1.9.26 Randy Baumann and the DVE Morning Show FULL SHOW

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 3 (00:46):
Dave Damn a shack us joining.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Us on these the good time.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Here come the Buckos step.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Pittsburgh Penguins have already arrived, and the Steelers are in
the postseason. All our hand ringing of the past year
has been washed the way we're born and new, ain't
we fellas?

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Look, you know some big free agent signings for the
Bucos so far.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
I mean, they've got a long way to go.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
But relatively speak, yes, well, relatively speaking is the only
way to speak when speaking about the Buckos relative to
their lack of spending in the past.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Some things to the playoffs, and that's that we can
talk about it in March. Let's talk about the matter
in hand.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Let's talk about the matter in hand.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, of course you reference the Penguins had a nice
run coming out of the holidays there and the Pittsburgh Steelers,
who I tried to explain this to you, Dave, I
don't know if you get the sense out there in
Steeler Nation that masses on the West coast, but back
here it's as if they just got a berth in

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the AFC Championship. That was the level of celebration in
relief that came with the victory over the Ravens this
past Sunday night.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
So many thoughts, I, you know, I don't want to
be the curmudgeon and have to say it, but let's
try not to be prisoners of the moment. Obviously, if
Tyler Luke makes that kick, we're having very different conversations.
Do you think globally listen thrilled with that and the
notion that a forty four yard field go much like

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the forty seven yard field goal Scott Norwood missed. This
is a different era and all of that, and kickers
are better than they were back then, but got the next.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
Time you get a chance.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
I don't have to tell Randy Bauman, you know, member
of a kicking family. But go out next time you're
near a football field, go stand where a forty four
yard field goal is and see how far away and
how implausible it seems that instead a human being would
be able to through through the little rectangle in the
distance there. Nevertheless, I thought it was possible he might

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miss that kick.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
What a game?

Speaker 4 (02:58):
What a what a you know, an iconic stretch for
the best rivalry in pro football this millennium. It was
great stuff. And like I say, really, globally speaking where
the NFL is concerned, I don't know there's been a
more consequential regular season game since maybe literally to make
a little circle here of the events at hand, since

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the Houston Texans pulled off that rally that landed Bryce
Young in Caroline and CJ. Stroud in Houston, and let's
get it on on Monday night, which I don't like
spiritually on one level that it's a playoff game. This
is a big time game. It was a Monday night football.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
What the hell?

Speaker 4 (03:41):
What do we do?

Speaker 6 (03:42):
Well?

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Are counterpoints Some people on the other side of the
coin in Houston might say, oh, the NFL is giving
the Steelers a home Monday night football game where they
almost never lose, well.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Never right, and then Mike Tomlin never wins in the playoffs,
So something's got to give as far as that's concerned.
What I do like about it? From a Steelers fans
pov when if if the Steelers were the first game
of the weekend and then lost, now your football weekend
is destroyed. Now you're not in the mood. You just

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got got punched, and now you don't want to watch
the other football game. Correct, that's how That's how petulant
Dave reacts, like I can't watch this now, Like I
I completely missed the nineteen ninety two World Series, the
Great World Series. I did watch Game seven, That's not true.
I saw Kirby Puckets home run and We'll see you
tomorrow night, and then I saw the the Great Game,

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the Jack Morris Game. But I missed everything that preceded
because I was too sick of my balls. I just couldn't.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
I couldn't bring myself.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
I thought, I thought it disloyal.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
And then of course when the first Patriots Championship game happened,
that Drew bledsoe and all of that, Sheryl Crow and
everything else.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
The unspeakable event.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
I against my will. Still, I had a ticket and
went to the game in New Orleans, to the Patriots
Rams Super Bowl, and the football got smote me by
giving me oystered food poisoning, and I vomited the entire night.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Of that super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
That was a powerful and unmistakable message, what the hell
are you doing here? That's why I just don't watch
the playoffs. So anyway, if the Steelers were to lose
the first game of the wildcard weekend, then I don't
know what I would do with myself.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
Here.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
I get to put my feet up Saturday and Sunday
and drink in everything then and then see if the
Steelers have a role going forward in.

Speaker 7 (05:37):
The divisional round.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Sure, yeah, all right, So so far Steelers are underdogs
going up against this mighty Houston defense here at Agroscer Stadium.
Did you see anything that made you feel better about
the offensive potential of Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers
in how they performed without DK Metc.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Well, simplistically, we know that Rogers is quite different at
this point when he is facing a nasty pass rush
and when he has a has an extra half a
second to survey what's going on. And you know, I
said that we talked about this in August before the season.
The limitation of the Baltimore Ravens was lack of pass

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rush and then being a little light on the back
end at corner. I do have to say, as somebody
who has you know, has been cynical about Aaron Rodgers'
ability to carry the day at age forty two, I
thought that was a real a nail's performance. I mean,
I wouldn't say his legacy is hanging in the balance

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on Sunday night, but you know, a first half that
yields a field goal and now really potentially his career
if they lose that game. I find it hard to
imagine there's any path for Aaron Rodgers playing for the
seat in twenty twenty six, and now he would go
out into the abyss. He has to feel that gravity

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and to put together what he did stroking that throat
to Pat Fryarmuth on third down in a big spot
and otherwise was remarkable stuff. I think that the Houston
Texans might be I said this six eight weeks ago,
maybe here on this space too. I thought the Jags,
based on schedule, we're gonna hold on to win the
AFC South. But the team that had emerged in the

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second half of this of the regular season is the
best in the AFC top to bottom is the Houston Texans.
And yet I think that's the best bet for the Steelers.
We already saw what the Chargers did, and we already
saw what the Bills did of the Steelers. Things aren't
that human beings ain't that different that the result would
wind up that wildly different than what we saw the

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first time six or eight weeks ago. Against either one
of those, at least we have the puncher's chance of
the unknown here. And there is a certain amount of
pressure sure as the favorite team for the Houston Texans
coming in here and C. J. Strouds Burden was being
the guy who's supposed to get it done for his franchise.
So I think that all amounts to the Steelers having
a shot here and a you know, I'm with you

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know Bowman, you say, do I have my finger on
the pulse of of what the populace is feeling right now?
I've gotten sucked in, man. I feel like in a
weird way. I know this is simplistic, but the lack
of DK metcalfs surviving that his absence in those two games,

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and it's just Bears repeating the same How is it
possible this experience why national people are like, oh, I
don't understand Steelers fans who who have a weird emotions
toarts to Mike Tomlin. Here here's why, everybody, because they
lost to the Cleveland Browns. They scored six points against
the bum Cleveland Browns. Will the season on the line,

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then turned around and beat the Baltimore Ravens with the
season on the line. Is in saying it's schizophrenic, It
makes no GD sense. But let me let me I
think maybe there's something to the idea of I think
there's something to the idea of in the absence of
DK metcalf maybe Rogers developed something more than existed prior
to these two weeks with Adam Thielen and MVS and

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and otherwise, and maybe that that that helps them for
these next sixty minutes and hopefully beyond.

Speaker 7 (09:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
No, I think that he gleaned enough from that Browns
game of what they could or could not do with
feeling an MVS. I mean, going going to him three
times at the end of the game was ludicrous.

Speaker 8 (09:42):
But Cleveland's defense is really really good and Baltimore's defense sucks.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
There is that too, But Dave, isn't there something too
like building up to this moment? Like I have been
trying to diagnosed and dissect how it is that Steeler
fans have had the reaction they have had to this
win over Baltimore, because I'm telling you right now, it
feels like, as I described earlier, it's as if we've

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advanced to the AFC Championship. It was that momentous and
it continues to reverberate in town. And I think it
goes all the way back to the first game against
Baltimore where they outlast the Ravens and Lamar can't get
it done on fourth down. And then fast forward to
the Detroit game, not a must win the boy, if

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they win it, they can put themselves in good shape,
and they outlast a team that they really needed to
win that game, Detroit, and the Steelers go into the
Motor City and outlast the Lions, and then you think, oh, now,
all we gotta do is beat the Brown and then
we the colossal what the hell was that against the Browns,

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And it removed all the hope that Steeler fans had
that maybe they had turned the corner and they thought, nope,
same old story is happening. And then the heart and
the revival of that team with ot dk metcalf against
the hated, vaunted rival Ravens and being able to get
it done at home. Just you know, sure you can say, oh, well,
if he misses that kick or doesn't miss the kick,

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things are different, all right, Well if Boswell doesn't miss
an extra point, things are different.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
You know, the ball went a couple of way. They
had them on fourth and seven, they had them on
fourth and four.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
There was so much drama to it that I know,
you're a believer in stuff like this to a degree.
Isn't there a little bit of football god fate blowing
casting the fate of the Steelers in the direction of
success this postseason?

Speaker 4 (11:36):
I you know, obviously, I feel like the bar has
been lowered a little bit. And that's been my rolling
issue for two seasons now with these Steelers, is does
this amount to a realistic shot at the Super Bowl?
And in my opinion, I'm gonna whisper it. I don't
think it does. But okay, but I hope I'm wrong

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about that time. I think so much of the excitement
you touch on it is. It's not the art ancient rival,
but it may as well be the Baltimore Ravens. The
swing from as you say, lines to to the punchline
Cleveland Browns, I mean, can we I mean, just just
just for a quick second, how great? Even if we

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had lost. It would have been sad if they would
have lost to the Ravens on Sunday night. But at
least you could have had a good belly laugh. As
we always say, things could be worse.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
You could.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
You could be an Ohio based football fan. And as
a reminder that the Cleveland Browns won five games, here's
here they win five total games, Miles Garrett. It gets
a pathetic asterisk seventeenth game sack record. And they can
carry them off. They can carry them off the next

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and the next morning they fire that.

Speaker 9 (12:58):
I mean, there's there's a they are.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
They are the best.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
And whatever sorrow you have as a Steelers fan and frustration,
just just thank Jesus and the football guy that the
Cleveland Browns on our division is just to provide some
perspective for us. I think beating the then turning around
and beating the Cleveland Browns who call themselves the Baltimore
Ravens because they wear purple now, but let's all admit it,

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I don't know who that team is in Cleveland. That's
not the Cleveland Browns. They can call themselves that. The
real Cleveland Browns are in Baltimore. So vanquishing them was
that was grand stuff. And the swing I think part
of it is the stakes which we had been talking
about for two weeks, four weeks or otherwise, and pursuit.
It can be a cynic about whether or not that

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might have yielded Tomlin moving on. And by the way,
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (13:52):
That that hash is settled.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
If they lose this game, I don't think they're going
to fire him. I think that there as you know,
pursue that there's just no way. Adam Schefter was pouring
over the the fine print in Mike Tomlin's contract and
stumbled on like, oh, there's a loophole here that they
could get out from under. Where did that come from?
If not from the Steelers or a coach or the

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agent of a coach who wants the gig because he
thinks Mike Tomlin might move on. Those are those are
the those are the plausible ways that Adam Schefter has
that information, and Ryan Clark wouldn't be repeatedly talking about
like I think they're having a conversation.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
I just think that's a thing.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
I just I think that happens. I don't think I'm
being a conspiracy theorist by pointing that out.

Speaker 8 (14:38):
He's clearly going to the New York Football Giants. That's
what Ryan Clark said last week. Start spreading the news.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
I just listen.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
That's that's the point.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
I want to be New York, New York. I said,
not I'm calling the fight.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
All right.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Let me ask you this. Do you think the Ravens
got rid of the wrong guy?

Speaker 7 (15:09):
No?

Speaker 4 (15:10):
I I'm a little surprised by the sort of I mean,
apparently legitimately a lot of these teams. They're desperate teams,
but they're falling all over themselves to try and get
a sit down with John Harbaugh to talk them into
the gig. I feel like this, Uh, the analogy being
drawn between Harbaugh and Andy Reid is a little flawed.

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Andy Reid is a straight up X and O guy
with you know, who knows how to work with quarterbacks
and all of that. John Harbaugh. I'm not trying to
I just sound like a marginalizing him because I am.
But he's a he's a successful pe teacher, right, I mean,
he's like, he's a great foreman, he's a great overseer
of the operation day to day.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
But he's not.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
I don't think he walks in the door and knows
how to get in the year and say the right
thing to the quarterback in the court order back league
and all of that. I think if he were to
go to like the thing people are saying, like, oh,
you should just go to the Cleveland Brown's, Like, all right,
I think you get exposed if he went to the
Browns and was in a in a messed up working

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with a messed up franchise versus the one he's just
coming from. It's all getting very confusing and incestuous because
like I said two minutes ago, that Baltimore Ravens are
the Cleveland Brown.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yes, the Cleveland Brown should go to Baltimore and Harbaugh
should go to Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
That's what I think.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
I think that would be the greatest thing. And here's
just something to ponder just because I think it's fun.
It's fifteen years ago, twenty years ago. Let's just trade
them Tomlin for John Harbaugh, who has the more Which
is the more successful franchise over the last two decades?
If Tomlin where the Ravens coach, and Harbaugh were the

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Steelers coach, is it the same number of Lombardy? Ultimately,
I don't think it's a good question, the one about
did the Ravens keep the right guy? No, John Harbad.
I mean, I don't think he has some secret sauce necessarily,
but also I think we're getting pretty close to the point.
The same could be said of Josh Allen as a

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recurring theme from Redundant Dave. You know, they only give
out one Lombardi every year, So the idea that all
these great quarterbacks all bitch You think Josh Allen's never
gonna win a Lombardy, Like, yeah, the math doesn't allow
for them all to get Lombardi. You think Burrow and
Josh Allen and Lamar and Patrick Mahomes is definitely going

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to get at least one more before he's done. And meantime,
there's Matthew Stafford out there and here comes c. J. Stroud,
and here comes all the Cats from last year's draft class,
which is very quickly entering its collective into the conversation
of is this the best QB draft class? Let's see
what happens. But Bo Nix and Drake May and Caleb
Williams and Jane Daniels are here too. Everybody can't win

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Lombardy's I think there is a good case that Lamar
Jackson has already on his best.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Ross at minimum.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
I think that so now he's gonna have to carry
more of the day. And there's not any indication in
the irony of Lamar Jackson is that he is at
his worst when you're trying to have him play safe.
I don't think that's what we saw on Sunday night.
In fact, I thought he made a couple of special
plays that really seemed to have won the day. And

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if the Ravens right now, if the conversation, you know,
we we'd be talking about the Penguins are the Pirates
right now, and Baltimore would be getting ready for the
Texans instead, you know, that dangerous team that no one
wants to play. I mean, I think that would be
the Ravens, right, I mean we would be and John
Harbaugh getting fired and all that wouldn't be the conversation

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right now. It would be man, can can the Ravens
really go on a run here? Because they'd be a
hot team jumping in there with Lamar Jackson. But and
that's the sad irony for the Ravens and their fans
right now. Is Lamar did make some big time plays.
He did come through in a big spot more than

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once there right then the kid missed the field goal.
You know that's that's right.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Last thing for you here in under one minute, the
lightning round. I'm going through the games. I want your picks. Saturday,
four thirty pm. Rams Panthers, Rams.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
I don't love the ten and a half though I
like them straight.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Up, Rammitt, Rammitt, do you know how to ram it?

Speaker 7 (19:23):
All?

Speaker 10 (19:23):
Right?

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Eight o'clock game? This is the one I'm really looking
forward to. Saturday night, Packers Bears.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
I hate when people say it's hard to beat the
same team three times. It's even harder to lose the
first two and then somehow convince yourself like, yeah, this
third time will be different. Though that being said, the
Green Bay Packers are going to win this game. I
think it's a big spot for Caleb Williams. I know
he's come through in some of those spots this season.

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I do like Jordan Love. I don't understand why people
are talking about about the Floor losing his gig. That's
very strange.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Next Sunday one o'clock, Bill's Jags.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
I'm taking the Bills. Jags are are playing great. In
fact in the QB League, quarterback playing better than the
Bills quarterback is. But I do think that Buffalo for
one week, and by the way we keep talking about
John Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin and whoever else, Sean McDermott
better win this game. I feel like he's coaching for

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his future in Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Forty nine forty nine Ers Eagles Sunday Night or Sunday
four thirty.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Eagles are going to the super Bowl, so obviously they're
going to beat the San Francisco forty nine Ers. Two
Jenga pieces on defense. Jalen Carter is back, and that
defense is very different and just about his dominant as
Seattle's or Denver's. And now they're getting Lane Johnson back.
They're a different team offensively. When he's out there. Beware
the defending champs who for some reason, people are sleeping.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Out Chargers Patriots Sunday night.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
The charge limitation is obviously their offensive line. The Patriots
don't do a great job of heating up the QB.
I think that the Patriots, though, are set up with
Rabel and company that survive. This is a This is
a tough spot for the Chargers to go across the country.
I'm taking the New England Patriots to advance at least

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to the division.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
And in fifteen seconds, tell me why the Texans are
going to lose to the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
I think that I have no good X and O
reason for the Pittsburgh Steelers to win this game. They're
rolling a little bit. DK Metcalf coming back. That should
be liberating for Aaron Rodgers after the last two games
of having to find the decrepit bones of Adam Steele
and the the boneless hands of MBS. I think he's
going to be liberated.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
I think no bones.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
I think the Steelers win this one. Twenty to sixteen.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Dave danishek Rodie by the Gateway Clipper from the Football
America podcast Ladies and Gentlemen, Double d.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
It is your radio home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Why
don't you point five DV Randy Bauman the DV Morning
Show Our next guest covering the NFL fifty years of
NFL coverage from Houston, Texas. One of our all time
favorite NFL guests here on the program, Ladies and gentlemen,
the legendary John the Clay's joining us.

Speaker 11 (22:34):
John, Good morning, how are you. I'm doing great, guys,
how are you fantastic? And couldn't be more excited for
this game. We got a real banger lined up here
for Monday night football in the Burg, the Steelers and
the Texans. So nobody better to have on to talk
about the opponent for the Pittsburgh Steelers this weekend than yourself, John.

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And I'm wondering with this dominating defense that DeMarco, Ryan
and company have put together in Houston, which aspect of
that is going to give the Steelers the most fits.

Speaker 9 (23:08):
Well, the defensive line, specifically the outside guys Will Anderson Junior.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
And Daniel Hunter.

