Saxboy Billy, Mini Stories, Absolutely Knot, VIP Table

Ep. 8 

We’re joined by Pittsburgh legend @saxboybilly18 for a conversation about his content journey, traveling the world, and how his sobriety journey unexpectedly turned him into one of the biggest Pirates superfans around. From viral city songs to the story behind his latest hit, “The Puerto Rico Song,” we dive into life, growth, and all the wild moments in between. Such an awesome conversation and an honor to have him on the podcast

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:00

All right. Welcome to the Absolutely Not Another podcast. I am Game Show Garrett, or as most of you know me as now, Mr. Cassie. I'm alongside Wedding Procast. Wedding Procast. This episode is going to be dropping when you and I are on vacation.

SPEAKER_00 0:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 0:18

We're off to Disney again.

SPEAKER_00 0:20

Again, my favorite place in the whole entire world.

SPEAKER_05 0:23

See, I grew up as a Western PA person going not to Florida, not to Disney, but to the great place of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Found myself there a lot. Medieval times. All of like by the time putt-putt, I would leave with two to three hermit crabs. There you go. Sometimes they would make it, sometimes they wouldn't. I did care for them, but they would switch shells. And it was just like, what's gonna happen here? Kids, I get to be able to experience now four two times with both.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

And fourth time for Tyson.

SPEAKER_05 0:55

Fourth time for Tyson. They're in their like Disney era.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

We're gonna shows ride the rides. I gotta I gotta book the lightning lanes.

SPEAKER_05 1:02

Lightning lanes. It's bad. It's bad in terms of what it went to whenever we first moved to Florida. And anytime we had time off for work, it was always off-season for us and off-season for Disney. So we can just like hop on any ride and not really have to deal with this lightning lane thing. It wasn't even a thing then. Now with that, coupled with maybe him getting upset with whatever ride we might get on. He's very in the Guardians of the Galaxy, but he's now saying that he's not into it because he knows that cosmic rewind is semi-roller coaster.

SPEAKER_00 1:30

Scared of the roller coaster.

SPEAKER_05 1:32

It's all good. When we were going as adults, we're not Disney adults. I don't define myself as well.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

I'm not a Disney adult. I support the Disney adults, but I'm like a Disney enthusiast.

SPEAKER_05 1:42

No free ads, Disney adults. The thing that I always look forward to, especially when we went with friends, was going to travel around the world.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:50

Drink around the world a little bit. The food, the drinks, experiences. The one thing I would say for anyone that goes to Epcot to drink around the world is there's two ways you can go. You can either start at Canada or start at Mexico. You gotta go Mexico. You gotta start left and you gotta have that tequila just to get yourself going. I'm also not stopping to drink at every single spot. I'm usually skipping. I might get on like I'll get a beer at Germany and a pretzel.

SPEAKER_00 2:15

Just depends. I feel like now that we have kids, we don't do that. And when we go around Epcot, we just pretend that we're traveling to the different countries. Yeah. So that's it. We just visited the Avery. We're in China, now we're in France. So we're not true travelers, I would say. We don't travel too much with the kids, but um, we do have a traveler in the house, somebody that goes all around. And we are very, very excited to have this comedy content creator with us. Today we have a guest who is truly one of a kind. You probably know him as Sack's Boy Billy. That's how I know him. His real name is Bill Steitler. And if you've been anywhere on the internet lately, chances are you have seen his videos.

SPEAKER_05 2:51

Yeah, as mentioned, he's been traveling all over the country and at sometimes out of the country, creating those custom, hilarious, and insanely catchy theme songs for different cities. Most recent one being Ames, Iowa.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

I thought was great.

SPEAKER_05 3:07

And it's been blowing up with that San Juan viral song, which I find hysterical. My favorite song was the uh Jay Leno Hill. I'm from the area around Greensburg, so that was one of my favorites for it. But beyond the music and the content, he is a diehard Pittsburgh Pirates fan, you can see with the hat. And we're gonna talk riding the highs and surviving the lows of being a survivor or being a Pittsburgh Pirates fan and documenting every bit of what it might mean to love your team no matter what. And as if that wasn't enough, Sax Boy Billy, he stepped into the podcast world with the podcast of the Saxcast. You can find him on there or Bucko Banner. So we're very excited to have you in to dive into everything, your travels, your content journey, your pirates fandom, and all the wild moments in between. So without further ado, welcome in to the Absolutely Not Podcast.

SPEAKER_03 3:56

Thank you so much for having me. What a treat. And my it's so funny. It's like you guys are talking about going down to Florida, and then you're like, Well, it's we weren't Florida people, we were Myrtle Beach people. I just saw Pittsburgh. There's two options there's Myrtle Beach and there's Florida. Choose one. But uh I made Myrtle Beach content because there's cheap flights down there because it's Pittsburgh South, basically. And you know those three Ferris wheels in Myrtle Beach?

SPEAKER_00 4:24

I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_03 4:24

And they want to build one on the S Plane. I didn't know that new development. Yep, yep. They got three in Myrtle Beach. Yeah, Myrtle Beach is a special place, it's very special. And I did it, I do so when I travel, I do no car travel. So I I say I travel through the United States, like it's Europe, like trains, planes, buses, walking, bikes, and the public transit in Myrtle Beach is something else.

unknown 4:49

Good or bad.

SPEAKER_03 4:51

It's just an experience. It's like you don't even understand like how it works, but it somehow does. But thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_05 4:59

Absolutely, absolutely. We're happy to have you here as well. To start things off, a few years back, you finally got yourself into the content game with following along the Pittsburgh Pirates. You started posting videos. It wasn't always songs. It was giving back into like what's going on. Paul Skeens was just debuting. Being a Pirates fan is clearly has its highs and lows. What keeps you coming back year after year?

SPEAKER_03 5:22

Well, the crazy thing is um uh I actually like nine years. I may I did I moved to New York when I was 20 years old from Pittsburgh and I did comedy there for eight years. So I actually was big on I was in on the early Vine thing. I had 65,000 followers on Vine. I love that. And but uh I took a little nine-year detour to drink myself uh to death. Uh uh, I worked in the alcohol industry for a long time. That's funny. You're saying walk around the world or whatever, and uh Epcot. It's like it's cool, but but then like being in the beer industry for like nine years, you learn it's like it's just Michelob light, it's like Michelobe Ultra, but they're calling it like Mexican Pilsner.

unknown 6:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 6:04

Like when people are like, I got the duff beer, it's like, ooh, that's like lion's head. But uh I so I took a nine-year little hiatus, had a great time working in the craft beer industry. It's a fun industry. Little tricky if you're uh if you like to drink like I do, but I moved back to Pittsburgh in uh 2023 to get sober. Took me a couple months, took me a couple months, but I've eventually got it. 1227-23 is my sobriety date. And my dad said, You can you come here to get sober, you can stay in my spare room. So I was living with my dad, rent-free, just trying to get sober, trying to not drink. And I was like, what do I do to fill my time? Like, how do I occupy my time? And the pirates have this thing called ballpark pass, where it's like at that time it was like 45 bucks. You get one general admission ticket to every pirates game. So I was like, you know what? I'm gonna just get that pass, and then I'm gonna go to every single pirate's game because that's a place for me to go. I had money saved up for my sales job, I was living rent-free, and I started going to the games, and I was like, you know what? I should start making videos again, start making comedy again. And within a week, I around the ballpark, people were like, Hey, I saw your video. I was like, What? Like, because it was so silly and stupid, but they're fun. And then it just kept on progressing, and I kept making videos about the pirates, they kept growing, and then you know, the alcoholic in me was like, Wow, this is I I can't get enough of things, right? If I do something, I gotta go all in on something. And I was like, going to every home game is wild, but you know what would be really crazy if I went to every away game too.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 7:42

So I was like, I have the money, I have rent-free, I'm gonna go. I called it my Grateful Dead tour. I Grateful Dead followed the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2024, and I started following a team around and making content about my experiences, and then you slowly realize no one cares about the Pittsburgh Pirates outside of us weirdos in Pittsburgh, they're the most insignificant major sports team in America, just so much losing. But uh, and I was like, people are more interested in the travel, and like the because I don't I do no car travel, and they're like, How is he no like how do you go to Kansas City without a car? Like, what are you doing? Like, where are you staying? And then I just started pivoting the content, making travel content, and then I went after the season ended, I went to Johnstown PA, and I was like, I because I always liked Johnstown, it's like mini Pittsburgh a little bit. And uh, I went and saw a Tomahawks game, and and uh I made three videos about Johnstown and it got seven million views. I was like, Johnstown, seven million views, and I people like traveling to you know off-the-beaten path places, and yeah, it's just fun. And and and so the pirates, it's still you know at my core. It's the core of the content is making pirates content. I think your question was, how do you stay a fan of this team? Yes, oh yeah. I mean, I would I again I wish like I could go back in a time machine with my mom, because my mom took me to Three Rivers, and I wish I could go back in a time machine and just direct her like to the civic arena or like from Interstellar, whenever he's banging on it.

