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Speaker 1: Billy Gardell, live from Los Angeles, California, this morning, here with us on the DB Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Billy, good morning.
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Speaker 3: It's a full boat of cousins on the screen. This is wonderful.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Wonderful. Full house here.
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Speaker 3: Happy holidays. We're getting close because the house is already lit.
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Speaker 4: Oh, you went right to Christmas?
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Speaker 3: Oh, listen, I'm so done with October. I'm done with October, October 1st. I don't want nothing scary. I did too much ass in the 90s. I'm neurotic as it is. I don't need nothing trying to scare me through October. I take care of that on my own. And then November, that's when it begins for me. And I got a loophole. Usually Patty won't let me light the house until November 17th. But the guys, wink, wink, were in the neighborhood last weekend, so I'm already lit up. Oh, wow. I got three palm trees in my backyard. I wrap them like candy canes with red and white lights.
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Speaker 2: I like that.
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Speaker 3: You can see it from the moon. I love it. I'm Clark Griswold is who I am.
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Speaker 2: All right. So this connection sucks right now.
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Speaker 3: Uh-oh. Want me to redo it?
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Speaker 2: I want you to redo it while we get started.
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Speaker 1: You can listen in and give me a thumbs up when you're back and ready to go there.
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Speaker 2: And Abby will start the news here for you here on DBE.
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Speaker 5: News This Hour brought to you by Better Call Cy. It's mostly sunny and pleasant. Apparently this is going to be the nicest day of the week because it's going to be a high of 62 today. But that automatically makes me want to see how bad this is going to get because I think on Friday we're supposed to get a bit of snow. Or a wintry mix is what I heard this morning.
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Speaker 2: Let's hear you, Billy.
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Speaker 3: Holiday.
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Speaker 4: It sounds worse somehow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, keep talking.
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Speaker 3: Try it again.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, try it one more time. All right.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 5: So let's talk actually about Thanksgiving because I know that if we want to go ahead and skip right to Thanksgiving for Billy, that this could be fun. But If you're hosting Thanksgiving dinner and having a difficult time nailing down when to tell guests the feast will be served, no worries. Reader's Digest is sharing when the perfect time to eat is. So one recent survey of more than 34,000 people found that the largest group prefer the Thanksgiving meal.
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Speaker 4: To be 2 to 3 p.m. with 4 to 6 p.m.
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Speaker 2: Close behind.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: What are we, animals? If you don't eat in the afternoon, what are you supposed to be doing on that second round later in the evening?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the point.
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Speaker 6: What are we doing?
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Speaker 3: What are we even doing?
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Speaker 2: Three o'clock, I think, is like the gold standard.
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Speaker 3: That's prime time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: That's prime time.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 4: My family is always one o'clock.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's even better. Listen, I'm all for an early start. Like, the fat Hulk is still running around in my head. And from those days... Yeah, earlier the better. Fat Hulk. That's what I call him. He's still in there. You know, while I'm eating my cottage cheese and grapes, I just hear pizza.
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Speaker 2: Shut up.
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Speaker 3: Shut up. We're not doing that today. But Thanksgiving Day, you have reasons. One is great. Like I said, the earlier you can go, the better, because then you're getting that second and third round.
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Speaker 4: That's what I want.
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Speaker 3: Later in the evening. Yes. I like to buzz the tower like Tom Cruise on Thanksgiving. That fridge is like Narnia. I just want to go in there every two hours. I can't wait.
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Speaker 2: I can't wait.
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Speaker 1: How different is it for you now that you can't just do what you used to do? How difficult– is it to come up with your strategy?
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Speaker 3: Well, here's what I've already developed that I have to, cause I only got 12 ounce, my stomach's 12 ounces. I can't eat more than that. So what I do is I make a plate now, instead of building the mountain, like Richard Dreyfuss and close encounters, like I used to with my potatoes. Now it's a, you ever see like a painter's easel where they got a bunch of little paints all over the, I do that with the food, like a scoop of this, a scoop of it. And I work at like an easel. If I could have a plate with a thumb hole in it, I would walk around. And so, but I I'll do that. And then I let it settle down for two hours. Like I said, which is why I like a lot of time on the clock. And then I'll just, I'll hit that easel three or four times during the day.
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Speaker 2: That's nice.
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Speaker 3: I do everything I can to play the lay down game.
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Speaker 2: That's all. How long does it take to reset the 12 ounces?
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Speaker 3: Well, Three hours.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: That's not too bad, dude.
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Speaker 3: Three and a half. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Like I tell before I can get a little more in there. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, do you get the full 12 again? Is it like empty tank or just an, it's.
