January 9, 2026 • 46 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
W DV E Pittsburgh and iHeartRadio Station Guaranteed Human.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
The museum exhibits celebrating the life and career of Ozzy
Osbourne in Birmingham, UK has been extended until September twenty
seventh of twenty twenty six due to such public interests.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
What may I ask you is in the Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne Museum exhibit?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
What's interactive? You bite off of that head? Yes, and
then you can go in You get rady shot right there. Yeah,
you get to pee on the almal the exit titled Yeah,
like that's Instagram friends, right.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah, that might be an idea for the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame to have more interactive stuff like that,
where you do like the led Zeppelin experience where there's
like you catch a mud shark, you have what.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Cent a waiver? Oh sorry, and then you get a
shot of penicillin on your laut need it?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah. Abby's got a news update for you here. Sean
Collier and Joe Bartnick both hanging out with us here
this morning. And don't forget Steelers Texans is Monday night,
So enjoy the weekend. Save up all of your emotional
energy for eight fifteen Monday, Rob King, Max Starks, and
Missy Matthews with the Call here on DVE News.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
This hour brought to you by Better Call.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Side's very warm today, on and off rain, high around
sixty two.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Saturday, a bit cooler, more rain on the way.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's gonna be a higherround fifty and then Sunday things
get cold, cloudy with snowshowers and a high of thirty five.
Macy's plans to close it's Pittsburgh Mills store in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
According to media.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Reports, three of the sixty six stores that Macy's has
in penns Sylovania have now closed. They were located in Philadelphia, Altoona,
and Exton. As for the Mills itself, in June twenty
twenty five, some Western Pennsylvania real estate agents received an
email from the mall owner, Namdar Realty Groups chief operating officer,
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saying that they were quietly exploring an off market sale.
But it is still available according to the website. But
on November eighteenth, if we remember this story, Alleghany County
Judge Thomas Flaherty had over seventeen thousand dollars in fines
in response to poor road, sidewalk and door conditions at
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the mall complex. But I found this to be the
most stunning thing in this trip article. According to a
map posted last year, inside the mills, there are one
hundred and sixty two storefronts available, not including kiosks. Only
twenty two tenants remained in those available stores.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Fess am I the only one watching Pluribus in this room.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Jacob.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I can always count on Jacob. He's like I'm in
the chat rooms. I listened to the podcast. There's like,
you know, an element to it where it's she's the
only person in the city, but the supermarket is still there.
The Mills kind of seems like a Pluribus mall to me,
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like it's all there, just no people are there.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I worked at the Scarehouse when it was out there
for a little over a year, and I knew something
was wrong when the food court closed, not certain stores,
every last one. That's where the Taco Bell was, That's
where the Charlie Subs was, That's where the Sabarro was.
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If you can't maintain any food in an entire mall,
not even the anti Ens aren't going right.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
No, but how is that even staying open? Like again,
it's it's nothing now.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I don't understand it. It makes absolutely no sense to me.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
And apparently if you drive out there, your car falls
into a sinkhole.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
So there's a movie theater that used to be a
cinema that used to be the only cinema with an
Imax screen. There, used to be the only Imax screen
in Pittsburgh. And they left and another smaller, cheaper movie
chain moved into it like a hermit crab finding a
new show. Like, they didn't change the sign, they didn't
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change anything. They're just like, we're taking half of this. Wow,
we're the new zombie theater. And I guess people are
going you know, they've been there for three or four years.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
That happened in La A bunch of the really foo
food chains and the Academy moved in and they have
like the three dollars movies. Yeah, which is great. I
don't mind watching the movie like six six weeks later. Yeah,
who cares? It's three bucks, right exactly. Speaking of movies,
I know that Jennifer Lawrence has a new.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
One out, uh my love.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Yeah, I don't know if you have interest in seeing
that one.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I've seen it.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
Dark.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
She's great, really dark, she's great. Robert Pattinson is good.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, she's on a bit of a pr tear, and
she is one of those actresses that I know when
she does that, she tends to just give us all
of her inside thoughts, and I don't think she should.
Here's a real hot take from Jennifer. Every dog on
earth should be dead. She came to this conclusion after
becoming a mom.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Quote, it's almost like I.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Don't recognize dogs now, like I just see them as
a threat because one of them bit my son and
that made me want to obliterate every dog. I'm gonna
take you out and your effing family, you and your friends.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
A dog meets It's unfortunate demise in the film at
her hand. And I think she has been getting a
lot of questions about like, oh, that's the one thing,
because that is that's the last taboo on screen. If
the dog dies, people check out. Yes, So she may
be responding to that. That said, that's the most unhinged
thing she's ever said, and she said a lot.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Of them, Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
I am a dog lover. Yeah, Yes, that makes me sick.
But let me tell you something. This lady Hiller like dogs,
doesn't like dogs, Like, that's ridiculous to say that in public.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I mean, I think you know my feelings on this one.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Yeah, it's not hard to make the lead.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Here's the thing too, Like I understand too as a
parent that when something or anything happens to your kid,
like you can become incredibly defensive and just be like
I do anything to protect my child.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Completely understand that. And also there's there's some understanding with
animals like this, this is the wrong leap to take.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Well, it was like I would be the parent, like
if he did something wrong and my daughter was in
the wrong, the teacher, Like, the teacher's right, but if
a dog doesn't, like I'd be like, what did you
grab its tail?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
You're right? Like I get the dog the doubt. Yes, oh,
I always blame the person.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
The dogs are fairly predictable, Yeah they're they're they're dumb
and have observable patterns, right, But I know, like it's
been said many times, but like, always trust the dog's
instinct with people. Like growing up, we had a dog
that my my aunt's husband, my uncle who was not
you know blood he this dog hated him and he
wanted to love this dog so bad. And our dog Rascal,
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was a little a bearded Collie which is like a
big like a sheep dog thing, and this dog just
didn't want anything to do with him. We're like, oh,
why does he hate Uncle Jim so much?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And well we can to find out. He's just not
a good guy.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
He was like a bad guy, like you know, as
like you know, he was just a jerk on every level.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
And the dog knew it every time. And we didn't
know because we were kids.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
And then as I grew up and I got my
own dogs, I'm like, they always know who the jerk.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
In the room is. They always trust a dog. They
just know.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
The only time my dog was ever really mad is
some people came over and they brought their two year
old and he was furious. Ye like, who that thing
is too small, it can't walk right, it's stumbling all over,
it's near my food.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Get it out of here. I did have a dog
fair with a bad radar though.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
My dog Jackson, who was the smartest dog I have
ever known in my entire life, had one fatal flaw.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
It barked, it every he barked it every.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Person that came in the room in no matter who
it was, except for two people, and one of them
was one of my dear friends who had made perfect
sense to me. He's like, oh, yeah, he never barks
at douggie because he knows this is you know, he's
like his buddy. He can smell him coming or whatever.
But there was another guy who was like that drunk
friend on the periphery who always showed up uninvited. You
never wanted him to be around, and he would roll
into your house that like ungodly hours when you were
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like cleaning up, like what are you doing here? And
for some reason, my dog would not bark at him,
like why are you? This is the gun you have
to keep out, And he would have come in and go, old.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Jackson, how are you and start playing with him and stuff,
and I'm like, what, how did you get into here?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
He should have taken your face off. That was the
only time I've seen a dog that had a bad
radar something. There was some weird thing going on there.
He liked that guy, he did, but I don't know why,
because he was not a good guy.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Pain in the ass. You're talking about me for a second.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
No, no, no, Booker always when Barney comes over, Booker's like.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
This is a huge person. I'm going to bark for
a long time. And then like in five minutes he's
like on your lap. And because Booker's big, he's like
seventy five pounds. Yeah, no, be a Bookie guy, a
lunk together. Great. And then just one day he was
like you know what, he started biting you. Yeah, he
started biting me. He used to look, he doesn't go home.
I would go to bed. Yeah whatever, he's like Scott drinking.
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I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Last time Joe came over, he was a driveway and
I let Booker have to go run out and say
hide woman.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Booker just ran out and bit him.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Some little bites though, right, he's not.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
He's a great dog. It's like at Bernie's Mountain dog bite,
which is just.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I mean, I always let my German Shepherd just well
when she was a puppy, towel about four three other
just bite my arm or just get it out.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Oh yeah, you know. Now she's like a shark and.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
On one hundred and fifty teeth are like razorblade.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Yeah, doesn't you know, always.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Work anyway, screw Jennifer h what's her name? Lawrence? Thank you?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Did you hear the story?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
By the way, the kind of sticking with an animal
theme here the bear that was living under the person's
home in California. They finally got that bear. If you
don't know about this story.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
The handcuffs, you make me the purp walk.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
There was a bear.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Living under an Altadena home for nearly two months.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
He basically got into a crawl space of this southern
California man's home.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
All dig down and create a little den in there.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Yeah, And he was the man whose name was Ken Johnson.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
He was super frustrated because he would call state wildlife
officials and he would ask for assistance.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
This was like a five hundred and fifty pound.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Black bear, and he at some point threatened to sue
them because they just would not assist in this in
any way.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
And he was we don't want to deal with bears.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Like e wildlife though us AIT and he was going
to sue them for negligence emotional distress. But he got
a call from bar League, which is a nonprofit and
they're just.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Called Barely the Beer League. Barely bare League is a yeah,
on grinder kind of filters out certain results legal. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
They're a nonprofit based in Lake Tahoe. They offered to
help and apparently it took less than ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Well, they put a big pink honey pot under a nest.