Speaker 9 (23:15):
Both of them have at least twelve sides Anderson twelve
hundred and fifteen. They get most of the pressure, but
considering how quick Aaron Rodgers gets through the ball, and
in all the passes that he throws short and intermediate,
I would suspect they will. Anderson Junior sometimes lines up

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over center, and I know that's what I would do
with him to get him a shorter path to Rogers.
And the defensive tackles, especially guy named Tommy Togii who
was signed here last year to the practice squad after
bouncing around like a pinball. He had to play this

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year because they had three of their top four defensive
tackles going injured, and the guy just keeps getting better
and better, so he's been able to get a little penetration.
So they've definitely got to get people to get to
stop the Steelers running game, of course, but try to
get pressure up the middle to throw off Rogers as

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timing and I will point out to you guys, the
Texans have a super Bowl defense, they have a super
Bowl special teams, but their offense is mediocre. Their running
game is mediocre and best their offensive line is one
of the worst I've ever seen last season, and then
it's improved this season. As pass protectors tried hadn't been

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sacked in the last three games. One sacked in the
last four him getting rid of the ball quicker instead
of trying to make hero plays all old boom thirteen
yard sack. He's tried to cut back on that. But
their running game, I'll guarantee if Steelers are going to
shut down, they're running and what Stroud can do against

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the Steelers pass rush will be the key for the
Texans offense.

Speaker 8 (25:07):
John back to that Texans defense for a second. I
saw the Chargers game. I think they hit one deep ball.
When was it Lasser wasn't in or no Sting he
wasn't in, and then the Colts hit a couple. But
I don't know how much the Texans cared about that
Colts game. Would the vulnerability be you can get a

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deep sideline ball on them if you can somehow protect
long enough to throw it.

Speaker 5 (25:33):
Well. One of the things that's the key with that.

Speaker 9 (25:35):
They've given up three long passes in the last two games,
two of them are with their backups against the Colts.
And they have very aggressive players. Their secondary is really good.
They're talented. Derrick Stanley Jr. First round pick, Kamari Lassiter,
Jalen Petrie second round picks. They've got a safety Kalen book,

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who's got great speed and ball skills.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
Those guys are good.

Speaker 9 (26:01):
But one of the hallmarks of the defense, which is
called by Matt Ryan but as Tamiko Ransay's system, is
the aggressiveness and how quick they are, how fast to
the ball, and how hard they hit. Well, sometimes they bite,
and that's how they would hit a deep ball.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
I don't even think Aaron Rodgers would have to get
a lot of time.

Speaker 9 (26:24):
I know I'd back up, take three steps and just
pling it down the sideline, especially if I was getting
close to midfield, or it'd be like a punt if
it was intercepted, and test those corners and safeties and
see if they.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
Would bite you.

Speaker 9 (26:39):
I don't know if they'd have a time to do
double moves. Maybe he hits rout, but I would definitely
test them early, just as I'm CJ. Striuding the Texans
play caller Nick Kayley, I am testing the Steelers secondary
to see if what happened in the fourth quarter with
Lamar Jackson and Jay Flowers to happen again. Two games ago,

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the Texans threw two deep balls in the first quarter
for touchdowns against the Chargers, never even got in the
red zone and on the first play of Indy when
the starters were in, he had another deep ball open,
but he threw his short past Adulton Schultzeres coming off
the best season in his career, So I would certainly

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get out there and test the Steelers deep ball as well.

Speaker 7 (27:28):
Well.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
You mentioned Aaron Rodgers testing the secondary of the Texans
and how aggressive they've been. I mean, wasn't it just
last week that they finally gave up enough touchdowns to
you know, Eclipse The amount of interceptions they had this year.
Wasn't it like twenty to nineteen And they didn't care,

(27:50):
and they didn't care lest.

Speaker 9 (27:51):
There was They lost the fewest points to Seattle by
think four, by putting in their reserves and can have
but they thought that was important, and of course it
is as to stats.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
But they've been really good at giving up touchdowns.

Speaker 9 (28:08):
Their defense has been great, and the linebackers are good,
and they're fast.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
They're all under two thirty.

Speaker 9 (28:16):
And you can't trust the weights they have because they
put the measurements they get on guys when they're coming
out of college and they never change them. But most
of their linebackers are for speed and so they usually
weigh like two twenty five to two twenty eight, so
they can move, and they aren't incredibly fast defense, but

(28:37):
that aggressiveness sometimes of bagfires. I know if I were teams,
I'd run screens. I'd run the old screen in which
the running back actually goes out behind the alignment, catches
the ball in the flat, and then follows those linemen
for good games. Texans offense, I don't think they know
what a screen is, and it's been so long since

(29:00):
I've seen them execute an effective screen the whole passion way,
I can't remember.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
John. Texas don't run the ball especially well.

Speaker 8 (29:10):
You mentioned you think Pittsburgh's gonna shut it down, but
they'll stick with it if the score allows them to correct.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
I mean they don't.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
They're not going to care about run, run punt.

Speaker 9 (29:21):
One of the things they've been bad about, Mike is
they they have been a bad.

Speaker 5 (29:27):
Lot of second longs.

Speaker 9 (29:28):
Stroud doesn't throw a lot of passes, doesn't throw a
lot of touchdown passes, doesn't throw a lot of interceptions,
and they've been very good at protecting the ball, which
is one of the things. The joke here is the
Dolfins goes out.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
Just don't turn it over and hurt the defense.

Speaker 9 (29:44):
But the fact that they can't run, and you'll see
a lot of second nins, third nights because that's just
what they are. They never had Joe Mix And you
guys know very well, Joe had a terrific season last
year thousand yards, fourteen hundred yards counting, receiving twelve touchdowns,
and then this year put injury and kept him out

(30:05):
all season. So they what he marks a fourth round
pick from USSE and Nick Chubb.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
Chubb was a healthy scratch.

Speaker 9 (30:13):
They've had five backs get carries this season. But and
Chub's fine. You know, he wasn't what y'all saw when
he was great before. He was hurt with the Browns.
But he'll play a little bit too. But they don't
have any backs get long runs. Wood he marks is
better receiver. That's one of their biggest needs in the
off season.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Get a running back.

Speaker 9 (30:35):
Arian Foster is still the best running back in franchise history.
He was an undrafted free agent. They've got to get
a running back who can help the offense and take
pressure off Stroud in the passing game. And so you'll
see it. They may if they get if they get
four or five yards. They're ecstatic because they just don't
get that much. I can't tell you the last time

(30:56):
they had one of their backs break through the line
and get third. I don't even know if it's happened
all year.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
John, last thing I have for you, I'd be remiss
if I did not ask you for some some history
between these two football cities. And I know that you've
seen your fair share of Steelers in Houston football and
different incarnations. What stands out to you as one of
your all time favorite memories of Steelers, either Oilers or Texans.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Well, first of all, nothing was the Steelers of Texans.

Speaker 9 (31:31):
You know, the last time they played here in twenty
three the Texan detail out of them.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
But that to me, and.

Speaker 9 (31:38):
It's because I'm an old part. This is my fiftieth
year of covering the NFL. I remember Franco Harris told
me when we were at the Hall of Fame meeting
about five years ago. We were be asking about the
Oilers and Steelers, and he said, people thought that the
Raider rivalry was the best.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
No, it was the tank of the Oilers. Our best
rival was Oilers. It was a physical, nasty.

Speaker 9 (32:02):
Rivalry, but it was one out of respect, and I
know bum Phillips and those coaches back then had great,
great relationship with the Steelers.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
The best victory that the Steelers ever had.

Speaker 9 (32:15):
On the Oilers playoff Game eighty nine, Gerry Anderson. It's
the fifty yard field goal in the Dome. And people
here like, oh my god, we lost to the Steelers,
and I said, yep, but we're getting rid of Jerry Glanbet, so.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Can you talk.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
About winning for losing? That was it.

Speaker 9 (32:35):
And I got one memory. It's Dan Pastorini and Mike Renfro.
I've watched it again probably fifty times. I know both
those guys very well today, Pastorini, and it was such
such a controversy and it's still you know today Renfro, Pastorini, everybody.

(32:56):
The touchdown. That is the one play in this Franche
history that stands out to me the most is this
rivalry between these two great cities. And that's why I'm
so fired up about Monday night. People tell me, oh,
you're a dinosaur. Nobody cares about the old Oilers and Steelers,
and I said, well, I damn sure do. And I know,

(33:17):
out of six million people in this area, I'm not
the only one that.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Does did he catch the ball? Did Renfro catch the ball?

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Moved a little bit?

Speaker 9 (33:26):
I've watched it slow modes and either if Myron Cope
says his feet were in, and I've listened to the
replay with Myron.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
If Myron cop the.

Speaker 9 (33:36):
Ultimate Steelers homer, say he caught the ball and his
feet were in, by God, he caught that ball.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
John McClean, fifty years covering the NFL. We always appreciate
your perspective here on the show. John, thanks for making
time for us this morning.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
Hey, it's my pleasure.

Speaker 9 (33:54):
I hope all those great Steeler fans have a blast
out there at that game on Monday night.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
I cannot wait.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
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Speaker 1 (34:39):
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Speaker 8 (34:46):
No kidd seven point thirty. Well, people are gonna want
to listen to Patrick Queen. You hadn't heard that he
was on the show today.

Speaker 13 (34:52):
I had not looked like a genuine surprise.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Yeah, that was Atty Good. It's like that's like an
A lister.

Speaker 8 (34:59):
Sure, yeah, Chief Award winner. Well he's earning it for
next year, that's right. Or just maybe that's how they
got him to do it. You know he wanted some ward.
You gotta go do this radio show. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
It's a bunch of knuckleheads, but you know, deal with it.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
If you don't deal with the flagship, we can't give you.
The Chief Award.

Speaker 8 (35:19):
Sports is not Patrick Leesman, the defensive Aaron Rodgers. It
just it's the guy you go to to find stuff
out and he's willing to engage.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
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Speaker 8 (35:34):
Yesterday was Coordinator Thursday on the South Side, but it's
also Aaron Rodgers Day because Steels didn't practice on Wednesday
because they're not playing until Monday, so everything's kind of
pushed back today. You think today's Friday, it's actually Thursday.
In Steeler world, I hate when they do that, but
they do that. And it turns out that embrace that
Rogers shared with head coach Mike Tomlin in the immediate

(35:54):
aftermath of the Steelers' last place survival of the Ravens
that won, where Rogers thank Tomlin for bringing him to
Pittsburgh and Tomlin thanked Rogers for coming then. So it
turns out that was a long time in coming.

Speaker 10 (36:09):
Let's started back.

Speaker 14 (36:10):
In April when I came out here and visited with him,
and then the conversations that we had, Uh, you know,
during those months, I've enjoyed my time with Mike immenseally.

Speaker 10 (36:21):
Mike is a phenomenal leader. He's great in front of
the room.

Speaker 14 (36:25):
Mike, we have our meetings Wednesdays and Thursday mornings with
the quarterbacks that are really really helpful seeing his perspective
on the on the plan, on the opponent every single week.
So it's been a great experience. I really appreciate Mike,
and you know, I'm just thankful that he.

Speaker 10 (36:41):
Was a part of brand here.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
It calls him Mike, always calls him Mike.

Speaker 8 (36:46):
Well, he's allowed to about to say. It took Rogers
a while to make his decision to join the Steelers official.
You might remember in the spring occasional questioning of that,
but once Aaron Rogers was in, he was all in.

Speaker 14 (37:04):
Remember, once I made the decision, I felt like it
was the right decision. There were some confirmation moments for sure. Yeah,
when I got here day one to mini camp, I
felt like it was a little different in a good way,
and I liked the feeling. And then obviously the Trobe
experience was a really positive one. I'm thankful that mister
Rooney still has the team do that every single year.

(37:25):
It's a good chemistry, building team bonding, opportunity, and coming
out of the TROB I felt good about our team
that we've been in a position lay in the air
to play some meaningful football games.

Speaker 8 (37:35):
So it's mister Rooney, but it's Mike. Yeah, well the
lone of d Mark. You take this familiarity stuff only
so far. You know, the guy that signs your checks,
you're gonna have to call mister. But like care Rogers,
I'm thankful that they go to Latrobe every year because well,
I don't know if you guys know this about me.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
I kind of like that.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Well it's interesting though.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
I was thinking about it yesterday as I was watching
the video of Air and Rogers sitting up on the
podium there and he's got his winter hat on, and
I was just thinking, like, I know, Green Bay is
not exactly a cosmopolitan area, you know, it is most
certainly not, but he is really you know that south
side facility. You jump on a road going the other way,

(38:18):
it gets pretty Pennsylvania pretty fast, you know. And for
a Bay Area guy, I know again, I know he's
Green Bay, you know, baptized already. He really seems, like
I was saying, my worry was he wanted to cause
play you know, rough and tough football on his way
out and wasn't really embracing the Steeler ethos. You know

(38:43):
what I'm saying by that, No, I know exactly what
you're saying, but but I don't think that anymore.

Speaker 15 (38:49):
He'll always lu yes, exactly, That's what I'm getting to. Yeah,
he was in New Jersey.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
Thank you for two years. That's thank you for writing me.

Speaker 7 (39:00):
You know.

Speaker 15 (39:00):
Yeah, Pittsburgh's awesome anyway, but compared to you know, Orange County, Jersey, Yeah,
I agree with you.

Speaker 7 (39:07):
Now.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Look, I'm Pennsylvania through it through, I mean, my entire life.
But those Malibu guys don't particularly Yeah.

Speaker 8 (39:14):
Yeah, so Green Bays a little bit more rustic than
we are.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, but he little he seems to fit right in
with that. And so it's it was no surprise that
he loved camp, that it was all about football, but
he also seems to this seems to have been on
his on a personal level. For him, a nice respite
from all of the attention he was getting from all
the other bs is that he just dove into football.

(39:42):
And what better place to do it than starting out
in La Trobe and winding your season through Pittsburgh and
then a respite from the Jets.

Speaker 8 (39:52):
Didn't win and they were a mess, and you know,
he's throwing straight at them throughout the year. He threw yesterday.
Does not like their organization, the way they run things.
He like the way they run things here, So he's
he's checked all his boxes. Stealers will tell you that
Rogers has checked all theirs that they had. This has
been a phenomenal pairing and now Rogers, in addition to

(40:13):
embracing his coach, is embracing a return to making the playoffs.

Speaker 10 (40:19):
Yeah, it feels good to be back.

Speaker 14 (40:20):
That's why you play you when we playing media for
football late in the season and we put ourselves in
that position. You know, I think some of it's embracing
the way the season has gone, and at six and six,
a lot of people thinking we were going to be
kind of stumbling to the finish and then who knows
what was going to happen. A lot of you probably
in this group, either publicly or privately. We're talking about

(40:41):
Mike Teague next.

Speaker 10 (40:43):
So it feels good.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Price he brought that up.

Speaker 14 (40:46):
Shut all those comments down, clean the slate. Now anybody
can make a run. You know, it's the hottest team.
We've won four out of five. We're playing a lot
better football than we were there in the season.

Speaker 10 (40:57):
Or lock our chances.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
Very surprisely brought that up.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
I'm not now.

Speaker 8 (41:04):
He likes Tomin and he knows what people think of
what a certain percentage of the fan base thinks of Tomlin,
and that was his little Hey, here's the middle finger.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yeah, we're going to the playoffs. How do you like that?
I like it a lot. It's funny. Two of my
friends who I would consider to be Penguin fans before
Steeler fans, and I have a couple of friends who
are Pirate fans above everything.

Speaker 10 (41:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Two of my more Penguin fans have independently said to me, man,
I'm really nervous for Monday night. Like it's crazy how
everybody is back in on the Steelers all of a
sudden that I know, we talked about it yesterday, but
the reverberation of the wake of that game against Baltimore

(41:48):
has been something to behold.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Because it's not hyperbole.

Speaker 8 (41:52):
When we described that as one of the great games
in Steelers Ravens. Yes, understanding Steelers Ravens system right, it
was one of the great games in Hinzfield slash actors
your stadium mystery understanding the history of that, I mean,
you don't get there might be another twenty years until
we see that it's true.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
That fourth quarter was unbelievadible.

Speaker 8 (42:09):
It's like, you know, you watch the NFL, Oh, the
officiating sucks and I hate this rule and replay this
so you can find a million things to complain about when.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
You're watching an NFL game, and.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Then you get that like, oh, I get it. Yeah,
that's why I'm obsessed.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Sports are the best. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Sometimes I forgot. I forgot we didn't score before halftime.
I mean I got it to be reminded of that. Yes,
I was like, oh, that's right. I totally forgot about
that part of the drama. Like the entire game was
just this non stop build. Oh yeah.

Speaker 15 (42:39):
I end up thinking, like, what is Mike and Ternally
going to have to deal with on the phone, And
that's what I Yeah, it's all gonna come down to
that play at the end of the half. Yeah, for
the postgames, but if I am one of the Penguin fans,
I am not nervous.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
This is what you live for. You live for the playoffs,
and I don't want to jinx about I just got
a good feeling. I gotta good feeling too.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Yeah, I agree with you. You got to embrace these games.

Speaker 8 (43:02):
There has to be a threat to make it as
satisfying as it can be. You know, to quote Tom Hanks,
in a league of their own, the hard is what
makes it great.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Abby's got your news when we come back, an Oakland
institution is closing, and believe it or not, there's another
Jackass movie in the works.

Speaker 16 (43:20):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
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Speaker 3 (43:31):
Here's Tom Opferman.

Speaker 17 (43:32):
The Steelers will host their first playoff game in five
years Monday night, when they welcome the Houston Texans to
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 average is just three point

(43:53):
nine yards per carry, which is better than only four
other teams in the NFL, and their nine rushing touchdowns
as a team is second few is the head of
only the Las Vegas Raiders for the season. What he
marxis Houston's leading rusher with seven hundred and three yards
of the season, but is averaging just three point six
yards per carry with just two touchdowns in sixteen games.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
The Steelers run defense it's.

Speaker 17 (44:12):
By giving up one hundred and thirty seven yards to
Ravens on the ground last week.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Has averaged just.

Speaker 17 (44:17):
Seventy 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 is Monday night at eight fifteen.
I'm Tom Opferman with the Steelers report.