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Speaker 3: Not an, three quarters, maybe. Dude, I had to learn to budget the second year. I did it. When you get bariatric surgery, if you eat too much, you get this thing called dumping syndrome because your stomach is now connected to your small intestine. If you eat too much, you're going to end up in the restroom. But if you eat too much, yes, if you
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eat too much sugar, it literally, you'll pass out. And I remember the first year I got the surgery, I still was learning how to gauge the amount that I could have. And so usually I can have like a two fingers wide slice of pumpkin pie, right? My wife mixes pumpkin pie with cream cheese, which is I used to make her make two and I would put one out and the other I'd hide in the garage fridge. So none of the animals would eat that. And I could have that through the rest of the week. And then Joey O'Connell from Penn Hills, my dear brother, he found his joint down in where he lives. It has a banana cream pie. And so he brought that up and I thought I could slide maybe another little bit of that in the second year after the surgery. And I had to go to bed about six o'clock. And I was down for about an hour and a half and literally passed out from sugar and then came back downstairs and nobody had left. They just, it was, it was like they sent me in at halftime for an MRI and they brought me out of the tent to come back and finish the game. So I've learned, I've learned not to short my systems up.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But here's the thing, you know, lest anybody think that you suffer from this, I know that you've got it down now and it's like, no, no, no, this is way better.
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Speaker 2: The, Oh yeah.
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Speaker 1: Like your life is so much better because of this discipline.
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Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. I mean, I ride bikes. I go horseback riding. Like I said, I've been up on a couple of waves in the ocean.
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Speaker 2: That's crazy, man.
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Speaker 3: Cause it's, it's not, Oh, I jumped off a waterfall. Like I told you in a while, I would have never, I couldn't do none of that stuff. I'll tell you though, you know, it's funny, man. me and joey o'connell from penn hills we've been best friends for 30 years and i gotta tell you that's when it hits me the heartache i i love eating with that guy more than anybody in the world like he's my he's my eating soulmate he always has been and so once in a while when i'm with him uh we'll go somewhere and i can't i can't throw down like we used like me and o'connell have pulled into a KFC and ordered a bucket of family chicken, ate it in the car on the road together and not even.
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Speaker 2: Spoke a word.
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Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Like we go that deep.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: We go, we roll deep. And, and I, I, I mourn sometimes not being able to eat with him. And then every now and then I'll see it hit him. Like we'll be somewhere and he'll order like a big entree or something. And I got my little crumbs across the table and Joel just go, It's kind of.
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Speaker 2: Sad, huh? Joe Pesci and easy money.
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Speaker 5: Come on.
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Speaker 2: It's no problem.
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Speaker 3: You put that answer. You guys are killing me.
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Speaker 7: The 12 ounce thing, Billy, I'm just doing the math
in my head. That's like, you can do two slices every two hours.
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Speaker 3: There you go. If you pace yourself, that's exactly right. You nibble. It's so funny. It's funny you said it. You got a good intuition. We ordered pizza last night for the game. And, yeah, two slices, and then I have leftovers, which is still a surprising experience.
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Speaker 2: To have leftovers.
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Speaker 3: Because when I used to order pizzas for the family or people over, I'd order pizza for enough of the people here, and then I just ordered myself a pizza. There was always a pizza just for me. Well, I think about that now. I'm like, whoa.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I talk about it in my act. There's no leftovers.
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Speaker 7: Like, cause I, I, when there's a slice of pizza in my fridge, I can't sleep.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 3: No, you feel like you're leaving somebody out in the ocean. Like, we got to go back for him. I know you don't want to go.
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Speaker 2: Leave a man behind. We got to go back for him. We can't leave him out there.
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Speaker 7: It's like my daughter's going to get up and have one for breakfast. I'll get up at 5 a.m. just to make sure she doesn't get it first.
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Speaker 3: That's right. That's going to lunch. That's going to school if you don't get that.
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Speaker 2: Bill, you know what I had?
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Speaker 3: Listen, when I don't eat all the pizza, I feel like they should fly the Mission Man mission over my house. There's one guy missing out of it.
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Speaker 2: You know what I had for dinner last night that I might have to have shipped out to you?
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 2: And everybody in this room will appreciate it. A Gobblerito. Oh, you can ship them?
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Speaker 1: I think you can ship them. What's a Gobblerito? It's a Mad Max. They sell them this time of year. It is a turkey stuffing mashed potatoes corn.
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Speaker 2: Cranberry. Cranberry also.
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Speaker 3: That is the most Pittsburgh thing I think I've heard in the last five years.
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Speaker 1: It is so freaking good and when I went to pick it up there was a line of people waiting to pick up their gobbleritos because it's gobblerito season and let me tell you something this you would love here's the reason why they're so damn good first of all the stuffing is amazing turkey's really good but the gravy.
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Speaker 2: The gravy? I don't know how.