I mean, wonder, oh bother.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
H Yeah, my buddy who has a place in Tahoe.
He's from Pittsburgh, but he he would send us videos
all the time of bears would be trapped under his
patio and he would clang pots together and then they would.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Shoot out from underneath it and run up a tree.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And I mean, they are incredible climbers, and they're also
super fast.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
They can swim faster than humans. They just state eight
to ten months. I guess.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Yeah, right before I was asked to leave my place
of residency.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
What do you say that I ad to leave my
place of trying to do like the odd couple.
Speaker 11 (12:49):
Then, yeah, mister removed himself of his place of residency.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
That Randall Bowman's there's all there's been. I mean, I
ran into a bear. It was I've talked about on stage.
It was a frightening experience. I've seen them in my car,
I've seen them from my porch I've had.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Was in southern California. Yeah, because you lived.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
In like the Bay Area too, and it's a little
more prevalent up that way.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
Well.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
No, where I lived in Sierra Madre, we saw bears
a lot. Okay, yeah, and uh, you know there's three bears.
Everyone knew, which I didn't understand because we had like
half the town little we went the bears around and
I'm like, oh, until they do something, then you don't.
I don't know why you couldn't, you know, put them
to sleep and then send them the.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Toll exactly, you know they wake up. They're like the
hangover for bears.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Am I.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Yeah, No, they're around, and like my German shepherd knew, Like,
but you know, Ruby would just like run over.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
To they're usually like black bears are usually a doggle
chase a black bear away, unless it's a tiny one.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Ruby's like thirty five pounds. She was just like, oh
I thought everyone loved like, oh, go see what this is.
And Rose would just be on the porch like, uh,
you're an idiot.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I'm not.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Rose were protecting from the coyotes everybody else, but no, no, yeah, Rose,
And I'm like no, we're not messing with that. But
when I reaned the bear, thank god, I wasn't with
my dogs, and I I was scared to st I
turned to stone for like a minute.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Were you Likenestreet? No, oh yeah I was. I always did.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
I always walked both dogs for twenty minutes, just rose
for like an hour. Then they climb up Mount Versey,
which was my cardio workout, was straight up hill.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
It's literally called Mount Versy.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
I call it because I told Verse, you don't got
to do because Versus that, like paul Us a cardio guy,
he's she strolls. I'm like, Verse, you don't got to
do this because sit here at home, I'm gonna do it.
And literally all the Mexican workers outside were going.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
You're boy up there, you're boy up there.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Because all the guys working out through the mansions, they're
like laughing because he was so far behind me.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh yeah, So all right, so you're going on for
a mountain walk?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Bear coming down. I'm just walking.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
I had my headphones on, looking at my looking at
my phone, and I look up and there was a
bear just a little bit further than where the dvast
side is. What is that twenty feet ten feet yeah yeah,
and I'm just like and I stopped and he just
looked at me, and I literally froze. I literally stood
there for like a minute, and I walked a little
bit over to you.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Didn't be no bear, No, I didn't do anything.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
I stood there and I walked side like maybe like
six feet to a scattered to a parked car, and
I went for it to walk a little bit across
the street and sat there for a while. Then the
big SUV came down and they stopped. They saw me,
and they thought I was gonna like walk next to it.
I'm like, if you're not gonna let me in the car,
I'm not getting anywhere near that bear. Then the bear
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kind of went into the woods on like the bush,
and I'm like still sitting there. Another car came down
and I'm like, no, I'm good. And then I called
my wife.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You didn't want to get into the one of those
cars offered me was like, can I give me like
protection of like you know in a shootout from a movie.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Right, Yeah, she's shielding you.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Yeah, childing me. But so because I did, I don't
fit in in that neighborhood. It was a rich neighborhood okay,
And I'm like with my shirt off, and oh yeah,
I wouldn't let you in.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
So then I called my wife and I literally I'm like,
she like thought, I've had hard issues. Obviously, she goes
sometimes I have to call her like I getting me
and I'm like, hey, I need help, and she's like,
is your heart okay? And I'm like, no, it's a
bear and I literally go bring my truck because it
was bigger than a Prius, Like no kidding, yeah, it
was that big. And I had nightmares three nights in
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a row about the bear. About the bear, I mean,
did you start taking bear spray with you on hikes?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
No?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I didn't have to spray because to me, it's like
that's like I don't want to be close enough to
spray the bear and what I don't think?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
That's pretty far away. I mean it shoots like twenty
thirty yards.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
I don't want like the mace, like I missed him
or his eyes and he's a crazy blind bear.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Jason, like, don't do that, you only make them. I
wanted to get a.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Bear horn, which they say is so loud that don't
even press it. To see if it works, like, and
they sell them for like twenty five bucks at like
Big five. It's like it is so loud that it's
like and it'll just scare the hell out of the
bear and then that's it. But I got divorce, didn't
have to worry about.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Someone's going to bring one of those to a Penguins
game playoff season bear horn in the upper deck.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Shock that hasn't happened already.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, bear encounters are always every time I'm out that way.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
That's my number one fear.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Just the people. Is it a brown bear or blackbird? Hey,
it's dark and it's a bear. If your eyesight can
tell the difference, and you know, remember, good for you.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I've had friend ski in and see a bear and
a bears like running down the hill that it's like,
do not wipe out, don't wipe out?
Speaker 6 (17:58):
All right, we'll wrap with this.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
You may two percent of the way through twenty twenty six,
and if you made a resolution.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Good enough, Happy Quitter's Day. The day that you are
most likely to drop your New Year's resolution is today.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
It is always the second Friday in January because we
can apparently only make it one weekend with no pizza
or drinking, but two weekends in a row is nearly impossible.
A study in twenty twenty four found eighty percent of
us start losing steam by quitter's day. So if your
resolution is still going strong, feel free to act all
high and mighty about it today. Big survey done just
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before Christmas found that the top resolutions this year are
still the traditional ones. That would be to exercise more,
eat healthier, save money, and this one's cute.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Be happier.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Oh, it can be a choice. You can just choose
to be happy.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
It's a choice.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
A lot of people don't think you can, but it's true.
You can fake it till you make it. Absolutely. I
try to do that a lot. You're never not happy,
Joey Bartner, You're the happiest guy I know. Thank you
for saying that. I try.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
I just try to be happy. Why be angry and
the pressed Sean?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Why? Oh? As a pirate fan, you know, you think
about the world for a.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Minute and then you stare off into the distance and
then you forget what you were doing, Like that.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Dog looking at the plate of cupcakes in that one meme.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah exactly, Yeah, on the way for your Mike Pursuda
with your sports. It's Steelers Texans, Monday night, eight point fifteen.
Our pregame starts well, frankly, no, yeah, Monday morning.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
It's going to be all morning long. We'll be getting
your set.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I have very high hopes for this one if we
can somehow sneak past the Texans, and depending on how
we lose, I don't know that I will be devastated
if they go out and lay an egg like they
did against Baltimore last year. I mean, honestly, the talk
about coach Tea might start up again if that happens.
I don't think that's going to happen because this offense,
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simply their offense Houston is not dynamic enough to put
up a ton of points, and I think Aaron.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Rodgers is going to manage it. I think it's gonna be
a low scoring game.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I think our offense will fare better against their defense
than their offense will against ours. And I think our
defense can set us up with some field position where Boss,
if he's okay between the years, will come through for us.
Now that brings me to Ben Roethlisberger's statements that he
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talked to Boss and he said, I know something's going
on with him, and I just wanted to, you know,
reassure him, you know every you know, we got his
back and just make sure he's keeping his confidence up
and everything, to which I would say, Ben, shut up,
Like what are you doing? He's like, what if BOS
was fine? He's like, what are you talking about? Then, well,
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I know you're going through a thing. No, I'm not,
am I now I am? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
What was the thing?
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:56):
I thought I did bringing good circumstances.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
You know, I missed two. I've missed one in four years.
There's no thing.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah, but he did miss one each of the last
three games, you know, a couple of more bombs. And
he hasn't been hitting the ball really well. Like you
could see there's something on the trajectory of his kicks
that looks a little different than what we're used to.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Like, why are you saying this to me?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Exactly? Don't put it in his head. We were the
loss of the Jets if it wasn't for Bass. Oh.