Speaker 13 (44:34):
Five hospitals.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Guaranteed human.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Like the shame involvement, people are like, oh, did you
lose it naturally or was it?

Speaker 3 (44:44):
Ozempik like, yeah, who cares.

Speaker 15 (44:46):
It's like online dating now everyone just did it. Yeah, well,
it used to be like, oh my god, you met
it online. You are creed hair transplants. Oh yeah, hair
transplants online dating. Ozempic hair transfers. I think Gretzky went
to Turkey, but he could probably afford to go to America.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
He could just go to l A with Porky. What
to Wexford. I mean, you don't go that far.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
We got him, but you don't out I mean.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
For it, oh no way. Yeah, he's still Commercis for
that and for tea.

Speaker 15 (45:15):
Yeah oh yeah, yeah, good for him.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
No testosterone. Testosterone is a guy that we traded for.
He's a short stuff. Yeah no, no, because Gretzy had
a whole bunch of lettuce. I'm like, where was that.
Even my mother's like he looks different. Yeah, well you
know these look at Matthew McConaughey.

Speaker 7 (45:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (45:34):
Well, good for Borky. He's making some good, good cabbage.
I mean, everybody, I don't have to go to Turkey.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Yeah, Brandy Bellman and the d V Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Everybody, Joe Barneck and Studio Sean Calliere with us as well,
and the Pens rattle off six in a row with
the win last night, and even Gino's got Steeler fever
se Monday.

Speaker 18 (45:55):
You know, like people love sports here I said again
good luck to say, well, yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
There you go that.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
I love when the streams crossed that way. You know,
Gina is a big Steeler guy. Yeah, he is man
the return of Gino last night and the Penn's get
a win? Was it four to one? Was that the final?

Speaker 15 (46:14):
Store was the final? And let me tell you, Stuke
Skinner stood on his head. First period was such Yeah,
just an s show. Gino threw about five the tang
passes to like nobody softies just came back the other way. Yeah,
but then they put it on and it was great.
Duerk came out of the box at the back of
the net and Carlson looked good Gino and the power

(46:35):
play and away.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
We go, right on. Patrick Queen from the Pittsburgh Steelers
will be joining us at seven thirty Monday night. Of
course it's Steelers Texans here on Dve eight fifteen Wildcard
action at Akroshuer Stadium and all of the pregame activity
starting at four o'clock. And I'm getting a little more
excited watching the game last night, Ole Miss and Miami

(46:57):
getting getting a little more you know this, we's in
the last little bit of college football out here.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
I aways having flashbacks.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Oh we're waiting. Oh wait, three passes and now it
could all turn around. I'm telling you, man, that game
crazy last night. I don't like that the college football
season is going this long, though there's I kind of
would like it to be wrapped up by New Year's
Day for some reason. But it's hard to argue with
the entertainment value of that one last night.

Speaker 15 (47:22):
It's it's football and it's NFL or at college. You know,
it's something. How like if the NFL or college plays
in the spring, it's awesome to watch anything else. It's
like the USFL or the areas like, oh no, no
college basketball.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
I can't get into any that's.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
NFL just has a stranglehold on football in terms of
any sort of audience. I know the XFL made a
little bit of a had a little head wind there
for for a little while. You mean, like McMahon people
nicknames and they were playing yeah crazy rules rule. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Any league that has a team.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
For Birmingham in it, I'm not going to pay that.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
He's got a news update for you now.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
What's going on?

Speaker 19 (48:01):
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on the way, high around fifty and then on Sunday
things get colder, cloudy, with snow showers and a high
of thirty five. It's the end of an era in Oakland.

(48:23):
Hemingways announced that it's going to close in May. The
decision to close the longtime bar and restaurant on Forbes
Avenue came after much thought and with heavy hearts, they
set in a social media post on Thursday. Since opening
in nineteen eighty three, Hemingways has been more than just
a bar. It's been a home, a meeting place, and
an Oakland staple for generations of students, alumni, locals, and

(48:45):
friends at the heart of University of Pittsburgh. We're incredibly
sad to be closing this chapter, but we're deeply grateful
for over forty years of memories, laughter, late nights, friendships,
and traditions shared within these walls. And before they shut
their doors, customers are invited to stop and find their
picture on the wall and then share their favorite memories.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
So now Mark Cuban has to buy Hemingways in addition
to the O and.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
The Post Gazette.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
It's getting so expensive, you know, in the whole town.

Speaker 15 (49:12):
That's where all the rich kids when they came from
Phillis to their parents. That's where they went for like
dinner Hemingways. Yeah, you know, really get drinks, like, oh,
we get to go to Hemmingways tonight. Yeah, they could
afford it, the rich Philly.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
That's such a funny, stupid Pittsburg thing. Oh you're from Philly,
you're rich kids eating Hemingways. Huh yeah, we'll be over Perman.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
He's eating chili, exactly, good chill.

Speaker 13 (49:37):
You don't remember ever eating in Hemingways.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
I remember drinking, Okay, it was like thirty years ago
or forty years ago.

Speaker 15 (49:44):
Yeah, but literally all we're going to Hemingways. Oh your
parents are in town as opposed as Zelda's or.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Like the decades right.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
Yeah. At Penn State it was the the Allen Room
when I was there, it was a long time ago,
and the corner you'd go to the corner the Nitney
lying in if you were really fancy.

Speaker 6 (50:02):
Yeah, but some of at least some of that's still
Unhappy Valley. Like what's the long term thing in Oakland now,
Like what's the thing that's been.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
There for Yeah, it's not Peter's pub scenarios now I
don't know. I think they've you know, and I was
thinking about it, like as sad as it makes me.
I guess it's kind of good when there's turnover, provided
that there is some sort of like because everyone gets
a unique experience, you know, there's no raf Scaler Penn
State anymore, you know. But when the turnover turns to

(50:33):
something that is corporate and not unique to the.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Campus, that's when it's kind.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Of a drag. So at the T Mobile store in
the King's Court, Oh yeah, the Beehive yet, you know
what I mean? Like I loved going to see shows there. Yeah,
but at any rate, I don't have an answer for you,
Sean other than.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Uncle Sam's is still there.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Yeah, but that's just food, right, It's not like a
booze like.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Uncle Sam's in Oakland clothes.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Oh god, Jacob, what has been in Oakland the longest? Now?

Speaker 3 (51:08):
Was Hemingway's the last thing? I think?

Speaker 7 (51:10):
So?

Speaker 1 (51:10):
Oh, man, Chief's there? I don't think so man, Okay, Yeah,
the decade was a huge loss, and then the oh,
what's that's done? It's like, yeah, the decade has been
gone since like ninety one, I know, but it's still
like that should still be there. I agree with you.
I have a decade shirt that I got like off

(51:30):
the internet, and every time I wear it, I get
stopped constantly, where'd you get that? Where'd you get that?

Speaker 3 (51:36):
And it's always like my mom would love one of those.

Speaker 19 (51:43):
Well, something that is still there is Johnny Knoxville's Hubris.

Speaker 13 (51:47):
There is a Jackass.

Speaker 19 (51:49):
Movie that is coming out, believe it or not, and
it is going to hit theaters on June twenty six.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
Those guys age to be doing this stuff. I mean,
do you have their ages.

Speaker 19 (52:00):
I'm gonna pull this up because you sent it to
me yesterday in a DM.

Speaker 13 (52:05):
So let me have this real quick.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
I know Johnny Knoxville is is fifty four, which is.

Speaker 19 (52:11):
Okay crazy, Yes, Johnny Knoxville is fifty four, Steve O
is fifty one, Chris Ponius is fifty one, Dave England
is fifty six, We Man's fifty two, Preston Lacey's fifty six,
and danger Aaron is forty nine.

Speaker 6 (52:28):
They're cann do stunts that are dangerous from in their age,
like standing up real quick.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
Dear near near well, little head rush there, little head rush.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
I saw this comedian saying that we need Jackass to
save young men because this generation of young men hasn't
had it, and they just like gravitate to it. They're
like they're so like, you know, empty, devoid of like
outlets for stuff. You know, they find Andrew Tait instead

(53:02):
of Steve o Ye, and it's like Jackass could save
us from the in cell culture.

Speaker 13 (53:09):
I like that, go hurt yourselves instead.

Speaker 19 (53:13):
I like this well quote well a wang dang and
hot damn doodle. We're starting off the year with the bang.
We want to let you know that summer Jackass is back.
More to come, but wanted you to hear it from
us first. Not much else is known at this time.
Johnny didn't specify if it's going to contain all new
stunts or who well is going to be participating, but

(53:33):
you know, of course Randy gave us everybody's ages there,
so we'll see how everybody's feeling. According to TMZ, the
movie will quote bring back some of the biggest stunts
from the franchise, kind of a greatest hits, mixing in old,
never before seen footage as well as shooting new material.
Bam Margira will reportedly appear in some archival footage. It's

(53:55):
not clear whether he's going to be able to film
anything new. We know that he's been on and off struggling.
Sometimes we hear that he's doing well. Sometimes we hear
that he's still struggling with addiction. Boal Bam rather vowed
never to work with the Jackass guys again after being
fired from Jackass Forever, which was twenty twenty one for

(54:16):
violating that pledge to stay sober.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
That was all sad because he was just a mess,
and they were clearly trying to help him, and he
was so obviously in the throes of addiction. He was
just saying terrible things about those guys and they were
doing nothing but like saying nice things about Bam and
giving him signs of support. So I hope he's on
the road recovery. Dude was a mess, absolute mess.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
I do love these movies.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
There was a the last for Jackass Forever, somebody made
a meme of my rotten tomatoes blurb next to like
a hoity toity critics, and the other guy was like,
this insults the intelligence of not only the audience, but
and then my blurb was, despite what some people would
have you believe, a man get hit hard in the
crotch is always funny? Can I stand by that that

(55:05):
it's funny everything?

Speaker 1 (55:07):
You've got your blur, right, I always say, you're never
gonna get the blur with some of those reviews, But
that you, I think have properly assessed Jackass and the
appeal of it. It's the stooges, It's cartoons, it is
live cartoons.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
It is unendingly funny. It is one of the few.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
Things I can watch by myself and be laughing out loud.
You know, It's usually usually someone else has to be
in the room for a person to laugh out loud.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
I mean, I will be like catching my breath laughing
at them. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
I mean, I guess I do know the appeal, but
it is just so cave man and unendingly funny. The
abuse the Right put themselves through the hand is maybe
the one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Just
walking down the hall. You can't it just Jesus out

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of them.

Speaker 6 (56:04):
They should have sold those that should have been something
you could buy the home version.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Totally agree, I mean.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
And then the fact that they powdered up the hands
like all of those things is so it just thinking
about all of those little things must have been so
much fun. And I would love to see a special
where they just did things that they came up with
but they couldn't execute because they were dangerous or mechanically
unable to pull off another of them. When they kidnapped

(56:31):
the guy and he was just crazy and it was
pubic hair on his face, it was like, after all that,
they like, is that too, Yeah, being kidnapped, think he's
a hostage, all that.

Speaker 13 (56:44):
But how surprised were you that they were doing this?

Speaker 19 (56:50):
Because I mean I saw that Johnny knox Bill was
doing Fear Factor and assumed that he had accepted at
this point in his life, you know, he would be
doing the hosting role and didn't need to be doing
the stunts anymore. I thought he was at a point
where he's like, I'm acting now, I don't need to
put my body through this anymore.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
I mean, that might be what's happening. I don't know, true.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
I mean, Johnny Knoxville had his urethes we torn by
a bull. Like, no point after something like that happened
would I ever be like, yeah, I want to keep
doing these stunts that would have been it forever. I
would have been in therapy traumatic as traumatic can be.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
He had to wear a.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
Bag for like six months while he healed, and he's
going to go back and do these stunts.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
I don't. I don't think so. I think he's going
to be the host.

Speaker 15 (57:46):
Well, how much of this too is like some of
those other guys don't have his career, so it's like, hey, yes, help.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
You know, you're like, what's danger Aaron doing for a
paycheck if he's not laying down on a bed of
mouse traps?

Speaker 6 (58:01):
Cony Island, dunk tank, just doll Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
You know.

Speaker 19 (58:06):
At the top we were hearing the replay referencing again
the you know, weight loss drugs.

Speaker 13 (58:13):
Did you see that?

Speaker 19 (58:14):
The study came out saying that, you know, basically we
have been waiting for what the other shoot drop here
on these and it does seem like if you stop
taking them, you are likely to regain the weight within
two years, but it sounds like it comes back and

(58:34):
then some so not all. New research published by the
British Medical Journal looked at the weight loss medications, so
you're looking at ozembek wgo v Manjaro, zep bound. It
found that those that take the drugs often start regaining
the weight within a month after stopping the medication, and
that all of the user's weight loss will likely.

Speaker 13 (58:54):
Be regained within a year and a half.

Speaker 19 (58:56):
The research also showed those that stopped taking the weight
loss injections are likely to regain weight four times faster
than those who regained it after quitting with diet and exercise,
like legitimate diet and exercise, with changing their habits.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
And so say yes on those wedding proposals, But what
about all right, so say you take them and you
lose the weight, can you then adopt a diet and
exercise program that will stop that from happening? Or are

(59:31):
those cases all people who are just sedentary the whole time.

Speaker 19 (59:34):
I think what you're finding is that people are taking
the weight loss drugs and they're maybe eating less, but
they're eating the same foods and the same things that
they enjoyed eating before.

Speaker 13 (59:47):
So maybe you would still.

Speaker 19 (59:48):
Be getting an unhealthy food at a restaurant that you know,
like pick like you know, a fast food restaurant, but
you're eating less, But maybe you haven't incorporated any exercise
into life, so you're still doing a sedentary lifestyle with
less of an unhealthy food, so that when you stopped
taking it and you go back to the full portion,
you've incorporated no exercise, and then all of a sudden,

(01:00:11):
it's just like bam, it comes right back.

Speaker 15 (01:00:12):
Yeah, it's earning it and not earning it. I'm all
for everybody taking oz epic skiddy is good. I like,
you know, lose weights.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Well, it's it's like said, what gives you a thousand
dollars or you work to earn that thousand dollars. Yeah,
like I was saying yesterday, Man, there's no shame in
taking it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
If it gets you healthy, good take it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
No shame. But obviously that themseff just gave you a
thousand much if you're going to spend it. And then
you're like, oh, well, I'm anybody, it's the same thing
I did. You work out to get lose that weight.
They didn't even keep working. God, if you just lost
the weight, we're gonna start working to keep it off. No,
it's a good analogy.

Speaker 19 (01:00:46):
I think what's weird about this though, is that I
thought what we were learning about it is that like
it made people crave protein and vegetables like that we
were hearing the grocery stores were like complaining that people
weren't buying as much and that they were buying healthier foods,
and they were like, crap, oh no.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Well do you see they they kind of reversed the
food pyramid the other day to see that they kind
of know, they turned it upside down.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
And then doctor Oz said alcohol is good.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
Yeah wait, I'm sorry, yeah, he goes, hey, just don't
drink it for breakfast. Like people aren't drinking like they
used to, like our generation. I think still my generation,
me and Joe, we still drink like there's drinkers, and
you know, maybe not as much as we did back
in the day, but you know, twenty year olds, thirty

(01:01:38):
year olds, they don't drink anywhere near where our generation
did when we were that age. Kylie sober, very very big,
very big. Yeah, and that is a problem. There's a
lot I bet alcohol just threw a lot of money
at doctor Oz and they're like, hey, tell people it's good,
and he's like, hey, you know what's good, loosen it up.

(01:01:59):
And having he literally said that.

Speaker 15 (01:02:01):
The other day, social lubricant think, yes, yeah, it'll help
the birth rate, right, yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:02:07):
Well, plus it's gonna hurt advertising for like sportsly absolutely,
Budweiser's losing money.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
They can't spend the trillion dollars on the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
Yeah, I mean just across the board, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
And next thing, you know, doctor os gonna be like
you can have a cigarette after sexon.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
It's one. It's one, come.

Speaker 19 (01:02:24):
On, very warm today, rain on and off. It's a
higher round sixty two, Seawan, call.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
Your Angro Barnik in studio, hanging out with us here
this morning.

Speaker 6 (01:02:32):
Shawn's got reviews of got my top ten movies of
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
Ah, did you get to see the will Arnett Bradley
Cooper movie yet?

Speaker 7 (01:02:43):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:02:44):
And I this is a terrible comparison. It's like a
veteran going to see nineteen seventeen. I'm like, I don't
know if I need to go into those stretches.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
Connor Prente in the coffee house for you a little
bit later on this morning. And as I said, Patrick
Queen from the Pittsburgh Steelers, when we come back here
on your radio, Home of the Black and Gold one
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Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
It is your radio home of the Pittsburgh Steelers one
or two point five DV Randy Bauman and the DV
Morning Show getting you set for Monday nights Steelers Texans
Wildcard matchup at Akroscher Stadium and joining us right now
from the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Patrick Queen.

Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
Ladies and gentlemen, what's that man?

Speaker 7 (01:04:19):
I'm good, y'all.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
I mean, we're doing real good. I mean, I don't
know if you can feel the difference in this city
right now. Are you feeling the after effects of Steeler
Nation after that absolutely outstanding win Sunday Night?

Speaker 7 (01:04:34):
Yeah, I'm feeling it obviously, just knowing like the history,
so what this place has gone through in the last
couple of years with playoffs and stuff. So definitely getting
both of the and motions out of fans right now.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
Yeah, two years removed from being a raven, but with
your history in Baltimore, did Sunday Nights win hold any
extra meaning for you?

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
Patrick na?

Speaker 7 (01:04:55):
Honestly, it was just all about getting it still as
a win and just continue our lives in the football world. Honestly,
It's just it was just strictly about us and trying
to get into the playoffs and being able to, you know,
continue our season.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
So, I mean, I watched the replay of the missed
field goal about one hundred times. I'm not sure why,
but all Steeler fans, we've all watched that moment to
just relive the big the big rush of serotonin, the
whatever it does. Every time I watch it, it's just
I get that same feeling of like this.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
Is so great, Like he does, he never makes it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
But I notice you couldn't watch that field goal on
you know, on the replay, you just kept your head forward.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Do you remember the moment you became aware it was
no good?

