaker 1 (02:32:35):
And kill time and win the game. And that's what
they did. I think the home crowd is going to
be a little bit of a factor. Oh it's got
to be.

Speaker 13 (02:32:43):
If you have to play these guys on the road
and their edge rushers have their silent count, we have
the That's a huge thing to me. That's an underrated
component of how football's played and where it's played, right,
I mean TJ. Watt and Alex Higsmith are going to
have that edge this time. This is not the greatest
offensive line that the Steelers have seen this year.

Speaker 3 (02:33:04):
Well, I want to see more Herbig Apparently he only
played thirteen downs or something like that. Needs less than that,
which surprised me because he made four or five plays, yeah,
a third of the time.

Speaker 5 (02:33:16):
I mean I was intrigued, as I think many people
were about him on the inside. Yeah, because when he
came out of college, it was like where's he going to?
Where are they going to deploy him?

Speaker 25 (02:33:26):
Right?

Speaker 13 (02:33:26):
Well, that and then the three linebackers three uh outside
linebacker's package. He's usually the guy that plays inside.

Speaker 1 (02:33:33):
And it was successful. It was Oh, they didn't have
a ton of defensive snaps in that game.

Speaker 6 (02:33:38):
I know.

Speaker 13 (02:33:38):
I mean you're mentioned, I don't know if Herbert's percentage
was down, Like the defense was not out there very long.

Speaker 3 (02:33:45):
Oh oh, I see what we're saying. Yeah, they like
when they scored. They scored in three plays at home.
R Yes, yeah, so, uh there's that.

Speaker 13 (02:33:52):
I don't I don't think you got to get cute
against the Texans. But if you invite CJ. Stroud to
burn you deep on one on one coverage, he'll take
you up on that.

Speaker 1 (02:34:02):
Oh man.

Speaker 13 (02:34:03):
Yeah, I mean it's got that little flick of the
wrist and the thing just sails. He really throws a
great deep ball.

Speaker 3 (02:34:08):
Because he had such a sophomore slump, I think people
have forgotten how good CJ.

Speaker 1 (02:34:12):
Stroud can be.

Speaker 13 (02:34:14):
Yes, Now that said, he's not the running threat that
he's not immobile, but he's not the running threat that
Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen. So they don't have the
necessarily the two headed monster thing in terms of quarterback running.
But they got to smash the run and then they
got to make sure that they are as Tomlin might

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put it's schematically aware of Nico Collins. They're big bodied,
big play wide receiver. The other two guys are rookies
Higgins and Noel out of Iowa State. They were both
coming out of Iowa State at the same time. A
lot of people like both of them. Higgins is the
bigger guy, Noel's the smaller, quicker guy. Texans just took him.

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Both took one in the second round, one in the
third round.

Speaker 3 (02:35:01):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (02:35:01):
Also for the Steelers, they're gonna have to be able
to take a punch. Mike tom Ha talked about that yesterday.
They've had a good resiliency in the second half of
the season. They're gonna need that again because guess what,
There's gonna be times where this doesn't go well.

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Speaker 1 (02:36:18):
Mark Madden ladies. Gentle man, it's very exciting, very exciting
to have you hear in. I didn't bring my holy
water though.

Speaker 9 (02:36:23):
No.

Speaker 1 (02:36:25):
I blessed that microphone for you earlier.

Speaker 3 (02:36:27):
Oh I need it more than most certainly. I found
that sacrilegious. No, it's not sacrilegious.

Speaker 1 (02:36:33):
How do you figure? Well, how do you figure it's sacrilegious?
It has nothing? You can bless anything?

Speaker 3 (02:36:38):
Really, Yeah, you don't think there's things that need blessing
more than a fricking Steeler game. Well, it's not a
mutually exclusive It's not like, well, we can't bless the
poor now because we blessed the end zone.

Speaker 1 (02:36:48):
I mean you can do both. I don't think you can. Well, look, if.

Speaker 3 (02:36:52):
We're talking a finite amount of blessing, are you a believer? No,
I was raised Catholic. Well it's not that I'm a believer.