Tomlin always hangs him out to dry. He's like, where
are we fifty yardline? That's good? No, like they they
never try to position it.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So he gets a better field goal ever, you know,
and that more makeable field and that, to me was
Harbar's the biggest mistake. Oh on when he still had
time left after they converted fourth and seven, assuming that,
like hey have forty I did, would have got ten
yards closer a rookie kicker, and you had time for
at least one more play. Yeah, Instead he took a
two yard loss on a needle down to put the
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ball in the center of the field.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
And now Hardbud don't got a job. Yeah, I don't
know a fireball events, but it wasn't bright.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I I question that firing.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
I'm happy as a Steeler fan because I think there's
way more worse coaches than Harba.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
You're happy, Yeah, you don't want to have to face
him like they made a mistake.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
You're saying, yeah, Yeah, that's kind of how I feel.
But I'm gonna miss that matchup.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Tomlin versus Harbaugh was always a fun one to watch,
and you know, maybe it'll happen with him in Cleveland.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I think he's waiting to see what happens with the
Bills and the Eagles this weekend. Because Harbaugh said he
did he wasn't gonna talk to any teams until next
week because I think he's waiting.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
To see who loses.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, now, Mike McDaniel getting fired yesterday. Let me let
me present this. Arthur Smith is up for the Titans job.
What if Arthur Smith takes off? Would you be okay
with Mike McDaniel is your offensive coordinator?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I one hundred percent would.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Once as the percent? Well, would Aaron Rodgers be okay
with that?
Speaker 12 (22:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
You could see.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Them like going off on some like weed smoking retreat
together or something.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You know.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
I just wanted to think. I don't know enough about
you know, schemes. This guy runs his offense, this guy
runs that offense.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I think McDaniel is talented enough as a coordinator, I mean,
regardless of how quirky and weird he was. And I
don't know that that's necessarily conducive to being a head coach.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I think there's an element to that.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
You have to be more than just smart enough to
know the game, because you have to be able to
convey the message. And I know everyone in the building
there loved him, I mean, and everything that you read
after his getting fired yesh today was like the entire
staff in front office loved that guy, but his quirkiness
when you really need to be motivated. You know, when
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you're winning, it's fine, you're losing. I'm not so sure
if a guy in caprepants is the one to inspire
a room full of football players.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
I look at a guy though, right, they were dead
in the water in October. Yeah, he didn't lose the room.
I know there's something to do. That's that's like about
coach Tomlin, Like he never loses the room.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
As much as detractor. As his detractors want to claim
the contrary. That's the truth, and that's, according to Tony Dungeee,
exactly why Art Rooney wants to stick with Mike Tomlin. Michael,
have your sports when we come back here Steelers Texans
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Sports Subbrox you bought Bridgeville appliants. Apologies for our narrowness
of focus today. I mean there was some stuff happened yesterday.
Penguins had a huge win four to one over the Devils,
six in a row. They're cooking great college football game
last night between Miami and Old Miss. Old Miss rallies
late to take the lead, Miami rallies later to win
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the game.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Good stuff all.
Speaker 14 (25:20):
But we're getting ready for the Steelers in the Texas
on Monday night. And it's still football season around here.
And one of the guys who spoke yesterday at the
upmc rooney Sports complexes offensive coordinator Arthur Smith. It was
coordinator Thursday. In addition to Aaron Rodgers day, the Steelers improbable, dramatic,
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and dare we say, unforgettable win over the Ravens last
Sunday included a game winning touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers
to Calvin austin the third that was to a large
extent manufactured in the huddle.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Here's Smith talking about that.
Speaker 15 (25:54):
So, you know the third down call, as he told Calvin,
we were looking for a double moves he tried on
two plays before. Uh he got the matchup he wanted
and told Calvin to so many words to run it,
and uh he made a terrific pro and Calvin it
was a great route. I mean, just a big time moment.
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And I think that situation also helped too, because corner
was so far off. But you know, knowing that the situation,
you got two downs. I mean, he had gotta have
it moment and that was a cool thing to watch.
And in the whole last fourth quarter was it was awesome.
So those guys they kept chipping away and it was
out a way.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
You know.
Speaker 14 (26:37):
We heard from Aaron Rodgers in the minute aftermath of
the game. He said he kept asking Austin what do
you want to run? What do you want to run?
He wouldn't tell him, and somebody was either Mason McCormick
or pat Freyermuth said just cook him. It's starting ten.
You're losing times running out, Yeah, just cook and cook them. Okay,
run that you know, Uh, I want to know who
it was that said that I should I should probably
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investigate that today. I forgot to yesterday. There's luck going on.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Because if I'm Aaron Rodgers or Calvin Austin, that matters.
You got three guys on that from Center Over who've
only been there two years, and if they're you know guard,
you know what, the guy from Montana thinks I should
run really fast, I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
That's interesting. I didn't think of it that context, you.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Know what I mean, Like like, if it's firemooth again,
right exactly, If it's smooth, you put all the weight
on it. Yeah, that's But if it's you know, Mason
McCormick going, you know, he's just raging out, like just
kill them, and that was enough to do it, That's
just as interesting to me that that was the impetus
for you know what I mean, It kind of tells
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you the tenor and the tone of that huddle. Apparently
Aaron Rodgers joking around at the beginning of that doing
the Joe Montana thing, like according to Friarmuth's post game
before that drive, he was just keeping it light and
like this is the difference, right, I remember talking once.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
I'll bet you Russ always kept it lighting puzzy.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Oh dude, I mean, imagine the vibe coming out of
that huddle. I remember talking to former pit All American
longtime Cowboys center Mark Stepanoski about the tenor and tone
of the quarterback in the huddle and how much that mattered,
and he's like, it was everything. And he told me
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the story, and I don't want to say the quarterback
sell him out of this dude who came in when
Troy was hurt for them one time and he was
clearly soiling himself and he said, like the rest of
the Vets who were in that huddle were all looking
at each other, and he's like they knew they were cooked,
but like, if this guy is in charge of us,
we are screwed right now.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
It really matters.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
And that's where, like I think Mason got better over
the couple of years. I think where he was pretty
hyped up and amped up at first, he slowly learned
to kind of cool out and calm down, and that's
what made him such a quality backup.
Speaker 14 (28:58):
He got more confident to the extent, stopped wondering if
he was good enough, and just acted like you.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Will exactly which he was. And I don't know if
Kenny ever had that. Yeah, and now you got a
guy who is at the top of the mountain when
it comes to being able to dictate the tone and
keeping you cool when things are as you know.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Potentially dire as they were there, you don't score, it's over.
Speaker 14 (29:21):
And that was starting ten. I mean, yeah, that wasn't
a layup touchdown like they needed.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
To finish that drive.
Speaker 14 (29:26):
We saw something similar in Detroit a couple of weeks
prior the Kenny game.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Well play where he fell down and got interfered with
and then.
Speaker 14 (29:33):
Nobody touched him and he caught the ball just above
the ground and then got up and you heard you
might have heard the video of Rogers telling him right
before the staff just go out wide and then run
and go go to the sideline, turn the left right,
and then coming off the field, Rogers says, drew it
up in the dirt, you know, arn't. The Smith talked
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about that yesterday as well, because I asked him about
it if those plays were similar, and he's he went
on to explain, and you go, Arthur Smith's kind of
way that there's more nuance and detail in those situations
than you might suspect.
Speaker 15 (30:06):
Yeah, here else, Like you know, you need to get
all the fast art.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
It's kind of the whatever, that's not it, Jake, that's
not it. That's not it.
Speaker 14 (30:17):
That's a shame we don't have that. We'll get to
it monday. Okay, I might have sent him the wrong water.
He's just thinking about the IU game. And see it's
one of the two. Come on, could be me, could
be Jake. But we're a team.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
It's us.
Speaker 14 (30:27):
Yeah, so even if it's my fault, I'm going to
blame Jake.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
You don't point. I don't put the thumb, No I
put I give the figure.
Speaker 14 (30:40):
And it was funny here in Arth to talk about
that'd be really funny if you could.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Actually hear it.
Speaker 14 (30:44):
But you know he's talking about how there's still detail
and there's still eleven guys involved in almost like making
the argument. Well you still need it off its for
you don't just need a guy drawing it up in
the dirt.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
But uh, the point I'm laboring to get to here,
that's funny. Hey, you know I'm not obsolete.
Speaker 14 (31:04):
Aaron Rodgers in the twenty one years in helmet experience.
I mean, does he check out too many runs and
throw it a little too often. Absolutely, he always has.
Does he make the right call every time? No, he
does not. But who do you want to trust when
it's crunch time? For me, it's the guy who's been
out there playing and seeing it and the guy that's
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done it and seeing it all. And let's see, you know,
whatever he wants to come up with is fine with me.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Connor Printing and the coffeehouse when we come back here
on the DV Morning Show. But first, Mike Man, it
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Solving Brady, But I'm going along with Abby Krisner, Mike Persuda.