SPEAKER_05 9:21

No, no, it's like why why did you make me this baseball fan? But even when they're good though, I mean they're three years. Yeah, the three years. It was right around when we started dating, and of course, a slippery rock alum, Cassie's rocking some slippery rock, Matt Adams closed our season out that year.

SPEAKER_03 9:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 9:39

What five games before that was the Quato game? That's been it for me. I grew up in early 90s, yeah. So I the end of Barry Bonds' career, yeah, I have no memory. I have no memory. I'm 37.

SPEAKER_03 9:50

Like, so yeah, I'm born at 89. Like, I have no memory except for three years, and I was living in New York City when the team was good. They were good, and then it's like with baseball, you you can win on a budget, and and but the rebuild, we're in year seven and it's been so unsuccessful. Yeah, so hopefully they turn things around. But yeah, but honestly, I have to thank the Pittsburgh Pirates because if if they were good, I'd still be making them to like not that many people. Now they're so they were so assed that I was like pivoted by content, and I'm so I really am grateful and thankful for them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:23

Now they're on the up and up again, though. We'll see. Everyone else though is in the NL Central.

SPEAKER_00 10:28

So I don't know what's gonna happen for them. Well, I'm in a similar game of like content creation, and you're right, you have to like totally whatever people are wanting to see, you have to be able to be flexible and pivot and kind of recreate yourself. What is something that you didn't realize or like people don't realize about putting yourself out there online?

SPEAKER_03 10:45

Oh wow, yeah. So I would say the overwhelming majority is super positive. And if you have weird niches, there you're gonna find people on the internet that feel the same way, especially with the algorithm. That's the beauty of the algorithm today, is the reason people saw the the pirates content in PNC Park a week later is because that robot is like, oh, this is baseball. Let's feed it to people that want to see it. You know, my content can get really sp in the weeds of like, you know, tr trains and planes and budget travel and like, but you know, it finds my like-minded people that like to that are curious about you know, like urban planning and that kind of stuff. It's almost like the more specific, the better. And just uh if you have these interests, as we all do, like you're gonna find people that, you know what I mean, like are with you on it. You know what I mean? Like that that's kind of the that was the big discovery. Like, whoa, there's an audience for this.

unknown 11:42

Yeah, it's an eye-opener.

SPEAKER_03 11:43

Okay, there's an audience for no car traveling following the the worst baseball team in the modern history. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

I found I found people that like to watch me wear wigs and play a story in 20 parts, all the characters.

SPEAKER_03 11:56

Oh, yeah, yeah. You'll find them out there. Yeah, they're they're still out there. And I would also say that uh it's it's less negative than you would think. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, as you know, the the the the key with it is you just gotta keep doing it. You know what I mean? You you can't stop and you just gotta do it. You gotta stop thinking about it and just do it.

SPEAKER_00 12:11

Yeah, if something flops, it's like, well, I'll just film something else.

SPEAKER_03 12:15

The way the algorithm, this is the TikTok thing now, is if the video flops, no one's really gonna see it. It doesn't get pushed out that much. It's not like it was like 10 years ago where your whole audience would see it. So just go make mistakes, get messy, make mistakes. Miss Frizzle style. You know what I'm saying? Miss Frizzle. Shout out, Miss Frizz, shout out to Frizz.

SPEAKER_05 12:35

Well, that's what I posted a video. I'm like new to like putting things out there, yeah. And I had a Primannies hot take. I did not bash Permanence during the video. I said, I was like, I don't really mind the sandwich. And then as people started chiming in for it, I was seeing negative, I was seeing some positive on it. But the main thing was you were seeing it hit. You're like, okay, well, maybe this is what I gotta do, is do some hot takes about hot takes.

SPEAKER_03 12:58

People love seeing content about where they live. And then that's why my content kind of works is they like they want to see the goofy outsider what they what he thinks about Ames Io, what he thinks about uh Krefeld Germany. Like they want to know what people think about where they live, and just get your point across in the first three seconds. That's the thing too. Just think about when you're scrolling through that phone. If you've got a tight first three seconds, boom, you're gold.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

No, no millennial pause. You gotta go for it right away.

SPEAKER_03 13:24

Or no, hey, a lot of you guys have been asking me to make this. Everybody's like, just get into it.

SPEAKER_05 13:30

Yes, yeah, stop what you're feeling, or stop what you're doing right now and listen. That's an immediate swipe up. I'm like, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:37

98% of my videos, it starts my first time in, or I'm in, or just boom, this is exactly what's happening.

SPEAKER_05 13:44

So let's talk about the most viral video that you've had that came out what three weeks ago? Well, at this point, once this comes out, maybe over a month ago, yeah, and it's still catching waves. I've seen people from TikTok content creators to Savannah Bananas just posted it this past week. So, what is like seeing that go viral the way it has? What has that done for you?

SPEAKER_03 14:07

PBS, PBS, the National Parks Association. I wrote down a whole list. Jennifer Love Hewitt.

SPEAKER_01 14:13

I love it.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

Did it three times? She did a stitch with one of her friends. She's like, first time in the I mean, it's crazy because I've had videos go viral before, but you know, I consider my stuff they're comedy videos, right? I don't really even consider them music. I know they are. I've just gotten because it's made with Suno, which is an AI program. But I I go experience a place like Puerto Rico. I write down all my experiences, and then I kind of craft a song and then I make a comedy video out of it. And I've just gotten so I've gotten really good at the program. It's crazy. It's crazy that uh, you know, because in the video I go to I ride the bus, like I said, I do but I did, I just rode a bus. People are like, why the hell is this guy riding the bus? Like, and I went to Caguas because guess who played in Caguas as a 19-year-old? The great Roberto Clemente.

SPEAKER_01 15:04

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 15:04

So, you know what I mean? It was I did I was doing Pittsburgh Pirates Tourism seeing that, and uh I mean it's incredible. I mean, I don't even I've I I don't even know what to say. It has a life of its own, and you really see like when how music, you know what I mean, like music, I'll just say, because you know what I mean. Like I'm really hesitant. It's a catchy tune. It's a catchy. I'm really hesitant about, you know, I love music, you know what I mean. Like I see them as comedy videos, but this one I was like, I need to make money. So uh, you know, I I I'm I it's getting distributed, so I was just like, I need money, but yeah, it's crazy to see how it's popping off. I I can't believe it.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

I can't open my phone without seeing it at least like 10 times a day.

SPEAKER_03 15:44

I I I love it. It's crazy, yeah. And it's like someone was telling, speaking of weddings, someone was like, I'm gonna play this at my wedding. I've seen that multiple times.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

I'm gonna start giving it to my couples. You should do this as your intro song.