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Speaker 1: Because restaurant gravy, it's a toss-up, right? It's either like, this is pretty good, or this isn't very good. This is like the best gravy you ever had gravy.
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Speaker 7: Really?
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Speaker 2: I'm going to have to.
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Speaker 1: You won't be able to crush a whole one, but you'll be able to do it in a couple sittings.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll just have to strategically hide that in foil in the back.
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Speaker 2: It's 1,500 calories for an entire... Burrito.
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Speaker 4: Can everybody crush a single one?
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Speaker 2: I did last night. I crushed it.
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Speaker 4: Just eat the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: But I did it right after the gym. So it was like, what is it?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: What is that about? We'll just make a sandwich out of anything. A whole meal. Just roll that up. I think that'll be fine. Roll that up.
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Speaker 4: I don't have time.
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Speaker 2: We're busy.
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Speaker 3: Put a toothpick in that. I need to make that in one. I got to have one hand. I got to get to my second shift.
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Speaker 4: That's it.
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Speaker 2: We're busy.
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Speaker 1: That's why we color coordinated all the teams. I don't have time to buy all kinds of stuff. I got two colors. Everything needs to be those colors.
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Speaker 3: It's so funny. Every Christmas, nobody ever has to worry about what to buy me. Give me socks, Steelers, penguins, tie, pirate shirt, whatever you can.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Every time I got, I got Steeler pajamas. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I said it.
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Speaker 3: I'm wearing pajamas.
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Speaker 1: Pittsburghers are, are very easy to buy for, but the, the best, uh, like aspect of our, uh, you know, dedication to the, the color scheme is when you have a flight to, in a big airport and you're looking for your gate for a flight to Pittsburgh. And it is the easiest spot. Oh, it's like, it's like a rally is going like a pep rally.
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Speaker 3: Listen, you catch some black and gold through the TSA. You just follow them right to the gate.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 3: You're with your puts. It's like joining your platoon.
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Speaker 1: And everybody does that. They like to get to the gate, look around there. And I got to know at least three or four people here. Let's see who's on this flight.
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Speaker 3: This is good.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I'll talk to him when we land in Myrtle. Exactly. I'm not going to talk to him.
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Speaker 5: All right, well, let's stick with a little bit of gift-giving then. It sounds like we know what to get Billy, but Google is tracking some of the most popular items that people are searching for this season. Nostalgic favorites are making a very big comeback with searches for classic toy train sets up 240%.
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Speaker 3: Now you're talking my language.
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Speaker 7: Right?
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Speaker 3: Now you're talking my language.
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Speaker 5: Also, adjustable roller skates surged 5,000% in just the past month.
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Speaker 4: I got a brand new pair of roller skates. You got a brand new tee.
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Speaker 5: Beauty products are also trending, including lymphatic face brushes.
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Speaker 4: Joey B knows about the Gua Sha.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, the rock.
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Speaker 3: Love the rock.
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Speaker 7: Billy doesn't need it anymore. He's got a real chin line now. I still need my.
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Speaker 3: You sound with a blast helmet like a welder. That's the only way you... Yeah, I had to buy that hat on. Red light therapy, cuz.
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Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. I got a red light mask that does the whole job in three minutes.
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Speaker 2: And I'll never go back.
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Speaker 3: No, we got one of those too, Abby. And every now and then I put that on and I pretend I'm the dude from Vendetta. Yeah. Okay, it's creepy. Stop it.
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Speaker 4: I went with the red light mask.
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Speaker 3: You need to think about what you really believe in.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Because I had one that could do like all these different colors for different concerns and everything. But it also was like, okay, yeah, but I can't just lay down for 20 minutes at will.
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Speaker 2: I need to be moving.
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Speaker 4: I need to be doing the.
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Speaker 5: Laundry while I got this on. So I got the face one, which has like a remote. And then there's one that goes around your neck and your chest too. So I'm just walking around like glowing throughout the entire house.
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Speaker 3: That's perfect.
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Speaker 4: But just like the Gobblerito, I don't have time.
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Speaker 2: Just do it.
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Speaker 3: Rock and roll.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 3: We're on a move. We're on a move.
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Speaker 5: Other popular searches include podcast microphones.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Jesus.
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Speaker 7: Sorry.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's more people coming.
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Speaker 3: That's what we need more of, podcasts. I can't get enough podcasts. Boy, I love them. It's such a great way entertainment has evolved into podcasting.
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Speaker 5: I don't know why kitten heels is on this list, but that's just a very specific type of shoe. It's just a shoe that has a very low heel. So not like a spiky heel, just like a little clunker. And ski-themed mugs. That is extremely specific. That's very weird.
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Speaker 4: That is very weird.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 5: I think the biggest takeaway on this is that throwback gifts or nostalgic gifts made such a big comeback.