Our buddy is Joe Barnick and Charn Collier.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Been hanging out with us all morning.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
First coffeehouse of the new year from the Point Park
University Performance Theater. Connor Prente joining us right now, and
he's got a killer band with them, Derek Beatty, Uh,
Steve Benzenberger, Jack Breeding, Jesse Prenis and Mark Riceman.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Connor, how you doing, buddy? What's going on? I?
Speaker 8 (33:00):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Good man? Well?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
You got a hell of a band there, Yeah, my god,
it's a murderer's row.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
There.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
You got the twenty seventy Yankees, You got a brand
new release, tell us all about it.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:13):
So I got this new record, Hieroglyphics, that just came
out today. The single came out last week. Was produced
by Rick Wakowski. He's the best, yes he is. And
yeah it's got like a seventies rock vibe and not
much more to say.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
You got any shows coming up?
Speaker 10 (33:34):
Tonight is the big album release show, and that's at
the Funhouse at mister Small's doors at seven pm.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Good deal, anything down the road.
Speaker 10 (33:44):
I'm playing in Asbury Park, New Jersey next week for
the Light of Day Music Festival.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Nice.
Speaker 10 (33:52):
So those are my things coming up, dude.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
I mean that's pretty good gig.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I know Joe g and Millie are playing that as well,
and Willie as playing that. A bunch of New Jersey
heavy hitters that you're involved with there. Good for you, Okay,
So what are we gonna hear right now?
Speaker 10 (34:07):
This is the latest single in the title track to
the record, Hieroglyphics.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Live from the DV Copyhouse. Here's Conna print on d V.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
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Speaker 16 (34:20):
Tag?
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I want to be young, just one long time.
Speaker 8 (34:51):
I want to want more chands, to do it all right.
I want to scream from.
Speaker 10 (34:56):
The balcony, smoking cigarettes and irony.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
I won't be the man the rules.
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I've seen faces going to faces last.
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I see lovers fall into the knife.
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I see legends.
Speaker 12 (35:43):
You don't we see the light watch out.
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I learn from the highly.
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Miscuit about my old las, and I think they see
I think too well.
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Lots ever really.
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All world through his story back when God's who walks
here Lennon singing the rivers, it's enough to show us.
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Yeah, Howard Bliffits that's available everywhere.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Check him out tonight at mister Small's Great Stuff Man
sounds awesome. Connor you right on, Congrats and best of
luck and Jersey at the Lighted Day Fest next week.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
That's Connor Parente and Company.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
A killer band there too, Jesse Prentie and Derek Beatty
and Steve Benzberger, Jack Breeding and the one and only
Mark Richman on the harp there. Special thanks to those guys.
Thanks to Dave Damashek who's brought to you by the
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Love me some Caliente.
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Always good to see you, but you can hang in
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Or hanging around Yeah hockey games and then on the
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sure you check that out, and the PuckOff podcast of course,
and our friend Sean Collier.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Tomorrow night, I'll be at ogle B Resort doing stand
up with Lace Larrabee from America's Got Talent, Tom Usual
on that show as well. Might be sold out. Go
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Man that might be at g L E B A Y.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Don't forget.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
The big Steelers playoff party is tomorrow Abby at the
Tequila Cowboy there down on the North Shore.
Speaker 15 (39:38):
You can have.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yourself a good time, hosted by Rob King and Charlie
Batch again.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
That is going to be Saturday five to seven p m.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Tom Offerman and west Yuler will broadcast the party live
on Steelers Nation Radio one O two point five h
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Speaker 6 (40:05):
So it'll be good time.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
No polka today, you can't because the game is Monday.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
You know we could do instead, we could be like, oh,
we're not doing it. Randy's birthday tomorrow, thank.
Speaker 17 (40:19):
You so much.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
Make really quiet and creepy. Yeah, don't do it like that.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
No, I'm gonna go sit in at tend with Aaron
Rodgers all weekend where you smoke ourselves into it the
right mindset, that's right, the darkness retreat. What better way
to celebrate. I'm gonna be the exact opposite. My eyes
are gonna be on a TV from the time I
leave here until Tuesday morning.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
It's gonna be ridiculous weeks, sports awesome. I cannot wait. Jacob,
good luck to your boys tonight. Thank you, Randy. I'm excited.
Speaker 17 (40:49):
I am nervous. This is another week where it's the
biggest game of my life. But uh, it's a busy
It's a busy week for all of us. Right Indiana tonight,
Pittsburgh on Monday. It's gonna be either one of the
best weeks of my life or one of the worst.
Either feeling both games will go in the same direction.
Either they'll both win or they'll both lose. I don't
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know why I had that feeling, but that's just what
my gut's telling me.
Speaker 15 (41:13):
A well.
Speaker 14 (41:13):
Traditionally, still a playoff games are relative to what happens football.
Speaker 5 (41:17):
I see where you're coming from with that.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
The Hoosier Winds blow over, Yeah, Indiana giving three and
a half tonight.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
I like the Hoosiers.
Speaker 13 (41:26):
Man.
Speaker 14 (41:26):
If I was gonna play the Hoosiers. I'd play money line,
but well, yeah, and your odds won't be too bad.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
I mean, money line shouldn't bang it too bad with
only three points. Maybe bet it down to one and
a half or something like that.
Speaker 14 (41:38):
Forty eight and a half is the total, Jake, what
do you think you could go teaser and get IU plus.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Three like Becat says, you're only teasing yourself. Forty eight
and a half is the total.
Speaker 5 (41:49):
What do you think that's over?
Speaker 17 (41:50):
I mean they almost hit that on them by themselves
last week against Bama.
Speaker 5 (41:55):
It's gone the line. The spread has gone down.
Speaker 17 (41:58):
It was I think it's sort of like a and
then it went to four and a half and four
and now you said it's at three and a half.
So I don't know what's going on in Vegas that
they continue to bring that line down.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
I'd probably well, one of your defenders is out right, well.
Speaker 17 (42:12):
He went It's a shame he went down in the
celebrations of the Big Ten championship win over Ohio State.
But I mean he was just a depth guy that
really found his way to the starting lineup. But the debt,
I mean, obviously the defense destroyed Bama. So they're not
really missing a beat with him, I would actually take
the under. I mean, Ohio State was thirteen to ten.
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Oregon is a great defensive team, much better than Bama,
So if that's any indication, I think this might be
a lower scoring game than what we saw in the
Rose Bowl. Of course, only one team scored in that game.
I still like my team. I still like us, but
I'm not you know me, I'm not as much of
a betting man as you are, so I don't know if, yeah,
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I would trust my opinion on taking the over or under.
Speaker 8 (42:56):
There I.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
Scoring, that's just my guy. We're just talking to an
Indiana guy because it's cute, Jacob.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
I can get you into the stadium for two hundred
and fifteen dollars tonight.
Speaker 17 (43:08):
I almost went. I should have gone. I was on
vacation with my family last week.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
As you know.
Speaker 17 (43:14):
Yes, I knew about one hundred and fifty people that
went to the Rose Bowl. It was the worst fomo
I've ever experienced in my life. Everyone said that they
spent their money happily on the Rose Bowl, getting their
tickets and housing, and now if they want to spend more,
they're looking ahead. As I mentioned, earlier today to Miami.
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I don't know nearly as many people going tonight, so
I kind of kill myself sidelined tonight as well.
Speaker 5 (43:41):
What's the game tonight at Atlanta? You could be on
a noon flight, buddy. It's a hell of a stadium too.
You could get there. Rose Bowl legend, Joe Bartnick, Did
you go to the Rose Bowl this year?
Speaker 7 (43:51):
This is the only year I would only year. I
haven't been in like eighteen years. But my whole family
went because they're all my god said, goes to Indiana.
Oh okay, but you missed I missed it.
Speaker 5 (44:02):
Well, we'll get to them. I had to work. Well, yeah,
hey man, someone's got to be on the stage telling jokes.
Speaker 8 (44:07):
All right.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Michelle's got the h the airchair here next with the
electric lunch at noon.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
Give her a call. Let her know what you want
to hear. Have a great weekend, everybody. I'm finished. You
stay classy, Pittsburgh. Don't touch your face?
Speaker 8 (44:20):
Hey got him type Pittsburgh day baby.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
And now you gotta call me Ronald? Would you not
eat my pants?
Speaker 8 (44:25):
Ronald?
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A normal size nipple.
Speaker 6 (44:34):
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Bye? Why google it?
Speaker 8 (44:39):
Nipples the same size as every bom Bye a great Friday.
Speaker 16 (44:51):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
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Speaker 18 (45:04):
The Steelers will host their first playoff game in five
years Monday night, when they welcome the Houston Texans the
town for the final game of wild Card Weekend. It's
tough to find many weaknesses when examining the Texans, who
are the NFL's hottest team heading into the playoffs with
a nine game winning streak. One area, however, where Houston
isn't particularly strong, is running the ball. On the offensive
side of the ball, Houston averages just three point nine
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yards per carry, which is better than only four other
teams in the NFL, and their nine rushing touchdowns as
a team is second fewest the head of only the
Las Vegas Raiders for the season. What He marxis Houston's
leading rusher with seven hundred and three yards on the season,
but is averaging just three point six yards per carry
with just two touchdowns and sixteen games. The Steelers run.