Speaker 7 (01:05:43):
Yeah? I remember, like I was just like sitting there
looking at her head like I know, everybody like saying
like they got like a something trying at the end
of the stadium and stuff. And I wasn't even looking
at that, like I was looking straight like everything was blurry.
And I remember Peyton just like running me like he
was crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
In the stadium just erupted.

Speaker 7 (01:06:02):
Bro it was crazy, Like I didn't because it was
a lot of fans from both sides. But when they erupted,
I ain't have a clue what side it was. All
I remember it was Baby just running them like you missed,
you missed.

Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
Uh. Coach tomlin Uh the other day was talking about
coach Harbaugh UH and getting fired in Baltimore. Given your
experience there was was that a surprise to you and
did you get along with coach Harbor?

Speaker 7 (01:06:25):
Yeah, it definitely was a surprise because he's a good coach,
he's a good person, and I know, you know, it
was a down year and it's just tough, man, It's
just tough, especially you know the coach who are the
organization brought me in and I was my coach my
whole time there, and just seeing how you always had
my back when I was there. It definitely, you know,

(01:06:47):
stung a little bit, even though I'm on the other
side now, because you know, you grow relationships with people
that last a lifetime. Man, it definitely was surprising, but
I understand how the organization is and you know, they
feel like it's best that they went out because they
have a roster that deck ND so you know, it
kind of it was a surprise, but at the same time,
I can understand where they're coming from.

Speaker 8 (01:07:07):
Patrick, you were speaking with a couple of us in
the locker room in late December about the progress the
defense was making and why, and you talked about, you know,
the players getting together and hashing it out, and you
could feel the tension in the air, but it was
still constructive and positive. It wasn't guys just ripping on
each other. And you know how Mike Tomlin wanted you

(01:07:29):
in Terra Austin to kind of get on the same
page with one another. Is that something a play caller,
slash linebacker and a defensive coordinator. Is that maybe something
that people don't realize how well those guys have to
work together for a defense to work.

Speaker 7 (01:07:46):
Yeah, I think that's the biggest thing. Like everybody has
to get along and has to understand where everybody's coming from.
Your one person as off and not on the same pace,
and they could throw everybody off and that's a recipe
for disaster. And honestly, like it's just it's just so
much that goes into every single day of the football life,

(01:08:06):
like just with putting in calls and seeing how to
d line is there to because seeing how the dvs
need there to call, whether there's what Mike Tolland and
uh TA want to see per play or whatever it
may be. Like, there's just so much stuff that goes
into every single day. So it's definitely it's definitely a

(01:08:27):
job and it's definitely a task. But that's why you
love the sport. That's why you you know, if you're
a competitor and you're you're a person that you know
holds yourself accountable, things like this drives you and you know,
every single day I come into work and there's always
something new and you know, I get into our little
standoffs about some things and stuff. But for the most part, Bro,
we always got good things going on. We're always talking

(01:08:49):
about ball and trying to get better.

Speaker 8 (01:08:50):
So do you feel like it's getting called more of
the way you'd like it to be called now or
are you guys just executing it better.

Speaker 7 (01:08:58):
I don't think it matters about whether I like it
or not now. I think it just matters that we're in
a good position to be able to play how we
need to play. Just I think when everybody just understanding
the defense and they being like detailed out and that
was understanding like, hey, I gotta do my job. I
can't freelance. So I think that's the biggest thing about
our defense.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
Patrick.

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
The fan base has a much different vibe going into
the postseason about the Steelers' chances in this first week
the wild card for the NFL playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
Do you guys feel like you have.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
A better chance to actually make a run here than
you did last year?

Speaker 7 (01:09:39):
And if so, why, Yeah, I definitely do. Just from
a defense speaking wise, you know, we got playmakers every
single position. We got confidence in every single guy, and
then we got confidence in the play calls with no
matter what it is, because we know we got each
other's back. We know we can go out there and
execute and do it at a high level. But that's

(01:10:00):
the thing. We got to execution, and we know, you know,
the execution wasn't there on our part, mostly there that
last game, and we could be better with that, and
everybody understands that knows that. So plus you ain't got
you know, everybody's most hated team in the playoffs again,
so you know, you can hear people talking about it

(01:10:20):
all the time, like the AMC is a toss up,
the NFS up. Nobody's really talking about any powerhouses. So
at the end of the day, you know, why not
why not make our legacy being that powerhouse that just
ran through the playoffs? You know, but it starts with
this game. It starts with using sake since we got
a great team. But you know, and then they were
feeling very confident about ourselves.

Speaker 8 (01:10:39):
Patrick, you told me in the spring you thought you
might have had food poisoning before before that Baltimore playoff
game last year. Are you gonna get somebody to test
your meal? How do you work around that happening again?

Speaker 7 (01:10:52):
Hey, my mom's cooking. I'm not taking no chances whatever
she cook.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
I mean, uh, what do you think post this is
the biggest threat Monday night from C. J.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
Stroud and Company.

Speaker 7 (01:11:06):
Uh, just this poised and all those guys play hard.
They got athletes in every single position that could get
the ball to do damage, and they got a golphin
the line. I think when you look at that team,
they haven't turned the ball over much at all, and
they're really efficient. So the big key fluzz is getting
them in the long down the distances and to I'll

(01:11:27):
let our dgt.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
Eat Patrick Queen, Pittsburgh Steelers, Patrick, go get him on
Monday night. Thanks so much for your time this morning.
We appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
We'll do appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
Okay, man, we'll see him. That is number six for
your Pittsburgh Steelers, Patrick Queen. Chief Award winner, Chief Award winner.
We should have asked them about the Chief Award winner fifth.
You know that's two years in.

Speaker 8 (01:11:47):
That's should ask him if his teammates are giving him
a lot of crap about winning the Chief Award.

Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
Helping the media nice to the media, the enemy.

Speaker 8 (01:11:58):
He's he's been really good and you know he didn't
make a ton of splash plays the other night because
Heyward and Betting and Harmon made all the tackles.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
Well, you know, you and I were having a discussion
about my expectations for Patrick Queen joining this team last year,
and I told him going into the season last year
he was my new favorite Steeler player just because of
the way he was handling his former teammates in the
media when the Ravens were calling him a trader and everything,
and he was just trolling him right back, and I

(01:12:27):
just loved it. And he seemed to really embrace becoming
a Steeler having just been a Raven. But I do
think that he had some trouble adjusting last year. Yeah
he acknowledged that, Yeah, no question. But I think the
other thing with.

Speaker 8 (01:12:43):
Patrick Queen is he's got a lot of money and
he was a high profile free agent signee, and I
think people expected a certain amount of splash with that,
and he's not necessarily a splash player, but he's on
a field every down, every snap, and he organizes it,
he communicates it, and then he's for what they ask
him to do.

Speaker 3 (01:13:03):
He plays really well.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
Shawn Collier is in with his top ten movies of
twenty twenty five is of the Golden Globes are this weekend,
Nikki Glazer hosting that one and Joe Bartneck Clive in
studio with this dude.

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
Did you ever do any writing for award shows? You've
written for so many comedy shows through the year.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
Yeah, I mean I've done the Porn Awards, yeah yeah,
and I guess the sb's an awards show. Yeah. Yeah,
I've done a bunch.

Speaker 15 (01:13:29):
I've done some music ones, yeah. The Academy Awards, though,
I haven't reatten now Picol.

Speaker 1 (01:13:34):
Now is it the Pinnacle though, which I mean it's
a good paying gig. Seems that we've lost its luster
a little bit. Well, I think it needs a little
more than the Golden Globes, I would think. I'm not
trying to knock anything out of the Globes. I'm just saying, right,
we're supposed to revere the Academy Awards.

Speaker 15 (01:13:48):
Yeah, you know, best Actor.

Speaker 13 (01:13:54):
Acting is acting.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
That's right, They're all stars. Connor Prente and the Cop House.
A little bit later on this morning for you, there's
a Steelers playoff party getting you ready for Monday night's
game against Houston, presented by your neighborhood Ford Store Saturday
from five to seven at Tequila Cowboy, hosted by Rob King,
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Wes Euler will broadcast the party live on Steelers Nation Radio.

(01:14:18):
It's on one to two point five HD two and
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Steelers coozy rally signing, you get chances at playoff tickets,
autograph giveaway, Steely McBean will be there, plus Steelers legends
on stage appearances.

Speaker 3 (01:14:31):
It's gonna be a good time.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
Get down, get your terrible towels, and head down at
Tequila Cowboys Saturday. King, you're introducing the Wolfly seventy three
at Calienti Pizza and Draft House, a bold pizza built
an honor of Steeler's legend Craig Wolf. Yeah. So we're
not going to do the sports here, Jacob. Yeah, sorry,
Ehick had to kick that out.

Speaker 6 (01:14:50):
You're telling me that's not a prestige movie bed too,
that this this sound does not make you think of
Oscar season.

Speaker 3 (01:14:58):
That's Oscar season and the Golden Globes.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
This weekend movie stars movies that nobody seen. It doesn't
feel like now the movie like like everything else, Shawn.
In our culture, it's like algorithmic. There are movies that
people don't even know exist that are gonna win a
bunch of awards.

Speaker 6 (01:15:14):
Well this year there are front runners that people saw
like one Battle after another Sinners, Yes, okay, but yes,
there are movies the Mastermind anybody see that I did
but nobody else did. To your point, I've never even
fully digested what the Mastermind is.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
And I vote for these things. Yeah, you know, because
it's it is.

Speaker 6 (01:15:35):
There are so many, and a lot of them seem
to exist for people to hear about and go, oh,
I want to see that one, knowing we never will.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
That's a big part of this Mastermind a lot. But
I like Kelly record movies, but most people don't.

Speaker 3 (01:15:49):
Did she do First Cow? I hated First Cow? She yes,
she did, The Two Women she did?

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
She did. A bunch of her films are just the
camera is on and there's two people just kind of
staring at each other.

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
The conversations are very slow, but.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
There's something fascinating about it because she usually puts good
actors in. In this one, she had Josh O'Connor and
I can't remember.

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
Do you know all the actors in this one? Asap
Rocky's in it.

Speaker 6 (01:16:15):
That was one of the ones this year that was
kind of right on the fringe of is this gonna
take off and get some awards attention or is it not?
You know, the Golden Globes might be your introduction to
a lot of this, or hey, here's my list. You know,
you could catch up on these on nights without a
consequential football game, which does not apply this weekend, but

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it takes some notes. By Pro Bowl weekend, you're gonna
need some stuff to watch. My top ten movies of
twenty twenty five and who should actually watch each one?
In tenth Little Sports for you, the indie baseball movie Ethus.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
I keep hearing about that, so I wanted to name
a band ephis last I kept telling Abby I was
gonna name a band that it's a great name. The
ephis pitch is one of my favoritetten references.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
Ever, for reus who don't know what the ephis pitch is.

Speaker 6 (01:17:04):
It's a looping overhead You throw it and it comes
back down at a weird angle, and if you know
it's coming, you can hit it six hundred feet, but
if you're not expecting it, it'll baffle you. And the
movie is just about, you know, a hard luck amateur
club playing their last game before they tear down their field.
But it's not too sentimental, it's not preachy, just some

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guys playing a game for no reason. Who's it for?
Anyone who has their parking spot for Pirates games?

Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
I don't know you lease the space.

Speaker 6 (01:17:33):
I mean you know the one house off of East
Ohio where you can park. You never get a ticket.
You can get it to the left field game in
eight minutes. If that's you. Ephus in ninth, the one
of the big ones, one battle after another. The only
thing I don't like about this is it's winning every
Best Picture award. I thought there were eight better pictures.
But it's thrilling and funny and relevant, excellently made, excellently

(01:17:59):
performed such a loaded cast.

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
Well, what I would say about it is the thing
I like about that movie is that it is another
genre that Paul Thomas Anderson tackles yea and crushes. Yeah,
it's an action movie that you know, the Boogie Knights
guy does right, It's fantastic, Like Phantom Thread was its

(01:18:21):
own separate, contemplative thing. Like he keeps doing different movies
and crushing it, even in Here and Vice, which nobody saw.
I love that movie. Was this la noir that no
one can do right, and he did perfectly. This is
really funny at times, but it's best, as you said,
when it's a pure action movie. That's The car chase
at the end is unbelievable. Yeah, oh my god, it is.

(01:18:44):
And I read an article about how he figured out
how to do that car chase. They literally were just
location scouting and he went on that road where it goes.
It's like a bunch of up and down, and he
envisioned the entire thing right there, because you know, it
just goes out. It's very cool. Highest recommendation for me,
even though Sean thinks it's the ninth last movie.

Speaker 6 (01:19:05):
It's I like it. I just like some other things more.
This is for everyone except the collected ex girlfriends of
Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn, which comes to several thousand women,
so they shouldn't see it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
Sean Penn is at his all time creepiest in that movie.

Speaker 6 (01:19:21):
He's so good and you want to know how much
of this is just how crazy he is at this
point in his life, and how much is the performance?

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
But it's perfect. Yeah, that is the compelling thing. Yeah,
how much acting is he actually doing?

Speaker 6 (01:19:36):
In eighth, Richard Linklater's Blue Moon with Ethan Hawk.

Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
I can't wait to see this.

Speaker 6 (01:19:40):
He plays a songwriter Lorenz Heart, his old buddy Richard
Rodgers just opened a show with this Oscar Hammerstein fella.
He's gonna drunkenly have feelings all over Sardi's about it.
Great performance, really well done movie. In one of those
one location one night I love that where we're just
spending the whole night with these folks. Worth catching up
to this one. It was only in theaters for a moment.

(01:20:01):
Who's it for? Did you know what I was talking
about when I said those names a second ago? Are
you familiar with the phrases Sardis and Lorenz.

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
Hard's been for you?

Speaker 18 (01:20:09):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
This is free you Roger's Heart right. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:20:12):
In seventh, an indie drama, great debut, Sorry baby, have
you heard of this?

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
I could not stomach this.

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
It's really bleak, serious subject matter.

Speaker 1 (01:20:24):
Well to me, this was I don't know her history
more than she was like an Internet Yeah, like not
influenciact like content creator who then had a movie and
There's a cat and it was just very.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
It was like, yeah, you have a victor.

Speaker 1 (01:20:41):
I think it was just such a chick movie, like
sorry to be sexist or reductive, but I just felt
like this just was not for me.

Speaker 6 (01:20:51):
Well, it's that The comparison to me is actually the
Lena Dunham, right, Lena Dunham and Girls who It's like,
who's this person that I've never heard of before? It
really worked for me. She's the writer, director, star. But yes,
this is one of those movies about a young person
having feelings. It's really good. It's funny, it's gripped, and

(01:21:14):
more than anything, I think this is a filmmaker who's
going to be a big deal for a while.

Speaker 15 (01:21:18):
It's crazy to me. Yeah, I didn't give it a chance.
So John doesn't have to say I know it's not
for me.

Speaker 1 (01:21:27):
Exactly. Nothing explodes to that point. Who's it for?

Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
Be a little said before you watch it. There's enough
to be sad about it.

Speaker 13 (01:21:37):
Do you have a cat?

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
This is for you.

Speaker 6 (01:21:40):
I've got Marty Supreme in sixth in theaters now. Still
haven't seen it. This is really the follow up to
Uncut Gems. It's only one of the safties. They did
their Cohen's break Up like two decades early, but it
has all that tension and the mad frantic energy of
Uncut Gems, but with a story you might get a
little bit more wrapped up in. The cast is great.

(01:22:00):
It's a fun underworld to run around in, and it's
for you if you can accept that there are certain
circumstances under which you would kidnap a mobster's dog. If
you think I would never steal a wise guy's German
shepherd for any reason, you might not buy all the
way in.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Other than that, you know why I am not excited
about it. I've gone on shallow may loved the Bob
Dylan movie and thought he was amazing. I still think
he's a great actor. That movie did with Steve Carell
where he's the drug addicted son boy, Yeah my god,
I mean, just a crazy good performance. But I can't
get on board with his persona outside of movies.

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
In the world of Kylie Jenner.

Speaker 19 (01:22:41):
Yeah, he's getting a little too high on his own supply,
seems like it.

Speaker 6 (01:22:44):
I thought he was really good in this. I was
disappointed that he won. He won Best Actor at the
Critics Choice Awards last Sunday. Could be on that train
to the Oscars, and I think the spoilers for later
in the list. I think there are a couple better performances,
especially Michael B.

Speaker 1 (01:23:01):
Jordan.

Speaker 6 (01:23:01):
I thought he was good in this, but he was
just doing the hymn thing. But the movie's really great,
love the script, great time. If you're going to the
theater this weekend, that's that's the pick. I think among
things that are still out a lot of great films
from all over the world this year. My favorite import
at five. It's from Spain. It's called Serat. Who's it for?
Literally nobody? I'm sorry some of these are Just see

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it if you're tough and you want to see an
excellent film, keep in mind you'll feel terrible afterwards. I've
Hamnet at number four. Have you caught up to Hamnet
yet with Jesse Buckley?

Speaker 1 (01:23:33):
No, As I said, chipped, Hamnet is the Pittsburgh Burghne,
the one.

Speaker 6 (01:23:38):
She's gonna win Best Actress. She's so I will watch
this story about Shakespeare's family. So who's it for? Anyone
who hears the phrase story about Shakespeare's family, and doesn't
immediately do an involuntary falling asleep head nod. Do you
just go huh yeah, maybe not the movie for you.
Otherwise loved it. The Netflick documentary Perfect Neighbor at number three.

(01:24:02):
If you miss this one, Oh man, I couldn't know what.

Speaker 3 (01:24:05):
I couldn't stomach. It just felt like it was gonna
be too cringy.

Speaker 6 (01:24:07):
The theme is emotional devastation on this year's list, it's
it's a tragedy that happened in Florida, this escalating conflict
between neighbors that ended in a shooting. The whole documentary
is real footage. It is mostly like police body cameras,
ring doorbells, actual footage because this woman called the police
every five minutes. So it's all on camera and they

(01:24:31):
don't comment. There's no talking heads, there's no narration. You're
just seeing what happens.

Speaker 13 (01:24:36):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
It's hard. It's really hard. Is there a cat?