SPEAKER_03 15:55

It's just like uh, because it has like good vibes, positive vibes, and it's another thing, too. Some of the places I make fun of in my songs, but I like to keep it a little bit more positive. And uh yeah, I'm I feel like I'm in the middle of the ocean, and every time I've opened my phone, it's like getting redone by someone, and like, yeah, it's nuts.

SPEAKER_00 16:14

Amazing.

SPEAKER_03 16:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 16:16

Well, in terms of traveling as a whole, not just the San Juan, you've gone to a lot of places. What has been some of your favorite experiences so far?

SPEAKER_03 16:25

Uh, they're really when I say this too, like there have been so little duds. I don't know if it's sobriety, like that's a big thing with my trips, is every place I go to, I go to an AA meeting. So I've been to AA meetings in seven different countries, you know, like 60 plus different cities. So that it really kind of shows you, like, I don't know, opens my heart and really loves, makes me love these places because I see myself and every single one of them and all the, you know, the way that alcoholism is all over the world. You know what I mean? I went to this town called Kilmarnock in Scotland. It's basically like Indiana PA. Like I was staying in Glasgow and I was looking around, like, what's what can I do a day trip to? And there was a town called Kilmarnock, and they had like a Scottish Premier League team that was playing a game. I was like, okay, I'll go see a game there, and I'll walk around the town. And I go to this town and I do my regular thing. I walk everywhere, I do a lap around the town, and I get to the Scottish Premier League, and I see this mascot, and it's a squirrel. His name is Captain Conquer. So cute. But here's the crazy thing the mascots in the Scottish Premier League, and I guess in the UK, they talk. What? They talk. Like with their real voices. So I'm going up to I went up to the squirrel thinking it's not gonna talk, and I'm like, hey, okay, squirrel, can I get another selfie with you? And he's like, Oh, I might show, no problem.

SPEAKER_04 17:48

I was like, what? And he's like, how you doing, Mike?

SPEAKER_05 17:53

And it's just like, if you're from the United States, just imagine the pirate parrot just like talking to you. Like, we gotta start doing it. Disney World does it with like Mickey Mouse and all of that. If they start doing that again, it shakes.

SPEAKER_03 18:04

I mean, it shakes you. It's like, I was like, I couldn't believe it. And it not only was he talking, he's blabbing to everybody. He's like the king of the town, Captain Conquer, the talking squirrel. So I write about it in the song. I'm like, Captain Conquer is talking, and and then the song goes viral in uh Scotland, and I get on like seven radio shows, and they're like, How are you, Billy? I heard you were talking to Captain Conquer. And they couldn't get over. They're like, they're like, What do you mean the mascots don't talk in the States? I'm like, Yeah, they don't talk. Just stories like that, like constantly. So there's a team in Creffeld, Germany called the Penguin, the Creffeld Penguins. It's a hockey team. The Penguins. Same color scheme, same everything. And I saw they were playing, and I went to go see a Creffield Penguins game. God, I can go on for days about it. But yeah, that Captain Conquer was nuts.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

That's so funny. That's like a hilarious cultural difference that like you would never know going to another country that the mascot's gonna talk to. Like you just wouldn't anticipate that as an American.

SPEAKER_03 19:07

And here's the thing about Pittsburgh too. When when I travel, is you know, the big thing, the big thing people know about us is our sports teams, right? And it's crazy to see. I'll just do some Sheffield, England. I went there, they have the Sheffield uh Steelers ice hockey team. There's the Crefeld Penguins in um Germany. If you go to Mexico, everybody's a Steelers fan, which I had no idea. Yeah, because like I guess in the 70s the Steelers were huge, and they and it's like it's so cool. If you go to Puerto Rico because Roberto Clemente, I'm like, people are pirates fans? No, they're Clemente fans, you know what I mean? But it's really cool to see Pittsburgh. Yeah, it is a sports, but it's also like Mac Miller, Wiz Khalifa, you know what I mean? Like it's cool to see how we're represented over the world with these three sports teams, you know, it's pretty wild.

SPEAKER_05 19:58

Yeah. And I always tell everyone, especially when we graduated from college, first thing we did was move down to Florida. I got out, but then I came back because it's you're just rooted in the city. You did the same thing. You mentioned you went to New York and traveled, and you're still traveling for it. But what would you what's a piece of advice you give to someone that's like, I want to move out, I want to get away from the city. What advice would you give them for moving away from?

SPEAKER_03 20:23

I would say moving away from Pittsburgh. So I grew up in the South Side of Flats. So I'm a city kid, alderdice, with Khalifa, great above me. Mac Miller was still in Winchester Thurston. And I went to Alderdice private school. Yeah, then he went to Alderdice, he transferred because he was trying to be cool. No, I was kidding. May rest in paradise. But I was friends with his brother, Miller, okay, who did the artwork and stuff and very cool school. Uh I went to Folk School, the Pitt Laboratory, K through eight, and Southside Flats, and uh grew up here. And I would say to anybody, especially young people, move, like go experience another place. Here's why. Because it will make you truly appreciate how special the place Pittsburgh is when you go to other places. We are this is the bet I I've been so many places, and I'm like an urban urban whatever freak. Like we are so this is such a unique city, and for it's the best mid-sized city in the United States of America. I will put my stamp on that, and I will I always put it in the same, it's like San Diego, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh. Those are my top three. And what's cool about it is, you know, with our geography, because it's so hilly, what it did was it stopped it stopped like flat sprawl, you know what I mean? So there's a walkability to Pittsburgh, there's a density to Pittsburgh. You can get around Pittsburgh on uh on the bus pretty easily, you know what I mean? There's we have rich we have like 15 plus rich neighborhoods with deep histories and great food and And all all kinds of stuff. It's it's just it's a great place to live. And I came back to Pittsburgh with the sole purpose of getting sober. And I've never felt my uh uh more like wrapped around in a hug by Pittsburgh, by people in the you know, AA community, to family members, to you really do appreciate just you know, we're all in this together in Pittsburgh. There is that sense of uh, you know, fellowship and uh it's just a great place. But go move, go go live somewhere else. You know what I mean? New York, would I still be living in New York if I wasn't uh drinking from uh sunrise to sunset? I don't know. Honestly, I I say that moving back to Pittsburgh was the best thing to ever happen to me, and it will stay my base going forward, no matter how, no matter where the account goes. It's also just like nice to reform this relationship with my dad and like family members, because when you drink, you isolate and you cut people out of your life, and now I feel helpful again. I feel like a part of things, and yeah, Pittsburgh's just the best. I always felt like if you're from like the outskirts of Pittsburgh, like my mom was from Greensburg, and the city to her growing up was always Pittsburgh. She's like, Oh, when I I want to leave Greensburg, you move to Pittsburgh. But then if you're from Pittsburgh, like this cities are like New York or Chicago, you know what I mean? So yeah, Pittsburgh's a great place, it's not going anywhere.

SPEAKER_05 23:24

I grew up in the Mon Valley. So if anyone from the outside of Pittsburgh is saying where you're from, I say Pittsburgh. But if anyone from Pittsburgh asks where I'm from, I say I'm the Mon Valley for it. When I was eight years old, I thought Pittsburgh was the size of New York City. Oh, yeah. You start doing a pirates game, a Steeler game. I'm like, you know, just you know, skyscraper. Even like moving away. When we lived in Florida, I loved it there. It was a great, like it was a culture shock. You got to meet it forces you to interact with new people and get to know them. And coming back though, it's that family aspect when it comes to Pittsburgh, not just your own family, but even the draft was a few weeks ago, how everyone was so cheerful just walking around the city.

SPEAKER_03 24:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:04

Go into a Steeler game, go into a pirates game whenever they're doing well. It's very cheerful. And now, if the game ends bad, then you're like, ah, but it's just that vibrance of being able to raise a family here. I wouldn't want to do it anywhere else.