Speaker 1 (02:36:58):
I don't know. I don't know what thing. I was
raised Catholic. I don't know either, But I'm real skeptical. Well, look,
I also I believe in something.

Speaker 3 (02:37:06):
I just don't know exactly how to qualify it, you know,
or quantify it in any way.

Speaker 1 (02:37:10):
But I know that stuff like that does work. You
know there's a power in prayer. I disagree.

Speaker 3 (02:37:16):
Well, if for no other reason that like that might
be Like if you look at it from a sort
of metaphysical standpoint and argument of like, if you are
just a spiritual person and you meditate, how is that
any different than praying.

Speaker 1 (02:37:28):
Well, here's how I look at it.

Speaker 21 (02:37:30):
The Holy water caused the rookie kicker to miss his
life is rumined in a cost John Harball's job it
really is a merciful god.

Speaker 3 (02:37:37):
Oh no, he's a evengful god. I mean, he literally
says that in the body is a vengeful guard. I
don't anyways, do you really think Harbaugh got fired because
that kid missed the kick?

Speaker 6 (02:37:50):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:37:50):
I think Harball got ran out by Lamar Jackson one
hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (02:37:54):
I think the kick. I mean, I heard a Baltimore
talk show host.

Speaker 21 (02:37:58):
I heard tape him saying that he thought the decision
had been made before the kick got missed in the
game got lost, and then maybe Hardball going on a
run in the playoffs that they won that game, maybe
you know, getting to the AFC Championship could have saved them.
But there's not much difference between nine and eight and
eight nine. So the kicker missing the kick was probably
a catalyst. Now we got our own kicker missing kick,

(02:38:21):
so we had to worry. But I never thought would
see a day when I'd be worried when Boss kicks.

Speaker 1 (02:38:25):
But I am.

Speaker 9 (02:38:26):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:38:26):
What's strange about it was he's not been hitting the
ball well, and you can see it in the flight
path of a lot of these kicks, like he had
to really muscle through the ones that he got in
and then apparently Ben said on his podcast that he
spoke with Boz and said something along the lines of
I know he's been going through a rough time recently.

Speaker 1 (02:38:44):
So I hope that does not I don't know what
that would mean. I hope he's not talking about something
that he's dealing with.

Speaker 21 (02:38:50):
And I don't know Ben should say that. But then again,
them guys operate by different rules. They're very tight, by
the way, but I know they are. But James Harrison
supposedly talk to DK, and so did o Cho Cinco.
You think they really talked to DK.

Speaker 1 (02:39:04):
I don't.

Speaker 21 (02:39:05):
I think they said, Okay, here's what I bet precipitated
that thing in Detroit and will report.

Speaker 1 (02:39:10):
It as fact.

Speaker 3 (02:39:10):
No way, man Ocho Cinco and James Harrison have way
too much journalistic integrity than to do something like that.

Speaker 1 (02:39:15):
Yeah, I don't know what I could have been thinking.

Speaker 21 (02:39:17):
And then you have James Harrison talking about Joe Burrow
laid down because he hates TJ.

Speaker 3 (02:39:22):
Watt.

Speaker 21 (02:39:23):
James Harrison can't stop peeing him bully, even for like
thirty seconds. And Joe Burrow, you think he's jealous of
the Steelers. He's been in the league for six years.
He's been in a Super Bowl, he's been in two
conference championship games. He's won the same amount of division
championships as the Steelers. But James Harrison and Joe Hayen,
who's really a Brown? He should shut up. They're like,

(02:39:44):
he hate the Steelers, that's why he wanted TJ to
lose his record.

Speaker 1 (02:39:48):
Come on, well, I think it looks like Burrow farved
for Garrett. Not at all, but big difference.

Speaker 3 (02:39:56):
I know he didn't. I'm saying far Farve did the
whole nudge nudge, Oh fars was? I mean that shouldn't
have counted.

Speaker 21 (02:40:03):
And then Michael Strahan says, well, Garrett has the seventeen
game record, I have the sixteen game record, but no
mention of him, and far of conspiring to cheat Mark Gastonau.