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Speaker 2: So those.
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Speaker 5: far and beyond are the big gift things this year.
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Speaker 3: I don't think that's a throwback. I think it's people coming out of their coma a little bit and wanting something that means a little more, something you can touch, something you can interact with, not something that, you know, comes in your email and blinks and then you got to download a code and give a blood sample so you can go shop at a store you never want to go to.
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Speaker 1: Correct.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe it's thoughtful.
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Speaker 5: Well, the idea of even having like a toy toy, train set like or something that you were like setting up for christmas that would go
like around the tree or something like that that has never appealed to me this year it sounds like a great idea let.
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Speaker 3: Me tell you something there is nothing more therapeutic than hearing the whoosh of the train blowing around the tree at night little music going got a little cup of cocoa no phones no tvs lights of the tree i bring the whole family out well i got will will's got his own place now With his girl. And the first thing I bought him was a Lionel train for his tree. So he could carry on that tradition over at his house. My big jam up is I have five trains. So we have to decide which train gets pulled out of the yard. for Christmas every year. We have a vote. We have a vote to see which one it is.
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Speaker 2: You're Casey Jones out there.
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Speaker 3: I am because I got the hat. I got a wooden whistle. No, listen. Back in the old days, I was driving that train.
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Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: Now I'm just high on pie.
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Speaker 2: 12 ounces at a time.
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Speaker 3: I got.
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Speaker 3: I got that wooden whistle. Oh, I drive everybody nuts. I love it.
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Speaker 7: That was my first great gift, too. My godfather got me a Lionel train.
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Speaker 2: I loved it.
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Speaker 5: Yep.
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Speaker 3: The first one I bought, I bought the Pennsylvania Flyer when Will was born. We still have that one in the family. So I got about five different ones. I got to figure out which one goes. I think this year I have a Christmas train and the engine's 2525. I think it's between that or the Polar Express this year. So that's the debate in the house this year.
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Speaker 5: All right, it's mostly sunny today, pleasant, and it's a high of 62.
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Speaker 1: More with Billy Gardell when we return. Mike Persuta with your sports next here on the DBE Morning Show. Want to remind you, this week's WDVE Bud Light Game Day Bar of the Week. Pomodoro and Wexford stopping Pomodoro and enjoy 350 Bud Light, 22-ounce drafts during Steelers games.
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Speaker 2: Bud Light. DVE Sports.
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Speaker 1: All right, we've got Billy Gardell live in Los Angeles, California. This morning in Microsuda now. Live in studio here on the DVE Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Mike, take it away. Sports Assert brought to you by Bridgeville Plants.
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Speaker 8: Last time the Steelers played the Bengals back on September the 27th. They won the game 30-27. The defense came up with a stop when it had to. Bengals had a first and 10 at the 38-yard line. 53 seconds left in regulation. They were already in field goal range. to potentially force overtime, but they wanted to go for the win. Steelers got a sack out of Derek Harmon, strip sack, and a fumble recovery by Sebastian Joseph Day.
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Speaker 2: End of ballgame.
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Speaker 8: Afterward, Mike McCarthy pulled back the curtain and let everybody know that by scoring 30 points, his offense almost did what he thought it would have to do. McCarthy said, and I quote, I wrote down 31 in my notes going in as far as a target.
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Speaker 2: That's the last time I'm going.
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Speaker 8: To say something like that because that was stupid for that to come out of my mouth. I just knew that we felt we needed to score points. Naturally, I asked him yesterday, how many points is it going to take this time? This time McCarthy did not pull back the curtain.
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Speaker 9: Well, I mean, just having a chance to watch the Cincinnati game live, I thought they looked great on offense. But yeah, we're in our game playing process and especially going on the road. Uh, this is a big game. We're looking forward to it, but yeah, I'm, I'm not in the point predictions. We're going to, we're going to score as many as we possibly can and hold them to as.
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Speaker 2: Little as possible. Yeah.
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Speaker 8: The correct answer is 35 or more because the bangles are going to score some points. Bangles, the Steelers think they're better than they were in September. They're probably right about that.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 8: They also think the bangles are better than they were in September. Here's defensive coordinator, Patrick Graham.
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Speaker 2: I think the old lines, um, They look real cohesive right now.
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Speaker 6: I think Coach Peters, their O-line coach, is doing a real good job. I mean, they're keeping Joe clean.
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Speaker 2: Not a lot of sacks.
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Speaker 3: I think it's 12 or 13 for the year.
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Speaker 6: Um and you can see they're really operating well as a unit both in the running in the past i know they're not running the ball a ton but you know you saw how effective they were in the second half running the ball you know because all you gotta do is give chase just a little crease and he's through there so i thought they're working well together there um that's probably the biggest difference i mean those guys they're receivers you know whether it's gisecki whether it's T, Chase, I mean, and what Joe's doing behind center, I mean, it's pretty impressive what they're doing.
