June 23, 2025 • 8 mins
"You got here just in time for the heat."
Wait—was that 79 degrees? Welcome to Pittsburgh, where the rivers are scenic, and the sports takes are hotter than a Texas summer.Kevin “KT” Turner takes us on a hilariously unpredictable journey through the Steel City. From scenic ballpark views and unexpected Rangers fandom on a flight, to awkward Uber conversations and a deep dive into the psyche of Pittsburgh sports fans, KT’s storytelling is as vivid as it is side-splitting.
Wait—was that 79 degrees? Welcome to Pittsburgh, where the rivers are scenic, and the sports takes are hotter than a Texas summer.Kevin “KT” Turner takes us on a hilariously unpredictable journey through the Steel City. From scenic ballpark views and unexpected Rangers fandom on a flight, to awkward Uber conversations and a deep dive into the psyche of Pittsburgh sports fans, KT’s storytelling is as vivid as it is side-splitting.
- 🏟️ PNC Park Praise: KT ranks it as his #2 ballpark—just behind Fenway—and paints a picture so vivid, you’ll want to book a flight.
- 🍻 Beer City Breakdown: Pittsburgh’s underrated beer scene gets its due, with KT navigating hills, inclines, and bars like a seasoned local.
- 🤯 Mike Tomlin Hate?: You won’t believe the venom Pittsburghers have for their Super Bowl-winning coach.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Cobbe Oh the cobe him, I loose your mind, Dim,
I new's control.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You never know.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
What's in the Kobe. We never know what's it Coby.
Thanks Garth. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Uh so I went to Woodi's homeland of Pittsburgh over
the weekend and uh uh.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Basically I've been before.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I went saw radio Head there years years back, went
to a to a Pirates game and then uh, like
they playing the Reds. Uh, I think they're probably playing
the Reds. Yeah, And my dad had been, my mom
had never been, and it's it is known as one
of the best baseball parks there is right now. Sometimes
sometimes my parents take a weekend trip and go, you know,
(00:56):
check out some ballparks all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So it's also, by the way, I've Heardsburgh is an
amazing beer city.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It is.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
It is a huge beer city. It's kind of a
small town, but it's very interesting. And I get on
that flight and I could not believe it. The whole flight,
like literally more than half the flight, it's people wearing
Rangers gear really, which is like Rangers fever doesn't appear
to be burgeoning to me. I'm not really sensing that
(01:23):
in the Metroplex. And now I know why this is.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's because people do very much like to do baseball
road trips because it's three games and you can plan
a bunch of other things around it. And the Rangers
rarely go to Pittsburgh. Yeah, so it's one of those
things where it's like, hey, they're going to Pittsburgh. We've
got to do this, and then we can go to
the Art Museum or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's not like going like Fenway or Wrigley. But I
think it's like a notch down from that.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah. I have it ranked on my number it's my
number two ballpark. Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh, Fenway is so good. But I mean, well it's.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
The football State's right on the river's connecting right yeah,
and it's right walk Okay, so it's right there. So
it's just gorgeous on the river.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And it looks like f an Ai, Like it doesn't
look real the city right there the river.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's just perfect.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It doesn't look like the Trinity over there. It doesn't know.
And it's pretty awesome. And there's you know, there's hills
and thing. There's you can if I didn't do it,
you can uber up the hill or you can take
an incline up the hill and there's a bunch of
bars up there too, and you're basically looking down on
the city into these stadiums. That sounds it's really neat.
Have you been k So none of us are ever
(02:35):
thinking let's go to Pittsburgh, right, It's like, you know.
But the uber driver picks me up and he goes
from the airport and I flew alone, and he goes, man,
you got here just in time for the heat. Look
down in my eye watch seventy nine degrees. And I
just just before I got into Uber, I was thinking, damn,
it feels so good. The atmosphere feels different here. And
(02:57):
he goes, you got here just in time for the heat,
and I went what He goes, Oh, yeah, it's hot.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It was like, it's seventy nine. That's it's amazing, wonderful. Yeah,
so good.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It did get hot on Sunday, but I was out
of town Sunday mornings. I was home by ten am.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
What do you mean by hot? How much was it?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It got into the nineties, which for them, that's enough
to fire off an extreme heat warning. In fact, they're
angers playing Baltimore tonight, and I think it's like gonna
be high nineties.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, and you know we got to have it. We're
having a ninety three degree day right now.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Let's all get get on a plane and go to
Scenic Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I would love to. I want to see where they
shot the wire.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So every time I would talk to a local, I
would ask them which, by the way, I talked to
so many locals I took to like people from DFW
a lot too, because again, tons of people from DFW there,
you just run into them.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Did y'all talk about the whole THCHC band?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
We didn't get to that. We didn't get to that.