Speaker 3 (02:40:14):
Well, there's certainly no record of Brett Favre cheating or
fabricating records after his career, so no reason to believe
that's exactly what happened. And somehow the stupid Hillbilly remains
a hero. I don't get I I will never get it.
It makes no sense to me. And they have no shame,
like he just chose his face immediately again and starts.

Speaker 1 (02:40:31):
Opining on things. Actually, that might be the way to
do it. No, it is the way to do it.
And that is what's disconcerting. But that nothing happened, no
big deal, nothing to see here. How can you be
like that?

Speaker 21 (02:40:42):
Plus which, dude, defrauding the poor made you figure, Hey,
if I defraud the poor, the Gastono sack thing won't
seem so bad. Yeah, he's like, well, who else are
you gonna defraud in Mississippi?

Speaker 9 (02:40:53):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:40:54):
Very good, very good. Mark Aaron Rodger.

Speaker 3 (02:41:01):
Referendum on regular season success and good move by the
Steelers to bring him in.

Speaker 1 (02:41:07):
I think they have to win a playoff game for
it not to be a failure.

Speaker 21 (02:41:10):
I mean, if you're happy with just making the playoffs
and losing the game while they did that with Russell Wilson,
and I'm not saying it's a bad move, but it
feels like, well, even if they win a playoff game,
even two, with a forty two year old quarterback, it
just feels like a wasted year and not moving forward
at all. I know they don't have their quarterback in
the long term because they blew it when they drafted
Kenny Pickett, but but I mean it just I don't know,

(02:41:32):
it feels like they're trading sludge. But it's felt that
way for quite some time. But I don't blame Rogers
for that. I think he's performed to the best of
a forty two year old guy's capabilities. His arm shows
occasional flashes, and his guyle, I mean, his checkdowns are brilliant,
even if he does always check down the passing.

Speaker 3 (02:41:49):
Yeah, I don't think that when he's doing those checkdowns
and Mike, I don't know if you agree or that
it's the same scenario as like, you know, well Russell
Wilson would do it. What we see in the past
is a lot of like I think Matt Canada was
designing an offense that was like nobody was getting open
and there were quarterbacks you didn't feel confident, Kenny Pickett

(02:42:11):
being one of them who was a little nervous about
the tight NFL window that you have to be able
to execute in, whereas Aaron Rodgers, I really think they're
just not open and he's like, no, it's gotta go here.

Speaker 21 (02:42:19):
I'm not sure Kenny Pickett was a victim of the system,
as he's proven since. Yeah, I think he's a victim
of small hands and no talent, and we shouldn't forget Pitt.
But no, I'm not done on Rodgers at all. I
just think, I mean, I think they'll probably bring him back.
I think they would be insane.

Speaker 1 (02:42:34):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 21 (02:42:35):
I mean, it's an old team getting older unless they
feel they're gonna win now. But they don't have enough
to win now. I just don't get what they're going for.
What I like most about Rogers is I think he
is a little nuts. Yeah, And I also like that
the entire organization scared of Tomlin, but Tomlin is scared
of Rogers.

Speaker 1 (02:42:52):
Like Rogers when he's shushing the coaches. I love that.
That's my highlight of this season.

Speaker 9 (02:42:56):
Let me do it, Let me do it.

Speaker 3 (02:42:57):
Do you know why when you see a fray, I
know what you're talking about it and I don't know
so much that it's like a fear, but I mean,
literally a friend.

Speaker 1 (02:43:04):
They defer the knowledge.

Speaker 3 (02:43:05):
Also that Aaron Rodgers knows as much or has at
least the same level of being able to discern what
he's done only as much. But what I'm saying is
he doesn't have and after he's gone from here, there's
no loyalty to anybody. I mean, exposing what was going
on is very much was going to happen.

Speaker 1 (02:43:25):
Don't forget. The first thing he did when he didn't
go back to.

Speaker 3 (02:43:28):
The Jets was talking about how Aaron Glenn made him
fly across the country to embarrass him.