SPEAKER_03 24:17

Absolutely, oh yeah. I mean, being a kid in Pittsburgh rules. I mean, I I it was it was the greatest. And with the draft, how great was Pittsburgh, just we're so cute. We're just not used to something like that. You know what I mean? And we so over-delivered on that, you know what I mean? Yes, to such an extent, it's like, I hope we get more shots like that, just because that was a good example of uh, you know, just we are it's just a very hospital, nice place. I love it here. I love it, I really do. They scared us about that draft too. Like, we weren't gonna go. We almost didn't get final last second. Every piece of content was like that I saw Pittsburghers do were like, You're gonna come into Pittsburgh, you'd go in a tunnel, and this merged!

SPEAKER_04 25:04

This merged, you're never merged like this.

SPEAKER_03 25:07

It's like the only place to get into the city. Are we trying to scare people? Pittsburgh is a I've lived in Pittsburgh, it's such a safe place, all things considered. When I see people like the downtown is it's like, what are we talking about? Yeah, but uh, but hey, if you never leave Pittsburgh, then downtown would see seem crazy to you. That's another thing, too, is like you get some perspective on what the world's really like out there, and uh yeah, our little our little Appalachia changrila.

SPEAKER_05 25:38

But being someone that's an hour south, you go into anything that deals with traffic, they're like oh my dad and traffic.

SPEAKER_03 25:46

He's like, I lived in for all of 2023, I lived in Ulumbatar, Mongolia, which is uh the coldest capital city on planet earth. It's negative 25 degrees, five months of the year. Like my ex-wife who I'm best white friends with is Mongolian. It's a whole story. But to get from basically the traffic is so bad because it's a city that was built for 40,000 people, now there's 1.8 million people there.

unknown 26:09

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 26:10

To get from the equivalent of here, a Duquesne to the north side would take you about an hour.

SPEAKER_04 26:15

And then my dad's like, oh, there's a slight line. Traffic's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

It's like, what are we talking about? Pittsburgh traffic.

SPEAKER_05 26:24

Yeah, not bad at all. Like there's bad roads, but not anywhere near anywhere else, like Miami.

SPEAKER_03 26:31

My dad will take a detour that's an hour longer just to avoid like shitting.

SPEAKER_05 26:38

And then they'll give you directions on how to get somewhere. Like my dad will be like, Oh, you gotta hit on this road, then you gotta bank a right, and then bank left, like that. I'm like, I put it in Google Maps. Absolutely. We'll finish up with it's pirates related. And it goes a little bit with our VIP table because you're sticking around for the rest of the yeah, yeah. Pirates just sign you to a one-day contract, okay? You're up to bat, bases are loaded. Shohei Otani is pitching against you. It's going to go to the world series. Yeah. What's the walkout song?

SPEAKER_03 27:09

Uh so when I went to every pirate, I went to, I counted, I think I went to 89 or 91 pirates games in 2023 or 2024. I heard every single Pirates Walk-up song again and again and again. And it's always Christian rock for the white dudes. Some guy will do a funny one, like every now and then it will be like uh yes, still forget then, feel the rain on your skin. And I and I've I thought about this. I I don't really I just keep on going back to uh remember the X growing up, listening to the X? Yeah, yeah. Alternative music, like collective soul. And uh I I would just like want a hootie in the bullfish song, I think.

SPEAKER_04 28:06

Why you punish me?

SPEAKER_03 28:11

When you think about I might be flagged. Tomorrow nails haro. I don't know, just like something weird. I honestly there's no real like some players they'll I because I know the whole mechanics of it. Some players they'll do like one per each at bat. I think Nick Gonzalez was doing that for a while, but yeah. By the way, if I would get up to bat in that situation, I would absolutely strike out. I would be so I would lean in the pitch.

SPEAKER_05 28:41

Yeah, thank you so much. We're gonna keep you around for the rest of our segments too. Yes, got some funny stories, funny stories that are sports related. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:50

Welcome to the segment of our stories today. We're doing mini story submissions where usually we tell like a big long dramatic story. This time we have asked our followers what's the craziest thing you ever witnessed at a sporting event that had nothing to do with the game. And again, they did not disappoint. Here we go. I worked for a school photographer and I took the money and envelopes from the students that we did after school sports too. The boys always thought it was amusing to try to find different ways to hand me their envelopes. Some wrestlers at a high school that shall remain anonymous decided butt cracks would be used. That was not listed on the job description. My photographer and I laughed really hard at that one. Questionable. Questionable, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 29:34

Butt cracks. I don't think I can take it.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

I feel like I'm not touching that.

SPEAKER_05 29:38

Yeah. Like they probably like sliding in like they thought it was so funny, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_00 29:45

All right. I sat in the front row and there was a wall in front of us. The guy next to me was too drunk or too lazy to get up to go to the restroom. So he just took a leak right there on the wall while we were all sitting next to him.

SPEAKER_03 29:56

Oh that that feels like Three River Stadium. Remember the old Pit Stadium? Do you remember that? The troughs? Oh, yeah. Okay, yeah, you definitely remember. That's when boys become men. You see those troughs.

SPEAKER_05 30:10

We're animals. Come here. So this is a rite of passage.

SPEAKER_00 30:14

I just like can't imagine that. Like you're just sitting enjoying the game, and some man's just like, I'm not gonna get up. I'm just gonna go right here next to strangers.

SPEAKER_05 30:20

Brutal, brutal. I was at the Steelers Ravens game, and there's a guy just hooting and hollering at Ravens fans all around throughout the entire game. It gets to the fourth quarter, he's not in a seat, and I'm I go down to use the restroom, and he's just lounged up on the wall. Not he's not using the restroom at all, but he is just gone. It happens. Uh control yourself. All right, I have one from the 70s. In the 1970s, our family lived in Indiana. They went to the indie 500 time trials. Shrinking was the fad of that year, and we witnessed several streakers that day. One of them jumped over the barbed wired fence. Like, that can't be good for you, bud. I remember my then 10-year-old brother commenting, well, that was stupid. Yeah, you think?

SPEAKER_00 31:10

I've never seen a streaker.

SPEAKER_03 31:11

Yeah, that's kind of that's still happening. The cell phone kind of ruined that, I feel true. Because you don't want like you hear flaccid thing just bouncing around while you're getting tackled by overweight security guards. But you know, with my account, I actually just went to Indianapolis and one of my followers reached out to me. He's the head of marketing at the Indianapolis 500. Yeah, and he gave me a tour of the freaking thing.

SPEAKER_05 31:35

That's so cool.

SPEAKER_03 31:36

I'm just trying to think of how you would jump. I guess it was back in the day, like the fancies were probably like people do it now and then they write their like website or like their like OnlyFans tag. But it's like it's like more for like ladies, I feel like, than uh than guys.

SPEAKER_05 31:53

Yeah, they're like, yeah, HC cameras took it away. Yeah. All right. The other one I have. I was walking across Heinzfield, props for the proper name. Uh, the Heinzfield parking lot after a pit West Virginia game, and saw multiple piles of uh doo-doo was the emoji in random spots. What what uh fan base parking lot was it? I can only imagine.

SPEAKER_03 32:16

Just on the that's like you hear the stories of the marathon runners that just be like mile 17, you're like, oh no, it's bad.

SPEAKER_05 32:24

My niece just did it, and I she did say she's like, I find I found a place. And I I signed up for it, the half marathon next year. Maybe my biggest fear is that happened.

SPEAKER_03 32:33

That's an early sign-up.

SPEAKER_05 32:34

It was very early sign-up, and then it's like I'm committed, I'm committed, never did it before. And I'm like, I gotta do it.

SPEAKER_03 32:40

Holy cow, the panic you're gonna have like three weeks to go when you realize you've done nothing to prepare.

SPEAKER_05 32:45

I did train yesterday, did not today. Probably. They gave me a nice little chat GPT, helped me out a lot. There you go. Let's see if I follow through. This is a uh a lady decided to walk her dog on the field in the middle of the second quarter to complain about the noise. Like a Karen going out there, like, can you guys pipe it down?