You stay downtown. Why we stayed downtown? You just walk
to the game, and they've got a whole setup where
you you walk over the bridge of the river to
the game.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Traffic closer. It's so good.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
But then, uh, every time I asked him about George Pickens,
I got kind of the Michael Chicklists response. When we
asked him about Rondo, they give us the good luck
every time, like, oh yeah, I like. And then if
when I asked him about Aaron Rodgers, their response was
the single syllable laugh.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It was that every time they think it's a joke.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
A guy actually put a bunch of money in and
he's been been making signs about the pirates, but for
Billboard money to uh fire Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Like, dude, they hate Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Really, I couldn't find a single person who was endorsing
Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
He's there, Jason Garrett, except he actually won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, every time we bitch about stuff here like, oh,
Mike Tomlin sound pretty good?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I mean, dude, I was like, man, you might not.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Want to complain. Our coach literally talks about ping pong
all the time, like it's happening every day, ping pong
and dinner and meeting their dogs.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's very weird.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But you're not a You're not a small talk guy,
so it sounds like you were really forcing small talk
on it.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Well, I'm not a small talk guy. But when you
hang out with my parents, you drink and.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
A little trouble keeping up.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Lord, did y'all did you talk Guinny Paula Malu with
anybody never got into like Steelers Hall of Famer?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
There actually was one guy kind of a beating stop
down to have some oisters and this fella could not
stop talking about the time he met Fred Blitney coffee.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It's just really hard to tell him I didn't care.
I'll tell you mister three time. Okay, So what about
George Pickens?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Are they upset that they lost George Pickens to the Cowboys?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And what you know?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
They were? They they hated everyone.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I mean, I'm talking universal, not even a He's talented,
and they're like, nah, he sucks.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
He's there, Christian would He's awful.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
They're like, he doesn't care, He's gonna get terrible penalties
all that stuff. Now shot, he's calling him GP and
saying he's amazing. And he's the last one off to
practice field at mini camp. So we'll see the contract here.
He's gonna be on his best behavior this year, no
matter what.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I want him for this year and then I want
him to go sign somewhere else and win the Super
Bowl this year and then you don't need to pay Hi.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You gotta pay Mike.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Draft a wide receiver in the first round next year
and we're good. Biggest nemesis of the city is a
guy named Bob Nutting.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh corn Star, They are not Nutting over Nutting.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
He is the owner of the Pirates and he refuses
to spend any money. And let me tell you the
other thing I saw more than anything, Paul Skeen's memorabilia.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
People walking around with Paul Skeen's jerseys for a guy
who plays once every five days. I saw multiple Paul
Skins T shirts where it's his face and his mustache
all over the T shirt but.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Hashtag skiing team. Such a star and he really is.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It leads MLB an e ra to grom seventh, by
the way, but they are so I toalked to it
like an eighty five your old guy, and he's like,
I don't know, I still come to these games anymore.
He's never gonna sell the team, is going to give
it to his family. Yeah, he started talking about Jerry Jones.
I'm like, well, at least I think Jerry Jones kind
of cares, and like they're going, we want Mark Cuban
(07:13):
to buy the Pirates.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Oh, he's from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Who want to last story though, I met this couple
from New York. We're walking on the bridge away from
the Saturday games. We're walking back downtown. A couple from
New York. They have like seven kids, and this is
clearly a Brady Bunch situation. But one of them they
ask where you're from and whatever. Domond Dallas like.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Where do you live? Nelson Richardson. Oh my god, my
daughter just moved to Richardson.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
She's twenty two and a crime scene analyst. And I
said why Richardson. They're like, well, that is a competitive
job force you just take the job if you can
get it, especially in that early and her first order
of business on the job was a part of the
team who was investigating the Kelvin Joseph accident. Wow, that
(07:58):
killed that lady. Wow, that lady who was a bartender
at Benders in richard cinebar that I often go to. No. Yeah,
but that was her first, Like, moved take the job
at twenty two in Richardson, out of nowhere, and that
was her first. And they were kind of they're kind
of funny people and they are like, yeah, we can't
make her laugh.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
She won't laugh.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Very serious to be a crime scene analyst, you can't
have a sense of humor. Everything has to be serious.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
It would be weird if you're like the wacky crime
scene analysts that always have bits.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
That's why I feel about like a lasik surgeon. You
don't want them to be wearing a Hawaiian shirt, cracking jokes.