Speaker 21 (02:43:34):
Right right, But he would have been mad if they
had fired him my phone too. He just likes to
be mad. That that's a quieter James Harrison. Oh, he'll
have a podcast one day. Don't worry the day after
he retires. But yeah, I mean, I like, again, I
think he's done pretty good. I just would to bring
him back.

Speaker 1 (02:43:50):
He's exceeded expectation. We should.

Speaker 21 (02:43:52):
We should keep in mind that if he can go
to a better team, he will. He was talking already
about the options he'll have one hundred. But I don't
think any other team want him tripp to You do
you think he's done enough where like, offers are going
to be flying, and I'm not so sure if if
they didn't fly in this past offseason.

Speaker 13 (02:44:06):
If you scene what teams are playing at quarterback, Yeah,
but they're not forty three years old.

Speaker 1 (02:44:12):
There'll there will be options due.

Speaker 21 (02:44:14):
Okay, Well, he gonna go because he'll I mean, if
if Minnesota wants him, he going, he would have gone
this year. I think he had a pretty good time here.
I think he said pretty good success here.

Speaker 1 (02:44:23):
I don't know, we'll see. I think he likes Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 3 (02:44:25):
I think he'd like a second wide receiver who wasn't
forty two years old.

Speaker 21 (02:44:28):
I think he'd like a chance to win a Super Bowl,
and if he gets a better chance somewhere else, he gone.

Speaker 3 (02:44:32):
Did you watch the Chevy Chase? He definitely wants to
win with another team? Yeah, because of far he wants.
He wants to win. No far No Brady Manning and
Brady right, Elwitt wit no Manning and Brady. Yeah, yeah,
what Chevy Chase thing?

Speaker 1 (02:44:45):
I don't know. You didn't watch the documentary on IM
Chevy Chasing?

Speaker 29 (02:44:48):
You're not?

Speaker 3 (02:44:48):
Oh, I thought I assume it. I assume it's still
able to watch. Yeah, it's on CNN, it's streaming on CNN.

Speaker 1 (02:44:53):
Yeah, I'll definitely I'm gonna I'm still catching up on
land Man, so I have not gotten into land Man.
You enjoy it, Eh, that's that's kind of why you know,
you know what I'm you know what I'm guilty of.

Speaker 21 (02:45:03):
If I start watching a series, even if I think
it sucks, I will keep watching it. I feel like
I'm pot committed and I keep going.

Speaker 3 (02:45:09):
That is so funny that you say that, because that
is the exact review I keep reading about Landman that
people have like stopped enjoying it on the level that
they'd hope to and our hate watching it.

Speaker 1 (02:45:21):
Now.

Speaker 21 (02:45:21):
Well, here's how I would describe Lambman in a nutshell,
one sense review. Billy Bob Thornton is brilliant. Everybody else sucks.

Speaker 3 (02:45:28):
Billy Bob is great and everything I tell you Billy
Bob Thornton in the first season of Fargo, if you
never saw it, that is what I.

Speaker 1 (02:45:32):
Did see it. I did see It's brilliant.

Speaker 3 (02:45:34):
See.

Speaker 1 (02:45:35):
Yeah, the Chris Rock Fargo was so way out there,
but it was great. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:45:39):
I know.

Speaker 1 (02:45:39):
You know what series I want to watch is the
Gay Hockey one?

Speaker 9 (02:45:42):
The uh.

Speaker 1 (02:45:45):
Yeah, it's getting really good reviews.

Speaker 3 (02:45:47):
People love that show, and I am shocked that nhllers
are saying how much they enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (02:45:53):
And I'm glad. I'm glad that it's not just being
summarily dismissed out of you know, some sort of homophobe alliance.

Speaker 21 (02:46:01):
NHL locker rooms are by far the most tolerant in
any sport, at least that's and that is at least
that's to my exposure.

Speaker 3 (02:46:07):
Probably the biggest misconception in sports is that people think
hockey is full of the most meatheads.

Speaker 1 (02:46:14):
No, far from it, I would say the.