SPEAKER_00 33:05

I just think like an old like 60-year-old woman, like not knowing she's even at a game, and she just wanders.

SPEAKER_05 33:10

Like a rec league? Or I don't know what game it was. Just gets her if it was a rec league, that maybe it's a next door neighbor. If it's a stadium, I wish it was. She just walked her dog in the middle of PNC funny.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

It had to have been a wreck. There's no way.

SPEAKER_05 33:27

I have Tennessee fans throwing mustard bottles at Lane Kiffin. This had to have been post him being the coach there or during it, but you got mustard.

SPEAKER_00 33:37

I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 33:38

He has very red in the face, typically, Lane Kiffin is, so maybe they thought he was a hot dog.

SPEAKER_00 33:43

Maybe.

SPEAKER_05 33:44

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 33:46

Okay. I was at a baseball game that had a skunk delay. All of a sudden a skunk walked out into the outfield.

SPEAKER_03 33:53

Okay, so that this one, I can see how I've been at stage. I was at the Akron Rubber Duck Stadium and there was a kitten rubber ducks. There was a kitten, like a kitten just like wandering about. There's always like cats around minor league stadiums and animal. I could see a skunk delay happening.

SPEAKER_00 34:11

I guess I just when I read that, I'm like, is that for real? Like it could happen, yeah. I guess. I don't want anyone getting sprayed.

SPEAKER_05 34:17

Or when you're at a game and like a squirrel gets onto the field and start to get to the 40-yard line and the 30-yard line, and everyone starts to notice cheering on the squirrel score that touchdown.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

Get in, get in. Um, the other one I have on this was the only response was gritty. Love him, but he's off his medication, and then it was this photo. Oh, from the flyers gritty. Yeah, flyers gritty.

SPEAKER_05 34:42

There's a uh heated rivalry, uh not in the HBO Max version, but of the Flyers and Pens. The people like they really have animosity about it. I really don't I don't like gritty.

SPEAKER_03 34:55

Well, gritty was he's or they there, I don't know engender gritty. They're like new, right? Yeah, like so it's like they just dropped it out of nowhere. And it's it's such like remember when the internet was a somewhat nice place, and we're doing like ice bucket challenges and like gritty like took the internet by storm, and now we uh now everybody just hates each other.

SPEAKER_05 35:17

Gritty and what bloopy down in Atlanta Brains. Yeah, I like bloopy. Like, oh gritty's doing a dance, oh yeah, like uh give me back to that internet. The uh parachutist is that the word parachutist hitting the scoreboard at the Virginia Tech Spring Game. Someone was there in attendance that submitted it.

SPEAKER_00 35:36

That was crazy though.

SPEAKER_03 35:37

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:38

Is that guy okay?

SPEAKER_05 35:40

I think so.

SPEAKER_03 35:42

He's just stuck up there. He's still up there now.

SPEAKER_05 35:45

Parachute. It was a rainy game, so the stairs were all wet and gross. Some lady dropped her hot dog off of her bun. It rolled down about four or five steps. She went down, put it back on the bun, and ate it. Five second rule. Over five-second rule.

SPEAKER_03 36:02

Yeah, three cent piece of salty meat.

SPEAKER_05 36:07

She went on dollar dog night.

SPEAKER_00 36:10

Not working if it was dollar dog night. But if you had to go and pay full price, then maybe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:14

It's a maybe value meat rolling around.

SPEAKER_00 36:19

I have this one. I live in Green Bay. It's always the nearly naked people at the below zero Packers games. So more naked.

SPEAKER_03 36:27

Tarps off. Yeah, tarp. Tarps off. Yeah. Having lived in Mongolia and where it's like negative 20 25 degrees, it does make me like it, it's pain, like your your tears just like freeze on your face. It's it does make me see like Pittsburgh winners. Like, this isn't anything. You see, it's not too bad here, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 36:47

I don't think I've ever been to anything close to that.

SPEAKER_03 36:49

It's yeah, yeah. It's it was wild. I mean, um, but uh and I shout out to people that take off their shirts during that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_05 36:57

Yeah, tarps off my buddy Tyler. It was Steelers needed to make the playoffs maybe last year, or something happened. I think they already made it. All right, like if Steelers get a turnover right here, I'm going tarps off the rest of the game. And lo and behold, a turnover. Oh, great. Yeah, like it's not gonna be me. Not gonna be me. All right, I'll do one more. A woman at an A's playoff game cutting her hair one strand at a time. Not the proper place to be doing that.

SPEAKER_00 37:28

Isn't there like metal detectors?

SPEAKER_05 37:31

Yeah, don't do that. I thought of that one. Oakland Coliseum must be not having good stuff.

SPEAKER_00 37:37

It was back in the day.

SPEAKER_03 37:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:39

I feel like they've amped us up.

SPEAKER_03 37:40

They no longer play any sports there. That's probably why bring anything in.

SPEAKER_00 37:46

Okay, welcome to the segment Absolutely Not. And today's category is gonna be things you should absolutely not be doing in your everyday life. So things that we see people doing or we might end up doing ourselves. You're gonna tell me absolutely not or absolutely yes. Okay. Checking out with a full cart and the self-checkout line at the grocery store, even though the sign says 10 items or less. Okay, so you got a full cart that you're at the self-checkout, even though the sign says 10 items or less. Are you doing it or no?

SPEAKER_05 38:16

Ten items or less.

SPEAKER_00 38:17

Ten items or less, you have a full show with a full cart. You have a full cart and you're like, I'm going through it. Excuse me, so hard.

SPEAKER_03 38:24

Would I do that? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 38:28

All right, you're ready, boys? Yeah. Yeah. Three, two, one.

SPEAKER_03 38:31

Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_05 38:32

Not oh my god. See, like if I was by my if it was a very low line, no one's in line. There's six self-checkouts. I'm gonna probably do it.

SPEAKER_03 38:44

That's a self-checkout. That's we gotta keep these people employed. There you go. That's a job. We gotta save a job. We gotta keep these jobs.

SPEAKER_05 38:53

Even not self-checkout, but it would be a cashier actually there. My uncle, shout out my uncle. He would berade the person in front of him like, hey, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 39:02

Well, you can't have that. I have a I have a quick story for you guys. So I was in Ames, Iowa. I went to a Days In and the front desk of the Days In. I get to the okay. So I'm at I'm in Ames, Iowa. I go to a Days In and I go to check in. And who is my concierge but this guy? A guy on a kiosk.

SPEAKER_00 39:27

Like a robot person?

SPEAKER_03 39:28

A guy he's in he's in India. This guy is in India.

SPEAKER_00 39:33

They should be having a person there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:35

That's I'm like, yeah, it's that's a that's an Ames job. So first off, I get to the the Iowa, uh, the Ames days in. The guy's not even paying attention. He like flips on the he realizes I'm there, and he like he like scrambles and splits his headset on it. He's like, hello, sir, how are you? I'm not gonna do the voice. Uh, but uh I I couldn't believe it. I started recording it, and uh I I posted it on my the Saxcast TikTok, which I mean you know about it went crazy, yeah. And uh the Windham uh the Des Moines Register reached out to me. It's and uh yeah, the the Wyndham Corporate blamed on the Days In itself, and uh which come on, we know the Windham's just testing. They're using Ames Iowa because they wouldn't think like an influencer or something is gonna go to Ames Iowa. No one's gonna find out about this.

SPEAKER_00 40:23

Little did they know. Bustin. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 40:26

I I gotta be honest though. Guy did a great job. Okay, yeah, I think it's I mean, I wanted to be an Ames job, but that guy was efficient.

SPEAKER_00 40:34

He did what he needed to do. In and out. I don't think I would not imagine that.

SPEAKER_03 40:39

People were like, oh, you should have left. It's like I don't have any money.