Speaker 5 (45:43):
Defense, despite giving up one hundred and thirty seven yards
to Ravens on the ground last week. Has averaged just seventy.
Speaker 18 (45:49):
Three point three yards per game allowed via the run
over the past four games, and shouldn't have a problem
completely shutting down Houston's lackluster rushing attack. Kickoff between the
Texans and Steelers.
Speaker 5 (45:59):
Is Monday night at age fifteen. I'm Tom Aferman with
the Steelers report.
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The museum exhibits celebrating the life and career of Ozzy
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What may I ask you is in the Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne Museum exhibit?
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Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.
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Yeah, that might be an idea for the Rock and
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where you do like the led Zeppelin experience where there's
like you catch a mud shark, you have what.
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Yeah. Abby's got a news update for you here. Sean
Collier and Joe Bartnick both hanging out with us here
this morning. And don't forget Steelers Texans is Monday night,
So enjoy the weekend. Save up all of your emotional
energy for eight fifteen Monday, Rob King, Max Starks, and
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Macy's plans to close it's Pittsburgh Mills store in twenty
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on November eighteenth, if we remember this story, Alleghany County
Judge Thomas Flaherty had over seventeen thousand dollars in fines
in response to poor road, sidewalk and door conditions at
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the mall complex. But I found this to be the
most stunning thing in this trip article. According to a
map posted last year, inside the mills, there are one
hundred and sixty two storefronts available, not including kiosks. Only
twenty two tenants remained in those available stores.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Fess am I the only one watching Pluribus in this room.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Jacob.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I can always count on Jacob. He's like I'm in
the chat rooms. I listened to the podcast. There's like,
you know, an element to it where it's she's the
only person in the city, but the supermarket is still there.
The Mills kind of seems like a Pluribus mall to me,
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like it's all there, just no people are there.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I worked at the Scarehouse when it was out there
for a little over a year, and I knew something
was wrong when the food court closed, not certain stores,
every last one. That's where the Taco Bell was, That's
where the Charlie Subs was, That's where the Sabarro was.
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If you can't maintain any food in an entire mall,
not even the anti Ens aren't going right.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
No, but how is that even staying open? Like again,
it's it's nothing now.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I don't understand it. It makes absolutely no sense to me.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
And apparently if you drive out there, your car falls
into a sinkhole.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
So there's a movie theater that used to be a
cinema that used to be the only cinema with an
Imax screen. There, used to be the only Imax screen
in Pittsburgh. And they left and another smaller, cheaper movie
chain moved into it like a hermit crab finding a
new show. Like, they didn't change the sign, they didn't
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change anything. They're just like, we're taking half of this. Wow,
we're the new zombie theater. And I guess people are
going you know, they've been there for three or four years.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
That happened in La A bunch of the really foo
food chains and the Academy moved in and they have
like the three dollars movies. Yeah, which is great. I
don't mind watching the movie like six six weeks later. Yeah,
who cares? It's three bucks, right exactly. Speaking of movies,
I know that Jennifer Lawrence has a new.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
One out, uh my love.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Yeah, I don't know if you have interest in seeing
that one.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I've seen it.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
Dark.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
She's great, really dark, she's great. Robert Pattinson is good.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, she's on a bit of a pr tear, and
she is one of those actresses that I know when
she does that, she tends to just give us all
of her inside thoughts, and I don't think she should.
Here's a real hot take from Jennifer. Every dog on
earth should be dead. She came to this conclusion after
becoming a mom.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Quote, it's almost like I.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Don't recognize dogs now, like I just see them as
a threat because one of them bit my son and
that made me want to obliterate every dog. I'm gonna
take you out and your effing family, you and your friends.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
A dog meets It's unfortunate demise in the film at
her hand. And I think she has been getting a
lot of questions about like, oh, that's the one thing,
because that is that's the last taboo on screen. If
the dog dies, people check out. Yes, So she may
be responding to that. That said, that's the most unhinged
thing she's ever said, and she said a lot.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Of them, Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
I am a dog lover. Yeah, Yes, that makes me sick.
But let me tell you something. This lady Hiller like dogs,
doesn't like dogs, Like, that's ridiculous to say that in public.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I mean, I think you know my feelings on this one.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Yeah, it's not hard to make the lead.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Here's the thing too, Like I understand too as a
parent that when something or anything happens to your kid,
like you can become incredibly defensive and just be like
I do anything to protect my child.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Completely understand that. And also there's there's some understanding with
animals like this, this is the wrong leap to take.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Well, it was like I would be the parent, like
if he did something wrong and my daughter was in
the wrong, the teacher, Like, the teacher's right, but if
a dog doesn't, like I'd be like, what did you
grab its tail?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
You're right? Like I get the dog the doubt. Yes, oh,
I always blame the person.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
The dogs are fairly predictable, Yeah they're they're they're dumb
and have observable patterns, right, But I know, like it's
been said many times, but like, always trust the dog's
instinct with people. Like growing up, we had a dog
that my my aunt's husband, my uncle who was not
you know blood he this dog hated him and he
wanted to love this dog so bad. And our dog Rascal,
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was a little a bearded Collie which is like a
big like a sheep dog thing, and this dog just
didn't want anything to do with him. We're like, oh,
why does he hate Uncle Jim so much?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And well we can to find out. He's just not
a good guy.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
He was like a bad guy, like you know, as
like you know, he was just a jerk on every level.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
And the dog knew it every time. And we didn't
know because we were kids.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
And then as I grew up and I got my
own dogs, I'm like, they always know who the jerk.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
In the room is. They always trust a dog. They
just know.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
The only time my dog was ever really mad is
some people came over and they brought their two year
old and he was furious. Ye like, who that thing
is too small, it can't walk right, it's stumbling all over,
it's near my food.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Get it out of here. I did have a dog
fair with a bad radar though.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
My dog Jackson, who was the smartest dog I have
ever known in my entire life, had one fatal flaw.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
It barked, it every he barked it every.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Person that came in the room in no matter who
it was, except for two people, and one of them
was one of my dear friends who had made perfect
sense to me. He's like, oh, yeah, he never barks
at douggie because he knows this is you know, he's
like his buddy. He can smell him coming or whatever.
But there was another guy who was like that drunk
friend on the periphery who always showed up uninvited. You
never wanted him to be around, and he would roll
into your house that like ungodly hours when you were
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like cleaning up, like what are you doing here? And
for some reason, my dog would not bark at him,
like why are you? This is the gun you have
to keep out, And he would have come in and go, old.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Jackson, how are you and start playing with him and stuff,
and I'm like, what, how did you get into here?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
He should have taken your face off. That was the
only time I've seen a dog that had a bad
radar something. There was some weird thing going on there.
He liked that guy, he did, but I don't know why,
because he was not a good guy.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Pain in the ass. You're talking about me for a second.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
No, no, no, Booker always when Barney comes over, Booker's like.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
This is a huge person. I'm going to bark for
a long time. And then like in five minutes he's
like on your lap. And because Booker's big, he's like
seventy five pounds. Yeah, no, be a Bookie guy, a
lunk together. Great. And then just one day he was
like you know what, he started biting you. Yeah, he
started biting me. He used to look, he doesn't go home.
I would go to bed. Yeah whatever, he's like Scott drinking.
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I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Last time Joe came over, he was a driveway and
I let Booker have to go run out and say
hide woman.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Booker just ran out and bit him.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Some little bites though, right, he's not.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
He's a great dog. It's like at Bernie's Mountain dog bite,
which is just.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I mean, I always let my German Shepherd just well
when she was a puppy, towel about four three other
just bite my arm or just get it out.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Oh yeah, you know. Now she's like a shark and.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
On one hundred and fifty teeth are like razorblade.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Yeah, doesn't you know, always.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Work anyway, screw Jennifer h what's her name? Lawrence? Thank you?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Did you hear the story?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
By the way, the kind of sticking with an animal
theme here the bear that was living under the person's
home in California. They finally got that bear. If you
don't know about this story.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
The handcuffs, you make me the purp walk.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
There was a bear.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Living under an Altadena home for nearly two months.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
He basically got into a crawl space of this southern
California man's home.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
All dig down and create a little den in there.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Yeah, And he was the man whose name was Ken Johnson.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
He was super frustrated because he would call state wildlife
officials and he would ask for assistance.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
This was like a five hundred and fifty pound.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Black bear, and he at some point threatened to sue
them because they just would not assist in this in
any way.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
And he was we don't want to deal with bears.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Like e wildlife though us AIT and he was going
to sue them for negligence emotional distress. But he got
a call from bar League, which is a nonprofit and
they're just.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Called Barely the Beer League. Barely bare League is a yeah,
on grinder kind of filters out certain results legal. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
They're a nonprofit based in Lake Tahoe. They offered to
help and apparently it took less than ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Well, they put a big pink honey pot under a nest.