You don't need a lot of personality. Can have a
laser beamong my eyeballs? Or solving this murder?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Right? All right, there you have it. There's the cubby hole.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
KT's small talk adventures in Pittsburgh.
Cobbe Oh the cobe him, I loose your mind, Dim,
I new's control.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You never know.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
What's in the Kobe. We never know what's it Coby.
Thanks Garth. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Uh so I went to Woodi's homeland of Pittsburgh over
the weekend and uh uh.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Basically I've been before.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I went saw radio Head there years years back, went
to a to a Pirates game and then uh, like
they playing the Reds. Uh, I think they're probably playing
the Reds. Yeah, And my dad had been, my mom
had never been, and it's it is known as one
of the best baseball parks there is right now. Sometimes
sometimes my parents take a weekend trip and go, you know,
(00:56):
check out some ballparks all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So it's also, by the way, I've Heardsburgh is an
amazing beer city.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It is.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
It is a huge beer city. It's kind of a
small town, but it's very interesting. And I get on
that flight and I could not believe it. The whole flight,
like literally more than half the flight, it's people wearing
Rangers gear really, which is like Rangers fever doesn't appear
to be burgeoning to me. I'm not really sensing that
(01:23):
in the Metroplex. And now I know why this is.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's because people do very much like to do baseball
road trips because it's three games and you can plan
a bunch of other things around it. And the Rangers
rarely go to Pittsburgh. Yeah, so it's one of those
things where it's like, hey, they're going to Pittsburgh. We've
got to do this, and then we can go to
the Art Museum or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's not like going like Fenway or Wrigley. But I
think it's like a notch down from that.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah. I have it ranked on my number it's my
number two ballpark. Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh, Fenway is so good. But I mean, well it's.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
The football State's right on the river's connecting right yeah,
and it's right walk Okay, so it's right there. So
it's just gorgeous on the river.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And it looks like f an Ai, Like it doesn't
look real the city right there the river.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's just perfect.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It doesn't look like the Trinity over there. It doesn't know.
And it's pretty awesome. And there's you know, there's hills
and thing. There's you can if I didn't do it,
you can uber up the hill or you can take
an incline up the hill and there's a bunch of
bars up there too, and you're basically looking down on
the city into these stadiums. That sounds it's really neat.
Have you been k So none of us are ever
(02:35):
thinking let's go to Pittsburgh, right, It's like, you know.
But the uber driver picks me up and he goes
from the airport and I flew alone, and he goes, man,
you got here just in time for the heat. Look
down in my eye watch seventy nine degrees. And I
just just before I got into Uber, I was thinking, damn,
it feels so good. The atmosphere feels different here. And
(02:57):
he goes, you got here just in time for the heat,
and I went what He goes, Oh, yeah, it's hot.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It was like, it's seventy nine. That's it's amazing, wonderful. Yeah,
so good.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It did get hot on Sunday, but I was out
of town Sunday mornings. I was home by ten am.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
What do you mean by hot? How much was it?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It got into the nineties, which for them, that's enough
to fire off an extreme heat warning. In fact, they're
angers playing Baltimore tonight, and I think it's like gonna
be high nineties.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, and you know we got to have it. We're
having a ninety three degree day right now.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Let's all get get on a plane and go to
Scenic Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I would love to. I want to see where they
shot the wire.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So every time I would talk to a local, I
would ask them which, by the way, I talked to
so many locals I took to like people from DFW
a lot too, because again, tons of people from DFW there,
you just run into them.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Did y'all talk about the whole THCHC band?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
We didn't get to that. We didn't get to that.