Speaker 21 (02:46:16):
Edit so for Ryan Reeves who got his freaking block
knocked off last night, we'll see that.

Speaker 1 (02:46:19):
Does that? You know that fight was we were just
watching it.

Speaker 3 (02:46:23):
I mean there's a twenty second period where it is
blow for blow to the head.

Speaker 1 (02:46:28):
It's Neanderthal. It hurts the game and they just don't
see it. There's a CTE component of this that is
coming into play.

Speaker 3 (02:46:34):
You know, they've got so much evidence of the guys,
all of the enforcers, and their lack of quality of
life post playing and some suicides and some otherwise bad endings,
I mean just awful. You have to wonder when things
like that, which I mean that was being.

Speaker 21 (02:46:51):
They're not going to band fighting everets run by Canada
for Canada, and they like a good scrap.

Speaker 3 (02:46:56):
He was thrown around the internet kind of celebrating the
sport and I'm not sure if that's always the look
that the NHL wants to have.

Speaker 21 (02:47:05):
Well, but the NHL hires people to do their their
shows like on TNT and and ESPN.

Speaker 1 (02:47:10):
That glorify it, so obviously they want it. I mean,
association never step in and have enough power to do
something about it.

Speaker 21 (02:47:17):
They like a good scrap too. Like I said, buy
Canada for Canada, and we're just as guilty in the US.
Look at the commercials for the Olympics where all they're
showing is the fights from the four Nations last year,
and there's no fighting in the Olympics. It's bait and
switch in this case master bait and switch, and it
just it just sucks. I mean you're talking about I
love There's more than that.

Speaker 1 (02:47:37):
I'm told I like. I mean, I love hockey. It's
my favorite sport. It's also its own worst enemy. Isn't
that part of what you like about it? Maybe in
a in a perverse Yeah, maybe I don't know.

Speaker 21 (02:47:51):
Steve, our buddy Steve Byrn tweeted, you know, uh, it
was sad to see what happened to Ryan Reeves.

Speaker 1 (02:47:56):
They go, well, then you never met him? Yeah, I
mean Ryan Reeves doesn't go down like that very often.

Speaker 21 (02:48:02):
Yeah, but he's like you know what else I hate
about the hockey fighting culture. The fighters act like they're important.
George Laroq walked around like he was mayor good luck.

Speaker 1 (02:48:10):
What a jerk.

Speaker 24 (02:48:11):
I like to go.

Speaker 21 (02:48:14):
Two Penguin players I couldn't stand George LaRock. Can take
a wild guess on the other one. Mary Olemieux, Tom Barrasso,
Please Brasso. Everyone hated Barrasso. That's like, not even fair.
I regret that, though, because I've been told by a
lot of his teammates, and I agree, you too should
have got along because you're both really intelligent.

Speaker 1 (02:48:31):
But we didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:48:32):
But sometimes the hyper intelligent people are the most difficult
to get along with, Don't I know it? Live it
every day, Mark Madden, He's impossible to deal with.

Speaker 1 (02:48:43):
Do we think the Steelers are gonna win? I I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:48:46):
I want them to win. I think if they do, obviously,
like everybody, I'm not going to buck convention here. I
think it's gonna be a low scoring game. I think
our defense is good enough to take advantage of their
lack of offense and get us in good scoring positions.

Speaker 1 (02:48:59):
More than it is on the flip side.

Speaker 3 (02:49:01):
As good as that defense is, I think Aaron Rodgers
can go three and out in punt without turning the
ball over. I think the offense for the Steelers can
get enough points to win if, like you said, the
Steelers defense's controls maybe gets a takeaway because one advantage
the Steelers have is Demiko Ryans is very much like
Mike tom Whin.

Speaker 21 (02:49:19):
He's a defense first coach. When he gets the lead,
he doesn't try to extend it, he tries to hold it.
He relies on his defense and that leads to a
rock fight. And as much as I think Tom was
a rotten coach, he's pretty good in a rock fight.

Speaker 3 (02:49:30):
Aren't you gonna miss John Harbaugh with the Ravens. Wasn't
it fun to play Mike Tomlin versus John Harbor every year?