Speaker 7 (01:24:41):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:24:42):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:24:42):
And that's more entertaining than the Ping Pong movie, which
I heard great things about.

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:24:48):
Entertaining may not be the word. We'd a combination of
best and favorite. You know, Okay, no, because I heard
great things about the ping Pong. I love the ping
pong movies. Great the ping pong, you know what, the
ping pong.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
Honestly, not as much pingpong as you might suspect, but
it's in there. It's in there.

Speaker 6 (01:25:05):
Number two runner up for the year for me is
Train Dreams on Netflix.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
I loved it, and I don't think I wouldn't recommend
it to you know, maybe there's make three people. I
would recommend it.

Speaker 6 (01:25:16):
To give me a man wandering around the wilderness in
the olden times. I am there, make him a little
bit sad, surround him with great character actors. I will
overrate it so much as I'm doing right now. Trains,
trees and tragedy. That's what I'm looking for on the screen.
Joel Edgerton is great, William H. Macy is so good.

Speaker 1 (01:25:34):
He's so good in it. But I love the Pacific Northwest.
And this to me is putting yourself in a time capsule, yeah,
and imagining what it would have been like to be
in the Pacific Northwest.

Speaker 3 (01:25:46):
It's a turn of the century.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
Yeah, this is the one for if you're willing to
put your phone in the other room and turn the
lights off. It's beautiful surrender to a movie on it
looks like it's Terrence Malick film. Yeah, it had like
like it's just beautiful looking. It's like watching a postcard
and there's a real pointed story in it. But also

(01:26:10):
not the most feel good movie. It's just very pretty. No,
I'll have a feel good movie this year. We'll find
one who's trained dreams.

Speaker 6 (01:26:17):
For you have to have ridden a horse, or at
least be willing to ride a horse if one were
presented to.

Speaker 1 (01:26:22):
Your frontier life though, always fascinates me, Like, but you
know what if you blow out your acl like it's
just all of that stuff, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:26:33):
It for you.

Speaker 6 (01:26:34):
Right, if someone happens to come by, you might say,
go fetch the doctor.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
Other than that, the guy lives forever. He blew out
his achilles, chopping down at you. You know, it's like
you don't have any modern amenity at all.

Speaker 6 (01:26:46):
And that you know, if you were born in the
early nineteen hundreds, so you were born with horses and
building your own house, and like this character, you lived
to see the moon landing. That's fascinating that time period.

Speaker 1 (01:27:01):
There are a couple of scenes in this that I
think are great, but there is one that I think
is awesome, and it's an instance.

Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
Of frontier justice that plays out and because.

Speaker 21 (01:27:13):
I always wonder what would have been like there's no cops,
no you know, and it's just like frontier justice happens
in front of a group of people and they all
just kind of decide whether it's right or wrong.

Speaker 6 (01:27:23):
Yeah, and he's kind of haunted. It's an emotionally devastating list,
but you know what's fun and feelings as well. The
movie of the year, no surprise, that's Sinners. Sinners is
the movie of the year. From the moment the credits ran,
everything is perfect. The cast is amazing. In a just world,
Michael B. Jordan would get two Oscar nominations. He's playing

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two parts. Ryan Coogler's script excellent, direction is better. It's
so gorgeous. It's for everybody, over and over again forever.
This is the first movie in years, maybe in the
twenties where I thought, Okay, what are they going to
show at row House and places in ten years? Jaws,
The Godfather, Sinners. It's an instant classic that I think

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is going to be watched again and again. Also, apparently
I just picked the best vampire movie of the year
every year because it was no Sparatu was my number one.
Let me just google upcoming vampire movies. Oscar Isaac and
Christen Stewart in eighty set Los Angeles vampire thriller Flesh
of the Gods. There it is number one of twenty
twenty six, Flesh of the Gods.

Speaker 1 (01:28:28):
Nikki Glazer hosting the Golden Gloves this Sunday Night. That
Sean Collier with his top ten movies of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:28:34):
Abbey's Got Your News Next.

Speaker 19 (01:28:35):
We told you to get your real ID, but now
it's gonna cost you.

Speaker 13 (01:28:38):
If you didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
Winners and Boozers.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
We'll tell you who's drinking to celebrate this weekend and
who's drinking to forget.

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
Connor Parente in the Coffee.

Speaker 12 (01:28:45):
Auf Weekdays on dv with Michelle and Chad Tyson. The
songs just keep coming with Workforce Commercial Free Hours at
ten and three on one oh two point five dv E.

Speaker 1 (01:29:00):
Here's the dB tad Human.

Speaker 5 (01:29:04):
Well.

Speaker 19 (01:29:04):
Something that is still there is Johnny Knoxville's Hubrius. There
is a Jackass movie that is coming out, believe it
or not, and it is going to hit theaters on
June twenty six.

Speaker 1 (01:29:16):
Those guys age to be doing this stuff. I mean,
do you have their ages.

Speaker 19 (01:29:22):
I'm gonna pull this up because you sent it to
me yesterday in a DM, So let me have this
real quick.

Speaker 7 (01:29:28):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:29:29):
Johnny Knoxville is fifty four, which.

Speaker 19 (01:29:32):
Is okay crazy, Yes, Johnny Knoxville is fifty four, Steve
O is fifty one, Chris Ponius is fifty one, Dave
England is fifty six, we Man's fifty two, Preston Lacy's fifty.

Speaker 13 (01:29:45):
Six, and danger Aaron is forty nine.

Speaker 6 (01:29:49):
They can do stunts that are dangerous from in their age,
like standing up real quick.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
Dear, dear near.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
Brandy Bellman and the DVE Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (01:30:03):
Actually they're gonna be great.

Speaker 1 (01:30:04):
And they keep doing that throughout time and it gets
more like like they're gonna, you know, stay up late,
have coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:30:14):
It's shovel the walkway, have.

Speaker 13 (01:30:20):
Me Marina, and then laid down.

Speaker 1 (01:30:21):
Yeah exactly. This is I'm Steve O and this is
the gird Challenge. Abby's got your news right now on
the DVE Morning Show. It's it's kind of weird because normally,
if the game were Sunday, we would be in full
Steelers fever pitch right now. But I kind of feel like,

(01:30:42):
as much as I wasn't psyched about the Monday night
game initially, there's a little bit of a relief.

Speaker 3 (01:30:48):
In like, Okay, we get to just like damn a
check spoke to this morning. You get to just enjoy
the games this weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
You know, if you get the first game on Saturday,
and God forbid you lose, well, it ruins the rest
of the games for you. Now you get to enjoy
tonight's game. You get to enjoy the you know, the
college football playoffs tonight. You get to enjoy all the
playoffs Saturday, all three of the games on Sunday, and
then Monday night the main event eight fifteen Steelers Texans

(01:31:17):
here on DV.

Speaker 19 (01:31:18):
I do have to ask you, with that being said, like,
is this the weekend you would take Christmas decorations down?
I don't think you put enough up outside to.

Speaker 3 (01:31:26):
Have tim down.

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
None up outside. I just had a tree in my window. Okay,
it's still there. Okay, I have not turned my tree
off for since like December seventeenth.

Speaker 13 (01:31:37):
Okay, I took the tree down.

Speaker 19 (01:31:39):
The inside, I took care of the outside is still.

Speaker 13 (01:31:43):
Kind of staring me in the face.

Speaker 19 (01:31:45):
And I feel like this is the weekend because the
Stealers don't play until Monday. I feel like it's staring
me in the face that like now I gotta go
ahead and just like face it and if they're gonna
come down, they gotta come down now right.

Speaker 1 (01:31:56):
Well, you know, we talked about it the other day
that Monday or Tuesday rather was the thirteenth day. Monday
was twelfth night, the twelfth day of Christmas, and that
the whatever, you know, the protocol is, it's supposed to
come down on the thirteenth day after Christmas. Nobody's done that.
I think everybody waits until this weekend, okay.

Speaker 13 (01:32:16):
And it's supposed to be sixty two today for a high.

Speaker 19 (01:32:21):
I mean getting like a little bit of rain, but
that's never scared anybody in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 3 (01:32:24):
Yesterday was beautiful.

Speaker 13 (01:32:25):
Yes, No, yesterday was awesome day.

Speaker 1 (01:32:28):
I was I was talking to Abby and I'm like,
are you inside. She's like yes, I'm like, get your ass.

Speaker 13 (01:32:33):
I allow your eyes to observe the sun.

Speaker 3 (01:32:36):
I wanted to take a walk and then I literally
took a nap.

Speaker 1 (01:32:43):
I was like, well, I'll walk to the Penguin game.
I'll walk up the hill. I got to see the
Penguinos last night, a four to one victory over the Devils.

Speaker 15 (01:32:51):
My grandmother's most hated team. Why did she hate the Devils?
Just stumbled Italian the devil. They should be named the devil. Yeah, yeah,
Gino machine returns. Yes, came back with total Gino. You know,
five bad turnovers at the blue line, but then the
big power play blast.

Speaker 3 (01:33:09):
But you got to love that. He was cheering on
the Steelers after the game.

Speaker 18 (01:33:12):
Steelers play Monday. You know, like, people love sports here.
I said again, good luck to Steelers too.

Speaker 1 (01:33:18):
As well is saying not better yet, never spend here
for twenty years.

Speaker 15 (01:33:25):
The people love sports. Steers Scenicov sounds better. He's been
here like two months. Yeah, man, I don't get that
with Gino. I always thought it was an act, but
I think he literally is like this is good enough.

Speaker 13 (01:33:35):
All right, news. This hour is brought to you by
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Speaker 1 (01:33:38):
Again.

Speaker 19 (01:33:38):
It's very warm today, on and off rain high around
sixty two.

Speaker 13 (01:33:41):
Saturday, it's gonna get colder.

Speaker 19 (01:33:43):
There's still gonna be rain high around fifty and then Sunday,
things will get cold and there are snow showers on
the way High thirty five. So we talked so much
last year about getting your real ID, and some of
you still have not done it yet.

Speaker 13 (01:33:57):
But now it's gonna cost you.

Speaker 19 (01:33:59):
People traveling within the United States will soon face a
new forty five dollars fee if they don't have the
real ID at airport security checkpoints. It's dubbed the TSA
Confirm ID fee. It's part of the TSA's next phase
of the real ID implementation process.

Speaker 13 (01:34:17):
So I guess this is just like.

Speaker 19 (01:34:18):
An extra thing for them to confirm and they're trying
to get you know again, people to get the real
ID so they don't have to do these extra steps.
So now if you don't have it, it's going to
be forty five bucks for them to go through the
extra paperwork. It's like a ticke of master fee. It's
a fees and services or whatever it is.

Speaker 13 (01:34:35):
Some airports have.

Speaker 19 (01:34:36):
Continued to accept certain forms of identification other than real
ID since May of twenty twenty five when that went
into effect. But this is going to start on February
the first. So if you still want to go to
the DMV and try to get it knocked that you can. Okay,
now here's what's you know? You could use maybe your
real ID for the museum exhibits celebrating the life and

(01:34:58):
career of Ozzy Osbourne in Birmingham, UK has been extended
until September twenty seventh of twenty twenty six due to
such public interests.

Speaker 1 (01:35:07):
What may I ask you is in the Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osborne Museum exhibit.

Speaker 6 (01:35:15):
Well, it's interactive. You bite off of that head, yes,
and then you can go in. You get rady shot.

Speaker 19 (01:35:21):
Right, Yeah, you get the pee on the alumal the
exit titled.

Speaker 1 (01:35:28):
That's Instagram friends You've never see right.

Speaker 19 (01:35:34):
The exhibit is titled Ozzy Osbourne Working Class Hero. It
showcases Osbourne's journey from his working class roots to global
fame as a musician. It's got awards, personal items, rare photos.
It's attracted over four hundred and twenty five thousand visitors
since it opened in June of twenty twenty five, so
it makes it one of the most successful shows at

(01:35:57):
the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery have praised the exhibit
for its personal and reflective portrayal of Osbourne's public image
and his private life, with a tribute wall added on
what would have been his seventy seventh birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:36:13):
You know, I can't imagine what the other popular Birmingham
exhibits were. Why is it going away? Y?

Speaker 3 (01:36:22):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:36:23):
Why not just make it the Ozzy Osbourne Museum, Deep
Purple's Keyboard Wings, What going on? I loved Ozzy so
much and working man's roots. I think that was very
much true of him. I mean when you see him
meet Paul McCartney, I think, to me, that is like
how I always think of Ozzy is that he was

(01:36:45):
so in awe of meeting Paul McCartney and he like,
he just looked like a regular English guy who's like, eh,
he grew up of limited means and here was a
guy who he saw as aspirational. Was like, they made
it out of Liverpool. Well, they're not rich kids. It's
not like Vampire Weekend or the Strokes or something, you
know what I mean. These are dudes who literally came

(01:37:07):
from nothing and built themselvesselves up to this worldwide claim.

Speaker 3 (01:37:12):
And Paul McCartney is of a.

Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
Considerable intellect and Ozzy was definitely a you know, a
more average guy, let's say, who would snort ants, you know,
and p in historical monuments.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
He remained so fascinating to me.

Speaker 15 (01:37:33):
The number one regret I have about Ozzy is that
he didn't get along with Dio, and I understand, I
understand why, but I think we were robbed of some
amazing tour potential.

Speaker 3 (01:37:47):
However, that kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:37:48):
Collaboration and stuff is relatively new, Like the idea of
forming like super collaborations and then touring them is somewhat
new phenomena. I think since the United States started to
embrace the festival culture, do you know what I mean?

(01:38:10):
Like before that, it was very much like, no, why
would you split the bill? No way, No, we have
an opening act, and like the popular notion at the
time was that you would only want to pump up
your own tires, and it was shortsighted because it was
literally just a bag of money that was waiting to
be had for people.

Speaker 6 (01:38:29):
I think if Dio had lived longer and Ozzie had
been in better health, that might have happened. I agree,
it's Doo's Dio is the one that I'm not sure
would give up half the songs, particularly later, if you
had said, hey, Ozzie, do you want to go away
for half of this concert?

Speaker 7 (01:38:46):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:38:46):
Yeah, right, that's good. Sae with it, yeah, d O.

Speaker 6 (01:38:50):
I don't know about but that would have been if
they had done like a late oz Fest in twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen with both of them on it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:58):
Just think about, like if you could have made that
happen in like nineteen ninety two, yeah, when they were
both still like, it would have dominated. But at any rate,
I still love the way that Auzzy ended his career
in life and how that all unfolded for him. I'm out, No, really,

(01:39:20):
I'm out. It was as storybook as it could possibly
have been. That was the John Elway of metals. Yeah,
he went out on top. Yes, absolutely, yeah, and it
just doesn't happen like that. The only other thing I
can think of, but it's on such a smaller scale,
is like Colonel Bruce Hampton, you know, playing you know,
a Queerium Rescue Unit shows, which was basically like what's

(01:39:43):
the word I'm looking for, like incubator for you know,
all these other bands that kind of formed out in Hordfest,
the Hordefast and Allman Brothers and you know, you know,
widespread and all those bands. He died on stage in
the middle of a show like jamming out and just
like falls over and and there's like video of it,
you know, and everybody played with them, Billy Strings and

(01:40:04):
Jeff Sipe and all of those guys, like all these
bad asses played with them, and he was really an
inspiration to all of them. And so he was living
as far as he was concerned that, you know, that
was the top of the you know, his aspirations. He'd
already reached Nirvana musically. He didn't need to be playing
at Wembley like ousy. Other than that, I can't think

(01:40:27):
of anybody who went out on top like that, with
literally everybody just you're the greatest, and then you're like, okay,
check out, who's the comic who went on.

Speaker 15 (01:40:39):
Karkas Albert Brooks's dad, Dave's dad. He crushed at a
roast and then died like driving home.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
No no, at the and there's audio of it. It
was a roast of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez and
it's Albert Brooks's dad and and super Naba Osborne.

Speaker 3 (01:41:02):
They were brothers.

Speaker 1 (01:41:03):
Their father was a comedian and he went by the
name of Parky karcass and he was like this fake
Greek immigrant guy, but he was always considered to be
like he was the badass, Like everyone tried to steal
his stuff. Milton Burle kept trying to steal this stuff
for years, but he was just quicker than they could steal.

Speaker 3 (01:41:19):
And he went up on stage and roasted them.

Speaker 1 (01:41:22):
And he had had a heart condition and you can
hear there's audio of it, and Lucille Ball is screaming
for him.

Speaker 3 (01:41:28):
They're like, is there a doctor here? And people think it's.

Speaker 6 (01:41:31):
A bit Yeah, that's that's that's the tricky thing when
you're a comic distress looks a lot like when you
die at the Palace, You really die at the palace.

Speaker 1 (01:41:43):
But that's why I always loved the joke in Albert
Brooks's movie Defending Your Life where in the afterlife there's
a comedy club and him and Meryl Streep go in
and the comedian is doing crowd work, and he's like.

Speaker 3 (01:41:54):
How are you? How'd you die?

Speaker 7 (01:41:55):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:41:58):
And he says to the one he's like, he says
to Albert Brooks, Hey, sir, how are you?

Speaker 3 (01:42:02):
How'd you die? And Albert Brooks says on stage like you.

Speaker 12 (01:42:07):
Good one.

Speaker 19 (01:42:08):
Yeah, if you need a little more Black Sabbath in
your life. By the way, this weekend, there is a
free documentary you can watch on YouTube. It is the
first episode of Tony Iomi, The Godfather of Heavy Metal,
and it's from Gibson TV. And so again it's gonna
be all about Tony Iomi, but they have like a
bunch of guitar gods that are going.

Speaker 10 (01:42:30):
To be on this.

Speaker 19 (01:42:31):
Brian May's on it, Tom Morello, Zach Wilde, I saw
Slash was on this too, but it's on YouTube. I
think the first episode's like twenty two minutes, and so
it sounds like this will be a nice series for
everybody and you can totally binge on that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:45):
Cool for the weekend as well.

Speaker 13 (01:42:47):
Of course, if you don't get to all of Sean's movies.

Speaker 6 (01:42:49):
Right, watch ten depressing movies or two great hours of
Black Sabbatha.