I mean, wonder, oh bother.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
H Yeah, my buddy who has a place in Tahoe.
He's from Pittsburgh, but he he would send us videos
all the time of bears would be trapped under his
patio and he would clang pots together and then they would.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Shoot out from underneath it and run up a tree.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And I mean, they are incredible climbers, and they're also
super fast.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
They can swim faster than humans. They just state eight
to ten months. I guess.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Yeah, right before I was asked to leave my place
of residency.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
What do you say that I ad to leave my
place of trying to do like the odd couple.
Speaker 11 (12:49):
Then, yeah, mister removed himself of his place of residency.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
That Randall Bowman's there's all there's been. I mean, I
ran into a bear. It was I've talked about on stage.
It was a frightening experience. I've seen them in my car,
I've seen them from my porch I've had.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Was in southern California. Yeah, because you lived.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
In like the Bay Area too, and it's a little
more prevalent up that way.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
Well.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
No, where I lived in Sierra Madre, we saw bears
a lot. Okay, yeah, and uh, you know there's three bears.
Everyone knew, which I didn't understand because we had like
half the town little we went the bears around and
I'm like, oh, until they do something, then you don't.
I don't know why you couldn't, you know, put them
to sleep and then send them the.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Toll exactly, you know they wake up. They're like the
hangover for bears.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Am I.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Yeah, No, they're around, and like my German shepherd knew, Like,
but you know, Ruby would just like run over.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
To they're usually like black bears are usually a doggle
chase a black bear away, unless it's a tiny one.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Ruby's like thirty five pounds. She was just like, oh
I thought everyone loved like, oh, go see what this is.
And Rose would just be on the porch like, uh,
you're an idiot.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I'm not.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Rose were protecting from the coyotes everybody else, but no, no, yeah, Rose,
And I'm like no, we're not messing with that. But
when I reaned the bear, thank god, I wasn't with
my dogs, and I I was scared to st I
turned to stone for like a minute.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Were you Likenestreet? No, oh yeah I was. I always did.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
I always walked both dogs for twenty minutes, just rose
for like an hour. Then they climb up Mount Versey,
which was my cardio workout, was straight up hill.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
It's literally called Mount Versy.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
I call it because I told Verse, you don't got
to do because Versus that, like paul Us a cardio guy,
he's she strolls. I'm like, Verse, you don't got to
do this because sit here at home, I'm gonna do it.
And literally all the Mexican workers outside were going.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
You're boy up there, you're boy up there.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Because all the guys working out through the mansions, they're
like laughing because he was so far behind me.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh yeah, So all right, so you're going on for
a mountain walk?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Bear coming down. I'm just walking.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
I had my headphones on, looking at my looking at
my phone, and I look up and there was a
bear just a little bit further than where the dvast
side is. What is that twenty feet ten feet yeah yeah,
and I'm just like and I stopped and he just
looked at me, and I literally froze. I literally stood
there for like a minute, and I walked a little
bit over to you.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Didn't be no bear, No, I didn't do anything.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
I stood there and I walked side like maybe like
six feet to a scattered to a parked car, and
I went for it to walk a little bit across
the street and sat there for a while. Then the
big SUV came down and they stopped. They saw me,
and they thought I was gonna like walk next to it.
I'm like, if you're not gonna let me in the car,
I'm not getting anywhere near that bear. Then the bear
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kind of went into the woods on like the bush,
and I'm like still sitting there. Another car came down
and I'm like, no, I'm good. And then I called
my wife.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You didn't want to get into the one of those
cars offered me was like, can I give me like
protection of like you know in a shootout from a movie.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Right, Yeah, she's shielding you.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Yeah, childing me. But so because I did, I don't
fit in in that neighborhood. It was a rich neighborhood okay,
And I'm like with my shirt off, and oh yeah,
I wouldn't let you in.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
So then I called my wife and I literally I'm like,
she like thought, I've had hard issues. Obviously, she goes
sometimes I have to call her like I getting me
and I'm like, hey, I need help, and she's like,
is your heart okay? And I'm like, no, it's a
bear and I literally go bring my truck because it
was bigger than a Prius, Like no kidding, yeah, it
was that big. And I had nightmares three nights in
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a row about the bear. About the bear, I mean,
did you start taking bear spray with you on hikes?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
No?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I didn't have to spray because to me, it's like
that's like I don't want to be close enough to
spray the bear and what I don't think?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
That's pretty far away. I mean it shoots like twenty
thirty yards.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
I don't want like the mace, like I missed him
or his eyes and he's a crazy blind bear.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Jason, like, don't do that, you only make them. I
wanted to get a.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Bear horn, which they say is so loud that don't
even press it. To see if it works, like, and
they sell them for like twenty five bucks at like
Big five. It's like it is so loud that it's
like and it'll just scare the hell out of the
bear and then that's it. But I got divorce, didn't
have to worry about.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Someone's going to bring one of those to a Penguins
game playoff season bear horn in the upper deck.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Shock that hasn't happened already.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, bear encounters are always every time I'm out that way.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
That's my number one fear.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Just the people. Is it a brown bear or blackbird? Hey,
it's dark and it's a bear. If your eyesight can
tell the difference, and you know, remember, good for you.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I've had friend ski in and see a bear and
a bears like running down the hill that it's like,
do not wipe out, don't wipe out?
Speaker 6 (17:58):
All right, we'll wrap with this.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
You may two percent of the way through twenty twenty six,
and if you made a resolution.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Good enough, Happy Quitter's Day. The day that you are
most likely to drop your New Year's resolution is today.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
It is always the second Friday in January because we
can apparently only make it one weekend with no pizza
or drinking, but two weekends in a row is nearly impossible.
A study in twenty twenty four found eighty percent of
us start losing steam by quitter's day. So if your
resolution is still going strong, feel free to act all
high and mighty about it today. Big survey done just
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before Christmas found that the top resolutions this year are
still the traditional ones. That would be to exercise more,
eat healthier, save money, and this one's cute.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Be happier.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Oh, it can be a choice. You can just choose
to be happy.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
It's a choice.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
A lot of people don't think you can, but it's true.
You can fake it till you make it. Absolutely. I
try to do that a lot. You're never not happy,
Joey Bartner, You're the happiest guy I know. Thank you
for saying that. I try.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
I just try to be happy. Why be angry and
the pressed Sean?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Why? Oh? As a pirate fan, you know, you think
about the world for a.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Minute and then you stare off into the distance and
then you forget what you were doing, Like that.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Dog looking at the plate of cupcakes in that one meme.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah exactly, Yeah, on the way for your Mike Pursuda
with your sports. It's Steelers Texans, Monday night, eight point fifteen.
Our pregame starts well, frankly, no, yeah, Monday morning.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
It's going to be all morning long. We'll be getting
your set.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I have very high hopes for this one if we
can somehow sneak past the Texans, and depending on how
we lose, I don't know that I will be devastated
if they go out and lay an egg like they
did against Baltimore last year. I mean, honestly, the talk
about coach Tea might start up again if that happens.
I don't think that's going to happen because this offense,
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simply their offense Houston is not dynamic enough to put
up a ton of points, and I think Aaron.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Rodgers is going to manage it. I think it's gonna be
a low scoring game.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I think our offense will fare better against their defense
than their offense will against ours. And I think our
defense can set us up with some field position where Boss,
if he's okay between the years, will come through for us.
Now that brings me to Ben Roethlisberger's statements that he
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talked to Boss and he said, I know something's going
on with him, and I just wanted to, you know,
reassure him, you know every you know, we got his
back and just make sure he's keeping his confidence up
and everything, to which I would say, Ben, shut up,
Like what are you doing? He's like, what if BOS
was fine? He's like, what are you talking about? Then, well,
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I know you're going through a thing. No, I'm not,
am I now I am? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
What was the thing?
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:56):
I thought I did bringing good circumstances.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
You know, I missed two. I've missed one in four years.
There's no thing.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah, but he did miss one each of the last
three games, you know, a couple of more bombs. And
he hasn't been hitting the ball really well. Like you
could see there's something on the trajectory of his kicks
that looks a little different than what we're used to.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Like, why are you saying this to me?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Exactly? Don't put it in his head. We were the
loss of the Jets if it wasn't for Bass. Oh.
Tomlin always hangs him out to dry. He's like, where
are we fifty yardline? That's good? No, like they they
never try to position it.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So he gets a better field goal ever, you know,
and that more makeable field and that, to me was
Harbar's the biggest mistake. Oh on when he still had
time left after they converted fourth and seven, assuming that,
like hey have forty I did, would have got ten
yards closer a rookie kicker, and you had time for
at least one more play. Yeah, Instead he took a
two yard loss on a needle down to put the
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ball in the center of the field.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
And now Hardbud don't got a job. Yeah, I don't
know a fireball events, but it wasn't bright.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I I question that firing.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
I'm happy as a Steeler fan because I think there's
way more worse coaches than Harba.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
You're happy, Yeah, you don't want to have to face
him like they made a mistake.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
You're saying, yeah, Yeah, that's kind of how I feel.