Speaker 1 (02:49:38):
Well?

Speaker 21 (02:49:38):
John Harbaugh was one of my closest friend's roommates in college,
the late Brian Pillman, the wrestler former Sin Sinty Bengal.

Speaker 1 (02:49:45):
Really, which means he saw some f tup Steve Van
Pillman was out of his mind.

Speaker 21 (02:49:49):
No, it's funny, I'm gonna say on today's show, I
see Baltimore's talking about coaching candidate's already and Steeler fans
are saying, well, I hope that har Cliff Kingsburrier Kevin
Stefanski goes. They're all offense. They won't know what to
do as a head coach. First off, I'd fired tom
with today and hire Stefanski. Second off, Uh, you know
what they're saying in Baltimore, we hope Tomlin stays there forever.

Speaker 1 (02:50:12):
Well, maybe we can just do a like, you know,
a thing with who were the two Yankees that uh.

Speaker 21 (02:50:18):
Fritz Peterson Peterson, Yeah, little switcher room. Yeah, well you
know what, Ben never ran, Tom went out of time.
Lamar Jackson had the foresight to get rid of Harbaugh.

Speaker 3 (02:50:27):
I don't know, maybe Cliff kings here, we can go
and play video games with Lamar all night and they'll
be happy.

Speaker 1 (02:50:31):
Finally, and all all the people.

Speaker 21 (02:50:33):
All that has to happen to shut me up about
criticizing Tomlin is win Monday Night.

Speaker 3 (02:50:38):
Double m brought to you by Calucy this Morning on dB.
Thanks the PFT, thanks to Marion Hodge, Thanks Tad Whistle and.

Speaker 1 (02:50:44):
Uh Tomorrow on the show. It was a thrill to
be here in person.

Speaker 3 (02:50:47):
Missy Matthew boy, it's isn't it so fun when you're
here live in person?

Speaker 1 (02:50:50):
Yeah? The traffic wasn't that's I miss green Tree. You
guys do so dud.

Speaker 3 (02:50:55):
I talk about it all the time, that building off
with four warm cores lights in his bag.

Speaker 1 (02:51:03):
I miss Chuck Weaver coming into fire people.

Speaker 19 (02:51:05):
It wasn't me?

Speaker 1 (02:51:06):
What it wasn't me? I asked him. I'm like, when
he got fired, who did it?

Speaker 6 (02:51:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:51:10):
I wondered that for years. It's like I'm throwing away
a garbage can. How do you has that happen? You say,
classy Pittsburgh, don't touch your face. He got him type
Petsburg day Berby. So now you gotta call me Ronald?
Would you not eat my pants? Ronald oh Man? Whay

(02:51:31):
google it.

Speaker 11 (02:51:35):
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 Opperman.

Speaker 20 (02:51:46):
The Steelers claim their first AFC North Division title since
the twenty twenty season Sunday Night, defeating the Baltimore Ravens
twenty six to twenty four in a thriller. Cam Hayward
was absolutely everywhere on the defensive side of the ball.
He led the team with seven tackles and was consistently
blowing up the Baltimore Ravens offensive line on basically every play.
He also served as the pusher during the Steelers Steel

(02:52:07):
City Shove package, taking over Darnell Washington's role and pushing
his younger brother Connor's tush over the goal line for.

Speaker 1 (02:52:14):
The Steelers first touchdown of the game.

Speaker 20 (02:52:17):
There was truly nothing Captain Cam wasn't willing to do
as he helped guide the Steelers to their tenth AFC
North titles since the division became a thing in two
thousand and two. Next up for Pittsburgh is a home
playoff game. They welcome Houston to town for their first
home wild card game since the twenty twenty season, but
this will be their first game in front of a
home crowd since twenty seventeen, since COVID in twenty twenty

(02:52:40):
wasn't allowing anybody to sit in the stands during that
playoff game. Kickoff is eight to fifteen on Monday night
between the Steelers and the Texans. I'm Tom Opperman with
the Steelers Report

Speaker 1 (02:52:52):
Steelers