SPEAKER_04 40:43

Yeah, this is my reservation's here. My reservations here.

SPEAKER_00 40:47

I got it with no refund. I didn't sign it yet. Exactly. Okay, I think we can all relate to this next one because we're in our 30s. Saying I'll remember that instead of writing it down.

SPEAKER_05 40:59

Oh, saying I'll remember that.

SPEAKER_00 41:01

I see. I mean, I do it frequently, but I want to be better at this.

SPEAKER_05 41:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:07

Three, two, one.

SPEAKER_05 41:08

Yeah, I'm doing that. I am doing it. I am not writing it down. Well, no, this is an issue. Then I won't remember it, and then I get mad at myself for not writing it down. There are times that you'll be like, write that down, write that down.

SPEAKER_03 41:23

I said the opposite. I said not because when you are the level of alcoholic that I am and and I was, there is there's like nine years in my life. If I said I was gonna do something, I just never did it. I just drank instead. So now it's like I am, I want to remember things. I want to be on time, I want to be helpful, I want to be a helpful member of society. So it's important to me. I with my scheduling and calendars, and yeah. So that went that way.

SPEAKER_00 41:52

I don't know if you're like that with content creation, but my mind's always like, I'm doing something, I'm like, oh, I could use this idea, I could use this. If you go in my phone, it's just like 500 notes of like things that I'm like, oh, I thank God I wrote it down. Because if I say, Oh, I'll remember it, I don't remember it.

SPEAKER_03 42:08

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 42:11

I'll have to text him like what I have to pick up at the grocery store because by the time I get to the store, I've forgotten.

SPEAKER_05 42:16

Yeah. Like, what was it again? I'm like, I don't even remember either. I didn't write it down. I do have my longest note that I have is from over 10 years ago. My buddy and I were up late, like, man, we should come up with a like a musical one day. And it just says Emperor's New Groove, the musical. It's there, it's still there. I'm gonna make it one day.

unknown 42:35

One day.

SPEAKER_00 42:37

Okay. Removing food from the microwave before it beeps and then not resetting it. Part one, I'm doing.

SPEAKER_05 42:44

Part two, I'm not doing. Like, I will I will reset it, but I will turn it off before it beeps.

SPEAKER_03 42:51

This to me is just like it's like OCD brain. Like, I don't think I'd be able to sleep at night knowing that that microwave has got like 17 seconds on it. 11 seconds still on the press card. I'd be like, it's not, it's an odd number.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

I'm guilty of this. I do that all the time.

SPEAKER_03 43:07

I got one for you. Have you pressing the potato button on the microwave? I've never pressed the potato.

SPEAKER_00 43:13

All the different mic options. What's it doing? I feel like I did popcorn once it like set the popcorn bag on fire. I don't trust it.

SPEAKER_03 43:19

I wouldn't be in this meeting of the microwave HQ. Like, what are the buttons we need? Potato!

SPEAKER_01 43:24

Yeah, that's the perfect potato right there.

SPEAKER_00 43:27

Mark it down. Okay. Getting on the move, getting on the moving walkway at the airport and just standing there.

SPEAKER_05 43:34

All right.

SPEAKER_00 43:35

Ready to go. Oh, your button. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:38

One life to live. YOLO. There's nothing more fun in life than standing than being on a moving walkway. Remember the Pittsburgh Airport? They had uh my mom used to take me there, and I would just ride that thing like all the way to the parking lot or whatever. Yeah. This is fun. I mean, obviously, stand on the side.

SPEAKER_00 43:58

Yeah, you should stand on the side.

SPEAKER_05 43:59

That's if you're With a group of people be single file. Sometimes I would I would come home from a work trip and it's that I would park in economy before they redid the uh the new terminal. Oh my gosh, like now I gotta wait an extra five minutes.

SPEAKER_03 44:12

But yeah, you're saying no. I'm not I'm moving. Are you moving? I'm moving, yeah, yeah. I'm moving. I'm saying I don't do it a lot, but I'm saying if that's your freak flag, let it fly. Be respectful. You know with the Pittsburgh Airport and those moving walkways, I'm because I travel a lot now. I'm in airports a lot. They're just a green light, they're just like kids, it's a playground. Yeah, it's a nice little workout, get them going.

SPEAKER_00 44:36

They do have a new playground though at the airport.

SPEAKER_03 44:38

Yeah. Well, you're saying um Disney, right? So I learned because I learned a lot about the Pittsburgh Airport. I think more than half the flights from the Pittsburgh Airport go to Florida. I'm sure. And there's the whole wing. It's the A gates, it's all these Southwest, whatever, that all go down to Orlando.

SPEAKER_01 44:54

That's where we fly. Southwest.

SPEAKER_03 44:56

Yeah. And those those moving walkways, it's like it's they should turn those ones off for safety if there's lots of kids over there. I mean, I'm like respect, but these kids are like I'm like kids are fast these days.

SPEAKER_00 45:09

I feel like I'm on the same, like if you want to get on it, fine, but you should move to the right hand side. So people on the left-hand side can walk around you.

SPEAKER_05 45:16

And like I get it. If you're you're an elderly lady and you're slow moving already, that's okay. You can hold still.

SPEAKER_03 45:22

There are some airports that like the Atlanta, the biggest, one of the biggest airports in the United States, Atlanta Airport, has really narrow, those things are really like there's no set side. They should be wide. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:33

These are Americans, these are wide people. And in in Atlanta, it's so skinny. It's like some I always see it. It's a moving walk walkway.

SPEAKER_05 45:43

That's where I'm walking. Okay. All right. It's not a moving stay still walking. Okay, Jerry Seifel.

SPEAKER_04 45:51

It's your walk. You know what I'm saying? I stand, you stand, I stand.

SPEAKER_00 45:58

Using the last of the toilet paper roll and not replacing it. Ready to go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 46:03

Yeah. We can't do that. The biggest fear. It's an easy answer. The biggest fear is when you run out and you're like by yourself and there's not a role nearby.

SPEAKER_00 46:13

There's not a backup role.

SPEAKER_03 46:14

You know what's brutal? And I'm just gonna go. I lived in Bloomfield my last time in Pittsburgh. I had I had a roommate who always never replaced it. And the worst was this guy goes in the bathroom. You hear he like, you know, it's their toilet papers on the last edge or whatever. And then you you know he's out of the, and then you hear the shower run. Well shame when he's replacing it. So they use the shower heads.

SPEAKER_05 46:41

Like, are they movable shower heads that like make it like a little bidet, too?

SPEAKER_03 46:45

It's like, oh, not only that, it's like you need a shower. Oh god, that's shower.

SPEAKER_00 46:52

All right. Talking during a movie at the movie theater.

SPEAKER_03 46:56

What's to think about?

SPEAKER_00 46:57

Yeah, like well, I don't want to scream it.

SPEAKER_05 47:02

It depends on the person, yeah. Like if I'm whispering, if someone's whispering me, like trying to get details on the movie, like just watch it. I don't know what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_03 47:11

Maybe it maybe depends on if it's full or whatnot. You know what I mean? Not too. There is like I saw get out in Brooklyn and the screaming at the it just added to like, oh hell no.

SPEAKER_00 47:24

Yeah, right, right. Do not like that adds to it, but uh talking is even when you're at home, like if someone's trying to like explain the movie to you, it's like home.

SPEAKER_03 47:35

I'm I'm a blabbermouth.

SPEAKER_00 47:37

That's that was kind of like what I'm watching. I'm like, nobody talks about it.

SPEAKER_03 47:40

Obviously, if it's a good movie, it will keep my interest, but if it's a bad movie, it's like just make fun. I don't know, yeah. You gotta you gotta keep it down, but we haven't taken our kids yet to like a kid's movie.

SPEAKER_00 47:51

Not yet.

SPEAKER_03 47:52

I feel like kids' movies kind of the wild west though. Like it's more understandable.