Speaker 19 (01:42:53):
There we go, but very warm today with on and
Off rain and it's going to be a high around
sixty two.

Speaker 1 (01:43:00):
I was rooting role miss last night because I can't
stand Michael Irvin.

Speaker 3 (01:43:05):
I'm so done with Michael Irvin.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
He's made it about Michael Irvin, like stop showing Michael Irvin.
I'm sick and tired of his celebrations. He looks like
he's just zuted out of his mind. Michael Irvin, he
had to pass the drug test anymore. He's doing the
belt thing on this sidelin. I mean he's in the

(01:43:29):
end zone when they score, he's running out on the
field like the mascot.

Speaker 15 (01:43:34):
I have a lot of I have a few very
close to me Miami fans, and they are sick of
Michael Irvin.

Speaker 3 (01:43:40):
How could you not be. He's a complete embarrassment.

Speaker 15 (01:43:43):
I didn't like him when he played, so it doesn't
matter to me. I'm not from Phillies. I didn't cheer
when he got almost paralyzed, but I was not a fan.

Speaker 1 (01:43:50):
Yeah he did that. That was didn't. They throw snowballs
at him too. He's like minestreccher. Yeah, Michael. Being with
your sports report from last night's cultural playoff in Miami,
just sneaks past Old miss which was a remarkable story,
sans Lane Kiffin.

Speaker 3 (01:44:06):
After he takes.

Speaker 1 (01:44:07):
Off, they valiantly, you know, battle the Canes last night
and nearly best them to get into the College Football Championship.
And so now you got Indiana and Oregon. What time's
that game tonight there, Jacob Indiana.

Speaker 22 (01:44:21):
Alum seven thirty, But know in college football, it probably
won't get started to like a thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:44:26):
What's your prediction here for your good? Yeah, I feel good.

Speaker 22 (01:44:29):
I mean hard to be the team twice, that's what
six says, That's what everyone says. But they're down one
of their best offensive players that are starting running back
won't be available. Our defense has only gotten better. Bernana
Mendoza had a bad pick six against them earlier this year,
but has only gotten better since then.

Speaker 3 (01:44:48):
You know, I don't want to sound too cocky.

Speaker 22 (01:44:50):
I have friends I think I've told you this off
air who bought their tickets to Miami for the Natty
after the Rose Bowl only because those tickets are ridiculously yes,
already baseline it's.

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
Do you think that's a jink?

Speaker 22 (01:45:07):
So just yeah, that's I mean, like, but you know me,
I also bought my tickets to the Big Ten championship
game before we finished our regular season, but that was
a different story. That was against Purdue with you know right,
who's terrible. Yeah, this is a different level of competitiveness.

Speaker 1 (01:45:25):
Is the National Championship on next Monday, or is it
Monday that's the worst.

Speaker 22 (01:45:29):
It's college basketball and football both have their national championship
games on a Monday.

Speaker 3 (01:45:35):
Is that because of the NFL playoffs?

Speaker 22 (01:45:37):
Well for basketball, who knows, well, not football? Yeah, I
mean I don't know why. Yeah, I mean because they
can't do it on Saturday. They can't do it on
on Sunday.

Speaker 10 (01:45:47):
I mean they could.

Speaker 1 (01:45:48):
They just be going up against right, yeah, and giving
upcause the NFL reigns supreme, it really does. I mean,
you cannot beat the NFL. And this weekend's matchups I
was looking at if there's not one game that I'm
not excited for. I think they're all gonna be great,
particularly the Steelers and the Texans. It's a Monday night
matchup eight fifteen here on DV Mike.

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
Pursuit It with your sports.

Speaker 1 (01:46:09):
Also, we got Connor Print Day in a coffee house
for you coming up today.

Speaker 3 (01:46:13):
And we'll give you the winners and boozers of the week.

Speaker 1 (01:46:15):
Who's drinking to celebrate and who's drinking to forget free sports?
All right, Mike pursuita. We're getting ready for Steelers Texans
Monday night, and we do have the whole weekend. Like,
as our friend Dave Danishek pointed out earlier this morning,
you get that, you get a nice just breather all
week at Joey b Football from now until Monday, stress free.

(01:46:38):
But then woo be Holes clinch pretty tight at eight fifteen.

Speaker 8 (01:46:44):
And the cool part about that to me is you
hate when you're the second game, because then you don't
enjoy the first game. Right, your game's gonna be be
Hole clinching regardless exactly, but at least it's a standalone
You don't have to try to watch another game before that.

Speaker 3 (01:46:57):
We're gonna be waiting all day, Randall for Monday night.
Why are we all like.

Speaker 1 (01:47:03):
There's a confidence level for the Steelers that I don't
think portends anything like that we are overconfident or think, oh,
we're way better than this team. We know how good
the Texans are defensively, particularly, I mean, they are as
good as it gets in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:47:20):
If we don't, we should.

Speaker 1 (01:47:21):
But there's something about the two factors that I think
pushes everyone over the edge are Aaron Rodgers at Akroscher Stadium.
Those two things I think make everyone feel a whole
lot better going into this game. Than last year with
Russell Wilson and traveling to Baltimore.

Speaker 8 (01:47:44):
If they were playing this game in Houston and the
Steelers had to go silent count and Will Anderson Junior
and Danelle Hunter, We're coming off the edge against a
line that was trying to figure out when the ball
was snapped before it was trying to figure out how
to block them. Yeah, that would be bad. Right, they

(01:48:04):
got a shot home at home, and you know, the
crowd's got to be a factor. As the Baltimore crowd
was great. I can't believe the crowds stayed with them
based on what we've seen from the.

Speaker 3 (01:48:13):
Crowd this year.

Speaker 8 (01:48:16):
Ten three at halftime and you screw that goal line
series up and don't get any points. Yeah, and the
crowds just stayed in it.

Speaker 1 (01:48:21):
Like like I said, man, those tickets were affordable, and
I think you had a lot of regular Joe's in
the stadium who don't get to go all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:48:28):
And the other thing is Rogers.

Speaker 8 (01:48:29):
I mean, let's see what it looks like with this
kind of guy playing quarterback.

Speaker 1 (01:48:33):
Yeah, he didn't screw that up so much as everyone thought.
That was a bad play at the end of the
first half.

Speaker 8 (01:48:37):
This is no offence to Mason Rudolph. This is not
Mason Rudolph going into Buffalo without TJ.

Speaker 3 (01:48:42):
Watt.

Speaker 1 (01:48:44):
Well, this is where the argument that with Damashek and
people who were on his swords.

Speaker 8 (01:48:50):
Constantly trying to find ways to fire the coach, Well.

Speaker 1 (01:48:53):
That just how much different is it with Aaron Rodgers
versus Mason Rudolf. Would the Steelers have been nine and
eight instead of ten and seven? Did Aaron Rodgers really
amount to, you know, more than just one extra win?
I think this is where it really matters.

Speaker 8 (01:49:09):
He means everything, and he's meant everything. Just go back
to the Cleveland game. They were terrible right all day,
and at the end of the game he drives them
down the field and if Mark z Valda Scantling runs
the right route, they tie it with another beat the
clock drive against adversity and the great defense of the
Browns and all that sky. This is what this guy does.
He's only won one Super Bowl. It doesn't win all

(01:49:30):
the time, but he gives you a chance.

Speaker 3 (01:49:33):
It's funny too.

Speaker 1 (01:49:33):
He was asked about MVS yesterday and how he said
that he always thinks you can win with Aaron Rodgers,
and that's what you want.

Speaker 10 (01:49:42):
You know, when you when you when you're a kid
and you grow.

Speaker 14 (01:49:44):
Up and you're watching idols. For me, it was the
guys with the ball in their hand laid in the game,
and it was Joe Montana, Steve Young and Michael Jordan,
and you know, the conversation around a lot of those
guys is that there's an incredible belief in this last
seconds and MJ's got the ball in sancy, He's gonna
make her you.

Speaker 8 (01:50:07):
I think people believe he hit it twice against the
Ravens in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 (01:50:11):
You know they're losing.

Speaker 8 (01:50:12):
He drove them down scored Baltimore scores. They're losing. He
drove them down to.

Speaker 3 (01:50:15):
Score scored too quick he did.

Speaker 1 (01:50:20):
Sports is have brought to you by bridgell Plats.

Speaker 8 (01:50:22):
Let's keep the Aaron Rodgers talk going because, as Randy
just said, this is why he's here. I mean, this
was the vision all along. You've heard Mike Tomlin say that.
You've heard me say that since the spring, and if
you were listening, you heard Rogers speak yesterday about the
fire Tomlin narrative the Steelers had to overcome on the
way to the playoffs and how about how good it
felt as he put it to shut all those comments down.

(01:50:45):
But even Rogers knows the critics will only be quiet
for so long.

Speaker 14 (01:50:50):
I don't think there's any way to keep those people silent.
I think that's the nature of sports media and the
knee jerk reaction of our society with social media. Then
it is what it is, you know, that's the that's
the way sports is covered now. Part of it's great
for our sport because there's a ton of high it's
on what we do, and that's great for our business.

Speaker 10 (01:51:13):
I would just tell our guys.

Speaker 14 (01:51:14):
To not get locked into the comments, get into Twitter battles,
never does any good for anybody, and just not really
worrying about that stuff. But I think from a personal standpoint,
you know, we love Mike t and Mike t is
had an incredible career as a head coach. To go
that long and never have a losing season, it's unbelievable.

(01:51:36):
There's always going to be something, you know, when I
was a young player, they said, you know, couldn't be
considered a Leita won a playoff game, and then after
that it was till you win a Super Bowl, and oh,
you haven't won MVP yet and whatever they might be
for Mike T's at what nineteen straight non losing seasons,
so they got to find something to try and get
after him. Mike T' is probably like me though, didn't

(01:51:56):
give a whole lot of good about any of those
those comments, but it is nice because we all love
him and want to play for him, and they want
to win for him.

Speaker 8 (01:52:06):
Rogers also elaborated on why the Stealers love and want
to win for Mike Tomlin and.

Speaker 14 (01:52:11):
I think the way that he creates the culture and
allows guys to beat themselves an important part of team
chemistry and the locker room being a healthy locker room.
One thing I really love, and it's kind of the
antithesis of where I was, is there's not really any
leaks in the boat. Every year you have difficulties and
adversity both on the field and off the field, and

(01:52:33):
to go through a season like this and to be
able to focus on football and not have.

Speaker 10 (01:52:39):
A lot of other little boat git out there has
been really nice.

Speaker 3 (01:52:43):
Not any leaks in the boat now.

Speaker 1 (01:52:44):
When I heard that, the first thing I thought it
was like, Yeah, Aaron Glenn and the Jets and then
I remembered, wait a.

Speaker 3 (01:52:50):
Minute, he played with Aaron Glenn.

Speaker 8 (01:52:52):
That was Robert sal Oh, he's definitely referencing the Jets,
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:52:57):
Yeah, But when he's.

Speaker 1 (01:52:58):
Talking about leaks in the boat, I think Robert Salad
is responsible for leaks. So I think that that organization
is just a mess. And I think that there's things
inside that building that are hard to overcome because there
are so many separate agendas going on as opposed to

(01:53:19):
here in Pittsburgh, where it's lining up behind the Rooneyes.

Speaker 8 (01:53:22):
And imagine it's tougher in New York than it is
in Green Bay or Pittsburgh or Jacksonville.

Speaker 1 (01:53:26):
No, it is to kind of you know, keep your
eye on the ball.

Speaker 8 (01:53:29):
But yeah, and I also think that Rogers didn't say this,
but you know he's crediting Tomlin for no leaks.

Speaker 3 (01:53:35):
I think he plugged a lot of leaks.

Speaker 8 (01:53:36):
I think Patrick Queen has plugged a lot of leaks
on defense, particularly this year, his second year and feeling
more like the guy.

Speaker 1 (01:53:43):
I took that as media leaks when he said I
was literally thinking of not I think he.

Speaker 8 (01:53:48):
Means slappiness, lack of attention to detail. That was my interpretation. Right, Yeah,
I don't think he's talking about media leaks. I think
he was talking about things to start done correctly.

Speaker 3 (01:53:58):
Yeah, no, I completely miss details.

Speaker 7 (01:54:01):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:54:02):
We'll see, we'll see what it all means Monday night. Well,
and tensions are favored for a reason, but they're not
favored by very much to that end.

Speaker 1 (01:54:10):
Yeah, things are a mess over there, the Jets. Who
who do you think has it worse right now? The
Jets are the Raiders. The Raiders had to fire an
offensive coordinator who couldn't remember the plays.

Speaker 8 (01:54:26):
I would have to say the Raiders because I think
the move to Vegas, I think for all these teams
that are going to Vegas, they're giving up their home
advantage because their market is going to be visiting people
that are visiting Vegas and just want to go to
a football game or a baseball game. Well, the Raiders
are still the most popular team in Los Angeles, although
that didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:54:45):
Really oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, they are more
than the Rams or the Chargers.

Speaker 8 (01:54:51):
The Chargers are like Ducune basketball. I'm not trying to
crap one. I mean they're like, right, they don't really exist. Yeah,
that doesn't really happen with hockey though, has it The
Knights have a good following though, Oh, the Knights are
huge in Vegas.

Speaker 15 (01:55:03):
The Kings, and the Kings are like the third most
popular tefessional team a lot of I'm not to say,
as I'm a hockey guy, people love the Kings. Latinos
love that. I mean the Dodgers and the Lakers. They're
the Steelers, yes, but the next team is the Kings.

Speaker 1 (01:55:17):
Okay, so the Raiders have support, but I mean in
terms of organizational structure, they're all Signetti and Fernando might
end up in Vegas, Jacob, and I just want to
make sure you're going to be okay with that.

Speaker 15 (01:55:30):
But the Jets have done anything since Joe Willie Namath
from beaver Falls. I mean, at least the Raiders have
Super Bowls, you know, Yeah, that was a toddler for us.

Speaker 8 (01:55:41):
Yeah, Plunkets, Yes, they're both good examples of uh yeah,
fire the coach that'll fix it.

Speaker 3 (01:55:49):
Maybe not.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):
I I do wonder about Baltimore, you know, I was
listening to Jim Rome was saying yesterday like they had
to get rid of them, it was time. It was
worse for them to keep Harbor. And then they get
rid of him. It's way riskier to keep him. I
don't know that that's necessarily true. I don't know how
many more years Lamar has. I know Lamar and Harbaugh
were at an impass and that was not going to
work anymore, I guess.

Speaker 8 (01:56:11):
I mean, there's not ways to get those guys in
a room if it's that bad and work it out.

Speaker 1 (01:56:17):
I don't know. You watch that Lway documentary and you
can see how bad things get behind the scenes. I
never knew it was that bad between Lway and Dan Reeves. Well,
he literally Elway said to Dan Reeves. According to Mike Shanahan,
I hate you more than anybody on the face of
the earth.

Speaker 8 (01:56:32):
That's what he said to his coach. And Reees probably thought,
I don't need you to love me. It just played for.

Speaker 1 (01:56:36):
Him he did.

Speaker 3 (01:56:37):
And then and then what did Reeves do?

Speaker 1 (01:56:39):
He fired Shanahan because he was like, he's like you
like Shanahan, he's gone.

Speaker 15 (01:56:44):
But you remember, I remember watching football in the eighties.
They'd be down, you know, thirty four to ten, and
all of a sudden, Reeves wouldn't call a play that
way would get it back to win. I mean, Reeves
really hampered his career more than any He was very conservative, terrible, yes,
and then he got to beat him in a.

Speaker 1 (01:56:59):
Super Bowl, you know, on his way out. All right,
Well that nomwi standing by the way. You should watch
that documentary. He would love it, just for all of
the old footage and those early Lway year and the
fact that Terry Bradshaw hated Elway as much as he
did and said as much crap about Elway as he
did is not shocking to me.

Speaker 3 (01:57:17):
But I completely forgot about all of that.

Speaker 1 (01:57:20):
It's literally like these.

Speaker 15 (01:57:21):
Old comics now crapping on young comics like you're You're over,
you were over Terry.

Speaker 1 (01:57:27):
Yeah, let el Way be famous. Terry Bradshaw might be.

Speaker 8 (01:57:33):
The most tortured all time successful at what he did
personality I've ever experienced.

Speaker 3 (01:57:42):
Yeah, he not that I know him or anything, but
you know, he never seemed to.

Speaker 8 (01:57:46):
Why is he not just laughing on his way to
the golden years of his life?

Speaker 7 (01:57:50):
Really?

Speaker 3 (01:57:51):
That's your you know.

Speaker 1 (01:57:53):
Have done.

Speaker 10 (01:57:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:57:54):
Maybe it's because he got hit nine billion times and
maybe his brain doesn't work the way it should.

Speaker 3 (01:58:01):
Never allowed himself to enjoy his success.

Speaker 8 (01:58:04):
I mean, he should just be you know, riding in
the car in the parade and the rose pedals should
be coming down.

Speaker 1 (01:58:10):
The fact that he never comes back here, that he
never hangs out here or lets him The one.

Speaker 8 (01:58:15):
Time he did, he had to bring his daughter with
him and he was afraid he was gonna get booed you.

Speaker 1 (01:58:19):
And then I asked him about it and he started crying,
like I just think that he's emotionally not as stable
as he'd like to be, and he doesn't allow himself
to enjoy success.

Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
It's a shame.

Speaker 1 (01:58:33):
Yeah, it's it's a drag. Aaron Rodgers doesn't have that problem.
Aaron Rodgers is a okay with Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 8 (01:58:43):
I'll tell you what, He's played great And these weekly
interview sessions have been fascinating to me.

Speaker 3 (01:58:48):
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Speaker 3 (02:00:45):
We'll have an all.

Speaker 1 (02:00:46):
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Speaker 3 (02:01:00):
Abby. But now you're headed out to have some libations.

Speaker 1 (02:01:04):
This is the weekend and so it's a new segment
that we are calling winners and boosers who will be
drinking to celebrate this weekend? And who will be drinking
to forget? So Mike will start with you. Who's going
to be toast of the town tonight?

Speaker 8 (02:01:20):
You know, Randall, if Mike Tomlin had ambled into his
postgame press conference Sunday night, stood up, thrown out his
arms and yelled, are you not entertained? I think that
would have been an appropriate response. Yeah, get the man
of vodka.