But I'm gonna miss that matchup.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Tomlin versus Harbaugh was always a fun one to watch,
and you know, maybe it'll happen with him in Cleveland.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I think he's waiting to see what happens with the
Bills and the Eagles this weekend. Because Harbaugh said he
did he wasn't gonna talk to any teams until next
week because I think he's waiting.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
To see who loses.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, now, Mike McDaniel getting fired yesterday. Let me let
me present this. Arthur Smith is up for the Titans job.
What if Arthur Smith takes off? Would you be okay
with Mike McDaniel is your offensive coordinator?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I one hundred percent would.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Once as the percent? Well, would Aaron Rodgers be okay
with that?
Speaker 12 (22:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
You could see.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Them like going off on some like weed smoking retreat
together or something.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You know.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
I just wanted to think. I don't know enough about
you know, schemes. This guy runs his offense, this guy
runs that offense.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I think McDaniel is talented enough as a coordinator, I mean,
regardless of how quirky and weird he was. And I
don't know that that's necessarily conducive to being a head coach.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I think there's an element to that.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
You have to be more than just smart enough to
know the game, because you have to be able to
convey the message. And I know everyone in the building
there loved him, I mean, and everything that you read
after his getting fired yesh today was like the entire
staff in front office loved that guy, but his quirkiness
when you really need to be motivated. You know, when
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you're winning, it's fine, you're losing. I'm not so sure
if a guy in caprepants is the one to inspire
a room full of football players.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
I look at a guy though, right, they were dead
in the water in October. Yeah, he didn't lose the room.
I know there's something to do. That's that's like about
coach Tomlin, Like he never loses the room.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
As much as detractor. As his detractors want to claim
the contrary. That's the truth, and that's, according to Tony Dungeee,
exactly why Art Rooney wants to stick with Mike Tomlin. Michael,
have your sports when we come back here Steelers Texans
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of focus today. I mean there was some stuff happened yesterday.
Penguins had a huge win four to one over the Devils,
six in a row. They're cooking great college football game
last night between Miami and Old Miss. Old Miss rallies
late to take the lead, Miami rallies later to win
(25:17):
the game.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Good stuff all.
Speaker 14 (25:20):
But we're getting ready for the Steelers in the Texas
on Monday night. And it's still football season around here.
And one of the guys who spoke yesterday at the
upmc rooney Sports complexes offensive coordinator Arthur Smith. It was
coordinator Thursday. In addition to Aaron Rodgers day, the Steelers improbable, dramatic,
(25:40):
and dare we say, unforgettable win over the Ravens last
Sunday included a game winning touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers
to Calvin austin the third that was to a large
extent manufactured in the huddle.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Here's Smith talking about that.
Speaker 15 (25:54):
So, you know the third down call, as he told Calvin,
we were looking for a double moves he tried on
two plays before. Uh he got the matchup he wanted
and told Calvin to so many words to run it,
and uh he made a terrific pro and Calvin it
was a great route. I mean, just a big time moment.
(26:16):
And I think that situation also helped too, because corner
was so far off. But you know, knowing that the situation,
you got two downs. I mean, he had gotta have
it moment and that was a cool thing to watch.
And in the whole last fourth quarter was it was awesome.
So those guys they kept chipping away and it was
out a way.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
You know.
Speaker 14 (26:37):
We heard from Aaron Rodgers in the minute aftermath of
the game. He said he kept asking Austin what do
you want to run? What do you want to run?
He wouldn't tell him, and somebody was either Mason McCormick
or pat Freyermuth said just cook him. It's starting ten.
You're losing times running out, Yeah, just cook and cook them. Okay,
run that you know, Uh, I want to know who
it was that said that I should I should probably
(26:58):
investigate that today. I forgot to yesterday. There's luck going on.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Because if I'm Aaron Rodgers or Calvin Austin, that matters.
You got three guys on that from Center Over who've
only been there two years, and if they're you know guard,
you know what, the guy from Montana thinks I should
run really fast, I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
That's interesting. I didn't think of it that context, you.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Know what I mean, Like like, if it's firemooth again,
right exactly, If it's smooth, you put all the weight
on it. Yeah, that's But if it's you know, Mason
McCormick going, you know, he's just raging out, like just
kill them, and that was enough to do it, That's
just as interesting to me that that was the impetus
for you know what I mean, It kind of tells
(27:47):
you the tenor and the tone of that huddle. Apparently
Aaron Rodgers joking around at the beginning of that doing
the Joe Montana thing, like according to Friarmuth's post game
before that drive, he was just keeping it light and
like this is the difference, right, I remember talking once.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
I'll bet you Russ always kept it lighting puzzy.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Oh dude, I mean, imagine the vibe coming out of
that huddle. I remember talking to former pit All American
longtime Cowboys center Mark Stepanoski about the tenor and tone
of the quarterback in the huddle and how much that mattered,
and he's like, it was everything. And he told me
(28:22):
the story, and I don't want to say the quarterback
sell him out of this dude who came in when
Troy was hurt for them one time and he was
clearly soiling himself and he said, like the rest of
the Vets who were in that huddle were all looking
at each other, and he's like they knew they were cooked,
but like, if this guy is in charge of us,
we are screwed right now.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
It really matters.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
And that's where, like I think Mason got better over
the couple of years. I think where he was pretty
hyped up and amped up at first, he slowly learned
to kind of cool out and calm down, and that's
what made him such a quality backup.
Speaker 14 (28:58):
He got more confident to the extent, stopped wondering if
he was good enough, and just acted like you.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Will exactly which he was. And I don't know if
Kenny ever had that. Yeah, and now you got a
guy who is at the top of the mountain when
it comes to being able to dictate the tone and
keeping you cool when things are as you know.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Potentially dire as they were there, you don't score, it's over.
Speaker 14 (29:21):
And that was starting ten. I mean, yeah, that wasn't
a layup touchdown like they needed.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
To finish that drive.
Speaker 14 (29:26):
We saw something similar in Detroit a couple of weeks
prior the Kenny game.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Well play where he fell down and got interfered with
and then.
Speaker 14 (29:33):
Nobody touched him and he caught the ball just above
the ground and then got up and you heard you
might have heard the video of Rogers telling him right
before the staff just go out wide and then run
and go go to the sideline, turn the left right,
and then coming off the field, Rogers says, drew it
up in the dirt, you know, arn't. The Smith talked
(29:53):
about that yesterday as well, because I asked him about
it if those plays were similar, and he's he went
on to explain, and you go, Arthur Smith's kind of
way that there's more nuance and detail in those situations
than you might suspect.
Speaker 15 (30:06):
Yeah, here else, Like you know, you need to get
all the fast art.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
It's kind of the whatever, that's not it, Jake, that's
not it. That's not it.
Speaker 14 (30:17):
That's a shame we don't have that. We'll get to
it monday. Okay, I might have sent him the wrong water.
He's just thinking about the IU game. And see it's
one of the two. Come on, could be me, could
be Jake. But we're a team.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
It's us.
Speaker 14 (30:27):
Yeah, so even if it's my fault, I'm going to
blame Jake.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
You don't point. I don't put the thumb, No I
put I give the figure.
Speaker 14 (30:40):
And it was funny here in Arth to talk about
that'd be really funny if you could.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Actually hear it.
Speaker 14 (30:44):
But you know he's talking about how there's still detail
and there's still eleven guys involved in almost like making
the argument. Well you still need it off its for
you don't just need a guy drawing it up in
the dirt.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
But uh, the point I'm laboring to get to here,
that's funny. Hey, you know I'm not obsolete.
Speaker 14 (31:04):
Aaron Rodgers in the twenty one years in helmet experience.
I mean, does he check out too many runs and
throw it a little too often. Absolutely, he always has.
Does he make the right call every time? No, he
does not. But who do you want to trust when
it's crunch time? For me, it's the guy who's been
out there playing and seeing it and the guy that's
(31:25):
done it and seeing it all. And let's see, you know,
whatever he wants to come up with is fine with me.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Connor Printing and the coffeehouse when we come back here
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Speaker 5 (32:43):
Been hanging out with us all morning.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
First coffeehouse of the new year from the Point Park
University Performance Theater. Connor Prente joining us right now, and
he's got a killer band with them, Derek Beatty, Uh,
Steve Benzenberger, Jack Breeding, Jesse Prenis and Mark Riceman.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Connor, how you doing, buddy? What's going on? I?
Speaker 8 (33:00):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Good man? Well?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
You got a hell of a band there, Yeah, my god,
it's a murderer's row.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
There.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
You got the twenty seventy Yankees, You got a brand
new release, tell us all about it.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:13):
So I got this new record, Hieroglyphics, that just came
out today. The single came out last week. Was produced
by Rick Wakowski. He's the best, yes he is. And
yeah it's got like a seventies rock vibe and not
much more to say.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
You got any shows coming up?