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Speaker 3: Mikey, I could give the entire game plan for this game in about three seconds.
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Speaker 2: Here it is. Bring it.
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Speaker 3: Put your hands on Burrow early. Make them jumpy. That's number one. Number two, Warren, Warren, Warren, Warren, Warren, Washington, Warren, Warren, Warren, Washington. That's the game. You want to beat Cincinnati? Sit that guy down. Don't let him out on the field. That's the game. Run fast. Grind, it's November. Let's get nasty with it. Run the ball and keep the pretty boy on the sidelines. That's the game.
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Speaker 8: I like it as long as you're running Warren, Warren, what was that, six times and then a Washington and three.
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Speaker 2: You better finish those drives with touchdowns.
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Speaker 3: I agree.
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Speaker 8:
Because when they get the ball, they are going to score points.
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Speaker 3: I agree with you.
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Speaker 8: And to me, that's not a reflection of the Steelers' defense. No, it's just what we're going against. It's a special elite offensive unit led by a guy who, in Joe Burrow, is being compared to the greatest quarterbacks of all time, and justifiably so. We'll see how it plays out. A lot of action yesterday in advance of the trade deadline. Jacksonville making three trades, acquiring defensive tackles. Jordan Davis from Philly and Devon Godshaw from the Saints and safety. Jesse Bates III from Atlanta. A couple things about that. Jacksonville is loading up. pushing the chips into the center of the table, borrowing the Los Angeles Rams F those picks philosophy, and going for it now. We'll see if the Steelers want to try to keep pace even a little bit in advance of 4 o'clock today. The Eagles are in free fall and giving up. The Steelers play them in two weeks. I think they've won one game in the history of the world in Philadelphia, and that was a long time ago. But that game is nowhere near over. Looking like it did when the schedule came out. It's a very winnable game. So that helps the Steelers cause.
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Speaker 3: We need a receiver. We need a number one.
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Speaker 2: That's what we need. Well, I'm not going to get a one, but I think they need better.
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Speaker 3: Somebody who could be a one. We need like a two plus.
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Speaker 2: I'd settle for better.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, me too.
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Speaker 2: And more, just in case.
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Speaker 8: Yep. Last night, Monday Night Football, Buffalo beat Minnesota 23-6. So tune into this game.
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Speaker 3: They sure did, Mikey.
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Speaker 8: Eager to see how Buffalo stacked up against what is one of the NFL's best defenses on the road. The Minnesota defense was dominating Buffalo for long stretches of this game.
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Speaker 2: The Minnesota offense.
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Speaker 8: Was unbelievably bad. Carson Wentz, if he was a baseball player, his name would be Finito Santiago.
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Speaker 2: He is done. I mean, eight for 25.
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Speaker 8: He got benched eventually for a second-year undrafted guy, Max Brosner. No touchdowns, two picks for Wentz.
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Speaker 3: Stolen from the desk of Max Brosner.
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Speaker 8: He couldn't throw it in the same area as his receivers. Minnesota's got an elite Super Bowl-level defense. They tried to get the ball to Justin Jefferson 11 times last night. He caught three of them. Because the ball was just nowhere near him. It was an incredibly bad quarterbacking performance. But here's what the Vikings did that got my attention. James Cook, the Buffalo running back, who's very underrated in my opinion, he finished with 31 carries for 107 yards. In the first half, he had 15 carries for 33 yards. They slammed the door shut on the run in the first half. And that basically took care of the Buffalo offense.
It was 10-6 at halftime, and the Vikings offense had done nothing. So if you're looking at that game, okay, can the Steelers measure up with the Bills? What would that look like? Pittsburgh's all of a sudden pretty good at stopping the run. If Pittsburgh can play Buffalo and stop James Cook the way Minnesota did, Pittsburgh has a chance against Buffalo. Assuming their offense is better than Minnesota's.
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Speaker 3: Mikey, I feel like Minnesota's in that weird wash cycle that we were in for a long time where you have a great defense, but it's out on the field too long because the offense is not producing. That's what happened last night. It's just eventually. You just get exhausted and gassed, and then it's over.
00:24:43
Speaker 8: But, man, Troy Aikman made a comment last night during the first half. He said, it looks like the Vikings are playing with 15 guys.
00:24:49
Speaker 6: What?
00:24:50
Speaker 8: They were just flying all over the place.
00:24:55
Speaker 3: Hitting like the 80s.
00:24:57
Speaker 2: Buffalo can be had, I think.
00:24:59
Speaker 7: What did J.J. McCarthy do? Did he pee on the Mary Tyler Moore statue?