You stay downtown. Why we stayed downtown? You just walk
to the game, and they've got a whole setup where
you you walk over the bridge of the river to
the game.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Traffic closer. It's so good.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
But then, uh, every time I asked him about George Pickens,
I got kind of the Michael Chicklists response. When we
asked him about Rondo, they give us the good luck
every time, like, oh yeah, I like. And then if
when I asked him about Aaron Rodgers, their response was
the single syllable laugh.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It was that every time they think it's a joke.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
A guy actually put a bunch of money in and
he's been been making signs about the pirates, but for
Billboard money to uh fire Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Like, dude, they hate Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Really, I couldn't find a single person who was endorsing
Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
He's there, Jason Garrett, except he actually won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, every time we bitch about stuff here like, oh,
Mike Tomlin sound pretty good?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I mean, dude, I was like, man, you might not.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Want to complain. Our coach literally talks about ping pong
all the time, like it's happening every day, ping pong
and dinner and meeting their dogs.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's very weird.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But you're not a You're not a small talk guy,
so it sounds like you were really forcing small talk
on it.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Well, I'm not a small talk guy. But when you
hang out with my parents, you drink and.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
A little trouble keeping up.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Lord, did y'all did you talk Guinny Paula Malu with
anybody never got into like Steelers Hall of Famer?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
There actually was one guy kind of a beating stop
down to have some oisters and this fella could not
stop talking about the time he met Fred Blitney coffee.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It's just really hard to tell him I didn't care.
I'll tell you mister three time. Okay, So what about
George Pickens?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Are they upset that they lost George Pickens to the Cowboys?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And what you know?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
They were? They they hated everyone.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I mean, I'm talking universal, not even a He's talented,
and they're like, nah, he sucks.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
He's there, Christian would He's awful.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
They're like, he doesn't care, He's gonna get terrible penalties
all that stuff. Now shot, he's calling him GP and
saying he's amazing. And he's the last one off to
practice field at mini camp. So we'll see the contract here.
He's gonna be on his best behavior this year, no
matter what.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I want him for this year and then I want
him to go sign somewhere else and win the Super
Bowl this year and then you don't need to pay Hi.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You gotta pay Mike.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Draft a wide receiver in the first round next year
and we're good. Biggest nemesis of the city is a
guy named Bob Nutting.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh corn Star, They are not Nutting over Nutting.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
He is the owner of the Pirates and he refuses
to spend any money. And let me tell you the
other thing I saw more than anything, Paul Skeen's memorabilia.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
People walking around with Paul Skeen's jerseys for a guy
who plays once every five days. I saw multiple Paul
Skins T shirts where it's his face and his mustache
all over the T shirt but.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Hashtag skiing team. Such a star and he really is.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It leads MLB an e ra to grom seventh, by
the way, but they are so I toalked to it
like an eighty five your old guy, and he's like,
I don't know, I still come to these games anymore.
He's never gonna sell the team, is going to give
it to his family. Yeah, he started talking about Jerry Jones.
I'm like, well, at least I think Jerry Jones kind
of cares, and like they're going, we want Mark Cuban
(07:13):
to buy the Pirates.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Oh, he's from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Who want to last story though, I met this couple
from New York. We're walking on the bridge away from
the Saturday games. We're walking back downtown. A couple from
New York. They have like seven kids, and this is
clearly a Brady Bunch situation. But one of them they
ask where you're from and whatever. Domond Dallas like.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Where do you live? Nelson Richardson. Oh my god, my
daughter just moved to Richardson.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
She's twenty two and a crime scene analyst. And I
said why Richardson. They're like, well, that is a competitive
job force you just take the job if you can
get it, especially in that early and her first order
of business on the job was a part of the
team who was investigating the Kelvin Joseph accident. Wow, that
(07:58):
killed that lady. Wow, that lady who was a bartender
at Benders in richard cinebar that I often go to. No. Yeah,
but that was her first, Like, moved take the job
at twenty two in Richardson, out of nowhere, and that
was her first. And they were kind of they're kind
of funny people and they are like, yeah, we can't
make her laugh.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
She won't laugh.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Very serious to be a crime scene analyst, you can't
have a sense of humor. Everything has to be serious.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
It would be weird if you're like the wacky crime
scene analysts that always have bits.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
That's why I feel about like a lasik surgeon. You
don't want them to be wearing a Hawaiian shirt, cracking jokes.
You don't need a lot of personality. Can have a
laser beamong my eyeballs? Or solving this murder?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Right? All right, there you have it. There's the cubby hole.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
KT's small talk adventures in Pittsburgh.
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