Speaker 3 (02:01:35):
There you go, Mike, who's drinking to forget?

Speaker 8 (02:01:39):
You know all those people that want Tomlin fired and
they think he's a crappy coach, and they think many
seasons are stupid, and they hate making the playoffs, and
they think you gotta go for thirteen to ever be
good again?

Speaker 3 (02:01:53):
Take another shot, because is going to be the long offseason. Abby,
Who's the toast tonight?

Speaker 19 (02:01:58):
So I would say, after this week host of the
town for me is Roger Wood?

Speaker 1 (02:02:03):
Oh yeah, you know, yes, Yes, here we go.

Speaker 19 (02:02:07):
Musicians across the globe or fighting for their artistic life
against AI, predatory streaming services and general on we to
create something timeless.

Speaker 13 (02:02:17):
He took five notes, put his back into.

Speaker 19 (02:02:21):
The emphasis on the ever and gets the heroes welcome
every time he's got to work a new QB's name
into the verse.

Speaker 13 (02:02:28):
And you know what, I am here for.

Speaker 3 (02:02:31):
Get this man in.

Speaker 13 (02:02:32):
Iron needs to go.

Speaker 1 (02:02:33):
Okay, who's drinking?

Speaker 19 (02:02:34):
To forget every nerd who crashed Netflix on Wednesday night.
We're thinking there was a secret final episode of Stranger Things.
Way to doxs yourself that you haven't touched a real
boob and alone.

Speaker 1 (02:02:47):
Get outside.

Speaker 19 (02:02:49):
You are already in the upside down, which is way
more familiar direction for you than swiping left or right.
Keep running up that hill, buddy, better open side.

Speaker 3 (02:03:01):
Winners and boozers, Sean, who's the winners?

Speaker 6 (02:03:03):
I've got to concur with Mike on this one. My
winner is Coach t not because I credit him with
the victory, I credit a bottle of holy water and
a weird.

Speaker 3 (02:03:12):
Air current with.

Speaker 6 (02:03:15):
But because when that victory happened, he turned to the
camera and did a little dance.

Speaker 3 (02:03:20):
He had just spent fifty nine minutes.

Speaker 6 (02:03:24):
Trying to remember what words you say to not get
fired at a corporate meeting, and in the last second
he realized he still had a job.

Speaker 3 (02:03:32):
And what did they do?

Speaker 6 (02:03:33):
He turned to the camera and did a little dance,
and way to throw it back.

Speaker 3 (02:03:37):
Coach t have a drink. That's so true.

Speaker 1 (02:03:42):
He did a little ice my job dance.

Speaker 3 (02:03:44):
Yeah, yeah, all right. Who's drinking to forget?

Speaker 6 (02:03:48):
The alumni of the University of Pittsburgh are drinking to
forget at Hemingway's because they won't be able to for
much longer. If they can't go there and forget, they
might remember that the core of their college experience was
actually late dropping classes because they forgot to go for
a month, throwing up outside the garage door saloon and
watching deeply unsatisfying football games.

Speaker 10 (02:04:10):
They needed to.

Speaker 6 (02:04:10):
Forget that, and they drink to do it at Hemingwins.

Speaker 1 (02:04:14):
Yeah, all right, well done, Sean winners and boozers. Joe Bartnick.
Who's drinking tonight to celebrate.

Speaker 15 (02:04:20):
Ivanny Malkin, Gino Machino backpens He steps right in.

Speaker 1 (02:04:27):
Six wins in a row.

Speaker 15 (02:04:28):
Gino gets the big power play goal last night on
the five on three, No confusion, the blast from Sir
Sidney and slus the Steelers, and he's ready to go
for the weekend.

Speaker 1 (02:04:39):
Who's drinking to forget? Devil's coach Sheldon Keith.

Speaker 15 (02:04:44):
He came in losing the game on Tuesday Night nine,
Nothing to the Fisherman Anthony Duclair hat Trick and their
metro rival the other comes in and it's like Jasper
Bratt gets a breakaway after Nola Charie, what are you
doing at the blue light?

Speaker 1 (02:05:04):
Just for Brett stone By? Who Stu Skinner? Then Gino Latang.
We're doing Genola Tang. These were pizzas and dandies. They
couldn't they couldn't score on Stuve Skinner.

Speaker 3 (02:05:18):
Sheldon Keith, he was a hemingways for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:05:20):
Last night, Freddy.

Speaker 13 (02:05:23):
Who's your toast of the town?

Speaker 1 (02:05:25):
You know, new Mayor Corey O'Connor, you know, for such
a small enough to drink, for such a small fella,
he's got a tall task ahead of a mic. So
raise a glass to Cory tonight and get him a
step ladder so he can join in and drinking and forget.

Speaker 3 (02:05:38):
I got chevy Chase's agent.

Speaker 1 (02:05:42):
His new documentary, I'm Chevy Chasing You're Not has been
a PR disaster, and not since Bradley Cooper's eye surgery.
As someone made themselves look so bad. So drink chevy
Chase's agent. There you go, winners and boozers for you.
Abby's got your news and we come back. What are
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Speaker 19 (02:05:59):
Even more bad news for the Pittsburgh mills, which I
didn't think was possible.

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Speaker 19 (02:07:11):
The museum exhibit 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 1 (02:07:23):
What may I ask you is in the Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne Museum exhibit.

Speaker 3 (02:07:31):
Well, it's interactive.

Speaker 6 (02:07:31):
You bite off of that head, yes, and then you
can go in you get rady shot right there.

Speaker 13 (02:07:36):
Yeah, you get to pee on the alimal the exit titled.

Speaker 3 (02:07:43):
Yeah, like that's Instagram friends.

Speaker 2 (02:07:46):
Right, Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (02:07:52):
Yeah, that might be an idea for the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame to have more interactive stuff like
that where you did like the led Zeppelin experience where
there's like you catch a mud shark, you have what.

Speaker 13 (02:08:05):
Cnt a waiver?

Speaker 1 (02:08:05):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:08:06):
Sorry, and then you get a shot of penicillin on
your laut need it? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:08:12):
Abby, He'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 13 (02:08:33):
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Speaker 19 (02:08:35):
Side's very warm today on and off rain, high around
sixty two. Saturday a bit cooler, more rain on the way,
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. According to media reports, three of the sixty
six stores that Macy's has in Pennsylvania have now closed.

(02:09:00):
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, saying that they were
quietly exploring an off market sale. But it is still
available according to the website. But on November eighteenth, if

(02:09:23):
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 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

(02:09:45):
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 (02:09:56):
F Am, I the only one watching Pluribus.

Speaker 13 (02:09:59):
I think you are in this room, Jacob.

Speaker 3 (02:10:02):
I can always count on Jacob. He's like I'm in
the chat rooms. I listen. I listened to the podcast.

Speaker 1 (02:10:10):
Yeah, 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, like it's all there, just
no people are there.

Speaker 6 (02:10:29):
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.

(02:10:49):
If you can't maintain any food in an entire mall,
not even the anti ens, these things aren't going right.

Speaker 13 (02:10:58):
No, how is even staying open? Like again, it's it's
nothing now.

Speaker 3 (02:11:05):
I don't understand it. It makes absolutely no sense to me.

Speaker 1 (02:11:08):
And apparently if you drive out there, your car falls
into a sinkhole. 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

(02:11:30):
finding a new show.

Speaker 7 (02:11:32):
Like.

Speaker 6 (02:11:32):
They didn't change the sign, they didn't 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 15 (02:11:45):
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,
it cares.

Speaker 3 (02:11:58):
It's three bucks, right exactly.

Speaker 13 (02:12:01):
Speaking of movies, I know that Jennifer Lawrence has a.

Speaker 3 (02:12:03):
New one out, Uh my love.

Speaker 13 (02:12:07):
Yeah, I don't know if you have interest in seeing
that one.

Speaker 3 (02:12:10):
I've seen it Dark.

Speaker 6 (02:12:12):
Oh, she's great, really dark, she's great. Robert Pattinson is good.

Speaker 19 (02:12:18):
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.

Speaker 13 (02:12:31):
Every dog on.

Speaker 19 (02:12:32):
Earth should be dead. She came to this conclusion after
becoming a mom. Quote it's almost like I 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 6 (02:12:52):
A dog meets it's unfortunate to minse in the film
at her hands. 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.

Speaker 3 (02:13:06):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (02:13:07):
So she may be responding to that that said, that's
the most unhinged thing she's ever said, and she said
a lot of them.

Speaker 1 (02:13:14):
Uh huh.

Speaker 15 (02:13:15):
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 3 (02:13:29):
I mean, I think you know my feelings on this one.

Speaker 13 (02:13:31):
Yeah, it's not hard to make the leap.

Speaker 19 (02:13:33):
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 13 (02:13:48):
Completely understand that.

Speaker 19 (02:13:49):
And also there's there's some understanding with animals like.

Speaker 13 (02:13:58):
This is the wrong leap to take.

Speaker 15 (02:14:00):
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 like didn't like, I'd be like, well, did
you grab his tail?

Speaker 1 (02:14:10):
You're right?

Speaker 6 (02:14:10):
Like I get the dog a doubt, Yes, Oh, I
always blame the person. The dogs are fairly predictable. Yeah
they're they're they're dumb and have observable patterns.

Speaker 1 (02:14:20):
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.

Speaker 3 (02:14:36):
Wanted to love this dog so bad.

Speaker 1 (02:14:37):
And our dog, Rascal, 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 3 (02:14:46):
And well we can to find out. He's just not
a good guy.

Speaker 1 (02:14:49):
He was like a bad guy, like you know, as
like you know, he was just a jerk on every level.
And the dog knew it every time, and we didn't
know because we were kids. And then as I grew
up and I got my own dogs, I'm like, they
always know who the jerk in the room is.

Speaker 3 (02:15:05):
They always trust a dog, they just know.

Speaker 6 (02:15:07):
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.

Speaker 3 (02:15:13):
Ye like, who that thing is.

Speaker 6 (02:15:15):
Too small, it can't walk right, it's stumbling all over it,
it's near my food, Get it.

Speaker 3 (02:15:20):
Out of here. I did have a dog fair with
a bad radar.

Speaker 7 (02:15:23):
Though.

Speaker 1 (02:15:24):
My dog, Jackson, who was the smartest dog I have
ever known in my entire life, had one fatal flaw.
It barked it every he barked it every 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

(02:15:45):
periphery who always showed up uninvited.

Speaker 3 (02:15:48):
You never wanted him to be around, and he would
roll into your.

Speaker 1 (02:15:50):
House that like ungodly hours when you were like cleaning up,
like what are you doing here? And for some reason,
my dog would not bark at him, and I'm like,
why are you? This is the yeah, you have to
keep out. And he would have come in and go
old Jackson, how are you and start playing with him
and stuff, and I'm like.

Speaker 3 (02:16:06):
What how did you get in here?

Speaker 1 (02:16:08):
I'm scared. 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 3 (02:16:22):
Pain in the ass. I think you're talking about me
for a second.

Speaker 1 (02:16:25):
No, no, no, Booker always when Barney comes over, Booker's like,
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.

Speaker 15 (02:16:39):
Yeah, no, be a bookie guy. Alunk 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.

Speaker 3 (02:16:49):
Yeah whatever, he's like, stop drinking, I'm tired.

Speaker 1 (02:16:56):
Last time Joe came over, he was in the driveway
and I let Booker have to go run out and
say hide to Booker just ran out and been them.

Speaker 13 (02:17:04):
Some little bites though, right, he's not.

Speaker 1 (02:17:08):
He's a great dog.

Speaker 3 (02:17:09):
It's like at Bernie's Mountain dog bite, which is just.

Speaker 15 (02:17:13):
I mean, I always let my German Shepherd just well
when she was a puppy toil about four like three
other just bite my arm or just get it out.

Speaker 3 (02:17:20):
Oh yeah, you know. Now she's like a shark and.

Speaker 1 (02:17:23):
On one hundred and fifty teeth are like razorblade.

Speaker 13 (02:17:27):
Yeah, doesn't you know, always.

Speaker 3 (02:17:29):
Work anyway, screw Jennifer h what's her name?

Speaker 13 (02:17:33):
Lawrence?

Speaker 1 (02:17:33):
Thank you? Did you hear the story?

Speaker 19 (02:17:36):
By the way, the kind of sticking with an animal
theme here the bear that was living under the person's
home in California.

Speaker 13 (02:17:44):
They finally got that bear. If you don't know about
this story, the.

Speaker 3 (02:17:48):
Handcuffs make me the purp walk.

Speaker 13 (02:17:53):
There was a bear.

Speaker 19 (02:17:54):
Living under an Altadena home for nearly two months. He
basically got into a crawl space of this southern California
man's home all.

Speaker 3 (02:18:07):
Dig down and create a little den in there.

Speaker 13 (02:18:09):
Yeah, and he was the man whose name was Ken Johnson.

Speaker 19 (02:18:14):
He was super frustrated because he would call state wildlife
officials and he would ask for assistance. This was like
a five hundred and fifty pound black bear, and he
at some point threatened to sue them because they just
would not assist in this in any way. And he
was we don't want to deal with bears like e

(02:18:35):
Wildlife though use a bit 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 called Barely the Beer League.

Speaker 6 (02:18:48):
Barely Bare League, Yeah on grinder kind of filters out
certain results legal.

Speaker 19 (02:18:57):
Yeah, they're a nonprofit based in Lake Tahoe. They offered
to help, and apparently it took less than ten minutes.

Speaker 6 (02:19:06):
Well, they put a big pink honey pot under a nest.
I mean, wonder oh bother.

Speaker 1 (02:19:11):
Oh 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 shoot out from underneath it and run up a tree.
And I mean they are incredible climbers, and they're also
super fast.

Speaker 3 (02:19:32):
They can swim faster than humans.

Speaker 1 (02:19:35):
They just state eight to ten months. I guess.

Speaker 15 (02:19:38):
Yeah, right before I was asked to leave my place
of residency.

Speaker 1 (02:19:43):
What do you say that I asked to leave my
place of trying to do like the odd couple.

Speaker 15 (02:19:47):
Then, yeah, mister barn was removed himself from his place
of residency.

Speaker 3 (02:19:58):
That's so funny.

Speaker 15 (02:19:59):
Set up a random there's all there's been. I mean,
I ran into a bear. It was I've talked about
it on stage. It was a frightening experience. I've seen
them in my car, I've seen them from my porch.
I've had was in southern California. Yeah, because you lived.

Speaker 1 (02:20:17):
In like the Bay Area too, and it's a little
more prevalent up that way.

Speaker 15 (02:20:21):
Well, 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 want 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 to toll exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:20:42):
You know, they wake up. They're like the hangover for bears.
Where am I?

Speaker 15 (02:20:47):
Yeah, no, they're around, and like my German shepherd knew, like,
but you know, Ruby would just like run over to.

Speaker 1 (02:20:53):
They're usually like black bears are usually a doggle chase
a black bear away, unless it's a tiny one.

Speaker 15 (02:20:58):
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 you're
an idiot.

Speaker 7 (02:21:04):
I'm not.

Speaker 15 (02:21:05):
Rose were protecting from the coyotes everybody else, but no bear. No, yeah, Rose,
And I was 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 3 (02:21:20):
Were you like the are no?

Speaker 1 (02:21:22):
Oh yeah I was. I always did.

Speaker 15 (02:21:24):
I always walked both dogs for twenty minutes, just rose
for like an hour. Then they climbed up Mount Versey,
which was my cardio workout, was straight up hill.

Speaker 3 (02:21:32):
It's literally called Mount Versy.

Speaker 15 (02:21:33):
I call it because I told Verse, you don't got
to do because Versus, I like Paul Versus, a cardio guy.

Speaker 1 (02:21:39):
He's strolls.

Speaker 15 (02:21:40):
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 1 (02:21:48):
You're boy up there, you're boy up there.

Speaker 15 (02:21:50):
Because all the guys working out through the mansions, they're
like laughing because he was so far behind me.

Speaker 3 (02:21:55):
Oh yeah, So all right, so you're going up for
a mountain walk.

Speaker 1 (02:21:58):
Ye see this bear coming down. I'm just walking. 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

(02:22:19):
for like a minute, and I walked a little bit.

Speaker 3 (02:22:21):
Over to you didn't no, bear, No.

Speaker 1 (02:22:24):
I didn't do anything.

Speaker 15 (02:22:25):
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 (02:22:54):
You didn't want to get into the one of those shows,
offered me.

Speaker 15 (02:22:57):
She was like gold of give me like protection of
like you know in a shootout from a movie. Right, Yeah,
she's shielding you, 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.

Speaker 3 (02:23:12):
Yeah, I wouldn't let you in yeah exactly.

Speaker 15 (02:23:14):
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'm 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

(02:23:37):
a row about the bear. About the bear, I mean,
did you start taking bear spray with you on hikes? No,
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 3 (02:23:50):
It's pretty far away. I mean it shoots like twenty
thirty yards.

Speaker 15 (02:23:53):
I don't want like the mace like I missed him
or his eyes and he's a crazy blind bear.

Speaker 3 (02:23:58):
Chason, Like, I don't do that, you only make them.

Speaker 15 (02:24:01):
I'm wanted to get a 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 6 (02:24:22):
Someone's going to bring one of those to a Penguins
game playoff season bear horn in the upper deck.

Speaker 3 (02:24:28):
Shock that hasn't happened already.

Speaker 1 (02:24:31):
Yeah, bear encounters are always every time I'm out that way.

Speaker 3 (02:24:35):
That's my number one fear.

Speaker 15 (02:24:37):
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 7 (02:24:45):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (02:24:46):
I've had friend ski in and see a bear and
a bears like running down the hill and it's like,
do not wipe out, don't wipe out.

Speaker 13 (02:24:56):
All right, we'll wrap with this.

Speaker 19 (02:24:57):
You made it two percent of the way through twenty twenties,
and if you made a resolution, good enough, Happy Quitter's Day.
The day that you are most likely to drop your
New year's resolution is today. 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

(02:25:19):
twenty four found eighty percent of us start losing steam
by quitter's day.

Speaker 13 (02:25:23):
So if your resolution is.