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Speaker 3: How did they throw him out for Carson Wentz?
00:25:14
Speaker 2: Like, what? And this other dude.
00:25:17
Speaker 1: Well, I think they thought Kyler Murray was going to be Better. Yeah, better and healthier.
00:25:23
Speaker 8: Obviously, they're thinking, I don't know what the hell they're thinking.
00:25:26
Speaker 1: You know that Kyler Murray had to go to rehab for video gaming?
00:25:31
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:25:32
Speaker 2: I think Ben Stein did, too. It happens. Ben Stein?
00:25:36
Speaker 3: That old guy?
00:25:37
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure. No, he was in that.
00:25:42
Speaker 1: Minecraft.
00:25:43
Speaker 2: Minecraft. Minecraft.
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Speaker 7: Minecraft.
00:25:45
Speaker 2: That is sixth in catching. No, see, that's Tomlin, right? Makes you wonder. Batting sixth and catching. Finito Santiago. Mike Pursuit with your sports.
00:25:56
Speaker 5: Sorry.
00:25:56
Speaker 2: More with Billy Gardel.
00:25:57
Speaker 5: Madden.
00:25:58
Speaker 1: It is the DVE Morning Show. Randy Bauman along with Abby Krisner.
00:26:03
Speaker 3: Chad Whistler. Joe Barton.
00:26:07
Speaker 2: Hanging out with us this morning. Live in studio.
00:26:09
Speaker 1: And Billy Gardel live from Los Angeles, California.
00:26:13
Speaker 2: Live from Burbank.
00:26:16
Speaker 3: Downtown Burbank, California.
00:26:20
Speaker 1: You know, Billy, where you live, the change in weather does not necessitate you to.
00:26:29
Speaker 2: Winterize your car.
00:26:31
Speaker 1: Here, as you know, back in Pittsburgh, we all have to do things to make sure we get winterized.
00:26:38
Speaker 2: I always get my....
00:26:40
Speaker 1: Inspection in the fall. It's like inspection, flu shot. You know what I mean? You do all the maintenance before it starts getting cold. Today, when I drove to work, I think the temperature was like 38. It was something like that.
00:26:53
Speaker 4: I had to park in the driveway and I had to get my ice scraper out.
00:26:58
Speaker 1: Whoa!
00:26:59
Speaker 2: I did. I did.
00:27:01
Speaker 4: I didn't like it.
00:27:02
Speaker 2: There's no way in hell. Um, okay.
00:27:04
Speaker 3: I picture like, I picture Abby's ice scrapers, like the size of a hockey stick and it's just got death metal stickers all the way down it.
00:27:12
Speaker 4: You know me very well. And I am very short. It has to, it has to be, or I'll never get to it. I'll never get to it.
00:27:21
Speaker 1: But, Abby, there is a story about things, easy things people can do to give their car a long life. I know a lot of people that just drive their car until it quits. Joe Bartnick, you said you just retired another car out of California this week.
00:27:36
Speaker 7: Yeah, Thursday, last rights at Island Tires, my fifth car that said goodbye right there.
00:27:41
Speaker 1: So you put down five cars at this same garage that is in L.A.? Yes. Okay.
00:27:47
Speaker 2: Do you just buy, like, something to beat on, and then when it's cooked, it's cooked?
00:27:52
Speaker 5: No.
00:27:52
Speaker 2: I mean, it's L.A.
00:27:53
Speaker 7: You run them into the ground. I mean, you're driving constantly. I mean, my Caddy, I should have just kept because it was my baby. But other than that, I mean, my wife's RAV, 200,000 miles. My S10 truck, 300,000 miles. Oh, wow, dude. And then, yeah, and then this one, I don't really live there anymore. I like Ubering and having friends drive me around. I'll pay extra.
00:28:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes. Not a bad way to go.
00:28:19
Speaker 1: But, Abby, there are some tips on small things you could do for the upkeep on your car. And with gas prices being what they are these days and car prices being what they are, nobody wants to get a new rig.
00:28:31
Speaker 5: No.
00:28:33
Speaker 4: Cars are a huge investment. So according to a mechanic, these are the tips that.
00:28:37
Speaker 5: Can really help you make sure your car has a long life so the first thing is not to neglect your regular car maintenance and that's easy stuff changing your oil and filters on time which is just bare minimum stuff right have you ever.
00:28:51
Speaker 2: Gotten an oil change and not changed the filter.
00:28:57
Speaker 1: They come out and they go, hey, here's your filter.
00:29:00
Speaker 2: It doesn't look too bad.
00:29:01
Speaker 3: All right. Let me tell you the truth on that. You need to do that about every third time. Don't let them suck you.
00:29:07
Speaker 2: That is true.
00:29:07
Speaker 3: They're just scaring you.