SPEAKER_00 47:56

Kids aren't gonna sit the whole time, they're gonna be yapping. Yeah, it's just tough.

SPEAKER_03 48:00

Like you paid, you know, what are ticket prices now? Like 20 bucks? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Popcorn, pretzel. That was my first job, South Sideworks Movie Theater. Shout out.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

I feel like working at a movie theater would be fun.

SPEAKER_03 48:15

It was it was alright. It was alright. What was the it wasn't uh blockbuster? What's the other one? Hollywood Family Video, Hollywood video.

SPEAKER_05 48:23

That was as soon as I turned, I think I was allowed to at 15, apply to work there. Apply. Like, I gotta get a job.

SPEAKER_03 48:29

When when when uh like blockbusters and stuff just you can start seeing the decline of like no one did it better than Hollywood video. They're like, all right, screw it. 10 bucks, 100 movies. Whatever you can in your bag, whatever you can just give us any form of money. Return it, whatever. Uh, just please spend money here.

SPEAKER_05 48:52

Yeah, they just need to bring it back in some way. I feel like obviously I'm not watching DVDs or any sort, like only if I have it, I'm not buying it anymore. Streaming it, yeah. They gotta come up with a concept that I can go back to those days.

SPEAKER_00 49:06

I would have never believed that we would never watch DVDs, and we talk about this sometimes. But we had our a friend when we lived in Florida and he was like, It's gonna be digital, bro. Why are you buying all these DVDs?

SPEAKER_05 49:15

He like made fun of me, walked in the house, like, what's up with all these DVDs? I'm like, oh, like watching movies, like streamline, bro. I'm like, all right, they're not invited anymore. Steve Jobs as red.

SPEAKER_00 49:26

Ten years later, we don't have any DVDs. I'm like, damn.

SPEAKER_05 49:30

I only save the ones that important ones.

SPEAKER_03 49:32

Yeah, it's always tough when you walk in a house and you're like, you look over at like the huge DVD collection, you're thinking, like, you could have invested that money in like we had a very large DVD collection.

SPEAKER_05 49:44

And we but we would always I would go in the Walmart and like reach my hand down to get the five dollar.

SPEAKER_03 49:50

Do you remember the Sinoco would always have like five DVDs? And it was always that Freddy Prince Jr. movie. She's all she's all that she's like, who's going into Sinoco and being like, you know, give me a Freddie Prince?

SPEAKER_05 50:06

Play the little slot machine. We're like, oh, yeah, we'll take a movie home too while I'm at it.

SPEAKER_00 50:10

A decent movie is you could probably pick up like a little Sinoco pizza to go. Yeah. 7-Eleven pizza.

SPEAKER_03 50:19

Yeah. I mean, you could have a nice little night if there was like uh some sort of interesting movie, but it's no. She's all that, Freddie Prince Jr. She's the only one.

SPEAKER_00 50:28

That's too funny.

SPEAKER_05 50:30

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It was Korean, Korean, Korean, yeah. And they they have one locally. I think like Shady Side might have one too.

SPEAKER_03 51:46

Well, I guess someone who lived in Asia for a year in 2023, they don't have like Nick's corner bar, like they have karaoke, that's where you go to drink. Like that is it's everything. It's like it's just it's just the social life in that part of the world.

SPEAKER_05 52:05

Uh yeah, I love me some karaoke. We have a karaoke machine at home.

SPEAKER_00 52:09

Yeah, don't let him fool me. He's a really good singer.

SPEAKER_05 52:11

And even my neighbors, he our one neighbor, Steve, shout out Steve. It's like his 55-year-old man. And at first he would like get the microphone turned around and not want to sing around us. Now he's just belting at the top of his lungs.

SPEAKER_03 52:27

I love this wig so much. I remember growing up in the in the south side, there was Betty's, Dolores's, Helen's, and my babysitter, Betty, had a styrofoam head that she put her her wig on. And it was it, you know what I'm talking about?

SPEAKER_00 52:44

Yes, like it holds the wig until she puts it on the head.

SPEAKER_03 52:46

Yeah, like she didn't you couldn't like get, yeah, like I guess. Is that what you just do if you have a wig? You put a style on a styrofoam head?

SPEAKER_00 52:53

Yeah, it's like the holder, kind of like if you have like a hat holder on the wall. It's just like what you would put a wig on.

SPEAKER_05 52:59

All right, so for the karaoke songs, we'll start uh snake draft. Billy, we'll have you go first with your first pick, and then Cassie, you can go second, and I but I'm just doing it.

SPEAKER_03 53:09

I are we just do like I'm doing it from like my perspective.

SPEAKER_00 53:13

Yeah, you're from the oh yeah, all mine are my picks. Oh, yeah. Mine are all my perspective as well.

SPEAKER_03 53:17

And it's always like because our voices are so different, they're beautiful and unique in their own ways. But I am a tenor, tenor, and for whatever reason, jaded Aerosmith. You got your mama's eyes, but you're tattooing. Jaded. Because baby, I'm afraid of you. And then you wink at some of the girl or something.

SPEAKER_04 53:40

Because I'm the one that jaded you. You know that song? Song rips.

SPEAKER_05 53:51

We gotta, we gotta do a karaoke night. Yeah, we gotta do a karaoke night with you, Billy.

SPEAKER_00 53:55

Well, my go-to karaoke song is Mambo number five. Okay. I'm not a singer, I'm a terrible singer, but I don't mind a pr a good performance. And like you can get up there, sing that song.

SPEAKER_03 54:08

Is that like rap rap rock? It's like one, two, three, four, five, baby, but it's so bad, but not really. Okay. You you didn't do it. The worst thing you could do at karaoke, in my opinion, is a rap song.

SPEAKER_00 54:21

Yeah, I'm not a rap song.

SPEAKER_03 54:22

Like a white girl doing a rap song, it's like, kill me. Yeah, instantly shut down from that.

SPEAKER_00 54:27

I did once sing Mambo number five on a cruise ship, though, and it was so terrible. Garrett was they let you off. No, Garrett was at the bar, and at the end, like two people clapped and he walked out like, I'll meet you outside.

SPEAKER_05 54:40

We gotta go. We gotta go.

SPEAKER_03 54:42

Just the whole time you're just trapped in those cruise ship people just looking at you like you ruined our show.

SPEAKER_05 54:48

And now there's like guys that go there and they'll sing on cruise ships. This is one guy in particular. I think he's just known for traveling on cruise ships and singing karaoke.

SPEAKER_03 54:57

That's what I lived in New York for 14 years, and I I love going to karaoke with my friends. You see the same people every single place. That's just their social life. They go and they sit there quietly, they don't say anything, they wait for two hours, they sing their one song really well, yeah, and like hope it like makes some friends, and then then that's it. That's what they do.

SPEAKER_05 55:19

Yeah, there is one Daven Busters has it right now. It's every like once every two months. It's it's Broadway karaoke. Oh, I would love to.

SPEAKER_03 55:27

What the great people, those divas out there.

SPEAKER_05 55:32

It's like like people in Broadway, they love to they love Stardust Diner. Is that what it's called?

SPEAKER_00 55:41

I'm gonna go to Stardust Diner so bad next time we go to New York.

SPEAKER_05 55:44

All right, I got two. This one just brings me back. We went on a family reunion in Tybee Island, and I was having some sort of competition with people that were at the karaoke. It's like, I gotta sing this one and shut the place down. It is God bless the USA, Lean Greenwood. I had people getting their flashlights going. And I'll proudly stand up.

SPEAKER_00 56:04

And then next to you, he finished singing. The crowd erupted.

SPEAKER_05 56:10

Like couldn't believe it.

SPEAKER_03 56:12

Was this in Florida? No, it was Tide Island, Georgia. Oh, Georgia, yeah. Wonder why. Who opens certain uh gatherings with that, right?