Speaker 10 (33:34):
Tonight is the big album release show, and that's at
the Funhouse at mister Small's doors at seven pm.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Good deal, anything down the road.
Speaker 10 (33:44):
I'm playing in Asbury Park, New Jersey next week for
the Light of Day Music Festival.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Nice.
Speaker 10 (33:52):
So those are my things coming up, dude.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
I mean that's pretty good gig.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I know Joe g and Millie are playing that as well,
and Willie as playing that. A bunch of New Jersey
heavy hitters that you're involved with there. Good for you, Okay,
So what are we gonna hear right now?
Speaker 10 (34:07):
This is the latest single in the title track to
the record, Hieroglyphics.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Live from the DV Copyhouse. Here's Conna print on d V.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
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Speaker 16 (34:20):
Tag?
Speaker 5 (34:47):
I want to be young, just one long time.
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I want to want more chands, to do it all right.
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Speaker 10 (34:56):
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Yeah, Howard Bliffits that's available everywhere.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Check him out tonight at mister Small's Great Stuff Man
sounds awesome. Connor you right on, Congrats and best of
luck and Jersey at the Lighted Day Fest next week.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
That's Connor Parente and Company.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
A killer band there too, Jesse Prentie and Derek Beatty
and Steve Benzberger, Jack Breeding and the one and only
Mark Richman on the harp there. Special thanks to those guys.
Thanks to Dave Damashek who's brought to you by the
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Love me some Caliente.
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Also thanks to our buddies Joey b Joe Bartnick hanging
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Speaker 5 (38:52):
Always good to see you, but you can hang in
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Speaker 7 (38:54):
Or hanging around Yeah hockey games and then on the
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and our friend Sean Collier.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Tomorrow night, I'll be at ogle B Resort doing stand
up with Lace Larrabee from America's Got Talent, Tom Usual
on that show as well. Might be sold out. Go
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(39:28):
Man that might be at g L E B A Y.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Don't forget.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
The big Steelers playoff party is tomorrow Abby at the
Tequila Cowboy there down on the North Shore.
Speaker 15 (39:38):
You can have.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yourself a good time, hosted by Rob King and Charlie
Batch again.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
That is going to be Saturday five to seven p m.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Tom Offerman and west Yuler will broadcast the party live
on Steelers Nation Radio one O two point five h
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stage appearances.
Speaker 6 (40:05):
So it'll be good time.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
No polka today, you can't because the game is Monday.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
You know we could do instead, we could be like, oh,
we're not doing it. Randy's birthday tomorrow, thank.
Speaker 17 (40:19):
You so much.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
Make really quiet and creepy. Yeah, don't do it like that.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
No, I'm gonna go sit in at tend with Aaron
Rodgers all weekend where you smoke ourselves into it the
right mindset, that's right, the darkness retreat. What better way
to celebrate. I'm gonna be the exact opposite. My eyes
are gonna be on a TV from the time I
leave here until Tuesday morning.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
It's gonna be ridiculous weeks, sports awesome. I cannot wait. Jacob,
good luck to your boys tonight. Thank you, Randy. I'm excited.
Speaker 17 (40:49):
I am nervous. This is another week where it's the
biggest game of my life. But uh, it's a busy
It's a busy week for all of us. Right Indiana tonight,
Pittsburgh on Monday. It's gonna be either one of the
best weeks of my life or one of the worst.
Either feeling both games will go in the same direction.
Either they'll both win or they'll both lose. I don't
(41:10):
know why I had that feeling, but that's just what
my gut's telling me.
Speaker 15 (41:13):
A well.
Speaker 14 (41:13):
Traditionally, still a playoff games are relative to what happens football.
Speaker 5 (41:17):
I see where you're coming from with that.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
The Hoosier Winds blow over, Yeah, Indiana giving three and
a half tonight.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
I like the Hoosiers.
Speaker 13 (41:26):
Man.
Speaker 14 (41:26):
If I was gonna play the Hoosiers. I'd play money line,
but well, yeah, and your odds won't be too bad.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
I mean, money line shouldn't bang it too bad with
only three points. Maybe bet it down to one and
a half or something like that.
Speaker 14 (41:38):
Forty eight and a half is the total, Jake, what
do you think you could go teaser and get IU plus.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Three like Becat says, you're only teasing yourself. Forty eight
and a half is the total.
Speaker 5 (41:49):
What do you think that's over?
Speaker 17 (41:50):
I mean they almost hit that on them by themselves
last week against Bama.
Speaker 5 (41:55):
It's gone the line. The spread has gone down.
Speaker 17 (41:58):
It was I think it's sort of like a and
then it went to four and a half and four
and now you said it's at three and a half.
So I don't know what's going on in Vegas that
they continue to bring that line down.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
I'd probably well, one of your defenders is out right, well.
Speaker 17 (42:12):
He went It's a shame he went down in the
celebrations of the Big Ten championship win over Ohio State.
But I mean he was just a depth guy that
really found his way to the starting lineup. But the debt,
I mean, obviously the defense destroyed Bama. So they're not
really missing a beat with him, I would actually take
the under. I mean, Ohio State was thirteen to ten.
(42:33):
Oregon is a great defensive team, much better than Bama,
So if that's any indication, I think this might be
a lower scoring game than what we saw in the
Rose Bowl. Of course, only one team scored in that game.
I still like my team. I still like us, but
I'm not you know me, I'm not as much of
a betting man as you are, so I don't know if, yeah,
(42:54):
I would trust my opinion on taking the over or under.
Speaker 8 (42:56):
There I.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
Scoring, that's just my guy. We're just talking to an
Indiana guy because it's cute, Jacob.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
I can get you into the stadium for two hundred
and fifteen dollars tonight.
Speaker 17 (43:08):
I almost went. I should have gone. I was on
vacation with my family last week.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
As you know.
Speaker 17 (43:14):
Yes, I knew about one hundred and fifty people that
went to the Rose Bowl. It was the worst fomo
I've ever experienced in my life. Everyone said that they
spent their money happily on the Rose Bowl, getting their
tickets and housing, and now if they want to spend more,
they're looking ahead. As I mentioned, earlier today to Miami.
(43:35):
I don't know nearly as many people going tonight, so
I kind of kill myself sidelined tonight as well.
Speaker 5 (43:41):
What's the game tonight at Atlanta? You could be on
a noon flight, buddy. It's a hell of a stadium too.
You could get there. Rose Bowl legend, Joe Bartnick, Did
you go to the Rose Bowl this year?
Speaker 7 (43:51):
This is the only year I would only year. I
haven't been in like eighteen years. But my whole family
went because they're all my god said, goes to Indiana.
Oh okay, but you missed I missed it.
Speaker 5 (44:02):
Well, we'll get to them. I had to work. Well, yeah,
hey man, someone's got to be on the stage telling jokes.
Speaker 8 (44:07):
All right.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Michelle's got the h the airchair here next with the
electric lunch at noon.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
Give her a call. Let her know what you want
to hear. Have a great weekend, everybody. I'm finished. You
stay classy, Pittsburgh. Don't touch your face?
Speaker 8 (44:20):
Hey got him type Pittsburgh day baby.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
And now you gotta call me Ronald? Would you not
eat my pants?
Speaker 8 (44:25):
Ronald?
Speaker 5 (44:26):
A normal size nipple.
Speaker 6 (44:34):
To taps chicken?
Speaker 5 (44:36):
Bye? Why google it?
Speaker 8 (44:39):
Nipples the same size as every bom Bye a great Friday.
Speaker 16 (44:51):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
to you by Independence Health System, Expert Care here and
Steeler's Pro Shop. Get it direct from the team at
Shop dot Steelers dot com. Here's Tom Opperman.
Speaker 18 (45:04):
The Steelers will host their first playoff game in five
years Monday night, when they welcome the Houston Texans the
town for the final game of wild Card Weekend. It's
tough to find many weaknesses when examining the Texans, who
are the NFL's hottest team heading into the playoffs with
a nine game winning streak. One area, however, where Houston
isn't particularly strong, is running the ball. On the offensive
side of the ball, Houston averages just three point nine
(45:25):
yards per carry, which is better than only four other
teams in the NFL, and their nine rushing touchdowns as
a team is second fewest the head of only the
Las Vegas Raiders for the season. What He marxis Houston's
leading rusher with seven hundred and three yards on the season,
but is averaging just three point six yards per carry
with just two touchdowns and sixteen games. The Steelers run.
Speaker 5 (45:43):
Defense, despite giving up one hundred and thirty seven yards
to Ravens on the ground last week. Has averaged just seventy.
Speaker 18 (45:49):
Three point three yards per game allowed via the run
over the past four games, and shouldn't have a problem
completely shutting down Houston's lackluster rushing attack. Kickoff between the
Texans and Steelers.
Speaker 5 (45:59):
Is Monday night at age fifteen. I'm Tom Aferman with
the Steelers report.
Speaker 6 (46:05):
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