00:29:08
Speaker 2: You're just scared.
00:29:09
Speaker 3: That's all that is.
00:29:10
Speaker 4: I'm easily scared, and I don't know enough to have them.
00:29:13
Speaker 2: And they tell you, like, yeah, this is your filter. Look at it. I'm always like, is that good? What does that mean? I don't know. Put it in your scrapbook.
00:29:22
Speaker 3: I do this. Whenever they start coming at me with the filter, I go, no.
00:29:27
Speaker 2: There you go.
00:29:28
Speaker 3: It's like you sending those Cleveland fans home last week. Too bad. Too bad.
00:29:35
Speaker 5: Number two is don't use aftermarket car parts.
00:29:38
Speaker 4: What you think will save you money.
00:29:40
Speaker 5: Now might wind up costing you more later.
00:29:42
Speaker 3: Very wise.
00:29:44
Speaker 1: Well, like I'm trying to figure out in what regard though, like, I mean, obviously that doesn't apply to anything on the body, right?
00:29:50
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:29:50
Speaker 2: You need a mirror. Yeah. That doesn't matter, but it's more, I would imagine.
00:29:54
Speaker 3: But if you're getting a thermostat or a radiator hose, it's been refurbished or a, no, don't do that.
00:30:01
Speaker 1: Don't do that.
00:30:02
Speaker 3: That's like putting a bandaid on a, on a brick wall. That's had a leak. You don't want to, you're begging for it.
00:30:09
Speaker 2: I did put a new transmission. I did put it. Did you do what?
00:30:13
Speaker 7: I did put an old transmission into my Cadillac because mine exploded. And the new one was like six grand. But my caddy, he's like a genie. He got one from Texas. It worked good, actually.
00:30:26
Speaker 3: If you're going to do that, you did the right thing. Buy it from a hot weather state. No, I'm not kidding. In the old days, you used to be able to find a car for about two grand for the road. And if you were anywhere south of Orlando, Florida, you could find a Cadillac that Somebody just got their license taken away from them because they're 113 for two grand. And because that car ran in the heat, it'll run forever. A car that's conditioned in the heat is your best bet to buy anything, parts, reuses, any of that.
00:30:55
Speaker 7: That was the car I just gave back. Some rich guy had it for his daughter in the garage for like 10 years.
00:30:59
Speaker 2: It looked mint. It was a 20-year-old car, but it was like mint. It was perfect for me.
00:31:03
Speaker 5: Yeah. Don't buy anything that promises to stop a leak, especially on tires.
00:31:12
Speaker 4: It's usually more hassle than it's worth.
00:31:14
Speaker 2: It is. You ever see that?
00:31:15
Speaker 1: If you're fixing your car with a can of Aquanet.
00:31:21
Speaker 2: Just stop driving.
00:31:23
Speaker 3: Stop it.
00:31:24
Speaker 2: Don't put gunk in your engine.
00:31:26
Speaker 3: Don't do any of that.
00:31:27
Speaker 2: It does ruin the tire. Yes.
00:31:30
Speaker 1: I mean, the just slew of cars my dad had for us as kids that were like the shuttle.
00:31:38
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
00:31:39
Speaker 1: It was like an Aries K, and then a Renault, and then an 84 Regency Broham, and then it would be a Cutlass.
00:31:44
Speaker 2: And they were all.
00:31:54
Speaker 1: And so, like, we all had to know how to, like, change a tire, fix flat, do all that stuff.
00:32:00
Speaker 3: My dad had a 69
Nova that had a rusted hole in the passenger side, and he just added three car mats.
00:32:07
Speaker 2: That was the thing.
00:32:07
Speaker 3: Hey, there you go. Three car mats over the hole so your feet didn't go through.
00:32:12
Speaker 5: That's funny.
00:32:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, you Fred Flintstone that car to a stop.
00:32:15
Speaker 3: You get in the car and you go, don't push down on it.
00:32:18
Speaker 2: Don't push down.
00:32:20
Speaker 4: All right.
00:32:22
Speaker 5: All right, this one says, don't lay a rubber floor mat on the driver's side unless it fits.
00:32:27
Speaker 4: That's a big safety issue. You don't want that rubber mat getting stuck on the accelerator.
00:32:33
Speaker 3: Or causing your brake to not fully be able to stamp down. And on icy roads, when it gets slippy, that's dangerous.
00:32:40
Speaker 1: Dude, I've kicked the one that came with the car off of the mooring and, like, up into the before, and I'm like, what the?
00:32:47
Speaker 2: Like, yeah.
00:32:49
Speaker 3: Your gas pedal goes down like an 80s TV show.
00:32:53
Speaker 5: Exactly.
00:32:56
Speaker 4: Never ignore a car warning light. Uh-oh.