Speaker 19 (02:25:24):
Still going strong, feel free to act all high and
mighty about it today. Big survey done just 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 13 (02:25:40):
Be happier.

Speaker 3 (02:25:42):
Oh, it can be a choice. You can just choose
to be happy.

Speaker 13 (02:25:46):
It's a choice.

Speaker 3 (02:25:47):
A lot of people don't think you can, but it's true.
You can fake it till you make it.

Speaker 1 (02:25:50):
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. I just tried
to be happy. Why be angry, pressed, Sean?

Speaker 3 (02:26:00):
Why?

Speaker 10 (02:26:01):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:26:03):
As a fan, you know, you think about the world
for a minute.

Speaker 6 (02:26:09):
And then you stare off into the distance and then
you forget what you were doing.

Speaker 3 (02:26:15):
Like that dog looking at the plate of cupcakes in
that one meme. Yeah exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:26:20):
On the way for your Mike pursuita with your sports
It's Steelers Texans Monday Night, eight point fifteen. Our pregame
starts well, Frankly, no, yeah, Monday morning, it's gonna be
all morning long.

Speaker 3 (02:26:32):
We'll be getting your set.

Speaker 1 (02:26:33):
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,

(02:26:55):
simply their offense Houston is not dynamic enough to put
up a ton of points, and I think Aaron Rodgers
is going to manage it. I think it's gonna be a
low scoring game. 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

(02:27:16):
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 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

(02:27:38):
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? Well,
I know you're going through a thing. No, I'm not
am I now I am?

Speaker 3 (02:27:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:27:53):
Was what was the thing?

Speaker 10 (02:27:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (02:27:54):
I thought I did bringing good circumstances.

Speaker 3 (02:27:59):
I've missed one in four years. There's no thing.

Speaker 1 (02:28:02):
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 of his
kicks that looks a little different than what we're used to.

Speaker 13 (02:28:17):
Like, why are you saying this to me?

Speaker 3 (02:28:19):
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?

Speaker 1 (02:28:29):
No, like they they never try to position him 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

(02:28:50):
one more play. Yeah, Instead, he took a two yard
loss on a needle down to put the ball in
the center of the field, and now Hardbud don't got
in a job.

Speaker 7 (02:28:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:28:57):
I don't know if it's a fireball events, but it
wasn't Bright.

Speaker 3 (02:28:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:29:00):
I I question that firing.

Speaker 3 (02:29:03):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 15 (02:29:05):
I'm happy as a Steeler fan because I think there's
way more worse coaches than Harba.

Speaker 1 (02:29:11):
You're happy, Yeah, you don't want to have to face
him like they made a mistake.

Speaker 3 (02:29:15):
You're saying, yeah, Yeah, that's kind of how I feel.
But I'm gonna miss that matchup.

Speaker 1 (02:29:19):
Tomlin versus Harbaugh was always a fun one to watch,
and you know, maybe it'll happen with him in Cleveland.
I don't think so. 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.

Speaker 3 (02:29:34):
Because I think he's waiting to see who loses.

Speaker 1 (02:29:36):
Yeah, now, Mike McDaniel getting fired yesterday, let me let
me present this Arthur Smith is up for the Titans job.

Speaker 3 (02:29:46):
What if Arthur Smith takes off? Would you be okay
with Mike McDaniel is your offensive coordinator? I one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (02:29:52):
Would wunds the percent?

Speaker 7 (02:29:54):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:29:54):
Would Aaron Rodgers be okay with that?

Speaker 10 (02:29:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:29:57):
You could see them like going off on some like
weed smoking Richard together or something.

Speaker 15 (02:30:01):
You know, 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 1 (02:30:07):
I don't know. 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 3 (02:30:16):
I think there's an element to that.

Speaker 1 (02:30:18):
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 yesterday was like the entire staff
in front office loved that guy. But his quirkiness when
you really need to be motivated.

Speaker 3 (02:30:39):
You know, when you're winning, it's fine, you're losing.

Speaker 1 (02:30:41):
I'm not so sure if a guy in caprepaants is
the one to inspire a room full of football players.
I look at a guy though, right, they were dead
in the water in October. Yeah, he didn't lose the room.

Speaker 3 (02:30:52):
I know there's something to do.

Speaker 1 (02:30:54):
That's that's like about coach Tomlin, Like he never loses
the room as much as tractor as his detractors want
to claim the contrary. That's the truth, and that's, according
to Tony Dungeee, exactly why Art.

Speaker 3 (02:31:08):
Rooney wants to stick with Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 1 (02:31:10):
Michael, have your sports when we come back here Steelers
Texans is Monday night, So enjoy the weekend.

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Speaker 8 (02:31:52):
DVE Sports Subbroxy 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

(02:32:15):
the game. Good stuff. All but we're getting ready for
the Steelers in the Texans 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, and dare we say,

(02:32:39):
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.

Speaker 3 (02:32:49):
In the huddle. Here's Smith talking about that.

Speaker 24 (02:32:52):
So you know the third down call, as he told Calvin.

Speaker 3 (02:32:56):
We were looking for a double moves.

Speaker 24 (02:32:58):
We 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. And I think that situation also
helped too, because corner was so far off. But you know,

(02:33:18):
knowing that the situation, you got two downs, I mean,
you had gotta have it moment and that was it
was a cool thing to watch. And then the whole
last fourth quarter was it was awesome. So those guys
they kept chipping away and got away.

Speaker 7 (02:33:34):
You know.

Speaker 8 (02:33:35):
We heard from Aaron Rodgers in the minute aftermath of
the game. He said he kept asking Austin what do
you want to run?

Speaker 3 (02:33:40):
What do you want to run?

Speaker 8 (02:33:40):
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.

Speaker 1 (02:33:49):
Yeah, just cook and cook them. Okay, run that.

Speaker 7 (02:33:52):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:33:52):
Uh, I want to know who it was that said that.
I should I should probably investigate that today. I forgot to.
Yesterday there was luck going on 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

(02:34:16):
guy from Montana thinks I should run really fast, I'm
gonna do that. That's interesting.

Speaker 1 (02:34:21):
I didn't think of it that context, you know what
I mean, Like like, if it's firemooth again, right exactly,
If it's smooth, you put all the weight on it.

Speaker 3 (02:34:30):
Yeah, that's But if it's you know, Mason McCormick.

Speaker 1 (02:34:34):
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 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

(02:34:55):
the difference, right. I remember talking one time. I bet
you Russellways kept it like, oh dude, I mean, imagine
the vibe coming out of that huddle. I remember talking
to former pit All American longtime Cowboy center Mark Stepanovski
about the tenor and tone of the quarterback in the
huddle and how much that mattered, and he's like it

(02:35:19):
was everything. And he told me 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.

Speaker 3 (02:35:30):
And he said, like the rest of.

Speaker 1 (02:35:31):
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. It really matters. 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

(02:35:53):
out and calm down.

Speaker 3 (02:35:54):
And that's what made him such a quality backup.

Speaker 8 (02:35:56):
He got more confident to the extent that he stopped
wondering if he was good enough and just backt to like.

Speaker 1 (02:36:00):
You were exactly what 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, potentially.

Speaker 3 (02:36:16):
Dire as they were there, you don't score, it's over.

Speaker 8 (02:36:18):
And that was starting ten. I mean, yeah, that wasn't
a layup touchdown like they needed.

Speaker 3 (02:36:23):
To finish that drive.

Speaker 8 (02:36:24):
We saw something similar in Detroit a couple of weeks
prior the Kenny game.

Speaker 3 (02:36:28):
Well play where he fell down.

Speaker 8 (02:36:29):
And got interfered with and then 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.

Speaker 1 (02:36:47):
Drew it up in the dirt.

Speaker 7 (02:36:48):
You know.

Speaker 8 (02:36:50):
Arthur Smith talked about that yesterday as well, because I
asked him about it if those plays were similar, and
he's He went on to explain in the Arthur Smith
kind of way, that there's more nuanced and detail in
those situations than you might suspect.

Speaker 7 (02:37:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (02:37:04):
Hereything else is like, you know, I need to get
all the fast art. It's kind of the whatever.

Speaker 3 (02:37:10):
That's not it, Jake, that's not it. That's not it.

Speaker 8 (02:37:15):
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 3 (02:37:25):
It's us.

Speaker 8 (02:37:25):
Yeah, so even if it's my fault, I'm gonna blame Jake.

Speaker 1 (02:37:29):
You don't point, I don't put the thumb, No.

Speaker 3 (02:37:33):
I put I give the figure.

Speaker 8 (02:37:37):
And it was funny here and Arthur to talk about
that'd be really funny if you could actually hear it.
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 poor.
You don't just need a guy drawing it up in
the dirt. But uh, the point I'm laboring to get.

Speaker 1 (02:37:56):
To here, that's funny.

Speaker 3 (02:37:58):
Hey, you know I'm not obsolete.

Speaker 8 (02:38:02):
Aaron Rodgers in the twenty one years in helmet experience.
I mean, does he check out a 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.

Speaker 3 (02:38:14):
But who do you want to trust when it's crunch time?

Speaker 8 (02:38:20):
For me, it's the guy who's been out there playing
and seeing it and the guy that's done it and
seeing it all. And let's see, you know, whatever he
wants to come up with is fine with me.

Speaker 1 (02:38:28):
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Solving Brady, But I'm going along with Abby Krisner, Mike Persuda,
Our buddy is Joe Barnick and Searn Collier. Been hanging
out with us all morning. 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,

(02:39:54):
and Mark Riceman.

Speaker 3 (02:39:56):
Connor, how you doing, buddy? What's going on?

Speaker 10 (02:39:58):
I'm good?

Speaker 1 (02:39:58):
How are you good?

Speaker 7 (02:39:59):
Man?

Speaker 3 (02:39:59):
What you gotta all of a band?

Speaker 7 (02:40:00):
There?

Speaker 18 (02:40:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:40:02):
My god, it's a murderer's row there. You got that
twenty seventy Yankees. You got a brand new release, tell
us all about it.

Speaker 25 (02:40:10):
Yeah, So I got this new record, Hieroglyphics that just
came out today. The single came out last week was
produced by Rick Wakowski.

Speaker 3 (02:40:21):
He's the best, yes he is.

Speaker 25 (02:40:23):
And yeah it's got like a seventies rock vibe and
not much more to say.

Speaker 3 (02:40:29):
You got any shows coming up?

Speaker 25 (02:40:31):
Tonight is the big album release show and that's at
the Funhouse at mister Small's doors at seven pm.

Speaker 3 (02:40:39):
Good deal anything down the road.

Speaker 25 (02:40:42):
I'm playing in Asbury Park, New Jersey next week for
the Light of Day Music Festival.

Speaker 7 (02:40:49):
Nice.

Speaker 25 (02:40:49):
So those are my things coming up, dude.

Speaker 1 (02:40:52):
I mean that's pretty good gig. I know Joe g
and Millie are playing that as well, and Willie Niles
playing that A bunch ahead New Jersey heavy hitters that
you're involved with there, good for you.

Speaker 3 (02:41:02):
Uh okay, So what are we gonna hear right now?

Speaker 25 (02:41:05):
This is the latest single in the title track to
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Speaker 13 (02:44:10):
I never die, die learning.

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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 3 (02:45:20):
That's Connor Parente and Company.

Speaker 1 (02:45:22):
A killer band there too, Jesse Prentiss 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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Also thanks to our buddies Joey b Joe Bartnick hanging
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Speaker 3 (02:45:50):
Always good to see you, but you get hanging the
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Days or hanging around Yeah hockey games and then on
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Speaker 6 (02:46:03):
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Why is the pronunciation ogle b probably because ogle Bay
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Don't forget. The big Steelers playoff party is tomorrow Abby
at the Tequila Cowboy there down on the North Shore.

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You can have.

Speaker 19 (02:46:36):
Yourself a good time, hosted by Rob King and Charlie
Batch again.

Speaker 13 (02:46:40):
That is going to be Saturday five to seven p m.

Speaker 19 (02:46:44):
Tom Offerman and west Yuler will broadcast the party live
on Steelers Nation Radio one O two point five h
D two and the iHeartRadio app And you can get
yourself coozy rally signed, chances to win playoff tickets, autograph giveaway,
Steeleing McBean's gonna be there, plus Steelers legend stage appearances.

Speaker 13 (02:47:02):
So it'll be good time.

Speaker 1 (02:47:04):
No polka today, you can't because the game is Monday.

Speaker 13 (02:47:07):
You know we could do instead, we could be like happy.

Speaker 1 (02:47:11):
Birth Oh no, we're not doing it.

Speaker 13 (02:47:14):
Randy's birthday tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (02:47:16):
Thank you so much. Make it really quiet and creepy. Yeah,
don't do it like that.

Speaker 1 (02:47:21):
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.

Speaker 3 (02:47:32):
I'm gonna be the exact opposite.

Speaker 1 (02:47:33):
My eyes are gonna be on a TV from the
time I leave here until Tuesday morning.

Speaker 3 (02:47:38):
It's gonna be ridiculous weekends awesome. I cannot wait. Jacob,
good luck to your boys tonight.

Speaker 22 (02:47:44):
Thank you, Randy. I'm excited. 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 are one of the worst. Either feeling both games
will go in the same direction. Either they'll both win

(02:48:07):
or they'll both lose. I don't know why I had
that feeling, but that's just what my gut's telling me.

Speaker 8 (02:48:11):
A well, traditionally still a playoff games a relative to
what happens to football.

Speaker 3 (02:48:15):
I see where you're coming from with that.

Speaker 6 (02:48:17):
The Hoosier wins blow over Yeah, Indiana giving three and
a half tonight.

Speaker 1 (02:48:22):
I like the Hoosiers.

Speaker 29 (02:48:24):
Man.

Speaker 8 (02:48:24):
If I was gonna play the Hoosiers, I play money line.
But well, yeah, in your odds, won't be too bad.

Speaker 1 (02:48:29):
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. Forty eight and a
half is the total, Jake, what do you think you
could go teaser and get IU plus three like because
says you're only teasing yourself. Forty eight and a half
is the total. What do you think that's over?

Speaker 22 (02:48:48):
I mean they almost hit that on them by themselves
last week against Bama. It's gone the line. The spread
has gone down. It was I think it's sort of
like at five and then it went to four and
a half in four. 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 3 (02:49:06):
I'd probably well, one of your defenders is out right, well.

Speaker 22 (02:49:10):
He went It's a shame he went down in the
celebrations of the Big Ten championship win over Ohio State.

Speaker 3 (02:49:17):
But I mean he was just a depth guy that
really found his way to the starting lineup.

Speaker 22 (02:49:21):
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. 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

(02:49:41):
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, I would trust my
opinion on taking the over or under there.

Speaker 3 (02:49:56):
I scoring, that's just my gun. I'm just talking to
an Indiana guy because it's cute.

Speaker 1 (02:50:02):
Jacob, I can get you into the stadium for two
hundred and fifteen dollars tonight.

Speaker 22 (02:50:06):
I almost went. I should have gone. I was on
vacation with my family last week, as you know. 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,

(02:50:29):
they're looking ahead. As I mentioned earlier today to Miami,
I don't know nearly as many people going tonight, so
I kind of get myself sidelined tonight as well.

Speaker 3 (02:50:38):
Where's the game tonight, Atlanta? You could be on a
noon flight, buddy. It's a hell of a stadium too.

Speaker 1 (02:50:45):
You could get there.

Speaker 3 (02:50:46):
Rose Bowl legend, Joe Bartnick, Did you go to the
Rose Bowl this year?

Speaker 15 (02:50:49):
This is the only year I would the only year
I haven't been in like eighteen years. But my whole
family went because they're all like God said, goes to Indiana.
Oh okay, but you missed.

Speaker 3 (02:50:59):
I missed it.

Speaker 1 (02:51:00):
Well, we'll get to I had to work.

Speaker 7 (02:51:01):
Well.

Speaker 3 (02:51:02):
Yeah, hey man, someone's got to be on the stage
telling jokes. All right.

Speaker 1 (02:51:06):
Michelle's got the h the airchair here next with the
electric lunch at noon.

Speaker 3 (02:51:10):
Give her a call. Let her know what you want
to hear. Have a great weekend, everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:51:14):
I'm finished.

Speaker 1 (02:51:15):
You stay classy, Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (02:51:16):
Don't touch your face?

Speaker 1 (02:51:18):
Hey, got him type Pittsburg all day.

Speaker 10 (02:51:19):
Baby.

Speaker 1 (02:51:20):
Now you got to call me, Ronald?

Speaker 3 (02:51:21):
Would you not eat my pants?

Speaker 10 (02:51:23):
Ronald?

Speaker 1 (02:51:23):
A normal size nipple?

Speaker 13 (02:51:32):
Tis checking?

Speaker 7 (02:51:34):
Bye?

Speaker 1 (02:51:35):
Why google it? Nipples the same size as every bom.

Speaker 10 (02:51:45):
Bye.

Speaker 1 (02:51:46):
A great Friday.

Speaker 16 (02:51:49):
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 dots here's Tom Opproman.

Speaker 17 (02:52:02):
The Steelers will host their first playoff game in five
years Monday night, when they welcome the Houston Texans.

Speaker 1 (02:52:06):
The town for the final game of wild Card Weekend.

Speaker 10 (02:52:09):
It's tough to find.

Speaker 17 (02:52:09):
Many weaknesses when examining the Texans, who are the NFL's
hottest team heading into the.

Speaker 3 (02:52:13):
Playoffs with a nine game winning streak.

Speaker 17 (02:52:15):
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 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
a head.

Speaker 3 (02:52:29):
Of only the Las Vegas Raiders for the season.

Speaker 17 (02:52:32):
Woodie marxis Houston's leading rusher with seven hundred and three
yards of the season, but is averaging just three point
six yards per carry with just two touchdowns and sixteen games.
The Steelers run defense, despite giving up one hundred and
thirty seven yards to Ravens on the ground last week,
has averaged just seventy 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.

(02:52:55):
Kickoff between the Texans and Steelers is Monday night at
eight to fifteen.

Speaker 1 (02:53:00):
Mom Freman with the Steelers report

Speaker 13 (02:53:03):
Five hospitals Butler Memorial, Clarion, Frick, Latrobe, and Westmoreland at
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