SPEAKER_05 56:22

Yeah, oh yeah. But then it hit it brings me back, not really for that at all. Fourth grade. Well, this is kind of bad, but 9-11 happened. Oh, yeah. But my principal at my elementary school, you know, you hear the morning announcements, do do do do, and then he just put it on, probably like on a CD player into the intercom for listen to the whole song.

SPEAKER_03 56:43

Like, oh, Lee Greenwood. I got I got a story about that 9-11. Real quick, real quick. So we're Western PA people, right?

SPEAKER_01 56:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:55

So I was sitting there in school, and uh my my grandma had uh uh lived in Somerset, Pennsylvania, and so and the uh the Shanksville went into down, so it was like DC, New York, Somerset, Pennsylvania. And I was like, my grandma! And I had to go to the office and call my grandma to make sure to make sure she's okay. She's like, Yeah, I'm fine. Anyways, my grandma was the fourth target. They found the wrong hill. That was the right sorry. I get this wig on it, I get spicy.

unknown 57:32

Dolores.

SPEAKER_05 57:33

Oh, I'm a diva in this wig. All right, my second pick is gonna be gosh, I can go a lot of different directions. I'm gonna go with a millennial classic. It is A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton. That's a good name. And I'm the iju.

SPEAKER_00 57:51

Yep, and white chicks wouldn't just bring me back to the white chicks.

SPEAKER_05 57:56

You know, I've never personally sang it, but in my mind, when I'm in the car, I'm like, I would totally nail this if I know it's really white chicks, kind of a good movie.

SPEAKER_00 58:04

I love that movie.

SPEAKER_03 58:06

Like if it pops up, I consider myself a comedy snob, and I'm like, I love white chicks will keep being.

SPEAKER_00 58:18

Oh, yeah. I feel like it's a good one. Yep. It's upbeat and like changes pace. Very fun.

SPEAKER_03 58:24

All right, so I want to do uh a seasonal one. Because, you know, it's only this has about uh Last Christmas by Wham.

SPEAKER_05 58:32

Yes, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 58:33

Because then you can all it's another, it's another thing you can like kind of make eyes at the end like Merry Christmas. I wrapped it up and sent it with no. It's like George might just point Merry Christmas. It's such a drama song, yeah. And you can just be spicy as hell with that and me, and then um speaking of 9-11, I guess. But I have a kind of a sad one because every now and then you need to change your pace. Who wake me up when September?

SPEAKER_01 59:08

Yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_03 59:09

That's one of those songs, like pretty much everybody can sing it relatively decently, and the whole bar like will just be like, Wake me. That's like uh when it's almost closing time. People are like sad, like eight beers in.

SPEAKER_05 59:31

It's a good one, though. It is a good choice.

SPEAKER_00 59:34

Oh man. Oh, okay. My third pick is gonna be Since You've Been Gone by Kelly Garrison.

SPEAKER_05 59:40

Oh, it's on the list.

SPEAKER_00 59:41

I feel like what movie was that from? Pitch Perfect. Pitch Perfect. Like the dun dunno. Like when they're yeah, they're doing like the sound. That's the version I would want to sing. Like, I'm not doing the actual Kelly Clarkson version.

SPEAKER_05 59:54

All right, I got two. I'm gonna do with, or I'm gonna do with. I'm gonna be 500 miles, the proclaimers. No would walk 500 miles. No would walk 500 miles.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:07

Good song.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:08

Uh, and last pick, there's there's a lot of different options I have. I got too many on my list. And at some karaoke nights, it is Teenage Dirt Bag by Wheatus. Sometimes I throw in the one direction version of it too, because I sing it a little bit lower.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:23

But when you hit that uh girl part, I got two tickets too higher. This is our that's like one of our four-year-old's favorite songs. Yeah, it's that is teenage. That's another one you can kind of like jokingly you can just have fun with it.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:37

That's a good one. All right, last pick.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:40

All right, my last pick's gonna be my Maria, Brooks and Dunn.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:43

Brooks and Dunn.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:43

It's just a crowd pleaser.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:44

Yeah, my Maria. Yeah, that's kind of like I didn't grow up with country music, but I know that one. Yeah. And then she thinks my tractor. All right, my last one is um uh so I just want to do this real quick. My when I was doing comedy in New York, my friend would do go to karaoke night, and there's a Boston song that would have a four-minute intro with that he knew it was like a karaoke hat. Yeah, and then the so it would be he would he would request the Boston song, and then for the four minutes, he would just plug his social media into the so I just want to shout out my friend Tony Zarrett. He's uh he's big on uh social, but uh I will go 1979 smashing pumpkins. You know that's all right. Anyone can really say that yeah. I don't know, any of you? I'm sorry. Good picks, good.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:04

Oh man. I have uh my honorable mentions. These ones are I have dirty pop and sync, total eclipse of the heart.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:12

Yes, I had total eclipse of the heart in my mind.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:14

And uh either Frank Sinatra, my way or New York, New York. That was my way. That's what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:19

Like when we worked in Orlando, like Driveway. We both did recreation and we would have to host karaoke nights. Someone always sang my way, and it was like so bad, and it was like you just had to sit through it.

unknown 1:02:30

You're like, okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:31

That's an end of the that's an end of the night song. You're like, oh, it's just like the bar flies just struck out talking to like three girls. I did it my way. No, you're just an asshole. You're just a drunk asshole that needs to work on themselves.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:46

I had um come on down, it's the night away. Come on, give it to me, baby.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:55

There's so many good ones. I mean, you can't go wrong.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:58

What's your good cast? What other ones that you have?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:00

Oh, I had uh Bohemian Rhapsody and Party in the US. Yeah, those are like go-to easy ones.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:06

Toto Africa. That was another one I had. Yeah, what's it?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:09

I feel like I don't have karaoke enough. We should do like this. I'm like, I gotta get a karaoke night.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:14

Wannabes or again, there's a platform.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:16

You always sing.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:17

If we have if there's karaoke, he always sings.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:19

The wheel definitely gives me some courage to like with the singing. We'll do a karaoke night.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:23

That should be the all right the next event. Great episode. Billy, thank you so much for being on.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:31

You can find you on Saxboy Billy and at Sax Boy Billy, but really, if you enjoyed hanging out, the the Sax cast. So I it's just a it's a it has nothing to do with the Pittsburgh Pirates. I know some people are like, well, it's it documents all the travels, all the trips. So I always just it's every single trip uh just always leads to like some shenanigans. Like I just did a Omaha, Des Moines, Ames, Iowa, Madison, Wisconsin trip. And yeah, I always stay because I travel so budget, I stay in like cheap Airbnbs. And there's always something like uh, you know, I'll be staying in a room and there'll be like a window to the dining room and I'm seeing like I see the host is there. It's like there's all kinds of crazy stuff. So if you enjoy hanging out, please check out the podcast. It's 40 minutes, you're in and out, it's fun like this. And uh yeah, I just thank you guys so much for having me. This is awesome to be invited to this. It's awesome that people are creating content in Pittsburgh like this. You know what I mean? It's uh yeah, it's only the beginning, so it's exciting.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:36

We'll start growing our hair out like this, too. Glad we makes you a new hairdo to think of down the road.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:41

You will catch me at the uh McKnight Road Red Lobster wearing this wig where I will be bullying the wait staff. Where's my cheddar bait biscuits? This is Donna from Dormont. I'm Donna from Dormont.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:55

It's gonna be my character.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:59

Hey, Billy. McKnight Road Red Lobster. When I was in rehab, I went to Gateway Aliquippa and there was a guy in there. Every day he would sit on the phone and call the uh McKnight Road Red Lobster to make sure he had his job still.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:15

Hey, just checking in.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:17

And then he left the rehab and he came back in five days later because he did cracking Coriolis.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:22

Oh no.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:24

Is that how to end it? Anyway, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:28

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SPEAKER_05 1:05:44

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