00:32:59
Speaker 5: They're there for a reason. Driving too long after they pop up can cause more damage.
00:33:04
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:33:05
Speaker 3: I don't know, man. I had an 84 Oldsmobile. The check engine light was just part of the dashboard. Right.
00:33:13
Speaker 2: If it went off, you'd be concerned.
00:33:14
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I see smoke or smell smoke, but the check engine light don't scare me too much.
00:33:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, turn the radio up.
00:33:21
Speaker 7: Solves a lot of problems.
00:33:26
Speaker 3: The car starts clunking. You just hear him coming around the corner.
00:33:30
Speaker 7: That's why I was a metalhead, because I drove an 81 Skylark.
00:33:39
Speaker 4: Yeah. All right, don't replace tires with used car tires.
00:33:46
Speaker 5: It's tempting to try and save money where you can, but you don't want to skimp on tires.
00:33:51
Speaker 2: No, don't do that.
00:33:52
Speaker 3: No, don't skimp on tires.
00:33:53
Speaker 2: That is a bad idea.
00:33:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, no bueno.
00:33:57
Speaker 5: And finally on the list, be honest with your mechanic. When you take your car in, the more information they know, the better.
00:34:03
Speaker 1: Like talking to your doctor, how many drinks do you have a week? Be honest about that.
00:34:08
Speaker 3: You know what? And I like watching people who know nothing about cars try to explain stuff to their mechanic. That's my favorite because they just go in and they're like, it goes vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom. It goes vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom. So what do you think that is? I think that's about 1800. Sit down.
00:34:29
Speaker 1: Billy Gardell, live from Los Angeles, California, this morning. It was great hanging out with you, buddy. Thanks for getting up early.
00:34:35
Speaker 3: Love you guys, man. Happy holidays. We're getting close. Let's go.
00:34:38
Speaker 2: Let's go.
00:34:39
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh appreciates you getting up early out there to hang with us every week.
00:34:42
Speaker 2: I love it.
00:34:43
Speaker 1: Also, thanks to Gene Steratore for joining us and Charlie Batch. Big thanks to everybody who came to the Donny Iris Memorial yesterday. It was an incredible service. And I'll just say this. There will be more. There'll be more opportunities, and there are some things in the work to remember King Cool. And an additional note of thanks to everybody who packed the Sanctuary on Saturday night. I got to play with the Buffalo Rose for their 10th anniversary this past Saturday night. That is just such an incredible band, and they're doing so well across the country, and they continue to use Pittsburgh as their home base. And that was just an absolutely great night. So thanks to those guys and congratulations on 10 years. Lots of stuff coming down the pike, including the Smalls Waltz with Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, both from Levon Helms Midnight Ramble Band. Larry Campbell spent years as Bob Dylan's guitarist, and he will join us on November 21st. for this year's Smalls Waltz, the 50th anniversary of the band's The Last Waltz. So not a lot of tickets left for that. Get the remaining ones now at SmallsBoxOffice. There's a link at dve.com as well. And I'm pretty sure this is the last one we're going to do, at least for a long, long time. We probably wouldn't have done this one if it wasn't going to be the 50th. But the fact that it's the 50th anniversary is like, wow, we have to. So this might be it for a while. And having Larry and Teresa on board along, with Eric Lawrence from the Midnight Ramble Horns, makes it a really special event. And if you like The Last Waltz, this one's a good one. Don't miss it. Get your tickets now.
00:36:20
Speaker 2: That's it. Michelle's up next with the Electric Lunch at Noon.
00:36:23
Speaker 1: Joey Bartnick, you're going to come back on Thursday, but you've got a big show coming up Saturday in Imperial.
00:36:28
Speaker 7: Altered Genius Metro Imperial.
00:36:32
Speaker 1: Downtown Imperial, right across the trail from St.
00:36:35
Speaker 2: Kalamkill.
00:36:36
Speaker 7: Yeah, with Trey McDonough, if you remember killing it at the DVE show.
00:36:41
Speaker 2: Very funny. Yeah, Trey's a very funny guy. All right, and that's Saturday night.
00:36:46
Speaker 1: Saturday night, 8 p.m. All right, we'll continue to remind people. Michelle's up next. Have a great day, everybody.
00:36:50
Speaker 2: I'm finished. You stay classy, Pittsburgh. Don't touch your face. I've got him dead, Pittsburgh.
00:36:55
Speaker 3: All day, baby.
00:36:56
Speaker 2: For now, you guys call me Ronald. Would you not eat my pants?
00:36:59
Speaker 5: Ronald.
00:37:01
Speaker 8: Ah! Oh!
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Speaker 9: Murray!
00:37:04
Speaker 2: Murray! Google it!
00:37:08
Speaker 1: Great.